BEDFORD INQUIRER. BEDFORD. Pa. Friday Morning-. MOV. 19, 1*59. 'TH\ULKSS ANi_)_ YME." H). OVER-Editor and Proprietor. JUDGE BLACK AND THE CANALS. i'he Gazette o{ week before last publishes a long argument <.f Judge Black, purporting to have been delivered before the Supreme Court tif this State, and iu which an attempt is made to show that the law of last session, for the sale of the State Canals to the Sun bury and Erie Railroad Company is unconstitution al. The Gazette poll's the Judge as usual,and expresses a desire to see somebody attempt a reply to his arguments. For our part, we con siJer that it has been so well answered already, that no further reply is needed. The court before which the argument was made, has just ly decided that it has nothing in it, and ruled that the Act of Assembly in question ts alto gether constitutional. This is the best reply we could ask. But it is amazing to see with what reluctance shem democracy parts with the public works. They fight ail laws intended to effect a Rale, and, defeated iu this, they fight tho saics after they have l-een made. In the sale of these woiks they see a stop put to pub lic plunder, and the consequent downfall of the party. Their majority in Cambria county has coino down from 1400 to 500 in two years. Our majority in Blair lias grown in the same time, from a boot 700 to 1200, and .in Hunt ingdon from a brut 300 io 800, aud similar in dieations are seen ell along the lino of public works since their sale. This is a melancholy prospect for Locofocoisnt, and all other plun derers of the State, but we suspect there is no remedy. Tho people have decreed that the works must all be sold, and wo rather guess that neither Judge Black, nor Buchanan and his whole cabinet can prevent it. We hope they will now withhold all further argument, and submit decently to the decree tlia' hns cone forth. Rsviv vls. —There lias been tor the past IPH rly o "ai-y ro•i <wl vl* lulluiutl going on in the Methodist Episcopal Church in this place. Some fifty ot sixty have professed conversion, and the good work still goes < n nightly. A revival like this speaks more in fa vor of the welfare of a town than anything else that can be said. We trust that the good work may continue, until all nre brought under its influence. A revival has been going on for soma time in the Methodist Church at Mount Smith, about 3 miles from Bedford, and is still in pro gression. Many there have Iron brought un der the influeriue of religion. . The next regular meeting of the "Young Men's Christian Association'' will be held in tho Lutheran Church, on Friday evening, the 26th insf, at 64 o'clock. An cs j ny wiil he read by Dr. C. N. Hickok. Subject, "the ne cessity of labor." To be followed by a dis cussion on the same subject by members. Oth er interesting and important business will be transacted. All the members are requested to be present. The public are earnestly snd respectfully invited la attend. A great many complaints have been made to us during the present week, by subscribers at Beys Hill, Yellow Creek, Hopewell, and a number of other post offices in that portion of the County, that their papers did not come there until Monday uni Tuesday of this week. The fault is not ours, as our packages were ail put into the post office at Bedford, on Thursday evening, by 7 4 o'clock. We presume tho fault is in the post office in Bedford. Rev. G. W. Anghir.bangh will preach tho third sermon in course beforo ttie "Young Men's Christian Association," on Sabbath eve ning next, (the 21st iust.l in the M. E. Church. The public arc respectfully invited to attend, Tiie other churches will be closed. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Reed & Minnicb, in to-day's paper, They have received a splendid stock !' Fall and Winter Goods. Call and sea tliem. Wo issue our paper t|ii week in advance of t> ir usual time, iu order that all hands may have un opportunity of keeping Thankgivin" D*v. OUR MEETING. '1 he meeting on Tuesday-night was a large and enthusiastic one. Vv'e will publish the proceedings in onr next. The present is .a thronged Court, but money mat fees are very tb'ht. COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, which we believe to be largest, most flourishing ami most completely organized. the Iron City IVlege, of Pittsburg, Pa —from Hunt's Ahgazine, of October, 1858. The Old Man of (he Sea. When Sinbad the Sailor, in otic of his me morable voyages, was oast ashore us thi solo survivor of tbe wreck of his ship,be saw an old man who begged bis assistance to reach tho op posite shore of a stream, where fruits were plenty and enjoyment abounded. Moved by a feeling of kindness and compassion, Sinbad i complied with the request, the old man moun ted upon his shoulders, aud the stream was forded. When this had been done the old man was politely asked to dismount, but instead of ; doing so, he laughed at the request, and twined his legs so closely around Sinbad's neck that he was almost strangled to death. Day and | night the old man retained this position, weary ; ing tbe vcrv life out of Sinbad, until at length ;he was enticed by the latter to drink wiue, I when Sinbad got rid of his burden by tossing htm from his back, and summarily disposing of hiui. The crew of a friendly vessel, which finally came to his relief, informed him that [ the adversary he had contended with was tbe Old Man of the Sea, who had habitually strangled to death all whose kiud and friendly dispositions had permitted hiui to mount upon j their shoulders. Trie Democratic party, though it has passed through wonderful perils aud vicissitudes, has ! iu the main triumphed, accomplished many : great and glorious results. Its favor was long : and assiduously courted by a Presidential as j pirant, and iu the kindness of its heart, it gratified his wishes in 1856, and c.arriod hint safely iuto the position he had long desired to reach. No oae expected that when that point ' was gained he would fail to cherish its welfare, or that he would repiy its kindness by ingrati tude. But he has done so. He his refused to comply with the just expectations of his supporters. At this moment the raity which sustained him groans in agony beneath tbe heavy harden bo lui3 imposed upon it; its vitality is rapidly oozing away beneath his re | pcated attacks, and if a remedy be not soon i devised there will be but little hope for the | rescue trom utter destruction of the victim of ! Lis tortures. When the Democracy of the Union elected j James Buchanan lie was expected to adhere to the Cincinnati platform and tbe doctrine of Popular Sovereignty. He lias not done so.— And when, from motives of expediency, he re | solved to violate tho pledges of 1856, it was | ut least hoped that ho would not add to the ; unfortunate political effect of this deseition by making a test of his treachery, and punishing those who were faithful. Yet. he did. And ' even a! this moment this policy is persisted in. ! With the whole body of the people of the North protesting against it, with the disasters of the late election to set forth its folly and injustice, with the leading statesmen of the | South almost a unit in their protest against the ! persecution of Douglas and the proscription of ! his friends, the Administration is rcgardlets of all remonstrances, and only answers them by new pressures upon the throat of its victim. In Pennsylvania no serious effort was made ; to get ril of the existing burden, except that i nearly all the can idiates for (JoDgress profess ed a determination to vote for the admission of ><-rM|.aoli'a of tlio provi/ione of the English bill, aud the result is *een in tho elec ! tion of but two out of twenty-fire Congress men. In Indiana and Ohio the effort to ignore | the Administration was much more active and determined, and hence the comparative success of the Democratic Congressional candidates >" ; those States : f-. r, while iu Pennsylvania men ! who were echoes aud creatures of the Union ' were permitted to take the stuuip and villify ; Douglas, in the other States the expression iu ! his favor was universal, and the organ of the ' Administration was everywhere denounced by the Democratic presses and candidates. Siu ! bad was not so much burdened there us here, 1 and hence the difference in the result. What, then, is to be done? Is the party to stagger on, day after d;<y growing more cx | hausted aud weary, wiih the burdeu still upon I is back ? Shall it not rather publicly and j completely cast it off, and be free once more to , enjoy its pristine strength and vigor ? Ad j ministrations have been Tylerized heretofore, ! why not again ? It is a question of solf-pre | servation. The President is the servant, not | the master, of the party : but as long as tho 1 master doe 3 not unequivocally and unmistaka | bly repudiate his agent, he is held responsible j for his acts, and when an agent, with each new day, drags his principal down deeper and deep ! er into the abyss of ruin, there is but one safe 1 course left for him to pursue. Philadelphia I Press ■ The UONJEPREZITEB. — A new Religious Sect in lowa. Some sixty or seventy miles 1 north of Council Bluffs, is the county of Mono- I na, about fifteen miles from tho Missouri River 1 there is a town containing six or seven hundred ; inhabitants, generally known as Preparation. This town is the Zioa of a new body of re ligious enthusiasts who call themselves "Ccm ; jeprezites," and their system cf religious or i ganization "Conjepraziou," the meaning of 1 which term remains to the Gentiles a profound j mystery. I At the bead of tho organization is a man named Charles B. Thompson, who is besides ! the editor of a weekly newspaper called the : Newspaper. This paper is large, well printed, and npou political and general subjects is edit ed with much ability. Of this sheet one or two pages are usuilly devoted to the publication of whit are cailed "open letters" upon religious subjects, ad dressed by Charles 13. Thompson, as follows : "The Chi?/ Apostolic Pastor and Evangeli ; cal Bishop: To all the Elders of Israel, Evan gelical and Travelling Presbyters of tho Ec clesiastical Kingdom, and to Bishops, Presby .' tern, Deacons, and Members of the Conjepre zion, scattered abroad throughout all the world i seudeth groe.'ing." These letters are all dated at "the tower of 1 lie flock," and are most curious specimens of incomprehensible cant, beiug made up of pas sages tom the Bible, extracts from "tho Book of the Law aud Covenant of Israel," and re marks by the "Chief Apostolical Pastor," iu . discriuiitiately mixed up together. From what we are able to learr. from these ; letters, this curious <ect believes ia tbe Bible as the word of God ; but also hold that it is, jis a measure, done away with by new revela tions, made since the year 1848 by "the roico of Buneemy" through the medium of the' Chief Apostolical Btshop." These new revelations arc styled "the Law and Covenants of Israel." Ibe property of (he organization is held in common, and tho earnings are nil thrown into ihc common slock somewhat after the manner BEDFORD mOUIRFR. of the "Shakers." The people ate said to be quiet aud orderly in their deportment moral in their customs, and most devotedly attached to their religion or system <of Lelief. However strange it may appear, this organi zation has during the last year rapidly increas ed from fifty to eight hundred members, aud is still receiving largo accessions to its members. —lowa State Democrat. isir Gore Gusciey. Those persons who wero at a loss to know what this emissary was about when he was uu noouvriug around Washington, last winter, have an opportunity now of gratifying their reasona ble curiosity. Tt will be remembered that Sir Gore was a sort of household companion of tue President, and a centre of attraction to tbe toadies who followed in the train of Mr. Buch anan. Well, the gentleman has turned up at iast, iu a rather startling character, which shows that lie was up to snuff at Washington. A correspondent says: "Tho British government seems disposed to relieve us of any trouble iu asserting the Monroe doctrine, by ordering a fleet down to the waters of Central America as an advance guard to Sir Gore Ouselcy. After eighteen mouths of hob nobhiug at the White House, during all of which time he was in constant aud confidential com munication with his own government, tbe mis stou of Str Gore, always mysterious heretofore, is at length revealed. Ho succeeded in pulling wool over the eyes of our very statute diploma cy mongers and liaviug acquired all he wanted to know, drew out bis stakes, aud parted very affectionately, from his dear friend, Mr. Buch anau. The first notice wo get afterwards is that a British fleet is to be dispatched to Nicaragua under the preienoe of keeping out fillibusters. Well, we f.ltall see that our Monroe doctrine democrats, who are so clamorous against Brit ish influence, while consorting with British agents; making homage to little British titles, without pedigrt-e or property, and adoptiug British policy as against American progress and industry, will swallow this precious pill.— Wo had a sample of the same sort of tactics in thaysase of Sir Henry Bulwer, but the Bour bons who are now in power differ from those whom Talleyrand knew, inasmuch as they for get everything and learn nothing.*' There is one very remarkable indication in the Pennsylvania election. Hitherto, the De mocrats havo carried that State by denying their principles and pledging themselves to measures that they found mean 3 of erasing when the trial came. "Polk, Daiius, and the Tariff of 1842." BuchauaD BreckeinUge and Free Kansas, have been the rallying cries, under which the people of Pennsylvania have been deceived into voting for free trah'c and for the enslavement of Kans-.s. Iu specking of tbe election that was approaching in that Statp, wo did not venture to predict that the means which had so often succeeded would fail now; we did not Jars to set limits to the cred ulity that had been cheated so many HUMS, and that had nover failed to respond to all the de mands made upon it. But it has failed. Tbe same old stories wore repeated; but tbey fell this time upon heedless ears. Tbe Democrats boldly repudi ated tho English bill, although in so doing they knew that they wero repudiating the President, fot he lias made the principle of that bill a test ! question; they everywhere passed resolutions in favor of admitting Kansas as a free.Slate, on li.e same terms that were demanded of her j as a slave Slate. Taking Republican ground ou the Kansas question, they took Whig grouud on the tariff, and declared themselves in favor ot adequate protection to all the suffering in terests of American industry. Mr. Hopkins, 1 who ran on the Democratic ticket in .Mr. Bu chanan a district uiiii in whose election toe j President tcok a wartu personal iuterest, decla red iu favor of admitting Kansas with any pop ulation, and of such u tariff a* would start ev ery furnace in Pennsylvania. For once, the people di 1 not believo them; the memory of old deceptions came up with too much torce; they recalled how Polk aud Dallas supported the tariff of 1842. aud in what way Buchanan supported free Kansas, and they concluded that they would not trust ] to their promises again. Behold the result!— i Providence Journal. WALKER THE FILLIBUSTER. —The Wash-j tngton correspondent of the North American, says of t- JO visit of this notorious individual: "Mr. Filibuster Walker is here, or was yes terday, strutting like a peacock after dinner.— He would be very harmless, if they would on ly let him alone; but being magnified iufo pro portions entirely inconsistent with his little na tivraess, he lias assumed the air of somebody. If, instead of issuing proclamations, the mar-j shal was put upon his back, there woull be less fuss about these buccaneering expeditions than thero has been. With a British police on the waters of Nicaragua, of which the Administra tis now been officially no'ified bv Lord Na pier, there is not much probability that this ad venturer will run his neck into tho halter—as halter it will be, if they ever catch him in Nic aragua again. He has no dread of an Amen-' can police, unless some such officer as Paul ding should bo ou duty, knowing be would cotno home rather as a conqueror than a crimi nal. if men can bo found who are willing to risk their lives under a loader without brains, after the experience of his former foolhardy undertakings, they ought to ho allowed to go, by all means, being only fit food for the bad powder and bad shot at Nicaragua." Couveutioij of Slave Holders. BALTIMORE, NOV. 5. The Eastern shore of Maryland Slavehold er's Convention, Met at Cambridge on Wednes day. Addresses were made on tho subject of Protection to Slave property, and the best uian uer to counteract the operations of the Aboli tionist and their emissaries. On the fsecoud day resolutions wero reported dectariug that free uegroisui and slavery aro incompatible with oaal: other, and should not be permitted longer to exist in their present relations, and calling a general eonvoution of the Slate to meet at Bal timore in June next, to devise some system to bo presented to the Legislature of Maryland for tho better regulation of the negro population of the State. A Committee was appointed to draft an address to tho people, setting forth the grievances under which the Sine Holders of the Eastern shore labor The Vole lor Congressmen in Penn sylvania. There urc people who seemed to be infatuat ed enough Jo suppose that ibc Democracy of Pennsylvania would fight, like Swiss merce naries, in any cause and for any principles t heir loaders might espouse , that they would sus tain Buchanan in 1858 against Popular Sovereignty as cheerfully HH fl.ey sustained hint in 186(3 when he was committed for fair play in Kansas. The officii! returns of the Con gressional vote at our late election will en lighten such individuals, and enable thorn to form a better estimate of Pro honesty and in telligence of the Democracy of this State. In 185G James Buchanan received 230,500 votes, aud a clear majority of 705 over both his com petitors. Tn 1858 the Congressional candi dates who only represented in a modified form the odious features of his policy received but 134 038 votes, and were iu a minority of 73,- 572. In 1856 the Democracy carried fifteen out of the twenty-five Congressional districts at the late election the Lecomptonites were in n minority in every district exoept tin 'Tenth Legion," where Dimniick escaped defeat by a majority of Pss than 1400, by a constituency which has iu former times sent Democratic Representatives to Congress by larger ma jorities than any other district in the U. States. This Congressional vote speaks volumes of the popular al'horrence of LecomptoD tests, "the English bill finality, and the persecution of Douglas. There is no State more devotedly attached to the Democratic patty, for the sake of the party, tbau Pennsylvania, as she has re peatedly shown; and it is this devotion alono which has given even a decent show of strength to the Lceompton Congressional candidates, for many thousands voted for them who totally disapproved of their course, and whose mcutal verdict when they heard of their defeat, was like that of the Western jury—"served theua right."— Phiia. Press. _ THE WASHINGTON UNION.— This paper of Saturday has an article on the tariff, which we quote for the benefit of our neighbor of the Pest. The Union says : "Analyse the cry of protection us you may and it can be reduced to nothing but a cry for "bread" from the federal government. What an idea! Great States, Sovereign States, appealing' i to the federal gov: rnment for "bread!" "Tax the people of the Union," say Massachusetts to the federal government, "to feed my factory op- ! cratives." "Tax the Union,"says Pennsylvania, j "to fa.nl my miners and forgers." "Tax the,' Union,'' say the protectionists iu Yiiginia, "to ! enable our foundries to sustain themselves and j flourish." This is a now commentary upon Vir ginia's doctrine of strict construction and State sovereignty ! CHU a State be sovereign which ! cmsenis to appeal to a foreign government for 1 bread and protection." 'Otis hardly accords with what our neighbor said the other morning about "the democracy" being the only party that could secure us a pre- ; tcctive tariff.— Pitts, Giz. Mr. Bucbatiau has quarreled with the Eogli-h knight, William Gore Ourley. They were very intimate all summer. What the cause of the quarrel is has not transpired.— The Pennayivaniaii, the Philadelphia oegan, j culls Ousley a "fellow" and fays : lfcrc is a fellow engaged in an underhand j sort of work which every man of honor would peremptorily refuse to have anything whatever ! to do with, and which, under certain circum stances, would be vety apt to secure a lmhei 1 around his neck. There is no use in miuciug the fact. In times of war, a job like that cu- ; trusted to Sir William, and attended to by him j at Washington, would be regarded as espionage j siuirdy. And this man who harbored treason 1 to tuis country iu his bosom, wtto should, since | business was known, have been avoided and treated with silent contempt, is pompously es- ! courted through the streets of the Empire City ! by a party of our American fluukeys. What was the President doing when he 'h>r- ! bored* tho Ousleys at Washington, in the White j House, at Bedford Springs and on board the j revenue cutter Harriot Dm-} ' The dealers in jewelry at Moscow arc thus described by Bayard Taylor : In this btiizaar you aro struck by the smooth sallow faces of tbo money-changers, and a cer tain mixture of weakness aud euuning in their expression. You aro tbereforo not surprised when you icarn that they aro all eunuchs. 1 have endeavored, but in vain, to discover the cause of this singular fact. Tho money-chang ers a say tho people, have for centuries past constituted a pocuiar class, or guild. They are very rich, naturally clannish on account of their mutilation, and accept no new member in their body who has rut undergone a like pre paration. As voluntary converts to such a scot must bo vory scarce, tbey would in time become extinct it they did not purchase, at a heavy cost, the sons of poor parents, who are qualified at an age when they neither under stand nor resist their fate. Tho Government has prohibited this practice under very severe penalties, and the vile brotherhood will proba bly soon cea.sc to exist. In addition to the favorable notices of Hon. E. McPIIE&SON, from all quarters, wo publish another from tho Lancaster Examiner : '•Edwaro McPiierso.n, Esq., member elect to the next Congress from the Adams district, spent several days in this city last week, and was cordially received by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Few victories of personal and political friends occurred tbat affords us more pleasure than the suocess o! Mr. Mcpher son. He made a most gallant fight against his Lecompton opponent, Wilson Reilly, aud beat him handsomely. Mr. MoPherson is the young est member in the delegation fiom this State, and likely to be the youngest in the uext Con gress. His constituents may feel proud of their youthful, but able representative. He is em phatically a workingman aud Pennsylvania will have no truer representative in Congress." A very singular circumstance happened to a young lady in Cincinnati a few nights since.— The evening, or rather ail the day previous, she bad been coiuplainiug of a severe pain in the bead and eyes, more particularly the latter.— Judge of ber astonishment and that of her friends to find, the morning following, that du ring the night she had become completely cross eyed. JFFFERSOMANA. —AII doubt and dispute us to (he authorship of the Declaration of Inde pendence ate at cod. It was written by J offer. ; son. He states, in a letter written in 1819, j that it was signed by every member presaii on | the 4tii of July, except Mr.* Dickinson. New York, did not sign till the 15sb : Pennsylvania, stt!! later ; and New Hampshire, by Mr. Thornton, no* till 4th of November. '•The Congressional Journal *st* Mr. Randall, "Speaks of but one signing. Aud we are informed that the paper copy, which be (Jefferson) so repeatedly and particularly meutions as signed on the 4th, is not now in existence.ln his eotemporancous notes, Mr. | Jefferson, according to Randall, says : "The j Declaration thus signed ou the 4ih, on paper, ! was engrossed on parchment, arid signed again jon the 21 of August. Rut," says Mr. Ran | dall, "we think wc have been informed that the engrossed copy of the Declaration was not on \ parchment. Then Mr. Jefferson was mistaken |in that important particular." Mr. Randall asks : "What became of this signed copy ? It was, iu all probability, purposely destroyed when the second copy was made complete." Ren Randolph, the cabinet maker of Phila ; delphia, in whose house Jefferson first lodged, ; made the desk on which the Declaration was vvritteu. 1 hat desk is now in possession of a gentleman ol this city, who married a grand daughter of Mr. Jefferson. The Declaration was written in the house of a Mr. Graaf, a bricklayer, on the south side of Market street, ; between Seventh and Eighth streets, of whom ! Mr. Jefferson hired a parlor aud bed room.-- So says Mr. Jefferson, iu o letter to the Rev. i John Meuse, September 26, 182").— J. ll. Boston Transcript. \\ COLEN CANNON BALLS.—A Russian cor respondent of the Rochester Union, relates the following rneeduti; of the Russian Czar, which shows that not even emperors are exempt from the operation* of sharpers; "iho Emperor Alexander gave a large or- * der for the manufacture of cannon balls to ! some concern at ILlsingfors, a port on the Gulf. I hey completed the order, stacked up j and delivered the balls, received their pay, and i put their money iu their pockets. The Empe- j ror being there one day upon a visit, took it j into his head to inspect the balls. Taking one j up, he discovered that it was exceedingly light j fur iron, and taking cut his knife, scraped it, ; and behold it was a wooden ball painted black, I a* was the entire let. HE caused the arrest of j the swindlers, ahd they wore transported for i life to Siberia. FROM CALIFORNIA. Vv e have overland intelligence from Californ ia to Oct, 9—four days later thau byway of Panama. It is without importance. The Gov ernor has i sued Lis proclamation for a new election in the Sacramento to fill toe vacancy in the State Senate caused by the death of Wra. ' F. Ferguson, Mr. Moloney, the new State! Comptroller, had received his commission and ! taken the oaths, but had not cn'ered upon his | official duties. Tho rainy season had set in.— Arrangements were being made in Sau Francisco to celebrate the event of the arrival of the first Overland Mail from the States. The Frazor I River excitement had entirely subsided, and j the steamers from that region were returning to SHD Francisco loaded witli disappointed mi ners. HON. SIMON CAMERON. 'I he following, from a Roston paper, shows that our distinguished feilow-citizen stands high in other States . HON. SIMON C VMKRON. — Several prominent and influential Opposition journals in N. York and Massachusetts have indicated their prefe rence for Hon. Simon Cameron as the People's candidate for 1860. Mr. C. ct-riainlv occupies, just now, a very comman-it g position as a lead ing Statesman, aud ns Representative of Penn sylvania's interests aud the sentiments of her people in the councils of the nation ; and it is gratifying to see that his talents cud public services ore appreciated by observing citizens i of other States. U?"A young German of Chicago, named I Simon, Bays the Press of that city, committed ' suicide on the 30th ult., in the following strange j manner : He went out into a shed, took a gun, sa-J loading it with water, placed tho muzzle in his month and fired, completely shatfeiiug his head. When found ho was standing in the corner leaning on his gun. The room present ed a terrible appearance, being completely drenched with blood and covered with pieces of head and brains. Ihe cause of ihc suicide is traced to the refusal of Simon's father to per mit him to many the. girl of his choice. DON'T TAKE THEM. —In the November num her of Peterson's Counterfeit Detector, the fol- ' lowing Ranks arc set down as "Doubtful Pcnn- i sylvauia R inks.'" Business men and all others ! should refuse :o receive their notes : Sank of Crawford County . Meadville. Centra! Bank of Pennsylvania,; Hn||i<i.y*- j burg. McKeao County Rank, Smithpoif. Sbamokin Bitk, Sliamokin. Tioga Comity Bank, Tiog*. Warren County Rank, Warren. GOLIATH OF GATH. —The following aoeount of this giunt is extracted from "Malcolm's Bi ble Dictionary;" "Goliath of Gatb WHS eleven feet four inches in height; bis brazen helmet weighed fifteen pounds ; his target or collar af fixed between his shoulder* to defend his neck, about thirty; his spear was twenty-six feet long and weighed fifty pounds, its head weighing thirty-eight; his sword forty; his greaves on bis legs thirty; and his coat of mail, one huudred j and thirty-six! Making in all, two hundred and j twenty-three pounds." SOLITARY BANQUET. —A Cincinnati paper j notices the last solitary banquet of a "last j man's" club in that city. In the cholera sea- j sou of 1532, seven gentlemen agreed to meet j annually, and dine once together as long as i they lived, a bottle of wine to be sealed and drauk in memoriatu by the last survivor. The first re-union was held on the 6th of October, 1833, and on the 6th of October, 18f)8, Dr. Vatnor, solo survivor of tho seven, drauk from ; the botilc, and pledged the six dead friends, i whose empty chairs and empty plates were his ! nulv society it tho last melancholy feast. ! THE SIBERIAN TELEGRAPH PROJECT U . j have heretofore stated that a PROJECT W 7 ' J foot for the establishment of TELEGRAPHIC COM ! mutneatiou between Europe and America j the Russian possessions. A CORRESPONDED, I the New Prussian Grzctte SAVS; From Portland, AT the mou'tl, 0 f ,U , V I ! B R° MOSCOW, is nn.ts, which U not N very great distance I it is considered that in America IH T: ' .en,l ,0 TOGO. The lm e r this project Will be carried into effect \R have reason to believe that the line of TELEJLU from SR Petersburg to Moscow will be exffi ED to Iviachkta, by wLicb means NEW* mi I be received from Pekin in a week.' ShS this be done, all the nations who have relstio with China will be forced to have 7 ™ ! [ this line, as being the shortest MEANS of C.M mqnicatiot). M " It is SAID that the Jewish nation, UUPE—I in almost every portion of the globe WITHOUT foimtcg any where an independent nation nu-,7 bcrs 4,690,000 persons. " "* Ex-Secretary Stanton has become a term, nent resident of Kansas, AND is spoken ~f <7 U 8. Beuator. TIR^N- 6 Journal suggests C T >]. J O | T V FORN <;J AS the anti-National Adminiitr,. tio?! candidate for Governor in IBGO. Hcnan has challenged Morrissey FOR UN->I ; er fight, fur ®5,000 A side, to take nl AC E ; N four R r six months after the firs? deposit. A dog fight took phce mar Louisville, ON Wednesday, fir, §550 aside. A NEW (P leans dog was the winner. MAHRIED. ON the 16TH int-t., by the Rev. U. Hecker- M ""\ MR - WILLIAM J. Smith, of Harrison to Miss ELIEU Moure, of NAPIER tj>. On the 9iii inst., by the same, Mr. John \ Burns aud MHS Ann ADry Rock, both of Hr ristn tp. On tbo 7th inst., by Rov. Mr. Stephen*, Mr. John Shaffer to M : G Margaret Davis, l oth of CV.lerain tp. On Thursday evening, 11th IO;;., s; the ret* idence of the bride's father, by Lemuel Eranr, Esq.. Mr. Andrew 11. Anderson, of BID fori Co., to Mis - Susr.Tl Trout, of H jDtiugdoD Co. On Tuesday eveuing, the 9-h inst., at IB residence of the bride father, by John Smith, Esq., Mr. Alexander Smith to Miss Matt, daughter of J~bn P. Iloover, ali of St. Clxir township. " roiiSzD. In B*. Louis, ou Saturday morning, Novem bcr 6th. EMILY M., wife of William II ?ushW, Jr., apod 31 years. ' LOOK OCT! Www mmsi 4 I,THOUGH the prozpects of tbe Railroad :• 11L not very lluturing, the friends of that enter prise have not jet qait-e despaired of u'timste sue cess. Hoping that the ;cople w ill see that it is nor only to their interest to have the road complete as soon as posjji'ie, Lut that they si sou 11 L--ar is mind that REED &r MI.WYICH Have just received from the city, and arc n# opening out at their Cfc9ap Cash and Produce Store, aw?- assortm- nt ••{ Cowimares. Cloths. Print* bleached and mi bleached Muslins, Ginghams, GROCERIES, Coffee, Sugar, Syrup, extra pulverized Sugar, Cheese, &c., &c. All of which will be soli on the most reisonsb'e term* tor cash or predvg, Nov. 19, 1553. PI US EC NILE MEAL ESTATE. BY virtue of an Order of the Orphans' Court e: Bedford County, the undersigned will offe**i public sale or. the premises, on Saturday fit Ist day of Januaiy, next, the follow ing described real estatr. being i tract of land containing 50 acres or thcro bouts, CO of which are cleared and under fe icc. The improvements are a Grist Mill, Log and/rant Dwelling House, Barn and other out-building!.— There is aiso an orchard thereon. This property is in Londonderry Township, U joiuing lands of Christian Allbright, Jas. M attiugly, John M. Buchanan and others. It is close to the route of the Cannellsvills r*i' road—ln close proximity with Cumberhnd and pre seuts opportunities for a" profitable investment. T'-tn-.s: Cash at confirmation of sale. CHARLES HOYMA.V. J.C. ALLBRIGHT. Adm'ra of the Estate of Sam'l Hoyman, dec'di Nov. 19, 1868.—d. ILLMf MILE AND FEMALE SS Y, Kainsburg, Pa. rjIIIE Summer Term will open August sth, !!> A Term, October 21st, 1868, and Winter Term, Jucu ir lhtii, and Spring Term, April sth, 1M? Circulars, with full particular*, may be had of W. W. BRIM, A. 8., Principal.. X. B. Half the tuition must be paid in Ji ranee. Student*, coming to this institution wif be conveyed from Bedford free of charge, on th I7th of January, by addressing a letter to Mr. Saml Williams, of Kainsburg. June 4, 1858.—zz. CHTIOX! THE undersigned hereby cautions all person' from purcltasing a Note given by me to D. B. SU*- : art, for $l5O,tK) due on the Ist day of April, and benring date the 95th of June, 1857, *a I h*" | not received value for tho same and will not par •' unless compelled by law. THOMAS MCGREGOR St. Clair tp. Nov. 19, 1858.-c.* strayTHLEP, CAME to the residence of tbe subscriber, R'^i l in St. Clair Township, about tbe 2uth of An gust last, six head of Sbeep, with the left ear crop ped, on each—one has a bell ou—no other marks The owner is requested to come fore ward, T 1 "-' 1 ' properly, pay charges and take them away. Nov. 19, 1858,-c. JOHN GEFHAKT. BKUFORDTIADKMF 7 THE Winter session of Berlford Aca<lery *' i commence on Monday next, 22 i, just. G W. AUOIIIKOM'O"' , Nov. 19. 1858
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