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BY DAVID OYER.
For the Inquirer.
California News.
GENOA, CARSON VALLEY, )
OAL., May 27, 1860. J
Mr. EDITOR: —I will endeavor to give you
some of the r,cws of this country, and ask you
to give niy letter au insertion in your paper
for the benefit of my Buuierous friends. I
have a great many friends to whom I would
like to write, but can't take time to do so,
and if you will givo toy letter a place in your
columns, you will honor and oblige your hum
ble servant.
No doubt you hear large stories of the dis
covery of rich silver and gold mines iu this
country, known as the "Washoe Country," the
"Eastern Slope," &o. Aud no doubt you have
heard by this time of Indian troubles in this
country, aud of a bloody battle being fought
between the whites and Indians on the 12th of
this month, in whioh the whites were badly
defeated. Through the Pony Express and tbe
telegraph, the above news has no doubt been
spread throughout tbe whole Union, and I have
no doubt but that said news, aud all other
news from this country reaches tbe Atlantic
States in an exaggerated form, as a story sel
dom lose 9by travelling. I know that a
great many people in this country would soon
er tell a lie on credit than tell tbe truth for
cash. What iittle J tell you shall lo tbe trutb,
to tbe bast of my knowledge. I will try to
preseut things exactly as they arc. There has
been a small bit of an ludiau war stirred up
in this country, aud no mistake; and it will
retard the progress and development of ti
to some extent, no doubt, but I don't
think it will amount to uiucb, though some val
uable lives have been lost already, and tbe
probability is that more will be before the sav
uges arc subdued. The first outbreak was the
murder of three uieu and the burning of v
station on the mail route and emigraut road
about (JO miles east of this town, at the great
bend ct Carro river. The hcuse was turned,
and the bones of the throe man were found in
tbe a-he c . The station was kept by three
brothers, named Williams. There is a report
of a more brutal outrage having been commit
ted against the Indiaus by tbe men of said
station, for tbe truth of which I caunot vouch,
tout there is no doubt the murder was commit
ted by tbe Indians, as a largo herd of cattle
was driven off by them at tbe tame time from
tbe same vicinity. On the strencth of this, a
voluuteer force of 105 men were raised in five
little towns in these vallies, viz: Genoa, Car
sou City, Silver City, Gold Hill, and Virginia
City. They wore not mounted on very good
horses, and rather poorly equipped, both iu re
gaid to arms, auimunitiou and provisions. I
don't think tbey calculated to have a fight;
they thought it was only necessary to go out
and show themselves, frighten the Indians
away, and take their horses. They followed
the trail of the cattie driven off by the Indi
ans about 100 miles north of this, to uear
Pyramid Lake, tbo sink of Truckee River,
where they met, as they suppose, about 600
lonian warriors, who gave them a very warm
reception. Our men stood theru no show at
all; tbe most of them were badly scared, and
didn't half fight. A friend of mine who was
in tbe battle, says that on the retreat be pick
ed up a loaded r.fle which had been carried to
the war by a Dutchman, and, from the appear
ance of the gun he was satisfied that it had not
boen fired at all The Dutchman escaped uu
hurt, and claimed bis rifle after my friend (Bob
Pooler) had carried it all night. Tbe battle
was fought in the evening, and night coming
on, enabled many to secrete themselves and
escape. The Indians followed the whites in
hot pursuit for 20 miles, and no doubt slew &
good many on the retroat. Our men were
coming straggling in like lost sheep for a week
after tbe battle. The leader of tbe expedi
tion, Maj. Ormsby, one of our best citizens, is
still missing, and supposed to be killed, he
was known to be wounded, and 'hree horses
shot under him. But tbree of tbe returned
warriors brought their horses with them.—
Nearly all their accoutrements fell into tbe
hands of the ludians. 25 or 30 men are yet
missing, supposed to be killed. About 800
men, part Unclo Saai's men, and part volun
teers, have started out against tbe Indiaus the
pest week.
In regard to the mines, there are some very
rich silver mines in operation, gold mixed with
the silver in the Raine rock or ore. The ore
has to be crushed in a mill or smelted in a
turnsce to extract the metal. The ore takeu
out of some of the mines is worth $3,000 per
ton.
Mines that can be worked on a cheap soale
are scarce, and I would say to my friends who
have anything of a chance of making a com
fortable living in the old States, stay there
and persevere. The wages fer laboring men
bere are about S4O per month and hoard; me
chanics $4, and board themselves. lam get
ting $2 a day and boarded, driving an ox-team,
hauling sawlogts. Good bye.
Your friend, J NO. T. PIPER.
The Stillwater (Minnesota) Democrat a Doug
iss paper, speaks as follows of Breckinridges's
associate:
"As to Joe Lane we have a few remarks to
uake. An inebriate by habit; a low, vulgar
man by instinct and association: has become
intoxicated by position, aud will naturally be
'ickied with the straw of candidacy for Vice
•'resident, even though there is less than a
ghost of a chance for election. It is flattery
Su ch men as he to be thought of, even for
'he second office in the gift of the nation; aud
" is calculating too much upon debased human
nature to expect that he will decline the chance
'Or notoriety which his nomination furnishes
him."
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
BEDFORD INQUIRER.
Elegant Extracts.
From John Cessna's Gazette, Dec. 28, 1858.
H(W. J. 8. BLACK.
The distinguished gentleman whose name
stands at the head of this article, is favorably
spoken of by a number of Democratic newspa
pers in this state and elsewhere, as a suitable
person to receive the nomination of the Charles
ton Convention for Presidont of the U Stales.
Wo were among the first to express our pre
ference for the nomination of Judge Black ;
indeed hud we been slower to recognize bis
claims, we would have been false to our cou- j
victions of duty and utterly recreant to that j
pride of section which nurtures and rears the ;
great men of the land.
It is said and truthfully, too, that Pennsyl
vania holds the casting vote in the Electoral
t-ollegos of the Uuion. No President, we
believe, has bccu chosen by the people, without
the vote of Pennsylvania. The reason of this
is obvious. Pennsylvania, as a state, is the
representative of that feeling which binds
togother tbe national confederation. She is
the heart and soul, the very vital spark of the
Luion. Her people have no sympathy with
ope section as against anotber. Tbey are
neither for the North, nor for tte South, but
tor the equal Constitutional rights of each.—
With this spirit of justioe pervading tbe hearts
and the conscience of her people, Pennsylva
nia always oasts her vote for the candidate
chosen by a majority of the electors of the
Union, which majority has thus far held with
her in common her national aud conservative
sentiments. It is this that makes Pennsylva
nia the Keystoue of our politcal arch ; not the
number of her population—for sectional and
factional New York exceeds her on that score
—not her wealth of mines, and forges and
manufactories—not her cities and commercial
marts—not her railroads and publio through
fares ; it is her position as the great break
water between fanatical extremes, her office as
the conservator of the peace between sections
embittered agaiust each other by the schemes
of crazy theorists, political demagogues and of
fice-bunting knaves (like Stephen A. Douglas.)
Such being unquestionably the political status
of Pennsylvania, where is the man that is a
truer representative of our glorious old com-,
mouwealtb, thau Jeremiah S. Black ? Search I
the record of our statesmen and where will jou
fiud bim ? New York has her Dickinson, I
Virginia her Hunter, Georgia her Uobb, Illi
nois her Douglas, but where is the representa
tive man of the great State of Pennsylvania ?
Ihe public lite of Judge Black warrants us
fully iu regarding him as that man. He has
always shown himself tbe equal fiiend of all
classes—the advoca£ of religious as well as
civii freedom, the guardian of the rights of
naturalized as well as of native citizens, and
above all the fearless promulger of the Penn
sylvania idea— union and harmony btvoeen the
states and an end to Utopian theories and ab.
stractions on the question of slavery. Let us,
therefore, have the Representative man of
Pennsylvania , as the nomineo of the Charless
tun Convention, and no fears need be enter
tained of tbe future.
Yet, notwithstanding all that is said by John
Cessna's Gazette, in the above article, in favor
of Judge Black, a serious effort was never
made to make him the candidate. Ho did not
get a vote, we believe, in the Convention, and
the editor and owner of the Gazette, John
Cessna, was there and never voted once for
Black, but all the time for that "crazy theorist,
political demagogue,and office hunting knave,"
Stephen A. Douglas, as Cessna's Gazette styles
him in the above artiole. The Gazette, was a
great Buchanan and Black paper then, and very
bitter against Douglas, but John Cessna, VVm.
P. Scbell and Samuel H. Tate came out for
Douglas flat-footed, and the conduetor, not
having any soul or body of his OWD, did the
bidding of John Cessna & Co. The persons
referred to by Cessna's Gazette , Dickinson, of
N. Y., Hunter of Y r a., Cobb of Ga., as well
as Buchanan and that paper's favorite presi
dential candiate, Black, all support Breckin
ridge and Lane, IU opposition to Douglas aud
Johnson.
From John Ctna'a Gazette, Jan. 27, 1860.
TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY.
The doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, a*
enunciated in th 9 Cincinnati Platform, means
the power of the people of the Territories to
control their own affairs, and mould their own
institutions, "in their owu way," subject only
to the Constitution of the United States. This
potnt is undisputed. There can be no rjnestion
about it. But there seems to be some differ
ence of opinion between leading Democrats as
to whether the Constitution prohibits the peo
ple of the Territories from deciding the ques
tion whether or not, negro slavery shall exist
within the Territory. It is not disputed by
either side that the people of the Territory
have the right to determine this question for
themselves when tbey come to form thoir con
stitution, preparatory to their admission into
the Union t a State. Neither is it contended
by either party that slaves cannot lawfully be
takeo into the Territories and held there as
property. The difference, however, consists in
this, that Senator Douglas and those who co
incide with him, maintain that though the
slaveholder may take bis slaves into the Terri
tories, he can hold them there only at the will
of the Territorial Legislature, which by indi
rect, unfriendly enactments, or by positive
prohibition, can exclude slavery from the Ter-
BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST ?, 1860.
ritory; whilst, on the other hand, President
BUCHANAN, and, wa may safely say, the great
mass of the Democrats, hold that the Territo
ries, being the common property of all the
States, purchased equally by the blood and
treasure of the South and of the North, are
open alike to emigrants fioui ail the States,
. who have the right to take with theai into the
j territories, and own and enjoy there, whatever
is recognized as property io any of the States,
and that the question of slavery can be deci
ded only wheu the people form tbeir constitu
tion with the view to ask admission into the
Union. Henoe, it will bo perceived, that the
only practical difference between the disagree
j ing parties, is as to Me time when the people
: of the. Territories have the power to decide the
i slavery question. Senator Douglas takes the
position that the people of the Territories,
through their representatives in the Legisla
ture, cau at any time abolish slavery. Presi
dent Buchanan declares that this can only be
done when the people of the Territories oome
to form thoir State Government, inasmuch as
the Supreme Court has decided that negro
slavery exists in the Territories so long as they
remain such, by virtue of the Constitution.—
Wo Luve thus particularly and carefully stated
the difference between Douglas aud the Presi
dent, not that we intend to argue tho point at
issue, but because it may be made a bone of I
contention before the coming State Convention, ,
and because we desire our readers clearly and
fully to understand it. The whole slavery
question is an abstraction, aud cannot be made
of any practical benefit to the country, though
it may do infinite damage, and whilst we agree
entirely with the views of the President on
the subject of Territorial Sovereignty, and
shall look to the State Convention for a hearty
endorsement of tho National Administration,
we believe, at the same time, that there need
be no controversy in that body on the preseni ■
disagreement between Senator Douglas aud
President Buchanan. Our opinion is that the j
Couveution should dispose of tho subject of I
slavery in the Territories, by simply saying that
they are tho common domain ot ail the States,
and that whatever is property by law in any of j
the States, may be taken, held aud enjoyed
there by the owuer, and if a uy 0 f the rights
0 Property shall, according to the judgment
oj le proper tribunal , be in any way'lnfract
e , or annulled, it is ih e Jf tho lareueral ,
Loveromeot to sec that suoii rights be restorer*!
ani protected. This would make the whole
su jest of slavery ia tho Territories a question
tor toe Courts, aud would take it altogether
out of the arena of politics. Under our con- j
struotion of the decision in the Dred Scott
cast, it would not be necessary to bring this
subject again before the Judiciary. We be
leve that that decision is conclusive in favor
o. : r. Buchanan, aud that under it slave
holders are guarantied the right to hold their :
property in the Territories until a State Con- 1
solution prohibits them from so doing. But
tdcre are those who differ front us, allegiug
that the question of Territorial Sovereignty
was not before the Court in the Drcd Scott
esse. For this oause, and for the further rea
son that we believe it will thoroughly harmon
ize the party, we say let the settlement of this '
question be left to the Courts.
Douglas holds the same views of "Popular
Sovereignty, as euunciated in the Cincinnati
Plat.oim, now, as he did then. Buchanan's
views and position are the same. Cessna's Ga
zette was then opposed to Douglas, and in favor
of Buohanan and Judge Black.' Now it op
poses Buchanan and Judge Black, and sup
ports the person it oalled the "traitor Douglas.''
Democrats of Bedford County, how do you
like to bo forced to support Douglas by John
Cessna, William P. Scbeli and Samuel H.
Tate ?
IMPORTANT TO DRUGGISTS.— Tho follow
ing section of the new Penal Code, passed by
the Legislature last winter, is of great import
ance to those who deal in drugs of any kind
which are used as poisons :
"No apothecary, druggist, or other person,
shall sell or dispose of by retail any morphia,
stiychuia, arsenic, piussio acid or corrosive
sublimate, except upon the prescription of a
physician, or on the personal application of
some respectable inhabitant, of lull ago, of the
town or placo in which such sale shall be made.
In all cases of such sale, the word poison shall
be carefully and legibly marked or plaoed up
on the label, package, bottle or other vessel or
tiling in which poisou is contained: and when
sold or disposed of otherwiso than under the
prescription of a physician, the apothecary,
druggist or other person soiling or disposing of
the same, shall put in a register, kept for that
purpose, the name and reuidenoc of the person
to whom such sale was uaade, the quantity sold,
and the date of such sale. Any person of
feudiug herein shall be guilty of a misdemean
or, and, on conviction, he sentenced to pay a
flue not exceeding fifty dollars."
1 ho Charleston Mercury in very greatiy dis
gusted at the attempt made io various quarters
to represent the Democratic party as a JVa
tional organization. It says :
The affectation of the disrupted Convention
clingiog to the name ot the National Demo
cratic party, was equally übsurd. A9 a Na
tional party it had ceased to exist with the
secession of the Southern States. Doth Con
ventions beetttue Sectional. The one repre
sen ted the North, the other the south. The
one aimed at a sectional domination over the
South ; the other organized to save the South
from this sectional domination looking dearly
to the alternative of independence. There
was not a particle of nationality in either Con
vention.
A RAIL-SPLITTER ON LINCOLN.
•John Flanks, Mr. Lincoln's partner in split
ting rails, flat boating, &0., has announced bis
intention to vote for his old friend, though he
IMS always heretofore voted the Democratic
ticket. In the course of a long letter to The.
Decatur Chronicle , Mr. Hanks says:
"When we have for years been opposed in
politics, to a man who has again and again seen
his party defeated, and has himself sometimes
tailed, and still seen that man truo to his colors,
re-arcuing and re-entering the field to try to
uphold and successfully plant his colors upon
the side of victory, wbea all the time he knew ,
he bad but to change once to win, and yet has j
never changed, I thiuk 1 may say never falter
ed, how are we to respect him ? Such a man I i
have known Mr. Lincoln for thirty years to be. !
In boyhood days we toiled together ; many are
t lie days we have lugged the heavy oar on the
Ohio, the Illinois, aod the Misswsppi rivers I
together ; many are the long, cold days we \
have journeyed ovef the wild prairies aud i
ihrcnttk tho forest, with guc aud ax, and j
though it is not pleasant to refer back to it,'
well do I remember when we set out together
in tbe cold winter to cut aud maul rails on the
Sangamon river, in Macon county, thirty years
ago, to iuclose his lather's little home, and
from day to day kept at worts until the whole
was tiuisbcct and the homestead fenced in ; we
olteu swapped work io this way, and yet dunng
the many years we were cocuected together as
laborers, sometimes flat-boating, sometimes
tail-making, und, too, when it was nearly iui
possrt/lc to get books, he was a constant lead
er ; 1 was a listener : he settled all disputes of
ali young men in the neighborhood, and his
decisions were always abided by. I never I
knew a utau so honest under all circumstances !
for his whole life.
Thus associated with Mr. Lincoln, I learned
to him ; and wheu iu 1858 he was a can
didate for tho first time within my reach,
against my feelings, and 1 may say against my
convictions, my old party ties induced me to
vote for Mr. Douglas. My Democratic frieuds
all declared Lincoiu was an Abolitionist; I
heard htm make a speech iu Decatur just be
fore the election, and 1 could see nothiug bad
iu it; but I was told by the party be was
no: ee~fcow he could I>e, but
they said so, aud 1 was a Democrat aud went
it. My wife used to say to mc tbat some day
Abe would come out and bo something ; 1
thought so too, but I could not exactly see
bow a man in the lower waiks of life, a day
laborer, and hopelessly poor, would ever stand
much cbauco to get up very high the world;
at last, one day a: home, we heard that tbe
Republican State Convention was to be held at
Decatur, and that they were going for Abe for
President.
"As son as I found this out, I weut in'o
towu and told a frieud of ADe's that as great
and honest merit was at last to be rewarded iu
the person of my frieud Mr. Liucolo, by the
Republican party, 1 thought of the bard and
trymg struggles of his early dys, and recol
lecting the rails we had undo together thirty
years ago, made up my mind to present some
of them to that Convention as a testimonial of
the beginning of ouo of the greatest living uieu
of the age, believing they would speak more
iu Lis praise tbau any orator could, and honor
true labor more than the praise of men or the
resolutions of Conventions. On our way to
get the rails, I told this friend of Old Abe
that if Abo should be uomiuated for President
1 would vote for bim ; everybody kuows what
he has been, and 1 rejoice that I live to give
this testimony to his goodness and honesty, and
1 hope I shall live to vote for him for Presi
dent of the United States next November.—
is there anything wrong in this ? VVlio ought
to refuse to vote for as good and as great a
man as be is ? 1 know that in voting for him
1 vote with the Republican party, and will be
considered as adopting its principles ; as 1 now
understand them i 6ee no goon reason why I
may not do so ; our own party is divided, and
we have no Solomon to tell wbo shall tike the
child."
BETS ON THE ELECTION. —The New York
Herald's Washington correspondent gives a
lively account of the way the nominations were
received at '.he Federal Capitol. There, as
elsewhere, both parties commenced their game
of brag, which is the only game tbey under
stand. Tho following is the way they "drap.
ped
"Mr. VV., a distinguished Pennsylvanian,
asserted that Douglas would carry that State
by fifty thousand majority. Mr. 8., an equal
ly distinguished Breckinridge man from Mas
'suchusetts, offered to bet ODO dollar ou each
vote tbat be would not. The Douglasite caved.
An Oregoniau boasted that Douglas would
carry Oregon. A Breckinridge mao offered to
bet that Breckinridge and Lane would carry
more of tbeir States than Douglas and Fitz
patriok would of theirs. Douglasite refused.
An lllinoisan offered to bet §IO,OOO that
Douglas would carry Illinois. An Ohio lie
publican accepted the bat, and proposed to put
a forfeiture of 1,000 until to-morrow, when
the remainder would be deposited, but Illi
noisao thought he saw a rail, and declined.—
A M. C. of New-York, offered to bet an in
definite sum that Douglas would carry his
State, whereupon a Maryland Breckinridge
man said ho would bet §IO,OOO that Lincoln
would earry Illinois uud New York. New
Worker backed down. These are only speci
mens of the kiud of betting that has been go
iug ou here to-day, but it is singularly true
that it is a true reflex of the confidence mani
fested by the different men for their favorite
candidates."
A ME IN CANDIDATE.
To show what kind of a man Joe Lane, the
Administration candidate for Vice President,
is, wc tako the following extract from a speech
delivered by bim at the Breckinridge Ratifies*
tion Meeting, in Philadelphia. Here is tbe
passage reported verbatim:
A voice—How did Lincoln vote at tho time
of the Mexican war?
Geti. Lane—l'll tell you. While your bum
ble sorvant was having his arm almost shatter
ed to pieces, und while other good soldiers of
this State were battling in defence of your
country's honor, Lincoln was over io Washing
ton voting against supplies for tbe army.—
[Laughter.] I didn't say 'friend,' did I? I'll
take that back; for it was yon I alluded to,
when I said friends—for you aro not only
friends, but you are patriots, and you are law
abiding, good citizens, that I am proud to meet
—that I am delighted to have this opportunity
to see and to speak to; aud if it was any other
ocoasion than this—if it wasn't on the ticket
with that gallant, noble, and generous, gifted
man, Breckinridge—l would say much more
in his favor,
To show up this deliberate he, uttered by
this would-be Vice President, we Deed only
copy tbe following extract from a speech de
livered by Senator Douglas, in tbe Illinois Sen
atorial canvass of 185.8, wherein ho makes this
candid admission:
"1 never charged him with voting against
the supplies in my life, because 1 knew that he
was not in Congress when they were voted.—
The war was commenced on the 13th day of
May, 1846, and OD that day we appropriated
in Congress ten millions of dollars and fifty
thousand men to prosecute it. During the
same session we voted more men and more mon
ey, so that, by the time Mr. Lincoln entered
Congress, we had eoough men and money to
carry on the war, and had no occasion to vote
for auy ntoro."
This clears Lincoln of the false charge Lane
has trumped up against him, and unless Lane
does not read the current literature of the day,
and especially that relative to national polities'
be could not be ignorant that what he was say
ing was unfounded. Tbe nian that would stoop
to utter so deliberate a falsehood is unworthy
of tbe support of any honest man of any party
the uigger-driving Democracy not excepted.
This seems to be the opinion of the people of
Oregon, for it is admitted on all hands that
the recent eleotion in that State has closed up
his career in the United States Senate. He is
a "dead dog," and has met a well-deserved
fate.
RECIPE FOR BUAKJBERRY WINE. —As this
is the blackberry season, we publish this recipe
for tbe manufacture of the wine:
There is no wine equal to blackberry wine,
when properly made, either in flavor or medical
purposes, and all persons who can conveniently
do eo should manufacture enough for their own
use every year, as it is invaluable in s<ckness
as a tonic, and nothing is a better remedy for
bowel diseases. We therefore give the receipt
for nuking it, and having tried it ourselves, we
speak advisedly on the subject. Measuro your
berries and bruise them; to every gallon ad
ding on a quart of water. Let the mixturo
stand twenty-four hours, stirriug occasionally;
then strain off the liquid into a cask; to every
gallon adding two pounds of sugar; cork tight
and let it stand till the following October, and
you will have wine ready for use, without furth
er straining or boiliog, that will make lips
smack that never smacked under similar influ
ences before. It may be improved, and perhaps
will keep bettor, by adding a small quantity of
pure French brandy.
DON'T CARE. —The Douglas men are be
ginning to deny tbat their champion ever said
he didn't care whether Slavery was voted down
or voted up. A reference to the Congressional
Globe for 1857-8, part 1, page 18. will re
fresh their memories on this point They wiil
there read, in Mr. Douglas's speech iu the
Senate, on the 19th of December, 1857, as
follows:
But lam told on all sides. "Oh, just wait ;
; the pro-slavery clause will he voted dowu."
That does f not obviate any of my objections ;
it does not diminish any of tbem. You have
no more right to force a Free State Constitu
tion ou Kansas tbau a Slave State Constitution.
If Kansas wants a Slave State Constitution,
she has a right to it ; if she wants a Free
State Constitution she has a right to it. It is
none of my business which way tho Slavery
clause is decided. 1 r/ire not whether it is
voted down or voted up."
Who dodged the vote on the Homestead
hill? Stephen A. Douglas. Who dodged oo
the admission of Kaosas? Stephen A Doug
las. Who claims that "my great principle,"
Popular Sovereignty, has given to slavery a
degree and a half more ot tho publie domain
than the slave power claimed? Stephen A.
Douglas. Isn't he a pretty candidate for the
votes of free laboring men?
A POPULAR CANDIDATE. —In 1843 Mr.
Herschel V. Jobnsou, the Douglas intervention
Slave Code candidate for Vice President, was
a candidate for Congress in one of the districts
of Georgia, against A. 11. Stevens and was
badly beaten by him. In 1853 be was the Dem
ocratic candidate lor Governor in the same State
and was elected by only 510 msjority, though
the Democrats had over 18,000 majority the
year before!
VOL. 33, NO. 81.
I DON'T KNOW WHO TO "HOLLER FOR."—
The Wilmington WatchmaD, the Democratic
orgao of Clio ton. county, publishes all the Pres
idential tickets and don't know which to 'holler*
for. Its quandary is funny, but not aingnlar,
in the double condition of the Democracy. The
editor says :
"We are decidedly at a loss to know what
will be the result of all this "mix" and wa are
in a greater loss as to how to holier; we are
anxious to holler for somebody, but arc afraid
to, for you know we might wake up the wrong
passenger —that is, we might get on the wrong
side— and then we would be in a circumstance."
HEBRY D. FOSTER.
The democratic candidate for Governor is a
: prince among political trimmers. It must have
j been wbile laboring under a prescient forebod-
I ing of the forthcoming split at Baltimore that
! the Reading Convention fell upon him as their
candidate for Governor at this particular crisis
!in the affairs of the party. If the leaders of
i the two factions wanted a man who hadn't the
: soul to say he belonged to either, so that both
, might claim him, with the tacit understanding
between themselves that be was not to be com-
I pelled to show his hand, they showed (he skill
of truo genius in selecting Mr. Foster. He is
just the man to play off upon credulous faction
ista who are prepared, if not anxious, to be de
ooived.
If, however, the Convention thought they
were choosing a representative man—a man of
positive characteristics; if it was their intention
to make him take a decided stand; if it was
ihoir purpose to put him forward as the bold,
out-spokeb man, ready to advance promptly to
the front in the hour of doubt or danger, then
they wero utterly mistaken in their man. He
has not a single attribute that fits him for the
position ot a bold and resolute leader.
Cold, unimpassioned, selfish, irresolute and
weak—too cowardly to say yes and afraid to
say no, be is fitted only for that positioo as a
candidate which requires but one condition
that of keeping his mouth shut. His whole
politinal life has demonstrated his unfitness to
occupy the front rank at suoh a time as this.
He was never bold, manly or resolute in his
politics, but ever the shrinking, fearful, doubt
ing do-nothing. A mere negative man, all the
popularity be ever possessed was earned by tba
ability be has always shown in doing nothing
to give offeuce.
We are inclined to believe, however, that
the democratic leaders at Reading chose him
for his possession of these very characteristics.
They wanted a negative and not a positive man.
Foreseeing disaffeotiou, if not division, they
fixed on him because they thought or hoped
they could get through the campaign without
asking him to declare himself on the points of
difference between the two factions. They
know this was their only chance for success at
the October election; and they had sense enough
to see that if they failed in Ootober they could
not succeed in November.
They have reckoned, however, without their
tost. There is a determination in the demo
cratic ranks to know just where Mr. Foster
stands, aud which of the candidates for the
Presidency he intends to support. They know
he went to Baltimore a warui Douglas man,
but that was before the Convention split, and
when a probability existed that but one candi
date would be chosen. In that event he had
shrewdness enough to see that he had no chance
of election himself if Dpuglas were not select
ed, and hence be was for Douglas as the candi
date of the united Dcmooraoy ; but when the
split took placo, the whole aspeot of things
changed. It became necessary for him, then,
to coaotliate the Breckinridge man; and he ac
cordingly returned homo close-mouthed and
oracular.
All at once the Breckinridge men became
very earnest for his election. However the
party-might differ, they said, about the Presi
dency, they were united on the Governor ques
tion; and the utmost anxiety has been evinced
by them, ever since, to concentrate all the par
ty strength on Mr. Foster. The Compromise'
dodge, or union upon one electoral tioket, even,
was urged upon the ground that it would pro
mote Foster's success; and there was such a
mysterious connection between the two, that
Mr. H. D. Foster happened to be in Philadel
phia when the State Committee met, and was
understood, by those who were capable of un
derstanding him, as being in favcr of the cotn
j promise scheme.
AH this has naturally provoked the snspi
j cions ot the Douglas men; and we accordingly
! fiod the Philadelphia Press kindling a Gre to
! smoke him out. It says:
"A paiufal rumor in one of yesterday's (Sun
day) papers leads u to the impression that Gen.
hoster, the Democratic candidate for Governor,
counselled or approved the scheme of the office
holders aud their friends on the Democratic
State Central Committee to unite the Democrats
of Pennsylvania on the present electoral ticket,
composed of Douglas and Breckinridge men,
with the understanding that if these electors
could not elect either of these candidates, they
might vote for aDy other candidate for Presi
dent. We called upon Gen. Foster, some days
ago, to stale his position on this disputed and
delicate question, and up to this time no an
swer has been returned. Tho Sunday psper
alluded to declares that be favors it. Several
of the interior Administration papers make the
same declaration, and it is a signifioaot fact
that every party journal in theSta'a which re
fuse* to raise the name of the regular Demo
cratic candidate for President, Stephen A.
Douglas, dies the flag of Henry D. Foster.—
He must speak out in this erttis. Boiducss now
may be fortune hereafter* Defeat to-day, un
der the Douglas popular sovereignty 8g, would
be more profitable for Gen. Foster thn defeat