THE BEDFORD GAZETTE. Bedford. Sept. 11. I *.17. B. F. Meyers kGL W. Feiiibrd. Editors. Ocniotvatk State dominations. GOVERNOR: Gen. Win. F. Packer, Of Lycoming County. CANAL COMMISSIONER: Hon. .\iiurod Strickland, Of Chester County. SUPREME JUDGE: Hon. Win MJrong. Of Berks County. Hon. JaincM Thompson, Of Erie County. SENATOR, William P. Schell, of Bedford. (Ol \TV TICKET. ASSEMBLY, JAMES BURNS, JR., of Bedford. DAVID HAY, of Somerset. I'rothonotar v—SAML. H. TATE, Bedford. Sheriff—VV.M. S. FLUKE. M. Woodbeiry. Treasurer—SAML. DA\ IS, Bedford. Commissioner—C. EVANS, E. Providence. Director—GEO. SMOUSE, W. Providence. Auditor—JOHN W. CRISMAN, St. Clair. TOWNSHIP MEETINGS. At a meeting of the BUCHANAN CLUB of Bed ford Borough on Saturday evening, 12ih inst., it was unanimously "Resolved, That it is deemed expedi dient to hold Democratic Township Meetings, in all The Township- of Bedford County, prior to the'dd Tuesday of October. In accordance with tin- re-olu tiori, the County Comtiuttee announces the following appointments and trust to the Town-hip Committee, to make all the necessary arrangements to get a full turn out of the people: - Hopewell. Thursday, September TO Woodberry, Saturday, September 12 Cumberland Valley, Tuesday, September 15 Palo Alto, Wednesday, September 16 V. B. VVertz's, Harrison Tp., Thurs. Sept. 17 Bloody Run. Friday evening. September IS Black's, E. Prov. Tp. Saturday, Sept. 12 Schellsbuig, Saturday, Septeincer 19 Stonerstown, Tuesday, September 22 Pattonsviile, Wednesday, September 23 Louisville, John VViand's. Thursday, Sept. 24 Clearviile, Friday, September 25 Chaneysviile, Saturday, September 20 St. Clairsville, Saturday, September 20 Rainsburg, Ttie-day, September 29 Buena Vi-ta, Tuesday, September 29 FlitcLviile, Wednesday, September .90 Bowser's School-House, Tuesday ev., October, 1 Pleasantville near Big Spring, Friday, Oct. 2 Robinsonville, Saturday. Oct. 3 Oavendar's Store, Saturday evening, October 3 Able speakers will be pre-ent to address the above meetings, all of which will commence at 1 o'clock, P. M., except those at Bloody Run, Bowser's School House, and Cavendar's Store, which will commence at early candle-light. Other meetings will be held to occupy the whole time, notice of which will be giv en hereafter. WM. P. SCHELL, Chairman County Committee. TIIE ABOLITION CANDIDATE FOR SENA TOR. READ HIS RECORD AND NOTE HIS INCON SISTENCIES. WM. H. KOONTZ, the Abolition candidate for Senator in this district, was a member of the "Fillmore and Donelson State Committee of Pennsylvania." under the direction of which committee were placed the interests of the "A merican" nominee for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, in this Stale, during the last cam paign. This Committee held a meeting at the Washington House, in Philadelphia, October 16, 1856, where and when Gen. Koontz was present. During its sittings, the Committee was visited bv deputations from the Abolition, and Abolition-Know Nothing, Fremont State Committees, for the avowed purpose of ef fecting the formation of a "Union" Electoral Ticket. These Fremont hucksterers hovered a bout the Fillmore Committee like so many cor morants, eager for the prey which they thought "o easily to clutch in their greedy talons; but they wer repelled at every onset and spurned from tlie presence of the men they were tempt ing to join them in their ignominious purposes. Two, or three, of the twenty-three members of the Filimore Committee, present at the meet ing referred to, alone were willing to sacrifice their party and its candidates to the interests of John C. Fremont. Foremost among these stood WM. H. KOONTZ. Whenever a proposi tion was made by the Fremont Committees, he voted for it. Whenever an arrangement was proposed that was favorable (o the Abolition candidates, his voice was raised in its favor. He voted for the following resolution offered by FR. JORDAN,of Bedford ; "Resolved, That if the friends of Fremont ••and Davlon accept and support the Ameri can Electoral Ticket, at the ensuing election, " we are willing that said Ticket may cast the " Electoral vote of the State for Fremont and " Dayton, in case it will defeat Mr. Buchanan, "and will not elect Fillmore and Donelson." This was nothing more, nor less, than an at tempt to dispose of the Fillmore strength for the benefit of Fremont, for well did both JORDAN A. KOONTZ know that Mr. Fillmore would not receivea sufficient number of Electoral votes to elect him, and, therefore, they were deliberate ly plotting to transfer the Fillmore party to the ranks of Fremont and Abolitionism. But, w hen they found themselves foiled in their dastard attempt, in order to save theit credit with their "American" constituents in their respective counties, they after wards voted fir a resolution refusing to alter the "Straight Fillmore Electo ral Ticket," and rejecting the overtures of the Fremont Committees, and which was couched in the following emphatic • n " Resolved, That we decline to accept either "ofthe propositions of the Republican State " Committee, satisfied that the Electoral Tick "ct already in the field is the only one on " which ail opposed to Mr. Buchanan can suc "cessfullv unite; and pledging it to uncompro " mining opposition, and to the defeat under " any and all circumstances of" his ejection." On this resolution Koontz was found voting in the affirmative, thus veering completely a bout from the position he had assumed in sup porting the propositions of the Abolitionists. With this action, the Fillmore committee ad journed, and thus not only left the "Straight Fillmore Electoral Ticket" in the fHd, but a dopted it asTttn Ticket to be supported by the friends of Fillmore and Donelson, and that, too, with the appioving voice of Wm. 11. Koontz. But behold the sequel! A day, or two, subse quent to this meeting of the Fillmore Commit tee, this same Wm. H. Koontz who had agreed that the "Straight Fillmore Electoral Ticket" j was the one that should receive the suppoit of ; the Fillmore men of Pennsylvania, went, side ;by side, with F.R. JORDAN, into a "Buzzard Feast" Convention of the two Fremont Com mittees, and assisted in forming that most shrewdly planned of all political gull-traps, the Abolition "Union Electoral Ticket!" Nor did his labors for the benefit of | the Fremont patty, end here. He went about ! from place to place, making speeches in favor | of the "Union Electoral Ticket,"and denoun cingthe "Straight Ticket" which he himself had endorsed. Re w rote and.published a letter in which he acknowledged that he met with the Fremont Committees,and took part in forrn ; ing the "Union Electoral Ticket, and in which ! he tried to defi-nd that Ticket and said that the | logic of the " Straight Americans" in opposing a'■• Union" with the Abolitionists, to him '*sa cored very considerably of corruption and dis honesty." Such are some of the tergiversations, somer setting, ground-and-loltv tumblings, shillings and turnings in politics, peiformed by the pres ent Abolition candidate for Senator. We ask the honest and intelligent people of Bedford county,—is such a man worthy of your sup port? Will you, can vou, send such a bundle of inconsistencies to Harrisbnrg as the repre sentative of your political sentiments? SEITIONALISAI —Northern an si Southern. The Abolition agitators have made it a point in their electioneering schemes, ever since the inception of MR. BUCHANAN'S Administration, to condemn in severest terms the policy of the President in relation to affairs in Kansas. They accuse him of being even more pro-slavery in his tendencies than Ms PIERCE was, and charge him with using all the power of his high of fice fir the purpose of introducing into that Territory, the "peculiar institution" of the Smth. They curse him as a "Northern dough face," a "truckler to the South,"a "pliant tool ofthe slave power," exhaust ing all the oppro brious epithets ever invented for the vitupera- (ion of national men and measures, in their I shameful abuse of our noble Chief Magistrate, i And the vehemence with which they do this i —the bitterness with which they utter their a i nathemas—would almost lead one to believe ; that they are sincere in doing so. But a glance at the state of things in the South, will at ouce I suffice to dispel such an illusion. When we i turn from the mad ravings of the Northern Soc -1 tionalists and listen for a moment to the bluster ling fanfaronade of their Southern co-workers; ; when we have Theodore Parker and his com peers damning the Administration for frying 1 (as they say) to make Kansas a Slave State, and give cur attention to Lawrence M. Keitt and j his Southern symj athisers whilst thev reviie . the President for endeavoring J(as they sav) to make Jeunsas a Free State: what conclusion can : we come to, but that there are men and factions, i both in the North and South, whose only object ist/ie dissolution of the Union , who, therefore, agitate sectional issues without cause; and who, consequently, are hypocritical in their loud professions of attachment to Freedom, tjnd insin cere in their imputation of misdemeanor in of fice to tile National Executive? This dissatis faction with .Mr. BUCHANAN'S course, both on the part of the Abolitionists and the violent Pro-Slavery men, shows plainly enough that neither party receives any favors at the hands of the President. It shows that instead of be. ing partial to either of them, he treads straight forward in the path of duty, regardless of every interest save that of the nation at large. The subject in hand reminds us of a storv told of a certain Justice of the Peace who, in speaking of his official life, remarked, that lie never was certain that he had rendered a just decision except once, and that was, when both j plaintiff and defendant were, dissatisfied with . his judgment. Mr. Buchanan can congratulate himself in a similar way, fur the crazy extrem j ests on both sides of the Slavery question, are I displeased with his administration. j The President vs. Professor Sillitnaii. We publish on our first page the memorial of ; Prof, billiman and other New England fanatics, | to the President of the L\ S., in relation to the ! j policy of the Administration—concerning af j fairs in Kansas, and also MR. BUCHANAN'S re i ply to the same. We commend the correspon i dence to the careful perusal of every conscien i lious citizen of Bedford county. OLD BUCK | takes occasion to hi! the abolition memorialists some severe blows in answer to their prayer.— : Indeed, Prof. Silhr.an w ho is the putative fath ; er of this bantling of N-w England fanaticism, i lias seemingly very suddenly become ashamed jof its paternity since the President's scathing j reply, and is out in a letter in the JV*. Y. 'l'rib | une, disclaiming the authorship of the memo-; ! rial. Adjourned Democratic Meeting. The Democratic Mass Meeting which after its long and enthusiastic session on Monday night of Court Week, adjourned to meet on the succeed ing Thursday evening, re-assembled in the Court H >use at the appointed time. The large assemblage was railed to order bv the appoint or nt of JOS IA H MTLLER, Esq ,of Londer ry, President, Wm. Cessna, of Culerain, John I Alstadt, of St. Clair, John Brown, of Bedford (Tp.) and Daniel Trout man of Lonrfonerry, as Vice Presidents, an ! Joseph Barkman, of Mon- 1 roe and Archibald Blair, of Cumberland Valley, Secretaries. The meeting was then addressed by Hon. John Cessna in an able and effective speech.— ! Mr. Cessna was followed by Gen'l Bowman, ; who dissected the speech made by Mr. Wiimot, j on Tuesday night, showing its inconsistencies! and fallacies in their proper light. Eloquent ! speeches were also made by O. E. Shannon, j Esq., and Capt. John Long, of Liberty, Tp.- — | The latter gentleman made several strong points and his address elicited much commendation.— ! The pieeting adjourned in great good humor, ev- ' ery man present feeling more firmly convinced than ever that the principles of the Democrat ic party are true and correct and that it is the ' j duty of every Democrat in Bedford county, to ; i come forward to the polls on the second Tues day of October next, and make a triumphant j vindication of those principles, by voting the | entire Democratic State and County Tickets. Another Abolition Kierlionerrins Scheme Defeated. The Abolitionists are furiously desperate since they find that the chances for electing any of j the candidates on their c.nunty ticket, are even i slimmer than they were last fall, u hen the D-m --| ocratic ticket swept every thing before it, and j ! the consequence is that like maddened serpents j they spout forth all kinds of venom which, how ever, invariably falls back upon their own pro- i ! digious ears. T heir tongues are foul with slan ders against Democialic citiz-ns and officers, but 1 l they retail their falsehoods only to see them re- : futed as fast as they fall from their lips. They made a haseand unmanly assault in their organ, | last week upon the Board of Commissioners and i their Clerk, supposing doubtless, that their boss j politicians throughout the county would be en abled to make capital out of it. Their dastard project is most signally defeated by the follow ing communication from E-q. Nicodemus to which we ask the attention of our readers; MESSRS MEYERS & BENFURD: — SIRS —ln the last number of the "Inquirer & Chronicle," of this place, in an article headed "official miscon duct" i am charged, as the clerk of the Com missioners, with having "either shamefully, ig norant Iv, or wilfully disregarded the law," in not sending the assessment lists id the taxables returned at th-* last county assessment, as re quired. bv law, to the asses-ors elected in March 1856, instead of the assessors elected in March, • 1557. It is true that I did send the lists to the assessors of some of the townships, but it was j not done wilfully, nor regardless of law, astiie wiiter in the Abolition organ would have his readers believe; but was done merely in a mis. j take, and was corrected in time to avoid any difficulty whatever. The manner iri which it 1 occurred was this. The assessor elected in this ; Borough in March 1556, attended to the duties i of assessor last fall, and putting up the lists, dec Knowing all this, and having received aceitifi j ed list from the Prothonotarv of the assessors elected last spring, as the law requires-, I con cluded, without much reflection, that the late \ assessors were the proper persons: but discover ed the mistake before the lists were all sent out. ; The correction was at once made, and those as ! sessors that had received said lists were imine- I diafely written to, and requested to hand them , ; over to their | redecessors, and the old assessors j notified to receive them, which was done indue : time. If the sending of some ot th.se lists to the assessors elected last spring, in a mistake, (the error having been corrected in time to a i void any difficulty) was so great an official misconduct and disregard of duty, will the wri ter please inform the public whether there was not greater official misconduct by the K. Nothing : board of commissioners si their verv efficient el'k I in"shamefully disregarding the law" for the last three, or tour years, in not sending out those lists at all as required by law? An honest an swer to this interrogatory will show how "shamefully" our opponents resort to slander and falsehood to bolster up their rotten and fur j lorn cause. j 11. NICODEMUS. I Sept. 11, 1857. TIIE (OML.VG CONTEST. Never, perhaps have the people of Pennsyl vania been called upon to participate in an elec tion fraught with so much importance as the oi)p now before us. The issue involved is plain —Freedom or Slavery.— K. .V. paper. IV e were not disposed to underrate the im | parlance of the approaching political contest, but really we never supposed it could possibly , outrank in magnitude all previous campaigns.— j That great and important discovery was r*serv : ed lor one ot our freedom shrieking opponents. Now that it has been announced to us and to the i world, we can but wonder at our blindness— ' especially as "the issue involved is plain," and j that issue nothing short of "Freedom or Slave. i ry." Although a new light has dawned upon • i us, we must acknowledge that we aie even yet i a little in the dark. "Freedom or Slavery" in ! volved in the contest before us—a contest for I State officers exclusively, arid ill a Five State to i boot. Wonder of wonders! What does it ! mean? Are we all going to be kidnapped?— ; i Won't somebody inform us, so that vve nrtav have , time to hide ours- Ives among "the limbs of the i ; highermost trees!" j If, says the Valley Spirit', the issue i? F r ee- : j dorn or Slavery," it must be Freedom or Slave- j jry in Pennsylvania. Freedom prevails in j | Pennsylvania—who proposes to introduce | ! Slavery? Not Gen. Packer, nor William Strong j | nor James Thompson, nor Nimrod Strickland, j ! nor the Democratic party, whose candidates j 1 they are. Does David Wiimot intend to bring ; "the curse of Slavery" upon us? Does he de. i sign to subvert our Freedom anil reduce us to i Slavery? He does some strange things, but this would be the strangest of all. If the issue re- j ally is "Freedom or Slavery," as the Republi- j ran paper asserts. Mr. Wiimot must entertain j some horrible design which he has not yet dis-; closed to the public. Our sale' y lies in prevent- j ing him Irani leaching a position in which he < cnr chi barm to our cherished Freedom. If we put him in the Governor's chair, with a Legis lature of his nw n stnpe to back him, we may all be sold "in pursuance of an Act of Assem. ; bly" before we are \w[| aware of it. We would have been badly "sold" by the late Leg islature, it the Supreme Court had not come to our rescue. We certainly will he verv badly > sold if we elect Wiimot.— Gettysburg Cvmpil- j er. 13 realties. HO.YOIMBLES IUZLEIWRST, PJICK i ER ~4J\'D WILMOT , candidates for Govem or: Pollock present Governor; Ritner, Johnson I and Porter, Ex-Gowrnors, have been appoint ! Ed commit let* on hams at the approaching State : Fair.— Exchange. Wiimot should be made chairman of that I Committee, as he is a first-rate judge of gam. I man —at least his speeches would had one to ; believe so. | —A fine looking volunteer company, called the "Buchanan Guards," has been organized in ! Cambria city, Pa., by Brigade Inspector, Cap tain John Humphreys, a Mexican veteran.— i The following gentlemen were elected officers : 1 Captain—Charles Kelley. Ist. Lieutenant James Morgan. 2d. Lieutenant—Edward Quinn. —The report of the Auditor, just published, shows the value of real and personal property in St. Louis, for 1857, to be over seventy-three \ millions of dollars. In 1 Son the total amount was $52,000,000. This shows an increase of $21,062,000, or about forty percent, in two yea is. —The venerable Rembrandt Peale, of this | city, now in his eightieth year, is sojourning ; near Boston. This distinguished artist is the ; only painter now living to whom Washington | sat for his portrait. Mr. Peale's first visit to Europe was made in 1809, when he painted 1 I'hoi waldson. -—The receipts of the Morris Canal for the ser.son ending last Saturday, were $190,128,65 j an increase of $6+7,27, over the corresponding , time last year. The receipts of the week ex i ceeded those of the corresponding week $2,- 781 72. .. —The people of Yorktown and its vicinity propose to celebrate the coming anniversary of those important Revolutionary events, the hat lie of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis, which fook ploceon the 19th of October, 17S1. —The D- rriocratic Convention of the first | Congressional District of Maryland met at Cam bridge on Friday last, and on the first ballot, the Hon. James A. Stewart was renominated ! for Congress. —The Mayor of Bangor has offered S3OO : reward for the arrest of the person or persons by whom Benjamin Hord, of that city, is supposed j to have been murdered on the 23J or 2ith of August. I —The appropriations for the Capitol exfen- I sions at Washington City amount lo $3,325,- 000 > and it is estimated that at least $1,185,- 183 will still be necessary to complete them. —The mackerel, cod, and salmon fisheries are reported by a correspondent of (he Boston Traveller, to be below half the usual yield up to this time. —lt is stated that the Central Bank ofCincin nati (Ohio) will, in a few days, meet all itslia . bilities and resume business. It closed iis doors on Wednesday last. —A party of gipsies have made their ap pearance at Portage, Ohio, and the people in that section are complaining of their depreda -1 I tions. —An elopement of a man named John Hen ; sen, with his step-daughter, took place at St. Louis a few days since. Park Benjamin is to deliver a course of Lectures before the Si. Louis Library Associa tion this fall. Yew counterfeits on the Hartford (Conn.) bank have made their appearance. —John Willison was killed in Westmoreland county, last week, by being crushed tinder a boiler which was being removed. A German ; was found crushed under a pile of slate in a coal bank, near Dravoshurg. lion. W, F. Packer, the Democratic can. didate for Governor was at Harrishtirg on Fri day, as was also the Hon. Charles R Burkalew, Chairman ot (he Democratic State Central Com i mittee. —Col. W. W. Foster has resigned his posi tion as Superintendent of the Dauphin and Sus quehanna Railroad Company, and intends to make his future residence at Lykenstown, Dan ! I phin county. Wm. A. Cook, the Black Republican can. didate for Assembly, in Westmoreland, has brought sui. against the Greensburg Democrat and Pittsburg Post, for libel. Frederick Weller, of West ll"mpfie!d, Lancaster county, was killed on Monday last, at YordwelFs ore bank, by the caving in of a ■ dirt bank. Col. Levi L. Tate has dissolved his con j nectton with the Berwick Gazette, having sold j his interest to Waltpr A. Hibhs. Col. T. still j retains the Bloomshnrg Democrat. —The Demncrarv of Schuylkill county are i to have a grand ratification meeting iri Pot'.sville on the 14th inst. —There is to bp a Convention of Sabbath i School Teachers, of New York State, at Ro | Chester, on the I+th inst. —The celebrated horse "Glencoe" died in Scott county, Kentucky, recently. If ali his ■ progeny were gathered together, there would be the longest horse funeral known for many 1 years, and not one would have the heart to say j "neigh." lri 1855 the quantity of wheat imported by Great Britain from the United States was 126,098 bushels; in 1857, 2,+83,753 bushels. —Three workmen were killed near Fillmore, Carbon county, last week, and several others injured, by the falling in of an embankment. —Jeremiah Anderson informs the Cheraw (S. C.) Gazette that he has succeeded in making Syrup equal to the best molasses or honey: by | mashing the Chinese sugar cane and squeezing the juice out with his hands. PROCLAMATION OF General Election. \\ 'HEREAS in and by an Act of General * y Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Art to regulate the Gen eial Election* within this Commonwealth," it is en joined upon me to give public notice of said Klee tions, ami to enumerate in said notice what Officers are to be elected, i,HCGH MOORE, Sheriff of the County of Bedford, no hereby make known and give tins public notice to the Electors of the County of Bedloid, that a General Election will be held in said County,on the second Tuesday (13th> of October ; 18-07, at th" several election districts, viz: The El ectors of ttie Borough of Bedford and township of Bedford, fo meet at the Court House in said borough. The Electors of Broadtop township to meet at the School House in the town of Hopewell, i The Electois of Colerain township to meet at the house of Benjamin Kegg, in Rainsbuig in said township. The Electors of Cumberland Valley township to meet at the new School House erected on the land owned by John Whip's heirs in said tow n sin p. The Electors of Harrison township to meet at school house number f, near the dwelling house ■ ot Henrv Keyser in sanJ township. I'lie Electors of Juniata township to meet at Keyser's school house in said township. The Electors of Hopewell township to meet at the School House iwai the house of John Dasher in said township. The Electors of Lotidanderry township to meet at the house now occupied by War. H. Hill as a shop, in Bridgeport, in said township. ' The Electors of the township of Libert v to ( meet at the School house in Slonerstnwn in said i township. The Electors of Monroe township to meet at : the house of James Carnel in Clearville, in said i | township, I The Electors of Schellsburg borough to meet at the brick School honse in said borough. The Electors of Napier township to inert at (he house built far a school house in the bor ough of Schellsburg. The Electors of East Providence township |to meet at the house of John Nycumjr., inn- \ keeper in said township. The Electors of Snake Spring township, to - meet at the school house, near the Methodist church on land of George Harliy. The Electors of West Providence township, to meet at the new log school house at Bloody Ron in said township. The Electors of St. Clair township to meet at I the store near the dwelling house of Gideon front in said tow nship. Tit* Electors of Union township to meet at I the house ot Michael Wyant in said township. ; 1 he Electors of South VVoodberry township to meet at ttie house of Samuel Oster near No- ; ble's ITU!! in saitl township. Ihe Elect- is rt' Southampton township to meet at the bouse of Win. Adams in said town- j : e'"P fhe Electors of the township of Middle Wood jerry to meet at the house of Henry Fluke in j the village of Woodberry. at which times and: places the qualified Electors will elect by ballot: ONE PERSON for Governor of the Common wealth. ONE PERSON for Canal Commissioner of the , Commonwealth. I WO PERSONS for Judges of the Supreme | Court o! the Commonw< allh. ONE PERSON in conjunction with the conn- I ties ot Someiset and Huntingdon, to til! the olfice ol Senator, to represent the counties of j Bedloid, Somerset arid Huntingdon in the Le- j gisfaiure of the Commonwealth. TWO PERSONS, in conjunction with the coun- j ty of Somerset, to fill the office of Members j of the House oI Representatives, to represent ; tile counties ot Bedford and Somerset in the j House ol Representatives. ONE PERSON fur the oliice of Prothonotary j and Clerk to the Oi phans' Court ior the coun- i ty of Bedford. ONE PERSON for the office of Sheriff of said 1 county. ONE PERSON for the office of Treasurer for said county. ONE PERSON for the office of Commissioner j i for sai I count v. ONE PERSON lor the oliice of poor house di rector. ONE PERSON for the office of Auditor for i >uid county. The election to be opened between the hours of 7 i an ! S o'clock in the Inn-noon, by public proi lama- ' lion, and to kepp open till 7 o'clock in the evening, [ when the polls -hall be closed. .VOTIVE IS HEREBY GIVEJT: 1 bat every person, excepting Justices of the peace, ! who shall hold any oliice or appointment of profit i or trut under ihe 1 ailed Stales, or of this State, or j any city or corpnrated district, whether a commis- 1 sioned officer or otherwise, a subordinate officer, agent i who is or shall be employed under the legislature, i executive or Judiciary department of this State, or of any city, or of any incoiporated dis trict, and also, that every member ot Congress and of the State Legislature, and of the seh ct or | common council ol'any city, or Commi-.-ioners of any incoiporated di-trict is by law incapable of hoi- j ding or exercising at the tune the office or appoint- j ment of Judge, inspector or cleik of any election of J this Commonwealth, and that no m-pector, judge or j other officer of such election shall be eligible to be j then voted for. And the sanl act of assembly, entitled "an act re- j latiug to elections of this Commonwealth,"'pass, j ed July 3d, 181'.', further provides as follows, to j wit: " I hat the in-per lor* and judges, shall meet at the j respective places appointed lor holding the election ; in the district at which they respectively belong, be- j fore S o'clock in the morning of the 2d Tuesday of . October, and each said inspector shall appoint one j j clerk, who shall be a qualified voter of such di-trict. j "In ca-e the person who shall have received ihe ; second highest number of votes for inspector, shall j j not atteni) on the day of any election, then the per : son who shall have received the second highest num. her ol votes for Judge at the next preceding election, ■ shall act as inspector in his place. And in case the j person who has received the highest number lof votes for inspector shall not attend, the person elected Judge shall appoint an inspector in ; his place, and in ca-e the person elected judge shall ' not attend then the inspector who received the high- ' est number ot votes shall appoint a judge, in his place; and it any vacancy shall continue in Ihe board for the space of one hour after the time fixed by law lor ihe opening of the election, the qualified voters lor the township, ward or district for which such of- i : lit ers -hall have been elected, present at the election, shall elect one ol their number to fiil such a vacan i °y | It shall be duty of the several assessors respec : tively To attend at The place of holding every gener al, special, or township election during the whole time such election is kept open, for the purpose of giving information to the inspectors, and judge, when called on, in relation to the right of any pet son asses.ed by them to vote at such election, and on such other matter-Jn relation to the assessment of voters, as the said inspectors or either of them shall from time to time require. "No person -hall be permitted to vote at any elec tion as aforesaid, than a white Ireeman of the age of twenty one or more, who shall have resided in this State at lea-tone year, and in the election district where he offers to vote ten days immediately prece ; ding such election, and within two years paid a State ( or county tax which shall have been assessed at least ten days before the election. But a citizen of the I nited States who has previously been a qualified, voter of this Stale and removed therefrom and re turned, and whs -half have resided j, j! 5 , ejection district and paid taxes, aforc-aid, -ball be entitled to vote after re-idmg in this Stat- six months : Pro vided, 1 hat the white freemen, citizens of the Urn ted States between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years, who have resided in the election district ten days as aforesaid shall be eatitlel to vote, although they shall no? have paid tax. No person shall be permitted To vote whew name is not contained in the list of taxable inhabitants furnished by the Commissioners, unless; First, he produce a receipt of paymenl, within two -rears of State or County tux as-e-sed agreeably tola- Con stitution, and g.ve -atisfartory evidence on bis own. oath or affirmation of another that he has paid such a tax. or in a failmv to produce a receipt shall make oath to the payment triereof, or Second, if he clatn a right to vole by being r> ejector between the a>'e of twenty-one :ml twenty-Two yea:* -i.a'i depo-e op o.it.-i or struma!ion. That he ha- re-ided in the State j at least o„e year next before hi* application, ami make ;i f. | .root of residence tie district as is re quire.: ut... act. ai d that e doe- verily believe, •" '"•* given him that he is of the ae aloii -i , mid give -uch other evidence as is requir ed by hi- act whereupon ;jje name of the person so . ; admitted to M.t- -hail lie inserted in the alphabetical 1 1st by .i;..p.-,- tor, .d ~ note made opposite there to by willing Ihe word -tax,' if be -ball be admitted i to vote b\ rea on of having paid tax, or the word 'age' it he shall |.- admitted to vote by reason of age, and in either i -e she rea-on of such a vote shall be called out lo the clerks, who shall make the like j note in the ii-ts of voter- kept by them, j in nil cases where the name of the person claim ; ln - " " ,,r f""d on the ii-t furnished bv the j cotr.m -s oners, and assessors, or his right to vot* I whether lound thereon or not, i-objected to by any | qualified citizen, it shall be the duty of the mspec j tor- to examine such per,on on oath as to his qnalifi j catiotiS, and if tie claim- to have resided within the j State for one year or more, his oath shall be soffi- I cient proof thereof, but he shall make proof bv at least one competent witness, who shall he a quali ; fied elector that he has re-ided within the district for more than ten days immediately preceding said elec tion am! shall also him*eif swear that his bona fide : residence, in pursuance of his iawfu! calling, is witb j in the district, and that he did not remove in the district for the purpose of voting therein. "Every person qual.fied as aforesaid, and who shall make due proof if required, ot his re-idence : and payment of taxes, as aforesaid, shall be admitted to vote in the township, ward or district in which he shall re-ide. If any person shall prevent or attempt to prevent any officer of an election under this act from holding I such election, or use or threaten any violence to any i such officer, ami shall interrupt or improperly inter fere with him in the execution of his duty, shalL block or attempt to block up the window or avenue ; to any window where the same may be liolden, or shall riotously disturb the peace of such election, or : shall use or practice any intimidation, threats,force or violence, wilh the design to influence undulv or • overawe any elector, or prevent him from voting, or to restrain the freedom of choice, such person on j conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceedin" I five hundred dollars and to be imprisoned for any : time not less than one nor more than twelve months, i and it it -hall be shown to the Court where the trial. J of such offence shall be had, that the person -o of i lending was not a resident of the city, ward, district or township where the said offence was committed and not entitled to vote therein, then, on conviction, ; he -hall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than | one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and. j be imprisoned not less -man six months nor more than two year-. If any person or persons shall make any bet or : wager upon the reu!t of any election with the i Commonwealth, or shall offer to make any such bet | or wager either by verbal proclamation thereof, or ; by any written or printed advertisement, challenge ; or invite any person or persons to make such bet or wager, upon conviction thereof lie or they shall for - feit and pay three times Ike amount so bet or offered I to be bet. NOW THEREFORE, be it known, by an Act of I the Legislature of this Commonwealth, entitled j "An Act I'rescribing the Time and Manner of Sub mitting to the People, lor their ratificalion and re jection, the propo-ed Amendments to the Constitu : tion. approved May twelfth, Anno Domino one j thousand eight bundled and fifty-seven, it is provi ded as follows, to w it: I SECTION 1. That, tor the purpose of ascertaining i the sense ol the citizens of this Commonwealth in ; regard to the adoption or rejection of said amend ! ments, or either of llietn. ihe Governor of this Cnm | monwealth shall issue a writ'of election, directed to | the Sheriff of each and every County of this Com ! rnonwealth, commanding them to give notice in the usual manner, in not less than two newspapers in I each County, (provided that so many are published [ therein.) that an election will be held in each of the tow nships wards and districts therein, on the second | Tuesday of October, in the year of our Lord or.e --! thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, for the pur | pose of deciding upon the adoption or rejection oi the said amendments, or any of them ; which sani elec j lion shall be held at the piaces, and opened and closed j at the tin.e at and within which the General K.lec | tion of this Commonwealth are held, opened and ; closed ; and it shall be the duty of the Judges, Jii-pec- I tors and Clerks of each of said township;, wards and j districts, to receive at the said election, tickets, eilh-r \viitten or printed, or partly written and part ly punted, from citizens duly qualified to vote for 1 Members ot the General Assembly, and to deposit j them in a box or boxes to be for that purpose piovi | ded by the proper officers; which tickets shall be re spectively labelled on the outside, "First Atnend -1 meut," "Second Amendment," "Third Amend ment,and "Fourth Amendment," and those who i are favorable to said Amendments or anv of them, I may express their de.-ite by voting each as many I seperate written or printed; or partly wiiiten or j printed ballots or ticket-, containing on Ibe inside ! thereof the words "For the Amendments,"and those j vvlio are opposed to such amendments, or any of ; them, may express their opposition by voting each | as many seperate written or printed ballot- or tick ets, containing on the insule thereof the words, "Against the Amendments." SECTION 2. That '.he election on the said proposed Amendments, shall, in all respects, be conducted as the General Elections of this Commonwealth are now conducted ; and it shall be the dutv of the re | turn judges ot the respective Counties and districts ! thereof, first having carefully asceitained the num- I tier of voles given for or agam.-t each of said amend ments in the manner aforesaid, lo make out dupli ! rate returns thereof, expressed in words at length, j and not in tiguies, only one of which leturns so i made -hail be lodged in the Protbonotary's Office I the Court of Common Pleas of Ihe pioper County, j and the other sealed and directed to th e Secretary of j the Commonwealth, and by one of said Judges de ; posited forthwith iri the most convenient Post Olfice. j And the Judges of the respective di-tneis afore ( said, are required to meet at Bedford, on the Friday j next following the holding of said election, then and : there to perform those things required of them by ! law. Given under my hand, at my office in Bedford, this 11th day of Sept., in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and the 82d of Independence of the United States. HUGH MOORE, Slur iff. Sept. 11, 1537. BIOUSES OF JOHN T. HOGG-. BEDFORD, BEDFORD CO, I i SOMERSET, SOMERSET " ?2 i AIOUXTPLEASANT, U'ESTMORE'D" \ = CONXELLSVILLE, FAYETTE CO. ( < I'MONTOWX, } 2 BROWNSVILLE. ( 2. 1 NEW BRIGHTON, BEAVER CO. J - Deposits received, Discounts made, Draffs bought, sold am) collected. Bank notes and Specie bought and sold. Stork 4, notes, and other/rcurities, bought and sold on Commission. Correspondence and col ; lections solicited. j Aug. 21, 1&37. CC7"NO HUMBUG—H. H. HUTZ'S Celebrated Tetter Wash is the only safe and sure remedy ever discovered lor curing the Tetter, Ringworm, and all eruptions of the skin. It is so infallible a remedy* that a perfect cure in all cases of Tetter is guaran tied, if attentively applied. In ordinary rases one bottle will be sufficient to perfect a ewe. in bari ca ses, with a Tetter of long standing, more will be re quired. Price 25 cents per bottle. For Stale at Dr, I Reamer's Drug Store, Redfoid, Pa. May 23, 1557-lv.
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