Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-08-21
Correspondence ofthe Evening Journal.l
Letter from Hardscrabble.


HARDscRAsBLE, Onondaga Co., N. "
July 81.
Crops are looking well here, but we
want rain desperate bad. We had talk
about Fremont, down to my store, to-day
Snip0ou know SnIp) says he is Catho ic.
He knows it, because he read it in one of your
| Albany papers-the one that told about the
procession of thirty thousand men marching
| to meet Fillmore at the steamboat landing.
He says Fremont always puts a cross to the
7 in his name, and that's sure sign, for
Bishop Hughes puts one in front of the in
his Farmer jerks, who was by, rather doubt
ed It He said "he alters made cross right
into the middle of his name, when anybody
writ it f,r him, and he want no Catholic ~
Jones (our postmaste) said instead of be-
ing Catholic, Fremont was Know-NotE-
ing, for he read in the Atlas about his going
to the lodge every Saturday night. But Snip
stuck to it, and said Benton was a Catholic
too, for he wanted Congress to abolish bank
bills. and have specie currency just to bring
The old crossed shllings into circulat ion and
make people take'em for more than eight
cents Then he asked me if Fremont, hav-
ing been married BY Romish priest, ought
not 10 be considered Catholic! asked h in
if he, having been married by Squire Bullock,
(our principal cattle. .dealer,) did not consider
himself calf! Snip said he hated person.
alities, and besides. it 'twas'nt a par all ell
case. Says he,"there is an Alderman down
to York, Alderman Peter Ful-Fum-Funk
yes, Funk, that makes affidavy he saw Tre-
mont at the Metropolitan Ho'ei in 1851, ea'- =
Ing broied mackeral on Friday. That's
another snre sign.
Here Job Tompkns (who has been 10
York } struck in. He said he knew Alder
man Funk, personally. He had been to his
watch-store in Chatham street, often. List
time he was dowr. he bou. hit gold watch
OF him for five dpllars. and the cussed thing
turned out not to be worth two cents. He
believed Alderman Peter Funk was scamp.
As for Snip, who was paavering about Free
mont's religion, all Hardscrabble knew he
had hot been inside of a church, Catholic or
any other, in six ysarS. He offered to bet
Snip watch against sixpance, that he
C ,ud not say the Ten Commandments to
save his life. Sni took him up, on reflection
would't do it, because he said, he didn't be-
lieve in dragging re,ig on ino politics.
Jones sad he hadn't got anything ag inst
Fremont, but as for Kansas, he didn't be-
lieve there was any such place. He said he
read the Atlas regular, and it hadn't been
mentioned there He lookei n the other
Atlas too, (the one his daughter Seraphina
Jane studies at schcol,) and there wasn't no
such place put down. told him Congress
had sent committee of investigation out
there to find it. But he said that was one
o. the Journals lies, for the Atlas hadn't said
a word about it.
Do you know anybody down in Washing
by the name of Perrin H. Brown! Jones
showed me letter he got from him yester-
day, wanted three dollars to help elect Buch-
anan. Jones don't know what to do about it.
He is afraid if he don't send the money, he'll
lose the postofice; and If he does send it he'll
lose the three dollars; for he mistrusts they
must be pretty hard run for money down
here, if they have to come to him for it.
The postcffice there is worth about thirty
five dollars year. Snip has had the pro-
mise Of it, il Fillmore is elected. If Fremont
is elected, ne intends to secede from the
Union. He is going to draw chalk around
the outside of his house, and refuse to pay
taxes; according to Fillmore's advice IN his
ALBANY speech, ssnut to submit" &c.