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" People's Kational Ticket.
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JOHN C. FRE M'O N T,
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WILLIAM L. DAYTO.V,
OF SEW JEIISEY.
Union State Ticket.
CANAL COMMISSIONER.
THOMAS E. COCHRAN, of York Co.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
DARWIN PHELPS, of Armstrong Co.
srnvEYon general,
BARTHOLOMEW LAPOKTE, of Bradford Co.
VSIOTZ Or THE OPPOSITION.
Among tho many plans suggested to jmifa
the forces opposed to Buchanan, the follow
ing, we believe, is one upon which ail can a
grec, viz : Let 2G electors be jointly chosen
by the Fillmore and Fremont men. Then let
the Fillmore men choose a 27th and the Fre
mont men a 27th. Lctboth parties vote the
26 common electors, adding the Fillmore elec
tor at the head if they wish to cast their vote
for Fillmore, or the Fremont elector if they
wish to vote tor Fremont. If this ticket
should be successful, let the electoral vote be
divided between the two candidates in propor
tion to the number of votes which each slyill
receive. Thus, if Fillmore gets half of the
votes east for this ticket, give him half of the
electors, and Fremont the other half. If one
of them should receive two-third3 or three
fourths of the opposition votes in the State,
give him that proportion of electors. By thi
plan every man wonld be certain for whom his
vote would count. If he cast his vote for
Fillmore, it would count for Fillmore; if for
Fremont, it would count for Fremont. This
would be fair and just, would leave no man in
doubt as to where his vote would go, and
would bo the means of carrying the State a
galnst Buchanan. t The members of Congress
from this State have called a Convention to
meet at Ilarrisburg sometime ia the month ol
September, for the purpose of adjusting the
difficulty, and we have no doubt it will be ar
ranged at that time to the satisfaction of both
sections. Our friends should not permit them
selves to become disheartened, for we have an
abiding confidence that all will yet end right.
The man who would oppose a union electoral
ticket upon as just and fair a basis as the fore
going, must at heart be for Buchanan.
A Meetings was held in the Court Ilonse on
Saturday evening, ostensibly for the purpose
of selecting delegates to tho Convention to
form a Fillmore electoral ticket, which met
yesterday, at Ilarrisburg. So far as selecting
delegates goes, we have nothing to say against
it. The course, however, that was taken was
calculated to distract our own forces and em
bitter men who should move in concert. It
always has been, and still is our desire to
unite the forces opposed to Buchanan, so as
to enable us to carry the State against him.
To abuse the candidate of one of the parties
opposed to Buchanan, as was done on this oc
casion, is certainly illy calculated to cd'ect
such a desirable end. The spirit manifested
was anything but conciliatory, and, therefore,
imprudent, at least. Although a very respec
table number of persons were present, many
of whom were Locofocos who had gone thith
er to witness the "fun,-' we believe not over
ten or eleven identified themselves with the
movement. Wc will, however, for the pres
ent, refrain from further comment.
A NEwT TRICK !
Be ox Yom Claud! ! We see it stated that
the Locofocos have raised a large sum of mon
y, which is in the hands of the wire-workers
At Washington City, and is principally to be
used in carrying Pennsylvania for Buchanan.
The Democracy are well aware, if a union of
the Fillmore and Fremont elements is effect
ed, that Buchanan will lose this State by a
large majority. Their main object now is to
prevent a union, and for this purpose they are
distributing funds, with a profuse hand, among
such pliable politicians as may be found in
our ranks, engaging them to oppose all eflbrts
to unite our forces, and to stir up disscntion
among ns. Humiliating a it may be, it is
nevertheless so, that there are individuals to
be found who arc venal enough to thus sell
themselves to the Locofoco wire-woikers to
further the cause of Buchanan. We trust
our friends will be on their guard. No one
who at heart wishes to defeat Buchanan will
oppose a union of the opposition forces upon
' some fair and reasonable basis.
Tirn Oct! By a notice elsewhere in to
day's paper, it will be seen that a Ma9s Meet
ing of those opposed to the Administration
party will be held in Woodward township, on
' Saturday the I6th August. Everyone who
can attend, should do so.
Lumbermen's Meetjsg. We would remind
readers that; at the Lumbermen's meeting
Job lf&Ts11 tfl Ju'' Was resol7ed t,,at
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WHO IS JAMES BUCHANAN t
"No one," says the New York Sun, "will
seriously ask, who is James Buchanan!" This
is said with much unction and evident satisfac
tion. Well, it is pleasant, is it not, Mr. Sun,
to have a candidate for the Presidency at last,
of whom somebody lias heard something be
fore he was nominated J But if it should hap
pen that any one should ask : "Who is James
Buchanan 1" you can tell them at once, and
without stopping to think about H,""Why, he
is the man who abnsefl Madison and the war
with England, in a Fourth of July oration in
1815, at a round rate. He is the man who was
such a rampant Federalist that he solemnly de
clared, before God and man, that if he thought
he had a single drop of Democratic blood in
his veins he would open them and let it out.
lie is the man who was four times elected to
Congress as a Federalist. He is tho man who
came to Mr. Clay in 1825 and tried to make a
bargain with him, or at least held out a tempt
ing offer to him, namely that he should be Sec
retary of State, to vote for General Jackson ,
and he is tho man who led the General to be
lieve that Mr. Clay and Mr. Adams had made
a corrupt bargain. Ho is tho man who heard
this charge made, reiterated, and tho changes
upon it rung all over tho country for fifteen or
sixteen years, and yet, knowing it to be false,
never contradicted it. lie is the man who
said to General Clinch, in 1S1I, that he could
make those Dutchmen in Pennsylvania be
lieve that Mr. Polk was a better prolcctive-tar-i;Tmaii
than Mr. Clay ; and ho is the man who
took the stump in Pennsylvania in the fall of
1844, and by pledging the honor of a gentle-
iaa to the pcoplj of that Stntc, that Mr. Polk
was abetter protective-tarifl'man than Mr. Clay
dii make thorn believe it, and vote for Mr.
Polk, wheteby they lost tho tariff" ofl812, and
he got the ofticc of Secretary of State, all of
which ho know beforehand would take place ;
and he is Jhc same man who said in a speech
in the Senate, thai the best protection that the
manufacturers could have ivas low wages
bring wages dovn to ten cents a day, and
they would need no other protection. Now.
w ho does not know who James Buchanan is ?
Wash. Organ.
Public Meetisg. In pursuance ot previous
notice given, a meeting of the opponents of
Buchanan and the policy of the present Na
tional Administration, met at the Court Ilonse
on Saturday, tho 2nd inst., and organized In
selecting Michael A. Fra.xk as Chairman,and
S. B. How, as Secretary. The object of the
meeting having been stated to be the select
ing of Congressional Conferees, on motion.
Alexander Irvin, II. D. Patton and Michael A.
Frank, were chosen a3 conferees for Clearfield
county, with power to substitute. A motion
was made and carried that the delegates be in
structed to vote for Hon. C. B. Curtis, as the
choice of this county.
On motion, the following persons were cno
sen as a cemmittee to make the necessary ar
rangements, for the holding of the Convention
to nominate a county ticket, and also for the
People's Convention, which are to be held in
this borough on the Tuesday of Court week,
viz: J. B. M'Enally, Chairman, W. II. Ro
bertson, Lewis It. Carter, David B. Rodkey,
E.S.Dundy, James W. Owens, Alex. Irvin,
Isaac S. Shircy, John Patton, Bonj. Harts
horn, Philiy Antes, James M. Kelly, Ellis Liv
ergood, Orris Iloyt, Win. Mitchell, Henry B."
Smith, Nathaniel Itishcl, Thomas G.Snyder, J.
II. Jones, James P. Nelson, Benj. Spackman,
Samuel Sebring, John Carlisle, Robert Mi
chaels and David S. Moore.
On motion, resolved, that these proceedings
be published in tho Raftsman's Journal. The
meeting then adjourned. M.A.Fra.nk, Prcst.
S. B. How, Secretary.
Goixa Dowx Hill. The Buffalo, N. Y.,
Commercial remarks very truly : The nomina
tion of Mr. Buchanan fell still-born in all the
free Stales. There was no spontaneous, hear
ty response from any quarter, and he has been
growing weaker day by day, from the hour
Slidell overreached the? simnnrtiTj nf ti -.fil
er candidates, and secured his triumph, up to
the present time, and we see no reason to
doubt that this decline in his popularity is to
continue up to the period of I113 final over
thrnw. In this State he stands no chance
whatever. The most sanguine among his intelligent-supporters
do not, even now, profess
any confidence in a favorable result, and the
current will leave them high and dry oa the
sand, before the tido is at half ebb.
Border Distlrraxces. The New Orleans
Creole, of the 21st, says there arc appearances
of serious disturbances on the border of Texas
and Louisiana. Certain free negroes, mulat
toes and white men, to the number of forty,
with the Sheriff" at their head, who had been
ordered for some reason to leave the country,
have refused to do so, and have fortified them
selves some four miles above Madison. They
arc reported to have a hundred guns, besides
pistols and bowie knives, and bid defiance
to their opponents.
"He refused to publish tho toasts because
some of them expressed Democratic senti
ments." Republican. -
This, in the dignified language of the Re
publican, is "a positive and .unqualified false
hood," and the editor of that paper must have
known it to bo such, for we informed him at
the time the toasts were handed in that we
could riot give them for lack of space, and for
that reason alone were they omitted.
The Wheat Crop is now pretty well se
cured all over the country, except the extreme
northern portion, and wc have never known a
harvest to pass with so little complaint of in
jury to the crop as this year. There is. there
fore, every reason to believe that the yield of
sound wheat is unprecedently large, and con
sequently, without a large foreign demand,
with no chance for shipments to California,
the price must be low.
It is said Barnum is going to hire a surgeon
to examine the body of James Buchanan for
that 'drop of Democratic blood. Blue lights
will be used on the occasion, and ten cents ad
mission charged.
LETTER FROM MR. CAKPEELL.
Me. S. B. Row. Dear Sir : Allow me
through your columns to remind D. W. Moore,
Esq. of the subject of controversy between
him and me.
Has the Editor of the Republican forgot, that
his unqualified assertions in reference to our
last eshibition,are still before the public mind,
in all their glaring absurdity, unvindicated.
That Mr.Turner's speecb,"was nothing more
nor less than a re-hash of some false and stale
Abolition editorial from the New York Tri
bune or some other disunion organ," that "it
was full of misrepresentations, unfair and un
patriotic, and was badly written, badly deliv
ered, and was as grossly defective in grammar
as it was in facts," are affirmations publicly
made by Esquire Moore, and their truta ques
tioned by me, their foundation pronounced
groundleis, and their author challenged, by all
that is manly and brave, to verify thenu
These affirmations then, and these alone, to
every impartial and intelligent mind, form the
only true basis and subject of our controver
sy, and cannot bo over-looked or evaded until
they arc manfully met, logically answered, and
their proof established beyond the power of
refutation. Has this been the course of said
Editor I Did ho in his last touch one of the
points in question T Headers, judge for your
selves. Had the subject of debate been the
most deadly serpent, from tho venom of whoso
fan; no sanity can recover, Esquiro M. could
net have more carefully avoided it. Fear it
not, Dear Sir, it is the offspring of your own
rich genius.
The Editor says "in all controversies we
(consistency demands him to have this ue in
italics and No. 1, affixed) honor the antago
nist who will stand up to an open and manly
contest to a fair and free fight."
This language when contrasted with his re
ply to my hitter, reminds me of the Preacher,
who was addicted to falsehood, intemperance,
profanity, immorality and debauchery, but to
his congregation ho wa3 careful to preach
truth, temperance, heavenly conversation, o
bedionco to tho Moral Law, and immunity from
all "that dcCleth or maketh a lie," and nt the
close cf tho sermon ho would usual J v add,
"Brethren, do net as I do, but do as 1 1 eft yon."
Such is a fair specimen of the mode in which
our down street Editor conducts a controversy.
lie says "we characterized the piece as of a
partisan character, and expressed our disap
probation or it for that reason alone." Whv
then did not the Editor confine his "strictures"
to that feature 'alone" which he believed to
be of "partisan character ?" Why say it was
badly written, badly delivered, and grammati
cally incorrect, and thereby cast reflections on
the Teacher with no other design than to in
jure ? Why call it an "Abolition editorial"
when there is not an Abolition sentiment in
it? Had he confined himself in his "stric
tures" to what he calls its "partisan diame
ter" and not dipped his shafts in slander min
gled with falsehood, and aimed them at the
Principal and the Institntion.it is highly prob
able that my pen never would have been rais
ed in answer.
The Editor insinuates that Mr. Turner was
imposed upon by me, and that he did not fully
understand the nature of his speech. This is
untrue. .My former letter plainly shows that
he well understood it, and that he and 1 were
of tho snme "opinion" in regard to its charac
ter. That I did not in this respect discharge
my duty to him, "not only as his tutor, but as
his friend," and that "the voting man 'sn c
nothing in it objectionable,' but Mr. Campbell
did," are assertions, Esquire, that will not
sT"re with the truth..
the only thing of "partisan character" (If
it will bear that name) that can be legitimate
ly extracted from "that speech," h the dis
honor which seems naturally to reflect upon
the Hilling Power, when we speak of tho dis
tracted affairs of our country. This, in my
opinion, i3 a fair embodiment of its worst
"partizan" feature.
Those must be the "kindest feelings" indeed,
by which the Editor was "prompted" to notice
our last Exhibition, when nine lines only out
of thirty-four (a little over one fourth) "were
"filled with fulsome adulation," and even in
the latter part of those nine lines, that venom
ous serpent began to show his brazen head,
which the Editor now so much fears to touch.
He says "we arc not acquainted with all the
rules laid down in Kirkham." This is no
doubt an honest confession, and it is not like
ly that any one, familiar with his editorials,
and especially with his late criticism upon my
letter,wouId bring serious charges against him
for being " acquainted" with any of those rules,
much less the rules of logic.
Pray, Sir, by whose logic do you get author
ity to evade entirely the subject of controver
sy, and spend your force in another course ?
If this bo not a gross perversion of logic, who
can define what logic is 1
In so much of the Editor's reply as was oc
cupied in italicizing and numbering certain
words m my letter as incorrect,without giving
any rule of logic or grammar thereby violated",
he plainly manifested tho spirit of" a coward,
who r.used his arm to strike, but had not the
courage (in his case the knowledge) to inflict
the blow. Now I assert, without fear of suc
cessful contradiction, that the Editor cannot
by the rules of grammar and logic, combined
or separate, prove those parts in my letter he
has italicized, incorrect. Without an addi
tional stretch of candor, he could as easily
have pointed out forty-two feigned mistakes
in it, as twenty-one.
Insinuating that a composition is incorrect,
and italicizing certain words in it, will pass
neither for argument or proof, and though
they may have the appearand of show to the
illiterate in the estimation of tho wise and
learned, they will not "u-eiph a feather."
The idea, Esquire, that by your italicizing
and numbering those words in my letter, you
are exempt from the burden of proof that rests
on you in reference to the unfounded asser
tions in your notice of our last Exhibition, is
simply ridiculous. It is, no doubt an inge
nious, but a weak and despicable dodge. 1? is
certainly a "query" to know how long the legs
of your logic are !
Will tho Editor come up to the subject of
controversy, and vindicate his assertions, or
frankly acknowledge his error, and show for
once that he "will stand vp to an open and vian
ly contest to a fair and free fight ;" and let an
impartial public bo our judges.
Yours truly, W. A. Campbell.
Remember. The pro-slavery party propose
to "save the Union," but at the expense of
Freedom, and will make it a slave oligarchy.
Listen to "the noble words of Col. Fremont,
and say Will you have one or both ?
"If I am elected to that high office for which
your, partiality has nominated mo, I will en
deavor to administer the Government accord
ing to the true spirit of the Constitution, as it
was Interpreted by the great men who framed
and adopted it, and in such a way as to pre
serve both Liberty and the Uxiox."
IIorxe Tooke ridiculed the practice of sea
bathing, and said if any of the seal species
were sick, it would be as wise for a fish physi
cian to order them to go on shore. Parsons de
clared that sea-bathing was only reckoned heal
thy because many persons had been "known
to survive it ;" but Sheridan's objection to salt
water was most quaint. "Pickles," said he,
"don't agre . with me."
For the Raftsman' Journal.
'"Optics sharp have they. I ween.
Who see what is not to be seen."
Ma. How: I was strongly impressed with
the truth of the above couplet after reading
the criticism in the last Republican on Mr. W.
A. Campbell's letter, in which it is alleged there
are 21 mistakes. In a majority of instances,
though some of the expressions may be some
what obscure and lack the elegance of the ed
itor's diction, the alleged blunders are suscep
tible of easy elucidaion,TvliiJst a few are sanc
tioned by common usage, as for example the
words "us" and "we." But this ittack is un
fair, for instead of even attempting to prove
that mistakes exist, the editor alleges that
there is a large number, and. in effect asks that
Mr. Campbell shall show that they are not mis
takes. This is like arraigning a man and ask
ing him to prove himself innocent, instead of
the prosecution showing that he is guilty.
But, I presume the Republican man has taken
this plan to withdraV attention from his for
mer unjustifiable attack on a scholar .and the
principal of the Institute. . I don't know who
the "critique" of the Republican is, for the
editor says he Is "not acquainted with all the
rules laid down in Kirkham," a useless cau
tion, for no grammarian would ever deem him
guilty of such acquaintance, but I am dispos
ed to think Pope might have had a similar ge
nious in his mind's eye, when he wrote that
"Feme have nt first for wits, then poets pas'd.
Turnod critics next, and proved plain fool at last ;
.Some neither can fur wits nor critics pas?.
As heavy mules are neither horse nnr n.-w."
Ignoramus.
riLLK02E Sc. D0WNELS03T MEETING.
In pursuance ot a call a large meettng was
held in, the Court House, in this borough, on
Saturday evening, the 2d August inst. It was
organized by the election of Titos. Shea, Esq.
as chairman, Win. Heed and Joshua Johnson
as Vico Presidents, and George W. liheem &
L. R. Merrell, Secretaries. On motion. Dr. J.
G. Hartswick, W. H. Brown and I). M. Weaver
were appointed a committee to draft resolutions
In the absence of the committee, II. Either
Swoofe, Esq. was called upon and addressed
the meeting, lie said that the stereotyped
phraxe with, which politicians usually com
menced their speeches "that we have entered
upon a most important political contest" had.
pcrhnps, never been more appropriately used
than at the present time. With civil war, strife
and rebellion raging in our territories with a
spirit of ruffianism prevailing throughout tho
country, that has even stained the floor of the
Senate Chamber of our National capilol with
the blood of one of its members, with agita
tion, clamor, and alarm in all sections of the
Union, wc had entered into a contest the re
sult of which must either restore peace and
harmony, or add fuel to the flame. He show
ed conclusively that the election of either Bu
chanan or Fremont must inevitably produce
the latter result that tho only security for the
country, the only method of restoring peace
and tranquility, wen? in the success of Millard
Fillmore, and the great conservative princi
ples of the National American Platform. He
proceeded at some length to examine the
claims of the different candidates, showing up
Buchanan as a model of inconsistency, lie
wanted to know upon what grounds Americans
could support Fremont a man who had always
been allied with tho Democratic party who
when elected in the Democratic Legislature of
California to the Senate and during the twen
ty days he sat there, voted in every instance
with that party among the rcsl against the
abolition of slavery in the District of Colum-lii-i.
who hal nevcr'to this day uttered a single
sciiumeni in common wun Ar.iencani.sm, and
who was the nominee of a convention In which
the foulest and most vituperative attack was
made upon the American party, that was ever
listened to by any political assembly in this
commonwealth. lie appealed to the men of
all parties, who possessed a spark of patriot
ism to rally under tho Fillmore flag, in de
fence of the Union rnd the Constitution.
The committee reported the following reso
lutions which were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, we have assembled in our capaci
ty of American Freemen, to consider the con
dition of our country and resolve upon the
course we bhall pursue in the eventful politi
cal contest now upon us; and from the sounds
of discord and strifo that now roach us from a
distant Territory from the agitation and
clamor that prevades our whole land ; and from
the outrages perpetrated even in the halls of
our National Capitol, we have reason to appre
hend danger to our institutions, if not the
overthrow of our beloved Union ; therefore
1, Resolved that now as ever, we will rally
in support of our schools, our Sabbath, our
Bible, our Liberty and our L'nion; and that
upon this great National American platform,
with one united heart, we will go into the sec
ond and greatest strnggle, that has ever been
fought on the soil of f reedom.
2, Resolved that we will support Millard
Fillmore and A. J. Donelson, for President
and Vice President of tho United States, be
cause we believe them to be true patriots,
tried Statesmen and honest men, ardently de
votcf to the constitution and the Union, and
faithful to those great conservative American
principles, on which, alone both can be per
petuated. u, Re solve J that both the foreign and do
mestic policy cf the present Nation d Admin
istration, (and especially the unasked for re
peal of the "Missouri Compromise," causing
tne re-agitation of the vexed question of Sla
very) have beer of such a character as to ex
cite just apprehensions, that the continuance
of power in the hands of that party, will prove
disasterous to the country and to the Union,
and we therefore pledge ourselves to use ev
ery honorable exertion to prevent the election
of James Buchanan who stands pledged to the
same system of measures, and the same jdat
form of principles.
4, Resolved that we deprecate all secti.yial
contests for the Presidency, and are unwill
ing to recognize in an- manner, a party ex
clusively sectional, whether of the North or
of the South, believing that such contests are
calculated not only to alienate one section of
our country from another, but to weaken the
bonds of our Union, and ultimately endanger
its integrity and existence.
5, Resolved that it has become the duty of
all true Americans, in this era of trial and of
danger, to re-study tho great principles and
precepts, taught and practiced by the foun
ders of tho Republic, with which those now
promulgated by foreigners and seetionalists,
are in such direct and startling contrast.
C, Resolved that time has not obscured the
brightness of the precepts, or the course of
events impaired the title to reverence of the
Farewell Address of tho "Father of his
Cou:;ty" in which we have presented to us a
summary of those true principles of our gov
ernment, and that we regard it as the ark of
our National safty, and the sacrament of our
political faith, the solemn injunctions of w hich
cannot be dodbted without danger, or depart
ed from, except on the vergo of destruction;
that we more than ever cherish that portion
of this sacred testament, which says to us
"It is of infinite moment that yon should
properly estimate the immense value of your
National Union to your collective and indi
vidual happiness, you should cherish a cordial
habitual and immovable attachment to it, ac
customing yourselves to think and speak of it
as the palladium of your political saftv and
prosperity; watching for its preservation with
jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever
can suggest even a suspicion . that it can ever
be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon
the first dawning of every Attempt to alienate
one portion of our country from- the rest, or
to enfeeble the sacred tics which bind togeth
er its various parts."
7, Resolved That in the life and services
the integrity and the honor of Millard Fill
more, we have the most sacred assurances that
he will be faithful to our beloved Union and
maintain the equal, sovereign rights of all the
States that at home and abroad the govern
ment will be administered fairly, firmly and
purely, in conformity with American princi
ples, and to the honor and glory of the Amer
ican name.
8, Resolved That wc will devote ourselves
to the maintenance of our glorious Union, and
to the furtherance of the great principles of
our party, as our fathers did to the cause of
Independence, consecrating to their support
"our lives.onr fortunes,and onr sacred honors.'
9, Resolved that for tho better support .of
these principles, and the candidates of our
party, we form ourselves into an American
Fillmore & Doxelsox club, and that we will
recognise as members all who may subscribe
their names to tho platform of principles em
bodied in these resolutions, and pledge them
selves to the support of our candidates.
It), Resolved that the proceedings cf this
meeting, including these resolutions be pub
lished. Win. S. Bradley and II. B. Swoope were u
nauimously elected Representative and Sena
torial Delegates to the State Convention on
the 5th inst. to form nn electoral ticket. It
was on motion resolved, that the officers of
this meeting be declared the permanent board
of officers of the club. .
The meeting then adjourned to meet on the
Wednesday evenin? of the Court, in tho Dia
mond. The proceedings passed eff in the ut
most harmony, and it was in every particular,
tho most respectable meeting held in this bor
ough, during the present campaign.
G. W. RlIEEM, . .
L.R. Merrell, pecretanes.
Washington, July 20, 1850.
The House has passed the Arr.iv Arnronri-
aticn Bill, by a vote of 91 to 80, with Mr. Shcr-
man-s amendment appended, which ii as fol
lows :
"Provided, nevertheless, That no part of the
military force of the United States herein pro
vided for shall bo employed in aid of the en
forcement of the enactments of the alleged
Legislative Assembly of t he Territory of Kan
sas, recently assembled at Shawnee Tdissioi;.
until Congress shall have enacted either that
it was or was not a valid Legislative Assemblv,
chosen in conformity with the organic law by
the people of the said Territory. Jlnd provi
ded, That, until Congress shall have passed on
the validity of the said Legislative Assembly
of Kansas, it shall be the duty of the President
to use the military force in said Territory to
preserve the peace, suppress insurrection, re
pel invasion, and protect persons and proper
ty therein, and upon the national highways in
the State of Missouri, from unlawful seizures
and searches. .2nd be it further provided, That
the President is required to disarm the present
organized militia of the Territory of Kansas,
and recall all the United States arms therein
distributed, and to prevent armed men from
going into said Territory to disturb the public
peace, or aid in the enforcement or resistance
of real or pretended laws."
The bill as amended has gone to the Senate,
and tho responsibility is thrown upon that
branch to say whether snpjdies ball bo voted
to the Ar:uy or not. Not content with this,
the House wheeled into line under the lead
of Mr. Grow of Pa., and substituted Mr. Dunn's
Free Kansas bill for Mr. Glow's and put it
through to its final passage by a vote of 8S to
74, and that has gone to the Senate also.
Dunn, Haven, Harrison & Co. voted for it.
The bill repeals the Kansas-Nebraska Act, re
stores the Missouri Compromise, and provides
carefully for a thorough reorganization of the
Territory, and the Executive power and au
thority in and over it to be vested in a Gover
nor, wiio shall hold his office four years; tho
appointment of a Secretary and the election of
a Council and House of Representatives the
first election to be on the Tuesday after the
first Monday of November next ; "that all th
laws passed by the Legislative Assembly and
Governor shall bo submitted to the Congress
of the United States, and if disapproved, shall
be void and of no effect; and that all laws cr
protended laws, whether now existing or here
after enacted in said Territory, in contraven
tion of the provisions of this Act, shall be
void.
There is considerable speculation whether
the Senate will reject or adopt this Kansas bill.
Many believe that it will adopt the bill. If it
does not, the House will insist upon tho amend
ment to the Army Appropriation bill.
COL. PRESIONX'S RELIGION.
Some of the newspapers have started flie re
port and it has been industriously circulated,
with a view to injure the peoples candidate for
the Presidency, that he is a catholic. "A lie
will travel ten leagues, while truth is putting
on her boots;" but the annexed statement,
made by Mr. Nelson, a gentleman who was
raised and educated with Fremont, will fully
arrest this falsehood. It was published in the
New York Tribune of the 21st cf July last, and
is as follows :
"In the Morning Express of Saturday, Mr.
Brooks asserts that Col. Fremont received his
educatiou in a Roman Catholic Institute, in
Charleston, S. C, under the late Bishop Eng
land. Although opposed to the party which nom
inated him injustice to himself and the mem
ory of his mother I brand those assertions as
utterly false from beginning to end. Born ia
Charleston, I have known him from my earliest
days. He was my schoolmate for many years.
I was a member of the same Sunday School
class with him; and while he was a member"
of the Junior Class, of Charleston College, he
was my most intimate friend. 1 was standing
within a few feet of him w hen he was confirm
ed in the Protectant Episcopal Church bv the
Bishop of South Carolina. I can vouch that
he never had his foot inside of the Catholic In
stitute spoken of; ami I am sure he never
spoke to Bishop England ir his life, lie w as
bom i Protestant, educated a Protestant, and
has more of a Protestant principle about him
than the editor of the Express.
Respectful!) yours. J. G. NELSON."
IIolloway,s Ointment and Pills a certain cure
for Scald Head. Henry, 12, Maria, 10, and
John Ames, 9, of Apalachicola, Florida, were
all three affected with this disagreeable mala
dy ; Maria in particular was in a wretched
plight with it, and although there were many
remedies tried, yet the malady did not seem
to decrease, indeed tho disease spread itself
all over the surface of the head, to the great
annoyance of the parents & discomfiture of the
child ; tho blood of tho others was equally im
pure. At last tho parents put the three under
a course of Holloway's Ointment and Pills,
which cured them all in the space of nineteen
days. Their health lias since considerably
improved. These remedies aro wonderfully
efficacious in all diseases of the skin.
CLIPPINGS AND SCRIBBLINGS.
Acceptable tho basket of apples from onr
friend Jacob Irwin. Such presents arc always
in order. ,
Congress has passed a joint resolution fix
ing the ISth of August as the day of final ad
journment. Johs W. Geart of this State has been ap
pointed Governor of Kansas, in the place of
Shannon, removed.
A woman and five children were burnt ta
death at Boston on Tuesday, and a fireman kil
led by a wall falling.
J Barclay Uardivg, Esq., has taken chargo
of the Philadelphia Daily Times. It is a strong
and ably conducted Fremont paper.
Brooks axd Keitt, who had resigned their
scats in Congress, havo been re-elected at tho
special elections held in their districts to fill
the vacancies.
The steamer Emjdre Stato exploded her
boilers in Long Island Sound on the night of
the 2Glh ult. Seven persons were killed and
fifteen wounded.
A Canadian- journal says "the United States
has about run its race as a republic. Its De
mocracy is ripening into anarchy, the fruits of
which will inevitably be despotism of some
sort or other."
Srn.L tuey Come ! The Ionia, MiehiganGV-
zette, and the Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Tribune,
both Democratic papers, have liaulcd down
the Buchanan and Brcckenridge and put up
the Fremont and Dayton flag.
Last week, as Mr. John R. Brown, of Hun
terdon, N.J., was getting upon the cars of the
New York and Erie Railroad, at Jersey City,
his pocket was picked of 2,940. It is most
ly in $20 bills on the New Jersey lank.
The Hudson Star says a decision has just
been rendered by Judge Mead against the le
gality of the practice cf the Erie Railroad
Company or charging an extra price for tick
ets when not obtained at the station office.
Waruex Couxty. The Republicans of War
ren have selected Hon. C. B. Curtis as their
choice for Congress, and placed in nomination
G. W. Scofield for Senator, S. P. Johnson for
Judge, Thomas Struthcrs for Assembly and E.
Cowan, for Treasurer.
Maxitacti re of a Nose. A child was born
in Paris lately without any nose. M. Maison
n ouvc, of Paris, took the little lady in hand
when she was seven months old, and having
male her insensible of pain by means of
chloroform, cut such flaps so skillfully from
the face, that when twisted into position and
perfectly healed they made a very respectable
and good looking nose.
The Albany Journal gives the following idea
of Southern logic": "Rust beats Mr.Grecly, to
convince him that bis resolution ought to bavo
been adopted by the House ; Herbert shoots a
waiter, to prove that be is entitled to break
fast after eleven o'clock ; Biooks pounds Mr.
Sumner on the head, to establish the fact that
his State is prosperous, and his uncle a gen
tleman ; Keitt puts pistols in his pocket, t
satisfy the public that South Carolina bad
more troops in the Revolution than Massachu
setts ; and Pate, with five assistants, attacks a
newspaper correspondent ri et armit, by way
of refutation of the charge that he is a "Ruf
fian'!" Nicaragua. We learn that Gen. Walker
was inaugurated President on the 12th ult.
He received 14,000 out of a total of 21,000
votes cjst.-.Sras still held possession of Le
on, and w-asgirining strength by the desertion
of the natives from Walker. A league of t! o
Northern Central American States was believ
ed to exist ; and an invasion of Nicaragua
looked for at the close of the rainy season.
Walker's situation is evidently desperate, and
the worst feature of it is that the enthusiasm
in hi.s favor has very sensibly declined in the
United States. He needs both men and mo
ney, but is not likely to have the want sup
plied by sympathizers in this country.
Arrison, the Torpedo man, has been tiled
the third time at Cincinnati, for murder, and
the jury brought in a verdict for manslaugh
ter ! This is a mere mockery of justice, and
is calculated to throw discredit upon trials by
jury altogether. The jury in this case should
be furnished with a diploma for stupidity. If
Arrison was guilty of any crime, it was that
of murder. If he planned the scheme, and
sent the hellish instrument to his victims, ho
was guilty of deliberate, malicious murder.
If he did not, he was not guilty of manslaugh
ter. We are glad to hear he is again to be put
on trial for bis life, for the murder of his other
victim, having only been tried for the mnrder
of one, which has produced this absurd ver
dict. Pills. Gazette.
Martued On the SIst July, by the Rev. A-.
Crowell, Mr. IIexry Nftf to MIssMelcesa
Hckly, all of Cambria county.
Married On July 21st by Rev. J. W. El
liott, Mr. Jamks P. Farwkll to Miss IIoxora
M. O'Nkil of Pike township.
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ATTORXET.S AT LA If,
W ill attend proaiptlv to all legal and other bu
siie.3 c-iiirusto'l to their care iu Clearfield and ad
joining counties.
Clcarfu-M, Aa;. 6. 1353. t
TOTICE Tho Fillmore and Donelson elnb
11 No. I. will meet at the Court House on Thurs
day evening the 7th i::st.. ntT; o'clock. A o-en-
ernl attend.inee is requested, as business of im-
jimi liiicu n ioikj trans aotea.. illUs. SJltA Trest.
(- W. l!i:gK?r, Sec y. Acg. 6. I8."6.
7VOTICF.. A meeting of the Directors of tho
1 Tl Cienrfiold Kail lioad Company, will he held
nt tho office of the Treasuror Josiah W. Smith, in
the Horongb of Clearfield on Tuesday the 19th of
Aug. (Court Week) a; 1 o'clock T. M. A general
attenlan.M. i rrqur$tcd. JAS. T. HALE l'rcst.
Ahj, 0th ISift.
All those who havo not paid their first Irstfcl
merit due on their slock Euhscribed, ere requested
to come forward aiid pav the Fame.
Aug. 6. Ji'SIAU W. SMITH. Treai
rjlEMPER ANCE MEETING The Weeh
JB. ingtocian Temperance Society, will bold its
next quarterly meeting at the Court House, on
Monday evening, August 18th, at early candia
lighting. Th public are invited to attend.
Aug o PHJLIP OULICH, Tret't.
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