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MISIVLIM IDOZ
Wednesday, July 16, 1856
\
TOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES BTJCHANAN, of Pennsylvania
FOR - VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, of Icy
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia county
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery co
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
SENATORIAL,
Charles B. Dachalew,
DISTRICT
I—.:aGeo. W. Nebinger, 13—Abraham Edinger,
2—Pierce Butler, )4—Reuben Wilber,
3—Edward Wartman, 15—George A. Crawford,
4—Wni. H. Witte, 16—James Black,
s—John McNair, 17—H. J. Stable.
B—John N. Brinton, . 18—John D. Roddy,
7—David Laury, 19—Jacob Turney,
3—Charles Kessler, 20—J. A. J. Buchanan,
9—James Patterson, 21—Wm. Wilkins,
10—Isaac Sleeker, 22—James G. Campbell,
11—F. W. 'Hughes, 23—T. Cunningham,
12—Thomas Osterhout. 24—John Neatly,
25—Vincent Phelps.
Democratic State Convention.
The Hon. TIMOTHY Ives having withdrawn his name as
a candidate for Surveyor General, in a communication ad
dressed to the Democratic State Central Committee, at its
last meeting in Harrisburg, a resolution was adopted by
that Committee, calling upon the officers and delegates of
the last Democratic State Convention, to assemble
At CHAMBERSBURG, on Wednesday, the fith day of An
gust next
at ten o'clock, A. M., to nominate a candidate for Survey
or General, to fill the vacancy created by the declination
of Judge Ices. In pursuance of this action of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee, the officers and delegates
of the last Democratic State Convention, are respectfully
requested to meet at the time and place above mentioned,
for the purpose stated.
G. G. WEsrcorr,
IsstcG. j Secretaries.
JOHN W. FORNEY, Chairman
Democratic County Committ ee.
-Saml T. Brown, Chairman, Robert Massey, Darree,
A. J. Fee, Henderson twp. Geo. W. Patterson, Jackson :
WM. S. Lincoln, Walker, John Campbell, Brady,
Ludwig Hoover, Penn, Jacob 1L Miller, Union,
H. Zimmerman, Hopewell, Samuel.H. Bell, Shirley,
Peter Piper, Porter, Dr. T. G. Lightner, Shirlig,
Dr. 3. M. Geminill. Alex'ia, Samuel Bolinger, Cromwell,
Jas. B. Carothers, Morris, John Carl, Sr., Dublin,
Wm. Riley, Franklin., William 0. Harper, Tell,
Wm. Copely, Birmingham. Jacob Covert, Springfield,
Jas. Chamberlain. Wars'mk, Jacob Smyers, Clay,
John It. Hunter, Petersburg, David Hamilton, Tod,
Henry Roberts, West, James Henderson : Cassville,
Democratic Delegate Elections.
The Democrats of Huntingdon county, are requested to
meet at the usual places of holding elections, in their re
spective districts, (except Murray's Run district, which
will meet at Donation School House,) on Saturday the 9th
day of August next, for the purpose of electing delegates
to a Democratic County Convention to be held at Hunting
don on Wednesday the 13th day of August, at 2!,1 ? . ', o'clock,
P. M., for the purpose of nominating a Democratic Ticket
to be supported at the ensuing fall elections, and such
other business as may be necessary.
SAMUEL T. BROWN, Chairman
of Democratic °mat! Cu al ntittee.
July 15, 1556
"If any man is worthy of the support of
the Americans (Know-Nothings) on account
of hostility to political Popery and Jesuitism,
it is Fremont. —Journal.
. Can the Journal rally to the support of the
above assertion the least shadow of evidence?
The„Journal should not deal in mere asser
tions all the time in regard to all questions
that arise in the political world. It will not
do—the people expect something more tangi
ble than mere assertion in the face of undis
puted facts. This question of " what church
do you belongto ?" is one which has,long since
been raised by the Journal and kindred prints
in regard to candidates for office. They have
agitated the question until it has become
threadbare and disgusting; but we think that
if it has ever been a damnable political sin
fora democrat to be a member of the ancient
church, it is doubly so for Mr. Fremont to be
one and at the same time profess the traitor
ous principles of Black Republicanisn ; and
that it is now our time to " agitate."
For the present, will any sane man believe
that "a descendant of one of the llugunots"
—we quote from the Journal—" a son of one
of those Protestants who emigrated to South
Carolina to escape the terrible persecutions of
the Pope," (as the Journal says Fremont's
father did)—will any sane man believe that
such an one, inheriting the prejudices of his
father, and • espousing the cause of "Ameri
canism," would "throw conscience to the
devil" and apply to the " Scarlet Lady" for
the Sacrament of Matrimony ? Or would he
ask a young Protestant lady to forego her
privilege of choosing the clergyman of her
church to perform the marriage rites ? Fre
mont a Hugunot! Fremont hostile to Catho
lics ! after being raised and educated by their
Charity ! The idea is simply ridiculous !
Were the Journal a consistent sheet, we
might repeat the question, " How can it sup
port Fremont ?" but it is not, and would just
as leave vote for a " Jesuit" for President of
the United States by way of exercising its
charity, or replenishing its purse, as to mis
represent and abuse the Catholics for the sake
of notoriety! Its principles are—anything,
everything, nothing.
ONLY TWO VOTES WANTED.—Can they be
had? It is universally conceded by intelli
gent persons, that Mr. Buchanan is sure of
every Southern Electoral vote. It is ad
mitted that he will carry Pennsylvania, but
then he will want two votes more to be
elected. Can they he bad? What say you,
Democrats of the Empire State? What re
ply shall we hear from the Granite Hills of
our own New Hampshire? What says the
Star in the East—the Pine Free State?—
What answer shall. we hear from Connecti
cut and Rhode Island? What response will
New Jersey make to the modest request of
two Electoral a votes? What has Michigan
to say, and Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa
and Indiana? Two votes only needed to se
cure the election of a Democratic President
—can they, be had?
,INTERESTING READING MATTER ON EV
ERY PACE OF THIS PAPER.
'f ' ".
Wilson ll'Candless
Carrying the War into Africa
The public have not failed to observe, as
the Rickmond Enquirer pointedly remarks,
the remarkable candor with which the Dem
ocratic press is conducting this canvass.—
Every accusation against our candidate, how
ever frivolous or absurd, has been met in ti
direct and manly way. Every issue of prin
ciple and every measure of policy, no matter
how obsolete or unworthy of discussion, have
been accepted and argued in the fairest and
most straightforward spirit. Indeed, Demo
cratic papers have exhibited so much pa
tience arid candor in refuting the ridiculous
as well as the serious charges against our
candidate and party, as to expose themselves
to reproach for want of enterprise and ener
gy to conduct an offensive war upon the ene
my. It is due to the Democratic press to say
that it did not blindly adopt this policy. We
saw the enemy's object. We understood his
tactics. Exposed himself to blows on every
side, and utterly incapable of sustaining
any vigorous attack, he thought to save him
self by putting the Democracy upon the de
fensive. It was a stale expedient, and will
prove as barren of result as it is poor in con
ception. If we regarded only the exigencies
of the canvass, we • might have suffered the
enemy to expend his strength in impotent as
saults upon our candidate, while we boldly
pushed the - War into Africa. The field is in
viting. If we had no resources of our own,
the enemy's country would supply subsist
ence for more than .a summer's campaign.
But we are not only eager for success on the
day of election. We have some concern for
the integrity of our cause and the character
of our candidates; and we choose first of all
to vindicate them from silly censure and
calumnious accusation. It is due to the De
mocracy- that every attack - upon their prin
ciples should be repelled. It is due to Mr.
Buchanan that every false imputation on his
political and personal honor should be ex
posed to public reprobation. This clone, we
may then precipitate ourselves upon the
shivering ranks of the adversary. Between
this and the 4th of November, every Demo
crat may freely indulge his passion for sport,
in the chase of Fillmore's flying columns.
The public will not only observe the style
in which this canvass is conducted by the
Democratic press, but will also be struck
with the signal success of all its efforts.
Not an issue has been raised against the
Democratic party, which has not been turned
to its advantage. Not an accusation has
been brought against the Democratic candi
date of which he has nor been promptly and
triumphantly acquitted. having thus re
pulsed the feeble and aimless assaults of the
enemy, we shall abandon the system of de
fence, and carry the war into Africa with
the utmost energy. Ddenda cat Carlhaya is
the cry of the Democracy.
ME BROAD TOP REGION.—The editor of
the Lewistown. Gazette says he paid a second
visit to Broad Top last week, and found a
manifest improvement in the coal business,
orders being now held for about 30,000 tons.
In a few days the railroad will be finished to
Hopewell, the branch up Six Mile run is
ready fof letting, and the Shoup's run branch
rapidly extending to Broad Top City, so that
in a short time the coal region will be pen
etrated by three railroads, affording a wide
E.cope fur that business and employment for
thousands of persons. The passenger travel
will also receive alarge accession from visitors
to the springs, who will find this the shortest
and easiest route, and a considerable extent of
country that now seeks the main avenues of
travel by way of Hollidaysburg, &c. The
conductor on the trains is MONTGOMERY MOR.-
RrsoN, formerly of thiS place, a post for which
he is peculiarily fitted, and the engineer,
PETER KOSLEA, decidedly the most careful
one we have ever seen control an engine.
The company has also placed a new car,
elegantly furnished, on the road, so that
passengers have every assurance of traveling
with safety and comfort.
PROPHECY OF CLAY
Both Clay and Calhoun foresaw the lament
able conclusion which parties in this country
have now reached, and predicted disunion as
the inevitable result of such a state of affairs.
Mr. Clay, in• his speech in the Senate Feb
ruary 7, 1839, thus daguerreotyped the very
aspect of affairs in. the year 1856:
"Sir," said Mr. Clay, "I am not in the habit
of speaking lightly of the possibility of dis
solving this happy Union. The Senate know
that 1 have deprecated allusions, on ordinary
occasions, to that direful event. The country
will testify that, if there be anything in the
history of my public career worthy of re
collection, it is the truth and sincerity of my
ardent devotion to its lasting preservation.
But we should be false in our allegiance to' it,
if we did nol, discriminate between the
imaginary and real dangers by white it may
be assailed. Abolitionism should no longer
be regarded as an imaginary danger. The
abolitionists, let me suppose, succeed in their
present aim of uniting the inhabitants of the
free States as one man against the inhab
itants of the slave States. Union on our side
will beget union on the other, and this process
of reciprocal consolidation will be attended
with all the violent prejudice, . embittered
passions, and implacable animosities which
ever degraded or deformed human nature.
* * One section will stand in menacing
and .hostile array against the other. The
collision of opinion will be quickly followed
by the clash of arms. I will not attempt to
describe scenes which now happily lie con
cealed from our view. Abolitionists them
selves would shrink back in dismay and hor
ror at contemplation of desolated fields, con
&grated cities, murdered inhabitants, and
the overthrow of the fairest fabric of human
gov.orinent that ever rose to animate the hopes
of civilized man."
[KID I) $ t.l fI) A üa r x~4 rn :i:o#1
EDITOR OF THE GLOI3E :—ln my last I prom
ised to give you a letter on Springfield, Clay,
and Cass townships. I intend yet to do so,
but there are circumstances connected with
them; worthy of particular notice, and - there
are certain localities that I intend to revisit,
and I shall therefore omit them for another
week.
Hopewell and Tod will form the subject of
this letter.
By leaving Stonerstown and taking down
the Raystown Branch we enter Hopewell
township within two or three miles ; and from
this point towards Entrekin's mill the crooked
road and still more crooked river passes
through deep mountain gorges interspersed
with occasional tracts of farm land, which is
tolerably productive. The grain at this time
looks well, and the harvest men are busy in
the field. Around Entrekin's mill the coun
try opens again, and a reasonable farming
district stretches to the eastward and down
the stream. I went through the mill, exam
ined the machinery, and the different speci
mens of grain in it. Both are very credita
ble. About a mile from this, among the hills,
Mr. Entre - kin has a beautiful and. romantic
residence. Here, too, I had the: good fortune
to meet the very accommodating Henry Zim
merman, Esq. On learning:my business the
Squire offered to pioneer me over the country,
which was gladly accepted. With 'our horses
and (imitation) Turkish saddles, like Knight
and Squire, we started for the everlasting
hills of Tod. In a gap of Terrace mountain,
we cross the township line, and find a district
of country around Paradise Furnace where
the farming interests are somewhat neglected.
The soil is not first rate. Old fields show
where the plough and scythe have operated
in days gone by. Other farms and fields
show where an effort has been made to resus
citate, and with success. From appearance
you would suppose that there was very little
limestone in this region. It is said that there
is a calcareous formation that burns and an
swers iltrm purposes. Two miles . from this
place—around Newburg and above it, the
soil and farming interests are better. The
grain looks well, and the fruits which are
common this season are abundant. Eastward
and towards Cass stretches a farming district,
which is the best portion of the township. I
viewed this region with peculiar interest, for
its geological formation—its timber growth
and its vegetable productions remind me of
my native hills in New York. The symmet
rical white pine, the beach, the sweet elder
and other botanical specimens distinguish it
from other parts around. The lands of David
Aurandt, Jonathan Evans, - Isaac Taylor and
others of their thrifty neighbors are well cul
tivated. This district has the credit of produ
cing the cleanest fields of timothy that have
come under my observation. It is proper to
mention the hospitality of the citizens, for
though a stranger, everywhere we met "a
Highland welcome."
Other parts of Tod are now celebrated for
their mineral wealth, and arc so well known
as to need no remarks from me.
Very Truly Yours, INDIANA.
EDITOR OF TIIE GLOBE have thought
proper to make Porter and Morris townships
the subject of another letter.
From Petersburg to Alexandria we have a
daily coach and mail. Along this road the
grain fields are waving with an abundant
harvest. Far to the right over an undulated
or hilly surface, and to the left as far as the
river, the continuous fields of grain denote a
wealthy agricultural district. You will not
observe many dwellings along -this road, but
you will see two new barns that rival those
of Lancaster. -
The pleasant village of Alexandria plods on
as usual in quietude and prosperity. I en
tered it at eve as the bell of the new Presby
terian church called the people, together and
I went with them. This with other fine
churches of the place, denote the religious
inclination, and intelligence of the people.—
In school matters they are as in everything
else—you know how that is, and I need not
tell you.
Prom this place to Water Street nothing of
material interest presented itself. Porter
township with its limestone is superior in ag
ricultural wealth to any of those that I have
previously mentioned.
Water Street ! Thou art forsaken by the
stage and the packet, yet thou art beautiful
in thy solitude.
Morris is one of the finest portions of our
county. A good limestone soil, with but lit
tle waste land gives them a uniform degree
of prosperity. In this district the school di
rectors are taking the right position,—the po
sition that will place their schools at the head
of the class in our county. Their position
will be noticed in a letter particularly on that
subject. The village of Spruce Creek de
serves a particular notice on account of the
healthy situation, business, and other attrac
tions. The celebrated Keystone Hotel is now
attracting visitors from the East and the West;
and in neatness, order, and regularity it can
not be beat between Harrisburg and Pitts
burg. The lovers of pleasure, and business
men who need recreation, will find the object
of pursuit there ; and Col. R. F. HASLETT,
will furnish them with horses and fine car
riages to visit the Arch Spring, the Cave and
other natural curiosities. If they wish to
realize the ancient fable of Pluto, or of Hades,
let them ascend the hill after night and wit
ness the fast train passing through the tun
nel.
Mr. CANNON of this place has a telescope of
his own construction, with different eye-pieces,
suited to terrestial and celestial objects. He
also has microscopes with highly magnifying
powers, constructed by himself. lam under
compliments for his company to the top of
Tussey mountain, where with his glass we
could survey the valleys of the surrounding
country—look into the village of Petersburg
and the narows below Huntingdon.
Very Truly Yours, INDIANA.
OLD PARTY LINE'S OBSOLETE.—The old
political issues upon which Whigs and Dem
ocrats divided, are buried among the things
of the past. Upon the great, the all-absorb
ing question now presented to the , people,
both Whigs and Democrats have ever occu
pied. one common ground.. 136th parties
have been devoted friends to the Constitution
and the Union. When this sacred platform
is assailed by the common enemy of both,
they cannot do otherwise than unite as one
man. There is no going over, on the, part of
the Constitutional Whigs, in supporting Mr.
BUCHANAN. They are supporting the great
principle ever held most sacred by Mr. CLAY.
What matters it who is the standard-bearer
to marshal the hosts for Union and Victory,
who may be the exponents of the great doc
trines for which Union Whigs have always
so earnestly contended? Were Mr. CLAY
now living, he would support,the Cincinnati
nominees, as will every true friend of the
Union of these States.
REVIVTNG TUE OLD SLANDER.—The know
nothing and black republican presses are
shameless enough (says the Philadelphia Ar
gus) .to revive an old, exploded, miserable
slander against James Buchanan. We al
lude to the "drop of blood" falsehood. It is
a falsehood made out of the whole cloth.
Mr. Buchanan never said what is attributed
to him, at any time, in any place, or in any
way or sense. The assertion is that he
made the declaration in a speech many years
ago. The falsehood was coined and started
about twenty years ago. Mr. Buchanan
publicly denied it then, as he does yet. The
first men in Lancaster, who heard gee speech
referred to, united in a card denying over
their own signatures that Mr. Buchanan had
used the expression imputed. Bat it is need
less to waste time in farther refutation of
the petty slander. No man will write it or
speak it who has any respect for himself or
desires the respect of decent people.
Republicans and their Adjuncts.
To show the dangerous tendency of fana
ticism, its utter disregard for everything re
ligious, legal, or necessary for the wise gov
ernment of societies or nations, and its de
termination to annihilate everything which
does not accord with its own notions, it is on
ly necessary to publish the two following ex
tracts :
"I do not belive iu the miraculous origin
of the Hebrew Church, or the Buddhist
Church, or of the Christian Church, nor of
the miraculous character of Jesus. I take
not the Bible for my master, nor yet the
Church, nor even Jesus of Nazareth, for my
master. He is my best historic dial of hu
man greatness, not without the stain of
his times, and, I presume of course, not with
out sin, for men without sin, exist only in the
dreams of girls."
This extract is from a discourse delivered
by Rev. THEODORE PARKER, one of the lea
ding spirits of New England, and a man
much regarded by the Republican and Abo
lition parties.
"Here is another extract, less oansive to
religion, but imbued with the same spirit and
tending to the same end, the disruption of
all our cherished ideas of patriotism, morali
ty and love of country. The individual who
spoke of GEORGE * WASHINGTON, In •public
meeting in Boston, as "a scoundrel," was a
negro and the individual 'who rebuked him
so mildly with a censure of DANIEL. WEB
sTEn quite as revolting, was a white man who
on many occasions has advocated a dissolu
tion of the Union. These individuals are
Republicans,. or, what is about the same
thing, Abolitionists, and would prefer FRE
MONT to BUCHANAN. Let sensible men read
and reflect on the sentiments of the infidels
and fanatics, and turn to the Democratic par
ty as the only ark of safety in these troub
ions times.
Listen to Mr. REMOND and Mr. PHILIPS ;
"Mr. Charles L. Remond assured the meet
ing that 'he could spit upon Washington ;'
and flew into a rage at the thought that peo
ple might not like his saying that 'that scoun
drel, Gorge Washington, had enslaved his
fellow men.' Mr. Wendell Philips was not
so sure about that.. 'He knew his (Washing
ton's) defects, the evil of his example ; but
let him remember his times, his education ;
he was a sinner. But if he called Washing
ton a scoundrel, what would he call Pierce ?'
In brief, he 'objected to the term scoundrel,
as applied to Washington, because it was not
sufficiently graphic. Let an American say
scoundrel, and the ear ached for Webster."
lIE C.A.N'T GO IT !—The Ohio Statesman
states that Duke Ward, Esq., an old-Line
Whig, and formerly a member of the Legis
tature, is out for Buchanan. Mr. Ward, in
a letter, says—
"l have been a Whig, as you know ; but I
cannot go off after Niggerism or Know-Noth
ingism, which have succeeded the dissolution
of that gallant old party. It seems to me
that now, no friend of the Constitution and
the Union can find a place where he will be
at home, except in-the Democratic party. I
shall give myself up to the campaign with
ardor and with vigor."
The National Democratic party, which goes
for equal rights for all, is the only party now
fit for Constitutional men to act with. The
flower of the Whig party are letting the
world know this.
From the Philadelphia Democrat, (German paper
Leaning on a Broken Staff.
Many of the Black Bepublican journals of
the country are giving currency to a report,
that a large majority of our German popula
tion are Abolitionists. A greater libel was
never published. The German mind is too
practical not to see, that the sudden aboli
tion of Slavery. in the South, would bring
about the very condition of things which it
most fears, namely, the competition between
negro and white labor. Who does not
know, that were such an event as abolition
suddenly to take place, the North would be
flooded with negroes, seeking employment
in all the branches of business, or banding
together to depredate upon society? Such
would be the necessary consequence of free
ing the slaves, because they could not re
main in the South, in their present numbers,
with safety to the white population. Many
years of tuition would be required to qualify
them for freedom, and the danger always is,
that they will become either pests or a bur
den to the community.
If the opposition press draw consolation
from the foolish' supposition that the Ger
mans are Abolitionists, their feelings will be
more painful as they become convinced, of
their error. Freedom is natural to the Ger
man mind—for it was brought with them
from their Northern 'homes, when they first
overran Europe,—and still lives in their
recollection in all its freshness. With them,
liberty may have something of the imagina
tion about it; but they niche a wise discrim
ination between restricting negro slavery to
the soil and. climate adapted to its profitable
use, and its total extinction in one shape,
only to, become an acknowledged curse in
another, by deluging the North with the
idle and vicious black, who is as yet unfitted
for freedom.
To save the Black Republican journals fu
ture mortifications, we would advise them to
abandon their deceptive notions in reference
to the Germans. Such statements as were
recently published by the Cincinnati Gazelle,
and reiterated by the drew York Evening
Post, to the effect, that ten leading German
papers in the West, were in favor of Fill
more, carry upon their face an absurdity, to
those who know the true characteristics of
our German population. The ten Western
journals spoken of, as haying seventy thous
and subscribers, which are claimed, for Fre-
MOO, are weekly publications, and their
whole aggregate circulation does not equal
one w( ek's edition of the daily German Dem
crot, without taking into consideration its
weekly issue of many thousands. There are
, :,ther stanch German Democratic papers,
both East and West, which flr outnumber
the boasted seventy thousand subscribers
cited by the Cincinnaii G Q 2ene, and among
them is the T 7- (dlcsli.eund, of its own City, the
Banner vnd Frolksfrea nil, at Milli-ankle. and
the Stoats-Zeitimg, of New York. But to
show the falsity of the Gazelle's assertion, it
is only necessary to mention, that many of
the journals claimed by it, have invariably
opposed the Democratic party, and therefore
are no accession to the opposition ranks. We
do not know of one in its list, that has been
consistently Democratic. Besides, the editor
of the Pittsbnrg Courier, who is said by the
Gazette to have been one among the ten edi
tors that met at Cincinnati, denies the state
ment altogether.
The fruitless attempt of the opposition to
manufacture public opinion, is reacting up
on themselves, as the frauds become one by
one exposed. The Germans a: e Democrtb,
both in education and habits, and will never
leave their party to follow some sentimental
absurdity, which cannot stand the test of
reason. They know that the Southern ne
gro slaves are unfitted for freedom such as
the white man here enjoys, and that aboli
tionism would bring upon both races the
most terrible results. When the social con
dition of the negro is altered, Africa is his
proper home. We cannot permit his labor
to conic into competition with the white
man's.
Trial of Brooks for the Assault on Mr
Sumner.
WAsuiNuTos, July 8.---The case of Pres
ton S. Brooks, for the assault on Senator Sum
ner, was called up . this morning,
before the
Judge of the Criminal Court. .Al large num
ber of spectators were present including Sen
ator Butler and other members of Congress.
The District Attorney read a correspon
dence between himself and Mr. Sumner, to
show that he had used due diligence, though
unsuccessfully, to obtain the presence of Mr.
Sumner, who had expressed himself to have
no desire to take part in the proceedings and
had left the city.
The testimony of ltim. Y. Leader, who
caused the arrest of Mr. Brooks after the as
sault, J. W. Simonton, Mr. Keitt, Senators
Foster, Pearce and Toombs were all submit
ted.
At the instance of 111 r. Linton, counsel for
the accused, extracts were: read from Mr.
Sumner's speech, reflecting upon South Car
olina and Mr. Butler, in mitigation of the
offence.
Doctors Boyle and Liucislay, and Senator
Benjamin were examined, the last expres
sing his opinion, from what he saw of Mr.
Sumner's notes, that the speech had been
printed before delivery.
Mr. Brooks made a short speech regretting
Mr. Sumner's absence. He had hoped to
have the benefit of interrogating him con
cerning his testimony before the House Com
mittee. He took the ground that there are
some offences for which the law affords no
adequate remedy, and said that while he had
a heart to feel and a hand to strike, he would
redress the wrongs of his political mother
from the effort to cover her with obloquy and
dishonor. His property might be squander
ed, his life endangered, but he would be true
to her who bore him. lie bowed to the ma
jesty of the law, and would so receive his
sentence.
Judge Crawford said that as the matter
might, perhaps at that moment, be the sub
ject of investigation at another place, (mean
ing the House of Representatives,) he would
forbear comment on the testimony, and pro
nounce the judgment of the Court, which
was that Mr. Brooks pay a fine of $300.
The fine being paid, Mr. Brooks retired with
his friends.
It is said that during the first few days
of June the inhabitants of Vienna were al
most broiled alive. The thermometer was
104 degrees in the shade.
xpie-It seems that the municipal arrange
ments around the north pole are - very strict.
Dr. Kane says he was prevented from going
any further by the north pole-ice.
,Virtue, like flowers, often blooms most
beautiful in the shade.
Fremont's Claims.
The opposition papers have already begun
to be very noisy upon the subject of FRE
MOMT'S military services. His adventures
among the passes of the west are confidently
offered as a set-off to the long line of eminent
public actions which have made Mr. Bu-
CHANAN what he is. Let nobody imagine for
a moment we intend to dispute FREMONT'S
claims to greatness. 'We admit them cheer
fully. We do not hesitate to assert that we
believe that ho slept in the open air more
nights, perhaps, than any other man, KIT
CARSON excepted, of whom the public has yet
heard. His achievements in the matter of
eating mule's meat and drinking - dirty water
are also quite astonishing. He_ has shot buf
falo—killed bears—talked Indian—and done
a variety of other things, for which nobody
gives him. greater credit than we do. We
have always felt pleased to think that he has
been so well rewarded for. every thing he did.
His success in securinc , the handsomest es
tate in California, instead of exciting any
envy in our bosom, only seemed to us a just
reward for his early , services . there. When
he was sent to the Senate we didn't even la
ment that, although we disliked the system
of rewarding soldiers with civic office. We
only waited to see what he would do. What
he did, we won't tell ; it would seem a little
shabby, perhaps to state that he did nothing
at al!, but prudently kept quiet. That un
blushing sheet, the *Congressional Globe, has,
however, already fully laid bare the barren
ness of his official life.
knd now we are asked to make him Presi
dent. Here our gratitude stops. Reason
steps in and asks—"what claim has this man
to this great office ?" What is there in the
nature of his mind, in the tenor of his life,
in his studies, in his actions, to fit him for a
place wherein, above all other places, a large
statesmanship is called for by the country,
and must be had, if the country is to be se
cure? The Fremont organs kindly answer
these little questions for us :—Their champi
on, they tell us has gone for days without
victuals—he has lived on the flesh of the
mules—he has washed this diet clown with
'ditch water ! And so, they tell us, he is the
man for the times. With all admiration for
these achievements of the Colonel, they
strike us as indicating rather, fine teeth and
a good digestion, than any very enlarged
scope of intellect. Gentlemen can be picked
up all over the country—we know of several ,
ourselves, obliging fellows, who, for some tri
fiiw, compensation, such as an estate in Cal
iThrnia, or the Presidency, or any thing of
that sort, will eat mule flesh for any given
period which the Republican doctors may
prescribe. Not that we mean to insinuate
that these gentlemen are to do anything else
iii consideration of the reward. It would be
altogether unreasonable to expect any excess
ive development of brain from persons
whose teeth and digestive organs work so
handsomely! Pew men are great in all things.
Each luminary has its sphere, and only shines
tidy therein. And, although our gratitude
to Colonel F. is certainly very large, we do
not w:sh to see a great nation make itself
little, that it may make a little man great.—
But not great—we will not say that. We
would not merely become ludicrously absurd
ourselves, but FREMONT himself would be in
tolerably miserable were we to crown him
with the office. He would feel, from the
hour that he entered the White House, the
unfitness of the wreath for his brow. Should
ally great emergency occur, threatening the
public sefety, as the aspect of the political
heavens just now seems to indicate that there
will, a miserable weakness would possess
him the want of capacity, the want of ex
perience, the want of any thin°. : , like a states
man's head or a statesman's life, would
make his impotence too apparent to be hid.
He would then feel, perhaps—the nation at
any rate would feel—how little there is in
the genius which fits a man to guide bands
of trappers through western passes, to fit him
for the vast duty of leading a great nation
through the straits of a great crisis.—Patri
ot and Union.
Democracy at a High Premium.
The New York Trihtine dwells with empha
sis on the fact that Col. Fremont has never
been anything but a democrat, and thinks
this circumstance gives him stronger claims
on the country than than Mr. Buchanan, in
asmuch as he was for a time a federalist.—
We are gratified to see even the Tribune pay
ing so high a compliment to democracy. It
was only a few years ago that the Tribune
considered it an unpardonable political sin to
be a democrat ; now, however, democracy is
so good that Mr. Greeley looks for all the
high officers of the government among those
who can claim the honor of having been dem
ocrats. The difference between Mr. Buchan
an and Col. Fremont on this point is not more
striking than the contrast between their respec
tive qualifications on the score of ability, ex
perience, wisdom, public service, and states
manship. Mr. Buchanan was a democrat
when Col. Fremont had just escaped from
his swaddling clothes, and, what deserves to
be specially noted, is that he is a democrat
yet. Col. Fremont started out a democrat ;
but, as good a thing as democracy is he aban
doned it and became a black republican, at
the very time when the fidelity of all demo
crats was needed to preserve the integrity
of the constitution and the Union. Mr..
Buchanan started wrong, but more than
thirty years ago got right, and has remain
ed so ever since. Colonel Fremont started
right, hut backslid and got wrong, and is now
wrong. Mr. Buchanan quit federalism and
embraced democracy. Colonel Fremont quit
democracy and embraced federalism and
black republicanism combined. Yet the Tri
bune dwells on Col. Fremont's_ democracy as
his leading recommendation !
TILE ADVANTAGE OF TE3IFERANCE DRINK.--
A drowning boy was recently rescued in
Boston, Mass., by a Mr. Lemon, whereupon
a bystander remarked, that the little fellow
would have perished, had it not been for
Lenzon-aid. The fellow was promptly arres
ted.
ler The bodies of two men, were found
horribly mutilated, on the track of the Bal
timore Railroad, last week. Whether they
were murdered and placed there, or had laid
down on the track to sleep, had not been
ascertained.
What a suspicious monster the man
must have been who first invented a lock;
but what a trusting creature the woman who
first allowed a latch key!