morality and crime. There is natural truth
enough in this proposition, to carry conviction
to the minds of the most skeptical, and it can
safely be treated as an axiom, the eliect of
this potent agency, is to ilevelope the intellect,
to elevate the moral faculties, to raise man a
bove the animal creation, and fashion him alter
his Maker. lam aware that I can be pointed
to instances of the perpetration of the greatest
crimes by persons ot education. But exceptions
to a general rule rather strengthen than weaken
it# force. Besides, there may be intellect with
out conscience, and when 1 speak ot education
in this connection, I have reference to thejjuai
ities of the heart, as well as I hose ot the head.
1 certainly cannot be mistaken in the belief that,
were society to take entire charge and control
of the destitute and vagrant youth that are found
in our cities and larger towns, and to send them
to school, the effect would be to lessen materi
ally the aggregate of juvenile delinquency. Hut
we are not left to theory and speculation alone
to maintain t jxisition. There are stubborn
facts in the Injury of the past, which may be
relied upon as.evifence of its truth. The New
York Prison dSßriation for the year 18.)0, say
that examination into the causes of crime, leads
them to this result , that neglected education is
the prolific cause of most of the crime amongst
its. Of 7'12 convicts at Auburn, hi7 were nev
"T- instructed in any tiade or calling: .771 were
intemperate ; 488 had received no moral instruc
tion, and 512 had never read the Bible, or at
tended Divine worship. ,
The Secretary ot the Stale of Massachusetts
reports th£ whole number ol committals to Pri
sons and Hkuses of Correction, tor the year
1857, at 17,927, nf whom about one-half could
neither read nor write.
The limy. Win. D. Kelley, in an address
delivered at the opening of the th r branch of
this institution, in 1849, presented statistics de
monstrating that a large proportion of the con
victs in the Criminal Courts,;and of the delin
quents assigned to the House of Refuge, were
very deficient in the rudiments ot an education.
In Great Britain, in 1849, in a report exhi
biting the degree of education, amongst the
criminals of that year, it is stated that out ol
41,989 offenders, 31,740 were males, and 10,-
849 were females. Of the former, 8,484 could
read and write, 3,000 could read only, and 12,-
151 could neither read nor write, and of the
remaining 9,878, no information could be ob
tained. Of the females, 975 could nad and
write, 1,500 could read, and 5,877 were total
ly ignorant.
The Minister of Justice in France, in his an
nua! report of 1849, says; That out of the
whole uumhr then in the Department of the
Seine, 3,355 could neither read nor write, and
328 were to some degree persons of education.
A comparison of the condition of Spain with
that of England, indicates most clearly the al
liance between ignorance and crime. The peo
ple of the latter escape the scourge of crime, in
about the ratio that they stand in advance of
the former in the work ol education.
The statistics of Scotland and Ireland, furnish
unmistakable evidence to sustain tlie saine \ iew.
And in the criminal statistics of France, as
compared with Prussia, the same striking fact is
observed—the latter possessing the highest de
gree of education, and exhibiting the smallest
per centage of crime. The same condition ol
things exists in other parts ol Europe, but no
where is tlie fact more apparant than in a com
parison between Hie criminal statistics of Great
Britain and those of'the United States, deduct
ing from the latter the convicts who are not
citizens ot the country,
The natural proclivity ol ignorance and sup
erstition to vice and crime is abundantly evinc
ed in other and less civilized parts of the world:
and in their history the fact is attested, that a hi -
frighted intellect and distorted moral perceptions
are found the fruitful sources oi cruelty and crime.
The hi story ol'Tartary, Hindoostan, Benin, and
other petty states of Africa: of New Zealand and
the Sandwich Islands, and the Islands of Ihe
Soul it Pacific, prior to tin ir moral transformation,
is replete with testimony to sustain the position.
The destruction of infants, the drowning of aged
parents, the ottering of human beings in sacri
fice, the barl>aroils tortures inflicted on the van
quished in battle, are the fearful consequences of
moral obliquity and human depravitv. It is to
ignorance, and its natural offspring superstition,
that the vices and barbarities of the ancient pa
gan world are to be rnainlv attributed. And if
we turn our eves to the actuai state of society
around us, we shall find the same causes operat
ing. Who are most frequently engaged in
brawling and debauchery ? In,the commission
of theft arUTother petty offences ? In rioting,
turbulence, ami disorder ? Are they not, lor
the most part, the rude, the ignorant, the untu
tored—those whose moral instruction has been
sadly neglected, by their parents and guardians,
and whose wayward inclinations have led them
to turn a deaf ear to the voice of wisdom and
truth ?-
But it is scarcely necessary to pursue this
idea further. Enough has been presented 1 >
show the transcendent importance of general
education to any people. I hold it -as amongst
the highest duties ol government to provide lor
the education of the people, and especially for
the poor and helpless "who have a claim lourid
e<! in nature." Nowhere is this obligation more
sacred or imperative, than in a government like
ours, whose very iouodatiora rest upon popular
will, and whose stability and efficiency depend
upon the virtue and intelligence of the people.
True political economy not less than moral ob
ligation indicates this dutv. A distinguished
philanthropist of Europe said : "It were wise to
give pence to infant sciiooh, and thereby save
pounds in the expenses ot jails, bridewells, tread
mills, transportations, and executions." "An
ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,"
is a saving as true ot social and moral as of phy
sical diseases. A wise economist has said :
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will
take care ot tlu'ins'lves;" and it may as truly
be said, let government take care of the young,
a:;d when the young become ol ! they will take
care of the government. This will be placing
the axe at the root of the evil.
in conclusion, let us dedicate this magnifi
cent structure, so complete in all its arrange
ments and spacious in its departments, to the
great work of mercy and justice, for which it
r>as bryn reared, it is the natural result of that
euiarg.-J item rosily and comprehensive hem-va
lence, vviiich has at limes -o distirtijuishfd the
people of Philadelphia. In its object and intent
—-in it s ilf'VfMlilfl to tile good of ethers, v\v have
an apt ilia .'.ration of the humane aad beuevo!. Nt
piincipi sot the illustrious 1 under of your great
city, wii. se goodness an<i genius s - ins stumped
and impressed up on every page of y our his* ;rv.
J:i its practical workings, lam confident it will
Teflect the real beauties of our republican and so
cial system of governim nt. it will he aRu i i;v:
in the true sense of the term. A home, a achool,
a guardian ana mam tor the parartless and
destitute, who may sin, from the force of their
unhappy condition. A master and rod ot cor
rection for (lie wayward, the vicious and re
fractory. Within its spacious apartments let
all such he gathered, not to be punished and
disgraced as criminals, and then returned to
their old associations to repeat their offences;
but to be cured if possible nf moral pollution: to
be instructed in the rudiments of education; in
lessons of virtue and truth: to be trained to ha
bits of industry and obedience; to be made
"wiser and better," ami thenceforth to go abroad
into the world, shielded by the benign princi
ples thus imbibed, and taking their positions in
society as useful and honorable members, bear
ing willing and emphatic testimony to the mer
its of this chai ity.
What a gigantic, work ! It were enough to
startle the most sanguine, and yet I am free fo
predict for the Refuge, a brilliant triumph in tiie
accomplishment of the task.
It was tlie proud boast of the Romans that,
"whilst the coliseum stands, Rome shall stand."
The thought was vain, for "Time's effacing fin
ger" ever points to the fallacy of human ex
pectations. The humbled piideand departed
-grandeur of the once mistress of the world
ate a fitting commentary upon worldly am
bition. But in the benign principles of your
institution you have the grounds of a rational,
a far more religious belief, that, long after the
proud structure vou have erected shall have
crumbled to dust, the results of its practical and
genuine benevolence will remain your most fit
ting monument, and, through all coming time,
exercise a healthy influence upon the peace
and welfare ol your beloved city and common
wealth.
NOTE FROM THE ROM MITT RE ON i'i.'iif.l
-CATION.
THE CO;.: MITTEC ox run Prnr.ic.vTiox or GOVE::-
NO t: BK.I.KJLS A ill' R ESS avail theinVelves ol the oppor
tunity afionied by its general iliUr.bution, through- j
out the various counties ot'the State, to call the at- |
tention of their fellow-citizen-, to the recent change
in the law, relative to the mode of committing sub
jects to the House of Refuse. The law, a- amend, d.
provides that "the Managers of the House of Relume
shall receive under their care and guardianship, in
fants under the age ol twenty-one rears, committed i
to their custody lv two J :i.lies, the President Judge
being one, of the f'onit of Common Pleas of any
County in the Eastern Di.-t-ict of Pennsylvania
(which said District shall embrace all the counties
oi'the Commonwealth, from which infants canuot lie
sent to the 'House of Refuge id Western Pennsylva
nia, 7 ) except the County of Philadelphia, in which
said infant resides or may be found, on complaint j
and due proof made to them by the parent, guardian, !
or next friend of such infant, that such infant is im- j
manageable, and beyond the control of the complain
ant, and that the future wellare of said infant re-;
quires that such infant should he placed under the j
care and guardianship of tb > said Manager* of the
House of Refuge : or when said complaint and due
proof shall be made by the prosecuting officer of the
County, that said infant is unmanageable, or a va
grant, and has no parent or guardian capable and
willing to restrain, manage, and take proper care of :
such infant."
And it further provides that "the said Judges shall ;
carefully examine the complaint made to them in the j
pre.-ence ol the complainant and infant complained j
of, and for the purpose of bringing the parties and ,
witnesses before tliern, shall be fully adtiiorizeil to j
use such process of trie Court as may be necessary ; I
and where the said Judges shall adjudge an infant to
be a proper subject lor the care and guardianship of
the said Managers of the House oflleluge. they shall,
in addition to their adjudication, transmit to the said
Managers the testimony taken before them, on which
their adjudication was founded, and the said testimo
ny shall be taken under oath or affirmation of the
witnesses, and in the presence of the party complain
ed ot."
f>v the above-named change in the law, it will be
perceived that the opporiumty is now afforded for
tiye commitment of subjects without a trial by jury,
from any county of our State from which infants cannot
he sent to tlie 'House ol Refuge of Western Pennsylva
nia,' at Pittsburg. Heretofore, this right of commit
ment without a trial has been confined to Philadel
phia County, and consequently a large prnortion of
the inmates have been received from ibis county.
Rut it is confidently believed by the committee, that
in future a large number of subjects will annually be
received from other sertions of the State, and hence
they deem it of great importance that the nature ol
the institution, anil its proper sphere of operation,
should be generally known throughout the State :
ami for the purpose of disseminating correct informa
tion on the-;- topics, they here present a few very
brief remarks in relation thereto.
The House of Refuge is a Manual Libnn ■ Jlrfonn
designed for the reformation of juvenile de
linquents ; it is tint a prison for the punishment of of
fenders ; hence, the earlier in his career of delinquen
cy, ami the younger in years, that a subject is com
mitted to the institution, the more effective is its dis
ciplinary training likely to be.
Ami, to avoid vexatious mistakes, the committee
would further state that the institution is nut de
signed for an nssyhun for the irnbeci e or the maim
ed, nor for a hospital for tic weak ami sickly, nor
yet to supplant the almshouse : but sun ply /or t/'tc re
l'or,,ml ton nf /ttv> niit 'lt'l in ''it'll /*.
L-"The Baltimore. Pulriof, Whig, thus
comments on the disbanding of the Whig par
ty :
Whatever of ancient sympathy we may have
im! with the gallant Northern Whigs wfnretuod
by Web ster and Fillmore w hen they stood by
the Union and the rights of the South, we can
feel little regret at parting with a taction w hose
leadeis are mercenary, and whose masses mad.
II that faction would rather see the fugitive ne
gro protected than the manufacturer: if it likes
i better the friendship of Garrison atul Frederick
Douglas than that of J. P. Benjamin, or Alex
ander Stephens, or Meredith P. Gentry; it it
prefers a naked and supererogatory decree ex
cluding the South from territory which she
I never expected to occupy, to a cordial iuler
i change ol products and a liberal cession o! corn
j mercial advantages; if it would swap the sister
States of the South for nionatchiai Canada—for
Canada, whose population was driven front the
Republican colonies because they would not de
fend their liberties—who still repeat the tradi
tions of confiscation an exile! who sneer at our
institutions and laud with obsequious loyalty
those which they have derived from the crown.
! If the Northern Whigs prefer an alliance with
those who quitted their Southern homes to lay
on Boston Heights confronting a powerful foe
j without the aiiiUuition to have repulsed him—
j who endured the trials of Valley Forge—who
met the confident foe at Monmouth, and crossed
the wintry Delaware to strike a blow for free
dom when she almost despaired of existence—
who hied with tlie men of Massachusetts in the
trenches of Yorktown, ami saw the humbled
battalion of the haughty invaders pile their
w-apons at their feet. If the Northern Whig:
are willing as they have professed, to ex< ban. e
American hvmeri lor British subjects, and ii
j publican Whigs lor r [legacies, fanatics, and fu
j gitive slaves we cannot under such circutn
; stances nhoid our approval. N il-respect—
j the protection oi our fireside demands it. and. it
Is lii -lie.
7 IVE are cuthoriZril to announce MJJ. S ai t:l.
11. i ati , <>( tins borough, as a ramliihite for I'ro
thonat-.ry subject to the decision ol the Democratic
County Convention.
U-. WE are authorized to announce WJI. M. HALL,
E e.. o! Bedford, ... a candidate for the Legislature,
subject to the decision of the Democratic District
Conference.
Tills BEDFORD GAZETTE,
IKdiord, July £l, ls.il,
G. W. Bowmaiij Editor and Proprietor.
Eemooratic State Ticket.
GOVERNOR:
HON. WILLIAM BIGLER.
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT:
HON. JEREMIAH S. BLACK.
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
COL. HENRY S. MOTT.
GbT** We invite attention to the advertisement at"
Messrs. PARSER and LAIRD which will be found in tbe
pioper column.
CC7" Among the arrivals at the Springs during the
hist few days, we are pleased to oleerve Gen. H. I>.
FOSTER, T. J. BARCLAY, Esq., 11. P. LAIRD, Esq.,
and Dr. S. P. BROWN, of Westmoreland— GEO. P. !
HAMII.ION, Esq.. ot Pittsburg, and Col. CHAHUERS
MCKIRHEN, of the Merchant's Hotel, Philadelphia.:
The place is rapidly filling up, and the season bids j
lair to be a good one.
Cy The Democratic State Central Committee
have published their first address, and, as was to be ;
expected, it is a musft'iiy production. We will lay
it befere our readers 111 the Gazette of next week,
and invite for it a careful perusal. We presume it is
from the pen of ti.e talented chairman, Mr. DUNHAM.
Editors i:i To v. it.
DY SENARY LIUDKR, Esq., formerly of this PLACO,*
and at present Editor of the Hanover Spectator, in j
York County, has been spending a few days at the \
Bedford Springs—also, J A VIES 11. iv.xs.nj, Esq. Edi- i
tor of the Fulton Democrat.
TKAFKRAJVCK ADDRESS.
C.R The Rev. Jon:. CHAMBERS, of Philadelphia,
delivered an Address on Temperance in tbe Pic-s'hy
terian Church, in this place, on last Tuesday eve
ning, which was listened to with marked attention
and interest.
We have heard a great many Temperance speech- j
es, but we never heaid any 11 un who handled this ;
subject as well as the Ui:v. gentleman alluded to,
and we regret that he could not have been heard by ;
every man and woman in the county. Whilst his'
style is clear, easy, forcible, and eloquent, his lan-j
giuge is moderate, chaste, and convincing ; and, un- j
like most tempeiuncc Lecturers, he gives c'aaractrr
to the cause he so ardently es; ruses by the amis<inn
ol all vulgar phrases and dish-water anecdotes. He
portrays the general•*vils of intemperance, without
making those low personal allusions which so often
render temperance meeting, a men fa/re, and he L
evidently opposed to hanging the cause of Temperance :
to the slirlr of lite political parlies uj' the 'lay, as some :
indiscreet men are trying to do. He wants it to stand
upon its own merits. In the course of his add re-s, ;
the liev. gentleman took occasion to say, incidental
ly, in alluding to the "Know* Nothing"' order which
has recently ,-prung into existence, thai lie desired j
to have no association or co ion with this "SE
CRET SWORN COMBUfATION," a sentiment'
which will find a hearty re-pSfi-e in the bosom of
every correct ir.ind in tbe Common wealth, whether
Democrat or Whig.
One of the great misfortunes of the age is*, that too :
many "Ki.ow Nothings" have undertaken to tinier
the Temperance cause, and hence it is not an unusual
thing to see speakers addressing empty benches, and ,
pas-ing resolutions by the same kind of dumih voters,!
as T*l VI.K* SENTIMENT! Jf the people were satisjiul
that gentlemen of the ability and can .'or of Dr. |
CHAM HERS would address them, when Temperance
meetings are called, all classes and conditions of
mankind would throng the place, and iisten with re
spectful attention.
OOV. Sialics*'* A<!dress.
OH/ 7 We have read with great pleasure and
with profit the Address delivered by Gov. Rm-
LUK at tlm opening for the reception ol inmates
of the new Department of the House of Refuge
for Juvenile Delinquents, n: Philadelphia, which
we lay before our readers, entire, this week.—
We invite for it an attentive perusal. It is
alike creditable to the- mind and the heart of the
author.
Of the many vast changes physical, social,
and moral, which the last half century has un
folded, hv no means the least ] tent in its bear
ings on the temporal and eternal welfare of man
kind, has been the tearing down to a very* great
extent at least, of tbe sanguinary and vindictive
criminal codes of the eighteenth century—codes
which consigned men to Dot any Ray or Cay
enne for tiie larceny of a'pocket handkerchief,
and lunched them into eternity for the theft of
a sheep—codes which crowded, promiscuously,
offenders of every grade, offenders, sometimes,
whose only* sins were imprudence and folly, ol
fenders, oftentimes, whom misery and want
had driven into crime, into dark, damp, narrow,
loathsome dungeons, in idleness and tilth, in
sickness of body and of soul, unheeded, un cared
for, except by brutal jailors, as cruel, as blood
thirsty, as the codes of which they Were the
ministers.
However the speculative writers of the last
century may have recognized the principle that
the real object of punishment is the prevention
of crime, and not the torturing of the prisoner,
it was ieit for the nineteenth century, and quote
particularly for the American Republic of the
nineteenth century, to manifest a (nil, living,
realization of that truth. And. in the van
ic
guard of this Reform has marched, and yet mar-
I cites, PENNSYLVANIA.
The alleviation of human misery and the ■re
formation of the criminal is an object worthy
ot the good and the wist . The de\ ising a prison
discipline involving the least possible amount of
unnecessary suffering and misery is worthy the
Philanthropist and the Statesman, and mode!
Prisons de.seive us much the attention ( ,p (J,,v
tiiimer.ts as model Constitutions, mutlei Laws,
or model Farms.
| "It La noble spectacle," says Gov. Riglcr,
i "to si • a nation or a city tfovoUd p> the |*efor
i mation and moral welfare of man." .it is an
| equally ptoud and phasing spectacle to see the
j Governor of our great State finding time amid
| the cart's and tie turmoils of office, to prepare
a:: Address so profoundly philosophical, and aid
ing, by his high encouragement and approval,
the nohle philanthropy of the citizens of the
world-renowned philanthropic QIMKEU CITV.
"Definition of Know Nothings."
tL7**li) 1811, Judge COSBAB, the present Wilis: AND
Nothing" Mayor of tie* City of Philadelphia,
denounced ALL MEN t n(*rtimng /A. vino* of the
present Atuthing' 3 order as
it \Z7~ MtSUUKSS, HF.ABTX-rsS, TIIROELJESS I.KI'SOK
ACCIDENTAI. lIuMAMTY, DKSTW'VTK OF ( IIUISTIAN
I'RINCH't.E AXI) SOT WORTHV OF BEISU RECOOMZKO
AS f.-OOD .HEX." _/Tl
Can it be wssible that any Farmer, Mechanic, or
who lias heretofore honestly voted
with the Whig Party, will he found willing to iden
tify himself with a faction like this, simply because
Mr. POI.UIOK, the Whig candidate for Governor, has
become initialed as a member of the order ? Kvery
principle of self-respect and regard for morality for
bid it—and we have no doubt that thousands of con
scientious men who have regularly voted the Whig
ticket will now enrol themselves among the war- ,
most advocates of Democracy.
Whenever a man presents himself as a "Know
Nothing" let him read his portrait above delineated
by Judge Cqnfad !
/C7"Tlie Connecticut House of Representatives
(Whig and Abolition) recently passed a resolution by
a vote of 110 to "i'-i to amend tbe State Constitution
so us to'allow NEGROES to vote 011 the same terms
as white men—also, an amendment to prohibit any
person ifrom voting who cannot read. The same
body elected a rank Abolitionist to the United States
! Senate! j
l> .
Resolutions . Ido pled at the Celebration on the
4-th insi., in■ Philadelphia.
Re-olved, That wn re-affirm our adherence to the
principles sanctioned and announced by Hit* National
Democratic Convention, at Baltimore. rn l k ?J; that
we approve and will uphold the principles which
have guided the policy ot Franklin Pierce, in whom
and whose administration we have entire and abid
ing confidence.
Resolved, That the people of every State and Ter
ritory, in this country, have the soul ai d sovereign
right to regulate their own domestic institutions, and
that the attempt by the people of other States and
Territories, or by their representatives iri Congress,
to hind them, in any ease whatever, is an usurpation
of man's inalienable right of self-government, and
should be resisted; that the principles of non-inter
vention and local self-government, emb< lied in what
are known as the Compromise measures of lb-70, and
applied by the late act lor the organization of Ne
braska and Kansas, deserve and shall receive our
cordial and united support.
WitKKF.As, among the h \vs on which Pennsylva
nia was founded, it was enacted, "That al! persons
living in the province, who confess and acknowledge
the one almighty and eternal God to be the Creator,
Upholder, and Rtiier ol the World, and that hold them
selves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and
justly in civil society, shall in no ways he molested
or prejudiced for th"ir religious persuasion or prac
tice, in matters of faith and worship ; " and by the
Rill of Rights of thi State.it is declared that "No;
person who acknowledges the being of a find, and a
future state 0! rewards and punishments, shall, 011
account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to
hold anyg office or place of trust or prolil under the
Commonwealth," therefore,
Resolved, That the principles established by the
founder of the late province, and which the people ol
this State have solemnly declared shall fores er re
main inviolate, are essentia! to the security of civil
and religious liberty, that they have fostered peace,
charity, and good will among men, and that the ends
of civil society and religion itself have been prornot- !
ed and cherished by their just observance.
Resolved, That secret political associations, or
ganized and .combined with a view to cover with
public reproach, and to punish with the hiss of en I
privileges, any portion of our feMow-cilizen = who
worship Gotl according to the dictates ol their ceii
sciences.aru subversive to these, the foundations o!
all true liberty ; that they spring from a -ource for
eign to the soil of this state ai d of this Union ; that
they are alien to the practic and to the hitherto un- i
questioned policy of American citizens; that they
differ Irom the Inquisition only in the character arid
extent of their penalties; and that we will re-i-t the
action of the one as we would the introduction ot the
other.
Resolved, That the Democratic party never mndo
and will never countenance anv appeal to natuml
l/d citizens, </. xitch ; that as, Washington said, "all
ate citizens, by birth or choice, oi a common coun
try, that country has a right to concentrate all their
affections ; " ai.d we hold, with Jeffr-on, that "eve
ry citizen has an equal right to the honor and confi
dence of their fellow-citizens, resulting not Iron:
bi:th, but from his action and tin i • sense of them."
Ue.-olved, That we re'-affirrrt our determination to
maintain the system ol common schools which this
Common wealth has established and should continue
to support at the common expense, and lor the Iree
and equal education of all.
Resolved, That the repeated vindication rind con
stant support of these measures hy William Biglrr, .
and ho; wise ar.d watchful care of the interests o! the
people of this State, and the uniformly just course of
his administration, entitle him to the continued con
fidence and support of his fellow-citizens; and we
cordially recognize him as the candidate for our par
ty. and, in order to secure his election, will, in per
fect confidence of Triumphant success, combine in
his support those efioits which, when the Ih-mocra-!
cy are faithful to themselves, have never failed.
Look al the bright tiifle.
Awav with long faces ! What is the use oflook
ing as if you l ad a season ticket for a funeral? Caret
you find any better name for tins world than "a vaie
of tears," and "scene of tribulation ?" If you can't,
it will do you good to read a letter which a friend
has just furnished us. It is from a wife in Massachu
setts to her husband in California. She doesn't in
tend to go through the world with an air as if
"Molded drums were heating.
Funeral marches to the grave."
Here is the letter:—
"My Hear Husband : —As it is some time since
you left us for California, I suppose you would be
glad to hear how we are getting along in your ab
sence. !am happy to say that we are all enjoying
very good health on the whole, .lust at present two
of the boys have got the small poXj_ Amanda Jane
has got the typhus fever, Betsey is down with the
measles, Samuel got hooked by the cow the other
day, and little l'eter has just chopped oil seven of his
lingers with the hatchet. a great mercy fhat iie
didn't chop them all off. With these trilling excep
tions, we are all well, and getting along nicely.—
100 needn't heat all anxious about us.
"1 almost forgot to say that Sniah -Matilda eloped
last Week with a tin-pedlar. Poor girl! she's been
waiting for the last ten years for a chance, and I am
glad she's got married at last. She needn't have
taken the trouble to elope though. She was a great
eater; and I find the baked beans don't go oil near so
last now as they did. Tlie way that girl would dip
into tin- pork and beans was a caution to the rest ol
the family.
"The cow look it into her head yesterday to run
away, which was very fortunate, I'm sure, lor the
barn caught tire aftd was consumed. [was in hopes 1
that the homo would go too, for it's very inconven
ient", hut the wind was the wrong way, so it didn't
receive much injury.
"Some hoys broke into the orchard the other day,
and stripped all the fruit trees. lam glad of it, for
if they hadn't, I presume the children would have
made themselves sick by enting too much.
"Hoping that yop enjoy yourself in California as
well a, we do at home, i remain your affectionate
wife."
. (;'()E. I t i.RI:.- His Excellency, Gov. NK;-
Li:ii, arrived Tit town on Eriday last, says the
Clearfield lit publican, where his lamily lias
been sojourning for some weeks, and where he
purposes '.spending a few days of relaxation
dniotig his former neighbors and friends. The
Governor is in good health and spirits—and if
we were to judge from the warm and heartv
greetings with which lie is welcomed hy our
citizens t f all parties, we should guess that he
retains quite as much " character " as he possess
ed some thirteen years ago, when there was but
a single vote-polled against him in the county
for the State Senate.
Further Foreign .VVYV-;.
Wfl gave in the J'.uunjtvmiiaii yesterday, a very
fall telegraphic synopsis ot the foreign news, hy the
Asia, ut New York. We have since received our
Ides of iuretgn paper?, and give the following addi
tional items of interest :
The Arnica delta Famigliii of l'arrna, publi-lic# a
letter, written from New York, hy a man named
('arra, formerly in the service of the late Duke of
Farina. The writer states that he assassinated the
Duke in revenge for having been eatted hy his orders,
and on another orcadon struck in the lace hy the
Duke himself. The details given by the writer leav
ing no doubt as to the truth of his statement, the
government.has set at liberty the three persons who
wete in prison on suspicion to being the authors of
the crime. On the .-atne subject, a dispatch from
I'm is of date 30th, -ays: "A public functionary of
I'outremoli, w hose deposition could cast some light
upon the assassination of the Duke Parma has been
mortally wounded by the blow of a stiletto."
lit the treaty with Austria, it is added that Aus
tria will not enter intc any arrangement with the
Court of Russia which shall not proceed on the u--
sumption of the sovereign right of the Sultan untl the
integrity of his empire. Austria will evacuate the
Principalities on the conclusion of the peace with the
least possible delay.
it was known a! Jeriin that it was resolved at St.
Petersburg to give a negative an-wer to the Austro-
Prtis.ing summons, but in such a war as to nmke
negotiations possible on a different basis, namely
Rn-.iu would continue to occupy 7.1 ti Ida via. The
Sereth which foirns the front, ar betw ecu 'the i'lin
cipulites, would he guarded, and immediately after
the entry of the Austrian? into Wallachia, I lie* Tur
kish detached corps would leave Lesser Wallachia.
The London 77/r correspondent at \ leiu.u states
on the .'iUtlt ult. that liaion MeyeiidorfTreccTved his
letters of recall on that morning, but it wu- not be
lieved that diplomat •• relation- with !fos-:u will lr
hVoken otf. Count Coronnn is To enter Little Walla
chia bv way ol Uisova, with about :}U s W)'d men, on
July dd.- < r
It is stated in a despatch fovn C>":-tai:t'.n.i;.!,> of
the .'l'lth tilt, that llie cpibark.ition ol !;• ci) tre q>-
for Varna continues. The Duke of Oanhr.dge bad
arrived between \ arna and Shiintla, where the En
glish forces are estimated at twenty thousand ami
the French at forty thousand.
The Journal of Constantinople, wh '-t c .afirming
the -uecess of the'l'mks at fsdi-tra, states that three
thousand bu iii-Dazotii.-. who had taken a Rns.-.an
outpo-t, liad been attacked hy a Uos-iau force triple
their number, and that after a de-priatc struggle fil
teen hundred of them were killed. The lius.-ians
lot one thou-and four htindr,<l.
On the 2l)th and titd of June the Turkish vanguard
of twenty-live thousand men attacked the Russian
rear guard, and drove it beyond Tianurs Wall.
The Czar had Set out on his way to the South.—
After a short stay at Kaievv, tt is said that he will
proceed to the Ciirneu to .aspect the forties es on the
Black Sea.
A letter from Shuriila states that the aux liary
troops, in concert with the allied fleet, and under the
personal command of Marsha! St. Arnand, are cer
tainly to undertake an exped'tion against the Crimea.
Two hundred transports are being prepared, in con
sequence, at Varna and at Halt-chirk.
!t i- slated :II a Vienna latter of tiie 2.7 th tilt., in
tin* l'ast A nipt Gazette, that orders hail been sent off
by telegraph to Triesto that at! the -Au-trinii vessels
of v.ar leaily to put to sea -honlrf leave lor Die East,
am! the frigate Venus hail sailed at once.
The i raitsvlvan'uti Messenger states from Cron
stadt. near Moldavia, tha* the Russians officers com
manding ihe detachment stationed along tti • frontiers
of that province, have received orders to transmit to
headquarters all the information they can glean re
specting the* movements of the Austrian troops. The
posts of ('o--aks have been withdrawn from the fron
tier. and concentrated at Romania.
The total force of tiie active army will amount in
a fortnight to :>UO,OO©, reselling on a line Irom the
frontiers ol Uulmatia to those of the Dukovina.
The retrograde movement of the Russian army
appears to be no longer doubtful. It is only the char
acter of their ietreat which remains a mystery.
They write from Bucharest that the evacuation of
Wallachia and its capita!, will take place on thegOtti
or 27th at late r. By superior order, the archives,
the public money, the VValtachian militia and func
tionaries are to lollirw the movement, which thus
appear- to lose its political character, and to assume
that ola purely strategical combination.
Although tiie fact of the positive raising of the
siege of Fili-tria is not known, yet we have learnt,
that the works l ave been interrupted since the action
of the l"th. ara! every military man agrees in con
sulering a prolonged occupation of the right bank of
the Danube, as impossible in the face ol the oii'.'iisive
lovcment expected from day to day of the army at
Oilier Pacha ami the auxiliary troops. Already sev
eral letters announced that the Russians have aban
doned the Dobrudseha. We shall soon learn that
the whole army is falling hack towards the line ol
the Sereth and the Prnth.
'i'lie Convention concluded on the ! !?h of June with
the Ottoman Porte, insures and regulate-the freedom
of the movements of Austria for th** occupation ol the
Principalities, but the Cabinet of Vienna will only
take its final re-olutipns upon this sniped after re
ceiving the reply of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to
its last summons.
Colonel Manteulfel was only expected to arrive at
St. Petersburg on the liilhor "2D:h. Nothing will be
done beiore tin* delivery of the Prussian Note, and
the reply oi theftTTiperor Nicholas wilt not be known
at Vienna until the commencement of July.
SABCA7H SCHCCL. ANNIVERSARY.
How pleasing it is to behold the smiling faces and
the innocent enjoyment ol Sabbath School Scholars
on the annu el mi y day ! Indeed, parents, teachers
and children are then all happy together.
1 wn.~ invited to attend the celebration of the Ger
man Reformed Sabbath School ol Schellshurg on last
Saturday. I was delighted; a happier little band 1
never saw. The School formed in pioo-ssion at the
Cl.uich and proceeded thence 10 Judge SchelPs laige
and beautilul grove east ot the town. Alter singing
and prayer, an address was delivered by the Rev. H.
Heckerumii on the "Missiun of Sabbath Schools."
After the address, a feast o I good tilings was seived
up. ll wa- a least, indeed. The table was well
loaded with the choicest cakes and the richest delica
cies. Much praise is uue the ladies of the School lor
their taste displayed m getting up the entertainment.
Alter Wasting sumptuously and enjoying themselves
delightfully, ihe paily concluded its entertainment
with a masterly ptrloi rr.unce of several delightful
pieces ol vocal irin-ie, conducted by Mr. George J.
RUCK, favorably kuowu AS A master of music.
AM u; US.
"GOD BLESS YOU .MY LITTLE FELLOW ?"
A iri|>i>lcd ffi'ggar, in a large city, was striving
to pick up some old clothes tout iiad been
thrown liuu irom a window, when a crowd of
rude boys gathered about him, mimickttnr his
awkward movements, ami Looting at his help
lessness and rags. Presently a noble little iei
low came op, and pushing through tiie crowd,
helped tile pour crippled man to pick up his
gills', and pfaced them in a bundle. 1 ben slip
ping a piece ol silver into his hand, he was
running away, when a voice lar übov- iiuu
said, "Little i>oy Willi a straw hat look up."
He did so; ami a lady, leaning Irom an upper
vv iudow, said earnestly, '-God bless You, u.v
little fellow—God will bless you lor "that."—
The lady was the wife ot a man so distinguished
among tne great men ol tins world, that every
one ot these boys would have been proud to ob
tain her approbation, and when she wrote down
his name, as one she wished to remember, he
lelt more than paid lor all that he had done.—
As lie walked along, he thought how glad he
had made his own heart by doing good. He
thought of l lie poor beggar's gratelul look; then
of the lady's smile, and her words of approval,
atid last, but better than all, he could hear his
Heavenly Father whispering, "Blessed are the
merciful lor they shall obtain mercy."
Little reader, w hen you have an opportunity
to do good, and feel tempted to- neglect it, re
member "the little boy with the straw hat."
SUPPOSED TRACES or ARRISO.N.—We learn
ed from a gentleman just arrived from Chicago
that a person, answering in many respects the
description of Arrison, the supposed murderer
of Mr. anil Mrs. Allison, was arrested in jj (a
place on Monday night la?'., hut from s ,
cause or other not explained he was allowed i„
depart.
• l ite person arrr'sted had arrived on the even
ing train, when the\cars were immediately
hoarded h_v tiie officer* of that city. He
noticed to take a hack Instead of an omnihil.-, ; ,' s
tile rest of the passengers did, to drive to th,.
Rock island depot. Tim officer suspecting bin,
called the driver and jumped into the hack'
making some excuse lor tiie intrusion.
At tiie depot the suspected person was ih
formed tiiat iie must be searched, which lie <zent
ly submitted to, but tdniing [tale as death and
acting very strangely- The train was wait in.-
and the officer, irhagining perhaps that he had
tiie wrong man, allowed him to depart.
On the following morning some officers from
( iticinnnti arrived at Chicago, and more minute
description of An ison being given, the ofScer
who made (be arrest seemed to be satisfied that
he had hands on the right man.
Our police are now on his track, and if he
was the person, they will be sure to capture
him.— Cincinnati Commercial.
Good Advice.
Those who imagine they see a split in the
Democratic party, should keep their lingers out
of the crack, or they will he very apt to
caught, as tite five Indians did, who had lak*-n
a while man prisoner. He promised logo with
them peaceably if'they would hr.-t help him
split a log he was driving a wedge into. Thev
all clapped their tinge::, into the crack and
pulle:! each way, when the white man knocked
the wi ige out and "had them all."
A few disappointed officer-seekers are tryine
to drive aw - Ige into the Democratic party, and
split if. If our Whig friends can find a per
cepti'de crack yet, we advise them to ber.au
tiotts about putting their fingers into it. Th"
wedge will soon be knocked out. The Demo
cratic party is too tough and well seasoned to
be split: and those who try to do it will net
succeed. It is the party of the people, and of
the constitution, and it must not be destroyed.—
Pitts. Post.
From the Bermuda Advertiser, July ■!.
FrightJul Ravages of Cholera in Barbados—
Over Two Thousand Deaths.
On Thuisday last the schooner PiiOMiix, Capt.
Natnauiel Duiiscoiube, arrived irojn Barbados,
in lb days, at which place the cholera was lear
luiiy raging: up to tiie 13th ult. the mortality of
deaths were loUto 200 per day, in Bridgetown
alone, and the malady was still on the increase.
Wlieu the Phceiiix left, there was no abate
ment: the plague was almost entirely confined
to the lower classes and to the intemperate,
which it seldom tailed to carry oil; but with
those living temperately, and in regular moral
habits, vi hen prompt applications were used,
the disease was generally arrested and the pa
tients recovered.
In one day the deaths numbered "214, and by
the IMb ult., the aggregate as well as could be
ascertained were 2.107. The editor of the
Barbadian , Mr. Chnkett, has fallen by the des
troyer: one ot the editors of the Liberal and the
editor of the Globe have bulii been attacked.—
Out of one bundled and fifty prisoners in bridg
town only thirteen have escaped. The prison
doors were thrown open and the prisoners set
free.
SINGULAR SUICIDE. —Mary Davis, a young
woman who has for some time been living with
the family of Rev .Dr. Babcock, died at 4 o'clock
on Thursday morning, from the effects oi poison
taken the day before. We learn from Dr. Blake,
lier attending physician, that on Wednesday
morning she purchased half an ounce of Corrus
stve Sublimate at the store of Dr. Brooks (a
quantity sufficient to kilt fifty persuns) of which
she took 172 grains. The usual remedies were
\ resorted to, but li'iled to reliwr- the unfortunate
victim. She committed tiie rash act in conse
quence of a disturbance which originated in her
1 marriage, last Sunday, to a young man to whom
her friends were opjwsed— Co.'ioes Cataract.
\ She was an Irish Protestant and the young man
a Catholic, which was the cause of the di.-tur
! bunco—her relatives severely upbraiding iter
lor marrying a Catholic.— Troy Budget.
i Loss OF OVER SEVEN HINDI;EM LIVES.—The
Peruvian transport Mercedes* bound fromCasinu
to Caliae, with about eight hundred troops un
: board, struck upon a rock mar the mouth ot
< asina harbor, on the morning of the Ist ult.—
| The Mercedes was accompanied by the Govern
ment steamer Rimie, the officers of which ten
dered every possible assistance, but without ef
fect. The Mercedes went down soon alter she
struck, carrying with her seven hundred and
i thirty-one persons.
1 ,
: SAD Occur.HENCE.—On Monday, a most fiis
! tressing accident took place in St. Louis, Mo.:
A little girl, al/out ten years of age, fell into a
! well, while getting a drink. A nmn, named
Mopp, saw the child fall, and went to her assis
tance, but having descended into the well and
I caught the child he became suddenly sick and
was unable to hold en to the rope, overcome,
i probably, by the tool air, and both man and
| child were drow ned before .assistance could be
rendered.
(LT-TIIR SUPREME COURT of Pennsylvania
! has decreed that a bid made for prepeitv wi. cii
is selling at sheriff's sale, may be withdrawn :.t
I any time before the property is knocked t! wu
i to the bidder, notwithstanding the notice ot-if'
• may have declared that "no person shall retiact
: ins or her bid."' They require the bidder bov.'-
i ever, to pay the legal costs of a second sab .
, should the retraction of his bid render one ne
| cessary.
FRANK list BIOIBKC*
Chesnut Street, between Third and Fourth.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2lsf.
OLIVER H. P. PARKER, of* Ohio, and JAMES
11. LAIUD, of this city, having leased the above
i well known and popular house, for a term oi
| years, are now prepared to accomodate guests in
| a manner equal to any house in the City.
The location of this House is superior to any
1 other, being in immediate proximity to business
: also to most of the Banks, Public Offices, P'
| Office and the Exchange, where oniibuss<-s
start for all parts of the City.
! The house having hern put in thorough m
| pair, and new furniture added, with many mod"
: eru improvements, will add much to the con:-
i fort of guests. The tables will at all times be
i supplied witfMhe best the market affords, and
i nothing shall he wanting, on our part, to nia* 1 '
the FRANKLIN truly the Travelers' Home.
Your patronage is most respectfully solicited.
PARKER & LAIRD.
July 21, ISSI.