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Franklin Repository: August 8, 1860

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Description of Page: articles on: War in China; exhortation for youg men to campaign for Lincoln; mockery of Irish manners; Japanese visitors ban on women guests; storm in Kansas; the Syrian massacres; a tribute to American Missionaries; a hero who saves an infant in a shipwreck; examples of disunionists who support Douglas; boy takes train to see the Great Eastern; Facts And Fancies

The Reign Of Terror At The South
(Column 2)
Summary: A comment on the Southern Democrats' terrorist acts: in Occoquan, where the republicans' liberty pole was attacked and the flag of Lincoln stolen; in Texas, where arson is blamed on Abolitionists; and in other states where voters are inhibited from voting Republican.
Origin of Article: N. Y. Tribune
Liberty At The Federal Metropolis
(Column 3)
Summary: A list of resolutions passed by the Republican Association when the U. S. Commissioner of Public Buildings, John B. Blake, withdrew permission to erect a liberty pole: that they would abide by the law (enforced only for partisan purposes) until the Republican party was voted in as the National party via Lincoln.
A Political Arrival--Philadelphia Republicans on a Mission
(Column 3)
Summary: Mention of the Continentals, known as the "Minute Men" in 1856 and supported Fillmore, who are now supporting the Republican Party, and sailed to New York on a campaign tour.

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Description of Page: Serial Fiction; short articles on: a humorous country meeting; fidelity; riot in St. Louis; a deceitful grocer; advertisements

How Slaves Drive Out Free Labor
(Column 5)
Summary: The Missouri Republican State Central Committee states that there are 50,000 men who cannot get full time work, and 100,000 slaves occupying lucrative mechanical and agricultural positions. The committee demands that slaveryleave and make room for free, white labor.
Origin of Article: Missouri
Full Text of Article:

The Missouri Republican State Central Committee in its late address says:--There are now in Missouri at least fifty thousand men who cannot get full employment for their energies and enterprise, owing to the depression of the past two years, and there are now in Missouri more than one hundred thousand slaves, occuping [sic] and filling the most lucrative agricultural and mechanical positions of the interior. It is the demand of the Republican party that slave labor shall make room for free white labor, and take itself away.


[No Title]
(Column 5)
Summary: a brief note reprimanding young women's frequent expenditures for clothing, giving the example of Mrs. Swisshelm who wore the same $2.50 bonnet for seven years.

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Description of Page: advertisements

Douglas Deprecating Agitation
(Column 1)
Summary: A response to Douglas' complaint that the slavery issue occupies too much of Congress' time, instead of dealing with the Tariff, the Pacific Railroad, and mail service. The Tribune reminds us that Douglas himself has constantly brought up the slave issue--in 1854 he championed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and later the Kansas-Nebraska bill.
Origin of Article: N. Y. Tribune
Full Text of Article:

The spectacle says, the N.Y. Tribune, of Douglas holding on by the balustrade of the Revere House, and bemoaning before a Boston audience the agitation of the Slavery question in Congress, and the consequent neglect of the material interests of the country, finds its only parallel in Pecksniff, holding himself up by the bannister of Mrs. Todger's third story, and, under the stimulating influence of Mrs. Todger's punch, uttering moral precepts, in maudlin tones, for the instruction of Mrs. Todger's young lodgers.

Everybody praises Mr. Douglas for his courage and energy. Few dispute his rare powers as a debater. Some of his ardent admires have even ventured to call him a statesman. But his blindest worshippers, when trying to invest him with every virtue, never could find a man among them with effrontery enough to call him modest. The salient feature of his character, standing out beyond all others, and challenging the attention of everybody, is audacity. For example: In every speech he has delivered during his present stumping tour for the Presidency, he specifies, as the great grievance of the times, the neglect by Congress of the material interests of the country, in order that it may devote its energies to discussions upon the Negro Question. In his Boston harangue, he says: "For the last few years, all the time of Congress has been employed in the discussion of the Slavery question, to the exclusion of important business affecting the whole country;" and he waxes earnest and eloquen [sic] over the shameful disregard by the National Legislature of the subjects of the Tariff, the Pacific Railroad, the Mail service in the old States and across the continent, and cognate matters.

True, most true Mr. Douglas! But where is the man to whom, more than any and all others, the waste of time by Congress is due? Help us, Mr. Douglas, to place our finger upon him, and we assure you the country will put in every honest hand a whip to lash the rascal naked through the land.

When the Ethiopian changes his skin, and Mr. Garrison turns professional Union-Saver, and Gerrit Smith advertises hounds to catch fugitive slaves and Satan puts on a monk's cowl, then Stephen A. Douglas will witness transformations of character and conduct as miraculous as his current condemnation of Slavery agitation in Congress. Let us refresh his memory with a bit of history which the country has not forgotten.

A controversy concerning Slavery, which had convulsed Congress and the country for three or four years, terminated in the adoption of the Compromise measures of 1850.--This result was not wholly satisfactory to the extreme wing of either side of the combatants; yet, the thing being done past help, there was a general acquiescence in or submission to this disposition of the matter in issue. In 1852, both the Whig and Democratic parties, with some dissenting voices, ratified the measures of 1850 in their platforms, and agreed to abide by them. No man was more ostentatious in his avowals of fidelity to "this final settlement" of the Slavery controversy than Mr. Douglas. In the Senate, and before popular assemblies, he invoked maledictions upon all who should attempt to disturb the repose of the country by reopening the Slavery agitation, either in or out of Congress.

So much for Mr. Douglas's professions. Now for his practices. In the session of 1854, when irritation growing out of the contests of 1850 had subsided, Mr. Douglas startled the country by proposing to repeal the prohibitory clause of the Missouri Compromise, and throw the vast regions lying north of 36° 30' open to Slavery. This venerable landmark, reared by conflicting sections as a monument of the final adjustment of a struggle that had imperilled the Union, was held as sacred as any compact of the Constitution. Its proposed destruction immediately precipitated Congress and the people upon a sea of agitation, seemingly without a bottom or a share. After a conflict which has no parallel in our history, Mr. Douglas, spurred on by the hope of outstripping all competitors for the favor of the Slavery Extensionists, succeeded, by his tireless energy and force of will, in prostrating this old landmark. And from that hour till now, Negro agitation has been the ruling element of American politics. Mr. Douglas has always boasted, and with entire truth, that this repeal was his own handiwork. No other man in that fatal Congress had sufficient vigor, skill, and audacity, to do the deed.

A conspiracy to plant Slavery in Kansas, by fraud and force, was partly the moving cause, and partly the resulting consequence, of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. During the three years when the attempts of the conspirators involved Kansas in civil war, of the many black and bloody crimes perpetrated in their efforts to force slavery upon her people, none were black and bloody enough to extort a rebuke or even a regret from Mr. Douglas; but, on the contrary, he was the ablest champion in Congress, and the loudest declaimer before the People, in behalf of this infernal scheme. History will blush to record that the policy of Pierce and Atchison and their myrmidons, which stuffed ballot boxes, forced election returns, drove legal voters from the polls at the point of the bayonet, installed bogus Legislatures under the protection of cannon, fired dwellings, outraged female virtue, cut throats under cover of the night, shot men down on the highways at noon-day, and, in a word, for nearly four years gave Kansas up to anarchy, pillage, and butchery, because she would not accept Negro Slavery, found its wiliest apologies and ablest vindication in the speeches and reports of the man that now declaims in favor of "Non-intervention by the Federal authorities in the Territories!" The Lecomption Constitution, with the villainies that clustered around it, was the natural fruit of the tree which Douglas planted in 1854, and assiduously cultivated throughout the following three years. His political existence being then at hazard, he feared to pluck and eat the fruit of his own doings. Like Danton, whom Douglas resembles, he was about to be consumed by the fires of the revolution which he had himself kindled; but, unlike Danton, he had neither the courage nor the manliness to die like a martyr, and so he ran away like a coward and has ever since been boasting like a braggart.

Now, does Mr. Douglas flatter himself that the people have forgotten this damning record, because he finds it convenient to ignore its existance? Does he fancy that they will withhold the retribution they have in store for the author of this absorbing agitation in Congress, because it suits his interests now to feign to lament over its consequences? We assure him that he lowers himself in the public esteem by such canting and whining. In the Kansas- Nebraska bill, he represented to the North the box of Pandora. Let him not wonder nor wince when some of the serpents he then sent out return to sting him. To descend nearer to the level of our theme, the actor who has been recognized and applauded as a star of the first magnitude, in the higher walks or tragedy, on the metropolitan boards, ought to be ashamed to now go through the provinces playing the farce of "Agitation," "Sectionalism," "Disunion," and kindred roles, along with such worn-out performers as the Brookses and the Hunts. When he entered the Presidential ring, and made straight at the Champion of the Negro Propaganda, hitting out right and left with might and main, he won the plaudits of the masses. But now, when he skulks to his corner, and sits upon the knee of his backer, and affects to deplore the "noise and confusion" incident to the fight, and discourses upon the iniquities of the P.R., we tell him he excites only contempt for his hypocrisy, and disgust at his whimpering.


A Story For Boys
(Column 2)
Summary: A story displaying the qualities of a good son, who sets out to buy land in the West, in order to bring out his family and start a new life.

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[No Title]
(Column 1)
Summary: Included in the published Republican ticket are the candidates for various state and county offices. James R. Brewster, of Metal, for Assembly; Abraham D. Caufman, of Chambersburg, for Prothonotary; Edward C. Boyd, of Montgomery, for Register and Recorder; William G. Mitchell, of Southampton, for Clerk of the Courts; James D. Scott, of Peters, for County Commissioner; John L. Latshaw, of Antrim, for Director of the Poor; George Jarrett, of Chambersburg, for County Auditor.
(Names in announcement: James R. Brewster, Abraham D. Caufman, Edward C. Boyd, William G. Mitchell, James D. Scott, John L. Latshaw, George Jarrett)
Our Ticket
(Column 1)
Summary: A call of attention to the published Republican ticket, and a request that the Spirit revise its article that pertained to the Republican ticket.
The Dilacerated Party
(Column 1)
Summary: A discussion of the divided Democratic Party, but with an emphasis on Douglas and the question as to who can support him. He betrayed the Northern Democrats to Southern interests, and it will be difficult for the Southern Democrats to trust such a traitor.
Electoral Votes Of The States
(Column 2)
Summary: A list of the states and their electoral votes is given, and a discussion follows on the power of the slave states, who, despite 63 less votes, dominate the Free states because they (the Slave states) are united in their goals. Finally, a plea to Republicans to learn from the Southerners and become united behind Lincoln.
The Southern States
(Column 4)
Summary: Criticism of the Southern "slave power."
Full Text of Article:

The Southern States, although comparatively weak in population, and with her elements of wealth undeveloped--in a great measure, destitute of internal improvements, those great arteries of trade and travel--almost without institutions of learning of any kind--in a state of semi barbarians, so far as regards the advancement of the manufactures and the mechanic arts- -yet, with all these disadvantages, we repeat, the Southern States have dictated the policy, both domestic and foreign, which has controlled the administration of this Government for the last sixty years, with very slight intermissions!

The reason of all this is:--A union of sentiment and a concert of action on the part of the Oligarchy--the Slaveholders--who number, exclusive of minors and females, say about 200,000 influential men out of the 7,000,000 of the white population of the Fifteen Southern States. There are altogether some 400,000 Slaveholders in the South, who own from one slave up to one thousand; but among these, it must be remember there are many females as well as minors, and these exert no influence, politically, in their several communities. Deducting these, and we would not have more than one-half, or, as we before said, 200,000 influential persons left.

This insignificant number, devoting their time and attention exclusively to politics, and possessing the principal part of the wealth of the South, are thus armed with an overpowering influence, which is always directed to secure the political promotion of those of their own class while the non-slaveholders are kept in the back-ground or overshadowed by these lords- of-the-lash. Their numbers being small and their interests identical, a union of political effort is easily secured, and by a perseverance in this course, they have secured and maintained their ascendancy in the control of the General Government, aided, of course, by the divisions in the Free States, which they have contributed to keep alive.

The so-called Democratic party of the Free States, heretofore, was the mere beast of burden--the catspaw of the South. The fifteen Slave States, with their sparse white populations, have thirty Senators; the eighteen Free States, with their teeming millions of white Freemen, have thirty-six Senators. But by their concerted action, which, we have referred to, aided by such miserable dough-face leaders of the Northern Democracy as Bigler, of Pa.; Pugh, of Ohio; Douglas, of Ill.; Rice, of Minn.; Fitch and Bright, of Ind.; Gwinn, of Cal., and Thompson, of N.J., the South has managed to shape the policy of our Government to suit its own particular section, regardless of the interests of either section--nay more: by the aid of the Democratic party of the North, the South has stricken down the North, paralyzed her industry, and like Samson shorn of his locks, she is bound hand and foot, and now lies powerless at the feet of these Southern Philistines. This has been accomplished by a steady perseverance and concert of action, aided and abetted by their Northern Democratic Deliah.

Northern Democratic Presidents, such as Pierce and Buchanan, prove more serviceable, in the hands of Southern politicians, to advance their ambitious and dangerous projects and their selfish schemes, then would men from their own quarter. A Northern dough-face is one the meanest creature that infest the Free States. They have proven to be quite a injurious to the cause of Freedom and Free Labor in this country as did the Tories to the cause of the Revolution--but the latter were overcome and driven out, along with the common enemy, and, by persevering effort, the former will be also.

The Free States are entitled to 183 votes in the Electoral College, while the Southern States have but 120. To elect a President by the people, 152 votes are necessary, so that the Free States can elect, and have 31 votes over. We hold that it is the duty of the Free States to exert their influence in the Government. Their power heretofore, has been wasted by division, and by treacherous doughfaceism, whilst the South has been a unit on all questions that have concerned its peculiar interests.

We should practice a little more after the example of our Southern brethren. The people should study politics a little closer, and elect men to the Presidency and to seats in Congress who would die rather than wantonly trade off the cherished interests of their constituents. They have it now in their power to elect "honest ABE LINCOLN," than whom a more worthy disciple of HENRY CLAY cannot be found. In MR. LINCOLN we have a truly National man--one who, while protecting the interests of Freedom and Free Labor, would also be found defending the local interests if the South. We make no war upon the "peculiar institution," so long as it is not sought to spread its baneful influences beyond its present boundaries; but whilst we wage no war with it where it is, we are opposed to its defenders dominating exclusive in the Government. The Free States hereafter, owing to the interests involved, should control the affairs of the partnership. We have permitted a miserable, sectional minority too long to override and insult the majority; and if it is permitted to continue, and if by our supineness we consent to the declaration that, "Freedom is section and Slavery national," by allowing the Republican party to be defeated, then we tacitly admit that the interests of Slavery in this Republic are paramount to those of Freedom.


[No Title]
(Column 4)
Summary: The Tribune predicts that every free state will vote Republican, even the somewhat dubious states of California and New Yorkare most likely to go Republican.
Origin of Article: N.Y. Tribune
A Roman Catholic
(Column 4)
Summary: Commentary that Douglas has Roman Catholic connections and support, and that the same men who opposed such as connection in 1856, are now all for a Catholic candidate.
[No Title]
(Column 4)
Summary: Notice of a Mass Meeting of the Republicans of Western Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh on September 6th.
[No Title]
(Column 5)
Summary: Mention of a Tennessee newspaper that is endorsing both Breckenridge and Douglas on different pages.
The Four Parties And How They Differ
(Column 5)
Summary: A humorous summary of the four parties' positions on slavery in the territories: Lincolnites-against; Breckenridgeites-for; Douglasites-either way; Bell-Everettites-ignorance/avoidance
A Deformed Body, But A Sound Intelligence
(Column 5)
Summary: Article on a 21 yr. old, deformed negro in Kentucky, who is very intelligent and has (and continues to) educate himself.

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Peoples' Convention
(Column 1)
Summary: At the People's Nominating Convention the following were elected officers for the Convention: President-John Ditzler of Green, Vice Presidents-Robert McKinnie of Peters and James McCurdy of Metal, Secretaries-Benjamin Snively of Antrim and Maj. J. G. Elder of St. Thomas. Delegates of the Franklin districts: Antrim--Alex. Gordon, Benjamin Snively, H. Clippinger, J. Potter, John Ruthrauff, T. S. Reilly, Gen. D. Deatrich, A. B. Wingert. Chambersburg--North Ward-David A. Wertz, Samuel Greenawalt, John P. Keefer. South Ward- John Grove, John D. Grier, Dr. J. L. Suesserott. Concord--S. B. Hockenberry, A. B. Seibert, Anderson Beers. Dry Run--S. M. Skinner, William A. Mackey, William M'Cartney, Jr. Fayetteville--Walter Crawford, J. Heintzelman, W. E. Camp, C. A. Funk. Greenvillage--Jno. Ditzler, Jno. Criswell, Jacob Bittinger. Guilford--Jno. W. Barr, Upton Henderson, Daniel Grove, Jacob Stouffer (of A.) Hamilton--J. Deatrich, Jonas Palmer, Jno. H. Weaver. Letterkenny--Elias Lehman, Willam Ramsey, William S. Keiffer. Loudon--H. Easton, William Burgess, Jacob Haulman. Lurgan--Thomas Pumroy Jr., Jno. M. Saltzman, J. X. Smith. Metal--James McCurdy, James Witherow, John M. F. B--r. Montgomery--Jno.wise, S. W. Haulman, J. L. Whrea, Jno. S. McCune. Orrstown--David Hollar, William Ferguson, Francis H. Maclay. Peters-- James Patton, J. B. Myers, Robert McKinnie. Quincy--Hiram Wertz, William Fleagle, Thad. Boggs, A. S. Monn, C. T. Fitzchew. Southampton--John Mateer, Thomas Fuller, John Cressler. St.Thomas-- Maj. J. G. Elder, Charles Gillan, Lewis Kieffer. Sulphur Spring-- E. N. M'Vitty, Davis Stewart, J. E. Fagan. Washington--William H. Brotherton, H. X. Stoner, T. J. Pilkington, Daniel Snively, Eph. S. Shank, Jacob Haulman. Warren--J. H. Thomas, Emanuel Secrist, Isaiah Keefer. Welsh Run-- William Laekens, Joseph Wingert, Jacob S. Whitmore. A number of resolves were suggested and then the elections for nominees took place
(Names in announcement: John Ditzler, Robert McKinnie, Maj. James McCurdy, Benjamin Snively, Maj. J. G. Elder, Alexander Gordon, H. Clippinger, J. Potter, John Ruthrauff, T. S. Reilly, Gen. D. Deatrich, A. B. Wingert, David A. Wertz, Samuel Greenawalt, John P. Keefer, John Grove, John D. Grier, Dr. J. L. Suesserott, S. B. Hockenberry, A. B. Seibert, Anderson Beers, S. M. Skinner, William A. Mackey, William M'CartneyJr., Walter Crawford, J. Heintzelman, W. E. Camp, C. A. Funk, Jno. Criswell, Jacob Bittinger, Jno. W. Barr, Upton Henderson, Daniel Grove, Jacob Stouffer, J. Deatrich, Jonas Palmer, Jno. H. Weaver, Elias Lehman, William Ramsey, William S. Keiffer, H. Easton, William Burgess, Jacob Haulman, Thomas PumroyJr., Jno. M. Saltzman, J. X. Smith, James Witherow, John M. B r, Jno. Wise, S. W. Haulman, J. L. Whrea, Jno. S. McCune, David Hollar, William Ferguson, Francis H. Maclay, James Patton, J. B. Myers, Hiram Wertz, William Fleagle, Thad. Boggs, A. S. Monn, C. T. Fitzchew, John Mateer, Thomas Fuller, John Cressler, Charles Gillan, Lewis Kieffer, E. N. M'Vitty, Davis Stewart, J. E. Fagan, William H. Brotherton, H. X. Stoner, T. J. Pilkington, Daniel Snively, Eph. S. Shank, Jacob Haulman, J. H. Thomas, Emanuel Secrist, Isaiah Keefer, William Laekens, Joseph Wingert, Jacob S. Whitmore, A. D. Caufman, Samuel Garver, P. A. Rice, W. H. M'Dowell, K. S. Taylor, S. M. Shillito, N. P. Pearse, W. W. Fleming, Samuel Knisely, D. F. Etter, H. S. Harper, P. N. Hoffman, C. W. Lego, E. C. Boyd, J. M. Phillips, Frederick Walk, H. S. Stoner, H. Embich, W. G. Mitchell, Miller Ferree, W. N. Witherow, P. H. Shough, James R. Brewster, John E. Crawford, William Deardoff, J. D. Scott, J. E. Maclay, Joseph Creamer, James W. Linn, William A. Maclay, E. Aughinbaugh, J. L. Latshaw, Henry Good, H. Greenawalt, George Spreacher, Jacob Eby, H. H. Hutz, George Jarret)
Jugged
(Column 2)
Summary: A German vagrant was jailed August 4th for breaking and entering the home of John Horn of Guilford, when only his wife was home. He was arrested by a group of local men.
(Names in announcement: Mr. John Horn, Mrs. Horn)
Full Text of Article:

On Saturday last a German was lodged in jail, charged with committing a burglary at the residence of MR. JOHN HORN, near the Grindstone Hill Church, in Guilford township. The circumstances, as we have learned them, are about as follows: The door which was bolted, he forced open, and entered the house with a large stone in his hand. Mrs. Horn was the only person in the house, who of course was much alarmed by the violence of the intruder, and she escaped from the Dwelling. Before he had time to pillage the house, he was arrested by some young men of the neighborhood who happened to be passing at the time.

These traveling vagrants are a great annoyance to our rural friends. They never leave their homes without entertaining fears that their families will be intruded upon and insulted by them in their absence; or in the absence of the whole family, on their return they frequently find their premises plundered.

A remedy for such evils is not so easily procured, unless the females of the household, are resolute and determined. In that case, we would recommend that they be furnished with a good Revolver, and when such a customer is seen approaching, prepare to receive him. If he offers insult or injury, let him or them be immediately and peremptorily ordered off; and if they refuse, let the Revolver be presented by way of intimidation, and used if necessary.


Sabbath School Celebration
(Column 2)
Summary: The Sabbath schools of Fannettsburg and Lower Path Valley met for festivities on aug. 4th. Rev. Van Artsdale, of Shade Gap, and James Wilson, of Jefferson College, gave addresses. 500 people attended. The Glee Club sang and a collection was taken for "Father Chiniquy's Children Church."
(Names in announcement: Rev. Mr. Van Artsdale, Mr. James Wilson, Father Chiniquy)
Something For The Fair
(Column 2)
Summary: John Bitner (a miller) of Guilford, owns a cow of (common and Teeswater stock) that gave birth to a calf that after two days weighed 117 lbs.
(Names in announcement: Mr. John Bitner)
Steward Of The Alms House
(Column 2)
Summary: At the meting of Directors of the Poor on Aug. 6th, James Chariton was elected Steward of the Alms House for a year, replacing John Bowman who resigned.
(Names in announcement: Mr. James Chariton, Mr. BowmanJohn)
Sabbath School Celebration
(Column 3)
Summary: The Union Sabbath School of the Grindstone Hill Church (Lutheran) held festivities on Aug. 4th. 800 people attended. Rev. McHenry, pastor of the congregation and Rev. Philips, pastor of the German Reformed Church of Chambersburg gave addresses. The Fayettesville Band played.
(Names in announcement: Rev. S. McHenry, Rev. S. Philips)
Vandalism
(Column 3)
Summary: A complaint of vandalism to the Public Cemetery--mostly destroying flowers and shrubbery.
The Rail Splitters At Work In Old Washington
(Column 3)
Summary: The Waynesboro' Lincoln Club met Aug. 1st to permanently organize, temporarily choosing J. B. Resser as Chairman and William H. Brotherton as Secretary. Then they elected J. B. Resser as President, E. Shank and J. R. Gaff as Vice Presidents, William H. Brotherton as Corresponding Secretary and J. F. Boult and D. D. Forney as Recording Secretaries. Signed by, J. B. Resser and J. F. Boult.
(Names in announcement: J. B. Resser, William H. Brotherton, E. Shank, J. R. Gaff, J. F. Boult, D. D. Forney)
[No Title]
(Column 3)
Summary: In London, at a meeting of the International Statistical Congress, it was noted that a negro, Dr. Delaney, a native of Chambersburg, was present. All cheered his membership.
(Names in announcement: Dr. Delaney)
Woods Meeting
(Column 4)
Summary: An Announcement by Jason M. Bishop of a woods meeting of the United Bretheren in Christ, to be held on Mr. Sharp's land, near Scotland, Franklin Co. on Aug. 17th.
(Names in announcement: Mr. Sharp, Mr. Jason M. Bishop)
Breckinridge In Westmoreland
(Column 4)
Summary: The Herald notes that the Democratic Club of that borough refuses to support Douglas and Foster, that Breckinridge, instead, is supported in Westmoreland, and since it is Foster's county, he is suspected to be a Breckinridge man. Bigler opposes Douglas, but will not come out for Breckinridge. It appears to be a scam to show Breckinridge's support in Pennsylvania.
Origin of Article: Pittsburgh Gazette
[No Title]
(Column 4)
Summary: At a meeting of Anti-Lecompton Democrats, Mr. Broderick berates Douglas for wanting to withdraw his support for a bill that he initially pushed for Administration support, and this remonstration discourages Douglas from the weak impulse.
Origin of Article: The Chicago Press and Tribune
Editorial Comment: The Chicago Press and Tribune gives the following account of an interview between Messrs. Broderick and Douglas, while the English bill was pending before Congress
[No Title]
(Column 4)
Summary: John A. Washington, former proprietor of Mount Vernon, has trasferred the home and ground to the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association.
(Names in announcement: John A. WashingtonEsq.)

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Description of Page: Letter from Wisconsin; Irish Egg Hatcher; Civil War in Syria; advertisements

Lynched The Wrong Man
(Column 3)
Summary: Dr. Horlach, a Democrat of Union Co., Pa., plans to support Breckinridge. This would indicate that the people in Mississippi who lynched Horlach last year for being an Abolitionist lynched the wrong man.
Fayetteville Academy
(Column 6)
Summary: This advertisement for the Fayetteville Academy indicates the pending fall term, and lists the Board Of Instruction: Rev. J. Kennedy, A. M., Principal, Rev. D. Hefelfinger; John W. Sproull, A. M.
(Names in announcement: Rev. J. KennedyA. M., Rev. D. Hefelfinger, John W. SproullA.M.)

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Description of Page: The Republican Platform; article on a Preacher Boy; articles of information--health and political; advertisements.

[No Title]
(Column 2)
Summary: Mr. George A. Coffee gave an address on "Public Opinion and Individual Liberty" to alumni of Dickinson College; the audience hissed and left the hall.

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Married
(Column 2)
Summary: On Aug. 2nd, Rev. Z. A. Colestock married James B. Secrist to Anna Nead, both of Quincy township.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Z. A. Colestock, Mr. James B. Secrist, Miss Anna Nead)
Died
(Column 2)
Summary: On July 27th, in Chambersburg, Ellen Grace Wood died at age 5 months, and on August 5th, Henry Nesbit Wood died of hemorrhage of the lungs at age 2 yrs--both children of Mr. Lafayette Wood. On Aug. 4th, in Montgomery township, Jacob N. Butterbaugh died at age 28. On Aug. 5th, in Chambersburg, Miss Catharine Zarman, daughter of F. Zarman, Esq., died of a long illness at age 23. On July 28th, in Chambersburg, Judith A. Wolff, wife of Barnard Wolff, died at age 66.
(Names in announcement: Ellen Grace Wood, Henry Nesbit Wood, Mr. Wood, Mr. Jacob N. Butterbaugh, Miss Catharine Zarman, F. ZarmanEsq., Judith A. Wolff, Barnard Wolff)