THE BEDFORD (iIZETTE. Bedford, AtigN 17, 1 h.l.i. G. W. Bowman, Editor and Proprietor- Democratic Caudate lev tfaital Coiumis sicucr, HON, ARNOLD PLUMEE, OK VEMANCO iOI .N'tV. DEMOCRTTTF COIVTV 11 MUTING. EC7"The Democracy of BEDFORD Comity will hold a (lirainl Vasii Heeling in the Court-House in the Borough ot Bedford on MONDAY EVENING of toe appioachiug Comity Com l tor the pur;>ose of nominating a I'irket to he supported at the next election, and to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary to secure its triumphant success at the Foils. As there will be no amalgamation in the formation of this Ticket—no bowing of the knee to anv principle not recognized in the creed of JEFFERSON, JACKSON, POLK and FIERCE, it is earnestly hoped that every man who still adheres io these glorious old land-marks will he present to give force and countenance to the pro ceedings. All who stain! opposed to Know Nolhmg ism—who repudiate the abominable acts ot the late Legislature—and who desire, honestly, the triumph of DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES—are cordially in vited to attend. A number of able speakers will be present to address the meeting. SIFREME tOtUT. GGP" This body met in the Court House on last Monday morning at 9 o'clock, ail the Judges and the Prothonotary, (Gen. Miller,) lieing present. They read a great many im portant opinions, and heard arguments in the cases taken up from this County. We will give a synopsis of their doings next week. Slavery in lie Early (liurch. [£F"We have been handed a "Translation from Chastel's Influence of Charity in the first Christian Ages," written in French, touching rhe qne#l ion of slavery, which we will publish in the next Gazette, satisfied t hat it will be read with great interest. QTF" On motion, Messrs. S. H. TATE, T. A. BOYD, O. E. SHANNON, and .1. F. REED, were, on Monday last, severally admit ted to practice in the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania. [CF"Judge FISHER, of Yoik, is among the distinguished legal gentlemen at the Bedford Springs. He is on his return from Somerset where he was holding a Special Court for Judge KI MA! ELL. Heis an able Judge and an ac complished gentleman. fy We invite attention to an able and sensi ble article from the Armstrong Dernocruf, which will In? found on the first page, in reference to the infamous "JUG LAW," a measure which opposed by the united Deir.ociatic Press of the State. SEP" We occupy a large space of our paper to day with an account of the horrible riots which recently occurred at the election in Louisville, Kentucky, to which we direct the serous atten tion of all good citizens. They come from sources entirely reliable, and may be depended upon as true. FULTOX IOIXTY. C~7"On the first page will be found the resolutions unanimously adopted by the sterling democracy of Fulton County. They breathe the right spirit, and are written with a degree of ability seldom found in the proceedings of political meetings. They denoimce The "Jug I.aw" as all true Democrats do, and call upon the "honorable'' Senator from this District to resign his seat inconsequence of his gio-s. violation ot the plain instruction of his constituents. Our breth ren of Fulton present Maj. JOSEPH BERNHARD as their choice for assembly, who is a "good man and true." Mr. Robinson declined a nomination. YELLOW FEVER AT PORT-MOI TH.— NORFOLK, August 10.—The yellow fever is increasing at Portsmouth. Over 7000 of the population have kit the city. The Flections. Tn NORTH CAROLINA we have Jive of the eight members of Congress, and on a popular rote a majority of frorn Sto 10,000. The Leg islature is also strongly Democratic. TENNESSEE. —In this State the Democrats have carrier! the Governor and a majority in Congress and in the State Legislature. Gover nor JOHNSTON'S majority it is thought will reach 2,000. ALABAMA ALL RIGHT! —The Washington Union has returns which show that the Demo crats have carried the Governor, a large major ity of the Legislature, and iix of the seven jnetnbers of Congress ! „ KENTUCKY has gone for the Know-Nothings. Our Democratic friends in that State fought most gallantly, but there was too large a Whig ma jority to overcome. For twenty-five years Kentucky has been iargly Whig, and it was too much to hope that she could now be revolution ized, although it looks odd to see her following rite lead of Massachusetts instead of Virginia.— Her true position is by the side of the latter, and nothing but party drill and organization, aided by mob rule and violence, has prevented Her from assuming it. The Know-Nothings have elected the Governor, and a majority of Congressmen and State Legislates. The Official Vote of Virginia. —The Rich mond Enquirer , of yesterday morning, publishes the official vote cast at the late election in Vir ginia. The vote for Governor is as follows : Wise, 83,42+ Flourrtpv, 73,244 Wise's majority. 10' ISO .Mr. Buchanan. —We team that Mr. Bucha nan, L. S. Minister at the Court of St. James, has written to Washington that he will leave Rngland for the United States in the steainet of the Glh of October. BRAINS. —Gov. Trumbull, of Connecticut, on the occasion of a grand riot, ascended a block and attempted by a speech to quiet the people, when a random missile hitting him in the head felled him to th ground. He was badly hurt, and, as his friends were carrying him into his house, Iris wife met him at (he door and ex claimed : "Why, my husband, they have knocked your brains out!" "No they havn't," said the Gov ernor: "if I'd had any brains / shouhtni hare ew< there* 1 From ttte Piti-burg (jcplit, ( POLITICAL ASSIKAXCtJ. We Lad thought tliat the Know Nothings of Pitts burg, lor sheer impudence, could outdo all the rest ol the State; bvt we concede, iioiv. that the Know No things ot the eastern end of the State are their equals in that line, at least, if not their superiors. The Har risburg Tt!egrapk t now before us, edited by one STK IMIKX jMiut.lT, contains the following, which we cite as an illustration of our remark : "At a meeting of the Wuja STATR COMMITTEE, held pursuant to public notice at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the 21th of July, it was, on motion of Ste phen .Miller, and H. 1). .Maxwell. Ksqrs., unanimous ly Rrsolved, That a convention of Delegates of the Whig party be held at Harrtsburg, on TUESDAY ibe 11 th of September, IS>5. A. G. CIJKTIN, Chairman. John H. Diehi, Sr.rietartf. Here, now, are four individuals—Stephen Miller and 11. 1). Maxwell, A. G. Curtin and John 11. Iliehl, not one of whom is a Won;, gravely resolving to call a Whig State Convention. These men have each solemnly abjured all connection with the Whig party, have enrolled themselves in another and a bost.le or ganization, and sworn to vote for none but nominees of their own party; yet cooty assuming to themselves the task of directing the affairs of a party which dis owns them ! It is the coolest manitestation ot effron tery we have ever witnessed. Knt let us not stop here. This Mr. Stephen .Mil ler, who fhu- move- to call together a Whig State Convention, has an ediioial article in a column ad joining that from which this was taken which com mences thus: "It requires no argument to prove that the Whig and Democratic pailies. as potent political bodies, are about a* drtul ax Jnlitrr Cixxar." Say you so, Stephen ? Then uhy did you, most -apietil Stephen, move to call upon a party "as dead as Julius Cirsar"' to bold a Slate Convention I Can you rouse the dead to life Or do you intend to "give us spiiit rapptngs from the othei world of poli tical patties, tor [he delectation ot the surviving re latives / The useful Stephen, who, like the little busy bee, improves each shilling hour, is not, however, content with calling convention- of the dead. He wants still another gathering. Hear him. "After consultation with gentlemen of standing whom we know to belong, re.-pectively, to the Old Line U'liig ranks, to the American Organization, and to the Anti-Nebraska or Republican movement, we leel authorized to suggest an informal meeting of such as are oppo-etl to the present National Administra tion AT H ARRISBURG ON THURSDAY, THE OTH OF AUGUST, [instant,J for the purpose of consult ing as to the propriety of calling a Union Convention a! a subsequent day, to nominate a candidate for Ca nal Commissioner. Let fifty or a hundred of our pro minent citizens, ftom tlie different sections of the State, repre-enting all the elements of opposition to the National Administration, a-sembleat Hatrisburg, suggest a programme, ami call a Convention—and our word for it. an outraged people will do the re-t." Bravo! Ami alter the Whig convention, ami this one, what then? Will the obliging ami industrious Stephen betake himself to a Know Nothing conven tion, ami so enjoy the blessing of sipping honey from everv dower If Mr. Stephen Miller, anil those for whom he speaks, will tell us to what party he anil they really belong, we shall know how to appreciate all this dis iuterestrdnes.-. Let them acknowledge, at once, that they are Know Nothings, and care only for the success of the Know Nothing cause; and, knowing the utter inability of that party to elect its State can didate this fall,they propose ami luge tlie-e two con ventions. as mere auxiliaries to an otherwise boi>eless cause. That would be the plain truth: and although that truth is as apparent as if it hail been frankly confessed, we should be able to award them the cre dit of candor, even if we had to deny them the pos session of any other virtue. As things are. we beg to assure the brazen-facet) convention callers of the east that the people are not too dull to understand their schemes, however unwilling tbey may be, lor the present, to balk them. They may not be able to see very far into the political 11 > ill stone ; but the tune is corning when they will tie it, with a good grace, around the necks of the conspirators and cast them headlong into the sea. CyThe following withering rebuke of Know Xo tbingism is from the New York Times of Friday lust —a paper edited by a member of the dark lantern Order. Read it: The Miections at the South. The result of the Philadelphia Council of Know- Nothings, and it- revolutions, has been watched for with more than common interest for these days of political lute-narmness. It was soon ascertained at the North. That action, save where it routined it self to a repetition of the ritual, was repudiated quite generally, approbation of the Pro-Slavery sentiment embodied in the tweltth resolution, being limited in extent to a handful of blundering and incompetent politicians, mainly of this State. It va> naturally ar gued, that the disgust here in-ored enthusiastic satis faction at the South ; and That the August election would show an overwhelming harvest liotri the seed -own in May. The elections havp been had, and the harvest is slowly coming in. Hut ol alt sparse, shabby, ru.-ted, sprouted, worthless crops, this crop of victories in the Slave States turns out the shabbiest and meanest. Tennessee, upon which everything was staked— where the new party had recruited some of the very be-t talents and leadership of the old; where GEVIKV "delved" and Ci i.i.a:.t ".-pan," and about which so tumultuous an excitement in anticipation ot a Knovv- Nothing triumph was raised here, a- to seduce the "fancy" into enormous wagers on the Know Nothing Governor:—Tennessee, with the fate of Virginia be fore its eyes, and the tonic ofPbiladetpbia panaceas to strengthen its heart, is confessedly in the bauds of the enemy. It matters very little whether the Adminis tration or-ome independent interest is successful; the so-called Americans are ignomimoii-ly flogged. The few candidates lor Congress w ho, like Genera! Zou- UKOFrKR in the Eighth District, have been elected, are so far as we can see at present, chosen by an old party vote, and would have been cho-en unquestiona bly, had they quite omitted the Know Nothing cog nizance. The fact, we cannot help regarding, as decisive of the Know Nothing problem. The party has already ceased to be a national one. The measure counted upon to conciliate that part.aiity at the South, which should more than compensate lor the alienation at the North, appears to have been wholly unproductive; and ir, leaving the precedent of Virginia uncontradic ted, has prophesied fatally for the presidential elec tion. The consideration must impress itself strong ly on every mind : if the party at the climax of its prosperity, with the most ultra pro-stavery basis ever wrung from the North to stand upon, with na tive, tried, assured, pro-slavery candidates to vote for, fails to divert the masses of the people from old partisan attachments, what can be anticipated in a contest where the candidates shall at least be silent, if not hostile, on the great absorbing question 1 To have grounded any hope lor national sncce-s the par ty, with its extraordinary aids, should have swept the whole South like a whirlwind. Anything short of a splendid triumph would not serve ; the momen tum woud not suffice to carry them along over the dreary, fainting interval between to-day and Novem ber, ISotJ. But they have only achieved a splendid defeat; they have shown how little the best helps at the best moment can do for theui, and that nothing at ail can be reckoned upon for another year. These elections have denationalized the party. It remains to be seen whether the (frdpr at the North will accept the lesson thus emphatically tausht it. If satisfied that no considerations or concessions offered to the southerly wing can make it at all use ful in the coming connirt, the sooner it renounces a separate organization ami enlist where its exertions may stand some chance of a practical result, the bet ter for it and for the country at large. That party alone can place its candidates in VYashington which can afford to omit every Southern State from its sum of majorities, and count with certainty on the rest. If the American party cannot afford to do so it is as impotent as it thoroughly deserves to be. It will prove in the mass to he as devoid of political sagacity as its leaders proved themselves in the National Council. Grand Jurv of Philadelphia have (bund 1 rue Bills against I'ASSMOKE WILLIAMSON, and his five black confederates,, for riot and a disgraceful assault upon Col. John Wheeler, Minister to Nicaragua, at this time his slaves were stolen (toil) him. From the Louisville Courier (Whig.) Vtli in-J. I.IHISVILLE ELECTION RIOTS. THE ELECTION RIOTS— BUSIUY WORK-MI EUEK ANU Aaaox— TWENTY MRS KIM.RO. We passed, yesterday, through the forms of an election. As provided tor by statute. The polls were opened, and privilege granted to such as were "right ii|Min the goose," with a lew exceptions, to exer cise their elective franchise. Never, perhaps, was a greater larce, or, as We should term it, Tragedy, enacted. Hundreds and thousands were deterred from voting by direct* acts of intimidation, others through fear ol consequences, and a multitude from the lack of proper facilities. The city, indeed, was, during the day. in possession of an armed mob, the base, passions of which were infuriated to the highest pitch by the incendiary appeals of the newspaper organ, and the (Kiputar leaders of the Know-Not long party. On Sunday night large detachments of men were sent to the First and Second wards to see that the (tolls were proper I v opened. These men the "Anier can Executive Committee" supplied with the requi site irj'rexhmcutx , and. as may be imagined, th'ey were ir. a very ,'it domlition yesterday morning to see that the rights of freemen were respected, in deed, they discharged the important trusts committed to rueio in such a manner as to commend them for ever to the adrvurattoo of oat-law, ! They opened the polls anil provided ways and means for their own |>arty to vote ; they bluffed arid bullit-d all who could not show the sign ; they 4 in fact, converted the elec tion into a jierlerl farce, without one redeeming or qualifying pha-e. We do not know when pr Imw their plan of opera tions were devised. Indeed, we do not care to know when such a sy-tem ot outrage—such perlidy, such da-tardy—was conceived. We only blush lor Ken tucky, that her soil was the scene of such outrages, and that some of her sons were participants 111 the nefarious swindle. It would be impossible instate when or how this not commenced. By day break the polls were taken possession of by the American party, and in pn'rsu ance of their preconcerted name, they used every stratagem or device Jo hinder the vote of every man who could not manifest to the "guardians ol the polls" his soundness on the K. N. questiiin. We were personally witness to the procedure of the par ty in certain wards, and of these we !ee| authorized to speak. At the Seventh Ward we discovered that for three hours in the out.-et in the morning it was impossible for those "posted" to vote, without the greatest difficulty. In the Sixth Ward a |>artt of bullies were masters of the polls. We saw two for eigners driven from the polls, forced to run a gaunt let, heat unmercifully, stoned and stabbed. In the case of one fellow the Hon. Wm. Thionmsson, former ly a member of Congress Irom this district, interfer ed, and while appealing to tLe maddened crowd to cca-e their acts ol disorder anil violence Mr. Thum asson was struck from behind and beat. His gray hairs, his long public service, his manly presence, and his thorough Americanism, availed nothing with the crazed nioli. Other and -erious fights occurred in the .Sixth Ward, of which we have no time to make mention now. The more seriom ami disgraceful di-ttir\>ances occur red in Ihe upper wards. The vote cast was but a partial one, and nearly altogether on one side. No show was given to the friends of Preston. We were largely in the majority, but who in the lace of • an non, muskets and revolvers, could not, being an un armed and quiet populace, confiont the mad mob.— So the vote was cast one way, and the result stands before the public. 11'. the morning, as we state elsewhere, George Berg, a carpenter, living on the corner of Ninth and Market, was killed near Hancock street. A Ger man, named Fritz, formerly a partner at the Gait House, was severely, if not fatally beaten. In the afternoon a general row occurred on Shelby street, extending from Main to Broadway. We are unable to ascertain the facts concerning the di-turb ancp. Some fourteen or fifteen men were shot, in cluding otlicer Williams, Joe Selvage, and others.— Two or three were killed, and a number of houses, chiefly German coffee houses, broke into and pillag ed. About a o'clock, when the vast crowd, aug mented by accessions from every part of the city, and armed with shot guns, musket and rifles, were proceeding to attack the Catholic church on Shelby street, Mayor Barbee arrested them with a sjwech, and the mob returned to the First Ward Polls. Pre sently a large party arrived with apiece of brass ordnance, followed by a number of men and boys with muskets. In an hour afterwards the large brewery on Jefferson street, near the junction of Green, was set lire to. In the lower part of the city, the disturbances were characterized l>y a greater degree of Moody work. Late in the afternoon, three Irishmen going down Main Street, near Eleventh, were attacked and one knocked down. Then ensued a terrible scene, the Irish firing from the window- of their houses, on .Main street, retreated volleys. Mr. Rodes, a river man, was shot and killed by one in the upper story, and a Mr. Graham met with a similar late. An Irishman who discharged a pistol at the back of a man's head, was shot and then bung. He however, survived both punishments. John Hudson, a carpen ter. was shot dead during the Iracas. Alter dusk, a row of fiame houses on Main street between Tenth and Eleventh, the property of Mr. Qttinn, a well known Irishman, wete set on fire.— The flames extended across the street and twelve buildings were destroyed. These house-, were chief ly tenanted by Irish, and upon any of ihe tenants venturing out to escape the flames, they were imme diately shot down. No idea could lie formed of ihe number killed. We are advised that Jive men trtre roaxtnt tu death, having been so badly wounded by gun shot wounds that they could not escape liom the burning buildings. Of all the enormities and outrages committed by the American party yesterday and last night, we have not time to write. The mob having satisfied its appetite for blood, repaired to Third street, and until midnight made demonstrations again.-t the " fimo" and " Tltmtirrni" offices. The furious crowd satisfied itself, however, with breaking a few window paries, and burning the sign of the Times office. AT one o'clock, this morning, a large fire is raging in The upper part of the city. L'pon the proceedings ot yesterday and last night, we have no time nor heait now to comment. We aie sickened with the very Thought of the men mur dered, and bouses burned and pillaged, that signal ized the American victory yesterday. Not less than twenty corpses foim the trophies of tins wonderful achievement. (From the same.) 1 us: FI.KCTIOX—Rows AND BLOonsunm— The elec tion during yesterday was, as near as could be, al! one-sided, the inost unfair means being re.-orted to by the Know-Nothing* to crowd other voters from the polls. In the First Ward the most intense excitement prevailed for some time, and ihejiolls were surround ed by a large crowd. Whenever a Know-Nothing voter approached the crowd he was hoisted right over the heads of all and landed at ttie door, ready to deposit his vote. Several disgraceful fights occurred, and one man of the name of iiurrh, who had with others, chased an Irishman from the JKIIIS, was in turn be-et, beaten nearly to deaih, and knocked senseless by the man he bad been chasing. Mar shal Ktdd, we learn, subsequently arrested the Irish man. in the Sixth ward several disgraceful scenes occur red, such as six. eight, or a dozen men pitching into one poor Irishman and driving him from the !"*• j In the Seventh Ward everything appeared to ga on fairly aud quietly, but in the Kighth it was a Jne sided matter, none but yellew Ticket chaps having anv chance to get to the polls throughout the day. There were rumors of a serious difficulty at the Oakland precinct, and Marshal Kidd dispatched a wagon load of -pecial police to establish ordei, or raise a bigger rnuss. In the Seventh War;!, fonr men were walking along the street when they were hesel by a crowd, am! ran off, one of thern taking refuge in u bouse corner ei Ninth ami Magazine streets. The house was stoned, am! a woman hurt, and finally one or two of the men were .-hot, one of them dangerously. One of the pursued party was the first to shoot, firing a pistol at the erowd, who were stoning him ami his eisinpanioiis. Some one came oat frotn a house with a shot gnn, and let drive at the fugitive. The Ma?- shal subsequently arrested two of them. (From the Louisville Oemocat.)- i.oinsvir.Mt ntsuKsirKD. No respectable man can think of the scene of yes terday, without shame. We had a farce, or rather a tragedy, instead of an election. A complete system of tor rot and blood was established by the Know- Nothing party or faction. The details arc disgusting. The lawlessness was provided for by the city author- ; ilies, iri allowing but one voting place in a ward.— The upper and lower wards were taken at an early hour, and the middle wards were not exempt. We have hud no election ill any American sense of j ol the word. Our city is governed, not by law, but by a set of hired scoundrels who obey the secret com- i mauds of lawless men. It is not worth while to try to disguise the character of this city. There is no j taw, no police, no justice here. Our jmll Urates speak not the voice of the people, but the dictates i of a mob. We never heard of such scenes, mnrh less have ; we seen them anywhere. Nor have such ever been I Witnessed in this country. This sort of proceeding j was i-ot anticipated. It came fully up in all that had ' been threatened, and stirpas-ed anything auticipa- i ted, unscrupulous as we knew Ihe secret party. If the election yesterday was legal and is in stand, then j the right ol suffrage in Kentucky is a mockery.— ; There is no freedom here and no law. Scotuidrelism is triumphant. We have found means to subvert the law of numbers at the polls by violence, and pass ed off as legal. If the example of Louisville were generally followed the liberties of this country would ' be ended. We shall hpar from Kentucky, however, : in a few days. Perhaps we shall have good news, j when it will be necessary for the State to take this city iu hand, and reduce her to obedience to law. The Louisville Riots. We publish to-day a somewhat detailed account of the dreadful riot in Louisville on .Monday last copied | (torn the Louisville Courier, a Whig journal, and al so the Louisville Urmorrnt. It appears from these, as we hud every reason to suppose would prove to be the case, that the Secret Order of Know-Nothings not only concocted the giaiul scheme ol riot beforehand, ! but industriously sought during the whole day to pro ' voice an outbreak, by denying to naturalized citizens of every class the privilege of voting, and often dri ving them from the |>oils with violence, li nowhere appears ihat the naturalized citizens were lhe aggres sors ; but the Secret Order, blinded by bigotry, and : their very natures and all their better feelings jier ! verted by the idea that intolerance is virtue—an idea | that is the very basis of their organization—resolved first upon this scheme of wrong, and executed it, eek now to throw the odium of piovoration. and the instigation of the outrages upon the parties it was their sole purpose to pi risen be and injure. Such, however, cannot he the case; for wherever an en lightened public sentiment is unbiassed by prejudice ; —wherever truth is valued and wrong condemned, the united voice pf the American people will charge home upon the secret order of Know Nothings the | w hole responsibility or this grievous wrong—tins last anil greatest, as it is the boldest outrage upon the rights and privileges of freemen. It ua> deliber ately planned before-hand—executed without re morse, and in cold blood— ami every man engaged in . it. car. be e-teemed in no other light than a deliber ate and willul assasin.— l'UUa. Argue. The Louisville Riots. We have the testimony of all history to hear lis out in the assertion, that the most cruel ami revengeful measures, when once carried, have often been pushed to their utmost extremity, hv those very men who, before their enactment, pretended to Oppose them, in order to throw the odium on others. Hut this opposition fins pro i ceeded from the lip, and not from the heart, and ; probably would not have been made, ha I not the objector have foreseen, that his opposition would be fruitless. It is said, that Ace i sn;s, with his usual hypocrisy, pretended to be shock ed at the idea of proscription ; but perceiving , that ANTONY and Lienors were two to one a tra i list him, he knew that his single voice against the measure would not be sufficient to prevent it. By giving il, however, he would preserve his popularity, and not lose the pleasure of glut ting his revenge. LACTAXTUS infoims us, that when the horrid butchery commenced In Rome, | ACGCSTI'S carried it on with a severity more unrelenting than either ol his colleagues : and that whenever LEPIDUS or ANTONY were in j clined to mercy, either from interest, entreaty or bribes, h- alone stood out for blood with lus |ty determination. From the light which now begins to dawn upon the recent Imtcherv in Louisville, we are inclined to believe, that some of those miserable Know-Nothing demagogues, who pretended to stay the work of destruction, after it had run into full activity, were the very men who counselled and encouraged the act in the Secret Lodges. Sullicient information has ' reached us to prove, that the attack upon the lives and property of the foreign horn citizens |of Louisville, together with the Catholics of American birth, was pre-arranged in the Coun- I cils of the Know-Nothing Order. Several of 1 the Louisville journals foreshadowed the riot precisely in the manner in which it occurred, j basing their intimations upon the knowledge ol what had occurred in the Secret Lodges. One (of those journals, until verv recently, was the organ ol the Know-Nothing party, ami only withdrew its support, when it discovered the infamous designs of the organization. A few days preceding the election, the Democratic party of Louisville, appointed two well known and respectable citizens from each Ward, to confer with the Kxeeulive authorities of the Know-Nothing Councils, in reference-to the adoption of measures to protect the right of suf frage front apprehended interruption lv the mob spirit which hail prevailed in (hat City. ever since tlie advent of the Secret Order. It was believed that Committees of the two parties, acting in concert, would exercise a moral in fluence over persons, disposed to be disorderly. I'lte Know Nothings declined nny conference on the subject , for the reason, not publicly ex pressed, hut generally understood that they had determined to carry the election by acts of vio lence and intimidation. No foreign Itorn citi zen was to be permitted to vote, and this was to be carried into execution at the hazzard of life and deslnu limrof property. How faith fully the resolce of tlm Lodges u-as carried out, we learn by the te|egraj>b, in the death ol twen ty persons, shot or roasted alive, and the burn ing of a score of houses containing women and children. And such cowardly miscreants dare pollute the name of American, by an assumption of its title. The telegraph, too, is used for the vile purpose of defaming the character of men who only resisted with deadly weapons, when their houses, conlaining their families, were be ing fired over their heads. Had they done less than shot down the rnob, they would indeed have been unworthy of being called citizens.— We have seen the same resort to the telegraph by incendiaries in our own City. It is the must powerful weapon the proscriptivp party can use to corrupt and forestall public opinion; and they fly to it, as the criminals, in former ages, flew to the femple for safety. What other party in this Union but the one which has seized on the name of American, on ly to disgrace it, has ever resorted to the torch, the stiletto, the musket and the cannon, to pro cure success? None whatever.* Whenever de feat at tire ballot box is imminent, the members of that disgraceful party pant for carnage and ruin with the most brutal instinct. "Kill kill —burn—burn"—are the only wotds which their depraved hearts force to their lips, and with a keen relish for the work of destruction, no man's property is safe from depredation. Has an A merican born citizen a house occupied by a for eigner by birth, or a Catholic by persuasion, it is given to the flaine?T without Hie "least hesita tion, and his person maltreated Ibr renting to such persons. The mob monster may be truly said to have the arms of I?I:IAJ:I:I S, with the head ul PoLYPHEMUS- strung to CXOCUfe, but blind to perceive. We learn from Louisville, Ilia! the desperate and fanatical mob of Know-Nothings, baring that their majority in that city would be swept away, it the naturalized citizens were permitted to vote, determined to prevent such an evidence of their weakness, even to the butchery of those citizens and burning them out of their homes. The Secret Order knew, from experience, that when they should begin the work of destruc tion and rapine, all the thieves and vagabonds in* the city, would be oil their side, to swell tbeir numbers, in order to grasp a full share of plunder. This is always the case whenever a mob gets into motion. The vilest dregs of soci ety, for the time, become the leaders and urge their followeis to the farthest extent. Violence is resorted to, and dwellings assailed, tl.at the thieves cait the more securely ply their trade, and tind*security from punishment in the force of numbers and partizan protection. Such was the case in the riots of' 44 in Philadelphia.— VVe know several leaders ofthe Know-Nothing party, who, in' 44-, were caught robbing private .houses into which they had forced themselves, and now hold high positions in the Secret Or- I der. Two of the join rials in Louisville were about to l>e assailed, but as there was nothing very valuable to a mob, led on by thieves, thev desisted from the unprofitable labor, and not from the interposition of two Know-Nothing editors, who desire to grow great b\j telegraph. They had been too long fomenting disorder, to | be enfjlftd to any credit for its suppression.— Destroy the outspoken honesty of the Press 1 j Yes—Despotism begins with this—because it ; can no more exist in a Nation, until the liberty i of the Press be destroyed, than the night can j happen before the sun is set. And yet so disgraceful a Party as the Know- j Nothings, has dared to assume the nam- of "A- j merican." They originally, in their fondness 1 and accustomed use of slang names, and in the j day of their triumphs, called themselves "A'/zou;- .Vo/Ai/igs," anil to that, as characteristic of their j mental poverty, they shall be held in the day j of their disgrace and defeat. They insult the j name of an American, and belie our institutions j when they attempt to clothe themselves with its noble panoplv. God forbid, that it should ever 1 be suspected that sncii men as control and infiu- ' ence the Secret Lodges reflect the sentiments of the true American mind, or the impulses and j emotions of the genuine American heart. The ; true American wonhbnot persecute ami trample i down his fellow man, because be differs with ; him in his religions belief or firm of woiship. j Tiie true American would not torture into a I crime tie* mere accident of birth, and hunPtfowti ! a fellow creature because lie drew hi> first breath in a foreign land, and first looked upon I fie blessed sun shining from other skies than our own. A tine American respects the con stitution and the laws under which ii<* lives, and has no fellowship with a paitv which appeals to the worst and meanest prejudices of tin* hour, and illumines its path with tlie glare of burning churches and dwellings, and marches through pools of human gore, which, in its blind j and insatiate fury, it has wantonly sited. It is the interest of alt good citizens that the monster should be crushed.— Pennsylrnniun. OLD BKRkS. CC7" V\'e publish below the resolutions passed on the 7th inst. by the gallant Democracy of did Berks, which are worthy an earnest perusal at the bauds of every Democrat iu the Commonwealth. The Committee on lie.-olutions, through J. Law rence Getz. Chairman, repotted the lollowing, which were unanimously adopted : lleni/vrrl, Ry the Democrats of Berks county, in annual Mass Meeting assembled : 1. That the platform of principles laid down by the Democratic .National Convent ion at Baltimore, in 1832, contains a lull and explicit exposition of Demo cratic doctrine upon all question* of national policy ; and we hereby re-ullirrn the same, as that u|ron which we are trilling again to go before the country, and a hnle the decision ot an intelligent people. 'J. That we cordially endorse the re-ulutions pas sed by the Democratic State Convention ot IS-3,3; and heartily approve the nomination of ARNOLD PI.I - SIEB, of Venango county, for Canal C ommissioner, having lull confidence in his political Jkielity as a Democrat, anil honesty and capacity a< a man. .'J. That the administration of FKANKI.IJ* PIERCE: ha< been conducted in rnnformity to Democratic pre cedent am! practice, and in strict accordance with the spirit of the patriotic uuixiiri : "So North, no South, no Kast, no West; but a sacred maintenance of the common bond, and tiue devotion to the common brotherhood." •t. That State Sovereignty in all matters of purely internal and domestic concern, is and always has been, a caidinal principle of the Democratic faith ; and, that, a- a consequence of this principle, we re cognize the policy and justice of non-intervention by Congress in the domestic affairs of the Territories— leaving the people thereof free to e--Tab!ish such local institutions, not contrary to law- and public morals, as to them shall seem fit; and that we consider the admission of new States into the Union, with or with out slavery, as justified by the precedent >et by the fathers of the republic, in the formation of our Fed eral Union, and confirmed by the uiiilorm practice of Congress from that day to this. ' o That the right of Americans to rule America is so clear and indisputable, that since George 111. of England relinquished his dominion over these Slates, no foreign prince or potentate has attempted to op pose it; and that, alter the example of Washington and bis compatriots of the Revolution, we recogdflb as Americans, aR citizens, whether by birth'A- alWp tion, who are attached to our republican institutions, and live in obedience to the Constitution and Laws. 0. That we regard, with unqualified disapproba tion, the existence in tins-laud, where freedom of though!, free discussion, and a liee press, have ever been ron-idered a sufficient safeguard against public wrongs, of a secret political society, which fetter.- the will and conscience of Us members with unlaw ful oaths, compels them to vote for whomsoever it shall decree, and counsels them to dissimulation and falsehood in their intercourse with other!; that we regard such societies as anti-American in their ori gin, anti-repnblican in their spirit, and destructive in their tendency of the very lir-t principles of civil lib erty : and that we declare unalterable hostility to any organization, or patty, open or secret, which seeks to deprive men of any of the rights of citizenship, on account of the accident of birth-place, or conscienti ous dittereiic**s of religious belief. For our justifica tion ol this hostility, we appeal to authorities purely American: 1. The Declaration ot Independence, which enumerates among the "injuries and usurpa tions" suffered by the American peoplp at the hands of the King of Great Kritiain, hi- endeavors "to pre vent the population of the-e States, by obstructing the law; for naturalization of foreigners, and re fusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither.'" And 2. The Constitution of the United States, which provides that "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United Sates." 7. That we congratulate the Democracy of Virginia,, upon the noble triumph they recently achieved over the stealthy foe that, Bushed with success at the North, boastpd itself as invincible. We recognize in their gallant standard-bearer, Hr.xitv A. WISE, a bold, chivalrous and eloquent champion of Demo cratic principles, worthy to occupy the Executive chair of the good old Commonwealth, who lias never wandered from the faith she learned at the feet of her own JEVEKRSOX, 8. That 1 we have undiminished confidence in the integrity, ability, and sound Democracy of Hon. J. GI.AXCY JONES, our Representative in Congress, and' that his public acts meet our most cordial approba tion. .ft That the premeditated fraud practiced upon the Btonocrats of Berks cwtmty, by .leremtaln Hfcngle, .lohn P. Litidt-rinan. Samuel Shearer, ■ll secretly joining the know Not bin* Order, while ti„. r sed cull to be Democrat*, awl tjje dehbei latioil of their solemn pledge, denying ..n ' with that Order, have forfeited lheir%very" i'*"' 0 " recognition nt members of the Democrat,/J,,'* !o justly expand them to the dist,u st and Kc '„ honorable men. ° rn 01 ! 10. That the passage, by the last I.egis! atnr Prohibitory Liquor Law, opposition to the lite people, fairly expressed through the half, was an unuwritable stret. h of legislative fy, whirl. shodd not by suffered HI silence- tl I law itself is, in our opinion, an infringeri,,.,/ " r personal liberty, an invasion of vested rTahts perty , and a tyrannical attempt t u force men irinT stinence tram that which, in its rational n-e /- " sanction Ol universal eustorn, and a higher it," " r** man authority; and that we will employ all fc effort* to seeare the repeal of said law , at the time, pledging onrsuppoit to any praciirable a/jt/ cessary rreaare lor arreting the evils of inreJ!!" anre, and prevening abuses HI the liquor traffic 11. That the views ar.d principles of the pie. Male administration, as embodied in the acts w " j by the lecent Legislatine,and approved by the (~ em or, by which the interests ol the Slate have [/," or are proposed to be seriously and injuriously arT" ted, coutiast Strongly with the wise and •i.f,,-,. management of the tjovernment by f „ and tend to show the danger of entrtMmg J ol the Commonwealth io the hands of men who 'w swayed by fanaticism and governed by prejudice/* ■XF" RELIGIOUS NOTICE. -Rev. J O[IN R Cu A wKit will preach in the Lutheran Church' on next Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock, A "\| X/n; A MP.MEKTI \G.-The fir fledford Circuit will commence on Friday the .'3lst of August, near Ravs-Hill,on the | a „;| belonging to Mr. David T. lllack, half- m ,U from the Turnpike Road. Rev. JOHN \ COLLINS, P. E., with several other distin guished preaefmrs, trrr expected to he i n a(!rn . dance on the occasion. Accommodations ca-i he had for both man and horse at David T Black's. G. W. BOISE, p. (\ nAit it 11: it : On the 10th inst., at CVntreville, hv Rev. J F. Whiteside, Mr. HKNUY WEKTZ, to .Mi, s MARY ANN MAY, all of Bedford Co. jj^J| II i i; i>: On the 3 i inst., at iu-r residence in St. Clair township, Mrs. MARY A.CRISMAN , cnnwirt ul Mr. I)aiiiel IV. Cusmaii. The d.-i.eavd wa, an amiable and kind lady, and enjoyed the friendship of all,ivho knew her. She di-d in the triumph ol Gospel taith, and left a bright evidence ot her acceptance with God. LOOK CUT! Persons indebted to the underlined or. imok account, or fur Borough and School Taxes, | r the years IS5*2 and 1853, are invited to cal! at bis office and settle their accounts (by due liilrr otherwise.) All whose accounts remain mwt tled, on my books, by the first day of Septeaiher nest, may be waited upon bv Constable Agnrw or Mower. H. .NICODKMI'S. Aug. 17,185n.* NOTICE. The Commissioners named in Ihe Art of As sembly, entitled "An act to incorporate acoir pany to make a Plank Road from Hopewell to Bloody Run, in Bedford County," will meet it the boose of John A.Gump, in Bloody Rut:, on the I Ith day of Sept. n-xt, and at the kuu*> of James Echleberger, in Hopewell, on the 12th dav of Sept. for the ptirjKtse of opening bnolo and receiving subscriptions preparatory to an organization of said Company. John King, Thus. \V. HOr ton, John Dadier. Geo. Wishart, David Brallier, M. M. Peebles VVm. Hartley, J. M. Barndollar, B. R. Aschnm, Titos. H. .Murray, Alex. King, W. P. Schell. Aug. 17, 1855., Register's Notice! ALT, per-ons indebted either as heirs creditor' o*\oi w i-e are hereby notified that the foliowmj M' eil persons have filed their accounts in the Regi-trr Office am! that they will be presented to the Orphan- Com l of Red ford County ou FRIDAY the 17th of September next at the Court House for con fir - Hon at which time and place they may attend if Ike? think proper. The account of William Smith administrator of lii tot ate ol Geoige Suiitr, late of Bedford Township>V arcount of Abraham Moses am! George 1 .Riddle Executors of the last Will #tc of Samuel MUM late of Union township deceased. The account ol Nicholas Wbiteline admintstrid of John Christian Biet.e late of Juniata township i'< ceased. The account of John Brown Executor ot the la will Kc of David Thompson lute of Bedioid tonkif deceased. The account of John Sparks one of the Executors of the last will Sec of Thomas Morris late ol N"! Providence township deceased. The account of Jeremiah Bennett admim-tra- ,r ruin testamentoaiinexo ol George Fryer late ol South ampton township deceased. The account ol James Cessna F.sq administrator c. Joseph Cessna late of Cumberland \ alley lownsfiy deceased* The acdonnt of Hon Joseph B Noble one ot ■ ■■• F.xecutors of the last Will \c of William Galltrai... late ol Napier town-hip derea-ed. The account of William Beegle & Lmanuel heel. administrators of the estate of Charles Beegle late ol Coleram Township deceased. The account o! John Metzger Esq admini- u." of the Estate of Marcus Metzgar late ol Harine" Township deceased. . The account ot Wesley Fisher administrator o! 1 estate of Philip Fisher :a.te of East Providence l" wii ship deceased. The account of Amos Wertz administrator ot estate of James Bovlan late of Bedford Coantr ceased. Tnp account of Solomon Sparks one of the a-.'H _ trators of Ihe estate of Aliraliam Sjurks late o. 11 Providence township deceased. The account ot Henry Hull and William ' ' 1 3 ministrators of the estate of Isaac Hull iaieol. -i Township deceased. v The account of Emanuel Diehl & John - ) fl Kxorsfof the last wilt &c of Jonathan Nycum w r J Coleram township deceased. ~ The account of George \V Figard one ol >he . cutors of the last will Ike ot James Figatu t Broadtop township deceased. . ■ . The account ol Wm Adam? Executor ot • ' Will ttc ol Jacob-Adams late of Southampton ship deceased. . . The account of Thomas King Guardian ol • tate ol Richard £ Bonnett lateol Hopewell lo tt - ' decease.l. |ra . The account of George 11 Spang l'-s'l *" j tt ,s tor of the estate ot Thomas K-*-i!e deceased v. one ot the Executors of John Keetie late o. township deceased. . I D. WASHABAUGH. Reg l4 " Aug. 10, 155.7. S-TR.W SOW. Came to the premises of the sub-enber , Bedford township, sometime about the flic w lute Cow, black ?|Ktted, no particular m.< " owner is requested to come lorvvard, pr<w f I"' 1 iwiy charges, and take Ler aivay. , UFAS^R"' Aug. 10, ISS.'.U.
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