BEDFORD L\QUI HER
BEDFORD, Pa.
Fi IcJav itlori.tnc. August 20 1859^
"FEMURS \\!> PRIX"
O. OVER—Editor unl Proprietor.
"PEOPLE'S STATE TICKET.
SUPREME JUDGE,
JOII-Y M. READ, of Philadelphia.
CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WM. E. FRAZER, of Fayette.
PEOPLE'S CM TICKET."
COMJBISSS,
EDWARD McPHERSOX, of Adams Co.
ASSEMBLY,
GEO. W. WILLIAMS, of Bedford Co
GEO. G. WALKER, of Somerset Co.
COMMISSIONER,
GIDEON D. TROUT, of St. Clair, tp.
POOR DIRECTOR,
HENRY M. lIOKE, of Snake Spring
AUDITOR,
JAMES CARNELL, of Monroe.
CORONER,
WM SHOWMAN, of Harrison.
~~ P 0 LIT 11A I7E EETI .\ U .
A meeting of those opposed to the present
National and State Administrations, will be
held at the Court House, in Bedford, on the
evening of Tuesday the 31st mst. HOD. Ed
ward McPherson and other eminent speakers
it is expected, will be prescut to address the
meeting.
Bv order of the
Aug. 13. COUNTY COMMITTEE.
A DUN. —Our friends, espcc-i-lly those tsi
deb'ed to us for several years past, are respect
fully and earnestly requested to. call on us in
Court week and pay the amount due us, or at
least part. Those not coming to town can send
the needful with their neighbors who are com
ing. We have about S2OO to raise then, for
paper, rent, &<*., and without this dun is at
tended to, we must stick, that's all.
THE GAZETTE AJfD FREE TRADE.
__ T a,ww.tvlft a " 4
the Gettysburg STar, our down street neighbor
U 'vvers bims.lf as follows:
"It (the paragraph) was intended, we pre
sume, as a reply to aw article of ours, in
which we endeavored to call the attention of
tLo public to the very obvious fact, that alt I,he
evils which periodically prostrate our manufac
turing interests are attributable alone to a pa
per currency, which has no real value and does
not icprcsect things of real value."
A few week* only have elapsed since this
same editor of the Gazette gravely informed
Tie readers that the whole cause of our finan
cial embarrassments, &c., was the failure of
"The Ohio Li r e and Trust Company." We
took occasion at that time to expose end ridi
cule this puerile assortion or pretended discov
ery, and attributed the cause of the country's
distress to the free trade practices of sham de
mocracy, aud referred to the public meetings
of the people, and their similar views on the
same subject. Having no faith in what be had
himself written to deceive his readers, aDd no
doub' ashamed of the ridiculous position he
had assumed, he has now discovered another
soft cause of our "financial embarrassments,''
and with all apparent seriousness informs us
that our whole troubles aro "attributable alone
to a paper currency, which has no real valrn-,
and does not repacsent tilings of real value."
Let us inquire then how it comes that Presi
dent Bjcbanan recommended, and the last
democratic Congress enacted a law authorizing
the i-sue of twenty millions of dollars of pa
per money, and the whole amount IJBS actually
been issued accordingly* if paper money rep
resents no value, and in addition to this, de
a roys our manufacturing interests, is it not in
comprehensible how a professed democratic ad
ministration has issued twenty millions of pa
per money treasury notes, in less than six
months! To us this looks like the avowal of a
determination not only to bre.ik down all our
vast manufacturing interest*, but also to keep
them broken down.
But the Gazette, in its wisdom, further says: !
"The Democratic parly, North ami South,
has always beeu iD favor of a tariff for reve
nue. with incidental protection to home inter
est*, and such is the tariff which has prevailed
sice the organization of the government. But
• f fails i f its object, because of the exc:ss of
paper money, which gives to everything except
gold and silver, n nominal value equal lo double,
or more, of dsital IAIUP, ocoord-.ng to tho in
flation of the time; (.has tendering the provis
ion for protection against manufacturers, who
sell only for gold and silver, inoperative and
void."
Here i* a most admirable definition of a de
niot rs'ic tariff. It meaus anything, or
everything, or nothing, just u you please
to t.ke it. Wo have had the tariffs of
1813 a* a 1828, of 1833, 1842, and 184G; we
have L.d high tariffs and low tariffs, and yet we
tire seriously told thut the above definition in
cludes them nil, for t: such is the iari(f which
tics prevailed since the organization of the
government A
Hut, we are further told, in tho above ex-
tract, th*t the excess of paper money, "gives to
everything, except gold and silver, a nominal
value equal to double, or more, of its real value,
according to the inflation of the tiinps," &c.—
That is paper money has no value, and repre
sents no real value. It has destroyed our man
ufactures, and, worse than all, it has doubled
the prices of everything over their real value.
Farmers, do you hear that 1 You have been
selling your wheal at a dollar per bushel, and
less; and you are now giveu to understand that
this is a "uomiual value," caused by paper
money, whilst the reai value is only fifty cents
per bushel or less; that is, this nominal value
is double or more of the actual value. What
do you think of such democracy as this 1 Pro
duce and wages, and almost everything, also,
have been coming down, down, aud down, un
til the whole country is suffering in conse
quence of it; and yet it seems thoy arc, iu the
opinions of sharn democracy, double what they
ought to be. This is a rofcash of the Buchan
an low wages doctiine, only a little more bold
ly avowed than is usual Iu speaking of wa
ges and prices, Mr. Buchanan, in bis celebra
ted ten cent speech saiJ, (we quote from mem
ory, not having his speech at hand) "reduce
wages to the European standard, and you cov
er the country with benefits aud blessing."—
The Americau laborers, farmers and mechanics
have been deprived of that protection afforded
by the tariff of 1842, and which they ought to
have, and as an inevitable consequence, prices
and wages aro coming down to the "European
standard," and of the "benefits aud blessings"
thus afforded, we arc willing that every tax
payer and voter shall judge for himself.
Tliat Victory.
Our democratic friends in their tribulation
are becoming exceedingly thankful for small
favors. The lion F. P. Blair, Jr , was the
only member of the present Congress, from
Missouri, who hid suTcieut integrity and man
hood eneugb to vote against that political in
iquity called the LeUouipton Constitution. He
spoke and voted against forcing a slave con
stitution upon a free State, iu defhncc of the
wishes of the people. His defeat, therefore,
at the recent election in Missouri, is rogurded
by the minority democracy as a great triumph,
and even the big chiekeu has to be paraded to
give illustration and eclat to the victory. We
regret Mr. Blair's defeat, beeauso lie was an
able champion of the right, yet the victory is
rather a questionable one, after all. Barrett,
the nan elected, is whut is called u Douglass
democrat, and, therefore, opposed to the pres
ent administration on the principal feature of
its policy, and stands with Blair on on the same
™ T ; — JU -r- —
mark, that three candidates ran in the district
—Barrett, the Douglass democrat, Blair, a Re
publican, and BreckioriJge, an American.—
The vote, by this meaus, was split into three
very nearly equal parts. Barrett was elected
by a small maj rity of fraudulent votes, and
his seat is to be contested. The candidate
who gets the certificate of election may not,
therefor?, gel Lis sent, and even if he should,
he goes in by a minority of about 4,000 iu his
district. Our friends in Missouri are now play
ing the fool hy running two tickets instead of
one, like we have been doing in this Slate for
several years past, end the result is defeat, as
in our case. We have quit that nonsense, and
got tired of electing locofoco*, and united upon
one ticket,and toe result will be what it ought
to have teen, and would have been, years ago,
if wise counsels had prevailed. We doubt cot
the defeat of our Missouri friends now will do
them good, and teach them wisdom, aud that
iu 18G0 they will stsud up with an undivided
front, aod sweep ghaut democracy from the
State, as they ought to have done this time,
and might have done, but for their divisions.
By the way, too, there is a set-off to Blair's
defeat, which seems o have been overlooked.
On the same day there was an election for
Congress, in North Carolina, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the appointment of Clingman to
the Senate, and Mr. B. Vance, the American
candidate, was elected over one Avery, who
aspired to be the Democratic successor of
Clingman.
On the same day, too, there was a tremen
dous election in Kansas, on the Lcompton
Cunstituti >n. It is said that the Washington
Union, aud other papers of that iik, have not
heard the returns, but we give them in another
column, for the benefit of all concerned.
The President aud suite, left the Bedford
Springs last Friday moruing, byway of Cum
berland. They were accompanied by two or
throe persons from this place as far as that
place. As the President drinks nothing
stronger than "Old Kye Whiskey," wo un
derstand that a full demijohn of that that Bill
Montgomery procured for the "Old Chief,"
from EDOCL South, accompanied the party,
which "went down" quite plentifully, under
the influence of Presidential smiUs !
In another column will be found the pro
ceedings of the Congressional Conference. Ii
wilt be noen that our Conferees stood by Bed_
ford County throughout. Asa Bedford County
man couid not receive the nomination, we ore
glad the choice fell ou Mr. -Mcpherson, who
is in every way qualified for a seat iq Con
gress.
Oi'it MEETING —We hope the opponents of
the present proflagate aud reckless adminis
tration will attend to the meeting on Tuesday
night of Court week. ED. McPiIERSON Esq.,
our candidate for Congress, and other able
speakers will be on hand.
mmmw
( Extravagance!
IMPORTANT QUERIES?—WiII some of
| our Locofbco friends inform us of tho auiouut
| of indebtedness of the County of Bedfoti?
- How many thousands of doll irs were bor
rowed last Spring?
—How many hundreds of dollars, yearly, J
has beeu paid, in tho last two or three years,
for repairing the Court House and Jail ?
—Why they have, during this whole year,
and in these hard times, a man tinkering about
the public buildiugs ?
—How many hundreds of dollars will these
buildings cost this year up to this time ?
llow many will they cost till the end of
the year ?
—Why they don't stop this unnecessary ex
pense, when there is not a dollar iu the Treas
ury to pay tLe smallest amounts ?
—Whether it is right, because this tiuker a
few years ago turned Locofoco, that he should
be pensioned off the whole county, and be al
lowed his own prices ?
—Whether this work is not altogether un
necessary, and costs double as much us it
ought ?
—And whether Locofocoism is not the cause
of the vast indebtedness of our County and
State, and also tho cause of the present hard
I times?
Please answer, ami let the people know the
truth.
The Atlantic Telegraph.
The Atlantic Telegraph is accomplished !
greatest eveut of the Nineteenth Century
is completed ! Europe and America are united
within speaking distance! Let all the Nations
of the E irth join in songs of praise and give
all the oredit, for the accomplishment of this
Wonder of the Age, to the Great Author of the
Universe!
In this paper we publish the first dispatch,
that of the Queen of Great Rritain to the
President of the United States, and his reply.
The line is now working daily, and may the
wish of the President be realized, that it may
be always regarded as neutral, and never be
interfered with by hostile powers.
Henceforth, daily and hourly, will be the
news between the Old World and the New.—
All important events will be kuowu iu the U.
States whilst they are occurring in Europe.
The nows of this great success is hailed
everywhere with the wildest demonstrations of
joy. Nothing has yet beeu dona by the citi
zens of our place to show their appreciation of
the success of the uoble enterprise. Will the
people of Bedford be behind uearly every other
towu aud village in the country ? Let us
• ——u" w owuro StUUT Ui * JJUI/XV*.
demonstration.
ST K i IGHTOI TISJH!
The last Gazette has mi article, trying to
show that disaffection exists iu the American
party in Philadelphia. That paper publishes
au advei tiscruent from one of the city dailies,
signed by a Mr. Rankin aud Macmul'an, call
ing a meeting of the Straight American party
in opposition to our State ticket. It will be
seen the meeting was anything but harmonious,
and all that was done to the advantage of our
excellent ticket. Hero are the""prOecedings
from the Press, and we hope the Gazette will
i also publish for the benefit of its readers :
ADJOITKNED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN
NOMINATING CONVENTION —TnF. WHOLE
I HIN'O ENDS IN SMOKE. — Pursuant to a pub
lished call, the Straight-out American nomina
ting Convention reassembled at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon in the District Court room.
There were about forty persons present Ot>
; taking the chair, the president made a corteous
speech, expressing the hope that the delibera
tion and action of the body would be quiet and
gentlemanly, and of such a character as to make
none ashamed of the name of American. He
said that nothing would he win ting on bis part
to lead to so desirable a result—even if there
should be a misunderstanding among us.
The secretary, De Xoung, then read the
miuutes of the previous meeting, which were
approved.
Mr. B. ii. Jenkins uiovod to reconsider the
resolutions njecting the People's candidates,
but, as lie had not voted in the affirmative, he
was not competent to make the motion.
Alfred Crist, Esq., who voted in the affirma
tive, moved to reconsider the resolutions re
referred to by Mr. Jenkins, pending which mo
tion the roll was called, and the delegates who
were present took their places within the bar.
A communication was received from several
members of tho American association of the
Twentieth ward, requesting that the Convention
admit to a scat a persou whom they name.
Another communication, purporting to be
from the President of the Twentieth waid as
sociation, was received, containing the creden
tials of five persons as delegates from that
ward.
Motions were made to admit the six persons
nauicd in those two communications as dele
gates.
The Secretary remarked that this would be
giving the Twentieth ward six delegates, wliere
j upon a confused debate arose.
Mr. Q. R. W entz, of the Twentieth ward,
i then made a statement, showing the regularity
of his credentials a fresh lot of which he ex
' hibited.
For the Dext hour or so the Convention was
a scene of ludicrous disorder, nt the close of
which the Tenth ward delegates protested
against the admission of police, and demanded
their credentials, after which they withdrew.
The Seventeenth ward demanded its creden
tials, and withdrew.
The Fourth ward, the Eighteenth ward, the
Ninth ward, the Third ward, the Sixth ward,
the Seventh ward, and one or two other wards,
whose nature we did not cafeh, all withdrew
their credentials, and the majority with
drew.
The Secretary decamped with tho roll and
j minutes, and a committee waited on him on the
State House pavement He returned in about
i fifteen minutes, aud the yeas ftDd nsvs were
1 called on Mr. Crist's morion to rpscind. The
result was as follows:
To rescind the resolution excluding the
People's party, 19
Refusing to reconsider, 18
So the reconsideration was carried. Several
other motions, of all degrees of relevance were
ouade, after which the Presided stated that we
hud met hero to form a distinctive American
ticket. Our purposes bad been in a measure
thwarted by interference, aud be therefore
-junved that this Convention be now declared
dissolved.
The Vice President put the motion, and it
was unanimously agreed to. So ends the great
j Straight-out movement.
Our A'eiv Head.
Our readers will observe that the appearance
of our paper is greatly improved by the ad
dition of a new and beautiful heading. To
-+b-gf>od tasto and liberality of an esteemed
friend, are we indebted for this, as well as
many other acts of kindness.
Col. Win. W. SELLERS, of the "Fulton Re
publican," has been uomiuated for the Legis
lature in the Franklin and Fulton district.—
-Success to you, Col.
Several obituary notices have been unavoid
ably deferred till next week.
COKGRESSIOS tV COIfI'EREXC'E-
D. O. G--hr, of Cbmubersburg, Pres't.
E G. Falmestock, of Adams, Sec'ty.
DELEGATES.
Adams —John Picking, Win. King, E. G.
Fahneetock.
Bedford —Char. W. A-licom, Paul. Sums,
G. W. Householder.
Franklin— David Carson, D. 0. Gehr, Tbad
deus l'oggs.
Fulton —Wiu. Patter-on, Johu C. Fletcher,
R. Austin.
Juniata— Dr. J. P. Stcrrir, A H. Martin,
Orrin Sic wart.
On motion, the Convention proceeded to make
nominations for Congress.
A motion wa3 then unde that the Oonvcn'ion
-adopt the viva voce system.
Mr. B.oggs thru uomiuated David F. Robion,
of Franklin.
Mr. Picking nominated Edward McPherson,
-of Adams.
Mr. Asbcom nominated Francis Jordan of
Dodford.
Mr. Fletcher nominated Dr. S. E. Duffield,
of Fulton.
The Convention then proceeded to ballot,
with tho following result :
Ist Bal. 2nd Dal 3d Bal. 4:h Bal.
P. F. Robison, 3 3 3 3
Ed. McPhcrson, 6 6 6 9
Eruncis Jordan, 3 3 4 3
j Dr. 8 E Driffield, 3 3 2 0
On motion, nomination of Mr. MCPUER
1 SON was made
I Resolved, That the
, terenee be pnbltsiicd iu all the ' r p oli irion pa
j pers of this District.
The best of feeling prevailed, and the Delt
gates from the several Counties gave assurances
of success. The Conference then adjourned.
D. 0. GEIIR, Pres't
E. O. FAHNEBTOCK, Sec'y.
We copy tho folluwiog extract from the Ilar
ri.-burg Keystone. The subject is as applicable
in lledford as it is in Dauphin County.—
Owners of real estate, whose deeds are not yet
recorded, lud Letter make a note of it :
RECORDER. —Mr. Peter Ilunnnel, tho very
efficient and obliging Recorder of our county,
has published a notice of great importance to
all owners, purchasers, or sellers of real -estate.
We learn from it that "by an act of the Legis
lature of Pennsylvania, no title for Ileal Estate
is perfect md secure, unless it bo reoorded
within Six months after its execution , if it be
made within this State; or within Twelve
.Months, if executed out of the State, iu the
office for Recording of Deeds for tbe county
where the lands lie; otherwise, every such
deed or conveyance shall bo adjudged fraudu
lent and void against any subsequent purebaeer
or mortagee for valuable consideration, unless
such deed or conveyance be recorded as afore
said, before the proviug and recording of said
deed or conveyance under which such subse
quent purchaser or mortgagee shall claim.
Maxwell M'Caslin, of Greene county, io this
State, has written a notice of Senator Biglcr's
course in Kansas. 001. M'Caslin is now io
Kansas,and was turned out of office because he
opposed Lecomptou. He says :
"The writer was present at the Kansas land
sales, in Kansas, in June of 1857, and heard
Gov. Walkei and Secretary Statilon, and
others, address an assemblage of people num
bering over a thousand, beard Governor Walk
er iu his speech admonish the people in the
most convincing manner, to a peaceable and
lawful settlement of their troubles by the bal
lot box. He pledged his veracity as atvhonor
able man that they should be protected, and
should have a fair vote upon their Constitution
—and 1 heard him quote the President and
united Cabinet as his authority for makiug the
pledges. The writer also at the same time
heard Governor Bigler in his public speech ex
hort the people to confide iu every promise
which the Governor made them ; that they
should be faithfully cairicd out: 'that he
would be there (at Washington) and see that
it was done.' Indeed, the people lud to infer
from Bigler's expressions that lie had beeu sent
out by the President to assure the people of
Kansas that they should have a fair vote on
their Constitution."
The man who wrote the above was Speaker
of the Senate of Pennsylvania for two succes
sive terms, and was a most eminent Democrat
all bis life.
BEDFORD COUNTY. — JTio American Repub
lican Convention in Bedford County assembled
on Monday, August Ist. The following ticket
was nominated : Assembly—George W. Wil
liams ; Commissioner—Gideon D. Trout; Poor
Director—Henry M. Hoke; Coroner—Wm.
Showman : Auditor—James Carnell. Mr.
Williams is not unknown to-many of our citi
zen". tie is an honest, intelligent, haru work
ing farmer, an active business man, and lias
always been au active and effective anti-Loco
foco. With such a ticket as Messrs. Williams
and Walker, success is certain.— Somerset
Whig.
THE GREAT WORK DoNK
j The Atlantic Telegraph in Operation
THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE TO THE
PRESIDENT.
I'lllL ADKLL'I]IA, AtlgUM 17.
! At übout quarter of five o'clock, this even
j ing, we received news that the Atlantic Cable
was in operation, and that the message of Queen
Victoria might shortly be expected.
The information was doubted by many, but
it has been fully confirmed, and we have the
pleasure ef announcing the great enterprise of
uniting the two continents,
j The following despatch Was received this nf
! ternoon, by the Superintendent of the American
Telegraph Company.
"CYRUS STATION, Newfoundland, /
August 16. )
"To the Director of Ike Amirican Ttic-graph
j Company.
j "Europe end America are united by Tclr-
I graph.
"Glory to God in the Highest, On Earth
' I'eace, Good will toward men.
(Signed) "Directors of the American Tele
' graph Company of Greut Britain."
j This news, we learn, was received in New
I York with firiogof cannon, riuging of bells and
I great demonstrations o F universal joy.
The Queen's Message.
At seven o'clock and five minutes, this even
ing, we received the-messagc of Queen Victoria
as follows :
LONDON, August 16.
"To the Honorable the President of the Uni
ted States :
"The Queen desires to congratulate the
President on the successful completion of this
great iuternatioual work iu which the Queen
has taken the deepest iutercst.
"The Queen is conviuced that the President
will join with her in fervently hoping that the
Electric Cable, which now connects Great
j Btitain with the United S'ate-A, will prove an
| additional link between the nations whose
i friendship is founded upon their common inter
est and reciprocal esteem.
"The Queen has mueh pleasure in thus eoui
-1 municating with the President, and renewing
to him her wishes for the prosperity of the Uni
ted States."
Presidcul Buchanan'* Reply.
This morning the President's reply to the
Queen's Message W3.s received by the President
i of the Telcgtaph Company at Harrisburg, and
| furni.-hed to us immediately upon itsieccptiou
j It is as follows :
WASHINGTON, August 16.
THE PRESIDENT cordially reciprocates the
J congratulations of her Majesty the Queen, on
; the success of the great International Enter
prise accomplished by the science, skill and
indomitable energy of tiie two countries. It is A
triumph more glorious, because more useful,
thn was ever won by the conqueror of the field
of batflo. M A Y the Atlantic Telegraph Com- j
PARWY, unO* R THE MESSING of heaven, prove to be J
a bond of PERPOT QN | P„ ACE AIJ J friendship be
tween the kindrec. NATIONS, and an instrument
destined by divine L'-vidence to diffuse reli
gion, civilization, liberty VJD J AW throughout
the world. In this view WW ROT A )I T H C NA - I
ttons of Christendom SPONTANEOUS unite ID the
declaration that it shall HE forever NE.} RA ] ATJ( ]
: that its communications shall BE held SNIPED J U
the places of their destination in the mi is N f
I hostilities.
t ,,
OL'R C'AKUIDATE TOR CONGRESS.
j The Delegates representing the People's
I Party of the Seventeenth Congressional Pis
: trict, composed of the Counties of Adam*,
] I 1 ranklin, Fulton, Bedford aud Juniata, mot in
| this place yesterday, and put in nomination
J EDWARD .MOI'HERSON, of Adams County, as
| a candidate for Congress.
Mr. MCPIIEUSON, is a perfect gentleman aud
; a scholar. He was educated at Pennsylvania
j College, from which he graduated about the
j year 1848. Mr. MCPHKRSON is one of the
: best aud most fluent and clearhc-aded writers
|on Political Economy in Pennsylvania, and
j his fund of information with regard to the
! Political Histoiyof our country, would make
I him a most useful aud valuable lleprescnative
|of the People on thc floor of Congress, lie
was the author of tLose ably written articles
i wtiich apeared in the Philadelphia Bulletin,
; advocating the Bale of the Public Works of
j Pennsylvania, which were copied so extensively j
Iby tire Opposition JjuTmls of the State. Mr.
' MoPhersou has always been a leading and
formidable opponent of Locofoeoism, and has
done good service in this respect as Editor rf
That he would make a
| fearless, ar. able and worthy Representative—
j one who would be an honor to the District
we firmly believe, aud tberefoie, commend him
i to the warm, zealous and earnest support of
j the Friends of Freedom. We look for his
triumphant election. Mr. REILLY, who will,
doubtless, be his opponent, bus shown,* by Lis
vacillating—ids incouistant and disreputable
course, that he is unworthy to represent, and
thercfoie should not receive the fuithcr suffra
ges of freeman who have the least respect for
themselves or the honor of the District. Theu
let ail uuite in rebuking him, and in giving
McPherson a triumphaut vote next October.—
; Chamber sburg Repository.
WHAT'S THE MATTER NOW! —Wiustou, who
! succeeded the infamous Jones as U. S. Marshal
:of K-.nsas, was removed a little while age,
■ without any assi-n ible cmse, except that he
| w>s supposed to be silly enough to try to do
j his duty impartially between Pro-Slavery and
| Free State men ; and now Calhoun (who has
j done mean things enough to have made him the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency) is
j threatened with official decapitation ! There is
something loose as well as 'rotten in Denmark.'
; Calhoun could not have looked for such treat
j tncnt-after what lie bos done and attempted for
; his party. Or is he to be promoted ? This is
possible. Clark anJ Brockc-tt, the murderers,
have been ; and if Calhoun is not, he w : ll have
a right to attribute his ill treatment to the fact
that be has never yet killed any-body.— Ala.
Eve. Jour.
Three hogs have died iu Georgia from eating
a drunken man's vonjit. It is supposed that
thc liquor killed tbeiu ,
l<ianas Election Returns.
The correspondent of the Mbwuri'iW
crat, writing troiu tlm town of Lawrence •
Kansas on the 4 I, instant, states that owing!"
heavy floods of ram, causing impassible
and roads, election returns had then been r.
ae'folli' w"" II ° n! ' V foUrtee " P rMin . They ar g
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Palmyra
Prairie City __
Big Springs
Centtopolie ''
Franklin g
! Willow Springs g '
Lecomptou 27 toy
Lexington g 8 *
Monticello y
! ( >lji t'ity g i 3
, . . 248 3698
; Later reports, being f ro m Leavenworth to
! the Bth instant, received in part by Telegraph
#how a majority of 6,307 votes against tbJ
Constitution in eleven counties, as follows ■
Atchison, correctly .j of -
Doniphan,
; J lhtlS'Ul, it C) Z. t
Jeffcison,
Leavenworth. < -t'.,
Douglas, i-./
! Fr..fk!iD, ..
: Brown, ~
Brecki.ii i.1g.., ..
; Kifi-v, •• 27
Shawnee, " _7',
I / 52
M-j oity against ;1„ OonstUutim 6307
IHE LEVIATHAN or, more properly, the
j G:eat Lust! ni- i> admitted to he a gigantic
failure. It cost more to lauucL Ler than would
; build a respectable <.te*m ship, and about SSOO
- 000 to tow her into deep water. And now
i that she is afloat, sufficient funds cannot be
j raised—<T have not been—to equip her f,.r her
j projected voyage to Portland. Yet,the building
jof this mammoth ship u.ay not have been m
vain , she may become the instrument, and tl e
only one thai could be found to u-wer tLe
purje.se, o? conn-cling the two continents by
means of a telegr>pbic wire. At least, so
; reasons Professor Morse, whose opinion are en
; tuled to great consideration. lie holds that
a coiled cable cannot be uncoiled without kink
j ing, and that therefore it must be reeled; that
j Vf* 1 ® employed in Lying it quadruple
j the n-ks i f accident, and therefore that one
; ship must be employed.
1 here is but oue vessel that can admit of a
j cable being reeled on it, or that could carry
; the tODtiage of wire necessary for the purpose,
and the Great En-tern is that vessel.
It is not improbable, therefore, that the
j Great Eastern will be selected for the Dext trial,
:if ever that attempt is made. If B he should
; successfully accomplish the greatest enterprise
| of the ceurury, her building will not have been
! va,n - I These fears have proved groundless.)
| AN UNFORTUNATE CASE OF SUICIDE IN S.
lOHK—Ten Cents a Day, or Less. —A young
married womnn, nged twenty years, named
Mary A. Ci.alaD, committed suicide on Monday
night, at tenement house, No. 143 Thompson
street. She married an Italian named Charles
Llialan, a short time ago. He was a carpenter
iby trade, but could get no work, and was suf
! i er, "g- On Monday he looked all day for
employment, in vain, and on returning at night
'to hi-apartments in the sixth story of the
j fcj-'Ove house, he wis informed by his wife that
i |LeN wag nothing to eat. He replied by say
i Ul g, I will go to sea, and you return to
, your■ parol*,i until better times." As ChalaD
put uis hand vi the door to go out, hie wife
I sprang nit of u i n J ow , a „d breaking berback
,on a shutter in the fell dead on the
pavement.
The literary Mr. Foley, of Indiana, dror .
ped by his own party, and has .„ rne d hig #t .
ten Hon to scholarship. It i- said that be is
about opening a grammar school in hW dis
trict. He sticks to it that he would have been
rermuiiuated had not the editors "mucilated the
letter ho rit."
GEN. CAMERON. —The Sunbury American , a
Democrattc paper, publishes extracts from sev
eral p .pers endorsing Gen. CameiOD'a Senato
rtu. career, nd favoring his nomination for the
liesideucy.
NOTICE.
"Centre" Evan. Lutheran Church, 6 miles
north of Scbellsburg, w.il be dedicated to tbo
service of the Triune God, on Sabbath, the
29>h of August inst.
j Conference will meet at said elmreli on Thurf
j day previous. Ja. KUNKKLMAN,
| Paster.
MARRIED.
On the 12th iust., by the Rev. F. Benedict,
I Mr. JOHN WESLEY HARTZEL and Miss MARY
I SMOCSE, both of Snake Spring tp.
: Ou the 3d inst., by L. Bittner, Esq., Mr.
I SAM'L IIOLLES to Miss MARTHA LEHMAN, all
| of Juniata tp.
f AUeution Bedford Hifiomen:
"\7"OU are hereby ordered to appear on
JL parade in Scbellsburg, on FRIDAY,
the 10th day of SEPTEMBER, next, at
10 o'clock, A. M., in summer uniform,
with plume, and 12 rounds of blank cart
BV* order of toe Captain.
IVM. DIBEKT, O. S.
Aug. 13, 185 W.
Executor s Notice.
TVI OTICE is hereby given that Letters Testanian-
J.l tary tiave been granted to the undersigned on
the will of Wnj. Maiken, late ef Bedford Township,
dee'd. All persons indebted to said entste, are no
tified to mako immediate p.vymeut tliose having
claims will present them dulv auth -nticatei for
settlement, ' JOB MANN,
Executor.
i Aug. 20, 1R.i8.-f.
T * Z2 m
1 hereby give notice tiiat I have purchased of An
drew Pec the following articles, to wit: One
Cook Stove and one three year old Cow, and that
I intend to leave them with him during my pleas
ure. JACOB" FEE.
East Providence Tp. I
1 Aug. 20. 1858.-C. J