VOL(IN£ 56. NEW SERIES. r|lHE BEDFORD G-AZETTE, 1S rUDLISHEE EVERY FRIDAY HORNING BY R. F MEYERS, At the following terms, to wit: $1.50 per annum, CASH, in advance. $2.00 " " if P a id within the year. 52.50 " " if not P a 'd within the year. [//-No subscription taken for less than six months. ayNo paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid,unless at the option of the publisher, it has •>.-en decided by the United States Courts that the stoppage of a newspaper without toe payment ol ar rearages, is V rimw she found j twenty-five dollars of it in the prisoner's trunk, j She could swear it was the identical money she ; had lost, in two tens, and one five dollar bank | notes. •'Mrs. Naseby," said I, "when you first mis sed the money, had you any reason to believe the prisoner had taken tt ?" "No, sir." "Had you ever before detected her in any dis honesty "No, sir." "Should you have thought of searching her trunk had not Nancy Luther advised and in formed you ?" "No, sir." Mrs. Naseby left the stand, ar.J Nancy Lu ther took her place. §he came up with a bold look, and upon me she cast a defiant glance as if to say "trap me if you can." "She gave her evidence as follows : "She said that oo the night the money was stolen, she saw the prisoner going up stairs, and from the sly manoer in which she went up, she suspected all was not right. So she followed her up. Elizabeth went into Mrs. Naseby's room and aliut the door after her. I stooped down and looked through the keyhole, and saw her take out the money and put it in her pock et. Then she stoop, d down and picked up the lamp, and as f saw that she was coming out I hurried away." Then she went on and told how she had in formed her mistress of this, and how she propo sed to searcli the girl's trunk. I called Mrs. Naseby back to the stand. "Yousay that no one save yourself and the prisoner, had access to your room." "I did." "Now, could Nancy Luther have;entered the room 11 she wished ?" "Certainly, sir, 1 mean no one else had any right there." I saw that Mrs. Naseby, though naturally a hard woman, was somewhat moved bv poor Elizabeth's miser}-. "Could your cook have known, by any means in your knowledge, where your money was ?" "Yes, sir, for she has often come to my room when I was there, and I have oftpn given her money to buy provisions of market men who happened to come along ,with their wag ons." "One more question : "Have you known of the prisoner's having used an}' money since this was stolen ?" "No, sir." I now called Nancy Luther back, and she be gan to tremble a littie, though her look was as bold and defiant as ever. "Miss Luther," I said, "why did you not in form your mistress at once of what you had seen without waiting tor her to ask about the lost money ?" "Because I could not make up my mind at once to expose the poor girl," she answered promptly. "You say you looked through the keyhole and saw her take the money ?" "Y>s, sir." "Where did she place the lamp when she did so 1" "On the bureau." "In your testimony you said she stooped down when she picked it up. What did you mean by that ?" The girl hesitated, and finally said she didn't mean anything only that she picked up the lamp. , "Very well," said I, "how long have you been with Mrs. Naseby ?" "Not quite a year, sir." "How much does she pay you a week ?" "A dollar and three quarters." "Have you taken up any of your pay since you have been there ?" "Yes, sir." "How much !" "I don't know, sir." "Why don't you know ?" "How should I 1 I have taken it at difler ent times, just as I wanted it, and have kept no account." "Now, it you had wished to harm the pris oner, could you have raised twenty-five dollars to put in her trunk 1" "No, sit," she replied with virtuous indigna tion. "Then you have not laid up any money since you nave been there." "No, sir, only what Mrs. Naseby may now owe me." ' "Then you did not have any twenty-five dol- BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 1,1860. lars when vou came there ?" "No, sir, and what's more, the money found in the girl's trunk was the money that Mrs. Naseby lost. You mijht have known that if if you'd remember what she told you." This was sai I very sarcastically, and was intended as a crusher upon the idea that she should have put the money in t!i" prisoner's trunk; How ever, I was not overcome entirely. "Will you tell me if you belong to this Stale 1" "1 do sir." "In what town ?" She hesitated, and for an instant the bold look forsook her. But she finally answered, "I belong to Somers, Montgomery county." I riext turned to Mrs. Naseby. "Do you ever take a receipt from your girl's when you pay litem V' '■Always." "Can vou send and get one of them for me ?" "She has told you the truth, about my pay ments," said Mrs. Nasebv. "(J, I don't doubt it," I replied, "but partic ular proof is the thing for the court room. So if you can, I wish you would procure the re ceipt." She said she would willingly go if the court said so. The court did so, and she went. Her dwelling was not far off, and she soon returned and handed me four receipts, which I took and examined. They w-j e signed in a strange, straggling hand by the witness. "Now Nancy Luther," I said, turning to the witness, and speaking in a quick, startling tone, at the same time looking her sternly in the eye, "please tell the conrt, and jury, and tell me, where you got the seventy-five dollars, which you sent in your letter to your sister in Som ers V The witness started as though a volcano burst 4t her feet. She turned pale as deuih, and ev ery limb shook -violently. 1 w aited until the people could have an opportunity to see her emotion and then I repeated the question. "I—never—sent—any," she gasped. "You did !" I thundered, for I was excited now. "I—didn't," she faintly muttered, grasping the railing for supjwrt. "May it please your honor and gentlemen of the jury," I said, as soon as 1 had looked the witness out ot countenance, "I came here to de lend a man who has been arrested for rubbing the mail, and in the course of my preliminary examinations, I Had access to the letters which had bven tbru open and nibbed ot money.— IVhen 1 entered upon this case, and fjund this i witness produced, I went out and got this letter which 1 now hold, for I having seen one bearing the signature of Nan cy Luther. This letter was taken from the mail bag, and it contained seventy-five dollars, and by looking at the postmark you will ob serve that it was mailed the day after the hua dred dollars were taken from Mrs. Nasebv's drawer. I will read it to you, it you please," The court nodded assent, and I read the fol lowing, which was without date, save that made by the postmaster upon the outside. 1 give it verbatim : SISTER DORCCS : —lcend yu hear sevsnty live dolers, wich i want vu to kepe fur me till i cum hum. I cant kepe it coz i am had on me with all the money he could raise, but 1 showed bim that which had already been paid, and refused his hard earning. Be fore I left '.own, I was a guest at his wedding— my lair client being the happy bride. UNWRITTEN POETRY.— It is stamped upon the broad blue sky, it twinkles in every star, it min gles in the ocean's suige, and glitters in the dew drop that gems the lily's bell. Tt glows in the gorgeous colors of the decline of day, and rests in the blackened crest of the gathering storm cloud. It is in the mountain's height and in the cataract's roar—in the towering oak, and in the tiny flower. Where we can see the I hand ol God, there beauty finds her dwelling ! place. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. fHisccllaneotts. THE HIBK—.\DVEMT RE AT Tie" PEARL FISHERY.'; One breathless day we were floating in our little boa' at the pearl fishery watching the di ving. "We," means my wife, myseli and our iiti !c daughter, who was nestled in the anri3 of "ay,ab," or colored nurse. It was one of those tropical mornings the glorv of whichii indescri bable. The sea was so transparent that the boat in which we lay, shielding us irom the sun by awnmg, seemed to hang suspended in the air. Ihe tults of pink and white coral, that sin 1 led the bed of the ocean beneath, were as distinct as if they were growing at our feet.— IV t* seemed to be gazing upon a beautiful par terre of variegated candy tuft. The shores, fringed with palms ami patches of a gigantic species of cactus, which was then in bloom, wore as still and serene as if they had been painted on glass. Indeed, the whole landscape looked like a beautiful seen 1 * beheld through a glorified telescope. Eminently real, as far as tieiaii Went, but still ana motionless as death, .Nothing broke the silence save the occasional plunge of the divers into the water,or the noise of the large oysters falling into* the bottom of the boats. In the distance, on a small, narrow point ot land, a strange crowd of human beings were visible. Oriental pearl merchants, Fa het rs, selling amulets, Brahmins m their dirty white robes ail attracted to the spot by the pros pect of gain (as fish collect around a handful of bait flung into a pond) bargaining, cheating, and strangely mingling religion and lucre.— ;Iy wife and I lay back on the cushions that lipecl Die afterpart of our little skiff, languidly gazing on th a sea and the sky by turns. Sud denly our attention was aroused bv a vev g rp at , shut, which was followed by volleys of shrill cries from the pearl fishing boats. On turning in that direction the greatest excitement was visible among the different crews. Hands were pointed. White teeth glittered in the sun, and every dusky- form was gesticulating violently. The two or three negroes seized some long poles and commenced beating the water violently. Others liung gourds and ! and old pieces of wood and stones in the direction of a particular spot that lav ' between the nearest fishing boat and ourselves. The onlv thing visible in this spot was a black, sharp Dlade, thin as the blade of a penkife, that appeared slowly and evenly cutting through the still water. No surgical instrumen'i ever elided through human flesh with a more silent, cruel calm. It needed not the cry ot "shark ! shark !" to tell us what it was. In a moment .', waistcoats, swell, puff, blow and endeavor to ■ i give themselves a consequential appearance. No discriminating person can ever mistake the j< spurious for the genuine article. The differ ence between the two is as great as that between a bottle of vinegar, and a bottle of the pure ! i juice ot the grape WHOfJB SIITIBER, 2901. " j PRESIDENT BUCHANAN ON NEWS ,; PAPER DETRACTION. iae members ol the press Jateiy on an _ j excursion, visited Mr. Buchanan. He ) (bat a favorable opportunity to address _ Jjern, and put in a pleasant anecdote as iifus - trat,vo of the exaggeration of the party press f and their detractions, which are so eagerly ta ken up and repeated by the Tory press of En r land as an evidence ot Democratic demoraiiza : tion. The President said : I his house is not a palace, to be sure, as you . have styled it, but it is altogether the oeopie'a , and the President himself who occupies it is only the chief servant of the people. There is this peculiarity about the President, that he I fleeted by the people, and he owes no allegi ance to any human power but the people. [A°p | plause.] The duties of the President are hard, i and I shall soon retire from them ; and if the f j new President that is to come iu, shall be so j happy in assuming the duties of Iheotlice, as I arn in laying them down, he will be fortunate indeed. Nevertheless, it seem? that there will be no lac* of men quite willing to endure the I resiliency. [Laughter.] We are very likely to have candidates enough to represent all the isms known to the country. Nevertheless, lam persua ;.-d that the prevailing wish of the A merican people will be to cherish and preserve i the Constitution as it is, and the Union.— [Applause.] tor my part, I should desire to i draw no single breath beyond the existence of this beloved Union. [Much applause.] I am ! pleased to see this assembling together of so j many of the editorial fraternity. I think its 1 efT'ct will be salutary on yourselves, in reliev ing your relations of that acrimony that has j sometimes marked the press. lam reminded of an anecdote, but I know not whether I should relate it.—[Cries of "Tell it," "Goon."] It occurred when I was a Minister to England. I was talking with a distinguished English statesman, who said to me, "Mr. Buchanan, I should infer from your newspapers that the A merican people always choose out their greatest scoundrels and mike them President." ~ [Much laughter.] I replied that "it did look so, but it was onl v away we had to talk of each other thus—we really always didn't mean it." A SPICY AFFAIR.—A select party, consisting of a man, his wife, and a young male friend, ' recently left Fall River, Mass., for Troy, N\ Y. The husband had creditors whom it was desira ble to deceive concerning the right of property in sending large trunks; so they were checked / in the name of the young man. The three arrived safely at Troy, but the wife and friend j pursued their journey further toward the West. Not to put too fine a point on it, they eloped leaving the husband behind. They" left the baggage, too, and so far all was well; but on trying to obtain possession of the trunks, the man was met with the objection that they did not belong to him. So the poisoned chalice in tended JMr his creditors returned to his own ; lips. The deserted husband proposes to adver j tise that the young man may keep the wife, it ! he will send a power of attorney fur the ba