Franklin Repository

We have often stated that the tendency of extending the area of slavery is to eradicate the white population in the old Southern States. This is fast becoming verified in the very strong-hold of the peculiar institution. The authorities in South Carolina have instituted measures for taking the census of that State, which produces such an abundance of fire-eaters. The returns from seventeen parishes alone, show a decrease of more than 5000 in the white population, in the last four years, (a similar census-taking having occurred in 1855,) whilst the blacks have increased very largely in numbers, in the same time, in those parishes. At this rate the blood-and-thunder State will soon become sufficiently Africanized to suit the tastes of the greatest negro-lovers in the land.

Is it not astonishing that the simpletons who urge so strongly the propriety of repealing the laws of Congress which pronounce the Slave-trade piracy, cannot see that they are preparing for themselves the most horrible doom imaginable? The slave-holders of the South are now almost afraid to go to bed without a revolver under their pillows for fear their darkeys will rise in the night and inflict retaliatory vengence upon their self constituted owners--their unfeeling task-masters. Then why do they insist upon increasing the danger? They had better be upon their guard, and prevent this iniquity, while they have the strength, lest an opening of the Slave trade should result in so completely Africanizing the Southern States as that the tables might be turned--the whites becomes the slaves while the blacks bear rule. The only way slavery is upheld now, or ever was, is by brute force--the law of might. If, therefore, the weak of to-day become the strong of to-morrow, there is nothing in the world which can prevent their enslaving the weaker portion of society--from whom they have learned the inhuman lessons.

To The Public:--Whereas, a few hasty and inconsiderate expressions to which I gave utterance, immediately after my defeat before the People's Party Convention, as their candidate for Sheriff--whilst I was laboring under the erronious [sic] conviction, that I had been unjustly treated--have given rise to a general impression among my friends )or more properly speaking, expectation on the part of our political opponents,) throughout the County that I am or intend to be in the field as an Independent Candidate, against the regular nominee for the office of Sheriff, at the ensuing election, I therefore deem it due, not only to my numerous personal friends and the party of which I am an humble member, but also to myself, thus publicly to announce, that I entertain no such design, and that I will not only cordially vote for all the candidates placed in nomination on the People's Ticket, including my successful competitor, "Honest Billy McGrath," but use all the influence I possess or can command to secure their triumphant success.

To my many friends throughout the County who advocated my nomination, during the exciting Canvass, and to the Delegates one and all, who honored me with their confidence and unfaltering, though unsuccessful support, throughout all the ballotings of the Convention, I now take this occasion of returning my warmest and most sincere thanks, with the assurance, that I shall everhold them in kind and grateful remembrance.

JEREMIAH BURKE

Greencastle, Sept. 12th, 1859.

Office of the Fire and Marine Insurance Co.,

Harrisburg, August 30, 1859.

Sir:--The business of the above named Insurance Company having passed into my hands by a writ of sequestration, it has become my duty to collect the assets of the said Company for distribution among its creditors.

Among its assets I find your note for $84.00 given in part payment of the premium of insurance under policy No. 578 on which, as appears by the books of the Company, there has been paid $---, leaving a balance of $84.00 yet due; which balance you will please remit by draft or check, payable to my order, at your earliest convenience. If not paid before the 1st day of October, the necessary steps will be taken to recover it by law. It is hoped this may not be rendered necessary, inasmuch as it will only delay the settlement of the Company's affairs and impose additional costs upon yourself. Very Respectfully Yours, &c.,

WM. C. A. LAWRENCE,

Sequestrator.

As appears by the above notice the "State Mutual" has gone into liquidation, and Mr. Lawrence has been appointed Sequestrator.

We cannot see how these collections are to be made. Every policy issued provides that the premium notes can only be collected, or parts thereof, after regular assessments have been made, to meet losses actually sustained by the Company from fire. No exhibit is made by this notice of any such assessment, or any such losses, and we advise every person in the County, to whom such a notice was sent, to resist the payment of the demand made upon them. We will have more to say hereafter, about this association and its management.

A well-to-do farmer in Letterkenny township, near Upper Strasburg, in this County, named John McLellan, committed suicide, on Monday morning of this week, by hanging himself with a rope to a walnut tree in the meadow upon his own farm. It was doubtless caused by mental derangement. A few weeks since, he wandered from home and was not heard from for several days, when he came back as suddenly as he had disappeared.

The bark James W. Page has arrived at New York, bringing advices from Monrovia to July 29th. The vessels sent from Baltimore and New York by the African Colonization Society had arrived safely at Liberia, and the cargoes were sold at good profit.--The liberated Africans from the slaver Echo. are doing well in Monrovia. Many are distributed among private families, and learn fast the habits and customs of civilized life. The intelligent colored people that have emigrated from the United States to Liberia speak in the highest terms of the latter country. Mr. John W. Hohn, a colored New Yorker, writes to the agent of the Colonization Society in that city:

"When I left New York for Liberia it was under the impression that I would not find the place suited to my desire, which impression arose from a misrepresentation of Liberia to me by a few acquaintances in New York.--But having been privileged to see and tread upon the delightful shores of Liberia, I am prepared to affirm, without any fear of contradiction, that no place under the sun is better adapted to the colored man than Liberia."