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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 <rs a neighbor, and our j
objections to him as given in that article, were j
purely of a political nature. We say nothing j
against Mr. Taylor, personally, but we do say, j
ana will continue to sav, that as bitter a Know J
Nothing and Abolitionist as JOHN TAYLOR, has j
no right to expect Democrats to elect him to
office. But Mr. Jordan denies that his "friend,
Mr. Tivlur, is an Abolitionist. Vviil Mr.
Tavlor answer the following questions ill the j
if he is not an Abolitiomcl 1
MR. Taylor, did you not, in 1357, C OTE for
DAVID VVILMOR, for Governor, who was
stij>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<S WHO
'.itr* lighly ; I A* ! with him. F> 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<s Milita
ry f said Brigade.
LEMUEL EVANS,
Brigadier General.
A. J. SANSOM,
Brtgwia Jtanpaetar.
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