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Clearfield, Pa, Wednesday, August 89, 1853.
"A Nomination fit to be kids." Hon.
Erastus Brooks, the present State Senator from
the Upper District of N. York city, has been
unanimously re-nominated, notwithstanding
lis controrersy with Archbishop Hngb.es!
Iowa Electioh. -An election for county of
ficers came off in Iowa last week. In Davis
county the American ticket was elected by
800 majority. In Walpello county, which u
aually gives 60 Locofoco majority, the Ameri
cans elected their whole ticket by 3000 majori
ty. Sam" has evidently made a clean sweep
in Iowa.
Kentucky Election. Full returns of the
State election show the election of six Know
Nothings and four anti's to Congress. The
State Senate consists of thirteen Know Noth
ings and seven opposition, and the House of
Representatives of Gl Know Nothings to 39
opposition. Morehead's (K. N.) majority for
Governor is about 4000.
Statement op Poor Tax in the Borough of
Clearfield, for 1854 :
Whole amount collected, $119 42
Ain't paid by overseers, $80 50
Am't p'd overseers for services, 15 00
95 60
Balance in hands of overseers, $23 92
Amount standing on Duplicate unpaid, 13 31
Exonerations taken from above amont, 2 99
Balance to be collected,
$10 00
As Usual. The Pendsy Iranian and kindred
papers charge the Americans of Louisville
with slaughtering women and children. The
Louisville Journal says that the only child kill
ed was an American boy of about ten years,
and he was butchered by foreigners! When
the Pennsylvanian dares to speak of the outra
ges, butcheries, and treachery of Stringfellow
and his fellow braves in Kansas, we shall begin
to believe it sincere in its expressions of re
gret concerning the Louisville calamity.
Not True. We understand that a certain
individual named T. Jefferson Boyer, is circu
lating that we have mentioned the names of
several Locofoco candidates, and asserted that
they were members, of the American Order.
We don't know this fellow Boyer, but we
suppose he is the same man who is advertised
as a Democratic candidate for Assembly. We
want him to know that if he makes such asser
tions, he is stating what is false, and that if he
continues to do so, ho must take the conse
quences. That there are members of the Or
der among the candidates of tho Locofoco
party, may be true, but that we have memtion
ed their names is ialse. There are mean men
in every party, and if there are some in ours
who are mean enough to seek a Locofoco nom
ination we can't help it. But it is not our bu
siness to tell their names, nor do we intend to
do so. We have enough to do to attend to our
own affairs, and we think T. Jefferson Boyer
had better save his credit, and do likewise.
Dull of Coxprehension. Our neighbor, in
his issue of last week, quotes a clause from one
of onr articles, saying that it is a well settled
principle that when slaves are voluntarily ta
ken by their masters into a free State, they are
virtually emancipated, and sets under it the
clause of the Constitution which provides that
no slave "escaping into another" State "shall
be discharged," but shall be delivered up on
the claim of the owner. It would be insulting
the good sense of our readers to point out the
vast difference between the voluntary act of
the master in bringing his "property" within
the jurisdiction of our laws, and the "escape"
of his slave into a free State. We cannot im
agine how any one possessed of common sense
could fail to see the distinction.
But, not only is our sapient neighbor unable
to comprehend this difference, he goes fur
ther, and covertly questions our veraci ty, by
placing an interrogation mark after our asser
tion, that the principle has been decided by
Southern Judges. We are not in the habit of
asserting legal principles, without authority,
and for our neighbor's especial benefit we will
give him a few refferenccs, that when he un
dertakes to write upon the subject he may
be 'booked up.' If he will refer to the follow
ing authorities (all Southern) he will find the
principles we have mentioned:
Marie Louise vs. Mariott, ct al, 8 Louisiana
Repcrts 475. Wheeler's Law of Slavery 348.
2 Marshall's Kentucky Reports 467. Harvey,
et al, vs. Decker & Hopkins, Walkers's Missis
sippi Reports 36. Story' Conflict of Lawg
9297.
The principle in all these authorities, and
others that we could name, is, that Slavery
being without foundation in nature, is the
creature Af municipal law, and exists only un
der Us jurisdiction. In the first case cited, it is
decided that aIave, taken by her master into
a jurisdiction hat prohibits the "peculiar in
etftofcion," was free, and though brought back
into Louisiana, being free "for one moment,"
ft.was not in the ppwer of .her former owner to
reduce her again to Slavery !
When next our neighbor undertakes to ques
tion our veraeity on a legal, point, we hope he
Till gjve himself, the trouble to examine the
subject, and that he will also study the Eng
Jish language sufficiently to understand the
phraseology, of the Constitution, especially as
he js contipually harping upon Us. yiolafion. .
The "Old Liners." It is certainly amu
sing to see the efforts that are being made by
the Locofoco party to coax into rank the Old-
line Whigs. The whining, pitiful attempt of J
our neighbor last week, to 'convert' Mr. Ful
ton,) and the humiliating concessions he
makes, ought to be enough to disgust both
Whigs and Democrats who possess a spark of
honor or manliness. He goes so tar as to ac
knowledge that they 'disgraced themselves' by
attacking the 'character of Henry Clat, and
whines, like a sick spaniel, to get the votes of
the party, that for years they have thus slan
dered and maligned.
Poor, miserable, crushed-out Locofocoism!
They havn't the spirit of a sick louse, butTall,
trembling upon their knees, and beg for assist
ance at the bands of that party they havught
and slandered, and proscribed, from year to
year, for half a century. They know that 'the
spoils' are about to pass from their grasp, and
they cling to them with a death-clutch. They
know that they are about to be taught the les
son that a few political hacks and wire-workers
about this town, have not an eternal lein
upon the offices of the county, and they cry a
loud tothose whom they have heretefore spurn
ed and despised, to help them to retain them!
Arc the old line Whigs prepared to do bat
tle under their pie-bald flag 1 Will they assist
them in retaining in their clutches the spoils
they have so long enjoyed, and still continue
to be satisfied with the occasional "crust" or
"bone" thrown' them to keep them from bark
ing ? Will they swallow all the vile slanders
that have been heaped upon them and their
leaders for years, and take to their bosoms, in
fond embrace, those who have stigmatised
them as traitors, and tories, and infidels, and
fanatics, with every other opprobrious epithet
to be found in the language 1
We clip the following interesting extracts
from the "Democratic Banner," published by
D. W. Moore, in Clearfield, in 1844. The first
is the conclusion of an editorial in tho 37th
number of the fifth volume :
"We might mention the part Mr. Clay took
in the dreadful affair which ended in the death
of Hon. J. Cillet, and his wicked and vulgar
assault upon Senator King on the floor of the
U. S. Senate, as among the virtues which have
been added to the character of Mr. Clay since
he was last before the American people. These
things will be attended to hereafter. They are
all important to the people, and must be fairly
understood before any man goes to the polls."
They were "attended to hereafter," in an ar
ticle entitled "What they don't tell the Peo
ple," as follows:
"They don't tell the people, that nenrv Clay
is a confirmed duelist ; has five times, coolly
ajid deliberately attempted to take away the life
of his fellow man, in duels; and although now
past 67 years of age, his attachment to this
bloody code, is so strong that he refuses, in
reply to a committee of citizens from West
moreland county, Pennsylvania, opposed to
duelling, to say that he would not again in
dulge in that practice which, in the language of
i relmghuysen, "sets the laws of God and the
institutions of a Christian people at defiance."
They don't tell toe people, that Henry Clay
has been, from early youth down to the year
1844, a gambler: that he gambled for monev
on the 4th of July, 1843, and so late as August,
1844; and that his habits of gambling have nev
er, in fact been abandoned. (He volunteers de
nials to other charges; this he has neverdenied.)
They don't tell the people, that Henry Clay
is a man noted for his profanity, in public and
private. (This also is another charge which
he does not venture to deny.t
No public man in the United States, proba
bly, has shewn a greater disregard for the
Holy Sabbathlhan Henry Clay."
Tyrone, Clearfield and Erie Railroad.
A meeting of the friends of the Tyrone,
Clearfield and Erie Railroad, we notice, has
been called to assemble at Clearfield, on Tues
day, the 4th day of September next. The ob
ject of the meeting is to receive a report from
the officers of the Company, and to adopt such
measures as will place it in a position to enter
upon the construction of the road. The route
on which it is proposed to build, is from Ty
rone, apoimt on the line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, by way of Clearfield to the Lakes.
The project is, doubtless, a feasible one, and
the road, if constructed, would add greatly to
the prosperity of the section of country through
which it may pass. We are in favor of the
construction of any road which is calculated
to benefit any portion of the Commonwealth,
and especially the metrepolis of the State ;and
should have great hope of the favorable con
sideration of tho "Tyrone and Erie" road if it
could be-divorced from a connexion with the
Pennsylvania Railroad, to which it is necessa
rily designed to be a feeder. We wish our
friends in the interior, however, every success
in the important enterprize in which they are
about to engage. Daily News.
Fusion : The Hollidaysburg Register says
instead ofusing with the Democrats, as the
friends of Stringfellow, Compbeli, Pierce,
Douglass, &Co. want the Whigs to do, it seems
to us that Whigs who are Whigs indeed and in
truth, will rather remain trne to their long
cherished opposition to that corrupt and profli
gate Party, and glory in its overthrow, even
though it may be done by another organiza
tion than their own. They may have no love
for, or sympathy with, the American move
ment, but because of their ancient strife with
the "Democracy" and the many hard knocks
that Party has given them, how can they un
der any circumstances agree to fuse with it 1
But then, again, do not the Whigs see that
without the overthrow of the Democratic party
there is not a shadow of hope for Whiggery. It
is pinned to the earth by the vile monster,
and this must be slain before it can hope to
rise, la fusing with the monster the way to
slay it ?
For the Presidency. The namo of Judge
Gardiner, now of the Court of Appeals of New
York State, is mentioned in high Democratic
quarters as a candidate for the Presidency.
Judge G. is a democrat of the Radical school,
and by bis course with reference to the Anti
Rent troubles, was chosen Lieutenant-Governor
of the State over Hamilton Fish, in 1846
when Silas Wright was defeated as a candi
date for Governor by John Young.
The Railroad Meeting. We hope the
meeting of the friends of our Railroad, on
next Tuesday, will be largely attended. The
following speakers from a distance will be
present and address the audience.
Ex-Gov. Bigler, Gen. Jno. C. Montgomery,
Jno. M. Hale, Hon. Jas. T. Hale, Gen. Jas.
Irwin, Col. McCauley, and others. It prom
ises to be a large and Spirited meeting, and
we think, if our own citizens will do their duty
the project will undoubtedly prove successful.
We have received the following letter from Mr.
Montgomery, by which it will be seen, that
there is a determination to make the meeting
one that will tell with some effect of the suc
cess of the enterprise.
Messrs. Swoope, Moore,Reed and Wallace-
Gentlemen ; I am in receipt of your
package of blank invitations and have already
disposed of about thirty of them, principally
to persons residing in the East, and I hope
many, of them will be responded to in person.
I am happy to report the prevalence of a
very good feeling in this place and vicinity,
and think that if the proper exertion is made
by those interested in tho matter to obtain
subscriptions to our Capital Stock, that we
shall havo reason to recur to the coming meet
ing as the commencement of a favorable era
in the progress of our Enterprise.
Everything in a manner, depeuds on this
meeting, and I hope we will, one and all, spare
no efforts to make it answer our expectations.
I intend going to Philadelphia to day to
have our meeting advertised, and to endeavor
to obtain an excursion train from the Pcnn'a.
Rail Road, to enable many persons to attend
who might otherwise not think of it.
Very truly vour friend and co-laborer,
JAMES E. MONTGOMERY.
Philipsburg Aug. 20 1855.
Since receiving the above, the following
letter has come to hand. We hope our read
ers will give it an attentive perusal :J
II. B. Swoope, Esq. My Dear Sir: I have
but lately returned from Philadelphia, where
I found such a spirited and encouraging feel
ing manifesting itself amongst prominent mer
chants and others in relation to our projected
Railroad, that I have become quite sanguine
of its speedy commencement and vigorous
prosecution.
There is, in my estimation, but one thing
now wanting to secure the alliance and co-op
eration of our friends in the East, and to ena
ble this Company to take a conspicuous posi
tion amongst the leading enterprises of the day.
It is very necessary that the entire country
thro' which our projected route passes should
be well represented, not only at our meeting
on the 4th proximo, but particularly upon the
subscription looks of the Company.
The people should, one and all, come forward
at this meeting, fully prepared to sanction and
endorse an enterprise which is destined to con
fer such wonderful benefits upon every acre of
their soil. There should also, at this meeting,
be a unity of action as well as a unity of pur
pose, and if our citizens are true to themselves
and their interests, and have really the confi
dence in the project which I havo been led to
believe universally exists there should be a
united effort to overthrow the few paltry ob
stacles which, in the minds of a few, may ob
struct our onward course.
Unless the people give a favorable verdict
to our enterprise by subscribing to the capital
stock of the corrpany cither large or small
amounts according to their means; we cannot
reasonably expect those at a distance to cm-
bark liberally in its prosecution.
By a general subscription capitalists in the
East, have at once a sure guarantee that our
enterprise is based upon elements which must
shortly render it a profitable and renumerativo
investment. Such an endorsement cannot
fail to render our railroad popular at home as
well as abroad.
I hope therefore that the 4th day of Septem
ber next may remove all doubts or conjectures
as to the vigorous prosecution of our long pro
jected enterprise and that that day may in
fact become the dawning hour of its future
success and prosperity.
Renewing my oft-repcatcd wishes, that our
march will now be onward ! I remain
Very truly yours, &c,
JAMES E. MONTGOMERY.
Philipsburg, Centre Co., Aug. 27, 1855.
Registering Letters no Safeguard. The
system of registering letters dosn't seem to an
swer the proposed end. A Chicago banker re
ceived notice a day or two since that a regis
tored letter, containing fifty dollars, sent from
a post office between Chicago and the Missis
sippi, had been stolen from the mail or post
office. Said registered letter cannot be found
The system was a disgrace to the department,
and an insult to the community from the first
admitting, as it did,' that the postoffice officials
did not take as much care of the letters en
trusted to them as they might. Tbo only real
safeguard will be to make the Department re
sponsible for all such losses, which as a com
mon carrier, it undoubtedly should be. Tho
thefts, in almost all cases, are necessarily com
mitted by its own agents or employees, a class
of persons for whose wrong doings their prin
ciples, in all cases but this, are every where
made liable. The evil has become a crying
one, and its existence proves the infinite in
feriority of our postal arrangements to those
of other countries. Sun.
K7" Madame Maubonrg, the eldest daught
er and last surviving child of the Marquis La
fayette, died recently, aged about 75, at her
princely residence in Turin, where she has
lived many years, and since the death of her
noble husband, at one time French Ambassa
dor to the Holy See, with her daughter, the
Baroness Pebrone, widow of the Piedmontese
General, killed at the fatal battle of Novara
in 1849. The Baroness inherits the rare vir
tues of her mother and her race, and they are
likely to be transmitted through her carefully
trained children. Madame M. often spoke
gratefully of her family relations with the
United States, and delighted. in every oppor
tunity of bestowing her graceful hospitalities
upon tbe.citizens of the country
The Louisville Riots. Erom a large num
ber of affidavits of respectable citiezns of Lou
isville, we publish the following, without
comment, which establish, beyond question,
where and how the riots originated.
II. Jones, being sworn, states : On Monday,
about 8 o'oclock, Colonel Preston was stand
ing in the street in front of First Ward polls,
in the midst of a crowd of Germans. I heard
him tell the Germans to spend one day for
their rights, and to stay around, and not to
leave the polls; that he was the only Democrat-'
ic candidate there was out for Congress. Col.
P. was among the Germans about the polls
nearly all 'the morning, from early in the
morning till nearly or about 11 o'clock.
Between 12 and 1 o'clcck of that day, as I
was on my way to dinner, as I passed Mar
shall street on the wfest side of Clay street, I
heard a fuss on Marshall street, west of Clay
street. I stopped at the corner of Clay and
Marshall. I had stood there about two min
utes, when an Irishman came out of a house on
Marshall street, east of Clay, and fired a pistol
at me. I ran toward him ; he escaped in the
house; I searched for him, but he had conceal
ed himself. I did not anticipate anything of
the kind,' and was altogether unarmed.
II. Jones.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9th
August, 1855. L. A. Whiteley.
Notary Public.
Alexander C. Cross states that on Monday,
the 6th inst., the day of election in Louisville,
he was at the Seccnd Ward polls, when a boy,
say 12 or 14 years old, at about 2 o'clock P. M.
came to him and complained that he had been
badly treated by a large number of foreigners
on Green street, above Shelby. He said that
he had started to water his horse, but had been
driven ofTby them. Mr. Eeward Williams was
present at the time the boy came to him, and
they concluded to sec Mr. Selvage, who was
acting as Sheriff at the Second Ward polls,
and get the benefit of his advice before they
took any step. They saw Mr. Selvage, and it
was agreed upon he should go along. We
went to the place pointed out to us by the boy.
When we got to a point at Green street where
it is intersected by Campbell street, four or
five squares from the place of voting, tht y dis
covered a large number of foreigners, some
with muskets, some with pistols, some with
bowie-knives' some with rakes, and others
with scythes, which they flourished over their
heads. When we got within from 50 to 100
feet from the front of the crowd, Mr.
Selvage raised his hands in a supplicating po
sitioned begged the'erowd to desist from any
hostile action. While Selvage was thus en
gaged, affiant saw a man on the northwest cor
ner of Green and Campbell, pointing his gun
toward Selvage. Affiant spoke loudly to Sel
vage, telling him to "look out." He suppos
ed Selvage had not seen bis danger. Selvage
was shot in the face, on the breast, and as he
staggered, he turned his back on the crowd
and was shot in the back, the shot taking effect
almost all over him. He bled profusely.
He states at the time Selvage was shot, Ed
ward Williams was standing within two or three
feet of him. Williams turned rapidly mound
with the intent, as witness supposed, to catch
Selvage as he fell. This action turned Wil
liams around from the crowd, and as he turn
ed another gun was shot and the contents of
the gun were lodged all over his hack. lie
then drew his pistol, and they all (Selvage
without arms) started toward them. They
started off in a hurry some up Green, and
some along Campbell. They (the foreigners)
would stop and then fire. Selvage's son, com
ing about tho time when S. was shot, was also
wounded by several shots. Further, he says
that when approaching the crowd of Dutch
and Irish, they saw a one-horse wagon with
two or three men, in it, quietly passing down
Green street, when on getting nearby, and in
the midst of the crowd, they were stoned and
beaten by nearly all of the Dutch crowd.
After the facts above stated had transpired,
a party of Americans, hearing and seeing the
firing, came running up in pursuit, and the fir
ing and fighting became general in the neigh
borhood. Many shots being fired from the
doors and windows along the streets of this
neighborhood, at the Americans, as they ran
through thm streets in pursuit of different par
ties of foreigners. Alexander C. Cross.
The foregoing statements written in our
presence,' has also been carefully read to
us and we concur in the statement of facts,
having been eye witnesses to them.
Edw. Williams,
Aaron Rat,
J. D. Selvage.
John Vogt states : About 1 o'clock on the
6th of August, while I was standing on the
corner of Clay and Madison streets, I saw a
hack going up Madison. I was strongly in
duced by several Americans and several Ger
mans to fire upon the Americans who were in
the hack. I did so, firing both barrels of a
loaded shot gun. It was loaded with small
shot. After firing I was attacked and wounded
by an American party. I can not tell who
they were. I acknowledge that I was to blame,
and would not havo shot but the over-persua
sion of the Americrns and Germans who urged
me to the dreadful deed. John Toct.
Jos. D. Selvage being sworn, states : I was
appointed by the Mayor a policeman for the
Second Ward polls. I was Sheriff at the polls.
While at the Second Ward polls, about 2 o'
clock, news was brought there that the for
eigners up town were in arms. Ed. Williams
and Alex. Cross, night-watchman in the Sec
ond Ward, urged me to go with them to . stop
them. I have been all the soason working cn
public contracts on streets, some CO or 70 for
eign laborers, mostly Irish. Williams and
Cross asked me to go with them, because they
believed I would have considerable influence
with the foreigners. I went with Cross and
Williams. When we reached the corner of
Shelby and Green streets, we discovered a bo
dy of Germans, about 75, armed with guns,
congregated at the . corner of Campbell and
Green. I bade, the crowd that accmpanicd us
to remain behind, and I would go to the Ger
mans and talk with them.
The Americans remained at the corner of
Shelby street except Williams and Cross and
myself. We went toward Cambell street.
Williams and myself were about ten feet in ad
vance of Cross. When we came within some
seventy feet of the Germans, I raised my hands
and begged them "for God's sake to go home
and put away their guns." I said this several
times ; while my hands were raised and I was
exhorting them to go home, some one in the
crowd of Germans cried out to shoot; a gun
was raised and I received the contents in my
face, neck, and breast. I reeled against a
fence and was then shot in tho back and legs.
Some twelve or thirteen guns were fired at
that time. Williams was wounded in the head
and legs during this firing. The Americans
then rushed up Green street, and the General
melee commenced. I was altogether unarmed,
and did not see any fire arms among the A
mcricans at the time. This was the beginning
of the difficulties at that point. The Germans
were scattered and pursued in every direction;
what happened afterwards I am unable to state.
J. D. Selvage.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me a no
tary public, this 8th day of August, 1855.
L. A. Whitely, Notary Public.
We were present at the time of the attack
upon Selvage and Williams, and corroborate
tho above statement. Edw. Williams,
Alex. C. Cross.
Aaron Ray,
Win H. Richardson states on oath : That on
Monday, August G, (election day,) about half-
past two o'clock, P. M-, I was quietly walking
out on Shelby street, just 'south of Madison,
when a man (not an American,) from the sec
ond lot east of Shelby street, discharged a
double barrelled shot gun, taking effect in my
leg and breaking the leg of Mr. Latta, who
was with me. There was at that time no dis
turbance on the street. We then got into a
hack and started down Madison street, witu
some other persons who I did not know ; we
discovered a large crowd of Irish and Germans
armed with double barrelled guns and revolv
ers, at the corner of Clay and Madison streets,
and they commenced firing on the hack. Mr
Latta and tho gentlemen with us laid down in
the bottom of the hack; I being too tall to
shield myself in that way, got out and ran with
the hack between me and the mob, and was
shot in the leg, the shot passing under the
horses and hack ; when we got opposite the
crowd we had to pass between them and a cart
on the opposite side of the street; an Irish
man from Ifchind the cart shot me, the ball
passing through ihc calf of my right leg; I
then found I was losing strength, and and o
pened the back door and threw myself in the
hack while the horses were running; my legs
hung out, and in that condition I was shot in
the legs unher the hack.
I have in both legs 115 shot anil one bullet
wound, and one shot in my right hand.
W. II. Richardson.
Subscribed and sworn to, August 8, 1855.
O. H. Stuatton, N. P.
George W. Burge, being sWorn, says: That
on Monday, August 0, 1855, about 9 o'clock,
A. M., I was quietly walking up Main sireet,
when at the corner of Hannock, by myself, an
Irishman threw a brick at me and then ran out
II an nock street towards Market, and I follow
ed him. He kept a long distance ahead of me.
When between Jefferson and Green streets
three Irishmen came out of a house, and one
of them said, "there goes a watchman after
one of our countrymen," and another spoke
and said, "let's kill him," and the three came
up to me. I being totally unarmed, knocked
the three down with mv fist, then almost im
mediately eleven more men came up and one
struck me with a brick. They then caught
me, one cut mc on the hend with a knife. I
also heard one of them say "murder him, he's
a watchman." They over powered me, cut
ting my hand, and kicking mo on the neck af
ter 1 was down. I was senseless for three
hours, and was doubtless left on the ground
for dead. George W. Burge.
Subscribed and sw"orn to before me, August
9, 1855. O. H. Stratto.v, N. P.
The Riots. We find by perusal of the com
ments of the distant papers on the riots of
Monday that they are under the impression
ihat there was but one riot. For their infor
mation we state that there were two distinct
scenes of riot, that occurred at different times
and at distant points. The riot in the First
Ward occurred about two o'clock and was all
over at S o'clock; tljat in the Eighth ward be
gan about 6 o'clock. The places arc more than
a mile and a half apart, and in the First ward
the chief assailants wero Germans and in the
latter exclusively Irish. Louiseilie Journal.
Better News from Tennessee We hear
of the election of six Americans to Congress,
to four Sag Nichts. The Nashville Whig says
also the Americans hare each branch of the
Legislature, and a majority of three in each
House. It seems to be conceded that the ma
jority of Congressmen and of the Legislature
are Americans. Gentry was defeated for Gov
ernor, owing to the refusal of many of the old
Whigs to vote fot him, in consequence of his
having opposed Gen. Scott in 1852. All things
considered, "Sam" did well in Tonnessee.
A Severe but just Rebuke. The Reading
Journal thus notices Mr. Reed's late bid for
popular favor :
Cutting Loose Wm. B. Reed, Esq., of
Philadelphia, a well known Whig, is out in a
caustic letter, addressed to Hon. A. G. Curtin,
resigning his post as a member of the Whig
State Central Committee. His main reason
for this course is his eostility to the Know
Nothing organization. He alleges that most
of the members of the Committee have joined
the new organization, and he can no longer
act with them. This is all very well, but Mr.
Reed should have thought of this before he
consented to run for the District Aattorney
ship of Philadelphia, which he now holds on
the Whig and American ticket.
K7- The liquor licenses at Chicago has been
reduced from $300 to $100.
Correspondence of the Journal.
Philadelphia, August 25, 1855.
It is to be hoped now that the dull times are
over, at least so it seems with us; but the ac
counts from Clearfield do not appear quite so
encouragingwhat is the reason of this The
Lumbermen complain, and of course everybo
dy around them complains. I do not Know
that the blame can be laid at the doors of all
of them, but certainly some must War it. I
was, a few days since, conversing with a Lum
ber merchant of this city about the Susquehan
na lumber trade, and I was very much surpris
ed to hear that he, as well as many others from
this city, went to Albany, N. Y., to purchase
Boards in preference to going to Columbia or
Portsmouth. The main reason he gave was
that a better article was to be had at the lorm
er place, and there was less deception practis
ed. To use his own language, "Yon must
lookout, for those West Branch men are sharp
ers." He complained of the practice of ma
king up rafts of common or inferior boards,ain!
topping them with first-rate ones, so that yoi.
never know what you are buying, until you see
them delivered, and then, if not satisfactory,
you arc disappointed. He even went so far as
to name one or two principle dealers, whom he
said -icere most too smart for our dealers.' Now
if this is the practice of some of your Luiler
men, it certainly has an effect, and may not a
part of the depression on prices you now com
plain of be owing to it ?
I know nothing personally of the matter,
and mention the fact as related to me, hoping
those who can wear the shoe will try it on.
But theTe is a remedy. Build your railroad,
and send your lumber at once to its legitimate
market, Philadelphia, and then it will show
for itself what it is, and your lumbermen, and
our buyers will meet on even ground.
It is the people of Clearfield who are inter
ested in the Tyrone road, and if the stock nev
er pays them one cent of dividend, it will be
more than returned to them in the advantage
of a speedy market at all times of the year,
subject to no contingencies a rise in the riv
er, or a successful navigating fit. Your busi
ness will not be so much of a credit one, for
more money will find its way amongst you. and
the increased profit of two years will utmost
pav for the entire outlay. It will not cost $2
a barrel to take flour from Tyrone to your doors
then, and, further, your vast beds of coal will
have an outlet. I repeat it, the people of
Clearfield must build the road, like the citi
zens ot Philadelphia did the Penn'a. R. R..
and they may rest assured their pockets are
deeply interested in it, for other projects arc
now claiming the attention of t hiladelphians.
tending to the same end. and ere long we shall
have hosts of coal roads pouring their wealth
over the central route into our city. The Al
legheny Coal Co.-'s road which joins the Perm.
R. R. at Tipton, (only a few miles above Ty
rone) promises very fair. Let Clearfield stir
herself soon, or her mountain of separation
will shut her out from us entirely Slowcoach
es and teams are out cf date now. you must
abolish them forever.
I notice in your paper of the 22nd your re
marks respecting the case of Williamson and
the Supreme Court. Allow me to correct an
error into which you have fallen, like many
oth rs. It is true the court adjourned until
October, but not as you iutimate to withhold
a decision until then. Certain authorities
were cited by Williamson's Counsel in proof
of their argument, which the court coiild not
cxaniino at that time8 not being in possession
of them. "they therefore announce that a deci
sion should be given as soon as possible, and w
are daily looking for it, I think this merely
an act of justice to that body ; whom-1 cannot
believe will withhold the writ applied for. The
conduct ot Judge Kane cannot he too highly
censured, and he has lost every particle ol'rt
8pect which the "Kane letter" left hlni. lie
holds an office, but not the honor which at
taches to it. Yours, Ike, O. ().
The Removal of Rkeder. The Washing
ton Sentinel is the friend and scmi-oflicia! "i -cran
of the Administration, and it thus hurls
in tho teeth of Mr. Pierce his false excus-. for
the removal of Gov. Reeder. Mr. Pierce may
be callous to the blows of his opponents, but
when a friend crams a denial down his t hro.-.t
the dose must be a bitter one for tho Pre si
dent to swallow. The Sentinel says:
"It will be remarked that the Administra
tion places Gov. Reeder's removal solely iipotk
the ground of his interest in and connection
with land speculations. Now, we say, that the
gravamen of his official offence was in the en
couragement of the Frccsoilers. and the im
proper treatment of the "pro-mtarcry" emigra
tion. We go fartlier, and say that we think it
not improbable we can show that several mem
ber r of .the Cabinet rested their urgency for
Gov. Reeder's removal upon this ground only.
We fear therefore, it is not quite ingenuoiti
in the Administration to have placed their re
buke to Gov. Reeder upon the ground it has.
done. We cannot believe the Administration
has passed over the graver for the lighter of
fence, and if it has not, it would have given a
far greater moral force to its action, had it
frankly avowed it."
The Washington Star, another petty official
organ, talks in the same strain; and the Wash
ington Organ says:
"Reeder was not removed for speculation in
office, lecause that offence was avowed to the
President in January last, and was not pun- -ished
by removal. That he was not removed
upon conviction of official immorality, because
his removal had been determined upon before
the evidence upon which he was convicted
had been published. The inevitable inference
is that his removal is due to his active advo
cacy of the Abolition cause in Kansas."
An Oathbound Party. We find tho fol
lowing obligation in the Lewistown Gazette.
"I solemnly and sincerely pledge my honor
as a man, that I have not now, and never had,
and never will have any connection with any
secret order or society organized for political
purposes, whether under the namo of 'Know
Nothings, or any other name ; that I belong
only to the Democratic party, and owe allegi
ance to none other."
Such is the obligation the "Democracy" of
Mifflin and many other counties demand from
their nominees nowadays an obligation by
no means differing from a voluntary oath, eith
er morally or legally. A life-long service in
the party ; a reputation for honesty,, integrity
or truth ; true christain piety, or the posses-,
sion and practice of the most exalted virtues,
are no longer guarantees to democratic favor,
but a solemn obligation that they have not
been, art not now, and never will be mem
bers of a secret political association, is' the
test whereby a good dfjiocrat is hencforward
to be distinguished from his fellow men. Now
wherein does this differ from konw nothing
ism ? If the one (according to the Democrat
a few weeks ago) is a cesspool of iniquity, of
which honest men are ashamed to acknowledgo
them selves members, in what is the other any
better ? Know nothlngism requires a test; so
does democracy ! Know nothingism requires
its members, under certain penalties, to do
and perform certain matters; so does democra
cy ! There may be a difference betwixt twee
dledum and tweedledee" that hair-splitters
may be able to discover, but we doubt wheth
those not interested in the programme, enn sco
aught to distinguic9 one from tho other.