THE BEDFORD GAZETTE. Ifcilfcrd, Get. S3, 1855. G. W. Bowman, Editor an&Prosrietor- CCP"The following is the otficial vote for Canal Commsssioner. Pj.vMt:a's majority is 11,536. Making a change of nearly 50,000 since last fall: Official Vote of Canal Commissioner in ISUIL A Plutner. T. Nicholson, Adams, 17b t 1679 Allegheny, 67-10 .7877 Armstrong, 1033 21-11) Heaver, 1331 1000 Beillortl, 1677 1701 Berks, - 6U4S Blair, 1465 2302 Bradford, 2176 4173 Bucks, 532b , I 123 Butler, 2182 -'582 Cambria, 2003> 1437 Carbon, 1187 Mb Centre, 1831 203 I Chester, 4460 4008 Clarion, 2!5t 10r> Clearfield, 1400 1013 Clinton, 031 006 Columbia, 1736 084 Crawford, 2015 2301 Cumberland, 2300 ■2660 Dauphin, 2031 .1021 Delaware, 1487 1682 JE'Jt, 350 236 Erie, 1608 2113 Fayette, 2620 2312 Franklin, 2411 2860 Fulton, 822 600 (Ireene, 1007 1303 Huntingdon, 1106 1020 Indiana, 667 231.1—- Je&erson, 1030 104..' Juniata, 837 1021 Lancaster, 5000 -'3Ol , Lawrence, Sot ILL Lebanon, 1865 22.>6 Lehigh, 3304 263.! Luzerne, 3057 3571 Lycoming, 2266 2031 M'lieau, 265 155 Mercer, 1635 1818 .MttUm, 1310 1382 Monroe, 1327 511 .Montgomery, 5207 3573 Montour, " 020 138 Northampton, 3738 2113 Northumberland, 1983 1011 Perry, 1332 1530 Vhila. city & co., 28281 25770 Pike, 614 61 Potter, 436 C3l Schuylkill, 5012 1.175 Somerset, 14S1 2050 Snyder, 810 1090 Susquehanna, 1579 2164 Stdlivan, 317 292 Tioga, 1381 172,3 i.'niou, 793 1500 Venango, 1501 1468 Whrre'n, 717 958 Washington, 3182 3211 Wayne, 1394 1420 Westmoreland, 3-747 3200 Wyconmig, 529 794 York, 5383 4501 TOTAL 16P281 149745 QSfTlie following able, eloquent, and manly, defence of thy Supreme Court, (by the Editor ofthe Philadelphia .Yews, the most prominent Whig and K. N. paper in that city,) in the WILLIAMSON case, will attract universal atten tion and interest. Here is a warm political op p ment of the members of the Court, giving a plain history of this case which is alike credita ble to his head and his heart. We ask otir op position friends to read it carefully, and then say, with such disinterested testimony before them, if they can fbe idle clamor propagated by the Abolitionists, who are endea voring to sow the seeds of anarchy and blood shed, by getting up an injlamnydory excitement in favor of this violator of the laws of his coun try. Some of the Professional, gentlemen who delight in styling the Supreme Court Dough faces, and many other such dignified terms, should read it and blush for the perpetration of such gross indecency and vulgarity against the highest Court in the Commonwealth. If this article came from a Democratic paper, it would only have the effect that usually cortjes from partisan articles —bid, with such a clear and lucid statement coming from the boldest and ablest champanion of the Whig and Know- Nothing cause in Pennsylvania, can any man doubt that Williamson is indrbt.-d to bis own criminal conduct lor the position in which he now finds himself. But read the article. Here it is: From the Daily News, Sept. IS. Tlis Williamson (as?. We publish, in another column, a communi cation from an esteemed correspondent, in re ply to some editorial remarks we took occa sion to make in relation to the decision of the Supreme Court in the Williamson case. Our correspondent does not relish those remarks, though he does not pretend "to gainsay the law of the case as laid down by a majority of the Court and conceding that point, as we understand him to do, tve feel at a loss to know why he should find fault with our re marks on the subject. In the article referred to, we confined ourselves to the case as it was presented to the Supreme Court for its deci sion. Satisfied that that tribunal had no ju risdiction over it, and that it could not, with out arrogating to itself the exercise of unau thorized and unwarranted power, step in be tween Williamson and Kane, and release the former from the clutches of the litter-—sat isfied of this we did not hesitate to express our approbation of the decision of the Court, and commend the judges tor a faithful discharge of their duties. This was the utmost of our re marks. We neither expressed any admiration for nor commendation of Judge Kane's conduct. Nor did we say aught condemnatory of Pass more Williamson. All we meant to do, and we believe did, was to express our approval of the decision, of the Supreme Court, and Com mendation of the fearless and independent con duct of the Judges, in doing what they believed to be their duty, instead of play ing the part of political weathercocks, and disregarding law to pander to public sympathies and prejudices ; and as our correspondent, who is himself a good lawyer, does not pretend to deny the correctness ot that decision, but,, iuferrenlially at least, admits its correctness, be can have lit tle cause to find fault with our remarks. But, it appears, he did not like our remarks because they were, in his opinion, "highly complimentary of the Judges of the Supreme Court for their firmness," &c. Th,is it seems, was the extent of our offending in his opinion. Whether those remarks were "highly compli mentary," or not, we are content to leave to th- jn Iguu-nt of our readers. Admitting that they were commendatory ol the firmness ot the j judges, all admitting it must concede that to that extent they could have* been no more ! than just. Though the Judges did no more than their duty, they did it fearlessly *ud manfully, and that, too, under circumstances well calculated to excite their sympathy, and to swerve thern from a rigid and faithful adhe rence to the law as it is, for/- which they tie serve public commendation rather than censure, and as an independent and impartial journalist, we ditl not hesitate to award them their due.— We spoke of their derision, ot the conclusion at which they had arrived, and not of the pro cess of reasoning or the language employed by Judge Black m making that decision. There are many views expressed in that written opin ion with which we do not concur j we may g<> further, and sav, there are surmt sentiments expressed in it to which we cannot and dr not subscribe. It is but due to candor, however, to admit that among these is not the one embodied in the concluding paragraph of the opinion of the Court, to which our correspondent refers. To the verity and justness of that sentiment we fully subscribe, all the indignant outburst ol lo gic and declamation of our correspondent to the contiary not withstanding. Say what our correspondent may, he fails to disprove the assertion of Judge Black. Pass more Williamson does carry the key in his own pocket whereby he may release himself from prison, if he sees proper to do so. We will not here follow the process of reasoning employed by our correspondent, and enter up on an inquiiy as to the truth of what he as sumes, that Williamson did make a truthful return, and that he cannot amend that retitra without an implied, if not express acknowl edgment that Ins first return was false. Suf fice it for us now to say, that a man may be guilty of falsehood by a suppression of truth as weil as the expression of falsehood : and that Williamson did aot, in his sworn return, state the truth, and the whole truth, it does not be come him now to higgle or hesitate about cor recting that refirrn, and make one that will dis close all the knowledge he has in relation to the matter. Instead of halting and hesitating about doing so, because that might subject him to the imputation of not having acted properly in the first instance, he should as an hon est man onlv consult duty, 4at duty which he owes to himself and to the laws of the country. it is true, then, as Judge Black observes, he does carry the key vv-ith him, whereby he may unlock the bolts and bars ol the prison, unless it be assumed, as does out correspondent, that he made a clean breast in the outsiart, and disclos ed all the knowledge he has on the subject in his original return : but this, in the face of all the evidence already disclosed, would be going farther than our candor permits. The quibble I that there can be no property in slaves in this : State, and that he therefore never had in Lis possession the property claimed by W heeler, I will nut suffice as a justification ff-tbe return j made by him. It was not for him to decide i whether Wheeler could claim and hold those slaves as property or not, nor for him to assume that because he did,-not regard them as property that he never had iff his p >ssession such refugees from service. His duty was to answer the writ ; ol habeas corpus as commanded, either bv bring ing the persons claimed into the Court, or by a I sworn return disclosing all the knowledge he j had on the subject, Pass mo re Williamson has no one to thank but himself for the difficulties jin which he now finds himself. Had he mind : ed his own business, and let other people uiimo ! lesh-d attend to theirs, he might now be enjoy ; wig the pleasures of his family circle at his own , fire-side, and find enough within a stones-throw ! around him deserving of charity and acts of be nevolence, to engage all the means he has to i spare for purposrs ufihat kind, and all the time his business engagement would allow him to de- I vote to so noble a cause. Instead ol looking around him at home to do good, where in the exercise of charity and benevolence would have threatened him, lie choose the hazardous and less laudable undertaking of interfering with the rights of others, and having done so with a full knowledge of the responsibilities attached to his . conduct, he can blame himself only lor the awkward predicament in which lie is now ! placed. As tor the conduct of Judge Kane we shall have more on another occasion to say. Our remarks are already extended to too great length to express our views fullv in relation to him.— Let it therefore, be sufficient for the present to say, that we have no doubt the court over which he presides had jurisdiction in the premises, and he had therelbre lawful authority to issue the writ prayed tor by Colonel Wheeler. Re lieving this, it follows, of course, that we regard it to have been the duly of Williamson to make a lull and complete return, disclosing by an un varnished statement, under oath, all the lactsol uhich lie had any knowledge, and that, on failing to do so, he committed a grievous mis- take, and exhibited a spirit of defiance to the judicial tribunal before which he had been sum moned to answer, that no law and order-loving citizen ever should exhibit, or can consistently justify. So far, then, we regard Williamson in the wrong—wholly in the wrong to meddle in a business which it did not concern, and again equally in the wrong in not disclosing unreser vedly all the knowledge, as he was legally bound to do, he had in relation to the transac tion. paper this week is unusually full of advertisements. Many interesting aticies are held back for our mxt issue. Auecdote of a Sheep. Anecdotes of animals are always amusing ; and moreover, if observed accurately aud told without embellishment, may some day serve to solve a great problem io philosophy the distinction, namely, between lite spirit of man that goelh upwards, and the spirit of a beast that goeth downward to the earth —a problem, that the great Bishop Butler could not solve, and left a blemish in his argument but a monu ment to Ins candor. The subject of'ttie one I am going to tell happened many years ago, when I was an urchin of eight or, ten, but I remeruber it welJ. One fine summer moraine it was my ..pro vince to anl in. driving a llock of sheep tb-tbe brook, to be washed, preparatory to shefatfig. The man who. hud charge of them led the'po ces&ion with the salt dish in hand, in which he ostentatiously rattled some lumps of salt, and from time to time made pretense of throwing a handful on the ground, to draw the dock on ward from place to piace v while I tidlowed to drive up the loiterers. The old patriarch of the troop, a fine old back, led the van of the quadrupeds, and care fully examined every spot where the false mo tion of throwing salt was made, till he was ful ly :.ati.-fied in bis mind that no salt was depos- iled. He then paused, shook his head with its ample honors, and vending till the shepherd was about a rod in advance charged opefiMvitn from the tear with his whole momentum, J&ytfo' raising him >4f his feet. I ft*rr> ffe first comprehended the mariceuvre, bitt tlf&re was so much fun in it, it was igiposftM? f*> jjiive the alarm • and *vhen the man turned to "blow me up" for my tacit cSl^jflpcity, 1 ww rolTirtg on the sward in a convulsion of laughter so contagions he was forced to join in it, ant! let me off without a rebuke. Will it do to attribute to so simple an ani mal as a sheep, so high a moral sentiment as indignation at deceit '! Perhaps not ;we may at least rttake the "practical inference" that those having charge of flocks cannot securely |egd them long with mere occasional hcfldfuls of— wind.— Vhurch Journal. A B.vi.r.onx in a Tto \ derstoj? m —-VVon- I deufcl Escape shiom Death.—lt was announ ced some days ago that Mods, (jodvd, Col. Latham and Messrs. floal, Crippen and Bel man ascended in a balloon at Cincinnati- on Monday. It appears they encountered a vio lent thunderstorm in the clouds, which drove the balloon on, it isolated, at the rale of 70 miles an hour, and that they attained an atti tude of 17.450 feet. Mr. Belman thus de scribes their descent after dark and during the storm : Suddenly we-feh our car rushing ovsr the tops of' trees, crashing and tearing the limbs as the balloon was driven along. Mons. G. gave us the \.alv£. rope, and mounting the side ol the car. he ordered vis to hold last, in an other moment we landed in a cornfield, and bv the force of the wind We were dragged arid humped along the ground a distance of half a mile; now through a fence; tinm striking a stump of a tree, or whirling through the corn stalks at a fearful velocity ; our heads rapped each other, and not unfiequently we saw stars all around. Up and down we went, when the car struck a tree, and Mons. Godard was bur ied to the ground a distance of 30 feet; the next moment we were crashing against a tall -tump of a tree, when Col. Latham and Mr. Hoal were thrown with great violence from the basket, the former on the back ol his neck and shoulders, and the latter on bis breast.— Mr. Crippen and myself were left alone i.. the car. Mr. Crippen obeying instructions to keep in the bottom ol the cur, and 1 holding with ail my might to the valve-rope, pu we mounted. Fortunately we dashed into the ; limbs of a tall dead tree, and in Jin instant tree, j balloon, car and remnants were flat on the ground. Mons. G. had his !ip badly cut, and the flesh lacerated on one of it is limbs; Col. Latham an ankle sprained, bead, shoulders and bodv generally bruised : Mr. Hoal his breast I crushed in, three ribs broken and otherwise I badlv bruised ; Mr. Crippen his head and neck \ "skewed," and generally scratched and bruised. I was bruised somewhat, but not materially in : jured. ELOPEMENT EXTIIAOUDINABV. —Tiie Hills borough correspondent of the St. Louis lie publican says : An elopement of" the most extraordinary character took place ot> or about the 7th inst. at the Sulphur Springs landing. From all that I can glean from the flying reports in circulation, the facts are ahonl these: A fiend in the shape of a Doctor, rfy the name of Cheatham, came to the Sulphur Springs to bunt a location as a practising physician. Be ing short of means and a stranger,'he was taken under the fostering care of Mr. Bond, a mer chant of that place, who gave him the hospi talities of his house, having (lie utmost confi dence in the Doctor, anil still more in his be loved wife, and considering Imr not only free from crime, but above suspicion. What must have been hi.i leelings, to tied the wife of his bosom had eloped with the b>e deceiver, who wound her like a serpent in his fatal coil. She will rcjret tlit* day she was induced to leave her once happy home, and desert a fond and loving husband. How ARCTIC EXI-LOKGRS PASS THEIR TIME. The steward on hoard the Advance (the ves sel abandoned by Dr. Kane) gives his experi ence oi" life in the Arctic regit 4IS alter this fashion : "Life nn shipboard was regular and orderly. There was a time for everything, and every thing was in its place. Captain Kane and the officers were untiring in the discharge of the duties of their posts, and the mvo appeared contented and hearty. The ship was abun dantly provisioned, and the diet was whole some and various. At seven bells, or about 7& o'clock in the morning, all hands mined out. Breakfast was taken at eight. The du ties of the ship were then performed ; the decks were cleansed, and things were put in order for the day. Sledge parties were then appor tioned, for the sake of exercise, and short trips were made in different directions, for two or three miles. By the time the parties had all returned to the ship it was nearly noon. At four he|!s—2 o'clock—dinner was served.— After this there was nothing to do, except to rend, talk, laugh, if there was anything to laugh at, keep worm and he jolly. Another meal presently followed, and a? 9 to tO o'clock at night the ship and all in it were silent ; the lights, except those deck, were extin guished, and the watch, s were set. This, with very slight variation.*, was the regular routine on board the ship during the whole pmiod of nearly two years." S'CBMC SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE! There wilt be so'd at public Vendue, on the pre mises, on THURSDAY, the 30th day of November next, the Mansion Property of John Keetle, itecra.ed, situate in Bedford Township Bedford County, about one mile North of the Pitrstiurg turnpike, and about four miles from Bedford, adjoining lands of Samuel Hammond's heirs, decree .Mann and others; cpotain ing TGJ acres perches of patented laiulguuTal lowance. Thijamf (of the best quality a good state of AMntion, a large part cleared, and the remainder well timbered. The improvements are a two story brirk house, a double barn and alh other necessary out buildings. Also a gocd apple orchard and olber fruit I ree*. Attendance will be given a>id terrps of sale made known off-day of.sale by SAMUEL BROWN, Surviving lijrcntar of the last tai/l, vJ-f, of John. Kerffe, fir erased. Oct. 36, 18-55. MCTICE. An application will be made to the Gover nor of this Commonwealth for the pardon of CASKLTON BROOIC Pierce, who was. convicted of Larceny at November Sessions, iSb f. Oct. 26, I Sos. !*#■ ri-rarrry zr :x3 r/MnganlTO : PUBLIC SALE a Valuale Real Estate. 9 By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court ®f Bedford County,.the undeniigAfd w ill expose 'jo |iubilc sale, on the prirmSffcjlWtl' Wednesday, tfie t!i!4 day off Nov., 185iijPe following dei scribed real estate sit uatV;iti'wleraMi Township, viz:— \ lot or piece of ground containing six acres or thereabouts, and* having thereon erected a ls,;>g Frame House, Frame Stable, &c., ing Ittnds of Henry P. Diehl, George Peight,* heirs and others, late the property of L.iac Ben gaman, deceased. [[Jr®Terms: CASH at the confirmation oftlie sale on the 19lh of Novemper, 1855 HENRY P. DIEHL, WILLIAM ENGLAND, Jidminultutor aof the etM* of hutic Btngamnn, d'S'istd.. Sept. 14, 185;7—4t SELLING OF? AT COST. Mrs. 8. E. POTTB Would respectfully announce to the Ladiesuf Bedford and vicinity, that she has just opened a large and elegant assortment of ail the new styles of • Ladies SPrcss €*oor goods at cash prices. MORE NEW QOODS Just received at Reed's Colonade Store, consisting oi Cassi meres, Satinet's, Jeans, Wool-plaids, Mousiin dc laines, Coburgs, Prints, Bcc., Scc. 0 HATS AND CAPS.— New style Hungarian Drab and Pearl, Men and Boys Blue LNa,vy Caps just received by express at Reed's Store. Oct. 26,' 1855. NOTICE. The undersigned, appointed hv the Orphan's Courfr ol Red lord County, to distribute the mo ney in Hie hands of William Smith, administra tor of George Smith, deceaseff, will attend to _the ajutie^of said appointment at his office in the'lloroHgh of Bedford, on SATCRDA Y, the j If'Hi dav of November, 1855, when and where ' all can attend if they see proper. J NO. P. REED, Jhidiior. | Oct. 26, 1855. NOTICE. The undersigned, appointed by the Orphan's ; Court.of Bedford County, to distribute the rr,<>- ; nien due Samuel H. Ake, being his interest in the Estate of Jos. B. Ake, deceased, falling due after death >f Widow upon recognizances, and upon real < staise sold bv Administrators, to and amongst creditors, will attend I > his duties at his ! office in the Borough of Bedford, on TUESDAY, the 13th day of November, 1855, at 10 o'clock, A.M. when and" where all persons interested can' attend. J NO. P. SEED, .Surf it or. Oct. 26, 18.55. NOTICE. # The undersigned apjiointed" by the | Common Fleas in and for Bedford county, to ; distribute the funds in Hie hands of Hugh .\loore, Esq., Sheriflof ised:>. \ew99Uv ii tmmmmm t rr*, Notice for Teachers. The Hoard of Directors of Common Schools, of Monroe Township, Bedford County, Pa., wishes to employ I'rpm ten to twelve School teachers, at u salary of from 16 to 20 dol lars per month, according to their qualifica tions. Persons wishing to be employed, and having a certificate from the county Superin tendent, are reqnetsed to call forthwith at SAMUEL SMVELY'S, Ctearville. Oct. 20, 1855 * NOTICE. The stockhoider&of tin* Hopewell arid Bloody Run Plank Road and Turnpike road Company, are hereby notified that an election lor one President five Managers ami one Treasurer, will he held at the Court House in the Borough of Bedford, on Monday, the sth day of Novem ber next. Subscribers can vert** for ofheers eith er in person or by proxy, provided the first in stalment of one dollar per share shall have been paid previous to said ejection. David Brailler, M. M. Peepivs* Wm. Hart lev, J. R. Ashcum, Alex. Kuat, John King, Thos. VV. Horton, John Dasher, George Wis hart, Thos. H. Murray, VV. P. Schell. Commisssonecs. Oct. 26, 1855. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF BEFORD COUNTY. Whereas, George F. Riddle, Assignee of the estate of Isreal and Simon Appeahimer, did on the 3lst dav of Angnst, 1855, ti!h in the office of the Protiionotary of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said county, his account as Assignee of said estate. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of said Isreal and Simon Appenhimer, and a.!l'others interested in said estate, that the Htpoorable Jiidges. of said Court have appointed Friday, the 23d day of November next, for the hearing of the same, at which time and place they may attend if thev think proper. Witness the Hon. F. M. KimmelßPresident Judge of said Court on the 22d day of October, A. I). 1853. *). VVASHABAUGH, Proth'j. Oct. 26, 1855. List of Causes Put down for Trial at November Term (KUi dayi 1 855. Jos 8 Morrison ajlinr vs. John Folck (Jath billots Use Mose, Wisenarvcr lliivel M'Couwick Abraham Mists .1 F Fox admr Daniel I.ozan Aaron Domielaon John Griffith Geo. Tr.mt man Robert A Jams- et al Peter Brant S M Baiclays adrnr Same Same jes.p O'Neal Stephen Iviibltnzer Patioiisvilfe & Vk'uodberry TR C Jame> Pat ton Same Thos Kins et ad John llerr for us* J IV Beeler llenry Reegle George Beegie John Ces-na Peter Arnolil A K Galbraith. Win. Galbraith wr. Samuel Code John Al-ta e ment. ~n n AGNIS SAITPP,. ErtciUnx- Oct. 2G, 1 S3. r ).