BEDFORD INQUIRER; BEDFORD, Pa. Friday Mo ruin?. DEC 10 ISftS. "FiURLESS AND FREE." O 'EK -Editor ami Proprietor. Cl.OSfc OF TilK VoLL'.ME. —Til® liinth volume of this paper, under our control, will be conclu ded on ihc U4ih of Deer tuber, inst.,aid a new one commenced on the 31>t. The most of -üb etribetV subscriptions commence on the 31st, *r.d to entitle tlieiu to receive the paper at §l.- 50, tb A v most pa)' up old scores, ana in advance, cr $2 00 will be charged, aftet that day. This is. its important to otir patron* as it is c us, and vc hope they will attend to it. THE OFFICIAL MAJORITY IN IJERKS. BEAIINO, Dec. 3.—The Return Judges of the special election met to-day, and the full of ficial vote for member of the Thirty-fifth Coo grtss is a follow?: Win. 11. Keiiu, Auti-Leeouip., 6,156 Joel B. Wanner, Lecoinptoo Delta., 5,687 Holm's majority, 469 Hurrah for old Harks ! The Mortara Affair. This question is now occupying more otten ♦ ioa in Europe aud America tban any other.— j It is one of the utmost importance, and shown j o what length the church of Rome will go to make, and force persons to become proselytes. ! Pope Pius Ninth, who was, ten years ago. look ed upn us a sort of apos lo of liberty iu Eu rope, and the hope of the world, has answered the ucinsuds of the various European govern ments on the subjeet of ihc restitution to his parents of Edgar Mortura, now iu the hands of the inquisition authorities. He toils them that the boy's icstoration to his parents it, impossi ble. A brief statement of this very remarka ble case will scree to put this decision of the bead of the Roman Church in a stronger light, j Edgar MorUra Levi is about seven years old. ! He is the son of Muuiola Mortara Levi, a Jew- j |sh ie*:dent of Bologna. In 1852, when ho was about one year old, he was ill, sod a Ito- j nan Catholic nurse, about fourteen years old, 1 thinking he might die, administered the rite >f baptism, lay baptism, under such circumstances being tolerated and recoguixed as all sufficient : by tbo Roman ecclesiastical authot ities. The child recovered, but the giri kept her secret.— 1 Yet she W33 sensible of the wrung she had done j B deceiving Ucr master and mistress, and com municated her uneasiness to another Roman Catholic woman, expressing gieat regret at the act she had done, and declaring that she would not have done it had she been r.lJtr. The wo man wanted her :o teli tLe matter to a priest, but this she refused, acd the other one then went and communicated the, whole aSatr to a priest. The girl was immediately summoned before the Inquisition, and made to swear to say nothing about the matter. Iu the middle of the night, officers of the Church were sent to tl.o house of Signor MouUra, and to the amazement and grief of the family, the child Edgar was violently carried off, weepiug in ter ror at what was done. He was taken to ltuuic and put m charge of the Catechumens, who ■till retain him. Remarkable storms arc tola of his being a sincere and even an inspired con vert to Christianity, talking words of wisdom and troth very astonishing in a child of seven years. It is even said that be refuses to go back to bis pßreots. Hut oil these reports •ant verification. Indeed, when the boy's father was admitted to eo birn, he is said to Lave wept bitteily and to have begged to be 1- 1 wed to go home. Even it it be uue that the child talks sound Christian doctrine, and evn if be refuses go back lo faiw parents, it may easily be s<*cn bow one ot snob lender years, •eeluded from all other influences for many weeks, eould be trained, cither by tenderness or hv fear, 'o deny, ut only his religion, but his parent* also. Hat leavisg out of the question the wisdom * T the iDolination of the child, snd putting aside also the question of religion, looking einiplj at the Het of parents of a child, it is the most monstrous thing done, under sanction fa civilized government, siuee the worst dins of the Spanish Inquisition. The Papal trov eroruont, in sanctioning the act, fairly presents i# ;lf to the world 3 a kidnapping institution '1 he abdue-ot of the child i< not eitnpiv an ua-Cbtisliau act: it is MI inhuman act, the par allel of whieb is only to be found among cer tain vtild Indian tribes of our Western wilder ness who are in the habit of stealing children from white settler-* on the frontier, and forcibly making them member* of their own communi ty. -•v) long as the eel was only that of euhal fflm* In the Reman Church, auu there was a ebaute of its disavowal by the higher power* und the restoration of the chili to its parent*, H was not quite so bad a* it now s>. The de tTmnatioD of the Pope to *u*taia the Inqui- ion, and not to permit the parcu's to have their child, makes it the boldest wrong perpe trated by any despotism, in this eentnrv r -t lomt. The leading European government.-, jtoUMB Catlolio as Vtjist Protestaiil, tuv, ,(■ naoustratcd with the Popo ou the subject. Iu refusing to listen to them, ami declaring that the boy Edgar Mortara cannot be restored, he sets tbetu alt at defiance, and insults Emperors aud Ivings, as he Las already insulted all hu manity. From a smaller spark than this a great fire hax ofteu hern kindled. It will not be surprising if Europe should yet be convuls ed and thrones shaken,as a consequeuec of the superstitious act of a liouiau servant girl of fourteen ia the year 1852. Among tfie numerous letters read at the Cen tennial adversary, at Pittsburgh, on the 25th ult., we publish that of the President, with the comtnea'sof Col. John \V. Foruey, of ihe Phil tdt I j >hia Press. The !e ; ter is as follows : WASHINGTON, NOV. 22d, 1858. GENTLEMEN I have had the honor to re i ccive your invitation to be present on the 25th , instant, at the Centoiiutal Anniversary of the : capture of Fort Duquesne: and 1 regret tint j the pressure of public affairs, at a period so near : the meeting of Congress rcndeis it impossible that J should enjoy this privilege. Every patriot must rejoice whilst reflecting upon the unparalied progress 1 of our country within the last century. What was, at its com mencement, an obscure fort beycnJ the wes'ern trootior of civs station,b.is now become the centre of si populous coujtijcrct "! and manufacturing | city seuding its productions to large and pros perous sovereign States still further west, whose territories were then a vast unexplored aud silent wilderness. From the etaud point at which we arrived tbo noxious pariot cannot fall, whilst reviewing the past to cast a glance into the future, and to speculate upon what may be the condition of our beloved country, when our posterity shall assemble to celebrate the second C nteauial An iversary of the capture of Fort Duquesue.— Shall our t c/io/e country then compose one united Ditiou more populous, more powerful ! and free than any other that lias ever existed 1 j Or will the confederacy have been rout asunder j and divided into croups of hostile and jealous States f Or may it not be possible that ere the next celebration all the fragments exhausted by internecine conflicts with each other, may have finally reunited and sought refuge under the shelter of one graat overshadowing Despotism 7 These question* will, 1 firmly believe under the Providence of God, be virtually decided by the present generation. We hive reached a crisis when upon their action depends the pres ervation of the Union according to the letter j and spirit of the constitution', and this otme ! gone, ait is iost. J rrgrtt to say that the present omens are j fur from propitious. In the last age of :he Re public it was considered almost treasonable to pronounce the word Disunion. Times have ; changed sadly since and now Disunion is freely i prescribed as the remedy for evanescent evils j real, or immagtnary, which, if left to them selves would speedily vanish away in tb? prog- j less of events. O'ir revolutionary lathers passed awty and the generation next after them, who were iti spifed by their personal counsel and example, hate nearly disappeared. The present genera tion, deprived of these 'igh's must, whether they will or uo, decide the f* of their po.i tecitj. Let tbeiu < herish the Union to the heart of their hearts : let them re-ist every measure which may tend to relax or dissolve its bones, let the citizens of different States culti vate feelings of kindness and forbearance towards each other : and let uli tesolve to transmit it to their descendants iu the form and spit it they hare inherited it from their foiefath er , and all will then be well for our uoatitry in future times. I shall assume the privilege of advancing years in reverence to another growiug and dan gerous evil. In the Lst age, although our fa thers, like ourselves were divided into political parties which often hud severe conflicts with each other, yet we never heard, unul within a recent period, of the employment of money to carry elections. Should tins practice increase until the voters and their representatives in the State and National Legislatures shall become infected, lite fount .io of tree Government will then be poisoned i.t its source, and we must end. as history proves, iu a military despotism. A Democratic Republic, all agree, cannot long survive unless customed by public virtue. When this is corrupted, and the people become venal, there is a cancer at the root of the tree of liberty which will cause it to wither and die. Praying Almighty God, that your remote posterity may continue century alter century, for uge.r yet to come, to celslratc the anniver sary of the capture of Fort DuqueFUs in peiee and prosperity uuder the protecting tanner r>f the Constitution and the Union, 1 remain, very rcapectfuilv, your friend, JAMES BUCHANAN The following are lite comments of the Prese : WHO ARB THE GUILTY MEN 1 Mr. Buchanan, in his recent letter to the Puts burg committee, deplorf' as cue of the greatest evila of the times ;iio use of mcney to influence elections, and predicted that if this terrible practice was not speedily arrested the Repub lic would be destroyed, and a military despotism established upon its rums. Several correspon dents have inquired of us to whom he particu larly referred in these remarks. Can it be lii.s owu office-holders ? Previous to our late elec tions tbero were ''assessments" upon all the employees of the Federal Government, and it was well understood that those who refused to contribute the quota with which tbey were charged would be guillotined. A large amount of money w:.s thus raised, avowedly for elec tioneering purposes. Is Mr. Bucliauan ignorant cf this fact ? Did he see in his own cherished organ, the Union, a few months since, a savage attack upon tbo clerks iu the departments at Washington, because they were not as prompt amd as liberal in their contributions to a fund for the payment of political expenses as Mr. Wendell desired ' Does ho mean .Mr. Cobb, who retains in his department a host of collec tors, nmvsl officers,surveyors, etc., who annually tauke the collection of funds for electioneering purposes one of their most important duties ? Does he meau Mr. Florence, who, beyond all question, u>*de the navy yard and the opportu nities of obtaining the money of the nation which he was enabled to furnish Lis followers there, the great lever of Lis power and influ ence, and whose well-earned laurels us ";he widow's friend" have been won by the money be :s supposed to have given them a ehauee ot car-iing by their labor ' Dees he menu hi* de- BIBFOBB mmrnm. ' voted friends, Owen Jouos and Jehu G. Jones? I Does lie mean Mr. Bigier.or bus our illumina i Senator ever been cognizant of the use of j aioncy for electioneering purposes ? Dees lie 1 mean Postmaster-General Drown, because (lie ! Post-Office printing is parcelled out ><• s to sup j port political presses at the cost of the nation ? i Does he mean the Diiiti it is perfectly well uii itrstood that if they do not commit this offence they will iosu_ their offices ! When our pious President writes another oct uioii would it not be well for him to select sotm' other text 1 THK "MESSAGE. I Congress organized on Monday last and the I Mossago was read. The Presideut leturns j thanks for the geueral prosperity of the couu \ try. Ha is in favor of laising the Taiifl, for revenue, to carry on the expenses of the gov | which, we think, would be tolerably i firotcctivo.' lie is in favor of Cuba, if we can procure it peaceably, but by Liglnyay robbery, jit we can't. He is in favor of a brush -.villi all ! the weal; central and Soufli American govern- | ments, except Brazil, which is the most power ful, and a slave monarchy ! He is opposed to j Kansas coining into the Union until flic has a J population of 93,000, because she would not j I come in as h stovz State with 35,000 ! It is a j most contemptible southern aud auti-republi j cu State paper, and unw rlhy to emanate from I ihc Chief Magistrate of this Uoion. i 'A e may publish it nest week. POOR HOUSE APPOINTMENTS.— the adver lisemeiit, by the Poor Directors. to give out the Mill and Farm, the contractor to support the I paupers, has ended in smoke, as we thought it would, and Win. Diary, present Steward, was re-appointcd. Mr. John .Nelson,of "Tdopewell, was appointed Miller. Several Lids, we on i derstand, were given iu, in accordance to tie advettisemcnt, but tboy were rejectee. ELF"" D. S. UIDDI.K, ESQ. — We feali *tteu fiot' "f the people of Bedford Coct£\ ;o the Caru, in this week's paper, of P. S. Kiddle, Esq., of No. 74. Wall St., New York. We have had business with Litn and found liitii prompt in attcuding to it. Our ft tend* will dc wei! to place their New lork business in hi hauda. tot.. TATE, has two beautiful pictures of the laying of the Atlantic cubic by the Niagara and Agamemnon, which he had ordered from Philadelphia, lie Ins also a geological uian ot the State of Pennsylvania. S.P*~ A considerable number of deer have been killed in this neighborhood since the fal ling of the snow. Wc arc informed that they are mora numerous than they have been for many seasons.— Gazette. It there bad been mote snow, we had soma intention of sleighing some. I ETERSOX s MAGAZINE, for January has tieeu teeeivid. It surpasses all othon of its j former numbers, good as they were. RABBITS.—U c had a nice present of a con- ! pie ot tat Rabbits, some dayr ago. Ojt fiicud bus oar thanks. Mr. Douglas noes not find himself so im- . inetiSidj popular down South as he auticip itcd. j The Mobile Register, one of the most influcu ! tial Administration Journals of the South, re- ] garde hi succor as inevitably fatal to the De- j uiocracy. It says: With Illinois in his hands, with the pres- i tige which his success so far in every part of j bis plau has given him, and wnli the advantage | of a largo popularity wnli the Ni rthweslein j Democracy, Mr. Douglas is in a position to ol- ■ fer the Democratic pany the alternative of a j probable success in the next Presidential dec- i clou, it they will accept the modified platform lie has prepared for them and him as their can- i didale, or of certain defeat and permanent do- I etruction as a party if tlicy do not. There is j ruin to them as a national parly iu either horn j of the dilemma, we believe, but there i? demor- | filiation as well as disaster in one. It the Democratic party accepts bis terms j and thus forfeits its effractor as tbo protocior ' and friend to the South, it will assuredly be re- j padiatcJ, as it should be, by the Southern pco- I pie, and will sink forever iuto au infamous | grave, its refusal to accent bis overture, and j thus to abauduu the cause of the South, will ; inevitably deuatiooatiz-j the party. Its North- ' em ally is altogether lost to ir, except in tiie I oven! that it shall go Nortoward witu fresh sacrifices of Southern rights aud interests. If; it shall not do this, theu it is reduced to the ! limits of the South, and coosigued to a see- j itonal minority which must no longer look to | the possession of the federal government as its dependence for the safety of the principles aud I the defence of the rights which it maintains. tfuch being the present couditiou and pros pects of the Democratic party, as indicated by the results of the reeeut election*, and as con nected with the fortunes of .Mr. Douglas, is there any reason for Southern Demoera-.s to he gratified at the issue of the contest iu Illinois* As one, we would preler that the Democratic patty should be deteaied iu the next Presiden tial election lather thuu that it should win suc cess by :be Mealiest possible further concession 10 the anti-slavery sentiment of the North. VV'e therefore preter defeat to the adoption of .'lr. Douglas as the Democratic candidate for the PiesiUcucy, because thai involves uonccs 'i°u - 1 father than this, we Bay, let the Dcino- OCJ alio party CEOCMUE in its oriianimtion, A it now is in its essential composition, a Southern Sectional party, and let >it stand on our consti tutional rights, and rely cm our own moral and material resource* for the protection of those lights, in the Union if we can—out of it if wo must. MORE BAPTISM OF JEWISH CHIL DREN. A letter, -< Is charged | with the Pochard murder at Caen. You know j that this .„;iu hud several children, the issue of • bis lioson with a woman who, like himself, was i arraigned before the Calvados Court of As- I >izes. Vou will retuembei that Gugciiht-iin was eoudcuiued to imprisonment i.t brd lab. r foi J lift, and his mistress tor a shorter period. "Gugeuhciiii belonged to the Jowisli religion. When be was conducted to the prison at C'aou, his ehtldrcr. were in; ousted by the Prefect, as was bis custom in similar circumstance*, to the city hospital. S.uuo time after they were pia ced in that iustitutioti, they were catechised aud baptized. The Sisters were well pleased wilit tbcui, and the u. riitictits produced testi fy to the good conduct and proper sentiments jof tie, unfortunate children. The Sisters, | therefore, were very desirous of keeping them. '•Mr. Isidore, the Grand il.< hi ot P.,n # uc- I m mdcu theui ot the Prefect ol C iiVafo-,'iii or- Jer to have them brought up in an Israelite es ! tablishmoU'. Tne Pi elect thought it his duty i tofer it to the Minister. A lew days ag, a i very brief aud imperative ordei was despatched ' troui Pari- 1 , to have the Gugenbenij children j put iuto ilie hands of the Grand Rabbi Isidore, j i ilie spiritual head ot the religion ol their pa- j ! icuts, although the latter hui qu.acc, ami the sue e-s of the English aau Colonial arms here, arc matters of written his tory. To us a peculiar interest necessarily attaches to ti el i ter tveut. The Father'of his Country look par'. in the military expeditious here. The sncct ss of the mother country was at that time our own success. The occupation of the dismantled and burning fort was the birth day of our city. At that time it received its bap tismal of Pittsburgh, in honor ot the great statesman under whose auspices the campaign, which resulted in establishing Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the West, was losiitu'cd. A hundred years have passed since these events occurred, and a great and flourishing l commercial city has giowu up around the spot ! where the old fort stood. The astonishing growth of our Western cities is a frequent sub ject of wonder. The contrast between Pitta- | burgh a hun tied years ago is a most remarka ble one. The small frontier settlement is now a uoble city, iu the enjoyment of ail the artso! peac , and the appliances of wealth, of civili zation, and of luxnrv. We are proud of our Iron City. With all the diit anu smoke which surrounds us, her habitatious are tiili-d with true and nobly hearts —her louts, her factories, and workshops are wrought by the hinds of strong and Honest lutn.r, an intelugeut and OnristiiU people worship the Dreat -J who his given us tnese Olesitrgs iu • hundred icuq tea dedicated in his iiaiue ; and arounu us un 1 in our midst on every cine are seen nu!jq*iesue,li ive been contemporaneous with h;s 1 tetiiue. lictore him stood hundreds whom tie imd known in childhood, in youth, in man hood—nay, even iu tha autuum of t. eir days, tor aioutid hiiu we observed many wnose heads were like his own—silvered With honorable years \l hat memories of the past must thrill through ihe patriarchs of the iand ou days like this! \\ iist present pleasure to the bear's of such men as Judge W'llkitii, General Markie, and Dr. iictroOg to regard as they did that day the success and happiness ot a generation ot look upon tbctu with ihe respectful j veneraNm < f chiidrctt to a father ! In a few brief and appropriate remarks, j Judge \\ iikins referred to tne complete success : of the celebration, and spoke tu brief but Aeibm lands; and a few years later in * nv with bis uncle and family, and a'few i*' Tiiends, he made * second tour over verv ?Ct the same vast territory. With health L?' r| J ♦ tally restored, he spent considerable , far ' the Island of Cuba, aud more recently 18 for the sake of bis health, he voluotaril patriated himself for about two ve-r ' Ibe semi-barbarians cf the Sandwich jX I j neir tlio middle of the far off P ac ifi •jd no force resist, nor autidote prevent. What soever he did, whithersoever i.c wandered at home or abroad, ou sea or laud, along his ever* pathway, ut every step, like de.tiuy he pursu d iiim, uutil by this second aud fatal stroke, hi# body returned to du*l, auti Lis "spirit to God who gave it." Ik-rc, indeed, is one of those mysterious and incomprehensible dispensation# ot Providence, which no mortal vision cc comprehend, jQ .] U J human wisdom c m under stand. Endowed with iuteliect far above too,t ot his fellows; adorned by ail the graces which education, a happy temperament aud ucble im pulses could impart; a most exemplary son aud brother; aud fitted, by habits of iudustiy, tni virtuous associations, to honor sud adorn IQ j ?riC-ety, and to m , A LEVI IURDINGER, Dec. 10, fßuS.—f. Extcuior. ~mr • CIAM E to the premises ot the subscriber, living > ia Bedford township, some time in August last, a red and wliito spotted steer, suppose 1 to ke about three \;.irs ol i, a crop oil the left car, and a piece out ol tlio right car. The owner is requesters to come forward, provo property, pav charges, act take him away. CHARLES SMITH. Dec. 10, 1858.-c. tisli iiisK, LOOK TO YOIIKTOIBTS. AND buy yonr goods at the Cesar Stor= of OSIER, MAN SPEAKER A CARN, \A here they have just received their second supply of A Ell' WLVTER GOODS. Embracing a large and well selected Stock of ait kinds ol tioops for the season, and at greatly Rx ut'CED I'bices. They call special attention to th^*r Boot ant) Sh.Te Department, Where you will find a large and varied stock of BOOTS and SHOES, Made expressly to their order, And which thsy wfll sell at the lowest prices. N. B. Produce taken io exchange for Goew. Dec. 3, 1858.-ilia.. d. 8 it mix, l! Formerly of Bedford, Pa. attorney and Counsellor at Law. ■*4, WALL ST. 3,'LW TOBK All business promptly atonic! to. Dec. 3, 1808. 14UKE WHITE LEAD, Flutseodod sad Spirts Turpoutirm at Dr. HArfy** and riesk Btore. August ft, IST.K.