President, was drawn across the platform in
front of t iie Speaker's desk, reaching from end
to end of the hail.
Banners were also displayed from the win
dows to notify outsiders, and the shouts with
in the hall were caught up, and echoed by the
crowd in the streets.
As soon as the wild enthnsigsm of the Con
vention could be somewhat subdued, Mr. Ai
i.isos of Pennsylvania made some remarks in
dicative of an intention to support the nomina
tion with earnestness.
The Convention then adjourned until 10 o'-
clock Thursday morning.
TiII'KSDAY'S PKOCKKMN'OS.
The President called the Convention to or
der shor Iv after 10 o'clock, and the proceed
ings were opened with a praver by the Rev.
Mr. Levy.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the
chairman of the National Committee to call a
Convention in the city of' New York, in Sep
tember next.
E. W. Welply of New Jersey, on behalf of
that State, moved that an informal ballot be
taken for Vice President, and nominated Win.
L. Dayton of New Jersey, and read an al
straet of a speech delivered at the opening of
n State Convention over which he presided,
desiring his position on the Kansas Nebraska
act, and the fugitive slave law.
Adam Fisher of Pennsylvania nominated
David Wilmot as the strongest mail in the
Keystone State, and the ticket with him upon
it would satisfy every Republican.
Mr. Allison of Pennsylvania read from the
proceedings of the Pennsylvania State Con
vention a series of resolutions endorsing unre
servedly the nomination of John ('. Fremont,
and pledging themselves to do all in their po
wer to elect him.
A Delegate from Illinois nominated Abra
ham Lincoln, of Illinois. He would only say
be was a good fellow, a firm friend of freedom
and an old line Whig.
Mr. Archer of Illinois, spoke in favor of Mr.
Lincoln, whom he had known from childhood,
and who was a pare patriot, lie thought Lin
coln would carry the State beyond a doubt for
Fremont. Illinois would be safe without him,
but doubly safe with liiin. He was a worthy,
estimable and safe man.
Judge Spaulding wished to ask the question,
Can Mr. Lincoln fight
Archer—" Yes, sir ; lie is a son ot Kentuc
ky, and a tall man whichever way you can fix
it." (Cheers and laughter.)
Wm. Jay, of New Jersey, said he had al
ways been an old line Democrat and now se
conded the nomination of an old line Whig,
Win. L. Dayton. He had always voted the
Democratic ticket, but thanked God that at
the time that Pierce was elected had not a
vote, having then lately moved from Pennsyl
vania. With Dayton, New Jersey would go
on boldly to victory. He entertained the deep
est respect for Judge Wilmot, but did not
think it discreet to nominate u second Demo
crat on the ticket.
Judge Palmer, of Illinois, seconded the no
mination of Mr. Lincoln. He also had the
greatest respect for Judge Wilmot, and would
christen his next boy David Wilmot. [ Laugh
ter. J But lie believed Mr. Lincoln would ma
terially strengthen their ticket in the West
A delegate from Massachusetts stated that
he had just received a response from Alassae
chusetts. He read a telegraphic despatch,
saving, " You have given us a good nomina
tion, give us a good Vice President, and then
clear the track." [Loud applause, and three
cheers for Massachusetts. {
A leicgate suggested the names of John A.
King of New York, and Mr. Sunnier of Mass.
as oid line Whigs. [Applause.]
The Chair appointed Col. Archer, of Illinois,
and Gen. Webb, of New York, tellers, and
ilie Convention then proceeded to an informal
ballot for Vice President, with the following
result :—-
I r 2 SI i ■£. , *• I !r ~ I ■/
I s j a r
Maine*, 1 2d I lj 1 ...... .
X. Hampshire, •• s ■• ••)••
Vermont, .... IV 2 ......
M.isacliusetts, 2 7 25 .. .■! 2 .
Kh.ule Island, 2 .** .. lj. I .
Connecticut, ...i 1 ............ 17 . .
New-York, 1; 5 51 tf 'in! 1 21 1
New-Jersey, ...j 21 .. .. ..
Pennsylvania, Jl 11 ■ ■ 2 ....... ..
1 k-Isi wit re, ■ • ... !
Maryland, • ■ ... w
Virginia, J ..
Kentucky, "> ! ..
< >hi, 1 i> ♦.- .. |. 1 ..........
Indiana, . 2>'. IS
Illinois, .. s;i |..
Michigan, 5 Is! ' )..
lowa, .... 7 ..1 1 . . i..
Wisconsin, 15 ..j [.. .. .. ..
California, 12...|.. p. ......
Kansas, ....... j. . i .. .. I . . 1.. I. . 1 .. |..
Minnesota, •• ••• j.. '
l>ist.Columbia, ..!...! ,V..1 .. .
I lil Lloji-V.ij 7135 415 i 2 2 4t'-i I
After the above result was announced, Da
vid Wilmot, from the Committee on Resolu
tions, reported that they had given full con
sideration to the communication addressed to
this Convention by the North American Con
vention of New York. The two lommittees
had met and had a full conference, but had
conic to no definite action. The committee
consider the call of this Convention as calcula
ted to draw forth and invite just such a com
munication. The committee would do all in
their power to treat the American Convention
with proper courtesy, and recommended the
appointment of a committee of three, to draft
an address calculated to secure the co-opera
tion of all parties in the present movement. —
The report was adopted.
Air. Elliot, of Mass., said, that in view of
the result of the informal ballot for Vice Pres
ident, Massachusetts desired to say a few words.
She had three candidates for the nomination.
At an early meeting of the delegation, they
had agreed to support for President, N\ I'.
Banks. He had, at that time, through a friend,
withdrawn from the contest, and signified that
in the present condition of affairs, lie would
not allow bis Daiac to be used for that high
office. Since then, Mr. Banks had telegraph
ed that lie would not be a candidate for the
Vice-Presidency. He felt as ail felt, that his
most useful place was where he now is. He had
also been authorized to withdraw Air. Sum
ner's name. Massachusetts could not spare
liiin from the Senate Chamber. [lmmense
applause, and three cheers for Sumner. J He
thanked them for the honor paid by these
cheers, not to Sumner, but to the cause. He
was also instructed to withdraw the name of a
man whose merits were known to all, and who
desired that another candidate should be on
the ticket—llcnry Wilson. [Loud applause.]
* The names of David Wilmot and Gov. Ford
"..'•re withdrawn as candidates.
\ iorinal ballot for Yiee President was then
taken. The New England States led off one
alter another for Mr. Dayton. New York
gave hint 81 out of 100 votes : Pennsylvania
next east 77 votes, out of 81, for Dayton.
llefore announcing the result of th<v ballot,
tlie President appointed F. P. lllair, of A ir
ginia ; George T. Brown, of Pennsylvania,
and E. G. Spaulding, of New York, as the
committee to prepare an address to the North
Amcriean Convention.
The vote was then declared to 1 e unanimous
in favor of DAYTON for Yiec President,
amidst a scene of excitement and uproarious
applause, nine cheers being git en heartily for
the entire ticket.
The Committee of nine to inform the nomi
ness was then appointed, after which a num
ber of speeches were made, the speaking be
ing frequently interrupted with applause.
A German editor pledged all his country
men in Illinois to vote the Fremont ticket, and
also pledged the State to -20, mm majority for
it. A member from California endorsed the
nomination, followed by members from Alielii
gan, New Jersey, Illinois, &e.
A resolution was offered to hold the next
National Convention at Cleveland, Ohio, but
it was laid over, after the proposal of an amend
ment to meet in Washington on the fourth ol
March, at Fremont's inauguration.
John P. llale being loudly called, came for
ward and was introduced by the Chairman as
the man who had first made a successful union
of all the parties opposed to the administra
tion and driveu the first nail into the coffin of
Franklin Pierce. (Loud applause.)
Judge Test spoke for Indiana, promising 3">,
000 majority. Judge Jloadley promised Ohio
would head the column with 100,000 majority.
Gov. Kent, of Maine, promised good things
at the September's election.
Mr. Elliott of Massachusetts introduced
Senator Wilson, who took the stand and con
gratulated the Convention on the happy termi
nation of their labors, with a platform of a
truly Christian spirit, and candidates that will
carry the cause onward to glorious triumph.
Judge Tvler, of Connecticut, a grandson of
General Putnam, made a eh ructer'stic. speech
closing with a de-i.e to adjourn the Conven
tion to Lawrence, by forcible means, if neces
sary, to stay the encroachments of the border
ruffians.
Mr. Branscome, of Kansas, introduced Gen.
Pomeroy, of Lawrence, who made a spirited
address.
On motion, the resolution previously adopt
ed for a Young Men's Convention in Septem
ber, was reconsidered, and llarrisburg substi
tuted at the instance of Mr. Wilmot.
The resolution with regard to the place for
the meeting of the next Convention was refer
red to the National Committee, at the sugges
tion of a delegate, who thought, from the ra
pid spread of Republicanism southwaM, that
by four years he hoped the Committee would
fix upon Richmond, Virginia, or Lexington,
Kentucky, as the proper place to hold it in.—
He thought the Democrats were wise in nam
ing Charleston, because four years hence he
hoped the slave party would have no strong
hold this side of Mason & Dixon's line.
The proceedings of the Convention were
then brought to a close, and after resolutions
of thanks to the officers, the citizens of Phila
delphia, the Reporters of the press, the cler
gymen who opened the sessions with prayer
an adjournment nine, die was carried.
The Kansas Coxokessioxai, Committee,
says the JYor/h American, having arrived at
Detroit, Mich., will, it is said, hold a session
in that city to examine several witnesses whom
violence has driven from the Territory. The
Hon. W. A. Howard, one of the members uf
the Committee, informs the editor of the Ad-
rertiscr that a state of tilings really exists in
Kansas far worse than is represented in the
papers. The mails are stopped both ways,
opened, searched, and nothing allowed to pass
that does not suit the Border Ruffians. We
have similar information also from Mr. Hugh
Young, one of the editors of the Lawrence
J/era Id if Freedom, by whom we were visited
yesterday. < hie fact he mentions which ought
to attract attention in this region. It is that,
of the five persons who are in prison in Kan
sas, 011 the charge of high treason, for merely
exercising the commonest rights of freemen in
free country, four are emigrants from the State
of Pennsylvania, viz., CI. W. Rietzler, front
Schuylkill county, G. W. Brown, from Craw
ford county, Gains Jenkins, from Wayne coun
ty, and Judge Smith from Butler county. To
this list we may also add the names of Ex-
Governor Andrew 11. Rceder and his Sccrc
tary, <. P. Lowrv, both of Northampton coun
ty, Lieutenant Governor Roberts, and Mr.
Young himself. The latter was formerly of
Coudersport, Potter county. It will thijs be
seen that, so far from the alleged rebellion in
Kansas being fomented by the Massachusetts
Emigrant Aid Society, those who participated
most prominently in the Free State move
ments there arc from our own State. Mr.
Brown alone took with him two hundred emi
grants from Pennsylvania. It was his news
paper establishment which was destroyed at
Lawrence by the Missourians, headed by the
notorious Jones. By this ruthless act the
territory was left entirely destitute of a free
journal. The steam press was broken to pie
ces with sledge hammers so as to be a mere
wreck ; the types and cases thrown into the
Kansas river, the stock of paper and ink des
troyed and the house fired. These materials
were .all, taken from Pennsylvania by Mr.
Brown, llis appeal, therefore, for aid to re
establish his paper, comes with peculiar force
to the people of this Commonwealth.
Tkial ok A1 tiUI.VU AI ai Hin us.—The Chemung
County (N. Y.) Agricultural Society will hold
a meeting on the farm of Wm. H. YanDuzcr,
at Horse Heads, on Tuesday 10, A. AL, July
Ist, to have a trial of Alowiug Machines. The
farmers arc invited to attend.
Jfcser" The Fillmore National club of N. Y.
on Saturday night last, held a meeting, anil
unanimously resolved to join the Republican
cause.
Yot'N'O MKS'S FKKMONTCIXH.—A very large
ami cnthusiatic meeting of the young men of
tiiis borough was held on Wednesday night
last, and a Club organized, the proceedings of
which will appear in our next.
ilnMort Uqmrtfr.
O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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FREMONT AND FREEDOM!
The nomination of JOHN C. FREMONT
by People's Convention at Philadelphia, was
but the spontaneous expression of the people,
speaking through their delegated instruments.
It was caused by the great necessity of the
times, which demanded as a candidate for the
Presidency, a man fresh from the ranks of the
people, nucontaminated bv party prostitution,
possessed of ability, of energy, and that clear
sighted, far-seeing judgment, which is the main
element of greatness. Such a man is Joiin C.
Fremont ; —and such men w ill ever be dis
tinguished in whatever sphere of action duty
or inclination may lead them to direct their
efforts.
The name of Fkkmo.nt is already a house
hold word. Not bv inordinate ambition, not
by scenes of carnage and of blood, lias he be
come a great man ; but by the display of those
elements of greatness which secure our respect
and love, while they command our admiration—
by lofty daring, by unexampled fortitude, by
cuergy, perseverance and good sense, all united.
The faults or the crimes that usually stain the
escutcheon of those as renowned as FKKMOXT,
have left his name unsullied. In the halo of
glory that enshrouds his fame, there are no
dark clouds.
Wc avail ourselves of the following sketch
of the career of our candidate for the Presi
dency.
I lis father, who died when lie was a child,
was a Frenchman, his mother a Virginian. lie
was born at Savannah on tlie 21st of January,
1813, and educated at Charleston, South Caro
lina, where his mother, left a widow with three
children, had taken up her residence. The
circumstances of the family were exceedingly
narrow and the childhood of Fremont was sur
rounded by privations and difficulties which
with a powerful nature like his, naturally tend
ed to develop the heroic elements of his char
acter.
At Charleston Fremont enjoyed the instruc
tions of I)r. John Robertson, who, in the pre
face to a translation of Zenophon's Retreat of
of the Ten Thousand, which he published in
1800, records with pride the remarkable pro
ficiency of his pupil. In 1828 he entered the
junior class of Charleston College. After leav
ing which he employed himself for some time
as a teacher of mathematics. In 1833 he ob
tained that post on board the sloop-of-war
Natchez, which had been sent to Charleston
to put dewn the nullificrs (a purpose similar
to that lor which he is now nominated for Pre
sident), and on board of her he made a cruise
of two years and a half. Ou his return lie
adopted the profession of a surveyor and rail
road engineer, and was employed in that ca
pacity under Captain "Williams of the Topogra
phical Engineers in the survey of a route from
Charleston to Cincinnati. When this survey
was suspended, he accompanied Captain Wil
liams in a rcconnoisauce of the country then
occupied by the Chcrokees, after which he
joined M. Nicolet, a distinguished French sa
van in the employ of the United States, in an
exploring expedition over the North-Western
prairies, lie was employed in this survey, in
which he acted as principal assistant, during
the years 1838 and 1839, and while absent up
on it was appointed a Second Lieutenant in
the Corps of Topographical Engineers. While
reducing the materials of this survey, and pre
paring maps and a report, he resided for some
time at Washington, where he formed the ac
quaintance of the family of Mr. Benton, result
ing in his marriage, in 1841, to one of Mr.
Benton's daughters.
Shortly after—in May, 1842—he started on
the first of his three great exploring expedi
tions. This expedition, which occupied about
five mouths, resulted in the exploration of the
famous South Pass across the-Rocky Moun
tains, and in the ascent by Fremont and four
of his men of Wind River peak, the highest
summit of the Rocky Mountain chain. The
report of this exploration attracted great at
tention, both at home and abroad, at well for
its unpretending modesty as for the importance
of the information contained in it. This report
was scarcely published w hen its author started
on a second expedition designed to connect t lie
discoveries of the first one with the surveys to
be imule by Commodore Wilkes of the Explor
ing Expedition on the Pacific Coast, and thus
to embrace a connected survey of the almost
unknown regions on both sides of the Rocky
Mountains. The party, including thirty-nine
persons, started from the village of Kansas on
the 2 ( Jth of May, 11 1 4:, and were employed in
the exploration till August of the next year.
It was this exploration that first furnished any
accurate information as to the (Jreat Salt Luke,
the great interior basin of Utah, and the moun
tain range of the Sierra Nevada, and the first
brought to light, as it were, the region now
constituting the Territory of Utah and the
State of California.
After preparing the report of this expedition
in the Spring of 1K45, Fremont, now a Cap
tain, set out on a third expedition designed to
make a more particular survey of the regions
which he had previously visited, it was while
engaged in this expedition, and before he had
received any intimation of the commencement
of the war with Mexico, that, after having
himself been once ordered oil' by the authori
ties, lie was induced by the entreaties of the
American settlers in the valley of tho Sacra
mento, whom the Mexicans threatened to drive
out. of the country, to put himself at their
head. Thus led, they defeated the Mexicans.
Fremont put himself into communication with
the naval commanders on the coast, and soon,
in conjunction with Commodore Stockton, ob
tained complete possession of California, of
which, on the 24th of August, lie was appoint-
cd by Stockton Military Commander. The
fighting, however, was not yet over. The Cali
furnians rose in insurrection ; hut the arrival
of (Jen. Kearney with his dragoons from New-
Mexico, enabled the Americans, after some
hard-fought battles, to maintain themselves in
possession. Pending these operations, a com
mission arrived for Fremont as Lieut-Colonel—
a promotion which neither he nor his friend
had solicited, but which he gladly received as
a ratification on the part of the Government
of his intervention, on his own
the affairs of California.
From the moment of Kearney's arrival a
dispute had sprung up between him and Com
modore Stockton as to the chief command.—
Kearney sought to throw upon Fremont the
responsibility of deciding between their respec
tive claims. This he declined, professing his
readiness, if they would agree between them
selves, to obey either ; but declaring his inten
tion, till that point was settled, to continue t<>
obey the commander under whom he had first
placed himself, and by whom the war had been
conducted. Kearney was greatly dissatisfied
at this, but dissembled his resentment till they
both reached Fort Leavenworth on their re
turn home, when he arrested Fremont for dis
obeiencc of orders and brought him to trial be
fore a court-martial.
As this Court held that Kearney was the
rightful commander, they found Fremont guilty
of the charges, and sentenced him to be dismiss
ed from the service- Mr. l'olk, then Presi
dent, signed the sentence as being technically
right, but at the same time offered Fremont a
new commission of the same grade as that of
which he had been deprived. This Fremont
refused, and returned a simple citizen to pri
vate life. Thus, discharged from the service
of tlie Government, he undertook a fourth ex
ploring expedition of his own, with a view to
discover a passage across the Rocky Moun
tains southerly of the South Pass, near the
head of the Arkansas, which might serve the
purpose of a railroad communication with Cali
fornia. He started from Pueblo, ou the Up
per Arkansas, with thirty-three men and a
hundred and thirty-three mules ; but, misled
by his guides, all his mules and a third of his
men perished in the snows and cold of tlie
Sierra San J nan, and he himself arrived 011
loot at Santa Fe with the loss of everything
but his life. Not, however, to be baffled, he
refitted the expedition, and in a hundred days,
after fresh dangers, reached the banks of the
Sacramento.
In the rising State of California in which he
had become one of the earliest American pro
prietors by the purchase during his former visit
of the since famous Mariposa grant, Mr. Fre
mont took n great interest. He was active in
the formation ot the State constitution, and in
securing in that document a positive exclusion
of Slavery, and was chosen one of the Senators
to represent the new State in Congress. A
short term of two years fell to his lot, and,
owing to the delay in the admission of the
State, he sat iu the Senate only one short ses
sion. On the expiration of his term the poli
tical control of the State had passed into new
hands, of which a striking proof was given in
the choice of John R. Weller, a decided Pro-
Slavery man, as his successor in the Senate.
Mr. Fremont now devoted himself to devel
oping the resources of his California estate,
which had been discovered to be rich iu gold ;
but, in addition to the loss of his commission,
as the only reward he had realized for his ser
vices in California, he now found himself great
ly annoyed by claims against him for supplies,
which, during his campaign iu California, had
been furnished to 'he United States on hi.-
private credit. During a visit to London he
was arrested ou out of these claims, and it was '
only after great delay that the Government of
the United States was finally induced to re
lieve him from further annoyance l>y the pay
ment of these debts. In maintaining his right
to the Mariposa property, he was also obliged
to encounter m&ny annoyances on the part of
the Government which resisted his claim, but
finally, by repeated decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States, he triumphed over
all of them.
Having exhibited a singlar force of charac
ter and a distinguished ability in every under
taking to which lie has applied himself, lie lias
now been called bv the loud voice of his fellow
citizens in almost all parts of the Union to
place himself at the head of a new, more diffi
cult, but at the same time most glorious enter
prise—that of rescuing the Government and
the Union from the hands of a body of un
principled politicians, who threaten to subject
the country to the double misery ut despotism
and of anarchy. May lie be as successful in
this as in everything else that he has underta
eu. And tliat he will lie, who can doubt'! for
surely every honest man in the country w ill
hasten to aid him with his voice and his vote.
HON. WILLIAM L. DAYTON.
\
This gentleman, who is the nominee of the
Republican party for Vice-President, is a na
tive of New-Jersey, and about fifty years of
age. He was born and educated in Morris
town, and admitted to the bar, at which he
gained distinction for learning, integrity and
ability. lie practiced successfully in Mon
mouth, until he was made Judge of the Su
preme Court for the Monmouth circuit, and
was distinguished upon the bench for the same
sterling qualities which he had exhibited else
where.
In 1X42 he entered public life as Senator of
the United States for the unexpired term of
Mr. Southard, and in 1X45 was re-elected for
another term of six years, at the expiration of
which lie w as superseded by Commodore Stock
ton. In his capacity as a senator, Mr. Day
ton was always an advocate for free territory,
and the extract from his speech in opposition
to the compromise measures of ISSO, will show
ljow well he spoke for it. llis whole course
in the Senate redounded to his credit, and al
though at one time the youngest member in it,
he always occupied a prominent position, and
was invariably listened to with respect on all
questions.
In liis polities Mr. DAYTOX was formerly
identified with the old Whig party, but this
relation did not prevent his taking an indejien
dent stand against its distinguished leaders,
when they attempted to reconcile the country
to the most objectionable features of the Fu
gitive Slave I.aw, and at no time has he failed
in his devotion to that great central principle
which has called the- Republican party iutoex
istence.
For the last five years lie has devoted him
self to the practice of his profession, but his
views of the great question have undergone no
change. The nomination is eminently a judi
cious one, and has already created no little en
thusiasm in Ni-w-Jcrscv, where the unblemish-
Ed public and private character of Air. DAYTON
are duly appreciated.
Mr. DAYTON'S political character has this re
commendation, that it is marked by a noble
frankness and by great decision. He is above
all equivocation and concealment, and knows
how to maintain his political independence un
der circumstances which tempt other men to
yield. In the struggle to resist the passagcof
the fugitive slave law, he was one of those
who declined to follow the example of Air.
WEHSTIT., and held fast to their original in
tegrity.
ORGANIZE ! ORGANIZE !
We urge upon our friends in the several elec
tion districts of the County, the necessity for
speedy organization. There should be an As
sociation formed in every district, to advance
the cause of FREMONT AND FREEDOM.
Some of the townships have already done so,
and others are ready to do it. Let the good
work go bravely on, and wc shall claim the
credit of being the banner County in Novem
ber next.
TEN CENTS REWARD !—We will give ten
cents reward for the authorship of the follow
ing stanza of a song, said to have been written
in IX4 4 for a glee club in this place :
'• When this old hat was new
Itiii-lianuii was the mail,
Ile.-t fitted ill the Keystone State
To lead the fod'ral chili :
tie said if detnoenitii- Mood
Should make his veins look hlue,
He'd cure them hy phlebotomy
When this old hat was new/'
NEW FIRM. —Wc direct the attention of our
readers to the advertisement on our fourth
page, by which it is announced that Mr. ED
WARD D. PAYNE has become a partner it PAT
TON'S Drug Store. Air. PAYNE will give his
personal attention to the business, which he
thoroughly understands, having had much ex
perience, so that the public can have confidence
in his carefulness and promptness.
Flic nomination of FREMONT and DAY
TON is received throughout the country with
the utmost enthusiasm. Large ratification
meetings have been held in most of the large
towns and cities, Boston, Concord, Chicago,
Bangor, &c. At Cincinnati on Tuesday last,
ten thousand persons joined in the procession,
among whom were many Germans with trans
parencies.
fcjy* The President of tlie State licpubli
eun Convention was directed to appoint it State
Executive Committee who arc authorized to
select an Electoral ticket.
OUR NATIONAL FESTIVAL '
For many years, the holding of ■
meetings, to advance partizan purposes <„, .1"
Foilrth of July has been universally ( ]j M ., Mir
and reprobated. It was felt to be a <1,.,
tion of a day so hallowed, that any attein,,',?
manufacture political sentiment should l. i'
upon its yearly recurrence. And it i* |j. ,|
the first desecration of the day to uiiw.rt, .
and narrow-minded purposes in this vie'
should be made by the lenders of
n a < r, rnir,t
and mereenaiy party, l'he leaders of tfl
FIERCE and DOWLAS party of this
have issued their handbills for a politic,| j"'
bra tion on the coming Fourth of j u | v , |? ( ,V
place. Feeling how generally the timl,i,'
at Cincinnati are repudiated in this
knowing how desperate their f !'
, * i •" lortntic.
have become, they seek to avail tliem<o|v.
the hallowed day which gave the Xatioi, h^'
to inspire into their partizans some of tl„. lit '
tie feeling usually indulged in on that dav •,
make amends for the want of ardor undent!,,'
siasm their nominees have failed t- di. it
While the Free-State settlers i„ Kn IK
mostly from the Northern .State* are
- "<• fiuleruii'
in that I erritory outrages and oppres*!,,,.,
more gross than ever experienced by . ur f„„
ifa tin is while a tyrannical and corrupt exor
tive is seeking to enforce laws more arbitral
odious and revolting than any ever enacted l'v
a Dritish Parliament— while the smoke of I. ~,'.
rence Vet rises to Heaven, and the blood d
unoffending and peaceable citizens i> vet war ,
upon the earth—wc should suppose t!„-re '
nobler and higher objects for Northern f r .L
men than to desecrate the Fourth day of J„h
by an attempt to uphold the pcrpi tratur.,
these outrages, and to fasten yet tighter
the limbs of free white iucu in Kan.-as
chains of oppression.
It is not long since that w c heard from the
Douglasitcs of this place, an earnest apju-al fu;
tlie sanctity of " our National Festival " \\\.
recollect the pathetic appeal for the |y>ma
tion of that day from the contamination
polities. N othiug but a desperate cause wuiild
prompt men to avail themselves of the lihtori
cal associations of that day, to cover up the
designs of a party which view- Slavery as th
natural condition alike both of the poor whits
i ami the black.
THE TWO B'3.
The pro-slavery, filibustering partv have
been felicitating themselves upon the allitera
tion of the names of their two candidal.-
The two B's. is the watch-word ! r,i
propriate we deem it, when rightly interpreted :
lincJianan and Bondage!
I' KOM KANSAS. —Latest account- from Kan
sas represent the state of things as more peace
able, though the condition of the Free State
settlers is deplorable. The invasions of the
border ruffians has kept them constantly in a
state of alarm, so that they wese unable to at
tend to their usual avocations, and consequent-
Iv without the means of subsistence. In ma- j
nv eases, their cattle had been driven off li
the pro-slavery men.
Col. .SIMNER has been dispersing annul
companies of all kinds without discrimination
and as a necessity has made himself obnox
ious to the Missouriaus. Kuiiiurs arc cnrri-iit
of a collision between the U. ts. troops ami
the latter, but they need confirmation. Tin
forays of the Missouriaus being thus, in a mea
sure checked, and the settlers are enjoying an
interval of comparative quiet.
fe£r- Mr. Buchanan has written a letter ae
eepting the nomination of the Cincinnati Con
vention for the Presidet cy. lit say- lie will
confine himself to the platform throughout the
canvass, believing that he has 110 right, by an
swering interrogatories, to present new and
different issues before the people. He par
ticularly approved those portions of the plat
form which relate to the Kansas act, and ci
vil and religious liberty, and hopes that it i>
the mission of the Democrats to overthrow "
sectional parties.
IH> T " The second Academic year of the Mis
qnehunna Collegiate Institute, will ehw ~n
Wednesday next ; when the Annual .Vddrr?-
will be delivered by llev C. R. LAVE, in the! M
byterian church, at 10 1-2 o'clock a. in.
A dinner will be provided at the
Refectory, by the Steward, Mr. PAYT S, - 3
Wednesday.
The Alpha Epsilon Society hold their a" ■
al exhibition on Tuesday evening next a'
Court House, at 7 1-2 o'clock.
imj" The latest advices from Kan-a- T
resent that the Missouriaus anil pm-Im J
party are likely to lie brought in collision
the troops under Col. Sumner, lhe
very Committee at Leavenworth had 4*"
warned the Free State men to leave the
ritory.
The labor of conducting the />
Democrat through the last fall's <' all 'l w '
appears did not entirely exhau.-t the edt ■
for wc find in the Wellsborough '
following in an account of a Pierce ami I "5
las meeting at that place :
FRANK SMITH, Esq., a sprightly li"h B
slavery man from Bradford, treated the
ing to a pleasant, percgri native, l' r,v> j'* ,i
peroration, in which Judge M mi" r a*
ed drawn and quartered in the spcakei
approved style,.as a traitor and tleniage-'
particular, and as a very great rascal m -
ral. At this stage, a lu-ty three time
for Wit. MOT went up from a crowd 1
ders, which performance acted alter t •
ner of a dourhe. upon the somewhat w
gentleman from Bradford. Mr. Smj'
cccdcd in fascinating his audience
forgot to cheer him. ate! 1 >
ominous silence