HcMorli 3nqHirer RU§ Climiiclf, BY DAVID OVER. Vr Inquirer and Chronicle. The Woodberry Demnnitralian. The Democratio Sanhedrim that lias been exhibiting itself to tiia unterri&ed in quite number of townships in this count}-, arri ved at this place on Saturday, the l*2th ins\, Waded hy a number of the sawns of the , arty, who nre generally to be found "tuck- J it." at Bedford, us 'Snug as fleas in u sheep skin,'* until a political resurrection, shea they turn out to dictate terms to'the "weaker wee.sels" of tke prrty, and to preach Democracy, und it persecuted to the benighted. 'IT* cv vS that csmo o town to "see and %t>. seen," numbered, *ll told, about fifty persons, although u sale, meeting of School Directors, uod various otlier inducements were held-out to all, atid tsfiecially those who wished to be enlightened on (be issues of tins campaign so iugloriou.sly dodged by the inglorious Packer, but all the gaiutuon coi.'.d not induce them to step in to "see ■the elephant."' Some ut iy bo disposed to uoubt the above st.itemcut of the number present, but I have no desire to do any such •'small affair," far froui it; but soy, byway of banking up the state meat, that a gentle* in iu of undoubted authority "counted noses' and gives me Lis word, that there were present only lb .ty I'etuoorats, niue Autcri* t Republican®, and halt a dozen bova. The latter dropped in to see the Irishuian iliac annoyed Mr. Spang, and occasionally •r-'tiird to see ••Bully." T!. > meeting was organized m the aiore ... formerly occupied by G. U. lf.irndol ir. by the appointment of some ha 11- di zen of officer.*, three-fourths, of whom, I am e ..(ident, were cx-Kuow Nothings, and, if I am n<>t mistaken, the entire batch, save • me, fan Irishman) were formerly members < f !i "bloody psiri iet" if they were not all, •ve and vxuepr the one mentioned, it was not ihe individuals' fault. Mr. Bpng was the first speaker on tbe sui'i !, and I hope, for the credit of !hmoc~ that timy may always secure the scr v res t lU ah men he, although, ie uiy es',n,a:t. n, be w-.s wrongly shipped, and 1 I" rvi. is a Democrat, ho could have point di übt, tliut we. like some other frt-i.jii, of Bedford County, are decidedly 1 '"u i o. the '•critter," and that bete, too, it j anight be the "omnipotent of politics," but I i- in error. He wound up this part of his speech by saying, ''You cajuot Legis- ! lite men moral"—u bad doctrine for a law- ! \er. ftlr. Meyers followed, and closed the per-j 'foriuance, giving us first a specimen of Som erset Lnootoeidsm in KuglLb, aud a pcror- J • ration in (Jeriuiiii. U hat induced tiie fel low to deliver a iDulsh #fiCoeh io Woodber >iy was ati intorrogatory that the Democrats 'theiuaeives-ditl not know >how, or were j as Liu mob to answer. !i hope tits next time I the gcutkinau bus occasion 'to-come this ( way, he will bring along some Dutdi.men ; that can't s-prak borer JiuglnJa tlmn hiui fcclf, to falk io. W/ioillierry Township will br found atl a-igbt at the October elccticti, or politician* Hire greatly deceived j?yjj STYCKJ>. Wood berry, Sept. 14, 18f>. J JDUc -pfVsva' da* tiny of t&timtis appear? , to imva •. f>etoiii6d. '{The iFrofidcut s • coarse is pi duly avowed by tbew for their iporoS ition or rejection. If tho "faille Mr Buchanan" can be made to i f atd steady now, ."ftee Kansas" 'a dead, and the pledges given by hint in his iuacg-tr+l address are "glittering generali ties." A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts. Sciences, Ajrjculture, &c., &c—Terras: Two Dollars per annum. PACKER ASD THE COMMITTEE OF 1853. General Packer was Siiperiutendcn't of the West Branch Canal from 1882 to TS3S. He had scarcely been a year in office—the first be ever bcld—until b'ts administration of the office compelled the Legislature of the t-tato to raise a committee of investigation c mceruing it. Indecdit is a siugularco incidence that in the wry first year of his Superintendent*}-, ar.d TB the -first of his Ca nal Ooruuiissiouership, IMS own party being in the majority, we believe in both iustanc- e *i they were compelled to rarse committees of investigation concerning 4HS official mis conduct. Ihe tuan who was censured in 1833 by a committee, was again arraigned iu 1839 aud iu 1841. How comes it, (surely tbe history of no public man in Penn sylvania affords a parallel) that during the six years lie was up m the public works he was three times arraigned before legislative committees of his own party, and twice fowtid guilty, and publicly reprimanded for wotorious violations of the law? But now for the report of the committee of 1853 The Committee, in tl.eir report made up on the 7th of April, V 834, (turf: £l. R. Journal for thai yexr, pp. 897-98, inclu sive) say: "By the act of 1833 it is provided that tire Canal Commissioners shall not be au t homed to iucur any debt on tbe faith of the Commonwealth in any way or measure beyond the appropriation aforesaid. There is tetained in si] contracts fifteeu per cent, of tbe amount engaged to be paid, which is subject to tbe control of tbe Board, and uiay be paid to the contractor wheu the work is suspended; or if it be abandoned, ui iy be paid or retained at pleasure, accord • iug to the circumstances of the case, aud when a job is completed it is embraced in the final estimate. The Committee are of opinion that the j State and its agents hold this per eentugc i as tiusteesof those who have earned it, that . it i* theirs, and is retained only bv virtue 1 of ••>*;.fn M'Tnilution* in contract* nml to j insure -their more perfect performance, and ; that wbef! an appropriation is otherwise fnl- i ly expended it is as winch exhausted for all j Slate purposes as if this money were paid •over. It is ■oh vious, if it were not so, the | law which has been cited wouid be a mere dead letter, and superintendent aud other i disbursing canal agents might create a debt I for which the Commonwealth would be nmr- ! ally aud legally bound, to any amount which the percentage might reach. If tiiey can employ the money tt.ns retained ou the current work, mid are pet milled to do i so, :Le contracts secure the payment of it to hiuior them whose money has beeu thus used, and a debt is thus thrown upou the ; State. This direct, violation of the spirit of the liw cannot be justified. These remarks j . ate iuduced by the fact that the back per- ' j ceutage was last autumn aud wiuter ap i plied to the work in progress upon the Ly coming hue of e pursued heresf iiUtr." ITho .Committoo on page 900, thus un sold.another of Mr. Packer's transactions i during the aiame yeur: "That the Fupacinteudunt of the Lycoui- i iug divisiou of the ex- j changed fifteeu or twenty thousand ddllur* j of the note* of the Bank of Pennsylvania for notes of the Bank of Middletowu, and j paid iheiu out on his line, i* known, aud i would not probably hnvc been denied, for i lie received no pp'tuiuru or coanuhwion.— I But the committee think that the exchange j ought not to have bceu wade; whatever ad j vantage l>wre i* in distant circulation, the bank of which the Btate liolde three-fifth* jof the stock ought to have it when in the I power of the State agenta to confer it; and !it ia expected that in future they will re | gard this a* their duly. Although the | Committee have not been able to ascertain ! precisely by what confidential officer of the Canal agency the notes were placed in ! drafts on those banks have been exchanged 1 with other institutions for their paper, and ' a premium allowed on their exchange, yet ' (here remains no doubt thai suoh has been | the case, and probably in more instances , than one. "If is believed that many respectable i men think this may be lawfully aud hones t )ly done. A very different opinion per -1 vtides your Committee, by wborn it is thought j the practice cannot bo too severely repre~ i hcuded. If this petty traffic is allowed, large speculations will offer, and a wide field be entered. The public funds will be i used for private put poses, to the great bai ; ard aud the almost certain and ultimate lu-. :of the treasury. Ilow are all violations of j duty and disregard of moral obligations and ; waut of pecuniary faith sommeuced? By some such liberty which does not belong to ; the individual, by some act deetucd venial I which is succeeded by one less so, and an other, and jet another, until he Buds him j self at the font of the hill, who but a little : while ago would have shuddered at the tho't lof ever leaving its proudest height. The on j ly security for the individual and the public is the payment of the Btate creditors the iden ; tical money received from the Common" wealth. The creditor- have a right to the I best aiouey, if there is any difference. The ] State should iusist upon it as due to the | banks who enjoy public patronage and safe ty from the treasury. It is stror.gly recoin" mended to the Canal Commissioners to re move the individuals who have been concern ed in such practices, if they can be discov ercd, and to issue an order prohibiting for ; the future absolutely the exchange, with or i without premium, of n.uy tunds received by public ageuts for acoouut of the Common, wealth." It will bs thus seen that the committee felt it to be a uocessary duty to reprimand him for his mal-practices. Judeed, in 1835, when lie was a candidate in the tlien heavy Democratic district of Ly comiug, C.uarfielJ, Ceuter, etc., for the State Senate, he was beaten by General Irvine of Clearfield, a Whig, because of his notorious lual-administratiou of affairs upou the West Branch, lie was then regarded whilst only a Superintendent, as the leader an 1 head of tlw orgauized band of leeches, who preyed U F"" j . . , was the piopular belief of his complicity with these men, that he was beaten in a district where no Whjg had ever before been elect ed . If his neighbors aud friends aronud hi s own home twenty-two years ago ptouounced n verdict against him upou these grounds; i l tiio-e who knew all the facts then avowed their belief of his guilt, ought not the ver" diet to be confirmed by the people of Penn sylvania now 1 What reason in there for changing it! Noue. Certainly the lapse of time will not be plead as a bar to the force of the facts! CJEX PACKER S OFFICIAL COR BCrTIOS. Some time ago we gave to tlie public a document presented to the Legislature of 1839 by certain contractors, agaiuet tboOa- j iial Hoard of that day, of whom iiklS. I I'ACKKR WAS ONK. The charges pre-; er.ted were deemed of so grave a character , that a Democratic Legislature thought it j due to its party aud the public to raise a Committee of Investigation, which sat for a long time, and elicited a heavy mass of tes timony. lieu. Packer deemed the uatqr r so great that, with all his experience .% public man, and with all his charae'e cooluess aud silt' possession, he etnt toyoa Ovid F. Jwhusou as counsel. We need not say that the testimony fully sustained the charges made agaiust the Car nal Board and their employees. But the j evidence evolved two minor points. First, 1 there was u law in exiateuce hi 1832, when he was u Superintendent of the \\ est Branch 1 Canal, requiring that no work should be let or relet by Superintendents, Kngmewv, &c„ upon the public works, without being adver ; tised. Yet, m defiance of this law. which i his official oath required him to observe i strictly, he lei aud relet woik vritbont nd" I vcrtisiug. That he did so was proven aoci i deutully before the Investigating Oottmiit- I tee of 1839, by William B. Snllivati.— j TLis witness, aiuong other facts, testified a* I follows: "I have known work oa the canal to be thrown up a day 01 two befoie letting, under Mr. Packer (weaning whilst Packer was Superintendent.) He (Packer) let me a contract for removing a buildiug on sectiou 9, West It ranch Canal, without advertising. He also let we a public bridge on No. 9 | but Mr. Harris, the Engineer, came along and annulled the oontruet, and gave it to another without advertising." Not only did Gen. Packer thus violate bis official oath whilst Superintendent of the North Branch Canal, from 183'2 to 1830, but it was also shown in this investigation, that Vtctor K. Piolett, bis appoioteo as Su perintendent upon the North Branch (.anal, j had an interest in a contract, and that, too, I during his Superintendeoey, although the BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1857. laws of the Commonwealth cxprtssly forbid it Indeed, they imposed the penalty of disability to hold office on the public works upon those who had an interest in canal and railroad contracts. These laws were founded upon the highest necessities of pub lic policy. They were designed to compel the employees ot the State to keep them selves free from all jobbiug, and, there fore, from all favoritism in the awarding of contracts. But for the proof. Mr. J. Clark testified before the Committee, "that V ,i tor E. Piolett, then Superintendent, was interested in a contract with himself." Gen. l'aeker was present as the defen dant in the case then pending before tbe Committee, heard this testiuiouy of Mr. Clark, and yet be did not have i'iolett re moved. If we mistake not, the public rec ords show that Piolett retained his office long after this fact become known to Gen. Backer, although he, us Canal Commission er, knew of the law prohibiting such official misconduct, and knew that it wat his bouud cn duty to remove I'iolett. ]sut the fa<*t of bis neglect ov rcfui-i.l to hav him removed after these facts were disclosed, only shows that he excused or winked at, in the conduct of others, those things which lie hiaiftclf did as a public offi cer. Diolctt did only what Packer die in other eases. Piolett but violated the same law that Packer violated at u later date iu tiic case of the To wanda dam. We presume that Piolett did uot make as much out of the contract in which ho was interested with Clark, as Gen. Packer in the Towauda mat ter. Put the Towauda matter shall be treated of in due time. We appeal to our readers whether wc have not established fairly, by the testimony of d:siu forested parties, that Gen. Packer, both as Superintendent of the West Braueh and as Canal Commissioner, did knoicinq/y vio late the written luw of the land iu two sev eral instances* Is the official violator of law a fit persou to elevate to the chief ma gistracy of a great State like tbisJ Ought a man to be so elevated whose whole official career is stained with gross official iniscou- SOME OF PACKER'S J.YTECE DE.\~rs. We find these facts in a recent number of the Butler .imericnn. Tbcy conic from one of the best men in tlie State. Let ibeiu be read and poDuered: "C4, the Democrats of Tioga held a meeting, the proceedings of which were reported iu the Tioga Eagle. It says in its report of the meeting, that— "Ten guns were fired in honor of the ten iiidcpendent Southeu Senators and l.epre senta'ivfs who dared to oppose and vote against the Kansas .Nebraska Territorial law." It adds that— "The {lon. David \\ iliuot addressed the audience for more than two hours and a mfr mfr jrrT^ciic 1 -nntT* upon the subject of the extension of human slavery, with that of the immortal Washing ton and of the fathers of Democracy in the days of Jefferson, .Madison, Monroe and Jackson.'* Then it was Democratic "to oppose the extension of human slavery." The meet ing adi pted those resolutions. Comparing them with the present sentiments of the par ty the extent of their apostacy cau be clear ly discerned: "llesulved, That while we will faithfully abide by all the compromises of the Consti tution in regard to Slavery in the States where it exists, and disclaim any right to interfere with it there, wo feel compelled to declare in reference to the Missouri Com promise aud the consequent extension of slavery into territory uow free, that we le gard slavery, eveu in the most mitigated forms, as a great social and political evil a relic of barbarism which must pa-s away with the advance of Christian civilization, and therefore should uot have been extend ed to such territoiy. Entertaining these opiuions, we cau but avow our hostility to the 14th section of the Kansas and Nebras ka bill, as being a departure from every principle of former legislation upou tins sub ject. "Resolved, That as it has been the man ifest intention of ull former acts of Congress to limit and confine slavery to where it pre viously existed, wc condemn the Nebraska bill as impolitic, uucalled for,without prece dent, won* in principle , and in violation of a solemn compact. ♦•'Resolved, That we will withhold our support from all the authors and abettors of this retrograde movement 3 as well as from those whi> are opposed to the repeal ,of the 13th section of said bill and iho full resto ration the Missouri Compromise. ♦'Revived, That our immediate represen tative in Congress has truly and faithfully .sustained the views and feelings of nine tenths of his constituents jupow this impor tant question. "llesolvedj That tire proceedings of this meeting be signed by the officer.*, and pub lished in the pipers of this Congressional District and in the Democratic papers pub lished iu llarrisburg."' In one hundred and tune towns in New Hampshire, there has been a decrease of population of nearly 17,000, owing partially to the ravages of the western fever, Mr. Gripes the usurer, to whom a six pence always looks as large as a cartwheel, is in the habit of holding his breath while the tailor i' ensures him, so that hU garment* will require the less cloth. The tongue was intended for a divine or gan, hnt the d",-il often play?; •:ncn it. THE NEXT GOVERNOR. We take tfie following sensible remarks from the Democratic Pi ess, of Betks Coun ty, and endorse them all. "It is becofltiug a conceded questi'm ev erywhere in Pennsylvania, that David Wil nrot the oowituec of the American and Re publican parlies, will be Governor. Noth ing cau be surer, and nothing assures guar antee to those who look and hope for a re form in all the departments of government. With Wiimot at tbc hclua of State, the Legislative and Judicial powers will receive such admonitory directions as must necessa rily lead to an avoidance of the erils here tofore inflicted upon a taxriddcu and an out raged people, by partisan demagogues. And more than this. We can aimostaay. under his administrrtion, with certainty, that any attempts through these eo-otdilute branch | es, to bring about a recurrence of thetu, will prove abortive. We know the uun, and speak only from what all we know of him. We have no desire, nor do we wish it to be | understood, that we would manufacture for him a reputation not strictly and truthfully his due. Such things we will leave fnr can ting hypocrites to tudulge in. And they are too, to a nauseating extent. Our so stylod democratic exchanges abound in ful some laudatius. Says one, our candidate iis a graduate of Vale College ; another, he has been in office a quarter of a ceutury_ and a third, that his fitness is based upon euiiucnt experience ; while, if the truth were t' IJ, the collegian, it would appear, was a sneaking tippb r ; the office bolder, a little Letter than a panel thief aud his exjicri cneeship a mere political partizau. "The people, however, will settle the matter dtfinitely, at the pjoper tiuto. They will decide, t.ot as tu the elessic and legal attainments of the aspirant, but as to his MORALITY ; not as to the uuuiber of yerrs he has been in office, hut as to the FIDELITY he has displayed iu the discharge of his du ties, and not as to his experience, but wheth er he is JIONEBT and WISE now. Hut a correct decision is only possible where par the mwse*. Here, in Berks, if is true we expect little, we could uot expect more un der the circumstances, for, as was the case in Rome, tin appalling cloud of ignorance is hanging over the-e fair hills aud dales, leav ing only in view the demagogue and plun_ derer, who control the political actiou of a jieople honest in all respects, but upon whom deception has as yet not made a per ceptible impression. Elsewhere throughout the Common wealth, the case is different.— And were this not so, the concession could not be entertained fur II moment made at the outset of these remarks. David Will not will be the next Governor. The Auitiicaus will support him with a wil ling hand and a warm heart, aud the Jte publicau will yield him hi* suffrage with the same jubilant feelings which pervaded the breast of tpatriot of the ilevoJution —all honest and intelligent men will vote for him, because he has been tried and not fouud wanting—because he stands commit ted in favor of tree schools and a l'ree bible, lie is opposed to a union of Church and State—deprecating lloinan Oat h dot ism as being an evil dangerous to republioau insti tutions ; and is the sworn euetuy of the two great blighting stains upon the fair fame ot this confederacy—polygamy and slavery' PARSON BKOWNI.OW ON DKMOCKACY. — I'arsou Bronlow discourses tn the last num ber of the Knoxville Whig, on the subjeet of the late election in Tennessee. He acknow ledges the fact that his p irty has suffered a complete ''rout" but at the same time is in" disposed to coalesce with the Democracy. His reasons for tbc refusal he gives in the following btief extract: "We recognize i the ranks of the Beta ocratic party, thousands of high-minded mem. tirdent patriots, and true lovers of their coun try. but before we will fall into the support of what we believe to be the reckless and ruinous policy—the low flung hutubuggery, and villainous designs of this solf-styled •National Democratic Party,' we would see that unwashed, unterrified, uncombed, uu oircuuieizod, and unregeuvrate organization, as far down in Hell as * Forge-hammer would fall in a thousand years! l.et no one suppose this language too strong, without considering to what sort of an organization it is applied. 1V "pp'j" it to the Foreign Catholic, Pauper-loving, Auti American Wet-nurse Democracy, who, differing among themselves, widely and materially, on every 'jucaiion of national policy before the coun try, nevertheless agree, affiliate, fraternize, iu elections, for the sake of the spoils—with all the parties, of all colors, and of all reli gions, embracing iu paternal hug, all the odds end enda of God's creation! They arc a party whose leaders hunted down to the grave the purest patriots and noblest in tellects of the land, slandering their charac- VOL. 30, V 0.39, ters, misrepresenting their acts, and vtllift ing their tiflhes and graves; a party that hs* trampled tire Constitution, and Laws, an 1 Treaty obligations, as weil as the settled usages of the country, and with them all.tbc sacfcd precepts of tle Christian lLligion,un der their unhallowed feet 1" MR. BEEN AX AY'S APPEAL TO GOD.— Mr. Buchanan's unction in bebaff of the laws of Kanas, h displayed in his letter to Professor Stllimau aud others, reminds one of the fervor vti'h which Philip U, swore to maintain the power of the luquiaition, at Valladolid, in 1559. Seated in ln's cliai-, with his sword iu his hand, the King listcn to the following oath, which was recited by the Inquisitor General, Valdez: "Your Majesty swenrs by the cross of the award, whereon your royal hand reposes, that vou wilt give all necessary favor to the Iloly Office of the Inquisition against heretics, apostates, and those who favor them, and will denouaeeand inform aguiust all those who, to your knowledge shall act or speak against the faith." The Kiug, in a loud voice, answered "I swoar!" Tbeu they burued thirteen persons alive, byway of ratifying the oath. Mr, Buchanan, with equal fervor, asks toe aid of God to enal le hiui to enforce the laws of Kansas, which bis own Secretary of ; State declared, in the Senate last year, to i be infamous, and a disgrace to the country and tue age, and wbieh were enacted by in- I vadcrs of the Territory, and not by its peo ple. It is sometbiiig very like iujuvtice to Philip 11. aud Lis associates to bring them into a comparison with the President and hts advisers : for tbo former were fanatics, who really believed they were doing the I work of heaven, whereas our sovereign and i his inquisition have o faith in their own | doctrines. I hen the Woi f 1 has made im mense progress since the sixteenth ceotnry, and the Kansas code would have reflected dishonor on that time, and on Inquisition ib* self. We believe that ours is the only country in whiob such a code could be blas phemously upheld by the chief of the p——— call on tied to help him Jo the infamoug work that lie finds necessary to the main tainunce of Ins authority. But he is a de cent tyrant, bid as he is, and at least af fects a regard for religion. -Boston Trav eler. "PUBLIC PLUNDERERS." 1 hu Pennsyioamu ef Friday morning last, calls Wilmot's friends a "band of public plunderers," to whieh the Sun replies as follow.-: The toot i* oo tle art** leg. The Atuer ican-llepuhlioan party is not in power in this State or in the .Nation, ami it never has been. lience it cannot be a baud of pub lic plunderer?. \\ hat, thou, is tho truth? William F. Packer has been more or lea s in office for twenty years, and has grown n>h out of sueli small salt lies as are given to a member of the Legislature,..! Senator, a Ca nal Commissioner and ux Aud'rtot Genera.- We could MM* have honestly amassed his huge possessions. lie has done it by "pub lie plundering," as utany other* of bis party have done He has grown rioli off the pub~ lie, and jet lits friend* deticunee innocent men us guilty of the frauds which bavo yield ed the money th it gave it* candidate pie&r inen.se in ULparty. Packer, for a liie time, has been, a seejet partner of the Gamble's, the Juckmua's, the Mnrehead's, an*( them is satisfied with the moderate use of the glass. If you want nn ignoramus to respect you, "dress to death," and wear watch seals about the size of a brickbat. John A. Dix lately eoW hit country scat about 20 acres on Mattnrsing Island, on the •Sound for £25,000, to A. Thompson, Of Wall street, New York. Hendrix and Slegley, eon vie tod of arswa at Yotk, Pa., have each been sent 'o the peuitcntiary for five years.