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Ten dollars that Muhlenberg will have a majority of votes over Wolf in Montgomery county.

Ten dollars that Muhlenberg will have a majority of votes over Wolf in Schuylkill county.

Ten dollars that in the state of Pennsylvania Muhlenberg will have a majority of 10,000 votes over Wolf.

Ten dollars that Henry A. Muhlenberg will be elected the next Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, over both Wolf and Ritner.

Twenty-five dollars that we shall gain at least fifteen of the above offered bets-and probably more too.

Twenty-five dollars that we shall gain the whole of the above bets, without a single exception.

Consequently, it amounts in the whole to the sum of 300 dollars.
Come, gentlemen, take a taste of the pudding.

*The above bets have not been offered for the paltry purpose of spreading a false alarm. We have no hesitancy in annexing hereunto our name, so that gentlemen wishing to try the matter may know where to find us.

Hamilton-street, Northampton, Lehigh Co.

E. W. HUTTER.

FEROCIOUS AND BLOODY OUTRAGE.-DEMOCRATS SHOT DOWN IN THE STREETS!

THE murdered democrat Perry is scarcely laid in his grave, and we are again called upon to record a scene of ferocity and horror enacted by a horde of Bank assassins, unparalleled in the history of civilized nations. Our streets last night resounded with the roar of musquetry, levelled at unarmed democrats. It is supposed that at least fourteen of our friends were basely shot in the streets-many of them, we fear, are dangerously wounded; they were fired at, too, while standing on the election-ground. Wild and incredible as this may appear, it is a horrible reality. Within the hour, wounded and bleeding fellow-citizens have been carried past our doors to their homes!

The bloody drama took place last night in Moyamensing, in front of the place of election. The circumstances were as follow:-The Bank head-quarters for the township are directly opposite the Commissioners' Hall, in a tavern kept by James Peebles. On the east side of the Hall the Democrats had erected a shantee, to serve as a political rendezvous, in front of which a hickory-tree was reared.

In the course of the evening the Bank myrmidons rushed from their house, destroyed the hut of the Democrats, beat Mr. Bath, and his wife, by whom it was occupied, drove the friends of the administration from the ground, and completed the outrage by hewing down the hickory-pole, and burning a large figure of the President, which was placed near.

After these achievements the mob of ruffians returned to their house, and the Democrats, who were inferior in number, approached. Stones and missiles were thrown, when suddenly a discharge of musketry was commenced from the windows of the Whig head-quarters. The Democrats, unarmed as they were, moved in a mass to the front of the building, and endeavoured to effect an entrance. The firing was continued from the windows, the shutters being opened to allow the discharge of the

Whig muskets, and quickly closed as soon as the fire was delivered. At one time four muskets were protruded from a single window. Many of our friends were shockingly mangled, the fire-arms being charged with large shot instead of bullets, by which, at so short a distance, hideous wounds were inflicted. In less than an hour between forty and fifty discharges of musketry were made by the dastardly ruffians from their lurking-places; and, as before stated, it has been ascertained that at least fourteen democratic citizens were severely hurt. At length the doors were forced, and the armed scoundrels fled like frighted sheep. Two were captured, one of whom had the madness to fire from the roof after the house was taken, and, with deliberate aim, wounded a young man standing on the opposite side of the street.

The prisoners, unhurt, were handed over to the civil authoritiesan instance of forbearance as surprising as it is creditable to their captors. The people, incensed at the sight of their bleeding companions, and maddened at the cries of the wounded, as they were borne from the ground, burnt the Whig poll and insignia, and gutted and destroyed the buildings from which they were fired upon, but abstained from all personal violence.

Such are the brief details of this shocking outrage, and revolting as our sketch shows it to be, we have rather fallen short of reality than exceeded it. Comment is superfluous on this second example of the results of the frenzied course of the friends of the Bank, their incendiary invocations, and their vindictive spirit. We submit the deed to the judgment of the nation.

In addition to the Democrats shot in Moyamensing, we are informed that several were wounded with dirks, knives, sword-canes, and other deadly weapons.

From the Pennsylvanian.

JAMES LAMB, who was shot on the election-night by the firing from the Whig head-quarters, Moyamensing, died on Wednesday from the effects of his wounds, in the Pennsylvania Hospital-another victim to the mad measures of "preparation," so extensively taken by our opponents.

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There was a probability that the murderers of Mr. Lamb might be brought to justice; but it appears that the prisoners captured in the Whig head-quarters with arms in their hands, yet hot with repeated discharges, and given into the custody of the Moyamensing Watch, were suffered to escape! One of them, who was saved from summary justice, although in the power of a wounded and incensed multitude, and surrendered, that he might be legally dealt with, furnished a list of the most active of those who fired from the building, and that list disappeared with the prisoners! The people of Moyamensing owe it to themselves to search into this affair, and fix the culpability where it belongs.

THE MOYAMENSING OUTRAGE.

County of Philadelphia, ss.

Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the aldermen of the said county, James Macdonald, who, being duly sworn according

to law, doth depose and say-That he was at the general election-ground of Moyamensing at the commencement of the poll being opened, and until the close; and that, about five minutes previous to the close of the poll, there were several stones thrown from the house, sign of the Liberty Pole, opposite the Moyamensing Hall, and the first battery commenced from that quarter. This deponent then retreated to Bath's tent, on the east, opposite said Liberty Pole, and saw a volley of stones thrown, guììs fired at the said place of Bath's, and saw a rush of the mob, and they immediately commenced with axes, hatchets, and other instruments, cutting down the Hickory Pole tent, and breaking and making away with all the glass-ware, liquor, and all belonging to said Bath; and this deponent further says, that, while the foregoing depredation was committed, James Bath was bathing a person who was dreadfully wounded, and when he found how the depredations were carried on he had to retreat, being knocked down by the party from the Liberty Pole; one stating, "There is one of the Jackson men, knock him down!" and one blow with a hatchet I received over the head, that cut through my hat. JAMES MACDONALD, 205, Shippen st.

Sworn and subscribed before me, Oct. 21, 1834.

County of Philadelphia, ss.

JAMES ENEU, Ald.

Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the aldermen of said county, James Dougherty, who, being duly sworn, doth depose and say-That on the night of the general election, in the township of Moyamensing, he was passing by the Township Hall, in Christian-street, between Ninth and Tenth streets, when he saw two men on the roof of the house where the Liberty Pole was before the door, shooting off the house at the people that stood near Ninth-street. Deponent likewise saw several persons shooting at the people from the second-story windows, where deponent received a shot and got wounded by one of the persons that fired from said house-top; deponent further says that he had at the time no knowledge of a riot or disturbance.

JAMES DOUGHERTY.

Sworn and subscribed before me, Oct. 22, 1834.

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INCLUDING William Perry, it is now known that five Jackson Democrats have been stabbed in the present struggle in Philadelphia. Two on Friday in Locust Ward, one on the same day in Southwark, one in Cedar Ward, and one on Tuesday in Kensington. Besides these, numbers of Democrats are lying wounded from blows with prepared bludgeons, many of them dangerously. These bludgeons and maces were prepared, and loaded with lead, weeks before the election, by the Bank bullies. Are Democrats to be slaughtered and knocked on the head by these Bankites, like cattle in the slaughter-house?

ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT MURDER.

On Friday night two Bank ruffians attempted to murder Mr. Thomas Llewellen, President of the Democratic Association of Second Ward, Spring-garden. One of the ruffians kept him in conversation while the other aimed a deadly blow at his head from behind. Mr. Llewellen happened to stoop at the moment, and the blow was received by Mr. George Colson, who fell senseless under it. The ruffians fled to the Bankite head-quarters, corner of Callowhill and Thirteenth-street, where one of them was captured. Mr. Llewellen had committed no offence, but that for which poor Perry was murdered-he had challenged non-residents in the Bank ranks.

THE North Mulberry Ward disturbances, on the day of the election, are charged, with the usual sang froid and recklessness of Bankism, upon the Democrats. We, however, happen to have a list of Bank bullies, &c., in our possession, who were active all day in blocking the window to prevent the reception of democratic votes. The list is doubtless imperfect, but it shows the names of sixteen persons, including several city office-holders, nearly all of whom reside in other wards, and came by a preconcerted plan to North Mulberry. The affair was perfectly clear, and was one of the desperate devices of the Tory-whigs to keep the city. The same trick was tried in Middle Ward, but promptly put down. There is, however, a rod in pickle.

THE Bank papers make a poor defence of their Moyamensing friends. They acknowledge that the firing was from the Whig house, and that the muskets were discharged by the Whigs; but they affect not to be aware of the fact that the arms were prepared and deposited there for the purpose of firing on the Democrats. Poulson, if we may believe his "Caution," knew the fact; and likewise that the U. S. Bank was turned into barracks for the night, containing a strong company of armed men; that the prison muskets were carried to the mayor's office in the night, and loaded with ball; and that sundry other preparations for flooding the streets with blood were made by our valiant opponents, who were shivering with fear in a city in which they have a majority, and which, at the time of their general arming, was as quiet as a church.

ADDITIONAL NAMES OF WOUNDED.

WE yesterday mentioned the names of fifteen individuals wounded in Moyamensing by the firing from the windows of the Whig head-quarters, at Peeble's tavern, on the night of the election. The list is still further increased.

Charles Miller was wounded above the left eye, and received two shots in the temple, which his physician has not been able to extract.

James Sulger received eight or ten shots in the head and shoulders, and is now confined to bed in a very critical state.

S. H. Fisher had his shoulder dislocated by a blow with a large stone thrown from the Whig head-quarters.

Wm. Bayne, Hart Mark, John Pickerin, George Dougherty, John Mitchell-all very severely hurt by gun-shot wounds from the windows of Peeble's tavern.

James Faulkner, in the leg.

John Pinkerton, in the arm.

Martin Eagee, severely, in the head, breast, and thigh.
Charles J. Clarke, in the face, severely.

A Bank paper states that one of the wounded men was a Bank Whig. We have heard as much, but he was shot whilst standing amongst the Democrats; and we have heard of a wounded Bank man, whether the same or not we do not know, who has abjured his party, as he can no longer support those who are so ready to wound and kill peaceful citizens.

IN Moyamensing, when the Whig head-quarters were entered by the Democrats, to stop the heavy firing from the windows, the first man who entered the passage was received by a desperado on the stairs with a levelled musket. The undaunted Democrat, unarmed as he was, rushed upon the fellow, whose weapon flashed in the pan, and wrested it from his hands. The barrel of the piece was hot with repeated discharges. The load was drawn in the morning, and found to consist of a bullet and handful of duck-shot. Another gun taken at the same time contained a similar load.

On the night of the election two efforts were made by our opponents to obtain the muskets deposited by volunteers at the Military Hall, back of the United States Bank. In one of these onsets we are informed that the life of the keeper of the Hall was threatened, if he would not give them up. As no authority was shown, the arms were very properly refused, even at the hazard of being killed.

From the various facts now collected it is perfectly evident that on the election night the city of Philadelphia was tottering on the verge of a horrible catastrophe. The Whigs, city officers and all, were armed, and in ambuscade everywhere; and the least rencontre in the street would have been the signal for letting loose their wrath upon us, for it is more than suspected that many of the musketeers were not in a state to act with much discretion.

ELECTION MURDER.

THE particulars of the death of the unfortunate James Lamb, who was shot on the election-ground in Moyamensing, during the horrid tumults of the night of the 14th, have been given to us. It appears that he assisted Mr. Bath in erecting the tent for the Jackson head-quarters, and aided him in attending the customers throughout the day. In the evening, while Mr. Bath was employed in dressing the wound of Mr. Kilpatrick, hurt by a stone, the firing commenced. Mrs. Bath called out to her husband to fly, or they would be killed. Mr. Lamb was then at the back of the tent, but stepped forward to ascertain the meaning of the firing. As he reached the entrance he suddenly exclaimed, "My God! I am shot!" repeating the words as if in great agony. The rush

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