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BY S; B. BOW.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1856.
VOL. 2.-JT0. 52.
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SUMMER DAYS.
In Summer, when the days were long,
We walked together in the wood ;
Our heart was light, our step was strong,
Sweet flattering were there in our flood,
In summer, when the day were long.
We loved, and yet wo knew it not,
For loving seemed like breathing then ;
We found a heaven in every spot ;
Saw angels, too,- in all good men ;
And dreamed of God in grove and grot.
In Summer, when the" days are long,
Alone I wander, mnse alone ;
I see her not but that old song.
Under the fragrant wind is blown,
In Summer, when the days aro 1 jng.
Alone I wander in the wood ;
lut one fair spirit hears my sighs ;
And half I see. so glad nnd good,
The honest daylight of her eyes.
That charmed mo under earlier skies.
In Summer, when the days are !ong,
I love her as we loved of old ;
My heart is light, my step is strong,
For love brings back thoeo hours of gold,
In Summer, when the days are long.
WniG AND TORY.
A True Story of the Bevolntion.
It was a chilly, dreary afternoon in Novem
ber, and the winds whistled about the little
cottage where the remnant of Colonel Harper's
scattered family drew around the hearth, from
which the blazing firclogs sent forth unwonted
cheerfulness. It was long since Madam Har
per and the fair Mary had seen so happy an
hour. .Never since the news came that the
stalwart man to whom they looked for protec
tion, to whom they clang with mingled love
and reverence, had been barborously murder
ed at the close of a disastrous skirmish with
the royalists on the Santce. The family had
some time before this sad event removed from
their plantation on the river to a small estate
in the more remote interior, where they would
be less exposed to the malice of their enemies,
to whom the name of the Harpers was suffi
ciently obnoxious. And when their prime
stay was thus torn from them, the widow and
orphan felt doubly desolate in their solitude.
But young Master Frank was now at home
for a short space, recruiting from the effects
of a severe wound received in one of the re
cent battles. lie had come with the glad ti
dings of victory; and a promotion, well de
served, was made more grateful by the special
commendajion of his general. So the genial
spirits of the soldier communicated themselves
to all around him : the mother and sister smil
ed at his camp jests, and were never weary of
listening to his stories of martial adventure.
Old Caaar and Dinah also came in for their
baro of social enjoyment ; and the few sables
hich the little establishment still retained
participated in the common happiness, now
that, to uso their own words, "Mass' Frank
come home real Congress cap'n." Notwith
standing the outer dreariness of a chill No
vembcr afternoon, all was pleasant withindoors.
As a fresh blast made the fastenings of the
shutter rattle, Captain Frank would hitch his
seat nearer to the fire. 'J
"Ah, my dears," beT"
not like that Marion art
jay, -'would I
ilieis could be
slshallbc! But
sheltered this night as'WU'as
I dare say that the General is at this very mo
ment, making bivouac at the toot of some oak
or hickory may-be at the edge of a swamp,
or impenetrable mountain jungle. Eh, and
even our friend Gaston, Miss Mary, may very
probably lodge this night on 'the cold, cold
ground,' as the roundelay has it."
"And if it be so," replied the black eyed
sister, "it will not have been for the first time;
nor will Charles Gaston be the first to com
plain." "llo, ho, my lady," rejoined Frank, laugh
ingly, "pray take no offence at my remark !
I meant no insinuation against the young gen
tleman's hardihood. I am well aware that if
he should suffer serious injury, there is a cer
tain warm-hearted relative of mine who would
be much more ready to complain than ho
would be himself. But, then, don't seek to
retaliate ! I will give you the honors of the
field, and retire from the contest at once. By
the way, has anything been heard lately of that
rascally neighbor of ours, that once was, Tom
Dashwood ?"
"Hush, Frank t" exclaimed his inother,with
an involuntary uplifting of her finger ; while
Mary, with evident discomposure, murmured
something about affairs in the kitchen, and
hurried out.
Frank stared at his mother in surprise.
"What means all this agitation ?" he inqui
red. "I have otf.y asked a simple question,
hich methinks scaruj demands such emotion
from either yon or Mary . j know that the fel
low once pretended some uncouth attentions
to her, but what of that V
. "You mistake, Frank," replug his mother.
It must be, then, that you are n0rant of
what we have lately heard of this mats villai
ny. You know not, then, that he is tu,Ught
to have been the cause of your father's deat.?
"Good Heaven 1 no ! It is the first inti
mation of the sort that I have had. But how?"
' "You arc doubtless aware," answered his
mother, "that the Dashwoods never bore a
good reputation for honesty in their dealings.
Some years since this Thomas Dashwood was
implicated in a fraudulent conveyance of es
tate ; and your father was employed as a ma
gistrate in ferreting out and punishing the
crime. It was just about this time, also, that
Dashwood received a rebuff in his rather ob
trusive attentions to Mary. In the law busi
ness, he succeeded in getting quite clear, as
there was no legal evidence sufficient to prove
the connection between himself and his prin
cipals., But the odium of fraud clung to him
notwithstanding ; and this, joined with the ab
surd disappointment at .Mary's treatment of
him, are supposed to have filled him with ven
om against the whole family. Against Gaston
also, he entertains the same spite. I do not
know the precise agency which he had in pro
ducing our misfortunes, but I pm told that he
spread the report that your father had treated
certain tory families with great cruelty ; and
also that, having professed allegiance to the
British at Charleston, he had, nevertheless,
taken up arms against them,, once more and
that, too, on the very first opportunity. Doubt
less he managed as insiduously as possible ;
but the quarter from which the story reached
me, and what I know of the man besides,
leaves me little doubt. .Nay," she continued,
casting a timorous glance at the securities
which now barred both window and door from
the outer darkness, "such is the character of
Dashwood, that did I suspect him to be within
possible reach of this dwelling, I should not
feel at case a single moment."
"The hypocrite ! the satanic scoundrel!"
said the captain to himself, as, with clenched
hands and close set teeth, he walked the room.
"O, that I had but known this before !'.'
One or two blows, as of a person asking ad
mittance, were heard on the outside of the
door. Frank went towards it. "Who goes
there ?" he asked. A musket was instantly
discharged from without; and Frank received
a slight wound, stepped quickly back, while
the door shivered beneath the axes of the as
sailants. "My son .' my son ! exclaimed the terrified
mother, throwing her arms around the captain.
The latter, about to grasp his rifle, paused ;
he saw the uselessncss of attempting defence.
Therefore, he would so conduct, that the pas- i
sions of the unopposed assailants might, at the
least, reach no further than himself.
"Ila, good folk " cried Dashwood, who tho
next moment bounded over the threshold.
"Good evening to you Mistress Harper ;
and you, captain ; and you, Miss Mary," he
added, turning to the poor girl, who stood
breathless as marble at the further extremity
of the room. "An unexpected meeting, I pre
sume, on your part, but none the less rejoiced
to see me. Is it not so, my dear ?"
Mary Harper shuddered ; and though sho
attempted to speak, the sounds died away on
her lips as she glanced on Dashwood, and
those by whom he was surrounded.
"What, so overjoyed that you can't even
speak to me,niy dear ? If you but knew what
a long way I have come to meet you. More
than that, I have brought the ring, and a par
son to see that it is fitted rightly. Of course
you will not .refuse me. No, no, that would ;
be impossible. How lortunate, too, that Cup
tain Frank is here to witness the wedding !"
A choking lump was struggling in Frank's
throat during this monologue; and it was per
haps as well that in the meanwhile his arms
were firmly held by two brawny ruffians, or
they might not have been able to restrain his
hot southern blood within the bounds of pru
dence. There was a savage exultation about
Dashwood, which, coupled with the recent in
formation received by young Harper, made
the blood of the latter fairly seethe in his
veins. Nevertheless, ho so far controlled
himself as to say :
"Dashwood, if you have any disposition to
return a fav or, remember the fight at Moun
tain Creek, and act accordingly. Had it not
been for me, you would not have lived to be
here. Take our goods and what little money
wc have, but spare ourselves!"
"By Heaven !" retorted Dashwood, with a
sullen fury in his face, "I should think some
lord was giving us his commands ! Look ye,
Master Frank Harper, I do mean to return the
favor. I want neither to haim yon, nor to
take any of your rascally possessions unless
it may be a glass or two of wine, and such odd
silver as you may wish to make a present of to
my fellows.. Eut there is one thing, Master
Frank, that I am determined on; and that is,
that Miss Mary shall consent to be my wife
this ver' eve or else there'll bo such a muss
as was never heaid before in this house! I
have brought parson Jones "
But here Frank's passion overmastered his
caution ; and shaking ofl his sinewy guards as
though they were children, he threw himself
on Dashwood, and bore him to the floor. The
latter was quickly relieved by his companions,
but not before his swarthy face become still
darker from tho grip which Frank had placed
on his thre at.
"Seize, seize the scoundrel !" cried Dash
wood, as soon as ho was able to articulate.
"lie shall swing for it as I live ! The rope,
Oakman! the rope!"
This was forthwith produced ; and regard
's of tho piteous entreaties of tho women,
Dwhwood knotted the' cord with the readiness
of at.1(jej,t) aRd cast it round the neck of the
prisone. whose arms were now tightly strap
ped behiu jlira An end of tho rope was
thrown over . beam whicn ran above.
-"Thers, Miss.rary) said Dashwood, coolly,
"don't take on sM ijc isn't dead yet; and
for your sake I will t h5m g0j notwithstand
ing the injury he has dvCi and tno morc which
he intended to do mcTorovidcd however,
you 'do me the faior of aUcMin. ffiC with the
parson j-onder. Here, parson Jones, come
hither !"
A man of vulgar appearance his face beto
kening the habit of constant potations now
came forward, book in hand, and wearing a
faded surplice which hung in disorder from his
shoulders.
"Look at him," exclaimed Dashwood, with
an air of ruffianly effrontery. "I call all per
sons present to witness that this is a true Line
parson, (Giles Jones by name,) whom I have
brought with me all the way from Scragg's
Creek, believing that I should want his servi
ces. So, Parson Jones, spout away : here am
I, and here is Miss Mary, who doubtless is wil
ling enough, only a litt le coy. Oakman, stand
by the rope's. Now then, my dear, you had
best be pliable, or your brother will have to
swing for it !"
He essayed to take her hand, but though
faint and scarce conscious of what she did,
she thrust it away with instinctive disgust.
"String him up, Oakman !" exclaimed
Dashwood, his face inflamed with rage. "Up
to the rafters with hiia I I'll not be fooled in
this way !"
Oakman was in the act of obeying, when the
women, with the resolution of despair, threw
themselves in his way. While he rudely
struggled against their frantic efforts, the door
flew open, and a score or morc of men rushed
into the-room, overthrowing Dashwood and
his murderous tool, and disarming their mates.
Frank was released, and .Mary found herself
in the arms of Gaston, who, in a few words
told her how he had been apprised by accident
of Dashwood's probable designs, which he had
thus barely been able to prevent. Dashwood
was bound with the rope which he had provi
ded for another, and carried to the camp of
General Surnpter, who lay about fifteen miles
from the dwelling of tho Harpers. Here ho
was placed before a court-martial, charged
with murder in cold blood, and also with de
serting the continential flag, under which he
had at one time taken a commission. The ac
cusations were proved, and he was executed
forthwith the country being well rid of a bru
tal and faithless ruffian. Mary and Gaston
were married near the close of tho war, und
settled on an estate which ho recently purcha
sed near tne Ilarper plantation. Eattvu's no
torial. Foreign News. Recent arrivals from Eu
ropo brought news to the 23d. The British
Parliament would probably be prorogued on
the 2Gth July. The London Times intimates
that the propositions submitted by Mr. Dallas
for the settlement of the Central American
question are likely to prove satisfactory to the
British government. They propose the estab
lishment of San Juan as a free port under the
sovereignty of Nicaragua, reserving to Costa
Rica the right of traffic through it, and sucJr
portions of the river San Juan as are necessa
ry ; the concentration of the Mosquito sava
ges within definite limits, clear of Jthe mouth
of the river and town, but guaranteeing the
payment cf their annuity ; tho restoration of
the Bay Islands to Honduras, and Belize to
remain a British possession, with IS dog. oO
min. latitude as its territorial limit. Accounts
from Spain say that the insurrection had been
effectually crushed at Madrid, where O'Don
Jkll had made preparations for the outbreak
by surrounding the city with 18,003 troops.
Iu the conflict 200 of the insurgents were kill
ed. The Cortes had removed to Arragon,
where under Gen. Enfante they intended, to
make war upon Queen Isabella and O'Donncll.
Serious disturbances have broken out at Cas
scna, in the Papal States, and at Naples. Nu
merous arrests have been made. The difficul
ties between England and Brazil were attract
ing attention in Parliament.
The New Locoroco Doctrine, promulgated
at Cincinnati and endorsed by the Buchanan
Union savers, that Congress has no jurisdic
tion over slavery in the national territories
"because it is a domestic institution, will yet,
if carried out, lead to terrible results. Mar
riage js also a domestic institution, and if
slaveholders have the right to introduce their
property anywhere iu our territories, theu
have the polygamists of Utah, with their do
zens of wives, the right of introducing polyga
my. ' The doctrine is monstrous, and Chris
tian men, aye and women too, should pause
and reflect deeply before they lend themselves
to such political prostitution.
Ed Jacket took part with the Americans
in tbe war of 1812, and becomming attached
to a colonel who was ordered on a distant ser
vice, took his farewell of him in the following
speech : "Brother, I hear that you are going
to a place called Governor's Island. I hope
youwill be a governor yourself. I understand
you white people think children a great bles
sing, I hope you may have a thousand. And
above all, I hope, wherever you may go, you
maf never find whiskey more than two shill
ing a quart."
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Xaxsas. Wo have advices from Leaven
w4th to the SOth ult. Col. Lane and his com
pany (numbering, wo think, 400 men) had not
cniered Kansas territory. Gen. Smith threat
eii them with martial law if they do." The
territorial authorities were commencing to
kry taxes, but both parties refuse to pay, and
tKuWc is apprehended.
CONGRESSIONAL DUELS.
The recent escapades of Mr. Brooks, of
Soutli Carolina, have given an unusual degree
of interest to the snlject of duelling, and the
New York Times has revived the recollections
of some of tho more celebrated Congressional
-affairs of honor. Dnels have been fought by
members of Congress from the very commence
ment of our existence as a nation, but these
aflairs have been much less frequent than is
generally supposed to be the case. In fact all
the Congressional challenges that have been
sent, from the meeting of the first Congress ia
Philadelphia down to the affair between Brooks
and Bur'.ingame, do not exceed twenty-five in
number not half so many as have been fought
by members cf tho British Parliament.
The first duel by a member of Congressj on
record, was that between Button Gwinnett and
Jackl and Mcintosh, in 1777. They were both
of the State of Georgia, though Gwinnett on
ly was a member of Congress. He was a sign
er of the Declaration of Independence, and his
antagonist was an officer of tho army. The
dispute was of a personal nature, and the duel
can hardly be called a Congressional encoun
ter, as it did not grow out of any act of either
party connected with politics. The next af
fair of honor in which a member of Congress
was implicated, occurred in 1707, and was
strictly Congressional, as it was occasioned by
words spoken in debate. The parties were
Thomas Blount, representative from North
Carolina, and Judge Thatcher, from Massachu
setts. The . challenger was Blount, who took
oilence t a verbal criticism of an expression
ho used, by Thatcher, who, on receiving the
invitation to fight, declined giving an answer
until he could write to his wife and obtain her
consent; and there the matter stopped. Sev
en years afterwards, in 1804, Senator Jackson,
of Georgia, was wounded in a duel with Col.
Watkins; the cause of the duel was political,
but not a Congressional quarrel. In the year
previous, Jonathan Dayton, a Senator from
New Jersey, sent a challenge to Dc Witt Clin
ton, then a Senator from New York, on ac
count of an offensive remark of the latter in a
debate,' for which he mado an apology that
was read in the Senate. Inthe year lSio
General Mason, a Senator from Virginia, was
killed In a duel, by his relative, McCarty, also
a Virginian ; but though the cause of the duel
was political, it did not originate in Congress.
The next affair of honor, in which a mem
ber of Congress was a party, "was the celebra
ted affair of McDullic, of South Carolina, and
Col. Cummings,- of Georgia, which came off
in the year 1822. .The famous affair between
Henry Clay and John Randolph occurred four
years after the last, ia 1S2G. The next year
Mr. Vance, an ex-member of Congress from
North Carolina, was killed in a duel by Mr.
Carson, a member from the same State. Ten
years afterwards, in IS37, Mr. Dromgoole, a
member of Congress from Virginia, was mor
tally wounded in a duel w ith Mr. Dugger, of
the same State. In 1SS8, tho still freshly re
membered meeting took place between Jona
than Cilly, of Maine, and William J. Graves,
of Kentucky, both members of Congress, in
which the former was killed. This tragical af
fair created a feeling in the public mind so re
pugnant to the duello that it was not until the
year 1S-j1 that another affair of honor grcw
out of a Congressional quarrel, when Mr.
Stanley, of North Carolina, and Mr. Inge, of
Alabama, met and exchanged shots without
doing each other any personal injury, and then
explained and became friends. Two years af
terwards, Mr. Inge was the second of Senator
Gwinn, of California, who fought with Mr. Mc
Coikle, a representative of tho same State.
Though members of Congress, the duel grew j
out of expressions used by one of the parties
at a race course in California, where the meet
ing took place. In 1S54 the affair between
Mr. Cutting, of New York, and Mr. Brccken
ridge, the Democratic candidate for the Vice
Presidency, occurred, in which no meeting
took place from tho difficulty of deciding
which party had given the challenge. The
next affair of the kind that occurred is the ono
which now engrosses the public attention, nnd
which, taken in all its aspects, is certainly the
most remarkable, and the least creditable to
one of the parties, of all tho affairs of honor
in w hich members of Congress have been en
gaged, of w hich we have any know ledge. Du
ring the past eighty years there have been but
few hostile meeting between our leading poli
ticians, considering the virulence and strong
sectional feelings that have existed, while
there has hardly leen an eminent British
statesman who has not been engaged in a duel.
Pitt, Canning, Fox, Curran, O'Connell, Peel,
D'Israeli, Castlereagh, and many more of the
leading statesmen of England, have had their
little affairs of honor, but our eminent public
men have been singularly free from such de
grading encounters.
Buchanan asd the Compromise In a
speech delivered by Mr. Barksdale, of Missis
sippi, week before last, he announced to the
House of Representatives that he was author
ized to say, if Mr. Buchanan was elected Pres
ident he would veto any bill which Congress
might pats contemplating the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise, or tho principle which it
recognized. , There is a strong conviction pre
vailing that secret pledges have been given by
or lor Mr. Buchanan, to tho South, covering,
if possible, even larger concessions than those
contained in the Cincinnati platform.
Black Hepvblicaxs. Some of the lower
grades cf Democratic papers style Fremont
and Dayton-the "Black" Eepublican candi
dates. We will submit a simple statement of
facts, and leave the public to decide whether
the epithet "black" would not be more ap
propriately applied to the Democratic party :
FTerapnt and Dayton are pledged to favor
tho admission of Kansas under the Constitu
tion already formed which Constitution pro
hibits the admission of negroes into the State
cither free or slave. Consequently under that
Constitution, the State would be forever con
secratcd'lo an unmixed white population.
While, on the other hand, the Cincinnati Plat
form allows slave owners to carry their ne
groes there in droves, and if that Platform is
sustained by the people, and the expulsion of
the Free-State settlers approved of, the black
race will soon become a permanent institution
there. The success of the Republican ticket
would tend to make it a White State while
the success of the Democratic ticket will, in
all probability, make it a Hack or slave State
Now, to which party does the epithet "&'ac.V"
more appropriately belong ? Ex.
A Capital Stout. The Hawkcye and Iowa
Patriot tells a capital temperance story.
A farmer belonging somewhere in Iowa,
bought a keg of whiskey and carried it home.
Well knowing that his better half occasionally
took a "drop or so" if it came in her way, and
now and then would have a drop at all events,
he then endeavored to conceal the keg from
her by suspending it in the barn, somewhere
near the ridge pole.
The eagle eyed, or rather "hawkeyed" wife
got sight of it, however, and resolved upon
obtaining a taste. It was impossible for her
to reach it. At length she hit Upon the fol
lowing expedient, which worked to a charm.
Taking down her husband's rifle, she put in
a charge with a good ball, and taking deliber
ate aim at the keg, tapped it with a ball, and
brought down the whiskey at the first shot '.
Having a tub previously prepared, she was
thus enabled to catch all, without losing a
drop, and left her poor husband to woor r-r
t.j onuer at tnc loss of his whiskey.
CtTTixd it Thick. The Yankees are gener
ally supposed to possesi more acuteness than
any other people on the face of the globe, yet
the following story will show that some of the
Germans possess this faculty to a remarkable
degree. On one occasion a German residing
in the country came into Buffalo with hams to
sell. Among the rest, he sold a dozen or two
to a German hotel-keeper, who afterwards, in
demonstrating tho acuteness of his country
man over the Yankee, said :
''You may talk pout your tarn Yankees
scheeting, but a Dutchman scheeted me much
petter as a Yankee never was. He prings me
some hams dey was canvass nice, so petter
as you never see. I buy one, two dozen all
so nice and if you believe do scheet was
so magnificent dat I eat r-ix, seven, . eight of
dem tarn hams before I found out dey was
made of wood !"
A Virginian thus sums up the political his
tory of "Pennsylvania's favorite Son
"Mr. Buchanan has been for a bank and
against it for the tariff of IS 12 and against it
e-for the Maysvillo and Cumberland roads,
and against internal improvements for dis
tribution of the proceeds of the public lands
and against it for "squatter sovereignty"
now and ngainst it iu 181S for the principle of
the Wilmot proviso hitherto, and against it
now (because it clashes with the "squatter
sovereignty" platform built at Cincinnati.)
thanking his God that his fortune was cast in
a State not cursed with slavery, and now the
champion of Southern institutions but, above
all, for Washington's policy of non-intervention
with the affairs of foreign countries, and
yet tlie author of the Ostend manifesto !"
The Hon. James Myers, ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Ohio, has left the Democratic party
and announced his determination to support
Fremont. For thirty years, Mr.Myers has ad
hered to and voted with the Democratic party.
He received his political education from. such
men as Silas Wright and A. C. Flagg, and was
distinguished as a politician while yet a young
rrian residing in the State of New York.
Twenty years ago he removed to the State of
Ohio, and from that day to this has been one
of the most prominent Democrats in the State,
holding offices of high grade, and exerting a
political influence second to no other man vl
his party.
A man named Got! waa killed in Johnstown,
Cambria county, Ta., on the 2Sth July, by an
other named Potts. They had been drinking
together in a restaurant, and after paying their
bill, fell to boxing each other, in apparently
good humor. Potts finally struck Gofl'sothat
he fell. Potts and some- others present, after
smoking awhile, went out, Goff still lying on
the floor. The bar-keeper then approached
GoQ'with a light, and was amazed to find him
dead ! Potts, who was overwhelmed with a
iaazement on hearing the result of what ho
considered so trifling an incident, has been
taken into custody.
Frkmoxtis Martlasd. Tho Cecil Demo
crat states that a Fremont electoral ticket is
to be formed in Maryland, and that Francis T.
Blair, Esq., is to be one of the electors at large.
HELP HE, C ASIUS, OK I f
The Albany Evening Journal says that the
Buchananites are calling for "Help !" Tho
loud pulsations of the public heart for Free
dom and Fhf.moxt alarm them. Hence the call
for money, embodied in the following circular
forwarded to us by- Post Master who receiv
ed it : (r-BiVATE.)
To the Fast Master cf .
Dzar Sir At a private consultation of tho
leading Democrats of the Union held in tMs
city, immediately upon the adjournment of
Cincinnati Convention, it was recommended
that each Postmaster be requested to contri
bute an amount proportionate to the receipts
of their respective offices. Upon examining
the returns of the Poet Office Department it
found that your proportion will bo three dol
lars, which you will confer a favor-ly remit
ting by return of mail.
The principal object in making these collec
tions is to throw Into the doubtful States aa
immense quantify of ?pccche8 and documents
in favor of the policy cf the Democratic par
ty, and also to assist in defraying tho expen
ses of speakers that will be employed during"
the coming canvass. You will therefore per
ceive that every Post Master who wishes for.a
continuance of his official position will find it
for his interest to use every effort to bring a
bout so desirable a result.
KTlYst Masters aro appealed to because
they are considered tho representatives of tha
party in their respective localities, and being
the rccii'ients of the patronage of tho Admin
istration, it is but just that they should com
ply with its demand.
Please send us the name of some reliable
leading Democrat in your town whom we can
confer with hereafter.
Address, Perbis M. Baowx, Jun.
Washington City, (D.C.) ISjG.
Instead cf sending the "threo dollars" to
Washington, as requested, tho gentleman ad
dressed sent it to us to pay for ten copies of
the Campaign paper! This may be takca
as a significant 'sign of the times."
Fremont ix ffi;1 n-
tnc Vonaliluiion, a calm and unexcitable print,
says, that it is frequently interrogated in re
gard to its views of the prospects of Fremont
in Pennsylvania, and adds, we believe firmly
that he can carry the State, but do not assume,
to give figures for any but that portion in which
wo are intimately acquainted with the state of
popular feeling. In Erie county we shall cer
tainly have 2000 majority ; Crawford not less
than 1300, and possibly 1800 ; Warren over
500 ; in Venango 500 ; Mercer probably 700 ;
Lawrence 1000 ; Butler 700 ; Beaver 600 ; Al
legheny 4500 ; Westmoreland is confidently
claimed lor Fremont we name no majority ;
Washington S90; Fayette 600; Arnistrom;
S00; Indiana 2000; Jefferson 300; Clarion and
Greene w ill probably give majorities for Bu
chanan. The counties named cave Pollock
lGjjOO majority, and according to our esti
mate, which is certainly moderate, they will
give Fremont not less than 17,500. All the
indications are that our majorities will greatly
exceed, in many counties, the figures we Lavo
claimed. If the campaign is conducted with
the energy and enthusiam which the signs in
dicate, there is little doubt that tho counties
embraced in our list will roll up a clean ma
jority cf 20,OW. It mast bo come in mini
that the counties whero the Republican gains
arc largest, have always been heavily Demo
cratic. In the same territory, Pierce had near
ly C,000 majority in 18-52.
SritL they Cojie ! A Voice from Bcchax
as'jHome! The Independent Whig, of Aug
ust oih, printed in Lancaster City, Pa., con
tains a letter from C. M. Johnston renouncing
the Cincinnati platform and Buchanan, and de
claring his intention to yield a hearty support
to John C. Fremont. Mr. Johnson is the cel
ebrated Drumorc shoemaker, who has address
ed hundreds of Democratic meetings, and has
heretofore been engaged as a speaker over tho
State. He was a member of the Buchanan
County Committee of Lancaster, and his let
ter Is addressed to the chairman, resigning his
post. Ho says for the last twenty years he vo
ted the Democratic ticket in Lancaster coun
ty, but as the Cincinnati Convention had re
pudiated the Democracy of Jefferson and Jack
son, by endorsing the sectional measures of tho
Pierce Administration, and adopted a plat
form destructive in its character to the whole
country, he cannot consistently support cither
it or its nominees. The Whig says Mr. John
stou is but one cf scores of "old line Demo
crats" in Lancaster county, who repudiate tho
Cincinnati platform and its nominees.
Green Coax Omelet. The following recipo
for this scasonablo delicacy is said to be ex
cellent: Grata the coin from twelve ears of
corn, boiled, beat up five eggj, tir them th
the corn, season with pepper and salt, and fry
the mixtuio brown, browning the top with a
hot shovel. . If fried in email cakes, witu a.
little Hour and milk stirred in to form a bat
tel, it is very nice.
Another Democratic Bolter. Ho"
Delahay, a delegate to the Cincinnati
tion from the State of Illinois, made !Pvt "
at a Fremont end Dayton meeting, -M
ruma, Pike county, on tho ISth ult. 8a'lt
he attended the Cincinnati Convention, anu
was in favor of Mr. Buchanan, bat, when tic
saw him swallow tho platform, ho bolted, win
now advocated the election of rcniom.