Franklin Repository

In order to be a fast young lady, it is necessary to lay aside all reserve and refinement--everything that savors of womanly weakness; to have no troublesome scruples, but to be ready to accord an appreciating smile to the broadest joke. There must be no feeling of dependence on the stronger sex; but, by adopting, as far as decency permits, masculine attire, masculine habits, and masculine modes of expression, accompanied by a thorough knowledge of slang, and a fluency in using it, these ladies show themselves to be above all narrow-minded prejudices. There must be no thinking about other people's feelings; if people will be thin skinned, let them keep out of their way at all events. Should "mamma" raise her voice in a feeble remonstrance, the fast young lady impresses upon her that "she is no judge of these matters. In her old school days, everything and every one were slow; but it is quite changed now." In short, to sum up, to be a fast young lady, modesty, delicacy, refinement, respect for superiors, consideration for the aged, must all be set aside; boldness, independence, irreverence, brusqueness, and, we fear, too often heartlessness, must take their place.

The State

We have but partial returns from the State, and they indicate the success of the Union State ticket by from 8,000 to 12,000. Philadelphia gives from 3,000 to 4,000; Allegheny 5,000; Lancaster 4,500; Dauphin 1,200. Berks gives 5,000 Democratic, Cumberland 500, and scattering reports show uniform Democratic losses in the heavy Democratic counties on the vote of last October. Our last dispatch from Philadelphia, at 1 1/2 this morning, says that the State is regarded as Union by from 8,000 to 12,000, but gives no details. We do not accept this report as conclusive, but we do not see how the result can be against us.

Franklin County

At the time of going to press (2 A. M., this morning) we have but twelve of the twenty-two districts reported, and they show a Union gain of TWENTY-TWO on the home vote for President last year, when Gen. McClellan had forty-six majority. This leaves twenty-four majority to overcome in the remaining districts, and we cannot even guess as to the result. We hope for a falling off in Letterkenny, Lurgan and Concord, from the crushing Democratic majorities of last year, and a small Union gain in Metal, but we can only surmise.

The local ticket runs rather ragged. McClellan gains considerably--probably forty votes--in Chambersburg. Doebler also gains largely here and is pretty certainly elected Sheriff. Kuhn is also elected Surveyor, but the rest of the ticket is in doubt.

We have no returns for Assembly excepting from the North Ward, Loudon and St. Thomas, and cannot calculate the result. Col. Stumbaugh will probably lead Tressler from 50 to 100 in the county, and McLellan will lead Stumbaugh probably from 50 to 75. We have no returns from Perry to indicate the vote of the county. Our Representatives are therefore in doubt.

Greenvillage is the banner district. She has done most nobly, and had her efforts been imitated throughout the county, the entire Union ticket would now be triumphantly elected.

Duncan gains a few votes for Senator and may have a very small majority over M'Conaughy in the county. A dispatch from Gettysburg states that the Union men have made clear gains, but the county is pretty certainly Democratic by 100 to 125, so that Duncan's election to the Senate is assured.

The following is the vote by districts in the county as far as they are reported, compared with the home vote for President last year:

Lincoln's majority, 41.
*Montgomery and Peters

A COMPREHENSIVE scheme for benefitting the South by supplying it with labor has been devised in the East; Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, being at the head of it. The project contemplates the establishment of a central office in New York, where the owners of land in the slave states can become acquainted with Northern purchasers, and thus a stream of emigration be organized which will fill certain sections of the South with a population having Northern energy and ideas. Branch offices will be instituted in all the former slave States. In this way it is hoped to "reconstruct" the Southern States socially as well as politically. The Southern States themselves are doing something of the same kind, and to the same end. It is proposed in several of them to appoint a State Commissioner, with power to ascertain and advertise all lands for sale, to open information offices, to distribute descriptive pamphlets, and to station emigration agents in the chief ports of Europe.

TAXABLE INCOMES--We herewith continue the list of taxable incomes of Franklin county. We have been holding back with the expectation of being able to give the whole, but have been disappointed in getting them. The remaining townships, Antrim, Quincy, and Washington, we will publish as soon as received: