BY DAVID OVER.
,?t the request- of several Democrats of
this County, who had intended to vote for
Packer, hfter Itis nomination, a.nj before
the fact became known 'h it lie had support
o 1 a strong Prakihitory M-iine Liquor L 00,
whilst m the Senate of Pennsylvania, we
re-publish our article of several weeks ago
oa tins subject. The article speaks for
itself, au l cives the most important sec
tions of the Itw, and also the vote of
PECKER on tlii.s question, with tie dates
and pages of the Senate Journal, which we
have in our possession, and will show to
■uy p r-o is \vij may be auxi u* to exam
ine this in itter for themselves. We have
no .1 1 übt there will be many honest Demo
cr.its -fin will vote against Packer on th
quest'. min Bedford County. Iferc is the
tirti .de and the proofs :
mm Foil paoaißiTies.
RE ID THE i'ittlOTS:
0:1 the n.l March, 18.32, Mr. Oarothors>
from the 0 .luinitt'e DO Vice and Immorali
ty, repot;.' I Son it • Mill, No 4 10, entitled
act to prohibit th; manufacture and
sdiof i'ltncicitinn liquors.'' See Senate
•loiiri.il, Vol. L. p. 30J.
March IStii, a motion wis nwle to con
sider the bill. This was objected to, ami
tie triers of tlio day Called. .7 tuotinu
w .s tiicu in l ie to suspend the orders to get
lit the consideration of the bill. Oa this
tuition the yeas and nays were called, when
the \ as w.-re '2d and ttio n iye 11, so the
Mjth i wis lost, —two-third* being necessa
ry to suspend the orders. On this motion
PACKER voted yea. .Sec Sen. Jour., Vol.
1, p 4SO.
M .rch 221, the hill was taken np for
ein ■.iteration: anion the question whether
the first section should pass, the yeas and
nays were cxll 'd, and te section passed by
a vote i f 19 yeas t.. 14 nays. PACKER be
ing otic of ilia yeas. See icon. Jour., Vol.
i, p. -jlb.
1 i ■ toil was further debated end consid
ered daring .h it dav, an i the day follows
i ng, a- appeal by the sums voiitf.e of ibo
.in.;'ual, at par > 313, 3.52. 5J3 it - ., and
lb ' yens and nays were frequittjii v called on
"it s,-.* ..f ' ; a biii, and in twry
i fir.ee tie n R nof WJI- B. PACKER is
-id rt r :>rd\ din J rv<>r nf the lilt, and
• r;wi'ni-.. ra-oe the other warm
* ii i' iids of i rit prohibitory Liquor law.
.'■l eb. Slst I v2, tin* sections having
We all agr ed !■•. the hi! came up on ii>
i ii, p.ss.c ;,n I1:th • question, "shall
••'.ue luil | ">■ i'ue Vcas aa.i tin s were
ivqei.Mr (.'rutin aud Mr. I'ACKER,
4 •' 4 were a* f.!!ow: viz.
'•1 i:.\s. Messrs. B .rues, C irnthers, (doi
"ii, Kv&n*, F. riion, Guernsey, Hamilton,
' i! .1! isle:t, ll.ije, McFariand, Mo
" M.i ..da'.. . P.-UI&EK, iloberteon
pSimlersmi, and iter.—l7.
'•Nay- •! ssrs. Baiicv, IJnckalew. L'rabb,
•• D irti'gton, Frailty, Fuiton, June*. fviu
-4• zer, Kunkel, MvPasiiti, Matthias, Muhlen
ii::, 'dyere, faimer, and Walker, Spenk
lb.
•-F > the question wis determined in the
"a ii.-; , .••"* Fee Senate Journal, of 1*52
Vol. 1, p. Gl2.
SUCH is G I:\ERAI WM. F. PACKER'S
: • •iird in the Senate of !>'"2, and such are
his votes n ( >u th" stibj et of the prohiiii
• ry llqu. ri i which passed the Senate
that year, as proved by the Journal of the
5 .mat.', which is the nt;!y authorized record
of proceedings. -/ml yet his pirtiz.m
friend*, and the unprincipled press which
supports a for Governor, are mean enough
and r.'-cies* enough, to decv that he is or
ever was in fiv r or ptohi'tuiioi), and round
ly abuse all who a**.s, t that he voted for
pr ii.ibitorv I quor laws. \V• sav ngaic *'"
hav * these Senate Journal* in our Office,
-mnl can snow tbeui, dav, and date, an-i
■-J. , t any inui who vi,'.,c* to *.: c them,
or who desires to know the whole truth on
ibis •urjeet. Ji id we will here remark that
not only liid Gen!. Packer u.ake speeches
in the Senate iu favor of the bill, and vote
a * here proved, but according to the wc-11-
remembered log'c of the Bedford Gazette.
nr. imk Ik, casting no 1 " on ft final passage
<-f this monstrous .Maine Liquor Law.
For on Jo iking at the final vote, it will b
•observed the bill passed by 17 yeas to 15
nays. C nsequently if Gcnl. ihicker had
voted nay, the Liii would have bceu defeat
c l ori its final passage, by a lie voce, and
evidently 'tis vote for the bill was what >u
-•< 1 it.
Lm th" same recklessness and disregard
of the.truth which lias heretofore denied
that IV.ker was a prohibitionist, may also
deny tin* *ho bill which passed the Senate
m 185*2 -.'is a prohibitory Maine Law.
F> hit! was imvio up of fifteen section#,
and i* therefore too iong for pitidicution
■ "lire, 1 ,t in order that all doubts may be
removed no i),;s point, and ail mouths s'op
p !, wo will give our readers some extracts
from thebll as specimens. -J?s before sta
led, if w-j- entitled, n .let to prohibit
th' mah'ifac'vr* and sal- of intoxicating
hquors " . 7ari to demonstrate that the bill
itself corresponded with the title, we pub
lish the Sr-t three sections of it, as follows:
Sec. 1. lit i r- re'ei. fco. That no person
: soai 1b a-1 -veil at a.,y lime, to mannfacluit, or
i<ll. by himself', oi clerk, servant, or agent,
/ljrecl'y or in.lit ect!y, arty inloxi;aling liquors,
Whether tin* same l;e spirituous, vinous, or
malt, or a mixture of the tame, or any of them,
or an> other liquor possessing inti.xw-uting
properties, except- as beteinaft-t provided.
Skc. 'I. ihejadg * of the court wi'Quarter
.sessions. a . t the County Commisinusrs, on
the first jfuti-l.iy ,f July, annually, or ss soon
11.*-.- -u-r a tn-iy lie convenient., may appoint
Kiitn'i'.e persona of welt-known, hoecst. tern
(••rlitu, and sober habits. ' 1-uy, or maniif.tc.
tur-- ami si| at some convenient point in such
•-I t hi- Townships, boroughs,and cities, within
ii--e'-;jety, a* th-v may deem expedient and
■>i.i:> -r, scutes a i/orher ItqHOrs,for laeraiptutat,
tiieJ • t-i "\ti.ril L .l arliitieol purpotet,
A InTaSA :} i ape., Devote. ,s Literature, Politics, the Arts, Scioaoes, Agriculture, Ac., Ac—Terms: Tiro Dollars per annum.
AND ROR SO OTHER PURPOSES WHATSOEVER.
Such person sh ill Ue appointed for the term of
oue year, Imt may ho rumoveo at aiu time at
the pie isure ofstid judges ri d commissioners
for violating this act.
SEC 3. That each person appointed to sell
liquors aa aforesaid, ahull k ;ej> m accurate ac
count i writing of all lie liquor bought or
manufactured by him, specifying the quantity
of each kind parch istwi or manufactured, the
price of that purchased, the name of the person
from whom it wis purchased, and the date of
the purch ise,the quantity of each kind sold,
and the date ot the sale. its price, the name,
residence, and occupation of the person to
whom it w is sold, a ad toe purpose far which it
was purchased by him; an t he shut It rente the
person to whom Ike. sale is m*4t, (a >* the sai l
specificaiioH at the end thereof: he shall semi
annually, it required, on a day art f at a place
to be appointed by said judges and ccnujii.s
sioners, whereof public notice shall he given in
one or mora newspapers published in the coun
ty, exhibit upon his oath or solemn affirmation
the hook, or books in which said account and
specification are kept, to ha said judges and
commissioners, together with a balance sheet
showing the quantity of -ach kind of liquor
bought titid sold by htm during the. period
wh'tcn !s elapsed since his last exhibit, and the
aggregate cost and proceeds th roof; and if it
shall appear to the Said judges and c onmis
simiers that the profits of is af I business amoiint
to more than wh.it would be a fair and just
compensation for transacting the same, they
shall fix the amount to be retained by him for
such compensation, and shall requite him tv
pay the Surplus to the Treasurer of the couisto
for the use of the Commonwealth.
Sec. -1 Provides for the giving cfa cer
tificate of appointment to the person au
thorized to sell, upon Ins giving bond with
at least two se.-urities in the penal sum of
five hundred dollars, conditioned for the
faithfui observance of the lawpfec.
Foe. 6. Imposes fines of froni thirty to
two hundred doliafs, & costs, for violations
of the act together with sr.udry terms of
imprisonment of not less than two, nor more
thm six months.
Such lira the tirst three sections of this
beautiful liquor law iu full, aud tiie sub
stance of the fourth and fifth; and we doubt
not they are more than suffi dent to satisfy
all that a more ultra, radical, out and out
prohibitory law WUJ never passed in the
State o.' Maine or anywhere else. It not
only prohibits the sale, under severe penal
ties, of ail sorts of and by every
quantity great or small, except, "for sacra
mental, medicinal, mechanical, aud artisti
ca! purposes,but it absolutely prohibit?
the manufacture jf any and ill liquors, ex
cept for the put poses just mentioned. If"
this be not prohibition with a vengeance, we
it now ixrwtrsT wonm TO. snti.-e jueut
section gii -s the right of search and the
right to sieze aud destroy the liquors kept
contrary t> the act; and in short, the law
seems to contain in i'-elf all the altruism no
litis subject that, wore ever heard of, and
.•.dine others which strike us as entirely new
aud original, especially that registry which
is to be "signed at the end therof" by the
man who purchases the liquor, slating Jor
w'uit purpose he ts if.
We iiava now given our readers u true
and full explaiiatiou of Uerd. Pack r* view-,
votes, and position as a prohibitory li pinr
law man: and we will await with pleasure
sui h explanations as his partizan friends
may manufacture for thi- desperate euicr
gcuey.
For t'it Inquirer urtJ Chronicl .
WHO IS TO SK C'HKATMD !
At no period iti the hi>toiy of tlie past
has die Lneofoco party been more intent
and earnest in its attempt to defeat us.—
The leader# of that party are working
and day, and using every nrtiflee their fer
tile imagination® can devise to weaken and
destroy ur ticket. Their miserable piebald
ticket is traversing the county, making use
of every little mean He an 1 every I >w, dit
ty scheme, that only such men as they
could mak" use of * > prejudice unsuspect
ing mvu agiiust our e iadiLit is. Willi-:
every L >eofoc lmuu 1, from Mitchell down
to Joe lien- driefcson, is 'u-11 y engaged in
this work of dark defamation, yet not one of
them dare meet u.s on honorable ground or
appear before tiie public whet he really is.
There is no candid ate Htnngst the La
ccfoco batch that und -rslan U now to shuffle
in aud shuffle out better than their ean-ii
d'te for Legislature, David Hay. The
means he tuns to mike votes are *o utterly
beneath what an honest aspirant for Legis
lature should make use of, that we feel
compelled in justice to the honest iir-q he
is trying to deceive, to expose his double
dealing and weak-minded course. As a
man, Uavid tlay has always been consider
ed au average citizen in good circumstances
and able to pay his way. Politically, he
has hecn considered an inveterate office
seeker for the past ten years, having been
two or three times a candidate for Sheriff
iu that time wi.hont sueeess. In former
times be professed to be a Whig, yet in the
hard fought battles between that glorious
old party and the sham democracy, when
the smoke began to riso and the battle
grew hot, David's voice was no where heard;
be was afraid of offending the Democrats.
He has been a resident of Eiklick Tp. for
four year*, during which time we iiaVe pas
sed through several important contests, all
of which had to be fought without tho aid
of David Hay. he was always oil hand af
ter the fight. Ho is now the loeofocO can
didate regularly nominated, yet he denies
heitig their candidate at ail, and propose*
to be opposed to nominations, lie went to
our primary election and took an active part
in it—there locofocos to face there
—and has promised candidates for Sheriff
that he would vote for thens at our next I
primary election, if they would support him '
now; this is one of the ways he opposes j
nominations; he asks Whigs to vote for him 1
because he is a Whig, and wants to cstab.
lish H national Whig party. He asks Know
Nothings to vote for him bceatjse he some
times voted the Know Nothing ticket, lie
begs Republican votes because be voted for
Fremont lust fall. Ho tus told locofoccs
that he intends hereafter to be a Democrat,
as that is the only national part v. He vo
ted part, if not the who!" of the locofoco
'.cket last fall at thy State election, lie
permitted looofocos to make a tool of him
by letting them nominate him, and then
let himself be persuaded to decline the
nomination. He wrote a letter of declina
tion and sent it to Somerset for publication,
and in two days afterward, at the command
oi two locofocos, lie announced himself as
an independent candidate. These are facts
that we challenge David Hay to deny.—
Now we ask the honest voters of the dis
trict, i! such a tuan is fit to represent them
in the Legislature, or should not this weak
vaseiliating course condemn him in the es
timation of all right thinking men, even if
ha had ihe ability to represent them, which
he lias not. Vv'e fearlessly assert that Da
vid Hay is not qualified by nature, habit or
education, to be a representative. Ellilick
Tp. contains twenty men who never aspired
to legislative honors, who are bett r quali
fied than David Hay. He has neither the
intellect, education or moral courage to lie
a representative. The Looofon s know this
and they are afraid to lot him go to Bad
ford County. Then why did they nominate
him? There are Democrats in Somerset
County, honest and well qualified. Why
wore they not taken? Simply because they
knew that there was no hope of electing
them, and they wonld gain nothing; but by
taking 11 av, ho and his friends would vote
! the Locofoco ticket now and hereafter.—
I'fiat's so. T'ue.-e thiugs, 3lr. Editor, are
true a!*o of the other candidates. They
| ,IT vryTrrjyurwoi.iia >irei aj nr>e pretences.
Will thev succeed l We shall see.
KLKLIC'v.
Savid VViimol Socially.
We do not know when we have met with
a gentleman boi ling the same position that
Ju-Ige Wit mot does at the present time, who
li o- given us soeh a pleasing evi ienee oflii*
social qualities. It often haptens tit at tin tt
identified with the political history of our
country, .n clearly as David Wihnot is, pre
serve or assume a dignity that renlarj them
difficult to approach. There is none of tins
about otir worthy candidate; he i- at once
pleading and affable in his manners; his v. rv
features, although bid eativc of a firm and
determined >pirif, give evidence of -rood na
ture and social qualities of heart. There il
- man, even the humblest of our race, who
ne 5 have the least lu-sitancy to approach
Judge Wiimot; his hand i* ever ready to
grasp that of Ins fellow-men with the utmost
cordiality.
Divi i Wihnot is now, and ever lis* been
tiie poor man's friend, and it is ibis senti
ment of humanity, strikingly developed iu
hi* charactef—this social quality of nature
ami his determined purpose to carry out
the principles he conceived to be right, that
has rendered him the special favourite oi
his district. There is no man in the State
who has exereised such au influence over
the mi: is of his c-ju*i intents as David W il
uiot. At the time he was elected to Con
gress a* a Simon Pore Democrat, lie carried
his District by some six thousand majority ;
toe same district, iu *SO, gave Fiem ut niue
thousand majority. We think those who
know David Wiimot personally, and v;ho
have watched his career from his youth, can
give us uo bettor evidence of their appre
ciation of bis honesty of purpose and gond
ii --s of heart, than the sweeping majorities
they have given him and the principles he
ha- seen fir. to advocate. This alone should
speak volumes iu favor of liiiu as a candi
date before the people for the Chief M <gi*-
trute of the Commonwealth. — Lonntllsml!
Enterprise.
THE PROSPECT.— Judge Wilmot is ad
dressing tlie* citizens ol til's different coun
ties in the State ori the political issue of the
day. Wherever lie speaks in public thou
sands of freedom living citizens, without
distinction of party, crowd to hear him.
No candidate has ever spoken to the people
wiih better effect. The prospect tor bis
election to the Gubernatorial chair is highly
flattering to those who desire to witness the
elevation of a high minded aud honorable
man. It is a settled fact that he will be
elected by a large m 'jiirity. The \\ esi and
North are competing with eah other which
Ktiall give him the largest veto. l'flila.
Sun.
The most mischievous liars a p e those tvuo
keep just ou the verge of truth.
BEDFORD. DA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1857
PRlifi-MJIITIO.iI
Relative t the Payment of {he
Stale Debt,
Pennsylvania, st
In the name and by the authority of the
Commonwealth of l'eon-yhatiia, JAMES
COLLOUK, Governor of the said (Miuuicu
wealth:
WHEREAS, by an Act of the Oetierul
Asi-iul.ly of this Common irmilth, passed the
tenth day of April A.!>., t'S49, entitled,
"An Act to create a Sinking Fund, and to
provide for ihe certain and fradual extin
gttieeiuent of the public debt," and by the
4(3Ui section ot tfio act ot iSAiI, providing
for the ordinary expenses <.f government,
certain taxes and revenues Lijt-reiu specified
were set apart and appropriate*! to the pur
p -e of creating a linking Fund, and when
received by the Treasurer of the Common
wealth, are ordered and directed to be paid
over to the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
the Audito General and State Treasurer, as
Commissioners of said Sinking Fund, w'.,
ate also directed to receive the game ana
••purchase therewith the debt of the Slate
ot Pennsylvania at its market price, if not
exceeding the par valuo thereof, to the full
extent of said revenues, and to holt and ap
ply the same and the iutcre t tfieieou ac
cruing, firmly and iuvioiabfy ou the trusts
and tor the purposes" nauuiditi the said act
ot Assembly; ami it was further provided bv
the said act of Assembly "that it shall be
the duty ot the said Commissioners on the
fn -t Monday of September, n the \ •<r one
thousand eight hundred and fifty one, uuu
on the same nay in every thir l year ttiereuf
er, to certify tart amount ot tiic u"i.t ot the
( ituim .iweast:; betd by them to the Dover
no;, who shall direct the certificate i repre
senting the same to be cancelled, and on
such cancellation issue his proclamation
.-tiling the fact, and the extinguishment and
final discharge i t so lunch of the priuc 'al
of said debt/'
.hid w.'ure v, By a subsequent a • of the
Ueuera! Assembly, passed April ]U:-j, A.
8., 185-j, entitled "An Act to provide t.>r
the ordinary expenses ot liiijoutj" jj
w ts a;>o provided :.s follow.-, to wit:
Section 98. That borealf# the receipts
to the Siijk.ug t uud, to the amount that
may be necessary t.i cancel ioc relief t.otds
now la eirculaiiuu under the provisions o
the act ot the fourth oi .'lav, 1011, and ti •
miAr 1&? iffi'Tat-- liCiapj^'intt.V.d 1 '"to
ward tui' caiieeiiatiou of sani holes, in li.i'
following maimer, to tvit: It shall be the
du'y of tin- State Treasurer on ttie first day
rt .Titie next, and at the expiration of even
three months thereafter, uuiii tec w I Kile
•amount ot'said notes shall have beeu can l
ceiled, to ascertain the amount ol moixv in
the treasury due to the IJoiniuis.sioiie: > , ,
the Sinking Fund, the am Mint so aseertui; -
ed, tn the most defaced and v. irn o. 1:1 c re
-1 ed issues which may To found in i ... treas
ury shall not equal the sum dm to s.iiiKViu
tusssiotiers at iiie expiration of tie mon .-aid
i'O! tilt* II it iI < i 111 tll.lt Case lilt! I-i j ■ 111 C e
, •'<• due shul. be [>ai i iu the sinking Fund t\
s.ia officers to be invested in State stocK,
iu the ui.mii r prescribed by the law creating
sai i tuiui."'
Tl;t pruu.-a to which sectioo was repealed
by the jI Ii seclii'U of the act of 9th May,
A. i>. 18->4, "to provi ie for the ordinary
ex:-uses ui _"n eriiui'-nt. & •.,
.7/id w "iis } A. G. Curtin, Jacob Fry,
Jr., and H. 8. Mag:;, w, (loiui-sionei of
the Sinking Fund, Lave certified to uie 'is
follow.-:
THE AS LEY DIIPART.MT.NT PENNA., I
llarri-burg, 8 pt. 7. IS">7. j
To his Excetlmcy , Jura s Pollock, Governor
of ihc C.ommonwi'allh.of Pennsylvania:
•SJE: AS rt quired by the foiirtti sectii n i f
the act entitb: I "An Act to create a Sink
ing Fund and to piovite for tae gradual and
' certain cxtingu s i tent of the deht of tho
Coniinonwi-ttltb," approved the 10th day of
Apri , .7. D., 1849, the undersigned, Cun
niissiiiftKrs f said Siuking '•'nud, do hereby
certify tint the amount of the debt of the
Commonwealth lield by them to be the sum
of one million forty-two thousand eight hun
dred and ti ty-scven dollars and .sixty-four
cents (51.042,857 01,) as follows to wit:
Loan- of 19th April, 1553
overriue, teniporai y, -5400,000 00
Loans of 9th May, ISo-l, 104,000 00
Certificates Block L inns of
11 tb April, ISIS—t) pr
cents, ' 60,501 00
Certificates Stock Liana, of
various dates—6 per ceuts 9,316 04
. Relief notes cancelled and
destroyed, 373,040 00
lit-lief notes in treasury, set
aside for cancellation, 30.000 00
81.042.557 64
A. G. CCKTIN.
J VCOB FUY, Jr.
11. 8. MAGiUW,
Commissioners >t the Siubing Fund.
Nw, therefore, a- required by tiie sii 1
HOI of Assembly, I <i'i li ruby issue ta i.
proclamation declaring the pay merit, extin
gui-dnuent, ami final discharge ot six hun
dred atxl thirty-nine thousand eight hun trod
Hti I seventeen dollars and sixty-four cents
of the principal of the debt of this Common
wealth, and have directed the certificates
lepreseoliog the same to be cancelled, and
further, that under act of 10th of April,
1853, the sum of four hundred and three
thousand and forty dollars oi relief issues
of the Commonwealth have been cancelled
and destroyed, making in all the sum of
$1.042,857 04 of the principal of the debt
of tiiis Commonwealth which Lave been paid
and extinguished.
idiveil under my hand and the great sea! of
the State, at HUrrisbwrg, this nineteenth
day of September, A. D, I.S.JT, and ot
the Coiiiiuotiwealtii tie itgLty-secou ..
I>, tue Governor. A. CI 11 TIN,
Secretary of the Com-n >nv iillh.
JaOCUFOCO LOGIC.
That immaculate Whig, pure American,
I nnd gutta porch a Democrat, B. F. .Meyers
1 E-q., who so ably edits the Bedford Gazette,
lias an address to the voti rs of Bedford
! County in a late number ot his paper, in
j which the fßloving specimen of logic tn.iy
I be found,
"Remember! That David Wiluiot is ;m
j Abolitionist, and tint ho proved himself to
j be such by hi* speech at Bedford on Tr - lav
vetttßg, of Court week, when he a:J that
i '<l,o deited a wider field for free labor than
I the present one," and also, when he declared
j that "freedom" and "slavery" have eome in
direct contact with each other, and that one
is bound to give way to the other."
L gical B. F, ! Sage Meyer-, 1 Profound
Benjamiu ! Literary and Intellectual Beef
it 1.-.! Ti.ru- dxj i- -sioii ofV.'ilmot, prove
; I;itu to be au Abiditiocist, do thev f Pray
j how? Mr. Wiimot. s-,ij that be •' e>;r i a
j wider fi- hi for free labor than the present
j one." He desires that the territories of tLc
I.uited States shall furnish homes for fn-e
white laborers, for American citizens, lie
desires tliat the overcrowded population of
our eiiie-, the factory opierativo.- and tho inc
chatiics who cannot obtain work to support
j ttietr fati.-;lies, shall riot be diiveu to soup
houses and charitnble institutions, hut that
tliey sh A' find land and living in the great
j west; He desires that the Farmer in the ol '
j States who lias three sons shall not b> force 1
; to divide it's lan i among them, but tli i ti.e
j hy. may shmtldcr their ax-s and find ab
j 'erfarin for tlieniselres in Kansas or Nebras
ka. And beean-e be Ji sires this, ho is <p-
t" on. to the policy of yow party, Mr. Met
er?, <o the repeal of the Mt-sietri Couq ro
tiiise, and to the schemes of Messrs. Dong
• ■iS. Pic roc and Buchanan for foreign slavery
into the territories. Ho ••desires H videi
li - I for free labor, * and therefore hf is u,
Afioi.'tiitoi-; ' W.i-.v one would think Mr-
Meyers that yon and yotr partv of
uobi is, doughfaces and traitors, bad already
Vr siiUt,! {liit" 1 11 tAf >, JIX-.-ljjAti -
...ui i,. is i. oritrte titr n tree laborer io ' T.i.
fo tin th'-.n. It i< so in in ms is under tit
rule of Mr Mucii .nan. The >in gn tit front
P iitisy I. ania tuitv In robbed and uiurdefioi
by soui.ieib r.iiii ms, i the Ikvt rite son of
ihaiiSiiv niia, who sits in the PresidcntiM
Onair, will reward the murderers, and su-ii
fii.-'i- sons, a> you are, vi'i t land him and
ii.. in; (mi i'lore is a jii-t God who prt-sidi s
over the a., tirs of tn m and sootier or later
there w,j. Le a day of retribution. Ton are
ft aj.i g tii reward of your vile treaelierv,
now Mr. and yon are in a i. sitinn to
jeer at such upright men as P.v.d Wilmnt.
3! ike the luost oi it Sir, f. r y.ur tiine wii;
be short.
But H dii.nf also -,ivs ihai 'edom" at.-i
"slavery*' have come in dir el cm t..et with
each other and < no is bound to give way to
the other. ! rue, freedom and s s. rv
have oome in contact with each i ther in the
territories of tie- I idled Btat.es, in tru.-Mm
p esc J re-opening of the right. f tran-:t, to
slaves iu the State of Pennsylvania. Tiiis is
where freedom and slavery have conic in
direct contact and Air. IVif.Tiyi snt;s i'/.v v ry
must g'tr- trig, while yau an I pmtn
say Fi;, dom tn ;•>/ c.dv writ/. There is the
inherence an I it isjnst the difference !■ 'tween
\\ iiinof and the Great (jeitcr. l Backer.—
Tins mail 's th" former au Ah ditiojiisj, d—
it? T'.-u.oh ' Butter yo .r brains ami give
them to a dug for a new year's gift Mr.
Meyers. The Democracy of Bcdf rd C>ut:i
ty cannot be such fools as yt u tak" tlieru
for, and if you cxpeci to do limit thinking
.or them, you luii-t do something better in
that lure 'iiali anything v ■ h.,vo s-eu from
you y- i. Mr Wiiuiot has tut uttered a
sentiment during his whole political career
which is not <*qaaiiv honorable to his J„. a .l
and heart, an 1 wo venture to say that there
'is not a single intclligeiit'deua.erat in Som
erset or Bedford Counties who has Dot more
respect for him. than for their very cheap
acquisition Mr. .Meyers of the Bedford
Gazette, .'it any rate dear Benjamin we
wsa to inform you that though your pop
gun cracks loud enough, there is nothing
iu it but win i, and your paper w . i.s won't
hurt anybody.— Samys"t H nil an ! f/'ii
j IJesiounciiig ibe Idraisjistrafiuii.
j The St. Then is Democrat, speaking of the
| President's late letter on Kansas, sivs it is
| a full embus nut-tit of Ca'htiun's theories of
; tlic nationality of slavery, and shows a de
; termination on the part of the Administra
tion to comply with whatever the South in
sists upon. The Democrat adds ;
We were otuong the most zealous of those
who supported Mr. Huchatian for the dem
ocratic nomination, believing hiln to tie what
he professed himself Wo continued that
support although \t .th occasional misgivinjs,
until after the election r.ui inauguration.—
.8 a -e that time we have found little to-jutn
j" mend in his action. His *. lection of ofTi e
: holders Missouri and Kansas, his viola
tion of Loth law aud j istice in regard to the
! overland snail to (b.lif'itrnia, and -now his
adoption >f ihtf (' Ihonu. throtf of the con
stitution, have a!I iudieated art executive
1 coritroll'.'ii by views of witch we rail noier
i give asse.a. h' another chance shall pre
| sent the government at Washington iri a
■ mord fmntrafik' tijrhr, we shall not fail to
| note ai d approve the same, bat of tfiis, ue
must how confess, that, we have little hope.
BIOGRAPHY fJia.V. I'ACK
CHAPTER. .
i fie entne first into public life as .Super
iuterideiit of the West l>r* neb ('aual, and
■ remained in that r -ition from I*3- to !833.
During thit time he was Luton a Lepisla
i tiv committee, and Was censured opou
two points, first b>r changing notes of the
hank of Pennsylvania,"to the amount of
i §30,00'.', i >r which the State wis then a
• stie-kiiolder in notes of the P. :3c of Mid
; dletown not thtut at pir, and paving it out
to th" contractors along the lino, and also
for using improperly lire reserved fund of
15 per cent., withheld ft> <n the contract
or- to insure the completion of their con
tram
CHAPTER It.
l*ioiu 1835 until 1839, he remained a
; "high private,always seeking office, hut
never ii-!e til obtain it. ( ;,on the acCiV—
>ion "f Gov. Porter to the Chief .Magis'Ta
cy he was appointed Omul r'anmsis-iimer.
Dm big hi- tr-i rn ~f eld-o he was hefor.
two l,ei-lative comu/feps of investiga
tion; ]tv one of thetn he was pointed!.
condemned for giving a contract to his
brother at a pri. e far beyond want other
gnoo bidders of! red to d> it for. It wu>
proved hpfo: * arm. ier loat he retained Vie
j tor 1.. Pblctt > Superintendent upon the
G' st Branch, wlcn tie knew him !o haw
an iiitcrc.st in a contract.
CHAPTER HI.
W l*il.-t in the Senate lie rot -d to ) ovi\.
: a ItiW to give .-iave-!ijas:, is right to bring
c avo- into ibis .-rate. and hold tin*.u 1: *e
as
our Staa .'is to exteio'i, if pos-i-be, more
i.'.i.pl- protection to "our agricultural, e
and iron iu!ert-ts,' f *han >f..3 given bv the
law of 18-16.
Cfl/ PTIR IV.
11 ■i- nu orphan boy. How hi- immeusc
fortune lias bec-n thus acquired i- uvkn wn.
t i cm- tacts, sa s the Centre D mocrot.
uefeuteJ ami tor t.e Setiati, Wl.en tiny
'' 1 "'-O UIILI I.- (Ji the ].!■> •!. , S.lld
pertinently "Ought they nit iu.vv
:'t.v( .t J til JY..IU being elected Governor
"t this C"Uiuion wealth ?"
A KANSAS * OUHT OF JUSTICE.
'i hu Km>'• i-oM cspnulietit of ihe S:.
i. -nt- t ;-i-r date Sept. 7, iv<
ti;t' following characteristic netio in a
justiee court ai l. -win; tui>:
"Mr. Haley is not j-it dead. Tie i# !v
--i- • • •' v-.ry }.;< er-ud'ti a.
y Mr. JJrockett, who stabbed Mr.
r>!'y, rt turii' 1 to T •n. ( ti-n and -
arrested. The propagandists swor.j tu-.t
he should n,>t be tried, or.d that auv sn u
win d ire i in ugaiu.it him .-Li I 1
be >ll 1 1. ij: '.Vis u. bel'fe ii jls
ftee *•: die peace. Ihe tocsin was scund
it. in? fire- ateia assembled. Tin free
R'r.te clem • r.iti a!>o convened. *> .;o con
servative p,u slavery iiu met 1 ■ Sh&u
--n i, Br;uai\ hi! More, and 3 ephans ot
New ii.rk—d determined to ;.,t .*u
their tree stuii Aleu-is.
They give t.oiico'to ihe fire- ate:s that
if the ;n .i wo- interfered with, they wouid
aid to pu. uuiru tire insurgents. They nil
met at ti yi-i .ce's oiree. Ain in was eai
icd no to testify. Tae propagandists drew
tutor itvoiver.-. The other party hhiowei
Miit. One ft ti.eoi Latilied a revolver to
the itae*>: ami thus armed—!;••• pistol
COeuiti —ue J• roeeded give his evidence!
i lie justice ifjs a ;uaO Ot weak uervi-s. at>l
taintcu. Jae trial wa postponed till Aiou
diy. ift.i | tali a g'oal uouutr ' '
TKAVLLLIAU sorrii.
51 r. B teu.iii.tii tia.-i trave.ita further
boui.i tiia.i a.i ti..- lo.iuei I're.itiients. Bat
three years ago i" was Purely iuiitua ed that
.•lie Missouri C'-iUproiui.-o prohibiting >]a\t-
t"\ Was .!. j ;io or: c :;ia' fse
braska it.J t • • not even iutitiiiiiie it, the rec.
Olid drbft <U that bid left It to be ini! lieu,
uaa ii Was m.v at a thud tr'ui that the ful,
Uiltjuit v Was '.tevch'ptid. ThtfU ail ti.e .set—
tlonui and ilileuueu eticOl ut the hut was ex
plained, or nougat to io explained awa-,
aiiu it Was oven j.i'jcbiin.-d Halt it wou.a
redound to the it.tenets oilieednui. 1 was
l great siep to ilieuieioiu of Judge Tu'.iev.
that :u; prohibition id slavery ui me Ter
ritories L uiiunnsmuiioual, a id that slavery
existed i lite Tor'Mtoi'ies of the Union
ier tt.e UVusuietiou. This utc'um of the
Judge, Mr-. liaehauaa, tin President, eudot *
so.-,. 1. i, me greatest pro-aiavorj conces
noil any Norti.eeu mail has ever ■fft-'--
i'i't a. i;nt liae'i .nauV Kansas and ftlaveij
VOL. HO. Yfl.ll.
Letter readied Maine just while the election
wis pending. Jhe "Democratic" papers
did not publish t for tear of datn igiug their
prospects at the polls, and so suppressed it
entirely! Even this, it seems, failed to
save them.
Vnm Hit Somera, i llctnll and Wh r.
GKX. H9OVIZ \OT IX IM'IDKJ,,
General K omit 8 is away ff out home at pr< _
-'•sit, and therefore unable to r<pl* t.i ihe
gross assaults made upon him by the Dem
ocrat, wen if he do-i red i> do so. jt j.,
piohable that he would permit thetn to piss
unDoficed,but the last, nu.ubvs of that pa
per contains the charge, grav. lv pronounc
ed, over the signature of "Lather," that he,
Gei . K etiiz, i- an Infidel, and J>a* opemv
a vow*. 1 ii.Gdelis .-eiitiuictits. This intru
m. <i into the privat religion* opinions .>t a
candidate I think sutuewhrt transcends the
rums ot politicai contioversv, and iu the
p;escnt ca-o is a gro-.- f.' .-liooi and wan
ton it.suit. A- a brief atid conclus.ye an
-uer. I w;]l ot.ly quote a ocotenoe fto.u it
pjt . c lecture deliver .l by Air. Kootits, in
tl3 Baptist chureh, iu 8 .morsel, about a
year ago, and which Wis heard by most of
our citizens. H< said:
'• 1 he C kd of J ours in the c !i e< nturv is
"rt ttiarkiiido for the victory of t!,c Christum
over tin; Turk, w nth s'ayeJ the
"torrent >f , luuiiedam-m tieir Wasflour
-iii! g over Europe, au<i threatened to
"overah liu all Christendom. /ud i>> l*-
" ' '' lL ' aiui iutrepi. CLat. s Mirtcl,
••win :is one of i!.o! mightiest chauipi
" r,s v{ r/'g/..n. ti-'tich is d,sti/ted 1->
"spread o. r Vie ir. .rid, and (o if. set* and
*" ' "ji '■ It'l ■ ! !'/ ' "
C'Al.vin.
11 it A ' '11) i: 1 ami IjiKfA.- A correvf on
.i.-tit of il e Lining.Hutiei 'a. writinw from
Br.i'.l To county, .gives ttic toriowijiiyrcpre
setitation of political aiiair.s in that section:
'*. ar readers In;,, ur nth the po-
VC ?Ti?itTci HhjtT-' ~3 ud L a
V, ;! r -, Wi hont esception. the uist poo
oi ir man a! mum' i ever read of. He m
,- ri!y p'.-j'.rl it, bet 'he inas-e- are realjv
c: rhtiMu-'o Hi iiis wi.l
:i\e bii:.- majority, but Tioga is in for
i. e Buum-r Jhe strife .or the greater ntn-
J >rity in proportion to toe puiptiiafimt, will
. l- a warm one bctwtea tiiese two counris .
'■n' i is thought tl; it i ii-ga v.; I win. f; 4 ..
AiPnot m-o everyivoero, feei cotifideiii of
reducing tlie I/..'ioi>er i'i j i.i j iritits vviiere
they Lava the a seen June v.
** f Hi' action of lint body-guurd of iho
J' ".oocrsitc miiuiiiee, io ueciinirig to accept
iiui • sto ; si i .ri t stum; the -Suite, is
ui.il -o :y u.' tr n ■.<! of the utter, here, a
a udi-r or the Bt incc: ae* in I ,vor of the
stipciiol a iiity ot tuetr 'caattipiotu"
i !iii Ji.tAG 0.-VMK. i'ae I'u Lnielphia
Pr.ts lid -s Lungs very easy, j' litically,
alio ii T.. her is eledeo it ulii iui !>e thro'
any "i its in-..is. > . ; i; fs disposed io
brag, as tuiis:
••Toe G uerai Election in Pfitiusv Ivania
w;;i taiie place v'.t the loth of October, four
v.ecks lro.il ana il.iy. There upp u.S to ho
i-.t iitif, csciicuKMi. u tho so jeet. T;io
t l cts-iii ' (jLinraj i'lckcr ly a l.irge nin
ji'llty isc-.ucilit ihy a:, p.irtt '
L i.-y thei r. I'iiere is amm 1 p .rty i:i
this Slate, n niiiheriiig soiuethiog 'ike 200.-
t 1 i vot-rs. v.hieb voncede." lui.g of tlie
fviiii], Aeiti-i r does 1-o kcr f., 1 >n;e of i",
ii he ui-i lievvtuiid n<jt L- liaat _< about too
Sti., try.i-g to Coiinteraci tin effect of
Vt !.i. it's speeches, nor would hcbedr.ig
guig the treiuendous Big]or iu his wake.-
ilo is evidently n te.isy, no tu.ittor h)W (jui
e'l. li!- 1 / ~\ n. .y tak . i'.
'ini. f". S. Si CorHT. —• A Wash
ington c.irr-sj.iinie!ii of tile G'l.ii!'-on Mer
cury lintias It paiiiabie that !'/>-- ient T
Oiiuiiait tv.ii, Withm ins itvvr '".i', have t<
u->ui.iiuio laore ihau on - (ueaibei or the Bu
pre-iie t.uurt. Judee t'u- tis In. resigned ;
t iiiel J mice i ar.-.y i- a!h'Ul years oil
and is luiirui: doilee lluur, is far front pro
nils lug a jitc wi in hi v y his ; ami .Judge
Melae.ui ,s 7-i yi. iis "i>t, very r: *h, and ti
rtfii or l ard i.i i!. It, may not bo pleissnt
io these e-eiii>t<eu )n have their en i .4* i.i-i
, thus .-in n: * i>ro.Jtcted r aiia u d t-',
. out the" are'gre.a men, in great uoaoiotm,
; ud mutt' t m hrfieti .virli toe er.,u . M a for
tunp ai lend <nt tr'iijjT'.i .
Inconsistency —ln i&IU # \ir. iiu 'aan
up. lii'tuomce i the leiim.. i->d c.f
w.'.h at.are U.-i-stmi.b-.n. In IS4B *h
wrote e U- ter to i Betk-eoUitM e- lebration
auvouatllig all e.Xlc sjy;, of If.p Missel! J
Uoaiprouiise litre to th • pa,-ig l
Mi. Bu.ibanau s.y.- any Vuc m i s kind is
unconstitutional, and ; >i *i.e Constitution
establishes slavery in the ur • t-a. Who
w.ll say thai Mr. BaoLanau is no •
sive, even at the *xju;Use -i;i''j
and common sense?