THE BEDFORD GAZETTE. Bedford, Feb. 3, 1 S.IS. B. F. Meyers & G. W. Benfoid, Editors. DEMOCRATIC MEETING. I lie regit la'• mutual ntet'titlg ol the Dentortiaey >' IGdfm <1 fMiut y, will be htltl in the Goitrt House, on VJ.utd ay evening of the minting Court week. February Slit. IS.KS. Turn out ! Turn out! Sjtrrrh >f a kausi.> Free Stale Matt. The Lower House of the Kansas Legislature, a few days ago, unanimously opposed a resolu tion to memorialize Congress for an act to enable the people of Kansas to lorm a Constitution. Thus the policy of Mr. Douglas has been indig nantly and summarily condemn* d hv the very men (both Houses of tile present Kansas Legis lature are largely Free State) for whose benefit it was invented. Thus have these professed Free State men, in efCct, expressed their willing ness to come into the Union with the Lecotnp ton Constitution. The follow ing is an extr ict from a sp> ecii de livered in ilie Lower House, pending trie resolu tion to memorialize Congress for an '"Enabling Act", by TV. H. .Mifcs Moore, a Free State man by practice as well as by profession : •'1 have never seen the emergency yet arise in Kansas., that would justify the people of Kansas in taking grounds against the Federa!;Government, or rebelling. When we have exhausted every means of peace —when we can be supported by all our friends, then 1 will be willing to defend our rights in the field. This excitement, this rebellion throughout the Ter ritory , may l>e very agreeable to some people, hut 1 have suffered too much from it, I have lot too much in pocket and person, to imperil all for nothing upon such a turbulnt sea. I believe the people of this Territory want peace, and they wilt have peace, and have it peaceably, too. We have the power, anil all that is necessary is to u-e that power discreetly. Suppose the I.ecomptnn Swindle nhoulit be forced upon us ; 1 say let it come, and I, for one am prepa red to meet ir. Let it comein any shape ; we have the majority in the Legi-lature ; we have the power and let us use it to destroy and crush out that constitu tion. Let us use it so tongas it may be necessary to use it in order to establish a good government. 1 am neither a Democrat, nor a Republican; I am a Free State man of Kansas—and am riot struggling here to destroy the Democratic party in the States, or to build rip the Republican party there, but to make Kansas a free State, and lor one shall never commit myself to any other party till this is done."' Observe. This Free State leader says that he has "never seen the emergency yet arise in Kansas, that would justify the people in taking grounds against the Federal Government, or re belling." And yet the Abolitionists shed their pious tears over the wrongs ot ''Bleeding Kan sas," and call upon the people to rise up against that Government fir injuries which they say it has inflicted upon the "Fie-' State men" of the devoted Territory ! Observe further. This same Free State leadei acknowledges that there is' 'rebellion throughout the Territory ; and that that rebellion -•mny be eery agreeable to some peo ple." And yet when we. Democrats, charge that Jirn Lane and his myrmidons are in rebellion, the Abolitionists apologise lor them and say , "Oh, they are not rebelling—they are only asserting the rights of the people." And again ; .Mr. .Moore, says the Free State men "have the power"; they can "crush out" the Lecompton Constitution : they can graft upon that instru ment as a stock, what they may consider "a good government." So say we. Why, then, should Kansas not be admitted into the Union with the Lecompton' Constitution ? Why should she not be admitted immediately, so that fit* useless agitation and turmoil caused cv her progression from the condition of a Territory toward that of a State, shall be ended, at once and forever ? y,e~The impression is gaining ground (fiat the Free State men of Kansas will yet demand admission into the Union, under the Lecompton Constitution. We could hope for such a thing if a majority of them were not .Iboliiionists, instead ot Free State in-n. There is no doubt that those citizens ol Kansas who reallv and sincerely desire that Territory to become a Free State, are earnestly in favor of its admission into the Union with the Lecompton Constitu tion. Nor is it at all unreasonable that they should be so, a large majority ol the anti-slavery candidates having been elected to the Slate Legislature and all the State officers chosen- be ing active and uncompromising Fr-e State men : which makes it evident enough that when once they shall have become a sovereign Slate, they •will have the remedy in their o n hands which those officers both by their actions and professions have pledged them as a cure, certain and infal lible, for whatever evils, real, or imaginary, they may see in their form of government. Hut the Abolitionists of Kansas, who are no more desirous of making that Territory a Free State than are the slaveholder of the South, them selves, oppose, and will resist to the hitter end, the acceptance by Congress, of the Lecompton Constitution. They know that that event would be utterly ruinous to their darling scheme, the -lection of' an Abolition President in IS6O. I hev know th.it it would roe,-- upon them like a deluge df extinguishing waieis, to quench forever the Kn>S nt laualicism which it has cost them so dearly to kmdle and which they are determined to keep aUv.. ( though to do 30, the tue| required were tlm blootkoj- flvir own broth ers. Pittsburg L nion has made a Ji s -t of the Democratic newspaper in this State which sustain the Kansas -policy of Air. Douglas, as also ol those which stand by the Administration. Of the former there are thirteen^ — of the latter, Lfijly-two. Does that look as though Pennsyl vania were ready to turn her back on her "fa- Ivorite scr. ]" XF*lt is now generally believed that some of the Abolition leaders in Kansas, are in league with the Mormons. Gov. Denver in his last m-vage, speaks of a secret society existing in the Territory, closely resembling the "Damte" organization of the Mqrrnons, the members of which are sworn to murder all whose death their lenders may require. Tt is said that the Ad ministration have conclusive proofof Jim Lane's complicity with Brigham Young. This would account far Lane's rebellious conduct in making his demonstrations against the U. S. troops, his object being t<> detain them in Kansas and thus prevent their being sent to 1 tah. It is also alleged that the Kansas agent of the Abolition Emigrant Aid Society is a Mormon. rrr-The Kansas Legislature, on the 21 st n't., passed a bill providing for a new Constitutional Convention. The Convention is to consist of one hundred members, who are to be chosen by the people on the second Tuesday in March, and to meet on the fifth Monday ofthe same month. The Constitution formed by this Con vention is to be submitted to the people for their adoption, or rejection, on tile first Monday in Max. Thus it will be seen that an arrange ment to secure to the people of Kansas whatever form of Government they may desire, has been perfected, which will be carried into effect should the Lecompton Constitution be accepted by Congress. [CP'Our State Legislature has as yet done nothing ot importance. The Abolitionists in that body are at their old frame of trying to leg islate for Kansas instead of Pennsylvania. The Democratic member who votes to give resolu tions on Kansas affairs, any other consideration than to kick them out of the Legislature, will ere long see the day when lie will be heartily ashamed of himself. Mark the prediction! [CP"A private letter from Hairisburg informs us that ttie House of Representatives tias fixed the 25th of March, as th>* day of final adjourn ment, and that the Senate will, doubtless, con cur in the resolution. [LP"We call the attention of our readers to the Communication lately made to the Legisla ture by the Surveyor General, which will be found in our columns to-day . It is a document of great interest. {'orrei>oiif!cßice. WASHINGTON, D. C., \ JAN. 2!), 1858. \ EDITORS "BEDFORD GAZETTE;" Tim excitement in regard to the vexed ques tion of Kansas is rather on the wane and every well disposed citizen is confident in the hope that no new obstacle will be thrown in the way of a peaceful solution of tile matter. For one, 1 never could see any good reason why the country should again fall into another Kan sas fever. Certainly one would suppose Black Republican doctors had bledd that poor territory sufficiently, and why men professing to be Democrats should have such an itching for a rejuvenation of "bleeding Kansas," I cannot imagine. It is certainly one of the political enigmas of the age. A great deal has been said about the Lecomp ton Constitution being an imposition and fraud 11 [ion the people of Kansas, hut it turns out that the people of that territory have finally endorsed that instrument. YW have reliable informa tion here that, on the 4th inst. the people of Kansas—pro-slavery ant! free stale men—all turned out in their strength and elected, under their constitution. State officers and members oftheLegislature. It also turns out that the tree-state men have triumphed, electing evrrv one of their State otiicei s, and a decided major ity ol'the Legislature. So we see that while a few oi our professing Democrats injthe States were mourning over the Kansas "concern,'* de ploring the iniquity ol the Lecompton fraud— the people id that territory were settling. in iheir "own "their own" government, by electing under "th-ir own" ( unslitntion, fram ed at Lecompton,'-their own" State and Legis lative officers. i hus have the tree State men, by a large voir—a majority of the p-opfe of ttie territory ratified tne LKCOMITON Constitu tion, and, in doing so. have showed their good sense. No dotthi, the people ot Kansas, like the people of ttie States, are sick and tired of this everlasting Kansas question, and thanks to the sober second thought, they have done what they should have done long ago,—resorted to the ballot box, rfie mode of all modes tor a free people to determine then i :i*utution. .Notwithstanding the people of Kansas have recognized tue tunning force of the L o'inpton Constitution, it may be looked for thai a few restive men ia Congress professing to be Dem ocrats, will y.-t oppose the admission, as a State, of that unhappy territory. Ask them their objection and lh y will ring in your ears, "the whole constitution 41 as not submitted to the people." Say to the.n, that tile people of Kan sas have, by a large vcm,ratified that constitu tion, and the answer will be, "they had no right to do so!" What, shall we be told that the people of Kansas siiaii not regulate their a flairs as they please—in their "own way ?" Why in JS34, :> and 6, the Democratic party declared that the tiue intent and meaning of the Kansas Nebraska llill was, that the people should be left oerfictly free to regulate their domestic affairs in their "own way:" every body knows this, let we have Democrats in Con gress who now would take it upon themselves to enable the people to regulate their domestic affairs in their "own way"by dictating what kind of a constitution Kansas shall have; I have said thai the people oi this country are worried beyond measure in regard to this Kansas affair, and loudly call fin its stop. The member of Congress who would now falter in acceding to tile raruest wish, not only ofihe people ofthat territory, as expressed m the election ot State and Legislative ollicers, on tne 4-th inst., but of the whole people within the States—in other words, who would hesitate, for a mojoeint to vote lor the prompt admission of Kansas as a tree and sovereign State, had b-'U-r never been born. The mas* of the people ol'the Union read and think fur themselves. There probable was a (true when they would occasionally p >; rut Senatorsand .Representatives in (k ngressto think tor thein, put they soon got tired ol'that way of doing business, and, ever since the days of AN UULW JACKSON, they have taken upon them selves the burthen of thinking, in candy re flecting over this matter of the Lpcompton "con- cern,"—they have com.' to the conclusion that, as to the question of Jwcomplon, or no Lecom pton, it is simply none of our business. The Kansas Nebraska Hill tells them this—common sense tells them so. Then, let Democratic mem bers of congress "look before they leap." j| there ever was a time when the people of Penn sylvania should rally around the standard of JAMES BUCHANAN and DEMOCRACY it is now. It we look around us we see various el ements combined to cripple and thwart the wisest and best designs of his pure and patri otic heart. Who can fail to see in this spirit of ; tactions and captious opposition to the position ol the "favorite son" ot the glorious old Key stone Sate, a bold determination to break down tiie Deumcratic party and dissolve this glorious confederacy of States ? Know Nothingism and I all kinds ot/SOTS are deeply at work, no doubt, : plotting and counterplotting in this dark conspir ; acy. But they will fail. The same spirit ''which carried through the tierv furnace un ; harmed, Hie immortal Jackson, will*watc.h and j protect the great BUCHANAN. The position of our Hiesidenl to-day, reminds me of the occa sion when a self-constituted committee of profess ing Democrats from Philadelphia came all the way to Washington City to remonstrate with the old hero of Ihe Hermitage in relation to his opposition to the United Stales Bank. All the country remembers how the old patri- I ot firmly, but kindly toid them to go home, at i tend to their pursuits in lite,and he by the bless ing ol God would endeavor to attend to his— which was faithfully to administer the govern ment. Mr. BUCHANAN is met from day to'day by restive and vacillating men, who, from tear or design, are slow to meet this Kansas em broglio liili in the face ; but he, like JACKSON, knows that the position assumed in his annual Message is right, and that the mass of the pso pieofthis Country will sustain him. Yours Truly, VERITAS. From the. Surveyor Central, relative io the arrea rages due on hinds purchased from the Com mnnvenlth. HON. VV M. H. WKLSH, Speaker of the Senate: Slß: —] respectfully beg leave to make you the medium through which to call the attention of ttie Representatives ot the people to the im poitauce of early and salutary legislation in re lation to the arrearages due on lands purchased trom the Commonwealth. The graduating act ot 1835 having expired by its own limitation in December last, further legislation will be re quired, unless it is designed to throw us hack upon the statute existing prior to the passa" of tiie act of 1835. The act of ISIG, requiring the compounding o1 the principal and interest, and the charging oi interest on the aggregate thereafter, which has been revived by the expiration of the grad uating act, would, it continued and enforced, give great distress to many good citizens of the Commonwealth. On the otner hand, the re enactment of the law ol 1835, would revive a system which not only-jails to do equal and ex act justice to all wtio have purchased lands from tile State, but also cuts oil all hope of ac complishing the collection of the moneys due liom that source within the lifetime of any man now living. As stated in my annual report, the amount now due the Cominmonwealth on account of lands, in the opinion of those most conversant with the business oi the department, is about six millions ol doilui.s. The interest on this sum, at six' per cent, per annum, would he three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and vet the recipts troin lands lor the year 1857, amount to hut little more than twenty-one thousand dollars I And this is about the annual average of receipts from that source lor some years past. In the ten years immediately preceding the passage of the graduating act of 1835, the re ceipts were $687,0UU, whilst the succeeding twenty years yielded only $4-72,000. If the graduating act of J835 is incapable ol producing better results than these, would it not be folly to return to it? Would it not be wiser to strike out five of ttie six millions of dollars due, aiul collect the remaining million within a reasonable time ? But there is no rea son why the Legislature should relieve the debtors ol the Common wealth, on account of lands, ot live sixties ol theit indebtedness. Cu tler the peculiar circumstances ot the case, they should not be harshly dealt with, but in my judgment sufficient leniency would be exten ded to them ii the recommendations of my an nua! report, tit regard to the calculation ui in terest and ttie enforcement ol payment, were carried into etiect. Of lute the public mind has been directed, with more than ordinal y solicitude, to the re duction of the public uebt. The people have fixed their hearts upon wiping out the burden under which the Commonwealth has groaned so long. Every department of the government should respond to the patriotic wish ot the peo ple. None is capable of rendering more effect ive service in this behalf, than the one over which i have the honor to preside, but to de velope its real resources, an act of Assembly combining liberality in its provisions, with a stringent clause lor their enforcement, is abso lutely required. Without some act of this char acter, the business ol this department will drag its slow length along for centuries to come, ad ding the insignificant sum above stated to the annual receipts of the Treasury, and constantly getting farther from a final settlement of our land affairs. | Whatever law the Representatives of the i people, with the sanction of the Governor, may j lay down for iny guidance, i shall faithfully 1 follow ; but 1 confess to some anxiety to see a | law passed that will unlock the wheels of this department and enable it to make an important I annual contribution to the Treasury. With | six millions of dollars outstanding—not in the | hands of debtors of doubtful responsibility, but I all secured, so to speak, by first mortgages on real est at i—what, hut intrinsic insufficiency in the law, or gross negiect of duty by the offiicer, ; is to prevent !he land office from contributing several hundred thousand dollars annually to the Treasury of the Commonwealth 1 If it is not intended to let the arrearages on lands run on and accumulate forever, the ; work of collecting them may as well be com menced now in earnest. It their collection is ' difficult, time will on;v increase the difficulty. If it should give rise to complaint, the longer ; the matter stands and the larger the arrearages grow, the louder will !e the outcry. Hut the uilFicully of collection, or the justice of com plaint is not easily perceived. The claim of .ue Ctnnm 'ftwi.ahli is too clear to he u'tcd, and all will admit that her Legislature .'.is the ! power to enforce it. That she has heretofore ; indulged her debtors, when sorely pressed by i tier own pecuniary obligations, is no reason why she should henceforth abstain from the assertion • of her rights. | Apart from the wants of the Treasury, and ; disconnected from all considerations in refer ence to the reduction ol the public debt, there j exists, tn my opinion, a strong reason why all j the delinquents on the books of tins department • should be compelled to extinguish the amounts due by them without further unnecessary de j lay. Justiceto those who have paid for their lands imperatively demands it. A great wrong S is done to the holder ofa tract of patented land, I whose money the Commonwealth has long en ! joyed the use of, when he is made to pay an j equal amount of tax with his neighbor, whose land is unpatented, and from whom the public ; treasury lias never receiveda dolljrol purchase ! money or interest. The monstrous injustice of taxing, at the same rate, Jaods which have heeri paid lor and those which nave not, without compelling the imme diate payment of arrearages, can easily he illustrated. For example :—ln 1826, Edward Crawford, executor of John S. Brown, paid into the State Treasury the sum of $2lB. neing ttie purchase mopey arid interest on 232 acres and 35 perches of land in Franklin county. ! The Common wealth has had the use of this ! money ever since. It is, therefore, proper to ! add interest to the sum paid in 1826. This ! would swell the amount received bv the Cotri ' monwealth from the Brown tract, up to this I date, to 14-. This sum is worth about ninety dollars per annum to the Treasury, at : six per centum interest. Scattered all over the State are thousands of tracts as large and as valuable as this Brown tract, in Franklin county, which never have j paid anything into the Treasury of the Corr | monwealtb, in the shape of purchase money* or i interest. And yet, although the State is renp j ing ninety dollars per annum from the use of ; tlie purchase money and interest heretofore de- I rived from the Brown tract, the owner of that tract is compelled to submit to the same rate of | taxation as the owner of a tract that is unpaid ior and unpatented. In other words, the Brown tract contributes ninelv-one dollars more per annum to the support of the State government than any unpatented tract of the same size and | value. And this unjust burden jt will continue j to hear so long as there is an unpatented tract of' i equal value in the State. Against such inequality as {this, etvrv just man in the Commonwealth ought to cry aloud. Jt is astonishing that those who have paid for j their lands have not cried out against it long ago, 1 and demanded the collection of what is due j from others or the refunding of what 'pins been j paid by themselves. Do what we may now, we cannot do equal , justice to all who havelpurchased land from the ! State. It is 100 late for that. But the Legisla- ! tore may part iallv restore the equality destroyed j by varying legislation in the past, by authorising : the computation of interest hereafter in the man- j twr proposed in mv annual report. That mode ' of charging interest is firmlv Jbelieved hv me to i he better calculated to do justice all round, than j any other. It is, as it ought to be, liberal to ] (hose who bought their lands at high rates, j whilst it does no injustice whatever to those ' who were fortunate enough to purchase at the j lowest price. Doubtless the number of patents taken out annually would he greatly increased it the peo ple were rightly informed ol the requirements of the law. Much of the neglect heretofore displayed is probably attributable to a want of proper knowledge. Coupled, therefore, with any legislative enactment, on this subject, tiler ought to It- a clause authorizing the Kuiveyor Genera! to publish the act, or a synopsis of its provisions, in nearly all the newspapers ol the State, it ignorance ofihe law is to excuse no man, then the law ought to be printed where all tnen can see jt. Respectfully, vour obedient servant, JOHN HOWE, Stir. Gen. SI;R. Grx'i.'s OFFICE, / Harrisburg, January 13, \ THE TKI TH COMING UIT. We have always been of the opinion that there was more knavery than honesty tn the agitation ot the slavery question, and particu larly that branch of it which relates to Kansas. 1 hat question has been seized upon by design ing politicians as a means by which they can get into and keep themselves in [lovrer, and not through any Jove or respect for principle. All the recent developments on tnis subject have been calculated io strengthen our convictions in this respect; and we give below an extract Irom ttie Kansas Daily Ledger, a free State pa per, which, it seer,as to us, ought to convince all u'ho have ever doubted as to the real cause of the controversy. The Ledger savs : "Niggers is not the great bone of contention in Kansas, and those who cry out most lustily for 'nigger' or -no nigger,' hav'nt money enough, as a genei ai thing, to boy a 'plug of tobacco with.' T j frenl hone o( contention is poicer and the spo /.s : and the poor nigger is made to bend and bow to suit the purpose of these political demagogues, that they may ride into power and olitam some of Pte sooils and that's all. I'lic i fee State party nor the oro slavery party of Kansas care anything about the moral condition of the niggers, but they must have a text to preach from. and the 'poor tiia ger' has been preached in all his aspects through out our land." And upon the admission of Kansas into the ' nion under the Lecompton Constitution, the same paper says: '•Lei Congress attend to their own business, arid tel us attend to ours. We have something more to accomplish besides the admission of Kansas into tb.e Union. We want railroads telegraphs, churches, common schools, and a host ol other things of minor importance, but, paramount to ajl these, ice want peace." And again : "They (the people of Kansas] are heartily sick and tired of this infernal nigger agitation they have had a surfeit of it .tit injures their business, blasts their prospects, atfd keeps up a continual strife. Let Kansas be admitted into trie Union somehow or other, and with some kind of a constitution, that we may have peace." These extracts show, what we have always iielievHd and iosisted was the case, that it 'is for jKiwer and the spoils that-the Republicans of the North, who have got up and kept alive this controversy, are contending : and that the people of Kansas themselves, no matter what ethers may say or do, are sick anddired of agi tation. and anxious that it should be settled the only way it can be settled—by the prompt and unconditional admission of the Territory as a state under the Lecornpton constitution.— Union. —Mrs. Keroble has been quite ill at New York. Ur c y 111 cs. —Quite an excitement was created at New Orleans last week, at the discovery of some $25,000 fictitious paper being in the hand*of four of the hanks. The perpetrator of the for gery lias left the city. —There is now in successful operation at Augusta, Georgia, a manufactory of Porcelain Ware. The material (kaolin) is foiind in great abundance in the vicinity of the works, and the style and finish of the ware is highly credi table. —The manufacture ot brooms has lately be-n introduced as one of the employments f (JI - || u . convicts in the Ne \v .Jersey State prison, and bids fair to become a remunerative branch of the businessof the prison. —Track laying on the Ea-t Tennessee and 1 V irginia Railroad is progressing rapidly, and the Bristol .Veu*s says that the track will :,e finished to within six miles of Greenville du ring the present week. • —The friends, personal and political, of Ex- Governor Mcßae, of Mississippi, presented him with a handsome silver service, a{ Jackson, on tiie evening of the Sth in-!. —The Richmond papers are very indignant that the students ot the University of Virginia have invited the Hon. Henrv Winter Davis to deliver an address before the literary societies of that institution. —On Sunday afternoon last, the'annual sub scription for Foreign Missions was taken a t the Essex street church, JBoston, and the amount pledged was s6,ooo—an increase of $1,2 JO over last year. —The Charleston Courier says that the rea son why slaves are not unpolled into this coun try from Africa, is not because such importation i is prohibited by an act of Cowre,-.., but because | the planters ot the South do not demand I it. ■—Under the new law, they have a double currency in Canada, pounds, dollars, shilling.-, pe ace, cents, and mills, are aft a legal tender, ami payments to the Government, the tanks, the Jaw courts, or to individuals, mav ho le.ml- Jv ICade ill either. —The spirit of Daniel Webster was called no lately, in i spiritual circle in Northampton, Mass. He confessed he had made manv mis takes in his social and political life while on earth, and in Ins Dictionary. —lt is said that a private enter prize j> on foot for introducing cainels into Te\a, Arizona, and .New Mexico, in consequence of the suc cess of the Government's experiment with these animals. Ex-President Tyler is lying very ill at Ids residence, "Sherwood Forest," Charles Citv county, \ irginia. lie has been suffering for several weeks past, with a severe chronic at tack. Hall's Journal of Health states that, while <iu business down town, Huntington was never seen without a cigar in bis mouth, and was never Weil. Siuce entering prison, smoking is pro hibited, and, in three months he has gamed fifteen pounds in flesh, and good health in pro portion. —The King of Prussia holds, a million dollars of the first mortgage bor.ds of the Erie Railway, which mature in 1862. 1 in' best comment we have seen upon the weather was that ot a contemporary when tie said W inter had failed, and Autumn had got an extension. l'll-Hon. -L H. 1 fob.*rt Haws, formerly a Whig ii •ember ot Congress iron: New York citv, died ar Troy on Wednesday last, after a short illness. —Rev. A. Harmon and Henrv Hatipl, two old citizens ot Savannah, Georgia, who partici pated in the war of 1812, died in that city on Sunday lad. l'lte Baltimore Manual Labor School, founded in IS4-1, t- slated to have been very 1 sticcesslii 1 in accomplishing the object lor which it was designed—the reclamation ol bovs. —A Wyoming (Nebraska) paper says: "At the present writing, January 2d, the Missouri river has not as yet,been closed with ice. They do not recollect ever having such a.u open winter." Duiing the shock of an eart (uptake at Lock port on Saturday an old lady was so frightenrd that she put on tour life pteseivets and threw herself out of a second story window. Mr. Paul Morphv, who won laurels at the Chess <'ongress in New Y'ork, recently perfor med the feat at New Orleans of playing three games of chess at the same time, while blind lolded. Wh"n a friend is sinking, Hope is like the anchor that the Deal pilots take out to a ship in distress, and we should all volunteer in carry ing it to him. May ilowe; s are blooming in the woods of Plymouth and Bristol, Massachusetts, and a butterfly came out at tiieMatine Hospital in Providence on Monday. —There are 627 students at the University ot Virginia ; among them thirteen Smiths, ten Joneses, and only two Browns. —According to a Belgian paper, the funded property of the house of Rothschild, of Paris, amounts at present to .£4.0,000,000 sterling. —'l lie Albany folks are about to petition to Congress for an appropriation sufficient to estab lish a mnriue hospital in that city. —The sole survivor oft he Wyoming massacre is Asa A. Gore, now living in the town of Preston, Conn., at the age of 90. —Charies Mackay, tiie English song writer, made an eloquent speech at the Burns festival in Cincinnati. —The banks at Savannah, Georgia, are said to he taking measures tor an immediate resump tion of specie payments. —Charles Hart, Esq., Attorney General of Rhode Island, has sent in his resignation to the Legislature. —Commodore Panlcling was burnt in effigy at Scotts-vjlie, Va., on fhe 13lh inst. —F. Dahney, a merchant of Fayul, and '.veil known in the United Slates, is dead. —The only thing which every one can do, and the only thing which any one need do, is his duty. —The next Democratic State Convention will be held at Harrisbwrg,ou the 4-th of March next. ! sy , SHERIFF'S SILKS. * . A if * MM " ir y * fi,s >' fieri lacrn, t„ me , f ._ thPrf" will be sotd at the Court House, , h( . Borough of Bedford, or, Monday,.he Bth day of Feb r 3 ' °' Clot " k ' M ' !t * iiovs:.„; ueal I,state, to wit: ™ l° n \ tf ! o,°' containing ->:a actes, more es s about of tore, cleared and under tence with t\o story log house and log stable thereon erected —adjoining lands ol Joseph Baikura,,, Philip Snide, others, situate m Monroe township ij.-dlm.f county and take,, execution a. .he „ r operty , Jarr.es Mountain. ' ' j (.>()_One tract pi' Jaiul j !noreor about f acres cleared atulr&MsM..'i'? I with a two-tory log house thereon ereSfr.mi • jng laiu.s ol Ximnel Weekly, John //wMlr • j Long and others, 5.„,.,,e In Broad r.T^IL^" | county, and lake,, in execution Ll9t . ' ty ol Wni. l.oweiy. 7 ' 1 • AL>O-0,.e tract of unimproved Isntf, containing j ..1 acres, more „r less-adjoin.ng lands ol V,„„aZ V. Lump, Jo,ep!, bou-er, James l ergosou ami oin ers, siinaie in Aa p,er township, Bedford county, and ak-h ."exec, iIS , he property ol Jan.es ||„ . h e. A i. All <leienda.it, Samuel A. Sleek, his nehr title, inieresr and claim, in and to a tract r,i>|".n,f lonta niug 100 acres, more or less, about 1.1 acres clear and under tence— adjoining land, of B VV i; , r retson, Jacob Snider, John Wolfs heirs, Uej.rv ffoo ver and others, situate i„ St. Clair township, JW iord county and taker, , tl execution as th~ rhoperfv l Samuel A. Sleek. ' ' - lo ' ° f a,om " l ' •" h- iilrftgh of Schellshnrg, 1 routing IMO feet on V.ne -tree? and ext.-ndiilg hack about -JOO eei to land of A. it. i;„ nn with a story and a hall frame house and log stable thereon erected—adjoining public road on -the ea.r' and lot ol Ldward (larlmger on the west, and take.,* in execution as ihe property ol Mary Palmer. ALSO—One lot ol "round, in the, town of How well, fronting ji) f"et on Mifilin street and extending back 100 feet, wilt, a two sto.y plank house and smoke house thereon, erected—adjoining ioi or Bang!—lor, Lowry fit Co., on the north, and lot of j llenry K. Strong, on the south east ALSO—One lot of ground in Hie town o; I] o well, I routing about 100 (,et on Wood Si reel, and a bout PJO feet on Bioad Street, and extending back To mill-race, and lying three square, with three two story rougo cast dwelling house,, blacksn.iti, shop, shoemaker shop, and tin shop thereon erected. ALSO- All defendant's right, title u;ul interest in l! 0 acies of uniri,proved coal land,' warranted ;n The nam" of John ].. drove—adjoining lands of John | Cessna, J-.sq., the Hopewell Coal iclron Company j ami others. ALSO-One tract of unimproved bottom land, known as The Adam Yoruig tracl, containing '2-j acre.' more or less—adjoining the Juniata river on the north, and lauds ol John k tug's heirs on the east and west. ALSO—AII defendant. Thomas W. Horton's right, title, iritere.f, and claim, in and to one tract of land railed buck hot Tom. eontaiuing (JO acres, more nr less, about 4 acres cleared and under iertce, with a story and a hall plank bouse thereon erected ad joining lands of Win. Forrester on the west, and the Juniata river on the north,east and south. ALSO—AII defendant's interest, in and to three tracts of improved coal lands, warranted in the name ol Ihon as W. IJorton and Jesse.tirove, containing in all about l-il acres, more or less—adjoining lands of William .Montgomery, row John Cessaa, Esq., on the north and west, and lands of John Ford and others on the south, and lands of William Evans, on the east, aud all the above b-sci ibed lands situate in Broad Top township, Bedford county except ; Buck Bottom, which is situate in Hope well township. Bed ford county, and taken in execution as the property of Thomas W. Morton. ALSO—AII the defendant, Robert Flltoft, his in terest in and to u trart of land containing :S(> acres more or less, about 20 acres cleared and turner fence with a cabin house and double log barn thereoil erec ted—adjoining lands of Jacob Oster, .lohn Oder and others, si:uate in Cumheilan-t Valley township, Bedford county, and taken HI execution as the prop erty ol Robert Klliott. i ALSO—One tract of land containing -in acre.,. ; more or ip--, about 20 acres cleared and under fence, i With a cabin house thereon erected—adjoining lands | nt Allred Eutrekin, John Savage anil others, situate j in Liberty township, Bedford county, and taKeu HI | execution as the property of Henry Berkstressei. ALSO All defendant, Peter Bar mood's right,ti tle, interest and claim, in and to one tract of unim proved ridge land, containing II acres, more or less —adjoining land.- oi I>. W. Garretson. James Rea, Watson "s hens and others, situate in Bedford tow n ship. Bedlord county, and taken in execution as file property of Peter Barmond. Sherilt's Office, f VV'M. S. FLUKE, Bedford, Jan 1.3,',18. J SherLff BEDFORD COCM'Y, SS. At an Orphans' Court bei.t at Bedford, ill and for !he county of Bedford, cut the 10th day of November, A D 1837, before the Judges of the said Court, On motion of John Mower. Esq., '.he Court giant a rule upon the hens arid legal representatives of Peter Shinier, late oi Union town ship, dee'd, to wit : Isaac Shinier. Martha, intermar ried with Henry Dell, residing in Blair county, Pa.. Rachael. intermarried with Emanuel Keller, resi ding in the same county, David Shirr.er, residing in Wayne county, Ohio, Elizabeth Fiekes, (widow) Frederick Shnner, Margaret, intermarried with Wermert Reminger, Hannah, intermarried v\ dh John Weyant, Peter Shinier , and Susan, intermarried with John Kit kes. all residing in Bedford county, to he and appear at an Orphans' Court to be held nt bed ford. in and s.iid county, on the 2d Mondav, ton dav of February next, to accept, or refuse to take the real estate of said deceased, at the valuation which has been valued anil appraised in pursuance of a wr" of partition, or valuation issued nut of the Orphans* Couit ol Bedford county, ami to the -sheriff of said county directed, or show cause why the same -hould not be sold. By order of the said Court. In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set my [I,. S.j hand ami the seal of -aid court at Bedlord. the JSt h day of November. A D 1557. ATTKST: I). WASHABAUGH, WM. S. FI.UKI .'Sheriff. Clerk. Jan 1-7, IS3B. BEDFORD COr.YTY, SS. At an orphans' court held at Bedford, in and for the county of Bed I'm d, on the 10th day of November, A. D. 18,37, before the Judg es of the said Coui t, On motion of O. E. Shannon, Esq., the Court grant a rule upon the heirs and legal represent atives of Mathew Grownten, late of Cumberland Val ley tow nship, deceased, to wit: Jeremiah. George, Ellen, intermarried with Henry Hanger, Rebecca, and Pri-nlla, all residing in Bedford county,to be an f appear at an Orphans' Court, to be held at Bedford, in aud for said county, on the 2d Monday, t>th day ol February next, to accept or refuse to take the Ileal Estate of said deceased at the valuation, which i.a been valued and appraissd in pursuance of a writ oi partition or valuation issued out of the orphans' court of Bedford county, and to the Sheriff of said county | directed, or show cause why the same should not be i sold. By order of the Court. In testimony whereof 1 nave hereunto set my hand f r,. s. ] anil seal of the said Court at Rel!nrd,th< 18th day of November. A. D. 18.37. D. WASHABAUGH, Jan 1.3, ".37. Clerk. Notice to Collectors of Poor lax. ALL col lee! orsol Poor Tax including those of 18.77, are hereby notified to sellle up their Du plicates; and those who do not square op by next February Court, excepting ooly tbe c O~ lectors lor 1857, will have to aoide tv the con i sequences. By order of Board of POOH. Director;*. Jart. 15, ISA7. •bltoi t Setticnu-uLs make iotig itl'ieuds. ■ THANKFUL for the very liberal patronage which, we have received from the public during our part nership— we respectfully announce to all whom it may concern, that the now existtog partnershipbe i tvveen us will -oon be dissolved bv mutual consent, and we earnestly desire all persons having accounts with us to settle the same immediately—aiidthosa against whom we held notes now due, will please lift the -ame BLYMIRT *- HAR! L'.\ . I Jan- 15. 18-78.
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