BEDFORD INQUIRER..
" "BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday Morning 1 . MAT 6, 1859
"FEARLESS AND FREE."
D- OVER—Editor and Proprietor.
STATE t O\TE\TIOV
The citizens of Philadelphia and of the sev
eral couuties of this Commonwealth attached
to the People's party, and all others who are
opposed to the unwise and extravagant meas
ures of the National Administration, are re
quested to send delegates, equal in number to
its representation in the General Assembly, to
a Convention to be held at IIARRISBURQ ON
WEDNESDAY THE Bth OF JUNE, 1859, to nom
inate candidates for Auditor General and Sur
veyor General to be voted for at the General
Ejection in next October.
HENRY M. FULLER,
WM. B. MANN, Sec'y. Chairman.
PEOPLE S MEETING.
Pursuant to notioe, a very respectable meet
ing was held in the Court House on Tuesday
evening last, for the purpose of appointing del
egates to the Bth of June Convention. Owing
to the few persons in town, the meeting was Dot
so large in numbers as it otheiwise would have
been, yet quite a respectable number were in
attendance, and the meeting was about the size
of the administration ODa of the evening be
fore-
ADAM KETRIXG of South Wood berry,
was appointed President.
B. It. Ashcom of Snake Spring, Win. Grif
fith of Uoion, Wm. Lysinger, of East Provi
dence, M. M. Peebles of '.Vest Providence, and
Capt. George Smith of Bedford Township were
Appointed Vice Presidents, and John E. Oolvin
of Sehellsburg, and Wm. Keeffe of Bedford tp.
Secretaries.
S. L. Russell, J. M. Barudollar, Geo. S.
Mullio,Robert Ralston, an i Philip Evans, were
appointed a Committee on Resolutions
The meeting was thee addressed by Messrs.
King, Filler, Jordan and Russell, who all ac
quitted themselves admirably, and were fre
quently interrupted by lodd bursts of applause.
The Resolutions were read by S. L. Russell,
Esq. It will be seen that the delegates are
instructed to support Hon. Francis Jordan for
Auditor General. The course of our represen
tatives, Williams and Walker, is very properly
opproved :
Resolved , That in tho political history of this
nation no administration has ever proved itself
so utterly unworthy of confidence and respect
BR the present; that its disregard of the wants
and sufferings of the people; its failure at the
recent session of Congress to modify the Tariff
so as to protect our prostrate home iudustry,
and to raise revenue necessary to defray the ex
penses of the government; its refusal to donate
the public lands in small quantities to actual
settlers, whilst squandering them in large grants
to insolvent corporations and corrupt political
favorite?: its persistent efforts to insult and de
grade weaKer nations, and under false preten
ecs to wrench from them their territories for
the palpable object of extending the area of
human bondage: its corrupt interference in lo
cal elections; its unprecedented extravagance in
wasting the public money, and pluugiDg the
country over sixty miliious in debt iu the short
atpace of two years, and in time of profound
(>cace, its disgraceful acts of partisan profligacy
and corruption in all its departments, have
brought upon it the righteous indignation of a
deeply injured people.
ResolveJ, That the recent kiudred schemes
to clothe ilie executive with an armed protec
torate over '.be territories of a sistar republic
with whom we are ut peace; aud to place in his
hands the thirty million Cuba corruption fund:
thus attempting to wrest from the legislature
the power of making war and treaties : exhibit
in the clearest light the monarchical tendencies
of tho present administration; their utter diaro
spcct for their constitutional obligations and
tempt for the law of nations."
Rasolved, that notwithstanding the present
gloomy condition of our national affairs, we
had in the recent election?, throughout the land
the dawn of a bright political future. They
proclaim in most emphatic language that the
accumulated crimes of the shaui democracy are
Leiug attributed to their true sources, and that
tho appropriate punishment is being meted out,
in no stinted measure, ihey point with unerring
certainty to a glorious and beneficent triumph
of Freedom in 18G0. The six New England
.States in sweeping every tool of the Slave
power out of both branches of Congress have
fastened upon the delinquents a brand of rep
robation that no party can wear and live.
Resolved , that the present State administra
tion has accomplished more good and less harm
than any of its predecessors of the same po
litical faith, because less Democratic , —and yet
the democratic Senate, true to the instincts of
its party, persistently refused to reduce our State
taxes by enacting the bill passed unanimously
by the House for that purpose, aud which was
demonstrated to bo entirely cousisteut with the
continued credit of the State.
Resolved, that we are highly gratified with
the faithfulness, integrity and intelligence with
which our representatives, Geo. W. Williams
Walker, discharged their duties du
ring the iost seesioo of the legislature, aDd that
tbey are justly entitled to the approbation of
their fellow citizens. We commend them to
continued confidence and support of their con
stituents.
Resolved, that we hereby concur tn tho ap
pointment of J. Be Well Stewart, Esq., of Hunt
ingdon as the Senatorial delegate from this Dis
trict to the Stat# Convention to be held at Har
riaburg on the Btb of June next, to nominate
.candidate.! for Auditor General and Surveyor
1.
Resolved, that tho Hon. John R. Edie, of
Somerset, and John H. Filler, Esq., of Bedford,
are hereby appointed Representative delegates
to the said State Convention, and they are
hereby earnestly requested and instructed to
nso all honorable means to secure the nomina
tion of ourfellow citizen, Hon. FRANCIS JOR
DAN, for Auditor Genera'.
Resolved, that in presenting the noma of the
Hon. FRANCIS JORDAN to tho consideration of
the Convention at Harrisburg, for the respon
sible positiou, we take pleasure in bearing testi
mony to the ability, high character and integrity
with which he lias discharged all his public
and private duties. His nomination would
afford intense gratification to tho friends of
freedom in this entiro section of the State.
PHILADELPHIA ELECTION'.
The following dispatch from a friend in
Philadelphia, speaks for itself. The People's
Party have gained a glorious victory there at
the receut uauuincipal election, as they have
done in all the Free States and principal cities
of the North. Onward ! onward ! is the cry
of the gallant hosts of the People, aud they
will not stop in their career until they have
driven the corrupt rulers of the present cor
rupt Locofoco party from powar, and put in
their places honest men.
PIIILA OELPHIA, M'J 4, 1859.
To Inquirer : Tho municipal election held
in this ci'y yesterday passed off quietly, the
v ote polled being a very small one. The op
position elected their city Treasurer and Com
missioner by about twenty fivo hundred majori*
ty, and a majority of both braohes of council.
The Locofoco meeting of Monday night was
about as uninteresting, dull and stupid, as the
speakers on the cccasion. The only good tiling
was the extract from Webster's great speech in
reply to Hayne of South Carolina, quoted by
one ot the speakers. In bis lifetime, howevor,
tbeso lovers cf negro slavery would uot have
quoted from this old "■Federal WAtg.''
SEW GOODS!
We call attention to the advertisement of
Messrs. A. B. Cramer & Co. They have one
of the best assortments of goods ever brought
to this place. Call aud examine them.
ON FIRE. —The mountains about one mile
and a half east and west jf Bedford. Much
valuable timber is being destroyed. The burn
'ng mountains at night look grand and magnifi
cent .
Wc call the attention of our readers to the
advertisement of Jr.o. B. Oastuer, Esq., Pro
prietor of the llopewell House, Hopewell, Pa.
j Court, this week, was a very slim affair.—
j The Jury were dismissed on Wednesday.
The following articles are from that spicy
paper, the Globe , the organ of the Locofoco
party in Huntingdon :
Tltc Oflice-flolders .State Ticket.
Wo ueglisctc.l to uotice in our last, that
Wright aud Howe, tho nominees of Mr. Bu
chanan's office holdets Convention, had ac
cepted the Dominations. They did so but two
days before the late (Jouvcution, and as the)
stand fair and square upon a platform repudia
ted by the independent Democracy of the State,
they cannot expect to receive the support of
that portion of the party that justify Buchanan
and his chiefs in power iu proscribing. The
day for reconciliation and compromise is past,
at least for the present campaign. The Demo
crats who could ut <hiuk and act with Mr.
Buchanan, were willing to go half way at the
first Convention—but how were their propo
sitions received ? Crush, out, and whip in, was
the command from Washington, and uow that
we are out of the most corrupt organization
that ever disgraced our party, we shall en
deavor to serve faithfully those Democrats who
believe honesty can and should exist iu a parry
organization. Those who can endorse Mr.
Buchanan's treachery to our party, and the
best interests of Pennsylvania , will give his
nominees, Wright and llowe, a warm support.
Their names no longer occupy a place at our
mast-head. They are Buchanan's uouiinees—
and their success would be endorsement of
his corrupt and tyrannical Administration.
OyWe bare on file an intcre.-ting letter of
Attorney General Black, written shortly after
Mr. Buchanan took his scat as President.—
This letter denounces Democrats who favored
the sale of the sinking public works ns iu
league with the "Kuow Nothings aud Aboli
tionists," to rob the State—and gave them to
understand that. Mr. Buchanan bad determined
to come down aud proscribe sucb, for daring to
think that the State would be better off if
relieved of the management of the works.—
Some Democrats may think it impossible for a
President to stoop so tow— yet it is, neverthe
less true, that James Buchanan did turo Demo
crats out of office, and kept others out, beeause
they favored a sale, and appointed men to office
who had no other recommendation than that
they were opposed to the sale of the ditch,
upon which such honest men as old Jlrnotd
Plumer made fortuues in a year or two.
The letter will be published.
TYLERIBiN<3. —John Tyicr, when President,
deserted the platform of principles of the parly
that elected hirn-—the party then deserted bitu.
James Buchanan, like Tyicr, spits upon tLe
platform that placed him in the Presidential
chair, and has selected Bob Tyler, son of John
Tyler, as Chairman of the Office-holders'
State Committee, to do the Tylerising of the
Democratic party in this State. Buchanan's
first and most ardeut friends have nearly all
desened him, and in their place, high in the
confidence of the President, may be found men
who have either been kicked or starved out of
the opposition party. Josiah ltandall, but
lately from the opposition ranks, now leads the
Buchanan Democracy in Philadelphia—and
Bob 'lyler, though he failed <o secure a secoud
nomination for his father, is expected to
persuade or drive the Democracy of this State
into a secoud nomination of King James.—
With such loaders, and Arnold Plumer, J.
Porter Brawley & Co ,as chief assistants, a
full and complete endorsement of Buchanan'
political sins, by the Dcmooracy at the nexs
i lection , is almost a certainty.
BBBFOm® IWGUIRBR.
From the Somerset Herald
IIO!t FRAUK JORDAN.
Speaking of tho coming "People's Nomi
nating State Convention," in Hsrrisburg, on
the Bth of June next, the (Jhanrbersburg Re
pository says :
"The question uaturally arises, who sb&il
be our candidates for these important posi
tions ?—who will be our staudard-bearers in
the conflict ? Our cause is a noble one—
The People vs Oppression or Freedom vs Slave
ry —and our leaders should be worthy of the
cause. The difficulty that will bo experienced
will be to make the best selection from the many
good and true men that have been named for
those positions, either of whom would make a
leader fitted for the position for which he has
been designated.
While we do not object to others, we will
take the liberty of suggesting the name of
Hon. F. Jordan, of Bedford, as a gentleman
in every way worthy of the nomination as the
People's candidate for the office of Auditor
General. His career as a State Senator, his
location in the State, his unswervering devotion
to the principles of the People's cause, all
point him out as the man for the occasion nud
for the position. Give us Jordan for Auditior
General; his name would be hailed with loud
acclaim, which would reverbrate through the
mountains and valjies of Western and Southern
Pennsylvania, and inspire with still greater
ardor the hosts of Freedom."
Mr. Jordan is our personal as well as our
political frieud, and wo have so often spoke
our sentiments in regard to him through these
ooluiurs, that we could add nothing thereto
except fulsome eulogy, which wouid be as
distasteful to him as it would bo repulsive to
us. Should ha be nominated, which we
siucerely trust he may, the voters of tbi* county
will show at the polls their appreciation of one
who so faithfully and ably represented them in
the Senate, and whose modest merit and un
tiring devotion to their interests as well as the
iuterests of our cotumou party, won an effectual
place in their esteem. Mr. Jordau's spotless
integrity and undoubted fitness and ability for
the position for which the Trunscript names
him, will nowhere he questiood, and we hearti
ly join that Journal in urging his nomination
as one eminently fit to be made.
From the Fulton Republican.
AUDITOR GENERAL.
The time is rapidly approaching when the
People's Party of Pennsylvania will assemble
for the purpose of nominating a State ticket,
and already several uamca have been mentioned
in connexion with one or other of the offices for
which candidates will have to be chosen.—
Among others who have thus been mentioned
we uotice the name of Hon. FRANCIS JORDAN,
of Bedford, imd we therefore, take occasion of
saying a word with regard to that gentleman.
We have as our readers kuow, r, n several
former occasions, spoken favorably of Mr.
JORDAN, in connexion with important official
stations, and we now reiterate what wo have
already sai l, and pronounce him the best man
in the field for the office of Auditor General.
As a candidate, if nominated, he will be in
vincible, aud os an officer, if elected, be could
have no superior in the State. We speak this
not from motives of partizan favoriteism nor of
particular personal friendship, but kecalise we
know the man, and know him to be the pos
sessor of a high moral character, distinguished
amourr those who know him for bis unswerving
integrity and uniform honorable conduct.
Such a man we want in the comiDg election and
sujh an one we have iu the person or Mr.
Jordan. Let him head the ticket and the
People's majority will be increased fully ten
thousand. •
From the Ltw'sburg [Union Co.) Chronicle.
ANOTHER GOOD NAME.— Francis Jordan,
EM]., of Bedford, is proposal for Auditor
General. His experience, legal and otherwise,
bis tried iutegrity, and bis keen appreciation of
legislation and of men, it strikes us place him
in tbe front rank of candidates for tbat office.
If nominated, the Piiilad. gentleman would
"find JORDAN a hard road to travel" against.
His election would give emire satisfaction to
all parties as far a3 he is known.
A COMMERCIAL COLLEGE OF THREE HUN
DRED AND FIFTT-SEVEN STUDENTS.—Promi
ueot among toe reasons why the Iron College
has four times as many students as any other
Commercial School in tbe United State.", are
the following: Lt is lire only College in Pitts
burg that gives three daily lectures on Book-
Keeping ; three daily recitations and an ex
amination in Commercial Calculations ; the
only one which requires weekly exercises in
Composition and Commercial Correspondence
of all its students ; tbo only one which employs
teachers whose qualifications arc recognized bv
literary men, or are experienced educators, and
the only one that grants Diplomas to those
only of its students who are competcut and
skillful accouatauts.— Pittsburg True Press.
iOLl) CONSOLATION.
The Richmond South has no cotifidcnce in
the proffered friendship of the "Nationals"
who reside in the North, and for a most excel
lent reason. That journal very pertiueutly
says :
"We have no confidence in any man north
of Mason's & i ixon's line. They eaunot be
our friends and be houest. The interests of
the two sections are antagonistic. The north
ern man who goes for our interests nooesfarily
goes agaiust the interests of the North—his
country; aDd we can have no confidence in a
traitor, no matter how high his price."
Thi Jg what we would call "cold consolation"
for the Northern doughfaces who betray the in
terests of their own section to conciliate the
Southern Slavery Propagandists. They are
bought, and used, and then kicked aside as
worthless—rejected at home, and despised at
the South as traitors not to he trusted !
The Slave Trade Re-opciied.
The South Carolina jury has acquitted the
persons implicated in the importation of the
slaves in the Echo. At Savannah, 0. A. L.
Lamar, the owner of the Wanderer , defies all
the government officers, and has actually pro
cured the arrest of the U. States Marshal and
all who assisted him to bring the Wanderer in
to port.
This vessel was declared to be confiscated
and sold; but her owner kuocked down the only
man who dared hid against him wbeu sho was
sold, and openly boasts of his violation of the
act of Congress, and dares tbe Federal autbor
it; sto try him. Practically, then, flu laws
against the slave trade area dead letter- the
South don It care a buttou for them.— Pitts.
Jour.
From Forney's Press.
THE STATE'S RIGHTS DEMOC
RA€Y.
Since Mr. President BUCHANAN has quar
reled with the gentlemen employed to conduct
tko Washington Union , who preferred retiring
from the paper rather than remain as the echoes
of the New York Herald , he has adopted the
luxury of securing a court jester, in the person
of Brigadier General GEORGE W. BOWMAN,
after the fashion of the feudal ages. Fearlul
of offending the memory of Por.K and RtlCllt*,
under whose auspices the Washington Union
received its name, the President, while adopt
ing a uew editor, has given his organ a new
title, viz : the Constitution. And though he
eacaot say, since ha has engaged a jester near
his person, as was said some hundreds of years
ago :
••But though his court a jester lack,
To laugh the monarch to liis luce,
All mankind, lehind his back,
Supply the honest jester's pi ce."
for, wbilo the world is laughing at the Pre
sident, the President is determined to have a
newspaper that shall be laughed at, too. The
new Court Clown, General BOWMAN, is best
judged in bis own neighborhood, where, du
ring many years, he toiled for and secured the
doubtful reputation of being a reckless partisan,
and an abusive, illiterate editor. His normal
condition is to make himself ridiculous, and we
predict that unless ho is restrained, he will
perform more antics than the celebrated JOHN
JONES, of the Mndisonian , or (not to attack
the sex) Madatue ANNK ROYAI. herself. The
Constitution, the uew alias of the uew Ad
ministration organ, gives a daily supply of
characteristic nonsense. The object to which
the court A I has been instructed to apply
bimself is to bring into disrepute the character
and the proceedings of the Democratic State
Convention which met at Harrisbnrg on the
13th instant —an t sample which will be fol
lowed, of course, by such pipers as continue
to be paid for their praise of the F deral Ad
ministration. It is natural that our m iters
at Washington should grow indignant at the
audacity of the movement of "The State-Rights
Democracy;" but they should beware of
rushing iuto falsehoods. Let us refer the
harlequin of the Constitution to the names o(
the State Central Ooutui ttee, announced in
THE PRESS of to lay, composed, as it is not
only of some of the best men iu the States but
of influential and well-tried Democrats. We
commend to the Constilulion the consideration
of this list of independent men, taken from all
parts of the State. Does this list look as if
the movement of the "State-Rights Democracy"
was cither a feeble or a faint-hearted one ' —
Ret Brigadier BOWMAN look at the nun-rial
that composed the Convention itself—at the
crowds that participated iu the proceedings of
that great body, and remained until the final
hours of its session He will not find atuoug
this uurnber mercenaries and officc-hol Jer-,
and men who came there to sanction the
decrees of despotic power, but he will find a
representation of an honest public sentiment,
such as never before assembled at our State
capital. The writer of litis article has attended
Democratic State Conventions for nearly twen
ty-two years, aud he has never witnessed such
a unanimity of sentiment and of action as that
which marked the proceedings of the Harri-burg
Convention on Wednesday last. There wis
not a dissen'icnt in the whole body of delegates,
coming forward voluntarily, as tbey did, from
nearly every couuty. Nor was this harmony
purchased by concession to expediency or to
fear. The most practical measures were adopt
ed and recommended. The court fool of the
VYasuiugtou organ labors uuder the disease
common to such fools when he imputes to his
master, the King, uot only infallibility, but
the control of the Democratic organization; and
when, because he worships that kiug, he expects
others to bow, or to be forever ostracised.—
Of cour-o we deny these impertinent and
pompous assumptions. Mr. BUCHANAN has
Ceased to have any claims upon the party which
he has betrayed. Any endorsement of his
policy is death to those who attempt i f . His
practices have ignored aud violated ail his
professions, and ue has become as odious 10
the masses of the people as ever JotlN TYLER
was iu by-gone days. Even his offices begin
to fail to tempt the mercenary, and those who
aecept them do so in secret, as men do who take
bribes. To cut loose from such an iucubus is
uot only the prompting of an honest impulse,
but of self-preservation. We refuse to be
crushed by its weight. The past is full of
admonitions. Let the dipendants of power
tako what oourse tbey choose, there is a compact
and sinewy body of Democrats iu this State
who will cuuteud against the proscriptions and
treacheries of the Administration, without
ceasing, to the end. If the court jester of the
Washington Constitution is iu doubt, we com
mend him to patience, foPhe will be convinced
in a very short time.
A MOUNTAIN OP HOOKS.—The State of Ohio
annually appropriates about $82,000 to the
purchase of school apparatus and books for
her school libraries. This largo ainouut is
raised by tax of onc-teoth of a mill on the
dollar of tho entire property valuation of the
Siato. Under this law the Hon. Anson Smith,
State Commissioner of Schools, concluded a
contract last September, with the Messrs. Ap
pleton, of this city, to supply the State with
her library books for 1859. Accordingly all
the free space on the floor of the immense sale
room at Appleton's is now occupied® great
masses of these books, piled solidly like bricks
ready for packing and shipmcut. In bulk they
measure over 25 solid cords, and they weigh
78 tons. Piled on end, on a shelf, iu the usual
manner, and us close together as possible, they
would ixtcnd from the City Hall to Union
Square, cr a distance of two miles.—.V. Y.
Tribune,
GETTING ALONG.—The Pro-Slavery party
some four years since entered upon the business
of making a slave state out of a territory covered
by tho Missouri Compromise. The Albany
Evening Journal thus justly and forcibly
states the not result o far, of this experiment:
"The effort to enslave Kansas has demor
alized two administrations. It has driven
three Kansas Governors into tho Republican
party. It has given the seats of Jif'teen Demo
cratic United States Senators to as many "Black
Republicans ." It has spread the Republican
banuer in triumph over nearly every Free state.
And it will if like the Houtbons the Democracy
ueither "learn" wisdom nor "forget" folly,
give a Republican President in 1860.
Sec advertisement of Sanford's Liver Jnvig
orsfor.
I Republican Tendencies of the Antl*
■iuclianar llemocials
Our contemporary of the New York Courier
and Enquirer goes into a lengthy review of the
speeches ami resolutions of the late anti-Ad
miuistratiou State Cwnvenßou held hero, and
i thinks there is no room for doubt tint the
mpture iu the party bus become absolute end
irretiitvablc. Lie takes the grouud that no
Republican assemblage anywhere, wiiLin the
last year, has denounced the general conduct
and policy of the Administration with moie
directness and emphasis. Iu fact all the say
ings and doings of the body were prevaded
with a vehemence of iudignation, and a glow of
disdainful defiance, quite peculiar. There was
not only the g<-ncial opposition naturally pro
eeeding from difference in principals, lut the
sharp personal hostility engendered by the sense
of persona 1 injury. The contumely visited
upon their branch of the party by the Conven
tion of the lGih of March was well remember
ed, and good earn was taken that it should he
repaid with double it.tensity. The Chairman
pro iem, in his opening speech, characterized
the Adiuinistiation SH "the vilest bnd most
ipckless that God las ever inflicted upon a
suffering people"—and this was the key note
to all that followed. The icsolutions were of
the boldest chart cter, and tl.e last ot iLe series
went fjuher in its own specific direction ihun
any which has been passed by any Republican
Convention within our knowledge, tor it virtu
ally arrays itself m advance against any de
cision that may be made 1 y the Supreme Court
ihe Republicans thus fur have been content
with reprobating and refusing to recognize the
extra judicial action of the Supreme Court, in
connection! with the dicta irrelevant and un
warrantable put forward in the Died Scott case.
They have d' claired Unit they would not accept
these outgivings as authoritative adjudications;
but they have uevor ccuimittod thems-lvcs in
advance, after the fashion of this resolution, to
a disregard of what "the Supreme Court may
hercatter deci-le."' Thev have avoided taking
position ID reference to ccn'ingf ncies that may
never happen, being pretty well pctitrated with
the couvieti' u that sufficient uuto the day is
the evil thereof. When the Supreme Court
shall, on a cac directly involving that
regularly pronounce judgment that a i'eriito
rial B.'gi-laiure Las no constitutional right to
enact any law forbiddiug or discouraging slave
ry, which is a corollary to the doctrine that
Congress itscif, which creates the Territory,
has no such right, there will be quite time
enough for the party to determine how to treat
that decision. We adveifc to this simply t>s sn
illustration <>r the zeal with wiiich the uuti-
Adiuiutstratioii Democrats of Peuosylvauia are
hastening forth to meet Southern encroach
ments. They still consider themselves us a
portion of the Democratic party, and profess
perfect allegiance to the Cincinnati platform,
yet their wh tie spint and temper -how infallibly
that they o -nuoi and will not net with the great
buik of the prty wi icb takes i's inspiration
from iho propagandists of slavery. It is to be
observed that they refrained, both in their re
solutions and in their speeches, i'<ora ;.ll ccnstiie
of the Republican party. They made no un
friendly reflections, ami by their very silence
showed that they kept ci ii-tautiy in mind the j
possibility, if not probability, that they might
tie called upon to march again siuj by s'de ■
with the Republicans against a common foe.— !
It is certain that whatever name they may
wear and wiiatever bygone platform they nj.y 1
cling to, tlu-so ten? of thousands of Pennsyl
vania Democrats are much nearer the Republi
can party in spirit aui policy thio they are to
their old confederates ; and it tiny be fairly
presumed that a:l their future tendencies will ;
be towards the o;ie and a .soy from the otbe.—
Htrrhburg Telegraph.
Exposi rio.ss.—Tire Washingtoncorrespond
ent of rbe Philadelphia Press writes : Ex
posuies wul be nude at the next session of
Congress of a character to de nia l the im
peachment of high i ffieers of the Govern.aent.
It would seem that in uur.y departments there
is not ouly .. deliberate disregard of the i uv.
but, more shameful fact still, tent t'nero has
been authorized violations of tha sanctity of
private correspondence. To relieve our insti
tutions from tiie infamy that the present Ad- j
ministration h is put upon theui, and to save us <
from tinr dire calamity, in which tiie finger of!
scorn would point at us from every quarter of :
ihe civilized world, it is a bounded duty of
every man, whether a representative ot the
people, journalist, or otherwise, to so make the
iQgts appear that they wiil call down at once :
crushing denunciations upon the heads of the
guilty. Here is one : A gentleman, in oue of 1
the great cities of the great west, holds himself
responsible, with another, on oath to prove that I
not only were documents ordered not to be j
distributed when sent by a certain Senator, but !
that letters were :iEo violated. An investiga- j
ting committee wiil, I understand, be called j
upon tnis matter as well as upon the mal
practices of the Post Office Department, at an
early diy of the session. So insecure lias the 1
transmission of private correspondence become,
that one might well thiuk there was here, as i
in ihe palmy days of Austrian despotism, a
censor of the mails—oue who, with diabolical |
ingenuity, got inside of letters aid allowed all
to pass that were unexceptionable to its require
ments and withheld all that ware calculated to '
defeat or embarrass the purposes of the "powers
that are." Again hive sealing wax aud deep
cut seals come into almost general use. Com
plaints arise on all sides that letters are lost, j
Then again, the strangest rumors iloat about :
of votes purchased by money raised from per- i
ceutages upon contracts. I ieuru that a Phil a
delphian, who comes here occasionally, hesitates ■
not to tell that he was ordered to pay a per- i
ceutage on what he received for printing the
post office blauks, to a high officer of the
departments. Ail these things, aud others,
must ccmo out. The result, the consternation
of good men, cuu only be imagined.
A PisTiNGUisiltD CHAIRMAN. —Dob Ty
ler, the s 1 n of that John Tyler whose nauie
seems so naturally to flow witti that of Bene
dict Ai nold bus been appoiuted Chairman of
the Buehauau Committee of this State. There
is a fitness in the Tylers aud Buchanans joining
hands, for their respective administrations are
about on a par. Bob Tyler is tut a few years
from Virginia but he is well fitted for the busi
ness of managing the slave democracy of
Pennsylvania.
A German naturalist has described six hun
dred species of flies, which he has collected
within a district of ten miles. Thirty thou
sand different k o.'.s of insects which jrey upon
wheat have been collected.
OUR COMMOAR M IIOOI>—SO, :{I
Htnroßo TOWNSHIP.— In tbw towmddp ,| 1&
schools, eleven in number, wore conducted with
a commendable zeal during the past winter.—
: Never before, upon the whole, di<l they do as
well. They were all .supplied with active teach
ers—and uj o* tof the in were well nullified for
j their respective ] laces. The directors spared
I DO P a ' T:R 10 su{ ply good teachers and to carty
j forward the wtnrle interest in an exemplary niau
i tier. 'lhejr had regular meetings once a month
at which'they looked to the interests of the schools
and transacted such business us reenter] necet
i saiy. In this,heir example i worthy of imi
tation. Every board of school directors should
( have a meeting once a month, at least during
j the school term. Every good citizen, worthy
of teiug elected to tha responsible cfticetif
school director, should be willing to spenJ five
j or six days of bis time, each year whilo he holds
I the office, for the public g.iud. At these meet
ings they should reeit ve and examine the mooth
iv reports of the teachers, and if right, h su <J
j checks on the treasury for their pay, they should
hear compl tints if any, give orders and do what-
J ever other business may seem necessary. As
j an evidence of the utility of the schools in this
township duiir.g the past season, it is only ncc
j essary to say that there tv:rc fifty-one children
n ore in attendance lian iter before. The
: late secte ary of the boarl, Mr. John
Brown, >r , Kpoits as follows. l I fel a ple&-
, sure in i i ii g able to inform ycu that there is a
J decided improvement in the majority of iho
schools of this distnc! over former year.-. The
| upils appear to be progressing rapidly; the con
duct and or'er has improved very much, and
corporal rnni.-btiunt have been few when com
i pared with other year®. Our teachers appear
to be waking up io a sense cf their duty; but
in a number ot the schools they labour under
greai disadvantage from want ot uniformity in
; text books and convenience of furnituic." Most
iof the school louses are tolerably good, but
most of the furniture is very poor. It is Loped
for iiie good of tiie children, that the newly or
ganized board will eurry forward this great in
terest with the same commendable zeal rhou
by their predecessors.
X.II'IKK i OWXSIIIP. — riiFs township hasdene
coidy during the list term; the difference Lc
tween it and ttie one pievious, is very great.—
| 1 here seemed to be some energy and decision
in ine board of director.®, -who both thought
and acteti rightly in tho ui-charge of their re
sponsible duties. Tiiey assessed such a tax as
en bled theiu to offer reasonable wages for com
petent teachers. They suecreded iu obtaining
such as proved to tie good and active in the dis
charge t-i their outies and tendered general
®ati.-laciion. with nuly-ire or two exception*.
I vis.tcd ;!l the schools in th'a township except
ing the Bockiick ami two others that hid no
school <he day I Called. Croat improvciiirut
was found, over the last }<>r:r, not only in teach
' ers ami the spirit of the schools, but also in
benches, iosks and in the general comfort of
the cbibiren; the I'treclots i. viug repaired the
houses and placed new iurniture tn nearly cverv
one. It the sclit ois in tL:s towsehip should
. continue to improve tor a few years more as
they tlni during tiie !J.? year, some of theui at
least will be equal to our leading seminaries
;ui academies, tofwi hatau ling tbc opposition
they mot with A few more energetic boards
■ like that of list winter will place Old Napier
very soon in one of the foremost ranks,
—lt would be pleasant if the
®.iiii ■ could he siid cf this borough that is said
of the country around it. There are only two
schools here, a primary and a' higher one; both
were supplied wni competent teachers during
thc pi>t winter, but excepting this, they were
lurried un'Wird with die torce of their own mo
mentum only, and wi h but little supervision
of tie oitector®. if t!u directors do not look
to iiteres's o; tiie people iu this place, iu
regtr-J to the ®:!i . i i;..use, the peojdo should
take the nntier iu hand themselves; for if the
present work of destruction bo continued a lit
tle further the will he subjected to the
heavy expense of buii ring a new school house
or two. "G'PEiUNTENDENT.
i'UE PROJECTED CUBAN REVOLUTION. —.\*.
Orleans,. Ipr il 11).—The accounts from N. York
respecting ihe departure from that city of su
expedition of native Cubans, for the purpose
of raising revolt in the Island, aie fully credi
tel in well informed quarters here.
fine object w ;S orginijed iu this oily several
month s -ince, iy a deputat eu of the Cubans in
X. iork and the leaders in N. Orleans; hut the
failure ot Slidoll'j 'thirty million bill' put a
stop to the expedition for the time being, much
to the disgust f tiie Cuban patriots here. The
expedition, however, is now fully revived ; the
pirty Iro.u N. York will land in an' out of the
way plica <>n the is!and,aud their landing will
be ;he sign d for a rising. Arms in abuudauco
were seat to the island long since."
FORNEY* os TUB CHARLESTON CONVENTION.
flte Washington States reviews at length
the schism in Pennsylvania, and concludes with
certain interrogatories to tha State's rights
Democracy of Pennsylvania. Col. Forney
devotes some two mhmius to a reply. lie
maintains tint the settled purpose of the pres
ent. Adiuiui.tration, through its patronage and
office hoi iers, is "fo compel the Democracy io
ngret to the employment of the Federal Ciowr/t
--mint for the propagation oj Slavery Col,
Forney concludes by declaring that the couise
his friends have marked out, ia the only one to
save this souutry from inevitable sectionalism,
and a certain dissolution of this Repbbiic.
To the States' interrogatories, ho answora,
that the Slate's rights Democracy do not con
template joiuing the Republicans—thoy bolievo
in the Democratic party, hut not in J. B's.
administration—aud that if the nominees of the
Charleston Convention represent tho genuine
principles of the Democratic party, they will
support them—but not, if they tnako a plat
form including that the duty of tho general
government is to propagate slavery. We fear
the eigan of ti>e four B's cannot allow so large
a latitude to the Pennsylvania rebels as Coi.
Forney claims. Their heads must be cut off.
Pitts. Journal. #
Gen. Eustis, Member of Congress from
Louisiana, aud Miss Corcoran, ouly heir of the
rich Washington banker, were married at
Washington, on Monday. This is the same
lady that oue of the Spanish legaiion wanted
to kill the old gentlvman about, after bavbg
been discovered uuder the piano in the young
lady's parlor, where it seems he had been Lid
to avoid the wrath of tho "cruel parient."
Prisideut Bucbauan was 68 yesr# of on
Saturday last.