THE BEDFORD GAZETTE. Bedford, l\ov. 7, 1857. B. F. Meyers & G. W. Benford, Editors. '(Seduction of Terms ! THE "GAZETTE" FURNISHED TO SUB SCRIBERS FOR $1,50, IF PAID IN ADVANCE! frraccordance with thp soneral wish ofour subscribers we have conrluded to reduce the price qf our paper to Si 50 per annum, cash, in advance. If payment is not made in advance, $2,00 will hp charted if paid within the year ; whenever a subscriber sutlers his account to remain unsettled at the end of the year, $2,50 will be charged. ft "JfThese Terms will be strictly and invariably adhered fo.^jr^} All of our present subscribers who will make payment before the first day of January next, shall receive the (inzeite at the above named rate of $1,50 per annum, in advance, and those who have alreadv paid us $2.00 for the present volume, shall have a credit of 50 cents on the next. THE .NEXT EEWSLARIRB. In view of the fact that the interests of the public loudly demand a change in the system of our currency, the question frequently pre sents itself, to our mind, what can we expect of the next Legislature in answer to that demand ? Will the Democrats in that body stand up in the tracks of their sires and speak out for a Consti tutional currency ? WilMhev imitate thp ex ample of Jackson and profit by the advice of Washington ? Will they show themselves true to the principles that have ever been inscribed on the banners of the party— opposition to bank's of issue, and to the encroachments of corporations on the rights of the people ? If they are men who care for the good of the peo ple, as well as of their party, they will do so. Tf they are Democrats in heart—if they are a bove the atmosphere of corrupt influences that surrounds our State Capitol—they will certain ly do so. The ppople will look with anxious eyes to the sittings of the next Legislature. It is al ready a subject of grave and serious specula tion—whether or not a majority of the mem bers of that body will be open to the seductive bribery of the banks?' Indeed it has become notorious that, our legislatures have been venal and corrupt to the last degree. Therefore, the Democratic Senators and Representatives at Harrisburg, can, if they will, during the coin ing winter, do a work that will reflect a double lustre upon their character—they can serve the best interests of their constituents, and wipe from the escutcheon of our Commonwealth, the stain which bribery amd corruption, in past years, have marked upon it. There is a bright goal shining ahead of the Democrat who will square his conduct, in the halls of Legislation, by the full measure of an honest man's stature, and who will boldly breast the infernal streams that ever flow from the coffers of banks and cor porations. Who will win that goal ? Who will be the good genius that, like Jackson of old, will, against every shape of opposition to his course, step between the destroyer and his victim ? Tt is surely high time that our Legislative bodies be purged of the infamous outside mon ey and boring influences which have disgra ced them for a number of years. Where are our boasted liberties, when Mammon is king? Of what avail are republican institutions when the voice of the people is lost amid thp jingle of dollars'? I'he whole system of our beloved government is an idle mockery, if there is no restraint for the Judases in our law-making as semblies, who are ever ready to sell the inter, ests of their countrymen for thirty pieces of sil ver. I'he Augean stables at Harrisburg must foe cleaned. There will be honest and stout hearted Democrats in the next Legislature, who will not beaftaidto undertake the job. But there will, also, be some, whose past life bears witnew that they love too well to wallow in the mud, to lend their aid to their honest and manly brothers, or not to stand in their way. To these the Democratic press should raise its voice of warning. To these should be pro claimed in words that would sear themselves in their hearts forever, the doom of the traitor, the outer darkness into which he-will be cast, where there shall be nothing hut (political) '•weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth." Ihe question is t s hall the people be fairly and honestly represented in the next Legislature, or not! Ao Democrat will misrepresent his constituency;—tor, as soon as it enters into his heart to do fW, he is no Democrat. But the K. \. aud Abolition representatives, to be true to the principle that hold.- their factions to gether—l,tbe cohesive power of public plun der"—are compelled to yield the interests of the many to those ot the lew, the good of the people to the aggrandizement of corporations. What Democrat who has the blood of true De mocracy coursing through his veins, can pros titute himself, and join these unscrupulous, pur chaseable politicians in their devilish crusade a gainst the rights and the happiness uf the peo. pie whom they represent? rile policy of the Democratic party in rela tion to banks and corporations,is clearly defin ed. TMH)rmocrat who, in the next Legisla ture proves, untrue | G that policy, will leave Hamburg with a taint on his garments that will render hun odious to all true patriots for ever. newspapers in many parts of the West say that emigration is nearly as heavy this fall as it was last spring. The ihl| j s deem ed as good a season for farmers or even agricul tural laborers to emigrate as the spring. land can be broken and fences built, and the larmgot ready generally for operations in the spring. I SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRE- I SENTATU ES. We notice that a number of our Democratic exchanges, recommend M R * EONCAKEK, of Mont gomery, for Speaker of 'be "est Hons- of Rep resentatives. Mr. Longer has thus far shown . himself to be a sound Democrat, and he is spo ; ken of as a man, who would fill the office with ; much ability. Without wishing to disparage ! the claims ot any other true Democrats, we ! hope Mr. Longaker may be elected to the po | sition. "A PREJIIOI FOR TREACHER?. Cjr="Under this head, we penned and pub lished an article in our issue of week before last—not because we desired to have a person al controversy with any one, but because we i believed it to be a duty we could not omit with ; out winking at a great wrong perpetrated upon the Democratic party, either thoughtlessly or i by design, by certain newspapers professing the i same principles that we do. We have not had, nor can we have, a personal controversy with ! G. Nelson Smith —we do not consider him of sufficient importance for any such business, neither have we any fears that he will be elect ed Speaker ot the House, nor did we believe that the few papers we alluded to had the slight est desire that he should be. The simple fact, however, of their naming, among the list of as pirants tor this high trust, a man who had, only last winter, shamefully and recklessly absented himself from a democratic caucus, and after wards refused to vote for the man who had b-en fairly and legitimately nominated for a seat in the United States Senate, was well cal culated to make an impression upon some, that the only way to become great, as a Legislator, is to violate the 53cred trust reposed in a Rep resentative by the Sovereign People —No one can successfully defend the doctrine that the Legislative Representative who refuses to go in to caucus to make nominations, under a usage which has ever governed the Democratic par ty, and then hurls defiance at the decision of the majority, is worthy the respect and con fidence of honest Democrats—and, if there is any paper in the Commonwealth, not under the immediate influence of the apostates who last winter indirectly aided in the election of Simon Cameron, we will take great pleasure in arguing out the point involved in the ques tion ofoffering "a premium lor treachery." It is not expected that we will argue this j question with either the Echo or Sentinel, o{ j Cambria county, because, in the language of the Sentinel "nothing in the world is easier than Ito call hard names," and this is the sum and ! substance of all that appear in their columns. | "As every common dauber writes villain arid | scoundrel under his pictures," the slanders of these prints always carry their refutation with ! them. We again repeat, that if any decent Demo | cratic paper, in the confidence of the party, will deny the allegation, we will argue the question as to whether G. Nelson Smith is a disoiganizer . or not. j ANNUL MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS. I The annual message of the Governor of that | State to the legislature, which assembled at Austin on the 'id instant, gives a very favorable ; account of the rendition of affairs in that pros | perous State. The assessed value of taxable property in the j State was, in 1856, $162,195,479; upon which ; there was an ad valorem tax of fifteen cents on ! !he SIOO, as the product was $24.2,996 88.— In 1857 the assessment was $ 183,594.,205, and the product $276,901 54. This, with the |H>I!- tax and the revenue from taxes on mechandise and occupations, is sufficient to pay the ordina ry expenditures ot the State, including appro priations of the insane asylum, the asylums lor the deaf and dumb ami the blind, and the peni tentiary. There is in the tieasury, after the payment of appropriations, a cash surplus ofa about $760,000. There is an increase of ex penditure anticipa ted for the next two years, from an increase in the judiciary districts and certain other payments assumed by the State.— The Governor's plan is to ieduce the rate of taxation, and supply the deficiency out of the surplus in the treasury for two years, anticipa ting that the increase of the value of taxable property will, after a time } raise the revenue to a sufficient amount for the support of govern ment. The Governor recommends that the State should, out of the surplus of the last Texas debt fund, returned to Texas by the United States, pay to old creditors of Texas the difference be tween the amount which they received under the act of Congress and that at which their debts were rated and classified at the Texas treasu ry. The Governor regrets that Ihe aid thus given is not more effective in helping forward the railroad enterprises of the State. It is not sufficient to buy iron, and creating a first mort gage obstruct the negotiation of other loans. Ihe Governor proposes the passage of an act to take ttie sense ot the voters ori the expedien cy of calling a convention to amend the State constitution. In the concluding passages of lh*> message he refers to the relations of Texas, and the Southern States generally, to the federal government and the free States, in which he seems to think the aspects of the subject decidedly improved. He speaks, also, in terms of high eulogy of the Jate Gen. Rusk, and closes with tendering his grati tude to the people of the State for the evidences he has received of their confidence. MINERAL BANK. The trustees of the Mineral Bank of Mary land are working vigorously in the discharge of the trust reposed in their hands. It is under stood that a dividend of the assets will be made as soon as practicable, says some time between the first and twenty-fifth of December next. We have heard of nothing causing a change in the opinion expressed by us some time since as to the per cent the bank would pay. We therefore repeat, that it will pay to creditors full seventy-five cent on the dollar. This is the opinion ot men best informed as to its con dition, and we publish it to notify creditors not to sacrifice the notes for the benefit of specula tors.— Cumberland Telegrnph. Proclamation by Brigham Young. "CITIZENS or UTAH : —We are invaded by a hostile force, who are evidently assailing us to accomplish our overthrow and destruction. For the last twenty-five years we have trusted olii- | ciahs oft be government, from constables and justices, to judge?, Governors and Presidents, only to be scorned, held in derision, insulted and betrayed. Our houses have been plundered and then burned, our fields laid waste, our principal men butchered while under the pledged faith ot the government for their safety, and our fami lies driven from their homes to find that shelter in the barred wilderness, and that protection among hostile savages which were denied them in the boasted abodes of Christianity and civili zation. "The Constitution of our common country guarantees unto us all that we do now or have ever claimed. If Ihe constitutional lights which pertain rinto us as American citizens were exten ded to Utah according to the spirit and meaning thereof, and fairly and impartially administered it is all we couid ask—all that we have ever asked. "Our opponents have availed themselves of prejudice existing against us, because our le ligious faith, to send out a formidable host to ac complish our distinction. We have had no pri vilege nor oportunity of defending ourselves from the false, foul and unjust aspersions against us before the nation, The government has not condescended to cause an investigating commit tee or other person to be sent to inquire into and ascertain the truth, as is customary in such cases. We know those aspeisions to he false ; but that avails us nothing. We are condemned and fdrc-d to an issue with an armed mercenary mob, which has been sent against us [at the instigetion of anonymous letter writers, ashamed to father the base, slanderous falsehoods which they have given to the public—of corrupt officials, who had brought false accusations against us to screen themselves in their own in famy, and of hireling priests and howling edi tors, wtio prostitute the truth for filthy lucre's sake. "The issue which has thus been forced upon us compels us to resort to I lie great first law of self-preservation, and sland in our own defence —a right guaranteed unto us by the genius) of tlie institutions of our country, and upon whicfi the government is based. Our duty loourselves, to our families, requires us not to tamely submit to be driven and slain without an attempt io pre serve ourselves. Our duty to our country, our holy religion, our God, to freedom and liberty, requires that we should not quietly sland still and see those letters forging around us which are calculated to enslave and bring us in sub jection to an unlawful military despotism such as can only emanate, in a country of con stitutional law, lrom usurpation, tyranny arid oppression. "Therefore I, Brigham Young, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the 'JViri tory of Utah, forbid. . "First—All armed forces of every description from coming into this Territory, under any pie tence whatever. "Second—That all the forces in said Territory hold themselves in readiness to march at a mo merit's notice to repel and all such invasions. "Third—Martial law is hereby declared to ; exist in this Territory from and after the publi cation of this proclamation, and no petson shall be allowed to pass or repass into or through or ; from this Teritory without a permit from tlie proper officer. "Given under my hand and seal, at Great j Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah, this fifteenth day ot September A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and ol the Indipendence of the Uui ted States ol America the eighty-second. "BKIGIIAM YOUNG." are the Democracy to do with all their majorities? is a question often asked in v iew ol the splendid victories achieved at :he j elections every where. We have most em-' phatically passed through a year of Democratic • triumphs. Beginning here in the old Keystone where the Black Republicans mounted then great War-horse—the arch Abolition agitator, the prestige ol whose "proviso" was a sure indication of victory they were most signally prostrated. Passing on to New Jersey the j "buckwheat and sausage" boys gave them an other drubbing—Routed even tn .New York, (where Fremont had a majority of 60,000) by i about 15,000; almost beaten in Ohio and Massa- j chuselts, we scarce know in what direction to turn their faces for consolation. What is the cause ol this ievulsion of popular sentiment even in those States where the crv "bleeding Kansas" was effectual in driving many Irorn the Democratic standard? Why the simple fact, that the people see that the mis named Republican organization was a humbug —"Bleeding Kansas" a cheat, and the Demo cratic party the only one that can command the support and enjoy the respect of the true National friends ol the Union, ft is the only party tiiat can make Kansas a free State."— The people see this—and that prop knocked from the platform of the opposition they had nothing left to stand upon. We will treasure these majorities, then, as a proud monument reared by a discerning people to the correctness ofthe democratic faith—as an earnest on the part ofthe masses that the only principles adapted to the welfare and sta bility of our institutions, are those espoused by the democratic party.— rfllentoxcn Demo crat. THE NEW SENATORS FROM TEXAS. Hon. J. W. Hemphill, not Campbell, as has been stated, is one of the new United States Senators from Texas. The Union says ; Judge Hemphill is a native of South Caroli na, who emigrated at an early period from his native State and settled in San Antouio, and be came a citizen of Texas. From the era of her independence lie has been identified with the history ot Texas, as a Republic and a State, and at one time he was prominent among those who were regarded as suitable candidates lor the presidency of that republic. He is an eminent lawyer and advocate, and has participated as an able actor in the progress of Texas, from small beginnings to a sovereign State of this U nion. For several years past lie has been chief justice of the State. He will succeed lien. Houston, whose terin expires on the 3d of March 1859. Ex-Gover nor Henderson has been chosen to fill the va cancy caused by the death of General Rusk. [Gr"A monster Indian passed through Chat tanooga, lennessee, last week, going to the At lanlic Fair for exhibition, said to be seven feet nine inches high, eighteen years old, and weighing 4-60 pounds. The apple trees of John Stewart, in Geor gia, are now lader. with their third crop of this season's fruit. Brevities. —A party of deer-hunters, consisting of forty gentlemen from Albemarle, Va., with over filly hound?, hav been engaged for some days in a grand deer hunt in the mountains of Augusta. A man, supposed to be one Josf |>h Mcßride, who some weeks ago broke out of the Erie jail, where he was confined on a charge of mur dering an Irishman named Dennis Sullivan, has been arrested at Pittsburg. —Tha Portsmouth (Va.) Transcript savs that one of Portsmouth's fair daughter? will exhibit, at the Agricultural Fair, a beautiful and most elaborate piece of embroidery—the work of some two year's labor —and containing between 800,000 and 1,000,000 stitches. —The schooner Badger cleared from Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, tor New Orleans. She will proceed through the Illinois and Michigan canal to Peoria, thence by the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. —The Boston money maiket is gradually growing easier, and funds tending towards the stock exchange, where operations continue to be on an extensive scale, chiefly fbr investment. Ned McGowan, the notorious "victim" of the \ igilance Committee, has started a paper called the P/ianix, in Sacramento, which he devotes to showing up the members of the com mittee. —Miss Harriet Line, the President's niece, who does the honors of the While House, is com plimented by having her name given to the steam reveune cutter just launched from Webb's yard, in New York. —The VVrightsville (Pa ,)Slar informs us that the typhoid fever is quite prevalent York county. Mrs. Marv C. Gearhart had died at Ri verton, and in quite a number of families from three to five persons were down with if. —On Saturday night last Mr. John Warthan a watchman in the employ of the flaltimore and Ohio Railroad company, was killed on the road, near Cumberland. Maryland. A prize fight between Cobnrn and Gribbin came off* in Canada. The combatants fought twenty-one rounds in thirty minutes, when Co burn was declared winner of the stakes, amoun ting to § 1,000. —On the 7th the tannery of Thomas Straw— hecker, at Brookville. Pa., was burnt down, to gether with its contents, books, papers, Kx. Loss about $5,000. Insurance on the same sl -900. —A fire took place at Jamaica, L. J., on Tuesday evening, ft broke out in Hendry,s carriage shop, destroying the Dutch Reformed Church and several other adjacent buildings. Loss $-20,000. Crime is on the increase in New York. Within the past three days three persons have been murdered, and four others mortally woun ded. —William Essier was accidentally killed on the railroad near Ellicott's mills, Maryland, on Wednesday last. —A lad named James Rhey was killed on the Lebanon Valley railroad, near Harrisbtirg, Pa., on Saturday last. Martin Hanson, J. Dimiels, ami R. Martin son,citizens of the United States, have lately died at Trinidad de Cuba. —Mr. David Townsend, while gunning at Back River, Md., on Thursday, accidentally i fell out of his boat, and was drowned. —The propei ty of the Bank of Pennsylvania on the southwest corner of Pent) street and the ! Centre square, in Reading, Pa., which has been occupied since the year ISOS as its office of dis count and deposit was purchased la*t we-k 'by David McKuight, Esq., for $20,000. —Asa Leavitt was instantly killed,at Port land, Me., the other day, by the falling of a der rick. —A Young man, named Brown, cutnmittHil suicide at Wiliiniantic, Couu., on fuesday, by blowing out his brains. —Orson F. Shattuck had one ol his legs cut off at the depot of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Railroad on Tuesday. Michael Ca-ncemi, who was tried lor the killing of Police Officer Anderson in NVw York has been convicted of murder in the fitst degree. —Jerome Mcßain murdered Thomas Edger at Gibson. N. Y., last week. Both parties were druken at the time. Mr. Kenan, a member ofthe Georgia Kegis ature, died suddenly on the 11th at Atlantic. Michael O'Brien has been ariested at Chi cago, 111., on ttie charge of murdering his wife. —Christian'Hover died suddenly near Me chanicsburg,Pa.' last week. —The Pennsylvania Banx stock is now sell ing at $9 per share. A few weeks ago it sold at sllO. What a loss of capital and squander ing of money. —TheFarmer's Bank of Bucks county, at Bristol, refused to accept the relief law and resumed specie payments. —The hills ofthe Honesdale Bank now Com mand a premium of two per cent, at Philadel phia. —The Hon. Robert Toornbs has been re-el ected to the Senate from Georgia. —Samuel D. Ross, who has been found guil ty of the charge of robbing the mails on the cars between Montreal and Toronto, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. —The estate of the late Mrs. Bush is esti mated at $1,000,000. —The St. Louis Democrat says that M-ircus J. Parrott, delegate to Congress from Kansas, has received his certificate of election. His majority is about 5,000. —A vineyard near Strasburg has a vine on which 1157 bunches of grapes were grown this season, producing 150 litres, or about 30 gallons of wine. —The firemen of Reading, Pa., w ill havea grand parade on the lid of December, in honor oi the forty-fourth anniversary of the junior f'l'e company of that city. —James Rodgers, quite a lad, convicted of the murder of Mr. Swanston, in New York, in October last has been sentenced to .be hung*?' the loth ol January. —Vice President Breckinridge has his stock and furniture for sale, with a view, i< is supposed, of residing permanently in Wash ington city. —lt is estimated that Erie county, Pa.,alo" e will export this season $'200,000 worth of ti>h. lifsumptiou of Specie Payments. A dispatch from New Orleans anuuounces that the banks in that city, which suspended specie payments during the late panic, have again resumed. This is agreeable intelligence, and we hope to see our own and other suspend ed banks adopt the same course at an earlv day. The banks of Boston, it is said, -ire prepared to resume. Specie is rapidly pouring into New York, and a letter from that city, dated Tuesday evening, says: Our city batiks are now so strong in their specie reserves (20,000,000) that they are abun dantly able to resume spece payments. Some of the prominent bank men in the street to-dav saiil they are willing to take that step as soon as the country banks are ready to 'second the motion." In point ot fact, specie payments at the counters of the principal banks are already resumed. Gold is so plenty that the suspension is only nominal. While these cheering signs are visible in financial circles theie is much to encoiuage a hope ot better times elsewhere. Many ol the up-town shops that were panic struck a few weeks since, aie taking hack some of their dis charged hands, and preparing to resume buisiiess. Ihe grading ol the Central Park is going to give work (0,1,000 lalmrers nearly all winter, &. it is expected that by the Ist of January 500 more will find something to do on the new post-oflice, to he built at the lower end of the park. Ihe New Yoik Journal of Commerce esti mates that the specie in the banks of that city this week will —quiil $20,000,000: a larger amount by several millions than was even in the banks before. t ulifurnia Gold. The San Francisco Tunes gsves the fill ow ing as the sum total ol annual shipments of gold from California, from the discovery of the metal there: 184-9, $-1,121,250 1853, $57,331,024 1850, 27,676,346 1854, 51,328,652 1851, 42,582,134 1855, 43,080,211 1852, 46,580,134 1850, 4-8,887,544 The amount actually shipped from California in the first nine months ot 1857, amounts to $33,,130,734, and on an average the whole shipments of the present year will be about 48,- 000,000. Bv the above (net and figures we see that California has fui ni>hed within the last eight years upwards ot Three Hundred unit Fifty .Millions of Dollars in gold alone, to .>,iv nothing of the products of Australia during that time. We need hss than Three Hundred Millions of specie for an exclusive metallic currency for the United States.— P/tila. Tlrgus. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS OK CALIFORNIA. — From original statistics, we learn that Califor | riia has about tour hundred saw-mills,of which ; one bundled and seveutv-one are worked bv ! steam and ihe rest by water-power. The con : struction ol these mills cost about two and a half millions of dollars. Most of them are located in the neighborhoodjnf populous mining districts where lumber lor building uses is in increasing demand. They turn out about live hundred millions of fe tof lumber per annum. Of grist ! mills there are one hundred and thirty-one with i two hundred and seventy run of stone, sixtv j seven of these mills being worked by steam and j tiltv-fotir by water-power. The aggregate ca pacity ol t tie firmer per day is five thousand two hundred and forty barrels of flour, and of the latter three thousand five hundred and filty -1 two barrels. The;nulls of Sacramento, San- Francisco, San Jnaquim, and Santa Clara, are capable of turning out per annum twice the quantity of Hour necessary to supply the entire population ofth-- Slate. Kansas advices slate that the constitu tion adopted by the Conatitutional Convention was bv a vote of 2S in favor of it to about a dozen against it. The wnole number of de|e getes to the Convention w as sixty, consequently the constitution was adopted, by a minority of the Convention. The majority and minority reports Of tile Committee, on a schedule, was merged into one schedule. Ii pro* ides fir an election on thetilstol December, to ratify or reject the Constitution, the voting to be by bal lot, and the votes cast to tie endorsed '•Consti tution with Slavery" and "Constitttion without Slavery also tor an 'election to be held on the first Monday in January next, for the elec tion ol State and Congressional tickets. (Gr*ln the city of London coal is sent to con sumers in sacks cantaining one hundred pounds each. These are loaded on large carts, drawn by enormous horses, with scales and weights to each cart, and, if desired bv tlie purchaser, the sack is weighed by the driver. When t lie hon esty of the coal merchant and the integrity ot ; the driver is well established, the weighing of; the sack is seldom required. And in the pur chase of a cartload of sacks, some three or four i of them, taken promiscuously, are tested by the scales, and it found correct, the weighing ; of the remainder of the load is dispensed ! wijh. This mode of buying and selling coal is j the result i>f many years' experience in the i vast city of London. 05f*A whole family in Bradford, Mass., have ! been committed to the jail in Lawrence, tevery j member being addicted to the grossest habit of j t - s* intemperance. The family consisted of a mo-; tiler, 55 ; eldest son 28, another 21, and youn- j gest 16 years of age, and a sister of the mother* ! The eldest son died on Sunday, in prison, ot | delirium tremens and the youngest is in a very j critical state- Ths father died some months! since in the same manner. MISFUS. —Daniel Dancer, when he had X 3, 000 a year, used to beg a pinch of snuli from j his friends, and when his box was full, bartered j its contents fir a tallow candle.— But his par- j simoriions ingenuity appears contemptible in comparison with that of the Russian miser, who learned to bark that he might avoid the ex pense of keeping a dog. A large quantity of pork and flour has ar rived in Boston from the West, lor the purpose of liquidating debts due Eastern creditors. A portion of I lie flour was consigned to one of the largest dry goods establishments in the city; and as there is ready sale tor it, it can befturned into cash immediately. Several thousand bar rels more are also en route from Chicago tor the same purpose. —The New York Journal of Commerce savs that the taxes of that city are now at the stag gering figure of $8,000,000. There will probably be a deficiency of $2,000,000, which must be made up by increased taxation next year. Thousands of people have been stripped of their personal property, and-the great burden will come upon real estate, some of which will have to be sold at auction, to pay the intolerable taxes. The Strength of the Mormons. The Sacramento Age thus speaks of ihe actu j a I power of the Mormons: At the outer of their leader and prophet they I can muster 15,000 men. armed with the most I effective instruments of destruction. They ' have many thousands of the finest horses, trairi- ed to camp service; they have a foundry where cannon and shells are cast; a powder mill and a | factory where revolving r jfl,. s an( j pjsiols are ; manufactured, equal to those made at Hartford, I'hey have every munition of war and provi sion and means of transpoi tation within them selves, and even the women and children are ; instructed i n the use of arms. Add to this their geographical position. To ■ reach Salt Lake from the east, it i necessary *o | pass through a cannon of twenty-five miles, un j der hills >o steep and rocky that a dozen men i could hurl down an avalanche of stones on an ; approaching caravan ; and even in the event of seyeial thousand troops reaching Ihe valley, ! 'lt** In sejged, with their herds, would take "to I the mountains, and, reinforced by their savage | allies, would, in turn, besiege their beseigers j and cut off supplies until the invaders had slar-' i veil out. They have, it is said, 20,000 Indian allies, I whom, they are ready to furnish with arms and j horses oil ail emergency. These Indians are i partially instructed in the Mormon religion I enough to make them superstitious in regard to the God of a superior race, yet modifying none iof their ferocity. With allies like these and fighting lor their homes, and, according to the | belief of the ignorant, under the direct supervi sion ol the God til Battles, and from the ram paits with which nature has surrounded them, it is easy to conceive what would be the fate of a f-w thousand troops, who traveled a thousand miles to fight their own countrymen, brave as themselves, as well armed, better used to field life, and stimulated by their love of home and family, and assured of victory by the revelations of their prophets. I.an in YVoterii .V York. On Thursday morning last one of those terri ble cases ol lynching which have characterized the Southern States took place at Bushville, N. V. The Watchman savs .* A man named William Terpenning, lives in that place, who has the reputation of doing many of the evil acts perpetrated in thet neigh borhood. A dav or two previous, a cow belong ing to an individual with whom Terpenning had quarrelled, was "hamstrung," and suspicion at once rested on the scapegoat of the neighbor hood. It is slated that the evidence is rather strong against him. About 12 o'clock on Thursday morning, elev en men broke into Terpenning's house, tied a rope around his neck, and dragged him from his bed. They then tied his hands behind him, took him to a secluded place, about a mile from his house, and commenced whipping him with horsewhips. They told him that they would la<h him until he owned that he had cut the cow but be denied having done so. They then tied his feet and took turns at whipping, occasional ly resting to ask him to confess : but he contin ued to protest tiis innocenne until about 5 o'clock when, he says, fearing that they would whip him to death, and then swearing that they would do so if he did not own it, he acknow ledged that he had hamstrung the animal. He was then taken to the house of one of the par ty, and he alleges, his body exposed in an inde lenl manner. Terpefining's \vife followed the party, and was clo.se by all the while they were maltreat ing her husband. She heared him cry and plead with them not to kill him, but dared not go to his assistance. After the whipping was comple ted, she took his clothes to him. They dressed him, again tied his hands and feet, and in this manner he w as brought to Al.mticeilo on Thurs day morning. From the appearance of the body he must have received from three to four hun dred lashes. His w hole person was cut and brni-ed in a shocking manner. Eleven of the Ijncheis haie been arrest*d. Coisx ji.vi) Hons.— From carefully conducted experiments by different j erson*, it lias t.eeri ascertained that one bushel of corn will make a little over 10 i pounds of pork, gross. Taking, this result as a basis, the lullow ing deductions are made, which all our farm*is would do well to lay by for convenient reference; that When corn costs 12i cents per bushel, pork costs 1 i cents per pound. When coti) costs 17 cents per bushel, pork costs 2 cents per pound. Win n corn costs 25 cents per bushel, pork costs 3 cents per pound. When corn costs 33 cents per bushel, pork costs 4- cents per pound. When corn costs 20cents per bushel, pork j costs 5 cents per pound. | The following statements show what the far | mer realizes in his corn when sold in the form | of pork: When pork sells for 3 cents per pound, it i brings 25 cents per bushel in corn- When pork sells for 4 cents per pound, it ! brings 32 cents per bushel in corn. When pork sells lor o cents per pound, it j brings 45 cents per bushel in corn. (CP"The fact was announced some days since of the determination of the wife of Mr. James 0. Ravman, lately sentenced to the State prison for the post-office robbery in Chicago, to accompany ! her husband to Alton, and to remain there du ring his term of imprisonment. The resolve of Mrs. Brayman is a noble one, and the sympathy ! of evrv generors and feeling heart will he with, her. A similar case has recently occurred in Loraine conntv, Ohio. A man named Horace Fleming was sentenced to the "penitentiarv for larceny. His wife, Mary Jane Fleming, im mediately made an attempt to s*t fire to her house, delivered herself up, and pleaded guilty of arson. Shi* did this for the purpose of shar ing her husband's captivity. In connxion with these instances of woman's devotion, we may mention the singular fact, communicated to us by a State-prison inspector of long experience, that during his term of office only one husband of a prisoner ever called at the prison to see his wife. There are, of course, many married women confined for crime ; but their husbands invariably deserb them in their trouble. On the other hand, a large majoiity of the married male prisoners are visited constantly and condoled with by their sorrowing wives. And yet bow many of these poor women have suffered harshness and brutality at the hands of their criminal hus bands ' — Albany Statesman. lIP"Cen. Win. S. Haskell, who was placed in the Kentucky Insane Asylum a few weeks syice, has been restored, and was announced to lecture in the Odd Fellows* Hal l, at Lexington, Kentucky, last evening.
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