THE BEJFORB GMETTJL Hc£fhrd, lane 23, IS.T3. G. YV. Bowman, Editor and Proprietor. Democratic State Sioket; GO VFIiXCR.- ' HON. WILLI AM SICLZR. .11 STICK OF THE SUPREME COURT: HON. JEREMIAH S. BLACK. CA X A L COM MISSION HR: COL. HENRV S. MOTT. Up"" We invite the particular attention of our read ers to the following extract from a Sermon by Rev. E. \V. Hl.T'l'kr, ol the Lutheran Church, on the sub ject of "Political '/We ration." It is one ot the best productions on this subject we have ever read, and tiee principles it contains should lie treasured as a pearl of great price. No- man can read rhe.-e plain and forcible truths, without feeling ashamed of the low personal abuse in frequently heaped upon the heads of those who differ in polil,eel opinion. It has al most been reduced to a systi m, for roti/iiiansio brand •■very man vaioi s utid ji.\oi:am who stand in oppi.sition'tijjlieir waj? of thinking, a system repug nant to the best feelings of alt correct minds, and it is gratifying to perceive that the are hegining I-, repudiate this disgusting system in a manner not to be misunderstood. In proportion to then strength, there are generally as many good men (in ail their personal relation*,) in one party as the other, and when one man is placed in opposition to the other as a candidate for public favor (both, perhaps, equally respectable and possessing equal talents,) how re pul-iveand loathing to see she one branded as a j\ - /nw whilst the other is almost dt ijh / ' Cut we simp ly designed to direct, the aiteiition of the reader to the subjoined extracts, and trust they will be read with that care to which they are so justly entitled : POLITICAL TOLKIUTKtt. iiract from a &'ttrmon preached in Si. JUut fJittr* Lai/nr.t a *' Lurch, aYetp Slreil, on 8 a Ida dli Evsnitkjis jane ;% LSS 1, by Ike Pastor , if nr. 11. it . / hitter. Tl-X'l :— L: t none moderation ? f. ooirn unto ul! rir."—PtliJ.l.iriANs, iv. POLITICS, in the abstract and elevated -EN-e of the term, i- a science, among the noblest and most iim - tul that can engage the mind of man. It embraces ill it enlarged and comprehensive .phere, the dear est and runst cherished temporal interests it l!i- tiu uluu family. By this study are unveiled the means, ■whereby sagacious and enlightened policy imparts elevatiun and grandeur, farce and stability, to human institutions. By it, goveininents are lounded and perpetuated. l'iie study of politics, as a science, en ables man to detect in the social' organization those lurking print iples of defection ami decay, which, re ceiving their vitality from the depravities insepera l.lo lronr ignorance ami Luxuiv, conduce to paralyze the virtue ot the masses, and sport with the fate of nation-. The proper and impartial study ot politics, qualifies man to tiace from history the corrupt iuflu • rices of venal administration- upon the best const!- tuted governments, and to rut oil'the fountains of de tection and ruin, before they have sapped the foun dations, and over-turned the super-structure, of na tional prosperity. It qualifies, also, to distinguish between the Patriot and the Demagogue—the man of principle and the man of interest—and serves to de monstrate, I tint in their p irate characters alone are to be found the true sources bo!h of political virtue and depravity. It is the custom with many to decry the very term "politician" as one of infamy and shame. Cut why ? It patriotic and enlightened, from the errors and calamities of other republics lie gleans le-sons of wisdom and \ iftue for the safety and perpetuity of his own. With the somces of national prosperity, as well as ot national decline, he acquaints himself. I'lie ruins ol ancient grandeur, lie does not contem plate With stoical built! uei.ee, but—every memorial tif destruction he traces to its primitive Cause. Look ing over the m p of fv- world's history. he perceives that there never yet has existed p. city, a state, or nation, that has survived the fate, ty ot certain ele ment- ami causes ol ticca v. lie -e i Nineveh gone— Babylon gone—l'roy, ami Tlcbes, and Palmyra gone the old Medo-Persian empire gone—the Grecian empire gone—the Roman < tnpire gone—Pale-tine, whose clns-ie soil once echoe i lo the virgin steps ol the World's Redeemer, despoiled ot her*;liirv ! Hand ing.amid these speaking symbols ot by-gone ages. Irom the moss-covered sepulchres enshrining the dust r>t departed glories, he evokes Utterances ol wisdom, •vrceiviug in them multiplied proofs that there i* a Providence palpable in the government of earth's empires—a Cod ruling in the heavens, at whose com mand nations appear and it -appear like bubbles on the sea of time. And at the slum-- of these departed glories doe, the wei|-in!onned politician enkindle the I'roineth.san flame which i- to illumine the unknown future. 1 oily and Crime entomb the pride of Pe - er and the Pomp of Civilization ; but it is the politi cian's ta-k to open in other places new avenues for their renovation, where the causes ol dissolution have not yet penetrated. Such being the elevated and useful character of political science, 1 hive not deemed it an inappropri ate theme, at thi- particular juncture, on the eve of an exciting election, for calm and dispassionate pul pit ellort. in so doing, I vvpuhl not, of course, lose sight ot the sacredness either of the place, or the day. The time is the Hoy of our Lord Jesus Christ the place, the church, founded in His blood. With the Apostle, '!! magnify mine office." When I dese crate it to unworthy ends, let "my right hand forget .her running, and my tongue cleave to the roof ot my month." With partizauship. and its contests for place, 1 have nought to do. But with government, as .I system of ethics, applied to the regulation of < oruinnnilies and states, lor the preservation of their .eternal pence arid safety, ami the ilevclopetnent and iiugnienration ot their moral, intellectual, and rrligi lioi energies—ir have all much to do. And thi.- to pic, with which the most cherished interests ot man an" iruli-soltib!y interwoven, I dare and will disc-s. I'i'C idea, ;< which 1 wish to its-ign prominence, is, that in this country, where treedqih c f-perch and ol the pTm-s are so 111:traminded. w hat ye most need is I'oi.i i ic.i'.'l'outnano.Vi To the calm and dispas sionate judgment of rt erv unprejudiced mind, it is •uhm it ted, whether our political differ er cr-j, for the most part, are not conducted with a dejree of acri mony, from which the b* Mi r port ion ol the commu nity revolts. If Civilization, in its progress, has ban ished those instruments ol physical torture, by means of which, in the dark ages, the artful demagogue es tablished his terrible despot ism over his fellow-mar, unhappily I he IO arc still other agencies of coercion in ex sleiH i , equally to be deprecated. There are no longer any royt 1 butchers, like King John ol Eng land, to ex'ort wealth and homage, by feaiuig teeth trorn the mouth—hut tor violence and three the sub stitute.s here are ribald abuse and unsparing calumny. Our arena of political discussion, to a treot extent, has degenerated into a gladiatorial ring, in which the controversialists, forgetful that politic? are a brarirh of freraN. assail each other, oil en. with al most di-moiiiac phrcH/.v. Their ami does not seem to he, to convince, but to exterminate, as il Obloquy were a nobler weapon than Kea-on, and fo defame a neighbor a p'oiukr achievement than to reclaim him tiom error. A happy milleniitm will bare dawned upon our land, when H. party disputatious shall be conducted without, a resort Io intemperate denuncia tion.and ribald invective when the sole ground of confrftVetsy shall b" the antagonist principles of gr>- v'ernm. nf—when the struggle -ball be or.e of Reason smd Opinion, and the establishment Truth—and wimp on trovorsialisn. shall have cru.,cd to be sunken jpto a wretched brawl, in which bad curls and worse means act the chief part. Tt is not to be expected that on of gitive and dignified importance, we should all think alike, nor would it be desirable. IIT the material wot Id we behold an interminable diversity. The excellent hard of nature has not fashioned any two objects ex act.y similar. From the flowers that bloom on the same parent stem, and the leaves that rustle on the same branch, to twin sisters and brothers, all bear distinctive marks of inexb:u,nblo variety. Aiuch more striking!v still is this principle exemplified in I the diverse and manifold operations of the intelligent 1 aiivl uiiir.orul unud. lfuundless as is the field of and s]eculatou, there is, perhaps, scarce ly a subject that employs the thoughts of men. on which the opinions of any two wholly coincide. Whai-boriltl this universal ildTerenr.e in thg constitu tion of taste and intellect Teach its, other than the duty of an enlightened sniF prudential tolerance of opinion ? What Tight have Ito pursue a neighbor with tire find laggot, for no other reason than that lie ■ cannot view a measure of government in the same light as mvsHf? Can 1 he-certain riwrt /am always right? Have T examined the question with proper at frnti >n .' Have 1 suspected mv own passions and prejudices? Am 1 myself tree from pride, error, and infirmity ? What, if the revolutions of time, mellow ing and changing the passions of men. as it does the outward lace of nature, should convince me that I was wrong anil my neighbor right? How then would 1 excuse my intemperance, either to myself or others ? Well, therefore, does the Apostle enjoin: Be moderate, not in one thing only, but in all things, and let your moderation be known unto all men—an injunction, which no class of men need so much to hear and practise, as those engaged in violent and ex : cited pnrtiznmhip. The Psalmist calls it a good and pleasant thing for bi' thern to dwell together in unity, and sir it is. They that neither devise mischief against otheis, nor suspect it to be contrived against themselves, possess calmness of mind, eorripnsure of the a libe llous and sweet sleep at night. Not so the lite of the immoderate jtolitician. Enmity and dissension are lor the most pait the ingredients rv! his bitter cup. His thoughts are distracted with solicitous care, corrosive envy, and anxious suspicion. His heart boiling over with chnler, his longue out of tune by discordant noises of clarnorou- contradiction, his sen of life is tossed with tempests! Oh. how im measurably more comfortable to sail steadily in a sea ot quiet—every sense and faculty of the soul partici pating in an -liulisturbyd community of affection. When the heavenly convoy of angels agreed to wish mankind their most perfeet and elevated felicity, they could not better express their spnge of it than bv wishing them •'Peace and Good Will." This an gelic benediction excited partisanship annuls and de tests. It arrays neighbor against neighbor, alienates the best friends, and often severs the sweetest among brotherly ties. Tins ls i(ie effect, it is true, to some extent, ol all contests for truth, in matters pertain ing to religion, as well as in those pertaining to se cular policy, Tlie admonition is hence of general application - -"Let your moderation be known tin to ul 1 men." Happy could the Christian church esteem itself, if within it* hallowed pale the hydro intolerance did not ;ear its hideous crest. Mahomet and his follow ers propagated their ereed with tire and sword. Mournful to relate, the professed disciples of the meek and lowly .testis too often display the same fe rocious spirit. *o utterly repugnant to that ol' the master. Burning faggots, racking of quivering limbs upon wheels of Torture, imprisonments, persecutions, and expatriations have too frequently been substitu ted for Persuasion, Faith, Prayer, and Love. If the Romi-h Inquisition, the fruit ol an unhallowed and persecuting bigotry, had its Anto da /•'. , the annals of Protestanti-m are stained by the curling smoke of a Servetus. The Saviour's appeals were ever address ed solely to the human volition, to the convirtions of the mind and heart. To effect His mission, and se cure //,',• conquests, lie proposed no other than moral means. His own chosen apo-t|e- did not always im itate his benign spir. t. One of Peter's arguments was to sever the ear n| Malchn- from his head, but Jesus healed it on again. Even the meek and amiable John wished to see a rain of fire descend, to consume one who was exorcising spirits outside the cliuich, or,til Jesus answered, that his mission was to save men s lives, not to destroy them. No sooner, how ever. do the ministers at the altar obtain secular power, than they forget the mild precepts ol the Christian taith. and exhibit the frailties ot an nnsanc titied humanity. Then do they tease to be "etisaro ples to the flock," but become "lords of the heri tage." The must repulsive and detestable of all des potisms is that which sets in judgment on the soul, and seeks to paralyze the exercise o. its faculties. Submission to its arbitrary mandates is an abdica tion of reason, and degrade.- man to tne level of a brute. The consolations of religion, or the virtuous philosophy of a Socrates, may enable hnman nature to tolerate manacles upon the limbs, but an unhallowed obtru sion ,rito the sanctuary ot the soul is an outrage sur pa-sing the capacity of human endurance. 1- the immoderate pursuit of abstract dogmas con futed to the political arena ? 1 wish it were. Can dour constrains me to affirm the contrary. True, there are here no convictions and executions for n poted heresies, no stake-burnings, no inquisitorial torturings, no decapitations on the scaffold, no incar cerations, no penal inflictions for infraction- of arbi trary orthodoxy, no Procrustes beds to stretch or shorten : but our religious periodicals teem with the tnost embittered sectarian .-trite, and not nrifrequent lv with the most envenomed personal assaults. De putations upon Christian truth, among and by Chris tians. -urely should be so conducted as lo subdue the turbulence of tire passions, control the waywardness of the w ill, elevate the affections, and purity the lieai!. Alas ! "1 heir conquests are olteti prosecuted by lursli invective, as if the mind could be moulded by constraint into any pattern of symbolical or tra ditional ort/mdoTff, as the potter shapes his clay. God himseii hath enkindled in man's inner temple the ••burning bush" of Kelson, to guide his footstep am! illumine bis soul. This 'heaven-lit flame the fe rociousness ot man would often fain quench. No: to politicians only, therefore, hut to Clergy and to Laity, does the Apostle ?ay : ";\t t your moderation I' Inoieu onto all men A' Oiie'of the evil consequences of over-wrought pnr tizanship is, that it super-induces a disqualification to judge accurately either .is to the effects of mea sures. or the merits o! the men, who are to represent and execute them. One of the reasons why the Pha risees would have nothing to do with Christ was, that lie was the son of a carpenter, and had been brought : tip at Nazareth. They foolishly asked whether it were possible for any good to emanate from thrrr ' I hey judged before they had heard, and condemned as soon as they judged. So the vine politician. He perceives everything that is good in his own party, or sect, and everything that is bad in those who diff er Irom him in opinion, whereas there are good men and bad. in all sects, and among all parties, and some i ruth, and some Error, mixed up with all. The dirty ol the Christian is to seize upon the Truth wherever lie < an find it, and fo do justice to a truly npright and good man, no matter w here he is from, even if be be the Son of it Carpenter' But to such an extreme of prepossession are party politicians often hurried, that to condemn a measure, or to denounce a man, it is only neces-ary for them to know that they belong to the party opposite to their own. And, under such influences, everything pertaining to the subject is viewed through a talse and distorted medium. The mind is not tree to investigate. It is already clog ged and trammeled by the fetters of prepossession.— And in no department of political activity nrp the pernicious con-eqnonces ot such a spirit more glar ingly palpable than in the tone and temper of the newspaper pres.. When the press is pure, free, /- r/,/I IIIJI.'!, and enlightened, it is the great moral en gine o.' the age, moulding and directing the opinions and activities ot the masses. Only a century and a hall has passed away sir.ee the introduction o i news papers. During many years their progress was slow and doubtful. in their infancy there was little to commend them to public regard. In the days of T'r.v xxt-tx, for example, a newspaper was a mere chronicle ot passing events, recording everything with equal gravity, whether trifling or important.— Then the newspapers pat forth no enlarged news, no interesting speculations, no elaborate discussions, po litical or statistical. But as they attained maturity, their character gradually changed, and they became, what they now are, the repositories ol all that is im portant in the progress ot human affairs, and of very | much, too, 1 tint is valuable, in science and literature. 1 The duration of the newspaper press is now beyond ! the reach, whether of fWnd or force. In a republic, the new-paper is the safeguard of freedom—in mon- > •.archies, it is a jealous aenftnel, prompt to di-cern and i tearless to announce upproaching danger. The news- ! paper is the speaking-leaf that describes all parts of ' creation—a true transcript of the world's face, d.ty ! by day mirrored forth—the knowledge of millions is- ; mied to millions—the thread of DAXHAJUIS, to guide • the world tiirough the labyrinth of Cunning—the 1 spear ot Itbnriel, to detect Error and Deceit. The ' Pulpit, the Legislature, the Executive, and the Jntfi- ' ciary, are all, under (tod, in some measure dependent t on the press, aud lean ti[*>nit for encouragement and j support. it teems with extracts from the ablest ; Critics, the soundest Lawyers, the most learned Phil osophers, the rrtost distinguished Statesmen. Tbe j newspaper copes every setr, and Traverses every lake. I It climbs the mountains, and lingers in the vallje*. — , It is the wish of Archimed"s realized—a fulcrum, i capable of moving tbe world, and a place to stand on. In the remark of one of the early Presidents there) was deep and cogent philosophy, that v/e could better get along with newspapers without a government, : thai) with a, government without newspapers.— AH thi, is unquestionably true or the newspaper, when free, pjire, patriotic, enliahteneci, ami indepen dent. But alas! how comparatively few journals, purely political, to lie classed in this catego ry. Kxceptions, of eourse, there are—journals which loom up like shafts of towering granite, from green and pestilential morasses. But the great mass of partiZan journals, on both sides, are they not the mere exponent * of faction, chained to the car of the selfish and auibitiou*. and following their lead as blindly as ever automaton re-ponded to the touches of the mas ter-rnover ! Is a measure projected by the party? ft is applauded in terms of exaggerated commenda tion. Is it proposed by the other side '/ It is vehe mently denounced. T'pon the weakest and most ig norant the grossest flattery is bestowed, and from the well deserving it is withheld. Immoderate attachment, by any sect or party, to their own dogmas and opinions, leads individuals of ten to the violation of law and order. if they can not attain their ends peaceably, thev resort to violence. The despotism of the mob i? often the re sult, than which no form of social disorganization is more calamitous. The decrees of the mob, like those of Draco, are recorded in characters of blood. They fall indiscriminately upon the innocent ami guilty Mob-law has not a solitary trait to lessen ils hideous nes.. Its order is frightful r/Zs-order. Anarchy ami ami madness stalk with triumphant tread in its train. A mobuoracy is a realized Briar. iD, with a thousand bands, each bearing a dagger—a realized Cerberus, gasping with a thousand throats, each panting for blood. Like a West Indian hurricane, it strews the fruitful earth with promiscuous ruins, and turns the sky yellow with pestilence. It is an earthquake, ti.ut loosens the foundations of society, and buries7 often in an hour, the accumulated wealth and wi-doin of qges. They who, alter the calamity, would re-con struct the edifice ot Public Liberty, would scarcely lie able to find the model, perhaps not even the ruins. If. therefore, we would avoid internal dissensions, discord, and civil war, let us. with the tenacity and firmness with which wc adhere to our opinions blend a becoming Christian moderation. But 1 have been sometimes a-ked, whether, in rny opinion, it he pos sible for a man to be a politician, and also a Chris tian ? This question I answer, unhesitatingly, in the affirmative. Why not ? Does the sacrifice of integ rity constitute a element ol political life / That were to utter a loul iibel against that which in ft*/ be pursued by some. In my lntercouse with public men, I have known many, who in their every public action I ban reason to believe were scrupulous ly and religiously upright. 1 know one public man, who has occupied many high offices in this country, who, from moral conviction, would not frank a let ter, when on private bu-iness, lest he wrong the post-ievenufc to the amount of iltrer or cents, and would not use a sheet ol letter-paper belonging tn the Government, lor the purpose of pritnte corres pondence. The declaration,"then, that every man in office, or a candidate for one, i- necessarily a rouge, is not warranted by fact. Cod-has his own every where, and not a lew among the politicians. When discovered, they cannot he too highly prized. Upon them, in the midst of disloyalty, God seems to have breathed a large portion of his spirit. They are the pillar-of file which brighten the darkness of the night, and to them, under (soil must we look lor an enlargement of the empire ol talent and of truth. What, then, would I have the \ ouiig Men, whom 1 have now the pleasure to addles-, do/ Never en cage in political affairs t all/ Nevei read a politi cal newspaper, nor |Kitticipate. in .my way, in the organization ol the government / By no means.— On the eontiary, I regard acquaintance with the po litical history of this country —the genius and spirit of her in-titutions—ibe lives and services of her he me- and state-men—as a most valuable attainment. Nor would 1 counsel the young man never to accept office. 1 lie otficesare created lor the common wel fare, and somebody nutxt fill them. It the lumest and competent do not, the dishonest and incompetent will. What 1 would, however, affectionately exhort every young man agairist. is the pursuit of politic* as a pio ie>-ion or tiade. This has pioved the ruin ot thous ands, conducing to habits ol indolence and dissipation, and hading, if not rounteiacted, to the pii-cn and the almshouse. The bait is attractive. Vigilance and prayer are required to resist the temptation. The desire ola name—the ambition to figure in the pub lie piints—oh! it turns the very heads, often, ol the young and undisciplined, leading them into a thou sand hurtful snares. I would not have yon then. Voting Men, prematurely affect a greatne--, whose delicate flame a ptiflol wind may extinguish. The knowledge ol our nothingness, and ol (rod's transcen dent glory; a sense of the vanity ol euith and of the nearne-s ot eternity, these aie coii-ddciatinn- well calculated, to feed u- to set a lesser Value upon the world's applause. The more glutted and surfeited we are with popular hosannahs. the less we prize thern. The surest and most plea-aut path to truth ami enduring glory, is to be just, kind, virtuous, up right. and sincere—to love and tear God, and obey the go-pel of God's son. Who hath greater fame in all the earth than Christ ? And yet lie never sought it. lie never courted popularity—on the contrary ever repelled it. When lie wrought a miracle, He did not blazon it tn the world, but His injunction tn His di-ripies always was: let/ Jl* man." How few tread tht.t path to glorv—the stern and lug-' ged path of duty—and yet it i- liie only true path i he rHf't politician tugs and toil-, abides and contra dicts, flatter- and lawn-, and -Trut- and -wears, to acquire a name—and yet, when hammered out to the utmost stretching dimensions, how tar does it reach/ Often, scarcely to ihe neighboring town, ten or a do zen miles di-tant. 1 •")>% Mm ' My concluding conns-! is seek f;r>t the Kingdom of God and its righteousness. Let the sanctification of vour spirits, and the salvation of your und\ mg souls, he your chief aim and ambition, making every other end tributary and subordinate to t.os. 11 yon engage iii state or municipal affairs at ail, do it with Conscience—in the love and tear of God—free from passion, prejudice, and excitement. In tine, so discharge your duty to the cif\ the state, the country, the church and your Maker, as neither to offend by criminal lukewarnuiess nor indiscreet zeal, and as tnat yorur nt orlf 111 tio a shrill br llt mm. ! c all MM. uy~ We publish in another column the advertise ment of I\ T. BARXI.W, R*q., who will exhibit his menagerie in Bedford on the sth of duly. We were as-ured by his agent that no rirr/ts or buffoonery of any description is admitted into this exhibition, and, under sucji circumstances, we have no hesitancy in giv ing it a place in our column*, a* the exhibition of the works ol creation can have no tendency to viti ate the inind of anybody. Slate (tulral (omniitltc. The Democratic Slate Central Committee, agreeably to previous announcement, met at Bueliler's Hotel, in Hnrrisburg, on Thursday, the 75th instant, and after a full and free inter change of sentiments, it was resolved that a more iflicient organization of the democratic party be effected, and that addresses he issued on the following subjects : Ist. The new position of the Whig paity and their allies. 2nd. The principles of non-intervention and popular sovereignty as settled by the Compro mise of lSfiO, and emhodii d in the Nebraska and Kansas bill. 3rd. Review of the measures of the present anil late State administrations. 4th. federalism and Whiggerv from the davs of Hamilton down to the present da v. Resolved, That the foregoing proceedings he published in the Democratic papers of this State. J. ELLIS BOM I AM, GEO. C. WELKKR, Chaiiman. Secretary. TtiHfPERAKfE iNEKTI.Vti. The intended Temperance Meeting to take place in Bedford on the fourth of July next, is postponed until furfher notice. PETER SCHELL, j JOHN SMITH, | 11. J. HENDERSON, Committee. GEO. W. BLYMIRE.J [E?™ The corner Stone of a Lutheran Church w ill I be laid on the land of Jacob Tetters, (of John,) on Saturday, the Ist day of July next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Several Ministers will be present. The public ate invited to a'Teud. BE ILTING COM MI3TI. E. June -3, ISSI. Male Central CooimiUre. The above committee met according to pre vious announcement on Thursday. The atten dance was as full as could have been anticipated. Their proceedings will be Ibnnd elsewhere in this paper. It will be seen that they have rais ed a jrrogramme for conducting the campaign, and that several addesses will be issued. There are a number of excellent writers on the com mittee, but we presume that the principal labor will as heretofore, devolve upon the chair man. J. ELMS BONHAM, Esq., of Carlisle, who lias the honor of that position, and the Demo cratic party may confidently expect that the duties will we ably and satisfactorily discharged. Mr. BONIIAM is a young gentleman, possessing a high order of intellect, of indomitable energy, and genuine Democracy. We look with con siderable anxiety tor the first address which will shortly appear.— Harriahursr Patriot. Dangers of Native Americanism. Hubert T. Conrad, the newly elected Whig Mayor of Philadelphia, in his late inaugural ad dress, declared that he was determined to ap point no naturalized or adopted citizen to any place of trust. This declaration will be receiv ed with a feeling of sorrow and disgust by all candid and just minds in America. Such pro scription is a v iolation of the spirit of the Con stitution of the United States, which knows no difference between the native and the adopted citizen, and which extends to all the advanta ges of a common freedom. The word "citizen" is robbed ol half is meaning, it those who have complied with all the conditions which entitle them to wear it, are to be proscribed and per secuted on the locality of their birth. The constitution which prescribes the conditions of citizenship, knows no such tule, and any party which attempts to enforce such a rule, tramples the right- of an American citizen under ils leet. They outrage one of the most sacred principles of American freedom. So far as the principle is concerned, the au thoriiies of Philadelphia or New York, may as well proscribe a man for being born in New Orleans, as to proscribe him for being bom in Germany or Ireland. The principle which would ostracise ;t man for being born in Ire land or Germany, if tinned fully out, would prove destructive of the general rights of every American citizen, lor it would reduce citizen ship to tiie narrow limits ol special and acciden tal localities. Indeed, the principle of what is called Native Americanism, carried fully out, would leave no such thing as American citizen ship in existence; hut we should have only Philadelphia citizenship, New York citizenship, ect., and a war of sections, races and localities, would spring up, which would mince our hap py and prosperous countty to a hell of strife and outrage. But we need not go so far as to discuss the results of such a principle, for it is crushed in its very inception by that sacred chapter of hu man rights, the Constitution. And lie is the worst foe to our counti v's freedom, whether he is born in New York, in Dublin,or in Amster dam, who would seek to violate that sacred prin ciple embraced in the meaning of "citizenship." The war which an un-American bigotry wages upon our adopted citizens, is as unnatural to our country as it is unjust to human rights.- Jt is a crime that the Irishman or the German was not born in this country ? If so manv of them have done the beat they could to atone for it by get ting here as soon after birth as possible. They have borne their part of our national work, and contributed Iheit share to our national wealth. They have constructed our railroads and made fruitful our western lands. They have contrib uted their full shares to our treasuies of art and learning, and to whatever elevates and advances our civilization. Banish everv adopted citizen from our country, and w hat profession is there w hat department of art, science, learning, or lalwrr, which would not feel the shock ? Cur colleges, our studies, our counting-rooms, our woik shops, and our public works, all would realize an instant shock which would cover with amazement and shame the bigots who are trying to make capital and a living out of a crusade again.-t adopted citizens. It is aston ishing to what a pitch of excitement this shal low fury has risen. We almost wonder that the "Native Americans" do not blast Plymouth rock to pieces with gunpowder, and banish the hones of the Pilgrims and the Knickerbockers Irorn the soil ot our country. We marvel that Robert T. Conrad should not tear the pictuie of William Penn from the wall oftheoid State House in Philadelphia, and pull every monument which reminds "Native Americans" of the beneficence ofGirard. Pull down, and tear up everything not produced by hands indigenous to the soil. Such an undertak ing would impart an enterprising and business air to the streets of Philadelphia. And Robert T. Conrad is just rash enough fir that sort of undertaking. "Native Americans" could not fiossihlv have a better representative of their principles. Rash, tirey, ambitious, without judgment, and without any particular restraints of conscience, he is the very embodiment of that principle which would violate the rights of American citizenship, fora momentary triumph of his party. It is at least comforting to be lieve that not possibly can the "old country" send us more mischievous and dangerous citi zens than these. It our institutions suffer no evil from such restless and unprincipled spirits, we need apprehend no danger from any other course.— *\~aitonal Democrat. O**Bayard Taylor relates the follow amusing anecdote in bis own experience in Arabia. While in Arabia I bad a very remarkable experience. There is a drug in the East whose effect is like that of opium; it is prepared from tlie Indian hemp. It is much used by the Sar acen warriors when about to enter a battle, as a stimulus. It produces on the imagination a double consciousness; one part of the mind seems of study while the other looks on. From mo lives of curiosity, I was persuaded to try the effects of it on my own system. I was in Da mascus at the time. Soon after taking the drug, the effects of it bagan to appear. I saw the furniture in the room, talked with the com pany, and yet I seemed to be near the pv ram ids of Cheops, w hose blocks ol stone appeared to me like huge squares of Virginia tobacco. The scene changed, and I was on the desert in a boat made ol mother of pearl. The sand seemed grains of lustrous gold, though my boat ran as easily as on the waves of the sea, the air seem ed hlh d with harmonies of the sweetest music; the atmosphere was filled with light, with odors of music. Before me seemed to be a con stant series of arcades of rainbows, through which for fifteen years, I seemed to glide. The finer senses were developed, and all gratifica tion was a single harmonious sensation. Hence we cannot conceive the origin of the Arabian Nights. My companion, a huge Kentuckian, tried the drug with an amusing effect. After lookitigyal trie for a while, lie Parted Hp wtlaj the exclamation,''l'm a locomotive," antibegan to cut off his word* like the puff oi an engine, and to work like the moving of the wheels. At ; last he siezed the water jog for a drink, but it down with a yell, saying, "how can I fake in water into my boiler when J am letting' off st-mt h, arrived in New ork, scarcely able fo speak a word of English, and proceed directly to Wi/ccmsiti, 111 company with an acquaintance, to visit a broth er residing there. Having finished her visit, she started back, with her friend who under stood the language well. On the way, in the confusion incident to hastily changing cars, she missed her friend. On she came, however.— Not only was she unable to speak a sentence of English, but she without a cent of money. — j The conductor came lor her fare; she shook her head, and—possibly on account of her good looks—he let her pass. Mm had too much pride to beckon for food, and so she continued on without any. Three days and three nights she i went without a mouthful to eat. She became sick at her stomach, and could not retain 011 it the cold water which she drank. She describes* the sensation of hunger, which becomes power fully intensified, as "gnaw ing" and horrible in the extreme. At the end of three days she ar rived in New York. She was taken suddenly sick, and la)' 011 her bed for two months.—.V. ! Y. Post. . ...... ... \V AIKC I)I:I.YKI\O. — Prof. Siliiman, in a re cent Smithsonian lecture at Washington, , the following sensible advice to young men, j which all should read, remember, and adopt ; "If, therefore, you wish Jura clear mind, strong j muscles, and quiet nerves, and long life and j power prolonged into old age, permit me to say, i although 1 am not giving a temperance lecture,! avoid all drinks not water, and mild infusions ! of that fluid ; shun tobacco and opium, and eve- ry thing else that disturbs the normal state of the system : rrly upon nutritious iiiod ami mild diluent drinks, of which water i- the basis, and you will)need nothing beyond tluse things ex cept rest and due moral regulation ot all vonr powers, to give you long, happy, and useful lives, and a serene evening at the close." A lady in Boston was recently bitfen on the hahd by a favorite cat. The hand became inflamed, the affection finally extending to the whole body, so that a doctor was sei.t tor. who immediately proceeded to apply partial reme dies securing partial ease. The case is not ex actly hydrophobia, but the whole system is poisoned by tin* bite. StNGTLAt: Case.—About eighteen months since, Ida, a little girl of about 4 years old, daughter of Mr. M. Taylor, residing in Sarato ga, near Pearl street, complained very much of a sharp pain in the lower part of the lelt groin, and u|M)orexamination a protrusion of the flesh was ; discovered as if rupture had occurred. Dr. Ri ley, one of the most expeiienced physicians, at j tended the case, and ordered a truss, the pressure iof which the child could not b-ar. Soon after on I lie right side of the abdomen, a hard lump was detected, inhumation ensued, and a tuinur was manifest. The usual remedies was applied for a long time, but the child grew worse, and a | great rigidity of the system supervened, and ; there seemed to be no probable relief but in death. Supposition, however, was in pro cess, and the tumor was finally lanced, when ' a considerable discbarge Temporary relief was experienced, but the child presently j grew worse, complaining of comethiug sticking i Iter. About two weeks since,bring very fretful, | Mrs. Taylor carefully examined the open j wound, and perceiving something that looked j like a foreign substance in the core of the tumor, ; she managed to g. t hold of it, and to hei uttr amazement drew out a large pin, very much corroded. Dr. Riley at once pronounced this the sole cause of the 'disease, and it so turns out, r | an impromptu and unwittingly uttered pun, this 1 is one of the best on record. | Capt. Grainger writes from Fort Merrill, that within a week past the Indians have done more damage than in the three years previous. The Brazos river was veiy high. At Hous ton it was three miles wide, and great damage to crops was anticipated. The steamer Florida has I Trough t back to Sa vannah the fugitive slave, who had escaped in the Charleston steamer Nashville, and was transferred at sea to the Florida. An annecdote is told of a young lady of Har risburg, who was on a riding excursion recent ly. The horse commenced kicking, when she in the most simple manner requested her com panion to get out and hold the horse's leg or he might injure the vehicle ! A BIG RATTLESNAKE. —On the 14th ult., Mr. Geo. VV. Bowman, on his larm in Bullitt county, Kv., killed a rattlesnake six feet four inches long and 13 inches around the hotly, with twenty-one rallies. It is believed that this was the largest and oldest rattlesnake ever seen in the Western country. DISTRKSSISI; Aecinesr On Monday cveningTat, while a servant girt named Mary Johnson, living in the family of A. P. Hope, Esq., was engaged at sewing bvn kitchen table she accidentally overturn ed a burning fluid lamp into her lap. In an instant tier clothes were all on fire, when she rushed into the street, the flames striking above her head. Mrs. Hope happened to up stairs at the time and as soon as she ascertained the cause ol the disturbance below, she followed the girl with a blanker and with much presence of mind threw it around her and smothered the flames; but by this time the poor girl was so horribly burned hat she died the following Tuesday morning.— Kant an Argtitt. A F CAR Kyi. WALTZ.— A correspondent of the Lon don Times, in giving an account of the bombardment of Odessa, says : "When within about 2000 yards, each steamer delivered the fire of her enomous gun-, then wheeled round in a circle of about hall" a mile in diameter, each taking up the fire in succession Thus they kept wheeling and twisting about like so many waltzers. One of the English steamers was set on fire by the red hot shot from the fortress, but the fire was got under without much damage. The; dock yard which was set on fire burnt for two days and nights, and a vast amount of naval stores must have been destroyed. During the fight a geat loss of life." IB A IS II I S-; || ; j In Sd.Pllsburg. on tin; nth in*t., by the Ke v w i kopp, Mr. WJI. ROCK to Miss Si.s.w iV M>n , j <>n the 6t!l inst., by D. B. VVisegarver, ESQ M J SAM.IKI, BLACKBI/BV to Miss MARV Mll.uVall" u f !' l.iair I ownship. Bedford.County. CONSUMPTION AND SPITTING BLOOD K I the certificate of Mr. Turner If. Ramsey forV "" years proprieior of ihe Farmers' Hotel. Frederick j burg. Va.. and late of the City Hotel. Richmond \l Dr. John A.inge, of ths City of Richmond, thoJ,' a regular physician, and of course opposed to called quack medicines, was obliged to say that r" BW*I effect* in the case ol Mr. Ramsey, were u, ! * derful indeerf. Wo "- He had been given up by several physicians- |, j tried most of the quack livcdicihes, and was on I'. 1 verge of despair, as well as the grave, w hen he trie! Carter's Spanish Mixture. We-refer the public to his full and lengthy ceru cate around the liottle, stating his cure. See advertisement. THERE ARK FEW things which afford US GREATER plea-ur'e rliaii sitting down to write a notice "ol celebrated ILootliinl German l'ifters, because w> ar tully con-cious we are conferring a public benetif and our heart tells us that by our notices manv hav," been induced to take these Bitters, and been re. Horn death by Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, A,-. . j the cure of which it is certain. It is prepared'and ; sold only by Dr. C. M. Jackson, at the German M.- # icine Store, No. 120 Arch street, Philadelphia. THE LI SGS. —TIIP lungs are the- mos? liable 0 f a ! i the organs of the human body to take disease, e..,..! cially in the winter, owing to the rold and variaLl state of the weather, which causes obstruction-; the skin ; the humours are driven in upon the inter nal organs, hence coughing and shooting pains in the . breast are experienced. To any afflicted in this win , we would in the way of salutary svlvit-e say, buy |) r ' j Keys-er's Pectoral syrup, 'lake it according to di rections, and you will get well. lO r=> v\ e are authorized to announce the name of IICGH MOORE, ESQ., as a eandi j date for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the I Democratic County Convention, i June 23, 1554-. 5 A DESIRABLE TOWN PROPERTY IFoa* siale. The subscriber, anxious to go we-?, offers, at Pn vate Sale, the valuable Town Property on wiucli lie at present resides, in Scbellsburg fforowgh. There are two Lots, (one of which i- a corner to!.) <>G feet front by 2io feet deep, on which there t , erected a two story Crick Dwelling House, tb fi-er front and 2 (fleet back, with Crick back building, ... by 10 feet, with double back porrb, all nearly new. Also, a two story Frame Carriage Shop, AS [, v j(, feet, with Smith Shop adjoining, 3-> by fO feet. an.i Carriage and Lumber House, 10 by 30 feet, anexr< !- 1 nut new or nearly new Stable, and other out bu ; . irig- thereon erected. 'i'he location i- in the most desirable part of t Tow n, and one well -uited for the Carriage Manufac turing business, or the same may be changed to suit the Foundry or any other Mechanical pur-nit. The shop- are sufficiently large- to woik 10 or 12 hand. t 0 advantage. Being near the Allegheny, the best of Lumber ran be had cheap—and coal can be got to great advan tage. Any person wishing to purchase property ami start the Carriage Manufacturing liti-iHc--. will do well to call on the subscriber, as be is determined ti> sell he can. For terms, (Xc., enquire either of the stib-eriber in Schellsburg, or Jno. P. Reed, Esq., Bedford. Pa. G. U . JICNT. June 23, ISGI. E 9 f(l>isc SaSc. Bv virtue of an order of the Orphans* (jpurt,' the undersigned will offer, at public sale, oh the premises, nn THURSDAY, 27tn day of Julv m xt, the follow ing described real estate, viz : A tract of laud situate in Colerain Town ship, containing one hundred and fifty acres and 120 perches, adjoining lands of Fred. Menclt, A kins' heirs, Jno. Harcleroad, and otheis. Terms made known on day of sale, and sale to commence at ten o'clock. A. M. JOHN CESSNA. Jhlm r of the Estate of Jacob, Divc/jf, deceased. June 23, IS.H—4t. Pstl>S:c Shlc. By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court, the undersigned will offbr. at Public sale, on the [.remises, on FRIDA\, the 2Sth Ju!v. ne\t, the interest of John Moser, minor son of Philip Moser, deceased, being the one undivid ed seventh part of the following described Real estate, subject fo the Widow .Moser'.- douvr, viz : A Tract of Land situate in Harrison Township, containing about one hundred and thirty acres, about one ha if of which is cleared, with a Log House, Barn, Tannery, &.C., thereon erected, adjoining lands of Samuel .M. Barclay's heirs, Juo. E. Miller, Abraham Miller, and others. JOHN MF.TZGEK, Guardian of John,Montr. June 23, ISs4—4t. PI'BLIC SALE. By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court, the undersigned will offer, at public >a!e, on the premises, on FRIDAY, the 2Sih