to complain ? lam informed that t he present Legislature of Mary hind, which has a majority of that party usually called ''Know Nothings" have passed an act "to amend their present con stitution before the time fixed in the constitution itself for its change. If the people of Maryland, under this act, should change their constitution, is there any power or people ontside of Mary land that fan interfere and prevent its" truing into operation? Certainly not. I ■' > eot speak with certainty : hut 3 am under the impression that the States o New \oik- and Indiana changed their respective constitution.- in a different manner, or at a different fiv from that prescribed tor so doing us the <• • - Uu tion changed. Will any one here say fit the constitutions of these S;.it--s are not va-i ■, and can' be Vraftsted with impunity ? I think 11 Is there anything more sacred and unchangea ble in the constitution of Kansas than in those of Maryland, New York, and Indiana? If the people of Kansas shall desire to alf*r, amend", or a offish th" L'-cc-mpfon constitution, if the State shall be admitted with that constitu tion, all they have to do is to an act ol the Legislature pass- 1, calling n convention to alter or amend the same ; and if the people, by a vote, ei her adopt or acquiesce in the constitution so altered or amended, no people in any other State offhis Union can interfere, f will ven ture to say that there is , not a member on the other side of tiie House who will say that if the Legislature, at its firs! s-ssion, pass an ct call ing a convention, and the act is approved jby the Governor, and the convention should strike out all of the I, c.mptoa constitution,jwhich re cognizes slavery as one of the domestic institu tions of Kansas, and if the people adopt the a mended constitution it would net be valid an ! bindin? on all people residing there. Il this can be done, why not abolish the whole con stitution and make an entire new one ? If they do so, no power under heaven can interfere with them and their rights under that constitu tion as long as it remains unaltered. This may be called revolution. 1/ it is, it is a peaceful revolution, under the forms of law, and destroys no man's rights. I assume the position,also, that the peopleof Kansas have th* right to alter, amend, or abol ish their constitution at any time they may see proper, because that right is reserved to them in the bill of rights. There is a provision in the biil of rights in these words : " All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authori ty, and instituted for their benefit; and, therefore, they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasi ble right to alter, reform, or abolish their form of government in such manner as they may think proper." It is said that a biil of rights in a constitution j is the same as a preamble to a law. What is a ! preamble to a law but a statement ot the necssity i otalaw to secure some right or redress some | wrong? It simply shows that up to that time some right was left insecure, or some wrong I unredressed, by reason of the want of a law. It does not reserve a right. It shows the necessity of taking away from some the right to injure their neighbors. But what does this section of ttie. declaration, of rights provide? Fhat the right of the people to (titer, reform, or abolish ! their form of government, in such mariner as ' theij may think proper, is inalienable. The j definition of the word inalienable is, " rights ' which cannot be given vp.' y If this right is inalienable it cannot be taken away by any other provision of the same constitution. It' it is re- ' served in the people—not given up by (hem— ! it is a provision above uli others, ami flint m. observed before ail others ; because it is lor the security of the rights of the people against op- I pression and wrong. The rights of the people cannot be taken away or cu;tailed except by an express provision of id.v ; and when tiiat pro-; vision comes in conflict with another provision in the same instrument, by which a certain right is reserved to and declared to be inalienable and indefeasible in the people, the former must give away to the latter. And now, Mr. Chairman, I have discharged the duty I undertook, in the best manner I couid. I will record my vote for the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution, be cause I believe the laws of rny country, which lam bound to support, demand it of me. The consequences to myseli 1 nave nothing to do with. lam in the hands of those who honored me v\ it It a seat on floor. Thev are honest. 1 intelligent, and generous, and I know thev will do me tlit* justice to believe that my opinions | are honestly entertained, if they think I have j misrepresented them, and that there is another' more worthy or ca; a.'e to represent them here, j I believe in their i ight to send that person in i my place. I will not complain. When I have don • my duty in obedience to the dictates ' of my judgment, and, as I believe, in aecor-i dance with the laws of m y country, I shall j be contented, whatever may be rnv fate in the future. 1 would now willingly sacrifice my I position, and all mv political prospects in lb future, whatever they rnav be, it, by so doing, i could secure peace and que t am >ng our people. I love my native land ; J am proud of the |>ast history and giant gr- atness of my country; and I confidently look forward to the day when ail nations shall acknowledge our supeiinrity, • and when, through the benign influence of pui tree institutions, the kingdoms of the earth shail I be regenerated, and the whom human race dis- j enthra.itJ. Ltt us cherish tii'se institutions. Let us environ our Union with an impenetra- I ble WaH of strong arms and stout heart.-. That ■ Union! Who does not love it? The gran-! dest edifice the world has ever beheld— erected-! by the wisdom of men of whom the world was ' not worthy—cemented by I lie blood of the pu rpst patriots who ever lived in the tide ot time, ; and bequeathed bv them to us as a f i ic. It ss her- : itage—it has resisted all the rule shocks and j angry waves which have heicloture threatened I its destruction, and s: ill stand firfii upor. its : base in all time to come, if vve, and those com mg after us, shall guard it v th but half the I vigilance exercised by tho-■ who spent ti.> ir i energies and lives lo secure •!s perpetuity, j I earnestly beseech my brethren of tne North an ! of the South to act . w, \\ hen our com rv is I perhaps in its greatest priil, not as the Hep,-.-' senlativi s of a divided and distracted p. ople. but as the Representatives of the whole, country. 1..*! us abandon all s - li-mal feeling, and rnllv around the standard of cur common country. • Let us keep our time-honored liar waving gal lantly over our heads, no star obliterated, no stripe erased, until, as State after State shall be admitted into our Union, and star after star be added to that flag, c.!l over the land, from Noitb to South, hom Lis! to VVest, there may be home on every hreez -. "the cry is still "thev come." Several parties are under arrest at Richmond, Va., charged with garroting and and robbing a' Spaniard of §2OOO. ' ° THE BEDFORD BAgftt Bedford, April 16, 1858. Bj F. Mejers & (J. f Eenford, Editors. lEMOeSie STATE TICKET. JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT: WILLi 11l A. PORTER, Of Philadelphia. CANAL COMMISSIONERf; WEST 1. E V FROSf , Of Fay die County. Another of Nature's noblemen has fallen.— That brave and true man whom the world has known for nearly half a century as THOMAS HART BENTON, is no more, his demise having taken place in Washington City, on Satuidav last, the 10th inst. Although the death of COL. BENTON was not an unlooked-for event, it will cast a deep gloom upon the hearts of the American people. Since 1820—thirty-eight years ago!—this distin guished man has occupied a large space in the history of our nation. For thirty years he was a Senator of the United Stales, during which time he inaugurated many new measures of public policy, some of which uTrc adopted by the representatives of the people and are in practical operation at tlie present day. He was the great opponent, under the lead of Jackson, of the re-charier of tire United States Bank. He was the untiring advocate of a metallic currency and even so late as last Fall, addressed the public in an elaborate paper in favor of the suppression of the Banks. In 1821 he favored a change in the mode of electing the National Executive and proposed to abolish the Elec toral College system. In 1832, when the great debate came off in the Senate on PRESI DENT JACKSON'S veto of the bank-bill, he v. 33 an ardent supjx>rler of Old Hickory, fighting a hand-to-hand conflict in argument with his mighty antagonist, HENRY CLAY. He was a warm and active champion of the measures of PRESIDENT \ AN BDREN'S administration, and in the attempt to resuscitate the National Bank, during the Presidency of MR. TYLER, he occu pied Iris old position of stern and unbending hostility to tire iniquitous He was for a time opposed to (he annexation of Texas, but finally assented I > the measure, lie was in favor of the Mexican War and when Cali fornia applied for admission into the Union, was an earnest advocate of her claims to a place in the glorious sisterhood. He was also after the termination of his senatorial career, a meiribt r during one session, of the Lower House of Con gress. Since his retirement from public life, COL. BUXTON has published a very valuable work, founded on his experience as a Senator in Congress, the well-known "THIRTY YEARS-' VIEW OF THE WOP.KI.NG OF THE AMERICAN GOV l'T> MUCUT " 14- O ,jt I* V HI) HI 8 day of his deal!), though suffering int. nse ag nies, upon an abridgment of the debates in Con gress, dating from 1759, whic!) he succeeded in bringing up to ISiiQ. What indomitable cour age was this! What grand heroism, what su blime fortitude! Truly a mighty one has been taken from our mi Ist. "The srent have f.illen from 11s—to the Our flaz droops midway, full of many sighs! A nation's ulory ami a people's trust Li'- IN the ample poll where BENTON lies!" SPEECH or HON. WILSON RE!LEY. It is with piide that we ask the attention of our readers to tie sp mch of Ma. REILLV, ' > which we give place in the present issue. We had though! th .1 the Kana? fpi> 'ion wasvv .rn so thread-bare that nothing original coull be said upon it by any man, bu Ma. 1' ■i LY pre sent 3 the facts involve ! in the i-;ue, in phases new to us and in a manner most striking and irresistible. Altoy ther (lis speech <! iej credit i > the head awl heart of our patri die Uongr-ss nan, and we, ther-fore, commen i it n -1 cordially to the perusal of every unprejudiced citizen-of Bed ford county. SHIVERED TO PIECES! The platform a I opt--1 by the Abolitionists when they nominated Fremont for the Presiden cy, is just now the ino-t unsightly pile of rags an I splinters that ever was kicked into the gutter of p"! heal oi.nl. Tt ivas composed, as is well known, of-ut a single plank which was of blackest ebony, mud was very smooth to look upon, in fact it wn< s - smooth that the Woolly Horse couldn't maintain a fiot-liold on it, f.r which reason b■ f ! an I brake his neck. On tiiis plat I <rm of a -i ;le ebony plank was writ ten the solemn res-dve of those who erected it that it was the duty of Congress to exclude negro slavery from all states thereafter ad- milted into tlse Union. On the first of April, father Giddings and his Abolition children in Congress, whilst levelling their cowardly blows at the President and the Democratic party, missed their aim an 1 struck this, their platform rf a single ebony plank, demolishing it utterly ! They voted in favor of giving t Ire President the power to admit Kansas as a slave state should the t< |>!e of that Territory present a pro slavery constitution! Governor Chase of Ohio, and the Abolitionists of that slate, having looked it, >n this pl.it; .rm of a single ebony plank as exceedingly lovely, are very wroth with Gid dings and !,s crew for breaking their idol, but whether they will be able to make the shame!- ... iconoclasts restore them their precious ebony we do not know, yet of this we are cer tain that the Fremont platform, lately the pride and the glory of the Abolitionists, is •'number ed with Ihe tilings that were." It has vanish ed like the "baseless fabric of a vision," or, to parody Tarn O'Shanter, Like an ink-drop on tbe river, A moment btari , then gone forever ! TflfE (AIINNATI PLATFORM, DOU LL V-J* AND MR^JBMIIIANAN. The whoopj admission of Kansas with its regufafcfy. adopted form of gov ernment, the Lecomptori Constitution, claim that their Conduct in doing so, is.justified by the spirit of the National Democratic plat(crm madf. a! Cincinnati in 1856. The adherents of PKGSIDE.VT BUCIIAKAN likewise hold that the admission of Kansas, witli the Lecompton Con-- •dilution, would be in accordance with the doc trines of the Cincinnati Platform. Let us ex amine for ourselves and see which party, it either, is sustained by the facts. R - lotion 9 of lire Baltimore Platform which was reaffirmed by the Cincinnati Convention, reads as follows : A'That ConerMs has no power, under the Cot -titufion, to interfere vvilb, or control , the Co inc.-tic institutions of the several States, and that alt e • S'.ate- are the sole and proper judges of every" appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibi ted bv the Constitution; thai all efforts of the Abo lition.-is, or others, made to induce Congress to interfere will) question- of slavery, or take incip. ht steps thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alar ming and dangerous consequences, that all such c-> forts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the j happiness ofthe people, and endanger the permanency and stability of the Union, and ought not to be coun tenanced by any friend oi utir political institution-. lie re the doctrine of non-intervention by Congress in the affairs ofthe States is einpeaA-. j cally asserted. To he true to this tLctiiiw. i Congress must not attempt to "interfere with- J or control the domestic institutions"' of the Stale of Kansas. PRESIDENT BUCHANAN- recom mends that Kansas be at once admitted Cnion as a State, without any interference in her internal affairs by Congress, at the same time acknowledging the right of the people of Kan sas to control and regulate those aTairs in their own wav. On the other hand Mu. DOUGLAS and his followers, the supporters of the mea sure known as the "M INTGOMERV Amendment," are willing to admit Kansas only on certadri conditions and those conditions involve a med dlesome intervention on the part of Congress in the making of a Constitution for the proposed I new State. For instance, one of those c ndi-j lions is, that the people of Kansas mux' adopt j i heir for.n if government l>y voting upon it by ! ballot. This does not leave them, " perfectly | free" to form their "domestic institutions" in i their oven mod". Congress dictates to them' ... ' i how they >hai! pioceed in erecting themselves : into a Slate. Congress interferes in the ma- ! king ot their Constitution. Is it not plain?, J therefore, that the Kansas policy ofthe Dou-I glasites, stands in direct antagonism to the res- ; olulion quoted above, and that, on the other | hand, the recommendations of President Buchan- 1 an respecting thegadmis.-ion of Kansas, arc in: entire harmony with the letter and spirit of thai j rcsMuiie# f resolution embraced in the Cincia- ! nati Platform, is the following: Rrfo'veJ, That the Demo.-rat ic party JtJ * all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out j the agitation ot the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made. _ In what relation to this resolution 1 stand who oppise the Administration ou u. • Kansas question? L tus see. 1( was they that opened the discussion i.i Congressofthil tte-v,— ' ending subject. It teas thej —it was Doug la - : himself—th i! started tl.e ball of opposition to the admi.-sion r.f Kansas with the Lecompton Con-1 stitution, and thus *r-opened the agitation eft the slav. ry question vvi:h ten-fold fury. Their' ass -i-ri ati • t are with Ihe loudest agitators | of that qa • lion. Their eo-adjutcirs in Con- GRESS, :NE such men as SEWARD, WADE and Bi r.UNOAME, whose whole livrs have leen dev. ted to t lie di tmbance of the niffiikb peace with tie ir idle phantasms on the subject of negro, s. And more fha n <hi, the only end. which their plan f*r the admission of Kansas, (the '-M mtgoi. ry Amendment,") can prac'i- j caily subserve, i, that so earnestly desired Sty . th.* Abolitnnist*, the prolongation of Slaver.- • agifati m. But the PRESIDENT'S views oh the Kan as question tl.inrie in perfectly with-the tenor of* the res dye iu>t cd- i. M,-. Buchanan, it is well ' "'Down, f ivora the speedy admission of Kansas ; int) the I nion, assigning as one of his strongest reasons for doing o, that when it shall have been adn itted, agitation on the subject of Kan sas affairs (slavery included) will cease. Ilia policy is to localize tbe slavery question—to confine it to fhe consideration of those to whom its settlement properly belongs —to take it out ofthe mouths of demagogues and political hypo crites—in short, t > procure its settlement, whenever it may arise, with the 1. passu: e excitement those who are to dispose of it as well as among those whom if dots not in any way afl< c'. Thus we see that M :. DJUCTAS and his con freres, have pitched their tents beyond the landmarks of Democracy whilst J A MCS Bi MAN.;-;, 1 Hnd stepped one inch (V* i. the Platform on which he was carried into tie* Presidential chair in 1356. WHITE SLAVERY. A friend at IHocdv Run, in this county, has furnished us nr publication a litter received from Senator Hammond, of South Carol ink, which was written to him in reply to an inoift ry he had addressed to the Senator in relation to his late speech in which, it is alleged, that he said the '-laboring whites of the North are no better than the negro slaves of the South.' We saw the statement allajed to by our Bloody Run friend, in the Abolition organ of this placf a few weeks ago, but did not consider it wor thy of notice, as it bore ts own contradiction upon its face, being an appeal, not to the reason and common sense of the Northern laboring classes, but to their passions and prejudices. It was of a piece with the thousand and die other falsehoods which enrich the pages of that delectable sheet, and we, therefore, passed it by with the contempt due to its harm!e -sues? and insignificance. But is it not too true that a vast proportion of the white laborer's of the North are slaves ■ ay, slaves tinder a tenfold mue accursed bon dage than that which binds the Southern negro to tiis master! Look at the New Lngland —the boasted home ofthe bawling "free "labor" theorists. There the operative in the factory moils away at his slavish task barely sustaining life with his earnings, toiling for the capitalist tiit the blood'oozes from his fingers, lilt consumption rots his lungs, and when he demands his hard-earned pittartce, he is driven out into the wide world, penniless an ! destitute, the dive of broken banks and swindling em ployers. Look at the hundreds of mendicants that beg their bread along the high-way, because of | the tyranny of Northern speculators. Look at the imperious domination of the lich over the k poor—the control which the former exercise over the religious and political freedom ofthe latter—look at the slavery of the Northern la borer to his m i ter, Cimuis. But we main- tain, with F nator Hammond, that "white peo ple should not be slaves under any circumstan ces." JVe are for the emancipation ofthe white laborer of the Sforih —the Abolitionists are for the liberation ofthe black serfs ofthe South. * vVe "sire for protection to our own race by the > ■! merit of go ;:! and wholesome la ws, l-y 1 establishing a - ;uad currency, by curtailing tb ' privilege..of coip ia'k>ns, —our opponents want legislation for the negro and for the negro alone. It is hardly necessary thai we should remark that Senator Hammond did n it mean to say that (he white laborer ofthe North is not a "better" hian than the negro slave. He merely wished to convey the idea that the condition of the former i? similar to that ofthe latter. We append the Senator's li tter, which is as follows: W A ; illn'i'l'o.N 5 April, ISSB. | .DEAR SIR : "* ' I thank you for your interesting letter. It is very gratifying to ine to find that your good sense aud discrimination led you at 1 once (without, I presume,seeing a full and cor 'ia-ct report of my recent speech which I send you n :nv,j to p rceive the full meaning of my argument. I maintained simply that thecon dit ion of slavery exist'l every where. That in the South ii was filled by an inf u i ir iai", ji th "North by ct;r own rmjLand that we of the Sou did not think white people should be slaws un der any circumstances. Respectfully, Your Obedi-nt Servant, J. H. HA !>,! ).\IY> f"pRSE L \iiOß'' LV < >V', [XTiCI T . .Tiie following incidents i f the r. cent Cor.- ilecticut elections, ivtat.-d by the Hartford Ti>r ; -viil serve So .-how what kind of '•■ free labor' they : have in that woolly Black R publican State: i "In Cla-t. nbnry, on Monday. Martin Harri i sop, a workman in the mill of I!iVahog Sati net Company, voted p- w • are -informed) the Democratic ticket. For thus daryig to • xercie iyis rights as a freeman, he was prompt I v told by the agent ofthe Company, Mr. (Hazier, that j his s i vices would not be re juuvd any longer. .'t .*•:> •"■• i 1' "i ■ ir 1- nscerlain (I, however, t: .yt (llastciihury .ha ! elected but one reprosen tativ -. an I that there was a fir vile on live other. Ms. ifiu >.-1 in wa? accordingly toll that perhaps he had fetter remain in'lhe mill a littl • longer—tlint his removal uas not fully decided upon. He took the hint, and voted, next day, the Republican Ii lot —an ! he is now reinsta ted in the good grace- of the management of that- concern, and not likely to be removed. :h ■ removal of Mr. Vettl don, an overseer in tlie prison at Wet: ersfield, tor daring to v fetbe Democratic ticket, goes very well with ; such .an act as this. L--t us see —what paitv wgs it that lately lamented so ! udly over what i was call c! the stifling of free opinion i.i Km sas?" •flow do the experiences of Mr. Harri- >n and Mr. Xeltb tun tally witli tbe representation? of i Senator Hamn.and ? Pretty well, don't thev. I n nv '? INTCUVI-.W BETWEEN TUG PRESIDENT AND J Ala. lI: NTON. Ihe I mon informs us tiiatj :an interview to ok place on Friday, between! the President and Mr. B 'nt.ni : •♦'The President, hearing of'the extreme i!!- nes* of.his aoci-mt compeer, railed upon him (•a ! rio.iy evening. ['he dving statesman de t-!nr<*11 afterwards his exceeding gratification at the visit. The interview is said to iiave been protracted. Mr. Benton is said to have ex pressed his extreme solicitude for the condition of public nfiair.% and a painful sense of the im minent dang' ;s which threaten the countrv. lie is said to have exhorted the President to rely upon Divine support and guidance, and not upon that of im n, who would deceive him." Tlte Monaou War. WASHING*] >,\, April B.—Enough is known to v. arrant the assertion tliat (J ivernor Powell and Major Met uSlough, llie Peace Comrnissioneis to Dtah, will be instructed to assure the Mor mons that it is not the desire of the President aiTii tiie I nited States authorities to make war upon them, hut to secure the enforcement rf federal laws, to which end they will be coun seled to pardicipate. The Commissioners will also inform them that some troops will be re laiivd in the lerritory to protect emigrants to the Pacific from the attacks of hostile'lndians. fhe Commissioners will go with the next rein forcements dispatched to Utah. 808 DIM RUFFIANO, —An intelligent and in teresting married lady, who was one of the se verest suflerers in the political troubles in Kan sas during the height of excitement, lias been in town Iti Neveial days, seeking the means to re cover her shattered lot tune. Her atlinities were with the Tree Stale party, and she naturally turned to the professed "advocates 0/ freedom here for reli-d. But they being a little slow with their aid, she a day or two since fell iuto the hands ol the "border rnllians," a few of whom made up a purse of SO.) tor her, accompanied with gifts of clothing, &c., which she greatly needed, it is said that these "ruffians"' were led on in tins movement by a desperado con nected with a newspaper that goes for Lecomp ton.—Journal of Commerce. J Rev. \V. C. Van Metre, agent of the New York Five Points Mission, passed throuoh Chicago last week with fifty children for whom he is looking up homes in the west. These chil dren will be distributed mostly in the interior of Illinois. From !be Washington Union. Thp Black Republicn Saccfdaoenm. There seems to be a good deal more in the Montgomery amendment than the Black K>- ,1 potrileans bargained fir. Tiw dullest of them to discover that there is a cat in the menl- It is a operation t which a i- lew [wily Democrats have played upon tiv ir , new allies* Jt is a "sell" of ttie wop t sort a . genuine First of Ap-il affair. | The House bill provides that in tie- elections ;to be he'd under it in Kajips, those respj. :tls shall vote who are qualified to do so under the existing Territorial laws. The qn.ilifu:a' : mn : prescrio. (1 by these laws are a sis* months r-oi '\ denco in tie 1 Territory and certain test oaths ! amang thc.v, one in which the enters is requi red to swear that he will support the Const it u (lion an 1 laws of the (united State*, the Ingitive slave 1 !'.v incln !-d, and that Ia not interpo se J to oh tjuct the execution of this particular law. Sue!) is the h'l' it of one oft!, • pro-, is juns of the f.i >..! p.' .i• •i v a...- : *,t. It i ! certainly odd to s > 1 e lJ'u U fit jj licun p. t v I requiring a lest of fidii'v to : : C .astituti n j and the laws of the lr tilled States, ciii v j to the l\ieitive-f!,iVi law*. u' i a : demo u' | tion of havi-tr interfered toobsliiic' the execu -1 tiuu of Hie fugitive-slave I;'.. V. ti.i-; j provi-.on i- awo v I one to he in si rti'd in a Black ; Rep)i! i: an u.i a • );•■. ! The Fed-rat Constitution provides that | Stales m<nj h: adi.iUh.J by ti<° Congress info i i. fiion hut the !!-', ;• '.a i imp: ) s upon ■ t Hat provision. \\ fijle r.-ijui; trig Use iJrs io i Kan as to soppeui tf: • Constitution of the Initial j States, the House its dftak'-s the liberty of alt.-r --{ ing that in iron -nt in aia licl par! cnlar : fi>r | their lot! provides that the Preside! >, ' v ; with the adv ice and c us :it of th !• rdej- rid'i j ans and aid emigrants in the Territory, shall j admit Kansas into the Union by his own pr , ( ' a . jma tion. ,-.v, the IV.-i I at ia a to ! •■., .fi. v i man, and may implicitly < of; hai in to tin all that an honest man might to do in any nw, r or emerg-iicy, ; u'-oc or private. We are sure |he would not vi date the trust r'epos d in him jby the Black Republicans of the H mse in the ] !ea<t particular. But yet we doubt uheth.r ij even he ought to be empowered v\ ith the discre tion ul violating the Const it nil u of the United l Stati s. Eternal vigilance is !,'.e pi ire <f ii .ertv. | "The one-man powei" is an everlasting bug ih oo j with the "outs." We had, then fore, tetter | stick to the Constitution than tins' even .Mr. Bn j chanan. The act would be uriprtn.' ml in itself | the precedent would be very dangerous. We will suppose a case that might happen, j in ore! -r to expose another dithrulty into which i this House bill might drag the Black If-publi | cans. What if, with the a <•::.* now in Kansas ; undi r the President's order.-, with the "rullians" I louming in swarms on the Missouri bolder, ami : "firi n-V stalking sovereign and supreme over 11 I'. rrite: y—what if by the united means of ' these three de ad agrnchs. a vote should he | obtained fav< table to the Lecr.rr.pt n Constitu i tion : or failing this, u hat if by theg" same three j po-v. rful I: ■ ans a pro-slavery Convention i a!: M 11 ' ! cte lin K insas, which shculd fran.••• a. ■ ■ -slavery Constitution, and this Constitution , ghoul ! tie carried by the potential agencies I a !u* I' i I : and what if, in either of these events, ! lie President should admit Kansas by the fiat of i his own pr la-nation as .a slave State into the |! nion ! Here wmi I be a rare kettle of fish • .j.-epuvd |.y the Black K publican? thein<elv,-s !in this fl ins, -.it! .( th ira. The //arn/t/'j d* 1 - ; claration would he rrniized, ant! Mr. Giddings ! would discover tlsat lie had at last "swallowed i a uigg'-r 'in his old age. The Black li 'puhli j cans v\ on Id fin : , that their big oat!:—worse than jth is- which tfie army s ore in Flanders—by j W '.U' U ! y, ' gi-d t.bffTi- I -cs before heaven an l in ,i that th-v would never, directly or [in hr-c: 'y, v f or a imit',-; -a -lave Slate into j the Union— wc-re all 'r -K *i int o flindeis. .Vow* Items. \ —! ii ' Mi- :, sipjii :\!.i::iiiiic(utin<r Cntr.par.v j has a la t >ry iti ('i, >ctaw votinlv, about 1") miles i from Granada. Its capital is SBO,OOO. It was j establish. I i:i In'4B. lis dear profits for the j last lour yoa-s l ave tut been less than thirty I per cynt. per ann mi on tiie capita! invested, j lis ciili f opera lions are in making cotton yarn, l colt -n nsnalmrgs, ant! iinseys. Chi ago has, f r a year or two pn-t, been | tilling up pr streets about lurf , t above the . giadm '| h . t; pet in laising the c:ty is to lit j —All r a trial ofovrr ot <> hnn.-li11! and thir ilV : ili lts, the Democratic (btv Convention, <1 111 '' ■'wn, have (ailed to nominate a candidate 1 lor the Mayoralty. ! —7 In re- are sixty s. aj. rts in Cuba, ami last j year there were three thousand six hut- !red i coast-wise arrivals and three thousand six hnn :dr ed and fifty-nine cl trances. i i.;s w ill give jan idea of the tin bs of this beautiful island, j which is not more than half cultivated under i the pres-nl regime. i he Punks and the Sub-Treasurv of New York have now, together, inaily forty millions of dollars in specie. i [> i > the first week in January, no less than nine hundred colored men, in Jamaica, had enlisted into the 2d and 3.1 West India regi ments. —Laid a ivici s from Venezuela report that Monagas has ma m a forced Joan of a million to perpetuate his despotic power. —The total number of gallons of tr.ilk con sumed in the city of Philadelphia (exclusive of the di.-trict.; <.i Germantown, Manayunk and b rank lord,) in a year is estimated at 2,0 Hi,ooo. —ln a single building in Boston, on Thurs day evening week, there was a prayer meeting on one floor, a boxing exhibition in the room above, and a calico l.a'l in the upper hall. —Some person was once aked why B st tod before ( ? Because, uus the answer, a man must B before he can C. —A resolution has been introduced into the Legislature, providing for the appointment of a committee to consider lite propriety of removing the seat of government from Hartisburg to Phil adelphia. Messrs. J. P. Mori is &. Co. of Philadelphia, have just completed a sugar mill which weighs 90 tons. It is to be sent to Trinidad, Cuba. —At the funeral ofPaudren, the pugilist, in New \ork City, there was a turnout of flash men and fast women hall a mile in length. —lf you would have an idea of the ocean in a storm, ;ust imagine ten thousand hills and four thousand mountains, all drunk, chasing one another over new-plowed ground, with lots of caverns in it for litem to step into now and then. Rev. Charles Smith, of Boston, has request ed bis salary to b- reduced from $2,5U0 to $2,- 000. A rare occurrence. SHERIFF'S SHE. B\ v, rtup o! -lindry writs of I i. Fa., to me i! r ec , eit, Ibeie will die sold ut the Court lb M i .r, ; „ borough of Bedford, on Moti !,v, the .'{.J t!a- o ! vei, 1 o'c'o. k, P. M., Uie tollovving 'ocnbH . n-at estate, to wits | One Irart ot laud containing 170 acrrs, mare or less; afeut tOO acres .cleared and under ;. i.ce t a two story log bourn v tlh kitchen attached, 6 ',d iol biru thereon erected also, an appta orchai.t the r ' j on- adjoining lead of James Claike, on the „ ush . and tl.e Juei.-oa rivtr on she i.oiii. ai.,i i situate in Lib-rty township, Bedford countv, and u' ken lis ex< r-itlon as th- j; operty of Jacob S.'n.'e r. ALSO—One tint "f [and containing 100'... more or leabout r. : ! aci -s cleared a.-,d under |r.c' w till i logtjoii.e ;; -eg Lam iLereon erttcfc : ; "tn.r fruit tr eg ihereew—adjoiiiing lands of W 11 Fletcher, V, iilisim Robison, l'!;at!es Linn, andc: .. , siiuatc iii >Souihar|iton town,hip, Begfoitt c . : [•'' " :l vxvutioi! a- jbe p:c;.e ; ty 0 f , One tract of Bin' COnlni,;i;.g 00 iff I !Tu;: eor !■ s; at.-eui SO acres cb-ared and under i w Ml a dw -.iiiiig bouse, !e: jut boa j i.-g sta'de IViercon en cted— also, an apple or , r1 tfe-! cnii—a< j 'inii:g lands of Dai.is) L. Dchbaxgr, baun .ee Ja:-.won, and Other., #! (;mt in b . i. ! apt i -z tow i.- : ip, lieibord county. Aim. ) —All l.rnanuej Faster.s right, till. I n r _- i"-t and or.::;:, iarid, to one tr..ct (d (ami couti: . U-> acres,oruore or ! -•; about 12 acres cfeaCnt rind under fence, Ui it two ioj* dwelling houses, f,ar; ► table, and a tl ree story frame gri*t-uiii| t, n in , '.e-J—a lj'unu.g lands of iamoe! BecSriy, ij CO '„ Mi;:. . a . I oil. r-, situate in .St. Clair tow>;jh-p, Bed* I n county, and tali"?: in execution as the pioperty oi ilmaiiue! Fast, r, dept. ALhO—The undivided tfiree-eighth part of a cer fa:n tract of land, containing 17,'j acres more or |--s ; ot win. i about 20 acres are cleared and under fence t .: :: the same tract conveyed to defendant, Ibz ' •• 1 ' ■ '■ '■ l •' !IS i.: le i by eg in the k-i oidcr'a Office in di ed bo :fe. A. ii! ; :•> lot—ri.'j lining lands of A. Vv. Bvans, Joh.i McCaoias, Seslcr if Co., and nttvrs. ALSO—i i.e undivided one-third part of - tract of i.iud, containing Cii.'ik acres, mor:- or b • ; of which about JO.'I acres ai cleared and under f•: . , wn;, n up) <i orcl.ai ;r, ai.d l,avi..g thereon •.• , ! div.-i --li-'.S bouses and 2 barns, it being |!.r. s.irn- iumt Poa . \ej e,l to defM anJ oihers by Win. And-.-i,,,;,. c <*d book, page B lb—adjoining hwdS of Asa Bavail a. 1 others. . i.SO—'i be in wided one-: ::'u prrt of a tract of land, containing 97 acres, r. ore or lc-s; of which about !'.' acres are cleared and u • J -i fence, it being tin.; same land conveyed to defendant and others by hepterr cus Foster and wife, by deed dated March IfOi 18.77—adjoining lands ot lliciiard Foster, John Lair, James Figart's heirs and others. wL.SO—Che undivided five-sixteenths of a tract •o. land containing 1.70 acres and 3d perches more or less; of which about 30 acres are cleared and tinder fence, being the same land conveyed to nei.mdant and o'bers by EpbrianTFos-er, aiiuiiiiis trr.tor ot Ifichard Foster, by deed dated June I-lth 1 joining -at ; ol Asa iduvail, John Lair and ot i.er-. A I,Bo—Ali i! iendaiits i.-fer.'-f in an ! to a tract oi !.:: ,un nprov t, contain.ug| 333 acres, more or it : Leuirn: I oil the east by lands of James Patton, a: d Abr'm Bo! I man, on ihe west by the Juniata riv er and Damel i ounc—surveyed cn.a war rapt to de li 1 nit and faces Patton, dated Feb., Kith, ISSI, a.i .-.mate in F: ad Top,township, Bedford xountv, and Taken ,n exccut.oa as the property of llezekiau Kaston. ALSO—AII defendants, Rudolph Hoover an ! Ja cnb j eeter's interest, in and to a certain storv and a hall* frame weather boarded bouse, be,; g 50 t.-et in ft out a-. ! 2 > feet back, and the lot or piece of ground and curtilage appertaining thereto—adjoining lands o: .!ack--on Gaibraith on the norlh-ea-l corner, and lands o; Rudolph Hoover, on all the other sides, sit uate in M.g,i.e Woobber'ty tow ; hip, Bed •••rd coun ty, > I ' .ken in execution as the property cf ilu dolph Hoover and Jacob Teeter, defendants.' Al.rO—All d"ii r.datil--, fiaiiiel 3Vfetz^ar f s riebt title, interest and claim-:in and to a tract of land,' containing about 112 acres, more or b n*; about 30 acre - cli ..red ai d iii.der fei.ee, with a two story lor h'ui-e and fog barn thereon erected—adjoining tar, is of Jot.a Metzgar, William Showman ami wife* ark! otfci is. situate in Harri-on town-b:p, Bud "or.! ccan ty, at.d taken in execution as the property of Fan tel Met/gar. ALSO—One lot oi ground in the town of Flope w,-il, frnntii g 70 feet on M .filin >.fr et, ar:,|, xtcnisrg back 1.70 ieet, xv 1 1! i a two sfory plank lu>ne and a si),e ke house ti, rcon crrrtyil—a ; >:r;i g lot of ' jMrndoiiar, Lowry ar. ! Co., on Die north, audio: of Ht-r.rjr .. Strong on the south-cast. ALSO—O.,e fit of ground in the town of Hope wi :!, iio.'.ting a! >ut 130 feet on Wood Sf ami* a. boui i'-d tcct on i road stied, and extending back to it: !l-race, and L, .ng three square, with three two ■-! 'J ; cast dwrliii g bouses, blacksndth shop, si . .mak'T shop, ami tin shop thcrTOn erect !. ALSO—AII defendants right; title-and interest in ,;0 ucies of unimproved coai land, warranted in the name oi John L. Grove—'adjoining lauds of John Cessna, Esq., the Hopewell sud Iron Company, and other-. AL-O Ouc tract of unimproved bottom land, know n as the Adam Young tract, eontainig 27 acres, n ore or !e-s—adjoining the Jun atfi liver on the i or tii, and lands of Job. i wind's he us on the cast and w , * t. AL' O—Ail .Vfendant, Thomas W. Norton's right, title, interest a? I claim, in arid to one tract of land, calleJ Luck bottom, containing CO acres, more or b : S ..!• .it I nries i .ii u; „J under i. :.s .v. ,!;u story and a ball pltu ic bouse thereon erected ad journ!.; Ia r -Is ol Wm. IVnestPr on the we r. ginl the Jut hit.i river on the norrb, east and :ti lth. ALSO—AII defendant'* interest, in and to three t: ct ol improved coal ia.il, warrant .! in the name o! i i.uiiim W. Norton and Jesse Grave, con taining in all about 15! acres, more or let;.—a'join ing lands of Wm. Montgomery, r.ow John Cessna, Es en the north and wv-t, add lands of Jfehn Ford and others on the couth, and ijpjds of Wm. Evans.on the cast, a.-.d a,I lb -above fcescribcd U...L situate in Broad 1 op township. Bebbrff cuunty, exc pt Buck Bottom, \\ l.ich is situate ip llrp •well township, "Bec iord county, and taken in execution as lb • property ol 1 hoinas W. Morton. Sheriff's Office, f WM. S. FLUKE, Bedford, Apl. !), '-3 S. i Sheriff. LIST OF m P' i down tor trial at May Perm, (3d day J 18.") S. i-l.zabeth Ivelly vs. Wiiiiam Welsh John Sarecve vs Joseph il xon John took vs School Director* John Koor.t/.'s use vs Michael R-ed S iouit'l A mirk vs Joseph S Deed ct. al. 1.. tioit and wife's use vs David Patterson Lowry and wife's use vs Same Sam'l Modes' e.x'rs et al vs John A! .p i'ctcr J. Little vs Jacob Strork John May vs Geo. I'rout man, et at Jacob Fahrner's use vs John Aisip 11. iN: B. it. P. B. Road Company vs Patrick I.eddy Bcuj. Mi honey, et. al. vs Solomon Spousler Jam Patton vs Dr. Win. Butch I), f,. Keagy's use vs P. Moniingstar, et al. Philip Uardman, et al. vs El ins flitc \\ in. C. Logan, Esq., vs D. 11. Hofios, Esq, Wro. Border's use vs John Taylor, ct al. Ahm. Keighart *3 Thomas Imler etal. Powell W.Dishong vs David Walter etal. Charles Sinckey vs Henry Moses etal. I)r. Wm. Blair vs A. Blair John Wemmer vs Anthony Ctingenian ; , Prothonotary's Office, ( S 11 TATE, April 'J, ISSB. \ Protb'y. Notice to lite Holders House CEIECEtgf THE Directors of the J'oor of Bedford Ccimty, here by give notice to the holders and owners of Poor House checks, that it will he to their interest to present them to the Treasurer, George Biymite, Esq., at Bedford. The object in having thern pre sented is to ascertain the amount of indebtedness, so that the Directors may be enabled to fix the taxes and make other arrangements to discharge the same. Those living at a distance can sen ! in the amounts. The TAX COLLECTORS are alio notified that the balances due on their duplicates must be paid,, or the necessary means will bo resorted to, to com pel payment. GEORGE P. SHL'CK, GEORGE ELDER, GEORGE SMOUSE, April 0, ISfiS. Directors.
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