Franklin Repository

The Ashtabula Sentinel says that it is the intention of one of the defendants in the Oberlin rescue cases, to apply to the Supreme Court of Ohio for a writ of habeas corpus, as soon as the proper time arrives, and test the question whether the State is powerful enough to protect its citizens from the tyranny and oppression of the general government. When every principle of law and justice is set aside by the minions of the government for the purpose of punishing men guilty of no crime, it is time that the State should assert its supremacy within its own limits, if it has any to assert.

--The annual election for Burgess, Town Counsel, School Directors, &c., took place in Chambersburg on Monday last, and the People's Ticket was most triumphantly sustained. Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless the fact, that Republicans and Locofocos, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants, all joined in voting the same identical Ticket-a Ticket formed by a meeting of the People's Party on the Friday evening previous. Such a Unanimity of political sentiment, probably, never has been exhibited in any town of the same population, in Pennsylvania.

The Locofocos, it is true, marshalled by a few disaffected and factious members of the Opposition, made a dead set at one of the School Directors on the People's Ticket.-They led off in the support of Hon. Wilson Reilly, but they were most gloriously defeated. Out of a poll of some 400 votes Mr. Henninger's majority was no less than 58! This triumphant support, in view of the means made use of to defeat him, is alike creditable to Mr. H., as well as to the citizens of our Borough-it is a most emphatic approval and endorsement of his previous acts as School Director, and a proud vindication from the aspersions of his opponents.

The following is the Ticket that was elected:

Burgess.-I.H. McCauley.

Town Council.-A. D. Kaufman, Geo. Flack, Andrew Banker, R.E., Tolbert, Sam'l Reisher.

Borough Auditors.-E. Kuhn, Jno. Rhodes, J.B. Wright.

School Directors.-Jacob Henninger, T.B. Woods.

High Constable.-Geo. Gross.

--For twenty years past our town has not witnessed the same spirit of improvement that is now manifested in every quarter. The buildings that have been and those that are now being erected, embracing some twenty-five or thirty, are of the most substantial and durable kind, and we hear of a number of other buildings that are to be erected the present, as well as others that will be put up the next season. While many of our citizens are thus engaged in improving our town in the erection of new buildings, many others are adding decided improvements to their present residences by remodeling and repairing them, thus furnishing a large amount of employment to our mechanics and laboring people.

Chambersburg, at present, is decidedly on the increase, in improvements, in population, and in wealth, and we look forward to the day when it will become one of the very prominent and most populous inland towns of Pennsylvania, as it is now one of the prettiest and most pleasant. We possess the facilities for extensive manufacturing of various kinds- are surrounded by a rich and productive soil, and but a few years more will elapse before we are placed in direct Railroad communication with the South, as we are now with the East and West.

The Franklin Railroad is now being re-laid, and the work is progressing very rapidly.-With the hands there employed, as well as the bustle and stir among our own people, gives to our town quite a business-like appearance.