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BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1-3, 18-5C.
YOL. 2.-jtO. 52.
SUMMER DAYS.
In Summer, when the days were Ion
He walked together in the wood ;
Uur heart was light, our step was strong
Sweet fluttering were, there in our flood,
In summer, when the days were long.
, We loved, and yet wo knew it not,
nr , ,ovin 8med like breathing then ;
o found a heaven in every spot ;
Saw angola, too. in all good men ;
And dreamed of God in grove and grot.
In Summer, when the days are long,
Alone I wander, muse alone ;
I sco her not but that old song.
Under the fragrant wind is blown,
In bummer, when the days are long.
Alono I wander in the wood ;
But one fair spirit hears my sighs;
And half I see, so glad and good,
The honest daylight of her eyes.
That charmed me under earlier skies.
In Summer, when the days are long,
I love her as we loved of old ;
My heart is light, my step is strong,
For lov-e brings back thoso hours of gold,
In Summer, when the days are long.
WHIG AND TORY.
A True Story of the Eevolution.
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 flrelogs sent forth unwonted
cheerfulness. It was long since Madam Har
per and the fair Mary Lad seen so happy an
lionr. Never since the news came that the
stalwart man to whom they looked for protec
tion, to whom they clung with mingled love
and reverence, had been barborously murder
ed at the close of a disastrous skirmish with
the royalists on the Santcc. 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
commendation 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 Ca;aar and Dinah also came in for their
share of social enjoyment; and tho few sables
which the little establishment still retained
participated in the common happiness, now
that, to use their own words, "Mass' Frank
come home real Congress cap'n." Notwith
standing the outer dreariness of a chill No
vember afternoon, all was pleasant within doors.
As a fresh blast made the fastenings of the
shutter rattle, Captain Frank would hitch his
seat nearer to the fire.
"Ah, my dears," he would say, "would I
not like that Marion and his soldiers could be
sheltered this night as well as I shall be ! But
I dare say that tho General is at this very mo
ment, making bivouac at the foot 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 tho 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." ------
"Ho, ho, my lady," rejoined Frank, laugh
ing' "pray take no offence at my remark !
" I meant no insinuation against the young gen
tleman's hardihood. I am well aware that if
lie should suffer serious injury, there is a ccr-
tain warm-hearted relative of mine who would
bo 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 tho contest at once. By
the way, has anything been heard lately of that
rascally neighbor of ours, that oucc was, Tom
Dashwood 1" .
"Hush, Frank !" exclaimed his mother,with
an involuntary uplifting of her fiDger ; 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 7" he inqui
red, "I have only asked a simple question,
which mcthinks scarce demands such emotion
from either you or Mary. I know that the fel
low once pretsnded some uncouth attentions
to her, but what of that 7"
. "lou mistake, Frank," replied his mother.
"It must be, then, that you aio ignorant of
what wc have lately heard of this man's villai
ny. You know not, then, that he is thought
to have been the cause of your father's death?"
"Good Heaven ? no ! It is the first inti
mation of the sort that I have had. But how?"
"You are doubtless aware," answered his
mother, "that the Dashwocds 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 tho
crime. It was just about this time, also, that
Dashwood received a rebuff in bis rather ob
trusive attentions to Mary. V In the law busi
ness, he succeeded in getting quite clear, as
there was no legal evidence sufficient to prove
me 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 am 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, ho had, ncverUIyss,
taken up arms against them once more ami
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 botli window and door from
the outer darkness, '-'such i3 the character of
Dashwood, that did I suspect him to be within
possible reach of this dwelling, I should not
feel at ease 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 Hie terrified
mother, throwing her arms around the captain.
The latter, about to grasp his rifle, paused ;
he saw the uselcssness of attempting defence.
Therefore, be would so conduct, that the pas
sions of the unopposed assailants might, at the
least, reach no further than himself.
"Ha, good folk .'" cried Dashwood, who the
next moment bounded over tho threshold.
"Good evening to you Mistress Harper;
and you, captain ; and you, Miss Mary," ho
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 she
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, my dear 7 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 sec that it is fitted rightly. Of course
you will not refr.sa me. No, no, that would
be impossible. How lortunate, too, that Cap
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 rcstraiu 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 tho latter fairly seethe in bis
veins. Nevertheless, he so far controlled
himself as to say :
"Dashwood, if you have any disposition to
return a favor, remember the fight at Moun
tain Creek, and act accordingly. Had it not
been for me, you would not have lived to bo
here. Take our goods and what little money
we 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 l',rank Harper, I do mean to return the
favor. I want neither to harm you, 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. But there is one thing, Master
Frank, that I nm determined on; and that is,
that Miss Mary shall consent to bo my wife
this very eve or else there'll be such a muss
as was never heat d 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 Dasawood, and boro hini to the floor. The
latter was quickly relieved by his companions,
but not before his swarthy face become still
darker from the grip which Frank had placed
on his throat.
"Seize, seize the scoundrel !" cried Dash
wood, as soon as he was able to articulate.
"He shall swing for it as I live ! The rope,
Oakman ! the ropo!"
This was forthwith produced ; and regard
less of Hi? piteous entreaties of the women,
Dashwood knotted the cord with the readiness
of an adept, and cast it round the neck of the
prisoner, whose arms were now tightly strap
ped behind him. An end of the rope w-as
thrown over a beam which ran above.
"There, Miss Mary," said Dashwood, coolly,
"don't take on so ! He isn't dead yet; and
for your sake I will let him go, notwithstand
ing the injury he has done, and the more which
lio intended to do me provided, however,
you do me the favor of attending me with the
parson yonder. Here, parson Jones, come
hither !"
A man of vulgar appearance his face bctos
kening tho 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, wifli
an air of ruffianly effrontery. "I call all per
sons present to witness that this is a true blue
parson, (Giles Jones by name,) whom I have
brought with me all the way -froa Scragg's
Creek, believing that I should want his seivi-4
.CPS.-, ip Parson Jones, spout av3fy"r "Whv am
I, and hero is Miss Mary, who doubtless is wil
ling enough, only a little coy. Oaknun, staud
by the ropes. Now then, my dear, you had
best bo pliable, or your brother will have to
swing for it !"
lie 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 him ! 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 bis way. While he rildely
struggled against their frantic efforts, the door
flew open, aud a score or more of men rushed
into the room, overthrowing Dashwood and
bis 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 Sumptcr, who lay about fifteen miles
from the dwelling of the Harpers. Here he
was placed before a court-martial, charged
with murder in cold blood, and also with de
serting the continental flag, under which he
had at one time taken a commission. The ac
cusations were proved, and he was executed
forthwith tho country being well rid of a bru
tal ami faithless ruffian. Mary and Gaston
were married near the close of the war, nnd
settled on an estate which he recently purcha
sed near the Harper plantation. Ballou's Pic
torial. Foreign News. Kccent arrivals from Eu
rope brought news to the 2Cd. The British
Parliament would probably bo 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
liica tho right of traffic through it, and such
portions of the river San Juan as arc necessa
ry ; the concentration of the Mosquito sava
ges within definite limits, clear of the mouth
of the river and town, but guaranteeing the
payment of their annuity ; tho restoration of
tho Bay Islands to Honduras, and Belize to
remain a British possession, with 18 deg. 50
min. latitude as its territorial limit. Accounts
from Spain say that the insurrection had been
effectually crushed at Madrid, where O'Don
noll had made preparations for the outbreak
by surrounding the city with 18,000 troops.
In the conflict 200 of tho insurgents wore kill
ed. The Cortes had removed to Arragon,
where under Gen. Enfante they intended to
make war upon Queen Isabella and O'Donnell.
Serious disturbances have broken out at Cas
sena, 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 Locofoco Doctr in e, 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 is also a domestic institution, and if
slaveholders have the right to introduce their
property anywhere in our territories, then
have the polygaraists 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.
Bed Jacket took part with the Americans
in the 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
you will 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
may never find whiskey more than two shill
ings a quart."
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Kansas. We have advices from Leaven
worth to the 30th ult. Col. Lane and his com
pany (numbering, we think, 400 men) had not
entered Kansas territory. Gen. Smith threat
ens them w ith martial law if they do. The
territorial authorities were commencing to
ltvv taxes, but both parties refuse to pay, and
trouble is apprehended.
CONGRESSIONAL DUELS.
The recent escapades of Mr. Brooks, of
South Carolina, have given an unusual degrco
of interest lo the subject of duelling, and the
New York Times has revived the recollections
of some of the more celebrated Congressional
affairs of honor. Dncls have been fongbt by
members of Congress from the very commence
ment of our existenco as a nation, but these
atlairs have been much less frequent than is
generally supposed to be the case. In fact all
tl'e Congressional challenge ' ityat have been
sent, from the meeting of the first Congress in
PhiladhMs'Wrn fo'tlic affair between Brooks
and Builinganjc,do not exceed Itranty-Jive. in
number not half so many as have been fought
by members of the British Parliament.
Tho first duel by a member of Congress, on
record, was that between Button Gwinnett and
Jackland Mcintosh, in 1777. They were both
of the State of Georgia, though Gwinnett on
ly was a member-of Congress. lie was a sign
er of the Declaration of Independence, and his
antagonist was an officer of the 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 cither
party connected with politics. The next af
fair of honor in which a member of Congress
was implicated, occurred in 1707, aud 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 ;
offence at a verbal criticism of an expression
he 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 1801, 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 Do 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 made an apology that
was read iu the Senate. In the year 1810
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 aflair of honor, in which a mem
ber of Congress was a party, was tho celebra
ted affair of McDuflie, of South Carolina, and
Col. Cummings, of Georgia, which came off
in the year 1822. Tho famous affair between
Henry Clay and John Randolph occurred four
years after the last, in 1820. Tho next year
Mr. Vance, an ex-member of Congress from
North Carolina, was killed in a duel by Mr.
Carson, a member from tho same State. Ten
years afterwards, in 1837, Mr. Dromgoole, a
member of Congress from Virginia, was mor
tally wounded in a duel with Mr. Dugger, of
the same State. In 1838, the still freshly re
membered meeting took place between Jona
than Cilly, of Maine, and William J. Graves,
of Kentucky, both member? of Congress, in
which the foi mer was killed. This tragical af
fair created a feeling in the public mind soro
pngnant to the duello that it was not until the
year 18-31 that another affair of honor grew
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 aud became friends. Two years af
terwards, Mr. Inge was tho second of Senator
G ivinn, of California, who fought with Mr. Mc
Corkle, a representative of tho same State.
Though members of Congress, the duel grow
out of expressions used by one of the parties
at a race course in California, where tho meet
ing took place. In 13-3i tlsc affair between
Mr. Cutting, of New York, and Mr. Erccken
ridgc, the Democratic candidate for the Vice
Presidency, occurred, in which no meeting
took place from the difficulty of deciding
which party had given the challenge. The
next aflair of the kind that occurred is the one
which now engrosses the public attention, and
which, taken in ail its aspects, is certainly the
most remarkable, and the least creditable to
one of the parties, of all the affairs of honor
in which members of Congress have been en
gaged, of which we have any knowledge. 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 been an eminent British
statesman who hasnot been engaged in a duel.
Pitt, Canning, Fox, Curran, O'Connell, Peel,
D'Isracli, Castlereagh, and many more of the
leading statesmen of England, have had their
little afiairs of honor, but our eminent public
men have been singularly free from such de
grading encounters.
BUCHANAN AND THE COMPROMISE In a
speech delivered by Mr. Barksdale, of Missis
sippi, week before last, ho announced to the
House of Keprcscntatives that ho was author
ized to say, if Mr. Buchanan was elected Pres
ident ho would veto any bill u-hich Congress
might pass contemplating the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise, or the principlo which it
recognized. There is a strong conviction pre
vailing that secret pledges have been given by
or for Mr. Buchanan, to tho South, covering,
if possible, even larger concessions than those
contained in the Cincinnati platform.
J Black Kepublicans. Some of the lower
grades of Democratic papers style Fremont
j and Dayton the "Elack" Republican candi
j dates. Wo 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 Use Democratic party :
Fremont and Dayton arc pledged to favor
the admission of Kansas nnder the Constitu
tion already formed which Constitution pro
hibits the admission of negroes into tho State
either free cr slave. Consequently under that
Constitution, tlio State would be forever con
secrated to 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
sustaiuod by the people, and the expulsion of
the Free-State settlors approved of, tho black
race will soon become a permanent institution
there. The success of the Republican ticket
would tend to make it a M'kite State while
the success of the Democratic ticket will, in
all probability, make it a Hack or slats Stated
Now, to which party does the epithet "7acA"
more appropriately belong ? Ex.
A Capital Story. The Hawkcye and Iowa
Patriot tells a capital temperance story.
A farmer belonging somewhere in Iowa,
bought a keg of whiskey ami carried it home.
Well knowing that his better half Occasionally
took a "drop or so"' if it came in her way,aud
now and then would have a drop at all even's,
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 weep over
and wonder at the loss of his whiskey.
Ccttixo it Thick. The Yankees arc gener
ally supposed to possess 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 facnPy to a remarkable
degree. On one occasion a German residing
in the country came into BufTalo wit!; 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
scliccting, but a Dutchman scheeted me much
potter as a Yankee never was. He prings mo
some hams dey was canvass nice, so petter
as you never see. I buy one, two dozen all
so nice and if you believe de sehect was
so magnificent dat I cat six, seven, eight of
dem tarn bains 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 fcr a bank nnd
against it for the taritf of ISI2 nnd against it
for the Maysville ami Cumberland roads,
nnd against internal improvementst for dis
tribution of the proceeds of tho public lands
and against it for "squatter sovereignty"
now and Against it in 1S48 for the principle of
the Wilmot proviso hitherto, and against it
notr (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 tho
champion of Southern institutions but, above
all,i,r Washington's policy cf non-intervention
with the atlairs of foreign countries, and
yet the author of the Ostcnd manifesto !"'
The Hon. James Myers, cx-Licutenant 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 bis political education from such
men as Silas Wright and A. C. Flagg, and was
distinguished as a politician while yet a young
man residing in the Stste of New York.
Twenty years ago he removed to tho 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 of
his party.
A man named Gofl was killed iu Johnstown,
Cambria county, Pa., 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 GoiTso that
be fell. Potts and some others present, alter
smoking awhile, went out, Goff still lying on
the floor. The bar-keeper then approached
Goff with a light, and was amazed to find him
dcail ! Potts, who Was overwhelmed w ith .a
mazement on hearing the result of what ho
considered so trifling an incident, has been
taken into custody.
Fremont in Maryland. The Cecil Demo
crat states that a Fremont electoral ticket is
to be formed in Maryland, and that Francis P.
I'Jair, Esq., is to be one of the electors at large.
"HELP HE, CASIUS, 0E I EIITX !"
The Albany Evening Journal says that tho
Buchananitcs arc calling for "Help!" Tho
loud pulsations of the public heart for Free
dom and Fremont alarm them. Hence the call
for money, embodied in the following circular
forwarded to tis by a Post Master who receiv- ,
ed it : (PRIVATE.)
To the rost Master of . - - .
Dear Sir At a private consultation of the
leading Democrats of the Union held in this
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 Post Office Department it is
found that your proportion will be three dol
lars, which yu w ill confer a favor by remit
ting by return of mail.
The principal object in making these collec
tions is to throw into the doubtrul States an
immense quantity of speeches and documents
in favor of the policy of the Democratic par
tv, and also to assist in defraying tho expen
ses of speakers that will bo employed during
the coming canvass. You will therefore per
ceive that every Post Master who wishes for a
continuance cf hisojficial position will find it
for bis interest to use every effort to bring a-
bout so desirable a result.
Cyl'ost Masters are appealed to becauso
they are considered the representatives of tho
party in their respective localities, and being
the recipients of the patronage of tho Admin
istration, it is but just that they should com
ply with its demands.
Please send us the name of somo reliable,
leading Democrat in your town whom we can
confer with hereafter.
Address, Ferris M. Brown, Jun.
Washington City, (D.C.) 185G.
Instead of sending the "three dollars" to
Washington, as requested, the gentleman ad
dressed sent it to us to pay for ten copies of
the Campaign paper! ' This may bo taken
as a significant "sign of the times."
Fremont in Webteeh Pennsylvania. Tho
Erie Constitution, a calm and unexcitablu print,
says, that it is frequently interrogated in re
gard to its views of the prospects of Fremont
in Pennsylvania, and adds, we believo firmly
that he can carry the State, but do not assume
to give figures for any but that portion In which,
we arc intimately acquainted with the state of
popular feeling. In Erie county we shall cer
tainly have 2000 majority; Crawford not less
than 1-300, and possibly 1800; Warren over
50O; in Venango 500; Mercer probably 700 ;
Lawrence 1000; Butler 700 ; Beaver 600; Al
legheny -1500 ; Westmoreland is confidently
claimed for Fremont wo name no majority ;
Washington S00 ; Fayette 600; Armstrong
8'K); Indiana 2000; Jefferson 300; Clarion and
Greene will probably give majorities for Bu
chanan. The counties ftamed gavo Pollock
lG,-300 majority, and according to onr esti
mate, which is certainly moderate, they will
give Fremont not less than 17,500. All the
indications arc that our majorities will greatly
exceed, in many counties, the figures we have
claimed. If the campaign is conducted with
the energy and enthusiasm which the signs in
dicate, there is little doubt that the counties
embraced iu our list will roll up a clean ma
jority of 20,000. It must ba borne in mind
that the counties where the Hcpublican gains
are largest, have always been heavily 'Demo
cratic. In the same territory, Tierce had near
ly 3,000 majority iu 1S52.
Smn they Come ! A Voice from Buchan
an's Home! The Independent Uliig, of Aug
ust -3th, printed in Lancaster City, Fa., 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 Drnmore shoemaker, who has address
ed hundreds of Democratic meetings, and has
heretofore been engaged as a spoaker over tho
State. He was a member of the Buchanan
County Committee of Lancaster, and his let
ter is addressed to the chairman, resigning bis
pott. Ho says lor the last twenty years he vo
ted the Democratic ticket in Lancaster coun
ty, but as the Cincinnati Convention bad re
pudiated the Democracy of Jeflerson and Jack
son, by endorsing the sectional measures of tho
Pierce Administration, and adopted a plat
form destructive in its character to tho wholo
country, he cannot consistently" support either
it or its nominees. The Wug says Mr. John
ston is but one of Bcores of "old line Demo
crats" in Lancaster county, who repudiate tho
Cincinnati platform and its nominees.
Gkeen Corn Omslet. The following recipo
for this seasonable delicacy is said to be ex
cellent: Grato the corn from twelve cars of
corn, boiled, beat up five eggs, Etir them with
the coin, season with pepper and salt, anJ fry
the mixture brown, browning the top with a
hot shovel. If fried in small cakoe, with a
littlo flour and m:!k stirred in to form a bat
tel, it is very nice.
Another Democratic Bolter. lion. Mark.
Delahay, a delegate to the Cincinnati Conven
tion from tho State of Illinois, made a speech
at a Fremont and Dayton mooting, at Monte
zuma, Pike county, on the 18th ult. lie said
he attended the Cincinnati Convention, and
was in favor of Mr. Buchanan, but, when bo
saw him swallow the platform, ho bolted, and
now advocated the election of Fremont.