Latest from Kansas.
A citizen of Kansas who loft Topcka, on
<!. .'hi in t , and Leavenworth on the 4th,
<■ liiod on w yesterday. He says that the I rue
S 4 ate Legislature was prevented from a sere-
Ling on the 4th in.-t.. pursuutit to adjourn
ment, hy the United States tftops under Col.
Sumner. He told the peoj L that he had
positive orders from President Pierce to arrest
and break up the Legislature if the members
attempted to convene, and that his orders
must be enforced. He was also under orders
from the Executive to disperse, disarm and ar
rest any gathering of Free State people that
might assemble to celebrate the Fourth of July !
He was at the head of 4GO United States dra
goons, and an equal number of iulantry aud
artillerists.
The result was that the members of the Free
State Legislature were uaable to meet. It
was deemed best to succumb to the United
States army, postpone the assembling, and
await the verdict of the American peo] le at the
polls uext November. Had the United States
dragoons not interfered, the Free State men
*erc resolved to hold their Legislative meet
ing in spite of the Border Ruffians, and were
prepared to give the vidians a warm reception.
Our informant says that murders are still
very frequent in the Territory; that an offi
cer under Sumner told him that that the dra
goons had picked op and buried a great uum
ber within a few weeks.
The bodies of thirty-two murdered men were
found on tiic rends, several of whom were par
tially devoured by the wolves. It is some
satisfaction to learn, however, ihat they were
l.ot all Free-State meu who had thus fallen :
but that many plundering ruffians had been
made to bite the dust for their crimes.
He tells us that the wheat harvested is ex
cellent, though not very large in quantity in
cousequenCe of the disturbed state of the Ter
ritory ; that the corn crop looks most luxu
riant, and will be abundant in some districts,
if tiie people are permitted by the Ruffians to
gather it.
We further learn from him that the news
of the nomination of C'ol. Fremont, and a pe
rusal of the Republican Platform, set the whole
Free-State people wild with delight, and in
spired every man with new courage and hope
that the day of deliverance from the reigu of
terror, and the gripe of the oppressor was
drawing nigh. Prayers go up nightly to hea
ven from thousands of women and children,
on the plains of Kansas, for the election of
Fremont. A strong faith inspires them that
he will be the next President ; and that tlie
black cloud of Slavery will be succeeded by
the bright sun of Freedom, Peace aud Pros
perity.— Chicago Tribune.
ANOTHER MARTYR. —What attractive and
beneficent institutions they have in Missouri !
How slavery beautifies and adorns it! With
out slavery there would be no chance for mar
ty dcni. and moral and physical heroism !
Methodist Ministers especially seem to have
a hard time there : that is, Ministers who be
long to the Northern branch of the church.—
Preachers of the church South, are welcomed
as brothers, beloved even by such saints as
Atchison and Stringfellow. The latest ac
count of sLivehoMing chivalry and of respect
to freedom of speech and conscience we ha ve, is
of the tarring and feathering of the Methodist
Minister in charge of the Northern Methodist
church in Rochester, Andrew eo., Missouri. The
" law and order''citizens of that place met
together, and declared it to lie their will tliat
the Methodist Minister should be silenced.
lie was accordingly asked to desist from
preaching, but he would not comply, and the
St. Joseph Gazette informs us that •' as the
penalty of his temerity he wu>> tarred and
feathered." In tue difficulty which occurred,
another man named Holland, on " Abe.iit.ou
ibty' was killed. A series of resolutions was
adopted, declaring that every Northern .Meth
odist Anti-SlaveQ' man in the county should
be notified bv the Vigilance Committee, to
pack up and leave, " and in the event of their
refusal, the committee to make report of the
same to this meeting, at which time this meet
ing will take such measures as may be most
expedient for their immediate expulsion from
our midst."
Go on, ruffians. The North has been so
long demoralized by Doughfaeeisra, and un
ion-saving orators and preaching that it re
quires a severe lesson to awaken the people to
a just sense of their degredation at the feet of
slavery. Nearly every provision of the con
stitution has been set at naught, actually and
practically, or by connivance, by the present
administration, and the rights of the people in
every walk of life are daily being stricken
down, and still the people of the Free States
are quiet and patient. Thank God that there
is, however, now heard the niutterings of the
thunder which precedes a fearful storm—fear
ful for those who have wantonly thrown down
the barriers which our fathers had set for the
protection and defence of the rights and liber
ties of all.— Pittslurg Gazette.
Mr The Border-Ruffians have their politi
cal preferences, as a matter of course, and it
so happens that the great mass of them are
for Buchanan. It is natural that they should
be, since Border-lluffianism has teen incorpo
rated into the Cincinnati platform. A gentle
man of Illinois, a democrat named J F Bliss,
was in Kansas at the time the news of Bu
chanans nomination was i\reived, and he thus
states how it was received :
I was in Col. Rich's store at Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas Territory, on Friday June 13th,
1856, and listened to a conversation between
Judge Lecompte and some other gentleman,
unknown to me, relative to Gov. Robinson and
the other prisoners, and, likewise the policy of
President Pierce in regard to Kansas affairs.
One of the gentleman expressed fears as to the
orthodoxy of Mr. Buchanan on the Slavery
question. Lecompte replied that ho had let
ters from some, of Buchanan's friends, and that
he was all right on the "Goose," and that he
would pursue the same policy that Pierce had,
but that it must be kept still in order to carry
Pennsylvania and New-York ; and, said Le
compte, " lie will fooHold Boeder into support
ing him, too ! Old Bitch is all right, boys,
don't fear."
Atchison, Stringfellow, Jones, Lecompte,
Shannon and their ruffian colleagues all enter
heartily into the support of " Old Buck so
<to Herbert, the murderer, Brooks, the coward
ly bully. Rust, of the same kidney, and the
Congressional bullies, who w-tain them Whv
' >' ' It i- in harmony with " the eternal fit
-I.' -s of thing "
II it tic- rufli in- do not all go t.. one
I Bide. The Kickapoo Pioneer, one of the most
' reckless of the ruffian organs on the border,
■ hoists the ilag of Filhnuro and Doueison. ihe
fellows think it best to have two strings to
! their bows.
T 4- - -
Shall a Man be a Catholic Against His
Will ?
[from ihe Independent]
j Political heats are apt to hatch out false
| hoods as tropical heats do venomous insects.
But Christian men should be especially care
ful that they do not couoteuanee or propagate
such falsehood.
At this time many newspapers recklessly
charge Col. Fremont with being a Roman
Catholic. Though it nas been authoritative
ly contradicted, it still contiuues to be assert
ed, and iu very positive and impudeut forms.
We have taken pains to inform ourselves in
this matter, and now state to the Christian
public the simple truth, that good men, at
least, may cease to bear false witness.
Col. Fremont was blessed with a mother of
devoted piety. She was a member of the Epis
copal Church, St. Philip's, Charleston S. C.,
and reared her son iu her own faith. Indeed,
until lie was fourteen, Col. Fremont was edu
cated iD the hope and expectation that he
would become an Episcopal minister. At
sixteen, he was confirmed in the Episcopal
Church, and has, ever since, when within reach
of the church, been an attendant and commu
nicant. And since his tcmpojary sojourn in
New-York, he has been an attendant at Dr.
| Antlion's church, until recently : and now he
worships at Grace church. Mrs. Fremont was
reared strictly in the Presbyterian Church, and
united with the Episcopal Church upon her
marriage with Col. Fremont. Their children
have been baptized in the Episcopal Church.
It is said that a daughter has been sent to a
Catholic institution for education. So far
from it, she lias never been sent away from
home at all, bnt has been educated by her own
mother.
It is well known that Mrs. Fremont is the
daughter of Col. Benton, and that, at the
time, her father was opposed to her marriage.
Col. Fremont personally solicited several Pro
testant clergymen to perform the marriage
ceremony, but on account of Col. Benton's op
position to it, they were unwilling to do it.—
A female friend, in this exigency, said that she
could find a clergyman who would aid without
fear, and brought in a Catholic clergyman,
who married them. Like a true lover and
gallant man,Fremont said that he did not care
who did it, so that it was done quick and strong.
Had we been in Col. Fremont's place, we
would have been married if it had required us
to walk through a row of priests and bishops
as long as from Washington to Rome, wind
ing up with the Pope himself.
Is it not ludicrous to see a class of citizens
so terribly frightened at the spread of Cathol
icism, and dreading the evils of Papacy above
all tilings, seizing a quiet Protestant gentle
man, and insis'ing upon it that he shall be a
Catholic > In vain he struggles and protests ;
Catholic he shall be, whether he will or not!
" But, gentlemen, I do not believe in the doc
•' trines ; I was reared by a Protestant mo
*' thcr, in a Protestant church ; I have mar
" ried a Protestant wife ; my children have
" had Protestant baptism ; we and they at
" tend Protestant worship, and we are, both
" by education and conviction, Protestants.—
" You must excuse us, but we cannot be Cath
" olios." The eager gentlemen will not be
baffled. " You shall be Catholics ; you are
" Catholics : we will have you Catholics ; all
'• that you say may be true, in some myste
" rious manner ; you are Catholics, and we will
'• have it so !'' Poor Col. Fremont. We do
not see how he will get over it ! These ter
rible Protestants of The Erpress arc out with
<avord and pen, determined that he shall be a
Catholic !— Henru Ward Beecher.
THE ST.'TK ELECTIONS, this year, take place as
follows.—On the fourth of August, Kentucky,
Alabama, Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas vote,
and on the seventh of August, North Carolina
and Tennessee, thus making seven of the South
ern States in the first week of that month
The only others of that section which vote
before the occurrence of the Presidential elec
tion, will be Georgia and Florida on the sixth
of October, South Carolina on the fourteenth
of the same mouth. In the early part of Au
gust therefore, the Presidential contest will as
sume a definite shape. Those seven States
have all been confidently claimed as favorable
to the election of Fillmore and Donelson.
Indeed, they are the most favorable of all the
South, except Maryland and Louisiana.
Should they be carried by the Democratic
party, it will be plain enough to everybody
that the contest for Fillmore will be hopeless.
But if, on the other hand, the Americans
should carry those States, the prospect will be
equally, if not more, discouraging for Buchanan,
who. unless he carries nearly all the South, is
pretty sure of defeat. Vermont votes on the
second of September. California on the fourth,
and Maine 011 the eighth. Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Indiana vote un the fourteenth of Octo
ber.
THE REPIBLICAX STATE COMMITTEE, is eoin
j posed of the following gentlemen, by Congres
| sioiml Districts:
; Russel Errett, Pittsburg, ) . ,
I Charles Gibbons, Philad. j" At larSe
-1 B. I>. Pettingill, Philadelphia,
i 2 Joseph K. Fry do
| 3 A. H. Rosenheim do
I I A. T. Churr do
| 5 Win. Morris Davis do
j t Wui. Butler, West Chester.
7 Charles I, Marthi, AUentown.
S Jacob Hoffman, Beading.
I 9 E. C. Darlington, Lancaster.
10 J. Adams Fisher, Harrisburg.
1 11 Benjamin Baunnn, Pottsville.
12 F. P. Grow, Carbondale.
13 Henry Green, Eustoo.
, 14 Clysses Mercnr, Towurula.
15 ('. W. Seatcs, WiHiamsport.
| 10 Joseph Speck, Duncannon.
; 17 John 11 Filler, Bedford.
IS George Raymond, Hollidaysburg.
! 19 Edward Cowan, Greensburg.
20 A Murdoch, Washington.
21 C. B. M. Smith, Pittsbuig.
22 Tho's 1,. Shields, Sewickley Bottom
53 Wm. F. Clark, Mercer.
24 J. S. .Myers, Franklin.
20 A. lluidckoper, Meadville.
j Senator Jones, of Tennessee, call himself " n
j lieu.en-descended Whig.'' The Devil was
Ifeaven-desconded lie was Licked -mr of that
plucc, and his descent was a tremendous one
! /Woe
§rairforb importer,
K. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
TOW A X 1)A :
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COL. FREMONT'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
On our outside will be found Col. FREMONT'S
letter, accepting the nomination of the Repub
lican party for President. We commend it to
the perusal of our readers. It is just sueli a
document as we should expect to emanate from
him—modest, unassuming, temperate, yet dig
nified and emphatic in its tone. With nothing
to conceal, this letter meets the questions of
the day, in a broad and comprehensive spirit,
as extensive as our land.
There is a refreshing contrast between Col.
FREMONT'S letter of acceptance, and the posi
tions assumed by the opposing candidates. The
Republican leader succumbs to no narrow and
sectional views, but pledges himself to admin
ister the government without partisan or sec
tional bias, and with a regard for the welfare
of the whole country. The only truly "Na
tional" party (as is now the somewhat fashion
able term) that presents a candidate fur the
suffrages of the people, is the Republican.—
That party would advance our National inter
ests in the widest and most beneficent degree.
To extend the area of Freedom—to secure the
blessings of liberty to generations yet to come.
—to advance the prosperity ami peace of the
countn —is surely National in the highest
sense—and such is the aim of the Republican
party. Is Slavery National ? Are the efforts
now making to extend and perpetuate that in
stitution such as should commend themselves
to the support of freemen ? Are the outrages
perpetrated on account of Slavery calculated
to promote our progress as a Nation, and to
cement the bond of our Union ? If not, then
no party should claim to be National whose
success would be a victory for slavery, and
would embolden that fell power to renewed
outrages on the rights of freemen.
The election of JOHN C. FREMONT and the
ascendancy of the principles lie has asserted,
would bring our government back to the doc
trines and practices of its founders. From the
maxims and precepts of the founders of the
Nation and framers of its Constitution, the
Republican creed is gathered. If the men
whose blood achieved our Independence, and
whose wisdom and counsels united the Repub
lic, were National in their feelings and views,
then the Republican party is the true National
party of the country.
Our readers will not find a word in Col. FRK
MONT'S letter tlmt should not meet with hearty
concurrence in every part of the Union. Fifty
years ago, there would have been no dissent
from it. lint since that day, Slavery has
grown arrogant and intolerant, and where it
is powerful, allows no one to question all the
demands its most fanatical and sectional adhe
rents may set up. The men of the South who
deprecated the institution which thry saw was
a i ancer in their midst, are gone, and in their
place, has arisen those who are filled with
schemes of personal aggrandizement, to be
achieved by virtue of the power now wielded
by Slavery.
It remains for the Freemen of the country,
to arrest the tide which is fust sweeping us on
to barbarism and dissolution. The preponder
ance of Slavery in the Republic, will bring a
series of calamities which must sooner or later
rend the Union into fragments. The power of
slavery may for a time reduce the whites to a
condition of vassalage, but the teachings of
history learn us that sooner or later the op
pressed will strike for freedom. In that day,
should it come, no vestige of human bondage
will remain upon this continent. Rut toavoid
this degraded condition, and it consequent
i< now easy. It is to stop the spread
of slavery to put a check to its arrogant as
sumption?. It is to be seen whether the Ameri
can people will now do this, by the election of
FKKMONT, or leave to their descendants the du
ty of again conquering for themselves their In
dependence.
VIRGINIA TOLERATION.
Among the delegates from Slave States to
the late People's Convention at Philadelphia
was Mr. J. C. Underwood of Clarke county,
Virginia, who made a brief speech thereat,
evincing his devotion to the common cause. —
Traveling leisurely homeward after the adjourn
ment of the Convention, he was met at Wash
ington by intelligence that his attendance and
remarks as a Delegate had greatly ilicensed
his neighbors and caused a fierce excitement
throughout the county, and that he must not
venture to return to his home ! Finding on
inquiry that there was no mistake in this in
formation, he stopped at Washington and sent
a friend (Gen. Francis E. Spinner, M. C. from
Herkimer Co. iu New-York) for his family.—
Gen. Spinner started last Friday morning—
a noble way of spending the Fourth of July
—and returned the next evening with Mr.
Underwood's family. Mr. Underwood, in a
letter of Monday last to The Evening Post
says :
" I ant not a planter, for the sweat of un
paid labor has never moistened my fields, and.
while I should be unwilling to acknowledge
any man master, I would scorn to call any
man slave. One month ago, I supposed I
owned 800 acres of Virginia soil, but perhaps
the respectable gentlemen who have driven me
from the State have confiscated my property
by a new code established very recently. My
wife, who reached me on Saturday evening, in
forms me that when she appealed to the res
pectable gentlemen, who demanded either my
blood or banishment from the State, to know
•what law of Virginia I had violated, they re
plied to her that they did not know that I had
broken any law, but that I had broken the
" rules of Virginia." Now, as I am not ac
quainted with these " rules of Virginia," J
think it very possible that they may apply to
property as well as personal freedom. It
seems to me tiiat confiscation is just as suita
ble a " rule " as exile, to apply to freedom of
opinion. One of the old rules of Virginia, as
I had supposed was free speech, and, in the
language of Jefferson, I had thought that oven
"error of opinion might be salely tolerated
" where reason is left free to combat it."
*****" My poor wife
was almost broken down with loss of sleep and
excitement, having been haunted for two weeks
with visions of murder and assassination. She
is now, however, much improved by the rest of
a quiet Sabbath, and by the generous sympa
thy which has seemed to breathe like a new
atmosphere around her.
" We intend to leave this city in a day or
two, seeking a temporary refuge in some of
the quiet hills of the Free North.
Yours truly,
" J. C. Us*r>F.!twoon."
SENATOR IIANI.TX ox COT.. FREMONT. —The
following extract from the speech of Hannibal
Hamlin, the Democratic Senator from Maine,
who repudiates Buchanan and the Cincinnati
platform, at the late Fremont Ratification
meeting in Worcester, bears valuable testimo
ny to the character and principles of the peo
ple's candidate :
'• Who is John C. Fremont ? He is the
first man who discovered the interior of this
continent, scaled the Rocky Mountains and
contributed more than any other man, toward
muling California a free Stale. I know him
well as a man of eminent ability, and of un
blemished character and sp< tless life. When
California was seeking admission into the Un
ion as a State. I had occasion to confer with
as to the best method to secure that result.—
He was true to the right, fits language was,
California must come in as a J'rcc State or not
come in at all.
It has been complained of Fremont that he
is without sufficient antecedents, as to his po
sition or qualifications, for the I'residency.—
But, not only has he antecedents of the right
kind, but he is an antecedent in hinself! He
is a greater executive officer than any man
since Andrew Jackson.
John C. Fremont is anti-slavery man, and
has always been one from his boyhood. Al
though a native of Georgia, and brought up
in South Carolina, in spite of his early acsocia
tions he was ever for freedom. When em
barking on his western tour, he was asked if
it was his intention to purchase a slave, as a
domestic for his wife. His reply was, " I ne
ver owned one dollar in human Jlesh, and while
reason holds its sway in my brain, I NEVER
WIU. ! I love my wife with the most ardent
affection, but that wife must toil with her own
hands, rather than own the first dollar in hu
man flesh !" From a man thus educated, and
thus> true to our principles, we have the high
est assurance that with him at the hehn of the
government, if he can prevent it. not one inch
shall slavery be extended over the national
territory."
Coi,. FRKMONT'S RELIGION'. —The Fillmore
and Buchanan papers harp constantly on the
lie of their own coiuing that Fremont is a
Catholic, as if their whole salvation depended
upon it. The hypocrisy of the Buchanan men
in using this as an electioneering element is so
loathsome that it must disgust every honorable
mau in the party. The New York Courier
Empurcr —a responsible authority—disposes of
the matter thus :
We have been authorized to say, that Col.
Fremont's mother was a Prof est. ant. Episcopa
lian, and that the Colonel was trained and
educated in that faith ; and further, that many
years since, he was confirmed by the Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina, at St.
Philip's Church in Charleston—of which church
his mother was a member for nearly thirty
years, and in the church-yard of which she lies
buried, with his brother and sister. Col. Fre
mont is now a communicant in the Episcopal
Church ; Mrs. Fremont belongs to the same
church ; and of course, the children are all
educated in the faith of their parents.
It is true, that Col. Fremont was married
by a Roman Catholic Priest, who kindly omit
ted any questions in regard to his religion ; but
this was a matter of necessity, as he married
Col. Benton's daughter without the consent of
her father
CELEBRATION IN RIDGBERY.
MR. E MITOR .- A common school celebration j
was held at the Union Grove, in Itidgbery
township on the Fourth day of July. A large
concourse of people assembled at the school
house north of the grove at 10, a. m., where a
procession was formed in the following order :
Ist. J. Seely, Marshal ; C. Carr, Assistant
Marshal ; 2d. Music ; 3d. Soldiers of the war
of 1812 ; 4th. S. Squires, President of the
day ; sth. sjieakers ; 6th. Committee of Ar
rangement ; 7th. Schools, each with appro
priate banners ; Bth. citizens. Our arrival at
the grove was announced by the roar of can
non, impressing the mind with the scenes of
other days.
After being assembled beneath the shade of
the forest trees, prayer was offered by Eld. A
G. Hammond, after which the Declaration of
Independence was read by C. Merrit, when
Elder C. B. Palmer, of Ridgbery, honored the
occasion with an interesting and timely oration.
After which the company partook of an ex
cellent dinner, whose variety and abundance
did credit to the citizens of Ridgbery.
After dinner, we reassembled at the stand,
where we listened to an educational essay by
Elder A. G. Hammond, ot North Chemung;
at the close of which, some of the students oc
cupied the stand, delivering eulogies of depart
ed patriots.
We did not enjoy the pleasures of the day
unmindful of suffering Kansas. No ! of her
afflicted people we thought, and spoke, and re
duced the same to resolutions, the character
of which gave evidence that Freedom yet had
loving sons, and that the oppressed in Kansas
yet lived in the memories of sympathizing bre
thren. A. G.
July 5, 1856.
[For the Bradford Reporter.]
Mr. EDITOR— Sir : —As you are aware from
jiersonal observation, our glorious anniversary
passed off to the satisfaction of all present. —
John Adams has had his wish. A nation bus
celebrated its birthday with bells, bonfires and
cannon. The brave men who stood unflinch
ingly in the day of political earthquake and
eclipse eighty-one ago, have gone to their hon
ored graves. A mighty change has been
wrought above those heroic graves. The val
or and virtue that spoke the Declaration of
Independence have given life to a nation whose
expansion already covers nearly half a conti
nent, and extends from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific. The oceau is white with our commerce.
The length and breadth of our laud is studded
with giant cities—and the name of America
stands iu the front rank among the nations of
the earth.
The gratitude wc owe to the heroes who
risked so much for us, can be best paid by car
rying out their intentions, and enact the au
gust truths of the Declaration of Independence
into our national life and law. But other
thoughts naturally suggest themselves to our
minds. Under the present administration of
uur national laws our freedom has become a
problem.
The freedom of speech has been denied at
our Capitol. The life of any of our Represen
tatives is in danger if he dares to lift his voice
in favor of those principles for which our fore-
fathers bled and died.—But to the object of
this communication—and to show yon that the
same enemy of freedom is iu Athens as well as
elsewhere, the following sentiment in all hon
esty and simplicity, when the Regular aud
other toasts on the fourth inst. were being read,
was offered :
" (hir universal Yankee iXatitm —May hi-r boundaries
t>e extended nor farther than her free institutions.''
As if by some preconcerted plan, several of
the lea-ling democrats of this place raised ob
jections to the above sentiment on the ground
of its being the fourth of July, and that not
a proper sentimeut for the occasion. Comment
is unnecessary. Yours, truly,
ATHENS. July 11, 1856. L. S. K.
[For the Bradford Reporter.]
At a regular meeting of " Protection Fire
Company" No. 1, of Athens, Pa , held Satur
day evening July 12th, the following resolu
tions wore unanimously adopted :
Rcsolred, That wc avail ourselves of this,
the first opportunity to tender our sincere
thanks to the visiting fire companies who fa
vored us with their presence at the celebration
in this place, on the 4tli iust., for their good
order and gentlemanly conduct while here, aud
we will ever cherish with pleasure the acquain
tance formed with thein on that occasion.
i Resolved, That we tender thanks to the
| citizens of Athens for their assistance in entei
\ taming our invited guests on the 4th, and their
j ready response to our call for " material aid "
j for the purpose of procuring a suitable banner
j for the use of this Company—and we will ev r
j lie ready, should occasiou require, to show our
j gratitude in a more substantial form than ecu
! be expressed by words.
Resolved, That we most cordially extend our
[ thanks to the ladies of Athens for their assis
l tance in decorating and beautifying our engi te
, aud banner for our National Festival.
their cheeks be lit up with colors more beauti
ful than the roses with which they decora'ed
our engine, and may their hearts lie kindled
with a fire which can only l>e extinguished by
some fortunate member of Protection Fire Com
pany
Resolved, That these resolutions be publish
ed in the papers of Towanda, Athens and Wa
verlv. E. HARDER, Foreman.
Attest—C. T. II fix, Secretary.
The jury iu the case of HERBERT, in
dicted for the murder of Keating, the waiter,
were unable to agree, and were discharged on
Monday last. A new trial will be proceeded
with forthwith.
The Providence Post sneeringlv calls
Colonel Fremont a bear hunter. The Boston
Attn* responds that they will find befoie next
November he is a " Buck" hunter also
I NSI'KRECTIOS IN WaRKK.V Cot'NTY. Si;,, p
the nomination of Buchanan and Breckcnrid.-,.
by tiie Cincinnati Convention, a Democratic
County Convention was .summoned as usual in
Warren county, I'a., to ratify the ticket and
do other things. It was to be composed 0 r
delegates elected by each township. The re
sult shows how thoroughly unpopular the ti. p
et and platform are in that region. Whet,
the Convention met, the delegates from
umbos towwsaip sent in a communication sav.
ing that their constituents are of the Jeffer",
nian school, and have not clianged their senti
ments as to the propriety of restricting slavery
to its present limits ; and that as the count"v
Democratic paper had announced that such
Democrats would not be allowed to run „p ori
the county ticket, nor attend the Buchanan
ratification meeting, they did uot wish to • ~r .
ticipate in the proceedings of a convention
which might commit them to the support of a
ticket on the Cincinnati platform.
They therefore declined to present creden
tials. The townships, some of them, sent some
few administration delegates, others, anti-
Nehraska men, while others refused to send
any at all. The Warren Mail mentions seve
ral of the latter kind, and gives, as a sped
men, the full proceedings of Sheffield town
ships At the meeting held there on the 28th
ult., resol itions expressing adherence to the
principles of Washington, Jefferson, aid Jack
son, disapproving of the course of the present
National Administration in reference to Kan
sas, declaring the belief that " the leaders of
the present self-styled Democratic party have
become corrupt through Southern influence,
gold, or otherwise, and are no longer worthv
of our support or of the moeh abnsed ram-.-
of Democracy," and concluded in the follow
ing stylj :
Jlcsolrcd, That we cannot support anv can
didate for office who stands upon, is pMyel
to, or is otherwise in favor of the platform
erected in Cincinnati, under the name of De
mocracy.
Reso'rcd, That we are not nor ever have
been political Abolitionists, but when wo SOP
national power prostituted to.subvert Freedom
and oppress tne oppressed, it alike excites our
sympathy and indignation.
Cm er these considerations, the meetiinr re
solved to send no delegates to the C> untv Con
vention. Now the reader may perhaps think,
from the wording of these resolutions, that
they were not passed by Democrats. Vet the
proceedings banded in to the Convention, at. 1
furnished to the county paper.- lor publication
assert that they were passed at a tinvring of
Democrats called by the Democratic Commit
tee of Vigilance. When the Convention un
voting for candidates, Mr. (1. \Y. 6 -ofiehl, one
of the candidates for Congress, got up and
read a statement declaring him-, if "ppoc-.i
to the further extension of slavery, ana in fa
vor )[ excluding it from all territory of the
United States, more especially Kan-as. lie
dcuounced the repeal of llio M V.-ouri Compro
mise, the Kansas outrages, and tiie conduct
the Democratic leaders, and .-aid that as the
per tons who had undertaken the management
of the party opposed these view,-, 1,.- witlwr-w
his name as a candidate and intended that in
the coming canvass his vote should r. pr<-.'.;
his principles, In this Convention, the to'-w.-
ships of Freehold, Columbus, Corydou. l'hav
ant and -Sheffield, refused to be i ]•>
account of their being opposed to the ex:-.;;-
siou of slavery. These townships contain ouc
fourth of the population of the county.
Freedom a Crime v- UNSi Ikm->c-;v- v In
some parts of the North the Buchanan party
professes to be in favor of the admission el
Kansas as a Free *tate ; but the I '.ttstmrg
Post boldly throws "IT thi- disguise, and
claims every man a traitor to Denies ;<y
favors the admission of that State with a free
constitution. Hence it denounce.- Mr. Bar- j
clay, a democratic member of Congress from
this State, upon whose motion tiie vote reject
ing the admission of Kansas with the Topeta
constitution was reconsidered, and I>J tii? a -'
of whose vote the bill then passed :
"The Traitor Gone Over— Mr. Barclay,
member of Congress from the Jeffersoncow.tr
district, in this State, has at length rtlieve-i
the Democratic party from any susjmimi tr,s>.
he any longer belongs to it. On every o'>->
sion where he has had an opportunity l" 1
betrayed the Democratic party since he m
disgrace*! his district iu Congress, ami w ' c
glad that he has at length taken the tmai
jto rid the party of a booby and a trait.-r > J
| hairy face and brainless head are a ■
qnisition to the abolitionists. 'I he pptno- ■
despised him so cordially that he has> 1 I
ed to search for friend- elsewhere - 1 9
The sole crime of Mr. Barclay D '-ha. • - I
in favor of Freedom in Kansas, and 'tr 0 a
to the extension of Slavery. For the r - I
denounced as a traitor to his party, and - ■
of a crime that cannot he forgiven. v ' • H
~ i-• n . I 111
then, can belong honestly to that pa--.- ■
opposed to the extension of Slavery : H
fact is thus acknowledged that it is t fl
of slavery, wedded to its interests and p- - H
to their promotion. Let honest, fa-ed-w-- ' „ H
democrats take notice. j|
Kansas. —Mr. Howard, of Michigan, o '- 1 9
the members of the CoogN - I
delivered a speech a few evenings ag'b
Fremont ratification meeting, in the eours m
which he said : 9
" I assert that if all the tyra ■ y y
upon our forefathers, by the mngy
Britain, were collected together a* " ,q9|
by ten, 1 could bring fact -to pre*-' p
poor settlers in Kansas have sut-o S
than the whole of them."
This is the opinion of a man. win'.
been in Kansas, laboriously ott .
investigation of the troubles in K 9|
thus an indie.'Dm r •' t ' ,r "• B