BY DAVID OYER.
BEDFORD INQUIRER.
Elegant Extracts.
From Me Bedford Gazette , Alay 21, 1858.
"WHEELING INTO LINE.— The Washington
organ of Senator Douglas has accepted the
compromise offered by Mr. English iD too Con
ference Kansas bill, and now comes back to
its alleciance to the Democratic party. Upon
this the New York Herald comments as fol
lows:
'■The Kansas Settlement among the Politi
cians—Air. Douglas Backing Down. —The
Kansas settlement adopted by Congress has
produced a tremendous effervescence among
the politicians, and especially among the Doug
las wiug of the Democracy. East and West,
right aud left, they are coming into lino again,
Gov. Walker has declared that the bill passed
tallies with his test principle of submission to
the people, and Secretaiy Stanton, though a
little more fastidious, still thinks it will do.—
To be sure they creep back somewhat reluc
tantly, crab fashion, and intend to take the
field in Kan-as to induce her people to reject
the Lecompton programme; but still tbey con
cede the main point, that 'popular' sovereignty
to an extern that will auswer the purpose, has
beec conceded by Congress. But the most
remarkable manifestation iu behalf of the bill
passed comes from the Washington organ of
Mr. Senator Douglas. That paper expresses
itself as perfectly satisSed. This means that
Air. Douglas wants to get back info the Demo
cratic party, but from all appearances, the
Democratic party will soon be able to get along
very well without him, with the staunch and
steady administration of 'Old Buck' to bring
them and keep them together. What else has
Mr. Douglas to say V "
From the Bedford Gazette, Sept. 3, 1858.
'•Resolved, That the Administration of
JAMES BUCHANAN has thus far proved
t'self entirely Democratic. In the peaceful
settlement of tbe long continued and embitter
ed Kansas controversy; in tbe suppression of
the formidable rebellion in Utah; in the prompt
assertion and maintenance of our Nation's
lights upon the High Seas, in short, in all his
official acta, our Pennsylvania President has
shown himself entirely worthy of the confi
dence so freely reposed in him by his fellow
citizens."
This resolution, was offered by B. F. Mey
ers, of the Bedford Gazette, with the other re
solutions at a Locofoco County meeting, in
this place, on the 30tb August, 1858. It
will be found ID that paper of 3d September,
1858.
Meyers, and a majority of the Locofoco par
ty of Bedford County, now support the candi
date (S. A. Douglas) of the rump Convention
at Baltimore, who was tbeD and is now the per
secutor and enemy of Mr. Buchanan, aud who
is the cause of the present split in that party.
From the Bedford Gazette, July 1,1859.
SOME OF THE FRUITS OF OPPOSI
TION TO THE PRESIDENT.
"For the last two years, we havo beard of
notbiDg io the political world but 'Opposition
to the Administration.' Every measure pro
posed by President Buobanan—no matter what
its nature—has met the fiercest and most un
scrupulous opposition. In the last Congress,
the Black Republicans and Know Nothings,
assisted by a number of treacherous Demo
crats, [Stephen A. Douglas & Co.,j did all in
their power to embarass and cripple th 6 Ad
ministration. They defeated the passage of
the Lecompton Constitution—defeated the Cu
ba bill—and, to their everlasting sbame be it
said, defeated the Post Office Appropriation
Bill. Of course the combination against the
President, was made with ambitious aims on
the part of thoso who entered into the coali
tion, and doubtless, with tbe majority of the
conspirators, this fusion of odds and ends was
a darling scheme to break up tbe Democratic
party. Well, tbey succeded in many of tbeir
manoeuvres, in fact tbey were successful in too
many for tbeir own good. The people arc be
giuniug to feel tbe injury done them by tbeso
infamous tricksters."
'Tis queer, truly, that a portion of this same
"Democrat!.! parly," with the Gazette to back
them, now support these "infamous tricksters"
whose "darliDg scheme" was "to break up the
Democratic party."
F?om the Bedford Gazette, Feb. 10, 1800.
THE TRAITOR REWARDED.
"John W. Forney, the blackest and foulest
traitor that ever apostatised from the the Dem
ocratic party, has just received the thirty
pieces of silver for which be agreed, two years
ago, to sell out the party that nursed hitn and
raised him to a position of respectability.—
People can now 6ee why it was that Mr. For
ney has been so persistent in his slanderous
abuse of a Democratic President, lib villi
fications of Mr. Buchanan, was the price ho
w*s required to pay to the Black Republicans
for the Clerkship to Congress, to which be has
jut been elected by his newly found friends,
ibis places Mr. Forney clearly and incontros
vertibly in the ranks of the Opposition. We
hope be may slay there, never to return."
Forney is now, as he was then, the right
hand man of Douglas in Pennsylvania. The
Bedford Gazette and the Philadelphia Press!
the one is edited by the great ex-Know Nothing,
ex-Wbig, ex-Republican, ex-Lecompton, ex
anti-Dougias, but now Douglas, anti-Lecomp-
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Polities, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c„ &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
ton UI*D, BENJ. FRANKLIN Meyers, and the
other by the "blackest and foulest traitor that
ever apostatised from the Democratic party,"
John W. Forney. Both now supDort Douglas.
(UNRAPAIGTI FANGS.
CAMPAIGN SONG.
TONE —"DU da."
There's an old plow "boss" whose name is "Dug; "
Du da, du da,
He's short and thick—a regular "plug,"
Du da, du da day.
CHORUS
We're bound to work all night
We're bound to work ail day,
I'll bet my moeny on the "Lincoln boss,"
Who bets on Stephen A/
The "little plug" has had his day,
. Du da, du da,
He's out of the ring by all fair play,
Du da, du da day.
CHORUS—We're bouDd, Vc.
He tried his best on tbe Charleston track,
Du da, du da,
But couldn't make time with his "Squatter Jack,"
Du da, du da day.
"Old Abraham's" a well bred nag,
Du da, du da,
His wind is sound—he'll never lag,
Du da, du da day.
In 'SB he tried his gate.
Du da, du da,
He trotted Douglas through the State,
Du da, du da dav.
In '6O now we're goirfg to trot,
Du da, du da,
So "plank" your money ou the spot,
Du da, du da day.
The "Lincoln boss" will never fail,
Du da, du da,
He will not shy a ditch or rail,
Du da, du da day.
Tbe "Little Dug" can never win,
Du da, du da,
That Kansas job's too much for him,
Du du, du da day.
His legs are weak, his wind unsound,
Du da, dB da.
His "switch-tail" is too near the ground.
Du da, du da day,
CHORUS— We're bound, C. H. M.
LINCOLN.
He comes, he comes, the fearless man;
Throw all your banners forth—
Chicago bids him lead the van
Ot a UDited North.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
Let shouts for Lincoln ring;
In Union rights let all unite
To hail our Prairie King.
A nation's hand has wreathed his brow
With stars her valor won;
To Union's quick-step, marching now,
Comes Freedom's Western Son.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! ice.
Farewell to cliques that wouid disown
The people's high behest—
That people's waiting hand shall crown
The champion of the West.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! &c.
Tbe people's rights, the people's voice,
His battle cry shall shall be—
A nation, in Chicago's choice,
Hails Freedom's sovereignty.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! Ac.
The equal rights of North and South
He fearless doth proclaim—
He'll tear disunion's flag from both,
And blast each traitor's name.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! &c.
Then 'neath the stripes Time's hand hath blent,
'Neath stars our fathers won,
Will make our Lincoln President
in Eighteen Sixty-one.
Hurrah, hurrah hurrah! &c.
: ■
THE CHAIR OF STATE.
Ihe delegatea to the Chicago Convention
from Michigan took with tbem to the "Lake
City" a beautiful rustic ebair, which was pla
ced upon the stage erected for the accomoda
tion of tbe delegates to tbe Convention, in tbe
Republican Wigwam. It was one of the prin
cipal objects of attraction wbeu the Conven
tion was not in session, for the reason that it
was designed as a present to the person wbo
received the nomination for President. It is
is constructed out of thirty-four kinds of wood
each one of thirty-three pieces representing a
Stale, and the other one representing Kansas,
which should, and but for tbe wickedness of
Locofocoism, would now be a State. Tbe
name of the State which each piece of timber
represents is tastefully inscribed upon each
piece. After the nomination of Mr. Lincoln
this pretty piece of Western mechanism was
forwarded to Springfield, and presented to the
People's choice—"honest Abe." He reoeived
and accepted the gift, and returned his thanks
for the donation as follows :
SPBINGFIELD, 111., June, 1860.
My DEAR Slß:—Tbe chair which you
designate as tbe 'Chair of State,' is duly
at hand and gratefully accepted. In view of
what it symbolizes, might it not be called tbe
'Chair of State and tbu Union of States?'—
The oonception of tbe maker is a pretty, patri
otic and a national one. Allow uie to thaok
both you and him much for the chair, and much
for the sentiment which pervades its structare.
Your obedient servant,
A. LINCOLN.
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1860.
The Vice's Sentiment.
The candidate for Vice President on tbe
Douglas ticket Mr. Herscbel V. Johnson, of
Georgia, made a speech at Philadelphia on the
17th of September 1856, in which he said:
The Black Republicans propose to take tbe
control of the patronage of tbe government——
to take control of the Treasury—to take oon
'rol of the Army and Navy—and to instal their
1 miserable rotteu, representative in tbe Presi
dential chair irrespective of the rights of the
Southern States. But he would tell them that
whenever the day arrived that sixteen states
should dictate absolutely and unconditionally,
as tbe Black Republicans now propose to do,
to the other sixteen, they might bid farewell to ■
the ties that bound them as a confederacy.
Again, he said:
Under the Constitution, therefore, Slaves
were as muoh property as a Yoke of Oxen or j
an acre ot land. If, therefore, Pennsylvaniaus \
had the right to carry their oxen into Kansas,
they of the South bad the right to carry their
Slaves into Kansas, for both are alike pro
perty.
Again, ho said:
They of the South believe that Slavery wae
the greatest missionary institution which had
ever been instituted upon the globe, and tuat
slavery bad christianized more heatheus thau
all the combined operations of Christendom bad
done. [Applause.] In large sections of the
Southern States, tbero were more negroes be
longing to tbe churches than there wore whit*
people belonging to them.
The South had determined that capital should
own labor. Tbey could not hire labor to cul
tivate their rice swamps, to ditch their low lauds
to drain their morasses. Was there auy doubt
that there must be a laboring class everywhere.
In all countries and under every form of soeia.
organization there must be a laboring class—a
class of men wbo get tteir bread by the sweat 1
of their brows— and then there must be another
dais that control aad direct the capital of the
country.
Here disunionism is openly professed; and
the dogma, thnt capital owns labor, is shame
lessly advocated. Do tbe people of Bedford
county endorse these I Do the farmers, me
chanics, and laborers of*all kinds in this coun
try desire that themselves should be owned,
controlled and directed by a few capitalists—a
few southern slave drivers, with Mr. Herscbel
V. Johnson at their head?
Ma. LINCOLN'S MORAL CHARACTER.—A
lata number of the New York Independent
containsains some extracts from a letter writ
ten tc a triend in New York, by Rev. Mr.
Hale, pastor of a Presbyterian church io
Springfield, Illinois, and a reply to inquiries
respecting the private moral character of Mr.
Lincoln. The extracts, ouo or two of which
we quote, speak for themselves, and show our
candidate to be as upright in morals as be is
in politics:
"Mr. Lincoln is not an attendant on my
preaching. His wife ia a member of the First
Presbyterian Church, and when ho is in the
city he pretty regularly attends there on the
Sabbath. 1 understand he once taught a Sab
bath Sohool, but not in this place. From the
frequeucy and readiuess with which he is ac
customed to quote from the Bible, and the use
he makes of such quotations, it is clear lhat
he has read the Bible and pondered its con
tents. I wish I could say he is born of God.
His ntoral character stands among us here
without a blemish. I have known bim for
twenty years, and latterly, as circumstances
have made bim promiueut, 1 have become well
acquainted with him—have watched his couree
and the tide of public opinion in these parts,
both among his tricuds and his foes. My resi
dence bete at the capital, where the streams of
political corruption from all parts of the State
meet, has made mo smfficiently distrustful of
the integrity and virtue of public men. If
not 'all men,' at least all public men, have
seemed to be 'liars.' Abraham Lincoln has
been here all the time, and consulting und
oousulted by all classes, all parties, and on all
subjects of public interest, with men of every
degree of influence, and every degree of cor
ruption— and yet I have never heard even an
enemy accuse him of intentional dishonesty or
corruption. He has stood before the commu
nity bare the man of incorrupted tf not incor
ruptible integrity. And to be able to say
that ot any 'Lan who has mingled as freely
with Illinois polities aud politicians as Mr.
Lincoln has, 13 glory euough for ODO man. To
call him 'Honest Old Abe' is not to my taste,
but uo words can more coriectly express the
common opiuiou of bim where he is well knowo. I
He has never been ia the habit of drinking,
and has lectured against it once in our meeting
house. In answer to inquiries recently made
in respect to pledges, his reply in substa&ce
was that he had made no pledge of offioe, hoa
or and patronage in uny way to any man or
party, on the condition of bis election io the :
Presidency, and be was most happy to say that
very little of the kind had been sought."
TAKES HIM DOWN.— The Peoria, 111., Union,
which hoisted the name of Douglas, has taken
it down. The editor explainp that it was done
in bis absence, and was whollj unauthorised by
him.
MlSSOUßl. —Circulars have been issued, in
Missouri, oalling a Breokinridge State Conven
tion on the 17th of November. The Bi. Louis
Republican, a Douglas organ, severel; de
nounces the movement.
The Hon. Henry D. Foster, Democratic can
didate for Governor, is is a fair way of losing
the confidence of both wir>gs of his party. He
is said to entertain strong Douglas prooiivities,
which renders him obnoxious to the Breckin
ridge men. He is further said to favor the ac
tion of the majority of the State Committee, in
proposing that the Douglas men should vote for
the Breckinridge 'disuniouista,' {as they are
oalied;) on the electoral ticket. Several of
the leading organs of the Douglas party take
exception to this, and say that it will lose Fos
ter at least fifty thousand votes in the State.
The Press in reference to Mr. Foster's course,
says that 'in a crisis like this, no double-deal
ing and no equivocal silence will be supported
by the Democratic masses.'
On the second ballot, by which Douglas was
nominated, only twenty-four out ot the thirty
three States voted at all. These States cast
1914 votes out of the 256 to which tbey were
entitled. So that nine States were not repre
sented at all in this sectional Convention Of
the twenty-four which were represented, only
nine cast their full vote. It is askitg too
much of poor, weak human nature, to consider
this a national nomination. Compared with
the Chicago Convention, Liucoln received more
votes iu Convention from Slave States than
Doug'is, although only five Southern States
were represented at Chicago, while eight of
the fifteeu were in tbe Douglap Convention.
poliiicil Items.
The histories oi men and parties are best
written after their death. The late Democratic
party is now ready for history. It is a maxim
to speak no evil of the dead, but anything not
evil said of that party would be fal>e. It did
evil and only evil and that continually. It
was evil iu its birth, evil in its life, and evil in
its death. Its first breath was offensive, and
its last a stench.— Louisville Journal.
THE REBUKE OP THE ADMINISTRATION.—
Much feeliDg is excited among the few friends
of thus Administration that neither ot the Con
ventions gave it tbe first word of recognition,
toleration or comfort. Mr. Bacbauao thinks
he deserved as much from the South as Mr.
Pierce received, having surrendered much more
to it. JV*. Y. Trib.
HUZZA FORI-INCNLSR. —The troubles among
the 'Democracy' have had tbe effect to firing
over all doubtful or no-party men to tbe sup
port of Lincoln. The old Whigs are rallying
around the Republican standard en masse, it
is plain that Lincoln is to be the next Presi
dent, and that his success will do more to kill
off tbe factioDists and disuoiouists than every
thing else. Every true friend of the country
now sees this, and is rallying under the banner
of glorious "Old Abe."
GIVING IT UP. —The New York Alius, a
rampant democratic paper, acknowledges that
the rail-splitters have their opponents in a tight
place. It throws up its hands aud goes down
gently. Hear :
"The real truth i., that but a faint hope ex
ists for the defeat of the Republicans. There
does not appear to us the ghost of a chance tor
the election of either Douglas or Breekiuridg*
[it does not consider the old gentleman's
party in the ring.] If the thirty-five votes of
New York cannot be abstracted, in somp way
from Liccolo, uncle Abe may get ready to
move into the White House ou the fourth of
March next."
That's juat the road he's travelling, neigh
bor.
A STRAW.— A Washington letter writer
says. There is good sign for Liocoln at the
departments. The clerks have nearly all dis
covered that he is not a sectional man, aud
that, after all, he will make a good President.
Some go further, still aud say that they have
uo doubt he will be elected. The very men
who a month ago were fierce Douglas meu now
talk liiucoln and modified form of Republi
canism. It all means simply this ; that to (be
office-holders Abraham linoolu is the coining
man.
Col. Goulden of Georgia, who would not
secede but was for non-intervention, stated in
his address to the Convention that he owned
more niggers than all the flunky delegates from
that State.— Plain Dealer.
He also said in his address that he was thor
eugly iu favor of reopening the Slavo Trade
and therefore remained in the Convention.
"Non-intervention" on sea and land suits the
views of the negro-kidnappers.— Cleve. Her.
old.
A DECLARATION FOR THE SECEDERS.—
Senator Rice, Mr. Becker, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Minnesota last year,
Franklin Steels, Mr. Fridley, and Mr. Edger
too, publish a card declaring for Breckinridge
and Lane, aud appeal to the Democracy of
Minnesota to sustain them.
Daniel Ullman, a leader in the ranks of the
American party, and candidate for Governor of
New York in the palmiest days of American
ism, made a speech in favor of Lincoln and
Hamlin, at a Republican meeting in Newark,
N J., last week. The Opposition are cordially
uniting on "Old Abe," both at the East and
at the West.
How THEY CAN DO IT.—The Democrats
profess to believe they hare a chance to defeat
Lincoln, bv carryiog the election to the House.
The New York Herald sums up the difficulties
to be met to accomplish that, as follows :
"But to carry the election into the House,
thirty-one votes of the Northern States must
be takoo away from the Republican ticket.—
New York will do, or Pennsylvania and New
Jersey -, but bow are these to be carried
against the Republicans 1 Tbey can only be
taken from them by a joint stock electoral
tioket of the party opposed to Lincoln. The
prospect, however, for any such joint stook
combination is dim and dubious. The shortest
way to a rational conclusion is from the as
sumption that, under the circumstances, the
elements of opposition to the Republicans will
he frittered away. Lincoln will thus be our
next President by a majority of the electorial
votes."
WHO IS FOSTER FOR ?—That's the question.
Packer is for Douglas, and tbe Administration
party killed him off The question now arises,
who is Fester for, Douglas or Brockinridgo ?
or must he remain a mum candidate and answer
no questions ? Col. Curtin proclaims himself
for Lincoln and Hamlin, open and above board.
Will Foster proclaim his choice ? Tbe people
in Pennsylvani, at least, after all her dearest
interests have been most shamefully sacrificed
at Washington, are not iu a mood to vote for
mum candidates for any office.
Mr. Douglas, in his letter of acceptance
says : —"The peace of the country and the
perpetmy of the Union have been put in jeop
ardy by attempts to interfere with and to con
trol the domestic afUirs of the people in tbe
Territories, through tbe ageuoy of the Federal
Government.'' YV bo gave that Federal Gov
ernment, now so obnoxious to Mr. D., the
power to interfere North of thirty-six thirty ?
Who but Stephen A. Douglds ? Had he not
procured the repeal of the "Missouri compro
mise," the Federal Government could not have
made attempts to iuterfere with and coutrol tbe
domestic affairs of Kansas. Stephen, your
tricks are played out. Y"cur own party turn
from you in disgust. The wand of your power
is broken, and yon are on the gibbet of popu
lar indiguatiou. Tba Republicans, who you
have so bitterly reviled iu tbe hour of your
prosperity, will deal more gently with you than
those "who wept when Caesar sighed."
The Boston Pilot (Catholic) is for Douglas,
whose wife i a Catholic : it says :
"While the leaders are bowing down to some
old and forgotten or decaying idol, or are
selfishly emplyed in laying plans for their OWD
aggrandizement, let who wili suffer, and at
whatever expense to tho great interests of the
public. This is eminently the case with certain
men,in the democratic ranks. Tbe voice and
the heart of the party cries out for Douglas,
'Give us Douglas!' There is no doubt that
the popular majority is with him. But these
meu, latent in their selfishness, either cannot,
or affect not, to sea which *-y the tide 13 turn*
iog."
PENNSYLVANIA SECEDING DELEGATES.—
The following are the Dames of the delegates !
to the Democratic National Convention at j
Baltimore, who seceded from the regular con- i
veutiou aud joined haads with the "secession- I
its" at the Maryland lostitute :—W. H. I
Reilly, V. L. Bradford, George McHenry, E. j
C. Evans, G- 11. Martio, H. A. Guernsey, H. i
Lauer, H. H. Den', A. J. Glossbrcnuer, Ar- 1
Dold Plummer, 11. B. fiwarr, David Fisher.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.— The
Breckinridge and Lane National Democratic j
Committee is oomposed of the followiug mem- j
bcrs :
Isaac J. Stephens, Oregon.
Geo. W. Hughes, Maryland.
John VV. Stephenson, Kentucky.
Wm. Fiicn, Jas. G. Barrett, Walter Lenox,
aud Geo. W. Riggs, Washington, D. C.
Jeff. Davis, Mississippi.
T. B. F iorence, Pennsylvania.
J. R. Thomson, New Jersey.
Augustus Schell, New York.
A. B. Meek, Alabama.
J. D. Bright, Indiana.
Robert Johnson, Arkansas.
COOL. —While H. Clay and Daniel Webster
were living, Mr. Douglas was their almost un
scrupulous viiifier. The musketoe was con
tinually stinging the elephants. Now they are
dead, Mr. Douglas whines, "Where shall we
look for another Clay, another Webster to pilot
the ship of State ?" Iu olden times, the fath
ers killed the prophets and their children built
their sepulchres. The " Little Giant" wished
to do both ; he has almost accomplished the
work—for himself.
AN UGLY PORTRAIT.—The Charleston .Mer
cury draws an ugly portrait of honest old ABE
LINCOLN. The editor has seeu a likeness of
tbo next President of the United Stales, which
he thus describes :
"A horrid lookiog wretch he is—sooty and
scoundrelly iu aspect—a cross between the
nutmeg dealer, the horse-swapper, aud uight
man—a creature fit evideutly, for petty trea
eoa, small stratagems, and all sorts of spoils.
He is a lank-sided Yankee, of the uncomtiest
visage, and oue of the dirtiest complexion, and
the most indecent comparisons. Faugh ! after
him, what decent white man would be Presi
dent."
Our candidate is uot handsome, that is a
fact, but as ue is going to be President, it is
not worth while to make a fuss about it.
DOUGLAS REPUDIATED IN CONNECTICUT.—
The whole Democratic press is united in con
demning the action at Baltimore which the
rightful Southern delegations were excluded
to make room for those who were without
authority to act as the represeulatives of their
State, and who had no constituency to back
them up to tbeir claims Hart fort Times.
The fact heie stated is significant. Connec
ticut is one of the two or three States the
"dough faces" expected to carry with Douglas.
But not a democratic paper in the State, it
seems, supports him.— Albany Evening Jour
nal.
ANOTHER QUARREL.—Senator Gwin, of
California, had a quarrel with the President on
Saturday last. Ihe war of words became very
violent, and during the altercation the Senator
denounced Mr. Buchanan in not very accu
rately measured language, and concluded by
telling the old gentleman that he would never
darkeD tho doors of his mansion again. Gwiu
has hitherto been Buchanan's right-hand titan,
VOL. 33. NO. 29.
and this private quarrel will doubtless manifest
itself, in time, io California polities. The man
who betrayed Broderick has been in turn be
trayed. Serves hiin right.
A MICHIGAK DEMOCRAT ON DOUGLAS.—
There were some very rich scenes in the Demo
cratic Convention of Michigan, which nominat
ed a reputed Breckinridge man for Governor.
A spirited discussion arose over a resolution
endorsing the Frcseut Democratic Administra
tion, which was finally declared to be voted
dowD. In the course of this debate, a Mr.
Murray said that Douglas was the reptile that
bad caused ail the troubles iu the party.—
Douglas bad pitched iDto Buchanan without
reason, and he considered him no usore fit for
President t/ian that other arch traitor, Bene
dict Arnold.
THE NORTHERN TIER.—A friend writes from
Towanda that Bradford County will roll up at
least 4,500 majority for lionest "Old Abe," and
Tioga coonty over 3,000. Throughout the
entire Northern tier the Republicans are'wide
awake" and determined to do better than ever
for the free soil and free labor ticket. Oar
correspondent further writes that the Demo
oratß are about equally divided between Doug
las and Breckinridge, and that the antagonisiie
factions are so bitterly hostile that no compro
mise on RB electoral ticket can be affected.
Hon. J. S. Barry, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Michigan, is for Breckinridge
and Lane.
ATTACKING THE ODTPOST.— The Republi
cans of Maryland, eoiboidenod by the divisions
of the Democratic party, have nominated
au electoral ticket for that State. The next
thing will be a Republican electoral ticket in
South Carolina.
How on earth can the Democratic party be
expected to preserve the Union of the States
when it coaldn't preserve its own union?
STANDING FROM UNDER —Mr. fitzpatrick,
tho Douglas nominee for Vice President, de
clines taking a passage on that boat.—refuses
to run on the ticket with Douglas—and has
come out for Breckinridge! Foreseeing tbe
ignominous defeat tbat awaits the "Little Gi
ant's" army of plunder-hunters, he prudently
stands from under.
NEW CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.—
The Columbia Democrat endorses the nomina
tion of Breckinridge bat ignores tirat of Lane.
The editor publishes the proceedings of the
two Baltimore conventions without comment,
but runs up the following ticket: "For Presi
dent—John C. Breckinridge. For Vice Presi
dent—Charles R. Buckalew." How many
more candidates will the double-headed De
mocracy present? The more the merrier—tbere
is nothing like variety.
NEW JERSEY.—The compromise scheme does
not work in New Jersey any belter than it does
in Pennsylvania. The Democratic State Com
mittee has issued a call for a State Convention
to nominate a joint electoral ticket—four for
Douglas and Ibree for Breckinridge; but tho
Dougias men of Essex oounty have indignantly
spurned the bribe and determined to have a
clean ticket of their own:
DOWN ON THE —The Chicago
daily Times, Douglas' special organ, speaks of
the leading Germans in this country in this
language:
"Pretentious ranters and extravagant or
; reckless reformers, who fled from the oppressed
| States of Europe, uot daring to meet and com
bat their oppressors, are come here to indulge
their oratorical propensities eutirely out of
! harm's way.
The Germans will go almost en masse for
Lincoln aud Hamlin, free soil and free labor,
Heuce this malignant attack upon tbem by the
Douglas organ.
Dickinson Dejines His Position. —ln tho
Binghamton Democrat the Hon. Dan'l S. Diok
insou declares himself for Breckinridge and
Lane. While he attempts to explain his ap
pearance at the late Syracuse Convention, on
thegrouodof the deep and mighty desire of
| his soul for union and harmony, he now pro-
I clams a deadly war agiinst those who have bro
ken and tuincd the party.
Kansas is gloriously avenged! She sees the
men who made war upon her now making war
upon each other. She stands out pure and
msjestio in her unconquerable integrity, whilo
they are crushed, disheartened and demoralixed.
Kansas will come into the Union soon after the
•4th of March next, with her banners waving
over the dishonored graves of her political en
emies. Justiee is slow but sure.
BRECKINRIDGE AND LANE IN INDIANA.—
The Indianapolis Journal says that Breukin*
tidge and Lane will receive a large number of
votes io Indiana, and will give the State to
Lincoln and Hamlin by at least 40,000." The
Journal thinks the State good for 5000 to 10,-
000 majority for Lincoln without a divided de
mocracy.
ILLINOIS.—We sec by our Illinois exohauges
that tho Old Line Whigs, many of whom voted
for Buchanan, and the active Fillmore men of
1856, are everywhere taking ground for Lin
coln. Filliuu: e and Fremont, united, had a
majority of more than *20,000 over Buchanan
in 1856, and Lincoln's majority over Douglas
will not be less than that.
The following extract from a letter, received
by a gentleman in Philadelphia, gives a most
favorable account of the wheat prospect in the
West:
"The whole West from the Ohio to the
Missouri, is one vast grain field. Times ought
to be good now if ever. One of the sharpest
flour manufacturers in Ohio, told me yesterday
that this State would have thirty million bush
els of wheat; five millions more than ever
raised in Ohio. More than all, the wheat is
| of tho beet quality.'