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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-21

In the Seventh district there can be no
Lccomptou victory in any event, as the
ultra Lecomptonite candidate was defeat
ed tor nomination, by S. L. Boberts.
In the Sixteenth district Fisher, Dem
ocrat, nominated over Ali, will probably
be elected.
In the Nineteenth district Foster, the
Democratic candidate, Is not Lecomp-
tonitc.
In the Twenty first and Twenty-second
districts no Lecompton man can be eelccted
In the Twenty-tourth district Gillis
will probably be defeated by Hall, Re
publican.
But two Lecomptonites have, therefore,
been elected in Pennsylvania, although it
is possible that in the 7th, 10th, and 10th
districts the Democratic nominees have
been elected
Out of the 25 districts the Peoples
party have probably elected II, or per
haps 10, out Of the 25 Congressman.
The anti Lecompton Democrats three,
Hickman, Montgomery, aud Schwartz.
The Lecomptonites, two-Floronce and
Dimmick
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Democratic party was not true !. :
pledges of '56. However much - = "a
there may be about this c5ny;c,;. 81.
certainly existed and as celtaialr ,'.1'
cause Of the defeat" Z" :
An honest confession does ,}o
good, but we fear the editor Of the D..
ocrot does not fully appreciate the ".
he utters above Had lie mainta,o,s =,
honest and independent position los
assumed in regard to the K,ne,.
he would not now be whinino o,.. y,
rebuke which lie aud his kind r...
from the people last week. Ifhl
refused to lick the hand when !, Z
smotc him he would not have rso..
this second great blow. We firms,
latest experience will ohasten his POI,
cal character.
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RS- Republican victories in Pcnnsyl-

R@ Republican victories in Pcnnsyl-
sauia arc by 20 means novelty. They
date back to half century ago Thus
we fud in Tie Public Adcerti<er Of this
city, of Monday, Oct. 10. 1907, the fol-
loving paragraph:
n Ii is certain that the Republican ma
tority in each branch Of the new Penn
sylvania Legislature viii exceed, at the
approaching session, the maiorities Of late
y~s"
What Is not to be forgotten is, that
the principles of the Republican party of
the present day are essentially the same
Sitd these of the great party of fifty years
ago, IN which Jefferson, author of the orig
iual Proyiso of Freedom, was one Ct the
principal Ieaders.-N T. Tribune.
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Z II l. r + 5 L l. 7
Spirit OF fiae Press.
From the y. J. Erening Post.
PIE ELECTIONS or TUESDAY.

Tuesday was day to be designated
with mark in charcoal By Mr.. Buchan-
ans administration and the party which
supports it. The result of the election
on that day i2mee- to- EQps :" .. ls.....,. ...,nia
end Indiana, and TO these we may add
Ohio--for even there the Republican par
ty came out with an increase Of strength
forms most important event in the
history Of parties-an event so full of sig
nifcance that we must make it the sub
!ect OF few reflections.
Pennsylvania was the state which gave
the Presidency to Mr. Buchanan; it was
the b .ttle field IN which those who sought
sad those who opposed his election tried
their strength, and his enemies were de-
featcd. Every consideration, both of pol
icy and pride, dictated that lis party
sheuld use every means of preserving
their ascendancy in Pennsylvania. Ifhe
should lose that state, the place of his res
idence and the stage of his great triumph,
they saw that if he was not beaten in his
election, he would be regarded as beaten
$fterwards-that he would hold his Office
after that event with the people against
him. They saw that if Pennsy ylvania, af-
Ter brief trial Of his capacities and mer-
its az . Chief Magistrate, should retract
the favorable judgment she had pro
nounced, he would no longer be PreSi-
dent by force of public opinion, but sim
ply in virtue of an old vote---a mistaken
expression of the popular favor prouounc-
cd IN 1856, before the people fairly knew
him. The event which they so justly
dreaded has come to pass. In Penn
aylvania the party OF the Administration
has suffered defeat such as that by which
. rahble of sagages are overhorne in the
march of a regular army. Mr.. Buchan-
an took the Presidency with the support
Of fifteen out of the twenty five represent
stiyes from that state For the latter
part of his term he will have 4 much
larger aumber Of the Pennsylvania dele
gates against him. From Pennsylvania
came the mar who was his main reliance
In the House Qf Representatives, J Clan
cy JoQes-his coniqant, his factotum,
nlS CEASIc4i OHilESAAsio>uE5 aSOhG anu iCdu J
apologst. The people have expressed
their opinion of j. CLANCY Jopes and his
principal at the polls The President
and his prime minister are involved iu
the same sentence of condemnation, and
soaes loses his seat in Congress.
When we add to this defeat of the Ad
n,inistratioq in Pennsylvania the sigma
defeat In Iadjaaa, where, at the last e!ec
zion for President the vote for Buchanan
cutbalauced both that for Fremont and
that for Fillmore, the results Of Tuesday
election become still more pregnant with
eigai6cance.
I've great states on which Mr.. Blu
chansn depends for support have beer
wreuehcd from him in i day. There /:
now 60 Fart Of all the free states, the
most populoas Md powerful division Of
she UpioA. alive With intellectual ant
physical activity aud energy, studded
with great and growing cities, echoing t.
bhe sounds of a prosperous manufacturing
Industry and p mighty commerce-whsct
gives Mr.. B1ahansn spd his party even
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tone in doubt, but likely to be OPP.
From the PhiLddeiphi1 Press.
THE RESULT.

THE RESULT.
The election on Tuesday resulted in a
more complete and thorough overthrow
of the Lecompton forces in Pennsylvania
than has ever overtaken any set of men
who had received Democratic nominations.
The rout has been overwhelming and
complete.
Enough is known to establish the cleo
ton of John NJ. Read over VIM. A. Por-
ter for Supreme Judge, and of VIM. E.
Frazer over Westley Frost for Canal Com
missioner by large majority. We should
pot BE surprised if it reached 40,000.-
This result in State which always elects
Democratic nominees, and which, when
il defeats them, does so generally by very
small majoFities, is most significant re-
buke to the Leeompton policy, which has
so heartily disgusted the honest voters Of
our State.
Judging from the returns received, the
vote polled on Tuesday, in the city, shows
large increase upon that given at the
municipal election last spring. Although
thc election progressed very quietly, there
was a very deep and widespread interest
felt iu the result, and the large reserve Of
voters, who never come out to the polls
except in times Of strong political excite
ment, appear to have made their scpt.
meats sensibly manifest at the ballot box
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Erom lie Tribune.

Two years ago, Penusy lvania and In
diana, at their October State Elections,
stopped the victorious career of the Re
publicans and secured the election Of Mr..
Buchanan to the Presidency. The DEM
ocratic majority in Pennsylvania over the
combined Opposition vote was little
over Three Thousand; while in Indiana
! it was about Seven Thousand. Philadel-
phla alone at that time gave some Thirty
! five Hundred Democratic majority over
the united Opposition; she now gives
over Five Thousand the other way
Pennsylvania gives about ten times the
majority against Mr.. Buchanan's Admin
i5tration that she gave to call it into be-
ing in October, 1856. So vast a revolu-
tion, so quietly and peacefully effected,
we are rarely enabled to chronicle. Ii
has been effected in the face of the most
untiring assertions of the placemen and
their journalists not on Y that the Kan
sas question is defnitively and happily
settled, but that the Administration has
settled it; and that the idea of Protection
is obsolete-that no improvement in the
Tariff with 4 view to the Protection of
American Labor is now possible, and if
it were, the only way to secure it Is to
support the powers that be, and thus earn
the good will OF the slave breeding inter
est All this, and much more in the
same vein, have been dinned in the ears
of the People since May; and their re-
spouse is given in the Election Returns
We have this week published.
The votes of OHIO and Iowa, of Con
necticut and even Delaware, demonstrate
that the revolution of 1858 is no. cou-
fined to the two States which elected Mr.
Buchanan, it is there most emphatic and
unmistakablc. In October, 1856, the
Republicans carried Ohio by over Eight
cen Thousand Majority; yet they have
just made gains on the Members of Con
gress then chosen. The vote just cast
would seem to have been but moderately
heavy-quite below that OF l956-and
the Republicans generally appear to be
equally surprised and delighted by their
victories, Can any rational being longer
doubt that that the policy of the Admin
istration, alike with regard to Kansas and
to finance, is condemned by great ma
jority of the American People? Sub
tract that large minority who always vote
what they consider the regular Demo
cratic ticket" and always will, no matter
how fragrant may be the errors and NAL
feasance of its leaders in Office, and there
is no support left in the Free States for
Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet To IL
Iustrate this, let US post the books show
ing the net result of the recent elections
to COnurcss
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The ATLANTIC CABLr.-Ihc STA.
ment with regard to the AtIaahc LEI
graph cable which we published on i
7th inst, from Mr.. Q. +. Narlcy, h..c
elan of the Electric and international j.
>egraph Company, would seem to pr
that the eastern half Of the cable Has n
ty much useless when it was !-.4 l.'
from the Agamemuon-thcre beng Vi.
serious leaks in it even then; that o""
to the weakness Of the currents, Do "'
sage sent from Newfoundland to a.c4.
has ever been recorded By JEeinsiruas.-'
the two or three dispatches tfaus1'''
being read from the dcAeCtjvns d. i-' /,
vanonctcr alone; that III aaltiou 10 y
great leak or fault some -IJ ni'c' j..
Ealentia, there is another quite as so.'.
some 800 miles or more from that I.a.'
that the copper conductor Is TOO s'','T !.
any rate, and that the very roTerIu' a. !.
tric currents required, both BY tue 'A, a..
ence of the leaks and the SmalINca' u o.
wire, must very soon burn up the -.1 -.
percha near every point where the ..1' GII
already pcnetras to the wire. Iap'' u =. =.
Varley is to be taken as authority '"s. ~.
bic was little better than worthless w.. -.
it was put down, and must sooa Dc ~ y,
ly destroyed as a conductor OF oLec''".
by the action of the galyanic cufTo4',,.. FL
stantly applied to it. 1t Is une % 70 I,
to lay another one; but, beior. "aH.' =. +
trust the company will not thlnN ! h,
meath them to abandon the rec"ios'' ~. ~
hazard method they have thus lar Pl',- s'.-
and have the subject thoroughly l--l l.,l
gated before setting about the "0Ih'
y Tribune.
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Lingering Honesty.

The last Clinton Dsnsocrat speaking
OF the election says:
"* In short, their victory is
complete and overwhelming.
"lt is too soon yet to speculate upon
this extraordinary result. The primary
cause will not fail to suggest itself to ey-
cry one, and the small vote cast has con-
tributed much to this Opposition victory.
But there is no use in Disgusting the pal
pable fact, that the great cause OF defeat
is the deep seated conviction that the
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HnliticaI.
IL EPITAPE

Sser yCdeorite rzeaial Of the President Of TIE
Us;lcG ,Stuter, recently deceased.
n Epgsss4, Of old, it was ever the rule
Th.t tke King kcp: his butler and also his fool
Bat iE moHri repRhl one tnau will suffice
To DC the Couzt feol end the bottles to ice
The orc wh9 lies here Bucks marketing did,
Gave cards round for dinner TO those who
Sera old,
Aa5 exlied o'e others, when not asked to
Gin
On Executive mutton and Cabinet wine.
The slah, On last Tuesday placed over his
bones,
Shows the court fool and butler was named
CLANCY Jones.
s-fbiiqdsiPhia Press, l6tb
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From Kansas.

ST. LOUIS. Oct. l6, l858.-The Central Com
mittee of Kansas nave called Frce-State
Delegate Convention. TO be held at Lawrence;
Nov. 10, for the purpose of discussing the va
rious questions connected with the present
political organizations in the Territory, of de-
termining the true policy Of the party, and
considering the question Of the speedy admis-
sion of Kansas into the Union as Free State
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-21
Hale's Maj. in the District,

This is most glorious victory of right
over wrong-a most decisive rejection OF
the Lecompton policy of President Bu-
chanan. In 1856, Allison White was
elected to Congress from this District by
majority of over 500, and to take the
seat of an American Republican, the Hon,
j. J. Pearcc (by whom he was defeated
in 1851. In lS58,-after having oppor-
tunities to place himself in the most une-
quivocaI position to deserve and enjoy the
confidence and respect of his constituency,
he is rejected by the People of his dig
trict with vote overwhelming as 1t IS
just, No apology he attempted to make
during the campaign could excuse his vio-
lated honor, or his uublushing servility to
Presidential dctation. The result is a
grand warningto political time-servers and
traitors, and noble vindication of the
principles and intelligence of the voters
of the Fifteenth District.
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ESg- The Hon. JACOB BRooME of Phil.

adelphia was in Boston on Friday evening,
making speech in Faneuil Hall to the
" Americans" assembled to ratiiy their
nomination for Governor He was elect
ed to Congress as an American in 1854,
receiving 6,747 votes. and he ran again
this year as an American, and received
252 votes to only IA, ,0l9 cast against him.
He Is the identical person-is Jacob-to
counsel and condole with the straight
Americans of Boston Tribune 18Th.
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sT The Quaker vote" so eminently

sa- The Quaker vote, SO emlnently
missed in 1856, has just come around.
We welcome it's 10000 strength with all
our might Ten thousand thousand cheers
for the Quakers of the keystone State J!
We needed their votes in 1856, but we
needed them more IN l858--and they are
oqrs-rightly applied. Does the present
editor of the Warren Ledger recognize
the vote in 1858 as readily as he did its
omission !n 1856? Echo answers '5G."
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'56: Dem. mai. 3. '58; Opp. maj. 90

'56: Dem. maj. 3. So; Opp maj. q,
*We concede to Buchanan Messrs. Florence,
Dimmick, Montgomery, Schwartz and Gillis,
though we do not believe he can secure five
votes for the next Speaker from Pennsylvania
fIncluding Vallandigham, admitted on con-
test.
tone in doubt, but likely to be OPP.
Let NEW- York follow up these re-
suits in the spirit they cannot fail to
evoke, and the overthrow of the Buchan-
an dynasty must be complete and over
whelnplng.
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&C. Q L Natteson. of the Utica, n.

~ 0. Il. Matteson, of the Utica, n.
Y, Congressional District, who was turned
out Of Congress couple of years since for
corruption, has recently took sides with
the Buchanites against the Republicans.
This is powerful acquisition to Mr.. Bu-
chanans party and cause. We congratu-
late him most heartily.
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ms The wife of Hon. John Hickman,

EEls~ I ne WIG OF non. JUHu IlICAHdu,
of Chester, died at noon of election day,
from hemorrage of the lungs. She was
an estinsble woman. The victor in the
political field is thus made to mourn by
this great domestic bereavement while his
cxulting friends are graduating Gu his
great triumph.
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s9- BY telegraphic dispatch received
at this place from Bellefonte, we are able
to give the following official majorities in
the several counties of this Congressional
District:
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From the complexion of the vote as far
as returned, We think the following car
didates are most probably elected:
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can votes, while the united Opposition
have Twenty One Pennsylvania forever! !!
CWe figure the following maiorities for
Hall: Warren 796, Jefferson $50, For
est so, Venango 400, Mexican 356; and
the following for ellis: Elk 85, Clarion
600. Clcarfeld 500 Total for Hall 1872 !;
Total for GilIis, 1885; Halls net major
itv, 7S7. The official returns may differ
little from the above figures, but not
more than 100 votes, and those are very
likely to be in Halls favor. Thus does
the great bali of Political Reform roll on
and crush out the time-serylng tools ofthe
crazicst President that any sovereign peo-
pie have ever endured.
The following dispatch from Mr.. Cobb
to the Tribune, will also be read with
interest by our readers:
GROWS DISTRICT.
CoTrespondence Of the " J. Tribune.
WeLLsEoRo, Pa. Oct. l6, 1853.
Grow has 400 majority in Tioga County.
The entire Republican County Ticket elected
BIZ from 600 10 / 500 majority. State Ticket
has ZOO majority. NJ H. c.
GGrow's majority in the District must
exceed 5000. Eti. 7ribuHe.
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CLANCY ZONES crowded 40

PHILADELPHIA. Oct lS.-Ihe h'"r'I' 4.
Gazette announces the appointment q - ,
cy Jones as Minister to Aas1r'a.
E& Requicscat IN pace.
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Gbe 9lutter 9umnal.
COUDERsP0RT, PA,

THURSDAY WofQing, Oct. q. 1858.
is. CHASE. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
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Pennsylvania Election.

LIST cf' Lecompton Democrats Lett at
H0mc
District
Sd James Landy,
4th H'y NJ. Phillips.
9th Owen jones.
6th j. Clancy Jones.
ilth Wm. L. Dewart.
18th Allison White.
18th Wilson Reilly.
oath James l.. ellis.
II is clearly certain that these are all de-
foatcd. In addition to them, John T. ALL,
Of the Sixteenth district, and Paul Leidy,
of the Twelfth, failed to get nominations.
So that really ten Of the twelve members
of The present Congress, who voted for
Leeompton, have had leave to stay at
home. Messrs. Florence and Dimmick
are the ouly two reelected, and their ma
jorities are greatly reduced.
The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-09-18

ed their liberties against larger odds than we
would have to oppose, and the probabilities in
our favor would be much greater than in the
days of our first revolution. Butt no such dan
gers are to be anticipated it beiDgalmost certain
that peaceable dish MON is feasible, and that
Brother Jonathan would soon be applying for
new articles of confederation. The Wing goes
on to say, ''there is not right which can be
obtained out of the Uuion that cannot be obtained
in it," One thing is certain, that if there are no
rights to be obtained in IT, unquestionably the
only alternative for high minded people, is to
leave it and risk the chances of future freedom.
''It' is susceptible of proof" says the Wing,
"that dissolution Of the Union can never secure
for the South what the loud mounted, brayng
disunionsts assert" Our word for it, it will
remain susceptible of proof sometime before
the Wing adduces arguments to sustain its
position If the Union does not afford us that
equality which the Constitution guarantees, a
dissolution will at least ''secure us respectable
position among the nations of the earth, and
secure to our posterity the proud consciousness
that their sires we're not slaves, but men who
would resist tyranny in whatever shape it came
whether majority or a monarch.
The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-09-18
From the NIississippian. ]
DOUGLAS.


We cordially join Senator Brown IN the
W ish'expressed in his speech at Hazlehurst,
that Douglas may whip Lincoln out OF his
boots, but we 90 further. After Lincoln
receives his drubbing, we want him to re,
turn the compliment and larrup Douglas
Aud then by way oil making honors easy and
Kidding the country entirely Ct pair Of
depraved, clustering, mischievous, ow,down
we would have them make a
Kilkenny cat fight OF it and eat each other up.
We have no choice to express between them :
because it is like choosing between Punch
and the Devil. Ii post Of Importance and
responsibility, requiring the qualities of hon
esty aud fidelity, bad to be filled, and we
were called upon TO choose between two
criminals VINO mad graduated in the school
Of knavery and were alike adopts in its black
It's, we would not like to make a selection
between them. We would prefer leaving
it to the decision of the fates than to have
band in the business, one way or the other.
If a kind friend were to place before US a
choice bit of strichnyne aud delicious NOR
sci OF arsenic upon which to feast ourselves.
our stomach would revolt at both dishes and
we would most respectfully say mot any
thank you"
There is nothing in the recent career Of
Douglas, nor IN his present position, 10 save
him from the excavations of the South and
redeem him from the sentence of copdem.
nation which she has passed upon his con
duel. To say that be has great talents. does
not furnish reason for INDUCING sympathy
for him. We would no more urge thai as a
cause for restoring a bad man to our conf.
dence than we would commend rattlesnake
to our bosom because of its immense power
to strike and the intense venom Of its tangs.
In 1854, Douglas, to curry favor with thp
South and not to confer benefit on her as
his recent course proves, brought forth his
measured for repeating the Missouri restriction.
The measure stirred up the passions of the
Northern sectionalists against her to degree
before unknown; and it became him, there.
fore, in good faith, to fight to the end, the
battle which he claimed the credit of be-
ginning. But be dishonorNbly skulked from
the consequences Of bis own act. AT The
laie session of Congress, the Missouri restric.
ton having been removed, Kansas presented
herself for admission into the Union with a
constitution establishing slavery. PresidenD
Buchanan, meeting the responsibility with
the frmness OF Roman patriot, recommen,
ded her immediate admission, and saked his
Administration upon it, His message had
scarcely been read, when Douglas denounced
il with vehemence Of utterauce which
elected rapturous applause from the Black
Republican foes Of the Constitution aud the
South. Filled with admiration Of bis course,
Seward, Hale, Wilson, and the other aglas
tors to whom the agitalors had been accus.