THE BEDFORD GAZETTE. Bedford, July I, t £>9. B. F. Meyers &G. W. Beeford, Editors. DEMOCRATIC .NOMINATIONS. STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL: RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, OF PR 11. A DEI. PHI A. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL: JOHN ROWE, OF FRANKLIN. CBPWT TICKET. >OR ASSOCIATE JT*D*E, WM. STATES, of W. Providence tp. FOR TRBASCRKB, WM. SCHAFER, of Bedford Borough. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNF.T, GEO. 11. SPANG, of Bedford Borough. FOR COVSTT SURVEYOR, SAM'L KETTER.MAN, ot Bedford Bor. FOP. COMMISSION EE, WM. M. PEARSON, of M. Woodberry tp. FOS DIRECTOR OF THE POOR, JOHN KEMERY, of Schellsburg Bor. FOR AT'DLTOE, DANIEL FLETCHER, of Monroe tp. PERSONALITIES IX POLITICS. There is nothing we despise more heartily than that false personal pride which so fre quently stands between men and principles.— For example, a ticket is nominated by one of the political parties, which ticket, by imme morial usage and bv the interpretation of com mon sense, is the representative of the creed of that party; a man is placed upon that ticket who has made himselt some personal enemies in the ranks of his party; those enemies in or dpr to wreak their vengpance upon thaf man, conspire together to defeat him, and in so doing strike a direct blow at the principles they pro fen to cherish. This is a case of frequent oc currence in all political organizations, and operates more effectively to retard the march: of principle than any other internal opposition. But such personal warfare against party nomi- | nees, is not only a hindrance to the successful i assertion of principle,— not only demoralizing j and destructive to the party —but it is dishonor able and disgraceful to the men who engage in it. What! pour your spleen into the ballot box, and, like a stealthy assassin, stab your enemy when he is defenceless? No: It is the duty of every man to forgive his ene my; but if his ear be deaf to the call of Chris tian duty, let him, at least, take his revenge like a man. Who is there so cowardly that he would not meet his adversary face to face and settle his account with him manlully and in the open light of day ? Who is there so puerile that he must stand at some out-of-the way election-place and, like an angry school hoy, pelt his adversary with paper pellets?— Let such revenge belong to cowards and chil dren, but not to men —high-minded and hon- ; orable men. To every voter who has identified himself with a political party, we say, vote with an eye single to the principles of your party—throw aside your prejudices, and especially your little personal grudges and jealousies, settle your quarrels with your neigh bor at any other place than at the ballot-box, and when you come to make your choice be tween the various candidates for office, think of nothing but your own political sentiments and the welfare of our beloved country. SOME OF THE Fill ITS OF OPPOSITION' TO THE PRESIDENT. For the last two years, we have heard of nothing in the political world but "Opposition to the Administration." Every measure pro posed by President Buchanan —no matter what its nature —has met the fiercest and most un scrupulous opposition. In the last Congress, the Black Republicans and Know Nothings, assisted by a number of traitorous Democrats, did all in their power to embarrass and cripple the Administration. They defeated the pas sage of the Lecompton Constitution—defeated the Cuba bill—and, to their everlasting shame be it said, defeated the Post Oflice Appropria tion Biil. Of course the combination against the President, was made with ambitious aims on the part of those who entered into the coa lition, and doubtless, with the majority of the conspirators, this fusion of odds and ends, was a darling scheme to break up the Democratic party. Well, they succeeded in many of their inancpuvres, in fact they were successful in too many for their own good. The people are be ginning to feel the injury done them by these in famous tricksters. For instance, they find their mails cut off, on account of the failure of the Postal Appropriation Bill, which as above sta ted, was deteated by the coalition against the President. The fruits of opposition to the President, are seen even in our own neigh borhood. The daily mail to Schellsburg and Latcobe, has been changed to a tri-weekiy, and that to Somerset to a semi-weekly. If the Administration had been voted the usual ap propriation for carrying the mail, this change would not have been made. But "opposition to the President" had its own way about the matter, and the people are now called upon to take the consequences. Let this item be re membered on the second Tuesday of October. OTP-SEE the Law- Card of J. C. DICKEN Esq., Pittsburg, in our advertising columns. Mr. Dicken is well known in this community, as a talented, hone9t and industrious young man.—- fl to deserve success is to command it, our tnend Dicken will certainly succeed. THE KANSAS ELECTION. Tempora mutantur The limes are changed ! A few years ago, when Ihe Abolitionists lorded it in Kansas, news from that bleeding Territory came with lightning speed. The telegraph wires fairly groaned under the loads ot Abolition legends concer ning the dark and bloody deeds of the Border Ruffians. But now, how different ' Since the Beecher rifle 3 have become rusty, and the Abolitionists have ceased their drafts upon Kansas for political capital, no authentic new: can be obtained from that territory for month after events have transpired in which the whole Union is more or less interested, loi instance, there is still no definite news in re crard to the election for delegates to the Con stitutional Convention, which came off som* four, or five weeks ary promi nent southern politician that he intends to sup port the nominee of the Charleston Conven tion: but that what was meant by the letter to Mr. Dorr, of Towa, was that he will not him self consent to run upqfrji platform that he* cannot endorse. In he will adhere*, to his party against the Ppjtyption. lowa Politics—Demojfcalfe Nominations. Bur.LiNcip|SowA } June 2f). The Democratic Stalf- which met at Des Moines on the&s "inst., made the following nominations : For Governor—A. C. Dodge; Lieutenant-Governor—L. W. Babbitt; Judges of the Supreme Court —L. S. Wilson, Charles Mason and C. C. Cole. THE RIGHTS OF N \TL RAI.IZKD CITIZENS. A few weeks ago, GEN. CA-S, the Secretary of State, wrote a brief letter to a Mr. I.E CLKRC, of Tennessee, in which was announced the simple fact that a native rf France naturalized in the United Stales, is not, by virtue ot such naturalization, exempt from uvlitary service un der the sovereign he has renounced, it he voluntarily returns within the dominions of that sovereign. This letter was written with the patriotic purpose o! putting on their guard such French naturalized citizens of the United States as may have intended visiting France during the progress of the present war. It will be observed that GEN. CA-s did not a-sert any principle, but merely stated an existing fact, for it is a fact that France claims military service from all who once were her subjects, iit by their own free will they return within I , her borders; and what is more, there is no in ternational law. treaty, or convention of any sort, which denies France the right to claim j such service of such quondam subjects. Can j General Cass make a law that will bind France? Will his mere dictum compel Louis Napoleon to resign a prerogative which not a single gov 't -raiment on the face of the earth, has denied | nirn 1 Nonsense! If this claim of France i> to be disputed, it can only be done by setting | all precedent at defiance and at the point of the bayonet. Hut, notwithstanding these facts, i Abolition newspapers denounce, in the most rabid style, the venerable Secretary of State, for making nis well-meant announcement. — ! They raot and storm at what they are pleased to call the "new doctrine of Mr. Cass." Their i object is palpable. Tney feel the load of the j "Massachusetts Amendment," that odious measure which disfranchises white naturalized i citizens, whilst the Constitution of which it forms a part, permits the blackest negro to vote. Consequently they make a great outcry about the letter of General Cass, for the purpose of ' diverting the attention of foreign-horn citizens from their own iniquitous conduct in Massa | chusetts. These shameless political scoundrels —the midnight inventors of Know Nothing ; proscription—the bloody-handed participators in the wholesale murder of foreign-born citi zens in Baltimore, Louisville and New Orleans —the relentless persecutors of every citizen not to the manor born—now raise their guilty palms in holy horror at the announcement ot i Secretary Cass, and fain would make their for mer victims believe that they, and not the Democratic party, are their true friends. But this desperate and unprincipled game, is too fraudulent and wicked for even some of the | leading Opposition journals. The .Yalional Intelligencer, a paper which during the days ol the Whigs, was the foremost organ of that la mented party, and which at present, is con- | sidered the fairest and most respectable Oppo >-'! | journal published, lakes sides w;Tut Geo. f [ r* ill the rr.cfct twphn in this country would not exempt from that claim" in the case j j of those who "voluntarily repair thither." Though this decision of trie veteran Secrp- ' tary i.s based on well-recognized principles of j public law, and is, moreover, sustained by j. established precedents in our civil and diplo- J | matic history, it seems to have provoked recla- j i mations in certain quarters, and is criticised as i implying some derogation from the imagined ! r '-''ti and immunities secured to naturalized j citiz^s of the United States, who, it i.s con-| j tended, by virtue of their naturalization, are : ' placed, in relation to their native country, as i in all other respects, precisely on the same ! footing as a natural-born citizen of the United ; States. We believe this opinion to be errone ; ous ; and the attempt to confound the doctrine Wilted by Mr. Cass with that resisted bv the I | United States in the war of 1812 againsl j Great Britian, proceeds on a historical mis- I ! conception of the real position assumed by our j Government in denying, as it did at that time, ; and still does, the principle of "perpetual alie ' giance." It was maintained by the Govern i rr.ent of the United States ttiat this doctrine of '■ perpetual allegiance depends entirely upon the municipal law by which it is defined and en j forced, and hence a British Cruiser, in entering j an American vessel in order to take from it al- I leged British subjects, was in reality claiming !to exercise, under the la-v ol nations, a right which had no existence beyond the jurisdiction :of British law. The ocean was declared to be | the sphere of international law, and it was ' that any merchant vessel on the ' highJw was, by that law, under the protec- laws of her own nation, and might immunity from visitation or search, fjßyjelsin-'cases allowed by the general consent is3f nations. As *he dofctrine ol perpetual alle t! giance formed no part of the law of nations, it | clearly not present one of the cases which i would j'the assumption claimed by the /British*Gpjgirnnient. The duties and relations prescribed ny British law were admitted to be valid within the realm or proper dependencies of Grpat Britain, but beyond those limits that law had no force or obligation which compelled its observation on the part ol other nations, who were equally free to enact such other mu nicipal regulations in the matter of citizenship and civil allegiance as might seem to litem ex pedient. Hence it will be wen that tlie pretension ol those who protect again-t the recent announce ment ol Mr. Cis-*, inv Ives, in fact, the worst features ol the very doctrine übicti was made a ground of complaint against Great Britain in the controversy* waged in th- as sumed right of impressment. As the British Govenmenl claimed force anil etfect Gr British law on the high seas, an I thus sought to estab lish an extra-territorial authority for the stat utes of the British Legislature, so in like man ner these complaint* demand tecognilion for American municipal law within the jurisdic tion of lomgn States, and that, too, when our municipal law contravenes the municipal law of those States. We have but to slate the propo sition in order to show its groundlessness in the light of rea-mn,as well as its palpable op [>osition to tite first principles which lie at the basis of international law. That itw assumes as the condition of its existence and a- the guarantee of its observance, the equality of all civilized common wealths ; and no member of the international community is entitled tuclaim ! for its enactments a respect which virtually supersedes the authority of other States in tie same premises. In the ca>e under consideration it is obvi ously the right of the United States, as ol every I independent sovereignty, to naturalize foreign ers and to confer upon them the privileges ol ! their acquired domicile ; but, as these pnvj leges result entirely from the municipal law b which they are defined and guarantied, it is i equally obvious that they are commeosurat onlv with the legitimate jurisdiction ol liie.t law. To claim more is to claim lor American i law an extra-territorial force, which, as ha= been already said, is in contravention alike ol | reason and of the principles which are tunda j mental to tiie law of nations. The protection ! which this country allbrus to the naturalized ! citizens cannot be properly extended to defend him against the municipal regulations pre scribed hy his own country, and which, on fin : voluntary return, revive in ail their obligation upon him, if it be the will and pleasure ol hi: ! native country to enforce thesn. Our munici pal law cannot avail to nullify the municipal law of other sovereignties. Such was tb principle announced Ly Mr. Marcy in the case iof Tousig, an Austrian subject, who, aher de claring his intention to become a ci'izea of the | United States, voluntarily returned to his native countrv, and sought to shield hi t.sell from tin obligations enj lined by Au-trian law. T hough i his case did not call fur a full enunciation 01 the doctrine applicable to the subject, in aI i it: length and breadth, (as Tousig was net a fully naturalized c tizen,) Mr. Marcy chose to defim ♦he principle appropriate to the occasion in ai its generality. From his State Papier ol thai date we quote as follows : "Tousig voluntarily returned to Austria and placed himself within the reach of hei municipal laws. He went by his iree ac under their jurisdiction, and thereby subjecter himself to them. It he had incurred p-naltie or assumed duties while under these laws, h might have expected they would be enJoice< against him, and should have known that tli new political relation h" had acquired, it, in deed, lie had- acquired any, could not ope rat as a release from these penalties. Havinj been once subject to the municipal laws o Austria, and while under her jurisdiction • violated VVVVS.VJS withdrawal from IhS 'jurisdiction and acquiring at different character would not exempt him from thei operation whenever he again chose to piac< himself under them. Every nation, whenever it laws are violated by any one owing obetiienci to them, whether he be a citizen or a stranger has a right to inilict ihe penalties incurret upon the transgressor, if found within it: jurisdiction. Tlie case is not altered by tht character of the laws, unless they are in deroga tion of the we! I-i stab I i sheil international code No nation ha a right to supervise the municipa code of another nation, or claim that its citizen: or subjects shall be exempted from the opera tion of such rode, if tti-y have voluntarily placed themselves under it. The character o the municipal laws of one country does noi furnisii a just ground fur other States to interfen with the execution of these laws, even upoi their own citizens, when they have gone inti that country and sufjected themselves to it jurisdiction." In like manner, and at an earlier day, Mr Wheat on, while our Minister at the Court o Berlin,was called to pronounce his opinion upon the very point recently submitted to Mr Secretary CA". In the year ISIO, one J. P Knocke, a natural-born subject of Pitis.-ia, bu a fully naturalized citizen ol lire United States voluntarily returned to his native country where he was called to perforin military duty- Invoking the intervention of the Americat Minister, he received the following response "Had you remained in the United States 01 visited any oilier foreign countiy (except Prus sia) on your lawful business, you would have been protected by tlie American authorities, at home and abroad, in the enjoyment of all youi rights and privileges as a naturalized citiz-u ol the United Stales. But having returned to tin country of your birth, your native domicih and national character revert , (so long as yot remain in the Prussian dominion, ar.d you an bound, in all respects, to obey the laws exactly 33 if you had never emigrated." We may add that several of the Europear States have 'provided by law for the expatria tion of their subjects or citizens, and without tiie consent of the civil authorities no such ex patriation is admitted to be valid. In the cast of subjects who have been formally and legally absolved from the obligations ol their nalivt civil allegiance, it is a question how far those obligations would be field to reveit in the cast of a voluntary return to their native country ! after the assumption of another nationality. The following official exposition of the views of the Government has been written since the brief It tier to LE CLEUC, and will serve to explain its meaning : DEPARTMENT OF STATF., J Washington, June 14-, IS:")!). J Sir. : In answer to your letter of the 6th inst., I have to inform you that tlie brief letter from this Department, to which you refer, da ted the I7th of May last, and addressed to Mr. Felix Le Clerc, was in reply to an application for information, and was principally intended to recommend caution to our naturalized fellow citizens, natives of France, in returning to that country, as the operations of the French con scription law were not precisely known here, and might bear injuriously upon tnat class uf American citizens. Most of the continental European nations have a system of military oj eanization by which their citizens are compel led to serve in the army, by conscription, as in France, where the duty is designated by lot, or bv draft in Prussia, where every pTs,r> requiied i> ink" ht- lurn i> ■ <:">lrf truii rij* such M-ivs<- e has " quently b-en Ih- suhiect of Justns-ion with - ~ of the European Quite recently if ha- amen (-f. if,,, j nited Stat-'s and Prtlvia.and flu- i-f>ier.-ntat, v ,. of this country at the court of Berlin t brought 'he matter to the attention of t|, e p r|j " siao government. F.i tf„. instruction: which were :vnf to him, May 12, 18f9, it , explicitly stated that this government j, „ ... seci to the doctrine ol perpetual allegiance'an'| maintains the right ofex;>a!riat ion and the r ie|,t to form new political tier e|*ewh-re. U-V this subject it is observe,llha, j n this a.,.' oj the world, tlie i United States and returning to the country r,( ' their birth, are not liable In any duties or pen alties except such as were existing at the period of their emigration. It af any time they were in the army, or ac tually called into it, such emigration and natu ralization do not exempt them from the ieoat penalty which they incurred by their desertion, but this penalty mayi)e enforced against then, whenever they shail voluntarily place '.hen elves within the local jurisdiction of their na tive country, and -hall be proceeded against ac cording to law. Hut when no present liabili es exi-t again-t them, at the period of their em igration, th-law of nations, in the opinion of this government, gives no right toany country to interfere with naturalized American citizen and the attempt to do so would be considered an act unjust in itself and unfriendly towards the United States. This question cannot, ol course, ar,se in the case of a naturalized citizrii who remains in the United States. It is only when he voluntarily returns to his native coun try that its local laws can be enforced against him. I am, sir, your obedient s-uvansf, LEW IS CASS. LATER FROM RTROPE. SANDY IIOSK, J#e '26. The steamship Bremen from Bremen, with dates to Wednesday the loth inst., passed lure this evening. SECOND DISPATCH. NEW YORK, June 26. The following are the details of the European news brought by the Bremen : THE WAR. It is rumored that the Emperor Napoleon will soon return to France, leaving Marshal Pelli-sier as Commander-in-Chief. In evacuating Placenza, the Austrians left behind their provisions, ammunition and ca non. The Austnans quitted Bologna on the 11th for M nlena. The French troops passed the river Adda without striking a blow. G-neral Garibaldi had occupied Bergamo and repulsed an Austrian force, 1,500 strong, ; who were marcif-ng agaiirst him from Bres cia. Five thousand prisoners had arrived at Mar seilles and Toulon. The allied troops lnd entered Piacenza, invi ted by tbe Municipality. The Anstrians had been reinforced at Bres c.llo, a village in Modem. I A popular demonstiation had taken place a; Bologna in favor of the popular cause. 7 fore had also been a demonstration in favor of France and an illumination at Rome. The French proclamation issued at Milan to the people of Lombard) - , has had a favorable I the Archduke I erdmand Maximilian had ap rived at Trieste. I'he Auslrians have evacuated all the States of the Church, including Ferrara. The Austrian correspondence says that the Austrian* at Maregnano yielded only to a de cidedly superior force, and retired unptirsued in perlect order. The Emperor of Austria, it is ,-aiJ, lakes command of his troops in person, acting on the defensive. The Austrian loss at Palestro, by the official | account, is as follows:—1 officers and 513 men killed: I G-neral, 23 officers and S7S men i wounded; 6 officers and 77-1- men missing. Genera! Garibaldi's corps threafed Southern Tyrol, from Val Canonica, Val Trompia ami I Bagoline. i he Frensli fleet in the Adriatic has received i powerful reinforcements, and it is reported that i troops will soon be landed bet ween Venice and Trieste. The Austrian head quarters are now probably a! Mantua. "CP"*Sufferers from Scrofula ami Scrofulous affections, clean up! Why wear your PIM ; pies, Blotches, Ulcers and Sores ? Why hav< 4( , ■ the life twisted out of you bv Dvspepsia Rheu mat ism and Gout ? Why suffer Syphilitic and '• Mercurial diseases to rot the bones in your body, or the FL-sh off your bones? why let your sluggi-h blood drag, and scatter its dis tempers through your veins? Ayer's Comp. Ex't of Sarsaparilla .cures these complaints, and cleans them out of the system. Use it : faithfully and you bring to society a healthier, ' cleanlier, and far more acceptable member. — 1 Democrat, Baltimore, Aid. Steamship Muse* Tavlor, from j Aspinwall, arrived at New York on Sunday last, with §2, 0i1, 000 in gold. SAVE YOi iS JIOAEY! IIIE UNDERSIGNED would respeclfully inform the travelling public, that he has established a fri-weekly line of stages between Bedford and I.atrobe. 'l'he route is that of the old Philadelphia Turnpike, leading from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, being one of the best coach roads in the (Jnton. Passengers will RE AC II :>^S§2 trains of cars for Pittsburg as early as by going to Hoilidaysburg ■ Johnstown. The fjre to Pittsburg on this route is Four Dollars and Tu-enly Cents being THREE DOLLARS CHEAPER than on any other route from Bedford to that point. Coat-hps leave the Washington Hotel, Bedford, eve ry Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, at 8J o'clock, and the Depot at Latrobe every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning, alter the arrival of the mail train from Pittsburg. JOSI'.PtI \. fJAKMAN. July U'£9.