BEDFORD INQUIRER, BEDFORD, Pa. Fiiriat .Horning, June 11, WSS "FE \RLESS AND FKEK/' l>. OVER-Editor and Proprietor. STATE CONVENTION. The United American, Republican, and People's Committee of Superintendence for the City of Phi ladelphia, earnestly desirous to extend and perpe tuate that union of the elements of opposition to the present National Administration, which in this City has lately resulted in such brilliant success, do hereby respectfully suggest, and recommend to the State Committees- representing those several elements of opposition, that ihev call upon the citizens of Pennsylvania, who are opposed to the present National Administration; especially to its despotic and fraudulent Lecompton policy, and its wiH.il neglect of the just claims of domestic in dustry; and who are in favor of the sovereignty or the people over their own local concerns, of American institutions as against the policy and in trigues of foreign Governments; and of adequate protection to our homo labor, to assemble in their respective Senatorial and Representative Districts, to choose delegates to a State Convention, to meet at Harrisburg. in the 31a.11 of flie House of Rep resentatives, at 2 o'clock, P. M., of Wednesday, the 14th day of July, 1858, to nominate candi dates for Judge of the Supreme Court and Canal Commissioner. LEONARD R. FLETCHER, President. .1. U. FLASK.ES, I GEO. A. COFFET Y Vice Presidents W. J. P. WHITE* \ M.V. B. SfU-MEBS, i Sterelaries , J. I?. LYNDA EL, \ Philadelphia, May 20, 18-38. In view of the above recommendation, and its general acceptance, 1 hereby withdraw the call for a State Convention, issued by me, for the Bth of July next, and earnestly request the American Re publicans of the State to accept it, and participate in the il-ctioii of Delegates to said Convention. Bv order of the State Committee. | LEM'L TODD, Chairman Jt. 11. State Cuminittee. Attest—EDWARD M'PUKRSOK, Sec y. CARLISLE, May 81, 1858. T-> the whiter irons of Pennsylvania : The above recommendation having bee submit ted to me for my approval, alter consultation with the majority of the members of the American State Committee, and a large number of the prominent Americans ot the State, 1 cheerfully adopt it as our call for a State Convention, and urge t tie mem bers of the American party throughout the State to participate in the olection of delegates. 11. BUCHER SWOOPE. Ch rirman of .American State Committee. CLEARFIELD, .May 29, 1858. Inasmuch as the above recommendation and calls point out tlie plain road to practical, decisive and enduring victory over the present National Administration and its tyrannical and sectional poitev, 1 therefore request the Republicans of i 1 PHILADELPHIA,June 1, 1858. The Kansas Issue. It has been manifest for months that a lead ing issue in the approaching campaign would be raised by the Kansas policy of the National Administration As usual, a large portion of the press which supports that pt*ty endeavored for a time to shirk the issue, and some few, more rcukless than candid, are still so inclined. Every day makes it more plain that this great issue of justice and freedom against oppression and slavery can no longer be postponed or eva ded. It must be met, and met now, and even the dullest of Mr. Buchanan's friends aro wa king up to the real condition of things. As evidence of this we find his partizans circula ting Kansas documents in this county, and ' among others, the late message of the Presi dent, recommending to Congress the adoption of the Lceompton pro-slavery Constitution.— It seems, therefore, by their own confession, that the recent passage of the bill admitting Kansas into the Union as a slave State, lias not quite settled the agination upon the subject.— When the Missouri Compromise bill was re pealed, and the Kansas-Nebraska bill passed we were told they were a "final settlement" of the whole slavery question. It turned out oth erwise, as the bloody history of Kansas from that time until this day abundantly shows.— Mr. Buchanan in his Kansas mess, age assured Congress that if they would only admit Kan sas under the Lecompton Constitution, all would be well, and that it "would restore peace and quiet to the whole • coutfft-y." As usual, tiic assurances have been falsified, and the ex periment failod, and Mr. Buchanan's Kansas mesgage, and other pro-slavery documents, are being scattered broadcast arnoDg the people to j further agitate the question of slavery in Kan sts, not only there, but here in our midst. W T e do not refer to this byway of complaint, but only as a chronielor of passing events, ar.d to show that the shaui democracy are eDgaged "in agitating'" these things which they have heretofore so repeatadly informed us were set tled. We have read this Kansas message, anil have a few words to say upon it. A gtbsser tissue of misrepresentations has seldom been submit ted for the consideration of the people. It starts out with charging the Free State party of Kansas with being in rebellion against the laws and government of the United States; and upon this more than questionable charge, arc based the most important fabrications and conclusions in the whole mossage. Now, what arc the facts ? In the spring of 1855, the first election was held for a territorial legisla ture; and it is notorious that armed bands of Missouiians came over by thousands, and inva ded every election in the territory ex cept one, drove away the free State resident voters from the polk by force, and. elected a legislature to suit themselves, many of the 1 1 persons thus elected being residents of Mis souri. This legislature, thus fraudulently elected, proceeded to enact laws for the terri tory, in many of which they so utterly disre garded the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, aud the plainest principles of liberty and justice, that the lower house of Congress at its next sessioD declared them fraudulent, unconstitutional, null and void, and even Gen. Lewis Cass pronounced them ''a dis grace to the age." These laws the free State men of the territory repudiated, and set at de fiance, not only because of their infamous pro visions, but because, as they truly contended, the whole legislature was elected by fraud and violence by citizens of another State, and had therefore no right to legislate for the people of Kansas. For these reasons, when this bogus legislature appointed officers, and times and places, to hold elections, the free State citizens disregarded tlieiu, and refused to vote, because they considered themselves in DO wie bound to pay any respect or obedience to the enactments of such a legislature. Aud these are the of fences which the President iu hi* Kansas Mes sage, gravely denounces as rebellion against the Constitution and laws of the United Slates. Thu free State men called a mass conven tion of the people to consult and determine what course to pursue, to rid themselves of this bogus legislature, and its tyrannical and pro-slavery enactments Tiie Convention was largely attended, and it was deliberately re solved that they would set to work and make a constitution for themselves, and ask udmission into the Union as a State. Accordingly the territory was apportioned into election districts, and an election ordered for a specified uurnber of delegates, to meet at a certain time and place to frame a constitution. The elections' was held, and the convention met at Topcka, and framed a constitution to suit themselves; and 'his constitution was twice submitted to a popular vote of-the people for ratification or rejection, and ratified by A large majority of the legal voters of the territory. I hey then forwarded this constitution to CongfCS®, and asked to be admitted under it as ore of the this Union. Yet a democratic Prcs- rejected them, and why ? Topeka constitution wis a Jree constitution, and prohibited slavery in the Slate. The Kansas-Nebraska act, and the Cincinnati Platform jiad told the people of Kansas that they were to be "perfectly free to regulate their owu domestic affairs in their own way*'—aDd they had gone to work iu their owu way, aud framed and adopted a constitution to and the President of the United States tells I them that their whole ptoceeding was rebel lion against the Constitutinq and laws of the United States' Not that it conflicted with any single provision of l# Constitution of the United States, or of any act of Congress, but, forsooth, that it came in conflict with the au thority and enactments of that bogus legisla ture, fraudulently elected for Kansas by the citizens of Missouri. Again: the President complains again and again of the free State men, because they re fused to vote. Why they refused we have al ready seen. But the President and Governor Walker, under the most solemn pvomisos of a fair election, and that the Lecompton Constitu tion should be submitted to a vote for their aceoptar.ee or rejection, succeeded in persuad ing the free State men to lay aside their non voting policy, and to go into the clectious, and they thus induced and persuaded the free State men tc abandon the Topeka Constitution.— But no sooner was the pro-slavery liecompton Constitution made, under authority given by that bogus Legislature, than tliey refused to submit it to a vote, and tho President turns round in violation of all his promises and pledget, and insists that CoDgress shall accept the constiiutidS without a vote of the people upon it; and not Only Uis, but in justification of his course, says it wouia ecn no use to submit it, for if they had n ZPWId have been voted down by the free Stale mril. Was ever anything moro barefaced and infa mous than this? Where now is democracy, the right of the people to rule, and to regulate their domestic affairs in their own way; and what has become of the great doctrine of pop ular sovereignty? But the people of Kansas were determined not to be cheated in this way, if they conld prevent it; and at the regular time of choosing a territorial legislature, they elected a majori ty in both branches, in spite of frauds and in vasions fioin abroad. This legislature assem bled jtt the call of acting Governor Stanton, and it passed a law submitting this same Le coiupton constitution to a vote of the people for ratification or rejection. The election was held with all the forms of law, and under in structions from President Buchanan, that the people must be protected at the polls by the military of the United States. The result was. that the Lecomptou pro-slavery constitution was rejected and repudiated by a majority of ten thousand votes. Now, what does Mr. Bu- j chanan and the supporters of his Kansas poli- i cy say ? He proclaims in his Kansas message ! that this 10,000 majority does not amount to anythiug, except that the voters by voting at the election thereby ratified and admitted the legality of the Lecompton convention and the Lecompton constitution, and urges it upon Congress as an additional reason why Kansas should bo admitted as a slave State under this BIBFOKB IHOIRER. repudiated Lecompton Constitution! How truly baa it been said that "white men have no longer any majorities which democrats ore hound to respect." Such ure some of the leading features of this Kansas message, ami the facts which go to make up the great Kansas issue. There ore others equally important, to which we would gladly refer, did our space and patience admit. Let this message, then, be read in the light of these facts, which it Carefully suppresses, and all will he right. Congressional The congressional question is beginning to be agitated in this distiiet to some extent. A writer in the diambersburg Repository and Whig recommends in strong terms, Col. A. K. MeClure for Congressman. Should the Colo nel receive the nomination, wo would cheerful ly support him, and should he be elected, the District would have cause to rejoice that we had a member of such rare qualifications. The Gettysburg papers, the Star and Senti nel, recommend our youug friend, Edward Mc pherson,Esq.,for the nomination. As a writer, Mr. MeP. has no superiors in the fc>tate, and would make a cougre-suian of whom the Sev enteenth District might well be proud. These papers, however, elaitu the right of the candi date for that County, as they have not yet had one, and their claims have been postponed yiar ly This is not correct. We were a member of the last Conference, aud we know that the Conferees from this County, as well as ibosc from Fulton aud F.ankliii,;)/-e/err ed the claims of Mr. Buchleiy for whom .J dams had instruc ted. The Adams Conferees positively declined the nomination, which was unanimously conce ded to them, and thus waived any rights whieh Adams may have had at that time. She will now come before the Conference with about the same claims as the other Counties. A well known gentleman from this County has also been named for the nomination, and uo doubt there arc others in the District, all of whom would make CoDgrefsinen of the first order, and for whom, when nouiiuatcd, no mat tcr who he may he, or from what County he hails,we will support with all our influence and ability, for we desire to sec this District which is now so shamefully misrepresented, redeemed. It can and will he done. "IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH." We call attention to the call in this week's paper for a State Convention to be held at tlarrisburg on the 14th or' July. Jt will he seen that at the request of those persons in 1 Ull '" n ' f th focoism, that the Chairman of the American Republican Convention has withdrawn his call for a convention, and the American, Republi can, and the American Republican committees have all united iu this call. This secures the State to the opposition, and the certain defeat of Locofocoism in the fall. The Philadelphia Daily JVern, a straight-out American p'iper, and all other opposition papers iu the State,are warmly in favor of the uniou Convention as uow called. SALE OF FORT SNELLING. We call the attention of our readers to the article on the outside of our paper to-day iu reference to the fraudulent sale of Fort Snel- Dog, by which the government has been swin dled out of nearly a million of dollars. The Secretary of War, Mr. Floyd, along with other high Locofoco dignitaries, figures, very exten sively in this bold and outrageous robbery. Let the people examine this matter, and they will become convinced that it is time that the plun derers should be ousted from the high places which they disgrace. In our columns this week we publish an ar ticle on the late outrageous murder of free State meu iu Kansas. For several weeks the pres ses iu the iuterest of the Locompton party, at tempted to pass them off as having been com mitted by the Free State men, but when the true account arrives, it piaces ihcm on tbo Border Ruffians who have been guilty of all he outr'-ges in that ill fated territory. Read the article. The British outrages on Atnericag commerce, in the Gulf of Mexico, still continue, and tiic excitement all over the country is at war height but there will be no war with England, whilst Buchanan is President. But if these outrages were committed by Mexico or some other weak government, Locofocoism would pitch in. We call atteutiou to the Card of Dr. J. P ASHCOM, who has located in Ilopewcll. The Doctor is a Physician of character and ability, and will carefully attend to all business in his line. Is THIS ECONOMY?— The Norristown Uer ald truly remarks—"The Democracy are for ever boasting of the economical manner in which they conduct the affairs of government. No occasion is permitted to pass that they do not give us a repetition of this song, and as though to oonvince themselves, they just as persistently charge upon their opponents a reckless disposition to squander. Let us look a moment at the figures as we have them dur ing the administration of Mr. Buchanan, and see whether they will justify this much vaunt ed boast of economy. On the Ist day of Ju ly last, the balance in the Treasury was §lB,- 000,000; for the three quarters which have elapsed since then there has been added §35,- 000,000 of revenue from all sources, and the current or closing quarter will yield §8,000,- 000 more, giving for the year the snug sum of §61,000,000. In addition to this, iD Decern- her last, tlidministration received authority to issue $900,000 of Treasury Notes, male ins the enious sum of Eighty one .Millions of Dottarifi expenses of the Government for the eurrenfear! But this is uot all. Ou Saturday j, a bill was read in the Seuate, authorizin a loan of $15,000,000 for ten years—mfig in the aggregate as the expen ses of thqear, the sum of Ninety-six Mil lions oj 'tars —or Thirty-five Millions more than the nip's from all quarters It will not take ch figuring to tell where this kind of econotrvill land us at the eud of Mr. Bu chanan's uinistration. For the Inquirer. WJDBERUY "LOCAL." WoomiEURY, June 7, 1858. MI. OVl— Locals are decidedly scarce.— All the trupiiations are either too small or too indiaiil, but we have quite a fine pros pect for ials ahead, owing to the approaching "Fourth,aud other local causes that are on the "britof being bom." Althoh we are uot prolific just at this moment, ill, occasionally, things turn up here that arc r only calculated to excite our risi bles, but vU'uA appear extremely awkward, when jropiy aiHlyzed. One day last week produceia case tUt elucidated this doctrine forcibly. I tbiuk itwas on Thursday morniug, that I niiced John feith, one of our stable, sober aii second- thougjt farmers, who resides j in Hickry Bottom, aboit town, and withal in a terribl foment in regail to something. Oo j nearinghe position he licil before a crowd of eager liieuers, itnd to who-) he was spouting eloqueno equal to Buneoube in his happiest j m od r nd gesticulating in he most violent ■ manner 1 ascertained that lm,n company with two of U children, wagon and Lrses, had been ; it tho t'ood berry mill the ove.jng previous, ! and W conveyed some six bushes of flour to j his ban about two miles from tow. f a Il( l that he, not raving dreamed of any rase-hty, left j it on tit wagon until morning, alas ! what ws his mortification to find tL.t the "night nan" had not even left the bags ftpus ' the floii. At this point his feelings eked ; oozfid oit at his finger-ends, and he wcut on t iosiuuae that he was just awaiting the op ' pearnnG. He was a 1 member of the Leoompton Const itutional Con- ! vent ion from Bourbon County, or Fort Scott. Brocket was also with him. lli'l, another i prominent Ruffian of Fort Scott, was of the i party. Then there was another Mr. Hamiltou ; and his son, also Buford men, who have lived near the trading post on the Marais Jes Cygnes Five others of the party were the disbuuded -oldiers of Capt. Anderson's company (I) of dragoons, who were drummed out of their com- j Any some tiute ago, at the instance of their j c or .] ie i r friends. Neither did they appev l 0 he actuated by any personal malice. 1 lis- an y Fiee-State man; j"-t as they Uuwu '"■> gome were taken in ; taken from hetr houm, Tb toU lhat ; the party which arrested hed to „ talk witb them and SO quietly did K ac U!lU1 „ got their victims ,n their poX Uml (he w / v j thus taken pever suspected aU 9t tbat „ I were taken for cold-blooded pu\o C s (j ne ot the prisoners, Mr. Siilwell of KL r jj oun j j was oo the road to a Missouri town , p uv 0 j I visions. Another was a Baptist 1 ' t j middle life. The latter was of the wouti ,i_ 1 the former killed. There was no trial, or attempt at trial. charge was preferred against them. The parties were chiefly strangers to each other. The poor ufen, unarmed, were led iuto a ravine. There they wore drawn tip in line, aud for the first time perceived the frightful nature of their sit uation, dark suspicions of which had been al ready suggesting themselves. The murderers ranged themselves immediately in fiont of their victims, and with fatal promptitude and cool ness, at the command of their leader, de liberately shot them. At the first fire all of the eleven prisoners fell. The murderers, to make sure work, loaded and fired several times. Some of them used their revolvers.— One of the survivors, who was severely wound ed, and who was lying on the ground, had a pistol ball put in his head. He says tbat one ot the patty stooped down ovei him, and put a pistol to his ear and fired. The ball ranged downward, and, glancing along the jawbone, came out uear his mouth, without inflicting a fatal wound. Others were shot at thus on the ground. For some minutes the scene must have been perfectly horrible—these twenty-three assassins loading and firing at the dead and wounded party of unarmed men. At last, when they believed that their bloody work was com pletely done, they turned from the scene of horrors and fba to Missouri. Although all of the prisoners fell when first fired at, they were not all killed. Five of them were killed on the spot, or uicd shortly after of their wounds. Five were wounded, all se verely, and most of them with several wounds. Only one of them entirely escaped. Although not wounded, lie had the presence of uiind°o drop wUeq his companions fell, and so perfect was his simulation of death that he escaped without a wound. 1 have seen a nnD who ex amined the wounds of the oiuSrs. He says they were all shot in front. Some of them had other wounds,received while lying on the ground The live wounded men, although all severely hurt, are all likely to recover. The five dead have left widows aud orphans, and parents aud brothers to mourn their fate. A woman was the first person who saw the sceue of carnage. Living in the vicinity of the massaeie, und having seen the prisoners in the hands of their captors, and heard the re ports of the firearms, she sought out the party. \V T hen sho first viewed the horibler spectacle, the turn were all lying quietly on the ground, and seemed to be dead. She cried aloud, aud her woman's voice having inspired conlidcuce, those who were not dead replied to her. Otio or two of those who finally died, were yet ablo to converse for some time Assistance was ob taind, and the wounded were conveyed to a house near the trading-post. The alarm was sounded, und Capt. Montgonery and Mr. Mc- Daniels, Brigadier-General of the Territorial Militia, were soon ou the spot. It is believed tbat tbo Ruffians have sepcrated and are skulk ing about. They told in Missouri tbat they bad a fight with Capt. Montgomery, and had defeated him, killing eleven men. it is quite likely that the Border-ltuffi in journals uta give credence or circulation to such a story. Inspired with the horror which such a deed would naturally excite, the citizens of the vi j entity were aroused to the greatest indignation. Gen. Me Daniels called out the Territorial mi litia in the vicinity. It was known that ihe Border-Ruffians had stopped at the town of West Point, in Missouri, and had there com pleted their organization before coining over. A day or twe ago, Capt. Montgomery, with Gon. McDaniols, and a force of 150 men wen' to West Point to demand that the murderer be surrendered up. The design in making thi demand was to secure them betiore they escape It was believed that some citizens of that place were implicated, and as it was known to he perfect folly to w;it for a requisition from Den ver to the Governor of Missouri, or to ex; r c anything whatever from such a source it wis, deemed bettet to take more prompt measures, if uiore irregular. The expedition did not succeed in accomplishing anything, however.-- The fact is the murderers had fled. Dr Ham ilton was last seen on a horse riding through Missouri toward the river The whereabouts of the others is Dot known. Wc have had reports of several battles with in the past day or two, but there is no evidence of anything of the kind. Still, the border iu thin section) and below, is in a state of alarm. A rumor of an invasion from Missouri against this point has had the effect to rouse the set tlers in and around Osawatomic. They are now under arms. Guards were kept out last night, and the night before. I think any alarm of in invasion at i),is point is groundless. I heard hum Fort Scott and Sugar Mound up to * estcrday. The people there are deter mine! to seize the murderers, if possible, and execute summary justice uj on them. It is coniem;dated to follow tin m, if necessary, to Missouri for purpose. Meauwhih; they have sent some messengers to Latmuec for arms and advice, who will arrive to day or to morrow. Judge Williams has made req-KSt for a meet ing 011 the Maimaton. It is to be held on Sat urday. lie is going to make some propositions. Most of the soldiers have left Fort Scott: there is only a handful there now. \\ hat will be the next event, it would be difficult to tell.— The patties below seem to wait for arms and advice, and the mission to L.wrenfte may have some effect ou the action to be taken. EXPULSION OF GOV. CUMMING DOUBTED. ST. I.oeis. June s.—The Republican learcs, from a gentleman who 1 ft Fort Leavenworth on ve 2 ! inst., and who lead all the letters Iron- '* Scott up to May 6th, that the Governor cumming had been driven from Salt Lake City is discredited. ST. I.oris, June s—The Democrat has just re ceived the following despatch from Fort Leaven worth, dated the 3(1 inst. "Win. Crossiuan arriv ed here last sight lrom Fort Laramie, states that Cpt. Ma rev's supply train his been cut otf by the Mormons. Particulars bv mail." ; See advertisement of DI. SandforJ's LIVER L INVIOORATOB in another ccluuin. EXHIBITION The annual Exatuiuation and Kxhibitun of ( AIUPHEUY Male and Female Seminary, will take place at Kainsfcurg, ou Wednesday, > the I 6 h