The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-01-26
Correspondence.
HARRISBURG LETTER.
Return of Governor Curtin and Family
Democratic and Abolition COnven-
tl0ns---Candidates for GoVernOr---The
ttOn Case.

Return of Governor Curtin and Family
Democratic and Abolition COnven-
tlons---Candidates for GoVernOr---The
MeCOnaughy.Dunca Contested EIee-
ton Case.
HARRISBURG, Jan. %, 1866.
Editor Gazette:-GOvernOr Curtin and
family yreturned here onSaturday morn
ing last, from their trip to the island of
Cuba The telegraph informs the pub
lie that the Governor has greatly inn
proved in health. | hope this is so and
that he may live out his term of office,
for he is infinitely to be preferred to the
person who would er-QficiO become his
successor. The political cauldron is a.
bout being fixed up preparatory to its
being placed over the fire of public O.
pinion. The Democratic Convention
is called to meet here on the fifth of
March, The ShOddy Abolition Com
mittee, with your Bedford Governor"
at the head, met here last week, one
day, and fixed the seventh Of the same
| month for the meeting of their Con-
vention. The principal business of
these bodies will be to put in nomina-
ton candidates for the office of Govern
or. The most prominent names on the
Democratic side, spoken of in this con-
neXi0n, are those of Hon. Hester Cly-
HIcI, Va ~, 'IeII. UeO. W. IaSS, OI
Pittsburg, Hon. Richard Vaux, of
Philadelphia, Hon. John ID. Stiles, of
Lehigh, and Hon. Asa Packer, of Car
bon. Amy one of these would make a
strong candidate, and | have no doubt
that the standard-bearer of the Democ-
! racy, during the coming campaign, will
be chosen from among these gentlemen.
The AbOlitionists are having quite a
variety of candidates for their nomina-
ton. w. W. Ketchum, mot the New
York chap Of that nameJ of Luzerne,
j. K. Moorehead, of Pittsburg, Gen. J.
w. Geary, Of Cumberland, Col. l.. W.
| Hall, of Blair, and other worthless of
that ilk, are spoken of. Gen. Hancock
was feared at one time by some of the
civilian candidates, but his letter to the
Tammany Hall Democracy, on the Oc-
casion of the celebration of Gen. Jack
sons victory at New Orleans, has put
his nomination out of the question.
BY the way / had almost forgotten the
candidate from your county, the re-
! dOubtable Cessna. | am unable to say
what his chances are, not hearing his
name mentioned here in connexiOn
with the nomination. | see, however,
/ that the Chevalier Mcclure has had
himself elected a delegate from the
! Franklin district, with instructions for
| Cessna. This means mischief for the
! Cameronians, if it means anything.
/ The President of the late Fish COnVen-
/ ton may yet see the day when he will
have cause to regret the hour he took
/ the BedfOld renegade to his bosom.
! The contested election case of McCOn-
/ aughy vs.. Duncan, in the State Senate,
has just been decided by the committee
! III IdNOI VI IlC 4OIllG1. IIlC pOlul OI
which the case hinged was the legali-
| ty of the 'Skedadlers' " votes. The
committee, it seems, backed down from
the original understanding, that the
question should be submitted to the
Attorney General, they having discOV-
cred that Mr.. Meredith would declare
those votes legal. The decision of Judge
King, in the Rowe VS.. Stenger case,
which involvedthe samelegal question,
was read by J. Mcdowell Sharpe, Esq,
attorney for NJ. Duncan, in his argu-
ment before the committee. But the
committee chose to disregard it, as it
stood in the way Of their pre-deter-
mined purpose tOgive McCOnaughy the
seat at all hazarls. If the people Of
Franklin and Adams do not rebuke this
outrage upon Their rights, they will be
recreant to their duty as free and indie
pendent voters. For, if ever a wrong
was done to any constituency, this is
plainly one of the grOssest and most
unWarranted sort. LEN.