Tfff BIIFIRI (iISFTTP. : I?*dford ,S>rpt. 5 s*ss*. B. F. Meyers, Editor. DE.WJCRATIC NOMINATIONS. STATE TICKET. TDK AUDITOR rtEXERALt RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, or puiLiir.Et.rHu. FOR SURVr.yOR GENERALi JOHN ROVVE, | OF FRANKLIN. T ' COUNTY TICKET. TOR ASSEMBLY, GEO. IV. GUMP, of Bedford county, A. H. COFFROTH, of Somerset " ran ASIOCUTK JCDCK, WM. STATES, of W. Providence tp. FOR TREASURER, WM. SCHAFER, of Bedlord Roiough. , ■ FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, GEO. H. SPANG, cf Bedford Borough. FOR COUNTY' SURVEYOR, SAM'L KETTERMAN, ot Bedford Bor. | FOR COMMISSIONER, i WM. M. PEARSON, of M. Wood berry tp. ' FCS DIRECTOR OF THE FOOR, JOHN KEMERY, of Schelisburg Bor. | FOP. AUDITOR, DANIEL FLETCHER, of Monroe -p. jj 'u ; \oricE. The partnership heretofore existing between j the undersigned having been dissolved, ai! persons knowing theinsrhes indexed to tne him, are respectfully requested to make sett.e- at as earlv a uav as possible. - * ' B.K. MEYERS. July 29,'59. *#&• W. BEN FORD. OIK TICKET COMPLETE Bv reference to the proceedings of the Dem ocratic Legislative Conference of ibis district, published in another column, it will be seen that GEO. W. GUMP, ESQ., of this county, and Gen. A. 11. COFFROTH, of Somerset, have been put in nomination 33 the candidates of the Democracy of Bedford and Somerset, for members of the next L-gislature. They are both good men acd soui.d Democrats. iir. Gump is a man who uas born aud reared a mor.g the people of this county, a hard-listed, hard-working farmer, but a man of superior in telligence, strictly honest in his dealings, social in his disposition, and a Democrat who has help ed to fight lull many a battle under the flag of our party. He has many warm friend.; in this county, as well as in Someiset, and will certainly receive a heavy vote. Of the candidate presented by the Democ acy ol Somerset, Gen. Coffroth, it is scarceiv neces sarv to speak, as be is well known to Hie ur.l - of this county, as a man ot fine abilities, an able lawyer, a good speaker, and an ardent and enthusiastic Democrat. His nest recommen dation is the fact that he is popular iu his own county .and that even,h'i3 political opponents who know him intimately,are compelled to acknowl edge his taints and worth. His name is a tow ex of strength to our ticket, ana if the Democ racy oi this Legislative District but do their du ty, both he and h' colleague, Mr. Gump, will be triumphantly elected. The nomination of Messrs. Gump and CofTroth completes our ticket. Our candidates are now all in the field, and a better ticket than ours, from Auditor General down to County Aud itor, we venture to say, '.as never been nomi nated by any party. It becomes us now, as true Democrats, to go to work at once tos.'cure the election of that tic!:et. It becomes us to tbrow aside all personal differences and disiikes, to regard ail the favors, as well as Hie threats, of these who are laboring to deleat it, and to ral ly around the men who compose it, .determined | to staud by our principles and to win > victory for the measures and men ot the DemaW crane party. A DELIBERATE FORGERY. V) j The Abolition Amalgaamtionists defend r- Williams' vote on the Bill fo prevent the in-; termarriage of whites and blacks, oil the ground that that bill was made to apply to "yellow " or "colored," persons as well as to the jet black negro. Drowning men will catch at ; straws,and if Mr. Williams'party friends ate saitffiedwith this impotent excuse,Jjjey must j be easily pleased. They should bear in mind j however, that the pleading oi such an excuse, makes the admission that Williams is tn favor j of the intermarriage of whites and ir.jfatios.— , Let this be remembered, that so far as the ruilat- j tos are concerned, Williams' attorney pleads ; guilty. But the assertion that the bill was made to apply to "yellow," or "colored, ' persons, is untrue, and those words are fraudu lently interpolated into the Bill, by Mr. lViffc , | iam' newspaper defender. The insertion of those words in the Bill, is a deliberate forgery, as we can prove by the Record. There was 1 an effort made to "tack" an amendment to the Bill, for the purpose of making it apply la "yellow," or "colored," persoas, but it did not succeed. The Bill as voted upoitjby Mr. Williams, related simply to whites and blacks. J proof of this we refer our readers to the Legislation Record, lor tbe session of 1859, 1ge376. ______ Buchanan Club wilT meet at the Court Huuse, oo Saturday eyeniog next. Sev eral speeches will be made on the-occasion. Toils out. Democrats of Bedford borough ! An important election is drawing nigh, and it is ear doty to orgtaize. Come, one and all! DEMOCRATIC MEETING. GREAT OUTPOURING OF THE PEOPLE! The principles.®! the Democracy reaffirmed! Abolition-Negioismrebuked and denounced! According to previous announc? ment, the Democracy of Bedford county assembled in ; Mass Meeting, at th** Court House, in Bedford, on Monday evening, the 29th ult., and on ir.o --; tion of HO.V. W. T. DAUGUEETY, organized by ■ : the appointement of the following officers : President, HON. JOS. B. NOBLE. Vice Presidents, Samuel Defibaugh, Geo. Reckley T. W. Horton, Esq., Wm. Berkht imer, Ettas Gump, Esq., Or. C. Olleig, A. Perdew, Esq , M. Fluke, Esq , i Nicholas E jor, Jos. Crisman, L;q. Jacob Devore, John B. Fluke, Esq. Geo. Eider, Cad. Evans, John S. Scheli, E. Foster, Esq., Win. Kock, Nicholas Koous, j Lewis >'.• Fyan. j Secretaries, | Thos. Doninoe, Jere. Thompson, | John P. Mors, Robert Eider, j The meeting having been-thus organized, on j motion ot B. F. MEYEKS, the Chair appointed t ! i committee ot seven to draft resolutions ex t pressive of the sense 01 the meeting. Ihe com i miltee was composed of If F. Meyers, H. J-1 ! Bruner, Esq., J- T. Gephart, Major M. Mcll jwaine, Capt. John Alstadt, Wm. A. Powell j and Sam'i VV. Stal'er. ; j On motion, the meeting was addressed by 1 MAJ. S. H. TATE, who made an eloquent ana ) Stirling appeal in behalf of ihe principles and candidates of the Democracy. The Major ! never fads to interest his audience and on the j present occasion his rpeech did gre credit to j himself and was recetved with marks of un i mistakable approbation on the part of his hear f ?rs. After MAJ. TATE had concluded, JOHN CESSNA, ESQ., being iouviiy called fur, appeared and addressed the cra>vd in a speech which we have never heard •surpassed in conciseness of statement, cluseurss of reasoning and general iorcefulntss of argument. Mr. Cessna referred with great effect to the position occupied by Geo. W T . Williams, the late amalgamation representative in the Legislature from this county, and completely annihilated the excuse set up for Williams by his party, that the anti-amalgamation bill against which he voted, wa3 intended to irjeiude muhltm Mr. Cessna'* speech v,as frequently interrup ted with bursts cl applause. A*, the conclusion of Mr. Cessna's address, O. E. SHANNON, ESQ., uas called FUR. WH responded in a short, but appy ind ♦ Oective eflort. Shannon is one of our best'speakers and is always listened to with marked attention. ISAAC Hue US, Esq., of Somerset, was the next speaker. Owing ;o the peculiar political position which Col. Hug us has occupied for some lime—it being a well-known fact that his name was signed to the call f;r Forney's \ bogus Convention—the Biack Republican leaders and w ire-workers in this town, when i they heard that the Colonel was to make a speech, came flocking into the meeting, expec-! ting, doubtless, that he would throw them a crumb of comfort from the Democratic table. But alas 1 how chop-fallen ! when they heard this gray-headed old champion of Democracy, denounce and rebuke ihetn tor jtheir disgusting political heresies. When they heard him ap i peal to the people of Bedford county to j sides with the white man 3gainst the black— , when him declare that he believed j the Democratic party the only party in the country, when they heard him announce his j ! intention to support the Democratic State i Ticket and listened to jjis eloquent call to all fctrue Democrats to do so likewise j th 3 poor .heir heads in bitterest chagrin | | and r^^poinlment. ! Col. Hugus having concluded his speech, ; B. F. MEYERS, from the committee on resolu i lions, reported the following, which were unanimously adopted : Resolve*. That the Democracy of Bedford County re-|ert their unalterable attachment to ihe prms!%ies of the National Democratic Party ; those principles which,since the days of Je.Terson, have formed the ground-work of our nation's prosperity, which under-lie every svstein of free government, and which are the very ewi'nce of the liberty for which the fathers ; of the Rovolution fought and died. Retcited, That the preservation of the ■ Federal Union, and the peaceful submission of; all sections and parties to the compromises of the Constitution, are objects that should be near and dear to the hearts of all true patriots, and that the growing power and bold and reckless conduct ol the diauriionists, demand ttiat Pennsylvania shall once mire ent-r the fists as the champion of Conservatism and Nationality. Resolved , That the agitation of the slavery question, is* withering blight tothe best in terests of the nation, and should be frowned upou and discouraged by every citizen who has the good of the country at heart. Jl con sumer whole sessions of Congress in angry and useless debate ; it embitters and debauches our politics ; it produces civil war in the Territories; tt tends to the degradation of the while man and th* elevation of the Mack ;it lights up the torch of insurrection among the slaves of tbe Souih ;it begets schemes for the dissolution of the Union and does good to none bu* a I w Aboßtiua dike-seekers who manage to use it With success as a pol-ticaJ hobby. Jtaolved, In the language ol the Cincinnati Platform, 4 'lhat we recognize the right of the people of all th* Territories, includiug Kansas and Jfebntafca, acting through tire legally and j fairlv expressed will of a majority ot actual ' residents, whenever the number of their in- i I tiabitanls justifies it, tc form a Constitution i with or without domestic slavery* and be ad- ; : mit tied into th< Union upon term 3 ot perfett | equality with the other St3tes : and turther, in | (tie language ot President Buchanan, in the j "Silliman Fetter, - ' that "when the people, the : bona fide residents of a territory, proceed to i j frame a State Constitution, then it is their right S to decide the important question tor themselves, whether they will continue, modify, or abolish : slavery." Resolved, That we refer with pride to the ! Administration o! Jam-s Buchanan, the first ' and onlv President that Pennsylvania ever ! gave to the Utiion. Under his faithful and | unerring guidance, our government has oeen ! eminently successful and our nation greatly ' prosperous. His policy has given peace to Kansas, order to Utah, protection to the fron i tier ;he has vouchsafed to ail sections their ! Constitutional rights ; he has maintained, amid I important and complicated negotiations, our 1 ! rights on the High Seas ; he has prosecuted the ; ' claims of our citizens against foreign states, with zeal and fidelity 1 jhe has done all in his power tu!impress tfte nefarious Afntran S'jve j I as reduced the expenses of ti'.e LVd.- i ral Government twenty millions,; and during the past six months, has conducted the afiatis ■of the P. O. Department Withotu a dollar of t appropriations from Congress he lias preserved | the Union ol the States, amid the clamor yf ■ ianatics, the war of sections and the intngul's , of base and unprincipled men ; he has pfojrcd J hiinsell the President ot Ihe whole country, a j national, conservative, dignified Executive, worthy of the party that elevated hirn to othce, ! worthy of the hi,.u- that claims him as a citizen, worthy ot the mighty nation over which he presides. Resolved, That in the Hon. Jpremiah S. , Black, present able and learned U. S. At i tor lie v General, we recognize a -on ol Pennsyl vania, ot wliom we may well be proud. We specialty commend his recent decision on the j question of the rights ot natiuaiized citizens, maintaining as it does, that such citizens are ! eiititied to t .e same protection, whether at home or abroad, as is guaianteeci by our govern ! inent to citizens tmrn on Ameiican soil. Resolved, That the Hon. VVm. Bigier, U. S. ! Senator lor this Slate, and the HON. WILSON REILLY, tale member ol Congress forthis clis trict, rieset ve our cordial endorsement for tne able and faithful manner in which they have ; iepresciited ineir constituents. Resolved, Phut liie coutse of THE HON. V\. p. SCHELL, iji the State Senate, merits our un qualified approbation,ana that as a repremita ; tue of the interests ot our county, we believe , bun to have cone faithfully his whole duty. Resolved, That Geo. VV. Williams, late member ol tiie Lower House ot the State Legislature, in voting in favor of the indefinite postf onement of the biii to prevent (tie in termarriage cl whiles cud blacks, as well as by his vacillating vote- on the Extra fay i question, b..a rendered himself deservedly ui.popular and his re-election should be vigorously and steadfastly oj posed by all who are 'unwilling to subscribe to the doctrine o! white arid black am&'garnaticn. Resolved, That during tire last campaign the ' Opposition to tire Democratic party', promised in all their newspapers and proclaimed lroui every stump, thai it utey were successlul at the . ektUun tiie Laid times then- vere.4U . cause j and Resolved further, that as the atoiV said Opposition carried the last election, and as thev tijvedone nothing to redeem then promt i ses, the leaders of tnat party have juoved themselves deceitful tricksters, urrvvortny of the future confidence of the people. Resolved, Thai in Kicba.oson L. Wright, of : Philadelphia, and John Rowe, ofFraukiiu, the i Democratic party 01-uijgum Uania have a | Stale Ticket and capable j men and sound and wot thy l\ e 1 pledge tfrem our enthusiast it sup port at the coining election. Resolved, That the nomination of Gen.'A. H. Collioth, ot Somerset, and Geo. V\. Gump, Esq., ot Bedibid county, as candidates tor Assemble, meets with our heartiest approbation and that we will use every honorable elibrt to secure their election. Resolved, That the County Ticket nomina ted by tire tale Democratic County Convention, ts worthy 01 ttie support ot every true Demo crat and that we hereby pledge ourselves, indi vidually and collectively, to iabor actively and assiduously lor its triumphant election. The meeting then adjourned with threeMoud and hearty cheers for the whole Stale and ; County Ticket. OyThe Democratic meeting on Monday evening last, was one ol the largest that we have ever attended in Bedford. The best feel ing prevailed and every body present, with the exception of a few melancholy Abolitionists, seemed greatly pleased with the ptoceedings. The Court room was crowded to overflowing, marry being unable to obtain seats. Ihe Demo cratic fires are blazing brightly, and, depend on it, on the second Tuesday of October, the glorious light of a sweeping Democratic victory, w ill beam from every hill-top and in every valley of Bedford county. —The Abolition Amalgamation meeting on Tuesday night, was in strong contrast with the Democi atic meeting the night before. The crowd was much smaller—the speeches a tissue ol falsehoods —the enthusiasm, if such it may be called, feign-d and spurious. Few country peo ple were present, but the members of the patty in the borough, were drummed tip, and every town-boy belonging to Abolition patents, was brougnt out to shout and clap Ins bands, to give an air of enthusiasm to the meeting. We wouiJ suggest that next tune they hold a mee ting, they give the boys a lot of horns and dinner bells, and tie a tinpan to their principal orator's coat-tails. I VISITORS FROM SOMERSET.-.- Isaac Hugus, ESQ. formerly Senator for the Somerset and West moreland district,Sam'l. Gaither., E-q., Col. J. A. Garman, Sam'l. Walker, Euj.,and Da :'l Hefil-y, E q., ail of Somerset cour.t v, paid us a visit during the present week- Th- y a- 0"! and true friend.-", whorr# we are always glad tu take by the band. to a press of other matter, our local column w crowded oat this week. NUMSER L57 AGALA. The redoubtable Know Nothing Abolition j candidate for Associate Judge, has found a; defender in that other redoubtable Know No- i thing Abolition office-seeker, Fr. Jordan. But such a deiender ! Well Mr. Taylor exclaim,"save rr.e Irorri my friends!" Mr. Jordan's defence of his "friend," as he facetious ly terms Mr. Taylor, does not make a single point in contradiction o( our article on ".Num ber 157." It starts out with the declaration that Mr. Taylor has "incurred the political j wrath,jand, of course, the abuse of the Gazette." j Now we deny most emphatically that we "abused" Mr. Taylor in our former article.— j Instead ofti ,ing so, we said of MR. TAYLOR ; that we liked him jK)fted BV tii** Abolitionists of Pennsylvania Jor that office, and did you no! refuse to sup port ISAAC HAZLEIIURST, American, anti-Abolition candidate of your party ? D O VOU not vote, last Fall, for JOHN M READ, the candidate for Supreme Judge of this STATE, supported by the Abolitionists ? WOULD you net vote for WM. 11. SEWALLD, if nominated by your party for President, the man who recently declared that there is an "irrepressible conflict between freedom and slavery," which will never CEA>E till the cot ton am! rice-heJJs of (he South shall B" cul'iva ted by free labor, or the rye or wheat fields of the Noith by slave labor ? Will you NOT for GEO. V/. V ILLIAV.S, THE MODEL Afodtion-Amalgamationist, who voted against tile Bill to prevent the intermar riage of WHILES- and blacks ? Last ! V, as you are still a sworn Know Nothing, never having renounced your oath, would you not be COMPELLED to vote for Gerrit Smith, W. Llovd Garrison, cr any avowed and unadultera ted Abolitionist, if nominated HV your party ? Let Mr. Taylor answer these questions in the negative, if HE dare, lie cannot PN R GE himself of his Abolitionism in any other way. We shall see whether fie it! do it. Again we warn Democrats against Mr. Taylor's insidious manoeuvring and electioneer ing. He expects to purchase — to bnj Democratic votes, hy doing small favors t > such Democrats as he thiriks will be influenced by them. True Democrats, no matter how poor they may be, never sell llmir principles, neither for money, nor lor leather. LET Mr. John Tavlor, alias "Number 157," "si.inny oil his OYN SIDE." FIRE'-OR Fiid.iy night last, between the hours often and eleven, it was discovered that the stable belonging, to Mr. Nicholas Lvons, on the lot occupied by 0. E Shannon, Esq., was on ; fire and fast burning to the ground. The buil- , ding, with its contents, war totally destroyed. ! late court was a alim affair, LASTING ; but two days. The A SSOAJME Judges hold an; adjourned COUR^LJJ^JJJFJ^SSDAV.) K€&.#EFTEFE >! MEETING. The Democratic Conferees from the counties I of and Somerset, rrwt at the Washing- | OFLHSPST, ' thetconference was organized hy j the flfknntment of John Sill, of Bedford coun- j ty, President, and S. Walker, of Somerset, Sec- ' relaryl* The following conferees presented their ere- J dent IAIS: From Bedford county, — John Sill, Iliram Lent7. and John CESSNA. From Somerset county, —S. Walker, Jos. A. Garman and DAN'L I!• F !-*Y. On motion, Gen'L Alexander H. Coffroth, of Somerset, and George VV. Gump, Esq., of Bed ford county, "were unanimously nominated as ihe Democratic candidates for the Legislature, frr the District composed of the counties of Bed ford and Sojn-r.se!. On motion, it WA3 unanimously resolved that WE RECOMMEND both the candidates just nomi nated, to til- people of Bedford and Somerset, is m-I! well qualified to discharge the duties of IHE offices for which they have BEEN named, and as beiug in cvtry way worthy of their sup port. On motion, adjourned. SLIYALKKK, I JOHN SILL, SEC'V. J PRESIDENT. RAILROAD COLLlSlON. —Yesterday morning a collision ocrtwied on Ihe Northern Centra! Railroad, between a freight train, loaded with marble, comiftg in, and a passenger train bound out from the'etty, with a number of passengers aboard, en route F>r th- Shiewsbury camp meeting. The engineer of th- burden train omitted to lake in water at the Relay II ruse, the proper place, and run to the station b-tween Mount Washington and Woodbury. Anticipating a train, be sent forward a man, with instructions to stop any approaching train. The messenger sent neglected to go tar enou_h, and per conse quence, the 7 o'clock passenger train from the city came into collision with the burden train. Fortunately the engineer of lh passenger train, Malcolm Hassen, saw the danger in time *. reverie the engine, and the d image to both trains was comparatively slight. S-ver.il of lb freight can *'ere broken, an I 'he engine o' rh* pass-tyer train was s'igUtiy more Sun,'Mtii >'//. {T7*o>orge W. Guuvp, EM-, the NOMINEE OFTL,* DEM fcr-J -Y OF Bedford countv, for the LEGIDI- Itire, j" ived so town on IMIUOSY. lie u .js v., 1 UJEIFI hv a F.IEVE- nu.nb-r of D *moci a I . Gump is a good'man, a throughgoing Democrat, and we hope t< sea him triumphantly elected.—Snwersf/ Democrat. ! A BLACK EEPCELTCAN SLAVE DEAL'S. —The , Ohio Democratic papers are having fine pick ! ing* at the expanse of Judge Gholson, formerly j i of Mississippi, whom the Republicans have i nominated fur the office of Supreme Judge, in ( place of the late incumbent, Judge Swan, who proved to be too honest for them, having per sisted in conforming his decisions to tfi- Con stitution and laws, and therefore was superse ded by tiie Nominating Convention and Judge Gholson nominated in hi* stead. The Demo cratic paper? publish affidavits and bills of sate,, showing that Judge Gholson while in Missis sippi was a slaveholder and that he sold his slaves before leaving the State. The following are specimens : KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That ■we, William Y. Ght dsori a-id Elvira Gholsnn, j I for and in consideration of Seven Hundred Dii lars to us in cash paid, the receipt of which is acknowledged, have bargained and sold and do hereby bargain and sell unto Sarah fC. Dagg-t', wife of Stephen Daggett. ONE NEGRO BOY, NAMED'NED. A SLAVE FOR LIFE, aged about 22 years, TO HAVE ANII TO HOLD IN ABSOLUTE PROPERTY: and we WARRANT THE TITLE AND SOUNDNESS of said negro hoy. Given under our hands and seals this lGtii day of December, IS-'-t. W. Y. GHOLSON, [SEAL ] ELVIRA GHOLSON, [-EAL J KNOW ALL MEN BY TB ESE PR.NSENTS, That we William Y. Gholson and Elvira Gno!s>n, for and in consideration of Seven Hundred dollars to us in cash paid, the rAceipt" of which is ac c know .'edged, have bargain at and sold and <1 >- ; j hereby burrow and aril unto Stephen Diggetf, ONE NEGRO BOY NAMED DAVY, A ! SLAVE FOR LIFE, aged 19 yr'ns, to bar | an 1 io hold him in ABSOLUTE PROPER FY, ■ and me hereby IVARiIAN ' HE ill LE AND j SOUNDNESS OF SAID NEGRO BOY. j Given under our hand? and seals this 16th j day of December, iSi-F W. Y.GHOLSO.Y, [SEAL.] ELVIRA GHOLSON, [SEAL.] These Sills of sale are certified to hy the 1 f'lerk of the of Pontotoc county, ' MISSISSIPPI. ; In id it ion to the above, ravs the TCieveland j i .Yu'iono! Democrat j we have the affidavit oi j Henry Duke, taken before the Cfeik of the IJ. j j States District Court of Mississippi, that lie is, now the owner of another slave sold by Ghoi- , son to George IV. Payne and by the said Payne \ I sOti to Duke and another affidavit, signed bv five gentlemen of standing in Pontotoc, taken I before the tame 'CLr,*, establishing the fact of i • Gholson being the owner of staves in Mississip pi, and of his sale of then. This is the way, says the Ohio Statesman, j that Ju De Gholson manumitted his patrimonial i slaves. He parted company with these two | boys for th:* sum of $1,400 to hint in cash rail , and he left them :n Mississippi, staves for life, ' while he made his way to Cincinnati with the , money in his pockets. That is what the Ham i ill.m county delegates to the Republican State : Convention call sct'.i/ig his negroes free, and j bv which story th.*v completely captured Old , Guiding?, and b- j gave his orders that Swan 1 must be debated, Spalding laid aside, and Ghoi- ■ I son nominated. M | The Chiriqui Gold Excitement—Great Stan- ; jiede fort.it Grove Diggings-One Thousand Dollars out of one Grave. The Chiriipii gold discoveries form the tonic : of discussion in the Panama papers* The i 1 schooner Carolina trad sarJed for the region 1 with fifty pas.-Tigers on beard, and another . i vessel was shortly to leave. The Panama Star and IK raid says * L°tt T? received in th*s cty Corn David,' date,, juty i4th, state that the people from aii 1 directions continue to flock to the gold digging, i and that the yield of gold obtained fiom the I "iiiiacas" continues unuirrvnisbed. j A letter received at this office yesterday, from I Sir Carlos Wegener, dated June 24th, though ; rather out of date, contains a lew items worth j transcribing : '•An old half cast Indian, who lives in Dolegn, (R)berto Deisi, whom you proSaly 1 know,) who has been in th-* habit of digging up j Indian graves for the sake oi the earthen ware 1 and piedras de molder generally found therein, took it into it is head to dig a iittle deeper, which brought him to the real grave, where the body is deposited in a coffin of rudely fixed stones and fhere.'he found the skeleton of the deceased,: together with a beautiful worked-'bat" in gold. Since then it lias been ascertained that every "huaca" contains gold images in more or less number, the earthenware and other articles hav ing been buried only half war d >wn ;an I this explains why, up to the present time, so few of the miiams of the bodies bad been found in the graves. One man took out of one grave in one day, SI,OOO worth of things,amonj which were three gild plates oi toe SIZ j of desert plates, and th* l thick less of a stout tin plate, an e3gle of the size of a span, and many "titer animals and in sects beautifully manufactured. This is the richest giave that has been found as yet, but none have been opened that have not produced something. The old man who made the dis covery kept his secret for some time, and it is reported (hat fie succeeded, in accumulating about SI,OOO. The place where the first dis covery was made is called Bngaba, situated on Ihe other side of the river Piedra, on the road toward the Costa Rica frontier, hut as the whole of the foot of Cordilleras in Chiriqni, is f ill of "huacas," it wifl fake many thousand people many years before the whole xvifl be dug up. The finding of s'> much worked up gold in the "linacas" is a positive proof that th" cour.tn must be vrry rich in gold, and I have -o doubt that as soon as the above facs become known to th- real mining public, nch end extensive de -1 posits of the are will be discovered. OREGON CINGUESSIO.YAL ELECTION.—OFFI CIAL RETURNS.—A t last we HAVE th-? full official | returns of the hie election in Oregon, and they ; confirm our previous accounts as to the probable result. Lansing Staut, the Dt movraiic candi dal* f"r Congr-s*, has been elecied by a majori ty of 4h over bis Republican opponent, L>gan. This is very unwelcome new* fo the Black R— publican p r es*es of the Atlantic State , which, i-ir.l wee!, ,r iVt.* •*, ;; erf With .X* ; siitant leader? upon what.they considered "the | red eruption of Cffvattttf" and '• the d-l-at t.fj-ie ■ Lm-a ..I Buchanan's adiit\ration." Sn.ne 'of them even wept so far as to publish a hmgra- I ptiv of Login, w'iior. they air i.fnc ito tt ii re,* f-r<, wild .ii i.ir <■! gr* ■i. a..!., a. "in .R- •:' ci R ;.res**--'a i- of - ;--•*. .i c* of [ Grrgo t>," Tin-y will iiave to u*e it ail back ! now. Orpgon remains a Democratic atat". and Joe Lane is still "right side up." -Reading I Gazette. THE AURORA BOREAUS PROBLEM SOLVED. On Sunday night and Monday morning there was an unusually brilliant exhibition of t t.- Aurora Bora!is, which covered one |. t i{ of the Northe, o brawns from Jvut to West' (This mysterious light has ever puxzled natural philosopher*, u ho ha*e advanced the moat con j tradiciory explanations lor the phenomena Some have ascribed them to the refraction of ; the sun's rays from Arctic icebergs; others 1 have thai the refraction is from \ or . thern iie or snow, and the tremulous motion to be caused by the |>rpetual vibrations of the earth's atmosphere ; but the magnetic telegraph has* solved the problem. On Sunday even ing, when the sky'was perfectly clear, the stars shining and the wind still, the only unusual appearance being the reddening ol the Nor ttiern and Eistern heavens, one ol the opera tors in the Harrisborg office chanced to touch the wire and was thrown, by the violence of a | shock which he received, across the room. At the same time the Superintendent ol the I Canad.an lines ol telegraph inform* us that the iine between Quebec and Farther Point;was iu perfect working order. Yet it proved impossi ble to dispatch (he foreign news across the wires. The Aurora Bcr-aiis hud so charged the air with electricity as to partially destroy the ; insulation. The phenomena of the Northern Lights may therefore be ascribed to electricity, arqjtjHong disputed question of science is defi nitely* explained.— Patriot & Union. \Vond:;?.FI £. bUc*pz FROM DKOWMVG.— A letter iron Norfolk in the Richmond Ditpitch, slat 's that on Tu-sJav of list week, Capt. John Dough: / was washed from the deck of his sloop about f> .'clock in the morning, when about five miles at sea, olf Smith's Island. The sea was running very high at the time, and, being unable to regain his vessel, he swam toward! i 'lie shore and attempted to land; the breaker!, 1 however, prevented his doing so, and iie then I s-.vam around the southern end of island, where I he made a >econd attempt; this faiied also, and , alter liav ; ng passed four nuies along the beach, |he was taken by a current and washed inside of the capes; here he was picked up by Capt. j Conk ling, after having been swimming eight hours, and carried into Alexandria, from which ' place he cair.e t > N"o p (>lk and proceeded to his i residence in Northampton county, where lie will appear as one arisen from the dead, since it was generally supposed that he was drowned. He must have swam nearly fifteen miles, ami that with hi* clothes on, except'hieboots, which he polled of? in the water. lVhen rescued he was nearly exhausted, and must have drowned in a lew minutes. A IJut Far Abolitionists to Crack. A colored rr.an, William Braxton, manumitt ed by the last will and testament of Elijah Greenwell, deceased, of Hampshire countv, Va., and who has been enjoying the bles.-ingsof free dom among the Abolitionists of Pennsylvania until he has become heartily tired of the bles sing, latterly returned to Virginia, and has pe titioned i.iie county court of Hampshire to per i nit him to become the slave of Mr. Samuel House, of that county. Dailhnore Ruffians—A Newspaper Pro prietor AUackfti-The Assailant Shot, pALTftronE, Aug 26, Henry A!. Fitzhugh,one ot the proprietors of the Daily Ecchnnfre, was asvaiied this afternoon in an omnibus bv a notori ous rowdy named Paul Placide. A/r. Fitzhngh a revolver and fired three, balls, which took effect in the hand and arm of the assailant- The affair produced considerable excitement. The Colombia Democrat, published at Bioomsbtrg, by Levi L. Tate, puts up ihe name of John C. Breckinridge for President, subject to the deci.-'Aa of the Charleston Convention. The Democrat says; "Tne positive declination ol Air. Buchanan, fobe regarded as a candi date for the succession, renders it proper and expedient, that his friends should in due time select a suitable candidate for the slandard bearer of the American Democracy. That man, we have every reason to beiieve, will b Vice President Breckinridge-" BCO-NDIN A MTTH.—Aritizen of Niagara, writes to the New York Times that there is no such person as M. Biondin known in that com munity— that he has never crossed the Fails on a light rope, or any other kind of a rope—that he never cooked omelettes, carried a man on his hack, stood on his head, turned somersets, or did any other wonderful thing—that, in short, ihe public have been egregiously humbugged. This i< certainly a wonderful revelation, end it rather takes the public all aback. Will the Bufialo Republic , Blondin's organ, be so kind as to give us the facts 1 LAXD FOR SAffsE. HTTrJE subscriber ot! ts for sale h:s farm situ- JL ated on the Mile Hill, near Schellsburg, containing b3 acres, more or less, adir.ining iands ol E ranuel Statler, Daniel Miller, Peter Schell and others. Th improvements aie a good Log House, one and a half story high, with a cellar under the same, a good double barn, and a good Apple orchard, with other fruit trees, a good well of never-failing water near the door ; 4-9 acres cleared and 14" acres timbered and ail the land un 1-r fence. Anv person wishing to obtain a good home, can call on the subscriber living in Schellsbure. JOHN IIIMAGER. Al>o another tract of Land containing acres, a joining the above described land, a part of which i* well timbered, which can be had at a fair price by cailicg on the Subscriber living in Schellsburg. DANIEL MILLER. Sepiember 2, 1859.—it. CUMBERLAND VALLEY DLIEST i YOU are hereby ordered to parade R. at CENTREVILI.E, on SATURDAY ZfekVa of Sepiember, i.nt , at 10 tj/Sa® o'clock, A. M., in summer uniform, 1 J with 12 round* of blank cartridge. Vy f Bv order of the Captain. JQL, JOHN SIMONS, 0. S. Brigade Onicc 7 * fini... D; IXSP cTon'sO.'iice, Aug 30/59. TLjOriGE is oeieby given t > th- 'Vigil* and i_ N " mi! if 0 ; i ' "i - ■? i'v 15' P,v -n. ,:. i - to me- * r.H.. it-v : ,3 .in ifStsri, .>. in- li' ,ni -oiii-. 1 i , n:*, k. •>!♦ la".- ih" ( i-p.ise of n.c c.a; jis of ta