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BEDFORD, Fa.
Friday .Homing, July I*.
"Fearless and Free."
HAY til OVKR, EDITOR ANli EHOITUETOR*
FOR PRESIDENT;
1111,hiii it muioitE,
OF NEW YORK
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
tSDUEW JICKSON IJOSELStUi
OF TENNESSEE.
I'SION STATE TICKET.
Canal Commissioner
THOMAS E. GOGIIRAN,
Of York County.
. Judilor General:
DARWIN* PIIELPS,
Of .irvuiiony; County.
Surveyor General
BA RTIIOLOMEW L A PORTE,
Of Bradford County.
NOTICE*
By divine permission, the corner stone ,
of :i new Lutheran Church will be laid at j
Rays Hill, Pa., (in ibc charge of the Rev.
W. Bradshaw Baehtel!) July *2(h 185(1, at j
10 o'clock, A M. Several ministers from
•1 distance will be present. Professor]
Cox RAP, of Ohio, will officiate on the oc-i
easion. The public is respectfully invited !
to attend,
By order of
JOHN NYCUM. Sen.,
SIMON NYCIJN,
G. W. HOUSEHOLDER,
Building Committee.
July 11, 1556.
To the Americans of i'cnn'a.
At a meeting of the Stale Council of the State j
! Pennsylvania, held in liarrisbnrg, on tlie 13th
.1 May last, it wn> resolved that the President
e>:l Secretary he authorized to call a Conven
tion of the American party oj the State toas
■einble at Harrisburg, on the first Toesdav in
August next ensuing, for the purpose of plac
ing in nomination an Electoral Ticket, and
transact such other business as may be necessa
ry for the prosecution of the Presidential cani
; Lai go; aud in accordance with said resolution,
the friends of FILLMORE AND DoNKLSON
are hereby requested to meet in their respective
[liatrivts, on or in-fore the Uath day of July, and
sleet Delegates to the S3id Convention, corres
ponding to the numbet t members they are en
title fto in the Senate anl House ot Represen
tatives of thu Legislature of the State. The
slid Convention at liarrihburg to meet <>n
iTLSDAY, the fifth -l.y i August, at 10
o'clock, A. M.
.IXO. li. RfITE. Presides':
: •>. L. (Jnroan. Secretary.
AM r.IE!CA.\" AOI.YTY rov
Vt\To\.
i "1,0 Delegates from each Township and
Borough :n the County are hereby notified
to meet at the Court House in the Borough
of Bedford ou Thursday the J Ist day of
July insf.. at eleven o'clock A.> 1 to put
m uouiinarion a County ticker for the en
aing eleciou. Each election district i
entitled to two delagatOH, and it is desired
and expected that every Township and
boronch wili be fully represented.
By or lcr of the Cojmty Committee.
FR JORDAN*, Chairman.
il. NieopEMt s, Sec'ty.
■Tulv 11, ISSG.
fW JB>"H7
SUBSCRIBERS to tie stock ■ f the Hopewell
and Bloody Run Plank and Turnpike Road
Compiny, are herein- notiti'd that the 4th in
st alaieat, Iwing live (h ilars en each share, will
be due and payable t>t the t Sire of the Treasu
rer ot> the 20th July next.
'tlv order of the Board ot Managers.
JOHN MOWER, Trwtnr.
J cue 27, 1-H.V).
Iftrars Ruthaann in favor of Ten
Oiiln a tlav for (he Laboring
* Man!
READ THE PROOF.
Extract from the speech of James Bu
chanan, on the Tariff, on the 27th January j
IS4O, iu the l otted States Senate, to be i
found iu the Con -regional fl/obe , pn--es
135-0
in Germany, where tlrt rtummey ,s purely 1
met alio, ami the cost ol everything is RE DUG- |
ED to a hard money standard, a piece of broad- !
. ioth can he niaotil'setared f'or ftUy dollars: the ;
toauofacture of which, in out; country frout the !
, expansion of paper currency would cost one ;
hundred dollars. Tb>* foreign French and
German manufacturer Imports tics cloth into :
our country and sells :t for a hundred. Does
ted every person perceive that the redundancy ;
of our currency is equal to a premium of one j
hundred per cent, in lavor ot the manufacturer, j
■ 'No tariff of protection, ntilevs it amounted 1
to prohibition, could counteract these advanta
ge* in favor of foreign manufacture-. I would
to Heaven that I cotttd arcmss the attention of
'•very manufacturer of tin- nation to this itapor- |
' .int subject.
• ft hat is the reason that, with all these ad
vantages and with the protective duties which
our 1..n ssitbrd to the domestic uiamtlaciiire of
cotton, we cannot obtain exclusive possession of
the home market, and successfully contend for
the markets of the world? It is simply because j
wematmfact r:re at the nominal prices of our j
owu mttated cnrri ucy, and arr % conip.dicd to sell I
at the rest prices of idher nations. KKDUOK
OUR NOMIN A!, STANDARD OF FRIGES
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, and vat: cover
our country with blessings and benefits.
"The comparative I.OW PRICES of France
and Germany have afforded such a sliuiulotis to ■
their manufactures, that thev are now rapidly ex
tending themselves, and would obtain possession j
in rto stualf degree, even of itie English iiottte '
market; IF if WERE NOT FOR THEIR
PROTECTING DU fIF.S- ft Rii? British matin- •
faetures are now languishing. those of the 1
continent are spnuging into a tied thy and
vigorous exigence.'
A careful exau.inilion of 'he average
prices of labor throil jhout Uu world, shows
that it only amounts to TK.N CENTS A
DAY ' Laboring lt-un, will yon vote for
Buchanan, who is willing to give yon only,
ten cents a Jay foi your bar J labor 3
" where -Vi;e they
Under the above title in the last week's
issue of the Gaset'e, we find the following
question "Where are tha BANK, the
TARIFF, the VETO ami the INDEPEN
DENT TREASURY Questions, which have
i been disturbing the public peace for the
last fifteen er twenty years ?" Sure enough,
where are they? Let us endeavor to en
lighten the anxious Gazette a littie. As
our readers will remember, the hill for a re
newal of the charter of the United States
Rank was vetoed by Genl. Jackson during
hU Presidential term, more than iventy
j years ago. Since then there has been no
;U. S. Bank. It has been as dead to all in
' tents and purposes, as the embargo law of
the late war. Notwithstanding all this,
however, the Gazette, ami other papers like
it, have been harping on the Bank and
bringing its bloody ghost into every cam
paign since, as a rallying cry of its igno
rant followers, although it was no more a
' political issue than the history of the Chi
nese Wall. Where is the Bank now, and
why do not the same parties again bring it
forth as n battle cry of the campaign? We
answer, for the best reason in the world.—
It is her mis? James Buchanan was a friend
-J the I 'aited Slates Bank and it.: re-chai
ter. For the last twenty years, even
though the Bank was asleep in its grave, it
answered Locofocoism to annually and bit
terly denounce the Bank, and everybody
that could hv either truth or falsehood be
identified with it. But James Buchanan
was one of the friends of that monster, the
Bank, and therefore nothing must now be
said upon the subject. This is what has
become of the Bank. The proof of James
Buchanan's position on this Bauk question is
abundant,an Ino unimportant part of it may
be found in that celebrated Fourth of July
Oration of his, published by us in our pa
per of the 4th instant. Knowing the reck
iesness of Locofocoism, we expected the au
thorship of that oration to be denied; but
they not only admit it by their silence, but
in last week's Gazette is a letter . over the
signature of .Mr. Buchanan himself, in
which it is candidly admitted. In that pat
riotic production he says, "Time will not
allow me to enumerate all the other wild and
wicked projects of the Democratic Adminis
tration." lie proceeds, however, to enu
merate some of them, and one of these great
grievances was il by refusing the Bank of
the LniteJ States a continuance, of its char
ter, and harassing the financial concerns of
the government'' These arc James Bu
chanan's own words, and hence the reason
js veiy plain why we hear nothing more of
the U. S. Bank-
In the same spirit we may ask, what has
become of the charges of "Federalism" and
"Hartford Convention Federalists,'' about
which we have heard so much from certain
quarters time out of mind. True there has
been 110 federal party iu existence tor many
bug years, aad no perscu we presume, who
sympatized with the proceedings of that
Convention; and yet the presses which pro
fessed to speak for the sham deinocracv
have evciy year been long, loud and bitter
in their denunciation of the Federalists, and
in their dishonest attempts tc fasten the sap
posed odium of that name upon all who
dared to differ with tbem politically. Why
is it the cry has becu so suddenly stopped
and that we have heard nothing of it since
the adjournment of the Ciueinuati Conven
tion' We answer, simply because James
Buchanan was i "Federalist.'" He was
elected to Congress twice, if not three
times, as a Federalist, and never a any
thing tisc than a Federalist, and therefore it
is that the abuse of Federalists lias ceased.
We regret that the lenrrth ot our article
will compel us to reserve for some future oc
casion cur answers upon the subjects of the
Tariff and the Indrgrndtrd Treasury. We
believe we can answer them in a manner
equally full and satisfactory.
For the present tve must conclude with
this single remark: That although Locrvfoeo
isrnis just now very quiet upon these sub
jects, and very careful nor. tc stir the ashes
of the I'nited States Rank or of Federal
ism, they have other rallying cries equally
stale and useless, which will answer the
same purpose. It now charges every matt
with " abolitionism ," and an intention to
"dissolv ■ the Union who will not bow
down ami worship at the shrine of sham de
mocracy. These last cries are of course
just a* false, just as inapplicable, and have
just as little to do with the reil issues of
the Jay, as that of Bankman and Federalist
ever bad, and yet they tire now the burdcu
of their speeches, <heir editorials, and their
song.- and by them they scorn to expect to
w. rk wouJeas for the old U. S. Baukuian
and Federalist, James Buchanan. The de
cree has gone forth, that every man with the
love of country in his heart, and the love
of liberty in his soul, who is opposed to the
extension of African slavery, and who is
io favor of carrying out the Jefferson ordi
nance of 1757 an J the Missouri Compro
mise of IS2O in their plain terias, and as
our ancestors intended they shaul J lie, is to
be viHifit d and denounced as an abolition
ist and a disunionist. We know of no man
in this county or iu this State who is either
an abolitionist or a disunionist, in any fair
sense of the term, nor do we believe there
are any such in the Comconwealth. No
sricb issue therefore is before the people;
and yet all men who opposj the election of
James Buchanan, no matter upoti what
grounds, are to be abused a* abolitionists
and disunionists, without regard to truth
or decency, just as heretofore we have been
called Bank men and Federalists for oppo
sing the nominees of sham democracy.
A NEW SORT OF PROSCRIPTION.
In the Gazette of last week is an adver
tisement of a Locofoce meeting at St.
Clairsville, on the ilGth inst. On all such
occasions heretofore, it has been the invari
able praetiee to iuvile all of all parties to
attend. Under the progressive and liberal
views of shaui democracy things have now
changed, and their meetings it seems are
to be Hfeld for their o*ll special benefit, and
a majority of the voters aie to be excluded.
Part of the notice above alluded to reads
as follows: "A general and eordial invita
tion is given to the Democracy and old line
Whirs of the surrounding* Townships and
Boroughs to be present on the occasion."—
"Proscription" is thu cry raised by this
same party against all its adversaries; and
yet it can, in all its conduct, carry the prin
ciples of proscription further than any oili
er party in the County; and it has remain
ed for the Locofocoism of Bedford County
to wilfully exclude voters from poliiieal
meetings. la St. Ciair Township, where
this meeting is advertised to be belJ, there
is an American majority of about from sev
erity to eighty votes over all others: and
recently we believe there are some Repub
licans there. They are not to be permitted
without a breach of propriety, to attend
this democratic meeting, for we consider it
a breach of propriety for men to go where
they are uot invited, and especially when
so clear an intimation is given that they are
uot wauted. They are uot forbidden to at
tend in express words, but the democracy
are invited, and the oil line Whirs are cor
dially iuvited, whilst the Americans and
Republicans, living right amongst tlieai,
and composing a large majority of the ro
tors, are not invited, but evidently slighted
by design. We guess they can understand
such a hint as this. It reminds us of the
hint the man got who was kicked down
stairs. From this circumstance be inferred
that his company was not wanted, and we
doubt not the Americans ami Republicans
can draw an inference equally justifiable
and satisfactory.
la one sense we resrret that we and our
V
friends are thus deprived of the usual priv
ilege of attending the Locof'uco meetings
this fall. We will endeavor to stand it,
however, cheerfully recognizing the right in
this free country for any party to hold its
meetings, public or private, just as it pleases.
We console ourselves, also, with this furth
er reflection, that we will lose but little by
the denial of the old privilege, and especi
ally if v.e are permitted to judge frout the
character of the recent articles it! the Ga
zette. For gross exaggerations, wilful mis
representation of facts, shameless perver
sions of political history, this organ not on
ly outstrips all others which come under our
observation, but bids fair to outdo itself.—
We are apprehensive that not a few of the
speeches delivered at these meetings will
partake largely of the same character, and
are therefore inclined to admire the patriot
ism, if not the Christianity of modern Lo
cofocoistn in thus eoiiGniiig its errors and
its heresies within the various limits pre
scribed in the advertisement which has oc
casioned these comments,
ttTTiie editor of the Gazette nfleets to
condemn the hrntal and dastardly assault
of Brooks npon Senator Sumner in the
United States Senate Chamber, but at the
same time apologizes forit by asserting that
Senator Sumner invited the attack by his
"blackguardism and scurrility." lie pre
tends to reprobate the outrage, but eagerly
seeks a justification of it. it is always
thus with cowards aud hypocrites. Instead
of coining squarely up to the mark and de
fending the miscreant as he would like to
do, he sneakingly intimates an excuse for
him. The editor of the Garotte cannot
find a syllable in that speech of Senator
Sumner that conies within the meaning of
the term "seurrility,"' as he understands it,
and practices under it. lie knows this, and
therefore keeps it from the view of his
readers. On the contrary, it is strictly
parliamentary from beginning to -end , it is
chaste in diction and rich iu classical iliu.s
tration, aud as different from the won tod
"scurrility and blackguardism"' of the Ga
zette, as the keen and polished Damascus
blade is from the bludgeon used by the as
sassin Brooks. The simple truth is, Brooks
is a coward, aud the editor of the Gazette
is a coward and a poltroon. No one but a
coward conld suggest an excuse for the das
tardly act. In spite of the military title
aud coppet epaulets which he flourishes
with so much pomposity, he has more than
once proved himself a cratVK, and long ago
should have had his spurs hacked from his
heels.
li' be had been chastised as be deserved
for bis scurrility towards the aged and in
firm, and towards innocent aud defenceless
females, there would not be sound space
enough on bis bide that it could not be cov
ered witb a three cent' piece On one or
two occasions, whet: be was punished for bis
insolence and blackguardism, be "boo-boo
ed*' like an overgrown calf, and afterwards
took shelter behind the law ; —he picketed
the iusult, and the Court recompensed him
in damages. Aud yet this valiant General
talk* about the scurrility and blackguardism
o; Scuato r biuuiiier, and justifies the bru
tal and cowardly attack upon him on that
BEDFORD INQUIRER AND' CHRONICLE.
| ground If it would not be too gross au
I outrage upon public morals and decency,
we would cull some specimens of scurrility
front the Gazette, aud set them parallel
with the objectionable , parts of Stunner's
speech. We have no taste for such dis
gusting work, but if we had the universal
judgement of the public it would be,that if
Senator Sutnner's language afforded any ex
cuse for the assault of Brooks, there is no
punishment too disgraceful, or too severe
for the wretch who has used language so
gross and infamous.
Kims.
THE REPORT OF THE COjYGRES-
SlO. YJL I. \T ES TiG.ITI.W COM
MITTEE.
The Couimitte appointed by the House of
Representatives to proceed to Kansas, make
investigation of the outrages committed
there, and report the facts, have performed
their dnites and made report. We have
pot room to publish this document, as it is
(put* voluminous, and would fill several edi
tions of our paper. We copy, however
their investigation of the lirst District, of
winch tlcre are eighteen iu Kansas, as
about a sample oi the outrages in the oth
er Districts of the territory We hope all
our friends will read it, as it shows conclu
sively the manner in which Locofocoistn and
border ruffianism has attempted to control
the affairs in that territory and make Kan
sas a slave State, i.i opposition to the wish
es of a majority of the rightful citizens of
that terriioiv. All opposed to these out
rages will vote against dame- Buchanan,
the nominee of the Cincinnati Convention,
who is pledged to carry out these infamous
acts of the slivelmldcrs and the present
reckless and imbecile JLoeofooo administra
tion Here i- the extract, read it:
FIRST bJSTRICT—MARCn 30, 13i5. hIW&EXCE.
The company of persons who marched into
this District, collected in Hay, Howard, Car
roll, Boone, La Fayette. Randolph,. Saline and
Cass counties, its the Stale of Missouri. Their
expenses wore paid- those wlib could not
come contributing provisions, wagons. &c.—
J'rovisions were deposited lor tiiose who were
expected to come to Lawrence in the house
of William Lykjtts,and were distributed. The
evening before and the morning of the day of
election, about 1000 men from the above coun
ties arrived at Lawrence, and camped in a ra
vine a short distance from t wn, aear the
I lace of voting. They came in wagons of
which there were over ona hundred and on
horseback, under I lie command of Colonel
Samuel Vouug. of Rooue county, Mis-mart,
and Claiborne F. Jackson, of Missouri. Thev
were armed with guns, rifles, pistols, and bow
ie-knives, and bad tents, tnnsfc, and flags wit h
them. They brought with them two pieces of
artillery, loaded with musket halls. On their
way to Lawrence some ol them met Mr. N. B.
Wanton, who had beeu appointed one of the
Judges oi Election by Gov. Herder, nud after
learnirg from him that he Considered it bis du
ty to demand an oath from tbera as to their
place of residence, first attempted to bribe,
and ti.en threatened him with hanging, in or
der to induce him to iFspensc with that oath.
1 u cons-quence of these threats, he did not
apiicar at the polls the next morning to act as
Judge.
i'he evening before the election, while in
camp, the Missourijtu were called together at
the tent of Capt. Claiborne F. Jackson, and
speeches were made to them hv Oal. Yourg
and others, calling for volunteers to go to oth
er Districts where there were not Misioiuiaux
enough to control the election, and there were
more at Lawrence than were needed there. Ma
nv volunteered to go. and the morning of the
election, several companies, from 150 to 200
men each, went off to Tecumseh. Hickory
Point, liloomington, and other places. oil
the morning of the election, ihe Missourians
oatne over to the place of voting from their
camp, in bodies of one hundred at a time.
Mr. lUanton not appealing, another Judge was
appointed in his place—Col. Voting claiming
that as the people of the territory had two
Judges, it was nothing more then right that the
M issourians should hive i he other one, to look
after their interests; anil Robert A. Cummins
was elected in Bhnton's stead, because he con
sidered that exerv man had a right to vote if
lie had been in the Territory but an hour.—
The Missourians brought their tickets with
them, but Rot having enough, they had three
hundred more printed in Lawrence on the
evening before and the day of election, They
had white ribbons in their button-holes to dis
tinguish themselves Irom the settlers.
When the voting-commenced the question <>'
the legality of the vote of a.Mr. Page was
raised. Before it was decided. Col. Samuel
Young stepped up to the window where the
votes were received, and said lie would settle
the matter. The vote of Mr. J'age was with
drawn, and Col. Young offered to vote, llere
fused to take the oath prescribed by the Gov
ernor, but swore he was a resident of the ter
ritory, upon which Jit 3 vote was received, lie
told Mr. Abbott, one of the judges, when ask
ed if he intended to make Kansas his future
home, that it wajs uoue of his business; that
if lie were a resident then, he should ask no
mure. After his vote was received. Col
Young got up in the window-silland announc
ed to the crowd that he had been permitted to
vote, and they could all come up and vote
lie told tin: Judges that there was no use in
swearing t he others, as they woul I all swear as
he had done. After the other Judges conclud
ed te receive Col. Young's vote, Mr. Abbott
resigned as Judge of Election, and Mr. Benji
tniii was elected in his place.
The polls were so much crowded until late
in the evening that for a time, when the men
had voted they were obliged to get out by lin
ing hoisted up on the roof of the building
where the election was being bWd, and pass
out over the house. Afterward a passage wav
through the crowd was made, by two lines of
men being formed, through which the voters
could get up to the polls. Col. Young inked
that the old men lie allowed to go up first and
vote, as they were tired with the traveling and
wanted to go back to camp.
The .Missourians sometimes cr.rae up to the
polls in procession, two by two, and voted.
During the day the Missourians drove off the
ground some of the citizens, Mr. Stevens Mr
bond, and Mr. Willis. They threatened to
shoot Mr. Bond, and a crowd rushed after him
threatening Mm. and as he ran from them some
shots were fired at him, as he jumped off the
bank of the river and made Ira* escape. The
citizens of the town went over in & body lute
in the aflernooa, when the polls had become
comparatively clear,and voted.
Before the voting had commenced, the Mis
sourians said, if the Judge* appointed by the
Governor did not receive their votes,, they
would choose other Judges. Some of" them
voted several times, changing their hats
or coats and coming up to the window
again. They said they intended to vote first,
and after they had got through then the others
could vote. Some of them claimed a right to
vote under the .organic act. from the fact that
their mere presence in the Territory constitut
ed them reJdonts, though they were from M is
consin, and had homes in Missouri. Others
said they had a right to vote because Kansas
belonged to Missouri, and people from the East
had no right to settle in the Territory and vote
there. 1 Jiev said they came to the Territory
to elect a Legislature to mil themselves, a thj
people of the Territory au<l persons from the j
Last and North wanted to elect a Legislature j
that would not suit them. Tliey said the) had :
a right to make Kansas a Slave Stale, because j
th people of the North had sent persons out i
to make it a Free State. Some claimed that !
they had heard that the Knjigrant Aid Society j
had stint men out to be at the election, and |
they came to offset their votes; hut the most !
of them made no such claim. Col. Young
said he wanted the citizens to vote in order to !
give the election some show of fairness. The !
Missourians said there would he no difficulty,
if the citizens did not interfere with their vot
ing, but they wero determined to vote—peace
ably, if they could, but vote any how. They
said each one of them was prepared for eight,
rounds, without loading, and would go the ninth
round with the butcher-knife. Some of thern
said that by voting in the Territory they would
deprive themselves of the right to vote in Mis
souri for twelve months afterward.
The Missourians began to leave tlieafternoon
of the day of election, though some did not go
home until the next morning.
In many cases when a wagon load had voted, ,
ihey immediately started for home. On their '
way home they said that if Gov. Feeder did i
not sanction the election they would hang him. |
The citizens of the town of Lawrence, as a i
general tiling, were not armed oil the day of j
election, thoi gh some had revolvers, but not j
exposed, ns were tin; arms of the Missourians. J
They kept a guard about the town the night af- j
ter the election, in consequence of tlie threats
of the Missourians, in order to protect it.
The Pro-Slavery men of the district attended
the nominating Conventions of the Free State
men, and voted for and secured the nomina
tions of-the men they considered the most ob
noxious to the Free State party in order to
cause dissension in that party.
Quito a number of settlers came into tin;
District before the day of election, and after
the Census was taken. According to the cen
sus returns, there were thun in the District 309
legat voters. Oi I hose whose unmet, are on the
Census retains, 177 ace to he found on the poll
books of the ,10th March, IKSS. Messrs. Ludd,
Labcock, and Pratt, testify to M names on the
poll books of persons they knew to have set- !
tied in the District after the census was taken ;
and befoielhe election.
1 A number of persons came into the Tt rrito
; rjr in J/.irch, ■before the election, from the
; -Northern ami Eastern States, intending toset
j who were in Lawrence on the day of elec
tion. At that time many of them had selected
no claims, and had no fixed place of residence.
Such were not entitled to vote. Many of tlteni
became dissatisfied with the country." Others
were disappointed at its political condition and
in tin- price an 1 demand for labor, and return
ed. Whether suy such voted at the election is
not clearly shown, lut from the proof, it is
probable that in the latter part oi the day after
the great body of the Missnnriina hid voted,
some did g., to the polls. The number was not
over 50. These voted tlte freo .State ticket.
l'he u hole number of names appearing upon
the poll lists i; 1034. After full examination,
we are satisfied that not over 232 of these were
legal voters, and Sit! were nou resident and il
legal voters. This District is strongly in favor
of making Kansas a free State, and there is no
doubt that the free State candidate for the Le
gislature would luvu Isien elected Iry large ma
jorities, if none but the actual settlers lud vo
ted. At the preceding election in November,
1851, where none but. legal votes were. poHcd,
Gen. Wbitliehl, wiio received the full strength
ol the pro slavery party, got but if} votes.
The committee have come to the following
facts ami conclusions, as established by the
testimony:
First —That each election in the Terii
tory held under the organic or alleged Ter
ritorial law has been carried by organised
invasions front the State of Missouri, by
which the people of the Territory have been
prevented from exercising the rights secur
ed them by the organic law.
Second —That the alleged Territorial
Legislature was an illegally-constituted
body, aud had no power to pass valid laws,
and their cnactmccts are, therefore, null
and void.
Third. —That, these a Hedged laws have
not, as a general thing, beeu used to pro
tect persons and property and to punish
wrong, but for unlawful purposes
Fourth. —That the election under which
the sitting Delegate, John \Y Whitofield,
hold, his seat, was not hel l in pursuance of
any valid law, and that it should be regard
ed only as the expression of tiie choice of
those resident cilizeus who voted for hiui.
Fifth. —That the election under which
the contesting Delegate, Andrew 11. Keedcr,
claiius his seat, was not held in pursuance of
law. and that it should be regarded only as
the expression of the choice of the resident
citizen who voted for him.
Sixth. —That Andrew 11. Boeder received
a greater number of votes of resident citi
zens than \V. Whitcfield, for Delegate.
Stvtnfh —That in the present condition
of tlie Territory a fair election' cannot be
held without a new census, a stringent aud
well-guarded election law, the selection of
impartial Judges, and the presou<*e of Uni
ted States tooops at every place of elec
tion.
Eighth —That (lie various elections held
by the people of the territory preliminary
to the formation of the State Government,
have been as regular as the disturbed con
dition of the territory would allow, and
lhat the coustition passed by the Convention
held in pursuance uf said elections, embod
ies the willof a majority of tli? people
As it is not the province of your Com
mittee to suggest remedies for the existing
troubles in the Territory of Kausas, they
content themselves with the foregoing state
ment of fact".
All of which is respectfully submitted.
WM. A. HOWARD,
JOHN SI 1 HUMAN.
We :ire pleased to see that our young and ;
talented friends T A. Bom, Bs.p, lately of
Bedford, and J. 11. BoG'is, Ks<j. formed? of •
Killtati have entered into partnership in the j
practice of law, in Illinois. Mr. Boyd re- i
sides at Galesburg, and Mr. Boggs at |
Knoxvile, in that State. We have no ;
doubt that they will be successful in busi- ]
r.ess, as they have the talents to make good i
lawyers. We wish them abundant success, j
SAI.F. OK LOTS AT HOPEWELL —WC j
call the atteotiou of our readers to the sa! e |
of lots iu the town of Liopewell, in Bed
ford county, on the Jlst of July, inst.—
liopewell is destined to beoooto a thriving
town, as it is within half a mile of the coal
openings, and in the midst of a rich and
flourishing country. A good chance is of
fered in these lots for speculation.
We are sorry to inform our re aders, that
Col. JOSEPH OTTINOER, long a resident of
ford,died several days ago, after a severe
illness, in Philadelphia. The Colonel was
whole-souleJ, generous, and true to his
friends.
A paper iu reply to Uev. John Chambers
I will appear next week.
Sunn* persou sent u* a Trenton, N-. J
paper, containing the fallowing notice, ami
which is credited to the Crusader, which we
presume is also published in Trenton. Mr-
Giles served his time it) the Gazette offieeo
in Bedford.
Win. Giles, a printer from Wheeling,
Va., applied to a police officer in this city,
and requested to be locked up, because lie
was on a spree and could not quit drinking
unless placed where he might call for liquor
in vain. This request was complied with,
and on being taken before the Police Court'
the next day, he was committed to jail.,
where he died of mania potu. From
! pers in his possession, it was ascertained
1 that he had a wife in Wheeling,
i
Ou the 14th inst., the resolution expel
ling the coward, Brook", for his assault on
Senator Sumner, came up. Yeas 121, nay*
95. T.vo thirds are required to expel a
member—so the resolution was lost.
then announced his resignation of his sea 4
as a member of South Carolina.
REMOVAL. —Messrs J. & J. M Shoema
ker have removed their store to the Coloi i
nade buildjng lately occupied by Mr. Ja
cob Reed. They would be happy to see aII
their old customers and others at their uc vr
store Give them a call.
THF. PROSPECTS OF 3IR. FIM.MORE. —Mf
the prospect of carrying Pennsylvania fo*
Mr. Duchanao was doubtful from the begim
ning, his chances have become still morv
desperate by the tranter of the Gerrna o
vote to Fremont. The Philadelphia Ti ma i,
a neutral journal, cautions in its avowal*;
and not likely to be misled, estimates this
loss to the Democratic party at certain] y
not less than six or seven thousand votc-<s,
and remarks further, that "the Democratic
party will, from the same cause, lose its
uncertain majority in Texas and Missouri,
both of which States will give, under these
circumstances, a majority for Mr. Fill"
more
Horaec Greeley very frankly admits ths*
Mr. Fillmore will pretty surely receive the
electoral votes of Delaware. Maryland, Ken
tucky aud Tennessee. North Carolina and
Lousiana, he puts down as doub'ful, Florida
not impossible, and perhaps Georgia.
Mr Stuart, of Virginia, claims all t'he
above mentioned States as certain for Fill
more, ami adds to thcin Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Illnidc Island, New York, Pennsyl
vania, Missouri and California: In addition
to these States, the Philadelphia Times en
press. < the opinion that .Mr. Fillmore's pro >-
perfs in Mississippi and Arkansas are notv
of a very suspicious character, and are im
proving daily: and that in Virginia the Old
Line Whigs, who, to the number of twelve
thousand, turned the scale at tln last Gu
bernatorial election in favor of Wise, will
go in a body for Fillmore. If these spec
ulations are based upon reliable data, it is
therefore not improbable that Mr. Fillmore
will succeed in carrying the following states:
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York,
N'efr Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Geor
gia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Lousiana,
Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, and Califor
nia.
'•lf, however," says the Time?, "the
election goes to the House of Representa
tives, as it must, no candidate having 1 f!
votes, a majority .f the whole number of
electoral votes, which amount in all to 29G,
it is impossible to conjecture the result,
while it is certain the Fillmore delegation
of Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Dela
ware, and Maryland, will hold the balance
of power, and may* force a union ou their
candidate. It is evident tluit no one of the
candidates lias a majority of the whole num
ber of States, at prcseut in the House.
Texas and I ova are ties, the former having
one Ameriean and one Democratic member,
aud the latter one Republican and one dem
ocrat. If Mr. Cliiiginan' (Whig) should vote
for Filluiore, North Carolina would also
belied. Mr. Ruchauan has only nine cer
tain States iu the House, viz: Alabama,
Arkansas, California, Florida Georgia, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, aud Vir
giuia, with a probability of North Carolina.
He would therefore have no chance in that
body, as the vote is cast Ly States; and six
teen being a majority of the whole number."
OUT FOli FILLMOIiiJ.
The FlatNburg Sentinel is out for Fill
more and Donelson. In placing the tieket
at the head of its columns, its editor says',
among other things:
"The American party may contemplate
with conscious pride, the position of tlieij.
candidate, and the contrast in which be
stands to his competitors, upon a compari
son of their Jives and public services. As
we have faith iu the litness of the people to
rule themselves, we belieye that no combi
nation of circumstances can induce them
to discard Mr. Fillmore in order to accept
cither Isuchai:an or Fremont. ' * Fare
in Lis private life, spotless iu his integrity,
conservative iu his public eoursc, national
in his patriotism, consistent in his political
careir, experienced iu administration, famil
iar with public men, and the details of all
the departments of the Government, cau
tious, cool, considerate, detached utterly
from both factious whose hostility to each
other, operating iu the different sections of
the Union, jeopardizes the peace and safety
of the whole people, and has now backed
up the Union itself on the hazard of the
die, Millard Fillmore stands to-day before
'he American people iu the very attitude to
challenge the approbation and t? worth
free suffrage of every considerate bv% r of
his country in America
A BET OFFERED. —We arc REQUESTED
by a gentleman of responsibility, to pub
lish the following offer:
Fifty dollars that Fillmore beats Bu
chanan in the county where Fillmore n
sides, fifty that he beats him in the Stat,
(New York) where he tcsides, fifty that be
heats him in the county where Buchanan
resides, fifty that he beats him in the State
where Buchanan resides, fifty that lie heats
him in the connty where Andrew Jackson
Donelson, of Tulip Grove, resides, fifty
tliat he heats him in the State where Dou
elson resides, fifty that he beats him in the
county where Breckinridge resides, fifiy
that he heats him in the State where Creek
iaridge resides, fifty that Fillmore is elect
ed, fifty that Buchanan is not elected, the
whole to le taken together, and the uiormv
to he deposited in the Planters' Rank
Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.
FILLMORE AND THE UNION.—
The Augusta (Geo.) Chronicle thus al
ludes to Mr. Fillmoie's Albany speech:
"Mr. Fillmore's progress through his na
tive State is compared with peculiar felicity
to that of Harry of the West in his palmi
est days. There arc many points of reseni
-1 blauce between the two illustrious men:
their sincere love for the Uuion, their un
dying patriotism, their total forgetlulness
of self, their outspoken chivalrous lan
guage, and their noble preseuce which gives
the world assurance of r. man. Since the
death of Henry Clay, no speech has pro
duced so profound an effect upon the Ainer.
iean heart as that delivered Ly Millard
Fillmore in the Capitcl at Albany. It has
awakened long silent emotions, it has por
trayed in glowing words the dangers tha 1
menace the country: it has rebuked the
spirit of sectionalism; it lias revealed the
shortcomings of the tiiuid and vacillating, it
has caused the faithful to renew their faith
from its fountain head—the Constitution."'
1• rom the .V. 1 ork Independent.
SHALL J MAX BE J CATHOLIC
.JGALYST ftJS WILLI
Political heats are apt to hatch out false
hoods as tropica! heats do venomous insects,
Hut Christian men should be especially care
ful that theij do not countenance or propa
gate such falsehoods.
At this time many newspapers recklessly
charge Col. Fremont with being a Roman
Catholic. '1 hough it has been authorita
tively contradicted, it still continues o !e
asserted, and in very positive sod impudent
forms.
We have takcu pains to inform ourselves
in this matter, and now state to the Chris
tian public the simple truth, that good
men, at least, may cease to bear false wit
ness.
Col Freemont was blessed with a mother
of devoted piety. She was a member of the
Episcopal church, St. Philip's, CharkMon.
S. C., and reared licr son in her own faith.
Indeed, until he was fourteen, Col. Fremont
was educated in the hope and expectation
that he would become an Episcopal minister.
At sixteen, he was confirmed in the Episco
pal church, and has, ever since, when with
in reach of the chureh, been an attendant
and comunicant. And since his temporary
sojourn in X. \crk, he his been an atten
dant at Dr. Anthon's church, until recent"
ly, and now he worships at Grace Church.
Mrs. Fremont was reared strictly in the
Presbyterian Church, and united with the
Episcopal Chureh uj>oa her marriage with
Col. Fremont. Their children have been
hattisea in the Episcopal Church It is
said that a drughter has been sent to a
Catholic institution for education. So far
! rom it, she has never been sent away from
home at all, but has been educated bv her
own mother.
It is well known that Mrs. Fremont is the
daughter of Col. Benton, and that, at the
time, her father was opposed to her mar
riage. Col. Fremont personally solicited
several Protestant Clergymen to perform
the marriage ceremony, bur. on account of
Col. Benton's opposition ro it, they were
unwilling to do it. A female friend, in this
exigency, said that she could find a clergy
man, who would aid without fear, and
brought in a Catholic clergyman, who mar
ried tlietn. Like a true lover and gallant
man, Fremont said he did not carc tc/io did
it, so that it was done quick and strong
Had arc been in Col. Fremont's place we
would have been married if it had required
us to walk through a row of priests and
bishops as iong as from Washington to Ro un
winding up with the Pope himself
IIEXRY WARD HIECIIKR.
REBELLION! REBELLION! The Demo
cratic Reflector, au old Democratic paper,
published at Hamilton, New York, won't go
either Duchauau or the platform, it says
"We totally repudiate the platform and
the nominees of that body, Crst because the
platform is not Democratic; and, secondly,
because no one could have leeu nominated
who adhered to the time-honored principles
of the Democratic party."
The I'ulaski Democrat, in Oswego county,
New York, will not hoist the flag of the
nominees', nor endorse the platform of the
Cincinnati Convention. So they go 1 'I'D
nse an'expressive phrase, "Duchauau is a
dead eoek iu the pit'"