TIIE BEDFORD GAZETTE. Brrif'ctrri, Nov. 21, IS3I. G. W. Scwinaiij Editor and Proprietor. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. Governor BKO.EII'S proclamation RECOMMENDING a day oJ thanksgiving to the good ppople of Pennsyl vania will be read with great pleasure by his hosts of friends: William SEigter, Governor of the Commontcmlth. A Proclamation. I" ELCOW-CITIZESS : A sincere belief in the exis tence of God, anil a just conception of His attributes, lie at the foundation of true r'-lijrion and civilized so ciety. Tbe free declaration of this belief becomes a Ghri-tian people. This Almighty and Beneficent God has greatly Messed the Commonwealth and her inhabitants dur ing the year that has jwst closed. An humble acknowledgment of His goodness and mercy, and an open manifestation of gratitude to Him, is an act of homage eminently becoming a people so highly tavored. Tbe blessing of peace He has bestowed upon us.— Qui relations with all other States are most arriica bbf, and the tumult of internal strife has not been TtPa rd in our midst. All the great interests of the people have been eminently prosperous, except only the agricultural, which, in parts of the State, has suffered from 1 tie drought. With the exception of a few communities which claim our sympathies, the blessings of health have prevailed. Our institutions of government have been perpetuated, and civil ami religious liberty enjoyed by the people. The cause of education and Christi anity has been advanced, the arts and science have progressed, and the moral and physical condition of the country been improved. The devastations of war which are now sorelv af flicting the [>eople of Europe—the desolations- of fa mine and the ravages of pestilence—have not been permitted to invade our favored Commonwealth. These manifold blessings are the gift of God, and to Him our most devout thanks shonld be offered.— t'ni'er the solemn convictions of duty, therefore, and in conformity with the wishes of many good citizens, 1, William Bigler, governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby appoint Titwsda.}, the 23u of November lest., as a day tf general thanksgiving and praise through out the State, earnestly imploring tin; people that, setting aside all worldly pursuits on that day, they mute in offering thanks to Almighty God forliis past goodness are! mercy, and beseech Him for a continu ance of His blessings. jdS&iiiven under my hand and the great seal of the State, at H.irrislnirg, this twenty-eighth day of October, m the year of our Lord one thousand IP eight hundred and fifty-four, and of the Com monwealth the yeveiity-iuuth. IJy the Governor: C. A. BLACK, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Oct. 2S, 1D54. irr-At) amusing tale, with a good moral, will be found on tiie first page—one that will be read with interest by every Ixxly. Jl-p-ptar oncrs, oven now, are a greater passport to favor than true merit , a fact developed in nearly all circles of society. '■XJr* His Honor, Judge KIJIMELL, is holding Court in Bedford at present, looking well, as usual. OP. the subject of Know-J\'ofkin<fism, the Judge is as sound ajul as bright as one of the new gold dollars just issued—and, as was to be expected from a man of his intellect and reputation, he has no scruples in repudiating the organization as one not onlv dangerous to Society, but as demoralizing in all its tenden cies. The "sober second thought" will force this conviction upon the minds of nineteen twenti'mhs of tin* freemen of the United States, who will rally to the support of the Democrat ic Party and the glorious Constitution of out country with more zeal than has ever hereto fore characterized their conduct. The Spirit of a True Christian. [ Xy** On the first page of the Gazette of to day will be found a letter from a Clergyman in the West which breathes the true spirit of Chris tianity in every sentence. Jt is written to a Cotholic friend, and has reference to Secret So cieties for political or religious purposes. 5n the language of the Pennsylvania!), we rejoice to find that the whole ministry of the Methodist Church is not affected by the foul heresy which seeks to destroy every vestige of civil and reli gions liberty. The letter to which we ailtide should be read by every man, woman, and child in the land, and its truths treasured as ot great value. It does the heart good to know, that in these days of religious proscription, the brightest and best minds in the ministry, connected with all de noninations, are free from the blighting influence of intolerance. UU* Tlie Pcnnsylvnninn is in favor of re moving the seat of Government to Philadelphia, and erecting the Public Buildings at tbe ex pense of the city. Thrilling appeal to she Democratic Party. fUf We cannot refrain making the following stirring extract from a letter just received at the I nion office. It is addressed to us by one of the most fearless champions of democratic prin ciples, and he foreshadows the events of the fu ture with almost prophetic ken. fie points out the internal war between the fusion elements and the consequences that are sure to follow if only the democracy stand firm. Let our < motto be: "Union, conciliation, and concession ' —an oblivion to past feuds—a preparation for : future victories 1 "I am by no means discouraged at the apt pearance of things in the political firmament, t Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana has saved us j for 185 G. I now look upon the result of that 1 campaign as a certain and glorious triumph for f the democracy. If we had carried those States ! this time, the coalitionists ami fusionists would t have held together, and have consolidated their I united strength in 1856. Now, they have the r power in the national House of Representatives I ami have no excuse for not carrying out their r pledges to the people before the election. In s order to satisfy the abolitionists thev must pass i bills to put the Wilmot proviso on Kansas and f Nebraska, to repeal the fugitive slave law, to s abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and s abolish Uieslave trade between the State*. Noth- e ing less than this will satisfy the abolitionists, o ami make them act with the tvtrigs and know - t nothings. Hence, the other parties to the un- ! v holy alliance must come up to the mark, and ! c vote all these revolutionary measures through 1 h the House of Representatives. Then the know ift uolhings A ill demand their share of the sp -if j d of victory, which will commence with a hill to j repeal the naturalization laws, with the view ot proscribing all men of foreign birth, and plac ing them on an equality with the negro! if the abolitionist* and whigs do uot come to this test, and pass the know-nothing measures, the latter will withdraw from the alliance. So you see that it the whigs do not endorse all the schemes .of the abolitionists and the know-nothings or if each party to the bargan does not sustain and carry out all the measures of all the other par ties to the alliance, the coalition will at once dissolve, and each division charge the other with teacher)' and had faith. If they t!o hold together, and press all their odious measures through the House, the Senate will at once re ject the whole series, and go into the presiden tial election on those issues. In either event, we must triumph, for it will be a contest of principle with faction—of constitutional liberty and State rights against revolutionary doctrines and disunionism. "Hence, be of good cheer! Unfurl the ban ner, and let it wave gallantly in the breeze.— Charge upon the allied forces of the enemy, and make no compromise with any of their isms.— 1 never felt better, or more anxious for tbe fight. The principle of the Nebraska bill will prove ir resistible; it is stronger than the democratic party. We would have carried the country everywhere this year on that issue but for know nothmgism. Anti-Nebraska is the mask and know-uothingism the battery concealed behind it which has done the work. The mask will soon he stripped oIT, and the infamous doctrine of proscription because of birth-place and reli gious faith will stand forth to the gaze of the world only to he despised and scoffed at. The corrupt portion of our party—the disappointed office-seekers who betrayed their party and a bamloned their principles because they could not be paid for their patriotism—have 'sloughed oft,' and the organization now stands purified and consolidated upon the eternal principles of the democratic creed. Tell the President to be of good cheer.— Wash. Union. KXOW-SOTHINGISM. Of the two anti-American isms, abolitionism and know-nothingisin, it is hard to tell which is the worst, Know-nothingisin is the freshest error, now most fills the public mind, and is in all the exultation of maiden triumphs. Two classes are in this movement —those who really believe that our land is in danger from Catholics and foreigners, and that such action as they countenance is necessary to protect their liber ties, and these constitute the mass of tiie paitv : and the other consist of those who join the lodges simply because they want votes, who may be counted by scores or hundreds in every town. They are the selfish, mercenary, slimy politicians, who "ask no questions but the price of votes," and are always ready to pay down the price. These wiry office-hunters—democrat, whig, free-soil, or what not—pursue their purpose with amazing persistency and effrontery. The starting point is dissatisfaction at being long overlooked, neglected, or flatly discarded hy their party : and they join know-knoth'rngism as the means of getting a redress of personal griev ance. This is their last card. Hut the "order" cannot multiply places, and while the expec tants are many, the offices are few ; and noth ing can exceed the violence of the scramble go ing on in the lodges for the prizes of local nom inations—for the oath is to support the nominee, let it be whom it may. Now nineteen out of twenty of these merce nary aspirants must be disappointed, and feel like the simple minded man, who joined the church in order to get an expected job of work. The committee, on receiving the proposals for refitting the meeting-house, gave the contract to an outsider. "I might just as well not be long as belong," remarked the disappointed member. So it must, in the nature of things, be with .hundreds of these office-hunters. They must be disappointed. Net a tithe of them can reach the goal far which they aim. They might as well not belonjr as belong, so far as their per sonal object is concerned. The Germans have a tradition that one of their Emperors, who once gave internal peace and security to the country, the great Barbaros sa, is not dead, but sleeping in theHartz moun tains, and will come forth some day in his pris tine strength to punish evil-doers and restore glory to the empire. As we read of the tri uinps of such principles as abolitionism and know-nothingiam, the one tending to dissolve the In ion and the other to make vassals of a quarter of its population, it is easy to imagine that the giant, Americanism, must be sleeping, and that a couple of bad genii have divided his great cloak between them, and in such a garb are deceiving the people. When the giant awakes and sees the mischief brewed in Ins name, he will strike down the treasonable co horts, and restore the reign ofjuatice and equal ity.—Boston Post. A Aoblc Boy—Rescue of a Passenger Train from Destruction. We wentioned a few da vs since the burning of the funnel Bridge, on the Baltimore and Sr.s.juehanna Rait road, about five miles South of York, and since learn that the conflagration came very near being followed by one of the most terrible disasters that has lately occurred in railroad travel. It is supposed that the bridge took fire from the freight trains which passed about half-past 7 o'clock in the morning, and the structure was totally enveloped in flames before it was discovered by the residents in the vicinity. At about 9 o'clock the frame work of the bridge fell through, and among the spec tators, some twenty in number, was a little boy about 1"J T<-ars of ago, named Kli Rheem, who, remembering that the express passenger train was then about due from York, started off at the top of his speed to endeavor to stop the train which he knew must be close at hand. As soon as he reached the curve, about two mndred yards from the bridge, lie observed the rain coming on at full speed',.and fearing that ie would be unable to stop them, unless bv he use of extraordinary means, the noble little e!!ow took his position cm the track, and mil ling towards the approaching train with his lands raised, caught the attention of the engi leer, who immediately reversed his engine, and topped within four hundred yards of impend ng destruction, the piers being some twentv eet from the rockv bed below, and the gap some ixtv feet wide. Had the boy not placed him e]f on the track, he would doubtless have fail ed in his noble effort, as the engineers are so iften cheated by mixchevious hoys on the route, hat they s.'i | >|,( ; ;iy a't'-ntioil to them. Iv. ti vhen he =topp.-d h" thought that lie had been heated by a youngster with more daring than lis associates, and was surprised to see the little laxen head d fellow stand his ground and en- j kav r to recover his lust heath to answer his j - • "• ■ v.. m ■ ir-a—ssau.m _n jw question as to the rause of Ids interruption. VVe learu that the passengers, when they ascer tained the cause of the stojrpage of thetiaia and viewed the precipice over which they were near being dashed, liberally rewarded the boy lor his presence of mind and daring, and that the Board of Directors, at their meeting yes terday, appropriated SIOO as an additional re compense. Eli Rheem, a boy but twelve years of age, was the only one of twenty persons pre sent, most of tltem men, who had forethought sufficient tor the occasion.— />//. Jlmertain. LOOK OCT FOR THE BANKS. For the information of the public we present below a list of Banks recently broken, discredited, or suspended, the result of the late elections having, we presume, removed all res traint from these soulless institutions, the con ductors of which now think they can swindle their note-holders as much as they please. Ma- I 113' a widow and orphan will be made to feel the loss of their little all in this whole-sale hank robbery ! Here is the list so far: Lewis county Bank of New Y'urk. Catthage, do. do. Mi 11 rose, do. do. Drov 1 rs, do. do. Bank of Rome, do. do. Bank ofCarnud, do. do. Ogdensburg, do. do. Exchange Bank, Buffalo, N. Y. Farmers' Joint Stock Bank, Buffalo. Patchin Bank, Buffalo. Eighth Avenue Bank, N. Y. Knickerbocker Bank, N. Y. Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Oswego. " Bank of Canandaigua. " and Merchants' Bank, Md. Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, Memphis. Merchants' Bank of Macon., Georgia. Millord Bank, Delaware. Merchants' Bank, Burlington, Vermont. River Bank, Connecticut. Cumberland Bank, Maine. Ky. Trust Co. Bank, Covington, Ky. Newport Safety Fund. Commercial Bank, Perineal), Ky. Trans. Allegheny Bank, Va. Kanawha Bank. Massillon Bank. Ohio. Ohio Savings' institute, Tiffin. Cochituate Bank, Boston. Bank of West Killingly, Connecticut. Bank of Ellsworth, Maine. Bank ol Circleville,* Ohio. Clinton Bank of Columbus, Ohio. City Bank, " " Canal Bank of Cleveland, Ohio. Miami Bank, Dayton, Ohio. Wooddury Bank, Connecticut. Shipbuilder's Bank, Maine. We append a list of the ONLY Banks in O hio, whose circulation is secured by State or U nited States Stocks, deposited with the officers of the State: Bank of Geauga. Canal Bank of Cleveland. City Bank of Cleveland. City Bank of Columbus. City Bank of Cincinnati. Commercial Bank of Cincinnati. Franklin Bank of Zanesville. Mahoning county Bank, Youngstown. Sandusky city Bank. Seneca county Bank, Tiffin. Western Reserve Bank, Warren. Bank of Commerce, Cleveland. Bank of Marion. Champaigfie county Bank, Urbana. Franklin Bank of Portage county, Franklin. Forest city Bank, Cleveland. Iron Bank of Ironton. Merchants' Bank of Massillon. Miami Valley Bank, Dayton. Pickaway county Bank, Circleville. Springfield Bank. Stark County Bank, Canton. Union Bank, Sandusky City. Seven more Indiana Banks are under protest, viz: Wayne Bank, Logansport. State Stock Bank of Indiana, Peru. Upper Wabash Bank, Wabash. county Bank, Cannelton. Steuben county Bank, Angola. Traders' Bank, Terre Haute. Great Western Bank, Terre Haute. Look out for more soon. *Tlie Circleville Rank has suspended, declar ing its ability to redeem all its issues, and so has the city Bank of Columbus; the Canal hank of Cleveland is redeeming its notes in coin, suspending only as to depositors: the Clinton Bank pavs all notes as fast as presented. The notes of these banks are good for their face, hut are not available for currency. So says the Pittsburg Gazette, of Nov. 15. From the San Francisco Herald. To!al Less of the Yankee B!a}e. The following is the official report of the wreck of tlie Blade, for which we are indebted to Purser V'ought : STEAMSHIP GOLIAH, at Sea, ) Oct. S, 1554. J Editors of the Herald: —l would most re spectfully submit the following report of our sad disaster, hoping you may find something worth transmitting through your columns to tin public. The Independent steamship Yankee Blade, Henry Randall, Esq., Commander, sailed from San Francisco, Sept. .'lO, at 4 o'clock, P. M., | with tight hundred passengers, and $163,000 I in specie—passed the Heads at "> o'clock, ami j at 9 o'clock the same evening saw a steamer on the starboard beam, supposed to be the Uncle Sain, or John L. Stevens. Oct. 1 at 3i o'clock, P. M., being encom j passed in a dens" log, steering a S. E. by S. course, and supposing ourselves at least ten miles from shore, we struck a reef of rocks oil Point Aguello, about fifteen miles above Point Concepcion, upon which the ship ran upward ot sixty feet, while her stern swung it) nine fa thoms of water, which in twenty-five minutes sunk below the promenade deck ; but so lirmlv was the forward pait imbedded in the N# s that up to the time we left the ship (about 4r '. M. on the 2d inst.) she had not receded sn inch. As soon as we discovered otir danger, the o F ficers ol the deck launched and manned the boats, and proceeded at once to get the ladies and other passengers on shore. And here it. is hof justice to observe t! at great approbation is due Capt. Henry Randall tor his promptness in going on shore to find a proper place to land his passengers, in taking charge of one of the boats himself, am! beaching it successfully when W ' - thiirof the first officer war stranded—lor win* anxious manner in which lit* nrti*tl tht* hands on shore to return to the wreck with the lioals when they displayed every desire to desert him —and tor sending his son. Henry Randall, Jr., to supply his place on the wreck, in which ca pacity he (Henry) acquitted himself in a man ner iar beyond Ins years, inspiring all hearts with hope, and preserving as much order as could be preserved under such'excitiug ciicum . stances. While the boats were being lowered, the chief steward and storekeeper went below with a gang of men, and broke out large quantities of provisions, which were sent on the upper deck. The pursers prepared to save the ship's papers and the valuables left in his possession belong ing to the passengers, which have all been safe ly delivered to their owners. But, on going below about ten minutes after the ship struck, he found the specie covered with live feet water, and so rapidly was she tilling that the water rose in the stern at the rate of six inches per minute, consequently no one dared descend to the vault, which he locked, and returned to the deck to save what he could of the express mat ter, etc., which he succeoded in getting forward, and in company with some stout hearts, watch ed by it all night, while desperadoes were rum maging and pillaging the ship, and it was re ported, although not supposed to be true, that a man had been murdered on the lower forward deck. Before dark the promenade deck and houses aft the shaft had all washed away and others were torn down to form rafts in readiness lor immediate departure, in case of a sudden crash, for we knew not how soon a gale might strike the ship, and scatter her timbers piecemeal on the waves. Night coming on, and the fog which for a short time disappeared, again setting in, the lioats were stopped running, not being able to find the shore, and the terrors of our situation began to stare us in the face ; for, amid the how ling of the wind, the roaring o| the waves, as they broke upon the deck, and the hoarse or ders of tile third ollicer and Mr. Randall, there arose the loud accents of ardent and despairing prayer. Confusion, in the wildest sense, pre vailed, for there were those who had prepared to 3\vim ashore, stiffening with the cold—those who had sought to drown their I ear in too fre quent libations of the ardent—while some, with a calm resignation, had prepared themselves for the worst, and awaited their fate in peace. Thus we passed the dismal night away—made still more solemn by the church-1 ike tolling of the bell, which seemed to beck us on to our funeral. Th e scene on shore was equally painful : the boat the first officer commanded, with twenty-j one souls, mostly females, was stranded, and all, with the exception of himself and three others, who were thrown upon the beach appar ently liteless, were lost: and here i would re cord an instance of female energy seldom equal ed, even in the annals of the Revolution. A Mrs. Jane Elwell, who had exerted herself by going into the water alongside of the boats, and carrying the ladies ashore, saw the almost lift less bodies of two young ladies, and said lo a young man, "You take one, and I'll take another,"' and she picked up one of the ladies, and placed her on her shoulder and carried her up an almost perjiendicular bluff to a spot where they had found a camp, and built fires, and af terward, together with many other ladies, strip ped off all her under-clothes and gave them to the exhausted men. During the night a number of bodies washed ashore among others a female with a child clasp ed in her arms, the wife of Mr. Brennan, who, as an extraordinary instance of devoted love, went on shore with spade in hand—dug up his wife and child—kissed them-=prayed over • them, and then re-buried them. At daybreak the boats were again set in mo tion, when Mr. Hewitt came on hoard, and al though much bruised, his heart never forsaking ' him, recommenced the discharge of his du ties with astonishing energy. At BA. IM. our hearts were made glad by the appearance of a steamer on our larboard quarter, which proved to be the Coliah, Samuel Haley, Esq., com mander, who, as if by a kind dispensation of I Providence, appeared sent to our relief, for had ' we depended upon our own boats a large num- ! her would have been lost, as we could not get a- ! shore that day, and that night the wreck went | fa pieces, so nothing in the morning was seen of her but a shell of the stern, which had separa ted and turned bottom up. ' To Capt. Haley we lee! it a particular duty to extend our thanks for his promptness in send ing boats to our rescue, and receiving six hun dred of our number on board the steamer, in which we were taken to San Diego, whither she was bound, where f>3G were left until a steamer could be sent to bear them on their homeward course. Before leaving the wreck we sent on shore all the provisions to be found, awning and poles for tents, bed clothing, iSsc. for the use of those that had remained, whom it was found necessa ry to leave, as the Goliah was t<*> heavily load ed to receive them. But it is to be regretted that the actual sufferers never received the pro visions sent them, for a party composed of the ship's firemen, insensible to humanity, and hol ding the advantage by having in their posses sion a large quantity of firv-aru:.-! and ammuni tion, took for themselves almost every thing j which went ashore, and money was seen in j their possession which they could not have ob tained honestly. The Goliah, after making her trip to San l>i ego, returned to a cove about six miles from j the scene of the wreck, where she received the j balance of the passengers and crew, and started on the 7th inst. for Monterey and San Francis co. It is supposed that about thirty lives are lost, whose names, with the exception of a few, could not be ascertained. The following is a list of persons known to be drowned: Four children of Mrs. Logsdale, F. Mitchell, one child of Mr. J. More, wife and child of I Thomas Brennan, Mrs. Summer and child, Mrs. Smith and child. S. VOUGIIT, Purser. ARREST OF ARRISON, The Murderer of J>lr. and .Mrs. JllHson. , We have the pleasure of announcing to our ; riders that this fiend, the author of the infer nal I machine, whereby the unfortunate Allisons met a horrible death, was arrested on Wednes day morning, at 8 o'clock, at the small town of Muscatine, in lowa, by Mayor Srodbaker, Cap tain Hoke and Deputy Marshall Lee, who left this city nn Monday, having, through an inter cepted letter addressed to a person in this city, discovered the whereabouts of Ihe murderer. it seems that Arrison has been, for sometime past, officiating in the drugstore ofiMr. Dough erty, in Muscatine, as clerk, under the name of Wilh'tts. This (art Mayor Snelbaker was cog nizant ul, and having u|K>II liis arrival in tin* town seemed the services of the Sheriff and a posse ol'officers, they repaired to Mr. Duuglier ty'o sture, where, in a back room, with his back to the door, they observed Arrison reading a newsjiaper. doing up to him, Mayor Snelbaker placed his hand upon his shoulder and exclaimed, "How do you do, Mr. Arrison?" The e/f'ect was electric : he became rigid as a corpse, every muscle ul his (ace becoming fearfully contract ed. He, however, denied that (lis name was ; Arrison. His trunk was searched, and several | hooks (bund iri it, the title pages of which had j been torn out. One, however, had escaped i this precaution, for on a (ly-leaf the name of "William Arrison" was traced with a pencil. ; He was placed on a boat, which happened to be lying at the wharf, and in custody o! Mayor Snelbaker, Captain Hoke and Deputy Lee, ar rived at Rock Island. There the party took the cars, arid at 10 o'clock last night Arrison was .-afe'v lodged in the .Ninth-street Station house. The first day of his arrest he appeared quite cheerful, and chatted and joked with Ids custo dians : l.ut yesterday he appeared much cast down, and when he arrived in this city his j spirits were entirely gone. He still denies that Litis name is Arrison, but the facts aretoodamn j ing Ibr him to hold out, although lie has, by j shaving off'his whiskers, attempted to alter ins | appearance. Too much praise cannot be awarded our wor thy Mayor and his associates fir the prompt 1 and skilful manner in which the arrest was made. Jt reflected a disgrace upon our author ities so long as the villain was at large. The Mayor felt this, and has left no stone unturned to trace his whereabouts. The discovery was made in consequence of a letter sent here, whereby a letter meant for an O resembled a C, and it was taken out by a person whose name it was made to spell in consequence. Upon so slight a mistake hung the lite of the murderer. —Cincinnati Enquirer, A'ov. 10. ThcughLs IVtil th rendering. "1 rail speak from experience," says the cel ebrated Erasmus, "that there is little benefit to be derived from the Scriptures, if they be read cursorily <>r carelessly ; but ii a man exercise himself therein constantly and conscientiously, he will find such efficiency in them as is not to be found i:i any book whatsoever." "The genuine philosophy of Christ," says the same author, "cannot lie derived from any source so successfully, as from the books of the Gospels and Apostolic Epistles: in which, if a man philosophise with a pious spirit, praying rather than arguing, he will find that there is nothing conductive to the happiness of man, and the performance of any duty of human life, which is not, in some of these writings, laid down, discussed and determined, in a complete and satisfactory manner." "That which stamps upon the Scriptures the highest value," says liishop Porteus; "that which i nders them, sfrrctly speaking, inesti mable, and distinguishes them from all other in this world, is this, that they, and only they, contain the words of eternal life. In this re spect, every other book, even the noblest com positions of man, must full : they cannot give us that which we most want, and what is of in finitely more importance than all things put to gether—liter mil Life." Translated from the Cornier ties I'ituts XJnis for the W : Globe . The Prrils of !lio While Rouse--Are Ihey as Great as Reported 1 General Taylor—James k'. Polle—General Har rison—Martin Van Bur en—Vice Presidents King) Dn!lua, Tyler and Fillmore. The FaJalifiv of Power. j It st't'ms that the White House at Wash in f | ton is fatal to those who inhabit it, and in the ! Tinted States even that in the intoxicating cup ! of power t here lurks a deadly poison. | Of all the happy family of General Taylor, . whose arrival in the federal capital in 1841) was | inaugurated by brilliant, and, it may he said, | national fetes, there remains but a single roem j her to regret the splendor and the happiness of | the past. The noble Old Zack, the hero who I should never have bid farewell to the camp to face the cares, the rascality and the degradation of a political career, died a year and a half after his election. His wife a Roman matron who, in her foresight, ventured to counsel the Gener al to refuse the Presidency, is also dead. Her ! daughter, a young flower transplanted sudden ly from the cotton-fields of ttie Mississippi to the blazing chandaiiers of the White House, has fallen in her turn; and finally, the husband of this poor young woman, Colonel Bliss, who, by his brilliant military achievements during the campaign of Mexico, by his marriage with the beloved daughter of the popular President, and by his appointment as his private secretary, saw, five years since, life open to him a new and smiling horizon. Colonel Bliss is no more. Ihe man whom General Taylor succeeded; James K. Polk, the modest Tennessee lawyer, who managed to double almost the territorial magnitude of the U. 8. had also made a bril liant entrance into the federal citv. He was young, lull of lite, foil of hope, and had already in his mind's eye these provinces which he in tended to add to the map of his country, and which are called Texas, .New Mexico, Oregon, I tab and California. Four yeqrs later he left Washington,sad, prematurely 2 ray, surrounded with enemies, almost indifferent io tHat great people thut iie had enriched by three splendid diplomatic, triumphs. A few weeks afterward, vanquished, notwithstanding his robust consti tution, by the evil genius that haunts the White House, he expired 111 the solitude of the West. The immediate predecessor of Mi. Polk in the Presidency, as the man elect of the American people, General Harrison, the Cincinnatus of Cincinnati, within a month after taking possess ion of the fatal habitation, was no more. Considering the brevity of each Presidential term, it would naturally he believed that there might be found in the l. nited States a consider able number of citizens who had been invested with the Chief Magistracy. Hut one survives! Mr. Martin Van liuren. Put he, at least, seems to have his Voltairean soul so wedged into his little, delicate, graceful form, that one would almost believe, instead of approaching near the tomb every day, lie is every day getting furth er from it. Thus, of the four last Presidentsof the United State.*, two have quickly succumbed beneath the task, the third died immediately after having laid down the burden—who can foresee the fate reserved for tin* fourth ? Of lire lour Vice Presidents, one, Mr. King, died before he was installed. Another, Mi. Dallas, elected with Mr. Polk, yet sees his fine J head crowned u ifh noble wli'rfe ; he has never dedicated himself numb („ j 1 In- third,( aptaio John Tyler, elevated i, .• residency by the unexpected death o| " eral Hamsun, has done more than drew j ■ bnath—he is dead politically, and t-a> deV"'* man was never seen dm ht-fore. With m , '* to the fourth, Millard Fillmore, who the White House as the remains of G ( !,."t Taylor was carried out of it, misfortune i, a -' " late visited his family also: and, left a'.m" ' j the world, he can reflect upon the vanij ! hll,nan th 'gs at the tomb of his wife his L'" daughter and oi his brother. - DEFEAT OF TIIE K!ShW-?.0TII|\( 1 s, The result of the elections in New York especially interesting, because of the insight affords into the real strength 0 f the Know-W ing party. In these elections, (or the first \T since its organization, the Know-nothimr der nominated a distinct and independent ti ( et. And they availed themselves of s ly favorable conjuncture of circumstances an exhibition oi their strength. Alter t! ■' candidates for the Governorship were air, -J --in the (ield, they brought forward a man \C was the Whig nominee for the office of Att<!' ney General in 1852, and who, on account f his popularity with the Silver Greys, w<. ' certainly draw off a large vote from th„ bum and Saratoga ticket. The event jiist'i;. this calculation, lor it is ascertained that t|. "National Whigs" constituted no inconsiderj bie portion of rilmnn's support. Despite tfel advantages, the Know-Nothing candidate j ; hadlv beaten. Again, in the city of New York the Know-Nothings attempted to play the sa(r ' game. They brought forward a candidate t' T the Mayoralty, when three men had already been nominated for the office, and they were de feated. The result in these elections is cone:', siveof the fact that the power of Know-Noth ingisrw is a fiction. What is true with reference to New York would have occurred in our State, had an aib ance not been formed between the Whig, A lition and Know-Nothing parties, (jn a se rate ticket, the Know-Nothings only poigj 1 "21,000 votes—the Whigs 84,000; while t1..- Democracy alone polled 176,000. But in this State, the fusion was complete, so far as the Gov ernor was concerned, and hence the election rf James K. Pollock. This, however, does nit prove that the Know-Nothings aie a majority ij j tins Commonwealth. On the contrary, tl.- r weakness is confessed by their desire to amalga mate with the Whigs, and proven by the inea gre vote polled ibr their candidate per se, .Mr. Rami. If parties had remained separate in tin,' State, as they did in New York, the Democracy would have swept the State by 50,000 majority. As it is, the Democratic party is united ar'i , watchful, while the ranks of the opposition is fiib-t! with recruits, whose sole object is plunder and wlio will desert at the sound of the first gun. A distribution of the spoils will be a sig j nal for the commencement of jealousies among | the allies : and when the camp is once dissolved j into its original elements the truth of our assei | tion will he distsnctlv ascertained. As the tig | ores now stand, the defeat of tire Democracy j cannot hv any process—save that of open falsi fication—be tortured into a Know-Nothing vic j tory. The real strength of that faction is seen | in the number of votes cast in favor of the j Know-nothing candidate for Supreme Judge, | and by that test the relative strength of the Know-Nothing and Democratic parties can be judged.— Philtiddphia Jlr<rits. .Mexican .Yews—The Victory of . 11 rare:. BALTIMORE, NOV. 17. —Tin* NEW Orleans j pajH-rs of Saturday last, received by mail, fur- I nisli the details of the Mexican news hv the Or j zaba. Ihe accounts of the late battle diller Iron, those received by telegraph. 7 he battle was fought at Campo Guerrero,ami resulted in the victory ol Alvarez, ins force; routing the government troops and killing Si). The son of Alvarez, who heads the guerrilla | forces, had captured a number of prisoners and I 2000 head of cattle. Gen. Alvarez has issued an address, denotinc j ing the Dictator, Santa Anna, and closing with the words, "Down with the Tyrant— Death i" I the despot." .11 ait Murdered. tr7~ We learn Irom Maj. Lemuel Evans, tl.at a man hy the name of David Flinn was mur dered in Hopewell Township, Bedford County. ' on the 11th ins!., by a man named Joseph Con : ner, said to he Irorn Chester County. Both had 1 been employed on the Broad Top Rail Road. | and on the evening previous to the murder, ha j a dispute at a party. The murder was perpt ] trated with a pick handle. The deceased livel j about one hour after receiving the blow, but 1 never spoke. No arrest has yet been made. 1A Et El Ii: : On the 29th uIL, by the Rev. J. Heller, Mr. JACOB F. PKESSEL to Miss ELLEN E<-KHAKI, both of Union Township. On the 2litli Sept. last, by David Miller, Esq., Mr. JOHN TURNER, of Harrison Town ship, to Miss NANCY BETTY, of Juniata Town ship, Bedford County. On the 9th inst., by the same, Mr. JOSHCA TURNER, ol Harrison Township, to Miss EL - RA M. CURLY, of Juniata Township, DctllorJ County. r ii- i-T-rmi ■■■ i i mi m i , mn n STRAY SHEEP. Came to the premises of the subscribe! u> Colerain Township, about the dd of Noveir. r inst. nine Sheep, eigiit of which are whit", f ' one black—left ear slit of the white ones, ai c the black has the riirht ear cut off. The own* er is desired to conw forward, prove properly, pay charges, and take them awav. BOSTIAN FATTER. Nov. 2T, 1554.* STUAVSTEFIL Came to the premises ol the subscriber, !■*" ing in Union Township, Bedford County, f the Gth of November inst., a Biack Steer, a white lace, supposed to be about two years olii last Spring—crop oil left eai—fork out ot right ear. No other marks. The owner is - ! <- sired to come forward, prove property, P 4 )' charges, and take her away. HENRY McDONNALD. Nov. 24, IS">4.* TO BLILDETTS. The subscriber is fully prepared to fumi>' any quantity or quality of Building Luw : '■ and Plastering Laths. Ciders directed to Clair:,villc, Bedford. County, w ill be prougC attended to. L> v <rivi MLT a reasonable notice. F. D. BEF.GLE- Nov. 24, 15.)4.
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