Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1859.

(Common Pleas Court meets next Monday. - 0O”We see it stated that John C. (better known as “Candle-box”) Calhoun is dead. i- • The boys had the fourth wolf hunt last Saturday, and, as usual, brought the ! “varmint” to town in triumph. Bowman has moved his tailor shop to the building formerly occupied by • Mr. Spangle, opposite this office. i J would suggest to those who desire to pay their subscription in wood, to } bring it in now before the roads get bad. f- ] Thompson & Son have just j ■ set up a hay scale. It is an “institution” j i which our citizens have long been in need of. I ° j Otr We learn by the last arrival from i Europe, that Hon. John Y. Mason, Ameri- ; can Minister at the Court of France z is'! i dead. j Warner has removed into his t new blacksmith shop. It is large and commodious, and gives evidence that the Captain is prospering in business. See his ad--1 vertisement. v. . — L — . Friend Goetz is putting up a new shoe shop on the corner opposite Spitler’s j I store. He is going on the. low-pressure sys- j . tern. See this advertisement, headed by a 1 train of boats and shoes going by steam. \ Rifle -Company turned out last Wednesday night to salute the successful candidates, and were regaled by the candidates with abundance of oysters and other refreshments. On Thursday night the Brass Band: serenaded the candidates, and : they, too, enjoyed the hospitality of the offi- : cere elect. The boys, also, had their fireworks on Thursday night, which had been postponed from the previous night on ac- »■> count of the rain. 07!7“We are indebted to Win. Shortridge for a jug of superior sorghum molasses; to Joseph Williams for the premium squash on exhibition at the Fair; to William Burns for <> a bucketful of very large and nice apples; to Jospeh V| Tatman for a couple of Sweet Potatoe pumpkins; and to John E. Comer {or a cabbage head too large to go into a . half-bushel, j Our friends, one and all, will accept the tjianks of the printer for their remembrance.]

RELIGIOUS NOTICE.

The new preacher has come to town, and will preach here next Sabbath at ten o’clock, at Sayler’s Sjlchool-house at three P. M.,and at Bowling-Qrecn at five P. M. <■ The first (Quarterly Meeting will be held here October 29 and 30. Let everybody attend; *

BUCHANAN SUING FOR LIBEL.

It is reported that James Buchanan has sued John B. Forney for libel in using the following language, in regard to the murder of Senator Broderick: “Thus has fallen the first great martyr to the political principles of the campaign of 1856. We ask the arch traitor to those principles if,: in his old age and in the sunset of his life, he can feel that his hands- are clear of the heart’s blood of David C. Broderick!”

THE SPURIOUS TICKETS.

We understand that the Democrats in some of the but townships have charged the printing of the spurious tickets on us. The article from the Monticello Spectator, in another column, is sufficient to set that matter right, and w« could, if we choose, tell the Dame of a Democrat in this town who fathers the whole matter; but as the election is past, we have no di-position to continue the subject and Create hard feelings, while there is no necessity for it. But as we and some others did, when the attempted frjaud was first discovered, charge it em Mr. Snyder, we willingly exonerate him from hairing a hand in it. He denounces it as vehemently as we doi

A Gold Winter Predicted--migration of the Squirrels.

The St. Louis Express of the 24th ult. says: About ten days ago a tremendous drove of gray squirrels, numbering hundreds of thousands, suddenly made their appearance on tha Marriinac, covering the trees and waters Jika a pall. Thousands of them were afterwards found dead in the river and on the ground. They crossed the Mississippi at that point, and worked their way down the river, nntil on Wednesday they reached Cape Girardeau, crossing the river at ihat point in countless myriads. The citizens turned out en masse and killed them by hundreds. Every tree |nd bush in that vicinity swarmed with them until night, when they all disappeared, niod Rave not been heard of since. Their route was marked as by a devastating storm. Trees were girdled, and fields destroyed. Old French settlers predict a very severe winter, as it was noticed in 1834 and 1852 that immense droves of squirrels suddenly made their appearance followed by intensely sevfre weather.

JASPER COUNTY ELECTION.

The following table gives the official vote for all the candidates voted for in Jasper county at the election last week. The Republicans are in Roman, and the Democrats in Italic.

1 P’ e fee ci « tr p p P Ll l -H o ! I £ SB TOWNSHIPS. « S- S.-I B E S I 1 £ ls -5 I 2. ! I ? I ! j ’ : j I i Hankins Grove. :i'.i 29 ltf 2ti| 22 31 17 2S| 22 17 Hark ley. 70 0.7 39 GO: 3" 1 08 30 071 37 3s Gillam. 00 57 15 56 : 10: 58; 13 57j 15 9 Marion. 225 190 62 182, GV 184 (51 173! 05 G 5 Jordan. 27 21 15 20‘ 17 ! 22 15 20 17 15 Iroquois. 59 5U 10, 5(5 lli 53 11 55: 11 11 Washington. 91 42 50 42: s()j 30 02 42 50 51 Beaver. 48 41 3(1 34; 42; 30 40 38 1 3(5 37 Jaskson. 30 28 37 22: 43. 27 38 2(5 37 38 Newton. 57 32 40 22 ! 55 27 31 22' 50 53 Bake. 15 15 00 4 11 5 10 15 00 n Kankakee. 9 11 5 0 9 9 7 9 7 ]0 Keener. 1 0 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 3 Walker. 14 3 13 3 13j 3 13 3: 13 13 Whcatfield. 8 00 8 Ot) g: 7 1 00 8 8 Total vote. 758 595 355 544 404:565 381 SGO 371 370

I The following are the majorities for the ] several Republican candidates: RECORDER. I C. W. Ilenkle, no opposition 758 CLERK. Jackson over Barkley 240 AUDITOR. ■ Halstead over Sharp 140 COMMISSIONERS. Ist Dial.—McCullough over Deitz 184 2d Dist.—Benjamin over Lamson 189 DISTRICT ATTORNEY. H M. Nourse, (Dem.) no opposition. 370 We stated in the last Gazette that the majorities would probably range from 100 to 180; but the official count agreeably disappointed us, by making the majorities range from 140 to 240, except for Mr. Ilenkle for Recorder, who had no opposition. Mr. Jackson ran ahead of the ticket, and Mr. Halstead behind it. The real Republican majority is that given for the two Commissioners—Benjamin, 189; McCullough, 184. When the desperate efforts made by the Democrats to defeat Mr. Halstead are taken into consideration, his majority of 140 is a source of great gratification to his friends. How many of the spurious Republican tickets were voted in the county we do not know, but we do know that one was voted in this town. Jordan township, always Democratic, gave a majority of five for Jackson and three for Halstead. Little Keener, out of her eight votes, ('ave O 5 O j two Republican majority. Last year she | was Democratic’by seven. Lake township last year gave twenty-five Democratic votes and nst one Republican. ! This years she gave Jackson, Ilenkle and Benjamin her total vote of fifteen, and only \ a majority of seven for Sharp and five for Deitz. .Washington, usually Democratic by forty, this year went the same way by eight. Iroquois nobly held her own, Republican by an average of forty-five. in Hanging Grove the Republicans gained slightly on last year. In Marion we gained over last year an average majority of twctnty. In Jackson the Democratic majority is reduced four or six. In Newton the Democratic majority is increased twenty-five over last year. In Barkley our majority is diminished sixteen to eighteen. Gillam nearly held her own, giving forty to forty-five Republican majority. Beaver and Walker held their own, and j the Republicans gained a little in Kankakee. Whcatfield is a new township, and this was Iter first election. The vote in favor of calling a Constitutional Convention was 268, to 614 against. The highest number of votes polled was for Clerk—9so. The vote was light, and would have been lighter still had it not been for the spurious tickets, which moved some Republicans to considerable activity.

Why Broderick was murdered.

In the eloquent funeral oration pronounced by Col. Baker, we are told what the lamented Broderick said in his last hours, as to the real cause of the murderous animosity that pursued him to an untimely and bloody grave. Said Baker: “As a man to be judged in his private relations, who was his superior? It was his boast, and amid the general license of a new country, it was a proud one, that his most scrutinizing enemy could fix no single act of immorality upon him. Temperate, decorous, self-restrained, he had passed through all the excitements of California unstained. No man could charge him with broken faith or violated trust. Of habits simple and inexpensive, he had no lust of gain. He overreached no man’s weakness In a bargain, and withheld no man his just dues. Never in the history of the State has there been a citizen who has borne public relations more stainless in all respects than he. “But it is not by this standard that he is to he judged. He was a public man, and his memory demands a public judgment. What was his public crime! The answer is in his own words: “They have killed me because I was opposed to the extension of Slavery and a corrupt Administration. ” Fellow-cit-izens, they are remarkable words, uttered at a remarkable moment; they involve the history of his Senatorial career, and of its sad and bloody termination.” Let not the truthful utterance of the dying Senator, he effaced from public remembrance. ff77”J°hn Mulhollund, a litle boy eight years old, was sitting on the dock at New York the other day, when a couple of rowdies came along,and one of them pushed him into the river, where he was drowned.

GLORIOUS NEWS!

l«et Republicans Rejoice!

OHIO REPUBLICAN! Pennsylvania Republican! MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN! lOWA REPUBLICAN! INDIANA REPUBLICAN! KANSAS REPUBLICAN ! DEMOCRACY NOWHERE!

We have nothing but good news |to give this week. In State where an election was held last week the Democracy were routed and completely overthrown. Pennsylvania elected the Opposition State ticket by 24,000 majority. The Opposition elected sixty-five members of the House, and the Democrats thirty five. The Senate stand twenty-two ..Opposition and eleven Democrats. A United States Senator is to be elected in the place of Bigler. Ohio elected her Republican Governor and State ticket by 15,000 majority. The Senate is Republican by two to one, and the House by 03 to 37, which will send Governor Chase or some other good man to the United States Senate in place of Pugh. Minnesota has gone Republican by 2,000 or 3,000, making a gain of Governor, State ticket, United States Senator in the place of Shields, and two Representatives in Congress. lowa has elected her Republican Governor and State ticket by 2,000 f majority. Indiana, although no State ticket was voted for, has made large gains for the Republicans. In Kansas Territory the Wyandotte Constitution was adopted by a large majority. The Republicans lavored and the Democrats opposed it. We have gained one United States Senator in each of the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and lowa, and lost one in California by the murder of Broderick. Our prospects for 1860 were never more flattering than at present.

Good Signs.

We remarked yesterday that the indications afforded by the late county elections in this State were cheering to Republicans. The more returns we receive, the more sure and encouraging these indications become. We have no doubt at all but the Democracy can be beaten in this State nextyear. Certainly the revulsion of 1856 was not half so clearly marked by the local elections of 1855 as is a revolution next year by the elections of this. The following Democratic counties have either been carried in whole or part by Republicans, or the majorities greatly reduced: Brown, the old “steadfast,” always good for 500 majority, elects an Anti-Lecompton Democratic Clerk, Mr. Adams, over the regular Democratic nominee, and elects a Republican Commissioner, Mr. N. N. Morris, by 200 majority. DeKalb, always Democratic by 100 or over, elects the whole Republican ticket this year. Clay, always Democratic by a good majority, elects the whole Republican ticket. Carroll, always Democratic by a small majority, elects the whole Republican ticket by an average of 100 majority. Cass, Democratic by 100 or more majority, elects the Republican ticket by HlO to 200 majority. Hancock, Democratic by 300 majority, elects half the Republican ticket. Miami, Democratic by a small majority, elects the Republican ticket by 150 to 200 majority. Johnson, Democratic by 400 elects a Republican Auditor, ami is reduced to 120 on the Democratic Judge. Dorter, Democratic by 100 last year, elects the whole Republican ticket. Tipton, Dem-

ocratic by 150, is cut down to 70. Shelby, Democratic by 500, is cut down to 120. Noble, unreliable, but usually Democratic by a small majority, elects tiie whole Republican ticket except the Clerk, which is yet in doubt. The Wabash Express reports that Sullivan, the heaviest Democratic county in the State, except Allen, has elected the whole Republican ticket. Bartholomew, Democratic by 500, elects a Republican Clerk. Knox, Democratic, elects Republicans to about halt the countv offices. Now this, we submit, is a very pretty record of Republican gains. Let us add to it the following counties which the Republicans have carried: Elkhart, Laporte, (except Recoi der,) Tippecanoe. Marion,Wayne, Henry, St. Joseph, Decatur, Hendricks, Warren, Hamilton, Yigo, Morgan, Parke, Fayette, Union, Jefferson, Marshall, (after a hot contest,) Kosciusko, Wabash, Jennings, Switzerland by 200 to 300, Floyd, Clarke and ; Lawrence. | Against these are to be set off the loss of Boone, always Democratic till last year; Putnam, just like Boone; Howard, lost, in part, by personal quarrels; and Rush lost by apathy, we suspect, and some personal difficulties. The Democrats can show no gains that deserve the name in any other counties so far reported. Now what does this exhibit promise for 1860! Sure success to the Republicans if they only work steadily, faithfully and unitedly. The omens are good—better by tar than we expected—and, taken in connection with the victories in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, in lowa and Minnesota so far | as yet reported, show us that the cause of j Freedom will he triumphant for the first time in 1860, if its friends are only true to it and 1 to each other.

[From the Monticello Spectator.

A Forgery Detected.

A Highhanded Forgery Detected—A Base Attempt Made to Defraud the Voters of Jasper County — Democrats at their Old Tricks — Jas. Ft'. McKicen a Counterfeiter! — “Leonora's" 1 Spaniel Tup no longer a Donkey Watchman , and the Guardian of this Com--7 nunit if s Morals—A Dastardly Trick JVipped in the BudWe learned, while on a visit to Rensselaer last week, disgraceful rumors about the election in Jasper county, which have since been verified by the perusal of a Rensselaer Gazette Extra. The Republicans have honestly carried the elections in that county, with one or two exceptions, for the past four years; while the well-whipped Democrats have been as unremittingly dishonest in their skuldugery to wrest from the people their convictions of right in the election of honest men to fill their county offices. The last under-handed piece of cunning they had though sufficient to meet their emergency, and balHe the high minded Republicans of that section, is the following, which, it is to he hoped, ihey as signally failed in accomplishing as they wickedly planned and have since been timely caught at: Some three weeks ago there was a secret caucus held in the honorable David Snyder’s office in Rensselaer, and a few very unexceptionable gentlemen calling themselves Democrats, were “recommended” as suitable persons to lill the offices; but they were; not nominated. It seems some others not so suitable, “’ere secretunderstood to occupy high positions on the’ spurious ticket, so that all classes might be represented; but they were not “recommended.” Thus the matter rested until last week, only the Republicans had great reasons to suspicion that “something was rotten in Denmark.” Last Friday there was pending a very critical case in our Circuit Court, in which Jacob Markle, and several other gentlemen of Jasper county, were interested to the tune of several thousand dollars. Mr. Markle, however, whistles for the music. While this important trial was being heard, one of the witnesses (whose name we don’t like to read out) busied himself in cultivating the acquaintance of our much-esteemed friend, Bub McEwen, and favored him with some of the “filthy lucre”—in earning which we fear he has brought the crimson blush of shame to every cheek but that of Democracy. During a good part of last week we heard the press in the Democrat office running! night and day, but could not for a moment think that Bub McEwen was engaged in counterfeiting. Yes, citizens of White county, Christains, honest men and women, Judge “Leonora’s” spaniel pup Mackey,] last week, notwithstanding his professions, as a Christain and a man, published and sent to Jasper county, tickets headed “Republican” after printing Democratic tickets for that county, with the same names on each, with one exception. The puppy’s lie was discovered shortly after the arrival of the ,felonious package; and as a result, the Republicans prepared for their reception in every township. This is no new thing, we are aware, among Democrats, for the like was enacted in the northern part of this county at our last fall election. The tickets were ground out by the same old smooth-bore press, Jiuffe “Leonora” acting as door-keeper while they were being struck. Such work is a felony, and ought to be puniseed as such by law. Consistent cat’s-paw McEwen will attempt to clear his skirts by saying that he merely did the job of work, as any printer would do, and received pay for it; and we, with the same propriety, might issue counterfeit bank notes from our office, not furnishing the dies or plates upon which to pr'nt them either, and might receive, in return for a little dastardly meanness, a fair recompense; but we opine the law would not extend to us any I such a version of justice. We do not know how the election of yes-i terday resulted in Jasper—whether to the honor of Republicans, or, if possible, to. the ; further disgrace of the Bogus Democracy. ' At all events, we are willing to rest our in-1 terest, and that of the Republican party, up-; on the issue of right. We advise the Democrats of that county, when they have another dirty job on hand, that the pup Mackey will do it for them; but he can’t keep a secret. A puppy that can’t look you in the face on the street, won’t do to be trusted, The term “Judge Leonora” in the above, alludes, we suspect, to the fact that a member of the Legislature, residing in the town,! has been writing political communications for the Monticello Jacksonian under the. female name ol “Leonora.” The Judge may be old-womanish in his characteristics. OA> Carroll county, always Democratic, has elected the entire Republican ticket.

Light Breaking in Virginia.

W e publish this morning, says the Slate Journal, an article Richrnodd (Yu.) Whig, the leading supporter of the Opposition in Virginia, which will command a wide perusal and careful attention. It is a frank admission of the nationalality of the R epublican party. It squarely repudiates the ! Democratic lie, that Republicanism seeks any interference with slavery in the States, and puts the party where it puts itself, in hostility to slavery extension, and to the nrostitution of the National Government to the I support of slavery, but in no degree commit- ! ted to any interference with it in the States ! maintaining it. It the South can once fully | understand this position, and see the true aim of the Republican organization, there will be no more threats of dissolution, or fears of “Northern oppression.” They will see that we demand only that u-e shall not be made responsible for the existence or extension of the institution, as we must be if the National Government is perverted to its | support, and in demanding this, however we j evince dislike of slavery, we intend no assault on its existence in any State. We consider this article an important one, as ; showing a disposition to see Republicanism ; as it is, and not as party needs may make it | is growing into strength enough in the South jto speak out. The Whig says: The Examiner of yesterday contained a two column reply to our article of the prei vious day in which we stated, as a well ! known and indisputable fact, that, “so far ; as the'Black Republican party, as a distinct j political organization, is concerned, there is no evidence existing of any intention on its ! part, as the Examiner alleges, to employ any ' and all means to extirpate slavery from the Southern States, whether by the bayonet of I foreign enemies, or by the torch and knife jof the rebellious negro.” We added that “no such purpose had ever been signified by ! the Republican party, and no such threat | ever made, nor do we believe that any such purpose has ever been or ever will be entertained by it, or that any such silly threat towards the South will ever escape its lips.” The Examiner, we think, is singularly unfortunate in the mode of reasoning it employs, to show the Republicans, as a part)/. propose themselves “to extirpate slavery from the Southern States” by violent means. It overlooks entirely the National and State platforms of the Republicans, in none ol which can be found a sentence, line, word, or syllable, remotely squinting towards Congressional (> r Executive interference with slavery in the States where it exists. Their ; platform of principles, as put forth Ivy the Philadelphia Convention, which nominated Fremont, has been read and re-read bv tin Examiner and the whole Southern people. Is there anything in that platform looking to the abolition of slavery in the Southern States! \\ ill the Examiner rt that there is? The respective (State ■ the Republican party lu.ve bc.n* Also, pern sed by the Examiner and the whole Southern people. Is there anything in am- ol those platforms, which indicates a purpose or conveys a threat on the part of the Republican party, “to 'employ any and all means to extirpate slavery from the Southern States, whether by the bayonet of foreign enemies, or by the torch and knife of the rebellious negro!” Will the Ecamimr assert that there i*!

We affirm that there is n >t a word in either the National or the tStato Platforms of the Republican party, which can bo torfufed by any ingenuity of construction into shadowing forih the idea of a purpose on the'r part lo interfere with slavery in the States where it exists. And if 'there be nothing in any of these numerous md ’repeatedly adopted platforms looking to sin li interferences, is it not just and reasonable to infer that no such design is harbored in the breasts of the Republicans, as a party! Is it not incredible even to presume any such folly and madness on the part of a large body of reflecting, intelligent, shrewd men, no matter what their horror of slaver}* may he? We submit that ihe Examiner has signally failed in its efforts to sustain its broad and charge against the Republican party. We submit, too, that it will fail much more signally in its mischievous endeavor to fill the minds of the southern people with ne’diess apprehension of a violent attack on their institutions by the Republicans of the North. We feel it our duty to whisper in the ear of the Examiner that it is sadly mistaken in supposing the Southern people to be fools and ignoramuses, and in taking for granted, therefore, that it can easily induce them to believe that the Republican party meditate the violent overthrow of shivery in the Southern States. It is equally mistaken in supposing that the great mass of Southern people are not as familiar with the principles, purposes and designs of the Republican party as itself is. Being able to read, and being in the habit of reading, they have long since acquainted themselves with the fact that there is nothing in the world in the teachings and avowals of the Republicans, as n party, which indicates the atrocious Abolition intent which the Examiner, obviously for party purposes, imputes to them. But, overlooking and passing bv the National and States platforms of the Republicans, the Examiner turns its attention to the declarations of some of the Republican leaders, and claims to have found in those declarations positive an'd convincing proof that the Republican party is committed to the idea of “employing any and all means to extirpate slavery from the Southern States, whether by the bayonets, of foreign enemies, or by the torch and knife oT the rebellious negro.” It quotes, in the first place, tlie “irrepressible conflict” declaration ol Seward, W'itli which our readers are already familiar, and argues that that is an evidence of the purpose it attributes to the Republican party—when, in fact, it professes to be only an opinion—a belief—on the part of Seward himself, that slavery and freedom cannot exist togother. And yet, in that same speech, is found ihe emphatic declaration of Seward, that as much as he desires the abolition of slavery in the Southern States, lie does not expect or hope for such a result, “except through the action of the people of the slave Slates, and in conformity with their respective Constitutions”

and which declaration, in the ExamiTier’r opinion, amounts to nothing at all. It quotes extracts, also, from the unti-slaverv harangues of Lincoln, Sumner, Wilson, Wade, and Banks, all of which, we admit, attest their hatred of slavery, but not one of which snows that either of those men propose or desire, “to extirpate slavery from the Southern States by violent means. Least of all do they show that the Republicans, as a party, entertain any such design.

[From the X«u Yoih Tribune, Oct. 10

Mr. Broderick’s Career.

i David C. Broderick was born in the city of Washington, in December, 1818, or 1810 consequently, at the time of his death, was : about forty or forty-one years of age. fJc was of Irish parentage. His father was a stone-cutter, a well-to-do man, who had the contract for supplying stone for building the picsent Capitol, and worked upon the pillars of the Chamber in which his son afterward sat. When David was five or sux year* old, the family removed to this city, where he was at once sent to school, in w Irish lieacquired an ordinary education. So sooft as he was old enough, he was bound an apprentice to a stone cutter, with whom he served his time. (Whether his father was then trFfee, is not definitely known.) During the period of Mr. B. ’s apprentices^p, a . iU.serward, lie was considered a person of strong mental characteristics, as well as great physical strength and activity, and on these accounts he was made the umpire in all disputes that arose among his co-laborers and associates. Soon after attaining the age of manhood, he was elected engineer of Howard Fire Engine Company No. 36. While occupying that position, he was much sought after by politicians, and he thus became'interested in the political questions of thedav, and soon acquired great influence in the Ninth Ward, where he became a recognized power in the Democratic party. His leading affinities then were Sickles, Hart. Haskin,. Brady, and others of that class of His political influence rapidly increased to. such an extent, that under the administration of Tyler, when Mr. Van Hess was Collector of Customs in tiiis city, Mr. B. acquired! the control and disposition of certain places, in the Custom House, and was instrumental! in securing the Naval Agency for Samuel Suydam. Many other leading politicians., who obtained fat berths and prominent positions at that time, owe their fortunes to theinfluence of Mr. B. in their favor. In 1840 Mr Broderick was a candidate forr ( ungress in the L ith District , in opposition, to F. A. Tallmadge. Isi order to detent .Mr. I’. ;l cabal was set on foot which nominated! John Bloodgovd as a third -candidate. Thelatter got 346 votes—just sufficient to secure the clebt foil of Mr. Tallmadge. I» 18 1.). becoming dissatisfied with the condition of politics in this city,and feeling somewhat soure d by his o\\ n disappointment, Mr. B. left New York for Culilornia. On |,iaarrival there he immediately commenced the* business, in connection with Frederick I) Kohler, of smelting and assaying gold. After a brief residence in California lie wis selec ed us a delegate ta Inc Convent ion which drc. up the original Constitute n < f the .Stale, and in which he was instiium n al in having the leading features of our state < ’oust it ution adopted, llis course on that occa sion was signally hitter in opposition to lotteries, banking, .Ye. Shortly afterward, and! while extensively engaged in business, lieretired. in order to serve a short term of twoyears in t lie State Senate, where the integrity of his conduct was always recognized by liis most bitter opponents, w hile it was the pride of his Iriends that no vote of his could he foil lid on record, on the side where there was money distributed. No political speculators over wanted to get a measure through the Legislature, that they did not first sa\ to themselves, “How shall we overcome Broderick! ’ And such was his inlT.ienc and popularity, that lie was chosen President 6: the Senate, and, at the conclusion of his term, on the resignation of the Governor, he was act/ng Governor of the State. In 1852, lie conceived the idea of putting himself in nomination before the Legislature of the State, for United States Senator, to fill an expected vacancy, by Senator Gwin being called to the Cabinet of President Pierce, and tlie Legislature was canvassed in bis behalf with satisfactory results, but the vacancy did not occur. During the Legislative session of 1853, the friends of Mr. B. canvassed that body, with a view to having him then elected to succeed Senator Gwin, assuming the principle, then novel, and for the first time put forth, that a Legislature under the Constitution, is not precluded in electing their U. S. Senators at any time in advance of the vacancy. After a bitter and protracted struggle, and a contest which aroused andr embittered the passions and animosities of the two rival factions of the Democratic party in-the State, the Legislature adjourned, having done but little business beside attending to this quarrel, leaving Mr. B. w ith a majority of the House in his favor, and only one vote lacking in the Senate. Thus with an aggregate majority in the Legislature sufficient to elect him, he Was left without power, the deficient vote in the Senate preventing him from getting a joint ballot. The subsidence of this storm left bitter and rani ling feuds, which lasted through Mr. Broderick’s cateer, and resulted in his death, The effort to elect Mr. (1. was renewed the following year (1855) hut no choice was made, there being two or three candidates in the field beside Senator Gwin and Mr. B-; but in 1856 the latter succeeded by such overwhelming strength, that he was enabled to dictate who should be his associate in the Senate for the short term. In this respect, Mr. B. made the singular selection ol the man whom he most hated, and for w hom he had less respect than any other man in the world—which was Dr. Gwin; and the motive which governed Mr. li. was a profound knowledge of retaliation and revenge- Iff. Gwin having always denounced him mo.-t unsparingly at Washington as a man of neither ability nor character. Mr. B. conceived the idea of forcing Mr.. Gwin to solicit his election from the man lie had pretended to undervalue, and to acknowledge the oblig<>tion in writing, and to bind himself in that written acknowledgment to abandon the a friends who had always sustained fiim, by u foregoing the patronage which was diie to W his position. W. In accordance with this arrangement ' obligation, entered/ into by Dr. (!ivm. h r published a card to the effect that lie w” tired serving the interests of professed friend* wearing oat his life for them, and that he,