THE BEDFORD GAZETTE.
ISeclfbi*<l, August i, I h.ll,
G. W. Bowman, Editor and Proprietor.
Democratic State Ticket.
GOVERNOR:
HON. WILLIAM BIGLER.
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT-.
HON. JEREMIAH S. BLACK.
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
COL. HENRV 3. MOTT.
[JY A YOING MAN, of nut ret pt ion able morals, and
agreeable disposition, between the age of 17 and 18
years, will be taken at this office, to learn the Print
ing Business, on favorable terms.
fxy We invite especial attention o the speech of
Hon. JAVIER L. OUR, which aw-ill be found on the
first page of the Gazette ol to-day. It was delivered
HI Philadelphia on the 4th of July, and is a produc
tion which cannot tu.il to reach the feeling as well
as the understanding of every man who reads it.
JIDGE i : OLL(i(K AAD TiiK
\VHKS.
TO*** The letter of Judge POLLOCK to certain gen
tlemen in Sullivan County has been aptly termed "a
legal and political curiosity." Its legal doctrines
and its political bearing certainly present a difficult
problem, it contains a variety of distinct and dog
matical assertions, which, unfortunately for the au
thor, are net consistent with each other.
For instance, he assumes that an act of Congress, 1
passed in 1840, fixing the Missouri line, should and
has the power to determine the local policy of the
territories, so far as relates to slavery, regardless ol
the will of the people or the power of the local gov
ernment. In this he clearly recognizes the right of
Congre.-s to legislate on the subject; and we wish the
reader to bear this important tact in mind.
iii another part of his letter he says, "Congress has
no power to establish, directly or indirectly, by posi
tive act, or by permission, under the plea of non-in
tervention, slavery in any free territory in the Uni
ted States." This is simply denying to Congress
any power to legislate on the subject, and is in direct
conflict with the preceding jiosition. We agree,
thut Congress has no power to "establish by positive
act salvery in a free territory." But we do not u
gree that Congress has not got the power to do any
thing on the subject—to adopt the principle of non
intervention. We do not agree that Congress can
not permit the people of a territory to do as they
please on the question. The only way, therefore,
that Congress could carry out Mr. l"s doctrine would
be to preserve the territories a wilderness to keep
the people out of them. But what is .-till more singu
lar, Mr. I'., in the same paragraph, alleges that an
other act of Congress, similar to that of 18J0, or the
same act re-instated, would "necessarily exclude sla
very from those territories, and the unconditional
manumission of all slaves then there could not be
regarded as a legal or moral wrong to any party."—
ilere he claims for Congress the highest degree of
legislative authority, and avows a doctrine antagon
istic to the teachings of the preceding paragraph.—
We can see no possible way of reconciling these po
sitions with each other. Surely Judge BOLLOCK will
not contend that the power to create and to destroy
the institution are not identical—that the power to
create may proceed from one source and that to des
troy from another. That Congress could establish
and not abolish the institution, or, vise verse.
But he says that Congress cannot permit slavery
"under the plea of non-intervention." Henry Clay
and Daniel Webster thought otherwise, for they both
voted for the laws organizing the territories of Utah
and New Mexico, containing precisely this principle
of non-intervention in reference to slavery.
Agaiu be says, "slavery can have no legal exis
tence in those territories either by act of Congress
or under the ialse pretence ol popular sovereignty."
The inquiry is at once suggested to the mind, then
why all the clamor against the Nebraska bill I If
slavery can have no legal existence in those territor
ies, under the laws as they now stand, of course it
will not go there. But the Whigs and Abolitionists
say it can and will go there. The Whig Press say
that Congress has legislated slavery into those terri
tories. Mr. Pollock says Congress has no such
power. Who is right, the Whigs or Poliock I lie
says that if "slavery enters those territories it w ill
be there without authority of Constitutional law, and
in violation ol all law." The Whigs and Abolition
ists generally assume that the law of Congress has
authorized it to go into these territories. It is clear
that some body is befogged. But, in all candor, we
would enquire, what does Mr. Bollock mean by as
suming that popular sovereignty may be a false pre
tence. Surely he does not mean to say that the will
ol the jieople oi a territory or a Stale expressed in
reference to the institutions under which they live,
is a lalse pretension—that it is an assumption of
power which they do not possess. We are unwil
ling to attribute to him such an unjust sentiment,and
yet his language will bear no other construction. If
the power to establish slavery, or abolish it, is not
in the people and the local government, it can have
no existence on the face of the earth, and all clamor
tut the subject should cease. Mr. P. denies the pow
er ol Congress arid the pretensions of Ihe people, and
thus settles the whole question that slavery cannot
extend into the territories ol Kansas and Nebraska.
Hereaiter, therelore, when the Whigs give vent to
iheir virtuous indignation on this subject, we shall
promptly iiiteipose the doctrine ol their own candi
date against their ravings. They will not thank Mr.
Bollock for thus spiking their only gun.
But we think Mr. P. was peculiarly unfortunate
in assuming that popular sovereignty might be "a
false prytence." It was that power which abolished
slavery in Pennsylvania, and yet the authority has
never once been disputed. If it should decide in Oc
tober that some other man than himself should be
Governor he would not contend that the pretence
■was not real. If it should demand a prohibitory li
quor Law, will he say it is a false pretence. Popu
lar sovereignty can never be a lalse pretence. It is
just that absolute sovereignly which can make
or unmake local institutions—can accept one public
man and reject another. It is the legitimate source
of all governmental power, simply the principle of
self-government, the basis of all our repubiicun in
stitutions. There was a time when British States
men and American Tories regarded this doctrine as
"a false pretence," but we had hardly supposed,
that at this time in our history, any man could be
found hardy enough to declare such a sentiment.
But we have done with this rich letter for the pre
sent. It is one of two or three we have seen from
the same source, and we think they indicate too
clearly that Mr. P. is willing to "stoop to conquer,"
and contain some evidence that he is a "KNOW
NOTHING" on some subjects.
Hi"" Gov. BIOLER visited Schellsburg on Tuesday
last, and spent a few hours very pleasantly in con
versing with the citizens of that place. He was
courteously called upon by gentlemen of both par
ties. Mr. FRAZEK served up a dinner on the occa
sion that would have done honor to any Hotel in the
County.
The Whigs and Adopted Citizens!
K7- Necessity is said to be the another ol'all in
vention. The Whig party, in its recent efforts to
gain power, would seem to furnish a verification of
this saying. To the necessities which surround them,
may, perhaps, to some extent, be attributed the rare
specimens of inventions and expedients whichthey
have recently presented to the country. Dishonored
in their past professions, and ashamed of all their
former measures, they are now countenancing the
doctrines and courting the co-operation of the Native,
Abolition, and Know Nothing .tactions, with the vain
hope of gaining power. They have resorted to the
dangerous, and mischievous expedient of tampering
to national and sectarian prejudices—arraying one
cla-s of prolessing christians against another—of sow
ing the seed of intolerance and persecution, which,
in other ages of the world, have produced the bitter
est liuits that have ever been presented to the lips
of man, save only that presented to Eve by the ser
pent.
Two years since they had especial affection for
the foreigner and lor members ol the Catholic
Church, and vainly attempted to cajole and llatler
this class of people to support the Whig candidates,
Without releietice to their political sentiments, liut
this expedient failed. These people voted in accor
dance with their previously conceived notions of po
litical affairs, and the Whig candidates were reject
ed. Now they are about to try another invention.—
They have allied themselves with the Know Noth
ings and Natives, and ioiesworn the proscription of
both the former classes from civil place. In the elec
tion of Mayor CONKAJJ, of Pbila., we have the first
fruits of this coalition, and, in his inaugural address,
we have their first edict against all citizens not
native born. The adopted citizen is distinctly told
in that document that nothwithstanding the guaran
tees of the Constitution, he shall not be permitted to
hold otlice in this country. Not even the humble
station of police man.
Let us contemplate, for a moment, the practical
workings of this unjust and anti-republican doctrine
in our own community. The accident of birth is to
be a test for civil office, and every citizen not native
boin must be proscribed. Under this doctrine rr.any,
very ruany, of as good citizens as we have in Bedford
county would be degraded. For instance, Messrs.
NICHOLAS LYONS, J A con BOLLINGER, ROHKKT FYAN,
JONATHAN FEICHNEK, MICHAEL BANNOX, WAI. STAHL,
YAL. WI'ANT, JOHN J. LUTHER, JOS. CONDON, JAMF.S
PRICE, GEO. VOKSTBIN, EWD. KERR, WALTER BROWN,
Kev. J. MCELHENY, GEO. HYNRLINO, JOHN REDDLER
MN, and hundreds of others that might be mention
ed had we room, all citizens of high respectability,
with all their affections, interests, and hopes center
ed m our country. With no other country to love,
and no other institutions to obey, they are Americans,
true Americans, by adoption, faith, affection, and
hope; yet, with all this they could not hold any of
fice under this strange dogma of Whiggery. How
shall the sons ai.d daughters, and grand children, of
these respectable citizens brook the imputation thus
cast upon their parents t How shall they relish a
doctrine that breaks the pledge of the constitution to
ttiei r fathers? How shall they tolerate a party tiiat
proscribes their ancestors because of the place of
their birth, and assigns to them an inferior and degiud
ed position in society /
Office, honor, and emoluments, these valuable citi
zens whom we have named, do not seek, and in this
regard they could bid defiance to the intolerant dem
agogues who have started this new test; but it is the
implied disgrace and humiliation—it is because they
are to be set apart as a degraded class of people who
should not be trusted with civil office—not even the
humble position of police man, that they have just
cause to complain. It is this, indeed, far more than
the loss of civil office, that wounds their pride and
excites their indignation. They have filled the con
ditions of the Constitution—have became citizens—
have felled the forest—cultivated the soil—and made
the wilderness to bloom as the rose. They have paid
tbe taxes and fought the battles of the Country—
have worshiped God according to the dictates of con
science—thanked him lor the blessings incident to our
Republican Government—for the blessings of civil and
religious liberty—and prayed for the continuance of
all these. And shall we now, in their upened years,
with many of their locks whitened for the grave,
break with them the plighted laith of the Constitu
tion ? Shall its promise of political and religious
freedom to the oppressed of all nations, become a by
word and ■icolF—"the word of promise to the car to
be broken to the hope." We say no. The people say
xo. And an all wise Providence will stay the wrong.
GUV. BIGLtiR.
OFT" His Excellency, WILLIAM BIGI.ER, arrived in
Bedloid on last Friday evening, and took lodgings at
Maj. DAVIS' Hotel. On Saturday, in the absence of
any arrangement, several hundred of our citizens
called to pay their respects to hitn, and had a pleas
ant interview. Tbe bold and manly ground taken
by the Governor, (in his recent letter,) in defence of
his official acts and the great principles of the Demo
cratic Party, has inspired a lively confidence through
out the Commonwealth, and Democrats feel a com
mendable pride in having .<uch a standard-bearer to
lead them to certain- and orerudielmint* victory. Gov.
BIULEK has no concealments on any subject affecting
the public interests. He is ready, willing, ami
arx IOUS to speak to the people face to face, and to
meet any charges that our opponents may prefer a
gainst his administration. He is also ready to de
lend the CONSTITUTION against all encroachments.
♦•Folk a Better Tariff Man titan ilay."
ITT" Tbe Philadelphia A'crc* complains that the
''Democrats claimed Polk as a better Tariffmsn than
Clay." liurptriencr having emphatically developed
the fact that the Tariff of ISIO is a heller Tariff' than
that of 1812, of course, Polk was the bent Tariff man.
The Whigs having bartered their bantling of 1812,
for the principles of a party which profess to "KNOW
NOTHING," the News ought to be ashamed to tor
ture them by thus raking up its ashes!
CC7" We invite attention to the advertisement of
Mr. Tonus, Principal of the Carsville Seminary,
which will be found in the Gazette of to-day, and
take pleasure in saying that the Institution over
which he presides is worthy of a generous suppo-t.
.Mr. T. is well adapted to the charge entrusted 1o his
care, ami we hope he will receive liberal encourage
ment from this quarter.
A VERY SAD STORY. —The Edwardsville (III.)
Enquirer, of the Hth, tells the following, as
sad a story as we have lately heard: —We have
just heard of a sorrowful incident—the effects of
a fright. A colored woman, named Bruner,
who, with her husband, lived some six miles
from this place, was supposed to know where
some stolen property was concealed. She de
nied all knowledge oflhe property, whereup
on her accusers told her that unless she told the
truth they would take her from the house and
hang her. She still stoutly denied knowing
anything of the property, and appeared much
frightened. On their repeating the threat to
hang her, she fainted away and died in a short
time afterward. She was enciente at the time.
Since then, her husband, through grief from her
loss, has become a maniac. Such an occurrence
should prove a warning in future as to how far
coercion is carried tow ards defenceless women.
QGF"CoI. THOS. J. KEEN AN, the able and ac
complished Editor of the Pittsburg Daily Union,
spent a day or two at the Bedford Springs last
week. He gives encouraging accounts of our
political prospects in the West.
ELF" Our valued friend, Hon. JOHN C. I*SOX,
of the Supreme Court, arrived at the Bedford
Springs a few days since.
ILFIIon. P. C. SHANNON, of Pittsburg, made
many friends in our place during his stay at the
Springs. He is a noble specimen of a true De
mocrat and* accomplished gentleman, and is a
favorite wherever known.
QF"Mr. Wst. CESSNA desires us to say that
he does not wish to be considered a candidate
tor County Commissioner. No man in Bedford
County is better qualified to fill fhe ollice than
Mr. CESSNA.
NEWS FROM EIROPE.
The arrival of the Arabia brings news that the
Turks, emboldened by the withdrawal oftheKus-ian
forces from before Silistna, have crossed the Danube
at Giurgevo, and also taken posses-ion of the islands
in the river near that place. The Turkish forces, to
the number of 40,01)0, were under the immediate
command of Omer Pacha. By this movement the
Russians were totally defeated in the VVallarbian ter
ritory. It is now clear that the Turks have deter
mined to push the campaign on the offensive princi
ple, and, as the lirst division of the Anglo-French ar
my is within supporting distance, will urge the Rus
sians to a general battle if possible.
It is reported that the Czar lias issued counter or
ders. and that the Russian army will not evacuate
the Principalities. This view receives crftfirrnation
from the fact that (Jen. Gortschakofl, with an army
of 30,000 men, is advancing, by forced marches, a
gainst the Turks at Giurgevo. In the face of all
these hostile movements, the Continent is filled with
reports of negotiations between the great Powers.
A meeting ol Austria, Pru-sia, France and F.ngland,
it is said, is shortly to be held, for the purposes of
considering the Russian propositions. This will not,
however, prevent Austria from entering Wallactua,
which she will do immediately, but without formal
ly declaring war. The German governments, as
well as the King of YVurtemburg, are reported to be
favorable to the Au-tro-Prussian league, with a
view of preserving the balance ol power in the Last.
The following extracts from three ol the leading
London Journals, will show the opinion entertained
there with reference to the state of affairs oil the
Continent. The Enrope.au 'rimes of the loth ult.
says:
We have waited the whole week in daily expecta
tion that some official communication would he made
of the precise terms of the reply made by the Czar
to the Austrian summons and the Prussian entreaty
to evacuate the Principalities, but, up to the moment
we sit down to write, we are altogether in the dark
respecting the substance ot this important de-patch.
If it be really true that the Czar insists upon the
allies withdrawing their forces as the condition of
Ins retiring from Moldavia, and that he relnses !o al
low the Allies to interfere in the religions question
of the Protectorate, which he pretends is an aliair
between him and the Porte alone, it is plain to the
merest Tyro in politics that the state ot the Czar's
mind is precisely in statu </no ante.
I Our own impression is, that Austria will at least
occupy Wallachia, according to her promise, but
there cannot be a doubt that Prussia is re.-ortmg to
every species ol artifice to gain tune, and evade the
performance of her pledge to take up arms. We are,
however, quite sati-fieil that when the German pow
ers discover that France and Krigland have resolute
ly determined to humble the Czar, and bring him to
terms, they will, however reluctantly, join the alli
ance effectively. If Prussia plays false, -he will in
stanily Ioe her WesJphaliatt province-, ami a fright
ful general war will ensue, in which she is certain to
be the loser.
The Morning Chronic/?, of the same tlatp, throws
out the following views with reference to the pre
sent aspect of the political and military state of the
Eastern question :
A grpat change has taken place within the last few
days. The Prussian Government complained that
Austria had sinely taken a step which might proba
bly lead to hostilities, llints and menaces hare had
the effect of checking the intended movement of the
Austrian army on the left bank of the Danube. It is
not likely, however, that the enemy will eventually
derive any substantial benefit from the intervention
of his devoted adherent. There can be little doubt
that an ultimatum has at last been forwarded by
Austria to St. Petersburg. When the Austrian troops
finally march, it will be their business tod'.slodge the
invader. The pause in the Austrian movements fa
cilitated the recent change in the stratgetical dispo
sition of the enemy.
It is scarcely possible to bplieve that the Russian
army, which his never vet succeeded against an e
qual number of Turks, will be able to resist the best
soldiers of England and France ; and a victory in
Wallachia, while it would probably decide the neu
tral governments of Europe, might perhaps tend ma
terially to shorten Ihe war.
The /nun/on Time.*, which is usually accurate upon
all matters, after carefully weighing the intelligence,
enunciates the inference that another great and sud
den change has taken place in the movements and po
sition of the contending armies, similar to those sur
prising and unforeseen incidents which have hitherto
marked the vicissitudes of this campaign. It then
continues :
A few weeks aso the Russians were knovn to be
in full retreat. The siege ol Silistiia had been raised
on the 23d of June, and the large army engaged in
that operation retired acro-s the Danube with so
much precipitation that they left their battering
train behind them. Wallachia was said to be evac
uated ; the head-quarters of the Russian army were
withdrawn Irom Bucharest to Fokschai and Jassy ;
the Austrians were preparing to take peaceable pos
session of Wallachia; and the only question seemed
to l>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.