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DEnOCIATIC HOniNiTIOIfS.
POR PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHANAN,
OF PENNSYLVANIA. '
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
OF KENTUCKY. '
CANAL COMMISSIONER,
GEORGE BCOTT of Columbia County.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
JACOB FRY, jr., of Montgomery Co.
WANTED AT THIS OFFICE.
An active intelligent boy as an apprentice to
the printing business. One of 17 or 18 years
desirable.
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Urntal Homicide.
Last Saturday evening some men were
for some time drinking and quarreling in
the " Exchange Hotel" in this town, until a
street fight resulted which ended in the
death of Isaac Dereamer. There was a
crowd in the bar-room, and between ten
■nd eleven o'clock the most excited and
violent of the party moved into tbe street in
front of the Post Office. Among these were
James M. Price and Daniel Brosius engaged
in a quarrel. Upon coming out of the tav
ern Price stripped off his shirt to prepare
for fight, and gave it to Dr. Taggart to hold.
Dereamer soon after took off his coat. In
the street Price drew a knife, when Mr.
Billmyer slapped him and ordered him to
put it away He did so, and soon after
came to blows with Dereamer : they clinch
ed and fell; both at the same time. Price
turned Dereamer, and then holding down
the prostrate man, struck him six or eight
hartl blows upon the temple and face in
quick succession. "He would not let De
reamer up, because he had not hollowed
'enough.' Dereamer did not speak after
he got the first blow, and made no resistance
after he fell. When Price was taken ofT by
Billmeyer and others, Dereamer drew breath
very hard, and died in from two to five
m mutes after." We quote this from one of
the witnesses.
Sheriff Miller upon being sent for, came
down and immediately arrested Price, put
ting him in jail, and in irons.
The body of the dead man was taken
into the hotel, and afterwards to his duel
ing; where Doctors Ramsey and McKelvy
made a postmortem examination and Es
quire Painter held an inquest on Sunday
morning. The inquest reported that "the
deceased came to his death from blows in
flicted by James M. Price " The lower
jaw was found broken off entirely on the
right side near the union in front; and also
broken on the left side near the articulation
with the upper jaw. The scull was removed
by the physicians and the vessels of the
brain were found very much congested: the
right lobe much more than the left. There
was no extravasation. In-the opinion of the
physicians death was produced by conges
tion of the brain caused by external vio
lence.
The deceased was an industrious man,
and leaves a wife and two small children
sorely stricken by their bereavement. He
was a member of the Order of Odd Fellows,
aud a large concourse of people .attended
his burial in the Cemetery on Monday
morning. He sometimes drank liquor, but
was not intoxicated on Saturday night. He
had for some years been a steady and trusty
workman at the Irondale Furnace.
Price a few years ago plead guilty on an
indictment for forgery in the court of this
county, and served out his sentence. He
has worked some at the printing trade, and
began to learn that art in the "Democrat" of
this town, but soon went to Minersville.—
Last spring he was connected with a scur
rilous or "flash" newspaper in this place
called the "Sam Slick," which was the
common sewer of rowdy depravity; and af
ter changing its name, was recently sold
under execution for money embezzled by
Price's comrade. About the same time
Price also connected himself with a negro
show which broke down after a few exhibi
tions. Lately he has been drinking very
much, and has followed no regular employ
ment.
The affray of Saturday seems to hare ori
ginated from a brawl and fight which took
place last Thursday between James Major,
Price and Jacob Holder; but at which De
reamer was not present. One of the wit
nesses testified at the inquest that en Satur
day night at the "Exchange," Price said
"there were Morgantown boys there and he
would be'd d if he would not raise a fight
with them."
While the fight in the street was going on,
George Wasser, who was in the outer edge
of the crowd struck a man with his fist and
knocked him down.
Mr. Buckalew is counsel for Price, and
Judge Woodward will be down to-day (Tues
day) to decide upon a habeas corpus whether
the defendant may be permitted to give bail.
Dentil of a Judge.
Judge Washington McCartney, of the North
ampton Dietriot, died on last Tuesday. He
was a man of highly cultivated mind, and
one of the most learned men in the State.—
Some yean ago he wa* Professor of Mathe
matics in Lafayette College, and at the time
of his death was Principal of the Eaaton
Law School, and President Judge of the
Court.
He was highly esteemed for that intellect
which oatce from a mind clear as a orystal;
and for that integrity which grew in a breast
as artless and guileless as a child's. j
But the strings of the softest lute will break
when stretched too finely and too long: the
brightest meteor sinks sfter a transient flash:
the fairest leaf of the delicate rose fades and
falls under the hot sun of the same summer's
day whiob nourished it to luxurisnt besuly.
So the mind of this brother of men had lately
beep sinking and wearing out from intense
study and heavy intellectual labor, and he
died in the Pennsylvania Hospital at Phila
delphia. , j
A Dear Ltuoil
- Th 3 shocking and brutal riut which dis
graced andalatmed our town aa last Saturday
aigl I ought to be such an impressive lescon
to thia community aa to give an efleoual
check to that brutal and realtors spirit of tur
bulence and rowdyism from whieh crime
muai apring as certainly as rank weeds must
grow from a rotten soil. It is a burning
shame that a drunken brawl should goon for
hours until near the dawn of the Sabbath
morning, in the very centre of a large town,
and under the eyes of men claiming to be
respectable citizens, and no single voice or
arm be raised to uheck the riot, (t proves
thai the time* and uiorals are very much out
of joint j and that if any sober-minded and
right thinking citizens are among ua tbe spirit
of riotousnesa ia a terror to them more than tbey'
or law or officers are any terror to it. But'
thia dangerous rowdyism :• inevitable when
boya and druuken men are maddened with
liquor day alter day anil night after night at
the public bats; and the wonder ia rather that
so lamentable a rssnll should hare been so
long iu following, than that it should have
come at all.
However vicious and dangerous may be
the mun now in jail, be is riot the only one
to be censured. Persons claiming respecta
bility have given 100 much countenance and
encouragement to' those of lawless and vio
lent character, and of degraded passions.—
Some even use such tools basely lor the grat
ification of malice or revenge, when the aid
ers and abettors are too cowardly or too im
potent to vent their own splrert. Rowdyism
has recaived encouragement where it should
have met rebuke, and men have looked on
lawlessness and drunkenness with compla
cency whose cheeks should mantle with
shame at the deplorable result.
Politics and Busluess.
Nearly the entire session of Congress ha 3
been consumed in partisan political discus
sions. With a few exceptions, nothing has
beer, done for the business interests of the
country, though a great deal has been said
and done to divide the country, inflame sec
tional feeling, and create bitterness and ill
will ill over the land. We had hoped to see
during the session some attempt made to
wards the adoption of a decimal system of
weights and measures for the oountry. Other
nations are adopting suoh a system, and its
conveniences are generally admired in ev
ery commercial and trading nation. The I
United Slates certainly should not be the last
to adopt a sjstetn which promises such prac- I
lically good results. Will some member of I
Congress just drop politics for a short lime j
and devote his attention to this subject? He
will do infinitely more service to the coun- j
try than will be realized by all the political i
speeches which shall be made in Congress |
between now and next November. Free ]
speech in Congress is a great privilege, but
it makes iiself infinitely more valuable when !
it is directed to securiog some real and tan
gible benefit to tbe whole community. What
real advantage to lite public are the partisan
speeches in Congress? Who is benefitted
by them? What is there in them that will
be remembered, or which the public will
desire or have any truly good reason to re
member a week after Congress shall ad
journ ? Yet two or three practical members
ot that body devoting their time and attun
tion to matters of real import, aud persist
ently pressing them upon Congress, could
give them something to talk about that would
inform their constituents and be of real ser
vice to the public when enacted into law.
A a Unintentional Compliment.
We have given a sufficient number of ex-
Iracls from the London Times, recently to
show that the temper of that orgsn is deci
dedly unfriendly to this country. It
regards Mr. Buchanan as a mm who wilt
maintain the honor and interests of the
United Slates so rigidly thki England will not
be the gainer by his election. The Times ia,
perhaps, not aware that the character por
trayed in tbe following extract from that
newspaper is precisely the one that the
Ametican people wish to see ia their chief
magistrate.
"The Central American question remains,
and threatens a much less easy and quiet so
lution, if we are not quick about it. Lord
Clarendon here assumes a properly urgent
lone, and presses the plan of arbitration on
the immediate attention of Mr. Dallas It
cannot be urged, indeed too much that this
affair must be properly dealt with ; if it is not
put into a final way of settlement belore the
American election there is no knowing when
it will be settled. A Buchanan Presidency
will he a trying one to English interests, and
must ' he anticipated, if possible. President
Pierce can have no particular motive now to
deal unfairly with us, or haggle or interpose
delays. He is probably ia not such good hu
mor wi.h his successful rival as to wish to
hand over to him sueh a convenient and
choice a question to get popularity upon as
the Central Ameriom one. He can have no
great wish to leave his tuocessful rival an op
porlunily ol outshining him, or to bequeath
him a basis on which he can erect a Presi
dency much more brilliant than his own.—-
There if soma chance, then, that Preaider.t
Pierce will deal fairly with ni. But, if we
wait till his probable successor is installed in
tbe White House, we wait for the Presidency
of * man who will frame bis whole policy
upon the idea of American unity and suprem
acy."
The above, which the Times heaps on Mr.
Buchanan, is one of the greatest compliments
that could be paid to his statesmanship.
AHEAD AGAIN.—On last Friday Mr. REUBEN
KNITTLC, collector of Franklin twp , paid to
Treasurer HARRIS the whole amount of State
Tax due from that township; and only claim
ed 32 cents exoneration on the whole State
lax of hia duplicate. When Peter Kline,
Esq., of Franklin was Commissßmar, he in
augurated the system of prompt payments
among the collectors on the South aide ot tbe
river, whom he appointed; and ia this he
i has been welt followed by hia suecassors,
Messrs. Kiefer and Fahringer. Let the coun
ty look to Franklin.
Well said.
The Feliciana Democrat ia the artlat of the
following picture:
The Know-Nothings often talk aboot "the
Fathers." Just as the peaeock spreads an
overwhelming tail the KnoW-Noih ings used
to dub themselves "Sons of the Sires of '76."
The "Sires of ! 76" were 100 brave to get
scared at foreigners, too big hearted to refuse
welcome to the poor travelers that sought
reluac, rest and happiness on this continent,
too generously proud of their institutions and
their liberties to grudge them to adopted citi
zens ; too thoroughly imbued with the (pint
of right and equality to allow any religious
proscriotlon.
Fancy the majestic form of George Wash
ington about twelve o'clock at night, skulk-
Mlg and poking into a Know-Ndibing lodge I
Fancy old Anthony Wayne dodging home
from an "initiation," and diving below the
suspicion of some questioner by puckering
up his mouth, and smoothly asserting that he
"don't know" anything of an order called
Know Nolhingings! Fancy stern old Sam
uel Adams and rough Dan Morgan, and bluff
Israel Putnam, twisting their fingers into
ornoks, and striking them in their button
holes, and thus acting like the deaf and
dumb, instead of speaking right out like
men ! Fancy elegant John Hancock, and
chivalrous Edmund Randolph, and fiery Pat
rick Henry, with pointed digits mumbling
over some prosy oath, recited for them by
nasal Uriah Heap of a fugleman! Fancy
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison,
with folded hands meekly listening to the
precious disquisitions about "Popery" and
"Furriners; " doled out by some wiseacre ot
an Instructor? Fancy Thomas Jefferson or
ganizing Know Nothing Councils to kill off
General Lafayette or Charles Carroll! Fancy
some official satellite leading Henry Clay or
Andrew Jackson around corners and through
alleys, and up dark stairs, into a Hindoo
Council, and offering to swear them, on a
cross and Bible, to proscribe Irishmen and
Catholics! Shades of departed worth and
patriotism, forgive ns the bare imaginations
of such pre, ns'erous anachronisms!
Prophecy ot Jleury Clay,
We have not hesitated In tie recate the
dantierous attitude wt.it-h Black Republican
ism has assumed in it* nomination ol sec
lio.-al candidate- lor it.*- Presidency and Vice
Presidency of the United States, thai the
Union is in danger at the pre-eni time, we
think is indisputable. Tne danger perhaps
does not consist so much in selecting candi
dates Pom this or that section of the Confed
eracy, as in the fact thai Messrs. Fremont
and Dayton ate placed in nomination by one
section alone, and, if elected, will be chosen
by that section—the other being entirely ex
cluded from any participation in the govern
ment, and of course, virtually expelled from
the Union. The great danger at the present
time lies in pitting candidates against each
other, as champions of repugnant sectional
views of the constitutional rights of the
States under the Federal Administration.—
This was the evil which Henry Clay dread
ed, and which, with his remarkable presci
ence, ha pradialad mora than
years ago. In a speech delivered by him in
the U. S. Senate, in February, 1839, he ut
tered the following words of warning:
"Sir," said Mr. Clay, "I am not in the
habit of speaking lightly of the possibility of
dissolving this happv Union The Senate
know that 1 have deprecated allusions, on
ordinary occasions, to that direful overt.—
The country will testify that, if there be any
thing in the history of my public cateer wor
thy of recollection, it is the truth and sincer
ity of my ardent devotion to its lasting pres
ervation. But we should be talse in our al
legiance to it, if we did not discriminate be
tween the imaginary and real dangers by
which it may be assailed Abolitionism
should no longer be regarded as an imagi
nary danger. The AbolilionistSj let me sup
pose, succeed in their present aim of unitiog
the inhabitants of the f-ee States as one man
against the inhabitants of the slave Slates.
Uuion on one side will beget union on the
other, and this process of reciprocal conaoli
dation will be attended with all the violent
prejudices, embittered passions, and impla
cable animosities which ever degraded or
deformed hnman nature. * * * * *
One section will stand in menacing and hos
tile array against the other. The collision
of opinion will be quickly followed by 'he
clash of arms. I will not attempt to describe
ncrnes which now happily lie concealed
from our view. At'oliiiouiata themselves
would shrink hick ut di-may and horror at
the contemplation of desolated fields, confla
grated ctlie*, mur'ere.l inhabitants, and the
oveithrnw of the fairest fabric of hnmar gov
ernment that ever rose to animate the hopes
of oiviliz d man."
School xeroses.
On last Friday we witnessed the closing ex- '
amination of Mr. Eaton's Select School in
this town, and Ihs scholars answered very
readily and intelligently to the questions up
on their studies. The classes in Geography,
Constitution of the U. S-, l'hysiology and
Latin showed a creditable study in their sev
etal branches, and a commenable progress for
the time they have been engaged in them.—
The first term of the school closed on last
Friday, and the second term will open on the
Ist ol September. Meanwhile the scholars
will have a vacation during tbe hot weather.
A school of this kind ought to be well sus
tained in tbe county, and is much needed.
A NEW NOVEL. —Mr. T. B. Peterson, the
Philadelphia publisher announces that he has
in press and will issue on the 16th of August
s new novel by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Soutbworth.
It is called '• RETRIBUTION, a tale ofpasrion,"
and as the authoress has some celebrity as a
writer, the will doubtless meet with fa
vor and encouragement by those who like
reading of tills kind.
TW TH E COLLECTORS of Montour last week
paid to the County Treasurer the whole a
mount of State lax levied in tkeir respective
townships lor the year 1856. This was the
done by sosry collector ip the county, and
shows a beaitby condition of publio finance*,
and commendable fidelity in the part of all
the officers.
COMMITTEES OP VIGILANCE.
Tne following are the Committees of Vig
ilance appointed in the several townships of
Columbia county by the Democratic Stand
ing Committee:
Bloom —Daniel Lee, M.C. Woodward, Ja
cob K. Grout.
Benton —Rickard Stiles, Samuel Rhone,
Alonxo M. Bt Uwin.
Briarcreek —Rodson Owen, Dtvid Shaffer,
Nathan Seely. .
. Beaver —ChaHes Michael, Moses Shlicher,
Samuel Johnson,
Centrt— Charles H. Dieterich, Joseph Phoe,
Henry D, Koorr.
CaUascissa —Casper Rahn, Isaiah John, Pe
ter Bodine.
Conyngham— Dr. R. Wolfarth.
Franklin— Reuben Knittle, Wm. Robrbach,
Peter Kline.
Fishingcreek —Jonas Doty, Philip Apple
man, Harman Labor.
Greenwood— Samuel Gilleapy, Isaac De
wilt, Elijah Albertson.
Hemlock— Jease Ohl, Isaac Leidy, Wm. H.
Shoemaker.
/adLron—John McHenry, jr., Iram Derr,
Thomas W. Young.
Locust— David Yeager, Jacob Stine, Leon
ard Adams.
Mifftm—l. C. Hetler, Jno. Michael, Cbria
tian Wolf.
Maine—Jacob Sbugar, Joe. Geiger, Isaac
1 Yetter.
Mountpleaianl— Sam'l Johnson, Philip Kis
tler, John Mercian.
Montour— Svan Welliver, Jacob Leiby,
W. G Quick.
Madison —J. A. Funstou, Schooley Allen,
John Fruit.
Orange —Hiram R. Kline, John Megargle,
John Lazarus.
Pine —John Leggetl, Albert Hunter, Enoch
Fox.
Rcaringcreek— John C. Myers, George W.
Dreisbach, M. Foederoff.
Scott —John H. Dewitt, Enoch Howell,
Charles Bachman.
Sugarloaf— Alinas Cole, W. B. Pelerman,
David Lewis.
FREMONT'S STATESMANSHIP.
We copy the following article from the
Elmira Republican, for many years the Whig
organ of this county, now a euppoiler of Fill
more. h 'lhiiiaj"
ism" >n a forcible manner, and leaves no
room for doubt. Comment from ua is un
necessary.— Philosopher.
John C. Fremont served one session in the
U. S. Senate, and uever during that period
opened his mouth, except in the responsive
ayes and nays given, as called upon, to re
cord his vote on various bills. On one of
these, a bill to refund certain monies expend
ed by the American Colonization Society,
for the support of seven huudred aDd fifty
recaptured Africans, taken by the U. S. Ship
York'own out of the Slave Pons, and land
ed in Monrovia in a starving condition, and
who were fed and cared for by the Com
pany's Agents, the question was disouased
at length as to whether the United States
would pay the just and legal demands, and
on the vole bemg taken Tor the engrossment
of the bill to a third reading, Mr. Fremont's
name is found recorded in the negative as
follow;
YEAB-Mes6rs. Badger, Baldwin, Bell, Chase,
Clayton, Davis, of Mass., DAYTON, Dodge,
of Wis., Dodge of lowa, Douglass, Eving,
Flecb, Green, Hale, Hamlin, Jones, Man
gum, Pesrce, Pratt, Seward, Shields, Smith,
Spruance, Sturgeon, Underwood, Wales,
Walker, Whitecomb, and Windthrop—29
NATS —Messrs. Atchison, Barnwell, Ben
ton, Butler, Dawson, Dickinson, Downs,
FREMONT, Hunter, King, Mason, Rusk,
Sebastian, Soule, Turner and Yule—l 6.
Again ott the IBlh day of September, 1850,
the bill to prevent persons from enticing
away slaves from the District of Columbia
was under consideration, ar.d John P. Hale
"moved thT it be committed to the com
mittee on the District of Columbia with in
structions to so amend it as to ABOLISH SLA
VERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUM
BIA." On the vote being taken, FRE
MONT'S name was found recorded in the
NEGATIVE.
[See Congressional Globe, 31st Congress,
part 3, page 1859.
With whom was Fremont found voting?
Mark: 17* With Atchison, the leador of the
" Border Ruffians" in Kansas; with Benton,
his father-in-law; with Butler, the kinsman,
defender and apologist of BULLY BROOKS;
with Hunter, the defender of Slavery; with
Mason and Soule, the fillibnsters, and with
extreme Southern, Pro-Slavery, disunion
Senators; and against the moderate Southern
Senators, such as Badger, Bell, Clayton, Man
gum Pearce, Underwood; against DAY
TON, his cnMmatrea on the ticket; against
Ewirig, Winihrop, Seward and Hale—against
all those with whom he is now associated.
Such is Mr. Fremont's record ol States
manship. It shows his nomination by the
"Republicans" to have been a hollow mock
ery—a "dishonest farce"—an insult to the
intelligence of the American people.
- Change of Location- |
The place for holding the approaching'
Camp Meeting, has been changed from Ml.
Pleasant to Scott township, in Mr. Simudl
Melick's Grove, on the bank of Fishhjgereek,
between Bloomsburg and Street.
17* The old line Whigs of Kentucky, in
Stale Convention assembled a few days ago,
rejected a resolution endorsing Fillmore, by'
a majorlly of 16 districts to two ! It is well
understood that the old Hoe Whigs of Ken
lucky witlgo generally for Mr. Boohs asm .
17* The property of the "Banji^df^ Penn
sylvania," on Second St., Philadelphia, has
been sold to the United States iWa Post Of
fice. The Babb has purchased the old United
States Hotel, on Chestnut street, above
Fourth, and will build an elegant Banking
House on that aha-
BP* John Seat! Harrison, representative in
Congress from Oljip, and son of the late
President Harrison, refuses to support Fre
mont. He aleo voted against the Topeka
constitutional bill in the House.
HOST APPALLING CALAMITY!
Collision on the North Peon. fUtilrontl.
TERRIBLE LOSS of LIFE! t
About nine o'clock last Thursday morn
ing, the appalling intelligence startled Phila
delphia that a frightful disaster had occurred
from a collision upon tb# North Pennsylva
nia Railroad, between the regular'morning
train from Gwynedd, and an excursion train
which left the city about S o'clock, A. M-,
with a very large party of scholars, their
teachera and frieuda. Our Reporters were
immediately despatched to the scene of the
fearful occurrence, and gathered the follow
ing details:
At five o'clock in the morning t special
train of oars left the Master street Depot,
with the scholars of St. Miohael's Roman
Calbolio Cburcb, in Kensington. The excur
sion parly consisted of between five and six
huudred persons, the great majority of whom
were children. They intended proceeding
to Fort Washington, fourteen and a half
miles from the city, where they were to en
joy a pio-nlo.
Owing to the number of the cars, and the
weight of the train, there was some delay,
and the conductor, Mr. Alfred F. Hoppel,
finding himself behind time, pushed forward
with great rapidity when towards the end
of hia trip.
The regular passenger train for the city
left Gwynedd at six o'clock, and reached
Camp Hill at six o'clock and eighteen min
utes. Finding the excursion train had not
yet arrived, Mr. Wm. Vanatavoren, the Con
ductor, determined not to wail for it, and his
train was moving along when the expected
train came thundering on around a curve, at
the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. A col
lision of course ensued, with the most ap
palling consequences.
The passengets in the down train escaped
without aerious damage, but the scene pre
sented by the excursion train was fearful.—
The three forward cars of the train were
crushed completely to pieces, and the wreck,
mingling with that of the locomotive fire, {
communicated to the other cars of the train.'
The two next cars after ibe three that were
wrecked outright took fire, and were entirely
consumed.
The inmates of the three forward cars
were completely mixed up with the wreck,
and,* large number of item were killed ill
slanlly. There were probably fifty persons
in each of the ihree cars, and the lowest es
timate as heard fix the number killed at fifty
while it wt.s feared the dread aggregate'
would reach one hundred.
As soon as the dreadful intelligence reach
ed the city a car was dispatched with all
possible speed froir. the Master street depot
with physicians and other assistance.
The excitement at the Willow street and
Master street Station House was most in
tense. Thousands of excited persons were
eagerly inquiring for the latest intelligence
from the scene, while those who had obil
dred on the ill-fated train were in the most
dreadful condition of suspense.
Eleven tiodies of men and women, and
two children, were found burnt to death in
one car. rne names are unttnown. rhey
were caught under the side of one of the
cars and roasted alive.
The mutilated remains of four men and
women and a child were dug from beneath
the engine and tender.
Tbe remains of six other bodies were
raked out of ilie ashes and placed on the
grass opposite to were the accident happen
ed.
The conductor of the down train, we un
derstand, committed suicide on Thursday,
after the accident, swallowing arsenic. He
was probably driven to this rash act by the
fear that the blame of tbe terrible calamity
would be thrown upon him. He liAl in
Buttonwood street, above Tenth.
Mr. Breckinridge.
In answer to a letter, from the committee
of the National Convention, officially inform
ing him of his nomination for the Vice Presi
dency, Mr. Breckinridge replies:
LEXINGTON, Ky., June 28, 1856.
Gentlemen : I have received your letter of
the 13th inst, giving me official information
of ray nomination by the DejptitfHitic Na
tional Convention, for of Vice
President of the Unitedjßstes. I feel pro
foundly grateful to tha/psmocracy for this
distinction, so tar my merits and ex
pectations, and aoceiflhe nomination, with
tbe pledge that if itAonld result in impo
sing upon me any pmTlio duties, I shall exert
whatever power! piffsess to discbarge them
with fidelity.
The platform adopted by the convention
has my cordial approval. 1 regard it as tbe
only basis on which the Union can be pre
served in its original spirit. Adopted as it
was by the unanimous votes of the delegates
from all the States, it shows that amidst the
detractions ol the times there remains one
united and powerful organization, whose
oommon principles extend over every fool
of territory covered by the federal constitu
tion. After the recent repeated and deplora-
Jjlefailures of other parlies to present to ihe
a national organization, we may
congratulate tbe State* upon the una
nimity wbioh marked the proceeding* of the
democratic convention—and the patriot may
point to the fact aa a pledge of oonititalional
union, that the delegates from Maine and
Texas—from South Carolina and California,
r were aa thoroughly united upon every ques
tion of principle, as those from the neighbor
ing Southern States of Tennessee and Ken
tucky, or those from the neighboring North
ern States of Wisconsin and Michigan.
This community of sentiment, this feeling
of brotherhood, gives nope of perpetual Un
ion. It bu been tbe happy fortune of ihfe
Democratic party, by adhering to tbe Con
stitution, which was made to proteot us all,
to avoid the geographical and sectional is
sues against which Washington solemnly
warned his oeuntrymen;' and we have every
rdtmogto believe, that it ia yet equal to the
high which now devolves on it, of pre
serving the Constitution and maintaining tbe
righie of every portion of tbe Confederacy
If the uneound element* whioh trouble i l
for a time, have sought congenial associa
lions elsewhere, the loss has been more ihan
supplied by accessions from-the flower ei
the old Whig party—and ilius t* in forced _
will be the destiny of the Democracy, under
the lead of their distinguished chief, to main
tain the high position of our country before
the world—to preserve the equality of every
class of citizens—to protectthe perfect liberty
of conscience—and to secure the peace of
the Union, by rendering equal justice to ev
ery part.
With sincere acknowledgments for the
friendly personal sentiments contained in your
letter, I am, respectfully,
Your friend and obedient servant.
JOHN C.BRECKINRIDGE.
Messrs. Ward Richardson, Hibbard, Law
rence, Brown. Manning, Forsyth, Tucker.
Seymour, and Preston.
Seaator Blglei's Speech.
Senator Bigler was present by invitation at
the celebration of the Fourth, by the Democ
racy, in Independence Square, Philadelphia,
and addressed the people with great power I
and effect—presenting and discussing all the
political topics of the day, and holding the
crowd for full two hours. We insert the fol
lowing extract from this able production, in
reference to the two projects now lietore Con
gress for a settlement ol the difficulties in
Kansas, and bespeak for it a calm ar.d unprej
udiced perusal. The distinguished Senator
fixes the ''saddle on the right horse," and
proves most clearly and conclusively, that if
the troubles in that Territory are to continue, I
the fault is not with the Democrats in Con
gress, but with the Black Republicans and
Know Nothings, who evidently wish still fur
ther to agitate the question and keep alive
the excitement until November next. After
the Presidential election we shall hear no
more of ' Kansas Outrages," fac. Gov. Big
ler said :
" Bat now foe the Kansas question, and the
Republican or Fremont Parly. Ever since
the commencement of >he present session of
Congress the whole country has been agita
ted, deeply and violently agitated, concern
ing the state of society in Kansas. The most
accomplished artists of the Republican party
have painted the startling pioture from time
to time. That the simple reflection of the
truth would have made a picture dark enough,
no one can doubt; but that llmse gentlemen,
for purposes of their own, have given it the
deepest shade practicable, is just as evident.
VVe have been told by the Republican ora
tors in Congress, on the rostrum and in the
pulpit, that the people of Missouri had inva
ded the Tetritory, and controlled the electior.
for members of the Legislature held in March
1855; that the free state men had been driven
from the polls; that the government had been
usurped by mere brute force; that the laws
ol Kansas were not valid laws; that the peo
ple would and should resist them; that anar
chy reigned in Kansas; that arsons and mur
ders were invoked to serve the ends of sla
very; that finally Kansas und liberty lay
bleeding at the feet of the border rafiiane,
and (hat the whole country was on the verge
ol civil war. Here is a picture; now what
remedy did the Republican Represenla'ives
ir. Congress propose. Did they ask a legal
and just measures of reform? By no means,
fellow citizens; but with the denunciations
against the lawless authorities of Kansas still
fresh on their lips, they became the advocates
of the Topeka Convention and the State Con
stitution framed by that body, a movement
admittedly without law, and in contravention
pflaw and in menace of the Government.—
With all this seeming reverence for the law,
they could advocate a revolutionary step ta
ken in defiance of the Government. We
were told that the admission of Kansas
as a Stale, was the only remedy for her
evils; the only mode of quieliog the pub
lic mint! and averting civil war io the Terri
lourf'
Well, gentlemen, it had become apparent
to all, that some effective and final measure
ot pacification was demanded by the best in
terest, not only of Kansas, but of tbe whole
nation ; that whilst the laws of the local Leg
islature were technically legal, the right of
suffrage bad been abused in selecting the
members, and that many of ihe Statutes were
oppressive and unjust, ar.d in confliot with
the Constitution, and the original Kansas Ne
braska act.
" With a view to meet these difficulties, I
Mr. Toombs, a Southern Senator, about ten
days since, introduced a bill providing for the
prompt admission o( Kansas a State. His
proposition was referred to the Territorial
Committee, and reported to the Senate on
Monday last, by Mr. Douglas, and Wednes
day fixed lor a final vote.
"That bill provides that tbe present inhab
itants may elect delegates to a convention '.o
meet ill November next, to form a constitu
tion, preparatory to admissiao as a State; that
a board oi five commissioners shall be p
--pointed by tbe President, to repair to the Ter
ritory,to superintend the election of delegates;
to make an enumeration of the legal voters;
and put up a list of voters at every diatriot;
and that only those who are now in the Ter
litory, and those who may hare left on busi
ness or because of the sad stale of society,
shall vole. Tbe law Ihrowa ample guards
about tbe ballot box, by heavy penalties
against illegal voting or violent efforts to in
terfere with the right of suffrage ;-it also an
nuls all the Territorial statutes subversive of
tbe liberty of speech aod the freedom of the
press, and those requiring *r oath of fidelity
to the Fugitive Slave Law as a qualification
for a voter, and other absurd provisions.—
The statutes being inconsistent with the
Constitution and the organic law, are clearly
within the scope of the Congressional cor
rection, without interfering with the doctrine
of noa-imorvepiroo, lor the Kansas law pro
vides that the action of the territorial legisla
ture shall be confined "to rightful subjects of
legislation." Here, theft, was a measure of
peace and law, tbe prompt admission o( Kan
sas as a State, irrespective of bar decision on
the Slavery question. Its vital object being
to terminate at onee all motive on (be part of
outsiders to enforce temporary population
into the Territory, with • view to oontrol its
policy on tbe Slavery question.
"What loliowedl Did the Republican
Senators support that measure! Did they
aceept ibis proposition to bting Kansas i as
a State- By no means; to my amazement-
it met their vi'.lent resistance. The first
demonstration came from the Senator from
Massachusetts/- Mr. Wilson, who proposed
to strike out the entire bill and insert a sec
tion, simply rep'oallng all the laWa of Kansas;
substituting Anarchy for the admission of the
Territory as a Stale. The Senator from New
York, Mr. Seward, the leader and intellect of
that parly, still insisted upon the Topeka
Constitution. In the face of all his analhs
rnas against the lawless authorities of
sae, he voted to sanctiou a measure wanting
in the slightest coloring of
which had been brought forth in defi4flJPgf
the law of its officers; and what ia surprising,
in addition, hia course seems to be sanction
ed by the entire Republicau parly; headed
by (bat common foantaiq of fanaticisms,
falsehoods aod vagracies, (he flew York 2Y>t
une. Tbe Senator from New
Hale, proposed to strike out the fourth of It'
ly, 1856, as the time that the laity should take
effect, and insert July, 1857, so* that the etrile
in Kansas might last a year longer; that
bleeding Kansas, lor whose pedple act rtlarty
crocodile tears had been ahed, rhtghl bleed
on. They first objeoted that tbe local law
forbid and puniahsd free discussion, and thud
the slavery men had lha advantage; then tbe
bill was amended, as had been agreed upon
by tbe committee, sor as to annul all such
laws. Tbe next objection was, that tbft Free
State men had been driven from the Territo
ry, and the friends of slavery would have
things their own way; then the bill was so
amended as to givo all former citizens the
opportunity to return and participate in tbe
election. The next plea was that the inten
tion and effect was to bring Kansas in as a
Slave State. The answer was no; it pro
vides that the unrestrained will of tb%Jwiw
fide citizens shill fettle that and
that the objection could not properly ctmte
from tbe Republican side, because Uiey had
uniformly claimed that a very large'majority
of the real settlers are and
that all they eought was a fair expression of
popular will. But reason was powerless.—
They resisted to the end ; and finally,lhe bill
passed at the end of a session hours, by
a vote of 33 to 12.
Within a few hours after, the House passed
a bill admitting Kansas under the Topeka
Constitution, and thus the issue ia fairly'made
up. The Democrats are for bringing in Kan
sas by the straight way and undei the auspi
ces of the law ; the Republicans insief'*Upo>i
her admission by the crooked way, a way
tarnished by violence and revolution. The
Democrats contend for a constitution to ba
made by the whole people, through a pure
ballot box ; the Republicans for one made by
a parly without the agency of law or of the
ballot box. Judge ye between us.
JACOB EV'ANS,
OF tfreenwood township, will be a candi
date for ASSOCIATE JUDUE before the
Democratic County Convention this fall.
SAMEL CREASY,
OF Mifflin township, will be a candidate
for ASSOCIATE JUDGE before the
Democratic County Convention this fall.
"7 STEPHEN 11. BALDV, "
OK Catiawissa lownelup, will ba candi
date for ASSOCIATE JUDGE before tire
Democratic County Convention ibis fall.
PETER EM,
OT" Scott townahip, will be a candidate
for IIEPRESK.NTATIV E before the
Democratic County Convention this fall.
"agAmataawfeti J=!?
On Thursday 17th iuet., in Bloomsburg, by
the Rev. D. J. VVafler. Mr. ALFRED H. COON,
of Houesdate, to ftfias LORINDA MAHCY, daugh
ter of Reuben Whtrcy, Esq., of Kingston, Pa.
On the 20th of July, at the residence of $.
Creviing, by John A. DeMoyer, Mr. JAMES
MCMICHAEL to Miss HARRIET SHAFFER, all of
Fishiugereek twp., Col, co.
On the lih July, 1856, by Thomas Pain
ter, Esq., Mr. WILLIAM RITCHIE and SAHAH
J. CRAWFORD, all of Blaom twp., Col. Co.
ZI
In Bloomsburg, oil last Friday, FRANKLIN
THORNTON, aged about 21 years.
In Lancaster, on Friday night, July 1 lib,
at the residence of Robert Walker, KATC, the Y
only child of John G. and Maggie W. Freeze. "A
aged eight months and sixteeii days.
!h Madison township, on Wednesday last,
Mr. THOSIAS MCBRIDC, aged about 82 years.
„C A U T7 O N !~
4 LL persons are hereby notified not to pur
-1 chase a promissory note signed by the
subscribers to Joseph Haynian, date the 17th
of June last, for One hundted and fifty dollarf,
payable half in thirty days and ball ill sixty
deys; as we have received no value therefor,
and have a full defence aeainst the payment
thereof PETER KINEY,
GEO. McMICHAEL.
Light Street, July 17, 1856.
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