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