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WEDNESDAY; APRIL iiApco.
PETER C. HUBER &,41:111011E:61407EB
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TO ADVERTISERS
THE "LEHIGH REGISTER" HAS A LARGER
- -CISCULATION - BY - SEVERAL HUNDRED
THAN ANY OTHER ENGLISH PAPER IN
THE COUNTY.
, FOR GOVERNOR
avialvew
OF CENTRE COUNTY.
TRH CAMPAIGN.
The information we have front ell parts of
our State, assures us of the most flattering proi..
Iteole•for.the great struggle for human rights'
at* ensuing presidential election. Nevermore
nee good people of the old Keystone:littera beat
ekpon•annihihtting the northern allies of south
era alave..drivers and rdisuitienists. The as
, surance which that piece Of political jugglery
at .Reading, - gave thew' is fast dying away,
'new that it is .understood; and comprehended,
by those that were duped. • The great battle
(Will, we - think; be fought solely upon the re
apective merits 'of both' parties: • Hypocrioy
misrepresentation, fklsehood and vituperation;
,•( the isual'weapons of our opponents) will be
of no avail: The stern facts, es they are, will
be presented to the publio inspection, and
those who make and =Make our rulers, will
be able'tO pass their verdict upon them.
The fog has vanished, and the monstrous in
, iquities of that once great, but now wretched
liarty, loom up in rill , their horrid shapes, in
the light al day, all eyes are fixed upon them,
everrone diseerne, and comprehends them.—
They - who love justice and truth' turn away ap
palhxl,end they who believe and cherish the
great mid everlasting trtiths, that are proclaim
ed ill'the great charter' of human rights, the
uninorial Declaration of Independence, who
believe that' the Condtitution of the United
States, is an instrument devised in the wisdom
and patriotism of our memorableWashingtons,
Jeffersone and Franklins, to praetically pro.
' mote the principals of the Declaration of Inpen
dence,—who are for the gradual emancipation
of all Mankind from moral as well as physical
servitude and slavery; who are against enslav
ing the weak by the strong, and of creating
distinctions among men, these, all these, turn
away from the sickening sight, and . as their
only refuge seek shelter with the Republican
party. • Our cause must triumph, our party
meet be victorious, for it embraces all those
great moral truths which are - admired and
cherished by the whole American people, and
which have placed our nation at the head of
the nations of the earth, not only i n greatness
and power, but also in enlightened liberty and
social adiancement, We contemplate the ap
proaching contest with a serene composure,
for'we are certain of a victory, Pennsylvania,
will thereby only show that she remains true
to herself and her past history. So much for
the general result.
, We have a word to say to the people of Le
' high county. The iron interest of this county
render it but natural, that every man should
desire the passage of a law, by which there
could be hope for its development, and as a
natural consequence that the laborer should be
Maintained and protected in his rightful posi
tion of equality with the capitalist, If the
• Republican party advocated no other princi
ples than these, they would be sufficient of
themselves to decide the question for every
man in Lehigh county to be a Republican ; for
it is a question of dollars and o ents, and comes
directly home to them. For this if for no other
reason we desire to see Lehigh county definite
ly and incontestibly Republicanized, we have
the men to do it with, we only lack the energy
and industry to bring them out. A good deal
is required, before we can call our little county
lhoroughly Republican, it requires work, con
stant and energetic work. We speak. thus
plain, because we have no relish to lead our
readers into the fatal delusion that because
upon iseveral occasions we have succeeded to
sleet a part of our county ticket, therefore we
canafferd to lie idly by and safely count upon
success, for we do not believe any thing of the
Bind. We have those to contend against who
are well trained in their art, active in their
operations and unscrupulons in their means,
we musktherefore be ever watchful, active and
industrious. We would have in every Ward
and Township in the county, every influential
Republican take upon himself the active du
ties of the campaign. In each Ward and
Township a committee of competent persons
should be appointed who will procure a list
' of every Republican, Domocrat, and doubtful
voter, to make every arrangement to poll a full
vote, and to leave nothing undone to effect this
object. Let each Republican in the county
supply himself with a few good documents,
read them, and then see that his neighbor will
also read them, for if our doctrines are only
. read and
,underatood they will be embraced
with eagerness. We should be at work now,
we have not a moment to loose, the public
mind should be fixed at least eight weeks be
lbre the election, and when we consider the
. - -
labor that must be performed to accomplish
that object, no one will say we have time yet.
To every Republican then who reads this, let
him consider it a direct appeal to him, and lot
him immediately be up and doing.
Hon. Et C. Longnookor
In last week's Allentown Democrat, we had
a continuation of the indecent and unjustifi
able attack upon the character of our Repro
sentativehAr„, Congress, the Hon. Henry. C.
Longnecker. In reply to the question, why
Mr. Longnecker did not vote on Mr. Blake's
resolution, we answer, that sickness confined
him to his room, and prevented his voting.—
At the time of not voting for the introduction
of Mr. Morril's tariff bill Mr. Longneoker was
paired with Mr.- Harris of Virginia,. an out
!And out anti-tariff man. ',The suspension of
the rules requiring a two-third vote, eve
tariff man by pairing himself with an anti
tariff man, gained at least one vote in favor of
i t
4.
tariff,' We are pleased to learn that Mr.
.Longnecker is recovering from hi sic sae,
which at one Bind was considered qui sous
by his attending physician. With these few
remarks, we dismiss for the present this ground
less attack upon an able and faithful Repre
sentative; satisfied, that the Derpogracy have
struck in the wrong diiection . for the purpose
of milling political, capital.
14§68krivert's &mom, marble building, on
Broadway:Now York, is valued at $400,000,
sad Om til,*o4 it War*: amounted to $7,168.
OIL
. ' miming Ptak*lttie.
One of th most painthl incitigtit's we ever
witnesaed
. aspiml 4 in_Oe Conti \ ,of Quarter
:flestons oe , this .ooi *
ntyl#e4NAlt ivat , .the
ca;ielof a iiiiing girt of hlleiligett4peal#,e,
2 1.% . .11 • 721
wha..m . as tiehtenced-061soittary afinemtnt at
lab 4 in the State W4itkiritiary, ?iiiiim a chOge
pf'inrostileitiOti. 'the'- most hbatillatint . fatt
connected with thiii eifouliOmee. is that,;bOth
parents of this girl are now undergoing:a sen
tence in the State Prison for keeping a house
of ill-fame, no doubithereehool. The filets ad
duced in evidence before tho court were of the,
.rnest ' r'evelthig chareetorl,facts that .not only
proved the utter abandonment and, degrada
tion of this wretched victim, but also the ex
istence in this community of an almost lin
bounded growth of most disgusting and
abhorrent vices. A town abounding in houses
of ill-fame, that are indiscriminately resorted to
day and night, and Sundaye as well as week
days, by persons of all ages, positions and con
ditions, by the gray headed father, down
through every step, to the boy of fourteen
years, all meeting on the same common level
of degradation, and abandoning themselves to
the most licentious passions, is certainly a
subjeot.quite ripe for consideration. The mor
al iniquity; abounding in this community is
decidedly on the increase, and it becomes our
duty as faithful journalists to expose it, probe
it to the bottom, and to- endeavor to eradicate
it as much as possible. We are none of those
who,believe that the community can be cleans
ed and polished, so that not one stain, re
mains, for experience teaches us 'that there
will always remain some sores which like moral
cancers can never be healed. But vice in eve
ry form can be kept within apparently harm
less limits,-and in a well regulated society it will
be found confined within narrow bounds when
ever it overleaps those bounds, there is always a
cause for it, and whatever the cause may he
why it has such alarming growth in this com
munity, we will not venture to judge but con
tent ourselves with the fact that it is so, and a
single suggestion to those, who most of all oth
ers have it in their power to stop the misokief.
Our Legislators, Courts of Justice, Minie
tars of the Gospel, public journals, and public
instructors of youthte are sufficient, watchful,
zealous and active in their efforts to mend the
public morals. The fault certainly cannot be
imputed to them ; we must seek for it
elsewhere. Do parents do their duty to their
children? Do they remember that the influ
ences that surrood their children become in
corporated, as it were, in:their very natures, be
comes apart of them, and moulds and fashions
that society of which they become members.—
" As the twig is bent the tree is inclined."—
It makes no difference all the world over, for
whore men and women are cannibals, their
children when grown up, will certainly eat each
other, and so establish cannibalism. Where
they are heathens, pirates, robbers and thieves
the same thing will be their children, and the
community they form, and where parents
make light of morality, religion and those vir
tues that beautify and adorn society, and on
the other hand pass lightly bye those vices
and licentious habits, that inetitabiy lead to
shame, misery and crime, they certainly should
not wonder that the communities fornied by
their children are not models of religion, virtue
and good order.
Dr. if orlaohar
Rum SIDS Ur Wirtz CAIIS.—An old Aboli
tion reprobate, calling himself Dr. Horlacher,
from Pennsylvania, was taken up in our city
on last Saturday, for having in his possession
incendiary documents. The bird was stripped
of his borrowed plania . go and treated to a coat
of black, a color more in accordance with his
political principles, and marked :to "Horace
Greeley, Tribune °Soo, New York City, Right
side up with care." Thus parceled, he loft for
Newyork, via Chattanooga and Norfolk. Ho
race, the Black Knight of the Tribune, will
please inform us of the safe arrival of his
"brother" in iniquity. This climate is too
hot for Abolitionists.
We find the above paragraph in the Atlanta
Confederacy, a Democratic paper published
in. Georgia. The gentleman honored by' his
Southern brethren in the Democratic faith, is
a citizen of New Berlin, Union county, in this
State. He supposed his mission on earth to
bo to prove that slavery is Qf Divine origin, in
stituted fox: righteous and humane purposes,
and thterpetuated through all
coming time. He was a Democrat from a ro-
Bemis stand-point, and has for many years
been engaged in selling what ho called his
" platform." He canvassed the Northern
States, and mot with no molestation. His
Democratic friends patronized him liberally,
and his success encouraged him to extend his
labors to the " heaven-favorod" soil on which
the " divine institution" is established. Re
cently we heard of him lecturing at. the capi.
tale of slave States, and at last he had reached
Georgia, as the above paragraph advises us.—
Whether his sudden transit from Georgia to
New York—from the society of his. friends to
the care of " that, prince of devils," Honscz
GREELEY-will have any effect upon his mind
or heart, we have not been able to learn. Prob
ably he will add a new plank to his platform.
—Pennsylvania Stale Journal.
Ratification Meeting in Philadelphia
The People's Party of Philadelphia hold a
large Mass Meeting in Philadelphia on Sat
urday evening last to ratify the nominations of
the City Convention for municipal officers.—
The meeting was the most enthusiastic and
the largest the party have held for years, and
the prospects of success at the coming muni
cipal struggle seem to be fair. The renomina
tion of Mayor Henry, who has so impartially
and ably filled the office during his term, has
given universal satisfaction, and renders the
contest so far as the opposition are concerned,
an enthusiestio one.
adjournment of Legislature.
The Legislature of the Commonwealth ad-
journed on Tuesday last. The amount of local
legislation birought to the attention of the Legis-
lature was immense. The only matters of
grave, public import, on which the Legislature
acted, was the passage of the Free. Banking
Law. The law is in the main of the Banking
system of Now York State, which is said to
work very well in that State. The people have
reason to be grateful, that the duties of the
Legislature, have been faithfully discharged,
with a wise reference to the public good.
THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION.—The election
in Rhode Island, on Wednesday last, resulted
in the election of Sprague Conservative Re
pul3lican candidate for Governor, by a majority
of'lsoo votes. The regular Republican nomi
nee was defeated by a ticket nominated by the
Young Men's Ropublican and American State
Convention, the Supservative Republican State
Conventionoind the Democratic State Conven
tion. • The. Democracy had. no distintinctive
Democratic State ticket in the field. Part of
the States officers are sa•eleoted, and were sup
ported all by parties.
T aal
TkEl P frelpiaT7N.
The Tiows of the ' . i ttilhiVel*littites for
the Presitieney, on t Ciknolin i g tielipical issues
of the tittyrbeipg a matter of *telt 10)alLour
Oadet ( liptre'Opy the,fti*ng4irtiilt /from a
•,i_etter of JUdielcayian ? . (l,f Nevi,',.Tisrsey, in re
*ly to.an inyithtion, tir att.t3nklth . t?Cirrey Dinner
in 'Philttd,44ia., ' • ",..:.'.. ' . -11: ~:' . - 's,
The letter demonstrates, that so ihr:,as the
question of protection, is concerned, • Judge
DayMn stands whc?e true-hearted't'ennsyl
vanians would desire him to stand; on the side
ot,affording-adequats prpteetion to the, mann-,
facturihehiterests oftlimcsiiintry. The ietier
will amply repay a careful perusal.
Wealth 'is almost entirely 'the' product' of
labor: and the Wealth of every nation' is the
reault-of- its industrf.- There are two' systems
(the. oppositffof .eaeh other,) proposed for de
velopment of the industry of the country. Free
trade proposes to keep the wages of labor down
to the low rates of old manufacturing nations.
This system ignores the dignity of labor. It
assumes that the workingmen must be poorly
paid, poorly fed, and poorly clad: that they
must in fact, be the mudsills of society."
According to, this theory, there is, indeed, little
difference between the slave and the white la
borer. Hence it follows that the advocates of
free trade, and the advocates of the extension
of slavery, concur in regarding all labor as ser
vitude. They thus believe in their hearts, and
many of them, confess with their mouths, that
white laborers are on an equality of degrada
tion with negro slaves.
The protective system is the farthest possi
ble from such a theory. It is at war irrecon
cilably with all its assumptions and facts. It
rejects instinctively and without hesitation,
nay, with disdain and indignation, all notions
of the degradation. of labor. On le contrary,
it exalts and honors its It reveres it as the
normal condition of the human race; as the
condition which is necessary to its highest de
velopment ; as the foundation of all intelligent
and Christian civilisation. The human body
is nothing if it he not exercised in useful in
dustry; while the human mind sinks almost
into idiocy, if it ho not well employed. God
has made labor a part of His plan for human
happiness. Every 'Nation and every State
which shall *disregard llis will in this respect,
will soon exhibit marks of material, intellectual
and religion i dilapidation, and approaching
dissolution.
. .
The theory of the protective system is there
fore, in its fundamental principle, the theory
of free, dignified, intelligent and well-remuner
ated labor. This character of labor, if looked
to only with an eye to political economy, Mast
have the advantageof all others. But it is not
alone because of its superior economy or its
more fritilflll results, its a Means of national
wealth, that we advocate and espouse it. We
insist that for the hiher development of man
kind, it is essential ('whether it he or be not
cheaper in the long run,) that American labor
shall bp well remunerated ; and that every
American Mom shall have an opportupity to
secure for himself, and for those who depend
upon him, such positions as are best adapted
to the development of their intellectual and
meral attributes. We insist that labor in this
country shall be protected from the competition
of that European labor, the scanty wages of
which aro utterly inadequate to the support of
an American freeman, But it Will he found
that this protected labor will soon become the
most economical, and for the simple reason
that it will be most intelligent, the most skill
ful, the best adapted always to every purpose.
Intelligent and industrious workmen are every
where found to be most valuable; their labor
is worth and commands the highest wages.
Pennsylvania occupies a peculiar position in
respect to the industry of the country. Her
iron and coal are the first elements of modern
industry. Scarcely:an implemenCean be forg
ed, 'except from her iron i scarcely a wheel can
move in all tho land, unless impelled by motive
power from her coal mines. She seems to be
the heart of our industrial system, and .scarce
ly a pulsation can he detected in the remotest
members, 'Which may not be traced hack to her
central energies. Her iron makes the machi
nery, the rail-roads, the steainships, and her
coal moves them all. The North, the South,
the Basrand the West are thus dependent on
her, and thaVed by. her, She is, by consequ
ence, the best indicator and criterion of the
prosperity of the country ; for the industry of
the country cannot suffer the least paralysis,
but it immediately recoils upon her. Her in
-torests are, therefore, truly national • and what
is for her prosperity, is for the prosperity of
whole country.
But between Nov Jersey and Pennsylvania
there are, in an especial degree, certain great
interests in common, The iron interests of the
two states, are identical ; and the public works
of Now Jersey, her canals and rail roads, are.
the conduits through which vast amounts of
the iron and coal of Pennsylvania find their
way to a market. The indirect advantage to
both states, from a tariff for protection, amounts
to more, perhaps, in the aggregate than any
direct benefit to their manufacturers. The coal
beds of Pennsylvania are inexhaustible, and
every additional factory of large size is equiv- .
alent, in the way of consumption of coal, to
the building up of a new town. or city, with
all its inhabitants.
A' time has come when the condition of the
country and its financial embarrassments de
mand that another effort be made for the pro
tection of American labor. May we not hope
that Pennsylvania will put her shoulder to the
wheel; that an enlightened sense of what is
due to her own interests, as well as the inter- ,
este of others, will induce her to stand fast in
the support of such mon and such measures as
will best develop the great industrial interests
of the country."
UNION CONSTITUTIONAL STATE CONVENTION.
—We received from the officers of a Union
Constitutional Club of the city of Philadelphia
a call for a State Convention to assemble at
Lancaster, April 25th, to select delegates to the
National Convention, which shall, assemble at
Baltimore in May, with request to publish and
a promise to pay. If those gentlemen are do
ing business in politics in their own names,
their promises to pay are worthless. If they
are carrying on trade for the benefit of the
Democratic party, and their' funds are derived
from Democratic spoils, as in 1856, we prefer
not to contaminate our hands with their vil
lainous plunder. It has been testified before
Congressional Investigating Committee, that
$5000.00 wore dealt out by Fromocratic Fede
ral office-holders in 1856 for the purpose of
keeping afloat a third party to elect Buchanan.
That fraud has become transparent, and can
not be rc-enacted. The side door movement is
played out. If there aro delegates to a State
Convention, they will be delegates without any
conatituonces. We can very readily imagine,
why mon of no means, no character to lose,
little brains, and loss conscience, should embark
in the service as pensioned Hirelings, but can
account for no other class of parsons doing so.
There is no middle ground between Union-lov
ing, conservative, straight-forward Republi
canism, and the African Democracy. If• the
one party does not triumph, the other will.
Tnz CONNECTICUT ELECTlON.—Contrary to
first reports the Republican majority in Con
necticut is not as large as at first announced.
Buckingham's majority is between 600 and
700. The Senate consists of 14 Republicans
to 7 Demciorats—l. Republican gain from last
year. The new House consists of 147 Repub
licans and 87 Democrats. Last year, 127 to
109. The Republicans gain generally in the
rural Districts, and lost only in the large
cities, and manufacturing Districts, whore large
numbers of naturalisations, election frauds,
and fears of loss of Southern trade, swelled the
Democratic majorities. The result, however,
tikes the vote of next fall. The money ex
pended in Connecticut by the Democracy could
have been used to better purposa *text fall in
other States. • • • •
STARTLINt'PEVELOPMESTS
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Wholee.r i under and Corruption.
DEPfiooi4Ti.o
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iConoluded from: our •
History Ville . Post (.Ipe Blank .FVincepg.
Q. You bat% stud that you printed the post
office biati)til tor ft number of yeare ?
A. Yes, sir ; for about fifteen years.
Q. Did you derive your cofithet from the
public printer ?
A. -No;-sir; . for bight years I was contractor
with the Department.
Q. You say that you were for eight years'
a Contractor with the Post Office Department ?
A. Yes, sir as the lowest bidder under the .
contract system, • • •
Q. Virlion.did those eight years expire?
A. I think in-1852 or 1853.
Q. From that time did you do the work as a
sub-contractor?
A. Yes eir. '
Q. Under whom ?
A. I execute the work for the public prin
ter under a subcontract.
Q. For the public) printer?
A. Yes, sir ; and also as a sub-contractor un
der Mr. Wendell.
Q. You did the work under Mr. Wendell ?
A. Yes, sir; .I was. sub-contractor under
Mr. Wendell.
Q. At what rates ?
A. My first acquaintance was at the rate of
fifty-five cents. I gave them fifty-five cents
and executed the work fbr forty-five cents on
the dollar, paid by th 6 Governnient,'
Q. Do you rotuntber what is the aggregate
annual cost to the Government for the print
ing of the post office blanks ?
A. From $40,000 to $45,000.
Q. A year?
A. Yes, sir, •
This Printing is given under General Bowman
to a Know Nothing.
Q. State the circumstance of the transfer of
the work?
On the election of General, Bowman, the
work came into hie hands.
Q State the circumstances of the transfer,
you having had the work up to that time?
A. I understood General Bowman had said
that I should not be employed to do the work.
I did not go near him. I wont home. Some
ten days afterward 1 tbnnd that the work was
lying idle, that nothing was done, and I came
hero and made an offer to the Post Office De
parmant to go on With the work. The eveningof
the day I made the offer to the P. ivl. Qeneral.
Mr. Quail, a friend of General Bowman came
to )Villard's Hotel and asked me whether I
did not want to go on with the work at the
same terms. I replied that I had already
made an offer to the Postmaster General to do
the work, and that shortly the proposition
would be made by Congress to give it out by
contract. I declined to make any arrange
ment with - Mr. Quail, on behalf of General
Bowman. Afterwards I understood that it
was given to Mr. Jewett, of Buffalo, New
York.
Q. Who is Mr * Jewett?
Q. He is the publisher of the Buffalo Com
mercial Advertiser, the leading Know Nothing
organ of the State of New York.
4 1 he President and the Printing Plunder.
Cornelius Wendell, recalled
Q. Has the President been in the habit of
dispensing this Post Office printing? •
A. It was done by contract until 1856. I
think then the contract expired, and it revert
the to the printer of Congress. Judge Ni
cholson was then printer and editor of the or
gan, and it reverted to him.
4. That was in 1856 ?
A. I think it was in 1856.
Q Prom 1E155 'who exercised the control
over the gitirfg out of the Post Office blank
printing ?
A. The President and Postmaster General,
through the Postmaster General. In Decem
,
ber succeeding Mr. Buchnnan's coming into
power, he gave into Mr. Rice for a time.
Q. Did you sub-contract it for Mr. Rice?
A. Yes, sir ; that was the understanding
that I shOuld continue to do the work as here
tofore, and have the control of it, Rice receiv
ing, I think, fourty-three cents on the dollar.
Q. Was there any understanding when this
work was given to Rice that any newspaper
was to be supported out of it ?
A. It was understood that it was for the
support of theAnnsy/vanian ; such was the
understanding.
Q. The understanding between whom ?
A. The understanding between the President
and The Postmaster General.
Q. by Mr. Hindman. How did you know
that?
A From conversations I hold with them. I
insisted upon having more of the profits of the
printing to support The Union as it was one of
those rather unprofitable pecuniary organs and
Mr Rico was very clamorous to have a share of
the Pennsylvanian and we finaly settled on forty
three cents on the dollar. 1 then made at con
tract with Mr. Crowell, who did the work for
me for forty-five cents or fifty cents on the dol
lar. He did it a portion of the time for forty
five cents, and a portion of the time for fifty
cents. I had also the executive binding,
which Rice thought ought to satisfy me, but
the profits on that were not so great, and the
expenses of Tlie Union being very large, I in
sisted that I should have all the profits of
the post office blank printing. I could not
keep it however.
Q. by the Chairman. You stated that $20,-
000 were to be allowed out of the profits of the
executive printing towards supporting the or
gan under General Bowman ?
. A. When I parted with it in March last, I
found that, paying Rice and Severna, I could
not sustain The Union from the profits of the
executive work, and I therefore proposed to
give it to any party that might be designated
by the President.
Q. Who did you make this proposition to
To the President ; and to pay $lO,OOO
per annum was my first proposition. Pending
that proposition Mr. Baker, the collector of
Philadelphia, came down to secure aid for the
Pennsylvanian, and finally I had to accede to'
giving $20,000 per annum, $lO,OOO per an•
num of which Mr. Baker obtained for The
Pennsylvanian. I have been informed that
$lO,OOO of the $20,000 was for The Pennsylva
nian, but my obligation is with Mr. Bowman
for $20,000. 'That obligation existed, still ex
ists ; and there has boon no action had in re
lation to it, owing to Mr. Bowman's refusal
to carry out his part of the engagement, which
was that I should do the Senate printing in
case he was elected printer to the Senate. I
paid Mr. Bowman $5;000 in advance when he
took The. Union, and the balance I secured to
him by giving him orders on the post office
work, which he could not draw having no or
ders on it.
- - - .
Q. You paid him $5,000 when he took the
Paper ?
A. When he took the Union, I gave him
that amount as a capital to start with.
Q. Did you pay him any more on account
of the $20,000?
A. I gave him orders on the Post Office De
partment in pursnanco of an account ho ren
dered me of what was duo him, which orders
I subsequently countermanded, on account of
his not carrying out his engagement.
Q. What did those orders amount to?
A. If my memory serves me I gave him or
ders to the amount of $B,OOO or $lO,OOO.
Q. Has he not received payment at the Post
Office Department of those orders
A. I believe not ; yet I do not know.
Q. Was it understood when you transferred
" The Union" to Mr. Bowman that $20,000
should bo diverted out of the proceeds of the
Post Office printii . g b 7 you to its support ?
A. Yes, sir ; ti at wis the understanding.
Q. Between wi om ?
A. The paper •was drawn up by Judge
Black.. It was bet., Jen Mr. Bowman and my
self, we being put forward as the active men.
Q. Was the Presidimt consulted in relation
to it at time ?
A. I first addressed a note to the President
—to Judge Nicholson who was my friend in
the ease, for the President, and he took it up
to him. In that • note I stated that it was
rather onerous to me to be obliged to support
The Union, and what I desired to do. I sug
gested that Mr. Macdonald, formerly a mem-
ber or'bongress from Maine,..e hoidd, take „the
papex ind become its editor,,r i lle'itthra -com
petent man I stipposed ; hut JON, course's:lf
two of three weeks ,Bowman's name was men d
ti l rined, and aSsented to it. We'met at. the
Attorney General's 'office, and Judge Black
drew rip the papers between us, which consist
ed in my conveying The Union to him..
• ,Q. To Mr.'Bowmati. 14.
sir; to Mr. Bowman;'with a stipu
lation to pay the money also. There was a
letter addressed in duplicate, to Judge Black
and Judge Nicholson, selecting them as um
pires in case any difficulty should arise between
us the difficulty having arisen, I have tried to
have it settled by the Umpires but Bowman
invariably declines. He found he could make
a better thing of it I suppose, by engaging
Mr. Rives; ; and when. he was elected Senate
printer he repudiated all our agreements, for
which I have commenced a law suit; it being
as I am advised by my counsel the only reme
dy I have in the premises.
Q. How much of a losing concern is this
Goverment organ per annum, in your judg
ment?
A. If my memory serves me, it cost me,
when it was under any nianagertient, $19,000
over and above itS receipts.
Q. by Mr. Palmer. Did it cost you that
amount per annum ?
A. Yes, sir; I think it cost me about that
last year. Bowman told me that ho thought
it'would cost him about $12,000 with his man
agement. lie being a close manager, he cut
down where I was disposed to be liberal. I .
paid pretty well for the services of those em
ployed about tho paper. I did not quarrel
with the editors about the amount they should
receive but paid thorn a liberal salary. The
editor's were generally designated by the Pres- .
dent. ,
Q. The editorsof ne Union were debignat
ed by the President, whilst you had the man
agement of the paper ?
A. Yes, sir ; whilst I was the owner of it.
Q. Was any one of those editors in the em
ploy of the flovernment ? •
A. Not when they wore appointed editors ;
Mr. Appleton was afterward appointed Assist
ant Secretary of State, and Mr. Harris elect
ed Senate printer.
Q. You have spoken of liberality ; be kind
enough to state whether, out of the profits of
the public printing, you contributed; in 1858,
certain sums to secure the election ofmembers
of Congress, in different districts in Pennsyl
vania. If so, in what districts.
A. I spent a good deal of money in politics,
but with all deference to the committee, I
must decline to answer in what districts.
Jehu Glancy Jones gets a share of the Plunder.
Q. Did you make any contributions towards
the election to Congress of J. Glancy Jones in
1858 ?
A. A similar question was propound° I me
by the Senate Committee, which I respectfully
begged leave_ to decline answering. I answer
ed generally that I had for years contributed
from my own resources money, derived from
what sources it might, to the sustenance of die
the party ; that I had always been •an enthu
siastic party man, and still was, and that
probably I should contribute more in the com
ing campaign if I had it. I stated that I had
expended money in Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey, Ohio, and divers other States,
and I had given to districts represented at that
time on the floor by personal and political
friends. ;I now state that I did contribute in
eight or ten districts, I cannot call to mind the
exact number, in Pennsylvania, during the
last campaign, in sums varying from $250 to
$2.250
, in the different districts which it was
supposed a little material aid would carry for
us, I did, ninon; others, contribute to the
Barks county district, represented then by the
Hon. J. Glancy Jones, and to divers and sun
dry others. I think in my other testimony 1
mentioned the names of the gentlemen who
represented those districts then, but who . , un
fortunately do not represent thorn now.
Q. Did you contribute in Landy's district?
A. I contributed in his district among oth
ers. The specific ground upon which I refus
ed to answer this question beforemas, that I
protested against an inquiry into what I had
done with funds of my own, and with specified
amounts in specified places. I have no objec
tion to say that I contributed more or less in
the different districts, as my check-book
shows, in sums varying from $2.50 to $2.250.
I know that there was one district very hard
to ca, but we did save it.
Q. Whose district was that? .
A. We saved the Florence district from the
wreck. I beg the committe will excuse me
from going into details. This money was con
tributed for strictly party purposes.
Q. by Mr. Hindman. Did you. use any
money to aid in securing the election of any
member of Congress in any Southern State?
A. Never. I believe you de not indulge in
the expensive luxury, I have offered to do it,
but my offers have been indignantly refused.
Q. by the chairman. If you had not been
in the receipt of the proceeds of the public
printing would you have contributed money
as you say you have done in the various Con
gressional districts?
A. I would not have been able to contribute
so much. It was the profit I made lut of the
public printing that enabled me to contribute
these amounts of money. The•fact that I was
in a public position known to be remunerative
induced frequent calls upon me, to which I re
sponded.
Q. by Mr. Somes. I wish to know whether
or not there was an implied or expressed un
derstanding between you and any executive of
ficer of the Government that you should make
these contributions out of the proceeds of the
printing, for politicial purposes?
A. No, sir; none, except as to the.contribu
tions I nlade towards the support of certain
newspapers which the President saw fit to as
sign to me to support.
Q. by the chairman. Did any of these Con
gressional candidates make demands upon you?
A. Not demands; they made humble re
quests,
Q. Did J. Glancey Jones request you to as
sist towards his election?
A. Well, yes, sir. In the course of a con
versation he asked me to contribute 'something
to it, and I remember telling him there was no
necessity of spending money in his district, as
it was safe anyhow. We found, however, that
it was rather unsafe when the votes came. in.
Examined by Mr. Hindman:
Q. Was there, or was there not, propounded
to you before the Senate investigating commit.
tee, inquiring into this subject, a question of
this purport: "Whether the President of the
United States and yourself had had any corres
pondence in regard to the use of money in the
elections in any State?" and if so, what was his
response upon the subject?
A. There was a question of that kind. •
Q. State what your answer*was.
A. The answer I intended • to convey was
this, that pending the Congressional election
of 1858, I suggested to him the suspension of
the payment of this monthly stipend to the
Pennsylvanian and Argus, and the appropria
tion of that money to party purposes, to be
used in different localities. It was my own
suggestion to him that, in my judgement, the
money was uselessly expended in keeping up
effete papers, and that it could be used to bet
ter advantage in getting out voters, circula
ting documents &c. I told him that I thought
'it would be better for the party to apply it in
that way, and that I would take the responsi
bility of doing it. I assummed the responsi
bility and did it, he not dissenting from that
course; but there was no specific direetion
from the President to me to do it. It is justice
to him to state that he had authorized the pay
ment of certain moneys. n r certain rates per an
num, out of the profile of the printing, to the
"Pennsylvanian ' ana to the "Argus" and that
when this, election °con. '
I acting upon the
belief I have already stated, took the respon
sibility of making this suggestion and carry
ing it out. So that the sin or blame of stop
ping what 1 always deemed an unjust tax upon
me, as the mechanic performing the work, and
of directing the money to other purposes, if it
was a sin, rests upon me alone.
Q. by the chairman. Did the President a
gree toyour suggestion ?
•
A. He did not dissent from it.
Q You made the atatement you have just
given 'us to him? •
A. I did. "' '
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M=lls l !Mig=g
' Q. Were your relations with him of 'a
very
intimate character during your connection' with
the Government organ as its owner?; ,
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Were you in, the habit of seeing him fre
quently?.
A. Very frequently.
Q. How frequently?
A. Really I cannot say.
Q. How many times a week?
A. I averaged two or three times a week—
some weeks more, and some weeks less.
Look at That Plaint a and then at Thla
.The despotism of Naples is almost as bad as
the desPdtism in our own country, the favored
land of liberty; " The home of the bravo and
the land of free." We herewith
.present two
letters to our readers the one wrtten at Naples
by a gentleman from Philadelphia; now in
Naples, and the other by Cassius M. Clay, of
Kentucky, and we ask them to judge for them
selves whether America, the land we style as
the home of the free, that gave to the world the
Declaration of Independence, and produced a
Washington to defend its immortal principles,
is any better or less despotic than the fettered
and down trodden countries of Europe. They
are as follows
NAPLES, March 6th, URA—Things are in a
wretched condition here. A revolution was
anticipaied on Saturday last.
On Sunday morning the proprietor of our
laitel was taken out of his bed and carried
off to prison, and today he has been banished
from his home and family. • He is a man of
influence and wealth, but choso to express tt
love for liberty. Last week thirty persons of
position wore exiled. To what a low condition
must a people have sunk when they find them
selves unable to rise and overthrow such a
galling tyrrany.
" Yours of the 19th is reeievod. I have on
ly time to say that we are in a state of war.—
The obligarchy were aiming at one in the ex
pulsion of the Rerans from their hones, being
in hopes that I would forcibly defend' them,
the radicals.' Defeated by my Frankfort
speech, rallying all the conservative men to
my standard, they churlishly gave in, yet
fanning the discontflnt by garbling my speeches
North, and circulating false. rumors. Han
son's return to his saw-mill, at Berea, (where
he employed many Republicans) gave new
fuel to the old tire. I went there on Saturday
and tried to induce them to leave, telling him
he would bring on a fight, and advised the Re
publicans to keep apart from the movement.
The mob at once carried out that I was then
plotting an attack. On Monday they met at
Buren, insulted the people by searching the
houses, and not finding Hanson, they provoked
a conflict; several were wounded, and the
Lynchers were de *Ned,
"On Tuesday they returned in force; but
finding no one, they broke up the saw-mill,
end swore . vengeance against - me end the
whole party. In the mean time (on Tuesday)
I spoke at Richmond, stating that I was and
had been for peace; that I
s stood upon the
ground of my Frankford speech, and sliculd
defend myself and friends. The mob increas
es in violence ; I lie upon my arms awaiting
an attack ; my family absolutely refuse to re
tire, saving they will run bullets and aid, as in
177 G. .11f driven into the woods, I , shall at
tempt to hold my position as long as possible ;
standing on the. Constitution, the laws and ivy
right, I will defend them or die. The cannon
at Lexington is sent for, and the Governor
aidS.
"Is this my cause only; or that of the
American people? Is it to be vindicated in
this way, and now ? • Shall I stand or fall
alone. May, God defend tho right ?"
Your friend,
" C. M. CLAY.
The Naples correspondent, we suppose, con
soled himself with the idea that in his own
country no such despotism prevailed. Truly
when he considers his own country, he might
well exclaim, "to what a low condition must
the people have sunk when they find them
selveS unable to rise and overthrow` such a
galling tyranny." Had he known, however,
that the same depotism existed in his own
land, we have no doubt he would have been
silent about that of• Naples.
TEAdIERS AND PDPll.9.—The Superintendent
of Common Schools has decided that a teacher
stands in place of a parent to a pupil, and may
administer correction to him under the same
restrictions as in the case of parent. He argues
that the right of a teacher to inflict such pun—
ishment is founded upon the necessity of the
and not.upon the statue. It is absolutely neces
sary that good order should be maintained in
the schools, and. that all proper rules, regu
lations and command of teachers, should be
strictly and promptly obeyed. Hence a neces
sity exist for sufficient power to enforce this
duty, and therefore it is held that a teacher
may inflict such reasonable corporal
.punish
ment upon his pupil as the parent might in
flict for a similar cause. In order to make a
teacher liable to - indictment and conviction for
assault and battery for correcting a pupil, it
must appear that he was governed by motives
of malice or wickedness.
THE GREAT BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.—The
glqrious uncertainty of the law, was never more
strikingly exhibited than in the result of the
second trial of the case of Miss Effie C. Carstang
against Henry . Shaw, Esq., of St. Louis fur
breach of promise of marriage. On the first trial
about a year ago; it will he remembered, dam
ages•to the amount of $lOO,OOO were awarded .
to the plaintiff. A now trial was obtained,
which ended last Saturday night, with a ver
dict in favor Mr. Shaw, the dofendont. The
cause of this great difference in the verdicts of
the two juries, was the production of testimony
on the second trial, damaging Miss Effie 's
good name and character. But the end is not
lilr the plaintiff has already moved for new trial
which if not grUnted, the case will go to the Su
preme Court.
PRICES OF PRODUCE IN NEW YORK.-OD
Wednesday common to extra State flour sold
at $5.10 to $5.35 per barrel; common to extra
Western, $5.10; t 056.60; extra Genesee $5.50
to $7.50; extra St. Louis $5.50 to $7.50. Rye
flour, $3.70 to $4.40; corn meal, $3.60 to $4.10
Wheat—Some very choice white Canada sold at
$1.62 per bushel; . 111ilwaukee club, $1.22 Win
ter red Western, $1.45. Rye, 85 to 88 cents;
oats, 38 to 44 cents; corn 68 to 80 cents. hops
small sales at sto 12 cents per pound. Barrel
ed beef and pork sold at previously quoted
prices. Live beef cattle, 7to 101 cents per lb.,
average .9 cents. The retail market prices
exhibit no changes from 'last week's report.
FAST Worik.—Mr. Jonathan Bahner, of Sha
mokin township, haVing seen in a Reading pa
per, that a blacksmith in that city, had made
245 horse shoe nails in an hour, determined to
try, how many he could make in the same
time. Ile hammered out and finished, from the
rough rode as bought in thb4itore, 262 nails iu
60 minutes, thus beating the Reading smith by
17 nails. In this operation Mr. Bahner did all
the work himself, blowing the bellows, forging,
and all the necessary manipulation. There
wore several witnessel to this great smithing
feat.—Stiliburg Gazette.
jr7Rilfus S. Clark, who died in Southamp
ton, Mass., last winter, some weeks before his
death ordered his coffin to be made, superin
tended the work, told what trimmings he wish
ed to have put in it, chose the depositors and
the• horse and driver he wished to convoy him
to his last resting place. He purchased a
pair of gloves for the driver and each of the
depositors to wear on the occasion, and paid
thirty dollars for his coffin.
LARGE BEQUEST.--:WM. Euston, iOrMREIy
journeyman chairmakor in Philadelphia, but
for many years a resident of Charleston, S. C.,
died suddenly last week, leaving an estate val—
ued at $2,000,000. Being childless, he has
lefthis wife a lifeinterest in the estate, and one
or two annuities to relatives. Upon the death of
thee!
_parties the entire estate except about
$30.000, reverts to the city of Charleston, in
trust for charitable purposes.'
=IR
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Siiirthere are many Now Advertisements in
to•day's paper. Please read them.
Mahe first thunder and lightning storm,
accompanied with torrents of rain took place
at about Wo'clock on Sunday last.
Sta. The Reading Hose Company are re
newing their efforts to raise sufficient money
to purchase a Steam Fire Engine.
• le - Subscribers desiring to have the direc
tion of their paper changed, will please state the
place where they have received it, as well as
where they wish it sent. •
..Bucks County is entirely free from
debt. The Commissioners had a special meet
ing on Saturcay a week, to meet the Auditors
and pay off the indebtedness, when every obli
gation against the county was cancelled.
A®"The Young Men's Christian Association
of Bethlehem will please accept our thanks for
complimentary tickets to Bayard Taylor's lec
ture at that place on the 17th inst. We are
requested to say that tickeiscan be obtained at
Roeder & Lerch's Dry Goods Store.
ti .We would call - the attention .of our
readers to the advertisement of Riederlt Lerch
in another column of to-day' s paper. They
have just returned • from iladelphia: and
New - ifork, with a splendid stock of Spring and
Summer Goods. As they have both been in
the business for years, all can rest assured that
those who will favor them with a call,• will
never find cause for regret.
BALL.—The Cordwainors of this place gave
their third Annual Ball at the Odd Fellows'
Hall on Monday evening. last. Muoh credit
is due to the Managers. All who were,present
say it was one of the best Balls of the' season.
The Orefield String Band was ingsgedlor the
oecasien. The Band now,ranks amongone of
the best String Bands i►i: the .ociunty. The
Band is composed of a fine set of young men.
ACCIDENT ON THE N. P: R. R.—On
Wednesday last as the up Passenger train
came neaa Quakertown, an old citizen Of said
place, named George Groman while in state of
Intoxication, was run against by the emotive
and thrown aside by the " cow-catcher" frac
turing his skull and causing almost instant
death. The individual who sold the rum to
the unfortunate man, should be held responsi
ble, as he can be under the present law of our
State.
FOUL CELLARS.—Passing along the streets
of our town, almost any day, a foul and dead
ly atmosphere will be found to escape from
some of the cellar windows. This proceeds.
from decayed vegetable matter, potatoes, cab
bages, turnips, &c., accumlated during' the•
winter. ' Imagine , the danger of disease and:
death to those who live in the apartments above•
such a fetid atmosphere ! We earnestly advise
all our citizens—to look well to their °oilers,
and have them thoroughly cleansed and puri
.
fied.
COAL AND IRON.—The Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company brought down for the week
ending Saturday, the 31st ult., 17,878 tons of
coal, against 12,354 tons for corresponding
week last year, making, for the season com
mencing December 'lst, 244,900 tons, against
106,158 tons to corresponding period last year,
being an increase of 78,742 tons of coal. 1610
tons of pig iron were also carried over the road
for the week ending same date. This is the
heaviest week's tonnage ever passed over the
road, or any other road of equal capacity.
LEO, AMPUTATED.—A sad accident oc
curred on Saturday last in our Borough, to John
Howell, a brakesmrm on the Crane Company's
ore train. He fell upon the track, and two
cars passed over his left leg, above the ankle.
It happened that our Catasauqua physicians
were absent, when Dr. Charles Martin and Dr.
Edwin Martin of Allentown were stint for; and
the amputation performed in the most skillful
manner, assisted by Drs. Yoder and Quig, who
arrived in time to, aid in the operation. Mr.
Howell, who has a wife and one child, has
the sympathies of our community.—Cakseau
qua Herald.
CATERPILLARS.—With a little watchful
ness and care in searching for caterpillareit eggs,
and destroying. them before• the loaves of fruit
trees put out, and before the worms hatch, you
save the trees from injury, or a greater amount
of labor in killing the worms in the nest after
they hatch, and when other work is pressing.
A little practice will enable one to deteotthem
on the small branches of the cherry and apple
trees. The eggs are deposited end-wise in a
little bunch around the limb, and very ingeni
ously covered with a kind of gum or cement to
protect the embryo worms from injury by the
weather.
BELVIDERE, N. J., April 7th, 1860
To the Publishers of the Lehigh Register.—
GENTLEMEN:—ShortIy after I had written to
you, last Monday, I unexpectedly found that
my business called me to this place; as it is
not now likely that I shall receive a copy of
the " Allentonian," published to day, in time
to write a reply to any article that may be in
sorted in it, I write to say that on my return
to Allentown, I will attend to replying to the
" Allentonian," if anything is published that
calls for a reply. Meanwhile I beg to sub
scribe myself as before.
Respectfully Yours
ANOTHER VICTIM OF RUM. —A man
named John Crewman was run over •by the
evening up-train on the N. P. R. R., near Qua
kertown s tation on the 4th inst. The engineer
observed him on the track,tattempting to get of
as he thought, and sounded the whistle repeat
edly, but just as the locomotive reached him
he fell baelc in front of the train, and was struck
on the head by the cow-catcher, inflicting a
frightful gash in the upper part of the head.
This is a fearful, though no unusual warning;
but it will be little heeded. Men will still con
tinuo to imbibe the liquid fire, regardless of its
consequences. The love of rum is stronger
than the fear of death.
.PRESENTATION.—The Young Aunties
Fire Co. No. 2 were presented with a splendid
Silver Fire Horn, on Monday last, by the la
dies of Allentown. Wm. Aney, Esq.,in
behalf of the ladies, presented it, and mae a
neat and eloquent speech ; it was received by
Major A. B. Schwartz, in behalf of the compa
ny, who also made remarks suited to the occa
sion. The ladles of Allentown aro very much
to be praised for the laudable spirit they man
ifestin getting up presentations of this kind.
It shows that they do not think our Firemen,
a body of men to be despised but rather that
they are a noble set, who risk their lives, when
the property of theirfollow-eitizeni is in dan
ger of the devouring element.
HOW TO MANAGE BOX EDGING.—Few
people, except professional gardeners, know
how this handsome border ornament ought to
be planted. It is usually stuck a few inche,
deep, and loft straggling on top of the ground,
with threcior four times as much top and three
or four times less bottom than it ought to have.
Box grows nearly as well from the branches as
the roots, and we think makes prettier edging.
But the trench in which the edging is to be
planted should be full spade deep on the border
side, being a few inches shallower on the alley.
side—the soil should be fine—and the box in
serted to the bottom of the trench, packed in
tightly with' soil, leaving only from one and a
half to two inches out of glyuncl. There will be
no danger of it not growing, or of producing
full foliage at the ground. Of course no one
would think of planting box without a line.—
Trimming box edging is rarely performed, eith
er skillfully, or judiciously. Instead of cutting
off the top squarely, and below the preceding
year's growth, lot it be pruned to an angle,
like the letter a, - taking care not to cut below
the now growth, , and you .will, through the
whole season, have a beautifully green, thrifty
edging, which your friends will admire, and
of which you will be a little proud,
FIE