THE BEDFORD GAZETTEj
Bedford. Dec. I, 1807.
B. F. Meyers & G. W. Penford, Editors.
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Thf Aos • !*<u,v3 of lite Abolitionists.
Finding the. - -Ives driven to the wall by
the sober re(J<on of the people, and knowing
well that their partv cannot exist without that
peculiar nourishment which can he drawn only
from ejtciO'fm nt and fanaticism, the Abolition
ists.are again endeavoring to inflame the preju
dices of the Northern people against the Demo
cratic party, hoping that by so doing, they may
once more present the sectional front which the
friends of Buchanan and Nationality br. ke
down in 1858. To db this, they again employ
that political firebrand, "Bleeding Kau-as," ,
which, to further their heinous purposes, they
have, ever since their party has been in exist
ence, striven to k"Hp aglow, that they might
apply it as an incendiary torch to the well be
loved institutions of our country. It seems that
nothing earthly can restrain them in their course
of falsehood, hypocrisy and political quackery.
No matter if the people rebuke them in tones of
electoral thunder—no matter if tfiev see with
their own eyes the consequences ot 'ln ir suici
al measures—no matter if they hear of negro
insurrections incited by their fanatical teach
ings, in which their white brothers fail beneath
the steel of Mack assassins—no matter, if intes
tine war should tear asunder the nation—fh
leaders of the Abolition party persist iri the ad
vocacy of their erroneous and dangerous doc
trines. It matters not to them, whether they
bring the country to the very edge of perdition,
so that they can obtain office and emolument.
But, thanks be to the common sense of the
masses, the strength of these corrupt and un
scrupulous tricksters, is broken, and thev can i
never again array their scattered forces against
the best interests of the people. Although, as
we have said, they are again engaged in their
old mancevres, they will never more be able to
succeed to any dangerous extent. The peopf
know them as arrant hypccril and tin :r whin
ing and moaning on the subject of "Kansas,"
will mee.t with a just appreciation, and that is
all that is needed to effect their utter ami irre
ti it vablo overthrew .
The la t howl that these malcontents have
raised, i= in reference t -the action of the Kim
s':)!: Constitutional Convention. They prtend
to be dissatisfied with tlrg doings of that ( in
vention, because it did not submit the wlol:
Constitution to the people of the Territory.—
Now, the Abolition party was built up on the
cry of "No Slavery in Kansas," and it never did
contend for anything else in the politics of thai
Territory. "Give us 'Freedom in Kansas,""
was the battle cry of its leaders. That was Li
hhey ever professed to care for. Well, ;,e
Convention have submitted the question WiV;ti
er the Constitution should hp pro-slaverv, or
not, to the people, to be decided at the LI. t
box. This is what the Democratic party guar
anteed in its last National Convention. Thi>
is, indeed, what the Aoolitionists U,.. , de
manded. Rut they still affect to be dissatisfied.
They don't care so much, now, whether Kan
sas is admitted "Free," or "Slave," as they do
about the minor subjects embraced in (he Con
stitution. Therefore, being effectually silenced
with regard to the Slavery question, tliev make
a great "ado about nothing," and pretend to be
very much interested in those s-ctmns of the
Constitution which the Convention did not sub
mit.
It conms with a very had grace from the Ab
olitionists, to denounce the KLnsas Convention
lor not submitting the whole ( nstitution, wh n
they well know that but lithe more than one
year ago, they, themselves, strove to force
through Congress the well known Topeka Con
stitution, which they never oifered to submit
to the consideration of tho people, although it
was formed with much less deliberation than
the present one, and by a body of men that were
not by any means the regularly chosen repre
sentatives of the citizeas of Kansas. Tn view
of this fact, they should be ashamed to sav any
thing on the subject ol referring the Kansas
Constituti HI to the people. But their object in
thus cavilling at the action ot the Convention, is
plain enough. They never intended that Kan
sas should become a Free State under the Ad
tninslralion of Mr. Buchanan, if tliey could Dre
veut Us becoming such, that the
question of .slavery is placed in the hands of the
peopled!Kansa-, to be fairly and honestly deci
ded hy them, they most have some excuse
however trifling it be, tor their men to stay away
from the polls, so "that the pio-sbvery men can
nave everything their own way. Therefore,
thev object to the course of the Constitutional
Convention, thinking that by so doing they can
justify the absence of their paftizans from the
ion, when the question of slavery IS to be
kZ< upon ! V i l|,J <***' °! Su hi
| hypocrisy smells <o ' Such political j
| knavery Iks not its P^ 1 "' the pat. |
MEETING OF CONGRESS.
I On Monday next, will meet and we I
I may, then, expect scenes in the)
! ar.na of politic- I'*" ">,re will ij
more talent in the Low* House, lr) the next
Congress, than there has been in that body for
some years. One thing e are sure of, and that
is that the wholesale traud and peculation •
: which characterize the fast Congress will not;
I disgrace the present on '• There is, however, a j
| sufficient sprinkling ' Aboiit ionists in it, still, i
to taint it with corruption, and unless they
| aie closely watched, the end ofthe session will
' find some of them well qualified to be "kicked
! out." . .
The Democrats have a decisive majority in
•both Houses and r.. ing hut] the manatvres
|of ambitious, or unscrupulous faction Lsts, can i
take from them the government of either body, i
We see nothing, st) Dr as principles aip con- |
I cerne.J, that sh.u-:-:, in any measure, distract,;
ior divide the Den'.- zratic strength in Congress.;
I On the other hand, the broad platform of Demo- 1
I cratic doctrines, framed by the Cincinnati Con-
I vention, is large and strong enough to bear eve
'rv Congressman through his legislative caieer,
i who believes in t! ;c ' policy of the only National
partv in existence.
I lor the Jictfforii Gazette.
(Niciunoti Schools.
NO. 1.
As almost every person in
the county feel- more or less interested in our
common schools.; - roans it will be very accept
able to most of your readers, thave some sta
tistic, and facs in reference to their (t!;p
schoolC) p P-a of the present wit te.: and if
you will please give me a little corner i.i your
' paper, occas.anally, I wili present sucii mat
ters, from Ito tune, concerning the schools,
as mav come under my observation and be
thought interesting to all.
On the dtjthof September last, I started on
a tour through the county, to visit the different
school districts', to examine teachers and to
•rive such encouragement and explanation in
.-choo! matters as might seem necessary and pro
per. The tour was a pleasant one, tor in most
of Ihe districts were found active and energetic
men as directors. And in every district, with
one exception, there was an active interest
show n l>v the people, in behalf of the schools.
The number of people coming out to the pub
lic examinations, was not as large as il should
have been. Many seemed to think and say too,
that the Superintendent is bound to grant an
examination to any person, at any time and in
any ; luce, and therefor- they would hold back
for a private opportunity, to be, as they expies--
i-fi ii, '* ■■!. i ro.ig.i in two minuti lf this
• ere aifewalfe, neither the director* nor the
schools wou.d have the necessary protection.—
Cut it is a mistake; it is not allowable. The
instructions from the department of Common
Schools, scarcely allow a private examination
•i. all. Tiiev cannot be granted excepting for
special r asons. The following is an extract
from the instructions touching this point. It
Is plain :nd positive and speaks for itself.
TCPAHT.MF.NT OF COMMOV SCHOOLS.
UMiitrsmtßo* SnrTEMFsn, 1557.
l 'P;.-dc Examinations: These have been
tolera: .! heretofore to an injur! ins extent,
and hue consumed the lime and seriously crip
pled .e movements of Superintendents.—
I'he r.gularfy appointed public examinations
a-e, to. ail applicants, unci it i, their duty
II present themselves in their proper districts.
Superintendents should refuse to make private
.. Viiiiii:atKu*, excepting !>>i special reasons, aim
not the,': unless applicants firing a written re.
;ii,.f h-jtu at Le.st three members of tne bourn
J'l dire..: as w ;.o desir- to employ lliem."
One iiiii.dr and ti:.y eight teachers, in ail,
.. e re n e themselves for exumina'.i in, up
ot os time. * ;e hundred and six publicly.,
tod fiftv-lifo } . ivaieiy. ;>;me of thos" who
Ji.'ie privately , assigned special ami Satisfacto
•y reasons for t. t attending publicly. Others
u light written requests from the boards cd di
eclois W, ho dM I d tOemploV tllein. Bt sides,
h. se there wer- vwie rm pi-s-eted them
elves pi ivately u itin,ut having an thing at ali
o show why tin •. should be i .vj-m.neb, or pei
taps fsan iiisr a o.i re private or individual rec
aT.mendat<*n, *••.■! *h> u refused mil led feick
vita them siicti reports as best suited their con
■e;i lence.
1 here are one hundred and eighty-five schools
n the county, arid d ail the teacfiers vvlio were
xainined are now employed, theie is a want of
weiity-seyeu.
About fifty of those now engaged in teaching
ire employed from necessity ami from choice.
Mrty-two have newr taugiit before and fifty
me have taught !e.s than twelve months. Six
y-severi are not competent to teach English
oath mar —seventy-tour ate not competent to
ach geography and a large per centageis ve
v deficient in arithmetic. One hundred and
hirty-one have never read any professional
,vuik on teaching, ami but a very small num
er have ever attend d a teacher's institute.—
July seventv-four io'i, .w teaching as a business.
\ll but thirty-seven profess to read <i portion
>(' the Sacred Scriptures as an opening exercise
>i the school in the morning.
Thirty-four teacher- are under twenty-years
>f age. Eighty-seven are from twenty to thir
y. Fifteen from thirty to forty, and twenty
;wo from forty to sixty-seven. One hundred
imi twenty-one are natives of Bedford county,
hree foreigners," and most of the ethers from
jther parts of Pennsylvania.
These last figures sh ov to what a large ex
lent the county i - dependent upon its own pop
ulation for a supply oi teachers firsts common
schools, and by referring above we can s-e how
inadequate the supply i-. There are only five
first class certificates in fotce in th> County.—
Just one hundred and one teachers have pursu
ed no studies either public or private during
the past year.
Though the interest of the schools has been
advancing during the pn-t few years; yet how
much remains to be done!
SUPERINTENDENT.
END OF THE TRAITOBS Lebo, Wagons-lier
and Manear, vvho committed treason against the
Democratic party by voting for Simon Cameron,
the K. N. candidate for U. S. Senator, have
all been left at home, and true Democrats re
turned to the Legislature in their places. Thus
ended the carreer of the traitors. They go to
their political graves, "unwept, uaixonored and
unsung."
\Ve give below the sclmdule of the ConstitU"
' tio.'i ot Kansas, prepared by the Convention oi
; Lecompton. It will be seen by reference t
! Section 1 1, that the Constitution is !o be stibmil
-1 ted to "all tile white male residents of the 1 er
, ritory," for approval or disapproval, befire it
; shail be sent to Congress. The people of tin
Territory are io decide jor i.'icmstlies, wheth
er they will hove a Constitution permitting
shivery or not. Therefore, if the so-called
Free State men of Kansas, desire a Constitution
without a pro-slavery clause in it, thvv can
have it !>v going to the polls on ;he2!.-t of De
| cernber, and voting tor it. They outnumber
' tiie pro-slaverv men bv ureal odds and they can
gain whatever end th-y wish. With them aim
with their Abolitiorr dictators, will rest the res
ponsibility. it' Kansas presents a Constitution to
the ne\t Congress, permitting slavery within
' her borders.
SCIIEbtXE.
S::crr v 1. That no inconvertience may ari-e
!;v reason of a change fVbfti a i erritorrtl to a
mrmarient State government j it is declared thai
all rights, actions, prosecution-, judgments.
: claims,arid contracts, its well of individuals avo;
hodi . - corporate, except the bill incorporating
! ; .inks. '.\ the l ist Territorial Legislature, shail
continue as if no such change had t iken place.
I and all processes which may hive issued unci r
• tlm authority* of the Territory of Kansas shaii
: i' as valid as if issued in the name of the State
• of Kansas.
Sec. *2. All laws now Mifc-- in the terri
tory of Kansas, win< -ire not repugnant to Ibis
j C-idstiluti -.hall continue and he of : io
until alt <T-d, aitu'ltded Oi repealed l-.y t# I .egi>-
; lature assembled by the provisions of this Con
stitution.
Sec. I!. All fines, p nalti s, and forfeiture- ac
cruing t > the Territory of Kansas shall inure tc
!n* use c t the State of Kansas.
Sn. . 4. All recognizances heretofore tm.eri
shall pass to. and be prosecuted i -i the name of the
State of Kansas; and all bonds executed to th-
Governor of the T> ri itnrv, or to any oth-i
officer or Court, in his or their official capacity,
shall pass to the vernor ac.d corresponding
officers of the State authority, and their sue
- cessors in office, and for the uretherein express-
I ed, and ma)" be rued for and recovered accor
dingly; and all the v-tates or property, real,
personal, or mixed, unci all judgments, bonds,
specialities, cases in action, and claims or d-hli
of whatsoever description,idf the Territory
Kansas, shall inure to and vest in the Stale o
Kansas, and he sued for and recovered in th
same manner and to ihe same e.xt-nt that tie
same rouiti have been by the territory • f Kansas
St; . b. All criminal pr<-secntions and penai
actions which m:.v have arisen ' efhre the
change from a territor al to a State (-.vernuvrd
arid which shall then be pending, shall !>•• pro. -
• eculed to judgment i:i tie' name ot the State oi
Kansas; all actions at law io. suits in equity
which may be pending in the Courts of the
Territory of Kansas at the tin e of the change
from a territorial In a State Government may
be continued and transferred toany Court ofthe
State which shall have jurisdiction of the >up
ject matter th rent.
Sti '. fi. AM officers, civil and mili'.trv, 1 tid
ing their offices und- r the authority of the Ter
ritory oi Kansas, shall continue to hold arc
exercise their respectiv> c-ffic •< until tl ey shaii
be Superseded by the authority of the State.
Sec. 7. —This Constitution shall H- submit
'■ •.! to 'lie Congress of th** I nit-d .Shrtcs, at its
next ensuing session r and as soon -is' official
i'nformafidri h-as been received that it is'approv
• i : the same, by th" .•<!:) nof the State
■ ; Kansas as w- of the sovetign Slat" of the
I nited Stji'es, tiie I i l uit t is '"onvention
shall issue hi prorlamati in '.•> convene the State
Legidntntc at tiie s at •••; govertiu >nt within
thirty-one days alter publication. Should ar v
vacancy occur by d rh, re-igriati n, or nth • -
VV ise, ill the Legislature or Other office, i;p shall
ord-i an election to fill such vacant v ; Provi-hu
however , in case of refusal, absence Or disability
ofthe President of this ('invention to discharge
i.te duties herein imposed on him, the Presi lent
■pro tempore of this Convention shall ; erform
> lid duties; and In case of absence, refusal,or dis
ability ofthe President pro temp>;>. a committee
consisting of seven, or a ma j >ri t y of them, shall
discharge the duties repair- ,1 of tiie President <>i
, this Convention.
Se . 8. The Governor and all other office rs
shall enter ii|oi the discharge of their respec
tive duties as soon after the admission ol
the State of Kansas as one ofthe independent
ami sovereign States of the Union as mav be
convenient.
Sec. 9. Oaths of office may be administered bv
any judge, justice ol the peace, or anv judge .-I
any court ot record of the Territory or State ol
Kansas, until the Legislature of the Stiite mav
otherwise direct.
Sec. 10. After THE year one thousand eight
hundred arid sixty-four, whenever the Legisla
ture shall think it necessary Io amend, alt - r,
and change this Constitution, they shall recoin
\ mend to the electors at the next genet al election
two thirds of the rnemb-rs of each tmuse con
curring, to vote for or against th" calling ofthe
cohvenlion; and, if it appears that a majority
of all the citizens of the State have vot at f>r a
convention, to consist uf as many members as
j tb'-re may be in th house of representatives
at the time, to b* chosen in the same manner,
lat the same place, and bv the same electors,
j that choose the representative; said delegates
i so chosen shall meet willun three months after
said election lor trie purpose of amending, revis
ing, or changing tile Constitution.
See. 11. Before this ("institution shall he sent
to Congress for adu isalon into th- Union as a
State, it shall be submitted to ail the white male
inhabitants of thi> Territory for approval or dis
approval, as follows: The President of thi* Con
vention shall, by proclamation, declare that on
the 21st day of Decern! it, IST>7, at the diTer
"ht election precincts now establish? ! by law, or
j which may be established as herein provided in
t!i-Territory of Kansas, ah election shall be
held, over which shall preside three Judges, or
a majority of three, to he appointed as follows ;
I'he President of this Convention shail appoint
three Commissioners in each countv in the Ter
ritory, whose duly it shall be to appoint tare?
Judges of election ir> the several pr-cincts of
their respective counties, at which election the
Constitution framed by this Convention shall be
sukmitfPit to all the whit* inhabitants of
the Territory of Kansas in the -yd Tciritory
u,n tliat!av, and over the agi of twenty-one
year*, tor ratification or in the toUow
inr manner and 1 Tin • The v ;,g shall be by
ballot. The judges of sai leh pan shall cause
to be kept two poll-book* by j-.vo clerk-, by
them appointed. i'.oe a!! t s , t! a t said elec
tion shall he endorsed "Const!- with sla
very," and wipj no slavery.'
Cue of the said poll books shall be returned
within eight days to tite of this Con
vention, and, the other shall Ltained by the
judges of elect ion, and kept inspecti >n.
The President, with toorn,p- members ol
this Convention, shall examine Li poll-books
and if it shall appear up m p examination,
that a majority ol the legal V( ,L cca t a t ga id
election be in favor of the (.'nijititntion with
slavery, he shall irnmed at'-lv L e the same
transniitted to the Congress of" t' Jopite'd State. l
a- hereinbehire pr ivide 1. m t upon .-uc!
examination of said poll-hook.-. : l shall appeal
that a majority ot the legal v'r.tJ cast at sab
f lection be in favor of the "C , : .|iifurion w it!
no slavery," then the article ; , r tiding Tor si T
v-rv-hail he stricken Irorn the l ( ,siitution by
the President of this Co'nventi m, Jj.l no slavery
-hall exist in the Stake of K.v.-„ 1 esccut thai
the. xigi.U. yf nrorj- it v m slaves n 1 m tiffs-TUT,
ritorv ahull in no manm-r *,. i:rlfTere<l w illi
anTr.Jial! nave transmitted th- f*n>tit'sition s
ratified to tiie Congress of the i . j.-cl States, a
hereinhviore provided. In case '|i he failure o
the President of this Convention tl perform tin
duties, by reason of death, resigi 4.m, or othei
wise, the same duties shall dec,upon 11 ■ <
President pro. tern.
Snr. 12. All officers app-u.Tj to carry
into execution the provisions oj tie | nvgoitis
sections, shall, be'...re PUte[ iiijT j U j ([mil
duties, tie sworn to faithfully p--:t|>rm t tie du
ties of their offices; and, on L',jure thereof
be subject to the same charges : Jd penalties
as are provi led in like case under lite territori
al laws.
SEC. 13. Tiie officers provi-! !| F ". R in TH'
preceding section shall receive their ser
vice- the same compensation a- j> given 1
offi >rs for performing similar dm* under th<
territorial laws. j
SEC. 11. Everv person offering'rjv tea! th
aforesaid election upon raid Confflution shall
: if challenged, take an oath to sup: It th- Con
stituti n of the I7uited States, at;: 1 a s-uppor
this Constitution, if a-i-'pted. nnd p .- penal
ities ot perjury under the territorial !Avs.
SEC. 1"). There shall be a gen-iid elect ior
upon the first Monday in* January! ls.hs. a
I which election -bait he chosen . lOovernor
Lieiit- nant-Covi r:wr, Secretary of State, Au
ditor of State, State Treasurer, a I member;
of the Legislature, sfnd also a mer r of Con-
Sr. . lb*. Until the Legislator' jlected it
Accordance with the provisions c|hi Grip
stitnilon shall otherwise direct, tl. ,salary o
the (J vernor si-all be tl-rr-e thou J I dollar:
per annum; and the -alary -f the [lieutenant
Governor shall be double the pa-, yt a S'atc
>--;-ator ; niufthe pay of rn-- niters • th- L -g
--is'alureshall be five dollars per diem ur;il other
wise provided bv the firsrt L-gislatu-j % which
shall fix the salaries of all of: 4- othei
than those elected by the people a It he first
election.
Sr . 17. This Constitution shall U ejf'ecl
and be in force from and after its iificaii >n
by the* ffceopl", a> hr n\V**foro j.rovi 4
COWFOUT FOR T.VUU'K MEN.—Tiirlv\*. Y
Tribune is utterly opposed ;u a re-orluizalior
of the old Whig party. Jt says : 1
J "We deem an atffmpt to revive i- WO'IJ
party as preposterous as would be a ;*fii>rt t
revive the Anti-Jackson party ot isSJjor tin
Clintuni in parly ol 18 i 2 or *20.. it | revival
ui the Whig party means, it it means tv thing,
ja tu'w party -(Higgle fur a National sik ami
a Protective Tariff, in tiie face ot a iii-|iie Es
•witive, Judicff : \ and (.'ongie<<*—an .itl <ck on
Gibraltar bv a Ifftiiia ot gun bun:-. jlbis i
sheer luuucv. A Hank --tabltshi-i, bv the m
uuipit ol one party over the other is a boomed
u-t :t ntion —i-xperijtjnce and common s- iy-- cona
;ine to assure this.', 1 lie hst v >n!il ml and
est managed Bank could <io no real g J, Could
tot maniaui its own solvency, with u -jut t!,e
vr-'iit national ptirli'-s warring upon n .tinl ea
ger tor its overthrow. So a piot-< tiv-Tariii',
macted as the liuit of a parly tiiun T, ami
ttierel-ue r- garded with disfavor -bv : ? van
qiished party, would be so essentially -ilistatde
and precaiious that no solid good con! he ra
tionally expected from it. Wifhdia-- these
topics altogether troio the arena ol pui'-v con
truversv antl contention, allow time tor oid
Artinds to heal and old rancors to tie ! ■ gotten,
ant il is quite pus-mle that s me ieimlicent
n difiication o! the poii- v now domuiii t will
o-silent lv and -_i .uin II I V eljecled. i - make
Bank and Taiiif party Shibtsjletlis, Ist-) lestrov
the last chance oi any favorable action on
-other."
The f'trtistiialiuii <! t.ansas.
An etFort is being tnade to prejudice the Dem
r-cracv I this Slate against the new Constitution
of Kansas, by slating that a- frained iS U irre
rene.ibivJ'ur Srem jp-y/'s, //.>• < c,>rtst term*.
he plain answer to thi> pint is stated y the
New ViOrk Times. The language of the sched
ule upon this pomt is this :
Sec. 10. i/ler the year one i/iousand
ei.irhi- 'mntirrtl ami xi sty-four, whenever the
Legislature shall think it necessary to amend,
alter and change this Constitution, thev shaJi
recommend to tiie elector.-* at the ne\t general
election, two-thirds oftheineuibersofea< ■ b< n-e
concurring, to vote |i>r or against the t - diing ot
a Convention; and il it appear that a majority
of all the citizens ufthe State have voted l->r a
Convention, the Legislature shall at its next
iegular session,call a Convention. 5 '
This provision is expressly confined to amend
ment- that may be desired nft,r the year 18C4-.
Previous to that time the Constitution, even by
its own terms, will be entirely in the lian.is ol
the people. Indeed, this must be -j in any
case. There is no power which can bind the
people of a sovereign State not to change, alter
or amend tiiejr Constitution whenever they see
tit. The very next week after admission the
Legislature may summon the people to declare
whether they will have a new Constitutional
Convention or not. The entire control over
their domestic affairs then passes into their own
hands.— Pittsburg Post.
S'nwrxDors Fnat'os IX I'.w.Tr.nnE.—The
stupendous frauds which were perpetrated by
the l'!ng Uglies of Baltimore City at the recent
election are now coming to light, and the im
pression is gaining ground that in consequence
of them, and the informality of the retains, the
Governor ought not, and will noi, grant com
missions to thrxe returned as elected by the vote
of Baltimore City.
jj £* v i t i c s.
During ttie gafe of Wednesday night, a
brukeman, named Cnshmyer, in |t* employ ol
the Chicago ami Rock Island Railroad, was
blown from his stand on the platform of affreight
car, while running at full speed, the wheels
passing over him, killing him instantly.
—An old gentleman named Jftseph Woodman
from Boston, stopping at the Citv Hotel, Lon
don, C. \V M got up after reliriug to bed on Tues
day night, and in the dark fell down stairs and
broke his neck. He died almost immediately.
—The Texas Legislature has been organized
by .the selection of VV. S. Ta\ lor as Speaker of
tiie House; H. If. llavnie, Ctiiel Cl>-ik; and
VVm. Johnson, Secreiary of the Senate. The
editor of the Aus'in Gazette was chosen
State printer.
—The schooner Howard, of and from New
born, A. C., arrived at St. Martins, VV. 1., Octo
ber 2dth, in chaige of the mate. ('apt.. Walter
Powers had fallen overboard from the schooner
arid u.is drowned, October .with.
Mr. John Jackson, formerly of Warren,
Pennsylvania, was recently killed by a hotel
keeper, in St. Paul, Minnesota, because he took
a glass of liquor, and asked to he "trusted."
jl'hf murderer was admitted to hail.
—The Dalton divorce case has been bv ir:u
tuai consent di>contiuued, and discharged from
the docket of the Supreme Judicial Court, in
Boston.
! C'tinm > lore ixha'l A. l'aik-r, oftheU. S.
Navy, <!ied on Moitda , ag' d i.S years.
f Jeorge Richards, Esq., has be 11 elected a
Director of the Bank of Pottstoivn, in [dace of
James Ritlenfiouse, resigned.'
Mr. C. P. Putnam, of New-York, has in
pre.-s a \olume of travel* m Northern Europe,
from the peri of Mr. Bayard Baylor.
—Col. Jam 's P. Barr, editor of the .\lornim>
Post, i.- a candidate for the Pittsburg Post mas
tership. and we ho[>" he may get it.
Tli- ll'ii. William Strong will take his
s-at upon the Supr-me Bench 0:1 the first IU Hi
day (toe ?fli) ul December. His term of ullii e
i> fif.een years.
Professor Calvin Stow e, a leading theolo
gian of Anduver, and husband of Mrs. Stowe, it
i* tiiougiit will run i ;f Congress in the district
now represented tiy Speaker Banks.
—R -v. Mr. Kalloch, of Boston, was at Iv
cornpton, Kansas, last week, and the fact otbrf
having n lad\ with hirn,caused the gossips ol
that village ,i great deal of concern.
—(ien. W. S. Haskell, of Tennessee, whi
WJS j aced m the Kentucky Insane Asylum a
few weeks a>u, has been restored, and was an-
NOUNCED to i-idu:e in the Odd-Fellows Hall,
at Lexington, Kentucky.
—Bi igham Young "who defies t hp govern men t
and threatens the armies of the l'nited St iles,
is a native of Whitehaven, Veimont, and is
fifty -six \ears of age.
A penny paper called the Courier, has been
start-d at Wheeling.
Michael Cangemi has been convicted ol
the murder of policeman Anderson, in New
York.
The Opera will not bear the rude kicks of
V\ all vlr-ef The \eu- York Academy of Minor
is about closing.
The Jersey Sh re Back commenced npera
tions on .Monday last, li do-s not accept the
relief law, but will pay specie,
—Ed vin Both is playing w it!) great success
at Butiu ■.
—James Kg. -s, recently <onvicted of the
mnr.ier i I John Swartt m, in New \ irk, w as, on
Sd urria \ last, s it fen c-iJ to be Hung on Friday,
Jaiiiuiy i .1, ]S.)S.
Wood i> seinng at $d per cord iri Piuiadtl
plliil.
Ttie total number of per-, m.s in the Phila
delphia Almshouse at the present time is 2,:>9 >.
Bach'. an, late President of the Lancaster
Bank, lias been acquitted, hut tlie jury said he
Should pav the costs.
L tleis have been received from Mr. Aili
hone, w inch-he expresses a lieterminaiion to re
turn unmediatei y home, to meet Ihe serious at
t usatjoiis against him as President of the Bank
ol Pennsylvania.
Families decline as do empires; each .suc
ceeding day some part of life's ancient honors are
lost: the descent that leads toad vet sit v' s precipi
tate and rapid.
—1 h'- Boston city gov ernnient lias granted an
annuity of per annum, for five years to
the widow of Eieki-I W.llio Ison, who w a- siiot
in East Unstop, while in the discharge of his duty
as policeman.
The first ra'tnp meeting held in the l'nited
States was held in Kentucky liftv years ago.
The Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists
united on that occasion. How widely apart
they have stood ever since.
—lt i> said that a lady once asked Lord
fhougham. the great English orator and author
who w as the best debater in the House nf Lords.
HD lordship replied, "Lord Stanley is the sec
ond best madam."
—Thackerav, the novelist, has given £IOOO
to the India relief fund. One hundred thousand
[RIIJIHIS have BEEN raised lor this charity, and of
tie- sum, King Otho, of Greece, subscribed ten
thousand francs.
Dr. Rend, of Terre Haute, Indiana, savs
that this season has been (he most healthy one
known in ll.at city and vicinity for fourteen
years. In a population of 10,000, there were
only five interments in tfie month of July.
A Quaker once hearing a person fell how
much lie felt far another who was suffering, and
needed pecuniary assistance, dryly asked him
"Fiiend, has! Thou felt in thv pocket lor him.'"
—The receipts into the State Treasury of
Ohio from the canals, for the current year, were
$311,778, and the expuditures|s339,o72.
—At Batrrson, N. J., a man lately drank
two quit's of whiskey, on a wager. One of
the journals of that plac- says that when h
had finished the second quart he was senseless.
We should sav that he was senseless before fie
commented - the first.
—The largest piece of copper ever shipped
was taken from the Minnesota mineral Rock for
Superior City. It weighed nine thousand five
hundred and sixt-two pounds.
—Ttoe best quality of bread is sold in Albany
at thr-y cents a pound.
—The Siamese Twins are in Chicago.
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rOHEMiti M:\VS ITEMS.
Glasgow Was ID a Very exciting state, imme
diately hi {iir^ ,t! i* news o| i!ic suspension oflhe
Chart) r act was received there, and military
I recaiu ions had Leen laLeii by government
against riot.
Tin Bombay mail Imi! reached London with
pap"rs to the 17th of October, and telegraphic
a<G ices fiomlodia, dated at Calcutta on the 9th
and Madras on the 1 bth of October, had been
received there. There was little additional
news : and the chief point of it was the situa
tion <i{ i tit- English at Luc know, Geneial
Ontrarn rej -,rted that their sick and wounded
could not hi move i to Cawnpore, in the face of
the enemy, without the aid of more than two
thousand s ildiers. which was the .-nitre force at
Ids cornrrand. I{e was cosequently again be
sieged. I'be rr-ltirtecrs were very numerous at
On i*, ;,ud all Central Indj i was pr--atly disturb
ed. \ - more British troops had arrived; but
it was Imped that large reinforcements would
[J or in dining tin* month of October. General
A iCon had toasted Qu-en Tutor as health
in th- paiace of'the Great Mogul, in Delhi.
Our advices from China ate dated at Shang
hae 10th, and Hong-Kong, 25th of September.
A violent typhoon had destroyed a large nrim
her of vessel* jo the China s -as, and done much
damage in and aound Fb >-( boo. The Russian
plenipotentiary was awaiting an official reply
from Pekin to the notification ofl.is mission to
the K-npero'r. The tea market of Shdnghae was
firm, a.'id silks were quiet.
From Australia we have news dated at Syd
ney, 11th, and Melbourne 37th of September.
All was quo tat the gold fields. A prolific
mine bad been discovered at Aarant, 12(1 miles
from Melbourne. I'he wool market was very
(inn, and contracts were taken at a high rat-.
The coming clip was xp<Ted to be less than
th-- last. Money tight. There have been g;eat
tlo ids in New South Wales, arid considerable
destrurti.-d of pfopertv On til" H-iet.r, P.ifersan
and other rivers. Some prolific gold fields had
been discovered at Nelson, in Mew Zealand :
1// el 0" l 0 ounces had arrived thence at Sydney.
We have news from South America. The
dates are Buenos Avreg 2d, Montevideo sth,
Rio Janeiro 15th, Rubin 19th, and Pernambuco
22 lof October. The Bahia sugar market liad
declined, and sales were dull. Coffee was in
stria!! demand, and freights nominal. In the
Rio market sugars were unchanged, hut coffee
had fallen slightly. Exchange on Lmr! >n, r
27 r ' a271. At pernambuco sugars were lower. *
Cottonhad advanced. The political news form
Buenos A vres is not important. There was a
report of an intended invasion of the State on
the south side, in which Calfucura wa- to be
aided hv the Chilian Indians. News had been
received of an Tudian invasion on the northwest
side, but the d-tails are not given.
A Reverend Miylofk.
The Chicago Press gives an account of a note
shaving clergyman in that cifv and vouches for
tli" correctness of its assertions—otherwise they
would h" deemed almost impossible in a Chris
tian land.
An excellent and worthy man,a mechanic,
whose own hard hands had laid the foundation
T hi- moderate fortune, had raid the sum of
$3,0011 on securities, even in the present de
pressed condition of juices, worth three times
that num. The security given wastoa form lo
cut off all redemption. The note matured in an
evd hour, present crisis, when th.' debtor found
hiinsel!" unable to meet his obligations. His
creditor, a Connecticut clergy man , (understood
to b" seeking a location troth as a preacher and
a money lender in the (Vest, when*, as lie has
said, -'it pays Settler,'*) vi a? in tire < rtv. He
was importun ed to extend the note, rfonfv fir
a short time. He was offered t <iu per rent, u
month. "I vift <Io it for om 'iiin JreJ fcr aal,
//•- r r,; nun," was th" rejoinder.
Finally, th- rewrend rt"di or agreed to re
ceive tie modetaie int-rest of .vir/y-vx ptr cni,
as i nitiiinitum, and on deciding this ofier,
the propeiv, w :th ten thousand dollars, was
-■• fit t" tii • auction 'dork, and .-old to the creditor
! ir v.neiv the i'ace of th- note, a little upwards
of thr-e thousand dollars. Thus a worthy,
hard working iin .2;ante, was beggared t i s.itislv
the inhuman greed of a Christian minister ol the
same (tenomination and a member ol the same
Cnristian faith with l;iu;s. If.
That transaction should stick to (hat clergy
man through life. We trust he w ill I<r the sake
of decency, use in future, only an amended fornr
of th" Bird"- Praver, fi>r if his hps falter not in
the utterance of the beautiful petsiion—"fur
give ?/v our debts as we forgive w debtors, '* he
nnst a .1 dnuhledyed hypocrisy to his unseemly
lust fir gold.
The names of the j irti-s are well kown.
The trau-action which has ruined the one,
should in a far deeper measure disgrace the
other. Pittsburg Post.
Female hitiitageiu \e Jersey.
Women formerly possessed, and at various
times exercised, the elective franchise in New
Jersey. Bv the Constitution adopted July 2,
177b, th" pin ilege of voting "as accorded to
••all inhabitants of full age," ssl> proclamation
money, clear e-tat", and who had resided a cer
tain Lime within the con. try. As tins could be
construed to include women, "i 1793 a prom
inent Quaker member ol the Assembly had the
act s > drawn as h> rea i ''lie or she " vvlien re
ferring tii qualified voters. No change was
made until 1807, and women olteii \ < led when
tile elections were close, or there was any spe
cial excitement. In tile Presidential contest of
1800 there were many instances ol their voting.
At an election in Hunterdon comity in 1802,
even some women ol color \ivie allow ed to vote,
and their ballots el c.ted a uienib"! of tb" Icg
islature. Jn 183 d a new court house and jail
were lobe erected HI the county oi Essex, anc
their location was to be decided by a vote ol the
people.
Strenuous exertions were made to have therrr
located else where than at Newark, ami the cm
test created great excitineut throughout the
country. When the election was held, wonieQ
ol "full age,'' whether single or married, jmsr
sessing the required property qualification?,
were .permitted hv the judges of th" elect*** to
vote. But as the Conilict proceeded, the-blood
of the combatants waxed warmer, the number
of female voices increased, and it was* tound
that every sjpgle ami married woman in the
country was not only "of full age," but also
worth "fifty pounds proclamation money, clear
estate," and as such entitled to vote if they
chos". So apparent were the frauds practised
at thy el-ction, that the next Legkdaturn set it
aside, am) left the buildings to be erected in
Newark. An act was also passed restricting
the right of suffrage to free white male citizens
ot twenty-one years. And thus wasextinguish
ed female sufirag" in New Jersey.
Pittsburg coal rs selling at IS cents *
bush-l in Indianapolis.