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It will be instructive hero to to turn back' oil in hot bests and certificates issued to the withdrew their bids. The work was let toend trace up the history and progress of! contractors for the contract price by the S. M. Young A Co. at 832,000 per annum, this work. It will bo seen that from 1840.: acting cotnuiis-ionor of that division, and Upon examination under a resolution of theto 1848, no appropriations were mudo, the t law for building n new state house having t been repealed; but in December, 1814 con raiaskmors appointed by the legislature n ported a plan and specifications for a nr state house, with detailed estimates of the t cost Tho entire ca3t accord! ug to that plan was estimated at ♦301,205. In Fobmnry, 1840, tho genera! assembly passed at tho contractors very soon after sold tho cor- j senate it was found that tho annual cost of ; ti Rentes to third persons. T bo state rebuilt | th repairs of thntsection for tlie preceding tho neqiiedoct at great expense, and sustain- six years was only ♦20,030,31, being over- ed great loss by the obstruction to nsviga-: ♦2,060,79 less per annum than the con- lion. In another instance, I was informed tract price. Hero is not only a violation authority, a contract was of tho law, hut a fraud practiced upon tho n let for cleaning out a bar, or a deposit, iu state as well as ujon such of tho bidders ns |, the St. Marys Basin, at a certain prico per were not informed of the truo state of the contrary to their contract r yard. The engineer estimated to the con- cose. It is doubtful whether tho people of the Constitution of tho United States providing for tbo building of a new stale ] tractors and they received pay for as many will ever become acquainted with all the and void.house, and adopted this plan. In the first; yards as there ura in llio n hole Basin, from I parties interested in that contract I Let every one judge for himself as to thesection of that law will he found the follow-1 the surface of the water to tho bottom.— So with section No. 8, being the Maumee j honesty of the Buchanan orators and Elec-ing provision: “Provided, that the said | This was communicated to mo by a gentle- * Western Reserve road. The nnnnal cost tors, who are constantly nbusing tho Repub-kon up to tho Supremo Court of tho Unite! Stales. That Court having a majority of democratic Judges, declared upon full hearing and argument of distinguished council, including Senator Pugh, in behalf of tho Stale, that tho act creating the banks was a contract between thorn and the State, which cannot bo altered without their consent; that tho act passed by tho democratic legislature taxing the banks violationJfraiiont found.FREMONT: OHIO.ISAAC AX. KE2IER, Editor.Frida) , September 19, 1856.“Freedom.”FOR PRESIDENT,JOHNop.j;RIJMONT.commissioners mar make such modifications in the details of the said plan during tho progress of the work at they may expedient and proper: Provided, however, «uch alterations SHALL IN NO WISE INCREASE TIIF. AGGREGATE COST OF THE SAID STATE HOUSE. This act ocmtinned in force and tho work •opposed to be prosecuted under ita provisions until the sesaon of 1852, when the democratic partv came into full power in all tho departments of the state government.— To use a common expression there was hard-}y a grease spot loft, of the whig party in the legislature. This democratic legislature repealed tho law of 1848, and passed Mother law for eMtmaing tho now state bouse, appointed a democratic board of commissioners and appropriated ♦125,000, making op to that lime and after tho law of 1848 was passed, ♦385,000. Tho plan was materially clianged and tho cost greatly increased. Those commissioners, after there hod boen expended 8490,000 on n state bouse that was not to cost to exceed $301,-235, reported to tho legislature at the session of 1SS4 that it would then require $400,000 more to complete the state bouse. Thereupon that democratic legislature appropriated ♦176,000, and after that also expended, the same coromisaioncra require $877,344 29 to complete the house which was only to ccst, when completed, $361,2351 It fsoeins the more they expended upon the state house, tho more it required to complete it. The republican legislature very naturally suspected that all was not right. The work was ordered to ho suspended and committees of investigation were appointed. Tho commLsionere weie required to make a full statement of their expenditures and liabilities and it was found that on tho first of March, 1850, they hnd run the state in debt, after expending all appropriations, $308,125 04. Only $29, 648, of this was for work dono after the 15th of November, when they reported their indebtedness to be only $198,237 32, whereas it was $280,277 64. The republican legislature instead of appropriating the enormous sum which these democratic commissioners required to complete the state house, tamed them out, and put in their places men believed to be holiest, and appropriated only $90,000, just enough to place the building in a stale of preservation and finish off the necessary rooms for the general assembly, state officers, supremo wort, Ac., in a plain and cheap manner.-connected with the public works. He these facts appeared by comparing the estimate of tho engineer with the nctual quantity contained in the Basin, according papers on file iu tho office of iho board. Iu the fall of 1851, James B. Steedroan is elected a member of tho hoard. In February, 1852, about the time he went office, ho received from tho state $500 for stone belonging to tho state, as evidenced by his receipt on file, of which tho following is a oopy:Na 62. February 9, 1852.Rec’d of Alex. P Miller Acting Commissioner by the hands of John G Isbsm Superintendent of Repairs on tho Eastern Div MAE Canal Five Hundred Dollars for 2,000 perches of (25 cu feet oa) protection stone deposited on my farm aud purchased by order of Acting Com at 25 per pereh.♦500. JAMES B STEEDMAN In constructing tho ennal through the farm referred to in Mr. Stccdraan's receipt, years lefore Mr. Steedman owned tho farm, a largo quantity of stono cavatcd and deposited along the Lank of the canal. According to * statute then and force, all stone and other materials excavated from tho canal became the property of the State, tho owners being paid therefor in the damages for the right of In this case, it is said, damages have boen paid at different times, amounting in all to the full value of the whole farm. Tho board had previously used considerable quantities of these stone, from time to time, protecting the banks of tho canal along the Maumee River without again paying for them. But when Mr. Steedman became owner of the form, and after become his duty to protect tho interests of tho state, he not only sells to others a part of the stone which belonged to the slate and appropriated the proceeds to his own use, but ho takes from the state pay, at a good round price, for all that is used for repairing the canal. Mr. Steed-rna not the owner of these stono cither moral or legal point of view. The state had already paid their full value to the former owner, anil Mr. quircd no title to them by the purchase of tho form after the right of way had been acquired aud tho stone excavated.In tho 6pring of 1851, tho democratic board turned out JuJgo Howland as su|er-intendent of the Maumee nod Western Reserve Rond, and appointed J. C. Wales iiA large amount had already been expend-}^ puw, Howland was paid a salaiy of ed in expensive and useless ornaments, which $36 per month. Wales was paid tho same ■c ordered to he dispensed with in finish Bl but afterw ard? it was raised to $05ing the house.ASYLUMS.On the 30th of April, 1852, the democratic legislature passed an act for the build-por month, nearly double what was paid to Howland. Besides his salary, Wales charged the stale for his horse and carriage hire, postage stamps, stationary, office rent, Ac.ing of two new lunatic asylums, one. at; No such charges were made by Howland.— Kewburg, near Cleveland, and tho other : On the 1 st of April, 1855, James J. Parks, «t Dayton. In the 3.1 section of that act is I of the firm of Parks and Hayes, was np-the following provision: “hut tho entire pointed in the place of Wales arid jiaid the rest to tho stato of each of said asylums, isamc salary. At tho time Parks A Ilnyes including necessary buildings grounds aud ' baJ a contract for putting stone on the road, improvements, ehuil not exceed in the ng- which they did Lot complete till the next gregate, w hen perfectly completed, seventy fall. Parks was, therefore, superintendent thousand dollars; and no contract shall Iw and contractor at tho same time, made for beginning any part of said work, | These few examples out of many nor shall any work ho begun, until arrange- that might he cited, are sufficient to show meats shall be made ensuring their eomple- j the reason why tho cost of repairs, Ac., lion at an agjregate not exceeding the sum ,der the democratic administration has been aforesaid. Democratic trie-tecs were ap- .so greatly increased and Una so for exceed -pointed to superintend tho work. Butnot-jed the appropriation?, withstanding this strong provision, the dom- LETTING REPAIRS,ocratie legislature of 1854, appropriated As soon ns the democratic members of $50,000 more making in nil $190,000.— board found that they were about to lose This sura was all expended, leaving unpaid ' control of tho public works, they dctermin-nl the meeting of the republican legislature led to lot the contracts, before they went out the sum of 8109.125 10. making the whole Lf offitf0t f„r keeping the puLlic works ccat $299,425 10, more than double the Lj, for five j***. The law trader i amount aulhorixed by the original act - lLcv claimCl, ,bc font l0 do it wns,, There was also appropriated $39,355 55 to ;n la45i bul ^ |milo no movo lowarJ.pay other debts against the different lams, making in all $148,780 85. PUBLIC WORKS.The public works have been anotherdoing any such thing until the people haddecided to turn them out. It was the onlycourse left by which any portion of the r! PROFITS arising from the puhlioyvorks aourw of extravagant expenditure. The last, could be thereafter insured to their friends, democratic board ‘expended all tho appro- The bur by virtno of which they acted prialions made by the legislature of 1854, uined this clause: “Provided that said for keeping the public works in repair, Ac., ^ board shall in no case let by contract thefor 1854 and 1855, and left unpaid debts j keeping in repair the public works, or anyand liabilities against the state to thr amount portion thereof, by sections, ns aforesaid, of $185,348 28. Of this amount $111,-dess the aimo can be dono at a price less 545 27 is provided for in the act of last ses- than the average price of keeping the MOD, making appropriations for certain do- in repair for the last six years.” fieicneies in former appropriations and $73.- It was the duly of Lite board to look to 802 27. in tho net making appropriation*: the interests of the slate and make an lion-for the puhlie works for the year 1856. It lest statement of the cue! of repair? for the would take tip too much time to go into a proceeding six years, so that bidders would full disclosure, this evening, of the manner be induced to take work at fairwhich tbo money of the people wit* j such didu to be tho object of thefor repairs for tho six years preceding the lienn legislature for not attempting, as thoir'for vii r.-rmsiDKXT.WILLIAM L DAYTON.or nr.ir jersey.letting was stated to ho $7,765, whereas the actual cost was only $5,715,07. The bids run from $3,750 to $7,000. It lot to O. White at $3,750 and the papers were all mado out, but by some means he was induced to withdraw and the contract was let at $5,499, to James J. Parks, of the firm of Parks A Hayes, who built the ne-queduct across Big Fiat Rock Creek, which fell down, and who had a job on the Maumee A Western Reserve road when Parks was superintendent Besides the loss tho state has already sustained by tho manner in which the letting was conducted, it will undoubtedly sustain immense loss in other ways. The contractors will do just as little as they can and keep within their contracts. Many things necessary to bo dono will be found not to bo covered by their contracts, and nt tho end of the five years the public works will be found in much worse condition than when pul into tho hands of the. contract' ors. There are many other transactions of this democratic board of public works which it is to bo hoped the “smelling committee will succeed iu smelling out and exposing to the public.STATE DEBT.Persons who were present say that Mr. Greene in his Wolf Creek speech stated that the Republican Legislature had exempted from taxation $20,000,000 of Ohio State Bonds. It is strangotiiat Mr. Greene should mako such a statement, when, according to the last report of tlio democratic sinking fund commissioners, which ho had before him last winter, tlio entire foreign and domestic debt of the State on tho first of January last nmountingto only $14,003,-295.07. That report gives the names and places of residence of every holder of these bonds. No one claimed thnt any of those bonds ought to be taxed except such as are helJ in Ohio,wbich only amouutto $2,093,-003; of this sum only $64,483 are held by individuals, tho balance being held by tho hanks mid mostly pledged for the redemption of their bilL. In my opinion thereseveral very good reasons why tho State of Ohio ought not to levy taxes upon what she owes.1. A large proportion of this debt wns created by virtuo of a law expressly pledging the faith of the State that tho bonds issued therefrom never should he taxed, and tho balance were supposed to come undero same provision.2. The State would gain nothing by taxing her own bonds even if there was no otli-objediou to it. These bonds draw only 5 and 0 per cont interest. The taxes would average 14 percent, leaving the hol lers only 34 and 4J per cent They can be sold in New York at a largo premium and tho money brought back to Ohio and loaned upon bond mortgage at 10 per cent; consequently taxing them would soon drive them mostly out of the State. On tho 1st of Janunry next two and a half millions of this debt becomes due. Democrats urged the. levying of n tax this year to pay this large sum of money, but tho Republicans thought it belter to renew a considerable portion of it by issuing new bonds payable30 yeare, nl which time tlio population and wealth of the State will bo much greater than nl present. It will therefore bo much easier for the Stato to pay it then than nt this lime. These bonds will sell in New York from 10 to 15 per cent premium amounting to from $200,000 to $300,000.that every time the debt is renewed die premiums will reduce it, provided the State keeps her pledge and does not reduce tho value of her bonds by taxing them. For these reasons the Republicans of the legislature were not willing to levy so largo a tax upon tlio people, as would havo been necessary t. pay this debt at a time when there has been a failure of crops for two i, although recommended by Gor. Modill. There was one democrattho legislature, Judge Matthews of Hamilton county, who had the independence to differ with his parly upon this subject. In a speech upon the tax law ho said: “It exempts from taxation tho stocks of die State. This, Sir, in my judgment is right. Tho Stato has mado a contract with the holders of her stock, by which she agreed pay them a specified interest every year. Good faith requires her to fulfill it. If she withholds a part under pretext of taxation, site has taken tho first step towards rcpudia-For one, I cannot consent to it.TAXING BANKS.The net of 1845 creating the Stato bank of Ohio and other banks, provided thnt the banks organiz'd under that act, should payparty did, to tax tho banks contrary to this decision, and to the Constitution of tlio| United States, putting the State to thousands of dollars of expense without the pos-1 nihility of collecting ono dollar of tho lax! I will again quote from the speech of Judge Matthews, doraoeratic Senator from Hamilton county: There is another provision of tho bill, Mr. Chairman, which I intend to support at tho hazard of being tried, oon-icted and burnt as a heretic. I refer to that provision which exempts from tho operation of tho law those banks deriving thoir corporate existence from tho act to create the State Bank of Ohio. Tho Supremo Court of the United States, havo formally and solemnly declared that tho sixteenth section which provides tho rulo by wffich they are to bo taxed, is a contract between tho people of Ohio and those institutions which the former are forbidden to violate by tho Federal Coutitution. Thus spoke a democrat in tho Senate. Contrast what ho says with what you hear from tho speakers and rend in llio papers of that party in those jart*! If tho republican legislature have really exempted so much property from taxation as these men would have you believe, and have increased tho expenses of the Government as they charge, how happens it that the rate of taxes on the balance of the property of tho State is not higher than it last year under democratic rule I Tho truth of it is that all this “noise and confusion, about exempting Stato Bonds and banks from taxation is got up for no other purposo but to deceive tlio people, just as tho many false and scandalous stories and charges against Col. Fremont are; none of which havo any foundation in truth.JACOB PKKKINS. lt;.r TnrataU CmuU). ’[st—Jnnx it. stallo. «r run.ct'n.-■ I -hi IV. ..fVts—WILUAU TAYLOR, lt;r -b'tiT.Hancock:Bandunk)' Co. Republican Convention.Convention met pursuant to a call published in tlio Fremont JournaL On motion,Wm. N. Morgan wns appointed chairman, and C. II. Greene Secretary.The convention was called to order by tho chairman, and the following named persons ire proposed for candidates for tho several Sees, to wit:For Treasurer—J. F. R. Sebring.For Commissioner—Daniel Baker, Sanford G. Baker, James E. Dean, Nonh P.Hathaway, James Moore, Isaac Rogers,!Ferdinand Wilson Wm. A. Hill, and Wm.Anderson. ______Infiirmarv directors; Short Term—Sam- “‘1® 10 begin with—two of _ad BlH. Wm. Kmmck, Jo—h Birdnr. o'1’”™ Badjmmu, mm,1 • cd in 54, on the heel of too passage of tbonnd Bnrnbwt Kimo. N.bmA. bill. BmWo tluET?. L»tInfirmary Directors; Short Term—Car- Fsancis P. Blais, fr, a Fremonter from a i G. Sanford, C. G. Groeno Leonard Bo- Slave Stato, to make tlio even down. If n, Thomas Holcomb and Samuel Feni- ,lin nn,t Congrera shall foil to do jmdtco to Kansas, it will not be tho faalt of Mans,Three of the Free Slates hare now held, elections for tho next Congress, and every one of thoir Members is for Freedom T-namoly:IOWA......I—Samuel R. CurtisII—Timothy Da via VERMONT.. 1—Ezekiel P. Walton.II—Justin S. lfnmil, ni—Homer E. Roycc.MAINE......I—John M. Wood,II—CbraksJ. Gilhaio,III—Nchemish Abbott,IV—Freeman H. Morse.V—Isreal Washburn, jr.VI—Stephen 0. faster. Here are eleven Members scared up onImportant from Kansas. Peace Prospects Brian (cuing-stale Pn*o.St. Loco, Sept. 15.Kansas advices to tho 10 inst, have been received. Judge Locorupto had released tho Stale prisoners on bail. Gov. Geary hail issued n proclamation, commanding nil armed bandit to disperse, Emcri’s kind had been taken before Gen. Smith for arresting officers of tho army—Whipples company captured.A party of thieves at Osiuke, on tbo Olh took eighty horses.A fort capable of holding ono thousand men, has just been finished at Lawrence. There wns a grand jubilee at Lawrcuco oo night of the tenth. Speeches were inode by State Prisoners aud there was a general rejoicing.Mrs. Robinson passed here to day cn-routo to Boston.Out TicketLs now full. National, Slate, District and County. Every roan is a Freemen. Republicans now do yon duty and elect them. Snnduskys! do yon hoar that! Look nt the names and resol vo they SHALL BE ELECTED!Tlicmo* Our ttoniimruu.The Richmond (Vn.,) Whig mourns over tlio Maine election, and says:We consider that the result of the election in Maine puts a complete extinguisher upon Buchanan's chances for the Prcsiden-New Hampshire first, Iowa next, and ■« Maine—all three having been heretofore strong decided, overwhelming Democratic States—have become thoroughly and irretrievably Black Rcpuhlicanhcd, and will assuredly cast llieir ekctcrial votes in November for Fremont.We make tho prediction confidently now thnt in Illinois—the homo of Dougins him-fiolC—BUsell will beat Richardson for the Governorship out of sight. Tlio Slate of Douglas and Shield*, and Richardson, we repeal, will heyound all doubt cnsl its vote for tho Black Republican candidate.And thiis it will most certainly lie with Mr. Buchanan’s own State—the great Keystone State of Pennsylvania. There is —iliere can lie none. His chances in tho North, look in what direction you may, utterly and desperately hopeli did man in cither section will t tend otherwise.Rairtnn Inhumanlt).men were entitled to the nnmc of fiends it is Missouri ruffians, whoso atrocious acts are not lmlf writen. Tho la-t tnlo is ■me in regard to tho unfortunate man IIoits.—falsely reported hr telegraph as Hoyt—who was sent to the Ruffian camp, unarmed to ask of tho invaders their wishes and purposes, nnd by ono of them shot and scalped. The wife of the murdered man made application for his body, but was turned sway in n ruffian like manner. She asked for his clothes, watch and sonic raon-lliat he had on liis person, and was laughed at and told to leave tlio camp, or the lenders irould not be responsible for the acts of their men!—meaning thnt she would lie violated iu her person. Where oo llio face of tho civilized world can n (mrallcd for such atrocity bo found. Tho Cincinnati Commercial says:IIopps was a qniet man, who had made no noise nbout his principles, and who was shot and scalped in mere wantonnoss by Fugnte, a noted pm-slnvory man of Leavenworth. l’ugai boosts of his awfril crime, and carries his victim's scalp about in his pocket, wrnpjied in a piece of the Missouri Republican newspaper, and showes it to bis friends. Let it l.o remembered thnt no pnv-sdnvery murderer or thief 1ms ever been published! or even brought to trial, ornrres-ted, or so much as indicted, in Kansas. Think of this in connection with the imprisonment of Robinson and other* a* traitors. nnd the innumerable arrests of Free State men on every pretext.Yes, let the public think of nnd forget ■~. -d'-e said in his remarks first•qnandored on some parts of tho pnldic democratic rocHiliorsof the board. In mak-work*. A few instances will suffice to show | ing up Uleir statement, they included large | to the Slate a tax of 6 per cent how anxious tliesn democrats were to ccon- items which did uut belong to repairs nt all. profits, anil should never bo taxed iiraniw and protect the interests of the slate. Take for example section No. 0, king the er manner. This tax they had always paidThey let a contract to Parks A Hayes, (who ^eastern division of the Miami A Erie canal, • without objection. When the democrats seem to have liecn favorites with nt leant one I under the charge of Mr. Steedman. The orate into jsiwer they undertook to tax them member of that board.) for building an nc- average annual cast for the preccediug six iu a different manner, nnd contrary tqueduct acres* Big Flat Rock Creek, which years was staled to be $45,971,17. The charters. The banks refused to jiny. The L S mthcru paper chnmctorising/Vw *rAti«fr tliev s»y was the most costly structure on bids run from $24,000 to $43,800 per no- Democrat* pa-ssed a law called llio “Crow nsoirn of tho ham* of tho laud—let thellte middle din,ien of tho Miami A Erie j num. Every body supposed it Uiul cost tho Bar Uw, requiring tax collectors to enter 1‘^’1-fo think of ig commit itcanal. The work was so badly done that stato a good deal more than it ought, but the banks by force, break open their vault* ^rV.-w'be gora into battle,as soon Ujo water was let ;n.“the struct- j when the lowest bidders saw the great dit- and take their money to pay their illegal j __urt gave wav and becnmo nr entire wreck.” crepnncy between their bids aud tho stated tax. This gave rise to suits between tho Dryfoos, is now o|iening an extcn-Jtfc* before, it i? rai-l. the wcxk «•* prerept jort to the state, they were alarmed and txx gatherer? and the banks which were ta | sive stock of Fall and Winter Clothing.Alim—WU-l.r.K I'KSMJCffTON. OJ B*lSMxvnirn—Jons 5. HERRICK, of PnrtM»: XrXnt-A vRn* WILCOX, cf Ini*.XXTH—JAMES DCMARS. lt;,r SUh.mtoi XXIst—AMOS E. BUSS. „f C*mlLFOR Cn.VGBESS,COOPER^ K. WATSON,FOB JUDGE or eOVWKr FLEAS,SEBASTIAN F. TAYLOR,Of Ell* Count).Republican State Ticket.-4IZHS limvi.N, ,.r Morion.Loth Tim- JOSIAll SCOTT, of Duller.C. P. WOLCOTT, at Si“Yxsoa STiTTn^™JOHN WABMBIX, alCounty Ticket.JACOB F. R. SEBRING.more.Thereupon on motion of C. D. Hall the following committee were appointed by tho chair to draft Resolutions to bo adopted by the Convention, and were as follows:C. D. Hall, Homer Everett and Thomas Gillroore.Thereupon Homer EvereU Esq, was loudly called for, who arose and addressedtho convention, after which the Convention adjourned until one o'clock P. M.1 o’clock P. M, Convention met pursu-to adjournment, Wm. N. Morgan in the chair. Tbo convention after being called to order proceeded to Ballot fur Infirmary Director for the short term which resulted os follows.1st bal 2nd bal. 3d baL C. G. Sanford 38 65 66C. G. Greene 17 IThos. Holcomb 24 52 62S. Fenimoro 20 Leonard Bacon 28 10C. G. Sanford having a majority of all tho votes cast, was duly nominated.Thereupon the convention proceeded to ballot for Infirmary Director for long term which resulted as follows:Vbrmokt and low.*.josephThrdseye.(Shan T«na.lCARMI G. SANFORD.Republican Thunder!IOWA over 8,000 MAJORITY! Evorv man elected is a staunch Republican!VERMONT 21,000 MAJORITY!Tho Rutland [Jerald, says:Congress—Every District Republican by large majorities;Seuale—Every member Republican;House—230 towns Republican, 215 Democrats, 11Republican Majority, 204Ten towns to hear from.On tho Senate ticket tho Republicans have made a clean sweep.To the House llio DemocraU claim that they have elected some eight or ten member, which we really hope nwy prove true. If the above is not satisfactory to our friends in other States, we will give them a pledge to do better in November.Vermont is a star of tho first magnitude.MAINE rMOliI ha*' t*u lir*n! Ihf ni-T., fromMilr.»—torn! r.r,, anil trr..?”It has given a Republican majority over nil tho other candidates, of more than 17,000 VOTES!Neither Iowa, Vermont, or Maine have a pro-slavery Congressman! “Close vp the column, and Forward! ” Hurrah!~BOYS: DO YOU UEAR THAT I Pennsylvania, Ohio nnd Indiana speak xext be same day, October 14th. Let it be a triple thundor-cL-ip! Ohio the avenging bolt!“Close rp the colcmx, and forward!-Bccketes, Uooaireas, Wolverine*, Bad-oebs Scckebs, IIawkeyes! bear ye nol tramp of the Hosts of Freedom on all the green lulls of New England ? Tho unconquered and unconqucralile young Pathfinder leads—Fall is!—Fall is! “Trust in God and keep your powder dry I”“Freedom Shrlrliern.'’ThU is tho nppelntion given to the Republican stumpow by the opposition. A ry appropriate nnmc indeed. Wo thank them for this denomination. But now, to return the compliment, we know of no better sobriquet for their howling rabble than ‘Slavery Shrickcrt!A Men lion Free men.There is to l»e n grand rally of tho Freemen of Seneca, Wyandot, Crawford, Hancock, Hardin, Marion, Wood, Sandusky nnd other counties at Tiffin on tho 10th ofOcto-Hon. Assos Bcrusoame, tho man who made Preston S. Brooks show the while feather, will lie there. Will not Sandusky send 1000 delegates to this meeting!— When shall there bo n meeting held to make tho ueccseiry arrangements JFREEMEN RALLY.Tho Republicans and friends of Freedom and l'reo Institutions, of York, Lyme and adjoining townships will have a GRAND RALLY, AT ■tiBT-rXjYaJ \/ U-Ua. Oil SATURDAY, September 20th, 1850.There will lw a POLE RAISING nt 10 j o’clock a.m., nnd speaking nt 2 o'clock pan. i TURN OUT!Friends uf Freedom! and let us have a glorious meeting! Tho citizens of Bellevue, will receive you with WARM HEARTS, and OPEN HOUSES.B. T. Hcst, Esq., mud other good sjieak-crs will address the people.Good Music will bo provided.Afore Evidence!The Hon. G. Wright, formerly member of Congress from California, writes to tho member of congrea from the Toledo Districtthus:Washixqtox, D. C., August 16, '56. Mr Dxab Sul—I am authorized by Col. Fremont to deny in the meat posrtive language tho report now in circulation, to tho effect that bo is a Roman Catholic.From a long and intimate acquaintance with Cob Fremont, I will further add, that I know by my own knowledge that he hue never had any connection whatever with tho Catholic Church or the Catholic religion.G. W. WRIGHT.Hon Rich a ed Mott.House of Representatives.1st IWin. Rcarick 43Joseph Birdseye 69 Barnhnrt Kline 10Joseph Birdseye having a majority of all tho votes cast was declared duly nominated.For Commissioner—On the first ballot, Sanford G. Baker, of Woodville, having received a largo majority of tho vote* cast was declared duly nominated.Thereupon on motion of Daniel Baker, Esq.. and there being no other nrnno proposed for County Treasurer. J. F.R. Sebring was nominated by acclamation.Committee offered the following rtawlu-tiiins wbich wore read and adopted:Retolrrd, That we believe in tho great fundamental trails and principles of the Declaration of Independence, especially, that men are created Free nnd Equal and endowed with an unalcnablo right to life, liberty aud the pursuit of happiness.dissolved. That wo believe tho Constitution of the Uuitod States was as it declares in the preamble to it, “ordained and established to perpetuate the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.Resolved, That it is a gross perversion of the spirit and letter of tliat great Charter of freedom, to assert that it authorizes or permits the extension of Slavery.Rnolvcd, That the platform and candidates of tho Republican party know East, no West, no North, no South, in application of doctrines.Resolved, Thnt ibo Union must and shall be preserved, and John 0. Fremont is the man to preserve it, witlmut loosing Freedom to man. Liberty and Uuknt i* our motto.Resolved, That in John C. Fremont nnd Wm. L Dayton, we recognize thiwo high qualities of patriotism firmness anJ state-luanahip, which mark them a? the men to hold aloft the great standard of human freedom, nnd guide tho Union back to its former harmony, glory nnd power.Resolved, That we receive with satisfaction the nomination of this Convention today, ami tlrnl in our candidates wo know that we have, men of Imnor, integrity and true patriotism, and that we will labor untiringly to secure their election.Thereupon the following named persons were appointed as a Central Comn ' r the ensuing year:S. Buckl.md, C. O. 7'iilitson, L M. Keeler, L Gdpin nnd Theo. Clnpp.The Convention was addressed 8v M-asr*. Gelpin and Everett after which it adjourned with three chrers for the County Ticket aud three cheers for Fremont nnd Dtvton.WM. N. MORGAN,' Chr'n.C. H. Greene, See’y.A Voice from (lie Hermitage.James Buchanan accused of Corruption by Gen. Jackson.—General Jackson to Major W. B. Leans.Hsiuiitagx, Feb. 28, 1843. our observations with regard to Mr. Bu-an are correct. He shouted a wmt of moral courage in the affair of tho intrigua of Adams and Clay; did not do me justice in the expose be had then made, and I am sure about that time did not beleive there a perfect understandiny between Adams and Clay about the Presidency and Secretary of State. This lam sure of. But whether ho viewed that there was any corruption in the caso or not, I know not, but one thing I do know, that he wished to combat me with their own weapons, that was to let my friend* rav if I was clec-Lsd, I would make Mr. Clay Secretary of State.—THIS TO ME APPEARED DEEP CORRUPTION—AND I RE-PELED IT WITH THAT HONEST INDIGNATION I THOUGHT IT DESERr VED ANDRDW JACKSON.The authenticity of the above letter having liecn questioned, the original is deposited at tho office of tho Nashville Banner, and exposed to inspection.The following resolution was unanimously adopted at a Fillmore meeting, held at Greenville, Butler county. Albania, on lb* 9th of August, as reported iu the CbuLaoa American on tho 21 at of that month: Resolved, That the Territories of the United Slates are tlic common property of all the State* alike, and as such, each State h.-u tlic right to settle the same; and neither Congress, the Territorial legislature, nor thr people of the Territories during their Territorial existence, have the right to exclude staves, or any other property fromthe siGood Sell.—Tho N. Y. Express editor attended tho late German Fremont gathering, in the Tabernacle, and the next day his |m per cams out with a most disgusting caricature of it, insulting to the eminent Germans who were chief in calling the meeting, insulting to those in attendance, and outraging the public generally by i ts abuse of foreigners who had tho manliness to declare for Krswost. The paper containing this disgusting article of course told like hot cakes, and the publishers found it necessary to issue another larger edition. One friend —so the paper announced in ita next day's issue—took fiiton thousand copies! and from that it was ioferrd how approvingly Ihe public looked upon such onslaughts on the OemtiH. But, tho secret soon cama nut:—thnsfl tiften thousand copies were ordered and paidfor by an agent of the Central Fremont Committee: 10,000 were given awag gratuitously to the German voters in the II th and 17 th wards of the eity, and the remaining 5,000 were sent to Pennsylvania/ as Fremont electioneering documents. Thus was the viper mada to sting itself to death. It is raid that the article would make ten thousand votes for Fremont in New York.—Sandusky Reg-A Sinn SInrdcrcul.A penrenblB nnd respeetnbls Gorman blacksmith named AnoLpnrs Kodsxheiseb was murdered on Wednesday evening liv a man named John C'orseillv under the following circumstances:IloDESHEtsKB who was a Republican was standing in or near Rec’o saloon, and gave a shout for Fremont. Corncilly immediately knocked him down nnd sprang on him with both feet stnmpimg him so severely that he died yesterday forenoon. Corncilly has not yet been arrested, but the officers are in pursuit of him. The deceased maintained a good character as an industrious qniet citizen. We have no doubt Corncilly was more or less maddened with whiskey.—Tiffin Tribune.The murdered man formerly worked in Fremont. Let the Germans reflect on this.One of their own countrymen inhumanly murdered because he hurrahed for Fremont, a Locofoco Congressman shoots waiter, and now a German it beat to death returned ho by n gxd democrat. How this Slave party j ®jj5 love tho foreigners.A Slight Ms-Dkal.—A young lawyer in the interior was the bero, a few evenings since ofnn amusing mistake, aud as it b not worthwhile to spoil a story, especially a good one, “for relations sake,” we purpose to give it though til© hero was a staunch Republican. Tho young lawyer had go no to -tho rural districts? to try a case before a Justice, hut a witness being absent, tho cause was adjourned till morning. The lawyer went to bis client’s bouse near by to lake ton; and in the vvcning was invited to attend a meeting at (be school house. Thither he went, and being full of politics himself, jumped at the conclusion that it was a political meeting. After sitting awhile in silence the lawyer got upon ha feet, and remarking dial while the audience were waiting for speakers, it might be aa well to improve the time, launched into a tremendous harangue upon Kansns and Sumner. His “few words” spun out an I tour nnd a half, when Elder 6. A hitter..II hard-shell Locofoco, got up, bis voice trembling with inward rage, nnd said, since our young friend has concluded his remarks brethren let us |ray.” This was intended for a prayer meeting!—Detroit Tribune.AsoTmcn.—The Wyandot Pioneer says that Dr. Mitrsex, a strong Democrat of that town, went a few months ago to Kansns to settle. While there ho was robbed and lri?h abused by tho Border Ruffians. Ho has , nnd now goes for Fremont Ho lino see a the elephant aud felt him, too.t3T Wo irT i SAT Gen Joel W. Wilson, of Tiffin, wollrea. era o pe - favorably known throughout Northern ckI» « ^ I Ohio, died at his residence, m that city, on “rarer shirt, aii Monthly evening of inilamaiiun of the brain.U»iinit Cheratal* rr.lra hla treat aojstreiwBl* to Fa.-ture pt reflxrtlr# for totaratm cn* vhfath ha* f.iIhrartC Uia labn lhla remmanil) U DM© aa) cluciJatU irtoMofrm Co. Chrrrir.£5T A S-.ulb Carolinian at tho North said significantly, speaking of the Burlingame matter: “I standby Brooks,ofoourae; but my wite says he should hart gone (a..Canaria T
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