THE HEDFORS GAZETTE. Bedford, April 2, 8 85$. B. F. Meyers & G. W. Eenfort), Editors. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT: WILLIAM A. PORTER. Of Philadelphia. CANAL COMMISSIONER ; WESTLEY FROST, Of Fayette County. JOHN H. FORNEY. We have thus far entirely refrained from criticising the conduct of Cd. Forney in oppo sing the Kansas policy of President Buchanan. We have done so, because we could not be lieve that he was ready to desert the Democrat ic party, or intrigue with its ememies for its overthrow. Time, however, lias proved to us, that wc were mis'aken and that those who at the outset of his opp siti >n to the Presi dent, proclaimed Tim to be untrue to the the Democrat} - , were, iuJet t, correct. At [ res ent it requires nc extraaiihnary sharpness cl vis ion lo'detecft the latent poison which runs through the Colonel's speeches and editorials and which ho fondly- supposes will be a fatal dose to the party whose principles be professes to cher ish. In the beginning of his out-break against tire President, and for some time after, the deadly venom with which he f.tin would drug the cup of the Democracy, was unseen beneath the spec bus glitter of patriotic sentences, but now it flows, black and disgusting, on the sur face of every speech lie utters and every arti cle he writes. A few months ago he still pro fessed to have unabated confidence in the in tegrity and wisdom of Mil. BUCHANAN, hut, now , he believes him a despot whose''Reign of Ter ror'' makes the pure Forney shiiek with affright at its- horrors ! His black treachery and bitter Hostility to the party with which heMias hither to professed to act, becomes more apparent, day by day. It is evident now that he is ready to join hand in hand with the fanatical enemies of tire Union and to fight shoulder to shoulder with the unrelenting foes of the" Constitution. He is not afraid, or ashamed, to be found but tling under tlie pirate flag of the Black Repub licans. He is willing and eager to join the men whom he has, time and again, denounced as enemies most dangerous to the welfare of the country, with them, and at their bidding, to strike his treacherous blade to "tire heart's core of the party which nurtured him in its arms.— If people doubt this, let them read the;speech de livered by the valiant Colonel, at Pittsburg,a short time ago. In that speech he declared that "a union with tiie Black Republicans, as they were courteously termed, had no terrors for him, when for the furtherance of a great principle, such a coalition was necessary;" and that he "repudiated the platform ol the late tr* Kansas "i* concerned, and, further, lie repudiated VViiliam A. Porter, if he put him self on that platform." It would hardly seem necessary to add any more evidence to this to jjrove the apostacy ol Forney, but to show that lie is not only beyond the pale of the Democra cy, but that he even regrets that the "Popular Sovereignty" for which he is so great a stickler, ever was made an issue in politics, we quote a nother passage from his Pittsburg speech: "In Pennsylvania the hosts met" (in the Pre sidential contest in 1856); " here (he battle was fought and the victory was won. How was it won ? Because .1 Jr. Buchanan hud iii tinlnin- nl a modest silence with regard to Kansas, and was in favor of the extension of the Missouri Compromise which had been ruthlessly wiped out in lSbl/" . So MR. BUCHANAN was elected President be cause he was in favor of the extension of the Missouri Compromise! And it was a ruthless deed to establish the principle that the "people of the Territories shall form their own institu tions in their own way !" Who but the most reckless and unblushing falsifier would dare to assert the former ? Who but the blackest Black Republican could give utterance to the latter? And yet John YV. Forney spits such insults as these in the face of the Democracy, while he claims tube a Democrat and the especial defen der of the principle which he would have us be lieve was so "ruthlessiy" established. Well might the outraged Democracy say to this apos tate, "Thou wcat'st a lion's hide! doit' it for shame, And hang a call's skiu on those recreant limbs." The redoubtable Coluiiel talks about a union with the Black Republicans for the sake ol fur thering a great principle! What great princi ple ? Thai of popular Sovereignty T Sure ly, Colonel, you would no! expert the bitter est enemies which that principle has in the world to help maintain it ! You would not hope for aid to that doctrine from those who have ever tiampled it under tool \\ r e sub it.it to you, now, whether the late Democratic State Convention was not more friendly to Pop ular Sovereignty than ever the Black R-publi cans'fiave been, an 1 whether, for that reason, you should not as a friend of that principle, accept the platform of that Convention rather than consort with your old enemies whose creed ignores the said principle altogether. YY'hen Col. Forney was editor of the Penn sylnmian, he held that politicians were known by their company. In a strong < Jiioi ial on the suoject of F-ree-Siillsm, he wraL-ai fal lows : "// any Democtu\, who inclines to the Free Soil illusion, denies thnt Ihe tendencies of thai organization arc precisely us we have described lAem, we refer hi in TO THE COMPANY IN WHICH THAT OUGNIZATION WOULD PLACE (JIM, IF UK TOOK PART J.N IT ; andtol/ie NOTOAIOTA OBJECTS of those who have been placed, by irresistible circumstances at the head. SHOW ME YOUR COM PANY', SAYS THE ADAGE 'AND I'L.E TELE YOU WHAT YOU ARE'; and never was it so true as in the case of those who lead and instigate the Free Soil crusade against the Constitution and the Union." Ay, "show us your company," Col. Forney, "and we'Jl tell you what you are." You taught us to believe this say ing and you cannot now complain if we apply it to yourself. You can not complain if we say, that, because your pre sent company is composed of such men as Sew ard, Hale, (biddings, Grow, and others of that ilk, you are a Black Republican, an enemy to the Democratic party and, by your own showing, a foe to the best inteiests of our coun ry. "NIMOEUONE" IN TilE LEGISLATtRE "How quickly nature I'alis to revolt when gold becomes her object.'' It seems that a majority of the patriotic gentle men composing the Lower House of our State legislature, entertain such an exalted opinion of their services, that they feel it to be a matter of justice to themselves to appropriate the modest little sum o f two hundred dollars as extra pay to each and every member of that body, making about twelve, or fifteen thousand dollars , to be ■ taken from the Treasury for the benefit of these I greedy legislative speculators ! We are glad to see that DAVID HAY, the gentleman who re ceived the support of the Democrats of Bedford countv,'last Fall, and wh> has thus far represen ted this district so faithfully and honestly, re | corded his vote against this iniquitous procee ! ding ; and we are equally sorry friend? I MR. CASTNER, gave it hissupport. m presumed Lffowever, that the latter gentleman acted on the | principle thaf "a bird in the hand is worth two i in the bush," and that as his re-election is quite | doubtful, he concluded that he would follow "The good old rule, the simple plan That they should take who have the power they should keep who can." On the second reading of the AppropMSTOn I Bill, Mr.. NILL, of Franklin, moved to strike out the section allowing the §"200 extra pay, but his motion was lost by the following vote : YEAS.—Messrs. A brains, Brandt, Dodds, Geoige, Giliejand. Gialz, Gritinan, Hainel, HAY, Hayes, Hodgson, Jenkins, Kincaid, Lov jet, McDonald, Negley, Mill, N'unernacher, I Owen,'Powell, Pownall, Price, Ramsdoll, Booth, Roland, Rose, Rupp, Sharp, Shields, Stevens, Stuart, Turner, Voeghtley, Warden, V\ estbrook, j Wharton, Will, Witmer, Wolf, W'oodring, and Longaker, (Speaker)— 4-1. j NAYS. Messrs. A-skin, Bruce, Calhoun, CASTNER, Chase, Christy, Crawford, Donnel ly, (J. H.) Donnelly, (James,) Dunlap, Ebur, Evans, Foster, Himrod, Hippie, Houtz, Imbrie, i Irwin, Jackman, Kirkpatrick, Lauman, Law j rence, Lloyd, McClain, McClure, Naugle, Nichols, Ramsey, Rhodes, Scott , Shaw, Smith j (Berks,) Smith (Cambria,) Smith (Wyoming,) Warner, Weaver, WYlier, Wells, V\ llcox, r Williams, Willston, and Y'earsiley,— 44. It is plainly evident from this vole that our I representatives at Harrisburg are abundantly j able to take care of "Number One," and that j lo taWf ua're ol me interest* of their constituents. The fact is that if those j gentlemen would drive half as sharp bargains ■ for the I 1 immonweafth as they do for themselves, !it would not be long till old Pennsylvania j would be entirely unshackled from the cum ■ brous debt by v Rich she is now so heai i!y op pressed. PROHIBITION OK SM ALL NOTES. SKXATOU SciiKt.r., as will be seen l y reference to another column, has introduced in the Senatei a bill "to prohibit the issuing ami circulation lof bank notes of a less denomination than 'twenty dollars." We hail this as a movement in the right diiection and ardently hope that the Legislature will not fail to pass the bill. There is no doubt that by prohibiting the issuing and circulation of small notes, our currency will be made much sounder than it is at present. To the poor man into whose hands none but small notes come, such a prohibition would be a God-send, for silver would then be his currency, and he Could jingle his small change a nd snap bis fingers at the banks when they go into their financial spasms and threaten ruin to their note holders. For the sake ol the children of pover ty, if not fir the benefit of the rich, let Mr. Sch ell's bill be passed. HO.V. WILSOX KKILLY. Our truly Democratic representative in Con gress, HON. Wins IN KCILLY, made a strong speech, a few days ago, in favor of the admiss ion of Kansas with its regularly established form ofgov#rnmcnt,the Lecompton Constitution. Of course the PliilaJelphia Press must assail him with all its vindictiveness, for thus man fully doing what lie conscientiously believes to be iiis duty. II the editor of that unscrupulous sheet desires to injure MR. REILLY with his constituents, we can tell himthat he must send his slanders elsewhere than among the Democra cy of Bedford county. We shall endeavor to lay the speech ot MR. REILLY before our read ers at au early day. Judge Black's Lelfer. We give in (his issue of the Gazelle, (he el oquent and convincing letter of Judge Black to tiie hue Tammany Hall Administration meet ing. We merely call attention to it, as it is a document which "needs no eulogy." A few weeks ago, the Abolitionists were busy in ciiculating the report that SI: N A Ton SCIIEIX was opposed to the Kansas policy of PRESIDENT BUCHANAN. The other day the resolutions endorsing that policy, came up in the Senate, ami MB. SCIIEIX, together with all the other Democratic Senators, save one, voted <>r those resolutions. Our Senator is right on Kansas as he has thus far proved himself to be i on every thinu else. —Tbe hotel buildings at SUimaoiidaia Springs, Vir ginia, were destroyed by tire on Saturday last. The fire originated from a burning chimney. LETTER OF HON J. S. BLACK, ATTOR NEY GENERAL OF THE 11. S, We lav before our readers tbe following strong and pointed letter from Judge Black, andi commend it to their careful perusal. It is scarcely worth our while to speak of the rare abilities of Judge Black. He is known to the whole country as one of the first lawyers in the Union, and is particularly distinguished lor the powerful and ready mauner in which he wields his pen. When he puts down a fact as law the country may depeud upon it that it will stand the test of investigation. But his letter speaks lor itself more eloquently than any man can speak for it: WASHINGTON, March 3, IBnB. Gentlemen : —Your letter, inviting me to the meeting called for to-morrow evening at Tam many Hall, finds me so engaged, that much as I wish to accept it, my duties will not permit me to do so. Two months ago the Democracy, and with it the laws of the country, seemed to be in im minent danger of defeat on the Kansas question. I'be President met the peril with the firmness which became his character. He made the law of ttie land "a lamp to his feet and a guide to his pa:h." His conduct has already receiv ed tiiat general approbation which an intelli gent people always bestow upon a statesman who stands boldly up for the right. A few weeks of discussion has swept away the sophistry with which the admission ol Kansas was at first opposed; the legality of the proceedings to form the Constitution at Leconipton is almost uni versally admitted, and the attenuated theory about the incapacity of the people to delegate their power to a convention has almost disap peared lrom the face of the earth. The advo cates ol continued disorder in Kansas, and con tinued agitation elsewhere, have found their cause too weak to carry them, and to heavy to be carried by litem. They must give it up, for : that is all they can do. That the public w ill may be expressed through a convention or legislative body, properly cho ! sen; that every the people in their pi iina | ry capacity must be authorized and regulated | oy law ; that no government can be changed by tumultuous and irregular exptession ol hatred and contempt for its authority : these are vital truths which lie at the louudation of social or der and of all true liberty. Oilier republics have fallen, because they did not or would not see the distinction between a legal and illegal expression of popular sentiment ; and if we mean to demonstrate that our representative system is a practicable tiling, we must take the advice ol Washington, and steadily discounten ance all irregular opposition to the acknowledg ed authority of the Government. We must obey the established law while it continues to be the law. A majority may aiter or amend it, but no number of men, however large, should be permitted to break it. Our lathers, when they made the Constitu tion, saw that this was the point of danger. They therefore invested the Chief Magistrate with large powers; placed the army and navy under iiis command; gave him the control ol all the Executive and Ministerial ultices, and then swore htm to use ail his power for the purpose of see ing the laws faithfully executed. If there ever was a period in our history when this oath should be religiously kept, it is now. A fran tic spirit of turbulence and disorder has spread through the country like an epidemic, breaking out in diliereut forms iu diilerent places. The \..||| rajif'• V" ■ vp,.■ Mw-st foot in New England. In Utah the Mormons are in arms, and in Kansas there is open and avowed rebellion Not long ago, the great city ol San Francisco was completely subjuga ted by a secret society which hung and banished all who fell under its displeasure. 'The fright ful riots at Louisville, St. Louis and Baltimore are fresh in every one's recollection, nor can it be forgotten that, here in the Capital of the Nation, so late as last June, an organized band ot ruthans were bold enough to provoke a mor tal conflict with the public authorities. Is this a time to give back I—Shall we now surren der the iaw to the merfcy of its enemies? I devoutly believe that if the Administration had faltered in its duty, or if the people had re fused to sustain it in sustaining the iaws, the last chapter iu the historic! American liberty might have been written before the end ofanolh year. It there be any law more sacred than another t is ttiat which regulates the elective franchise, and gives etiect to ttie will of the people when legally expressed. The struggle through which we have just passed was to save this law lrom violation. If a portion ot the people can re fuse to goto the polls-and afterwards set at naught the work of those who do go, the elec tion iaws area mere mockery. S line of the President's opponents, finding their technical ground 100 sandy to suppoit them, are falling back on charges -of fraud. What this may mean I know not.—lt is a slander ol the Chief Magistrate, an insult to Con gress, a libel on the Democratic party to say that they, or either of them, ever did, or ever will encourage, tolerate, or look with the least degree of allowance on any species of cheating or dishonesty. Let every election return in Kansas, or elsewhere, be scrutinized with the keenest severity, and if fraud can be detected, the best rtfort the Administration can legally and constitutionally make to right the wrong and punish the wrong-doers, will not be wan ting. But I repeat my assurance that we are past the crisis. The Administration will be sustain ed by the deliberate judgment of Congress, by the unbroken heart of the Democracy, by the common sense of the whole people. Whatever may be Mr. Buchanan's fat> hereafter, it is not written in the book of his destiny, that he shall ever be weakened by doing his duty on the Kansas question. ♦ If his Administration is to be put down, Mr. Lane and his backers are decidedly not the men to do it. The Abolitionists of Kansas have taken an appeal from the ballot-box to the bowie knife; from the peaceful,(orderly and legal decision of a public question, to brute force, it isyour duty and mine, and the duty of every peaceful citi zen, to see that tiiis appeal be quashed. If a majority be dissatisfied with the present Consti tution, their power to alter it by legal means is undeniable, if they refuse to do it in the legal way, it can be lor no reason except their own contempt of law and order. But law and order must be preserved whether they like it or not. Very respectfully, yours, J. S. BLACK. Messrs. Froment, Townsend and others. 1 he Providence (R. I.) Journal states that the Southern planters are in the habit of sprinkling their cotton with sand, which not only increases its weight but injures the machinery and deteriorates the fabric. AN ACT Co prohibit the issuing and circulation ol bank notes of a less denomination than twenty dollars. Read by Mr. Schtll, f rom the Committee on inks in the Slate Senate, March 23, 1S:)8. SECTION J. Be it enaded by the Senate and louse of Representatives of the Commonwealth f Pennsylvania, in General Jlssernbly met, no it is hereby enacted by the authority of the *>ne. That it shall not be lawlul lor any bank create, issue, or put in circulation any note, |l, check, ticket, or paper purporting to be a Ink note of any less denomination than ten dol ls after the first day of August next, and ol ty less denomination than twenty dollars after t* first day of January, Anno Domini one ■ trusand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and any ulation of this act by any officer of any such ink shall be taken and deemed to be a inisde i-anor punishable upon conviction by a fine j < not less than, five hundred dollars, and im risonment in the jail of the proper county not jss than six months. : SECTION 2. That it shall not be lawful for iiy person, or persons, curjioialion, or body directly, or indirectly, to issue, pay , ut, pass,exchange, put in circulation, transfer, j r cause to be issued, paid out, passed, exchan ged, circulated, or transferred, any note, bill, heck, ticket, or paper purporting to be a bank t ate issued, or purporting to be issued, by any j bank, or incorporated company, or associations ; Arsons, not located in Pennsylvania, ot any j It* denomination than ten dollars after the first | da of August next, and ol any l<-ss denomina- J tip than twenty dollars, alter the first day ol Jpuary, Anno Domini one thousand eight huri | drd and fifty-nine, every violation of the pro ! v.,ions of this section by any corporation, or j t?dy corporate, shall subject such corporation to fie payment of a fine ol five hundred dollars nd any violation of the provisions of this sec ion bv anv public otiicer holding any office, or lppointment of honor, or profit, under the con •titution and laws of this State, shall subject such oliicer to the payment ot one hundred dollars and any violation of this section by any other person not being a public otiicer shall sub ject such person to the payment of twenty-five dollars, one-half of which in each case above mentioned, shall go to the informer and the other half to the county in which the suit is brought, and may be sued for and recovered as debts of like amount are now by law recovera ble in anv action oldebt, in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as well for the use ol the proper county, as lor the person su ing. [The Present Posture of Affairs iu Kansas. The population of Kansas is composed ot the : most heterogeneous elements. Here we have men from alt parts ol ttie Lnited States '• many *ven from the Old World. Issue after issue j has been made, and party alter patty has arisen. First it was New England versus Missouri ; limn pro-slavery versus tree-State ; then Topeka ver- . .-us the United States; then national deinocucy, versus republicanism; then the people versus j tiie Leconipton faction and fraud. With the j Jxception ot a small pro-slavery element, the aities at present aie lite conservative and the radical : or the law-abidingand the lawless; asul in its last analysis these two great parties are found everywhere. The one, the conservative and law-abiding, accepting ttie law and the . t ; I 'I"- ( mils of Uiiiiaii' lpliia iiavr adopted the English piactice under it. This is one of tlie most im;iortarit and salutary laws that has yet been passed by the present Legislature. It applies in all case.,- where execution is issued against, ami l-vy is made upon property as the property of A., but which is claimed by lb, in which case B. giv.-s notice lo Ihe Sheriff that the property does not belong to A., but that it belongs to him, B. Whereupon the Sheriff asks for a rule from the Court whence the ex ecution was issued, to call before said Court the party issuing; the process and the party making the claim, that said patties, may try the title in the property and that the Court may decide to whom it belongs. This is a much speedier and more satisfactory way, and less hazardous and expensive to both the Sheriff and the parties, than the old method of allowing the Sheriff to sell, and then prosecuting him for trespass. Trout IVashiugtou V ASIIIN'GTON, MARCH 27.—Intelligence has just been received here from Kansas tot he date of March 16, that all the leading men of both paities, and indeed the people generally -there, with a lew violent exceptions, are now in | favor of admission as a State under the Lecomp i ton constitution. They are tired of the game of opposition. The Republicans are at the present time in great tribulation. The Anli-Lecompton Demo crats and South Americans insist upon Critten den's amendment to the Kansas bill,while the ul tra Republicans of the Uiddings school denounce the whole arrangement. Thus matters stand. .Negotiations are now going on to effect an ad justment upon some basis. Greelv and Thur low VY eed have been sent for to come on imme diately. According to the plan iaid down by the War Department for the service in Utah, I am infor med there will be, by July ne.xf, about five thousand five hundred troops in that Territory, amply supplied for an active campaign. Shoufd it be necessary, this force will consist of about one-third cavalry, sixteen guns of artillery and Ihe rest infantry. Three-fifths of this force has yet to be sent. Russell, the contractor for transportation of this army, will employ three thousand five hundred teamsters to drive wagons carrying the supplies. This will give some idea of the magnitude and cost of the underta king. fS AKKIED: On Friday evening, March 19th,by Rev. W. Lee Spot(swood, Mr. John J. Wolf, to Miss Ruth Mauspeaker. On the 25th March, by ih Rev. H. ll*cker man, Mr. David Eishrodt* to Miss Mary Over, both of Bedford. DIED: On the 27th March, Susanna, youngest daughter of John S. Kilchey, Esq., in the 11th year of her age. On the 27th March, Mrs. Sophia Palmer, daughter of Mr. John Metzgar, of Dry Ridge. Or. the 21th tilt., Mrs. Hannah Ferguson, wife of Joseph Ferguson, aged 39 years, 5 months and 1 davs. The deceased was beloved and respected for her many virtues and died the triumphant death of a true Christian. X c tu Ct i) t) ertis£ in cn t s . LIST OF RETAILERS Of foreign and domestic goods wares and mer~ chandiseof Bedford county for the year f' Class. Licence, il D rough, Bedford Borough, 11 $7 A B Craftier & Co. do 12 12 oo Nicholas l.yotw, do 14 7 w v>eorge W. Hupp, do la jo 00 Heed and Minnich, do 13 jq Samuel Brown, do 14 7 Samuel Shuck and Co., do 14 7 {) Hubert Fyau, do 14 7 (JO J and J M Shoemaker, do 11 7 Saiah E Polls, do 11 7 LaacLippel, do 14 7 (j U Colin /.oyer, do 14 7 po Agues Saupp, do 11 7 (jf) John Aiuold, do i t 7 (m Wm. Hartley, do 14 7 or t George IHyrmire, do 14 7 ocribed to make said roaih THOMAS KING, HENRY K. STRONG, J NO". C. F.VERHART, G. DOCK, TIUIS. VY. HOKTON, JOHN F. LOWRY, Hopewell, Mar. 19, 1853. Commissioners. 100 PAIR Ladies Kid and Morocco Lace Roots, a superior article at mar 12,'58. KEED & MLNMCIES.