VOLUJ2E .17. NEW SERIES. JACOB REED. C. W. KI N\ J .I SC'HELL HElii), RLPP k SMELL. BANKERS & DEALERS IN EZ- CwiiNGE, B D F 0 80. PENN'A. DRAFTS bought and sold, collections made and money promptly remitted. Deposits solicited. RF.FF.RF.NCFS. Hov. JOB MANN, Bedford, Pa. " CESSNA, " JOHN MOWER, " " R. FORWARD, Somerset, ' I'UN'N, RAIGUEL & Co., Phil " ,J. WATT it Co., PitNbur • J. W. CURLEV, &. Co., " (£t;ttuncnn. , ca!t!) iitjtmtncc vtompann. ! l'MO v r.riT.DIMJS, THIRD STKKKT, PA. CHARTERED CAPITAL, $300,000. [mare buildups or other property against lessor damage by Fiie. AI.SO— AGAINST PERILS OF THE SEA. INLAND NAVI- G A TO & TRANSPORTAIOH DIRECTORS : S.MOS OAMKRON, GEO. M. LAUWAN, WIF. DOCK, JAMBS FOX, GBO. BECGNKE, Ben.f. P, RKK, U'A. H.KEPNER, A. B. VVACFORD, U'. |<\ MURKY V. K. BOAS, J. TL. LENIIYK I R.T., VV. F- PACKER F. 1.1 SLIFER. OFFICERS : SI MOV CAMERON 7 , President. BENJAMIN PARKE, Vice-President. S. S. CARRIER, -tecretarv. J. VV. LINGF.\FFLTER, A-ENT. BeJfoid, Pa. Office oil Juliana Street. Oct. 21, 18-39.-ly. Jtisnramc Ccinpa;m OF PITTSBURGH, OFFICE, NO 03 FOURTH STREET. Capital Ami Surplus over $150,000.00. j DIRECTORS. Jacob Painter, C. A. Colton, \. Yoeghlly, R• dy Patterson, A. A. Carrier, ]. G. Snroui, , ilenrv Sprout, A. J. Jones, G. VV. Smith ' VV. Hampton, Rob't Patrick, J. H. Hopkins' This Compaay has paid losses from the date of ' its incorporation in 1831, up to May, 1839 to a tiif.nn! ril S3OJ,SOi, in addition to regular senrci aiuual Dividends of from .3 to 13 per cent adordiiw I evidence of its stability and usefulness. LOSSES LIBERALLY ADJUSTED, AND PROMPTLY PAID. A. A. CAP,*!! e r-r^,- t f s ._ J.J. Lmgenielier, Agent. Office at Bet iord ra. September 2, 1859.—1yr. £ 02 Si \ A ii. SftUHIM * HAVE formed a ( Partnership in the Practice of (he Law. Office , ru-aily opposite the Gazette Office, where cue ; or the other may at all times be found. Bedford, Aug. I, 1559. gt;:i.v P. urr.i) A TTORN A" AT T.AIV, R TDPORD, PA. Re ifcfli/lly tenili-rs his- services ted to his care. July 1, 1859.-1 v. ROHX BORDER #| GUNSMITH, KEOFOCD, PA. Shop at the ejst end of the town, one door west of the residence ot Major W ashabaugh. All guns ot my own manufacture warranted. May 21,'58. CAMEL KETTERMAJI COUNTY SURVEYOR. WOULD hereby notifiy the citizens ol Bed lord county, that he has moved to the Borough of Bedford, where he may at all times found by persons wishing to see him, unless absent upon business pertaining to his otiice. April lb, 1858.-11. \jfmn & SRAIFI >T 1 \ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, IJEDFPRU, PA. THE ™iersine,! nave associated themselves in the PiaAe of"the Law, and will attend promptly ;o ail boMess entrusted to their care in Bedford and ad|oi®ig counties. WOfe on Johanna Street, three doors south ai he <<®eitel House," opposite the residence o Mai.'Tat* " JOB MAW Aug. 1,1559. G. H. SPANG. T H LIK£ KRFELTE— ♦ J T ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND LAND SURVEYOR. Will attend with promptness to all business entrusted to his cure. WIN. PHACTICK IS BEDFORD AVD TM.ro>' I.OTJNTIES. three doors North of the ••Inquirer" Office. UA. B. F. BAitY— RESPECTFULLY tenders uis professional services to the citizens of Bed ford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, ia the building formerly occupied byDr. John Hofius. Aug? 1, 1859. R RO BUILDERS.— The subscriber is fully preprred to furnish any 'quantity or quality of Building Lumber and Plastering Laths.— Orders directed to SI. Clairsville, Bedfod F'ounty, will be promptly attended to, by GIVING a reasonable notice. F. I D. BKEGLR BEDFORD G AZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING EJV St. r. TIEVFits, At the followinj terms, to wit : $i .30 per annum, CASH, in advance. SJ-0" " " if paid within theyeai. sg.so " j( net paid within the year. subscription taken for less than six months. paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher, it hae been decided by the United States Courts that ths stoppage of a newspaper without trie payment ol ar rearages, is. •ima facie evidence ot lra.id and is a criminal otience. he courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they lake them from the post otfice,whether 'hey subscribe for them, or not. j IBHIM Lim.VS RGCORI'. ! His Abolitionism Proved—HE IS IK" FAVOR CF NEGRO EQUALITY. The doe'rine of negro equality lies at the foundation of all Abolitionism ; for when Uiat doctrine is fully acknowledged and cani-d out and the negro is put upon an equality with the white man, of course slaveiv would be abolish ed—there would he no slaves—all would be placed upon an equality. The leason the Re j publican* insist so strenuous! v upon that doc trine is because it is sine to drive to abolition . everywhere ; and no man insist more strenuous ly upon it Iti.in Mr. Lincoln, lot" in hiis celebra ; ted Chicago speech he uses the following extra ' ordinary language ; "I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares 'hat all -n*n are equal upon principle, and ma king EXCEPTIONS to it, WHERE WILL ITSBOP ] IF ONE MAN SAYS rr DOES NOi MEAN A NEGRO, why not another say it does mean some other man ?"—(SeeiLin coln and Diuglas' Debates, p. 22— Lincoln's edition.) Here is a pointed decf ara'ion made [ )V Mr. Lincoln that HE BELIEVES in the doclrine of NEGRO t EQUALITY without qualifird l lion. And to show his vim in expressing his fim ; belief in the doc line, he adds: J --H that declaiation is not the trulh, let us ! gel the statute book AND TEA aIT OUT 1 If it is j oot true, let us TE\R IT OUT! [Cries of no, no!] L-t us stick to it then ; lef ( ,s s'aod firmly bv it."—(Debate#, page 23, Lincoln's edit On.) A< Galesnurg he affirms the dec.'ara 1 ions in Useff-'tv v world from the date ot 'he Decla at ion of Inde pendence up to within three years ago, mav oe searched in vain for a single affirma'iou FROM j ONE SINGLE MAN. [THAT THE NEGRO WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE DECLA RATION OF INDEPESDENt E.—(See De oales, Lincoln's eduicii.fi 178.) VVmcn simply means that wtien our fathers •. vv ho were most ot them slaveholders, declared; THEM-•:LVK. free, thev were declaring the NE- • GROES FREE ALSO ! Again Mr. Lincoln not only declares that the Declaration of Independence includes the negro as created equal, but he adds that they aie cie- . ated iiee and equal, in (he following codicil his benediction at Chicago : "My Iriends, I could not without launching oil upon some new topic, which would detain vou too long, con'inue to-night. I thank you for tins mist ex'ensive audience you have . ir i uhed me to-night. I leave you, hoping that the lamp of Itbert v vvill bui n in your bosoms un til there shall be no longer a doubt 1 hat all men are created FREE AND EQUAL ' —(See Lincoln's edition of Debate*, page 2i.) Thus interpolating the Declaration of Inde- pendence, in older lo carry oui his Abolition Joel rines. Tiiat Mr. Lincoln desires to reduce thi< doc fnoe to piaclice is proved by turning: to the Illinois Journal of September Mi, Ibbti, where in we we find him reported as declaring at a banquet at Chicago: I'll at central idea, in our political opinion, at tiie beginning was, and until recently con tinued to be, the EQUALITY OF MEN. And al though it was submitted patiently, lo whatever inequality there seemed to be as a matter of ne cessity, its constant working has been a steady progress towards the PRACTICAL EQUALITY OF ALL MEN. "Let past differences as nothing be ; and wilh steady eye on the real issues, let us inaugurate ihe good old centi al ideas ol the Republic.— We can do it. The human heart is with us; (iod is with us. We shall again be able not to declare that all the States, as Slate?, are equal, nor vet that ail her i iiiz- ns as citizens aie e qual, but renew the broader, better declaration, including both senses and nun li more, that all men are cu-ated equal." When pushed by Judge Douglas as to his meaning when he declared that "it (slavery) should be placed wheie the public mind sh iuld rest in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction," he dei lares that "I did not even say that I desired that sla very should be put in course of ultimate ex tinction. IDO SAY SO NOW, however, so there need be no longer any difficulty about that. It may be written down iti the great speech." Webster savs the word extinction means "lo putou'," or "iliejuct of nutting out, 4 ' "destruc tion," or, in other words, "ABOLISH." At Charleston, JII., Mr. Lincoln says : "An elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of a PLR FECI equality between the negroea and the white people."—(Debates, p 136.) And then he goes on to say hat he is not, noi ever has been in favor of the perfect social anc political equality ol the whites and blacks. — But truly adds : "I have never seen, to my knowledge, a man BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5,1860. | woman, or child, who was in favor of produ nog a PERFECT equality, social and politics ( between negroes and white men." Debates. page, 136.) Not even Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillip*, Gen it Smith. Dr. Cbeever, or even Greeley or • Giddings, are in iavor of producing a perfect ; equality, "socially and politically,"among the e whites and blacks." But only a political e - quality. Not a perfect social equality. -Mr. Lincoln is a lawyer, and knows verv well how to befog obnoxious sentiments bv a . connected verbiage. Why did he not sav that , he was not in favor ufa political equality otlhe white* and blacks instead ol coupling it with a j ''social" equality, and qualifying it with the word pel feet. A perfect social and jwlitiral equality dot-s not exist upon earth even among unite men, lor in the sea!.* ol morals and in j follows in relation tolhat darling pet ol hi-, the ' i negro: •'That no negro slave imported as such tiom ; Africa, and no descendant ot such siave, can ever be a citizen of any Slate in the sense of that term, as used in the Constitution of the United States. This point is made," says Lm- Cviln, "in order to deprive the negro, in every possible event oI th<* benefit o! that provision ol the United Slates constitution which declares that "The citizens of each State shall be enti tled to at! privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States." This decision of the Court is complained ol by Mr. Lincoln because it has "deprived the ne gro," who has become a citizen ol Massachu selts, and is entitled to hoid office, sit in juries, and vote there, wiwn he emigrates to Illinois or Kentucky, deprives him of of "all the privi leges and immunities of citizen" oflll-nois or Kentucky ; or, in other words, he complains that the Court has thrown it out of the power ol the negro slave, o; a descendant at one vvuo has become a citizen Massachusetts, and by virtue ot citizenship is politically equal to a while nan in Illinois or Kentucky, to wit : the right to hold office, to sit on juries, to mar ry. to vote at elections, and, indeed, every other political right that the white man has, and yet ! the Republicans say he is not lor negro equality. — Patriot and Union. ss s S SSSS SS S i S From the Selinsgrove Times. REAM THIS AFFIDAVIT. Helow ws publish an affidavit of a person now a resident of this count)', who was present on the occasion ol the difficulty between Mr. Curtin and Mr. I'icard. We will here state i that this affidavit would never have been given to the public, had not some of the public jour nals attempted to cast reflections upon Mr. Pic ard's credibility. Among these papers is the ! Middleburg Tribune, a paper whose political vasalage is sufficient to strip it of all claims to ; respect or credibility. I, the subscriber, am personally acquainted \ with Col. Andrew G. Curtin, the present can- Freedom of Thought and Opinion, i- i dictate for Governor. I was present only to it witness 'be la'fer part of the scene, when Mr. s, Coitin shot Pick-aid's do^. ' liver) in Bellefonte at the time it orcured. i heaici a fuss at the stable belonging to the t, i ennsyivaiiia Hotel. I thought some persons t were lighting and went to see. When I came e 1 there, T saw Mr. Curtin there in a great rage, - ; with a revolver in his hand and damning and ■ cursing Mr. Picaid. While I waspiesent Mr. v J Picaril gave him no word which would insult a him, bul "Curtin shot the dog and declared he t had another ball left for Mr. Picaid. I did not know Mr. Picard before then, but I thought at i the time, | !o m the manner in which Mr. Gur- * ■ 'm behawed, be would shoot him. And to sav I the least of it,thought Mr. Cu it in was a very ! dangeious man with a revolver in hand. A'ter ■ this excitement Curtin left and the crowd dis : persed. SAME EL H.SNYDER. Chapman, Sept 17, iB6O. S.XYDER COUJYTY, ss, Before me, the subscriber, one of the Justi ces of ihe Peace in and for (he county of Sny- ( der, personally appeared ihe above named > Samuel H. Snyder, and alter being duly sworn accoiding (o |aw, j doth depose and sav, that the above .statement is true and correct to Ihe best of tiis knowledge. HENRY MOTZ, J. P. ! I eeburg, Sept. 18, IS6O. hbhfebhhhbhhhbhhbhhhhhbh i Rilli Mi uii! nil!; LEGISLATIVE CORRIPTIO.V- From tbe ht' ) n are th.ui toe s .laiy for the whole term ! I lie diestiou lairly arises : Wa not the posi- ' tioo ifsired lor the single pu.pose of making j rnonc out of it by illegitimate means ? We | ask a candid men to answer this rjuestion for I their elves. Sdb WfIiRTON WIST OFFICE. Iu Wharton was nominated for the Le gislature. la I<>J, He was defeated for re-nomination—j ran as a guerrilla, and was beaten j largely. la Cat, Know Notliingism swept the countrv j IV barton applied for admission in- I to tue Lodge of this town—was relti- j sed—went to anoliier county and got in. 1n855, not being in good standing in the Or der, he was kept under the surface bv fresher men. inSht), he was a candidate for the nomina tion ot Senator—was defeated lor t he conferees of this county by J Sewell Stewart—but went to the conference —got two votes from Ulair county was kicked overboard—came home and had his name announced in the Shirlevsburg Herald as an Indepen dent candidate against Mulltn, the regul ar nominee— but afterwards, from some mysterious (?) cause witli i" drew. JISS7, he was nominated for Assembly, and was beaten by 400 majority. 11858, he was a candidate for the nomina tion tor Assembly, but when the Con vention met, he lound he had hut half a dozen of delegates,and wisely with drew his name. 1859, he was a candidate before the State Convention for the nomination for Auditor General ; but having only one delegate for him, his name was withdrawn before the balloting com-i > menr.ed. In 1860, he is the nominee of his parly for the Senate. Here we have the record of Col. Wharfor i for the last eight years, and if there is anything I in it for his parly to admire, we confess we can not see it. Office, office, office, has been hi incessant crv, and without presenting any claims to the people for their support, tie has acted as if he had a natural mdiapu'nble right to demand then 50.....-".-#. — Hunt'. : don Union. in. Kit Ri;i'i yum fiiiiu. Here aie a few extracts from ''Helper's im pending Crisis,' the anti-slavery Bible < f the "Irrepressibles," endorsed by Lovejoy, Wash burn, Sherman, Xellog & Co. These a.eih,. sent iments of con sercuiion Blade •<■ liepuolicnaa.'" "Slaveholders are a nuisance," '•lt 13 our unpeiative business to abate nui sances." ~We propose to exterminate this catalogue from beginning to end." "We believe that THIEVES are, as a gen eral rule, lessamenabte to the moral Jaw than SLAVEHOLDERS." "SLAVEHOLDERS ARE MORE CRIMI NAL THAN COMMON MURDERERS." "Slaveholders and slave-traders are, as a gen eral thing, unfit to occupy any honorable sla lion in life," "It is our honest conviction that all the pro slavery slaveholders, who are alone responsi ble for 'he continuance of the baneful institu tion a no rig US deserve to be AT ONCE REDU CED TO A PARALLEL WJTH THE BA SEST CRIMINALS THAT LIE FEI'TERED WITHIN THELELLS OF OUR PUBLIC PRISONS." "IYere it possible that the whole number (i. e. ol the slaveholders,) could be gathered to gether and transferred iuto four equal gangs of licensed LP*ROBBERS, RUFFIAN.-, THIEVES AND MURDERERS,society, we feel as sured, would suffer less from their atrocities than it does now." ''So it ceems (hat the lota' number of actual slaveowners, including their entire crew oi cringing lick-spittles, against whom we have fo contend, is but three hundred and fortv-sev- ! en thousand five-hundred and twenty-five. Against this army for the defence and propa-, ga' ion of slavery, we think it mil be an easu mni'er, independent of the negroes, who innine ca-esout of every ten, would be delighted with an opportunity to cut their Mas-rets' Throats, ; cc T, n & a ■ I IMU> rtß L \iiv>E A.MJ I AK AIUJTV. RE SPEcTABLEJ AN ARMY FOR J TS UTTER EXTINCTION." '-But we are wedded to one purpose, from ! which no eanhlv power can di-'orce us. WE ' ARE DETERMINED I v ''rd Mr. Andrew.- to come here and address y them. He would be a fit associate on (he I sh " n P for Carl Schti.z, Thaddetre Stevens and - 1 : numerous othe s of thai ilk. ; MR. SCR ELL'S TARIFF RECORD. In the State Senate, on the 19lb day of Jan w ,Jar y. 1859. the following tariff resolutions were . | voled tor, viz : Whereas. The experience of the past and , present, most fully demonstrate that it is aiwise and beneficent policy ot the General Govern ment, which declares the imposition ot dirties on such products of foreign nations as come in such direct coutact with those of our own country, as lo injure and prostrate the trade in our own soil, and among our own citizens. I fie artizans and laborers in many deparl merit of trade are compelled to abandon their accus i tomed pursuits—especially do our own coal and tron interests suffer ; therefore Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the Gommonwealfh of Pennsyl vania, in Gerund Assembly m°t, That our Sen t ators in Congress be instructed, and our Repre sentatives requested lo labor for Ihe passage (at the present se.-sion) ofsuch an act as will not on ly (end to increase the revenue by the imposi tion of duties, but afford ample encouragement to ad the intet ests of the country, injured by the productions of the cheap labor of other na tions ; but more especially to mge an increase ofcuiieson coal and iron, in which a portion of our own people are deeply interested. Resolved, That the views of the President, expressed in fiis lale annual message in reference to the advantage of definite or specific duties o ver ad valorem duties, as more uniform, less lia ble to frauds, and affording the most certain and uniform amount of revenue, meet our hearty approbation. Resolved. That the Governor be requested to ! forward to each of our Senators and members of Congress, a copy of the above preamble and re solutions, informing them of their adop'ion. On the passage of the resolution, tbe vote ! stood, AY LS— Messrs. Bell, Baldwin, Coffey, Craig, Fetter. Finney, Francis, Gazzam, Gregg, Harris, erR ELL, Srofield, Shaefi'er, Schindel, Steel, j Thompson, Torney, Welsh, Wright, Yardlev and Cresswell, Speaker— 3l. NAYS—None. In the Senate, on the 30th of March, IS6O, j when certain tariff resolutions were pending, M . Schell offered the above resolution, as an 1 amendment, and the vote was as follows, viz : YEAS—Messrs. Blood, Bell, Craig, Craw ford, Keller, Mars. His. Millet, SCtIELL, ; Schir.Jel, Tnrney and Welsh—ll NAYS—Messrs, Baldwin, Benson, Connell, Finney, Gregg, Hall, Itnbrie, Irish, Ketcham, Landon, McClure, Meredith, Palmei, Parker, Penney, Rutherford, Shaeffer, Smith, Thomp son, Yardiey and Francis,Speaker—21. Every Democrat voted for the resolution, and every Republican voted against (hem. MR. SCKELL'S VOTE ON THE EXTRA-PAY QUESTION. In the State Senate, on tbe 7th of April, 1858, on the motion of Mr. Ely and ity . Bnckalew, j to amend Section 58 of the appropriation bill : by striking out that part which allows extra nay "to members of the pre>ent Legislature," the yeas and nays were required, and were as : follows : YE \S-Messrs. Buckalew, Coffee, Craig, El v j Evans, Fiancis, Harris, Laubacb, SCHELL, Shaeffer, Souther, Steele, Turney, Wright and Welsh, Speaker—ls. NAYS—Messrs. Bell, Brewer, Cresweli,, Fetter, Finney, Gazzam,Gregg, Ingram, Knox, Marvel!is, Mver, Randall, Rutherford, Scofield, , Straub and YVilkins—l6. Again, on the I Hh of April, ISSB, Mr. Schell submitted the following resolution, viz : "Resolved, That the Committee of Confer ' ence, on the pait of the Senate, on the appro priation bill, be requested to insist on striking j out ot said bill the clause which authorizes the | payment of two hundred dollars in addition to the regular pay, to the members of the present Legislature." A motion was made bv Mr. Souther and Mr. | Gazzam (two Republicans) to postpone th Question, together with the further considera lion of the subject, indefinitely. AYES—Messrs. Bell, Cresswell, Fmney, Francis. Gazzam, Gregg, Ingram, Marsellis, j Miller, Mver, Randall, Rutherford, Souther, Steele, Straub, and Wilkins—l7. NAYS—Messrs. Buckalew, Craig, Ely> , Evans. Fetter, Harris, Knox, Laubauch, ' SCHELL. Sc.-field,Shaeffer, Turney, Wiight, and Welsh, Speaker—! L In the Si a e Senate on the first of April, IS6O, on tiie motion to red nee the compensation of members ot Hie Legislature from seven hundred ! dollais, to five hundred dollars per annum, — ' the vote was as follows, viz : YEAS —M-.sis. Baldwin, Brewer, Coffey, i Craig, F.tler, Harris, Keller, Miller, Nune ! inacher, Rut herlord, SCHELL, Scofield, Shaef fer, Schindel,Sieel.-, Thompson)Turney, Welsh j Wright and Yar. le/—2O. i NAYS—Messrs. Francis, Gazzam, Grpgg, j Marsellis, Mver ? Palmer, Paiker, Penney, Ran -1 dall and Cresswell—lo. vm 4. NO. JO.