Leller i'rcui Kufus (boafe.
The follow ing letter from Rufus Choate was
received by the Chairman of the Committee
of Arrangements at the mass meeting of the
Democracy at Concord on Friday last:
BOSTON, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 18i>G.
DEAR. Sin : I ought to have thanked you tor
your letter and invitation before this time, hut
numerous engagements have hindered me.
It will not be practicable for me to attend
the meeting, vet I cannot refrain from saying
that, in so much of your creed, and in so much
of your organized efforts as are directed to re
sist and scatter this combination of States against
States—a new danger, and more to be dreaded
than half a world against us in arm* —in this
portion of your creed, and this exertion of your
energies, i sympathise with vou with iny whole
heart and reason.
f am your obedient servant,
HI ITS CHOATE.
Hew will .Vi'tv Jerk Vole?
The New York Day Book, in noticing the
hloviatinns ol the Disunion press, as to the vote
of the Empire State makes the lollowmg pre
diction :.
\ow we put on record in the face of all
these boastings, the following prediction. (ut
it out reader, and put it in your wallet, that in
this State,
Buchanan will jioll 2'2G,000 votes
Fdlmore 150*000 "
Fremont 14-0,000 "
We predict, further, that Buchanan will car
ry all tlie S.mthern States, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey. New York, Connecticut, New Hamp
shire, Michigan, lowa and Illinois. Post this
up, and see next November how near we are
right.
The Ok! Line IVhigs and the Democracy unit
ing I laud in Hand ut the Home oj James Bu
chanan.
Last evening we learned the highly gratify
ing intelligence, that at the County Convention
ot the friends ot ti:■ • Union arid the Constitu
tion, held in Lancaster yesterday, a most excel
lent County Ticket was formed. For Congress,
that talent'd and distinguished Old Line Na
tional Whig, Hon. ISAAC E. HEISTEE, who for
merly.represented the Whigs of that County in
the House of Representatives, but who was
stricken down two years ago by the machina
tions ol TIIADUEE.S STEVENS, because ol the na
tionality of liis sentiments, and because, like
RCFCS CHOATE, he would march under no liag,
and follow no party that did not keep step to
the music of the Union. And of the fifteen
names upon the ticket, six are Old Line Whigs,
hut all. of course, warm iiiemls ot J.o.r.s Bc
■ iiAN.i.v. We rejoice most heartily over this
union of the ft'lends of the Union, and trust that
on the second Tuesday of October, we shall
have the proud satisfaction of seeing Lancaster
Countv occupying the political position which
the true interests of her citizens imperatively
urge them to assume. Pennsylvttninn, Scj/t.
1 J.
Fifftircs tlo iiol Lie.
The Frerr.onters and negro worshippers are
just now vet v jubilant over their recent suc
cesses in Maine, a State which the Democracy :
have not claimed as certain for their cause in .
this campaign. Suppose tliev get Maine, which
has hut eight electoral votes, hare we not se
cured Kentucky, with her twelve electoral
voir—thus-showing a gain of fair lor the De- 1
mocracy upon the vote of IST>'2 when Gen.
t: carried twenty-seven ol the thirty-one
States of the Union ? Thus stands the tact in
our political! arithmetic. Let those who have
shouted themselves hoarse over the result in
Maine, controvert it if they ran.
Withdrawal of illr- Buchanan.
it is stated that Mr. Breckinridge really made a
proposition to Mr. Buchanan at tiie Wbeatlands, v ►■--
leriiav. on the subject of hi- withdrawal. The [dan
i: to get Mr. Donei-on also,to witluliaw, and unite
1 ite Democratic and the American tickets in the per
sons of Fillmore and Breckinridge. Such a ticket.
Mr. Breckinridge thinks, will he likely to succeed
against Fremont and Dayton. What is to be done
about the two platforms, sloes not appear. Nor have
we learned what re-pon-e Mr. Buchanan made to tire
propo-ition.
We copy the above paragraph from the Phil
adelphia Bulletin of evening;. The editor
ofthat paper is a member of the Christian
Church, and day after to-morrow will once more
hetul his knee at tiie altar of God, with the pio
-I'ound self-conviction that in publishing th<s par
agraph Ife Urged and uttered a deliberate, un
qualified, wholesale lie. It will be seen that it
is u clear and straight-out statement, which ren
ders the guilt oi the knave who lubricated it all
the more damning. The oath of poor Uncle
Tony, which broke from him in regard to the
living soldier, was, we are told, wiped out
the tear of the nngel who recorded- if, hut a LIE
fik" this, si COLD-BLOODED and MALIG
NANT, win stick to the viie HYPOCRITE
who made it to the fast day of his life.— Penn
s :/i rrtinn, Sept. 12.
What Does it .Mi'un ?—The Know* Nothing:
Council, which met at Lancaster on Tuesday,
virtually refused io endorse the noiTiination ot
Fit.t.Moitt; and D'O.VKLSON. A motion was made
to that olivet, pending which the Council ad
journed.
THE KLECTiOX l\ MAIXE.
was expected, the Abolitionists carri
ed the Stale ot Maine at the late election; but
♦ his does not settle the question lor the Presi
dential el-ction bv any means. The Washing
ton I it ion very justly says:—"lt should be
borne in mind that the Democracy of Maine
entered into the canvass which has just closed,
under many disadvantages, 'i hey were largely
in the minority. The Black-Republican candi
date for Governor was known to the whole State
as a long-tried leader of the Democratic party.
llis abandonment of principles with which he
had been prominently identified for a period of
twenty years was o-ont, and under such art
tully-prepared circumstances as led many un
suspicious persons to believe that he was still in
foil communion with a party which had lavish
ed upon him its highest honors. We have not
the slightest doubt that hundreds, may he thou
sands, of Democrats in the State of Maine were
humbugged and deceived into IhCsnpport cf
HA.MLIN, who could not under anv ciicomstan
c.es, be induced to vole for Mr. FncMONT."
Daily Advertiser, a Frr.-M.vr paper, ac
knowledged this fact in an article published
just before the election to 1; place, fr<>m which
we make an extract .
"It tvdl be carcely safe to draw any inferenre- a,
to "be probable result ot lhe Presidential eterT! rv I,
ii Maine or elsewhere, from the i,*ue of the election
01 that State of next Monday, bee,use it is well
known that the local politics ot' Maine are comilica
tetl and embarrassed by is-ties and by lealoiiMes
which will not enter m'o 'he Presidential canvass."
THE BEDFORD GAZETTE.
Kluriioi'd, Sept. !I>. 1H36.
G, W. Bowman, Editor and Proprietor.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE!!!
"The Union of lake?—lhe Union of lands,
The Union of State* none ran sever;
The Union of heart*. awl the Union o! hands.
And the fiar of onr Union forever!"
FOR PRESIDENT,
HON. JAMES mum.
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
HON'. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
OF KENTUCKY.
Electors at Lnr^e.
Charles 11. Buckalew. V\ iUoa JVUCutidless.
I) ist rid Electors.
George W. .Nebinger. Abraham Edinger.
Pierce Butler. Reuben VV ilber,
Edward Wartman. lieorge A. C rawford.
Win. Ji. Witte. James Black.
John .Me.Mair. Henry J - thanh*.
John H. UriuloD. John 1). Roddy.
David Laurv. Jacob '1 urnev.
Charles Kessler. J. A. J. Buchanan,
.fames Pdlteison. William VV ilkins,
Isaac Slenker. JamestL Campbell.
Francis VV. Hughes. Thomas Cuuniugham.
Thomas Osteihout. John Keatley.
Vincent Phelps.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
(',inat ( ommissioner,
GEORGE SCCTT.
.!uditor (lenernl,
JACOB FRY, JR.
Surveyor (itnrrat,
COL. JOHN ROWE, (of Franklin county.)
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
Congress— WILSON HEILLY.
Assembly —Col. VYM. REAMER.
" Capt. G. NELSON SMITH.
District A ttorney — 0. 11. SPANG.
County Surveyor—SAME. KETTER MA N.
Associate Judge—A. J. SNIVELY.
Commissioner—H. .1. IJRI NER, (•> years.)
CADVYALADER EVANS, (1 yr.)
Poor Director—G I.CKGE ELDER.
Auditor—HENßY B. MOCK, (3 years.)
THOS. VY. HORTON, (2 years.)
Coroner—JOH N HA RSI IBA RG ER.
Ilturj ( lay on Disuuiou.
Henry Clay had lreely, on many occasions, de
nounced the schemes of Abolitionism and ola Sec
tional [tarty. He said in ib'l'J—
"Abolitionism should no longer he regarded as an
imaginary danger, rhe Abolition,.-!-. let ine sup
pose, succeed in their preset aim ol tucling the in
habitants of the tree States as one man against the
Inhabitants of the slave states. Union on one side
will beget union on the other, and this proce-s ol
reciprocal consolidation will be attended witii ail
the violent prejudices, embittered passions, and im
placable animosities which ever degraded or deform
ed human nature. Virtual dissolution ol the i nion
will have taken place, whilst the lorins ol its exisl
enee remain," * * * * *
"One section will stand in menacing and hostile ar
rav against the other. The collision o) opinion will
soon be followed by the clash ol aims. I will not
attempt to describe scenes which now happily lie
concealed front onr view. Abolitionists themselves
would shrink hack in dismay and horror at tie- con
templation of desolated fields, conflagrated cities,
murdered inhabitants, and the overthrow of the fair
est labric of human government that ever 10-e to an
imate the hope-of civilized man."
WHITE LABORERS LOOK HERE!
KT-HKNIIY CLAY in a letter to Mr. Col ton. da
ted Sept. IS . ;, thus warns the white Laboring
man o; the dangers ol Abolitionism: .Mr. ( . said:
- Din me great .urn arm onject oi your uuet suuuui
he to aron-e the LABOItINU CLASSES in the Free
States again-t Abolition. Depict the consequences
to'them of immediate abolition. The slaves be ng
free would he dispersed throughout the I nion; they
would enter into competition with the iree laborer,
with the American, the Irish, the Herman; reduce
his wages; be ronlounded with him; and affect his
moral and social standing. And as the ultras go lor
both Abolition and Amalgamation, show that their
object is to unite in marriage the laboring white man
and the laboring black woman, and to reduce the
laboring man to the despised and degraded condition
of Tim P.lack man. HF.YUV CLAY."
The Philadelphia News, a ITL.MOUF. paper, of
Sept. 10, publishes the Letter from which the above
startling extract is taken, and -ays:—At this rno-
merit, when some ol our best citizens who have been
Whigs, are denounced because they will not join the
iflack Republican ranks, this fetter from Henry Clay
is most apposite, it points out briefly ami cleaily the
baneful tendencies ol" Black Republicanism, its cru
elty, its ingratitude. its falsehood, its hostility to
the Constitution, its hostility to LABOR. And
what would be the feelings ot Henry Clay, if he
were now living, and saw Black Uepublicariism ma
king an open issue against the I* 11 ion? tndeed he pro
phecies the present learlul state of things w hen he
talis upon Mr. Colton to show that the agitation in
the free States '•will first destroy all harmony, and
Dually lead to dissolution!''
XOU LOOK I POX THIS PICTI Ui: I
JOSIIi A R. CIDDIXGS, who is the acknowledg
ed head ol the FREMONT party, say-:
"I look forward to the day when there shall be a
servile insurrection in the South; when The BLACK
man, armed with BRITISH bayonets, and led on by
BIU'l ISH officers, shall assert his Freedom, and
wage a war of extermination 'against his master;
when the torch of the INCENDIARY shall light up
the towns of the South, and blot out the last vestige
of Slavery; and though I may not mock at their ca
lamity, nor laugh when thei: fear cometh, 'yet will I
iiaii it as the dawn of a political milleiuum."
Ansoin liurlmgatne, now travelling the country
making I'reemont speeches, say;
"The times demand that we must have an anti
slavery Constitution, an Anti-Slavery Bible, and an
Anti-Slavery GOD."
Seward, Wade, Barks, Spalding, Webb, Greely,
Garrison, Sumner. F.rastus Hopkins, Addison, Foster,
Beerlier, Kemoud, Brewster, Emerson, Ross, Garri
son, Wilson, Horace Mann, Philips, and all the other
prominent Fremont leaders employ similar language
to the above, which we omit lor want of room.
The Harrisbmg Telegraph, the organ of Gov. Pol
lock, (edited by Col. M'CLURE.) of Sept. 11, con
tains the following savage sentiment in a letter from
Wooster, dated August 23, giving an account of a
Fremont meeting held in that place:
"Two CAMPAIGN companies of ferocious looking
fe]lows, styling themselves "Buck Hunters" and
'•Rocky Mountain Rangers," paraded the ground.
The latter (these two companies) were dressed in
hut" ing shirts, after the fashion of pioneers, carried
liijlcs, and had Murderous looking KJVIVE'S
in their Belts: 1
The same paper, same date, says editorially:
"The South would not and DARK NOT dissolve
the I ition if the North in its mtijesty should elect
Fred. Doughs (u A'EGRO!!.') I'resident."'
LCT" And these are the men and these the princi
ples which Fr. Jordan <v Go. are so anxion- to form
a union with for lhe sake of the spoils. Honest Fil
more men of Bedford county, what say you to such
a union—and more e-pei tally a- Mr. Fllmure has a
sured you that the election of Fremont would result
i.i a Visiolvtion of the I n ion!
CTM-TATI FAIR.—We invite attention to the
advertisement ot the r-tate Agricultural Society in
another column. The Fair will be held this yea: at
Pittsburg, commencing September 30th, and conti
nue three days. Extensive preperations are being
made to ai commodate ihe exhibitors, and every
thing promises this to be one of the largest and most
interesting Fairs ever held ,n the State.
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS.
The Democrats of Londonderry meet at Palo Alto,
on Saturday, 30th 111 st. at 10 o'clock. A.M.
The Democrats of Bedford Township will meet at
Barley's School House 111 said township, on Saturday,
Sept. "-'7, a! 1 o'clock. P. M.
The Democrats of St. Clair and Napier will mot
at the house of Mr. JOSEPH MOORE, near the
Tow nship line, about 7 miles from Schellsburg, en
Saturday, Oct. -I, at 1 o'clock, P. M.
The Democrats of Liberty Township will meet at
Stoiierstown on Monday, October 0.
The Democrats of Middle and South Woodberry
will meet at the house ol Wm. Pluck, Esq. onTues
dav October 7.
Able Speakers will be present a? all the meetings.
The .IVEclhodist Church.
pyFR. JORDAN N Co. deliberately declare in
their last issue that the Democrats met ori Thursday
evening of Court lo w £/w the Uleiho/ltsts. Now-, the
Methodist Church was not named, either directly or
indirectly, and those engaged in the deliberations of
that meeting would as soon hare thought ot abusing
their rr/icv as abusing the Methodist or any other
Church. So shameful a falsehood as thu we have
seldom seen in print, and every honorable man in
that immense meeting will not laii to proclaim the
fact.
But would not these advocates of "free speech,
tree negroes, and Fremont, ' be a pretty party to
take the Method!.l Church into their keeping? A
bout two years since Rev. JOHN A. COLLINS, one
of the purest and most distinguished ministers of
the Baltimore Conference, considering himselt enti
tiilcd to the "freedom of speech," at least so far as
the interests of true religion were concerned, wrote
a letter deprecating the interlerence of the clergy 111
the Legislation o! the country, winch will stand as a
monument to tiis worth and eminent ablility until
time is 110 more! In that letter, he predicted what
has already come to pass in Kansas and elsewhere,
growing out of the incendiary petitions to Congress
of tin- "ihiee thousand" New England Abolition
Clergymen, who demanded the abolition ot Slavery
or Civil War! Mr. C. discarded every Thing like
polities from his letter in express terms and only point
ed out the enormity ol an associated clergy seeking to
control the action ol Congress in violation ot the spi
rit of both the Bible and the Constitution. How was
this great letter and this great man then treated by
Mr. Jordan's Know Nothing organ.'' He and his pro
duction were relerred to in ati-sue ot the lowest
blackguardism, and lie was branded as having "writ
ten hintself tioirn. an And lurther, these
same fellows published some 13 or "10 columns ol tile
lowest balderdash written by some anonymous crea
ture 111 Hollidaysburg as a reply to the letter of Mr.
Collins ! Every body iri Bedford Inov* these state
ments to In* true—and yet thes- are the beauties
who now a-k to take the Methodist Church uudei
their polluted wings!
The Gii*'.' fairly
C"~ 'When Know Nothingism sprung into existence,
and was permitted to take the place ol the old whig
partv, -uch gentlemen as A. KING, S. L. R.TJS
sF.LL, and A. K. McCLURK, Esqrs., refused to
have any thing to do with the organization, looking
down upon it with the most utter contempt, and de
nouncing it jtist as Democrats did, for which, of
course, they received much applause lrorn the Demo
cratic patty lor this exhibition ol Patriotism. Now,
whilst we desire :t to be distinctly understood that
we view the persons above named as able lawyers,
good citizens, and gentlemen of high personal inte
grity, yet we must be permitted to say that their
present position in politics is truly humiliating, the
sectional paitv they advocate being quite the equal
of Know Xothingi-rn in ail that is odious and anti
republican. Things stand thus:—The Know Noth
ings held a regular National Convention and nomina
ted Filmore, to which a miuority dissented, with
drew, and called another Convention, which brought
forth John C. Fremont. Bedford county took 110 ac
tion in this matter, the Know Nothings having em
phatically endorsed the nomination ol Filmore. But
In! and behold! a little ureter meeting assembled in
Woodberry Township (the proceedings were never
published) and, professing to sp-ak not only tor
Bedford county, but for the District, repudiated the
nomination of Filmore and determined to nave ano
ther candidate— accordingly they selected Mr. A.
King to repre-ent, tn part. The counties oi Bedtord,
Fulton, Franklin, Juniata, and Adams in the I*re
mont Convention, and now Messrs. King and Russell
who utterly refused to affiliate with the Know Noth
ings, ask them to abandon the regular nominee of
their parly and go tor Fremont, mid it is well known
that Jordan and his confederates are in favor of this
movement—tor they now boldly proclaim that no
.itemtier 01 tneir pain stiutilo ticsiiotc ... n....ia u
nion! We have put these facts upon record that the
candid men in Die ranks .of our opponents may see
where they stand.
Tin-: .£3 a LAW,
CVWe re-publish the votes of Jordan anil f.ijmtte
on the Jug Law tor the purpose of again calling The
attention of the people to the subject. When we
remember the heavy majority in this county and
District against a Prohibitory Law, and the large
majoritv against it in the State, and look at the rote•
of these men, thpy stauil almcttt vv thont a parallel
in the annals of political inlamv- It the people al
low their servants to treat their expressed will in
this runlnnpl wo/is manner, farewell to a free govern
ment. Uead over Ihe-e votes carefully, and form
your own conclusions. For years Jordan could talk
about nothing hut W mytrmurr n his political tirades,
his object being to gull Democrats into the ranks of
the common enemy—and now. that that humbug ha
had ;ts Jay, he goes it on Free NVgroe-ami Fremont.
He does not make even the slightest allusion to the
temperance que-tiorw If he had been lwurt in his
Jug Law harangues and votes he would not have
touched the License law of last session with a
hundred foot pole, nor anv license law to sell li
quor by the giil and establish beer and ale haunts—
all of which are included in the law for which he vo
ted without expressing a word of disapprobation.
FREMONT AM) (IIS Ki:Mf,lO\.
r > i'mier this head, the New Voik Commercial
a Filature paper, furnishes an exposure
which places Fremont in tlm most contemptible po
sition ever occupied by anv man seeking a position
of public tru-t and honor, as all will admit who read
it. V.'e copy Iroin the Am r r/\'iu , the old NN big or
gan of the city ol Ilalti'r i>r< , ) a paper kindly loaned
ii by Mr. A. ILCIIA.MF.iI, merchant of ih;-place;
so that none of our opponents will be allowed to
brand the article as u l<c.*oto*o lie," as their eu--
tom with all the charges peierred against their par
ty. U take pleasnr.; in saying that Mr. Cramer,
although an ardent Whig, will vote lor Mr. Buchan
an when the issue is narrowed down a- between him
and Fremont. But we only intended in this para
graph to call attention to the ext raorii.nary expo
sure which will be found on the first page.
The Disgraceful S uiosa!
DC/ - Aft-r ail the denials made on the subject, Fr.
Jonlait & Co. boldly announce, through their organ
in Bedford, of last week, '-that the only way to beat
Buchanan i= to form a union electoral ticket." and
they a-stire their readers that this "will certainly he
done." J hat "no man who covets a victory will
hesitate as to union of action in the canvass. There
wilt be a union." This simply means that Filmore
must be dropped and Fremont sub-tituted! The
Freemonters spit upon any other kind of union. Will
the hone.-t Filmore men who have heretofore protes
ted against this unholy alliance, stand lirmlv by
what they have said, or will they submissively bow
to the mandates of the wire-workers in Bedford?
Old Buck will he elected against any union that
can be formed. Mark it!
OS"" Col. McCLL'RE, of Chambersburg, who is
now on an electioneering tour, endeavoring to unite
the opposition to the Democratic Party upon FRK
MON f, honored its with a call on last Wednesday
morning, and we were glad to take him by the hand
—ior, laying aside his politics, he is a \vhole--oiilei),
generous gentleman, entirely too much so to be the
Representative of the sectional party for which he
now speak.-. The Colonel was certainly intended
for a Democrat, and nothing else, llis bold unit
manly opposition to the oath-bound Order prove- tins.
A- all the elements of opposition to tbe democratic
party will be buried in a common grave this fall,
we have hopes that we shall yet meet such men as
Col. MeClure upon the platform of Democracy.
[Cr*ADMITTED. .Mr. J. C. DICKEN was, on
Saturday of our laM Court, admitted to practice in
the several courts of Bedford county. He was exa
mined in open Court, and passed in a manner highly
creditable to his abilities. He vv I! adorn his profes
sion.
A\ HONEST ARGUMENT
pT* Men of all parties will derive satisfaction as
well as iiilnmiation by reading a letter from Wni,
A. Stokes, Esq. which will lie fournl on the (irst
page. It is the most concise and pointed argument
we have yet read, and cannot fail to carry conviction
to the mind ol every honest man that the Democracy
are acting in strict conformity w ith the Coiislitntiun
on the question of Slavery. Read the letter, and
then request your neighbor to read it.
K7"Cul. McCLtJRE, who was brought from 11 ar -
risburg to Bedford to soft-soap the Know* Nothings
into the support of Fremont, ts the same gentleman
who so unmercifully lampooned the '-midnight or
der" as editor of the t'hambersburg Whig, a paper
which said as many hard things of the Know Noth
ings as any other in the State, and ridiculed them in
their drftat ol last f.dl in the most excrntiaiiug man
ner! He was particularly severe 011 our friend Up
ton Wushabaugh in making tr.eriy over Ins defeat, as
well us the balance of the know-nothing county
ticket. How funny it is to see such elements work
ing together "lor the sake of the Lliiuu."
Gapl. .loSm Lotjj;.
CC7" Fr. Jordan & Co. in referring to tins gentle
man's change of politics, says:—"this fr.Uor • always
was fishy in polities, is a mere noboilv, has
110 influenee, and never had." Now, would it be be
lieved tbat the person thus branded was the man se
lected by Jordan as bis confidential adviser and se
cret committee man for the township of Liberty—
but he woulil'nt stand the a-sociation—that was the
rub! VVe ventnie to predict that ('apt. Long's
immediate neighbors will hurl back these dastardly
imputations upon his good name when they go to
the polls.
DIF" Fr. Jordan, through his month-piece of last
week, denounces the present License Law as the
"/o*r /;;/{/ and strir.gent that was ever on our Sta
tute Books." When it is known that Jordan voted
!or this "most unjust" law, is he not a pretty speci
men to be riding round the county instructing the
know-nothings as to how to amalgamate with tiie a
bolitioriists ! Alter uiging entire prohibition for
upwards of two years, he not only testttied that an
ale and beer house was necessary in Bedford, in ad
dition to the taverns licensed lo retail liquor, but he
romplains that this liceu.e law is too "stringent."
This more than verities our predictions on the sub
ject of political Temperance".
GIT"" The Lutheran Church mu-t entertain a poor
opinion ot the xlavdrrern of Squire Xicodemus, a- tie
hold, his high position in that respectable church
without an effort being made to remove him—not
withstanding he has been denounced as "beneath the
notice of a dog."
C7"Mr. SHRYOCK, of the Firm o: SHRVOC'K K
SMI I'll, Wholesale Book and Stationeiy merchants,
Chambersherg, Pa., spent n few days in Bedtord re
cently and made many friends.
GIT" The "political meeting" held in Bedford on
la>t Tuesday evening to unite the Filmore and Fre
mont forces upon one ticket, was in-t no meeting at
all. It was a. cold as it was slim. Had the speak
er been cream, the icicles around him would speedily
have couvited him into iri -crram—at least so saul
a gentleman whose entire sympathies were with
the enterprise of FUSION !
CG -Messrs. BLVMIRE and W.VI. HARTLEY are
opening a splendid House Furnishing Store in Bed
told. Their advertisement will appear next week.
We invite the attention of our leaders to the adver
tisement of JAM ES TOON, Esq. Supei jiiternieiit ot
the Huntingdon and Broad-top Rail Road, which w ill
be found in another column. Our people should feet
a special intere-t in extending encouragement to
that Road, tor the future pro.perify of Bedford coun
ty is greatly dependent upon its success.
GREAT TOW-\SHIP MEETING.
On la-t Saturday the Democracy of St. Clair and
the adjoining neighborhood, had a grand Democratic
rally at St. Clairsville, and organized by toe appoint
ment ot' the follow ing oilicer. :
President—HENßY KAUFf MAN—\ ice Presi
dents—Joshua Kelly, Jacob Berkley, John Honestine,
John K. Strouse, John Boyer*, Sr., Michael Shatter,
John Conrad, Jacob H. Bowser, Christian Mock,
Samuel Reighard, Henry Claycornb, Jacob Acker,
Amos Rerkhimer, Joseph • Irifiith.— Secretaries
Wrn. C. Wisegarver. John W. Cnsrnan. Adolphns
Ake. Abner J. Griffith, Absolom Reighard.
Able and eloquent addresses were delivered by
Messrs. WM. M. HAM., S. IE TATK and Jou\ Cn.s-
NA. when the meeting adjourned with enthusiastic
cheers for Buchanan, brechenridge, amt n- ..
and County Ticket. CP" Many Eadies honored
the meeting with their presence.
For tile Bedford Gazette.
In the "Inquirer K Chronicle" of la-t week, I ob
serve several aitirles reflecting on the character
and standing of O. E. SIIXNNON. Esq. It is not my
purpose, nor do I deem it in any way necessary to
say anything about these several accusations. But
there is one assertion, among the many contained 111
that paper, respecting the business relation existing
between Mr. Shannon and myself, which I desire to
contradict. It is not true a> is therein declined, that
Mr. Shannon is only a Clerk in my office, or receives
only a salary. Mr. Shannon mys.-lf aie, and Inive
been, tor nearly seven years, equal partners in the
practice of our profession in the several Courts of
Bedford Count v.
JOHN CESSNA.
Sept. 10, IS-30.
SABBATH SCHOOL (TLEBIIATION-
The two sabbath-schools of Pattonsv:lle, together
with the sahhatli schools of Veltow Creek, met at
the o'tl celebration ground near (<• 11. Kay's Sawmill
on Saturday the Cth ult. and was attended by a res
pectable number of citizens. The officers of the
day were as follows: —William S. Fluke. F.sq. Presi
dent. Win. Spie 1 man anil Curtis J. Carje-nter were
the Marshals and periorrned their duties with credit
to their schools and to themselves. The assembly
was ably addressed by Rev. Wm. M. Merninger, and
Rev. Richard llinkle of the .Methodist Church, and
Rev. Wm. Deatrick of the Herman Reformed church,
Pastor of' Pafton-ville and Yellow Creek congrega
tions. The children were then conducted by officers
and teachers to a very large table spread in the
grove, filled with turkey, ham, chickens, cakes, and
all things that could satisfy the hungry appetite
or gladden the hearts of the children. Alter parta
king of this bounty, a benediction was pronounced,
and the company patted with glad hearts.
BUCHANAN CLUB OF BEDFORD BO-
Will meet in the Court House on Saturday e
veriitig Sept. -0, at 7 o'clock. A full attendance is
respectfully requested. The public are respectfully
invited to attend. We ba've no secrets.
IMOS Oil DISUNION,
The Issue is Upon Us—Where Does I'euu
svlvauia Stand J
There Ls no disguising the fact—every man
with his eyes open can seen it that '.he great
question of Union or Disunion has been precip
itated upon us by the mad fanatics of the North,
and that it is a direct and inevitable Dsn- in the
present contest. The persistent and cruel sys
tem of intermeddling and degression upon the
people and the institutions of the South, which
has finally culminated to the crisis which is
upon us, first commenced in the Eastern States,
with the SI.AUKS, the GARRISONS, the Pnir.ue
<t:s, and the PARKERS, and th" results of the re
cent elections in Vermont and Maine show how
completely the minds pf the people in those
States have heen poisoned, and how thoroughly
loyalty to the Union has beer, obliterated, by
those preachers of treason and revilets of the
Constitution.
The indoctrination of these wicked and trea
sonable heresies into the public sentiment of the
New England Stales, is much to be lamented
and deplored : but it seems to have been the in
evitable consequence of the peculiar moral and
social constitution of the people of that section.
Jn no quarter of the Union, we hesitate not to
sav, do the Clergy exercise such a vast influ
ence over the minds, thought and actions of'the
members of the various congregations of which
thev have charge. This influence, when sway-
Ed for good and holy puijroses, brings countless
blessings in its train : t/iit when perverted to
the accomplishment fit ends entirely alien and
irrelevant to the object which created it, is
fraught with unmitigated and terrible evils.—
Now, the appalling (act stands out in hold re
lief, that for the last two years, lite Cleigv of
.New England have almost universally hee
nothing more nor less than the mere pedlars
and retailers of politics ; that almost every one
has turned his pulpit into a political rostrum
with unblushing and shameless audacity that
the congregations assembled to hear the word of
Cod and receive the Bread of Life, have been
treated instead with partizan harangues worthy
of the most approved slump orator —with invec
tive the most foul and misrepresentations the
most atrocious, against the people of one half of
this I nion—denouncing them as murderers,
cut-throats, thieves and banditti, and invoking
upon their heads tin* most Earful maledictions.
1 pon a people thus constituted—upon a people
thus habituated to repose the most unlimited
confidence in their spiritual guides, and to he '
governed and guided bv them liies>* fiery po
litical diatribes have had a tremendous effect;
but an effect wlticb has occasioned very little
surprise in the minds of those conversant with
all the circumstances.
These pernicious influences, we are confi
dent, furnish the true solution of the recent re
sults in Maine and Vermont, a majotity of;
whose people, it is fair to infer, prefer all the
horrors of Disunion, and are prepared to put a
way all the blessings and benefits ol Enion.—
They pervade more or less all the New England
Stat, s, hut beyond their borders tbev are power
less and innoxious. A majority of the citizens
ol New England, under the bad ol GAKUISO.N
and I'ARKKIT , and Fnrto. Dure: LASS, and a uni
ted and I. ji th less cbrgv, may, it they choose,!
consider tlie Union valueless, and regulate their
political action accordingly; but we tell them j
boldly and defiantly, that they cannot seduce
tile population of the gseat Central or Middle!
States into disloyalty to the Enion and the Con
stitution, or cause them to turn- their hacks up- ,
on their Southern brethren and spurn them as
felons and as lepers. Should every State east ,
of .New Yak desert the Enion in her extremes!
|'i'i!, it would not shake wur confidence jbr a
moment in the result of the giea! struggle now
progressing
As, HI 1 Virginia served AS A Streak wa
ter in arresting Hie ii<;,. ~f Know-V thing fa
naticism that was sweeping over the country,
so, MI iHfitj, will the Middle and Westein
State}!— New Jersey, i' nnsv Ivan11, Chi 1 , Indi
ana and Illinois—|>"iform the same patriotic
function in resisting and heating l ack the black
and swelling surges ol Aledilionisin and Disun
ion that are crowding upon its Irom the hast,
and whose murmurs sound
'•Like the raven's croak o'er the infected house."
That Pennsylvania—the oid Keystone of the
Arch—will stand firm and immovable in her
attachment to the Union, at this fearful crisis,
we have never entertained a doubt. We can
vouch lor the loyally of her citizens, lier
great heart is sound to the core, and beats
healthily in response to tile music of the Union
and the Constitution. All her associations, all
her instincts, all her thoughts, emotions, aspira
tions and interests are in consonance with that
I'dtv and national patriotism that looks upon
the disruption of the Union as the direst calam
ity the world ever witnessed, and lull ul un
numbered u oes and disasters.— Ben/isylvan inn.
THE GREAT IIEMM'RATH TORCHLIGHT
PROCESSION.
The most lmpo in<r Display ever Witnessed in
/A" (hVj nf .\ V; )/■ 1 .irk.
The great Democtat ic torchlight procession
in ,\ew Vork on Tuesday evening last was a
brilliant and an imposing illustration of the spirit
which now animates the united and enthusiastic
denim-racy of the Empire City. Twenty thou
sand freemen, covering a space five miles in
length, walked in piocessioti. The air w ass vo
cal with the inspiring strains from fifty hands
of music. A thousand banners gl-amed in the
light of ten times that number of torches. A
notice of the prominent features of this remark
able demons! iat ion would occupy a broadside of
the Vmion.. The crowded state of our columns
will only permit us to give place to Ihe stih
j lined brief report, for which we are indebted
to the Day IJook.
"Nothing to exceed it, or even equal it, has j
ever before been seen in New York. Gong be
fore t he time of starting the procession, the
clubs from the different wards began to move,
an ! the city w'as alive with mm, women, and
children hurriedly endeavoring to gain a favor
able spot to witness the grand display. Broad
way was almost a solid mass ot human beings—
the stages not being allowed to enter that
street during the passing of the procession. The !
evening was a most splendid one. The a!mos-|
phere w as gentle and calm, with just the slight- i
est tinge of coolness from the autumn breeze.— j
The sparkling stars, set like gems in the clear ,
blue sky above, shedding down their light upon i
innumerable torches, now and then increased
in their brilliancy by the display of Roman
candles and rockets, formed a scene at once im
posing and magnificent. The writer of this!
watched the procession from the St. Nicholas j
Hotel, the windows arid balconies of which:
were filled with ladies, as well as the houses!
on the opposite side of the street.
"About eight o'clock the light, which had !
been seen in the distance down Broadw ay, he-I
gan to assume form and order, and to move up
the street. First came Captain Isaiah Rynders,:
the grand marshal, mounted on a splendid j
white horse, and next was the drummer boy of
Santa Rosas, who, as one of General Walker's
gallant hand, survived that disastrous battle.— j
Captain Rynders carried a hickory baton in his
hand made from the wood of the first hickory i
pole raised in honor ol'Genoial Jackson at Tam-;
many Hall, in IS"S. Appropriately, the first
banner declared 'fidelity to the Constitution and
the Cnion.' Not far behind this was a ship!
full-rigged,on board which was a large transpa-'
renev, having in front the words 'one people,
one constitution, and one destiny on each
side:
'•'Sail on, Gallant Old Ship! with Buchanan
for pilot, 1 the Constitution for your Chart, you
will never split on the Rock ot Disunion, nor
founder in the storm of fanaticism ; but, with j
the Stars and Stripes (lying, Fire Deadly!
Broadsides into the enemies of our country.' j
"One banner represented Holy Rifle Beech
er standing on the Bible, with the motto,
Beecher's commandment, 'Kill each other with !
Sharpe's rifles;' Bible commandment, 'Love I
one another. One transparency represented !
'bleeding Kansas,' being three dark babies with j
bloody noses.
"There were also several temples of liberty!
decorated with mottoes &c. The Sixtli wan! i
turned out strong, with the motto 4 The Sixth!
ward goes for white men.' As the precession
passed the St. Nicholas Hotel, the Ladies wave I
the handkerchiefs, and cheer upon cheer iron,
the crowd below made the very welkin rin-r '
It would be impossible to give a full dw„Mjon
ol the scene. The VVorkingmen's Club of if','.
Twentieth waid had a blacksmith shop 0 i
wheels in full blast. The Germans also turn. !
mit strong, several ol their clubs being i 0 the
procession, besides the IT-mocracy of litUuvn
Statan Island, Hoboken, and Jersey city. o,''
Jersey neighbois turned out with
team. On the whole, the demonstration was ■.
grand and magnificent one. And if the d m
era Is of the I nion could see the r.ubie
which animates the '(.one and sinew*
Empire City,they would never despair oftC
Enion, and care nothing tor the vaporing* of
the British-abolition party. There has been t,,
more soul-inspiring demonstration in Javor' i
liberty, freedom, and the constitution, in many
years." •
BtiC.iDSTlfks.— Ihe wheat harvest oi' the
United Stales ibis year is estimated at | r >o.
000,000 bushels, a large surplus above our do
mestic wants. The export trade, the New
Journal of Commerce estimates at 40,000 00 "i
busliels. Upon this estimate, the expat de
manded can be filled without creating any ln .
usual excitement, but prices will not'be hke| v
to rule very low.
The Marrisburg I nion announces that Col
JOIJX H. BttrtmrutLL, formerly a very disti; -
guished member of the Whig party, is now a j
vorite orator on the Democratic side al s j
K. A. EAMBEUTOX, for two years ideutiiii
with the American fbarty, lias declared in J
speech of much force against that cabal: a!,
tiiat R. MCEXCU, one oi the same pariy has
come out for t!te Constitution and the Union
Well for Dauphin county.
A.\oTiir.ti CONVERT. —The Cambria, (Pa.>
Tribune, a Fillmore paper, .has come out for
Fremont. The Clarion (Pa.) Banner, another
Fillmore paper, hopes for a union of all the op
ponents of Buchanan, and is not particular
whether Fillmore or Fremont succeeds Pitts
burg Journal, (Abolition.)
BP .7 ssessed. —Our friends in each election
l)istr ; c.t in tiie State should see that every IF i.-
octal he assessed in due season. j\o one is en
titled to vote who has ti'. t ben r s-niat
least TE.\ WAYS before the day CL eleclioa —or
who lias not paid ablate or County lax uhlan
two years previous to the day of the election.—
Everv friend of the Constitution arid the Union
should give this matter the attention its m i
tance demands.
A FiPmont meeting field a lew nights ag < in
Marlborough Chester county, was address; . v
a XH.RO I Some c>f the audience left—it was
going it rather to strong for them.
.12 A IS 11 I E I?:
At Tie* Lutheran Purtot at. in Bloody It \on •
Olli September, by Rev. VY. Brad-haw Bu.-lUi-11. J| .
Chri-tiau Suell to Miss Sarah College, a.\o! Rays
11.11.
At the Herman Reformed Parsonage in Friei
Cove, on the Ith instant, bv U<w. C. F. itori r .
Mr. Adam Die!.l 'to Mis. Klizit Dave. U>th*oi ! ■
Cove.
Communicate 1 for the Bedford <azette.
Ohstitary.
In this Borough, on the I-'Jth inst. departed t! s
i tie, alter a long illness. SAMI KI. COOK, sua O! .Mr.
S.n.on Cook of this place, in the 10th year oft: a...
In thi- instance has death snatched a victim jr.sr.;
the tanks of the voting—in the bloom of life —'lieu
whose prospect of "length of days" seems the br.:
est and most secure—thus admonishing howmfv
it is that "lite is a vapour that appeareth for >
littl- while and then vanisheth away.'' Durii j; "
months, which his sickness lusted, all that pan
affection and the love of relatives and friends coiA;
devise, was earnestly and persevering!)' tried to
vert the blow ol tlie destroyer—but to no purpo-e
--except to make them witnesses 0: the iare faith, at
dent hope. I vely tru-t in bis dying >i*:cir .1 I cl
his submission and obedience to the will of hi-Hea
venly Ma-ter "who scourges every son whom in-iu
veth." Being fully conscious of the fatal character
O! his disease, he took timely and proper piecaui
to provide for a happv eternity. He received, a c..n
sideiable time before h.s death, ail the sacraments
and consolations of the Church—ar.d di-plav. sue.
piety and holy resignation, as shewed that he ie:t
••he had no permanent city here and thai he sough:
one to come." His death was Truly gain to bin:,
thereby he changed a passing, uncertain, life lor 1 ne
of enduring bliss—. world of sorrow for one 0: w
"which nothing can takeaway." Fostrikirg nr: ex
ample of the iraillv of our lives should instruct u
"lo watch" and to hear, to some practical puij
the voice which our dear departed young lrier.il . >•'
addresses to us trorn tlie >i|ent grvc: "Kertu'inh'T
my judgment; for thine also shall be so; yesterday r
me and to-day lor thee. ' i> ' ' •
Fiiblic Sale.
On SATURDAY",the T Ith day of Oct. IS""',
the undersigned will offer at jn'lic Sale. at
MOr.YT BOSS, all their Stock mill Tamil
Implements, to wit : 4 11-ad Horses, Sor 1
Mead Cattle, Hogs and Sheep, also ore \ ■
Two Horse Wagon, 1 one Hors- Wager,
Ploughs, Harrows," Wind Mill, Gears and Har
ness, together with a lot ofMav, Straw. ' >rn-
Fodder, and a !<>t of grain consisting of W luff.
Rv. Oats and Corn. Also one Buggv.
TERMS:—ii months credit on all sum e
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, A. T
A DAM FERET'SON.
0. E. SHANNON.
On the same Hay, and at the same time,
he otiered lor sale, the Farm known as .1/0/ A
ROSS, containing 80 acres, or tture.i'> s ,
cleared, together with 100 acres ot Ii"
land. This Property is in sight of the |en
Bedford, and has thereon erected a iargr I•'
Story Frame House, Bank Barn, 1' "ant
Spring House, and other out-buildings. t f
are also upon it two Young Orchards ct -
apple trees, and 50 peach trees, two never
ing Springs and a Pump before the door.-
Torms made known on dav of sale.
O. K. SHANNON-
Sept. 19, 1856.
THE PA. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
will bold its sixth Annual Exhibit.on
AT PITTSBURG.
Opened Sept. 30. continued Oct- 1,- •
Annual Addre-s hy
HOY GEO W. WOODWARD.
('ompetition to Premiums open lor ah-
ROBERT C. WALKER, NM-
Pittsburg, Sept. lit, IS3G.—3t
Bedford Classical Academy.
The undersigned respectfully beg } w *'- t
form the citizens of Bedford and v '"'" '
they will reopen the Bedford Avadeno
day the 13th of October nest. 11
will be published next week. ~r Vf
WM. K. P
J.NO. 11. riLLKK-
Sept. 19, ISAt).