THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
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Wednesday, October 1, 1856.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHANAN, of Pennsylvania
- "FOR VICE PRESIDENT, -
JOHN C. BRECKINRLDGE, of Ky
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia county
FOR, AUDITOR GENERAL,
JACOB 111:1 7- , Jr., of Montgomery co
FOR SURVEYOR GENER.LL,
JOHN ROWE, of Franklin county
DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT TICKET.
CONGRESS,
CYRUS L. PERSHING, of Cambria county
JOHN CRESSAVELL, of Blair county.
ASSEMBLY,
JOHN - 11. LIG-FITNER, of Shirley stair
Dr. R. W. CHRISTY, of Blair county.
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
SHERIFF,
GRAFFUS MILLER, of Huntingdon
ASSOCIATE•' JUDGES,
JOHN LONG, of Shirleysburg.
JOHN CRESWELL, of West.
COMMISSION) R,
HENRY ZIMMERMAN, of Hopewell
DIRECTOR OF TD:E POOR,
DAVID BARRICK, of Barree.
AUDITOR,
AITGUSTINE L. GRIM, of Huntingdon.
PREkiDE:sTTIAL ELECTORS
ISEXATOILISM,
Charles B. Dachalew, Wilson 3VCandless
DISTRICT.
I—Gee. W. Nebinger, 13—Abraham Edinger,
2—Pierce Butler, 14—Reuben Wilber,
3—Edward Waltman, 15—George A. Crawford,
4—Wm. H. Witte, 19—James Black,
s—John McNair, . 17—H. J. Stable,
6—John N. Minton, 13—John D. Roddy,
7—David Barmy, 19—Jacob Turney,
/3—Charles Kessler, 20—. T. A. J. Buchanan,
3—James Patterson, 21—Wm. Wilkins,
10—Isaac Slenker, 22—James G. Campbell,
11—P. W. Hughes, 23—T. Cunningham,
12—Thoma.1 Osterhout, 24—John Neatly,
23—Vincent Phelps.
THE BUCHANAN PLA.TFORH.
"The Federal niut‘t be preserved."—AYDßEw
JACKSON.
. .
Disunion i s a word which ought not to be breathed
amongst as, even in a whisper. The word ought to be consid
ered one of dreadful omen, and our children should be taught
that it is sacrilege to pronounce it."—JaxEs Bucrn&NtN.
Are you' Assessed ?
If not, attend to it immediately, and see that
the name of every voter who intends to vote
the Democratic ticket is upon the Assessor's
list. No one is entitled to vote who has not
been ASSESSED at least TEN DAYS before the
day of election—or who has not paid a State
or County Tax within two years previous to
the day of election. Every friend of the Con
stitution and the Union should give this mat
ter the attention its importance demands.
OUR TICKET'.
VOTERS LOOK AT IT:
For Canal Commissioner,
GEORGE SCOTT.
For Auditor General,
JACOB FRY, Jr.
For Surveyor General,
JOHN BOWE.
, For Congress,
Cit US L.. PERSHING.
Fox , Senate,
JOHN CRESS WELL, Tr.
For Assembly,
JOHN H. LIGHTNER,
ROBERT W. arnasTr:
For Sheriff;
GRAFFUS MILLER.-
For Associate Judges,
JOHN CRESSWELL, Sr.,
JOHN LONG.
For County Commissioner,
HE_NR ZLEVER3III.2I 7 .
For Director of the Poor,
DA VII) BARRICE:
For Auditor,
AUGUSTINE L. GRIM.
There never was a better ticket presented
to the -voters of Huntingdon county for their
niffragcs
County Surveyor.
J. SIMPSON AFRIcA. has announced himself
as an independent candidate for re-election.
He has filled the office during the past three
years to the entire satisfaction of all concern
ed, and we are sure that the voters cannot
"make a change for the better."
TETE FLTSION.—The late action of the Re
publican and American Committees, has
thrown the opposition into greater confusion
than those parties were before the Major, and
his "big brothers," succeeded in bringing
about that so-called "fusion !" If County
Committees can annul the action of County
Conventions, we can not see the necessity of
County Conventions at all. As the Tickets
now stand, the Democratic has been put in
nomination by the Representatives of the
party, while "the fusion" has been put in
nomination by persons who had no authority
to nominate, but who insolently and daring
ly took the power out of the: hands of their
parties. We are satisfied' if the - opposition
are !
Xba,,Gov, GEARY has arrived in Kansas
and has rid the country of the "Border Ruf.
flans" and Abolition assassins. All is quiet,
there now, and will remain so. But we
may expect to hear of another slaughter,
manufactured to order by the Abolition agents,
just a day or two previous to the election.
Look out for it.-
},"Henry Brewster, Esq., and John Mor
rison, of Shirley, Republicans, are indepen
dent candidates for the office of Associate
Judge.
SENATE;
The State Ticket
The State election, on the 14th inst. will be
one of the most important that has occurred
since the formation of the Federal Constitu
tion. Pennsylvania will be the battle ground,
on which is to be achieved a victory that will
preserve or sunder the Union. If Democracy
prevails the Constitution will be respected
and the Union saved—if it is discomfited,
both, in all probability will be subverted.
On the old Keystone State the eyes of every
patriot in the Union are, at this moment turn
ed. This great State, which has, heretofore,
almost always turned the scale in favor of
free principles, is looked upon now, by her
sister states as the field upon which Democ
racy is to Win or lose the great battle for lib
erty and Union. Shall we falter, fellow Dem
ocrats, at a moment like this, when every
thing depends on fidelity and energy ? Shall
we, who have fought so many hard fought
fields, now turn our backs on the enemies of
the Union, and suffer them to triumph over
us ? These are questions which every na
tional man, no matter what his party name
may be, should ponder well. So much de
pends upon the result of the State election
that we cannot forbear invoking the serious
attention of the people and the press to it.—
On the Democratic side we have three sound
national Democrats, honest and capable—
GEORGE SCOTT, for Canal Commissioner, JACOB
FRY, Jr., for Auditor General, and. JOHN
ROWE for Surveyor General. These gentle
men are worthy of the confidence of their
fellow-citizens—they are all men of experi
ence and ability—and they 'Mat be elected.—
Opposed to them arc TrromAs E. COCHRAN, for
Canal Commissioner, DARWIN PHELPS, for
Auditor General, and BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE
for Surveyor General—all of them inexperi
enced in public affairs, and all Black Repub
licans, friends of JOHN C. FREMONT, and
working for a dissolution of the Union. Na
tional men of Pennsylvania look, in time, to
the true interests of your State, to the safety
of the Constitution and the integrity of the
Union. " Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!"
The Fusion State Ticket.
Let it be remembered that the nominees upon
the ticket running against the nominees of
the Democratic party—Coon.RAN, Pur.Lrs and
LAPORTE are all Black Republicans, and are
planning for the election of John C. Fremont.
Their election would be heralded as a Black
Republican victory, as an omen of the strength
of the nigger-worshipping, disunion party in
Pennsylvania. low can the "Americans"
who anathematize and condemn Black Re
publicanism vote for that ticket?
SOUND THE TRUMPET I—The forces of the
Democracy are marshalling all over the coun
try, and preparing for the great battle of the
people of the Union and Constitution against
the traitors, disunionists, and disorganizers
who seek to destroy the best and fairest gov
ernment that the world has ever seen. The
New York Xeics truly says that the old Jack
son spirit is abroad ; the fire that a quarter of
a century burned in the bosom of Democrats
is awakened; new issues, new foes and new
tactics' have been found, but the old Demo
cratic party has not yielded a jot of its old
landmarks, has not retreated a foot, and has
only deduced from its principles new applica
tions to meet the heresies of the Nativist, the
bigot and the sectionalist.
MASS MEETING AT HOLLIDAYSEURG.—Sat
urday the 11th inst. is the day appointed for
the holding of the mass meeting at Hollidays
burg. Let the friends of James Buchanan,
of the Constitution and the Union, of Civil
and Religious Liberty, turn out in their might
and majesty, and sacrifice one day upon the
altar of their country. It is expected that
this meeting will be the largest that has ever
been held in this region of Pennsylvania.—
Let Huntingdon county be well represented!
Virlast year the Fusion State Ticket was
defeated by some - thirty thousand. This year
the majority against it will be overwhelm
ingly large? The 'Americana' are denoun
cing it in all directions
True arid False Patriotism
The following., extract from the great speech
of an Old Line Whig, the lion. GEORGE EVANS,
Ex-United States senator from Maine, ex
presses volumes in few words :
"If we have no flag of our own flying; if
we have no trumpet to call us as Whigs ; if
amid the smoke and dust of the strife and con
flict of other parties, I can see the flag of the
Union flying anywhere ; if, amid the noise
and din of arms, I can hear the trumpet of
the Union sounding the rally, I shall not stop
to inquire who leads the forces to protect it."
We commend this patriotic determination
to those Old Line Whigs who prefer Mr. Bu-
CTEANAN'S election to that of Col. FREMONT,
and yet have it in contemplation to vote the
FREMONT fusion State' icket in October, there
by aiding a candidate whom they profess to
hold in utter detestation and abhorrence.
Ma o :. The charges made in the Journal of
last week, that Mr: Boon, Superintendent of
the Huntingdon & Broad Top Road, discharg
ed old Mr. Bowser, at Fisher's Station, be
cause he= was a Fremonter, and put in his
place an Irish- Roman Catholic s is a ridicu
lous falsehood. The man appointed in Bow
ser's place, is old' Henry Fisher, an honest
and industrious old gentleman, and about as
far from being a Catholic• as Billy Brewster
is. The reasons why B r owser was discharg
ed, is well known in the neighborhood of that
station. Mr. Boon does not trouble himself
about the politics of any man on the road.
Increasing—Buchanan enthusiasm
Sohn Cressvrell,
The Ebensburg Democrat d Sentinel says:
A rigorous effort will, be made( by the Black
RePublicans to defeat this gentleman's re
election to the State Senate. _Although Cam
bria claimed the office, yet when•the popular
will was carried out, in the selection of one
of her citizens as the democratic candidate
for Congress, it was perhaps asking too much
to insist that the Senatorial candidate should
also be conceded to her. Mr. Cressvvell is a
gentleman of talent and great respectability
of character, and during his three years ser
vice in the Senate occupied a comnan-nding
position in that body. lie is deservedly pop
ular at home and will be warmly sustained.
In a crisis like the present, there is but one
duty for every democrat to perform, and that
is to lay aside all political grief and vote the
whole ticket. It is no time to enquire why
this man or that man was not nominated,
and assume a position of armed neutrality.
So fatal a catastrophe as the election of a
Black Republican legislature this fall must
he prevented, and the only certain and effec
tual way to do it is for every friend of Bu
chanan and the State ticket to do his whole
duty at the October election.
Candidate for Congress
The Tyrone Democrat says: CYRUS L. PER
SHING may be deservedly styled a "represen
tative man"—possessed of wide and varied
information, energetic and talented. Though
young in years, he is a stout soldier in the
Democratic ranks, where he has ever been
found, true to his trust, distinguished for un-
Wavering fidelity.
From Cambria and Somerset there tome
cheering assurances that Mr. Pershing will
run far ahead of the regular party votc..—
And throughout the whole district, there are
indications that place beyond doubt the pros
pect of his triumphant election.
ne=ROBERT L. JOHNSTON, Esq., of Cambria
county, an old-line Whig, has declared him
self for Buchanan and Breckinridge, and the
whole Democratic ticket, and is srumping his
county, making sad havoc among the ranks
of the opposition. Mr. Johnston has been
long known and respected throughout the
State, as a lawyer, and politician of the old
Whig party, and wherever known, the meed
of praise has been awarded to his polished
bearing as a gentleman, to his varied accom
plishments, his brilliant wit, and his unques
tioned literary ability. When such men en
rol themselves under our banner who shall
dare despair of the Republic ?
What did you say ?
At a meeting of both the Democratic and
Republican parties at Tunkannock in Brad
ford county, a few days since, after the dis
cussion had closed on both sides, a delega
tion of over one hundred ?ThemfrOL site itiCpllo
- ranks asked to be received on the _Demo
cratic side, and went over and delivered their
banners into the hands of the Buchanan men!
There was something like an earthquake felt
in the ranks of the opposition just at that
time. So goes the Northern counties, the
stronghold of Fremont.
Another Evidence.
A gentleman of Indiana writing to a friend
in this State says:
"The other day, a white man huzzaed for
Buchanan, in Nobleville, when a Negro drew
a pistol and killed him on the spot. The
murderer is now in. jail awaiting his trial."
- No lamentations will be uttered by, the
freedom shriekers over thivt unprovoked mur
der. Had the victim been a representative
of the Emigrant Aid Society, and have been
murdered in Kansas, the followers of the cow
boy would have set up a long loud shriek
over the outrage. But as a BUCHANAN man
was killed by one of their pets, -the woolly
head philanthropists either say amen, or noth
ing. This is but another evidence of the ef
fect of the incendiary speeches of the Free
booters.
"Gentle Sister, we greet thee."
The Democratic meeting in Dayton, Ohio,
on the 17th, is said in several telegraphic re
ports to have been the largest ever held in
the Union. One account runs thus:—
" The greatest Democratic convention ever
assembled in the United States, is being held
here to-day. Over one hundred and sixty
thousand strangers are here, and there are
eighty thousand persons in the procession
alone. The whole western portion of our
state has turned out en masse. There are
five stands erected, and speakers holding
forth on each. Much enthusiasm prevails.
The great arch is one of the , largest and best
ever erected in the United States.• There is
no doubt, from this demonstration, but that
this state will give her electoral vote for Bu.-
chanan.—Boston, Post.
"Where-was Col. Fremont born ?
The BoSton Daily Bee, a journal that now
supports Col. Fremont for the Presidency, on
the 2.2 d of April last, published the follow
ing statement in its columns :
"Fremont—Colonel John C. Fremont was
born in France, -January, 1813. His father
was an emigrant from France, and his moth
er a native of Virginia.
The constitution of the United States re
quires that the office of President shall be
filled by a native-born citizen."
B REQUEST.-"It strains a man's leg to
kick in the air at nothing." It is giving li
ars credit for truth, to argue with them.—
Consequently, we, the "vagrant," deem it
prudent to leave the scribblers of the Journal
have all the rope they wish. We can't take
up our time with them now—have got other
business on hand. We'll be at leisure after
the election, and if we can get a "dispensa
tion from the Pope!" and a permit from Ge
neva!! for the amusement of the community
as well as ourself, we will "come down" a
peg or two, and notice, and analyze, the two
heaps of compost in the Journal office.
Eon. John R. Edie
Last week; we noticed. this gentleman but
briefly—touching upon his public and private
character, in a few general remarks: -. He is
now before the people of the diStrict,Yasking
them to re-elect him to Congress. When a
man asks the suffrages of 'the . p , eople:for Po
sition and confidence, either his friends or
himself, should be able to 'exhibit a catalogue
of his acts as a public man, which;
- of itself;
should be sufficient to establish his right to
possess the confidence of the community. It
is not enough, we apprehend, that because a
candidate has been selected by a particular
par . ty, for a political office of trust, profit and
honor, that that fact alone is sufficient to sat
isfy tile wants of the community. But if we
are to judge of the fitness of John It. Edie,
for the position of a representative in the
Congress of the United States even by this
meagre test, we venture the assertion that lie
- will be found wanting in the essential quali
fications of a partizan of respectability.
This nip has served in Congress just long
enough to show his mental calibre to be of
the smallest possible capacity. During his
sojourn at Washington, as a representative,
we find him pursuing the avocation of a po
litical or petty partizan bell man. His ex
clusive occupation appears to have consisted
in making daily announcements of Know
Nothing Caucus meetings. John was known
as the political fugleman of a small clique of
small fish, in Congress, who, on John's an
nouncement, were notified, daily, that there
would be a caucus held in some by-place in
the Capitol, where certain things . were to be
done, which were either too insignificant in
their character, or too dark and treasonable,
to be made known to the body of which he
was a member. John, like all such men,
who ape greatness without possessing any of
the qualities of a noble mind, established for
himself at Washington, the reputation of be
ing the bellweather of a flock as docile and
insignificant as himself, who attempted to
make a show of their importance, but never
put in practice any . of their wonderful de
signs. On the occasion of the passage of the
act of Congress by which the members mag
nanimously voted the snug little sum of $200;-
000 of the peoples money into their pockets,
we find this pink of patriotism, and pure
Americanism, placing himself in the ridicu
lous position of voting, nay—but at the same
time pocketing the sum of $6,000 for his won
drous services to his constituents. We search
in vain for any record of his efforts to pre
vent the perpetration of this bold act of pil
lage upon the Treasury. On this occasion
John was as silent as the grave—all his vir
tuous indignation had oozed out at his finger
ends,—and for this act of treachery and cow
ardice, he impudently asked for a re-nomina
tion, and got it, and now asks for a re-elec
tion to Congress, that he may be enabled to
fleece the people for two years longer.
On the question of appropriating the sup
plies to the army, we find his vote recorded
to the last in the negative, whereby the bold
est act of revolution that has ever been at
tempted by any set of men in this govern
ment, was sought to be carried out. And for
this service, he asks a re-election.
Toe weak and imbecile himself to mark
out a proper path and pursue it, he blindly
followed in the wake of the most fanatical
desperadoes in Congress, and voted on all oc
casions with such men as Giddings and Spea
ker Banks—both of whom glory in preach
ing disunion sentiments, at home and in Con
.gracg_ Rut +h acty-..0f 4ac.u.clork.utittian--to fctia t
approaching, when he will find that the peo
ple he essayed to disgrace in the National
Legislature, will repudiate both himself and
his acts—when that people will teach him
that they despise both the treason and the
traitor alike, by telling him that his patriotic
services are no lopger needed by them—that
he has been "weighed in the balance and
found wanting," and like the unfaithful stew
ard, he is condemned for the base betrayal
of a sacred trust which had been confided to
his care.
We repeat it, that John R. Edie will be re
jected by the people of this Congressional
District, on the second Tuesday of October,
by a decisive vote of condemnation of his
conduct as a representative ; and we know no
man who deserves such a rebuke at the hands
of an outraged constituency so much as he
does. We cannot believe that the people of
this district will endorse him and his acts,
nor will we do so until the unpleasant truth
is forced upon us, by the recorded fiat of the
majority of the people of this Congressional
District.
Now that this man's character is known to
the community, we will wait and see wheth
er one so utterly debased as he is, both pub
licly and privately, can be sent to represent
us in the Councils of the nation—whether
the moral portion of the people of this dis
trict will endorse a man whose character is
that of a gambler; a drunkard, a debauchee,
and a brainless buffoon, and prefer him to a
man, whose character is such as will exalt
the district in the eyes of the nation.—Holli
daysburg Standard.
The Senatorial Nomination.
On the Bth inst., the Democratic Conferees
of the Senatorial District composed of Blair,
Cambria, and Huntingdon counties, by a
unanimous vote, placed in nomination lion.
Jan.'s . CRESWELL, Jr., for State Senator.—
There are now presented to the people of this
Senatorial District, two candidates for their
support, for this important and responsible
office.
Mr. Cresswell has already served a term of
three years in the State Senate, during which
time he has proved himself an astute, faith
ful and efficient Legislator. Few men in the
Legislative Halls deserved, or received more
commendation for faithful and efficient at
tention to business than Mr. Cresswell. His
career, in- the Senate, was marked by kind
ness, urbanity and manly bearing to all who
were brought in contact with him, either as
a member of the Legislature, or a citizen.—
It was this course of conduct that made for
him as many friends as he proved to possess
when the time came to make choice of a can
didate by the Conferees. 'We are well satis
fied that John Cresswell can run as large, if
not a much larger vote, in this District as
any other man that could have been selected,
and we rejoice that the Choice fell upon our
townsman.
It is not our purpose to draw any invidious
comparison between Mr. Cresswell and his
competitor, Mr. Mullin, of Cambria, who is
the candidate of the so-called American par
ty; but simply to announce to our readers
that these two gentlemen are in the field for
the office of Senator, and our own honest be
lief that Mr. Cresswell will be elected. We
say this much in view of the fact that there
are but two candidates as yet in the - field.—
We are not aware that it is the intention of
the Republicans to take up a candidate, but
if they arc, as th©y seem to be, in earnest,
certainly they will not lot the opportunity
thus offered slip, of trying their numerical
strength at the ballot box, in this district.—
We have aright to infer from the confident
maimer in which the Republicans appear to
enter th. 6 lists, that they will present a can
didate for the Senate, as well as that of the
lower house ; as their party have done in our
sister county of Huntingdon. A few days
will determine this question; at all events,
till which time we will wait and see.—Holli
dayslntrg Standarcli
!Vitalin:
Mr. A. C. Mullin, the Know-Nothing can
didate for State Senate, seems to be quite an
adept in political tricks and turns. He de
velopes, for so young a man, quite an apti
tude for political merchandizing. Ile got his
nomination for the State Senate by driving a
cute bargain with John Brotherline ; but
poor John did - not receive his quid pro quo.
Edie beat John for Congress after all. What
was Mullin about? is it possible that he
sold John Brotherline?
The Italians distinguish between "single
treason" and "double treason." The latter
sort means "cheating all hands." Mullin
has not forgotten the sharp dodges he played
off three years ago. Although he was the
protege and friend of some of the personal
enemies of Alex M. White, yet he was wil
ling to desert and sell them as long as he
had hopes that White would "pay up."
People have not forgotten how Mullin and
Albright, editors of the "Alleghenian" tried
to negociate for several days and weeks with
Mr. White, in order to wax or frighten him
into buying their support. He was the reg
ular Whig candidate. This was an honest
piece of extortion for Whig editors to be try
ing on ! But "Aleck" was reputed to be
rich, and—the "Alleghenian" needed funds!
Nor have the people forgotten how this
same A. C. Mullin turned in to beat White,
just as soon as he found that White would
not "sock." He made something out of this
operation. For be it known that Mullin is a
thrifty fellow, and turns most things into
gold. The Whig bolters, who bolted because
White was not good enough Whig for their
staunch Whig souls, with the aid of some lib
eral Democrats, who were anxious to beat
White, raised about a thousand dollars, and
thus, in advance, remunerated Messrs. Mul
lin and Albright for their patriotic Whig
gery 1
Verily, if A. C. Mullin gets to the Senate,
he will probably. be content with three dol
lars a day. His confiding constituency would
feel sure that their immaculate and unsus
pected Senator would spurn the venal ap
proaches of Bank Railroad Borers, and gen
tlemen of such kidney. It is a satisfaction
to know that our Legislator is "like Cwsar's
wife"—over the left shoulder—"above sus
picion."
But alas, what a changeable world ! Three
short years ago Mullin was a, tremendous
Whig: The bare suspicion of A. M. White's
Whiggery put him into such a fit of "high
strikes" that he tumbled clear over ; and yet,'
in less than a year, this same Mullin turns
in to assassinate this same Whig party I
Assassinate, we say—for the annals of mean
ness and treason do not afford a parallel to
the infamous "barking' of the late Whig
party, by the petty and lying tricksters who
got tired of honorable defeat in its ranks.
This wonderful Whig Mullin fell greedily in
to Know Nothingism—consorted himself with
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fessions of Whiggery. Look at the contrast !
To-day A. M. White is an old line Whig—
and Mullin is a Know Nothing ! Will the
voters of this District trust a man so venal,
so traitorous and so false ?-1/el. Standard.
A Plain Case of Backing Out
John B. Edie, the Know-Nothing candi
date for Congress, arrived in town on Mon
day evening (Sept 15.) It was understood,
and so stated, by his friends, that he would
deliver a speech in the Court House on Tues
day evening. During the afternoon of that
day, a paper was drawn up, and signed by
a number of Mr. Edie's friends, as well as
by the friends of C. L. Pershing, Esq., his
competitor, who was in town, requesting
both the candidates to address the people,
on the great political issues involved in the
present contest. When the paper was pre
sented to Mr. Pershing, he promptly acceded
to the proposition, over his own signature.
He had made his arrangements to leave
town by five o'clock, for the purpose of at
tending the Pittsburg Convention, but ex
pressed his determination to remain and meet
Col. Edie before the people, if the latter
would consent.
A few of the special friends of Mr. Edie,
having heard of the proposed arrangement,
and fearful of the result, started him on a
branch of the underground Rail Road, and
for some hours the Col. was invisible to the
naked eye. At length one of his friends,
Tames D. Ilamillon, screwed his courage up
to the sticking point, and. proposed that he
would take charge of the paper and consult
Col. Edie on the subject. It was handed to
him by William Palmer, Esq., with direc
tions to return it with Mr. Edie's acceptance
or refusal. Mr. G. C. K. Zahm, a democrat,
accompanied Mr. Hamilton. About five
o'clock P. M., it was discovered that Mr.
Hamilton was preparing to leave for Jeffer
son in one of his coaches. He was immedi
ately waited on by Mr. Palmer, and asked
whether he had seen Col. Edie, and what
had become of the paper, he replied that he
had left it in Maj. Thompson's Hotel ; the
Major when asked about it by Mr. Palmer,
said he thought it had been taken from his
desk by Mr. E. F. Lytle; but the latter, who
had signed it, alleged that he knew nothing
about it, and thus neither Alen B. Edie nor
the paper could be found. If this was not
about as clear a case of refusing to face the
music, not only on the part of Edie, but also
of his friends, as was ever heard of, we
would like to know what is. When Mr.
Pershing discovered that Col. Edie, through
his friends, had refused to accept the chal
lenge, he left town for Pittsburg. The Know
Nothing hero was then as brave as a lion ;
and when the danger had passed away,. he
could and did boast with perfect impunity.
Unlike Omar he might exclaim—"/ came, I
saw and I backed out !" A candidate for
Congress, or any other important public
trust, who is afraid to appear before the sov
ereign people and publicly proclaim his prin
ciples, is a political coward and does not de
serve the support of intelligent freemen.—
Democrat & Sentinel.
BACKED OUT.—John R. }idle, the Enow Nothing eandr
date for Congress, refused to accept the challenge of the
friends of Mr. Pershing to meet him on the stump before
the people. Mr..Edio's next " back out" will be on the 14th
of this month. " Coining events east their shadows before!"
DnowNr.D.—A son of Andrew Diffenbaugh, of this place,
was drowned at Beach Haven, up the Susquehanna, on
Monday of last week.
On Tuesday evening, a young man 'aimed Cunningham,
from Coffee Run, was drowned at the first lock below town,
kept by Andrew Diffenbaugh.
Fremont's Religion.
The terrible havoc making by the Fillmore
Know Nothings among the ranks of Fremont,
(on account of the latter's religious opinions,)
is causing Abolitionism to tremble with fear
and apprehension. The Gazette, yesterday,
gave evident signs of alarm, floundering
through a column of editorial to disprove
what it alleges no one believes--that Fremont
is or ever was a Catholic.
With Fremont's religious opinions we bave
nothing to do, but we have an account to set
tle with a set of political rascals who are sup
porting him, and who but one year ago ban
ded together in a Know Nothing conspiracy
to degrade every man who professed the Cath
olic faith. It is with these corrupt and
shameless politicians that the Democracy are
to settle, and not with John C. Fremont, who
is their tool and dupe.
That Col. Fremont was a Catholic,
prior to
his nomination by the Abolitionists, is just
as certain as that he is now a living man.—
The evidence upon this point is conclusive
and overwhelming. The Gazette, and other
abolition prints, may bluster as they please
in denial of this, but the proofs are conclu
sive against them. We do not object to Col.
Fremont on account of his religion, as the
Gazette seems to imagine, but we objectto
a poor contemptible creature who denies his
religion in order to accommodate a party
which, but one year ago, proscribed him on
account of that religion. The Gazette, we
presume, will understand this, and not again
repeat the silly falsehood that we object to
Fremont on account of his religion. Our
principal objection is to the men who are
using Fremont, men who one year stoop to
flatter those whom but a few months before
they were sworn to proscribe. Fremont him
self is despicable, an ingrate and a renegade
—a traitor to his former political principles
and a hypocrite in religion, denying princi
ples which have been proven upon him be
yond doubt or cavil.
We do not wonder at the uneasiness of the
Fremont press upon the question of their
candidate's religious opinions. Had Black
Republicanism known him before they nom=
inated, he never would have been selected as
their candidate. They, under the name of
Know Nothings, proclaimed hostility to all
Catholics ; they spread the poison of proscrip
tion among their followers, and it is but a
just retribution if those they indoctrinated
in bigotry now refuse to support one /whom
they were taught to proscribe.—Pittsburgh,
Union.
Kansas Iniquity Disclosed.
The Utica Gazette, a FILLMORE paper, pub
lishes the following exposure of Blaek Re
publican iniquity, which cannot be too strong
ly stigmatized by every patriot in the land.
We ask the attention of all to the important
avowal made by the Kansas correspondent
of the New York Tribune. No - Black Re
publican will gainsay the evidence here re
corded:
THE KANSAS PLOT UNVEILED.
AN IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE.
The Detroit 15.ce Press is a journal whose
character for respectability and influence
stands as high as that of any other newspa
per in the Western States.
The Free Press states that Mr. Phillips,
the Kansas correspondent of the Tribune, on
his way from New York to Kansas, via De
troit, a week or two since, called at that of
fice and introduced himself as the Kansas
correspondent of the New York Tribune,
having evidently mistaken that office for that
of the Fremont paper at Detroit. The editor
of the Free Press deeming this a favorable
opportunity to ascertain, from this chief fab
ricator of the electioneering despatches, what
real motives lay at the bottom of the conduct
of the instigators of the war in Kansas, did
not immediately undeceive Phillips, but asked
him "if it was probable that such a row
could be got up in Kansas as would further
the Republican, cause and aid the election of
Fremont?"
This reply of the Tribune's Kansas corres
pondent is worth noting. It sheds a flood of
light upon the whole question of the Kansas
troubles and the course of the Fremont press
in all the Free States, with regard to these
troubles. He said: "Yes, that is the inten
tion and I thtnlc we shall succeed. OUR PLANS
ARE WELL LAID, and we can scarcely fail.—
WE ARE DETERMINED THAT THE
WAR SHALL LAST UNTIL NOVEMBER,
at whatever cost. I shall be in Kansas in
ten days, and I have INSTRUCTIONS in my
pocket for Col. Lane."
[From the St. Louis RopuLlican, Sept. 24.]
Peace in Kansas.
What will the Freedom Shriekers do now?
—the Missourians have retired from Kansas
to their homes ; and Lane and his band of
loafers and ragamuffins have fled from Kan
sas, taking with them everything they could
lay their hands upon, as so much booty.
They have gone to Nebraska, to prey upon
the people of that quiet and prosperous ter
ritory, and from thence will make forays in
whatever quarter plunder may be obtained.
They will be a curse to Nebraska if they
stay there long.
But there is peace in Kansas. Henceforth
the laws will be executed in the only way in
which they ought to be, by the civil authori
ties, and the scenes of violence and disorder
which have too long distracted that Territory
will be of rare occurrence. We congratulate
the people who yet remain there, and whose
destiny is associated with that of the new
Territory, upon this result. We congratu
late the country upon the cessation of civil
strife, and trust that it will be long before
such a scene is again presented. We sym
pathize with the Black Republicans in the
misfortune attending this closing up of their
manufactory of lies, at the same time that
the country will feel relieved from the shame
which has been brought upon it by the coin
age and constant circulation of so many and
such startling falsehoods. What will be
come of the shriekers for freedom now ?
How can they manage to keep up the agita
tion and excitement until the Presidential
election is over ? Where will the Preachers
of the North find tales of horror sufficient to
fill up their sermons for the next five Sun
days ? What new magazines of detraction
and calumny can they open upon the South,
with which to mislead their too credulous
followers? These, and many other like
questions, present themselves on the simple
annunciation, that there is peace in Kansas.
Long may it continue there.
DE3'." I am a Whig, but if the Whig party
is to be merged into a contemptible Abolition
party, then I am a Whig no longer."--a war
CLAY.