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fc LANCASTER EXAMINER AND HERALD. (examiner tjcmli). LANCASTER, Pa. WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1848 FOR PRESIDENT GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR, OF LOUISIANA.

FOR VICE PRESIDENT MILLARD FILLMORE, OF NEW YORK. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER NER MIDDLESVVARTII, OF UNION COUNTY. I reiterate WHAT I HAVE OFTEN SAID I AM A WHIG. Gen. Taylors Allison letter.

In the dark and troubled night that is UPON US, I see no star above the horizon PROMISING LIGHT TO GUIDE US, BUT THE INTELLIGENT, PATRIOTIC, UNITED WHIG PARTY OF THE united states. Daniel Webster. In his Message announcing the ratification of the Treaty of Peace Mr. Polk, indulges in much glorification in consequence of annexation of Califorina and New Mexico, by Treaty, (by war, and conquest, and bribery of fifteen millions, it should be remembered) to these United States. Let us briefly investigate the grounds for such gloric fication.

As Texas contends that in annexing her, we annexed New Mexico, war was not necessary, therefore, to secure New Mexico, if Texas be right; but if Texas be wrong, New Mexico, we may is not worth the havin'. At present, it is accessible only with great cost and difficulty. It is peopled about as much as it well can be, and its population hate us. Such a people weaken, not strengthen, a Republic or the Union. Forty-nine-fiftieths of it is a barren waste.

There is cultivation where there is artificial watering, or irrigation, and nowhere else. Next it is plain, and palpable, and historically susceptible of proof, that New Mexico and California could have been purchased, before the war, for a sum varying from ten to twenty millions of dollars, with the line of the Rio Grande also for the Texas boundary. Mr. Polk acknowledges a National Debt of over sixty-five millions, caused by this war, to be swollen, by outstanding accounts and necessary settlements, to full one hundred millions, if they are added on as debt, to say nothing of the surplus revenue left Mr. Polk by his predecessor, which has been used up in the war.

But, according to the Treaty, for worthless, inaccessible, enemy-peopled New Mexico and California, (worth more, but worth what, there is much dispute) we pay Mexico fifteen millions of dollars in cash, after spending a hundred millions in a war, and sacrificing thousands of valuable lives. Now, as human life cannot be estimated in dollars and cents, throwing that aside, the account current of the war stands thus MEXICO DR. TO THE UNITED STAES. ToexptnS'S in wh PP'IIK you, 100,000,000 Tj rav.ng you for uc knowledg.ng you were hipped, 15,000,000 The WHIGS NEED NO NEW ORGANIZATION, NO NEW' NAME. That WHICH WE BEAR HAS BEEN CONSECRATE.

IN MANY A BATTLE-FIELD OF FREEDOM, AND IT WILL, I TRUST, LONG SERVE TO RALLY THE BRAVE AND PURE SPIRITS WHO STAND UP FOR POPULAR BIGHTS AND FREE GOVERNMENT IN TIME TO come. John P. Kennedy From tlie N. Y. Tribune.

Washington, July 2. Anecdote of Gen. Taylor. While Gen. (then Col.) Taylor was serving in Florida, he captured many negroes in his conflicts Avith the Indians.

Many of these negroes were claimed by persons in Georgia and Alabama, from whose service or from the service of whose fathers it was contended they had escaped. Agents on behalf of the claimants were dispatched to Col. Taylor, seeking to recover them. Proof of identity of the persons claimed as slaves was proffered, and the right of property insisted up-pn. Col.

Taylor refused to allow the claim, or even to examine it. He had come to Florida to serve in the army against tlie Indians, not to act as a negro-catcher. Ilis commission, he said gave him no judicial powers, and he could not assume to determine matters beyond his province. The disappointed and enraged applicants, after having tried in vain other means to operate upon Col. Taylor favorably, carried their complaints to the Secretary of War He entertained their view of tlie case.

In consequence, an order issued from the Department was addressed to Maj. Gen. Jessup, then commanding in Florida, directing the surrender of the captured pe-groes to the agent of the claimants. A similar order was issued to Col. Taylor.

The following is his reply, as copied from the record in the War Department: Headquarters, Army of the South, Tampa, (Florida,) June 2, 1838. General I have the honor to acknowledge your communication of the 10th of May, 1838, accompanied by one oT the 9th, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, addressed to Capt. Coopbr, acting Secretary of War, on the subject of turning over certain negroes captured by the Creek warriors in Florida toaMr. Collins, their Agent, in compliance with an engagement of General Jessup. I know nothing of the negroes in question, nor of the subject, farther than What is contained in the communication above referred to but I must state distinctly, for the information of all concerned, that while I shall hold myself ever ready to do the utmost in my power to get the Indians and their negroes out of Florida, as well as to remove them to their new homes west of the Mississippi, I cannot for a moment consent to meddle in this transaction, or to be concerned, for the benefit of Mr.

Collins, the Creek Indians, or any one else or to interfere in any way between the Indians and their negroes, which may have a to deprive the former of their propertj raaafTd-uceJthe latter from a comparative staf rtmjfhat of slavery at the same time I shjraL.LtjJrery means to obtain and restore to hisTSwTul owner, any slaVe among the Indians who lias absconded or been captured by them. Very respectfully, I have the honor to be, General, your obedient servant, 5C. TAYLOR. Brevet Brig. U.

S. Army, Commanding. General R. Jones, Adjt. Gen.

U. S. Ajrmy, Washington D. C. Here Gen.

Taylor showed himself a9 firm in resisting what he considered an illegal and disgraceful order of the Department, as he had been previously to the importunities or threats of the slave-hunters. His commission was in the power of the President to revoke at any time his honor was above the reach of the President it was dearer to him than all commissions. fUT Jacob McAllister, of Conestoga, will be a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the decision of the next Whig County Convention. The County Meeting. The call of the County Committee for a general county meeting on the 5th of August, has been issued, and will doubtless be responded to on the day appointed, by a general attendance of all the Taylor men in the ranks of the Old Guard.

Timely notice has been given, and a season of general leisure has been selected. Let every friend of Gen. Taylor make such arrangements as will enable him to be present on that occasion. Resignation of Governor Shunk. It will be seen, by the subjoined letter to the People of Pennsylvania, that Gov.

Shunk has resigned his office. Its duties will now devolve upon the Speaker of the Senate, the lion. William F. Johnston, of Armstroug county. Mr.

J. is one of the ablest men in the State a thorough Pennsylvanian in all liis views and feelings and will discharge the duties of the office to which he has been thus unexpectedly cnlled, with credit to himself and advantage to the commonwealth. To the People of Pennsylvania It having pleased Divine Providence to deprive me of the strength necessary to the further discharge of the duties of your Chief Magistrate, and to lay me on a bed of sickness, from which I am admonished by my physician, and my own increasing debility, 1 may, ill all human probability, never rise, I have resolved, upon mature reflection, under a conviction of duty, on this day, to restore to you, the trust with which your suffrages have clothed me, in order that you may avail yourselves of the provision of the Constitution, to cDoose a successor at the next General election. I therefore, hereby, resign the office of Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and direct this, my resignation, to be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. In taking leave of you, under circumstances sosolemn, accept my gratitude for the confidence, you have reposed in me.

My prayer is, that peace, virtue, intelligence and religion, may pervade all your borders that the free institutions you have inherited from your ancestors, may remain unimpaired till the latest posterity that the same kindProvidence, which has already, so signally, blessed you, may conduct yon to a still higher state of individual and social happiness and when the world shall close upon you, as I feel it is soon about to close upon me, that you may enjoy the consolations of the Christians faith, and be gathered, without a wanderer lost, into the fold of the Great Shepherd above. FRS. R. SHUNK. Harrisburg, July 9, 184S.

The Philadelphia Bulletin, a neutral paper, usee the following language in reference to the efforts made by certain friends of Gov. Shunk to proem this resignation The Governor is apparently in the last stage of a distressing illness. Intense and prolonged bodily paiu has awakened the sympathy of all whose sensibilities have not been deadened by the at-tnospere of politics. And yet, if reports are correct, the chamber of suffering is invaded by a set of meu who whisper to the sufferer, through a mask of triendshqj, that he had better resign bis office that a political opponent will occupy his chair for eighteen mouths in case of his death after the. 10th of July; and as that event is evidently not remote, he will oblige his friends and show his devotion to his party, by anticipating the exigency that is soon to occur, by the fiat of a Governor to whom we all must bow Can anything more heartless be conceived The natural grief for the suffering of a good man is lost siclit of iu ail iutense love of party, and a virtual declaration is made that the tears shed for his death will be dried, if he will consult the wishes of politicians, aud prevent the possibility of a succession opposed to them.

We have no patience with tliosfe political liar-pies these speculators upon the dying hours of a good man. Cannot the chamber of his last ill ness be shut against such merciless internied-lers? Cannot the few remaining days of a life spent in the turmoil of politics, be granted to the sufferer for the airaugement of private affairs, the soothing of domestic sorrows, the spiritual preparation for the last struggle, undisturbed by a whisper of political advautage! We have heard of the earnest watching of the college of cardinals, by the side of a dying I ope, 'waiting with inipatientanxiety for the last breath, and eager to proclaim the fact to the world, and speculate upon the succession. But this is the first instance of a similar kind in an American State. To Pennsylvania politicians belongs the honor of introducing in this republic, a custom which has no precedent except iii the Roman Hierarchy. Feeling deeply, as we do, for the bodilv anguish of Governor Shunk, and in true sorrow at the prospect of liis death, it has been impossible for us to refrain from an-expression of indignation at those who are thus adding mental disturbance to his acute bodily pain.

W'ell may the dying man exclaim, in the words of King Henry I stay too long by thee, I weary thee, Dost thou so hunger for my empty chair, That thou wilt needs invest thee with mine honors Before thy hour be ripe What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour? Then get thee gone and dig my gi ave thyself; And hid the merry bells ring to thine ear. That thou art crowned, not that I am dead. GRAND Rally of tke Old Ciaard 1 THE DEMOCRATIC WHIG CITIZENS of the City and County of Lancaster, and all others disposed to unite with them in the support of GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR and MILLARD FILLMORE, the nominees of the Whig National Convention for President and Vice-President of the United States, and all those in favor of the election of NER MID-DLESWARTH to the office of Canal Commissioner, are requested to attend a GENERAL COUNTY MEETING to be held in the Court House, in the city of Lancaster, On SATURDAY, the Uh of AUGUST, next, at 11 oclock, A. for the purpose of ratifying said nominations, and making such arrangements as may be necessary to secure their triumph at the approaching election. The resignation of Gov.

Shunk, which took place on the 9th instant, will devolve upon the people the duty of electing a Governor at the approaching election, and the meeting will also be called upon to adopt measures to secure" the election of whoever may be designated by our friends as our candidate for that high office. Arrangements will be made to secure the attendance of several distinguished members of Congress, and other gentlemen from abroad, who will address the meeting. The uniform devotion of the Freemen of Lancaster county to the cause of their country the readiness with which they have at all times responded to her calls will no doubt secure a general attendance at the proposed County Meeting the only one which it is designed to hold during the present canvass. All who ave in favor of the election of the gallant, honest, true hearted TAYLOR, and the talented, pure-minded patriotic FILLMORE, all who desire to see the administration ot the General Government, brought back to the conservative principles of the early Presidents all who are in favor of Economy and Reform of Peace of wise and wholesome laws of Protection to the interests and industry of the country and of Obedience to the Will of the People as expressed through their Representatives and all who are opposed to the present locofoco Administration opposed to its abuses and corruptions its prostituted patronage its arbitrary violence its wanton sacrifice of human life and waste of public treasure its vast increase of the National Debt its unhallowed lust of conquest its imbecility for good and its strength for evil are invited to attend. John Bear II.

It Breticman, Richard Davies, John Hertzler, TV. Ca'-pcnicr, Jacob lluber, jr. G. TV. Ilamcr sly, I.

TV. Groff, We see but one remedy. Let the Governor de facto as soon as he assumes the functions of the office, convoke an extra session of the Legislature, and ask that body to take such action in the premises as may be necessary. It is true this will be attended with inconvenience to members, expense to the State, both of which might have been avoided but it will be better so than that the peace of the Commonwealth should be endangered. F.

American. From the Evening Journal. Taylor or Cass 1 The Polk Administration is drawing its slow length to a close. And an eflort is making on the part of the few who have profited, at the expense of the many, by that Administration, to perpetuate misrule through a kindred, if not a lineal descent. Cass as the successor of Folk, would keep things virtually as they are.

The former has abetted the latter in all that is pernicious in the ruling Dynasty. Cass, who, like a desperate gambler, plays for the Presidency upon the coffin of the Republic, went for the Annexation of Texas because Mr. Van Buren went against it. We took Texas with her Debt, her Slavery and her War. Texas gave a preponderance in favor of Slavery in one branch of the Government.

Cass, to obtain his nomination, pledged himself to Veto any and all measures designed to limit the further extension of Slavery. He stands committed, also, to other schemes of Annexation which are sure to involve us in other Wars. It was alleged, as a pretext for the War with Mexico, that she owed us money. The emptiness of this pretext is shown by the fact, that in the negotiations for Peace, that question was wholly lost sight of. It became, what in truth it was from the beginning, the merest bagatelle.

The interests of Slavery, as Tyler, Upsher and Calhoun avowed, demanded the Annexation of Texas. The War was a foreseen and pte-dicted consequence. We know, in part, what the War has cost, in blood and treasure And we shall know, in time, what it cpsts in the debasement of the public sentiment, the corruption of public men, and the weakening and undermining of the Government and its Institutions. Enough at all events, is known, if the People will profit by dearly bought knowledge, to show us that four years of misgovernment have brought gray hairs upon the head, if not paralysis into the heart, of this Young Republic. Enough is known to show that that the Election of Cass, and another War, would work out, most disastrously, the experiment of Free Government upon this Continent.

Slavery, to be sure, in the Annexation of Cuba and Yucatan, might achieve fresh conquests, but it would be at the expense of our Republican form of Government. Let us then before plunging into fresh troubles, give the Republic time to breathe. The Nation is impoverished and exhausted. Tylers reign of venality, succeeded by Polks reign of War, renders a return to good and wholesome Government indispensible to the common welfare. Gov.

Cass, in his Speech at Cleveland, said, Our triumph will be an appoval of the course of the present Administration, and will give direction to the one which shall succeed Is this what the American People desire Do they approve of the Polk Administration Was the Mexican War necessary Was it wise to Pass Santa Anna into Mexico Is it just or wise tQ pay Fifteen Millions for Mexican Territory which had been Conquered at an expense of an Hundred Millions? And while thus wasting millions in War, is it right to Veto Appropriations for the Improvement of River Navigation and the construction of Lake Harbors If the People really approve of all these things, let them say so, by electing Cass, who pledges himself to follow in the footsteps of Polk. On the other hand, if the People are weary of misrule; if they have had enough of Annexation and War; if they want the Resour ces and Commerce of the West developed and protected, they will elect Zachary Tay lor, whose life of honesty and patriotism go bail for the justice and fidelity of his 115,000 000 SUPRA CREDIT. By California and New Mexico. REMARKS. New Mexico aud California could have been had by Treaty', befoie the wai, for $20, 01.0,000 Loss theiefrom by the operation, $95,000,000 CONSEQUENCES.

1st. Entailment of a great debt on Poster! By the resignation of Gov. Shank, the Hon. Wm. F.

Johnston, of Armstrong, Speaker of the Senate, will officiate as Governor until the inauguration of a new governor on the third Tuesday in January next. Mr. Johnston is a gentlemen of fine abilities, much legislative experience, and a thorough Whig. the next six months our State will be favored with an executive who for personal worth, legislative experience, natural abilities and liberal and enlightened views of State policy, will favorably compare with any of his-predecessors in the executive chair. p7orre-pontonce of llie Examiner Herald.

New York, July 9, 1S4S. The National holiday on the 4th passetl off with the usual quantity of military parades, firing of guns, explosion of crackers, and display of pyrotecnick ingenuity. The day being coo the venders of root beer, pop and lemonade, suffered some in consequence of the supply bein' larger than the demand, whilst the purveyors in ginger bread, and bologna sausages, drove a splendid business, much to their own gratification and pockets. During the height of the carnival the steamer Atiila arrived from Albany, bearing the remains of the otlicers belonging to the New York regiment, who were killed in Mexico. The news soon spread around the city, and a check was riven to the amusements until the bodies were removed from the boat to the Arsenal, where they now lay preparatory to final interment.

As soon as this melancholy duly was performed, the people returned to the Park and renewed their sports. On Wednesday the 12th a public funeral will take place of the deceased otlicers, who belonged to this city, and who were slain in battle. This, from the preparations making, will be the most magnificent turnout of the military ever witnessed in this city. All the deceased officers were connected with our volunteer citifeu corps, and were highly esteemed, and a public manifestation on a great scale seems due to them by their surviving comrades. It is usual for such of our citizens as can spare tune and money, to leave the city immediately after the fourth, and rusticate for a few weeks either at the Springs, Falls of Niagara or Sea Shore.

The sudden change in the weather the last week seems to retard traveling, and but few of our fashionable, pleasure seeking, or health finding people, have left the city yet. In a few days however, we may expect a change, when our pent up citizens will make a rush to the country. I have noticed that those who reside in the interior always make for the Sea Shpre to spend the hot season, whilst those who live on the shores of the Atlantic, invariably rush into the interior. Tins is wise and natural, as it gives the citizen an opportunity to breathe the pure mountain air, which combined with the salt and humid atmosphere he usually imbibes, caunot fail to strengthen and" invigorate the system. The same effect no doubt takes place on the system of those who live in the country, by visiting the Sea Shove.

Amongst the many places of resort in the vicinity of New York for sea bathing, none stand so eminent as Rockaway. This delightful place is about 20 miles from New York, easy of access, and possesses more advantages than any other place of the kind with which I am acquainted. There are several boardtni houses close to the shore, the most prominent of which are. the Pavilion and Roach's House. The former is the resort of the young, gay and fashionable, whilst the latter is the home of the quiet, peace loving citizen and liis family.

Of this house I can speak from experience, having visited it last year. Mr. and Mrs. Roach thoroughly understand their business the former in making their boarders happy and comfortable ill accompanying them to fish, shoot, sail, bathe, or otherwise pass away the time, as may be most agreeable whilst his excellent lady takes good care the ravenous appe tites, created by the exercise, shall be thoroughly appeased, not only with the best the market affords, but by having every thing put upon the table well cooked. Should your duties permit a weeks respite, by all means come to Rockaway, and if you do not return refreshed, and bet ter fitted for the Piesidential tight, then I will foot the bill.

The arrival of the Caledonia puts us in possession of a weeks later news, by telegraphic despatch, which arrived at Liverpool a few moments before the steamer sailed, it is said the people and the National Guards were fighting desperately in Paris and that the loss of lile was terriffic. It seems a most difficult task for the French to harmonize, and it will not surprise me if after all they do not fall back upon a monarchy and call to the throne Henry the Fifth. The most of the provinces are in a disturbed state, and the prosperity of the country sadly thrown back. On Wednesday evening the neighborhood of Ann and Nassau stieets was thrown into commotion by the discovery of a murder just committed, and the murderer and her victim in the room, she not having had time to escape. Various reports are afloat about the parties.

The murdered man, Bremond, it is said, lived with tire murderer, Sarah Stewart, in a state of concubinage this she denies, and asserts she was his wife and has produced a cettifieate of marriage to that effect at any rate she is a notorious bad character, and the proof very strong that she killed him. The cause is involved in mystery and will remain so, unless she thinks proper to divulge, which is not likely at present. The new code of practice in our Courts of Law went ir.to operation last week the old lawyers are completely confounded, and find themselves in a net the meshes of which they cannot unloose. Judge Edmonds in a lecture endeavored to define their position, but with what sucress remains to be seen. The young limbs are highly delighted, as it puts them on a par with their seniors, all having to take a fresh start.

Politicians are exceedingly quiet just now, the fact is, nobody knows exactly what party he belongs to. The violent Clay men say the Taylor party are not Whigs, and the Hunkers have read the Barnburners out of the democratic meeting. On the other hand the Taylor Whigs declare the Clay men are going to amalgamate with the Liberty men, or what is worse the Barnburners, and the Barnburners declare the old Hunkers have sold themselves, bod ies, souls, and unmeBiionables, including Mar-eys patched ones to the Southern interests, nay, sonic of them go farther, and say they have disposed of themselves to-a certain black gentleman, who is supposed to dwell in a more fiery region, and, that they will vote for him too. At any rate, every thing in politics is at a stand in this city, and probably will remain so until the Convention to be held at Buffalo on the 9th August, when another platform will no doubt be elected, on which many will attempt to climb, provided it is likely to give them notoriety. Buisiness is at a stand.

I never knew so little doing as at present, although this is usually looked upon as the dull time of year but this year it is a perfect stagnation, and the prospects for this fall are anything hut KESWICK. Henry Stouffer, Ilenry Shirk, Vincent King, J. TV. Fisher, B. Snavely, miller, Jacob Foreman, Christian Eaby, John John S.

Hosteller, Joseph C. Herr, TV. A. Spangler, N. E.

Slay maker, John Melzler, A. S. Henderson, Benj. G. Herr, Henry Miller, Joseph Wenger, John Sheaffer, Andrew Schute, Jacob Seitz, Jacob Nissly, G.

B. Shober, Moses Pownal, Robert Evans, John Haymaker. A. E. Roberts, David Bender, George By rode, J.

M. Can jf man, Daniel Hess Jacob E. Cassel, George Brown, Dr. E. Wallace, Col D.

Ilanck, Abraham Landis, D. S. Bare, C. M. Kreider.

July 12 CThe following is a copy of the resolu tion we alluded to last week as having been passed at the meeting on the 4 th inst. We copy from the Republican the organ of the no-party party and the resolution may he supposed to be in the words intended by the author, though we did not so understand it from hearing it read. Re.sohed, That hereafter, until the Presidential Elec oilg Meetings and Conventions of the party shall be called Taylor Meetings and Conventions. We have italicised the more objectionable words, and had intended offering a few comments on the impolicy of the movement but not having heard of a single member of the Whig party who fora moment entertained the remotest idea of complying with the resolution, no further notice seems to be called for. We therefore dismiss the subject forever.

C7 The Intelligencer, in commenting on the resolution adopted at the Taylor meeting on the Fourth thus moralizes over what it supposes to be the demise of the Whig party in Lancaster county And now, in what an attitude of humiliation does not this resolve place the great Whig party of Lancaster county which whilom boasted of a greater than Herculean vigor! The whig tents, whig knapsacks, whig weapons of war, whig banners and whig emblems of every character and kind yea, the very name of whig, are to be all, all consigned to a common grave, never more to be resuscitated even in an ordinary call for a county meeting or delegate convention! The entire record of the long and laborious past, with its history of battles lost and won, is to be never' once again opened, nay its very leaves are to be sacrificed to that unexplained and unexplainable abstraction included in the term Tayloriana' Oh, most lame and impotent conclusion Truly, whiggery went up, a blazing rocket, and has descended, a blackened stick. If our neighbor should be in these parts on the evening of the 2nd Tuesday of October next, he will be led to think his funeral oration over the Whigs of the Old Guard was premature. Some time about the middle of the next week after the election the leaders of the Cass party will be seen rubbing their eyes and enquiring (like the man Col. Haskell tells about), if that storm did much damage or was anybody else struck by the lightning AN ADDRESS TO THE WHIGS. Be ready Whigs, with heart and hand, To choose a leader for your band Support the man whose honord name Is high upon the list of fame Whose brow fair liberty divine With laurel wreaths doth now entwine Your country calls oh, do not fail her, Support the hero, Zachary Taylor.

Proclaim him now with evry voice, Let evry manly heart rejoice Hail him the champion of our cause. Of Freedoms rights, of Freedoms laws Hail him with acclamations loud, Round the warrior let us crowd Your country calls oh, never fail her, Support the hero, Zachary Let evry one on him depend, Let evry one assistance lend, Let evry one now to him turn. Let evry bosom for him burn, Let patriot prayers for him arise, Let patriot cheers ascend the skies Your country bids you not to fail her, For President choose Zachary Taylor. Jacob B. Tshudy.

WHIG COUNTY COMMITTEE. EPHRATA MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. At the annual election of the members the following persons were duly elected to serve the ensuing year JOSEPH KONIGMACHER, President. Jeremiah Mohler, 1 Adam Konigmacher, William Speraw, Directois. Lewis Ziegler, Jacoe L.

Grobs. Jeremiah Bauman, Treasurer Si Secy. The work has progressed considerably during the last year. The stone has been prepared for the first story, dressed in the best style. They are white free stone, rubbed to a smooth surface, making as handsome abuild-ing as white marble.

The Board of. Directors contemplate this season to raise the basement, which will be about fifteen feet high, provided all the outstanding subscriptions will be promptly paid, and if liberal subscriptions are made during this year the monument may be completed next year. Baltimore, July 10. The independent Taylor men here, it is said, have received a letter from General Taylor, affirming the Bailie Peyton card, and declaring his satisfaction with the nominations made by the Philadelphia Convention. The Frea Soilites of this State have determined to call a State convention, to nominate the candidates to be put forward by the Buffalo Convention, and to appoint an electoral ticket.

2d. Arrei of all works of Internal provement for three years. 3d. Wilmot Provisos, Slavery and Anti-Slavery sectional issues. Jeopardy of Peace and the Union.

The war was as worthless in its pecuniary results as wicked in its inception. Apart from all the personal and political qualifications of General Taylor, we deem it the best of morals and of wisdom to make a Hero of that war who started as a mere Colonel, the Commauder-in-Cluef, Generalissimo of all our forces, by sea arid by land, first, to show all demagogues) like Mr. Polk, who get up wars for their own wicked benefit, that a iumble Colonel in the army stands a better chance of profiting by war than the President who creates it, and next, to impress ividly upon the History of the Republic the great fact that demagogues perish in wars, nnd soldiers alone rise by them. To have made the moral complete, Gen. Scott, under arrest by Mr.

Polk, ought to be the instrument of disgracing him and his administration, but there is moral enough in ta king the reluctant Colonel, with whom the Secretary at War was chaffering at Corpus Christi, about the march to the Rio Grande, and making him the instrument of kicking out of Washington, Polk, Marcy, Buchanan Co. All such men will learn, hereafter, never to involve their country in a war in order to make shine upon them a little of the glory of it. The reference of the President to General Jacksons stern policy, in insisting upon the payment of the last war debt, does not have much force when it is remembered that his predecessor in office, Mr. Adams, and previous legislation, provided the means to pay the debt. General Jackson is entitled to no more credit for the payment than the porters of the Treasury Depaitment, for they, like him, were in office while the sound legislation of their predecessor cleared off the national debt, and accumulated a surplus.

fix-press. All right now. The opposition to Taylor and Fillmore that existed among the Whigs in New York, inconsequence of their disappointment about Mr. Clay, is about all hushed. We knew that the sound, clear heads of the young Whigs here tvould soon get the command of their warm hearts.

All right now. THE FOREIGN NEWS. The Telegaphie reports from Paris are, that another insurrection had taken place on Friday, the 23d ultimo, and that the troops of the line and the Rational Guard were in the midst of a conflict with the ouvriers and others, the result of which was not ascertained in Liverpool, when the steamer left, but believed to be in favor of the Government. The Government, however, has lost the confidence, we remaik, of large portions of the National Guard, who, in their clubs, are attacking its measures, hut as they prefer order to anarchy, whatever is the government for the time being, no doubt, will receive their support against the anarchists. Many of the Departments ol Fiance, we may add, seem to be on the eve of uprising, not so much against the government, perhaps, as against the revolution that started, in Paris.

Upon the whole, it must be confessed that France is as combustible as ever. The Committee of the National Assembly that had in charge the matter of framing a constitution, has made a report, which, the Debats says, is as democratic as anybody could desire. He who reads Thiers, Walter Scott, and all the historians of the old French Revolution, will, we suspect, read the history of this new French Revolution, minus the guillotine, the naked goddesses of Liberty, Reason, France has grown more decent, and more humane, but it is the same old France. To secure Liberty, the nation is flying to a despotism. OS' The Law Journal for July contains an eloquent opinion by Judge Lewis, delivered at the June term of Common Picas, on a case where a certain man devised to his widow all his property, provided she remain a widow during her life but in case she should marry again, my will is she shall leave the premises, The widow having married again, suit was brought by other heirs of the husband to recover the property.

Judge Lewis decided that the condition in restraint of marriage is void, and the second marriage of the widow does not divest her estate the principles of morality the policy of the nation the doctrines of the common law the law of nature and the law of God, unite in condemning as void the condition attempted to be imposed by this testator upon his widow. The two faced Cass. During the debate in the Senate on Monday, Mr. Rlangum threw a shell into the camp of Gen. Cass, by producing two printed copies of the life of General Cass, both printed at the Congressional Globe OJJice, differing very essentially upon tub Proviso question, and cne designed for circulation at the NORTH, aid the other for circulation at the SOUTH Houston and Kauffman.

Some of our locofoco friends think it very useless to send all ihe way to Texas for Orators, if they cannot draw a bigger crowd than they did yesterday. Corie, Herald. We think so too, if they cant speak better and more to the purpose than they did in Harrisburg on the evening of the 3rd inst. We could, if it were necessary, produce certainly one, and may be more than one, Cass man, who was converted to Old Zack, by the remarks of Messrs. Houston and Kauffman.

We would give their names, but that we do not want them badgered to death by the office-holders. Messrs. Houston and Kauffman said not one word in favor of Cass, admitted they could not say anything against Taylor, abused Van Buren heartily, and be-pnffed Texas and all that belonged thereto, with a perfect looseness. Telegraph. The speeches above mentioned as having been delivered in Carlisle and Harrisburg, were repeated in this place on Thursday evening, to a clever-sized meeting, a considerable portion of which was friendly to Gen.

Taylor. The remarks of the Telegraph upon the Harrisburg recitation will apply equally well to the one made here. Melancholy Accident. A child of Mr. D.

S. Kieffer, late editor of the Republican of this city, came to its death in the early part of this week under the following painful circumstances Its mother had occasion to use laudanum for some medicinal purpose, when, being called into an adjoining apartment to perform some domes-ic duty, she left the vial containing the laudanum on a chair. During her absence, the child got hold of the same and swallowed its ensued in a few hours. Persons cannot too scrupulously guard against like occurrences. Farmer.

Arrest at Lancaster. A girl, calling herself Rebecca Muller, was arrested at Lancaster, on Saturday, by officer Hughes, for the theft of a gold watch and chain, valued at $75. She was taken before Alderman Evans, when the stolen property was found on her person. A Whig Cabinet for Gen. Taylor.

A correspondent of the Northampton Courier asserts that General Taylors letter to the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, contains this passage If elected to the Presidency, I shall select my Cabinet from tlie purest and ablest whigs in the country. Bank Charters. Applications by seventeen banks of this Commonwealth will be made to the next Legislature, for renewal of their charters as also some six or eight applications for new banks, among which is one by citizens of Miners ville, to be called the Mechanics Bank Schuylkill County, and one at Tamaqua, to be called the Anthracite Bank. Gen.

Taylors Plantation The Baton Rouge Gazette, says It has been reported to us that a violent tornado passed over the plantation of Gen. Taylor, in Mississippi, on his last visit, swept down and destroyed a large propor tion of his growing crops and caused a loss of several thousand dollars. Important Decision The Saebath a Day of Rest. The case of Specht vs. the Common wealth, has at length-been decided by the Supreme Court of this State, now in session at Harrisburg.

The following are the facts of the case. The man Specht, who is one of the sect of Seventh Day Baptists, was iudictedin Franklin county for working on the Sabbath, and fined by the Court. He appealed from the decision in order to test the eonstitutiodality of the law under which he was fined. Judge Bell delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court affirming the proceedings of the Court below, and establishing the constitutionality of the law. Fatal Accident.

At Covingron, the 18th Mr. AVilliam Carvigga, who was going to church to be baptized, was trampled upon by a pair of runaway horses, and killed. OS A Mr. Wilkinson has written to a western paper, informing the public that he thinks the newspaper record of his death is incorrect. He says to the best of his knowledge, he is alive, and would be kicking, if he could find the author of the report.

OF The Charlestown, Va. Free Press says that six cradlers engaged with Mr. George B. Beall, cut forty-two acres of well set wheat, in the course of one day being an average of seven acres of each cradle. We doubt much whether any six cradlers in any other section of tlie country lias beaten this during the present harvest.

A Lo ng Partnership. Messrs. Trott, Bumstead of Boston, have recently dissolved a mercantile partnership of fifty years duration and steady success in business. Previous to tlieir partnership they were fellow apprentices in the same store for a period of seven years. Death from Excessive Heat.

A young man named John Hall, an apprentice to Mr. Jacob link, Tredyffrin township, Chester oounty, died on the 21th, from drinking cold water, after boing over-heated by working in tlie harvest-field. Officers in Disgrace. Lts. Hare and Dut- on, who were convicted of murder in the city of Mexico, and sentenced to be hung, but who were pardoned by Gen.

Butler, arrived at New Orleans a few days ago, and put up at one of the principal hotels. As soon as they were known, however, they were ordered by the proprietors to leave tlie premises. 0 3" is rumored that Gen. Taylors object in employing Bloodhounds is only to ascertain where the Cassites can be found, not to worry them. Like the Florida Indians, they are supposed to have secreted themselves in the swamps and morasses, and nothing but a Cuba Bloodhound can smell their few'and far between moccasin tracks.

Drowned. A boy about 10 years of age, named David Lease, son of John Lease, of Harris-burgh, was drowned, while batliig in the canal basin at that place, on Friday last. Terrible Accident. A few days ago a party of men were engaged in raising the frame of a house near Spring Water, when two boys, one a son of one of the men engaged in raising the lrame, was thrown wrestling and killed. The father of the boy, shocked at the death of his son, let go his hold of the frame, and others of the party going to his assistance, the frame fell, killing six of them on the spot.

This happened at Spring Water, Livingston county, N. Y. IIow will it operate 1 The Constitution of Pennsylvania, Art. 11. Sect.

xiv. provides In case of the death or resignation of the his removal from office, the Speaker of the Senate shall exercise the office of Governor until another Governor shall be duly qualified; but in such case another Governor shall be chosen at the next annual election of Representatives, unless such death, resignation or removal shall occur within three calendar months immediately preceeding such next annual election, in which case a Governor shall be chosen at the second succeeding annual election of Representatives. The General Election Law of July 2, 1839, section XXXIY, in reference to the part of the Constitution first quoted, provides In case any vacancy shall occur in the office of Governor of this Commonwealth, more than three calendar months next preceding the second Tuesday in October, in any year, it shall be the duty of the Speaker of the Senate, or whoever shall be in the exercise of the office of Governor, to issue his writs to the sheriffs of the several counties, requiring them to give the usual notice that an election to supply such vacancy will take place on the second Tuesday in October next thereafter and when such vacancy occurs within three calendar months before the second ues-day in October, it shall be the duty of the Speaker of the Senate, or whoever shall be in the exercise of the office of Governor, to issue his writs as aforesaid, requiring noticaof such an election on the second Tuesday in October next after the issuing of said writ, and in each ease said writ shall issue at least three calendar months before the election." The resignation of Governor Shunk took place on Sunday, July 9, 1848, in the latter part of the afternoon as the Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth certifies that the paper containing it was filed at twenty minutes before six ocleck, P. M. Why it was delayed np to that latest moment, when it is known that the physician of the Governor had weeks ago pronounced his disease to be incurable, or why, being so delayed, it was finally determined upon, are questions which, for the present, we forbear to discuss.

But all who compare the provision of the Constitution with the direction of the Act of Assembly made to enforce that provision, will perceive that in consequence of this procrastination a state of things has arisen which may involve serious difficulty. The Constitution declares positively that where the vacancy does not occur within three calendar months of the annual election of Representatives, another Governor shall then be chosen, while the act of Assembly just as positively declares the writ ordering such election shall issue at least three calendar months before the election. Now one of these two results is certain. Either a Governor cannot be elected at the next annual election of Representatives, or the writ must issue in absolute contravention of the law, as the law now stands. Had the Speaker of the Senate, upon whom the duty of issuing the writ is devolved, been present at Harrisburg at the time the resignation of the Governor was announced, he could legally have performed that duty within the time prescribed but residing as he does in a distant part of the State, it was not possible the fact could be communicated until long after the time had passed.

IIow can this dilemma be avoided? It is very certain that if writs are now issued, and an election be held under them, the election will be without authority of law, and, of course, will not be acquiesced in either b' the people, or the co-ordinate authorities by whom the inauguration of the Executive offieer has to be performed. On the other hand, as a case has arisen in which it was clearly the intention of the framers of the Constitution that an election should take place, it will not do to slight that will, if it can in any way be carried into execution. OS' The nomination of Cass has given the loco foco party the Dry Rot. It is falling into rapid decay. Its leaders are abandon ing it in droves; as rats desert a sinking ship.

The Columbus (Ohio) Press heretofore a prominent organ of the loco foco paily has gone out in disgust. In leaving the field, its editor publishes an elaborate address, in which he says that the Press has always occupied the position of a party paper, having-willingly and freely supported the measures of the democratic party, and that he has felt it his duty to continue that support so long as he could do so consistently with that independence which should characterize every man who pretends to be But, continues he, I feel it to be equally my duty to withdraw from the position of Editor and servant of my part, as soon as I can no longer honestly support its leading measures and candidates. That period, to my regret, has arrived. Life Insurance. The subject of Life Insurance is every day exciting more attention.

We perceive it stated that young Washburn, who was recently killed in Boston, by the bursting of a soda fountain, had his life insured a short time before for thousand dollars. Every citizen who has a family, and who desires to provide them with a few thousand dollars in the event of his sudden decease, should adopt the easy and satisfactory mode of Life few dollars per month appropriated in this way, would secure a comparative independence for a widow and one or two orphan children. In our advertising columns will he found the advertisements of two Life Insurance companies. Land Refro.m. The question of Land Reform will probably entirely supersede that of Land Distribution.

The appropriation of limited portions of the public lands to actual settlers, and the exclusion of speculators, are becoming popular ideas) and it is not improbable that all attempts to graduate and reduce the price of public lands will be postponed till Congress shall he prepared to embody these ideas in some well-matured, permanent plan. Fine Wheat. We have received from Mr. John Styers, of New Holland, several heads of a new variety of wheat (new to us at least) called wool wheat, the chad' being covered with a fine down or wool. The heads are unusually large and well filled, and the grain plump and bright.

To all appearance this variety is a very valuable one. WF Gen. Casss sketch of Louis Philippe and the French Government, written shortly after his return from France, has been republished in a cheap form, and may be had of Gisii Lancaster, for 25 cents a copy. It will be sent by mail to any one enclosing a quarter to the above named booksellers, post paid. Those who have never read the work will be astonished to see with what facility the present democratic candidate for President could play the courtier to the French king.

A more fulsome panegyric was never paid to any monarch by supple courtier, than this tribute of Casss to Louis Philippe. The Speaker also gave a humorous account of the Whig party of Texas, who had commissioned the Louisianians to vote for them in the Philadelphia convention and who constituted six men all told Intelligencer's report of Gen. Houston's speech. The humorous account, so complacently noticed by the Intelligencer, was, that there were but six Whigs in Texas, one of whom was a horse-thief, one a black-leg, one a land-pirate, and the remaining three were loafers, who could at any time be bought by a glass of whiskey or a suit of old clothes. But the Intelligencers report is inaccurate.

Gen. Houston said that the only Whigs in Texas he knew were the individuals above described. He spoke only from persona observation, and confined his remarks to those members of the Whig party with whom he was in the habit of No one acquainted with Gen. Houstons personal history will question the correct ness of his statements in this respect. Intelligencer, in noticing a toast in favor of the election of Judges by the people, says This is a doctrine which we shall never ceae to urge and advocate, so long as it shall be onr lot to conduct a newspaper.

It is eminently Democratic in theory, and has worked admirably yi other States in practice. We are willing to entrust the people with the election of llie judiciary, denying neither their honesty nor capacity to select the ablest and best men. No trne Democrat can or will oppose a reform, which would serve so well to curtail Executive power, and bring it, where it should be, in the hands of the sovereign people. We cordially concur in the opinion that icno true democrat'' would oppose a reform so eminently democratic, and in view of the fact that the present State administration and its leading supporters are bitterly opposed to this reform and its kindred one the election of prosecuting attorneys we are happy to have the testimony of the Intelligencer, that they are not true democrats. We have always maintained that the self-styled democracy of the present day is false, and opposed to all truly democratic and republican measures the admission of the correctness of our position, by so able and eminent a judge as the editor of the Intelligencer, is a most gratifying and unlooked for circumstance, which we trust will not be without due influence on the public mind.

Dreadful Occurrence. Two brethren of the Presentation Order of the Catholic School at St. Pauls, Pittsburg, were killed on Sunday abont 5 oclock, by lightning Their names were Messrs. Carey and Rvau They had been teaching Sun lay School and were retaining to their residence above Birmingham, when the storm came up, and they were struck by lightning and instantly killed. They were accompanied by another brother by the name of Bowen.

Mr. Bowen was walking between the others, and escaped injury altogether. The clothes of the deceased gentlemen were torn into fragments and their shoes ripped in 'pieces. A Great Eleven Mile Foot Race came off at Buffalo on the 4th of July. Ten Indians participated, and also the well-known Steep-rock and Armstrong, the latter of whom gave in immediately after winning the eighth mile, from a pain in the stomach.

The race was won by an Indian named Coffee: the eleven miles having been done in one hour, five minutes and seven seconds a wonderlul exhibition, truly, of mans fleetness and power of endurance. The Cholera in Russia. According to ac counts received from Moscow, the cholera is making dreadful progress. The number of cases on the 29th of May alone were 89 the number of deaths being 42. During the six previous days, 461 persons were attacked, of whom 205 died.

This dreadful visitation is likewise very prevalent at Robinski, Kalouza, and Jaroslau. It is, therefore, evidently travelling westward. Cincinnati, July 8. Tlie steamer Taglioni left here yesterday with six companies of the Second Pennsylvania Regiment, Col. Geary.

The steamer Charles Hammond left at tlie same time, having on board a detachment of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, Col. Wynkoop. Longevity. Mrs. Mary Bacon, aged 108 years, died in Providence, R.

on Monday afternoon last. Fare Reduced. Messrs. Hall have placed on the Pliila. and Columbia Railroad, a large and elegant car, and the fare lias consequently been reduced, we believe, to $1,65 for the whole distance.

Cheap enough in all con- science. Gen. Taylor and Gen. Cass on War. the sentiments, on this subject, of the two distinguished individuals who are presented to us for the highest office within the gift of a free people, we are not left in doubt.

Ihe hearts of the people must be prepared for war, said Gen. Cass in the Senate of the United States! What a sentiment for a Christian Senator to utter in the Legislature of a Christian nation How contrary, not only to the principle inculcated by the author of Christianity, but to those of every wise legislator, of every friend to his race. Now, vvhat is it to prepare the hearts of the people for war What is it but to break down all the barriers which reason and conscience have erected to restrain the base passions ot men What is it but to eradicate all sense of right from the human bosom, and give lull sway to every species of lust, avarice, and violence. My life has been devoted to arms, says Gen. Taylor, yet I look upon war, at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity.

Washington, July 9, 1818. THE FOUR-FACED CASS. I have seen no less than five lives of Cass, intended for different meridians. There were two editions issued in March last, and two in June, the two in March were, in character, unlike those of June, and the two of June, like those of March, obviously designed for a Southern and Northern Market. All attempts at explanation only make the matter worse.

Here are tlie books and here are alterations, free trade opinions inserted in one edition, and omitted in the other, the letter to Nicholson, against the Wilmot Proviso, inserted in one, and opinions upon the French Revolution taking its place in the other. Instead of being Janus-faced, therefore, General Cass has four faces, one for each of tlie different points of the compass. He looks North and West, in favor of Internal Improvements. Southward, he endorses Mr. Polks vetoes against them, and approves of all that lie has done.

He has two faces upon tlie Wilmot Proviso, two upon the tariff, two upon the French King and Revolution, and his friends have shown hint up in so many ways, that lie lias more lives than a cat. The last I have seen is in German, and this is expressly intended by it3 omissions and additions, to mislead and deceive that large portion of our adopted citizens, who dwell among us. These little tricks of little politicians, can hardly have any other effect, now that they are exposed, than to recoil upon those who make use of them for party success. E. B.

An Intelligent Jury. The editor of ihe Richmond (Va.) Southerner, who is traveling through the State, furnishes occasionally quite an amusing picture of life in the Old Dominion. At Westmoreland Court-house, he was much struck with the intelligence of a a litigated case of long standing i A lle sovereign arbiters came court Ti 'Va? went UP anc st0d in then askeiHh0 vCalletl names and and in whose had been about, The foreman, jUiSemeTlt ieplied The de7endani 1 6UaVlty wanted to know-which eil the defendants. Tim iurv cs another with bewildered eye's ces, to find their whereabouts Th fa still pressing the matter, several of them sv! for one party and several for another. At one of them said, we gin it to the wimrnins and then they all said, Yes, that it.

This decision led to such laughing and swearing as we never knew over any jury verdict. The parties threw away the jurys judgment, and compromised the matter. Bulwers last Novel is for sale by J. Gish Co. This is generally conceded to be one of the best works ever produced by its distinguished author, and will continue to be read when many of his other novels will be forgotten.

The scene is laid in England, at the time of its conquest by the Normans under William. The Horticulturalist for July is for sale by Gish Co. It is filled, as usual, with highly entertaining and instructive matter. Ohio Politics. The Editor of the Cincinnati Signal, Barnburner who has been stumping in Ohio, says among other things Brinkerhoff, of Richmond-, is out, openly and powerfully for Vail Buren, and from all quarters ie same cheering intelligence reaches us.

The Van Buren movement, we suspect, OV 'etac1 three loco focos to one Whig in 10- If so, the State is perfectly secure..