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|,( ; ;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 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