BEDFORD GAZETTE.
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B. F. Meyers, Editor and Proprietor
The President's Position.
We are not of that class of politic! ans wh ; eh
follow blindly in the lead of Administrations or
prominent political leaders. We have always
endeavored to exercise our own judgment, and
to act in accordance with our convictions, in
regard to the issues that from tin.e to time have
divided public opinion. During the late cam
paign we felt it oui duty to dissent from the
course pursued by President Buchanan toward
MR. DOUGLAS, and we did Jnot hesitate, tor a
moment, to speak our mind on the subject and
now, that Ihe President is most wantonly assail
ed for doing what we believe to have been right
and proper in the premises, we shall lend our
feeble aid in his defpnc? as cheerfully as we dis
approved unhesita'ingly ot his position in the
Presidential canvass. We say it, as the sol
emn conviction of our mind, that ihe President
chose the wiser part, when he declined to send
reinforcements to the South Carolina forts at the
time it was urged tipoD him to do so. The de
mand was made at a time when Congressional
Union Committees and caucuses were jbusy at
their work of pacification, when the conserva
tive masses of the Xorth and the South were
busy at their work of putting forth a last ieffort
to redeem the imperilled Union; and when mod
eration, forbearance, conciliation and conces
sion were necessary above all else to effect any
thing for good. Had the President ordered Ihe
reinforcements, blood would surely have bpen
shed, and then all the movements of the friends
of (he Union, would have been worse than use
less, for the whole South would have been in
flamed with the spirit of Secession. As it is,
we may yet hope for a peaceful settlement ol
the difficulties.
The following from the Rockingham (Va.)
Register, a paper which represents the conser
vative and moderate portion of the people of
Virginia, and which supported and fought fori
MR. DOUGLAS to the last, will serve to show
our readers what could have been expected j
from the South, had the President made the i
warlike monstration of sending troops to the
Southern rorts :
"We have not bppr. in the habit, recently, of
praising the President of the United Spates, for
the reason, that we didn't think he deserved to
be praised • but bis (present position and trials
claim for him the sympathies of a great people, j
and his recent conduct entitles him justly to
praise from every liiend of the South and of the
Union, His stern refusal to let the match be
applied to the magazinetin the South, against j
the advice ol Gen. Cass, and Lt.Gen. Winfield j
Scott, entitles him to the praise of the whole j
country. Take Gen. Cass's suggestions, follow
Gen. Scott's advice, and civil war would at
once rage in the heart of our country. No, nek
Whatever other errois has com
mitted, his refusal to send additional re-inforce
ments to Fort Moultrie is not one of them.—
The true line cf policy has been adopted by the
President with respect to South Carolina. Se
ceding States are not to be "coerced" at the
mouth of the Federal cannon and the point of
the Federal bayonet. Let South Carolina alone,
if you wouldn't explode a magazine already al
most in a state of ignition."
Tbe Difference.
The course pursued by Gen. Jackson toward
the Nullifiers of South Carolina, is .frequently
cited, at present, as an example which should
be imitated by the Executive for the settlement
of the existing national difficulties. The ac
tion of Gen. Washington in sending troops into
Pennsylvania to quell the Whiskey Insurrec
tion, is also referred to as a precedent for coer
cion. It should be borne in mind, that iu jbcth
these instances there wpre attempts made to
violate the Federal Laws, whilst in the present
case no law ol the Federal Government has, as
yet, been interfered with by any of the States
that contemplate secession. So long as SPCPS
MOU does not come in conflict with the ma
chinery of Government—in other words, so
long as the seceding Slates suffer (he United
States Laws to be executed within their boun
daries, they are not guilty of any resistance a
gainst the Government, and 'their action is not
punishable under the Constitution. Such se
cession is nothing more than the refusal of the
citizens of the State to take part in the concerns
of the Federal Government, and, certainly, no
sane man would lor a momeni entertain the
idea of compelling the people of a sovereign
State to elect Senators and Members of Con
gress ! The laws of the Northern Sates n ;>u
diating and setting at defiance the Fugitive
Slave Law, and the acts of Northern mobs in
resisting the execution of that law, are parallel
cases with those which happened during the
administrations of Washington and Jackson.
I hese would be f U ldiable oy force of arms, on
the same piinciple upon which Washington put
down the "Whiskey boys," and Jackson the
Nullifiers in South Carolina. But not so with
the Southern States at present. Thev have not
resisted any Federal Law, and, therefore, their
rase bears no similitude to those in question.—
We have pointed out this difference not be
cause we have any desire to palliate the rash
conduct of the Secessionists, but because we
wish none oi our readers to be misinformed in
regard to the great issue which is now shaking
the Union to its very foundation.
A Brief History.
Anti-Slavery-ism was prearhed by the Nortlu
insisted on by the Noilh and made by the North
a basis for the election of a Northern President.
Result The people of the South resented the
hostility of (he North, and South Caiolina has
declared herself independent. Need we com
ment !
The First Infraction of the Laws.
ABOLITION iiior AT PITTSBURG.
There is a well authenticated rumor (hat
Pittsbirrtr was (lie scene, on Monday last, ai the
\first violation of the [Federal IJIWS since the
i beginning of the difficulties with the South.—
i The Secretary of' War navtng ordered the U.
'S. arms deposited at Pittsburg to be removed
I Southward, as the officers charged with the riu
i
| ty o( removing them were about to proceed to
j tneir work, a mob assembled in the street and
|by force and violence seized the arms and re
lused to allow the U. S. officers to take thern
away. This is f/ie first instance of any wctu
al resistance to the IT.l T . S. Government since the
commencement of the secession troubles. —
Would to God it had happened anywhere else
than on the soil of Pennsylvania ! What can
be expected of South Carolina, when the Key
stone of the Arch lias such " rebellious stuff
within her borders 7
Why is hz Silent?
7 he President elect, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, sits
by his fireside, passivp, unmoved and silent as
the grave, whilst fully cognizant ol the fact that
his election has produced a civil commotion
that threatens to upheave the very foundations
ot the Government. Silent he sits in his easy
chair and cracks his jokes and tells his stale an
ecdotes to amuse the office seekers thronging a
round him, whilst the Union >s in the verv
throes of dissolution because ol his position be
fore the country. It is a second Nero fiddling,
whilst another Rome is burning ! Why does
he not speak out ? Why does he not at least
endeavor to do his share to quiet the raging
storm 7 Conservatism and justice to the South,
it recommended from his lips, might be Worth
something in the present emergency.
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. —Tins well
known literary and family newspaper fully re
tains its pristine vigor and excellence. The
'•Post - 'has outlived all its former competitors
for public favor, "The Saturday Courier,"
"Scott s Weekly, and "Neal's Gazette," hav
ing collapsed years ago ; and we have no doubt
that it will yet live to chronicle the decease ol j
many more of its would-be rivals. It is a jour- 1
nal that deserves success, and in order to enable
subscribers to the "Gazette" to obtain it at low
er rates than it can be had in clubs or by any
other means, we offer the "Post" and "Gaz tie"
together, for $2.75 per year, in advance. This
puts the price of the ''Pos>" at 75 cents per an
num, whilst the jrpgular subscription price is
$2.00 per annum, in advance, or $3.00 at the
end of the year. 1 his is certainly an extraor
dinary offer and should be an inducement to all
who desire to take a good literary and family ;
newspaper. The "Post" is published by DEA- |
CON &. PETERSON, 319 Walnut Street, Ptiiladel- j
phia.
ALLEGHENY MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARY.—
We refer our readers to the advertisement ot
this well established institution of learning in
another rolumn. The worthy Principal, Rev.
W.W. Brim, informs U9 that the prospects of j
the school are at present very lair, and that no j
efforts wi li he spared to make it successful. j
i GEN-JACKSON ON INION AND COER
CION.
In (he crisis which now besets this nation,)
the opinions and declarations of the wise and !
great statesman of an earlier period of the Re
public are naturally looked to as lights for the i
guidanceof the present generation. The opin- i
ions of no one have been oftener quoted than j
'hose ot Gen. Jackson. It is appropriate,
therefore, when we hear a Union of foice advo
cated in high places, and advocated, even in the
name of Jacksorqto r.uote from the farewell ad
it ressot that great man a apply
ing directly on this point. (Statesman's Man
ual, vol. 2. pp. 951,952.)
it such a struggle is o nee begun, and the
citizens ol one section of the country arrayed
in arms against those of another, in doubtful
conflict, let the battle result as it mav, tber>-!
will an end of the Union, and with o an end
of the hopes of freedom. The victory ct the
injured would not secure to therr. the blessin -s
ol liberty : it would avenge their wrong-, but
they would themselves share in the common
ruin.
But the Constitution cannot be maintained.;
nor the Union preserved, in opposilion to pub
lic feeling, by the mere exertion of the coer
cive powers confided to the general govern
rnen\ The foundation must be la din the af
fections of the people, in the security it fives
to life, liberty,character, and property, in ev
ery quarter of the country : and in the frater
nal attachment which the citizens of the .sev
eral States bear to one another, as members ol
one political family, mutually contributing to
promote the happiness of each oth*.r. Hence
the citizens of every State should studiously a-!
void everything calculated to wound the sen
sibility or offend the just pride of the people of
other States and they should frown upon any
proceedings within their owe borders likely to
disturb the tranquility of their political breth
ren in other portions of thp Union.
But each State has the unquestionable right
to regulate its own internal concerns accord
ing to its pleasure . and while it does not io
terfere with Die null's of the people of other
Stales,oi the rights ot the Union, every State
must be the sole judge of the measures proper I
to seenje the safety of its citizens and promote f
their happiness ; and all effuts on the part of I
the people of other States to cast odium upon
their institutions, and all measures calculated
to disturb their rights of property, or to put in
jeopardy their peace and internal tranquility. ;
are in direct opposition to tie spirit in which
the [ nion was formed, and must endanger its
safety.
Ec It i< a little singular t ha! people should
inns, on the President strengthening the Sou
thern forts, and yet when his officers undertake
to da so, they are mobbed as they were at Pitts- j
burg.
IT? 3 "Christmas passed off quietly, barring a
"nice little bit uv a row " in the evening.
•i/ 5 *A happy New Year to all our readers.
THE fRIOfI DISSOLVED.
PASSAGE OF THE ORDINANCE OF SE
CESSION BY THE SOUTH CAR
OLINA LEGISLATURE.
Charleston, Dec. 20.—Mr. Rhett's resolu
tion to appoint a committee of thirteen, to pro
vide for the assemblage of a Convention of the
i seceding States, and to form a Constitution, was
; adopted.
Mr. Inglis made the report of the commit tee
to prepare and draft an ordinance proper to be
adopted by the Convention, as follows :
An Ordinance lo dissolve the Union between
the State oj South Carolina and other States
united with her under the compact, entitled
the Constitution of the United Stales of
America.
"We the people ofthe State of South Caroli
j na in Convention, do declare and ordain, and it
is hereby ordained, That the ordinance adopted
by us in convention on the 23d day of May, A.
I). 1788, whereby the Constitution of the TJ
nited States of America was ratified, and also all
acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly
of this State, ratifying the amendments of the
said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that
the Union now subsisting between {South Caro
lina and the other States, under the name of
the United States of America, is hereby dis
solved."
The ordinance was taken up and passed by
a unanimous vote of 196 votes, at a quarter past
one o'clock.
As soon as its passage was known without
the doois ot the convention, it rapidly spread
in the street among the crowd collected, and
was hailed with immense cheering.
Mr. Miles moved that (lie clerk telegraph lo
the members of Congress at Washington imme
diately. Cariied unanimously.
Mr. Desaussure offered a resolution, that the
ordinance be engrossed on parchment, under
the direction of of the Attorney General, and
signed by the President and members this eve
ning, at Institute Hall, and that it be placed a
mong the archives ofthe Stale—the members
proceeding there ir. procession at half-past six
o'clock. t ]
Mr. McGratb said—l think a special matter!
in relation lo the ordinance should be immedi- j
ately considered. To my understanding, there;
is no Collector of the Port nor Postmaster now \
within the limits of South Carolina. What
you have done to day has extinguished the
authority of'every man in South Carolina, de-|
riving Ins authority from the Genera! Govern
ment.'
Mr. Gregg said, after South Carolina has ab
rogated the Constitution of the United States,
are its laws still of force ? 1 think not. Ail
the law- of Congress fall instantly to the ground
on the act of secession.
Mr. Gregg said there is now no law on the !
subject of the collection of duties in South Car- !
olma, now that we have accomplished the woik
ot forty years.
Mr. Hayne said—The -Congress of the Uni
ted States is no longer our Government. It
will he for our Legislature to say what laws of
the United States shall be continued ar.d what
not. The simple act ot secession does no! abro
gateali the laws. We have a great many Jaws
cn the statute hook which were passed by the
Governor and Privy Council.
Mr. Greeg said that the Congrewiooal laws'
for the collection ol revenue are for the support
of the Federal Government at Washington, and
thpse and all the Posi Office laws fall, on our
| dissolution with that Government.
Mr. Mnzyek—There is no duty for the Col
i Uctor ofthe P.<rt to do, and the Post Office is
swept off*. My opinion is, that the piesent
! system of postal, arrangements is a nuisance,
| and the public can be better served by private
: parties between the cities, like in Philadelphia '
and New* York, with a postage of one cent in- !
stead of three, and iess important places ten
cents, or inn re.
\
Mr. Dunkin—lf the ordinance he ratified,
things will go on in the Custom House and
Post office exactly as now, until other arrange
ments arp made by this Convention. There is
nothing in the ordinance to afUct the dignity,
i honor or welfare ofSoutb Carolina. We must
■ keep the wheels of the government going wheth
; er trie Constitution of the United States is or is
i not entirely abrogated by the ordinance. What
|is a legcl tender for the payment of debts? Is
! it not the gold and silver of the United Slates 1
In rase of the clearing and entry of vessels, we I
will be very liable to have the same confisca
ted. •
Mr. Carrol! —The present revenue can be
continued till the act of the Legislature author
ized otherwise.
Mr. Crown—There is* no longer any commu
nication with tiie government from which we
have just separated.
Mr. Duncan—The spirit of the ordinance
temporarily suspends all laws till we treat with
tile General Government.
Mr. Gregg—The President oi the United
States has thrown down the gauntlet in his mes
sage. He has said it : s his duty to collect the
revenue, and he wilitio it. On the one side
the Federal Government claims the right, and
declares its intention to execute the power of
collecting revenue in our purls. On the other
side we have declared we are free. I desire no
compromise. Ji js necessary lo maintain 5-om
fifteen to thirty per cent duties. If these im
posed by It he Congress of the United States
should continue to be levied, oar pt-opie would
sutler a terrible calamity. As for carrying the
mails let the present contracts be assumed by
South Carolina inst°ad of the United States.
Mr. Rhett—This great revolution must go
with as much danger as possible to the country
by making the Federal agents our machinery.
Tlie Federal laws of taxation must not exist o
ver us. We are now contending with the
great principle of taxation. I trust the present
system of taxation has fallen forever.
Air. Barnwell—we {have seceded from the
Unitei!|Btatps and established our independence.
. cannot allow thp i nited States lo exercise
authority over us any more. Let our postal !
convenience be sacrificed i! necessary. Never j
was anything purchased worth having unless at j
some coo-t and sacrifice.
Air. JVlazvek—ln legard lo the mail, all Fed-i
er.i: relatjnn most b° removed. Let us appoint I
our ovvd ofijrtrs. Let the Collector ofthe port!
battle with the difficulties as tliev come.
At 3.40 i*. M., the
Convention took a recess!
to meet at the Institute Hall at til o'clock, for
tlie purpose of signing the ordinance of seces-!
sion.
As the members of tlie Convention ivere lea- j
ving S(. Andrew's Hall, the chimes of *,St. Mi-!
chael's Episcopal Church pealed forth "Auld 5
Lang Syne" and other times.
The Natioual Crisis.
TIMELY COUNSEL.
If, in seeking to give liberty to the negro,
we nave destroyed our own, let us, ut Last,
have enough ol common sense to retrain from
the further egregious folly of slaying each other
for the sake ol that negro, also. It, undervalu
ing the great boon ol our prosperity, we can no
longer consent to enjoy it in common, let us
divide what we possess on the one hand, and
wiial we owe on the other, and preserve our
selves and our families at least from the horrors
ol civil war, and the degradation of financial
discredit. II there arc any among us who are
of a different way ol thinking, we think we can
with some degree of confidence admonish them
that the times are eminently favorable tar the
exercise of discretion, and that for their own
well being and comfort, and for tile Weil being
and comfort of the vast majority of our people,
who are men of peace not men of war, it would
be well to he discreet now, it they were never
discreet, before. Passion must not be permitted
to get the belter ol patriotism, or if patriotism
be dead, passion must not calculate too confi
denily on having its own way. We have sac
rificed already too much for the negro; let
us see to it that we sacrifice nothing mare.
The dictates ol true patriotism and wise
statesmanship are to hold out the olive branch
—to treat the aggrieved Spates, whether in or
out ol the Union, as American brethren and
friends—to bear with them in an amicable and
fraternal spirit—to the end that il the present
Union goes to pieces on the rock of sectional
ism and abolitionism, the several States will
preserve such a spirit towards each other that
they could consistently, alter the sad experience
of a few months, or perhaps years, of unhappy
separation, come together again in a friendly
spirit and form a more perfect Union, with new
guards for the better rexnrily of all.
in case of the dissolution of the present Pi
nion, there could liar liy be a hope tha: a general
convention of delegates irom all the States, now
j elected and held, could agree upon anj thing,
as the convention would be like the Presiden
tial Electoral College—a partisan, sec'.ionai one
unaer the control ol uncompromising anti-sla
very leaders. The great hopes of the future
will depend upon the middle States, free and
slave. N p w \ork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois on the one side, and
North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri on the oth
! er, could farm a confederacy that would defy
j the world in arms, and one that would draw
I the extreme States, North and South into it, as
sure as Rhode Island and South Carolina came
ihto'lhe present Union. Michigan an i New Eng
land cou.'d take then* choice—to go back again
I into a Union with the slave states, or go with
j the fugitive slaves to Canada.— J\ew York Lx
| press.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ?
j A writer in the Buffalo Commercial, 3 Lin
coln paper, makes the following Jcnolession in
regard to the responsibility of the North for the
present crisis :
"L-t the North, especially New England,
remember that for this fearlul resuit they are
primarily and mainly responsible, by their tiea
sonable legislation, by bar-room and pulpit as
saults upon the South, iu which unholy alliance
of things sacred and profane, all epithets ha**e
been exhausted, all sound principle abandoned,
Jtnd*new terms of denunciation and hatred in
dented, irritating at last to madness the excita
ble population of the South, who, for a quarter
of a century, "have had these coals of fire heap
ed upon their heads.
''Let the North and West remember, als**,
j that the necessary subjugation of the seceding
j States will be a victory without honor and cau-
I ses of profit ; that hall a century of prosperity
' will hardly restore the national loss, or heal the
resulting enmities : that commercial distress
and almost universal bankruptcy will clothe
our cities in mourning, and reduce all real es
tate, both in city and country, to half its pres
ent value. Let them restore the integrity of the
Constitution, repeal all treasonable laws, and j
offer the olive branch to their exasperated brp- j
thren at the South. It war must come, let j
them go into this dreadful controversy with
clean hands ; let them purgp themselves of nul
lification before they proceed 10 punish it in
others."'
How it Came to Pass.
In 1850, as is well known to the whole
country, Mr. Clay and Mr. Seward took oppo
site side? on the pending Compromise bills.—
The contest ended in the victory of Clav over
Sew aid, Clayton & Co., by the enactment of ;
the Compromise. The Southern Whig Tariff;
States stood firmly by Henry Clay. (lor. Sew- j
ard, irritahd by this defeat, ar.' having no hope !
of seducing the South from llie ranks of Clay,
who had denounced him as an Abolitionist, i
proclaimed a ceaseless agitation by the North ;
until the country should be arrayed in section- j
al antagonism. His"policy was to kill Clay, by
making slavery the issue, which would drive off
the ei£ht Southern Tariff States from the Whigs
North, and which would secure the junction ol
the Western Free Trade States.
This policy was the only possible hope of
Seward for the Presidency, the South having
thrown him off irrevocably. He has played
his game well and boldly, and by the aid ofthe
McMichaels, who were with him in opposition
to Clay, he has been enabled to seduce Penn
sylvania from companionship with Southern
Tariff Slates, and throw her into the embrace of
the inexorable Free Trade States.
Ttie whole matter, which has now culmina
ted in the most imminent peril of dissolution, is
the result of a cold blooded conspiracy of the
Abolition wing of the Whig party, beaten by
Clav in 1850, to swop off the Southern \ "big
States, which were true to Clay, for Northern
free'trade'States expected to be true to Sew- I
ard.
True it is that lite fruit of all his labors fum
ed to ashes on is lips, and lie has the consola
tion of reflecting, that for ten years he has been
indefatigable in the wori of a conspiracy to con
vulse his country in dissolution, and all for the
benefit of a man who joined the nefarious pro
ject only at the eleventh hour, and the addition
al gratification tiiat his defeat was brought about
by a vegetable philosopher, who he himself had
raised from the gutter. He now reaps, as a
just retributive reward, a blasted ambition and
a gnawing conscience. Pennsylwninr,.
TIIE CENSUS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
\V e give b'*low a table showing the popula
tion, number ol dwellings, manufacturing estab
lishments, farms, ;md number of deaths in a
year of Pennsylvania. Jt is our opinion that
j the table is somewhat incorrect, from tlie lac
> thai tlit*totals do not correspond exactly with
the figures ol the counties. \\ c have, iiowev
! er, copied the returns from the most reliable pa
! pers we receive, and have no way of correc
ting what we believe to be blunders :
EASTERN DISTRICT.
sT 9 K •-* c
t- I*3 5
zr cr c
Counties. ; =" a
a
j * y? ** i
| Adams 27,997 494 189 5,012
Beiks 94,043 1,254 647 16,451
• Bucks 63,803 713 573 14 980
J Carbon 21,239 236 94 3,855
; Chester 74,749 884 666 13,776
| Cumberland 40,402 533 318 7,29.8
Datipuin 48,640 466 324 8,226
I Delaware 30,614 373 207 5,546
Franklin 42,242 447 325 7,575
Lancaster 110,621 1,259 985 20,521
; Lebanon 30,030 310 220 5,876
jLdiigh 43,932 6b5 464 7,748
| Monioe 16,805 164 81 2,829
J Montgomery 70,494 706 609 12,380
j Northampton 47,775 380 251 8,954
Philadelphia 568,034 6,099 4.400 89,978
Perry 22,940 216 17* 4,167
Pke 7,350 6 4 43 1.318
Schuylkill 90,173 971 579 16,962
Wayne 32,172 188 336 5,727
York 68,088 820 673 11^723
! Total 1,558,153 10,172 12,159 267,810
i In 1850 1,220,053 197,856
J Increase 333,100 09,984
WESTERN DISTRICT,
| Allegheny 180,074 2,117 1,190 30,320
j Armstrong 36,114 246 103 6,3f6
I Butler 33,753 352 79 6,517
! Beaver 29,321 264 319 5,458
! Bedford 26,803 279 155 3,615
I Blair 27,785 327 132 4,877 i
i Bradford 50,046 394 402 9,486 j
Crawford 49,041 294 230 9,313;
Clarion 25,575 98 J42 1
Columbia 24,603 207 196 4,549 |
j Centre 27,087 127 129 4,574 ;
Clinton 17,722 I<>3 149 3,140 i
Clearfield 18,925 140 114 3,286 !
Cambria 29,313 300 314 5,323
Erie - 49,697 414 383 9,759!
Elk 5,848 55 46 1,0261
! Fayette 40,166 376 151 7,201 i
Fulton 9,140 69 37 1,681 i
i Foiest SB9 13 11 155'
{Greene 24,406 221 78 4,275 j
j Huntingdon 28,167 278 242 4,971 !
Indiana 33,869 362 142 6,109;
■Juniata 16,300 194 154 2,989 1
j Jefierson 18,414 180 117 3.334
t Lycoming 37,560 32 3 429 6,996
Lawrence 23,213 163 69 4,237
Luzerne 91,089 868 389 18,029
Mercer 37,164 379 87 6,859
MifUm 16,378 188 184 3.191'
Montour 13,110 152 86 2 381
McKean 9,000 49 38 1,708
Northumberland 29,052 294 744 5,439
Potter 11,468 106 87 2.215
Somerset 26,920 197 157 4,676
Snyder 15,134 102 81 2,746 (
Sullivan 4,140 51 14 1,045]
Susquehanna 36,66.5 453 273 7,004 j
Tioga 31,-18 195 207 5,940;
Union 14,222 103 50 2,657;
Venango 25,189 152 69 4,543
Washington 47,319 484 334 9,03b j
Wyoming 12,61-4
Warren 19,299 167 216 3,844j
Westmoreland 54,020 465 359 9,787 i
Total 1,3.44,888 12,465 8,556 007 i
'
Population. Dwellings. Man. Est. I
Eastern District 1,553,553 267,810 12,153:
Western District 1,354,883 247,007 8,55 C 1
Total 2,913,441 514,847 20,704 j
No. of Farms.
Eastern District 62,398
Western District 98,525
Total 160,923
BLACK REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY. —DULL
TIMES. —The steamer Traveller will uisoontin- j
ue her trips between this city and .New York,
after Thursday—3nd there will b no morning
boat from New Haven, and no night boat from
New Yo;k, after that time, until further notice.
As an evidence of the complete stagnation of
business, it may be stated that a' 'his season*of
the year tbrre is usually more freight down than
the boats can comfortably manage : but that for
the past week there has hardly been more than
one horse could draw ! Only §la was taken
on the no freight on Monday night, and less j
than three dollars on the down freight on
Tuesday morning! It tells a hard story for
New Haven mechanics, as well as for those on
tiie Northern railroads.— JVew llnven Regis
ter.
THE RESULT TO WESTERN POCKETS.—A co
temporary illustrates the efT-wt of Lincoln's • i
lection out West, by citing the case of or ■
State. The others are as bad, if not worse
ofT:
"Michigan ear? Lincoln 20,000 majority.—
Michigan fins 4,000,000 bushels of wheat to
sell, which before Lincoln's election brought
readily C-3. It now is a drug at 80 cents.
The loss on 4,000,000 at 28 cents per bushel,
amounts to the snug little sum of one million,
one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.—
This fails almost wholly on the farmers. The
same may be said of all the Wheat States."
DEPRESSION .T CONNECTICUT.—A letter from
Stafford says : "Our satinet mills are running
only three quarters lime. This town pr uces
from one-hail to two millior. yards of satinet
per year, besid s one large cassimere, one stock
inet, one cotton, and two cotton warp mills.—
The mill of P. Converse is entire,y closed."
BUSINESS DEPRESSION IN RICHMOND.— We
learn from Richmond, Va., that Messrs. Kent,
Paine & Co., the largest drv goods house in
that city, have discharged all but lour of their
clerks. Messrs. Anderson & Co., proprietors
of th* Trid-gar iron works, have discharged
rrom eight hundred to nine hundred hani'3, and
i retain the rest on only one-half pay. There is
great depression there in all branches of trade.
PUBLIC SALE OF
VALtiItLE REAL ESTATE.
day l ,h
premise.-, the highly improved- and valuable MAN
MON PROPER I'V of L\M.SCOMUI, e,wJ
j 1,.e ,( rsia,, tn Wl .mp, KI ai i County, adjoining thV
to*n oi Newrv. Ibe turnp lk e from Newry to
I liedlord, nuts through the farm from North to South
i divid.ng is into almost equal part*, The saidfaim
j contains nbom 1 :i acres, moie or les>, about 1500 l
! which tin- i leiued, and under good lence ; On
which are creeled a good two-story neatherboar
<led house, almost new, a large name bank bain,
built within <■ few years, with horse snd cow sta'
bles under, wagon sued, corn-crib, hog pen, and
j other out-buildings. There is a lirst-iare well 0 f
' water at the door, and an excellent orchard of
choice fruit on tin premises Poplai Run. a small
j but beautiful stream uf pure water, runs
j the Northern pari oi it close by the barn and hous.
i I lie grain in the ground will also be offered
: sale on that nay, and it the real property is no.
; soli), it will be rented at that time,
| ALSO, at the same time, will be offered for
. saw, a small (arm, containing about 70 acres, more
i or |e.-, about a mile distant Irom Newry, in Free
dom town-hip. being the bouthern part of the Mile
I farm, about .'i() .acres of which is cleared, the bai
( ance woodland, all of which is of an excellent qual-
I ity ol soil, and has a good spring on the premises.
Ihere will also be offered for sale, 011 the same
i <lay, one vacant lot, No 4, fronting on Bed foru
j street, in the town of Newry; aUo, partoi a lot, No
! 2, on the same street, (course 01 the Diamond') on
i which is a Store Room, now in the occupancy of the
j Messrs. Mcintosh, with other improvements ;
ALSO, 5 acres, more or less, of limestone land,
! on the Cnimney Ridge, will be offered, on wbicb'
is elected a Lime-kiln, now in blast, and carried
j on virv succsssfu ly, by the above named er.teipri
j sing lirm. The land contains an exhaustless bed of
limestone, of the very best quality;
ALSO, the undivided hail o( 90 acres, more or
ioss, of unimproved land, in Juniata township , will
be offered for sale at the same time, it is well
I ! imbered, and of a good quality when cleared for
farming purposes. The joint proprietor will alto
| offer his part for sale at the same time.
TERMS will be made known on the day of sale,
' and possession given on the Ist day of April next,
j PETER O'HAGAN,
1 Newry. Dec. 28th '6O. Executor.
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i entitled
GREAT EXPECTATIONS,
: vv iil be commenced. Air. Dickens' Tale w ill
| be richly illustrated by John McLenan, Esq.
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person who remits Four Dollars to
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the best reading of the day, published in a beau
tiful aud attractive style, for a sum
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"OEDFORD RAIL ROAD COMPANY—
A meeting of the Stockholders, of the
Bedford Rail lioa;i company, will be held at the
office ol the ompanv, in Bedford Boroug u , on
Monday, the I 'tl, day 01' January, 1861, between
the bours, ol on: and tha-e o'clock, P. M., for the
purpose oi chosiug a President and twelve Direc
tors for the ensuing year.
JOHN P. REED,
Dec. -Sili 60. Secretary.
& LLEGH ENY MA LF, AND
jA - FEMALE SEMINARY,
EE AI SSS 5 ießi th'ritortf Co., Pa,
REV. U . W. BRIM, A. M., Principal,
Miss A. L. BRIM, Preceptress,
Miss i>.J. BRIM, Teacher on Piano Forte.
This institution, under the supervision of the a
bove named persons, assisted by other competent
I eachcrs, affords a fail course in Mithematics,
Natural sciences, Languages, and Belles Lettres,
in music, Pa nting, Jkc., it gives extended instruc
tion. The next session will commence on Jan. 22,
ISCI. Students admitted at any time. Habits of
health, system, and piomptness , views, moral, so
rial, and dome-tic, are here made prominent ob
jects o! education. That the physical powers, as
well us the mental, may be cultivated—Calisthen
ic exercises are necessary—here the Students
meet ecu day for systematic physical exrcise.
o>}' ) N A ill pay for board, including} fu'-
Onished room-, room rent, fuel and
tuition in corrim on English, per term of eleven
v 'eks. Extras, .t rnodera'e charges, even lesi
'ian "heretofore, or than the circular calls tor.
Students nrepaied-for the highest cuss in col-
For Circulars, or particulars, address
W, W. BRJ.M.
Dec. 21,1860. Rainsbucg, Bedford Co., P.v
k, JURLIC SALE OF VALUABLE REAL
£ ESTATE—
The subscribers will offer at public sale, on /lie
preny, .s, on Friday, the Ub day of January next,
the following valuable real estate, to wit : .
. tract of lar.d si sate in Spaxe Spring township,
Bedford county, containing 76 acres and 20 perch
es of good limestone land, adjoining lands of Maria
H. Croyle, Harcleroad's heirs, Watson's heirs and
others, and known its the "bcott Farm." The
improvements an; a two story log house, log stable
and other out-buildings ; also an excellent orchard
/hereon. About 00 acres o: this land is cleared
and under fence • balance timber.
Sale to commence at 12 o'cl ck, HI., when terms
wil' be made known.
WESLEY HARTZEL,
WILLIAM HARTZEL
Dec 2i, 1860.
RENT
The subscriber offers for rent
j the Ftcre Room known as the "Kerns S/and," im
mediate ly opposite the store of N. Lyons \ Sorrs,
| and lately occupied by J. & J. M. Shoemaker—
ALSO—the Dwelling House at present in the oc
cupancy ofiW. M. Hall, Esq. Application should
oe made soon.
F. C. REAMER.
Tec. 21st.