THE 11UNTINGDON.GLOBE, DKNOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED. TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOB
largest in the county.
orYntrumbg.)on,
Wednesday, 'Novel:n:6ex 32, 1856.
The . Forgers want: Company I
Since the election some few of,the ;scurvy
leaders of - the Fremont Abolition art in
this place, have been very busy in .trying to•
Convince strangers, as well
,as,.our citizens,'
that we, us Post Master, have been guilty of
great rascality—corruptiOn dnit fraud—'and
stopping" the mails, for the purpose of Prevent
.ing the circulation of the "Journal" in Hope;
well, Clay and Springfield townships; on the
eve of the election ! !!
The facts are these :—The cross mail from
Coffee Run leaves that office but once a week,
and that . on Thursday morning. The Jour
nal and Globe editions were mailed in the
Huntingdon office on Wednesday afternoon,
went to Coffee Run the same evening, and
left that office the next morning, as usual,:
Bunthe American was not issued until Thurs
day, a day too late to be distributed over the
route, before the election, by the regular mail
carrier. On Friday the American issued an
extra and brought it also to the office to be
conveyed over this
. cross route. We then
told Mr. Nash that the regular day for dis
tributing mail matter from Huntingdon over
this route Was on Thursday,„ and unless his
papers were lifted at the .Coffee Rim office,
and distributed by himself, or other person,
they would remain there until :Thursday
after the . election. On:Monday morning Mr.
Nash called upon us and said that "Mr. Snare
will distribute the Americans lying at Coffee
Run," and that he might have no difficulty
in getting them, we gave him the following
order: ,
TIUNTINGDONy -
Nov. 3,185 G
Post Master,.Cp.e Rua:, You will please
hand over all printed matter in your offiee,
FOR THE OFFICES BEYOND IT, to Mr.
E. Snare. W-M. LEWIS, P. M.
'The,reader will see; by examining the ori
ginal order in the hands .of D. MeNurtrie,
and that printed in the Journal of this morn
ing, that the words "for t7ieViccs
, beybncl it,"
are left out, dearly proving that the ,fournal
men will not give the truth - *hen they have
it before them. •
With the above'orderiNir. Snare did appear
at the Coffee Run office, and lifted but apart
of the _Americans, and nothing more, gave
them to Mr. Clark, of Newburg; - and return
ed' home in the two o'clock . train,—three
hours before the edition of the Journal, dated
Nov. 4th, could be mailed here for the Coffee
Run office.
t:—tic crix6 eex, - to notice fin . -
thei the base, slanderous insinuations of the
black-hearted, lying scoundrels, who control
the Columns of the Abolition fournat---but .
we hope they will push a thorough investiga 7 ;
- Lion of our conduct as Post Master, of Hun--
tingclon
From {ho "Huntingdon American" of 'alio (Wednesday)
morning, 110v.12.
" THE LYING CAMPAIGN."
The late Presidential contest will he Jong
remembered as the campaign of the most bare-.
faced lies and shameless falsehoods. Never
in the political history of our country did,,a.
party resort to such wholesale lying and
abuse in order to carry their election, .as the
Black Republicans, aided by a few traitors
from the American party, who were willing
to sell out their principles in order to give
"-aid and comfort" to' the leaders of Black
Republicanism. In order to show our read
ers the meanness of some of these Republi
cans, operating under the cloak of American
ism, we append the folloWing paragraph, an
extract from a 't Circular" issued from the
Black Republican Journal office of this town,
on Saturday before the late election
"The 'American,' published in this bor
ough, having been bought, together with the
editor and publisher, by the Locofoco party,
the event was celebrated last night by a torch- .
light procession. But such a procession !—,
Would. that the Americans and all ethers in
the county could have looked upon this mot
ley group of fourteen' former niemberS''of the.
American party mingled with about the nine
nernter of Buchanan' . Dutch,
and. native.. Worthy coriapanions ! Oh, what
a fusion !! What a party! !I Nof an Amer
ican in the borough, nor even a-. Locofodo
could be found to justify the course_ of this•
paper, so that the editor wasnndertheneCes
sity of Vindicating his conduct himself, in a
speech upon the steps of hiS office."
M. E. Campbell, _ Henry Glazier,
A. W. Benedict, - .
T. 11. Cromer, W. I. Steel,
Wm. Dorris, Jr., James Bricker,
lames Saxton,
William Hildebrand,
Samuel Smith; • Charles Miller,
John N. Prowell, Christian Couts,
David Snare, Samuel Smith, •
Reuben Romig, John N. Ball,
Henry , . James Port,
William -Hoffman, Davis Hight, •
Samuel Peightal, Wm. Peightal,
Wm..Bodley, John Snyder, •
John E. Ramey, " John Glazier,
Joshua Greenland, Job Morris, •
J. S. Stewart, 11. A. Bumbaugh,
William Glasgow, Mich. Fetterhoof,
D. 111cMartrie,. , Isaac,Long, * ,
3_ll. Dorsey, W.- K. Rahm,
G. W. Garretson, David Grove,
Samuel Couts, And others.
The above "Circular," containing the names
of many of our best Americans, is a BASE
FORGERY, - concocted throUgh Republican
influence, for the purpose of BREAKING
DOWN the- "American" press. It is new
clear that the leaders of this despicable Black
Republican party would resort to any means
in orderto carry out their infamous purpose.
-We are authorized by the following persons,
Tilvse names were FORGED. to that " Cireu-
lar," to state that their names were used with-
out authority or consent: .
Win. Dorris, Jr., Christian Couts, ,, .' •
James Saxton, Samuel Smith, . • -
Samuel Smith, John N. Ball, ~.•
John N. Prowell, James Port, •
..
Henry W. Miller, Davis Hight; ,
William Hoffman, Wm. Peightal,
Samuel Peightal, John Snyder,
Wm. Bodley, Joshua Greenland,
John F. Rainey, Wm. Glasgow, _
A. W. Benedict, . J. 11. Dorsey,
W,,1.' Steel, - : - L • _ -G. W. Garretson,
James Bricker, Samuel Couts,
Wm. Hildebrand, Job Morris,
Charles Miller, H. A. Bumbaugh,
W K. na,hm, Mich. Fetterhoof,
David-Grove.
Fellow Americans, this is the way the Black
Republicans and.their nominal American al
lies undertake to deceive you into the support
of Republican principles. 'When base is
will not answer the purpose, they resort to
FORGERY, as is proven in, the .issue of the
above " Circular." A party' that—Will both
lie and commit FORGERY to carry out their
infanions schemes, would do anything else
that would further the object of their desires.
In our support of the model President, - Mil
lardFillmere, we done what was. right, with
out rear, favor or .affection---and still intend
to continue in the support of the principles
of the American party.—Huntingdon Ainer
ican;
Where axe the ultra Abolitionists ?
It is an old saying that a man is known - by
the company he , keeps. Said the ancients,
" felrine' - AO - you live with, and tell
-you who you are .If we Apply this test or
criterion. to JOHN CALIFORNIA FREMONT, We
shall certainly not be guilty cefe doing him the
slightest injustice. Who then have been and
arehis•confidential advisers and most ardent
supporters? Begin with FRED. DOUGLASS, the
j negro, and his confrere Horp.cE GREELEy
WARD KILLEM BEECHER and JOSHUA R. , ,
GID-
DINGS ; WENDELL PHILLIPS -and. Rev. THEO.
PARKER ; Rev. SAMUEL J. I‘l 7 i.vand • WlLL.Lut
LLOYD GARRISON"; JOHN" P. ,IL'iLE and ABBY
KELLY FOSTER; TFIADDEUS STEVENS and PAR
KER PILLSBURY ; negroes of all complexions;
fanatics of all hues ; tricksters and gamesters
of every 'shade. There is not a Northern
disunionist who is not for FREMONT. There
is not a sectionalist traitor who is .nothisar
dent 'supporter. Who unfurled the banner
iII Chester county, bearing the names of Fre
mont and Dayton, on a white strip of- cloth ?
The open, undisguised disunionists ; the ra.-
ving,enthusiasts of abolitionism ; the persons
who refuse to pay their State taxes, and to
be considered American citizens, and ask to
be regarded as aliens. These are the friends
of JOHN O,'FREMONT—this is the company he
keeps. -
Where are the votes for GERRIT SMITH ?
Trrherd Every one of them deposited for
JOHN C. FREaroxr.. The' ranters found in
him a man just suited to their purposes, and
they all gave him their votes without an
ex
ception. The friends of FREMONT are - the
friends of WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. The
twti are a pair of brother's in every thing but
in name.
" Bleeding Kansas !"
. What has becothe of bloody,Ka - Kansas ? Not
a word from there for two whole' weeks i Has'
the " blood" dried tp, or
,are the throats of
the Black RepUblican ". shriekers" so stuffed.
with the wool of, the mustang that they can:
not 'Shriek? Oh ! Rocky Monntain! ' Oh!
"gesSie!", Oh! bleeding Kansas! Thy
voices are all mute! Thy bleeding wounds
all' healed; and not even an ." honorable scar"
to 'point to to tell of the dangers 'through
which you haVe passed. At least a million
of campaign documents on hand.;' a hundred
thousand lies—lives (we mean,)—of retriont ;
fifty thousand " Songs of Jessie';',' 'a, hundred
newspapers and fifty presses 7 —'indeperident
presses !—on hand 'and for sale!! "What a
sacrifice of property! and all on account' of
poor,.bleeding Kansas,' whoSe fate, 'however,
seems now quite forgotten. . .„.
No Hope for the Opposition
The Pittsburgh , ,lfition ! of yesterday, says
the news 'lran Tennessee places that State
certainly in the,list for Buchanan. Illinois
remained in doubt' for several days; but at'
last we are able to announce it on the side of
the Democracy. Several dispatches -were
receivcd•yesterday, all looking tbatway ;but
we •shall 'only 'give our readers one received
last night just before going to press,:
ST. Bolus, November 10, 1850.
•T. J; Keenan: Illinois gives Buchanan live thousand
majority. ..Tonx P. GLASS.
We are-rejoiced at this news for more rea
sons than one. We are glad that so many
Northern- States have been able to resist the
tempest of fanaticism: We are glad that the
boastings of the so-called Republicans are
rebuked ; and we are glad also that the Little
Giant, in the midst of assaults and: abuse, in
the midst of a most bitter and unrelenting
personal, warfare, has been nobly sustained
in ;his• own State. Bring out the big gun.
We now know the.extent of our victory, and
it deserves a joyous 'demonstration; ''"
REV. DUDLEY A. Trica.—The vote at the
Church of Epiphany, in Philadelphia, on
Monday evening, 3rd just,' to decide the ques- -
tion whether the Vestry should be sustained
in the rebuke given the pastor, Rev. Dudley
A.. Tyng, for preaching polities from the pul
pit, resulted as follows : FOr the Vestry, 57;
against the, Vestry, 44. This vote involves
Mr. Tyng's resignation according to the de
termination previously announced by him.—
Every congregation in the country, whose
minister has been guilty of deserting his sa
cred calling in a like manner, should pursue
a similar course. Such men are not the per
sons to preach christianity to intelligent com
munities.
The Result, According to. Present Ap-
pearances.
TILE ELECTORAL VOTE
' Nov., 1852. 'Nov.,' 1856.
&Nes. - 'Pierce, Scott. Buc'n. .Fill'e. Fret.
COilneCtiCUt, ' 6 6
California, 4_- :---- \ - ".
4 -L--
Illinois, - ', 11 ,• - 11 . .
Indiana, 13 13
lowa, 4 -- 4
Maine, 8 -- 8
Massachusetts, 13 _. . 13
Michigan, 6 -- 6
New Hampshire, 5 —. 5
New Jersey, 7 -- 7
New York, 35 -- 35
Ohio, •
Pennsylvania, 27 - 27 -- --
Rhode Island, • 4 --:-- --- ' 4
Vermont,
Wisconsin, 5 --, —.— , 5
Alabama, 9 -- .9
Arkansas, 4 • . 4
Delaware, 3 -- 3 -- --
Florida, 3 , 3 ---
Georgia, 10 --- - 10 --
Kentucky, 12 . . 12 -- --
Louisiana, 6 6. .
Maryland, 8 -- . -.— 8 --
Mississippi, , 7 7 -
Missouri,
North Carolina, 10 10 -
South . Carolina, 8 . 8
Tennessee, .12 12
Texas,4 7 --- 4 --
Virginia, 15. • .15• ‘— --
Total, • 254 42 • 174 . 8 114
Pierce over Scott, in 1852, - 212
Buchanan over - Fremont, probably, GO
Buchanan over Fremont and Fillmore, 52
. Of ,the States set down 'above for Buchan
an, the only one about which any doubt or
question now exists, is California, 4.
" All Hail ! Nevi England !"
This is the heading of a glorification arti
cle in the Philadelphia Tinies, lauding that
section of the Union to the• Skies for her sup
port of the Black Republican candidate, to
•
which we respond:
"All Hail New England !"
•But not'that New England' that began its
career by burning and hanging Baptists and
Quakers, and all who;differed from its-puri
tanical notions, Of religion. '
Not, that New England which in its tyr
anny drove ROGER ,11 7 .u.m..1.1rs into.•exile;. in
its hour of danger sought and won •his pro;.
.tection, and in its gratitude repaid him with
the vilest baseness.
Not that New England that burned or hung
innocent men and women for witchcraft.
Not - that New England which grew rich by
importing slaves from Africa ; and which is
living now in luxury upon the blood and
bones of the human beings it thus trafficked
Not that New England that. attempted to
make this government of ours a " hereditary
aristocracy." ' •
Net that New England that endeavored' to
fasten upon:this courWr the Alien and Sedi
tion Laws, and heaped upon the Author of
the'Dechiratiort of Independence the . vilest
slanders. .
Not that New England that met in conven
tion at Hartford, dnring the 'war 'of 1812, to
Plot treason against the United States, and to
give aid and comfort to the enemies Of the
nation.
Not that New Erigland which refused to
man or arm a, single regiment of volunteers
to go to :Mexico, and that offered indignities
to those -who did volunteer, when parading
thrOUgh the streets of Boston.
Not that New England Which arm's. her
" paupers" to go to Kansas to incite civil and
servile war, and murder citizens of the Uni
ted States.
Not that New, England that ever since the
Revolution, has been 'opposed to every war,
to every acquisition of Territory, to all the
important measures of the Government that
have added to the. greatness and glory of our
country. '
Not: that New England, whose religion is
its politics.and whose politics is its• religion,
and whose -pulpits are tiled with traitors to
their country and, their God.
Net-that New England Which shrieks for.
" free speech" when an Abolitionist -desires.
to undermine the institutions of their
coun
try, and which denied Faneuil Hall to her
ablest ; son to speak in their defence.
-Not that-New'England which delights in
ithposingnpon her citizens the:double ' crime
Of perjury and treason, and. while they swear
to support the Constitution of the United
States passes laws compelling them to violate .
its previsions' and to 'set,at Elefiance 'the fun:
damental law of the land.
Not that New 'England which' hatches out
all - the vile. isnis of the times' and sends theirs
forth' through the land, like so : many serpents,
to polsori its peace and prosperity.. - ' , •
Not that New England; whiehthas made
an idol of the Mariposa speculator, worship
ped the woolly horse,. and given 'the reins to.
fanaticism.
The New England of the revolution we
would' hail! But that iNew England has,
been overrun bytlie:,Getha and Vandals', of
Black Republicanism, the ldeLls, the ?Aix-.
-tits, the GARRISONS, the 13Asss, the BURLIN
GAMES, the WILSONS, the PlilLLlPS',—the rep
resentatives and successors of the men of the
"bag and. hatchet" of the revolution,---not
those -whnfoUght its battleS, but of those who
hung in the rear of its armies to murder the
wounded and rob the dead.
The New England we hail is that glorious
New England—Democratic Need England,—
which " still lives" in the hearts of that
mi
nority Who, have resolved to " keep step to
the.music. of the Union," who have refused
to how the -knee to its traitors in war or foes
of the Constitution in peace, to its Abolition.
ists, its Atheists, or its Disunionists.
PE.N.NSrLvast.tiv.
To the Democratic Party of the United
States.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATiti COMMITTEE ROOMS,
'November 6, 1856.
The trust of conducting theaaational canvass
confided to the Democratic National Resident
'Committee has been discharged' with the
fidelity which the honor and the exigency of
that trust alike demanded, and the Commit
tee has to unite its congratulations with your
own in announcing the success of the Demo
cratic ticket by a decided and gratifying ma
jority-.
The struggle is over, and the Union is safe.
Oar is, inde,ed, a. new and signal triumph.
Heretofore our victories have been achieved
over those, who, like ourselves, were friends
of the Union: This haibeen a conquest over
its enemies. Heretofore our antagonists have
contended with fraternal eagerness for the
honor of , promoting the progreSs or of insu
ring the duration of the republic. Those
whom welave just vanquished sought, under
a treacherous adherence to the forms of the
constitution, to rob it of all its essence and
vitality. The principles of the Democratic
party having become the established policy
of the federal government, it became neces
sary for its enemies to organize some new
and separate combination to `overthrow it.
An unnatural alliance between fanaticism
and venality has engendered a monster which
the Democratic party has with great peril
sought out and destroyed.
That monster was sectionalism.
The - circumstances - under which the evil
originated were peculiar.• The land has been
clouded by - a miasma of error. The belief
that one part of the Union . had been invaded
by the institutions of another, and that the
federal government had lent its power to
proniote this injustice, had spread with - epi
demical, rapidity; It had been infected into
the circulation of popular thought with all
the fordo of an - unscrupulous press, and was
spread broadcast over_ the land by the Whole
power of representatiVe influence'. 'lt seemed
at onetime almost in vain to pursue with the
antidote of-truth and-reason this venomous
error as it sped through the channels of piii);-
lie opinion. •
Our. enemies had chosen their ground with
skill; they 'had recruited their ranks with all
the influence which could combine an army.
They proclaimed the ultimate abolition of
slavery. as the incentive to the fanatie—the
division ;of the spoils. as the' reward of the
mercenary.. The pretended• invasion of a
sacred ,right :constituted their appeal to those
withpatnotic impulses, whilst a feigned re
gard for the Union 'was to secure the support
or the neutrality of all whose material inter
ests were involved in its duration.' These
devices had . ormanized. a formidable array.
Masses of honest and earnest men were de . -
hided. by the teachers whom they had trust
ed into the belief that their government had
betrayed and their fellow-citizens had op
pressed them. Divines, girded with the sword
and clothed with the authority of the Gospel,
preached bloody resistance to the laws as the
most -acceptable service to God. Woman
quitted her peaceful station to animate with
her apprehensions those to whom her wishes
are ever a command ; and 'the youth, indoc
trinated by wily managers, responded with
enthusiasm to false appeals addressed to their
innate .and generous hatred of oppression.
Politicians speculated philosophically upon
the capacity of the Constitution, caring only
to know whether its native strength of struc
ture would bear the agitation necessary to
secure the success of their nefarious schemes,
and still leave enough of stability to insure
their enjoyment.
It was the purpose of these conspirators to
secure possession of the government if it per
ished—as it must have perished—in their
grasp. It was their purpose to inaugurate
the North as the dominant section. The rule
of eligibility was to be obedience to the sway
and conformity to the opinions of the domi
nant section. The subjugation of Ireland
by force, division, and bribery was to be re
produced upon this continent, and the South
ern States were to be reduced to a niere.pro
vineial appendage of the federal government.
Such was the plan, and disunion must have
followed its accomplishment. - Southern men
would have only differed as to the hour and
mode of separation. The cement whichhinds
the fabrie.of. the Union would have lost its
cohesion in the fires of the conflict, and the
majestic fragment would have crumbled and
fallen in ruins, never again to be reconstruc
ted.
Never was the republic in such peril. Nev
er were the fricinds of the Union, from any
sufficient existing grievance, less prepared to
have apprehended - a conspiraCy so atrocious.
But those to whom you had committed the
safety of the republic were faithful to their
trust. The democratic party was, by com
mon consent, acknowledged to be the iiele
party of the Union, and was charged with,
its defence.' , Sound and truthful documents,
adequate to the emergency - were• prepared,
and circulated to an extent scarcely inferior
to that of. the errors which they were inten
ded to counteract. Able and eloquent ora
tors were impressed into the service of the
Union. They responded with- au' alacrity
-worthy that with which their ancestry had
repaired to the battle-field in the same holy
cause. Never was there more harmony in :
the democratic cause. Never. did the patri
ois of every party earn more truly than when•
they' enrolled. themselves in the' recent can
vass under.the.banner of the democracy; and .
marched. to fight 'for the salvation of the
Union. •
My fellow-citizens, the contest is, for the
present, over. • The Democratic party is again
in control of the government. •It will have
ample opportunity , to convince those who
have been misled, that its only 'object is the
establishment of equal rights, not the propa
gation .of a , sectional policy. It will show the
world that it desires only to,promote the po
litica,' and commercial progress of this great
republic- 7 te, advance the cause of human
civilization and liberty, not to • acquire the
property of other nations by, fOrce.or fraud.
It will demonstrate that DemOaratic princi
ples are alone adequate ,to the effectual ad
ministration of the governMent, and that they,
are; as they have been, fully compnt to in
sure the success of that republican empire
which our fathers have founded and. commit
ted to our care:
In closing the performance of the arduous
and responsible duties confided to our hands
by the confidence of the' Democratic party,
we have to return our thanks to Providence
for having permitted us in any sense, howso
ever bumble, to have been instrumental in
preserving our beloved country • from a con
spiracy so dangerous to its peace and tran
quility, and in having contributed to a result
so conclusive of the established ascendency
of democratic principles; and so auspicious
to the permanency of the Union.
CHAS. JAS.. FAULKNER,
Chairman.
What,n Fast 'Young Man can do:
The-New . York Timei containti the
ing account of what a "fast young' ician;" on
ly ninety days in the "importing business,"
did do. There is a moral in it which may
be beneficial to all young men of the "fast"
order, about entering into business :
" The arrest of the young man, Thomas
P. Wight, and the development thereby
brought out, continues to be a subject of gen
eral remark not only on 'Change and among
business men, hut with the community at
large. As a revelation of "sharp practice,"
it throws entirely in the shade the operations
of that other fast man Huntingdon, the Wall
street broker. And besides, it is more ro
mantic ; though to be sure, as in all such ca
ses, it is in a. measure a sad reality—at least
to the victims. •
The story, though extending_over a period
of only ninety days, - would be a very long
one if told in detail. 'Tis slightly complica
ted, too, and the financial terms necessary to
its elucidation would bother any but a busi
ness man well posted up. The suit upon
which the arrest of Wight was ordered, and
which is now pending, is brought by Jean J.
Suiter, et al., and is only. one of a dozen of a
similar character. The present 'proceeding
is under the act against fraudulent and ab
sconding debtors, and is intended to compel
the prisoner to account to his creditors for all
the property now in possession.
"John W. Wight, the second defendant,
and the brother and partner of tfie_prisoner,
is now' in Illinois, it is said, with the books
of the' concern. According to. Mr. ~T. P.
Wight's own statement, there is' a -vast dis
crepancy between his effects and liabilities."
Ile acknowledges, to liabilities amounting,
in i the aggregate, to over $75,000.; •
' `` d Parties likely to know are of opinion that
the total amount of his liabilities will great
ly .exceed those which he thus acknowledges.
The following he states to be a correct
ventory of • .
His
..EFEE6rs-1 trunk, 1 valise, 1 carpet
bag, 2 oirer coats, 3 frock coats, 2 linen coats,
14 - handkerchiefs, 7 pair pants, 5 vests, 11
shirts ; 10 collars ; 6 suits under clothes, 7 cra
vats I pair sleeve buttons: ,
An interest in the co-partnership of Wight,
Bros. now hopelessly insolvent,' to which it
is believed J. S. Sullivan, of New York; owes
about $9OO.
When asked on the examination whether
the above statements, signed by himself; were
correct, to - his, own knowledge, he replied ;"I
don't know ; Thomson says it is." '
The other statements 'made by him at-the
examination were equally interesting,-if not
startling, as showing some -loose business
operations all round.
The further examination will be looked for
with interest, but unless "Wight's_"trunk,"
"valise" and "carpet bas" Contains sonic of
the "real," his creditors will have poor pick
ings at best.
An affidavit, embodying the following state
ments, will be made, we under Stand, at the
forthcoming examination:
This Thomas P. Wight was for some time
book-keeper, in the highly respectable house
of John Higgins & Co., .of this city, the se
nior member of which is now our Consul to
Belfast, Ireland. So well and ably did he
perform his; duties in this capacity, that he
won the esteem of his employers, and their
confidence to such an extent, that during the
absence• of the firm, in 1854-5, in Europe, he
held their power of Attorney.
Of this power he availed - himself. By
pledging the firm,• whose interests were en-.
trusted to his care, he obtained a credit upon
the firm's hankers at Glasgow for $50,000,
with which sum he went to Europe (repre
senting himself as the exclusive owner of
this sum) to make arrangements for continu
ing the firm with this additional capital, and
he to bet a partner. He took with him letters
of introduction from some Wall street bank
ers, and these he used to forward his designs.
He also represented himself to be a million
aire, and played all his parts so plausibly
that he finally succeeded in buying the firm
out with their own assets.
The property thus turned over to him—
amounted to about 5200,000 and he actually
prevailed upon one of the largest creditors of
the estate (a cannie Scot) to garnish the firm
of Higgins & Co., and the other creditors, in
the faithful liquidation of the estate, so that
the last firm are now held harmless.
The $50,000 credit, which he had obtained
in the manner above mentioned, he deposited
in the Western Bank of Oiasgow:
Soon after he, returned to this city and Con
tinued the importing business from the first
of January last, in Vcsey street, under the
name of "Wight - Brothers." Here he. seem
ed to prosper greatly. lle lived grandly, oc
cupied'a broWn stone front in "I'wenty-third
street, kept a span of horses, and, in fact,
went it decidedly strong.
His Career was very brilliant,: but very
brief ! In ninety days after its establishment
the firm of "WiollT Brioninns" collapsed !
And so ends the first part of this singular
story of Ninety Days in the Importing Busi
ness.
The second part is ,now performing before
Judge Oakley, at Superior. Court Chainßet's,
and will be continued on Thursday text, at
o'clock P. M.
Wight is a "Know Nothing" in this strange
affair. In consequence, we ask "'Thomson"
(without the P.) Where are the books of the
firm ? Where are the goodS ? Where is the
money ?"
The Election Riots in Baltimore
This city was the scene of continued and
violent rioting during the afternoon' nd even
ing. At the Eighth and Second Ward polls
the riot was intense. A fierce engagement
took place between the Democrats of the
Eighth Ward and the Americans of the Sixth.
and. Seventh Wards. Each party was .provi
ded with muskets and cannon, and. the :fight
was kept up for over two hours. Some fifty
persons were wounded, including a large
number seriously.
In the Second Ward the Democrats drove
off the Americans. The Fourth Ward Amer
icans came to the rescue, and•after a prolong
ed and fierce fight, re-took the polls and drove
the Democrats off, The fight lasted over an
hoar. Ono man was killed and thirty woun
ded, several fatally.
The Murderous Riots in Baltimore.
The election riots in Baltimore on the 4th
inst., were as serious as many a regular bat
tle.,
,The Republican reports that twenty-five
persons were either killed or mortally woun
ded, twenty-seven dangerously, fifty-one se
verely, and thirty-four slightly wounded, ma
king a total of ono hundred and thirty-seven
persons injured in the riots at this election.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 4
From the Bt. Louie Intelligencer
.ten Men Burned to Death.
On Friday night, between 12 and 1 o'clock,
our . City was the theater of one of the most
terrible events Which the Press is occasional
ly called upon to record, and which excite
even in the most Solid breasts a keen pang
of sympathy, not unmixed with horror.—
Since the Gasconade tragedy, nothing has de
curred in our city or its vicinity of the like
magnitude of calamity.
A furniture establishment in the northern
part of the city, a little siiest of Broadway;
and near the Angelroot street; caught fire
while ten men were asleep in the attic. Va
rious fire companies and crowds of citizens
assembled, and were all busily engaged in
saving the endangered property ; and aniid
all the noise and confusion, the ten sleepers
in the attic still slept on, in what was destiri
ed to be the sleep of death to seven of the
number.
No one knew of their being in the build
ing except the proprietor, who was busily en
gaged in removing and saving his own fami
ly, some of whom were invalids. The first
intimation the assembled multitude had of
the fact, Was in seeing three of them precip
itate themselves from a window and trap door
in the attic. Immediate efforts were made
to save the remainder, but it was too late.—
All communication was cut off by the fire,
and before any could be established by lad
ders or other:vise, the floors gave way, and
with the burning timbers and red hot bricks,
they were precipitated into the cellar, and
soon buried beneath the falling walls. The
floors gave way first in the center, and as
they came down, the doothed men could be
distinctly seen huddled together and clinging
to each other. A breathless silence pervaded
the horror-struck spectators, and at the mo
ment of the crash, the only other sounds that
broke upon the ear were the'Crackling of the
flames and the shrieks of the sufferers, which
could be heard above all the rest.
A simultaneous rush ' Was then made to
ward the burningrnins with it deSperate hope
that something Might be done to rescue them,
but the heat Was so intense that no one could
approach within many feet. A scene of con
fusion then ensued which beggars all descrip
tion ; the friends of the victims—and the rel
atives of some of them—running wildly
about, wringing their hands and wailing ; ev
erybody giving commands which nobody
obeyed, or instructions which nobody follow
ed ; crowds hurrying this way and that with
articles of property, a:nd upsetting each oth
er in their hurry ; every one anxious to do
something, and no one knowing what to do.
Finally, the fire burnt out and the crowd
dispersed, except a few stragglers who re
mained to assist, under the direction of the
Coroner and Fire Inspector, in removing the
rubbish to recover the remains of the dead.
By yesterday noon the work of removal
was concluded, and fragments of the seven
bodies were extricated, butt. so incinerated,
that all recognition was impossible. Indeed,
except for p ,rtions of the skulls remaining,
they could not have been distinguished as
the remains of human bodies.
The names of the deceased were as follows:
John Moller, William Geseker, Frederick
Heuelman, Herman Heuelman, Herman Al
ler, Henry 'Rentmer and Herman Obenhaus.
All of them were natives of Germany, and
none but the two first mentioned have rela
tives in this country. Moller leaves a, wife
and two children living on the Merrimac, and
Geseker leaves two brothers living in this
city. The property destroyed. belonged to
Caspar and William Prange, and was insur
ed for $6OO, in the State Mutual Insurance
Office. Loss above insurance is estimated at
from $2,500 to $3,000. The origin of the
fire is not known.
The Death of John M. Clayton
The distinguished Senator from Delaware,
Hon. JOIIN M. CLAYTON, is no more. lie
died at Dover, at 7 o'clock on Sunday eve
ning. His health has been failing for some
months past, and a recent attack had inspired
his friends with more than usual alarm, Alt
it was still hoped that he would recover.
Unhappily this anticipation has not been
realized. His death will be deeply lamented
by the American people of all parties, and
all sections of the Union. Mr. CLAYTON rep
resented his State during a very extended
period of time in the National Councils, and
ocoupied the office of Secretary- of State in
the• Cabinet of Gem TAYLOR. His qualities
of head and heart were of the highest- order,
and he deservedly- ranked among the most
eminent statesmen of the nation. In all the
political contests waged during the existence
of the old Whig party, his voice was hoard
high above the din of all ordinary combatants
in its defence, and his arm was mighty among
the mightiest in dealing stalwart blows upon
its antagonist. In the contest just ended,
however, he occupied, we believe, a neutral.
position, and announced his intention to act
hereafter in public life regardless of all party
trammels. No man in the American Senate
has of late years commanded more attention.
and respect than Mr. C., and even those who
differed from his views could not but respect
the ability and vigor with which they were.
advocated and expressed. His departure
will be mourned as a national bereavement.
Washington Affairs
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.
Thomas S. Cunningham, one of the Dem
ocratic Presidential electors of Pennsylvania,
has accepted the appointment as Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, to
supply the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Judge Burrill.
The expenditures of the Quarter Master's
Department of the Army for the last fiscal
year, amounts to nearly seven millions of
dollars. , •
Gen. Harney was, at last official accounts,
rapidly completing his arrangements. for set
tling the Indian difficulties in Florida.
There is no truth in the rumor brought by
the last European mails that the United States
desire to become a party to the Congress at
Paris. -
A VETERAN.-It gratifies us to record strong
ly marked instances of patriotic fidelity, and
that duty becomes more pleasant when we
are able to localize the incident in our midst.
Mr. JAcon KEICIILINE, an old citizen of
Philadelphia,. aged eighty years, who has vo
ted for . fifty-nine years of his life, and never
polled any other than a Democratic vote, (tho
father of that earnest laborer in the Demo
cratic cause, Col. Wm. H. ExicnurrE,) walk
ed to the polls on the 4th inst., and deposited
his vote for JAMES BUCHANAN.
He has never missed a Presidential elec
tion since that of Washington, and has voted
at every Gubernatorial election held in this
State. Eternal praise to the memory of such
a citizen—may his days bo long in the land!
—Pennsylvanian.