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Q GOODRICH, EDITOR.
To7mktifiiisriay, December 28,1850.
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P ••rts. 4Ssims' mod Elwelralsw pikes.
Election el inneente Midge& •
The ratification, by the ,pan pe it the tat eke.
thin, by a tumidity of seventy-five thawed, of tbe
amendment to the Constitution, providing for an
Elective Judiciary, shows how dearly the public
mind is impaired with the idea that the present
antiquated regime ha. become unseiteil to the spirit
of the age, and that they are Envious to died a ra•
dical change.
ThiS subject, in less than a year s ill come before
the public fir their t prtion. But a few months will
elapse before the Democratic State Convention
which has been called for the special purpose, will
assemble to place in nomination candidates for the
Supreme bond of the State. It is now high time
that publicAltedlicm was aroused, that the delegates
to the Judicial Convention may be able to place
men in nomination who will meet the expectations
of the public, and fully carry out the principles and
the spirit otpmgress and reform which have brought
about this shadien in the marine' of appointing
nor judicial officers. -
Tame is a great' responsibility resting oport this
Convention. It depends in j e great measure, upon
its action whether the experiment shall be fully - and
fairly tried, of she people electing their own judges.
If wisdom and prudence, and a desire to advance
public welfare control its deliberations—if public
expectation, be fully met by the nomination of
sound, able and honest men, as its candidates, the
policy will be settled, and the principle that the
people are capable of electing their own judges be
fully established. If, on the other hand, the wel
fare of the priblic,'and the character and ability of
the Supreme Bench his ribt the only ctonsidewation ;
if ancient politicians are to be rewarded for past
subserviency, bj being elevated to that responsible
station ; if men be not Selected only with reference
to their ability and moral character, thegreatest in
jury will be done to a principle which is most es
sentially Democratic.
We are aware that the frierrds of old systems.
give up their florae theories,with great reluctance
This was seen in the tenacity with which most of
the olrflawyeni, of the State clung to theappointing
power—in the systematic but secret effort made to
deceive the people and defeat the inmendment, by
tickets circulated in every district - in the Staid by
money from Philadelphia, and placed in the hands
of reliable persons to be forthcoming at the polls.—
The same coterie will now endeavor to bring the
new system into 'disrepute by foisting upon the peo
ple candidates who are unworthy of support, and
until for the station of a Supreme - Judge.
Strictly; the election c f Judges should not be a
party question. There is, however, less danger of
bad men being ch,sen, if nominations are made by
the representative parties, than if candidates came
informally before the people. Each party, if it has
any respect for itself, will select the very beat men
it can. In the other case, by ministering to local
prejudices, by partzan excitement, or by fraud and
bargains, unfit men might ocpasionally, get uponlhe
beach. The rinfififications of the candidates are
their only clouds for the Ace of a Supreme Judge
of the State of Pennsylvan it,' Their fitness, capac
ity and moral honesty should entitle them to sup
port, and should-be fully disclosed and investigated
by. the voter. Any other course, woold!inerge this
most responsible duty of the Citizen into a mere
scramble for office—a blind subserviency to party.
For ourselves we shall support the nominees of the
Democratic Convention, provided none of them are
grossly unfit to be upon the Supreme - Bench. Its
ermine shall not be diagraced, knowingly,. by any
set of oars. We will noidOpport, directly or indi.
may, any eandidailsi•srlose: moral character and
legal attainments do not entitle him to tbe.respect
of the oommunity. *all support no man, who
as a Judge of our District COM% is notoriously in-
capable of properly discharging the ditties which
devolve upon him: Ws shaksupport no man, un
less he be eminently quaked, ir hose nominal.
is brought about by bargain and sale,or by reports
to sectarian feeling. Ws have too high a respect
for the station which is to be filled, for that;
It is a p ro per time now for the friends of •
and able Judiciary to express their views upon
mib*t. We should strike at the beginning' of all
abuses, and not wait until they have grown into
magnitude. Let it be understood that mere party
dimnplin will not carry an incapablik man with°
&Imre Bench; that the people are anxious to
experiment stall be fairly tried; ind we'shall be
care of good canlidates upon both sides—voting for
whom, we can be enrtain we are redeeming the
characterof the Supreme Bench, and placing men
upon it, who will, in all meg, be guided by wis
dom and rectitude,
Inc INCITED STATICS ltrsaaateab P011111401t.-.•We
call the attention of out readers to the advertise.
merit of this Conspenv in another 'eolonin. Being
rifle of the oldest and best established Companies in
the Union, it offers. mearities ad inducements to
persons wishing their lives insured, seldom to be
met with. J. E. CASPIIILII, Athens, Pa., is the
Agent. •
Ottr As I. • is no " Regular Contpbutor " an.
norm:ad kw the North Brand Ikrnocrist, we wonder
who is to tike charge . of the bantling, during the
tender days of its intimacy, while the Senator- is ab•
sent? We shoold'ot be surprised if time would
•showy Meenwhde we shallfreep a sharp look oat
to me the optimises of the Anfet Midget."
ACIXIMINTAL DICATIL-.-We learn with mach repot
that if J. PATIMZ, brodow of H. W. Patrick, Esq.,
Albans, was found dead in the woo& near Tank
!stoma, a law days sines, under such .eircsnatan
ass as to mho it certain, that he had accidtmotally
shat himself: •
The AlTaMem.
The organs ofof the Pre"ideal have been boo" for
=We weeks pew,is Pwelelgslig fa ' Amite
the:tests nacessary fiorperfict otthode4 lathe oyes
of the Ad aft-s alailliaft s ill Orlt, the
*form open widolt - allifille Waal AIM espet,d
Maiand. .11 is orkihriwid,* the:Men& sflbe
asemed4dimpuNat rawiimsidirwl us I'S: maid's,
and those who hare ant fell Gri' in that 'Comoro.
fake-la ellatilala dietaliallias 011 0 s,_
sent Administration. That die imam Am-rot WY
!bale who have full faith that Meanies of moesures
adopted by the hie sesaian of Congnamcostain the
Arad specific, the peat rismall, which mto bad
all for W pping weasels" we -Cain is sop ost: ,
tering how; polled air the tesebfird 'smote - or
sactinsmg villsdian, is ~.Juts ilise,eintaid sad
brotherly lore wassi as main= and uslemlis-;
need last to is Alassuel wdwiaiiltlNisa far emir
Seam* or seppott. it is also eal!, epee goad am
that baileys Fuessoste haspniase a loam
eentabilig Wm mese decimation&
It may seem somewhat singebn, that the mm
who, when a eandidse, was stigmatired aim " aF
olitionist,” and not entirely without teem, should
when by the Nation'. miifortune be Ihm became its
chief ruler, set up as a test principles and require
ments which the party that elected him never re
cognized, and in direct opposition to the actions and
professions of his past life.
That such is the fact, there can be no disputing :
and as a consequence, the Whig party of the North
which has heretofore been distinguished for the
real and unanimity With which it advocated the
doctrines of Freedom, bas suddenly become full of
el:inverts to the new opinions of the President, and
alive with patriots deeply interested, at this critical
juncture, in the preservation .of the Union. That
party can no longe'r be relied upon a patty, for the
defence and snpport of principles of which they
' have for years claimed to be the guardian, and on
ly sincere friends. .While Gen. Tam= lived; and
his policy was clearly to preserve free from the en
croachments of Slavery our Free Territory, the
Whig party in the North were ready to's man to
inveigh agamst the extension of the evil, and sought
y every means to show their fidelity to the Princi
ple. But that brave and patriotic man. wts no soon
er removed from the helm, by an inscrutable and
mysterious dispensation - 6i Divine PrOvidence, and
another had taken his place, who gave evidence of
ess honesty of purpose mid firmness of ebsrumer,
than the mind of the Mit party, like than of cer
tain, statesmen 4 pas undergone a great change, and
thOse who were loudest in their denunciations of
Slavery, and most severe in their rebuke of the sub
serviency of the Democracy, have Ili ' At mice be
come nervous about "agitation," andlremblingly
alive to the imminent danger of "disunion." The
great party, which has emphatically been this Anti-
Slavery party of the North, "Which has ceased and
coquettedjvith.the Abolitionists, is now, by virtue
of the power and patronage of a designing Presi
dent, many steps beyond what the Democratic par
ever was, in the palmievt days of Pull's admin
istration. •
We wish the Whip—end especially the Free
:Soil Whigs—of the North, joy of their Aecidency,
No. 2 ! And we predict, that in•lese than a twelve
month, that party will be numbered with the things
that were. A part will be engulfed,upresistingly,
in the maelstroom of the " Union part)? "—a desig.
nation for the aggregation of political raeralities—
a union of all political inconsistencies, incongruities
and heterogenousness—black and and white—"the
puritan and the black-leg "—while the kcfiest por
tion, ostracised and denounced by the Hiawera that
be," will find themselves without leaders, and do.
yen front the pale of " the party."
We have seen something of the %roaring and
influence of the patronage of Government, when
applied for the . purpose of debauching public senti
silent' That it should ever be so applied, i4a deep
and burning shame, and derogatory to the Imo-Dirk of
our free institutions. Let us look buck but a few
years : When the Wilmot Proviso was Snit intro
duces! into Congress, it met the =nelson and frrs-'
vat of the whole North. There,was no cippositket
to the Principle which it was intended to carry out,
The lime and wanner of offering it, was an that the
most supple tool of, the Slave power dare complain
ot. It was said : " You are embanaesing the Ad
ministration, and delaying the conclusion of the
" war, by pressing your Proviso at this time. Wait
" until the war is ended, and territory serprind,
"and we will be reedy to join yea is placing open
" it such seerietions as shall revue the pamarility
" of its exiseirmg the ems of Seeley see iselte—
"Them is no irdleriasee in principle; bet we think
your AmendmeM easensanable sad emoodlool Ow."
Legislateres,Joreeess, and rabic .ms beopsoll to
avow their adhesion to what was a traomens silos
celebrated Ordinance of the inmiettal iwnnalson,
which had done so much for the growth and peo•
pin*. of what was once the Notthwestent Territo
ry. 'Messed the !louse, without Disunion raising
its hideous bead, and only laded in the Senate, be
cause Jona Davis talked out the last hours of the
session. But for the, t I , cistunale occurrere, the
Wilmot Proviso mini w have been the law of
tire land, with no State trotting in arms, and threat.
ening secession, and all excitement, agitation and
danger have been avoided. The Revery question
would have slept in peace and qoiet; tor its seine
queni discussion has been caused by the extremes'
and dangerous assumptions of the Slaveri-propa.
Banda.
'Dining the interrepunn between the two Con
gresses, the South had iiine look around grid dayire
plans to thwart the exported wis4es of the people.
A Southern President, wielding a dangerous amount
of patronage, was the first engin whieh was buil
to bear. The same phakorm was laid down then
~a pow. The Union proclaimed "That it Ina no
remora nvisidation tothe Administarics to be a friend
of the Wilmot Promo." A delicate way of an
nouncing the escwourtnicatio' nplptweellittieat. So,
poor, deluded, sacrificed Wbiga,swe have disposi
tion to " mock at your calamity 'and Istegh when
your Isar conteth." We eau sympathies with you,
for we too have been under the ban of the Admin.
heathy, Mel subject to the displeasda of those we
had labored to sank.
Notwithstanding the Proviso a was ground from
which no Northern man could recede? the effects
of the pressor' of porpone was soon mongoloid.
A change came over throe whose business - is 1%,
mandmatue And monmi public sentiment. Promi.
mem men in - the North tell beiove the vomiter, and
wevrvisrarded ivith Mire. The poison was sown
broadoest, in the . shape of mistopmentation end
lidoehood, until 1010, ben been lamentable.
*bas Mande the Novd4 nowt Is she tree to her
own Mimeos, to the interests of net annoy, an boo
She mmemnbed Wove d schemes of the Slavelve.
sus 1 - Mehl that ao army .traitma should have
blo t
been nourished in her bosom. Be eedoc
*lie wiles of the dispensers of - :Are have
dealled mesitat:ler make the _ ! be more
e
eimephdette. With
. 0 hew 1 ::_, - "4„pi l ppir
lb" *die lIINIML . 4* Ninth Q.- ...; - /sea I.
4
t i st no 440,1sOriih.-to 11 iheitirosilikeen
43.14 - _ 11$0 whnkvennia :of
heme t amstiseinuag ,be edema l air eclair N /M
-al simemiad, Omsk Gr'al, that stain is removed)
they tide, lereet amble to • mod upierderdre. imam:
ems brought to beat epee diem, and have fallen.
le err own good oldCouunauwealth, trowsismds
the amount I She is, neither celebrated for dm
ileftesul.rt cognrity of her politicians, . mu Odin-
gashed . far. Eerie finesses Mid 1 tudepeolleseir.-- I
Prr.k."-Ilf .. 1 .1 4 1 1 -..-.. 11 , 11 ...-; I . 00 !!".4 tefOlutirsa 410tgel
ing oar Sank - ft to vat for the Proviso ' with Beat
meeimity yet the work of debswebing public *ru
diment emmeeneed here, end wan mod ...awful
• our borders.. There it scarcely A Democratic
pees that hes dared In stand up and defend the,-
swore of Freedom; befall have been constantly ile..
tiding and beliehyg it, at the baring of those Srho
have control of certain infleential papers. They
have Mewed in the path marked out for them, as
sheep follow their leader. There am few of nor
prominent men bold enough to avow their belief
in doetrines which the whnle State asserted. but a
few years ago— though we knoW of many who
• agree with us in principle. if oar whip friends
deem these admissions are humiliating, they will
at lent give us credit for bringing to. their mind
their el manifest destiny."
"To this completion atost i you tame at
h
The power which has wrought this great change
in the Democratic party,is now put ktrih to effect
the same results in. the Whig party. That party,
compered in the rums, of men whose only princi
ples are the losses Ind "flaw, will mit withstand
with as much honor the attack upon itsconsistency,
as did the Demoaratie party. It *ill bend like a
reed before - the blast. It will hasten to give in its
allegiance to the new dynasty—to swear leaky to
io the new requirements. If theta is an honest
Whig—one who is not ready to bow the knee to
again wish him joy of Jona Truce, the
Second. The First crushed a huge monopoly so
build ups new party and make himself Pieshlent
—the Second isnow crushing the hopes of those
who elevated him to power, for the same design.
Seth, will hereafterbe remembered alike, and go
down to posterity despised, their names a by-word
and reproach, and a monument of warning to am.
bilious men.
Operatics arias Fsegieive Stave Lair.
We invite the attention of ;our readers, and es.
pecially of those who like ourselves were willing
to see the workings of the Fugitive SlavaLaw, to
the proceedings before the Commissioner at Phila
delphia, which we publish in another column. It
is a report the most favorable of any published, for
the Commissioner. It demonstrates plainly what
we have asserted that the law afforded no security
o the free black man that he might not at any mo
ment be dragged into Slavery. Here is a negro
who. is a freeman, who is Liken before the proper
officer, his case summarily dispoeed of, and on the
Oath of men one of whom admits he is under prose
cation for• kidnapping, is hurried off to Slavery, des.
pits the oaths of two colored persons that he is a
freeman, and of his own protestations that an hoot
will suffice to bring witnesses toprore his freedlm,
which short space is denied him.
. What manner of man is this Mr. Commissioner
lecasmix, who disposes of his fellow men to slavery
with such arrogance and tyranny 7 Ills conduct in
this case is most insufferable and unjustifiable. It
is the spirit of a "ethyl displayed upon a more
bed theatre. He has covered himself wi h disgrace,
and will be hireed at by every man in whose breast
bums a "ark of humanity or feeling. The attempt
to anfose• the law, after this manner, is an outrage
on the law itself—a tyranny weinhy of the Inquisi
tion in its. bloodiest ilays. Is this Commissioner
willing to become a tyrant to carry oat the designs
of perjurers and kidnapper..? And yet to such an
anent has the public mind of the State been de.
beached by the politicians who follow the lead of
the Slave-holders, that the infamous cooduct•of
mamma meets not enly apology bet s misdkd as a
high aims. It islndled patriotism and a sacred is.
gard feedlot Compromises of the Constitatimi. The
Pennsylvanian says—r` The promptitude and de
cision of Mr. liwasnae, in remedial; the slave to
bin wistar, toper bearing the help, monot be too
highly commended." A most serpendleled wiser
fian, wonky id the unblushing effecinseiy of its an.
thor. Fromm, niff the evidence and see if you
meld lied it in yetmAisarts to ease* a awn to sla
very upon such evidence.
To brand M still more infamous the condom of
the Commirsioner,. and the severity and danger of
the law, the emu to whom it wes pretended the
colorsd poison belonged, upon seeing him, at , ones
&dam, that ke sees not taw steer 7newed is the war
real, and did not belong to him. So as the Mar
shal stiff had him in his custody, the schemes of the
Kidneiperis were foiled and the man returned with
the Marshal to Philadelphia. lime is a commen
tary upon the Fugitive Slave Law, More powerful
and convincing than all eiplanations or arguments,
and which would overthrow a thousand speeches in
its favor. What say you, Freemen, nth ile going
quietly to your work some morning s to be coin
inantkd by an officer to swill in returning to sla
eery, a man. whom you have strong reasons, for be
hewing is e Freeman, as was Adam Gibson . ; and
failing to do so, to be ma lcled in • heavy fine ?
Hare you nut a riglt to altdi good and sufficient
proof that the alleged logitive ovree:rirvice to an
other, and is not the victim of Ki kippers
In the present ease the tannic ion of the out
age was prevented by the pmessie of the °Meets
and by the honesty of the _pretended owner. Bat
most Fromm be dirpeedent upon
_the: chance of
being refereed, when once art the bends of Kidnap
per.? Seek , a reliance would be dangerous indeed.
lithe person fell into-Meilen& of an honest mave.
through mistake, of course be would promptly lee
lily the wrong, hot what is to prevent Kidnappers
from carrying on their inkimous business?
It needs no soeb decisions and ascii :pony as
marked this case to make this law odious. It is )
in its fairest light, repugnant to the North. The
South will advance &shown interests by smoothing
down its obnoxious features, while they render its
operation none the, less favorable for themselves.
Otr On oar first page will be found a piece of
poetry by "Romeo," which ha merits far aborts
the meal rano of newsier/sr artieks. Aa !Ogg
is doe The mak* for its tardy amosmemee, ceased
by its being mislaid, mod basing jest lessrostely
=me oo fight
I Awlther Riciluseelm i la Use Field':
•
During the kw years'we have been engaged in
the publication of the a ifrelifOrd Reporter," we
have had °antilop to dingier with -a few' Demo.
embir 611°11 ysastk is n 'lligfeti ti l k • it could
brolly be intideied, totif tiM 11104081 ms flilenelli
ddetidtry of his Pinciples, 'should - !near the
e'remity''of those whcrilid not agree . with hhn, or
-whose sel&duress saw more of gain in an opposite
direction. Thor, who differ with us,. have cep*
gamily made several attempts to establish "
or
peen which should promulgate their peculiar
views, and give theta a standing and influence in
the pary which they not:they merit nor can attain.
be find nwriretnant 'was made in 11146, by-Gets.
Parrett. Mr. Wit.unr wan then the Demean&
sun didite for Congress; his vote on the Tara—
being the only mean * from Pennsylvania who
rood for the net d 1114111—bad given his views up
on 'that qesition importance, and his enemies
sought to deism hint, upon that issue. Mr. Werra
was bombi into the field in opposition, and to
boner promote .the choices of the bolters, Gen.
Parron maned the " Bradjited Settler"- This abor
tion was printed at Montrose, and but two or therm
numbers made their appearance. it was a trifling
affair. but is a key to subsequent events.
In 1848, under the same anspires, and sustained
(a promised so to be) by the same men who had
been conspicuous in the campaign of 1846, Col.
D. M. Bina., started the " Brad/ord - Dement:lC' .
The materials were mostly owned- by Messrs.
Parros, Casa and PIOLLET. The ostensible
ject of the paper was the support ol Gen. Cars, but
really to defeat DAVID Wilmer. The bolting can
didOe, this time, .ras JONAH Besawrsa. Being
m 4 f,
signatly who by the voice ol the people, the
concern lan labial some twenty eight weeks, and
-finally died oral Jesuit. In. this memorable
campaign, the Untrue, with which that clique re
garded Dim Wra.surr and the it Ilteporter". found
lull vent in the vilest abuse and most gnus misrep
resentations.
.In 1949, the grand and magnificent plan of elect
ing a North Branch Canal ticket, was conceived by
some of the Very sagacious minds of this region.
To be bojne into offices by this , plan, were men,
who conk! not command from the people a respect
able support. The " Reporter" did not favor that
brilliant scheme, and consequently added triple
bitterness to the gall with which it was already re
garded. It was necessary to have an organ to play
their tunes, pnd after Me proper doses i ltad been
scientifically administered, Mr: WARD Xras pre
railed upon to invest some of his surplus means .n
the operation. In perfect kee u ping with the affini
ty between the parties, the materiels upon which
the " Democrat " had been printed, were embraced
in the common stock, and the qtionrLis and bitter
enemies met in a fiaternil embrace, brought to
gether by an insfnetire hatted of DiVID WILMOT,
and a laudable desire to reform the Democracy of
Bradford Isom the error of their ways. Mr. WAND,
who couldn't keep Ns name oat of print, was an
nounced as a " Regular Contributor," and
Wits, Foasev just from the Panisyleankm office,
the North Pennsyfronion started ell with a full ,
press of 'canvass. It is hardly necessary to advert
the sickness and death of that paper--tout if any
ono wonkl have a correct understanding of the men
who induced him to come to Bradford, let themto
to Were FORNEY. lie ran tell a tale of dkception,
parsimoniousness,
.and positive abuse, teltich
doesn't redound greatly to the credit cf those who
harp already inveigled three different persons
,into
the expensive operation of printing a paper for
heir use.• (By the way Wits,- - if you are satisfied
there are Worse people in Bradford, than we, let
as balance the account by rubbing all the past from
the slate of memory.)
The North Pennsylvanian, having gasped, and
gasped, and finally "kicked the bucket," anew
victim was sought kn. ldr. Warm bad become
perfectly satisfied;andibesides the bad lock of the.
paper was laid to his illstars. Aber furnishing the
materials, after keeping the paper alive over half
a year, by his money, besides sustaining it's rope
tatiart t 7 doing the writing, it was hardly generous
in those who had coaxed Wm into the scrape, to
swear that "there was no Me in trying to establish
a paper as long as Ward was connected evidi
However the thing remained in state quo—no one
being ready to fork ova the needful, er tits nwpon
sib's to priniers and paper hunishers. it was an
nounced that Mr, Samocason was ready'-to edit it,
but wooklr.'t be iesponsiftle for a cent's outlay.—
So there was no pregmes nut until Gen. Patios
paid his Normal visit to Bradford, for the purpose
of shaighaming whatmee might becrooked. The
General was as deeply impressed with the necea.
city of having a mad Democratic paper in Brad
lord, as be was in Mill, when be sent his Sun to
klentmen to print the 4 ' Settkr " to %delicate the la
,riff of 1942, and to defeat ,Mr. Wilmot for his op.
position to that tariff, and himself perambulated
Vie district for the santralpaqmse. It is now pre-
tended that the General fought of Mr. Witte the
materials which the latter had purchase l for the
Nortk Prinasyleankm, which united Scith the old
Democrat type were in one office. Arrangements
were made to set the concern into operation, and
the only thing lacking was the money.. The Gen,
had brought !ith him from Washington $lOO sent
here for " liliekionary purposes," and being proba
bly part of the'. fund raised there to defeat Mr.
Wit.sorr lest lall. This being too small a sum, the
General lei for Washington, and alter a lapse of a
hew weeks the money has been forthcoming from
some source, and yesterday the lama piper the
General has been. concerned in, made its appear.
ance, with the title of the "Neill; Brands De stoat;"
Gcoace Saeor.ssoa, editor and proprietor; Fpari
as Stern, associate; H..L. Snsw, publisher.
Now,we deemed it our duty to mettles the Dem
oasis of fkadlonl against thedeception we believed
was pastime In the establishment Of the "North
Postesnlemmiam,” and we view this . " new dodge"
as stiff more disreputable. It la a notorious trek
that ibis paper toppliei the place of the
wins; that it is the nucleus around:which wither
those discordant elements which baseborn so un
easy for yew; !ho have opposed every principle
the Democracy of Bradford held dear, arid Whme
hearts are filled with rancor, 'amounting utmost to
personal hatred, towards those, who, steadfast in
the support orptinciple, enjoy the confidence of
that Democracy. ' That they have a single emo
tion in their breasts for the welfare of the Demo..
cuts of Bradford,,ls a shallow pretence ; they are
actuated by envy, malevolence and a desire br
office. 'Raving once tasted of the emoluments of
officer, bestowed upon 'them by that Dernoemey,
they are now nay to rend it into a thensind pie.
moat the bidding, of scab men. as Bachmann and
Forney. These liteliggei and Ilte hope of . being
Marls Its
the masons wliyethi wiforthilring Dentocrit" has
node ial appeinmee.
h is equally .notorions that . Geone Sninehron
has not a prenyjavistad
thein the establishment' cif
whiehtelifiiiiiiem Pd ike rlwithrr is
Ire ie' 3 lo: y Winged pecnniariy in it. Helm•
canal into' dot joint stork My name—a name
wh'ielt rho Liniocraar of Bradford here - lately sap.
portal at the ballot -biz for the office of Benator-
It will driiiinort of thin whoetvotrui have - aided
to elevate him, With the utmootiorprise, tone him
in inch company. It shall be our planarity make
apparent the-devices which have brought about this
mob, whereby weAhall rid oar mind of i load
which hail laid heavily upon it icier since the La
cyvillo
Conkm"..,
There isms rtification we realise from read
ing the first notate -a t
of this paper Its foomiens are
sgthirfisti that thii,Detmommts of Bradford are too
firmly entrenched behind their pencipkts to sutler
from open attacks, and consequently have restated
to deception. The men who own the Democral
have been accustomed to a rich treat in the former
stage of this paper, by the abosy.of the principles
of the Democracy, and by hearing them ridicided
as " abolitionists" and "fanatics.' The same col
umns, now, are to advocate
- professedly the doc
trines of Freedomi It Inuit be galling, to those
who would overthrow our principles to be obliged
to embrace the
. very principles they have so often
:m
denimed, in order to accomplitt theirpurpose.
—But this is intended only as an announcement
of the advent of the metamorphosed North Penn.
"Iranian—and we will endeavor next-week to
make some explanations, which may satisfy the
Democracy of " some things."
numbered deeldest to Jew Lied.
The Richmond (Va.) Enquires of Dectlmber 25th
helical, following painful rumor :
There was a rumor yesterday that the steamer
from Wilmington totharleston, with Jenny Line,
drihrti board, was lost in the tempest on Sunday
night. We have nothing to confirm the report—in.
thial, the Telegraph wires South, by which alone
iooultl hare come, are said to be out of order.
• learn through passenger, who came from
Charleston on,that night, that ther,storm was very
violent, the baggage floating on the a ater which
washed over the. deck, and the paseengerit were
rejoiced to escape from their perilormaituation.
T_ t r
*rut of a Fiwdire Slave.
'SUM the Philadelphia North Maar ;can, Dee. 21.
Or,Sattuday a youn ,, e colored man, calling him
self Adam Gibson, and who has lately lived at
liteJtikCiinlen, N. 1., was arrested in die street,, in
the Nantheamem part of die city, by three white
men, named George Alberti, Wm. ItlcKinslev and
Robert &nth, upon the pretended allegation of
stealing chickens, but really as an alleged fugitive
slave.
No warrant was exhibited to the prisoner. fig
resistel, when a pisto) was placed at his head and
be was compelled to submit. The young black
man was taken before Edward p. Ingraham, Esq ,
P. S. CommissiOner; under the Fisgitive Slave Act.
The Commissioner informed the prisoner that he
had been arrested as a fugitive from labor, and that
it was alleged that he was Emery Rice, a slave„
and the property of Wet. Knight, of Cecil candy,
Maryland.
Wm. S. Pierce and T. P. Hanbost,• &qrs., ap.
?eared for the prisoner, and asked that the bear.
ing ol the case-might be delayed until they could
send lor. David Paul Brown anal Charles Gibbons,
Esqrs., to act as counsel for the alleged fugitive.—
These gentlemen not appearing, alter a reasonable
delay, Commissioner Ingraham observed that the
law in relation to the case required the matter to
be proceeded with in a summary manner, and that
the examination most go on at once.
Wm. F. Lehman,' Jr. Esq., whO appeared as
remised try"the agent of the reputed owner of die
law, offered in evidence a power ol attorney, dated
Oseober 12, 1850, and attested by Alderman Mc-
Kinley, betting forth the fact that Emery Rice Ab
sconded horn hiimaster, and containing the an
drwity for his arrest.
Mr. Pierce then moved to adjourn the case until
114 morning, to enable the prisoner to secure coon
selarrun a proofs, &c.
The Commissioner refused this application, and
the hearing went on.
lames E. Price, sworn—l know Wm. Knight; I
knew him in Maryland ; was acquainted with tis
negroes; I know Emmy Rice; he was a slave be'
longing to Mr. Knight; I knew him to be imeh
lived near Mr. Knight's and often saw Emery. Rice;
I moved away in MS; Knight lived 'ton the Sas
afras river, near Fradericktown; the last tune I
remember or seeing him.in Mariland is five)rears
ago ; since then 7 have frequently seen him 1111 oar
city markets; never gave any tug:mutation to have
him arrested:
[The witness ackdowleilg*l- on being tightly cruse-examined, that be bad been bound over. .40
the Quarter Beasions on the edema of k.:"llmtng. ..1
George T. Price , swornl knew •,11r. tint,
and that he had aidave named Kittery lice s saw
him there, bon , cannot now recognise this boy,
(meaning the prisoner) as being the person ; 'I also
know that Emery escaped; 1 wrote to Mr. Knight
last spring, about May-,•-1 think, in relation to the
boy; 1 haverhail s pome couVeraatkm withyMr. Al
berti about the bey ; Alberti was pointed .tint to me
about three years ago; since then 1 hare spoken to
him—whentsprer he would ask me any question
about iiegross, then 1 would answer him; do not
recollect the boy.
At this state of the examination,' D Pinavid I
Brown, Est; entered the room r and took charge of"
the case on the part of the boy.
Mr. Lehman closed his case. •
Mr. Pierce again asked for opportunity to pre
pare his defence. To do so, he slid it wrld only
be necessary to send 10f witnesses. He said they
were important, and could be got in one hour.--.
He named a number of pontoons who could testify
as to his freedom.
Mr. Lehman said the persons named wets all
claimed as fugitive slaves, find opposed the motion.
The Commissioner said that a proper adherence
to the spirit of the ars would not permit nor allow of
any postponement t •
So the motion Was refused.
Sam Anderson, colored, sworn-1 know the boy
his name is Adam Gibson havi known him all
my lifetime; when first knew him in Cecil coun
ty, with Mr. Robert Robertson, and he was the
Orof Parson Davis ;1 left there in 1843; I
hewir his mother say that she was the prop
eity of Parson Davis; have nest heard al his.
being the propetty of Mr. Knight; I hate always
onierstoorl that Gibson was to be set free on the
death of his master; I knew one boy that Knight
haiti,kis name was Emery; the prisoner Is not the
same person; I was born in 1823 ; Emery Ifiee
was about the height of Gibson, bat not quite in
stoat; Rice was not so dark 'as Gibson; I never
was a slave; 1 lived with Mr. Bushel; about eight
or nine miles. from Mr. Knight's; Parson Darts
riled before I left, and then Adam wient to live with
Mr. Davit he Kent county. ,
Daniel Wilkins, colored, sworn—l live , ; in /et..
my, at Feuersville; I know the bqty Adael; have
known him ten or twenty years; liknew his father
and mother in Cecil County; I did not knoll his
name then, he was so small; his mother's name - is
Charity; she.lived with Parson Davis, in Ken
I have been at his_ place, and saw Charity ya)
ty there ; 1
!eh Maryland about twenty five years ago; l was
in Maryland niiti 1845, and saw dm boy there
then, and also sawkii - mother; the watthen free;
he was with his mother ; I never knew. Mr.l4dert;
and newer heartiat. Adam belonged to Mo se ,
"Cation; I lin now Amu 4; 1 4 " or foct y.aisjea n
old ; I wile a ohm% and belonged to a person nem.
ed Sutphen.; I bought my time.
Mr. Blown next read an extract of the will 01
Henry
,Divis, dated March 10 / 1840, and recorded
in Kent county; Md. The Will set forth that
in •ibe last,..day. of the rear socceeding thj m e i n
`which be atimild • die; his slaves ehankl be handed
over to the State Colonization Society, to b e s ,„ /
In Arne., His slaves were all named in the will
Among the names, that of Adam appears.
Tle..leighniony._owissh sides here clasp!, •
Mesers.-Brown and Fierce then reviewed 0,„
evidence tddersd to prove the identity oldie pm_
°nor / and contended that it was entirely too m ils%
and mdefinite in its character to warrant the Co m .
mipidester in sending him back again into bondag e .
- Mr. Lehman briefly replied.
Commissioner Ingraham _decided -that the ea ,,
wan modem. Go behalf of the claimant, and es,
cofirtiogliiiiimmded the Ingkive. .
The tee Pee Mere wire PreMPIII Plejared,e e d
the slave placed in the ccstody of A. K. Ma l t s
&quire, is Marshal, to be conveyed to M es :
land.
Etttuery Philadelphia at ten o'clock the teem ,
night. in 1 Baltimore cars, in charge of the.prep.
Of Onfleel*
The arrest carotidal moth excitement among, th e
colored popolbtion, and drew e large crowd of
black people to the State Hogse, where The rat , e
was heard. A strong"bOy of policemen, detailed
by Police Paistrehrl Keyier, prevented any w ee d,
of the mice.
The prisoner was taken from the State Home to
the Railroad Depot, corner of Eleventh acd M at .
ket streets, under a 'guard of twenty-love of the
Marshal's police, in charge of Lieutenants Ett„ ,
Young and Watkins--the,Manihal himself taking
command a the whole in person.
A mob of negroes and.wbites followed the prig.
oner and guard to the depot, bat no demonstration
..of violence or. attempt to rescue (was made by th e
blacks.
The Marshal of Police, with.one or two of hi*
lieutenants and twelve men, accompanied the Aim
numberto Gray's Ferry. - A iof excited colored
men pursued thecars as far 811 Broad and Primo
streets, in the outskirts of the town. - -
At dray's Ferry, - Marshal Keyser seleCted th ree
of his men—officer Pickering,. of Spring Garden,
officer Corson, of the Northern Liberties, and oft.
cer Neff, of Moyamensing—to accompany the In.
gitive to the State of Maryland. •
Proceedings of the XXXIst Congress.
SECOND SESSION.
%Timm:nos, Dec. ta.
Searrse.—Beinttora Bright - of Indiana, and sonde
of Louisiana, appeared and took. ditir seats,
Mr. Pierce presented restitutions of, the Miry.
land, Conisitutional Convention, sustaining the
Compromise measures. They were ordered to le
protest. .
Various petitions and reporti were present e d .
The. Chair laid on the table the report of dark.
perintrinient of the Ceast Survey, which was or.
tiered' io be printed. Adjourned. - •
House lf -Mr Gilbert introilnred a bill to rang,'
the idfice of Surveyor of Public lands in Cini.
loran. Referred ~,to the -Committee on Public
LanA.
Mr. Phcenix introduced a bill In make
Hall, New Yprk,-a port of entry. Referred to tit
Committee or. Commerce.
The House then went into Commute of tie
Whole no the state of the Union, and took up the
bill lot the seduction of Teenage. Advanced.
• s Waentscres, Dec. t 9
Sebastin, of Arkansas, appeared
in his seat this morning.
Mr. Douglass asked" 46 be, and Irak excise!.
from serving on the ComMittes of Foreva At
lairs.
A lumber of petitions, reports, and bills of no
general interest were introdneed.
• The resolution to turkesol the roles relative to the
printing of the Sekinte -was taken up, and after an
uninteresting de •-kute,, adopted.
A resolution to have bound some of the Seriale'r
documents was taken op, det.atell, and laid ou the'
table. _
The bill to amend the Patent lays was taken op .
An amendment giving hq every defendant in a rim
for infringement of patein, the right to have a wr i
of Wile faciaa, to test the validity of the palm,
was offered, which viavetise to "101 l debate.
Mr. Tamey spoke -jaillitsvcrr o 1 the, amendranit
and Messrs. Jefferson - Davis, and Seward in one.
anion The amendment was agreed. to, and !Ir
- bill laid on the Little, when the Seate adrift. d
over to Monday. Doting the debat e ,, the Viggn,t
Fire Ccimpany of Philadelphia appeared in the
gallery.
Roost •OF Risairstursvivra.—Mr. Dorn asked
the unanituoni consent of the Huuse to nerodure,
from the Committee on Territories, a joiut.resoio-
Intim admitting W. S. Measervy to a seat as Dele
gate Imm New Mexico. , Objection was made. and
the House went into Combines of the Whole co
the state of the Union on the Chap Postage bill.
Mn Tnowsem of Pa., adroCated the canyig of
newspapers circulating within the counties where
published, out of the county and in the Stati. half
cent, and out of the State one emit; transient ya
ppers two tents and drop for one emit..
.•
Mr, Mesas said not a single argument had brii)
advocated to induce him to fiver a reiJoetire of
postage. Gentleman had endeavored Jo show that
garb reduction would enlarge the revenue. No.
•to test their sincerity he would move stdkers
the appropriation of a and 4 half dultars
meet deficiencies in receipts; u to eoCoorrgemeo
to the local preset if the cities can himish twin
material, let the people hive it. The character of
the press within the last ten years has deg,enerad.
and unless theie be sumo reformation. in it, dn.
less they are circulated the better.
M . Tartoa advocated,' three and tire cent pro
age, •giving notice that he should introduce's'
amendment to abolish postage on newFpapers
the county where they are published, or lidirtY
mi es. beyond. He opposed the abolishing of the
Franking privilege because it afforded a cover:
iha link bnween Represematives anti thei r ".
stitrients: ' •
Mr. Greenlee con'entled that a uniform rate of
five cents was sufficient to begin with—if this an
&tiered, then a lunher reelection might be made :
and showed 1 tat the greater saving in the Post Of
fice -Depar melwas.owing to the tedriced term.
of letting tQntracts, and argued that the increbew
letters would idnt ease rather than di-n awl cost of
transportation. : . •
Toxic of p aserd the redaction of postage, be'
cause a million and a half of dollars were to b: ta
ken from the` Treanuryr.at a time when the Nation
al Debt Is seventy Milliocts, to make up the 116
ciency in the. receipts. •
*Mr. Mune was willing to go as far as any see
to reduce postage provided mail facilities am a ct
to be curtailed to the country people, and the ow
ones of the Demisted diminished. Whom/ a
uniform five seat rats on lemons.
Mr. Coteau contended for two cero Pelege—
same prediction was made in 181.5„ as now. tba
tl
woad bankrupt this Treasury...instead ate a
larffs staples • was. acensaulated.' He adrero l
such wredoctionjori newspapers as shall diicalte*
nate* country pmsses, pensiuing theta Itt
culotte Ifree within a show distance 01 the P lace
publication—was foe abolishing the :tanking P°"
1111:11 p 9 : 4 m u t me worth! oppose Me bill which hei,,
beau ed unless a corresponding benefit nitro
be accorded to the runt& districts by sae, e 4 41„
country papers from postage within the t•
or Congressional District in which the) are r'
fished.
Mr. TilLiurrox ok,se,l that part of the bib tsbßb
. taxes letters to Cilia and Oregon three ate!
and nearipapeirs four times as much as usairo
other paMi of the country.
Mr. trim tti;oke a few minutes in farm el
to
during
-A size ofnewspaper to be circulate' a
counties oe their publication, to 1,200 agave
and without :concluding gave way for a-1