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.