pun it CHICLE.
BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday .Horning MtY H. IS "if
"Featlessaud Free."
PVt'll) OVKtI, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
"I.MG.N STATii TiCKET.
FOR GOVERNOR :
DAVID YVIDIOT.
of Bradford County.
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
WILLIAM VILLWARR,
of Philadelphia.
SUPREME BENCH:
JAMES VEECH,
of Fuyellt County.
JOSEPH J. LEWIS,
of Ckeslcr Count.y
CORNER STONE LAYING.
Bv divine permission, tbc corner stone
of a new Lutheran Chnrch will be laid,
near Fisbertown, ?ix miles north east of
Schellakurg, on the road leading to Uolli
duysburg, on Sabbath, the 17th May. Ser- I
vices tocoiumeuee at 104 A. M.
The friends of Christ's cause, and the j
public gonetally, are most cordially invited ;
to be present ou that solemn and iuicicsting ;
occasion.
J. A. KUNKLEMAN.
May 2, 1857.
•]>RED SCOTT IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate on the Ist inst., Mr. Jor- ;
dan from the Select Committee on that sub- j
j et, reported with amendments, the reso- ;
lutious relative to the decision of the Su
preme Court in the Bred Seott case.accotu- j
pauicd with a written report; weieb was
read.
Mr Welsh, on the part of the minority of
the committee stated that the minority to
tally and entirely dissented from the ma
jority, aud would present a minority report
iu a day or two.
Mr. Crabb moved that the consideration j
of the report and resolutions be postponed j
lor the present, aud that, in couuection wi'h i
tiie report of the minority, they be printed. I
lie had listened to the reading of the report !
with great pleasure, and regarded it a3 the j
ablest document of the kind he had ever !
heard read, lie desired it postponed for j
the presnt, far the purpose of giving the mi- j
nority an opportunity of refuting its arga- '
inonts, if they could, and having the two
reports published together.
The following are tha resolutions aitach
-cd to the majority report:
Rttolvl. That the opinion of the Supreme ]
Court, in the ease of Died Scott is. Johu
F. A. Sarfrd announces principles in pal
pable opposition to the judicial and legisla
tive history of the Union, and ia violation
f the plain piovisicns of the Constitution of '
ti.e United States.
Resolved . That said opinion, except on the j
question of jurisdiction, being delivered in a ;
•case over which the Court admitted it had j
no jurisdiction, may be justly regarded as !
obiter i!'"ela, coram non judice, and iuopera- j
tive as law.
Resolved, That the five Judges who con- I
.. . °
currcu in said opinion, made a wanton at- i
tack oa the sovereignty of the free states—
nn impotent attempt to nullify the establish
ed laws of the couutry, and by extra judicial
no don caused an unnecessary excitement in
1 lie pubiio mind cn the subject of slavery,
snd thereby forfeited that confidence aud
a eject due to their exalted station.
FRANCIS JORDAN,
J. N. HARRIS.
11. D. GAZZAM.
May 1,1857.
Locofoeo meeting on 31onday
night, we learn, for we were not there, was
an exceedingly slim affair— quite a failure- j
Loeofocoisut is doomed in Bedford County, j
next fail, and no mistake. The usual j
■amountof \illification and blackguardism]
was indulged in bv the same okl speakers j
tLat the public have become disgusted with j
for years past. The Land rirate was par- i
ticularly severe on the editor of this papei? ]
but he can fire away—his abuse is praise in ]
the estimation of all horust men.
The Gazette is very fond of alluding,
lately, to bU brother-in-law, Senary Head
er's paper,published in Hanover, as one not
supporting the Union ticket. That paper
has been sailing under piratical colors for
years. It opposed us last fall. It is not
edited by Senary, as all our people here
kuow he has not a thimble-full of brains,
as he now shows. Absalom bad bettor not
refer to him so often, as it only affords a
muserocnt to onr people, who know his
brother-in-law!
EXTRA" DAY
The Senate, at the iustauee of Mr. Wil
k:us, a Diiiiccrt, Lave attached a proviso
to the Appropriation bill increasing their
I-J $200.00. It it 's passed. Mr. Jordan
<-ted against :t ia every shape it camo up.
Court broke up on Wednesday evening.
Very 'ittie business was done at.d tho at
ien .once rtr.e slici.
iU~Bcv. H. Hcckeriwt wui on Monday
.a .t elected County Superintendent of Com
c: Schools. The salary was raised from
**2 J,GO to 8600,00. We Lave go doubt
>e will c'sie f. good officer.
GEORGE BLYMIRE.
We are informed by ibe last Bedford
Gazette, that this person has attached his
name to the constitution of the Buchanan
! Club. The Gazette tries to make capital
i out of this fact, an 1 speaks of him as a
' uian of very great consequence, when the
j reverse Is the fact, as we shall show. —
t Now, who is George Bljutirt! Let the
1 facts speak for themselves. Some fifteen
! or eighteen years ago, George came into
i this county, aud established himself iu this
j Borough, and commenced be ticking bus
i ir.ess. He pretended to be a Whig. For
' about twelve years of that time George lias
been a regular candidate all the tiuio for
the Treasurer's office, but the Whig party
never had any coufideuce iu his political
integrity, and alwayh refused to honor hiin
with that nomination. It beiug knowu
that George was unsouud and under the
influence of certain Locofoeos here, and at
every election voting for ono or more, aud
we believe, sometimes all of the Locofeco
candidates. George, two or three years
ago, beginning to find out at last that his
case was hopeless in the Whig party, join
ed the American, with the same object in
view, (seeking the Treasurer's office has
become a second nature to him, iu fact, iu.
terfcring with what should be his more sa
cred obligations,) and was again doomed
to hopeless disappointment. He has been
cool ever since, aud from his antecedents
it was as natural as for a duck to swim, for
hiui to become a Locofoco. Last fail
George signed a Card which was published
in the Inquirer, advising the American par
ty to vote the Union Electoral ticket, and
like a man of truth aud veracity, three or
four days afterwards, he turned round and
voted against it. For tlio last six months
his shop has been the regular place of ren
dezvous of the Locofoco leaders, among
them Ab. Gordon, of the Gazette, who
have been eternally talking politics, and
insulting Americans and Republicans whe n
they entered on business. It was all natu
rally looked for, and surprises nobody.—
George, we are told, is a candidate iu the
Locofoco party for Treasurer next fall, j
part of the bargain. When he gets the of- :
Sue, he will please let us know.
"INTEGRITY AND IIET\'!" T L the
last Gazelle, we are informed that Dr. Ilickok
bus joined the Locofoco ciub, and in a former
article, the Doctor, through the editor of the
Gazette, boasts of his integrity and piety, which
wejsnppo.se, be wishes evetybody to know is
his reason for heing a Locofoco, and which
will atone for the sin of now belonging to the
most foul and pestiferous political organization
which ever existed. It don't nutter, we pre
sume. to sny one what the Doctor's politics
are. Ho was never a true Whig in his life,
and if asked the question, he will reply that
he never voted a full party ticket. The Doc
tor joined the "Know-Nothings," some two
or three years ago, and left them, because, we
infer trorn i.is actions at the lime, he was afraid
tho papists were about to try some Guy
Fuwkes expeiiment and blow a!! tho "Know-
Nothings" up, and his integrity and piety would
not save his precious crar.iura from their in
fernal Jiablcry.
But, really, we can see no pause for malting
so much fuss over him, (he is vain of newspa- ,
per praise, to be sure, especially, we presume, ;
when his integrity and piety are brought before i
the public.) for be lias no influence but bis own i
Vote, ami that vote was given, according to the :
Gazette's own admission, for Buchanan last fall, j
He also voted the Locol'oco ticket at the Slate j
election. We have known the Doctor ever
since his advent to this place, and will, as a 1
matter cf curst, bear witness to bis almost
more than remarkable integrity and piety, hut
when all the world, and especially every man, !
woman and child in Bedford County, knows, i
and does not dispute that fact, we thiuk it was 1
quite modes! in the Doctor to have his sanctity j
thus publicly boasted of!
Dor the information cf the Gazette we would '
state that IIEXBT C. IIICKOK. a brother of the
Doctor, recently appointed State Superinten- I
dent of Common Schools by Gov. Pollock, '
and formerly a Locofoco editor, has lately left i
the Locofoco party, and is now a true Ameri
can. He is a man of talent and influence, and (
bis gain will compensate fully for the Doctor;
and for aught we know to the contrary, is a
man of integrity and piety , but we presume
he never publicly boasted of these good qua
lities.
CHAP. ADAMS, who the Gazette says is
an " irifiutntial old line Whig," and who
joined the Buchanan clnb, is a young man
who left this place, when a boy, some eight
or nine years ago, and never has voted at a
general election here. He returned some
months ago. He wanted the nomination, for
High Constable at the Spring election, of
the Americans, and didn't get it! This ac
counts for his course!
FUNNY! —The Gazette praising up four
or five insignificant creatures iu this place,
for deserting the Americans, and black
guarding, as only a blackguard can, the
leading lights of the Locofoco party in this
i State, Simon Cameron, John Laporte, John
I N. Purviance, auJ others for leaving the
j rotten Locofoco concern. Be consistent,
| Absalom, for once!
\VILMOTS*LKTTER.
I Read the letter of Judge Wilisot. in to
i days peper. It is manly, straigbt-fofward,
' and to the poiDt. It clearly shows tbat he
; is in favor of the protection of the great
American interests of Pennsylvania.
A GENERAL SMASH EXPECTED —Among
the office-seekers in the Locofoco party, c=-
| pecially among those who uave changed
| their coats two or three times within two
i years.
\X m. T. Chapman, Esq., received the ap
i poiuitneot of High Constable by the Court.
There was no chanco for Levi "Agnew.—
j What a pity!
Ccrrcipvnden.ee of Inquirer and Chronicle.
HARRISBUKO, May 5, 1857.
' Mr. EDITOR: —The session is drawing to
a close. The Apportionment bill is in the
hands of a committee of conference, coiu
j posed of Messrs. Jordan, Killiugcr, Cress
well, Ingram and Meyer of the Senate, aud
Messrs. Foster, Knight, Crawford, ilines
! and Caufftmn of the House. They meet
every night; and it is understood that the
joint committee has appointed Messrs. Fos
■ tor and Jordan a sub committee to arrange
; a bill, if possible.
The general appropaiation bill has pas
i sed both Houses, and is about to go into
i the hands of a committee of conference to
| settle sundry differences.
The bill for the sale of the Main Line
has passed the House, and was up before
; the Seuato to-day, and put in secoud read
: >£•
The Senate Committee, to which it was
i referred, amended it in several important
! puitiuulais so as to bo less acceptable to
i the Pennsylvania Railroad eo., and less ob
| jcctionablo generally. Tho indications are
that the bill will pass the Senate in a few
j days.
A bill appropriating three millions of
| the expected proceeds of the Main Line to
( tho Sun bury and Erie Railroad company,
| has passed the House; but it is hoped it
1 may he defeated in the Senate. It certain
ly ought to be arrested. It is high time
i Pennsylvania should cease appropriating
j money for any such purposes; and that a
democratic llohse of Representatives should
! have taken such a step is worthy of uote.
No time is yet fixed by tho Senate for
I adjournment, though the indications are
] that the session will close next week.
The rains here have been excessive for
1 several days, and the Susquehanna river is
high. It is reported, and I doubt not cor
; rectly, that one or more dams on the pub
: lie works have been washed away near Hun
tingdon. This will suspend business, for
an indefinite time on our Main Lin*, and
be the occasion of a heavy outlay for repairs.
Mr. Pelrikeu of the 1 louse is lying very
ill at Beehlet's. with what is but too well
known as the National Hotel disease. He j
has been lingeiiug for some time, gradualy j
wearing away, under the influences of that 1
mysterious aud insidious poison, and the
report, now is that he is not expected to live j
uutil to-morrow morning, lie is the Rep
resentative of Lycoming County, and was
a young uun of promise, but it seeius his
days are about numbered.
To-day a bill was approved by the Gov
ernor for *he release of Gen!. Wot. F. Sural!
from Moyamensing Prison, where he has
been languishing for some nine months,
under a deeree of the Supreme Court for an
alleged contempt of Court.
Yours, truly,
SPECTATOR.
I
Wiiimt's Position ou the Tariff.
We publish below a letter written by '
the Hon. David Wiltnof, iu 1855, to B. i
Laporte, Esq., in regard to the Tariff,
question. It is unnecessary for us to make •
aDj comment, as it will spoak for itself:
House of Representatives, |
Ilarrisbtirg, Jan. 18, 1855 J
Hon. David Wihnot—Dear Sir:—Your i
friends here will bring your name before
the Legislature in connection with the of- .
flee of U. S. Senator. The main objection
urged against you arises out of an impres
sion entertained by many that you are un- I
friendly to the great interests of our State. !
We should be glad to see you here, but ;
if you cannot visit Ilarrisbtirg before the
election, please g : ve us in a letter the his
tory of your course before Congress, on
the Tariff question, as there seems to he a i
misapprehension abroad in regard to your
views, if I have propetly understood them. '
Truly Yours,
B. LA PORTE.
Montrose, Jan. 22, 1855.
My Dear Sir—Your favor came to hand
last evening. Ido not think I shall be at '
Harrisburg. The week vacation between
my Courts would be mostly occupied j
in the journey, ieaviug me but little time j
to make the acquaintance of the gentlemen ;
now assembled at the capital. Again, if
uo difficulties were in the way, I am reluc- j
tant to show myself at Harrisburg at this i
time. Sot that lam iudifferent to the is
sue of the Senatorial election, but I do not i
wish to appear as a selfish and ambitious j
apiraut for that place. I have not, as you !
well know, been eager for Senatorial honors
nor Lave I, iu any way whatever, beeu in- j
strnmental in making myself a candidate. '
The connection of my name with the office
of Senator is the resnlt of the late signal
revolution in the polities in this State, and
of my my well known position ou one, at
least, of the important issues upon which
that revolution turned; and not through any
'vanity or scheming of my own. To visit
Harrisburg at this time would subject me
to suspicion, and to the charge of selfish
and sinister motives, which I wholly and
emphatically disclaim.
I do not deny tbat I should feel a per
sonal piide in an election to one of the
highest and most honorable positions in the
Government; but Ido deny, that I desire
the place for any selfish or personal ends,
j I fhould hope, if elected, to be of some
j service to the country, au'l to tho cause of
j sound principles. While 1 claim no eni
-1 incnt qualifications for the office, I do, uev
' ertheless, believe that my election would,
;in some respects,be fortunate, especially
in uniting and cementing for future action
| the men who achieved the late signal victo
ry in this State.
! You say that the main objection urged
; against me arises out of an impression en
-1 lertained by many, that I aui unfriendly to
i the great interests of our State. This is a
j total misapprehension of my feelings auu
! position, and springs doubtless from the
BEDFORD INQUIRER AND CHRONICLE.
fact, that in 1846,1 could not act with my
colleagues in a profitless and obstinate sup
port of the tariff of 1842. It was appar
rent, weeks before the lato tariff bill was
passed, that the act of '42 could not stand.
1 was in favor of its revision and modifica
tion, and in doing this, was zealously anx
ious to preserve, for the great interest of
our State, permanent and umple security;
and to this end, I labored industriously
and perseveringly. On the floor of the
House, I urged the laying of specific in
stead of ad valorem duties upon iron, and
to an extent that should give security to
our interests ogainstjuiuiog competition.—
1 entered iDto au argument to prove the ad
vantage ol specific over ad valorem duties,
in respect to various articles, and especially
in regaid to iron; establishing to my own
satisfaction that position, as well in respect
to the interests of the revenue, as to that
of the consumer and manufacturer, that
evefy interest would be promoted by laying
specific duties on iron. I appealed to the
House on behalf of the iron interests of otir
State, claiming for it a national respect
and consideration, insisting that the iron
interest was justly entitled to stand upou
higher ground than any other branch of
manufacturing business, claiming for it a
truly national character, as a necessary el
ement of national defence, and entitled,
therefore, to the espeoial and most favora
ble regard of the milieu. I insisted that
the same rule should not be applied to an
interest of this magnitude, that was ap"
plied to the uiauufarture of thread, tape,
pins, buttons, Ac. These are no new doc
trines, put forth to meet the occasion, but
the doctrines placed upon the records of
Congress, and easily found in its volume of
debates.
I noi only spoke in behalf of the inter
est* of oar State, but I worked earnestly
in the House, and out of it, to give to that
interest ait adequate and permanent securi
ty. I believed thei, and believe: now, if ;
a part even of the democratic delegation in j
Congress from this State would have agreed i
to the modification of the tariff of '42, j
that our great interests could have been
abundantly secured. If a majority of the
Democrats from this State * >uid have
agreed to support the bill, they could al- |
most have made their own terms, so far as j
Pennsylvania interests were concerned.— j
We met once or twice in cauous, to see if j
part, at least, would not agree on terms on '
which we could support the bill.
In these consultations 1 expressed an
earnest desire so to shape my action us to
protect the interest of our State. I pledg
ed utyself, in case the Caucus would agiee
upon rates of specific duties for iron, to
oppose the bill unless they were adopted j
by the Hone. Some two or three of them, ]
I believe, favored this plan, but a large ma- j
jority would agree to nothing. They would j
stand by the tariff of '42 ia all its details, j
agreeing to no modification whatever. 1
well recollect that Dr. Leib, of Columbia, J
aud Broubcad, declared they would uot :
vote for any change whatever, even if in
the new bill, the duties on iron and coal i
were allowed to stand, or were raised above j
the rates provided in the act of '42. Such '
in fact was the position of many in the del- j
egation.
1 was pledged to a modification of the
act of '42: yet I was anxious that our in- I
terests should not be put in jeopard}'. I |
said and did all in my power to protect |
those interests. I made no concealment or j
disguise whatever, of my anxiety in tLis re
spect, and repeatedly declared to the friends j
of the bill, that if I held its fate in my 1
hands, it should not pass , until a more just i
and liberal protection was offered to the in
terests of our State. I went so far as to
see and talk with Mr. Dallas, while the
measure was_pcnding in the Senate, and ur
ged him in case he should hold the fate of
the bill on his vote, to force its friends to
a liberal regard for our great interests. I
did not wish the defeat of the bill—of this
there was no danger, but to compel its friends
so to change it, as to make the interests of
our State secure. Indeed so anxious was 1
to bring about this result that I voted a
gainst concurring in the Senate amendment
f trifling importance. It is because of this
vote, that the Washington Union and Penn
solvanian have charged me with a desire to
defeat the bill in the final and trying hour
of its fate. The charge is untrue —I gavo
I the vote in hope of forcing the bill into a
committee of conference, where 1 under
j stood it would be open to general nmend
! ment, and thus affording one more cuanco
j of so amending tho hill as to secure the iu
! terests of our State.
I am of the firm belief, that if six Dem
ocrats from Peuusylvaniv would have acted
with me, instad of adhering immoveahly to
the act of '42, that our State would have
obtained all that reasonably could have been
asked, and her great interests placed on a
satisfactory and permanent basis, in the ear
ly stages of the bill, before its friends bad
counted and marshalled their forces, we
could, in my judgment, have secured ade
quate specific duties. In this I may be
aiistaken, but 1 think not. It is certain,
that we could have obtained fifty per cent
advaiorcm. Even iu tho latter stages of
tiie bill, and when its passage was certain
without any of our votes, so auxious wero
its friends to procure Pennsylvania support
(from party considerations,) that M'Kay,
who had the charge of the bill as Chairman
of the Committee of Ways and Means, offer
ed to move forty per cent, oa iron if half
the Democrats from our State would then!
vote for the bill. It always seemed to roe
strange when the passage of the bill was
cert tin,that our meu would not make sure j
of all they could get. They however, were
pledged to the tariff of '42, and it was ea
sier to staud by their pledges, than to ex- 1
plain to their constituents the reason for a
departure from them, however good their j
reasons may have been. I wis pledged to
o modification of the act of '42, and after
exhausting every effort to secure the inter- |
est* of our State, redeemed that pledge; de- j
during at the time 1 did s<>, that if the bill
depended op my vote, I would withhout it
until a larger measure of justice was muted I
out to our State.
I have given a full and truthful kis'ory
of my action on tho tariff iu 1846, and of j
feelings and motives that influenced my con
duct. The record will sustain the stale- ;
liient, iu all matters where the record can ;
speak.
The Congressional Globe, or rather "Ap- j
pendix," for 1846, must ho iu the State Li- j
brary, and there you will find uty speech j
upou the subject. The latter part of it re- j
lates to our owu State interests.
You are of course to make such uso of j
this letter as you please. There is nothing
in it but what is true, and nothing that I
desire to keep from the public. I wish you
would preserve this letter, or a copy of it,
so that there cannot hereafter be any dis
pute as 10 its contents. 1 hope it will sat
isfy all that I am uot now, aud never was
hostile to the interests of my native State.
Very truly yours.
DAVID WILMOT.
HON. B. LAFOUTE.
A NEW GALPHIN SWINDLE.
Every oue who took any note of politics a
few years since will remember the terrible |
hullabaloo raised by the louofoco press and j
orators over the "Galphiu" business, and how J
the payment of that claim was made the pre- j
text for charging the administration of Gen- j
TAYLOR with all manner of corruptions.— I
Galphinisui became a by-word indicative of!
fraud, and virtuous locofocoisin made the J
Old Whig Party fairly stagger under the •
torrent of honest indignation expended on j
the yaj ment of the Galphiu claim. Ttienew
administration has apparently forgotten the
former horror of its parly against GahLinistu
aud its advent into power has already been
signalized by a trausactiou that, in its bold
and shameless robbery of the National
Treasury, throws the Galphin business into
the shade. The history of the case is briefly j
th's.- Hon. Ilichard Thompson, some years j
s ince M. C. from Indiana, was recently — i
or claims to have been—the hired attorney I
of the Menominee Indians, to prosecute a j
claim which they badagntast the government j
for lauds sold. For services rendered them (
at Washing ton he claimed the sum o* j
$40,000. When these Indians were about
receiving a paymeut from the Federal j
Treasury, Mr. Thompson seut in bis little
hill,but his copper-colored clients disputed it
or rather repudiated it, and distributed the i
full sum among themselves, refusing to pay ,
him auything. Mr. Thompson then preier. ;
red his claim at the Treasury, where it was j
rejected. He tried Congress with equal ill \
success at first, but finally obtained the pas- <
sage of an Act to pay him his claim, prooi.
del the .Menominee Indians consented to it;
but, by some trickery the bill as transcri
bed by the Congressional Clerks did uot
contain the pioviso, although the Journals
of both Housrs shov) that it was incorpora
ed in the bill. Mr. Thompson did not pre
tend to obtuin the consent of the Indians,
but basing bis claim upon the fraudulently
altered bill, presented it anew at tho Treas
ury. Mr. Maypenny, Pierce's Comissioner
of Indian affairs, .stigmatised the claim as
utterly groundless and fraudulent, and M.
Guthrie, Pierce's Secretary of the Treasu
ry, utterly refused to pay it. Thus the
matter stood when tho new administration
caine into power. Mr. Cobb was appointed
Secretary of the Treasury, and Lo appoint
ed a Mr. Clayton, of Georgia, assistant
Secretary, (this Mr. Clayton being the very
man, who as assistant Secretary of the
Treasury during Gen. Taylor's administra
tion paid the Galphiu claim) and be scarce
ly gets warm iu his seat uutil Mr. Thomp
son is paid his $40,000, out of the Feder
al Treasury.
Was there ever a more bare-faced fraud j
perpetrated? In ihe name of common sense, 1
what claim had Thompson on the Federal
Treasury? If the Indians had employed biin •
and afterwards cheated him out of his fee, .
did that give hira any claim on the Treasury j
for it? Take a ease in point byway of illus- j
tratioh. Suppose the present contractor for j
building our new Jail had to bring suit,
against the couuty for his pay, and would
agree to give any one of our lawyers §SIOO
to try the cause for him. After a Judgment
was obtained against the county and paid in
full, suppose the contractor would refuse to
pay his attorney the stipulated amount, and
the attorney should then present his claim
to the county Treasurer and he should pay
him the SIOO, thus not only paying the con
! tractor every cent due him for buildiug tl.o
Jail, but paying SIOO additional to the
lawyer who compelled the county to pay her
just debt. How would the taut-payers like
an operation of this kind? And yet it is
precisely the same case, with as much show
of justice as Thampson's, against the Gov
ernment.
In view of so transparent a fraud, the
i mind naturally seeks for some juetive tn-
ducive to it, aDd a cotemporary furnishes it j
in the foilowiug statemcut. Mr. Richard W. j
Thompson, when in Congress, was a strong 1
anti-Slavery man, and made excellent j
speeches in favor of the \\ ilmot Proviso.— j
But last year after the Pierce administration
refused to pay his claim, he became an
intense "Luinu-saver," and at a moment
when it was almost certain that Indiana
would go for FREMONT, he headed a separate
FILLMORE movement, threw the FILLMORE
vote iu favor of the Locofoco State ticket
at tie October election, and so secured the
electoral vote of the Statu to Buchanan. —
The liquidation of his unfounded $40,000
claim at the Treasury, as soon as Buchanan
is warm iu his seat, is bis pay for tlut
service."
There are several features in this disre
putable a flair, that stamp it as a much more
gicss and base transaction than was the
Galphiu matter. In the first place, the
Gaiphin claim received the endorsement of
a locofoco administration, (Polk's) the ad"
ministration of Gen. TAYLOR mereiy paying
out the claim which had been passed upon
and approved by its predecessor; but the
Thompson claim was pronounced fraudulent
by every locofoco office holder who ever ex
amined it, daring Pierce's administration,
and with the brand of fraud affixed o it,
was paid out by the Buehanan administra
tion.
Again: the Thompson claim, beside being
a fraudulent and plundering one, was paid
in remuneration of the services of an apostate
to his party and his principles: and, finally,
if the charges brought against the TAYLOR
administration, in relation to the Gaiphin
claim were true, and if the censure and ahue
so mercilessly bestowed upon it, for tbe al
lowance of that claim were deserved, then
the promotion of this man Clayton —the
"chief of the Gaiphin coriuptiouists"—to
the position which he now holds, should for
ever damn the present administration; for
the looofocos, themselves, with their poi
sonous vituperation of tbe TAYLOR adminis
tration, stamped with infamy the character
of this man Clayton, t>nd bis reinstatement
in the position, which acuordiug to their
own showing he so foully disgraced on a
previous occasion, rendei-9 this Administra
tion and its friends amenable to threefold
the censure they so unsparingly heaped upor.
General Taylor's administration and the
Whig party. — Somrrsft ll&ald.
HANGING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
A correspondent of the Petersburg (Va.)
Express, writing from Goldsboro 1 , N. C.,
says:—
"Throe negroes—two likely young men
and an old woman, the mother of twenty
children—were hung at Greenville, Pitt
county, yesterday, for murder. From early
morn till noon every avenue leading in town
was crowded with persons, representing all
ages, sexes, classes and conditions of ilie
population in the county around about.—
About 9 o'clock in tbe morning, a steam
boat arriveJ from Washington, witli some
five hundred passengers. The crowd was
estimated at five thousand person®, of which
at least one thousand were females."
To as of the North, it seems strange that .
our Southern friends should exhibit senior- J
bid a desiie to see the wiud choked out of j
such articles of trade and merchandize as j
uegroos. If we were the owner of a vicious !
horse, uss or mule that had kicked the j
braius out of a friend, and we desired to j
prevent a similar calamity to any other per
son by shooting it, it is very doubtful if a
single person would have so much Curiosity
as to go to witness the death scene. Ac- j
cordiug to the recent decision of the Su- j
preme Court in the DltEl> SCOTT case, (and !
which is sustained and lauded by the Lo- J
cofooo party,) a uegro is not only not a j
citizen, but he is not even a man, and enti- <
tied to no mote protection or consideration I
than a brute. In the language of ouo of
theni, (Judge GRIEK,) "if be met a runs- :
way uegro ou tbe high-way, he would be
justified iu arresting him, the sauie as he i
would any other species of estray cattle, |
and if the owner failed to claim him, he, :
Judge GR?ER, would ' appropriate hiiu to
his owu use." This is progressive Boeofoco ;
Democracy! This is the Democracy of this j
year of grace, Anno Domini, 1857.
The correspondent of the Express could
not have heard of this Supreme Court
decision, for ho states that the persous ex
j ecuted were "two likely young men and an
i old woman , the mother of tweutv children
Ho seems to have regarded them as human.
If newspapers circulated more freely in the
j South, he might have been enlightened by
' this decision, and would have designated
I them by tbe simple term of negroes. This
old negress was a very profitable article of
farm stock—producing not less than from
§20,000 to §25,000 worth of "likely" and
I saleable merchandize. That beats our
! Northeru Agriculturists.
THE DEMOCRATIC COLUMN*. —The Jack
son Patriot in speaking of the late locofooo
triumph in Jackson, says:
"It was a noble sight to see the indomi
table persevering and honest German, and
the active frank and manly Irishman, shoul
der to shoulder pushing forward the Dem
ocrats column."
Exactly, neighbor: we do not doubt your
admiration of the scene: for you well know
that were it not for a few deceived Germans,
and the Irish masses, your "Column'" would
nut make a corporal's guard. Count the
Germans out ere; long; and then "on" with
your siiuon pure Irish "Ctdcuja,"— Michi
gan Ez~pari} or *
THE METHODIST CHURCH RESO
LUTIOXS ON SLAVERY.
The annual conference of the Mew York
(East) Methodist Episcopal Church, in ses
sion for some days past ia Brooklyn, has
taken strong ground on the slavery ques
i tion. The Committee on Slavery (majority
; report) submitted the following resolutions:
Resolved, That we regard slavery as a
great moral and social evil, a violation of
. the rights of man, and < pposcd to the spir
' it and progress of the Christian religion.
Resolved, That we will use what influ
, cnce we possess to prevent its extension in
to regions and communities in which it does
not at present exist, and will use ail means
that may with propriety be used by Chris
tian ministers to eflvct its extirpation from
the world.
The uiiuority resolutions read:
Resolved, '''hat we regard slavory as a
great evil, threatening the peace aDd proa
i perity of this republic, the permanence of
j the Union, and the stability of the govern
. meut.
j Resolved, That the Methodist Episcopal
I church has bceu from its commencement an
| ti-slavcry in spirit, both by precept and ex
; ample.
Resolved, That the action had by tho
| late General Conference of our church on
the question of slavery furnishes lis wiili
j cause for gratitude and thanksgiving to God
■ for favorable results to the church, giving
j her peace and prosperity iu her labors.
Resolved, That.whilo we aro opposed to
slavery, and have no sympathy with the iii
stitutiou, at the -ame time we are equally
opposed to the radical measures and reck"
! less policy pursued by many of the profes
i sed friends of the slave for his emancipa
tion, and that we have no sympathy what
ever with the revolutionary movements.
Resolved, That as ministers of the gos
pel we will do what we can, not incotistS
j tent with our calling, for the extirpation of
1 the great evil of slavery; and hat while
| wo endeavor to break every yoke and let.
: the oppressed go Iree, we will pray for the
| master and slave, as well as for kings and.
j all others that arc in authority, that we
may lead a peaceable life in all godliness
and honesty.
The brief, expiie.it, no-eoraproiuise ami
no quarter resolutions of the majority were
almost unanimously adopted.
A Diss listed Democrat.
• Mr. Carpenter, of the Manisou Patriot
i tlie organ of the anti-Barstow wing of rbe
! Wisconsin Democracy, writes to his paper
j the foilowiug.
| "It is weil known that, in company with a
I seoie of Democrats from Wisconsin, I re
i mained in Washington about a month to aid
I in so exposing the misdeeds of tho 'Forty
! Thieves" that we should forever be rid of
I theui hereafter, arid it must be notorious cr
j this that most of our endeavors have failed-
I The hop.-s for our party in the future are
i vanished, and we have been cleaned out!
The '4o' Sud favor at Court, while tho old.
stand by Democrats who bare never been in.
1 dieted for stealing, gambling, nr pur juries are
permitted to suck their fingers at areepeeta
i ble distance."'
That the writer i- disgusted, but not au
nt te rally ro, wnh the Administration, is
evident from l,i* chitting paragraph.
'•[ am arranging fine business prepara
tory to takings bee-line for Madison to mor
row or next day, with the full detern.iriatiott
that the ITninii may he rent asunder, the Po
tomac yield tip its waters to old Ocean, and
become as dry as my pocke's, Abolitionists
revel iu rauipant luxury and dominion at tbe
National Capitai; that Chituborazo may
nod its towciiug head at the feet of a mole
hill: tli.it cholera, yellow fever, croup and
chicken pox may vomit forth their pestiferous
and devastating miasma to suffocate the
poisoned rats of IV ushington; that lice, frogs
aod all the plagues brought upon Egypt hv
the wickedness of Pharaoh may overrun and
devastate our country, before 1 go to Wash"
ingtoti again with a view of preventing
thieves from filling places of honor and
proGr. : '
FAMINE AND BLOODSHED IN NEBRASKA.
—The Missouri Democrat learns ftotn a
gentleman who recently arrived from Coun
cil Bluffs that the people of the vatiou3
towns ou the river above St Joseph, were,
destitute, not only of the luxuries, but ma
ny of the necossaries of life. As the steaui--
er St Mary passed along eager crowds has
tened on board at every landing, for the
purpose of purchasing portions of her car
go that might be. for sale. Several persons
who went up with her had provided them
selves for such demands, and realized largo
profits on their ventures. The Democrat
learns further, that four tneu were shot at
Piattsmouth, N. T., on Saturday evening,
March 19th by order of hands of the Vigi
lance Committee, and that five others were
banished by the same party, from Nebraska,
across the river, and forbidden to return to
the territory under pain of death, if caught.
Their offence was claim jumping.
DEATH OF JAMES DCNI.OP, ESQ.—WE
: notice, with sincere regret, the announce
ment of the death of James Dunlop, Esq. a
gentleman well and favorably known to
many of our citizens. lie represented
Frauklin county in the Reform Convention
of 1838, and took a leading part in its pro
ceedings. lie was an umiuent lawyer, and
practiced law for many years at Chambers"
burg, and reecutly at Pittsburg. He wa<*
also the nuthor of what is known as Donlop's
I Digest. He died at Baltimore la: Monday
i week.