BEDFORD INQUIRER.
BEDFORD, Pa.
Fildttj .Monitnr, July 9. 1958
"FKARLESS AND FRF.K."
I>. OVER—Udltor and Proprietor.
' STITE fOKVEXTION.
The UniteJ 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 Vational 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 they call upon the
citizens of Pennsylvania, wbn are opposed to the
present National Administration; especially to its
despotic and fraudulent Lccompton policy, and ita
wilful neglect of the just claims of domestic in
dustry; and who aro in favor of the aoumreignty
or the people over their owu local concerns, of
American institutions as ag.iitjst the policy aud in
trigues of foreign Governr.ieatr; and of adequate
protection ts our home 1 ibor, to assemble iu their
respective Senatorial and Representative Districts
to choose delegates to s State Convention, to nice,
ai Harriaburg, in the ilitli of the House of Kept
resontalives, at 2 o'clock, P. M., of Wednesday
iho lttii day of Jul/, 1858, to nominate candi,
ilates for Judge of the Supremo Court and Cinal-
Cotnoiiseioner.
LEONARD R. FLETCHER, President.
J. R. FLASK.ES, I
GEO. A. COFFEY, > f-'ice Presidents
IV. J. P. WHITE. \
M. V. B. SC umers t c
J. U. LYSDALL, \Sntarus.
Philadelphia, May 2d, 1858.
In view of the above recommendation, aud its
general acceptance-, I hereby withdraw the call for
a State Convention, issued bv lue, for the Bth of
July next, and earnest!/ request the American Re
publicans of the State to accept it, and participate
in the election of Del gates to said Convention.
By order of the State Committee.
I.EM'L TODD,
Chairman .1. R. State Committee.
Attest —EDWARD M'PHEKSOS, Sec y.
CARLISLE, May 31, 1858.
To the dmen cans of Pennsylvania :
The above recommendation having been submit
ted to me for my approval, alter consultation with
the majority of the members of th American State
Committee, and a largo number of the prominent
Americans of the State, I cheerfully adopt it as
our cull for a State Convention, and urge the mem
itrs of the American party throughout the State
to participate iu the election of delegates.
11. BUCUER SWOOI'E,
Chairman of .dmerican State Committee.
CLEARFIELD, May 29, 1858.
Inasmuch as the above recommendation an J
calls point out the plain road to practical, decisive
and enduring victory over the present National
Administration and its tyrannical and sectional
policy, 1 therefore request the .Republicans of
Pennsylvania to unite in the election of delegates
tj tbo above Convention.
WM. B. THOMAS,
Chairman of tiepublican State Committee.
PnitiMiHHu, June 1, WHS.
DELEGiTE ELEfTIOXS
AND
County Convention.
The qualified voters of Bedford County, tvbo
ere opposed to the policy and practices of the
present National Administration, are hereby
requested to meet at tho usual places of hold
ing elections in the several Boroughs and Town
ships, (or at such other places as the several
Township Committees tnay appoint,) on Satur
day, tho 31st day of July, 1858, to eleot two
Delegates for each Township and Borough, to
represent them in a County Convention, to be
held in tho Court House, at Bedford, on Tues
day, the 3d day of August, next, at one o'-
clock, 1\ M., to uominate a County Ticket, a
candidate for tho Legislature, and if deemed
expedient, to instruct the Congressional Con
ferees already appoiuted.
Said Delogato Elections, (unless otherwise
ordered by the Township Committees) will be
held between tbo hour 9 of one and fit: P. M.,
in the Townships, and between hours of five
imd seven in the Boroughs.
Bv order of the County Oomniitee.
P, WASHABAUGH.
Cbairmm.
July 2, 1858.
To ensure proper attention to tho Delegate
Klectious, the County Committee has consid
ered it proper to appoint the following Town
ship Committees, and it is hoped the several
gentlemen named will bo good enough to see
to it personally, that timely notice be given,
and that tho elections be duly held in each
District :
Bedford Borough. William Kiser, Alex.
Heudersou, and John 11. Filbr, Esq.
Bedford Tp. Thomas Ilea, Jacob Barnhart,
and Thomas lui'er.
Ooler-io: Alex. Oomph or, Wui. Whetstone,
anu Win. Dibert.
Cumberland Vulley: Wm. Deremorc, Josi
uh Tewell, and Philip llardinger.
Harrison: John McVisiter, Esq., Martin
l eightner, and James Muliic, Esq.,
Hopewell; Alex. Davis, Esq , Thos. N.
Young, Esq., and John Gates.
Juniata: Leonard Bittner, Esq., Peter It-
Hiilegag, and Adam Geller.
Lihersy: Alfred Entriker., Esq., D. S. Berk
stresse'-, and E. A. Foekler.
Londonderry: Satu'l Logue, Wm. Cook, and
John Wilhftiu).
Monroe: James Carnell, John L. Grove, and
Daniel Evans.
Napier: George H . Williams, George Stuck
ev.aud James Allison, E-q.,
Providence, E: Geo. W. Householder, Esq.,
Wm. Lysingor, and Sidney It. Whitfield.
Providence, W: John A. Gump, Jaeobßarn
dwil.tr, Jr., and David Spirits.
Scbellsburg: John K. Colvi.i, Sam'l C'orl,
und Wm. A. B. Clark.
Si. CLir: Henry lokcs,Esq., Win. Kirk,and
Wm. M. Hancock.
Southampton: Bernard O'Neal,Lewis Brown
iug,and Jared Hank".
Snake Springs: Asa Stueircy, Beuj. R. Ah
com, and Michael Lutz.
Union: Wiu. Griffith, Edmund Bedell, and
Sam't Sliaffer.
Woodberrv, M : John Ziok, b>q., Geo. P..
llotsingcr, and Jvob Brcneman.
Wood berry, S.: Robert Rilstoa, Aiam
Ke'.rir.g, and Ab-x. Stoner.
Harmonious Democracy !
The bigger organ of this place takes gieat
delight in publishing the fast that there ate two
opposition tickets iu the field in Blair County.
It does this, iu the vain hope that it may con
ceal the real division in its own party, (uot in
one County, like Blair, where all dissensions
will be healed before the fall election,) but ail
over the Union.
For the edification of that paper, as well as
the Lecomptoaites generally, we will publish a
few extracts from papers, showing the deep
settled hatred aud dissensions in this State, as
well as all over fho country. We will com
mence with Somerset County, where they now
j have a Kilkenny-eat fight, in which both gen
tlemen, Kimmcl and Coffroth, candidates for
Congress, are eating each other up, and both
will be floored for the nomination
The Cbambersburg Transcript says;
"His Houor, Judge Kimmcl, but a few years
ago an Oi l Liue Whig, appears to be a candi
date of the Nigger Democracy for the Somer
set district. Life-born Democrats are set
aside to make room for these new-lorn Demo
crats with a great deal of coolness, and the
disappointed are often sppeased and hushed up
with the promise of future reward. Not so in
this instance, however, if we are to judgo from
a long letter that appeared in the last number
of the Somerset Democrat, over tho signature
of Mr. A. LI. Coffroth, who is also an aspirant
for Congressional honors, and is not disposed
; to be choked off the track so unceremoniously,
to make room for the Judge. In Mr. Coffroth's
reply to tho Democrat, whieli ran up the name
of Judge Iviinmcll in rather hot haste, the fol
lowing languago is used:
•You have done the work of the paid hire
ling, and your masters now laugh at your
treachery to a former fricnJ. Whether you
can traduce and defeat 111 c, the future will tell.'
From this it would appear tba* the Judge
will have moro difficulty in reaping honors in
the Loco f oco party than many other Old Line
Whigs have had, wbn have strangely embraced
the faith of their old political opponents. And
in this connection we must do the nigger Dem
ocracy the justice to say that, in their recep
tion aud treatment of their old implacable ene
mies—fawning on .and favoring tbem—tbey
have exhibited a deal of true christian spirit
—blessing thoso that have cursed them, and
oven praying for others who have despitefully
used them. The Judge is another instance il
lustrative of this, or at least of their disposi
tion to reward a former sworn enemy iu prefer
ence to a long-iriod and known friend."
The Gazette also copies an aiticlc from the
Erie Observer of some weeks ago, io which that
editor thought proper to give bis own private
views, in regard to a fusion of all the elements
of opposition against the Lecompton fraud,
which seemed to throw some obstacles in the
way of a union : his article was freely copied
by the Democratic papers, und commented on,
a3 an evidence of defection, a sign of disso
lution, a feature of disuuion, even before an
organization.
As they have thoroughly digested the Erie
Treason, we will give thein a new chapter from
Berks couniy. The Reading Gazette., the or
gan of tho Democrats of that county and one
of the most ably edited papers in tho State,
thus disccurses about J. Glcnoy Jones, the
President's pet in Congress, who declared
"that he would not hereafter vote for any
Tariff measure which had protection for its
principle or object."*
The shuffling policy of Democratic Con
gressmen ou the Tariff question, is shown to
the life in the following articlo from the Ga
zette :
We do not inteud to ir.ake any comments
upon the position which Mr. Jones has here
taken on the tariff question. It is his business
—not ours—to explain to his constituents the
honesty and consistency of tho peculiar line of
policy in which be is so woll skilled, of being
for and against a measure at the same time.—
We copy the above merely to show the tariff
men of Berks county, to whose interests he
solemnly pledged himself in 1830—and whose
votes made up the pitifully small majority of
530 by which ho was elected, or more properly
speaking, escaped defeat—how bo is redeem
ing his pledges. True Democrats may doubt
whether it is ex icily honorable or proper for
the candidate of their party to be elec
tioneering for support among the Opposition
party, under any circumstances, even though
it may be thought the last resort to escape de
feat. But, having done so—having bargained
for Opposition votes, and given a tariff pledge
as the consideration—us there is abundant aud
damning proof that Mr. Jones did —which
would be the more honest course?—to keep his
pledge, or break it l
It is very evideut that Mr. Joues has two
faces on this tariff question, one to weir at
home and the other in the latitude of Washing
ton When he epoke as above reported, he
did.not wear the old face iu which he wheedled
the tariff men into his support eight years ago.
But, as soon as he returns home, he will doubt
less put it on again and attempt a repetitiou of
the same game, notwithstanding the disguise
has by this time worn so flimsy lhat it scarcely
serves as r safe mask. lie will do as he Ins
repeatedly done before— premise unytiung to
secure his re-election to Congress. But that
point gained, is it likely that he will suddenly
change the whole oourse of bis political lite, (
an 1 for once, keep promises ? The reli
gious revival which has sprod far and wide
over the country, was not very powerfully felt
in Washington ; and wo have yet to hear ii a ,
Mr. Jones was inide one of its cuuverts."
Forney, in Friday's Press, takes a view of
the political field of Pennsylvania, thus .• "Le
coiuptou is at a fearful discount in Peonsylva
n.a. It will not piy one dime on the dollar.—
It is being rejected by all tho shrewd politi
cian 9, even endorsed as it is by Congress. In
nearly every Congressional district in this
State the Democracy urs cither trying to get
BSBFOEB IMfftUlftEH.
' riJ of the whMe record -to bury it out of sight
—or else are bowing their Leeompton Repre
sentatives into private life. In the Bucks and
Lehigh district, Henry Chapman's renomina
tion is demanded as essential to the success of
the party, owing to his independent resistance
of the Kansas policy of a majority of Con
gress. In Chester and Delaware, the champion
of popular sovereignly, John Hickman, is ad
mitted to be the only Democrat that can be
elected. In Montgomery and part of Phila
delphia, Owen Jones is pertinaciously begging
for a re-nomination, assisted by the United
States Marshal for the eastern district, who is
most sbamfully prostituting his office to help
this double recreant into Congress for unothcr
term; but we hope that the democrats of
Montgomery will resist appeal.
In Berks J. Glancy Jones is opposed by the
very flower of the Democracy, headed by tbo
English organ of that party. Even in the
Tcotb Legion Mr. W. H. Diiumick is not safe,
though backed by the recollection of an over
whelming majority. [We hope to see Colonel
A. G. Brodhead, or General W. Lilly, of Car
bon, of Mr. Dreer, of Monroe, rnnniDg against
this faithless Representativc.) There is little
hope for Paul Leidy in the Luzerne district;
little for Reilly in the Franklin district, little
for Ahl in the Cumberland district ; and none
at all for Gillis of the Clarion, or Dewart of
the Schuylkill district. Montgomery has mado
his initial battle at the West, having carried
bis nomination with a rush. As to the Le
compton triumvirate from this city, if there is
one out of the three sent back, wc shall be ae
touisbed.
"Behold the picture, gentlemen
tja. Ponder upon it. Act upon it; and re
member the only sensible action is to with
draw your beaten horses from the track, and so
rave their distance and their honor."
Tim Washington correspondent of FORNEY'S
Press , under the date of the 24th ult., draw-<
rather a discouraging picture of the discord
that now prevails, to an alarming extent, iu
their Democratic household, threatening its in
evitable destruction and overthrow. Old Mr.
Buchanan and bis bribed hirelings, it appears,
have not been successful in seducing all ih? !
good men in the country from an honest and '
conscientious support of the Truth. Money
and patronage is powerful, we know, but from
what this correspondent says, old Mr.~Bucban
an would hove required at least a hundred mil
lions of dollars more to have kept bis party in
line in all the States on his Kansas swindle.—
T ho old man made good use of what ho did find
in tho Treasury, but it was not near (Though.—
There arc thousauds of men in the Democratic
ranks that are unpurchaseable and incorruptible
aud who will give the old man and his base ad
visers such a rebuke, this fall, that will be ben
eficial to future Administrations. As an evi
dence of it, we quote from Forney's correspon
dent :
"Decidedly the aspect of the future is gloomy
Tho Kansas affair has not united the South in
tavor of the administration. It has #ivfcn new
life to ihu Americans: It has excited deep in
dignation ir. the Democratic ranks in the South
on account of tho proscription it has given rise
to; it Las not destroyed Wise, and it has divi
ded the Democrats in Maryland and in Dela
ware: In North Carolina D. K. Mcltae, a
Democrat, is making a stump canvass for Gov
ernor, and is denouncing LecomptoD: in Ten
nessee F. P. Stanton was warmly welcomed
and praised for his hostility to Lecoinpton, j
while in Louisiana the bitterest strife is brew
ing between rival factions, in Missouri the
two American members of Congress, Wooison
and Anderson, who voted to Lecompton, arc
both in danger of being rejected by their own
and the Democratic parties. In these districts
anti-Leconipton Democrats are openly running.
To crowo all, there is a very strong sentiment J
growing up iu the South in favor of the very I
principle for which Douglas has fought. I need !
not tell you of the Northern States. You can !
tell of these yourself. But it is said that Ap
pleton, of the State Department, of the Union,
&e., is extremely nervous about a Democratic
State Convention which is to bo held in the
State of Maine on the last day of June. There
is some opposition manifested in Maine, though
Mr. Duohanan has pretty well eared for the
gentlemen who have controlled the politics of
that minority State for years past, They ought [
to put thiugs right through,"
The sauio correspondent, wri'.os on the Ist '
inst., as follows :
Mr. Buchanan will pay a visit to Bedford
this season, if his health will permit. You
may rely on this. Gov. Floyd will be,r him
company, and Judge Black will come along af
terwards. General G. \V. B.>wman is to he
one of the cortege, und iu to issue orders to re
elect Riley on the one hand, and to defeat
Konnard ou the other.
Strange news from Illinois! The paper
called the Chicago Union, startc I to break
uown Douglas, and conducted alternately by
Loib, Grund, & Co., has deserted. ! Tin edi
tor, Mr. Scade, on the 27th of Juno, announced
his to the enemies of Douglas in a
series of very able articles. Grund came to
Chicago and fouud things in such a state that
he fled in despair. Then ho came here, then
to Philadelphia, and you may rest assured,
unless he is soon sent abroad, with a good
salary, he will expose the whole coucern. Mr.
Buchanan is by no ureuns enamored of Grund.
He is quite sick of him, and finds him a sad,
bad bargain.
Politics wax warm in Virginia ; but Wise
has tho inside track. Mr. Letcher, who wants
to be Governor on the anti-Wise platform, and
who represents the anti-Wise feeling, is hotly
opposed. His Ruffucr scrape, in which it ap
pears that he was a good Abolitionist in 1847,
does him no good whatever.
Nimrod Strickland, of West Chester, the
oldest and bitterest enemy of Mr. Buchanuu in
Chester couDty, backed by Senator Bigler,
another old foe of the President, and a young
man called Monaghan, aro anxious to make
favor with Mr. Buchanan by opposing John
Hicktnau for congress. Strickland and Bigler
have corresponded voluminously on this point.
But the is sick of proscription. He
u>ul not approve u,; B war upon Mr. Hickman,
and will not give Strickland another office for
! his over-seal, quiet and cat-like tt9 j j a this
: initter. He sees that if his oldf. es iu' Chester
' are to be encouraged in this work, the example
: Al l extend to his old friends in Laucaster
1 county—"over tho border.'' The Chester
•
county office-holders and office-seekers, here
and elsewhere, will get orders to let Hickman
alone. He is a "dangerous customer."
FOURTH'OF JULY.
Tbe 2d inst., Saturday, was generally ob
served in Bedford, iri celebrating our national
anniversary. The Bedford Riflemen, ud the
Engine Company, made a very good display.--
The Riflemen, after parading, proceeded to the
Hotel of Mr. John Hafer, where the Declara
tion was read in a clear and distinct manner,
by R. D. Barclay ,Esq. Johu 11. Filler, Esq.,
then delivered an Oration. Mr. Filler is a
popular aud brilliaut orator, and his oiation
was one of the best we have ever beard, abound
ing in deep research, and an intimate acquain
tance with our early national history. He ful
ly sustained his high reputation as an orator,
and all were delighted and instructed with his
effort.
The soldiers and citizeus theu sat down to
one of the best repasts ever set before the peo
ple of our town. Mr. Hafer, in getting up af
fairs of this kiud, cannot be surpassed.
After t lie ceremonies and dinner were over,
the Riflemen proceeded to the Springs, where,
by iuvitation of the President and managers,
they partook of some refreshments, and then re
turned to town and were dismissed. There was
no drunkenness, quarrell ing, or aecideuts to
mar the pleasures of the day.
BEDFORD SPRINGS.
In our paper to-day, will bo found the ad
vertisement of the Bedford Mineral Springs
Company. The season has now actively com
menced. The present week visitors have com
menced coming in laqp numbers, und there is
now quite a crowd there. The buildings have
been completed, and the grounds beautified aud
adorned. These Springs are the most health
ful } and the scenery the most pleasant aud de
!ig'"ful, of any other watering place in the
world. L"t visiters come on, there is room i
enough for the aceomuiodati'm of n large num
ber.
BOARDING HOUSES. —To visitors to the
Springs, who prefer bearding in town, we have
some of the very best boardiog houses in the
country. The large private boarding house of
Mrs. Filler, is one of the best regulated and
attended to, to be found anywhere. Sho spares
no pains to render her gupsts comfortable.—
The Hotels of Mrs. Cook, and Messrs. Hafer,
Steckman, llorton and Brict-, are all well con
ducted, every waut of tbe visi'or attended to,
and they are capable of accommodating a large
number of guests. In fact, we believe there
is no other town in the State Letter supplied
with good hotels.
Assembly.
Our friends in Somerset County have nomi
nated GEORGE G. WALKER, E->q., for Assem
bly. Mr. Walker is a first-rate man, and well
qualified to fill the duties of a Legislator. lie
is one of the most popular men iu that County
and will run a stroug vote, and, that be will
be cieoted, no one doubts. He will receive
the full party vote in Bedford County, as his
opponent will be Mr. James Burns, who it is
well known is decidedly unpopular.
JAMES M. REYNOLDS, Esq., formerly of
Bedford, but now of the U. S. Custom House,
New York, is at present on a visit to his old
home. Jim is one of the cleverest fallows iu
the country, aud makes just such an officer as
the national government needs and should al
ways have.
ELECTION. —The election of the Bedford
Springs Company, on Monday last, resulted in
the choice of Col. E. L. Anderson, as Presi
dent, John H. Sboenberger and N. B. Hogg,
Esq*., of Pittsburg, and Job Mann, A. King,
W. T. Daugherty and John Cessna, Esq?., of
Bedford, as Directors.
THE WEATHER. —We had several warm days
last week in which the thermometer stood at
95 and 96 deg. This is the hottest weather
we have had for several years. The weather
tho past few days has been cooler nud pleas
anter.
MINERAL WATER.-— Dr. F. C. REAMER, his
opened out his mineral fountain, and is now pre
pared to furnish the good people with one of
the coolest and most refreshing summer bever
ages in existence. We speak from experience.
THE HARVEST. —Farmers in this neighbor
hood have commenced harvesting. The rust
and weevil, have attacked the wheat in some
sections. The crop will be over a half one.
HON SIMON CAMERON.- -This distinguished
gentleman, and Senator, arrived at the Bedford
Springs on Tuesday last.
ILLINOIS POLITICS. —Toe llepuhlioaus of
Illinois seem to bo thoroughly united in favor
of tho ILn. Abraham Lincoln, as their candi
date for United States Senator to succeed
Judge Douglas. Out of the hundred Repub
lican county conventions which Inve been held
in the State, resolutions iu his favor have been
adopted by uiuety-five. Mr. Lincoln was al
ways a leading Whig during the existence of
that party, and is a reliable man.
ILLINOIS. —Mr. Douglas' home organ, The
Chicago Times, gives a list of fifty-nine jour
nals in that State which repudiated the Lecotup
ton lest, two non-couimittal, and six who 'go
in' for Bucbauau. Of tho latter one is edited
by a Postmaster, one by a mail agent, one by
a Lecomption nominee, ouc bqught for $417,
ac.d two owned by Postmasters. Tho Editors
of the two yet non committal expect to be ap
pointed -I OSTNIIGFGF
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
Below we copy an article on Ibis subject from
| the Danville Democrat:
'•Several leading papers, we observe, bare
suggested the name of Gen. Cameron. nf this
State, in connection with -he next Presidency.
They do so on the ground, (hut he combines the
elements of strength and avuilubiiity needed
to carry us through the election successfully,
and that bis personal popularity wiil secure the
"Old Keystone" fur the Opposition in 1860,
as did Mi. Buchanan's in 1856 for the Democ
racy.
There is much force in thin suggestion—
-1 ennsylvania was the battle grouud iu the last
Presidential campaign. Every inch was hotly
contested. Money, labor, and all the oratori
cal powers that could be commanded, were
brought into requisition trom every State in
tbo Union, to influence the vote of Pennsylva
nia ; aud all, too. for the obvious reason, that
without Pennsylvania neither party could be
victorious. But notwithstanding these extra
j ordinary efforts of tho Demociacy, the persoual
| popularity of Mr. Buchanan, coupled with a
uaturul aud commendable Utate pride, was,
alter all, the great lever by which tbo victorv
was obtained. If this was tho case with Mr.
Buchanan, bow more can we expect a similar
result with Mr. Cameron, whose pertonai pop
ularity among tho people is proverbial, and
whose whole life has been devoted to, and
identified wi:h the interests of the misses.—
1 bis is clearly shewn by his repeated successes
over party rules in his election to the United
Slates Senate. he has always been
the uuwaveriug friend of a protective tariff,
which question will again enter prominently
int# the next Presidential coutest. Under
these circumstances, wc urc not surprised that
his uame is brought forward in influential quar
ters for the high office of Chief Magistrate of
the Kepuolic—for, with Cameron in the lead,
Pennsylvania may be set down as pretty safe
for the Opposition,— and "as Pennsylvania
goes, so goes the Union."
E\ER4LCAffIEKOW
Ibe Boston Iruvcller y in the COUXJO of an
article in relation to the next Presidency, al
ludes thus handsomely to Gwcral CAMERON,
one of the Penna. Senators :
Thero is another Pennsylvanian, of opposite
politics to those of Mr. Dallas, whose name has
been mentioned in connection with the Presi
dency, and who is a sort of Felix— his luck
having been surprising. A few days since, the
New York Herald spoke of Mr. Cameron, the
same gentleman who got ahead of Col. Forney
in the last Senatorial contest of Peunsvlvania,
as a man whom the Republicans might find it
necessary to nominate, or "some such man" we
thiuk its words were. The idea is a shrewd
one. Mr. Cameron is an abler man than most
of those men who have been President of late
years. He belongs to the State where, una by
whose people, the next national contest, human
ly speaking, will be decided, as the last con
test was there decided. He stands well with
the people, and has nevor had his name associ
ated with auythiug that could be raked up to
tits damage. His experience in public life bis
been considerable, and bis familiarity with af
fairs is such as to allow us to believe that lie
would be as successful as some others have been
who made very fair chief magistrates. Wheth
er ho will be nominated is for time to deter
mine, but the mention of his name in connec
tion with the general subject is by no means an
insignificant fact. The custom, for such we
must regard it, of restricting a President to
one term no man having been re-elected since
1832, or nominated for re-election since 1840
—has made the Presidential question a perma
nent oue fur all parties. Kvery fourth year
we ate to see some new men brought forward,
and the other three years are passed in discus
sing who they shall be. This change was
wrought a corresponding charge in our modes j
of polities, the full effects of which we are vet
to learn.
W ELI. SAID —The Iln-risburg Telegraph <
refused to publish a communication from a cor- i
respondent, recommending a candidatefor office !
and makes the following very appropriate re- !
marks : -
"Wo feel dUposed to oblige any of our
friends, political or otherwise ; but we cannot
lend our columns or influence to any man's
political interests who i too peuurious to pat
ronise a journal of bis party, although botb
wealthy and ambitious. There is too great a
disposition on the part of politicians to make
of journals stepping-stones to political favor,
without a thought of the patronage which is
necessa'ry to give power to the influence they
invoke. Indeed, nine-tenths of those who
glide into position up the waves of politics, do
it through tho influence of their local journals,
to which they have scarce contributed the
pittance of a year's subscription. They seem
to thiuk it is a duty which a journal owes to
every individual constituting a party, to fur
ther their claims, without thought of recipro
cal obligations which the assumed position of
each imposes."
A DEVIL INCARNATE.—A wretch, named
Arnold, murdered Lis wifo near Jessamine,
Kentucky, last week, under circumstances of
horrid brutality. Bhe bad left him fur his cruel
treatment and instituted a suit fur divorce and
alimony against him. He watched her one
day as she went with another lady to pick
stoawberries, and followed her—demanding
that the suit should he withdrawn, lie then
threatened to kill her, and drew u revolver,
when the woman in company fled. Horror
stricken, she promised to live with him. He
replied by telling her that she was lying, and
immediately fired at her temple. She instantly
sprang to hiui and begged for mercy. He re
fused. She then appealed for time to pray for
her murderer.
This boon was granted, and a brief time
speut in prayer for her husband, her children
and herself. Arnold then grasped her with
one arm, inexorable to all her supplioations for
mercy, fired at her three times, eaoh ball taking
effect in thj head. The face was most fright
fully disfigured by the wound and powder from
tho pistol. Not eonteut with this, the incar
nate fieud mutilated her person with a knife,
and then piling brush upon it, left the scene.
Meanwhile, the woman who fled told the
story, and Arnold was put sued and arrested at
his mother's house in the act of writing his
will.
Dor the Inquirer
WOODBKHKY "LOCAL."
VVOODBEKRV, July 5, J
Mr. OVER: The last few day* have com
pletely saturated the earth will, wholesome
ruins, and vegetation (corn, &c.,) has ril
reived an impetus which will toll favorably It
the coming autumn. I niD sorry to notice that
thoweevii has made its appearance htre wiii,,y
tbe last two weeks, and bas fearfully datn a J e .j
the wheat crop; indeed, ir, some instances al
most cut ire fields hare been blighted, I think
the crop will not average a third of a full one
Hay up to this time has been cured in vor
good condition and in large quantities.
The heavy rains here on Friday night were
accompanied by terrific lightning and thunder
the f..rnwr doing more or iess injury i n various'
sections. Tbe heaviest loss sustained, a s far
as beard trom. was sustained by Daniel Miller
who had three Lead of horses killed. T
about §3OO.
Tbe "Fourth" was celebrated here on the 31
by the Sunday school scholars, teachers, friends
AH interested assembled at :he Metho
dist Church at time o'clock, formed and march
ed to the grove below town, where tbe Decia
iat ion of Independence was read by Master
\\ m. \\ iikinson, in a creditable manner,-fol
lowed by speeches from Messrs. Durbotrowaud
Rev. \\ iikinson. A sumptuous repast was
then offered up, of which all partook, evincing
the highest imaginable satisfaction and delight
The evenirg was spent in sociil gathering
ut various private houses. c
The citizens of Martinsburg "got. up" a pic
nic party, which was highly creditable. \
large number of ladies and gentlemen were
present, and all appeared to e j.y themselves
with "j .ys ecstatic trial," harmoniously, soci
ally, delightfully. The military c mp.iny turn
ed out, "armed and equipped for parade," tud
made a very good appearance. About "'wo o'-
clock in the afternoon, the uitilierv e^rr , .-j-y
were engaged in firing several salutes after the
; reading of the Declaration of Indejcndecco,
j when by some tinfofS' en citeuti s-uncc, the
j cannon was discharged while in the act ol Ic
j ing reloaded, tearing off the hand of a young
j man named Ljsinger, and lareiating the band
lof another. It is presumed that the aeddcDt
resulted from not having jrnpeily swabbit the
cannon.
The Malone aud Wilkes ease, for the abduc
tion of Miss \\ ilkes, had a hearing before Esq.
Campbell, on Saturday, whioh resulted ic bit.d
ing M done over for bis appearance at the next
term of the Blair County U^urt.
S. S.
The President and His Dinners.
"ludex ' —the industrious and observant cor
respondent of the New York Tribune— who
enlightens the readers of that journal, in re
gard to men and affairs at Wash ngton, thus
accounts for the President excluding his politi
cal opponents from his dinner table :
"The papers seem to be very increduloci
about the exclusion of Republicans from the
Presidential mahogany. When Mr. Glnnov
Junes made the annuncement in the House, Lo
epoko by the oarj, for, piobably With half a
dozen exceptions, the fact is as much undisput
ed, as it forms a numerable era iu ti c hospi
talities of a mansion, from which political per
sonalities have hitherto been proscribed sinco
the foundation of the Government. Mr. Col
lamer, Mr. Hale, nod one or two others of the
Senate, were on the favored roll. All the rost
were on the black list. As the Administration
started with professions of retrenchment and
reform, it was doubtless designed to illustrate
the principle iu the immediate practice of the
\A Lite House. Kvery body knows, who Las
been unfortunate to go tluough th.it chilling
and tedious cernicnial, that the dinners are
"feeds" of thirty or forty plates, including some
very unseemly Ch-ithum street fiuery. They
are generally served by Gautier at about §5 a
head on State occasions. Now aggregating the
Republicans of the two Houses, and allowing
for the select few who were called, and it will
be seen that about $535 were saved to the
Executive exchequer in this single item for
one session. Extend tLe practice to the cud
of the term, and $2,140 would be economized
for an ovation in Kaucaster ou the sth of March,
1 SGI. This estimate is exclusive of wine,
which at a moderate price for moderate drink
ers, would run up some S4OO more for tbo
whole term, adopting $1 per bottle as the
average cost. The President only intended to
prove by his personal experience that reform
was practicable, and to show the Secretary of
the Treasury how the finances might be ad
ministered with judicious discrimination. No
body is uugenereus euough to suppose that ho
could he actuated by any other motive, und it
has excited paiuful emotion in court circles, to
discover that some other construction ha*
been placed upon a policy whiuh was suggested
by the purest considerations of coqimendahle
eeououiy"
It is pleasant to observe some show of rc
trencLment about \\ ashiugton, although it may
redound only to the pecuniary advantage of its
occupant. The goverutncDt funds not being
Mr. Buchanan's private property, are given
over to the care of the political leeches, who
subsist on and grown rich by their democracy.
Our President knows how to tako caro of
Number One, if be is ignorant of the science
of government aud destitute of the gcod breed
ing which marks a gentleman.— Pitts. Gaz.
AN OI.P JOKER.—If Mr, Buchanan wore
uot so heartless and careless with regard to
the rights and wants of the people, we eould
laugh at his jokes. In a sccerit message to
Qongress he said :
'The habit of ex'ravagant expenditures,
fostered by a large surplus in the Treasury,
must now be corrected, or the eonntry will be
involved in serious financial difficulties.'
This after running the expenses of the Gov
ernment up to a hundred millions, and the
treasury empty. Ilis facetious namesake, Geo.
Buchanan, never perpetrated a richer jest than
that.
P-rcntiee, of the Louisville Journal, says:
'tOne of tho Administration papers iu Penn
sylvania speaks very despondingly of the pros
pects of its party in that State. It ovideutly
thinks them blue as indigo, as blue as the sky,
as blue as a Highlander's naked legs uj the
winter, as blue as a dead man's nose, almost as
blue as Mr. Buchanan's old federalujjt*."