THE BEDFORD GAZETTE. ISeclfbi*e upon the facts then known to the worid, whe ther the Rns-ians were aoont to concentrate Their forces in Moldavia, or to retire altogether, as the Mnniteur as-erted, behind the Pruth. We have no reason to suppose that this intelligence was erroneous or these inferences incorrect; hut it is evident either that fresh orders hav subsequently arrived from St. Petersburg, or that different measures have been a dopted since I'rince Paskiewitsch lias laid down Ins command. Possibly the conclusion of the treaty of the Hth of June, between Austria and the Porte, may have led to more active measures. Certain it is, however, that the evacuation of Wallachia lias not gone on as was expected, while the Turks have as sumed the offensive on the left bank of the river. FTP*Final Adjournment of Congress. — Moth Houses of Congress have resolved to finally ad journ on Friday next, the 4th of August, and unless the resolution is re-considered and the time altered, there remain but tour days of the present ses.-ion. The appropriation lulls wiLL no doubt, pass within the time agreed upon, and the Homestead and Graduation Land Hill, as returned to the House from the Senate, may possibly be reached and passed. The Texas Debt bill will probably go over. The Canadi an reciprocity treaty is yet under consideration. The proposition to place ten million dollars in the hands of the President, nominally to main lain the honor and interests of the nation in the Spanish trouble, remains to be acted on. Alto gether we expect an unusually lively time at the capital during the next four days. MYSTERIOUS.—The Mount Joy Herald says, that on Saturday, Juiy Ist, between Higbspire and Harrisburg, the engineer upon one of the locomotives beheld something lying on the track. He stopped the engine within a few yards of the object, when what was his astonish ment and that ol the passengers to behold a pair of black haired, beautiful little twins—a girl and a boy, neatly dressed—and asleep. How they came there is a mystery. To.suppose they were put there to be destroyed is revolting, in human. A gentleman on the cars became in terested in the pretty children, and took them home with him to raise them. The Nebraska Question. For many years past few journal* have been more popular with the Whig party, particular ly of the Northern States, than the Louisville Journal. The bitter but often witty flings of PRENTICE at Democratic men and measures, have at one time or another found a place in the columns of perhaps every Whig paper in the land, and been eagerly cjuofed and endorsed by the rank and tile of that party. At the out set of the Nebraska agitation, the Journal op posed the new hill mainly on the ground of the danger of its renew ing a bitter sectional strife, hut it now bitterly denounces the absurd pro ject of repealing it, and concludes an article on this subject with the following unanswerable argument in favor of the hill itself, which the old admirers of the Journal's sayings will do well to ponder on : "And, after al!f the main principal of the Nebraska hill is certainly in itself right. We do not see how any man of good sense, who ex amines the subject, can come to any other con clusion. We can see no reason why the gen eral government should say that the people living on onp side ol the parallel of latitude shall have the privilege of deciding for them selves whether thev will have a certain insti tution or not, but that the people on the other side ol the parallel shall not have that privilege. Such a discrimination appears to us to have no foundation in justice, reason, or common sense. We cannot but regard it as odious and wrong. Give to the people of all territories the pow er to choose their own institutions, or give it to none. We should almost suppose that the nor thern people would have too much sectional pride to be willing even to submit to the dis crimination which they advocate. How can northern folks reconcile it to their feelings that northern folks should'nt have the same privi lege ol self-government as southern folks—that persons living north of thirty-six thirty, should be denied powers freely exercised by all persons south of thirty-six thirty ? When before was it known that the people of any portion of the country contended zealously for a ileniul of their own section of powers, privileges and rights, belonging to other sections? Will our northern friends do us the favor to bestow a thought or two, and a word or two upon this view of the stthjecl." Whom they would Proscribe. It is understood that by the tenets of the "Know-Nothing" associations their mrrpbers are sworn not only to proscribe all foreign born citizens, but all catholics, wherever they may have been born. Now, there are thousands and thousands of people in this country, of the cath olic religion, who were born upon the soii, hun dreds of whose forefathers fought in the revolu tion, and who, many of them, were themselves soldiers in the last war with (Jrat Britain and in the Mexican war—American hv birth and patriots by impulse. All these "Know-Noth ingism" would proscribe, disfranchise, ostracise, together with nil adopted citizens, no matter what their religion ! What a monstrous, anti-christian, anti- Amer ican organization must this be. No wonder its members make their connection with it a pro found secret. No wonder their meetings and all their proceedings are shrouded in darkness. Democratic Union. Ilorribfe Murder of a Wife by her Hus band. The neighborhood of Alhermare street and Eastern avenue was thrown into consternation, about ten o'clock on Sunday night, in conse quence of cries of inurder proceeding from the house of Henry. Weighorst, located in the cor ner of these thoroughfares. As soon as the cry was made, in an instant the room from which the cry proceeded was lighted up, and it was supposed by those outside that the house was securely fastened, and several persons then started for axes, that it might be broken in. At this juncture of the affair, the door was opened by Weighorst, and a woman enveloped in flames rushed into the street. She threw her self into the gutter, but there being hut little water it did not quench the fire. Several fe males who were near by, attracted by h> j r cries, went to her assistance, and af.er a time suc ceeded in tearing oti'her clothing, hut her hands, face and body was burned in the ruo-t horrible manner. Her body from her hips to her ghoul deis, head, arms and hands were perfectly skin ned by the action of the fire. It appears that a short time before the occur rence ol this tragic scene, Weighorst, in compa ny with Mr. John Wells, entered his house and ordered his wife to bring out some brandy. Not moving as briskly as he desired her, he com menced a tirade of abuse, in which he accused her of inconstancy. Stung by such a charge against her in the* presence of a comparative stranger, she retorted, when her husband seized hold of the burning lamp, containing nearly a half pint of atherial oil, and threw it at her head. The lamp broke and the cloth ing of the unfortunate woman being satura ted with the liquid, she was in an instant wrapped in flames. She was taken into a house opposite, physicians called, and in a short time Drs. Kimmemon, Handy and McWilliams ap peared and did all they could to alleviate the sufferings of the wretched woman. Jt was found that a portion of one breast was entirely destroyed, and the whole body completely crisp ed. Air. Wells, in attempting to put out the fire on the clothing of the woman was seriously burned on the hands and arms. She charged her husband with the offence, whereupon he was arrested and Justice Dor man summoned to take her declaration, as it was supposed she would expire in a short time. She declared that on the previous night her husband threat ened to take her life, and on that occasion thiew several glass bottles and a heavy iron weight at her head. Upon the testimony of the wife Weighorst was taken to the middle district watch house and thence to the jail to await the result of the tragedy he began. He has for several years been engaged in the grocery busi ness, has accumulated an independence and was very much respected by those who knew him. So popular was he with his own countrymen that a short time since a new German military company was organized, of which he had been chosen the commander. Mrs. YVeighorst died at five o'clock yester day afternoon, after nineteen hours of the most intense agony. She stated before her death she did not desire to live, as her husband had treat ed her very harshly for two or three years, and though she made repeated propositions for sep aration, he never would consent to it. She is represented by her neighbors to have been a very thrifty and industrious woman, and has frequently had the whole control of the business o( her husband. Coroner Goldsmith held an inquest upon the body, when the jury returned a verdict tljat she "came to In r death in conse quence of being burned with oil contained in a lamp thrown at her by her husband.''—< li'iltimore men tun. h Ktilf in Sht't'p's l Some four weeks ago there arrived in this city, and engaged apartments at Barnum's Ho tel, a young and unprotected female, who call ed herself Elizabeth Busbnell, arrayed in the peculiar costume of the Shaker community of i\ew Lebanon, \. V. Whatever lu r personal attractions may have been, we must leave to conjecture: if she was not "passing fair," she was believed to be so, though, of course, the most exquisite personal charms ate somewhat marred b\ the eccentricities of Shaker "habits of whatever sort. It was enough, however, to engage the sympathies of the excellent host, Mr. McLoughlin, that an unprotected female was in his house, and appealing to him for di rection in a trying emergency. She had recent ly escaped from the community above named; had evaded designs upon a large piQperty to which, in a short time, at her majority, she was to come in jxjssessiori. She had an uncle in the community who would spare no efforts to discover her wherea bouts, but she had also a lover in Shakerdom, who would himself, in a short time elude the vigilence of his brother celibates, escape the bondage of his tribe, and fly upon the wings of love to her and matrimonial delights. Till then the hopeful maiden resolved to wear her Shaker dress, and it is quite probable our citi zens may have seen the quickfooted Elizabeth upon our streets, or in one of McClintock is. Ea ton's very best coaches, paying her visits upon the little preliminary business anticipative of the nuptial hour. Upon her arrival, she con fided to the host a package of money, which she desired to be salely kept until her depar ture. In the meantime, she had provided herself with a number of dresses of the choicest materi al and style; she has been quite a favorite with the iadies ot the house, and, in the enjoyment of their confidence, freely given to one so peculi arly situated, site had familiar access to their apartments. In the name ui one lady she pur chased a gold chain, and presented it to the housekeeper as an appendage to a gold watch which the housekeeper already possessed. As an aid to the management of tier aflairs, legal advice was called in, and Mr. S. Taggert had the honor of waiting on the lady as her solici tor, her choice, no doubt, being partially influ enced in this case hv her good taste. Suffice it, that for four weeks the Shaker lady has been a feature at BarnumV. has distributed her favots quite freely in the community; has patronized the best establishments, and of course vindicated her gentility by invariably taking the air in McClmtock's and Eaton's handsomest coaches. Tim most interesting ieature of the whole affair however, was reserved lot bfkt Sat urday, on which day the fugitive swain from \.■ w Lebanon was to arrive, the queer toggery of Shakerdom was to be put off forever, the bridal robes were to he put on, and the happy pair, the nuptial benediction said, were to be in augurated into the fulness of those joys s > cruel ly interdicted by the anchoretical community from which thev had escaped. The eve of the important day had come, tieO weather was in tensely hot, and the lady quietly left the house for a stroll. She never came hack. The de nouement is with the reader. Perhaps it may aid conjecture to say, that the Shaker swain had not arrived, that the bridal feast to which all the guests of the house w ere invited has proved the vanity of all sublunary hopes. The packa ges of money securely deposited in the private safe, has been opened, and that also has serious ly impaired the faith of the excellent hirst in external evidences ol things not seen. Sundry garments, after the fashion of this world, have come to the house since the departure of Eliza beth, but they have returned to the hands of tho ; e whose dexterity shaped them "to order." (W- of the unkindest cuts consists in the- fact that before she let I she borrowed the* housekeep er's watch, and that gold chain she had presen ted to her, in the name and at the expense of a lady in I lie house, and forgot to return either the watch or the chain' in the precipitancy of her retreat. It is hardly necessary to say that the police in varions quarters are put upon the qui rive. respecting the lady's whereabouts: and it is to he hoped, fbr the relief of that general sympathy with so adroit an adventurer, that success may attend their efforts.— Bui. Sun. DISTRESSING AFFAIR.— On last Monday aftpr ternoon, a young ladv, aged about 18, daughter of Mr. John M. Wehi>, of Norfolk, was killed by a hall from a pistol tired by a Mr. Howe, a relation ofthe young lady. The . Yorfolfc .Irifus gives the following particulars of the melancho ly occurrence : Miss \V. was on a visit to the family of Mr. Brown, on Washington Point, and at the time mentioned a Mr. Howe took a pistol with two barrels, only one of which, as he erroneously supposed, was loaded. This he fired in the yard. Then putting on percus sion caps, he returned to the house, in which were Miss W. and others, and pointing the pis tol at some of those present, pulled the trigger and discharged several caps without doing harm; but on pointing it towards the lady men tioned, one ol the barrels was .discharged, lodg ing a ball in her neck, inflicting a terrible wound just above the collar bone, on (lie left side, and she fell to the floor, bleeding most pro fusely, and died in a few hours after. BY LIGHTNING. —We learn that dur ing the thunder-storm of Wednesday afternoon, a house near Tonawanda was struck bv light ning, and four of the inmates, a mother and three daughters, were killed. The information came to us through a gentleman who obtained it of a German, and was unable to give us the names of the sufferers or any further details.— Buffalo Democracy. BUFFALO, July 29.—A despatch has been received in this city, from a reliable source, an •nouncing the death of ex-President Fillmore's brother Charles, who died yesterday, at St. Paul, Minnesota, suddenly—supposed of chole ra. We are authorized to announce Maj. Sajickl 11. Tate, of this Borough, as a candidate for Pro thonatory subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention. Kp" We are authorized to announce Wji. M. Hall, Esq., of Bedford. a< a candidate for the Legislature, snbject to the decision of the Democratic District Conference. C7" Wp are authorized to announce JOHN S. RICHEY, ESQ., of Bedford Township, as u candi date for Commissioner, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention. Aug. 4, 1554.* MARRIKJ): On the 2d inst., by the Rev. Win. K.,p r , m Hk.XKV STKf'l-KMAxj to .MISS ALALI.Na S' both of Harrison township. Sheriff's SalTiC"" By virtue of sundry Writs of Fi. Fa. fr, directed, there will be sold, at the court ho-" in the Borough of Bedford, on Monday th' v' day of September, 1854-, at 2 o'clock, P. A] ' '' following real Estate, viz : One tract of land containing 216 acrej or less, about 150 cleared and under'fence"* * a two story frame house, one two story house, two tenant houses, grist mill, saw V? double log ham, and one frame stable t| )( . r erected—als > an apple orchard thereon, a,ij ing lands of Thomas Wisegarver, Micha'el sy" and others— • ,l s > Also, one tract of ridge land containing o, acres, more or less, adjoining lands of George V Wisegarver, Michael Moses, and others; a|| J." uafe m St. Clair township, Bedford cow.'," and taken in execution as the propelly 0 j i '' Herr and John VV. Beeler.* Also, all defendant, Henry Dells interest . being the one tenth part in a tract of land y • taining 29i acres more or less. about 100 a. cleared and under fence, with a two story . house and double log harn thereon errctH •" joining lands of Jacob Fickes' heirs, Ahr. " Shaffer, and others, situate in Union towns Bedford County, and taken in execution i property of Henry Dell. Also, one lot of ground situate in Stonerstmvn fronting on 55th street, thence along an ail,, 44i E. 380 feet, thence by lands of Abby 1> UU ' ? 170 feet | thence by lot of Henrv Stonerook 2'2'j feet, thence along 55th street 78 feet to P. place of heginmg, all chared and under fr B(> situate in Liberty township, Bedford County' and taken in execution as the property of Ja c Kensinger. Also, one tract of lancf containing 90 scrv* more or less, about fifty acres cleared and un der fence, with a two story brick house, on tenant house, sawmill, one other house f'rn,e;- Iv used as an oil mill, and double log ban thereon erected—also a good apple- orchar: thereon—adjoining lands of S. Crissman, San . Sills, and others, situate partly in St. Clair a;, partly in Union townships, Bedford county— Also, one tract of land situate on the \y tJ side of Dunnings' mountain, containing J!J acres, more or less, adjoining lands of situate in Union township, Bedford county— Also, one otiier tract of Mountain land con taining 200 acres, more or less, with a smaii house thereon -reeled—adjoining lands of Con rad Claycomh, Samuel Si ils and others, situv partly in Union and partly in St. Clair town ships, Bedford county, and taken in execu'i.a as the popert v of Michael Shimer. Also, one Lot of ground situate in St. CL> ville wi'h a two story frame ta\ern house, tan? Store house, ice house, Cooper shop, and Inge;,, hie thereon erected, adjoining lot ut Jacob \Ya ter on the north and alley on the south. Also, one other lot of ground situate on the south side of St. Clairsville, containingß} acr-s. more or less, all cleared and under fence. joining lands of John R. Sowers, Joseph Cit her, and others. Also, one tract of Mountain land c nta • 111 acres, more or less, adjoining lands of J Honstine, David Fetters, and otheis. ail >.;■ • in St. Clair township, Bedford county, at;: i t in execution as the property o! Daniel IV Lehman. Also, one tract of land containing lOSac-, more or less, about 31) acres cleared and ut fence, with a two story log house and ri.a log barn thereon erected—alsoan apple thereon, adjoining lands of Solomon Di> hi.' Bowser, and others, situate in ( oh-rain tm\ Bedford county, and taken in execution a property of Samuel Earnest. JOHN ALSIP, SAcrif. Sheriirs Office, } August 4, ISfi-f. j LIST OF CAUSES Put down lor Trial at the September Term, day,) IS-sf. John (I Hinchman et al vs. John 1 redwell Peter Brant Jacob May George Feight admr Samuef Whetstone et al Henry M Brant & wife "Valentine Wertz Jos S Morrison's adnrr J M Y unborn Adam Paster Robert Miekle et al John S Bowser Valentine U'erts Same Same Samuel Pavi< James M. Reynolds George Albright U'ni N Bell Peter Smith Michael Slumer Elijah Bowen Samuel fl Tate Esq Charles McLaughlin ffezekiah Shipley John King M LamberGon Same Herj Logan Same J. Spiece Henry lekes G B Wisegarrer Ezra Williamson tk wife Thomas Keeffe George Vanhorn VVm Adams Elijah Flora Joel Lewis Christian Stoufl'er Herr iX Heeler Stewarrsnn's F.xrs John Al-tadt et al Todd it Hughs John \V Becler Simon Stueftey Charles Pen yl W'm Griffith James A Ae ler-on Jos Gregory Bernard O'Neal et a! Jacob Barndollar B W Garrolson et al Lewis Putt Jacob Snider Levi Agnew it wife George Smith Same George Smith it wile Same Emanuel Smith Alexander Price Jos Price et al Mary May Mii-ha-l Pevine P. WASHAB.U'GH. Prothonotary's Office, | Prothvtf* ■ August 1, 18-31. J CASSVILLE SEMINARY. The Cnssville .Vale ami Female SemW m of the Baltimore Conference , will ojwa ' H last term ol the second year, on Thursday. A 1 3 gust the 10th, and its first termul the tliiruyei-'H Expenses ibr Board, Tuition, Room-rent fr-fl Furniture, for one Academic year, §9.'. g Cassville, the seat of the Institution, is a ■ |B mantic, mountainous region, twelve miles ! ' 1 the Penna. Rail Road, at Mill Creek. which it is accessible by stages. T!>e ' v ' 8 of Instruction will consist of seven, ant! wr ■ prepared to impart instruction in all the I tical, Scientific, Classical, Liteiary ant! h> - I mental branches usually' taught in similar * ■ st it tit ions. Catalogues and circulars, or information, can be had bv addressing thef I '' ■ cipal. J. T. TOMU>- I C*a.er7/e, Jlnnfinatton Co., Pa., \ August 4 1 1551.—3 m.* j DR. P. S. THOMPSON Having permanently locateil at Centra ■ Bedford County, Pa. oilers his Profession 3, g vices to the Citizens of the surrounding ■ try. Office and Residence at the Hs- ||| House. July 2S, 1831.—2 m.