BEDFORD GAZETTE;
-BElirOiit), £a.-
FRIDAY ::::: JAY. 25, iMil-
B. F. Meyers, Editor and Proprietor
Bedford Classical Institute.
The Second Session of the Scond School yeer of
this Institution, will open on Monday, Feb'y. dth,
1861. No Pupils will be received for Jess than two
quarters, or one Session.
JOHN LYON,
Bedford, Jan. 18. 18G0. Principal.
Who are responsible ?
We do not care to discuss, from a political
stand-point, the troubles in which the country is
at present involved. We would fain meet our
friends and neighbors without distinction oi
party, and labor with them harmoniously (or
the peaceful and speedy settlement of all mat
ters pertaining to the existing condition of na
tional ailairs. But the leaders of the so-called
"Republican" party, have determined to make
the doctrine of coercion a party test ; they have
resolved to maintain their party platform at ev
ery hazard, disregarding even that of civil war.
These fac's compel us, as a Democratic editor,
to speak out in regard to the positions which po
litical parties maintained on the question of the
union, before disunion became a fixed and cer
tain fact.
We need but appeal to impartial history, to
show that the Democratic party has always
been the Union party of the country. It was
alwavs, and is now, in'favor of maintaining the
Union, but not as Republicanism proposes, not
by force of arms, not by (he establishment, as
it were, of a military despotism, but by the
faithfui observance of the Constitution, the only
bond of Union, the only tie that binds the sis
ter states together. "The Constitution and the
Union," ha 9 always been the batlle-crv of De
mocracy. Democratic Statesmen North and
South, made the Constitution a common rally
ing-point, and so long as the people rallied
with them, all was well. Hut in an| evil hour j
the people of the North were seduced from the ;
simple political religion of the Constitution.— j
False gods were erected for their worship, and
like the foolish Israelites of old, they fdi down
in shameful idolatry before the golden calf of
Exeter Hall Abolitionism. The Constitution
was violated and set at naught by a majority of
the Northern slates. The Federal laws were
nullified by solemn enactments of the State le
gislatures. The Constitutional rights of the
people ot the South were trampled tinder foot,
and insult upon insult added to the injury thus j
inflicted upon our Southern brethren. All !
this was done and is now justified by the men;
who founded, built up, ar.d are at present stiug- i
gling to maintain, the organization ol the'sec- !
tional Republican party.
This party, as is well [known, was founded •
upon the dogma ot "no more slave States."— j
Nurtured and fed with the rich pabulum of
"bleeding Kansas," it grew rapidly in numbers i
and influence, the whole free-soil and anti-sla
very element ofthe old Whig, as well as of the
Democratic party, gravitating at (once toward!
an organization so congenial. The natural and |
inevitable result was that the once .fraternal
North and South were brought into direct . -■• '
_ .. ii tmivr. in spite ot the
warnings ot the wisest'statesmen of the Repub
lic, in spite of the adjurations of Washington
and the framers of the Constitution, in spite, of
interest, reason, common sense, and patriotism,
and risking the very price of liberty itself, a
majority ot the people of the North were in
duced to give their aid in bringing about this
sectional conflict. We appeal to th* intelli
gence of the reader, is this not true ? Oh !
that we could acquit them of the blame ! Oh !
that they might be able to make the extenua
ting plea, "we did \t in ignorance of the con
sequences !" But they can make no such ex
cuse. They were warned—warned a thou
sand times. Upon (heir heads must be the
consequences. Upon the "Republican" partv
must rest the awful responsibility. The
historian shall write of them, as an answer to
every defence they may attempt,
l Ye kntiv your duty, but ye did it not
Mr. Lincoln opposed to Conciliation.
The New York Tribune, of the 17th inst.,
publishes an editorial so marked as to be con
spicuous,in which it states "authoritatively,that
President LINCOLN is not in favor of making
concessions to the slave power, either preten
ded concession", or real concessions." Upon
this the editor of that mo iel "Republican" sheet,
exclaims, ".Vo Compromise', (hen ! J\'o delu
sive and deluding concessions!" Thus Mr.
LINCOLN, from his high position, sounds the key
note of a coeicive aruf warlike policy to be ta
ken up and repeated by his "Kepubiican" loi
lowers. Can we expect anything but a bloody
termination of the present troubles, should Mr.
Lincoln persist in refusing just and honorable
concessions to the South I Can we expect
peace from the South, when the President elec
ted by the North, proclaims <var ? It is impos
sible. Either Mr.[Lincoln must concede to the
Southern people their Constitutional rights, and
in so doing abandon and repudiate the ultiaism
of the Chicago Platform, or there is an end to
all hope for peace between the sections, an er.d
to every vestige of the sovereignty ot the Gov
ernment, an end to every bond that binds the
Umdn together, and the fair fabric of our once
glorious republic, dissolves into chaos and our
boasted liberty disappears in the long night of a
bloody and barbarous anarchy. Will Mr. Lin
coln dare to persist I
[LF"We have received a report of the pro
ceedings of the Cumberland [Valley Lyceum,
which we will publish with pleasure in our
Dexf. They are unavoidably crowded out this
week.
The Crittenden Amendments In the
U, S. Senate.
A vote was tifcen one *fay* last week, in the
U. S. Senate, on the proposition of Senator
Crittenden to extend the Missouri Compromise
line to California. The vote resulted in the
defeat of the pioposition, evry Republican
Senator voting against it. On motion of Gen.
Cameron, the Senate agreed to re-consider the
question, every Democrat votingpn favor of re
considering, whilst every Republican voted
against it, excepting Gen. Cameron and Mr."
Dixon, of Connecticut. This shows who are
in favor of the Union and who are its enemies.
Local and Miscellaneous.
. .. .Mr. .Nathan McMullen, formerly of this
place, but for the last seven years a citizen ol
California, returned to his old home in Bedford,
on Monday evening last. Mr. McMullen was
a soldier in the war with Mexico, and during
his entire service bote himself as became a
brave man and a true American citizen. His
arrival here was appropriately made an occa
sion of the liveliest congratulation. His old
friends and acquaintance rushed forward to meet
him—the fife and drum sounded forth their notes
of welcome—and amid the shouts and cheers
of the assembled crowd, he was borne to the
home of his boy-iiood. As in a triumphal pro
cession, troops of fiiends escorted him from one
public place to another. First Col. Hafer's was
visited. Here the fife and drum once more
gave out their maitial tones, a song appropriate
to the occasion was sung by some of the boys,
and short speeches v. ere made by Col. J. W.
Tate and B. F. Meyers. The crowd then pro
ceeded to Munshower's f to investigate the oys
ter question. Here the speaking talent of our
borough seemed to have concentrated itself for
the time being, attracted, doubtless, by that
seductive nondescript, the gaping bivalve of the
Eastern Shore. At this place crowd was
entertained by speeches from Messrs. Gaither,
S. H. Tate, Shannon, J. P. Reed, Over, and o
thers. The rejoicing was kept up until a late
hour, but "ye editor" being verv regular in bis
habits, went home bef ire the jollification ended,
and, therefore, "this deponent further saith
not."
....The lecture delivered by the Rev.
Tnornas Heyden, be/ore the Temperance organ
ization, of this place,on Monday evening last,
was of a high order of merit, sustaining fully the
reputation of the venerable lecturer as a sound
thinker and an eloquent orator. We hear it
highly spoken of by all who had the pleasure
of hearing it.
. .. .IMPORTANT IF TRUE !—ALARMING RU
MOR !—lt is reported that the Southern Sece
ders are preparing to capture the Sun, lo [pre
vent his going North. In that event t we shall
have Winter here all Summer.
We occasionally receive communica- j
tions without any known real name attached to
them, with the request to insprt them in our
columns. This we cannot do. We have late
ly received several marriage notices from some
unknown sourcp, which we decline publishing,
because we have no guaranty that they are
j genuine.
| . ..i n re,„ u . i; 30 j Mrs. Elizabeth Mc
j Dowel!, who died in Pittsburg, in Oct ,*18:19,
were brought to this place on Friday of last
week, and interred in the Presbyterian curving
| ground, by the side of her husband, the late
Charles McDowell, Esq.
i ... .Our thanks are due to Messrs. Aslicom
j Shrock, and Sellers, of the House, and Messrs.
j Crawford and Wharton, of the Senate, for pub
' lie documents.
... .A. G. Currin was inaugurated Gover
: nor of this State on the 15th inst. His Iriaugu
| ral Address is moderate in its tone. VVe shall
endeavour to give a synopsis of it next week.
A FEW WORDS FROM A BELL M IN.
B. F. ME VERS Esi).
In your j issue of the JSth
inst., occurs the following paragraph :
"What has become of John Bell in this crisis 7
Perhaps our friend, Dr. Compher, might tell us,
though it seems to us that the Doctor is about as
mute just now. as Mr. Bell."
I am honoured in having my humble name
mentioned in connection, in anv way, with
that of a patriot and statesman, like :the Hon.
John Bell. He has, however, written a con
servative, statesman-like letter, worthy of his
name and fame—but in vain. One of his
humblest followers, I may well be "mute,"
when the vcce ot the leader is unheard, or at
least, unheeded. I have, also. been "mute,"
i because 1 did not wish fo attract public atten
tion, and because I believed that argument
was useless—holding that the Republicans, like
Ephraim, "are joined to their idols," ebonv,
or other, and that, "whom the gods wish to de
stroy, they first make mad."
My fronds, before the Election, had warned
the people, with a prescience little short of
ohrophecy, of the things which have come to
pass. In my circumscribed sphere, and to the
extent of my time and of my humble abilities
I endeavored to remove the delusions und-r
which, I believed, they laboured, and entreat
ed them to pause before it wa; too late. But
the madness of the hour prevailed—the events
predicted have happened ; and it only re
mains for us "to 'bnJe the storm."
I would, however, enjoin my i Republican
friends in the words of Cardinal VVolsey,
wrung from him by his bitter remorse : " '
'•Cromwell ! 1 charge thee, fling awayj ambition ;
By that sin fell the angels ; how pan man then,
The imsge of his maker, hope to win by it 7
Let all the endt thou aim' st at be thy country's,
Fhy GotVt and Truth's," ,
Had 1 but served my (iod with half the zeal *
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have felt me naked to mine enemies."
Better to servo (he cause of our country,
(bar. that of fanaticism and(sectio.ialism, whose'
triumph ends iri revolution and anarchy.
I mav resume this subject hereafter."
' J. COMPHER.
For the Bedford Gazette.
THE "LIVE" VS- THE "DEAD"
MR. EDITOR :
In the perusal of (he "Ga
zette" of the lSlh of January, we notice an ar
ticle entitled '-Dead Tenchtm coming to Life. '
We can but rav that we are glad to hear the
teachers of "Liberty" say that they are taking
steps in the proper direction. We find how
ever, serious objections to the latter part of the
article and iiere lake occasion to reply to it.—
The author seems to agree with us in our trans
actions and sentiments at tiie late "Teachers'
Institute," yet seems to sneer at the idea of our
being called "lioc teachers and why ? Mere
ly because we are pleased to go to the trouble
and expense ol getting up an institute lor the
purpose of mutual improvement and for further
ing the interests of the county iu an education
al point of view.
The author seems to be very confident that
"Liberty will make her mark among the first
in the County," it '.he qualities of the teachers
are to be judged by the condition of the schools.
He i 3 certainly very sanguine, but we are a
fraid it is not from the fact that their schools
are so much better than in all other parts of the
county, but trom his own misconceived idea of
the proper advancement and condition of com
mon schools. The single tact ot their absenting
themselves from the institute is sufficient to
prove that they are not laboring so much for
the improvement of the common schools, nor
for the educational interests of the county, as
they ate for the small pittance of the "almighty
dollar" which they receive. No teacher who
has the welfare of the county and ol his profes
sion at heart, will be afraid of losing a few
days and spending a few dollars lor promoting
the educational interests of said county.
It is tlie desire to have teaching recognized
as a profession, anriit is certainly worthy of such
a title, but so long as teachers will persist in re
maining in comparative ignorance, so long will
teaching and "hack-driving" stand on the same
level. It is this very circumstance of teachers'
laboiing wholly for their own pecuniary inter
ests that keeps the common schools in their now
famishing condition. We perfectly agree with
the County Superintendent in holding the in
stitute where he did, inasmuch as it is the nr.ost
eligible place. The idea of removing our insti
tute to the extreme eastern end of the county
for the purpose of gratifying the whims of a few
teachers, who appear to have as their main ob
ject "twenty dollars a month," is, to say the
least ol it, really absurd.
The late Teachers' Institute was beneficial
to all who felt interest enough in the cause of
popular education to attend ; and we have no
doubt but that it would have been beneficial to
our co-laboreis ot "Liberty" had they been wil
ling to substitute, for the time bping, their own
good, and the good of the county MI an educa
tional sense, for a less noble end.
Respectfully,
KAPPA.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The hope in the
wisdom of the leading men of the nation is 10.,t.
The dark cloud is now broken, and the storm
has burst upon us in all its fury, and the good
eld ship of State is now drifting before the storm
a dismantled and miserable wreck. Our hope
now is in Providence alone, who only is able
to sav to the mountain waves, "Peace! be
still."
The withdrawal of the Senators from Flori
day, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, to-day,
was most impressive. The galleries were crow
ded, and an almost perfect prevailed
during the farewell speeches of the seceding
Senators.
o -T, MaiWj'.v.a tj.iuftTseiy during
his address tendering his resignation.
As Mr. Clay of Alabama spoke, the Senators
ail listened most attentively. He was so exci
ted and nervous, that he could hardly hold in
his hand the paper from which he read.
On the conclusion of the speeches there was
great confusion in the Senate. Several Repub
licans bid the withdrawing Senators stood bye.
They then took their hats and portfolios and
walked out. An immense crowd gathered a
round thetn in one corner of the chamber as
they wnt out.
.Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, has resigned HIP
post as Chairman ot the Committee on Finance
in the Senate, which he has occupied for six
teen years. His reason is that the political
complexion of the majority will soon be chanc
ed. " °
FROM CHARLESTON.
Governor Pickens, sent yesterday, a supply
of fresh provisions to Major Anderson, with his
compliments. The Major, however, refused
to receive it, but returned thanks for the court
esy, and stated that hp would decline to receive
anything until he knew what course the Gov
ernment at Washington intended to order.
A salute of live guns was fired on Saturday
for tiie seceding States. The secession of Geor
gia has had a happy effect, but there has been
no demonstration on account of if.
The Blusterers Snubbed-
Alluding to the valorous threats of the coer
cion section of the black-republican party, the
Albany livening Jovmut, whose editor mav
be supposed to know them well, quietly re
minds them of their fondness for words rather
than blows :
"The cheapest and the thinnest kind of pa
triotism is thai which costs nothing. So, too
with that species of courage which, out of dan
ger, vapors and swaggers. Of the army of ab
olitionists who have lor so many years been
teaching war and rapine, (on paper,) not one of
them ever faced their enemy. When heroic
John Brown, acting upon the principles so ma
ny professed, lay in prison awaking execution,
w hat abolitionists went to his rescue ?"
The braggaits who discourse most eloquently
in favor of coercion will keep their precious
bodies out of sight should bullets begin to fly.
the United States forts and arsenals
in Louisiana were seized bv the forces of that
State last Saturday. The was no opposition
exce;t at Baton Rogue, where Major Haskins
in command of two companies of soldiers re
fused at first to surrender. Six companies of
Mate troops were displayed, and after a confer
ence between the Major Jand the Governor the
former gave up the arsenal.
RETIREMENT OF SOUTHERN SENATORS Sen
ators Davis and Brown, of Mississippi; Yuiee
and Mai lory, of Florida ; Clay and Fitzpat
rick, of Alabama; Toombs and Iverson, of
Georgia ; Hammond and Chestnut, of South
Carolina, have retired from the Senate of the
United States.
'•The Star of the West."
A NARRATIVE OS' HER VOYAGE ANL) THE ATTACK
UPON IJER.
I he "Star of the West" has returned to New
York, and landed fier men at Governor's Island.
The messenger sent by Major Anderson has ar
rived in Washington, and the cabinet has had
the subject under consultation.
As this event will doubtless exercise a mark
ed influence on the future of this country, and
may be the first blow in a bloody fratricidal
war, we give below a full descrijtion of the
voyage of the "Star ol the West," the attack
upon her,, Sic., written by a reportei of the
New Yoik Express who was on board tbe ves
sel.
Alter detailing the embarkation of the troops
in strict secrecy from Governor's Island, New
\ irk, no man among tliem knowing two hours
before where he was going, and recounting the
incidents of the voyage to Charleston, which
weie wilhout special interest, the reporter thus
proceeds when the vessel hasariivcd off Char
leston :
I have never seen a finer morning than the
one which dawned upon us. Th • sky was
clear, and the moon, a faint crescenCof .silver,
had just arisen, and the low coast looked like a
dense forest of evergreen. The spires of Char
leston became visible in the approaching day
light, and on the walls ol Sumter we descried
the American flag floating in the breeze. Now
—about six and a half o'clock—we see the
light-house ; and now, too, we discover that
the mysterious light just mentioned was that of
a steamer at our right. Now tbe situation of
the channel is ascertained, and we are under
weigh ; and now the steamer at our right is
burning re<<! and blue lights ; and now she sends
up rockets. There is no mistaking her move
ments ; she is giving the alarm signal to Fort
Moultrie.
On we go ; the soldiers are below with loa
ded muskets, and the officers are ready to giva
the word if there is anything to do. Now it is
broad daylight, and we are making directly in
to the guns ot Fort Mouhrie, whose black
walls were distinctly visible. The steamer at
our right is burning a signal light aft, and is
making all possible headway up jibe harbor.—
Now we discover a red Palmetto flag at our
left on Morris Island, a little village called
Cumming's Point, and apparent!} little more
than a mile from Fori Suinter. "Is it possible
that these fellows have got a battery off here?"
asks one. "No," answers another, "There is
no battery there.''
But there is. It is now a quarter past seven,
and we are about two miles from Forts Sum ter
and Moultrie, which are equi-distant from us,
and, suddenly, whiz-z-z comes a richochet shot
from Morris Island. It plunges into the water
and skips along, but falls short of our steamer.
The line was lorward of our bow, and was, ol
course, an invitation to stop. But we are not
ready to accept the proffered hospitality, and
the Captain pays no attention to it, except to
run up the stars and stripes at the misthead
the garrison flag mentioned before. A moment
of anxious suspense, and bang ! goes a heavy
cannon jlrom the same masked battery. The
shot short of us a hundred yards or more,
and bflnds clean over our vessel alt, nearly on
a line with the head of a sailor, but luckily, a
little above it. On we go, and whiz-z-z again
goes tl e smaller gun first fired, and a richochet
shot skips along the water and falls short of us.
"Booh !'' exclaims the Captain ; "you must
give us bigger guns than that boys, or you cao-
I oot hurt us." !
On tve go without heeding the complements
;of our Charleston friends. Another moment
i and bang ! again goes the heavy gun. The ball
now strikes our ship in the fore chains, about
two feet above the water. A seaman was hol
ding the lead to take the soundings,|and the ball
fortunately, was too far spent 'ogo through the
side of (lie vessel, although it left an honorable
scar. The bath ry continues to play upon nS
and a huge ball comes clean over us near the
vvhpeihouse. We are not yet within range of
the guns of Fort Moultrie, and vonder is a cut
ter in low of a steamboat, preparing to open
fire upon us. A moment longer and we shall
be in range of these three batteries. The gun
ners on Morris Island are growing confident; if
they get the right range they will send a shot
through our siue, scattering death and destruc
tion. Moultrie, directly in front, will briu"
her heavy guns to bear, and will drive their
deadly missiles into our bow, while the cutter
will op"n on our right.
"Helm out of port !" shouts the captain and
the Star of the VVest is turned about without
any trreat lo3s of time, as you may well imagine.
We turn without accident and stearn away,
with the stars and stripes still floating, and the
battery still playing upon us byway of a part
ing salute. As we steam"away, the steamer
near Moultrie, paving the hostile cutter in tow,
steams away into Swash channel, evidently
with the intention of cutting o'l our retreat; but
she soon abandons the chase and we sail out,
without a man killed or wounded, with our
stores unharmed, and proceed unmolested, prob
ably on our homeward journey.
.'Vo one on board displayed any symptoms of
fear. Captain M'Gowan and the pilot, Mr.
Brewer, were probably especial marks for the
Morris Island battery, since a good shot through
the wheel house would have been most disas
trous. The soldiers, although two-thirds of
them were recruits, appeared to be quite indif
ferent to the music, while the officers agreed
that it was scandalous that thev could not fi.-ht
back.
Ihe military men on board highly compli
mented the South Carolinians on their shootin®
in this first attempt.— I'liey say it was well done
—that all wnich was needed was a little bet
ter range, which they probably could have ob
tained in a few minutes. Their line was per
fect ; and the opinion is expressed that some
one had charge of the guns who understood his
business. "It was very good spoit for them,"
remarked one of our officers, to shoot at us
and there was nothing to trouble them. They
had it all their own way. But when Uncle
Sam gets a man-of-war in the channel, throw
ing shells into that sand-hill, they will learn
! the difference." Two guns were employed;
the smaller, it is believed, a twelve
and the larger a thirty two pounder. This|
however, is only conjecture. Whatever their
size, they were well manned. They were fired
rapidly and with a will.
One of the officers hazarded a joke soon after
we left the Charleston harbor. "The people of
Charleston," he remarked, "pride themselves
upon their hospitality ; but it exceeds my ex
pectation. They gave us several BALLS before
we landed." It is believed that if the South
V
Carolinians had not made such a mistake, we
would have partaken of their hospitality, what
ever it may be, as prisoners. If the battery on
Morris Island bad waited ten minutes lougei
we would have been completely at their inercv.
It wasociy necessary foi them to wait until
we were within ran-!" of the guns of Fort Moul
trie, and escape would have been impossible.—
So that, had it not been lor this new and unex
pected battery on Morris Island, and its pre
mature filing, we should inevitably have fallen
into the hands of the enemyj it we had escaped
shooting and drowning.
We crossed the Charleston bar, outward
bound, about nine o'clock. There was then a
consultation as to our future movements. The
impossibility of entering the haibor, and land
ing at Fort Suinter, was sufficiently apparent.
We had no instructions except to go to Fort
Sumter, and it was decided that the only thing
to be done was to put back to New York as soon
as possible.
We made Sandy Hook tins (Saturday) morn
ing about daybreak. Tons we concluded a sea
voyage of nearly a week's duration; and al
though the Star of the West failed to fulfil the
mission on which she was despatched, every
one who was oil board feels that everything
was done that could have been done.
From the Valley Spirit, Chamber-bur; Pa.
THE POVERTY OF THE SOUTH.
The poverty and insignificance of the South
is a iruiiful theme lor 'politicians.—
They veiy confidently predict that if she goes
out ol the Union she must starve. This is t;.e
cry of politicians by which they try to deceive
the people, but the business men of the North
know better. They know the wealth ol the
South, and they know, too its importance to
the well-being of the North, sol hence their
great effort to save vie Union and keep lip a
reciprocal trade between the North and the
South. The business men know and feel all
this ; but the politicians are too busv in "grind
ing their axes" to look after the workmen that
are out of employment and their starving fam
ilies. The South can live and get along flour
ishingly without the North—but not so the
North without the South. If the Union is
once dissolved and no trade kept up between
the North and the South, then indeed is the
North in danger ol starvation. Her manufac
tories must stop, and all she depends on for
her wealth and prosperity must go to wreck and
ruin. We are otii v req ured to make a slight
examination ol the statistics of the country
to be convinced of these tacts by the figures.
It we take up the volume of stalistics ol the <
United States we will find that Pennsylvania
has a population of 2,311,789 to provide lor,
and that the total value ol her exports amounts
to but $*,14.8,251. South Carolina has a pop
ulation of 283,583, and the total value of her
exports yearly amounts to the snug sum of
$15,316,573, exceeding that of Peunsylvania
sll ,L 68,337, and a population of 2,028,203
less to feed. These figures clearly indicate the
quarter in which the danger ol starvation ex
ists.
Pennsylvania has an areaol 4-7,000 square
miles of territory, while that ot South Car
| olina amounts to out 25,000. The improved
j land of Pennsylvania is estimated at 8,628,619
I acres and that of South Carolina is set down,
at 4,672,651. Now South Carolina, with one,
halt less of improved land than Pennsylvania,
produces 300,901 bales of Cotton of 300 pounds
each, 159,9-30,613 pounds of rice, 671 hogs
heads of sugar, 15,904 gallons of molasses
20,925 tons of hay, 4,573,968 bushels of po
tatoes, 1,026,900 bushels of beans, 487,233
' pounds of wool, 74,285 pounds of tobacco, 43,-
1 799 bushels of rye, 2,322,154, bushels of oats,
! 16,271,854 bushels of corn, 1,066,277 bu.-hela
1 of wheat, wt.ile her live is valued at $-15,-
!04G,0t5, and that ot slaughtered animals 31
| $3,502,637. The value ot her home-made
i manufactures exceed* that of Pennsylvania to
! the amount of $160,393, Sooth Carolina being
i put down at $909,525 and Pennsylvania at
' but-$749.132. In the State ot South Carolina
there are\S Colleges.2ob Academies, 724 Public
, Schools aad 46 Political, Religious and Scienti
; (ie periodicals with their 55,715 readers. We
need have no apprehensions that a people dis
j playing so mucti intelligence and industry are
j going to starve, the predictions of Northern
j politicians to the contrary notwithstanding I
We might extend our comparison between
the North and the South generally, and the fig
ures would clearly tstablis! the facts that the
latter excels the former in everything that cap |
add to tlie happiness and prosperity ot a peopi • !
We wiif for tiie present, however, only take
the State of Georgia, as she is likely to be the
next to go out of the Union, and undertake to
show that she is not only (he equal ot Pennsyl
vania in her Constitutional rights which theK
publican party deny, but also in ail the ele
ments of wealth and greatness.® Pennsylvania
has an area of 47,00 square miles of tenllory,
with "a soil generally good, and much of it is ot
very superior quality." Georgia has 58,000,
in which is included the salt-marshes which ex
j tend from the ocean, along the whole coast, for
I a distance into the interior of ten or twelve
I miles. Pack ot these marshes commence the
[ Pine-barrens, which reach from 60 to 90 miles
from the coast. Beyond this again is the coun
try ot sand-hills, 30 or 40 miles wide. It is
only what is called the Upper Country, where
!fie soil is strong and fertile, that is generally
cultivated. Georgia has but 6,378,479 acres of
improved land. Pennsylvania has 8,628,619.
Now Georgia, with 2,250,130 acres less of im
proved land than Pennsylvania, raises 500,000
bales of cotton which will buy the wheat crop
of Pennsylvania. Georgia produces 30,080,099
bushels of Corn —Pennsylvania but 19,835,U4.
Georgia raises 7,213.807 bushels of Potatoes
Pennsylvania but 6,032,904 ; Georgia, 1,142-
01! bushels of Beans— Pennsylvania but
231; Georgia raises 2,168,617 Hogs—Penn
sylvania but 1,040,366. Georgia also raises
1,0-88,534 bushels of V\ heat, 53.750 bushels of
Rye, 3,820,44 bushels of Oafs, and 423,921-
pounds ol Tobacco. In addition'to this, Geor
2ia produces, which Pennsylvania does not,
38,950,691 pounds of Rice, 206,150 gallons of
Molasses, 1,642 hhds. of Sugar of 1.000 pounds
each. In her other Agricultural products,
which it is not necessary here to specify, Geor
gia lalls but little behind Pennsylvania in any,
while in most of them she is her equal. In the
progrc ss ol population—we lake the white pop
ulation only from 1820 to 1850, —while Penn
sylvania little more than doubles her popula
tion, Georgia nearly trebles hers. If we take
the town of Harrisburg, the capital of our
State, and compare it wth Augusta, Georgia,
we will find that each place in 1840 nad a pop
ulation ot 6,000. Harrisbuig has increased but
1,350 according to ihe Census of 1850. South
Carolina has 15,684 and Georgia 40,000 white
inhabitants who can neither read or write.
This certainly looks bad ; tot then Pennsylva
nia, with all her boasted lacilities for education
f I beats Ihem both—she hat her 66 goo n
* j over f>! vears of who are i\ ~ person
l fiv ti r> , n 10 ary m the same hH
; i South Carol,na a.,d itT P 7'
1 | >oast thai they e* C ef he r i„ , pr f 0 " (ler
- Sc.enl.fic Journal*. South "ami £?7 ° he ! r
■ ; ent.fic ,>eriofficals with "2,000 S u|c,iw and
' i Oeoreia 4 with 10,000, while P ,
has but 1 with a circulation of only 7'fton"'*
• Sj. much bv way of a comparison V/ZIZ
DEMOCRATIC HON MTWfiT
I " lie Democratic citizens of Bedford county flm i
. a others opposed to the uncompromising, coe'rciv*
( ami war-producing policy of the '-Republican" n.r
ty m regard to the present National difficulties ar
requested to assemble in MASS MEET! Nio
' at the COURT HOUSE, in Bedford, on '
MoXDAV EVENING, FEBRUARY ||||,
> 1 at 7?, oclock.
LKT ALL COME who Etitin the doctrine nt
• President BUCHANAN that this Un.on c.n '
he cemented by the blood of its citizens h e d in
' civi! war!" J ,n
| CUT ALL COME who stand by Senator DOOr
. LAs, when he nobly rings out the cry, u[ j eny
right to make war n order to rega.u possess on of a
; State, in order to em" • the law... lam for peac ,
.I to save the Union. -VAli IS DrSUA'IO.W, C er
, tain and inevitable, final, and rreprcssible '
LET ALL COME, who believe w;rn Senator'
1 CRII TKNDEN, that "unless something io
concession, we will be a separated
i ! pie and especially,
. I LEI'ALL COME who are in favor of t: adon-
I tion of the Crittenden Amendments or a " similar
I peaceful mode of settling the alarming diifjiult.es
' m which our country is at present involved.
G. H. SPANG,
Chairman Dem. Co. Com
Jan. 25th, 3861.
Thk Great Female Medicine.— The functional
irregularities peculiar to the weaker sex, are inva
riably corrected without pain or inconvenience by
i the use of Judson's Mountain Herb Pills. Tbey are
the safest and surest medicine for all the diseases
incidental to lemaies of all ages, and more especial
ly so in this climate.
Ladies who wish to enjoy health should always
have these Pills. No one who ever uses them once
will allow herself to be without them. 'They re
move all obstructions, purify the blood and give
•o the skin that beautiful, clear and healthful look
so great! y admired in a beautiful and healthy wo
man. At certain periods these Pills are an indis
pensable companion. From one to four should he
take n each day, until relief is obtained. A few do
ses occasionally, will keep the system so healthy,,
and the blood so pure, that diseases cannot enter
the body.
Judson's Mountain Herb Pills ar& sold by all
Medicine Dealers.
—.IIA Klt lED
On the 12th of December, by John Smith,
1 Esq., Mr. Jacob H. Kmsey, to Miss Mary L.
fisher, both of Schellsburg borough.
On the evening; of the 31 st ult., by the
Rev. Sam'l. Yiugling, Mr. Josiah M. Oephart,
to Miss Kate E. Waltman, both of Bedford.
At the Friend's Cove parsonage, on the 15th
| inst., by the Rev. C. F. Hoffmeier, Mr. Wil
liam Dielil, to Miss Catherine England, daugh
ter of Mr. Peter England, both of Friend's
cove.
-D I E D
WS \A"\ \VS VVS wawt WN VWX VVO .
MCODEMUS.—A"ear Pattonsville, Morri
son's Cove, on the morning of January the 1 lth r
Sarah Margaret, youngest daughter of Samuel
a:;d Lydia iNicodemus, aged 13 vears, 4 months,
and 19 days.
She retired to her bed in hereusual health,
and was found to be a corpse the next morn
ing. ''What is your life ?"
LIC SALE OF
. VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
The undersigned will offer at public sale, on the
premises on Friday, 15th March, next, his propertv
at the " 1 urn,' one mile below Bed ord, containing
about one hundred a<res This property 13 well and
favorably located—l 3 good land, with 60 acres un
der good fence, and has a water-power on it that is
not surpassed by any in the county. It is at a point
where a grist mill would command the custom of a
large part of Snake Spring Vaiiey, Friend's Cove, the
"Dutch Corner, and Bedford and vicinitv. It lies
on both sides of the turnpixe, where the Riilroad,
when made, must run within a few rods of the mill'
seat. The undersigned feels bound to seil, und a
bargain can be had. Terms : One third in hand,
und the balance in three payments, without interest.
For particulars address Cessna & Shannon, Bedford,
. a., or
W.M. CHENOWETH,
Jan. 25, 1861. Bedford, Pa.
fX EIPiS A.ND EXPENDITURES
t Of I he
( and Bedford Turnpike roaa Compa
ny to r the rear ending Jan. 7tb, I SOI.
b>R- CR.
lo balance at last I By amount ot expen
set'mt, $3,.-385.84. | ses, $4,080.73j
Receipts, 4,951.10. | Dividends paid since
last settlement, 1,276.12£
S. Barnbart's judg
ment and costs 942.68
Managers' pay 350.00
Sec'y. and Treasu
rer, 100,00
Bal. in Treasury, 1,687.70
$8,337.24
Unpaid dividend, $2,133.0"
VV. H. McDO. ;- r T
Jan. 25, 1661. Tre'-eurer.
.Michael Wheeling 1 In Common Pieas of B.
vs - ? ford county, No. 14, Nor
\Term, 4859.
Subpoena on
L;bel for Divorce. The undersigned appointed
Commissioner to take testimony and report facts
fcc., in this case, will attend to the duties of his up!
pointment, at his office in the Borough of Bedford,
on I eb'y. sth, 1801, at which time a'l wishing can
attend.
R.D.BARCLAY,
Jan. Jo, 1861. Commissioner.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
The undersigned ap
pointed Auditor to make distribution of the money
arising from the sale ofthe real estate fof JllO. G.
Liark,|wi!i attend totbeduties of his appointment, on
Wednesday, Feb'y., 6, IS6I, at bis Office in the
Borough of Bedford, at which time all desirin* can
attend. 3
R. D. BARCLAY,
Jan. 25, 1860. Auditor.
px ECUTOITS NOTICE.
Letters testemenlary
upon the estate of James Hinton, of Napier tp.,
dee'd., having been granted the undersigned, notice
is hereby given to tl ose indebted to tne estate
to make irrrn diate payment, and those having
claim* will present them for payment.
SHADRACH HINTO",
of Napier fp.,
J. C. ELY,
of Schellsburg, Ev'ors.
Jan. 25, 1961. .