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BY S. B. ROW
. CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1856.
VOL. 2.-AT0. 49.
. TO MV .mother:
The following lines, written by a convict in the
Ohio Penitentiary, are touching beautiful. We
have seen nothing of lato that has bo moved our
sympamy. i&e man who can write such poetry,
who has such thoughts, cannot be utterly deprav
ed. The enrseof intemperance, with iu attending
downward influenco, has hero done "its work, and
a spirit noble and gcnerous,tbat might and should
be the pride and ornament of the social eirclo, is
Bow the degraded convict in the walla of a Peni
tentiary. , Jlow-will that fond mother's haart
bleed if she shall hear of her darling boy, the in
mate of a prison in a foreign land ! Ohio State
Journal.
I've wandered far from thee, mother,
For from my happy home:
I've left the land that gave me birth,
In other climes to roam :
, And time since then, has roll'd its yaars
1" ;And marked them on my brow;
'J Yet I have often thought of thee
I'm thinking of thee now :
' ' I'm thinking on the day, mother,
AVhen at my tender side, .
You watched the dawning of my youth,
And kissed me in your pride";
' Then brightly wag my heart lit up
With hopes of future joy,
While your bright funcy honors wove
To deck your darling boy.
I'm thinking of the day. mother,
W hen with anxious care,
Yon lifted up your heart to heaven
.Your hope, your trust was there ;
Fond memory brings your parting word,
While tears rolled down your cheek ;
; a The long, last, loving look told more,
: - Thau even words could speak.
I'in far away from thee, mother,
No friend is near me now,
.. To soothe uie with a tender word,
Or cool my burning brow ;
The dearest tics affection wove,
. Are all now torn from me ;
o ; . They left mo when the tronble came ;
- . : They did not love like thee.
I'm lonely and forsaken now,
. . Unpitied and unblest ;
; . : Yet still I would not have thee know
JIow sorely I'm distreys'd ;
I know you would not chide, mother,
Yon would not give me blame ',
, But soothe me with your tender words,
And bid mo hope again.
I would not have theo know, mother,
How brightest hopes dcay ;
The tempter with his baneful cup
Has dashed them all away;
And dinine has left it venom sting
To rack with anguish wild
Yet still I would not have thee know
. The sorrows of thy child.
V, I have wandered far, mother,
!ince I descrtcj thee;
And left thy trusting heart to brc:ik,
Beyond the deep blue sea.
0! mother, still I love thee well,
And love to hear thee speak.
And fuel again thy balmy breath
, Upon my care-worn check.
But. ah ! there is a thought, mother,
I'ervades my bleeding breast.
That thy freed spirit may have llown
To its eternal rest ;
And while I wipe the tear away,
1 hero whi.per. in my ear
A voice that speaks of heaven and thee,
And bids me sec thee there.
t'OrilTSHIF OF JOIIX ADAMS.
Kcv. Mr. Smith, of Wcymoth was an excel
lent man and a very fine preacher ; but he had
high notions of himself and his family in oth
er words, he was something of an aristocrat.
Mr. Smith had two charming daughters.
Mary was the name of the elder the others
.uie I have forgotten. They were admired by
fie beaux and envied by the belles of the coun
try round. But while the careful guardians of
the parson's family were holding consultation
tn the subject, it was rumored that two young
lawyers, a Mr. Crancii and Mr. Adams, I think
both of the neighboring town of Qnincy, were
paying their addresses to the Misses Smith.
As eVery man, woman, and child of a country
parish of NcwEngland is acquainted with what
ever occurs in the parson's family, all the cir
cumstances of the courtship soon transpired.
Mr. Cranch was of a respectable family of
tome note; was considered a young man ol
promise, and worth the alliance lie sought.
He was very acceptable to Mr. Smith, and was
greeted by himself and family with great res
pect and cordiality. He was, received by the
eldest as a lover, and was in fact a young man
of great respectability. He afterwards rose
to the dignity of judge of the common please
of Massachusetts.
Tho suitor of the other daughter was John
Adams, who afterwards became President of
the United States. But at that time in the o
pinion of Mr. Smith and family he gave bat
blender promise of the distinction to which he
afterwards arrived. His pretensions were scorn
ed by all the family, excepting tho young lady
to whom his addresses were specially directed.
Mr. Smith showed none of the ordinary civili
ties of the house ; he was not asked to the hos
j.Halities of the table, and it is reported that
his horse was doomed to share with his master
the neglect and mortification to which he was
subject, for ho was frequently seen shivering
in the cold, and gnawing the post at the par
hou's door on the long winter evenings; in
bhorts it was reported that the parson had in
timated to him that his visits were unaccepta
ble, and that he would confer a .favor by dis
continuing them.
; He told hi datizhter that John Adams was
unworthy of her ; that his father was an hon
est tradesman, a tradesman who tried to mm
site John into the arts of husbandry and shoe
waking but without success, and that ho had
cent him to cull-"i a last resort. He l-"g-
-o-
ced his daughter not to think of making an al
liaucc with one so much beneath her. Miss
Smith was one of the most dutiful of daught
ers, but 5liC saw Mr. Adams through a medium
very different from that in winch her father
viewed him. Sho would not for the world of
fend or disobey her father, but still John Ad
ams saw something in her eye and manner
that seemed to say "persevere," and on that
hint he acted. .
Mr. Smith like a good parson and an affec
tionate father had told his daughters that, if
they married with his approbation, he would
preach each of them a sermon on the Sabbath
alter the joyful occasion, and that they should
have the privilege of choosing the text. Tho
espousal or the eldest daughter, Mary, arriv
ed, and she was united to Mr. Cranch in holy
bonds, with the approval, the blessings, and
the benedictions of her friends. Mr. Smith
then said : "My dutiful child, I am now ready
to prepare your sermon for next Sunday.
What do you select for the text 1
"Dear father," said Mary, "I have selected
the latter part of the 421 verso of the 10th
chapter of Luke 'Mary hath chosen that good
part which shall not be taken from hci.' "
"Very good" my daughter," said lie, and tho
sermon was preached.
Mr. Adams persevered in his suit in defiance
of all oposition. It was many years after, and
on a very different opposition, that he uttered
these words : "Sink or swim, live or die, sur
vive or perish, I give my heart and hand to
this mearure." But though the measures were
different, the spirit was the same. Besides,
he had already carried the main point of at
tack tiie heart of the young lady and he
knew the surrender of the citadel must soon
follow. After the usual hesitation and delay
that attends such an unpleasant affair, Mr.
Smith seeing that resistance was fruitless,
yielded the contested point with as much grace
as possible, as many a good father has done
before and since that time. Mr. Adams was
united to the lovely Miss Smith. After the
marriage was over, and all things settled in
quiet, Mrs. Adams remarked to her father:
"You preached sister Mary a sermon on tho
occasion of her marriage. "Won't you preach
me one V -
"Yes my dear girl," saidMr.SmHh, "choose
your text, and you shall have your sermon."
' " Well," said the daughter, "I have "chosen 1
the C3d verse of the 10th chapter of Luke :
'For John came, neither eating bread nor drink
ing wine, and yc say he hath a devil.' "
The old lady, my informant, looked me very
archly in the face when she repeated this pas
sage, atid observed, "if Mary was the most
dutiful daughter, I guess the other had the
most wit."
I could not ascertain whether tho last ser
mon was ever preached. It may not be inap
propriate to remark how well these ladies jus
tified the preference of the distinguished indi
viduals who had sought them in marriage. Of
them it will be hardly extravagant to say, they
were respectively an honor to their husbands,
the boast of their sex, and the pride of New
England. Mrs. Adams in particular who from
tho elevated position in which her husband
was placed before the public eye was suppos
ed to hold the same elevated rank with the
gentle frex that Mr. Adams did among men,
and sho is reported to have rendered her hus
band much assistance in his multiplied labors
of the pen.
- SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATIONS.
The territory belonging to the United States
is of such vast extent, that much of it is Un
known ground. Something, however, is do
ing every year in exploring tho extensive
plains, the lofty mountain ranges, the wilder
nesses, and river courses ; developing new
wonders in the mighty West and adding great
ly to our stock of useful information. Of this
we have abundant evidence in the recently
published Report of Capt. A. A. Humphreys,
of tho Topographical Engineers, upon the
progress of the Pacific Explorations and sur
veys, to ascertain the most practical and eco
nomical route for a railroad from lhc Missis
sippi to the Pacific Ocean. The best route
was found to be on tho 23d parallel, which
traverses the great Colorado desert for 132
miles. The officers of the survey made the
discovery that this desert was the delta of the
river, and was lower than that stream, which
could be turned into it for irrigation, and thus
convert 4.500 square miles of barren land iu
to fruitful soil.
The want of water ha3 hitherto been a great
obstacle to an inland route to the Pacific.
The surveying officers have devoted much at
tention to the obtaining of an adequate sup
ply, and with somo success. By one party it
vas found that a good common wagon road i
could be constructed from the Rio Grande
down the San Pedro and Gila, and across the
Colorado desert, and which could be supplied
with water from common wells. Another
party, under Capt. Pope, were charged to
sink an artesian well on the Llano Estaeado
an arid desert. They commenced operations
ill tho lr.lter part of May, last year, and at a
d.-ih of 800 feet water was reaencu, uui .i
" .
i ho boring was continued,
nulv rosj TO feet
and 500 feet of tubing (all that tnc corps had,)
.... ...
1 1 H e m;,l,l!. f ii,., ii,ti r
was Usetl. a -
September at 010 feet, auother powerful sup
ply of water was reached. It rose S00 feet in
a few minutes, when unexpectedly the marly
Clav below the tubing caved in and stopped
its "flow. It was attempted to remove the ac
cumulation of water, by mud pumps, but after
a continuous labor of twelve dys aud nights,
J no impression was, mad on it ; and thus it now
remains. This experiment proves, we think,
that an abundant supply of water can be ob
tained, at least on that desert part of tho route
where it is so necessary from artesian
wells. ' . " ' . - -
: Other artesian wells are to be 6Uiik along
the route, and Capt. Pope w ill renew ' his la
bora on tho one described, when he receives
the tubing and materials necessary to carry on
the work. The water obtained at Llano" Esta
cado was clear, pure, and palatable ; and no
impurities could be detected by tests applied
by Dr. Shuinard, the geologist of the party.
These surveyors have developed the fact
that tho territory on the Pacific shores, is only
a narrow slope of about 150 miles of arable
land skirting the ocean for about 1000 miles,
but its riches in minerals surpass comprcheg
sion. Rich -veins of copper and antimony
have lately been discovered, also great depos
its of asphaltum. The -'sulphate ol soda and
the carbonate of magnesia have been found in
great quantities, but no nitre. Carboniferous
limestone has been found in abundance at the
San Francisco mountain, and this affords
some hope that deposits of coal may also be
there.'
Thus far tho surveys have developed a gord
wagon route to the Pacific, supplied with a
sufficiency of water; and the grades and tun
neling required through the Rocky Mountains,
for a railroad, do not present such engineer
ing difficulties as the railroad over the Alps.
The cost of a railroad from Fort Smith, on the
Mississippi, to San Francisco, a distance of
2,02o miles, is estimated at $01,720,000, a
little over 40,000 per mile. The exploring
surveys are still continued, and no doubt many
new and interesting scientific discoveries will
yet be made by the able corps of officers en
cased in these scientific explorations. Scien
tific .American.
FREMONT ; .
Or tho Biio of the Ono Hundred.
" In tho early part of tho year 1847 business
called mo to Alta, California. Having been
long a resident on the Pacific coast, and being
Faiiiiliaf with the language and customs of the
people, I was selected to effect a large con
tract of hides for one of our Eastern firms, the
trade being nearly paralyzed at the time by
tho war then in progress between our country
and Mexico ; where a handful of noble men
were accomplishing deeds which have given
them a place in history by the side of Leoni
das atid his braves. The Californians had be
come to us a desideratum ; although their
mineral wealth still slumbered, waiting for
the enchanter of modern days, Yankee enter
prise, their splendid harbors, the contiguity
of our possessions in Oregon, and tho facili
ties for trade with China, were a sufficient in
centive. Commodore Stockton had hurried
up from Calloa in the frigate Congress and
(Jen. Kearniy had crossed the plains from
the Missouri River; with a force of armed
hunters, for tho purpose of taking the country
and holding it as a gage for a satisfactory
treaty.
Tho native Californians, who had long groan
ed beneath the imposts of a distant Govern
ment and venial Governors, had themselves
invited our overtures ; but a tew of their lead
ers, with a deadly hatred toward the Yunkees,
and hope of personal reward from Mexico,
were assiduously eudeavoring to stir the peo
ple up to a revolt in many cases with too
great success. Manuel Castro, a wealthy and
influential ranchero, noted for his determined
opposition to all change, and enmity to the
"Gringos," had arrauged for an attack on the
Pueblo los Angelos, tho headquarters of Kear
ney, held by a small force of marines and vol
unteers. His agents were in all parts of the
country, "indaming tho inhabitants and urging
them to join him. By some means his plan
leaked out.
I was at this time at tho ranch of my old
friend, Gen. Martinez Vallejo, on the Sonoma
Creek ; my companion was Capt. D , who
has since espoused one of our host's daugh
ters. Vallejo was one of the largest landhold
ers in California, owning some sixty square
miles, with forty thousand head of cattle and
several hundred horses, cattle and horses at
that time being a man's available wealth.
He had boen formerly Military Governor of
tho country, and was considered fair spoil by
people, though in justice I must state that he
was kindly disposed toward the Americans.
Tho house was a substantial edifice of two
stories, surrounded by a corall, with a strong
gateway ; the household cousistcd of some
twenty persons.
We had retired to rest, and were wrapped
in slumber, when tho loud barking of dogs
and hallooing of men aroused us suddenly
from our dreams. Expecting an attack from
the bear party (a baud of lawless desperados
whoinrest the country,) all rushed to the
court-vard armed as well as the time permit-
t d , ln costmes tho most picturesque, as
tta lnj ,u . ,,,r4l1 .n Th-
I ,.piinitivftnAC IS
J" . . hnnft came last; he chal-
iicncrin,
. , , 4, :,rn(1nrs with :
ICIIgCU HIS
'Qui'cii es la t" (Who is there.)
"wert'cuiioj e arnijos, abra lipuer(a"( Amer
icans and friends, open the 'gate,) was the re
sponse, a blow accompanying the words that
made the floor shake 8gain.
Tbe demand was perforce complied with $
and a band of some fifty men were presented
to our view, mounted and arrayed as trappers
and huuters; and. armed to tho teeth. For-
mest among them, on a black mustang, was a
small, sinewy, dark man, evidently their lead
er, with "an eye like Mars to threaten and
command," a countenance expressive of tho
greatest determination, and a bearing that,
notwithstanding his rough dress, stamped him
as one born to command to lead.
This was Fremont. .
"I am an officer of tho United States," said
he. "I am on my way to Los Angelos ; I
must have horses."
"But " said Vallejo.
i "I said, Sir, I must have them ; yon will be
recompenced by my Government. I order
you, Sir, to deliver to my men what horses
you may have in corral." .
' Finding remonstrance would be of no avail
with such a man, .Vallejo called his vaqueros
and gave the requisite directions. In the
meanwhile- my friend D , made himself
known to Fremont, having met him in Wash
ington. . "I have information of Castro's intention
to attack Los Angelos. I Lave six days to
reach there before tho outbreak, for that I
need these horses ; for I mutt bo in at the
death. :'
"But the distance ; six hundred miles," said
D . "The roads "
"I shall do it," lie replied ftnil turned away
to supervise his arrangements.
In half an hour they departed as unceremo- j
riously as they came,-taking with them three I
hundred horses, and ".leaving us astounded at
this ride, to wonder if wo were yet awake, or
whether it was an unsubstantial dream.
" Los diublos !'' exclaimed theJencral,"they
have even taken my wifoTs saddle-horse !" so
thoroughly had Fremont's lieutenant execu
ted his order.
From Sonoma to Verba Buen.a, the little
hamlet where now stands the queen city of the
Pacific, San Francisco, he augmented his stock
to the number of about fifteen hundred, com
plete!' clearing the country ; and then com
menced one of thn most peculiar races fur a
figlit ever' probably known. Barely pulling bri
dle to devour a steak cut from the quarter of
a dead bullock's carcas, driving before them
their spara horses en, on they went. The
roads at all times bad, at this season were hor
rible fifty miles being a hard day's journey,
even for a California!!.
As their exhausted beasts dropped under
them they tore off tho saddles, and, placing
them on others, hurried on, leaving the poor
animals to be devoured by tho cayotes, or re
cover, as chanco might bring abcut. Ever at
the head, the last to dismount, and the first to
leap into tho saddle,was this mouutainecr, this
companion of Kit Carson! this pioneer of
the empire ! Fremont ! Rarely speaking but
to urge on his men, or to question some pas
sing native, taking the .smallest modicum of
refreshment, and watching while others snatch
ed a moment's repose, was ho wrapped up in
his project and determined to have some o
the fight.
Through San Pab!o,and Monterey, aniLJosc
pha, they dashed, startling the inhabitants,
and making tho night-watch cross himself in
terror as their band flew on. The river Sacri
fices was reached ; swollen by tho rains it rol
led on, a rapid, muddy stream ; his men paused.
Forward, forward .'" A'ied be, and dashed
in himself, the struggle was a fierce one, but
his gallant mustang breasts the current, ami
he reaches the opposite shore in safety ; his
men after a time join him, two brave follows
finding a watery grave, and many horses being
carried down the stream ; but nothing can now
stop him the heights adjacent to the Pttebla
appear now a smile might be seen on the im
placable visage of the leader ' th sixth
day ami the gonl is icon !
With ninety men on the hist of his caravan
of horses, ho fell like a thunderbolt on tho
rear of the Mexicans. The day was with them ;
the little band of stout hearts guarding the
presidio, taken by surprise, and not having the
advantage of the Mexicans in regard to hor
ses, were beginning to waver. But cheer up
cheer again succor is at hand. On come
those riders of Fremont nothing can with
stand their shock. With shouts of triumph
they change tho battle to a rout. The field
is von !
The route was a complete one ; and had not
Fremont's men been utterly exhausted, none
would have escaped. So ended tho Hide of
The One Hundred.
I would state that the GoYernmcnt, with
their usual speed in such matters, passed an
appropriation to satisfy General Vallejo and
others for their losses, sir years after.
This put a virtual end to the war, for though
they Hgain made a stand at the San Pascal
headed by Pico, still they were dispirited, and
Gen. Kearney with his mounted men defeated
them with great' loss. The Governorship of
the country being decided, which had long
lieen a source of trouble between Kearney,
Stockton and Mason, affairs became more set
tled, and tho American force, now largely aug
mented, was placed on such a footing as to soon
"crush the bead of rank rebellion," and Pico
and Castro fled to the lower country, to fight
for a time longer against inevitable fate.
lion. Caleb Goodrich, of Oneida county,
one of the present members of Assembly, has
abandoned the Democratic candidates and de
clared himself for Fremont. ' - ;
From the (B iptiil) Christian Ch roniclr.
THE rUESIDE.NTIAL COX.TEST.
Don't bo alarmed, fastidious friends, at the
head lino of this article. We arc not about to
mingle "religion and politics," nor to make
the Chronicle tho medium of party strife. Wo
have higher and holier motives. Wc are ap
proaching a crisis that demands the burial of
past divisions, a contest wholly unlike any
which has preceded ft in the annals of the
country a contest involving high moral is
sues, in which the Christian Sentinel of the
nation must bo pre-eminent a contest in
which men who have been the political anti
podes of each other, must stand side by side
and battle for the right a contest, in which is
to be decided for all future time the great
question, whether the domain of slavery is to
be extended, and its blight entailed upon terri
tory where the slave foot has not made its im
print, where the sound of the slave-driver's
lash has not polluted the free air of heaven.
AVo are very well aware that many good men
will, at first thought, be deterred from enter
ing upon this strife as their hearts would
prompt them, and their judgments guide them,
from the fear of being stigmatized. But we
must, if need be, bear the reproach which op
probrious appellations are designed to convey ;
wo must riso above tho paltry considerations
of petly annoyances, and go forward "through
evil as well as through good report."
The issues involved in this controversy arc
not, whether slavery shall be abolished in the
Southern Stales, or in the District of Colum
bia, whether the fugitive slave law shall be re
pealed, or whether the South shall continue to
bo annoyed by the under-ground railroad ope
rators. Let tho States, now suffering under
tho demoralising influences of slavery, work
out for themselves tho great problem, how they
shall rid themselves of the evil. It is not the
abolition of slavery that we are now to com
bat, but the protection of virgin soil from the
polluting effects of such a system j to say to
the line of slavery, thus far and nj farther.
Here wc should all agree, and work with one
mind and one heart. Let that be the one great
leading question, absorbing for the present all
minor considerations. It is not a question of
Xoi-th or South, Union or disunion. All the
frantic ravings, all tho crazy denunciations of
newspaper hacks, all the cries of mad dog that
can be raised, are out of time and out of place,
impertinent aud irrelevant.
We unfurl to tho breeze the broad banner of
equal rights, free territory, stability to the
Union, tranquility to tho nation, peace and
good-will to all men, North, South, East or
West, Who are law-abiding ami nniou-loving
citizens. We ask for citizens of the free
States no boon, no exclusive privileges, no
special enjoyments, no commercial advantages
in the acquisition of estates in tho new terri
tories. Wc desire to spread over every citi
zen the broad .fgis of constitutional right : we
say to every man in tho land, go up und pos
sess these new places ; enjoy them as good
citizens ; jiromi.se among yourselves good gov
ernment, and wise and w holesotno laws ; es
tablish equality of right, equality of represen
tation, equality of rich and poor. What is to
hinder The South say they arc not permit
ted to go to Kansas on equal terms with the
North ; that earnest efforts arc being made to
send out men from tho tree States, ly the aid
of emigrant societies and other means, and
thus to obtain a majority of L-g. 1 voters who
would prohibit slavery. Weil, slavery has no
right to go there, and if the general govern
ment has no power to prohibit it, let it Ikj done
by tho power of combined public sentiment.
Wc say to Southern men that we want them fo
go as Northern men will go, and enjoy all the
rights of citizenship, all the social privileges,
all the legal benefits, everything that a Nor
thern man asks for or hopes for. Go up with
your wives, your sons, your daughters ; take
with you your horses, your cattle, your imple
ments of trade aud agriculture, your all that
any other man can take. But we say to them,
tliat Northern men have no .slaves ; they take
with them no such appendage, and they are i
not w illing that it shall bo introduced as a per- j
petual annoyance among them. You demand
too much, you create an inequality by intro
ducing slave labor to the prejudice of tho white
laborer, and we cannot consent to it. Wc
want no men there who shall groan under bon
dage : wc do not want to be compelled to weep
daily at the sight of the fetters of the slave,
or to have our hearts saddened at the crack ol
tbe merciless slavedi iver's lash. Our human
ity, our religion, our manhood, revolts at such
degradation of liumau beings.
Such are the events connected with the next
Presidential and Congressional elections. The
Presidency is tho nio important to be deci
ded. V hat man breathing the air of freedom,
recognizing his manhood and ls duty as a cit
izen, obeying his obligations as a Christian,
can hesitate as to his proper position in Xo
v timber next. There will be found, then, thou
sands aud tens of thousands of good and true
anti-slavery men who have had no sympathy
with the abolitionists in their reckless course,
who repudiate the ultraism and infidelity of
Garrison and Phillips, and A buy Foster and
Lucy Stone, but who will bo found firm in the
purpose of opposing slavery. -
Let the motto be, "no extension of slavery."
Inscribe it upon your banners, carve it upon
your platforms, weave it into your speeches,
burn it into the hearts of all ftood citizeus, and
go forth one and indivisible to. accomplish
your purpose. K.
SIGNS CF THE TIKES.
In Beaver county tho opposition are uni
ted on Fremont. Among tho officers of tha
Beaver Fremont Club, are Benjamin Wildo,
late Democratic candidate for Senate ; Benj.
Rush Bradford, late American candidate for
Governor; A. Robertson, late Whig Senators
Silas Merrick, formerly a Democrat, &c. ' Tha
Fremont men claim fiom 1000 to 1-300 majori
ty in Beaver.
The Illinois Independent says, there ap
pears to be but one party in Herkimer county,
tho party of Freedom and Fremont. It claims
3,000 majority. A postmaster in one of th
towns was inquired of from Washington as to
the prospect in his neighborhood. He wrote
kick that there was not a Buchanan man in
the town not even himself; and if he was
turned out for saying so, he had this satisfac
tion, that no one but a Fremont man could bs
appointed, at there was no other in the loicn. .
Judge Gilbraith, for many years a Demo
cratic leader in Northwestern Pennsylvania,
said about a week since that the stampedo to
wards Fremont, in that portion of Pennsylva
nia, was beyond belief in calculation. Tho
masses having received the idea that it is not
true Democracy to assist in the extension of
slavery, are leaving the ranks by hundreds,
and there is no telling where tho defection
will stop.
A new and important section of the old
Democratic parly of Vermont has come over
to tho side of Fremout and Freedom. Chief
Justice Redtield, Judge Kellogg and, William
C. Bradley aro leaders in this furthor disinte
gration of the sham Democracy. Tho latter,
who was in Congress in 1S13 15, and again. ia
l'-3-27, aud stood at the head of the Demo
cratic party of Vermont through all its palmy
days, is now one of the Fremont Presidential
electors.
The Worcester Palladium, heretofore one
of tho most influential Democratic papers in
Massachusetts, has repudiated the Cincinnati
platf orm and run up the Fremont flag.
lion. John - Weutworth (the editor of an
itiiiueiitial paper in Chicago, formerly Demo
crat) has taken the stump in Illinois for Fre
mont aud Dayton.
. The Wisconsian, an able and leading Dem
ocratic journal at Milwaukee, refuses to put
up Buchanan, and has run up Fremont aud
Dayton.
The Rcckford (III.) Democrat, always an
Old Line Democratic paper, has hoisted tho
names of Fremont and Dayton.
A Glosiois Ambition. Br a Mastee-mixd!
Said the Sc3"thian ambassadors to Alexan-
der, '-If your person were as vast as your am
bition the world would not contain you." .Wt
Lave now in our midst a conqueror whoso am
bition is as boundless as Alexander's. The old
world was too narrow a sphere for its exercise,
and bo has sought the new. We refer to Pro
fessor IIoilow.iv, whoso desire is to benefit
mankind; unsated by the countless cures his
medicines have accomplished,he is now active
ly engaged in revolutionizing the treatmeut of
disease in thi country. Conquest and subju
gation are bis objects tho conquest and sub
jugation of the various maladies .hat afflict
the iiumau race. The trophies of his skill aro
to be found in every region of the earth, for
fiis remedies uro omnipotent, and wherever
they have penetrated, disease has given away
to their hygeian influence. Probably thcro
are not half a dozen newspapers in existenco
that have not borne voluntary testimony to tha
wonder-working efficacy of llolloway's Pills
and Ointment. It has heretofore been tho uni
versal complaint against even the most popu
lar medicines, that they were mere palliatives,
relieving pain temporarily, perhaps, but never
reaching tho '-materics morbi,'" or element of
disease in the blood, llolloway's Tills, on tho
contrary, act specifically upon tho primary
cause of the malady in the fluids of the body,
and from which they spring. In external dis
ease the Ointment is used as an auxiliary to
the Pills, and iis sanative cflccU aro scarcely
less wonderful.
We make these assertions bold as they may
seem on solid grouiKbs. Wc have warrant for
thcin in the admission of the faculty in tho
statements of standard medical periodicals on
both sides of the Atlantic in the published
acknowledgements of thousands of grateful
convalescents and last, but not least, so far
as our private convictions arc concerned, fn
our own personal exjverknee and observations .
To the man whose profound research and
practical skill in medical science have result
ed in the production of such uncquallod cura
tives, and whose business energy and enter
prise have diffused them through every inhab
ited rrgion between the equator and the poles,
the homage of the" world is due. llo has re
ceived it. Wherever he has travelled his jour
neys have resembled a triumphal progress. and
the most haughty of Europe's aristocracy have
been proud to assist at bis-levees. Ho is now
a resident and wc hopc.he will leconic a cit
izen of a land where tho only titles recogniz
ed are the titles of respect and gratitude earn
ed by public benefactors. Among that class
he has long stood pro-eminent, and it is per-
piaps not too much to say that his European
and American central manufactories,244Strand,
Loudon, and SO Maiden Lane, Yew York, or
doing more practical good than all the medi
cal collcgen of Europe and America conibirii
cd. .Yew York Daily Ktw$, , . : . ,