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NEW ; it 9 we | This nosounte for the ° a p a fy ey) in ras true ie profewed a deeames te taking the same track, finding the other Of the old federals, ‘democratic 4 Activity of the Politicians Throughont | {7*o<~ Di they cenbet meg Srure oe pope a ciples. "Dat wow that the’ party ia heen ‘he the State. ‘their doom is fixed. In November it will be . Panne f arent Tay Tea yy» A cc LO Our Tamaqua Correspondence. Plo. The others dovack ge eee te ie pen ee Tamaqua, Pa., Oct. 2, 3856. srr ranean age they, cannes discern between principles TUESDAY, THE SETTLING DAY, | somening stoil Timagua and Pamoyivenian Inland beive thet dough it esate the Gla eases: aneugh to Per. ae, &e., ae. Towns in General—About Rowdies anid who they go | & democratic party, but is a ‘sectional, negro for How the Quiet and Moral Classes are Waking up to Ref al eyes selon tot wd a rid Gur Williamsport Correspondence. ‘Tamaqua is a great place. It is the centre of a large Sealice this, they are together by the plank of su ‘Wruamsrorr, Oot. 4, 1856. mining district, and is a pretty considerably well built pm OA tho Bitghen Bement to Pemaeanta Pattee ertom- town, Until quite recently the people of Tamaqua and pa | t peak. Reve al wee Union Counties—A Penneyloa- neighborhood were, with hardly an exception, thorough | old enemy of li now, instead of being the democracy Suffer in Kansas— Democratic Change of Front, dc. going democrats. Recent events have awakened them which it was. The Fremonters in their opposition to the Im 'he developement of no thought during this campaign up. ‘They have examined and reflected, and a great ma- apostate democracy are laboring to re-establish the oa hea the Hunt, notwithstanding its.amazing skill in the | icrity nave come to the conclusion that political justice, | one hostility management of the canvass, exhibited greater sagacity ‘than in the pourtrayal of the influence the religious ele ment of the country wil! exert upon the Presidential elec- ‘en. Long before others saw or expected the active agency of this influence, the Hrkirp descried it from afer, and by \ts.articles on the subject, has contributed to give the movement directness, strength and a marked qmementom. No acute observer can {ail to see the preva- hemos, among the moral and religious portions of society, ef a feeling of duty which voters have rarely if ever bad ‘weighing upon their consciences on a similar occasion. ‘Wb the causes which produced this developement I have mething to do; but of its existence in Pennsylvania the public elsewhere need not, and should not, be kept in igmorance. Heretofore, when political issues related to ‘the tariff, the public lands, the currency and such as ~ oe tote - grimed witn coal dust, aud the rudeness of whose rough attire would suggest « diflerent con- clusion, earn regularly, from year’s end to year’s end, from $16 to $20 and $258 week. Such # lot of money, ry among 80 many people, acts hke # magnet upon the good things of this jite, apd causes the milk and honey to overflow and abound. ‘It is a land really flowing with milk and An lobserved before, all the inland towns of Pennsylvania present the same appearance of solid ity and well being. Unlike large cities, such as New Tork and Philadelphia, there are no depots in these towns of squatia poverty and cringing pauperism, bid in cebars dirty streets andalieys. There arc some joaferr, however, and rowdies, in each of these towns, men who spend their time in tavern., drinking, betting aud teleing politics; and, strange to say, these men are almost all Buchanan men. it would seem as if professional rowdies were supported by and kept in the pay of the apostate democracy, who have in their hands the distribution of tbe Treasury pap. Rome was ruined when the Sylias and Cwrsars bought and fed the rowdies; and American liberty wil! be ruined, American prosperity will be made the prey of the violent. Mf a corrupt party, gorged with the national wealth drunk with power, is suffered to goon in the course 11 fan cannot vote for the extension of slavery into Kansas by force of arms without inquiring whether, in conniving ‘at or assisting in such a work be is mot recreant to his race, his age, his country and his God. He recognizes in slavery an institution which is provocative of the grossest ead most inexcusable imq@oralities: which leas to con- stant indulgence in criminaiities; which proiuces the debasement of the owned, and the corruption of the owning classes; which is, inherently and necessarily, degrading to the white laborer, wiom it places in competi ‘won with degraded and crashed in spirit slaves; and whose extension over boundless Territories, cannot be promotive ef apy great mora! seek By supporung Buchanan, en work in which they cannot engage without ‘8 consciousness of the xy of the act with those moral principles which are the basis of God’s truth. and whieh dare not be disregarded by any society, people, or government. Hence, this continued support of their party 1 mmpossible; and hundreds have determined to lend a hand to freedom, to morality and to materia! prosperity, vy the anti-extensicn candidate. This class of wiers. They don’t stand upon the street corners aaprmnting. hee La ag agra They = sober, quiet, citizens, © peaceahie ho will, without parade, make themselves felt clasa so swelled Whe republican ma. jority in Maine. Jt will swell the reprdican majority iu Pennsylvanis. Not at the first clectioa will thie be so paipabie; but in the second, when ihe issue is distinctly ted, its tall force wili be feit, and crushingly, upon democrats. If, therefore, Fremont’s majori.y in this Mate should be aswovishingly large, let mot this grea element in the confit be overlooked. Since I last wrote you I have been ic Northumberland irsues. It ta bigh time that the quiet, retired, sober minted classes of the are not heard in t! Pennsylvania is now doing this. The men who cared not about voting before witi give their votes at this Pre- sidential election, in condemnation of violence, bioodshed and bowie knife government. Some of the most respect able clergy have assured me that, whereas, in past elec- tions they never even voted, in this one they have taken care to have themselves assessed, that they may vote for Fremont, and thereby for the redemption of the country from murule, anarchy an bloodshed. Our Pottsville Correspondence. Porrsvite, Ost. 4, 1866. and Lycoming counties. | bave chosen this part of the Beate for a tour, becaure its condition ia little kaown else- | Buchanan and Breckinridge Blectimeering in Pennsylra and because in it the democratic party has had i “ A Seen Cr rat near aoee Rad | nia on the Fremont and Free Kansas Piatform— Dea possession of all the county and federal offices. It is of Mr. Platform. a@ it has for years been reaping. the frotts of « ‘compact, well drilled ‘and generally obedient majority of ‘the voters. it bas grown «mtoxica‘ed with success, not dreaming (hat any reverse of fortune would dethrone them from their places. Bat it hat counted without ite host; for already ite ranks grow thin and dispirited and ap prehensive. Im Northumberland the democratic majority last fall was 972; in Lycoming, 232. Im the former ihe op- position united upon ® county tickec as weil the union State ticket. There ia consideradie dissatisfaction with the democratic candidate for Con- gress, who has been aspiring for it uot! it ‘was peceesary to piace bim in the field as@ candidate ‘Two independent candidates for Associate Judge—one a @emocrat and one a whig—are in the flel¢ against the re nominees. An in: dent candidate for the Le gtelature—a emocrat—has been announced in opprst If the Southern capitalists, the three hundred and forty-six thousand slaveholders, who threaten (i. ¢., some balfe dozen of them) to dissolve the Union, and to forsake a nation of twenty millions of people—if they can not have it all ther own way in the government of that pation—if they were to catch ® man from the North among them who dared to speak of “tree Kangse,”’ would they not indignantly !ynch him, or arrest and try him, and send bim by force out of tne country’ They would do 10—they do #@. Then if they can but catch Mr. Buchanan and the few desperate men who, having cased their consciences in brass and adamant, follow stil! bis desperate fortune at ali bazards, they certainly will lynch bimanc themall. Why so? Mr. Buchanan i <cieencteuaplatmnien von Sniaated und siderige | and Mr, Breckinridge are now going all over and round contest. Of the two candidaes for C ngress, Campdel! | about the State of Penneylvania preaciing “ree Kan ras.”” Are they converted’ Are they become young republicans and true democrats’ Huve they abandoued the apostate democracy’ What does this mean’ Has Mr. Platform already jumped off from tbe plattorm’ Hay he who laid himself down on backs of Pierce and Joba Yen Buren, and who bimeelf up wo be be strided by 8 pegro slavedriver aud negrocs—has he +baben off the black cightmare, the heavy incubus, and jumped upright from off bis bearers and ceased to be Mr. Viatform’ Is Mr. Piatformdead’ Yes, be bas done so, sud Mr. Platform is dead. I can produce the pla- and Dewart, the latter is repudiated by democrats, ant the former, though an American, will be sustained by many democrats who cen distinguish between iota ence and ignorance, fliineag agi others. Tho district mberiand and Schuylkill) is largely democratic, ‘but the nuiaber 0! independent democrats is thought to de sufficient to werk the defeat of their party's candidate. Last year Northumberlans cast about 3,900 votes, and @ the democratic Canal Commissioder 972 majority year, with a larger vote potied, the majority wi!! be reduced at least one naif on the Stave ticket, aud more r ‘vban that on the Presidential. if there should be @ fusion | card paraded now ip the interior to and villages o electoral ticket prepared. a the county there & few | Peenrylvania, beaded, in large flaming letters, ‘“Ra- bundred Fillmore men, but the namber {+ not increasiag. | chanan, Breck'mridge ard free Kan: Here there ie sas. abiic notiGcation aoe fae of Mr, Platform. This is ts last dying speech and cr nfession. This inthe ‘second time that Mr. Buchanan bears pub: lic teet'mony before the world in favor of Mr. Fremont and his princi es. First, under oath, io lopdem, ao¢ now by bis uti placards in the interior of Pennsylya- nia, Not baying the rae! enn be‘ore his eyes, Mr. Evcbanan proclaims himself betore the people of Fenn ‘a friend of free Kansas—that is, of makiog Kaa ene free, Now, thie ie the Fremont form, Is Mr. Puchanan sincere, or is it merely an election ied to cheat and deceive the good peorle of aylvania’ If we will not insult Mesere. Bachanan and Breckinridge by supposing them guilty of the vilest cheating end |) ing. we must Delieve them to be sincere converts. The dilemma is inextricable for them; taey sre either one or the other. It would bean unarailing quibble to pleaiand say that Mr. Dochanan has not done thie it ts his friends pave done it. Mr. Bochanan is to profit by it, if it can be made snocessfal tp cheating the people of Penosylvania ‘Two or three of the jeaders are so bitter against Fremont ‘as to prefer Buchaman to him, but they cannot contro! the who know from experience wnat locofocoism ts, and will not, directly or mairecily, coutrtbute to the per- petuation of their misrule in the State or nation Trey ‘will act regara'ene alike of southern dictation and North ery clamor. In LycOmiig two county tickets bare been nomizated. ‘The county is aroused—a fal! vote will ve cast. Oar friends are ip good spirits, and are work fauhfatly, ‘The democrats are not cvniident, but are active, unaora pulous and persevering. (he union men anticipate the eleewon of their canciiate for Congress, Generai Wm. 5 Irwin, of Mifflin county. The disiric! is compoasd of Lycoming, Clinton, Centre and Miti''n, formerly & atroug ty democrate district, Dut now more likely to go agains: ‘uban for that party. Allison White, a lawyer, of Lock Baven, Clinton county, is their cendidate. He ‘has bees Deaten twice in the district, bat ic again in quest of the ‘wiSice. He is a gentleman of ordmary capacity, bat intie popularity. General Irwin served nomorably io the Mexican war, still carries tn bis body Mexicn leat Be who bas hirelings engaged in stea’ or lying tor te frapk and afable in ais manners, is a good spoaccr, is | him is, in the eye of the law, just as guilty of stealing or of lying as bis agents, morn especially when it is all done for hie profit. A parvicipatio @ profits, it any can ntlemanty and amiable, sut makes ‘riends wherevor “ be made, js participasion in the crime. goon The |ogielative district, cousistiag of Lycoming, Chaton and Potter, is e'*o copsidered safo—also formerly strongly democratic. The only county in these districts which Tooked unpromising for Fremont was Ciinton, to which a bitter, malignant | \/imore psper was publisned The editor was one of the inost illibera! of his class aad daity did barm to the good cause. Fle did not labor ear nestly for the union State ticket, and generaliy fatied in his duty to the party. | understand that he hea been ought cut, and that the paper will hoist the names of Fremont and [@yton Lock Haven |e an important point ip Northorn Pennsy!vania, and a weli conducted, ortho dox paper cannot bvt bave a marked effet upon that sec won of the county. ‘The ‘remonters and Fillmore men had a union county meeting yererday. It was ‘got ap’ at a week's nowce and withous rpecial etfurt; yet the display was highly gratifying. Tuere was a very long procersion of perrons Porrevirte, Pema., Oct. 4, 1856, Are the Fremomters Cheated by the Filmoreites? We shall See—T'rading om the Wrong Tresformante us Look into t. There is more danger to the Fremont cause ia Pean sylvania, at the November ection, from the Koos. Nothings or Fillmore men, than there is, by long de gree, from any other quarter whatever, The reason i* becauee of the real strength of Fillmore io "ennsy! vapia, (which, though it is not little, is as nothing in all Pennsylvania compared with that of Fremont.) but be cause of confusion and deception. The Fillmore mon paving no nations! \ssue or plattorm of their own, which tuey dare avow, pot their man on Fremort’s platform By thie means thousauds are drawn away for Fillmore, believing it to bein the same cause ant on the rane principles. This is natural enoagh ; for if Fillmore really stood in honesty and trath on the same great natioual rinciples on which Fremont stands, it would be immaterial, perhaps, to the country which of the two were made the chowe of the people for the Presidency But the Know Nothings put Fillmore on Fremont’s plat form, when the man himself ia not th id would ie to say, if be were elected, ** form’ Thousands of voters will é 4 Fillmore Dy wh. deception, who, if they knew the platform he stands upon, would abjure Bim and the deceit practised upon vo ihe South take up Fillmore, and the fasion {ti maied by Governor Flog: is accom pliabed, I! open the eyes of a great many of hie present followers in Fenn Iwania "Ny means of the decent! on horseback, in buggies, in carriages, jm wagons and on foot. A momber of sirk wg banners were oncred—one representing Kansas plave, another Kareas free; one repreremiing Muchaasn squaring bimecit with the platform, several devoted to * Bolly Brooke,” ‘cc. James Armstrong, lawyer, oe e presided, and made m speech. He was ‘ol jowed by Gen. Irwin in « capital effort. The meeting was larger, handsomer, more imposing and more cheering than that of the democrats the week before, althoogn they bad been drumming up for it for several woos. Some of our people wore #0 gratifie? with the teraon and with the excellent feeling displayed, that they began to talk extravagantly about majorities. ‘it is cermin thet the demonstration roused acd delighted the oppoaeats o! the black democracy, aod nerved their hearts w greator efort. Immediately south of Lycoming, and on the west bank ‘of the went branch of the Susquehanna, ties Union county, whore county seat is the thriving town of Lewtsbarg Here all # weil. It # a strong county, aot will do better ‘than Inet year, Iti, like all the other co: overrun with Southern orators and Northern doug feces, Dut their stories mace Little impression upon the people. They resor' to ceriaia means and statements Ww their cause, such aa thet the Union is sare to be dissolved if Fremont be elected, and that Maryian! ‘and Virginia wii then be foreign States, whic® wii passing through them: and chat, in Gon, Frement’s election wil. be folowed by the emao pation of the negroes in the South, who will thee be a ded among the counties — a States i propor tation. None but the most ignorant be lave there Keoriee, bat their circulation by. Bashan in is. reworks, (ranaparencios aud stompers shows how bare they are, aod how few are ioe = e — = fo poe - PF . rem r ey can it . Weapons with whieh they can combat Fremont: prin | ey SMctioual party. What do they mesa by this? 1 thie morning # letter from @ native of tn the Fremont party is a Northern party, ounty, now resident in Kansas. He is from one of the | it iS Rectional, This comes with bad grace Adest ant firmest democratic ites of Uuiou county, | from the man who bid co high for the votes of the soath carve out for bimeeil « they practice ia provending to advocate Fremont priac'))| party inakes the greatert show in this contest in Peunsylvania. it is be. Eause there are thourands of Fremonters drawn in with them, believing Fillmore to be aa mush in favor of iberty, and oppored to slavery extension as Fremont eit They had a meeting here yesterday # meetings almott every evening iu all the tow ver ined speakers did not come, being but they made a great einewher! in bit Albany speech, Who is most sectienal—the man Who gues for rupportiog the violence and robbery of a few hot-headed aristocrats of the South, or tho mai woo goes for putting ® stop to euch violence and robbery, Without dimiaishing the righta of either South or North? Tne mecting, a# to ite numbers and enthusiaam, did not correspond with the diapisy and enthusiwm of tte get fere-up. There Were at tae utmost aot more than uve hundred present. Of there it wae pimniy w be per ceived that ouly «few dozen men were rympatnivors and co worker?. o Fremont meetings are every ehere three times se large, Withoot fireworks, transpacencsos and bands of music 0 attract. The Fillmore meetings fre accordingly composed in great part of aoiny box And the Fremont meotiogs ot attentive listeners, But tho bands, and the transparencies, and the rockets, macs e at show. Os En omners javeighed much against Mr. Bachanaa bot thelr standard bearer (and they Know it) mands opon the eame platform, if you take out the Cuba plank, and put in Know Nothingiem in its pince. ‘The piacform is, in genoral words, “subserviency to a few violent men ® Territory. and that of several others by the Mis They stopped the stage, robbed him of our! maraude: 4 about $700 worth of property, put a rope to bang him, but were prevent! doing yal of some friends. They were mar: ays from Lawrence in the direction of a guard, acd were only released by too © ‘of free State men, who rescued them . no caure for this treatment, and wes in tne revolor ‘of his business when he was reized. Huw pr wae not retarned to bim. He has a young wits, who is terrided at the foartal fawleseness prevailing in th Territory, and who clesires nim to leave the covatry. He gays be would not go, if wamarried, but would out,” bat, under the circumstances, he dow not foe! ja im remaining. He writes to his friends for somo ~~ 4 he may lenvo—the birder ruffians having Nef ap lo bege his friends to vote for Fre | Yalow” Bah Fillmore aad mont freedom, as the only b that iniquity will not | belonging to a section of the Union. tinue to in, aod devastaty that beaatiful | Bochanan stand before the people pon sectional views coumtry Pus toler will make one hundred votes for | and principtes, whieh ae to surrender Dower, place, tor- ‘ont in Union county. The people know the sufferer, | ritory aud everything to a fecuem. % pe as yee bie statements. Ail his (riend#are dom» irat why are the natives, or | 4 ‘Soeslada ws bared apport the Buchanan Pierce | to Buchanan ond hie party? posit ta ay we ome n quite other grownd# tham that of the Fremonters sore nanan in MMittinba I hatred of the old a= WMinburg, Union | Theirs ie the hereditary and federal ou tereay = the bille W. H. Witte, bv A. Wright. enemies of Jefferson and of demoers.y. It i# the hatred Wii Wier and others are announced. At the close | of all the old partien heretofore opjaeed to the democrats ot ihe poster iey call upon “democrats, whigs end r | now united gether under the ome pamg of Americans, charges agai party, that they were the rea! abolitionists who had abolisned fim frestam and right of the measures they had pursued. pnd pe a of the party was a fair nistorical criticism, equally removed from abuse or exaggeration. At times e Governor rose to nme fed arias x" ~ de- rt riptions, but ip gene speaking is of the golid Websterian order. Great expeciation hed beeo Paised by the announcement of bis name as one of the speakers, and no one was disappointed. Hs» produced great effect, because it evident!y was not his aim to pro duce effect, but to communicate that which he himeseif was deeply impressed with the truth of. At intervals the silence of the aasembly was momentarily broken by loud burste of vehement applause. The Hon. David Wilmot followed, and in a couree of im Kaneas Ter: . They are as posule to Fremont cc | ¢aborate argument traced the history of the coustitution this great issue as Mr. 6 hit That such ta | and Jaws, and showed how these have been totally over their position is manifest ¢ , from the fact that ther | thrown by tho present doctrines and sotions of the demo ¢andidate i: as acceptable Southern fire-eaiers as | cratic party. Judge Wilmot is too well known to require any account of bis manner ye ee but it ough tobe mentioned that, though in ret ig to the Ea al ne —— it woula seem as !f, from {ts familiarity, must to be attractive, yet he bandied it ip such a ss to clothe it im all the freshness and charm of no proving, that though a man 4 think be already kno ‘all about the matter, yet in truth he does not know the half of it. The history of the ordinance of 87 isex tremely interesting. Mr. Wilmot threw a great deal o: historical light upon the subject. He showed bow that ordinance 0) iginated. [t was @ positive enactment ant organic law, drawn up by the founders of :his republic and received. sanctioned and decreed by Congress, en acting virtually that while slavery was not to be meddiea with in the States where it prevailed, yet that hencerorts apostate dem: from Mr. Buchanan but in their personal prefere: Mr. Fillmore, and in their belief that he is ies @ demo- erat ip ae than Mr. Buchanan. But they differ from Fremont ia this, that he has no principle in his platform on which they could unite, and they would oppose any other map as much as him who stood wpon the seme round. Buchanan, from the old scent of democracy ad still to the old cask, is too democratic for ihem; but Fremoat, fresh before the people in all the vitality of bang and healthy democracy, is tar more odjous in their They seduce many true democrats inio their ranks by electioneering with Fremont principles, and (0 retain them there they have a dourle set of principles. This is mecessary because they | 20 more slavery should prevail in auy other portion have a double set of men in their ranks This is how | OF part of the United States That the United they can vindicate their condu :iand duplicity, and affirm | States, with the exception of a tew Stater their truth and sincerity. ¥or one set of men among | Where slavery still existed, should be free States. Ine them is bonest and sincere in advocating Fremont prin. | Word, it solemnly probibited the extension of sla zery. It is ciples, and the other ie hovest and sincere jo udvorating | Said that Virginia made that ordinance, and that ia giving Know Nothingism, and subjection to the will of the South. | up the territory which sheclaimed as og to her sb« So they are all bonest, al! honorable men, and yet com- | stipulated that it euould be free. Virginia therefore, it ts bined, they palm # fraud upon the peopie in patting for | sald, deserved all the credit of i Tais is not exactly th» ward a man who ane the oppress violence and | fact. Virginia at firet to cede her territory, not tyranny against which the peopie are risen up in arm, | on the question as to freedom, but because she wanted to under the banner of Fremont. keep it to herself. Otber States as we!) ag Virginia re But should those among them who approve of Fremont | uted to yield to the central government the Territories principles, aud who are oppmsed to the forced extension | they claimed toown. Avcd why? Simpy oecause they of giavery, hetp toetect Filimore over Fremont, tuey | required certain conditions tw be agreed on before the; would be undeceived, and ciscover that they wad been | Would give them upto be the common property of the cheated when too iate. Fillmore would soon unde Union. They demanded that ali futore States shouid be them with a pleasant smile and bow, and le: them know | free States. “They protested acainst the extension of sia that thovgh they went wit him, ne never weat with | Very. Marylano was one of these protesting States, aud them. He would let them snow that he only weat for | #he placed op record a ttrong remonstrance against the the Bucharan platiorm, improved by the addidon oi | erection of other than free States out of these Territories. Know Notbingism and a littie more old feders!ixm, and | At lepath the difficulty was removed; the States which that be was never pledged to aoytnicg else. To pacify | then beid slaves agreed thet there should be no ex their feelings, wounced by the hens practised on them, | Of Flavery. They came into the conditions, and provided they would be told that Fillmore had not deceived them, | that all the futore Staes henceforth to be made out o! the that he was with them in beartonthe Kansas qieaiou | Territories belonging to the United States should forever but that out ef love for the Union, aud to save it, he bat | be free ~tates. Then it was that Virginia consented to goue upon the Buchanan platform. So that he bat } gtve up her back territory on these conditions and op acted very wisely, and tuey ought to love bim stil. better, | this proviso, and it does her credit, certaiuly. Yhe strag Decause he hud saved the Union (hey thing to save } gle om this question continued tor three years. It was tu: the Union by the very policy which bas endangered it, | Qvcation wheter slavery should be permitted to be car ané which, if Fremont is not elected, will destroy ‘iu tne | Hed ‘nto other parte of the Union, and whetber it shoal eud ) be extended, (r whether it should be prevented foreva: Now for this party to use Feemont men and the'r prin ‘cm any furtber extension. J furson, Wasbiogion ciples, im order to get himself elected, bets pre | /Tawkiin, and all tba great fountere of ovr UVaioa; Vir pared’ tokick them away, with all their priacipias, if | eitua, Maryland, apd asl other States orth of tuem, con elected, is fraud upon ihore men. Every man here | tended for hberty sud for foonémg free Stares fore opyoces io the torced extension of slavery. who | Toey prevailed, The question which does not go for Fremont. but lets himself be led uwayto | issce of this day and of this co ‘vote for Fill: | will bo | then gettied by Washington, by Jetierson, betraved b Congress of that dey. Then a!) our patriots, al our creat Tbe plwiorm of that man ts total gubserviency to all our democrats were Southern freatere and nuilitiers, it has other minor in. | then airertly oppoged to wha: is now the doctrine of the frediente, but they do not change ita resi character. they false y call themselves. Theo the Know, Notbirgism is only & seatoning and favor | 4U¢rtion of Kansas wa virtually rettied, and it was d thrown ito the pudding, helping to dis- | ciéed that umes ought to be fee. | (Load cheers. ire the chief ingredint, making. m° collatera’ | Then it was that oo the very question, as eettied Mea in ual of u! freecom and free St tution wag Uiraliy adopted. Now, is i and matniain that the fuundere ol the o gand #9 mapfally for fr: and th ‘ange. | ‘ee Siater—who fought tae pe.tle whi are now fgbt og sgeinst ail future extension of slavery—! ask, is Mreucbal to maintain that they intended vo plant and thet they tually planted, slavery im tee comet Would they who fought ‘three ‘long years against © present coast! Homa ¢) asaert tutioa, wae end false in for thore wo would be esiamed tw avew and vote for the true ivene on which Fulm really ttauds. This is duplicity and double dea ‘az. js view, Bucbavan. as to his pla‘form is simpy & an. But Fillmore is Hechanan aweuteed, having a: able set of cleaks to put on as euils toe occasion and tne Jatitude, The closk under which some thus go ‘or Bu chunan, in going ‘or bim. 1¢ Kuow No:hiogiom. Toe cloak under which others see him and go for bm, is "ree Kansas and Fremont principler. The cioak wnder whish the south tee bim ard go fer him, is subserviency t> the 346,000 slavebolders us oppored to twenty milions of poopie. Fach cloak is adapted to the climate, the !atitute, and tae state and temperature o( the contest, wdlog to where be ‘2 showy and the double fuord image ret up It is because this compoond party of compound priaci ples takes away many trom the Fremont ranks by deceit and duplicity, many who will be deceived inio voting for the forced extension, which they abbor, that it is of no litte impertance to unma*!, apd unclosk Mr. Fillmore, oF rather his party, and set the thing io i's real light. itis in Penpsylvania, their headquarters, that they must be and Flacied t be understood. re is danger to the Fremont cauce in Pennsylvania from the Fillmore party; of the two adversaries there Buchapan ts the least to be fearod. If the dodging and duplicity of this faction is not well understood and met in time, thousands of voters will be genet to vote tor cee ce tabs bea then had vane. rather out | tia cay by tbe abandonment of democratic principles Of course this danger only exists as to the November At the ume of the formation of the constitation tne election, In the meantime al! Fremonters in Peresyls voice of ail our great men was against slavery. They cid pia will vote the Union ticket, though itis chiefly com | et meddle with itin the States where it existed, but posed of Fillmore men. tbey zealour'y lalored to jwevent and forbid forever any The only real objection to thia ticket ie, that it conceals | ‘Urther extension of it. We, the republicans o° thie day. jong homhpane tte are with inem; we do not seek to meddle with ba! re 4 cp nen pete ft where it lawfully exists, bot we are uow in be extension of glave y, and for making all future Staten free Stat ard mad te extend vid they cave tarned arouse Constitution, designed, as it is Dow pretended, ery everywhere in the futire domi.ss of Ne? The territory belonging to lave territory, inaem: invee. The ordinance on which, ag & solema ompromise wod ybasis of accord ite constitution war erected, made slate te it forever excladed ery. This organic soler rly rebewed and ra ied, and ustained by subse. quent Congresses. Five times, wh le Indiana ane [litnoir were Territories, some few siaveholders bad power and induence enough to get up petitions to Congress to aus pend the orcinance againet Riavery, Each time Congress rélused. Owe of the strangest an” most power{ul reports in opporition to this insidious effort was drawn up by Jobn Rendolpb, of Virginia. They were resisted by ali the demo cracy With upanimity and intigaat.on. Then democracy ‘was bot the currupt and fallen thing toat it bas become and ifieance of now Nothings appear strong " ch voripg, as they then labored, to prevent ite ex ‘and significant; that it puils them up wi’ +— lana Sess be ve Gla Gk pe . they are mighty and are going \o sweep u in November, Their meeting w: ‘and | Yent As extenrion, ana not that only, but ite extension by et ag | SOlence, Dloodshed and civil war, (Loud cheers.) At ube time referred to, Virginia deplored the existence of slavery ubited to inake it an organic law of the re public thas this evil, which al) acknowledged to be euch should neves more be extendec All subsequent exten Ports: 5 nous of it have been in violation of the spirit iti, Oct. 6 1508. | aod letter of the coustiution aud of the orgs Gret Republican Meeting at Pottsville, Pa—Speechet 0 | nie inwe of the laud. There bave been subsequent Governor Hamlin and Judge Wilmot, and Mr. War- etsion. It is iobe deplored, because at every «: a ei on (he slay ebolders require & It rener, of Mass.—Tha Ordinance of "87 Revinwed. Fare vg = It a & noble sight to see the peovle assembled and |is { nos, they wilt extend i¢ more and more, until a» tening with deep attention and vuderstanding to reason boast, tbey will carry it into Muaeach asette ings and arguments touching the welfare and interests of the roil of their slaves at the foot of Buaker Hil! the netion. It puts one in mind of the assemb'ies of we Athepians when they gathered togetter to heir lericier, u peeches aud arguments bollow and empty, noley as the drums they sounded, Where there are no and true principles there can be 10 good reasoning, no rea) eloquence, and no popular enthosiaam. l know that the maker of that hoast denies ef mane }tin Any prbiie epeech. I do not say toa beever Jid. Tois aerial {* ® mean and contempt. Demosthenes and .Fvchylus urge upon them thetr inte 4 eo Tt is what !¢ st pregesel.” No a wor rests, and point out to them with imparsioned eloqueuce | cot nave been 60 bold and hardy; b ‘cute Gn de and powerful reasoning the dangers which threaten the varat ivate company b ae gee ( " nk, ada they will want more again. Give them repablic. Such asight might hare been seen here 'n extet yw, aod they will go on for Potiaville last evening (Saturday, 4th), whea Governor Hamiin, David Wilmot and Mr. Warrener, of Mass., ad dressed the people. The speeches of these three gen and more extension. But if you, by your votes, ive them supple, obedient mon, who will give thea or gubmit and lot them take it, yoa your d; doing, will be guilty’ of giving Uiemen, thovgh differing, of covrre, in style, maaner ond arsen, i yea vote for Bedkenan oF for voice, were yet, each one of them, a (rain of logteal ar either ope of them, will gumentation, of sound ratiocination, combined with a | five them Kauss. or which © tbe seme ining ill lo ee it ? powerful and lucid statement of faces It was pleasing to notice the deep attention given to resonings, ¢emonstrations and ai ents, which, poet Ba — thoush ¢ivested of everything Mke didactic display or | skmnet deme racy. foholastic ostentation, yet required mind to onderstand ts ine ie ana cottinuity of attention to follow in all the'r concate. nations. I confear that with these impressions ; -odor od apon my mind by the fact before my eyes, | listened to ye inning Raper soto on, Dut be longed to see tlavery itself rooted out with admiration. 1t was the lively attention of persone | of Vin bin native State. He repeatedly expresved this deoply interested in what they beard. There were vo | hope. Ip a letter cf bis, to bis correxpuncient end freed, car or matic! pe ‘obn St Clair, of Seotland, in epoaking on agricultarnl mae a ty. As the apwoohen were | inierts, ho kive® uiterance 10 the desire or bis boart Protracted and the night advanced, tho ‘atorest senined | He described to his friend in Scotland the valley of th lo increase. ‘The ttreet, crowded with tho lisvani g moo Vowtrac, where he oimeeit rertded. He w infront of the platform, was hushed and siout ae {/\ | frend to emigrate to thai locality, as be were dererted, Ladies, in grow od ing at a littie distance off from \ae cense maxes which im mevsately surrounded the platform—a macs dork trom its density, and illominated only by stars eround it, These were all cagerly Netening to the animate! words Governor ifamlin. His voice, clear an! sonorour, wae aucible ot a distance, aad the windows ond dover of (is houses, up and down the street to a consideradie ler, th, were filled with atwentive autitors It wae no trifliog subject whieh these crowds now peard dircnssed: the occasion of such a meeting war no jittle of vnitoportant ome—it was the most serious and solemn moment of polltoal deliberation which ever nas occurred in ths Union since ite foundation, and tae peo: ple, by their carnest attention, seemed as if fully oo sciour of it, Such is the character et this great crisis not of this only, but of every merting of the people overy: where, where trath is brought to light, aud ites are not made a substitute for history; where, on whatever site it may be, honesty presides in the purposes, and trath reigns paramount to passion Governor Hamlin did justice to tho subject, and thongh his epeech was deeply argamentative, he completely ri- yeted the minds of bis hearers to the subject, Hed I not wineseed it myself, I conid not have believed that & popular assembly would have received with fooh evident plensare addressee #0 eatirely devoid of the artaand tricks generally considers’ necessary to captivate popular attention. Altogether, 1 estimated the number present at one thon. wapd or Ofeen hundred, This is avery large aseembinge ratisfied if . if you their system where. ever taey with. They slander malic Wasiington in vo doing. He, that great man, not only strove agaiast slovehoiders tney call yo pa, wore to be seen aay \ syivania Dae over Virgioia wae, that slavery 6 hoped that belore loog ry im Pen it was not treason, as itis now, by ode, 19 give utterance to his opin. id tong ago bave been accomplaned lone. This wirh had not the great taken place, contrary to the spirit of the consti the laws of the made it profitable to siaveboldera in Vireinin to breed for the more Southern inarket Hence it if they wisb to elect Hachanan for Prestent becavee, ae the fone eayr— "Tis 6 r price of alggers The opertng ef new territories to siavery hae mace it a maiter of profit to rato slaves for sale. It is the opening ofa wow market. Therrfore, if you give * | eiavery, of which is the same thing, if you elect ei. * | Buchavan of Fillmore, you help to raise the price bicow! You epen a vow market for slaves’ You open a merket to supply whieh, children will be torn from the boeom of their mothers, and husband. be separated (rom their wives. By slecting Fremont, a stop will be put to this horrid | Astop will be put to civil war! \ stop will be pat to this bratal elave trade! \ stop will be put to measures and to @ policy which will infailibl; dertroy our liberties and the Union of these States, Wil! you not put your veto t» this inevitable ruin, bo 4 the elec. tion of Jobin Cheries Fremont. (Cries of 'o will, we will,’ and loud and continued applause.) With this speech the meeting cone! nded. It was indeed an asremblage deverving to be epeciaily recorded. The speccher were remarkab) r the present is a crisis which i the parent of earnest eloquence, which brings into action all the energ! of the mind and all the feelings of the heart on side of truth, liberty and jostiog, Sach ag this meeting YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1856. : Porraviiix, Schuylkill Co., Oct. 5, 1856. The Prospects in Schuylkill County—Specches of Hamlin and Wilmot—The Newspapers ond their Circulation. State to Pottsville, distant from each other ninety-five ‘A Fremont meeting (8 o'clock P. M.) being tm full and enthusiastic blast, I loitered awhile to witmess the de- monstration and listen to the speakers. Governor Ham- lin, of Maine, was the orator, and in this stronghold of demecracy was discoursing, with evident effect, of bis past affinities to that party and his reasons for his present relations to republicanism. His piain and unpretending, and therefore forcible maaner, accompanied as it was by @ zeal and earnestness that will not be appeased by any- thing short of a positive victory, is deetined, unless I great ly err in my estimate, to effect wondrous changes and re- volutions in the sentiments of the miners and colliers of his coal and iron infested region. He was succeeded by Judge Wilmot in a speech of much power and force on of the slave power and gl poms enci &c., on Bes sane or. cn crow: attendance was the most jubilant spirit pec knt Le wnde body These gentiemen—a team —are lating these mountain tastnesses, on every hill top and in every valley, arc, literally face to face, conjuring the be- myo democracy to turn trom the error of their ways. Lean, oilers held daily, and conversions are fre- “The. democracy lim the county by 1,200 major jemoc claim count jor . The republicans concede it by 300. Tincliae'* a4 opinion, however, that at about midway between the two calculations the truth will be found to reside. The population of Pottsville numbers some ten thou- sand persons, who are variously engaged in mining and mercantile operations, toa very Jarge extent ine five weekly newspapers, as follows, viz.:— Miner’s Journal, (Fremont)... Tt sus Register and Emporium, (dem ).. 7,060 Gazette, (do ) ‘600 Jetterson Democrat, (German)... 800 ‘do. 1,200 Lighthoune, Campbel!, of this county, present incumbent, apd Lewis Dewart, lsq., democrat, of Northumberland. Dewart’s election is almost certain and eure Estimated vote this year, 9,500, being an increase of 1,000 over the vote of last year. Our Reading Correspondence. Reapixe, Berk’s Co., Penm., Oct. 6. 1856, The Gibraltar of the Democracy—Newapaper Curculation=» The Inroads upon the Forneyites. This Gibraltar of the democracy was reached, ria Potts ville, this morping at 9 o'clock. Immediately on my arrival, I imetituted inquiry as to the most reliabie sources ‘of political information, and having bad casy access to them, I hasten to ecmmunicate to you the result. Reading, with » population of 22,000 inhabitants, sus- taine Ove weekly newspapers, as follows, to wit -— Gazet! eee +++ Bacha . + 2,000 In the city proper parties are nearly equally divided, the cpposition being generally conceded to be in a small majority. In the county, including Reading, which is divided into fifty election districts, the locos have had, from its early settlement down to the present epoch, the indisputable sway, and will unquestionably main taip it at the epeuing election, but in rot euch numerical force as in timer past. The canvass of the country by the democracy, accord- jpg to the returns deposited at ite headquarters ia this city, presents ita entire claims at the maximum ot five thousand majority, which its opponents assert is fu!! one ibousand votes beyond their possivie attainment. Cun- ceding to it its bighest claim. it yet presents a gain of 1,600 votes to the opposition, which, in every otber sec on of the Sta'c, accorded a majority of 6,500, which gato you wil! please add to the State estimate forwarded you from Harrisburg. But little excitement. comparatively, pervades an4 per. meates this county, its citizens generally, with trve and gepuine Dutch immobility and stuobornness, being yet determined to yote for General Jackwon apparentiy to the eud of time. Various efforts, and particularly during the past week, have been instituted to awaken ard arouse its dormant, behind-the-ags sentiment, but seem ipgly with hittle success; “Ephraim ia joined to bis ido!n,”” and maugre the e‘lorta of ex-Governor Hant of York, of Jucge Wilmot and Barlingame, who severally addrersed the people the past wack, Berks will rot! up ite annus! mojortiy, diminished, bowever, considerably by be upexpe sted epread and popularity of the doctrines of the opposition. Apert from the speakers named, but few men oi pro. minetee im the opposition ranks have visited thes be- nighted regions, and a goodly degree of light is be:ny: re- fleeted by native oratory into its most darkened recesses. Conversione to “the true faith’ are by no me and scarce. and “ere the ides of November, ° will diminish the present conceded diminished major: Surrogate’s Court. Before A. W. Bradiord. TWO WOMEN CLAIMING TO BE WIDOWS OF THE SAME MAN. Oct. 6.—Black vs, Black.—This case was restimed be fore the Surrogate to-day. It will be remembered that John Black divorced his first wife,,Rebeccs, and married a second, named Elizabeth D. Since his decease, his first wife comes forward ana claims to have been illegally di- vorced, aad thereiore to be the true widow and heir of the deseased. The second wife, of course, also claims to be the true widow and heir of deceased. The question depends entirely upon the legality of Mr. Black's divorce from bis first wife. Betsy Dawson (colored), being sworn, testiied—I live in Belleville, and have lived there for the last fiiteen years; Lam a widow; I have a son-in-law named Berjamia Brown; 1 know Mr. Weld, of Belleville; I have worked a good dea) for him, but it was somo years ago; Mra, Rebecoa Black was living with him at the time; she was there when I went to work for him the inst time, and] left ber there when I went away; Mrs. Black bad her owo rooms, set her own table, and lived distinct from the family; 1 do not recollect exactly the year I lect Mr. Weld’s; it was inthe month of September; I remem- ber the month, because two or three weeks afverward my sou went to work at Mr, Collard’s store; Mrs. Black made ome clothes for my son-in-law, I gave ber the materia! ‘and received the clothes t ‘er when they were mad: she remained at Mr. Weld’s a tame after | lel bave lived in Belleville ever since Ume. Witness crows examined—I am 66 years old; have been jm more than 21 years; I ae aoe ty ig in this room, = 10 Mrs. Black was sitting Ben Be what yea: I worked at Mr. Weid by the month; be moved into Belleville sixteen years aco, and moved away about two years ago to Raritan; 1 was told last week by Mr. Charles Weld that i need not come here unless 1 chose to. John Collard, being sworn, testified—I live Belle. ville; have lived there forty years; | employed a colored man named Benjamin Brown; he went to work for me in September, 1849; I have seen Mrs. Biack, she resided at Mr, Theoaore Weld’s in 1849; eue was at our store abou that time, and made purchases; Mrs. Biqck resided there before that ume. ‘Wiuness cross examined—I do not keep a grocery now, T did at that time; Brown bad been witn us occasivually before September, 1849; | know the came to work for ur, because we had just commenced business, apd our books specify the time he came with us; Mrs. Of me after the lirst of August, 1840, her at Mr, Weld’s by Beajamio Brown, after that tim Jeremiah H. Monarque sworn—I was acquainted with Mr, and Mrs. Black, 1 knew the former for twenty-five ears; he resided ihe greater of that time in the wery; | was present when Mr. Black, deceased, was ‘n arried to bis second wife, Elizabeth 1). Black; it was in May, 1860; I bad called upon his first wife, Rebecca, be- fore that ime, to get her to return to her husband; it was about emght years ha and before Mr. Black got (divorce; Mrs. Rebecca Biack refured to do so, then said she might return as bis housekeeper or something like that; but not as wife; finally #he decided ahe would not retarn: that her ef would not permit her to, | calle’ upon ber tof Mr. Black. W itpens cross examined—I have been acquainted with Mra. Black aud family for the last twenty tive years, Mrs. Black had been abseat from ber husband twelve or four. teen years when | called upon ber; Mr. Black kept a con. tectionery store after his first wife left him; he got fnma Archer Wo attend the coanter, then bis second wife, Eliza beth D he married her after she had been w th bim three months Rebecca Biack told me she would not go back to her huspana, because he abused her so. Nancy Biack, the sister of deceased, being sworn, raid— She had lived with her brother twenty one years previous vo bis death, and that during all that time, his first wife, Rebeooa, bad only lived with bit ffveen months. The counsel tor Kiizabeth D. Hinck here rested. Mr, Geo, Waldo, sworn—t reside in Windsor, Conn. known Reboccs Biack sinue 1844. she came to my , 1849, and remained till the (che time the other wiiness» ) she remained continounly vise during that ime; her motner was not with wher Mrs. Black went to Mr. W T Witness crore cxaminod—t fix the date by the death of other, the news of which Sth October, 49; | know Mrs, Black was n y during all the time epecitied: 1 visited Mre. every year in rom 1844 to 1849; | saw Mrs. Black alter she from her husband; she expressed surprise no divorce, and regretted that such w step was taken, eapecialiy on necount of her children; | think she sup pored it was @ legal divorce. Samuel A. Gray, belbg «worn, testified—1 reride in Now York, and did tn 184¥. am a brother of Mrs. Retvecon Binek; inthe summer ot 1549 Mre. Biack came to my houre on the Mh of Angost, and remained thore till Mon- day, the 26th of August bo left for “sotiand, Conn. 1 bave these carrences marked in my cast book for that y wrote the entries io that book every day. (“be nemg of Mre. Biask could not be fownd any- rt, The case was then adjourned till the 15th inst, SHARVERS AFTER MONBY BADLY EARNED—PROBATE OF THE WILL OF CHARLES AUGU2THUYS. Before A. W. Bradford. and Beate et pipe ery = wpe Geaibuyey that: ree or four girl house; 1 was sent for, he ssid, ashort time before his death, when deceased. asked meto write to hie mother; Demuntur, ‘Who is that man?” I answered, know,’’ and be replied, ‘‘ He and another man rob me,’ be did not know what he was se evidently out of his mind; did not ve. see Henipg Mehrens sworn—I keep a boarding house for girls at No 303 Water street; Ihave been ‘a house of prostitution ; I signed the will of Charies Ai hus soa! imanns Mary Demen the pay “this is my will;’ Me 26th of August, 1806; I got her furniture for my troubl ip waiting on her; Mr. Kearrey got Mary’ wels; he aleo took posrersion of her papers. Q. Did you know that Mr. fot a thousand deMar due bill of his, which was payable to Mary? Objected to. Counsel states that be is anxious to show that, as executor under the will, Kearney drew $1,800 + from the savings beok, and paid Mary only $300 in cash + and kept $1,000 giving’only = due bili, which at her death he porsessed bimeelf of. Allowed to show the disposition of will, if any, ae« tending to show collusion in the willmaking. Witnese. I knew nothing of the note. Q. Did not Tom Barry live with Mary after Charlee. Gasthuys died’ ‘Objected to and disallowed at this stage. Gasthays kept Eve or aix women boarders in bis house - all the ume David F. Hash ceased well: bi . rovide for Mary in hig will, so that she could return to- or home; the will was read to nim: he said it was what he wanted; by his request I by the witl as a witness; Char! '$ said Mary was his niece. ‘that « houre of prostitution while you lived in had no conpectisn with the female boarders; it erally csilea a house of such places are commonly call was when I went ti in December, 185: Dus called me in to clean off the gutter, wai up;1 did it, and saw Augusthuys drunk in tte barroom; he wanted we to take care of him, and | remained there for that Joba boarding 1 timate with him; I have kaown Mery and @ bait years; Charies never told me that Mary was” a lation to him; she told me thet aw Charles Gasthuys twice a week; jage of bier with him; be always spoce to me ‘n Fiem- ish; Charles told me in barroom day Dacly with Peter md, disputed with Peter ap i Flemien; thet Mary accured him of beng drank, ‘&e.; Charles pever spoke to me of his relatives 1a Belg he died on Wedneedsy, the 224 of February; | saw him the Monday previous: be was foolish, out of bis head, was 8 Sa was be ge talkirg to bimeelt in Flemish abovt pige, hoge, cows, dogs, &e.; Mary was in the room with him; she gave bim drink Fills eppun; be did not recogaise me, nor even lary to me in his presence— “Do y) ie fever in bis head?” Ireplied, “I think #0, acd he ia fooliab, too;”’ I ‘went away; | vould no longer bad told me before that day, if I rt and get him to drag will io ber favor, she wocld give me two dollers; ahp added, if the Consul would not do tbe business, she would goto an American lawyer and t itdone: I went with herto a French aod German lawyer in Wall street, to get w will made tor Charles Ldo Bot remember the lawyer's name; the Consul sent us to bem, or gave us bis name; we first wentto the Consul; y told bim ehe wanted him to make a wil) Geathvy’s, as he was at ‘he poiat of death; the Con- i} was io apother room; his secretary odeing told the Bunaber of the place, raid it was & disgraceial nouse, that he would not go there to make a wili, and that bis bueiness; then he told ap American lawyer; ! exe Carl Gasthuys five or six days before that; be had not quite loet his senses; he Been nd is he would 4 um er; be said he woul my Ao went to ree Charles Gasthuys every three or ly ~h Mary lived with bim, to my know! for two yearsand a half; she attended tbe bar whea nyse wae busy: sbe kept the money when | was there. ber terms of con- nection with him were those of his wite (sa femme).: Charles told me he brougbt her over from Bzigiam, bat did not tay in what rela'ion, or for what 5 ovserved they bad lived very well together; afterwards they bad disputes. the business of Charles ever since J knew bim was keeping a bad house; I have been there in the evening to dance, but never to sleep; Charles Gastouys kept four women with a Germaa woman once; | took ber thee twice; she lived in Grean- wich street; I do not know the number; | saw Mary four or five days after the death of Charles; she told me of his wo death and nothing more, Oct, 4—Désiré Denuytta, sworp:—Somettmes 1 a see and sometimes work a shore; | am 36 years of age and married; 1 live at 108 Roosevelt stroet; lam a native of Belgium; I knew Charles Gastnuys for five pope Previous to his —, I have known Mary Dement Bz lor two and a half years: ‘ley kept another house of the same kind tor three months, and p alyeney it up; he wee very intimate with me; he used to speak to me of what be would not ik to any one else; he told me the reason he gave up place was he could not trust Mary and Tom, the barkeeper inthe babit of going on a #) twice a from two to seven he me he had Barbe, at bome, of wi he thought very Mary De- menus was nothing to him; he wi nis sister, instead of the Jatier, be thought of going home for hi to ber occasionally ; 1 was with deceased seven before his death; be wanted me to 4 him | could not write; asked him to for him; be said he would pot let her know it to see bim every day afier that until xth day, he told me I should have that if be died ; that I must let no one to know if I calied iar ney donee: tbe bad been; she replied that she the coumer; that devil in there mea i wid him I hed come to see how he was; he said he was worse; I encouraged him; he then took hie- ‘wa ch from under bis hear and looked at it, and said, “In five minutes more I'll be gone, for they are wail for me; J asked what be meant by “gone ”’ be suid, “Dont = ee that carriage standing there, with four white jorses Larnersed in tf’ then he asked me if I would ride with bim, I told bim I bad not time, and did not see ony carriage ready; he said, ‘lon’ yoo see it? there @ the driver coming to give me his baod and help me inte ibe carrisge;’’ bid my bead, and began © laugh linese crose examined :— ms acq Charley by going to his house; ! used to visit such esta- vliebments when I first came to this cooutry; | went bere and he would not let me come away, kept wo or three days; he was jealous of Mary and the bar- seeper, Tom. ed and Charley kept the accoonts } ther; Mary first took charge of the money: Charley, ire. quentiy talked of sending money to his sister, ee, me the orders, Ac ; Ieaw him on the fourth day pre. four to bis death, between 3 and 4 P. M.; I spoke to bim, be did not ans me; om the third day | motioned with bis band for me if there was pot much life in when | asked him if be could 1 looked in bot did not speak died ehe would retarn to Belgium, and not continue hie establishment; she wept about his sickness, &o, Charley died in the bar room: he was never wid me he would give Mary anything in bis will. but turned away from Superior Court. Before Hon, Judge Duer. Orr, O.—Thos. Striker and another ws. the Prisident, he. of the Seventh Ward Bank —Thie was a suit for damages sustained by the plaintiffs in consequence of the payment of @ note left with the dank tor collection, mnt not paid, Hrough the alleged negligence of the de- ‘he Judge diamiaved of she ground that the piaintits bad given fo evidence that they had sugiainet avy loss by the pegigence of the tank.

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