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WILLIAM IMIEWSTEn, EDITORS,
SAM. G. WHITTAKER.
Wednesday Morning, August 13, 1856,
Forever float that standard sheet
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'erusl"
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. FREMONT,
OF CALIFORNIA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WM. L. DAYTON,
FOR OAN.II, 10 NER.
eNOIVIAS M. COCHRAN,
OF' YORI, COUSTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
DARWIN DIIELPSI,
OF AILMTRONG COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL.
EARTEOLOATEW LAPORTE,
FREMONT AMERI
COUNTY CO
LICAN REPUBLICAN
ITTEE.
Jolty McCuLi,
Isaac Nelf,
J. A. Hall,
John Laport,
Wm. Brewster,
David Stever,
Joseph Curfman,
Henry Hudson,
Isaac Taylor,
Jonathan McWilliams
Samuel Thompson,
John A. Doyle,
S. L. Glasgow,
Henry Robinson,
Wm. Wigton,
Abraham Renner,
wir, Chairman.
Wm. Rothrack,
James Morrow,
Peter Swoope,
E. B. Wilson,
Ralph Crotsley,
Robert Baird,
Charles Mickley,
S. Wigton,
John Graffins,
Wm. M. Lloyd,
Peter Shaver, Jr.
Robert R. Andrews,
Benjamin P. Glasgow,
Daniel Neff, Sen.,
I Lorenzo Tate.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE
That the Democratic party is doing everything
in its power to dissolve the Union ;
That it is endeavoring to make a sectional
institution national ;
That it recognizes polygamy as consistent
with our laws and institutions;
That it encourages and incites to civil war;
And that it employs the ruffians of Missouri
to take the lives and destroy the property of the
Free State men in Kansas.
Ambrotypes.
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We earnestly advise our fellow•citiaens to
Auxer'4 Ambrotype Gallery, and take a
at his specimens. Mr. Auxer, is decided
the best Ambrotypist ever in this plrite. His
pictures are faultless, without blemish, and we
are patisfied must give perfect satisfaction.—
his rooms arc in the Court House, and he in.
vines everybody to walk up and examine.
Pictures can be taken in any kind of weather.
Don't forget the Court House ; up stairs.
Brooks and Beitt Be Elected.
eta was expected, the constituents of Brooke
and Keitt havafe•elect9d them as their repre•
scntatives in (‘:,oti,ress by a unanimous vote
thus expressing their approval of the cowardly ' ,
assassin-like act of which they were guilty.—
this endorsement of their constituents does
:.ot altar the record that they hare both been
censured by their peers. That stigma still
rests on them and will follow them to their
graves.
'Keep it before all Northern Democrats.
That the Richmond Inquirer, representing
the controlling nod only reliable wing of the
present so.called Democratic party, honestly
affirms that they "Seek not only to retain it
(slavery) where it is, but to extend it into re
gions where it is unknown," and they declare
that Northern Democrats do "agree to its ex
tension as a matter of right." 'this is the very
language, and frankly expresses the real and
known purpose of the governing minds of the
present Democratic party. Who among Dem
ocrats will not spurn this count upon their
baseness ?
THROUGH.
Yielding to the request of friends, and our
own inclination, we shall forego any further en
pose of the publisher of the Globe, feeling with
oar friends, that it is unnecessary and needless
where he is known. We therefore shall take
no further notice dins defamations, his black
guardism, or any of the vile libels against us
which has or shall neonate from his foul brain
or his co•worker's in evil. We scorn his insin
uations and leave him to that punishment which
the acorn of a virtuous community is so justly
inflioting on him; believing that it is degrading
.to ourselvee, our paper, and the community we
represent to Indulge in personal warfare with
such an individual. Here, where the character
of the man is known, our motive will he duly
appr cciated.
Terrorism in Kansas.
A letter from Lawrence to the Boston Trait.
script, says that from the Missouri border to
within two miles of that city, the reign of ter
ror is complete, men being waylaid by guerilla
bands every night, and sometimes in broad
day light, shot at, beaten, and left for dead.—
Houses are horned and horses stolen. The
writer gives this as what he has himself seen.
Ilia own house was plundered in his absence
of almost every thing of any value, except
books. Three horses of his neighbors were
taken, and one of his own, all laden with his
own goods. Several of his friends lost spans
of valuable horses, with carriages, harness, etc. i
Such is the boasted tranquility of Kansas.—
The United States troops, meantime, mi ce no
effort to stop this pillage and never pretend to
interfere with the pro•slavery ruffians. Col.
Sumner's polioy seems to have been entirely
ended by the arrival of Gee. Smith, who thus
far has done nothing at all.
POLITICIANS, NOT STATESMEN.
N nhing marks the decline in the character
of our political men better than some traits
which the men at present figuring on the pat.
ical stage are constantly exhibiting. These
arc traits of folly; and they are to be met with
in the conduct and language of the political
leaders of every party at present before the pub
lic—democrat, republican, American, nigger
worshipper,. nigger driver, Know Nothing—
without any.exceptions.
For instance, it is not many weeks since Mr.
Fillmore declared in New York, on more than
one occasion, that in the event of the election
of Mr. Fremont the Sonth would not submit;
in other words that there would be a revolution.
and an immediate dissolution of the Union.
Mr. Buchanan has declared that "the very
existence of the Union has been threatened"
by the slavery discussion, and intimated that
Fremont's success would amount tc a sentence
of outlawry on one half the confederacy.
Mr. Toombs says that "the election of Fre
mont would be the end of the Union and ought
to be."
On the other hand, Mr. Wendell Phillips is
opposed to the Republicans and Fremont be
cause "they will retard the dissolution of the
Union," the most desirable consummation that
in his views can be hoped for.
Meanwhile the leading Southern journals—
not the obscure ones—but such journals as the
Charleston Mercury, rejoice over the Sumner
outrage, as "it will be likely to convince the
North of the impossibility of remaining a mil.
ted country."
From the ravings of these infuriate madmen
it is quite refreshing to turn to Col. Fremont,
who really seems to be the only sensible man
in the Presidential party, for he has said noth
ing sod written but one short letter, very mod
est and plain spoken in favor of the Union—
the whole Union.
We should . really like to see how some of
these firemiting disunionists would set to work
to dissolve the Union, and bring about their
revolution. Pshaw ! This sort of thing may
do well enough for ignorant red republicans
from Europe, but the idea of expecting semi.
ble Americans to swallow it is absurd, and the
idea of Mr. Fillmore, Mr. Buchanan and Mr.
Toombs pretending to believe it is melancholy,
One may expect such rhodomontade from Col•
one W-, whose preceptions were never
clear, and who has always been a fighting
man; but from statesmen, it is pitiful.
How Shall the Whigs Vote?
Three paths are open to the Whigs, but by
the adoption of either one of two they will turn
their backs upon the principles they deliberate.
ly expressed and endorsed. If they support
Buchanan and Breckenridge,' they support
the Cincinnati platform, which utterly repu
diates all power on the part of Congress to
prohibit slavery in the territories, and leaves
them opetrto a fierce and sanguinary struggle
for supremacy between Slavery and Freedom.
If they adoptthe 'Fillmore ticket, they take with
it not a single principle which they as Whigs
have supported in years past. Mr. Fillmore
has acknowledged that he is no longer a Whig,
and less formerly announced the dissolution of
Whig party. Donolson, who is associated with
Fillmore on the ticket, is a Democrat, who has
only obtained a national notoriety as the editor
of the leading organ of the Democratic party
during the administration of Fillmore when
his paper was conspicuous for its virulent and
unscrupulous shacks upon the Whig adminis
tration 1 In Col. Fremont we have a candi
date who, though professing in least years to
be a Democrat, has never been known as a
political partisan. Associated with him upon
the ticket is a sound and tried Whig. These
candidates have been placed upon a platform
which is Wbig in all its essential features, and
which would have been considered in perfect
keeping with the past principles of the party
had it bees-put fourth by a Whig Convention.
It embraces besides the doctrine of hostility to
the extension of slavery, a declaration in favor
of the maintenance of the principles of the
Declaration of Independence and of the Con
stitution.
It arraigns the present Democratic adminis•
tration, for its subversion of the principles of
freedom and free speech. It declares against
fillibusterisrn, and in favor of a railroad to the
Pacific Ocean, a plank which, by the way, is to
be found in the resolutions of the Massachusetts
Whig State Convention in 1853. It also affirms
in the most positive language the broad doc
trine so long contended for by the Whig party,
that Congress has power and in justified in ma.
king appropriations for the improvement of ri•
vers and harbors. These are all Whig doctrines
and if there is a single vital and practical issue
now contended for by the Whig party, which is
not embraced in the Fremont and Dayton plat
form, we should like to have it pointed out.
Bteam Melodies.
It has been stated that some inventor in
Worcester has succeeded in turning the unear
thly screech of the steam whistle into harmoni
ous music. The new invention was attached
to one of the locomotives on the Worcestiw and
Nashua railroad, ou Thursday, and the editor
of the Western Transcript, who was one of the
party who "faced the music," thus speaks of
the sensation created as the engine left Wor
carter, to t he tune of "Old Dan Tucker."—Ex.
However proper it may be to whistle "Get
out the way Ole Dan Tucker" at crossings we
respectfully suggest that many of our engines
start with a Dead March in order that passes.
gees may be fully prepared for what is before
them.
Another Bolt.
Tho Democratic Freeman published in Co•
lumbia county, N. Y. takes down the Buchan
an flag, which had been flying at the head of
its columns and commends to its readers the
address of the Democratic Republican State
Convention, held recently at Syracuse, in which
the party resolves to support Fremont and
Dayton. From the following it would seem
that the bolt of the Freeman had been prece.
ded by that of its readers:
"The step to which we are now driven is one
of absolute necessity. As an organ of tho
Radical Democracy of the county, which it
has assumed to be, it cannot longer support
the platform and nominees which is receiving
the almost unanimous opposition of that class
in the county."
OUR JESSIE.
There are many of our political papers who
object to the introduction of Mrs. Fremont's
name into the Presidential canvass on a varie
ty of grounds. One opposes dragging the
name of a lady into the filthy arena of politics,
a remark not highly complimentary to the sex
whose business and duty is in the aforesaid
arena. Another, a rural cotemporary, says
that a wife is not a qualification for the office
of President, and, therefore, implores his read•
ers not to electioneer against Jerrie! What an
error !
A President can have no more important aid
in his government than a wife. For who could
more appropriately head the Kitchen Cabinet
than one, who all her life, had superintended
domestic affairs ? Who shall manage the
Presidential receptions, if note woman and a
wife? Kings have tapestries in commemora•
Lion of their great deeds; shall not the Presi•
dential Mansion have its worsted work, and the
Chair of State its Anti-Macassar? And is the
President's linen to be at the mercy of a mere
hired laundress ? If so, how can he over he
expected to show a bold front to the enemies
of his country? Who shall take care that he
does not plunge the nation into a war in con•
sequence of a bad dinner? Are there not
White House spoons to be looked after, and
White House carpets to be carefully attended
to ?
Can these things be entrusted to a housekee.
per or to, friend ? Never I If the President
were n single man—there would be swarms of
the creatures known as Belle setting out for
Washington, plotting and counterplotting his
destruction—we beg pardon—his marriage.—
Why there would be pulling caps for the head
of the Nation I In the meantime, Members of
Congress would be lurking around the back
doors of the Presidential Mansion, and gradu
ally the spoons would be gone. Some morn.
ing after an unpleasant breakfast, the Presi.
dent might dismiss the President of sonic coun
try, which we should be at the trouble and ex
pense of whipping. He might oversleep him
self and let a bad bill pass, or in a rage at a
missing shirt button, ho might veto a law which
would save us from a revolution I And all this
because he had no wife 1 A wife is decidedly
a great merit in a nominee, and we shouldn't
wonder if the Mustang colt were elected on the
strength of that alone.
Charges against Fremont.
Between the Democratic and Fillmore or
gnus, Col. Fremont is made out the moat ex
traordinary man in the world. Taking them
as they come, it appears that he is a Catholic,
but he has lately turned Protestant; but is still
a Catholic, and believes in the transubstantia
tion, and in the bones of St. Quietus—that he
is a slaveholder, and an abolitionist—that he
is rich enough to buy up conventions and
newspaper presses, and still so poor that he
can't raise five dollars in his pocket in Wall
street—that he never did anything for the con
q nest of California, whatever may be recorded
in the official praise of Mr. Marcy when Secre
tary of War—that this same Fremont who is a
Catholic, is also a Know Nothing, and has
pledged himself to their cause.
In a word, he is represented as this thing,
that thing, as everything, and as nothing at all.
It is evident, however, that it will require hard
riding to run down, for he gathers wind, speed,
and strength as he goes. The splendid run of
"old Tippecanoe and Tyler too" did not open
.more auspiciously. No use to chafer about
it. Fremont is ahead and is just beginning to
let out. When the popular tide sets in a parti
cular direction, who shall turn it away 1 "It
never rains but it pours.'
Another Omen.
The political prophets are most indefatigable
in seeking out omens favorable to their.respee.
tive candidates. The last of these we find in a
"Buck and Breck Exch." It says, "the names
of six of the Presidents of the United States
ended in N—nearly half, and the next N will
unquestionably be Buchanan l"
Certainly some people can extract a great
deal of comfort from a very small matter.—
What are the prophets going to do with the im.
portent fact that Buchanan has eight letters iu
his name, while Fillmore has precisely the
same number, and Fremont has but seven.—
Now, an odd number is for luck, consequently
the eighthJetter is fatal to the prospects of ei
ther, if there is any truth in tradition. Then
there is another thing—the fact that Filnore
has an i and double / in his name. Why, we
don't knOw—we base our assertion on the
same grounds as the prophecy founded on the
letter N. We are prepared to see all sorts of
banners given to the breeze except this N sign
of folly.
The Election of Mr. Buchanan to Baden
Slavery in Kansas.
The Gettysburg Star calls attention to the
fact that after Buchanan was nominated, the
Locofocos of Richmond, Va., had a ratification
meeting at which Henry A. Wise made speech.
In this speech he urged as a main reason why
Buchanan should be elected. that his election
would result in the admission of Kansas as a
Slave State, which would open a new market
fur Virginia negroee and largely increase the
profits of the traffic and the value of the arti.
cle. Under this view, we expect the south to
go for Buchanan. But will virtuous, respects.
ble, humane, Christian people in the North
vote for a man whose election is to give a new
impetus to the abominable and unholy trade in
human beings, as good before God, as James
Buchanan or Henry A. Wise? Let no man
who votes for Buchanan, with this fact before
him, ever dare to talk to his neighbor about
Christianity, a love of freedom or regard to the
Declaration of Independence.
Buchanan's Love.
The authenticity of tho account of Buchan.
au's early love•adventure, published in Harper's
Magazine, is vehemently denied. This is mere
folly; for it came through only three persons
from Buchanan himself to the pages of the Ma.
gazine. The Herald publishes au appendix to
it : viz, that upon the young lady's death he cut
his throat, and that only early discovery saved
his life. This also is undoubtedly true.
Vottil Betz.
"Bobbin' Rounet."—We .will publish that
next week, Katz.
Mir Hon. Chas. Sumner spent a few days
at Cresson, last week.
War If honest teen are the snit of the earth,
pretty girls may be said to be the sugar.
What vegetable is the wearer of a tight
boot like?
A toe•martyr to be sure.
An Old Advertisement of 1758.—Wanted,
stout, active man, who fears the Lord, and can
carry two hundred weight.
Sear "We in company with some capitalists
from Philadelphia."—Globe.
How we apples swim.
We Hope—That the genius of the Ironheud
Democrat may not use so many greens as to
have use for that pitcher again.
re' The beauty of the Globe writhes under
our plain facts.
"Rogues never felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law."
Certainly ./Vid.—ls it at all strange that
when you indulge considerably in old Bourbon
whiskey that external nature should look all
awry?
Vie-We advise the visible green genius of
the Tyrone lrowbead Democrat, to become a
little more ripe, ere he ventures into the chair
editorial.
Mir The young lady who "was taken by
surprise" tits escaped and was seen in our town
several days since sporting hoops and high
heeled boots.
ie. A murder was committed at Kettle
C,elr, Clinton county, on the 9th ult., by Jacob
W. Pfoutz who during a quarrel shot Wm. Hall
with his rifle.
A corresdondent of "The Lady's Daily
Companion" wants to know whether "the steep
thorny path" can be travelled in hoops ? Not
by a barrel full
ler"ltoPan IN."—A man in Troy made a
skirt for a lady lately, which used up one hun
dred and twenty-eight feet of rope., So says
the New York Mirror.
* Owners of shade trees are boxing them
up for fear they may receive injury from corn.
ing in contact with the numerous hoops that
go ballooning the streets.
"Withering—Tho sarcasm of the Funny
Man of tho Huntingdon Journal."—fron•head
Democrat.
Still "Onsen"—The animnle what frightened
the Broad Top babies.
An Essay on Man.
"At ten, a child ; at twenty, wild
At thirty, tame, if ever;
At forty, wise ; at fifty, rich ;
At sixty, good, or never."
The Running Brooks.—lt is said the reason
why Mr. Brooks did not go to Canada was not
that the distance was too long, but that after he
gottbere the distance between him and Mr.
Burlingame would be too short.
One of the Toasts.—We think this sentiment
and think it better even than the standard "day
we celebrate," toast "The Women of the
Revolution—mothers of men and patriots; The
Women of to•tlay—Hoop I hoop t hurrah I"
86r C. M. Johnston, of Lancaster county,
one of the most celebrated Democratic stump.
speakers iu the State, is out in a card in a
Lancaster paper, declaring his intention of sup
porting Fremont. Hurrah for the Woolly
Horse t
The Union "Step."—According to the Bos.
ton Post, to keep step to the music of the
Union, you must wear Southern Buck-shin, and
use the Cincinnati platform for a promenade
ground; a style of goods that will not sell at all
in this market.
Moustaches.—Fromont while crossing the
desert ate a fried mule. The tail is still sticking
out of his mouth.—lron•head Democrat.
We presume it is the tail of a donkey "stick.
out" (about a feel) of the mouth of the genius
of the Iron-head.
How to make a Hal Tratelproof.—Tuke a
pound of glue. Melt it. Give your hat a thick
coating of this and let it stand a week. Then
give it a good boiling in a copper of tar. After
this take it to a tinsmith's and get it covered
with good stout sheet tin. Paint as your taste
directs.
say- Drop an iceberg into the crater of Po
pocatapetl, Gil up with claret, add one of the
West India Islands to sweeten and flavor; then
hand us the tower at Pisa to suck the liquid
through, and you will oblige us considerably.
Nothing less than this can cool our cracking
throat, we do assure you.
Signal' you realize the truth of the saying
that 'Music bath power to soothe the savage,
to rend a rock and split a cabbage.—Hunling•
don Journal.
"Is that the rock on which they :TEL"—
/ron•liead Democrat.
Yes. It had not the same peculiarities of
the genius of the Iron•head,—green.
Stir Last week there wasa tremendous out
pouring of tilt people of Mifflin county, Ameri.
cans and Republicans to a Union Meeting.—
The Gazelle nays it was the largest meeting
ever held in Lewistown. Fremont and Dayton
were unanimou* endorsed. Huzza I huzza I
for Mifflin county. Three times three fur noble
little Mifflin
SOP A New Orleans lady refusing to pay
for an artificial log she had bought for her own
use, the seller sued out a writ, requiring the
sheriff to take it into his possession. The high
sheriff—as ho does sometimes in ugly capital
cases—turned the business over to a deputy,
who succeeded in serving the writ and getting
the limb into his possession—how, the editors
down there have forgotten to say.
More Amateur Voling.—At the infant school
of Mine Cruet, a vote wasyesterd” taken upon
the Presidential candidates. There were twos
tyfour children present, and the vote stood as
follows :
Fremont .. 24
Buchanan 22
Fillmore l9
Miss Cruet 25
Even babes and sucklings are aware of the
importance of the coming contest.
gly Setu
lowa Eleotion.
WsstutroTox August 8.
A despatch reeeived here from Burlington,
Towa, states that the Republicans have,carried
everything—State ticket, Congress and Legis•
luture.
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Dounous, Aug. 7.
Returns from the following °mimics show
Republican majorites:
Scott county, 360 Henry, 870
Desmonies, 80 Louisa, 360
Jefferson, 300 Van Buren, 200
Worthington, 600 Buchanan, 230
Delaware, 120 Clayton, 4000
lowa,
Black Hawk, 250 Johnson, 300
Cedar, (one town) 150
Total Republican majorities received, 4360
Dubuque gives 800, and Lee county 250
Democratic majorities.
Timothy Davis and Samuel R. Curtiss, Re
publicans are elected to Cocgress.
The State is claimed by the Republicans to
be carried by 5000 majority.
From the North American.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON ? August 7.
The Hon. Percy Walker, of Alabama, who
was among the most conspicuous members of
the Americar. Convention in Philadelphia, and
who led that wing of the opposition in the pro
tracted coaest for Speaker, openly recanted
last night, and made a clean breast of his pre
ference for Mr. Buchanan. But ho was not
content with this length. When interrogated
by Mr. Allison as to his course in case Colonel
Fremont should be elected, and the Missouri
Compromise restored, he was free to say, that a
"dissolution of the Union" was his remedy.—
This is the common cant of the day, and ever
since Mr. Fillmore's speech at Albany, encour
aging sectional resistance, it has become even
more cheap, as an element of political warfare.
Mr. Walker's abandonment now, is only impor
tant or significant,inasmuch as it tends to show
the same sort of indication, as when the South
ern Americans receded from their candidate
for speaker, and without hesitation adopted the
Democratic nominee. The motive which in
spired in the one ease, is quite likely to animate
them in the other.
And now that Kentucky, after all the protes
tations, has gone over to the Democracy, the
country may be prepared for a pretty general
stampede in that section. The fact cannot be
disguised now, from the blindest partizanship
or the most perverse understanding, that Mr.
Fillmore's only power as a candidate, is to con
tribute strength to Buchanan. He is not seri
ously in the field, except as a means of diver
sion. There are, to be sure, certain localities
in which he still exercises some influence, and
might command more if he were less identified
wit:, the proscriptions of a secret order. But
under the best circumstances he can attain no
practical results, not even so much now as to
throw the election into the House. The con
test is substantially narrowed down between
Mr. Buchanan and Col. Fremont, and to vote
for any other candidate is to throw away sup
port. INDEPENDENT.
Is Col. Fremont a Catholic.
All persons who are interested in the solu
tion of this question, which at tho present time
trouble's politicians so much, will find it defi
nitely answered in the following leßer,of a
New York correspondent. We have the state
ment here from Col. Fremont himself that he
is not, neither has be ever been n Roman Cath
olic. Will this satisfy the croakers ?
New YORK, July 29.
In conversation with Col. Fremont this
morniug, I asked him explicitly, that I might
authoritatively deny the story concerning his
religion, "Col., are RA a Reins!' Catolic ?"
To which he replied,wf ass not, nor have I ev
er been ; and but twice during my natural lite
do I remember to have been inside of a Homan
Catholic church." Can the most of us say
more? C..n many say as much? A letter
pow before me from a gentleman' in Washing
ton to his correspondent in this city says t "1
have examined the books kept at Brown's Ho
tel in which the names of boarders are kept,
and in the registry of the years 1852 and 1853
no such name as Fulmer appears!" and yet
the Irpress states that Mr. Fulmer was there
at that time. You will notice, however, that
Mr. Fulmer makes no statements by letter,
and that he says the Express misunderstood
him. Neither does the Express state atrywhere
lee belief that Fermont is a Roman Catholic.
The whole matter is in process of shilling, and
will soon ho made clear to the dullest compre
hension. In the meantime you hove the state
ment as made to mo personally, this morning,
and of which you aro at liberty to make any
use you may see fit.
I had intended writing more fully concerning
recent developements in Pennsylvania, but the
mail closes, and I must. Yours truly,
"Help He Canine or I Sink."
The Buchaneers are calling. loudly fur 'help. ,
Hence the call for money, as embodied in the
following circular, which we find published in
the Albany Evening Journal, forwarded to that
journal by a Postmaster who received it :
[entvATE.]
To the Postmaster of -
Dear ,Sir:—At a private consultation of the
leading Democrats of the Union, held in this
city, immediately upon the adjournment of the
Cincinnati Convention, it was recommended
that each Postmaster be requested to contribute
an amount proportionate to the receipts of their
offices. Upon examining the returns of the
Post Office Department, it is found that your
proportion will be three dollars, which you will
confer a favor by reinittirg by return mail.
The principal object in making these collec
tions is to throw into the doubtful States an
immense quantity of documents is favor of the
policy of the Democratic party, and also to as
sist in defraying the expenses of speakers who
will be employed during the coming canvass.
You will therefore
_perceive that every Past.
toaster WHO WISHES A CONTINUANCE
OF HIS OFFICIAL POSITION will God it
for his interest to use every effort to bring about
so desirable a result.
g Postmasters are appealed to because
they are considered the representatives of the
party in their respective localities and being
the recipients of the patronage of the Adminis
tration, it is butjust that they should comply
with its DEMANDS.
Please send us the name of some reliable
leading Democrat in your town, whom we can
confer with hereafter. Address
PERRIN M. 13IiOWN, JUN.
Washington City, D. C., 1856.
Ear Franklin Pierce was elected to the Pre.
sidency by an oferwhelming majority of the
nation because he was not known. Ile has
boon dropped by general consent because ho
is.
Sir The Pottsville Miners' Journal, a paper
of great influence among the miners of fichuyl•
kill county, Pa., takes down the Filltnore flag
and hoists Fremont.
Another Chapter in Blood.
The Dayton (Ohio) Gazette publishes a letter
signed by three individuals at Blue Spring near
Tecumseh, K. T., giving an account of the
fiendish way in which'the border ruilians dispo
sed of a Free State man
"Yesterday morning we were going to Te
eutnseh, but when abouteloven miles from that
place, we were appaled by the eight of the
body of a murdered man tied firmly to a tree,
near the road side. He was tied with his hands
and feet partially around it. Ho had been
shot just above the left eye with—ns we sup
pose—a rifle ball. A huge hunting knife was
sticking in his breast. If had been driven
clear through him, and the point was two or
three inches in the tree. He was evidently
murdered yesterday or day before."
There was a toadstool tied to the knife haw
dle, on which the following inscription was
written t "Lot all those who are going to vote
against slavery in Kansas—take warning I"
The name of the man was Lab. Parker,
and he was from Cleaveland.
Read This,
The Atlanta Sentinel published at Blifflintown
Pa., has the names of Fillmorg . and Donelson
floating at its masthead, but its editor is in
dined to the opinion that Fremont will be the
next President. In the last number of that
paper, the editor says :
The "Signs of the Times" are not to bombs
taken ; they point emphatically to the election
of JOHN C. Focuoser as our next President.
Here is one of the "signs," which it will be
well that the Democrats "make a note of."—
Since the retiring of Andrew Jackson, no pulit•
teal party has had control of the Government
more than one term ! Jackson was Emcee.
sled by Van Buren, in 1836 ; then the Whigs
came into power and elected Harrison in 1840;
then the Democrats were victorious and Polk
was chosen over Clay in 1844; next Taylor,
Whig, was elected over Cass in 1848 ; and in
1852 Pierce defeated Scott. In the natural
order of things the Democrats must now retire
before the avalanche of popular sentiment which
is sweeping the county for "Fremont and Free
dom." They will shako in their shoes before
the ides of November, for we are bound to
"give 'em Jessie."
OUR BOOR TABLE.
The Republican Pocket Pistol is a neat little
volume to be had at Dayton & Burdick's, N. Y.,
at 5 cts. per copy.
The Inventor for August is before us. This is
just the work for mechanics and scientific men.
The next No. begins a new volume, and now is
the time to subscribe. $1 per year. Low A,
Y.
United Stairs ilfagazine.—This valuable pe
riodical for August, is befbre us. It is a splen
did No. Published by Emerson & Co., No. 1,
Spruce St., N. Y., at $2 per year.
Peterson's Magazine for September has been
received. If you want the magazine, send $2
to T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia.
Life of Freniont.—Wa have received from
the publishers, Messrs. Miller, Orton &
Mulli
gan, N. Y., a copy of the above work. It in
the best work out, as it contains the most com.
piste record of the life and doings of the Stan
dard.bearer of Freedom ! . It gives Col. Fre
mont's principal Reports, unabridged, thus en
abling the public to judge of him not only by
his works but by his words. rhe reports are
in themselves replete with striking Incident.—
They are written with the enthusiasm of an ex
plorer, yet with the modesty of a man of science .
It refutes the slanders of his political enemies,
and is thus very acceptable to Republic...—
Single Copies sent by mail, postage, paid, on
receipt of $l.
GRATIAMB MAcszrxx--For September is be
fore us. Watson & Co. Publishers, Phil., $2
per year. It is the best No. ever published, and
is a star magazine.
For the Journal.
SIIIRLEYSBURC, August 9, 1850.
Dear Sire :—John Brewster's Factcry in
Hill Valley, three miles from this place, was
burnt down on Thursday, the 7th inst. The
bark shed containing about 300 cords of bark,
the Engine house and everything about it, and
about 600 hides, were entirely consumed, near
ly 300 of which were ready for market. The
factory, at this time, was in the occupancy of
J. W. & B. h'. Glasgow, whomere tanning for
Jacob Singnmster of New York, on commis
sion. Their loss is very heavy, losing all their
bark, liquors, &c, John Brewster bud three
thousand on the tannery building, nothing else.
Glasgows were also insured to a certain extent,
but not sufficient to cover everything—this in
mimeo was $7OOO, Singmaster was also in.
eared, but it is not known to whet extent. How
the fire caught no one knows ; it took place at
21 o'clock and was consumed in 15 minutes.
.....
Since writing the above John G. told me
their loss is about $lO,OOO, their insurance on
on stock $5OOO, on bark, &c., 2000. John
Brewster's insurance does not cover his loss.—
The aggregate loss will amount to from $50,-
000 to $BO,OOO. S. L. G.
Peter Myers, Esq.
MESSRS. EDITORS :—Permit me through the
columns of that sterling friend of freedom, the
Huntingdon Journal, to present the name of
Peter Myers, of Shirleysburg, to the A
merican Republicans of Huntingdon County,
as a suitable person for the office of Sheriff.—
Mr. Myers is a man of sterling integrity, and
eminently fitted for that office. If elected, be
would discharge the duties of his office with a•
bility. I hope the Republicans of the county
will place Mr. Myers is nomination, na he can
be elected. TITUS.
Shirley tp., Aug. 9, 1856.
Fremont.
The Globe still asserts that Fremont is a
Catholic. As no editor who receives any ex
changes at all could be ignorant that this
charge against Col. Fremont was proved by the
unsought testimony of an Episcopalian minis
ter, we are almost bound to believe that the
statement is uow published in that paper with
a full knowledge that it is false.
Tits UNION QuEsTiox,"Elect our candi.
date," cry the Buchanatrincu, "or we will dis•
solve the Union." "Elea me," says Mr. Fill.
more, "or the South eon% submit, and;will dis
solve the Union." "Whether Col. Fremont is
elected or not," say the Republicans "this Uoi•
on must and shall be preserved!"
war There will he Wen Ching in the Protes.
taut Episcopal Church on Sunday next the
17th inst.
Vir As we go to press before the American
County Convention assembles, we cannot give
auy.of the proceedings until our next number.
Ntemo.
lf:ir Gov. Anthony, of Rhode Island, is
President of a Fremont CluL in Providence.'
e -The York, (Pa.) Advocate hoisted the
Fremont and Dayton Banner on the 29th all,
le - The Richmond Whig says its only fear
is that the Republicans and Democrats in tho
North may unite.
air John C. Kunkel, Republican has been
renominated for gongress by the Dauphin
County Convention.
Tho Ogle County, (III.) 'Reporter, here.
tofore a neutral journal, comes out in its last
issue for Fremont and Dayton.
ser The Fremont men of New Haven have
organized themselves into an association, on.
der the title of "The Pathfinders."
der The Plymouth, La., Banner has haded
off fronPßuchanan, and hoisted Fremont and
Dayton at thelead of its colum s n.
se- The Meadville Spirit an independent
paper the editor of whirl has always been
Democrat, hoists Fremont and Dayton.
FIIEMONT IN GEOIVIIA.—We see it stated
that the Wilkes County IGa.) Republican has
run up the names of Fremont and Dayton.
Kentucky Eleetbm.—Returus from forty-nine
counties give an aggregate American majority
of 2,676, being a Democratic gain of 4,477.
,l{ Republican and American State Con.
ventions ure in session at Hartford, Connecti
cut, to nominate a Union Fremont electoral
ticket.
nerd correspondent in Maine writes—
" Yon will see Maine give the Fremont ball a
start which will astonish the wild cats and
frighten the wolves.
North Carolina Election.—Returns all favor
the election of Bragg, Dem., as Govenor. The
Americans have gained three members of the
Legislature and lost one.
ler A Fremont ratifieatior. meeting, held
at Dubuque, lowa, on the lith ult., is repro.
rented to have been the largest meeting ever
held west of the Mississippi.
FREEMAN'S CRAINS.—The chains which J.t.
sox Bnows, of Kansas, a Free Staieman,
wore four weekF, are now on exhibition at the
headquarters of u Republican Club in Wash
ington.
i6;r•New London, in Connecticut, at the char.
ter election on Monday, carriedF. N. HARRIS,
the Fretnont candidate for Mayor, by a very
larr majority, over A. C. LIITETT, the Buch
anan nominee.
ger We have before us a list of all the pa
pers in the State which oppose the present Na.
tional Administration. Of these, eiglsiyJirc
support Fremont for President, and thirty
support Fillmoro.
Star There is a monthly publication in' Pat.
terson, N. J., called Our Gatherings, edited
by the girls of the Grammar school in that
city, which has entered the political contest
under the banner of Fremont and Dayton.
SW - Gov. Wise at the late Buchanan
cation meeting at Richmond said "the election
of Buchauan would enhance the value of ne
groes from one thousand to five thousand dol
lars." But what will it make white men worth ?
Ten cents a day?
gar The Massachusetts American State
Council has met again, and by a veto of ayes
81/, noes 52, substituted an endorsement of Fre
mont and Johnston for that of Fillmore and
Donelson, as first proposed. The charter of
the Council has bees revoked.
star The St. Louis Republican has learned
from a source which admits of no question,
that immediately after the August election a
Fremont ticket is to be brought out in that
State. The Anxeiger is to take the lead, the
Democrat is expected to follow and the ticket
will be supported by the Black Republicans in
the State.
The .Premonters.—So far as we are able to
judge, the Fremonters in Washington have
quite divided the Know Nothing or Whig ranks
and we shall not be surprised if as many votes
are cast by the Republican. party in this city
and in Mill Creels Hundred for Fremont as are
given to Fillmore.—Delaware Gazelle.
KO"' Hon. Mark Delahay, a delegate to the
Cincinnati Convention from a Fremont and
Dayton meeting, at Montezuma, Pike county,
on the 18th ult. He said he attended the Cin
cinnati Convention, and was in favor of Mr.
Buchanan, but, when he saw him swallow
the platform, he bolted, and now advocated
the election of Fremont.
Arorin Beaver county the opposition aro
united on Fremont. Among the officers of
the Beaver Fremont Club, are Benjamin Wilde
late Democratic candidate for Senate; B. Bush
Bradford, late American candidate for Cove.
nor; A Robertson, late Whig Senator; Silas
Merrick, formerly a Democrat. The Fremont
men claim front 1000 to 1500 majority in Bea.
ver.
* The New Haven Journal says that no
less than 200 democrats, heretofore for Buch
anan, have subacibed to the new Fillmore pa
per to be started at Hartford ; and it is further
intimated the democratic paper is Waterbury
is about to declare for Fillmore. And the
New Haven Register (Such.) says the Fillmore
men aro making a formidable front in that
State, farming clubs in every town Ac.
tliir It should not be overlooked that no ono
of the Doughface journals which have charged
that Col. Fremont is a Roman Catholic, has
yet had the manliness to publish the certificate
of the Rev. Mr. French, of Washington, that
all the Colonel's children were baptised in the
Episcopal church of that place. They refuse
because the publication of this fact would
to p published rovetothe is
false. ir
readers that all they have hither-
'ray-. Simon Cameron, of Penn., has taken
stump for Fremont and Dayton. He is the
best canvasser in the State, and his revolt from
the pro•slavery ranks will reduce their strength
in Pennsylvania thousands of votes. The
voice of this veteran, raised for Fremont and
Freedom, will send a thrill through the hearts
of young Democrats of the Keystone State
whose sires have walked and acted by kin
counsels in the days which are gone.