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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 Diiit<js of H'inois? Tfiere
has been no body of met: in this country who
; have raised more money to influence elections
j during the last year than Mr. Buchanan's of
; ihe-hoi tiers and particular friends, and no mm
this fact better than himself. His eyas
were pierchg enough to discover any anti-Le
cnmptoii Democrats who were found lurking in
office, though they were thousands of utiles from
his throne, ami though their highest offence was
a refusal to betray the pledges of 1856; yet be
either cannot or will not see that he retains as
his prim t favorites hundred*of men guilty ol
an offence which, in his opinion, is m the high
est degree dang,ruus to the Republic, uu>i 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, <latfcd Puis Nov. Ist, to the lode
l peudence Beige, contains a passage which we
: translate as follows:
| '"You doubtless recollect the name of Gu
! genlicitu, one of the three priu: i|>-< 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 hu<i been, by reason
jot their coudeUuiatiou, deprived of ail right
over them."
From the Pittsburgh Post, .You. 26.
1 GUKAT DAI IS IDE Mo.\ till.
Grand Celebration of the Centennial Anni
versary of the Evacuation of Foil Duquesne.
j The twenty-fifth of November, the one Itun
; dredtit anniversary of tb<* occupation of Fort
Dnqucsne by and Colonial arms under
, (Jeueial Forbes, was duly celebrated by our
i citizens yesterday.
It is not neee.s-aiy for us again to teitciate
j the historical occurrences of the period im
; mediately preceding the evacuation of the fort
: by the French fences about the 25th of Noveui
! her, 1758, which was in fact, the stir render of
; all claim on the part of France to the rich and
j fertile vuliey of tiie Ohio. livnddocz's defeat
|in 11 da ; the change of SfiVirs upon the ac
j cession of the Karl of Chatham to the head of
; the lit itish Ministry, in 1757 ~tbe organization
lot the three expeditious against Loui.burg-,
Ticondcroga, and Crown Point, and Port L>i
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 >-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<l felt, and enjoy uu, the gitis
ot a houutiiul Providcuce and ot human prog-
I C-SB.
In a hundred years monuments ot civiiizi
zatiou have beeu reared up which will increase
too happiness ot those who shall coutc after us
a bandied told beyond what out forefntheis cn
j-'j'eu, or we tiow e: j-M.
1 here is a fitness and propriety in the cele
btation of the first day tu lue history ot such a
city, and the pioceeuings on Thursday were
eminently appropriate to the occasion.
The day was unfortunately a bleak November
one, about as uucuuifortabln for an out-door ar
rangement of the kind as iho clerk of the
weather could well have gotten up. It neither
rained nor snowed not froze, but the weather
was a threatening commingling of ail varieties
of uuplesantnes*. But, in spueef tbo weathei
and the mud, the people turned out to thous
ands, and at an eatiy hour iu the morning the
strceis were tbrouged by delegations of work
men, societies, aud ettizeus, headed by tiie mili
tary aud accompanied by bauds of uiusic.—
Appropriate banners, with suggestive mottoes,
were borne alolt, uud the residences and places
of business of many of our citizens were gaily
decorated with flags, bannciß, aud emblematic
devices.
The booming of cannon ushered in the day,
and at an curly hour the places of business in
the city ware very generally closed.
During the day there was muoh that w.-js
noteworthy to observe, but ou ouch un occasion
reporters are compelled to 'write as they run,'
ami many interesting facts will inevitably (.scape
notice. The arrangements made by the various
committees were very happily carried out, and
following we give a detailed aceouut of the
proceedings of the day.
At nine o'clock in the morning ibe streets
presented a very animated appearance. On
every avenue delegations were assembling un
der the direction of the chief marshal, prepa
ratory to taking their places in the cottage.
It was expected that the immense muss would
he ready 10 move us early as nine o'clock, but,
various delays were experienced in getting the
delegation !o their proper places, a: dit was
fully eleven o'clock be tore ihey started. The
procession wa* two miles toug, aui occupied
' two hours in passipg a givcu point. The num-
I bor in the funics Wis variously estimated at
i from five thou?iod, the first being nearest the
I actual number. Ibe number of person? along
| the line of the procession, on the sidewalks
] could not, have been less (ban 25,000. At
i every available point where 'lie procession was
I to pass, dense crowds had collected, and whet
; ever there was a belcony or a window, a gioup
1 of ladies might be seen, awaiting patiently the
: pissing of the pageant—the t.,ir ones seetniog
i ly as little aff.-cled by the chilla atmosphere as
their more stalwart lords, livery one seemed
happy and in excellent spirits, and, notwith
standing the unfavorable wea'Lier ari l loworing
skies, the display was an eminent success, re
flecting credit upon shose why originated ami
i xecutcJ the plan. The procession passed over
the prescribed route, ud at one o'clock r
tarucd to the Diifpiesnc depot, which had been
prepared for the touliou and other exorcises.
Aiound Ih*; tliut', which was erected about
| midway of the building, were gathetcJ women
and men in thousands. A voa of human faces
was spread ui uefore the speakers. The great j
extent uf the building, and the sounding clang |
of many footsteps upon the platforms, rendered |
it iiiiponsibie lot liu.u.n voices to be beard at a j
distance greater tln-u a few feet froiu where the j
speakers stood
1 he officers of the day, a number of distiu- i
guished strangers, and invited guests took their j
Position upon the stand.
rhv v.i-t u.-.iemhLge cfn.*erc3, and then lis
tened with eager Nil- ~ the advere-i Lead
of the venerable president of tfj day. lion.
W iliuiu \\ nUttis, rose bvture their view.
More ihaii thrccfourtbs of the events of the
neutary which has passed since the surrender of
I?or 1 . l>!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 <slo
queut term* of the occasion which bad brought 1
lugith.-r in our city so la'rge an assemblage of!
people.
A short and eloquent prayer was then aJ- '
dressed to the great Father of all by tha ven- j
erable D<. b r tucis ilerrou, of the First I'res
byteriau church, one of the oldest clergyman I
in the West. ' !
Judge \\ iikins then introduced the lion, j
Andrew \\. Laomis, the oiator of tits dry.
Mr. L.jOinis occupied about forty five minutes iu :
the deliveiy of Lis address. Those who were i
•so fortunate sio bo located near tim sneaker j
to hear what lie said, speak of h:s oratiou as a
most masterly and eloquent effort.
We greatly regretted that Governor Packer,
could not have been present at the celebration
of live hundred'h birlb-JFay of the act'OOd city 1
HI the State, the governmental atFrs of which}
tie so wisely directs.
Letters were read from Senator Douglas, j
Governor i acker, and others, which we regret ■
our Waut of spice wiil not allow us to tubiish
to-day.
IMT R.HJED.
In Cumbei IMtJ., on i. uursday morning,
9tb ius'., at i o'olork, by the Rev. A. E. Gab
oon, SAMUEL SIRCK. Esq , bf Bedford, Pa.,
LO Miss AN .ME I)uuitlN,OT t lie former place.
ibe happy pair Lave oat Lest wisttes for tbcii
lut-tre welfare, and ttiuv a long life of uninter
rupted matrimonial bliss bo their sweet reward.
Our hier,d, Samuel, has always been a favorite
in tins, the place of hit uativity, and we are
hippy to know that Lis fair bride is equally pop
ulrr at home.
At the city of New O. leans, ou the 24 It ot
Novemher nit , THOMAS MARSHALL JOKJOAN,
aged about 27 \e<rs.
Tito df ec.tsed was a son of the late John
Judas, ivq., and a brother of the Hon. Fran
Ci . Jordan,ot tilts place,and he died of tll-wt fatal
disease, consumption. He was a young tuan of
rem irk.d ie intellect and great promise, and at
an early age nobly resolved, by honorable
means, to bun-elf above the bumble
'■ 'b which i: wan his fortune to be born.
Vvha others learned -.vita effort, be a quired
without; an i what many others wholly tailed
to comprehend, lie mastered with ease. When
Lut a boy, lie became a laborious student, at
tended several of the literary academics of bis
native State, and advanced most rapidlv in ac
quiring a knowledge of the usual branches
taugli , oeCisioually teaching to procure the ne
cessary means for still fui titer acquirement.
ly these efforts he had prepared himself, when
quite young, to enter the Juuior Class at Yale
College, intending to graduate at that celebra
ted school, and then to take the degree of
Bachelor of Ltws at Harvard '.aw School, and
thus equipped, to enter upeu the great battle
at life, quil Qed to contend for its Lighest tri
umphs with the most favored of lns"rge and
country. But, just as he h..d packed bis trunk
for his journey to Yale, he was taken with a
hemorrhage of the longs. Hie previous health
had been good, but this startling symptom of
malignant disease both surprised and alarmed
bint and his friend#, lie reluctantly postponed
his visit to Yale, and was persuaded to go to
Natchez, Mississippi, in the hope that under
the tender cure of soma kind relatives there,
and the genial influences of a southern cli
mate, he might at an oatly day be enabled to
resume the prosecution of the plan lie had
marked out for himself. These foml hopes
were destined to be realized. He fret
ted unuer this thwarting of his pltns, and with
out what he deemed the necessary preparation,
was induced to study law t Natche*. under his
devote I and most liberal friend and uncle,
John I'. McMiirrnn, Esq., an eminent iawrt-r of
tut place. When about ready for his admis
sion to the bar, he found bis health too ueii
eate to warrant him io assuming the labors of
so active practitioner, and by the utiv.ee und
aid oi his ancle, he undertook (o travel, both
us a means to restore h s health, and to
gratify his thirst for the acquisition of knowl
edge. to company with too sou of the late
I Uenl. Quitmnn, be made an ext n ;„
| tli rough England, Wales, Ireland, ScoV"Y
! v ra " ee ! X ' ai - V ' Switzerland, Prussia a J' r \>
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 •<i '
1 Not realizing the expecled benefit,,'hi,"
j er, and other relatives, had written !,i, nlo
up his wanderings aud return heme t *"*
1 recent letter, he communicated to Ler'tU " 1
ifying intelligence that bo bad ag.,j
; face for home,—that he wi* about t 0 ,■ ;i
j for Natchez, where be would by letter a, J**
j Ins arrival, *ud remain utt.il spring, when
expected to resume bis journey to the p ar
roof. I was but yesterday, that devoted J
er, with joy mingled with parental aolicitudt"
showed the writer of this that let-er '
t , ' ' 1 "IJU (•)
pres.seJ atroug apprehension that her w an V
nig son, wlio had so often safely traversed /
-ea and land, might never reach Natct,.,!!
safety. Alas, bow well-founded were *
I tears ! I: seems as though some familiar Ynt
i bad given her a foretaste of a atost sad r . a T
i <ud faded uer anxious mind witfa a
meniof evil. H e died in New Orleaas, f u
from home and parental cm-, yet, th.nk Gad
i KILiIUeU 111 bis ioat moments by one dev .led
j brother, and that ever kind uncle, cither of
wiioiu, It permitted, would have suffered i c Li#
stead, to save him. Tue angel or death early
marked him for ins victim. That heuwrrh,®.
was that angelV first stroke, and he followed
him ever after for seven long years with Y
relenting tread, and with a certainty of ulti
mate au i early death, which uo art could e'>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<ke a marked impression for
good on any community in which bis lot might
be cast, tie i* thus cut down, in the morning cf
his days,—ad his exalted aspirations blas'ed,
i-I the hopes of Lis family .J friend? fonver
dee! rove ).
Rut, let it be remembered also, that he not
' on b' high for this worlu'a bou'rs, but
j much LigU'r for the gran*!-r re.-.i.?bf cf tbv
j world to C. -.9 C, and tb*t ho both iited anu died,
n tas those wi'hout hope. He early proles-'
" f *. "| a ' ul P' ,L 't faith ia the Christian religion,
'tll'l by an unos. eat aiicua iifo of strict olcii
fßeo to its r< quirements, gave the higher" evi
-1 ute ol ','ic Hiocerity o; his professions, scd
that he !i : J secured *he "one Miing uictiful."
May He "who tempers tlm wind to the short
lamb," temper this great affliction to his survi.
ving relatives, and especially to bis aged ocd
heart-stricken mother. May her faiih fail not
under this fierv rriai, nd may the fin I Kt
ei'usHlatift in the reflection that ibe iroublea
of her poor boy are all ended: that his cfflie
ti,'iiis uic all healed; that lis wanderings are
■li over: an i that he is at home at last, whets
his weary spirit siiaii bo forever at reit, and for*
ever happy, imi.mg the cougeuui "spirits of
just men m. Jo perfect." "Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord."
Dec. d, 1858.
Attcniioii Bed ion! Riflemen !
V n . LT are ! ' cr, ' ; - v orrli - ,refi ,0 api-ear in IVint.r
. Lmform. (with pompoon.) in Bedforl. at the
" urt House, <Ol Satur ley, the Btb day of Janunr,
nest at JO o clock, A. M., with ton rounds of blank
cartridge. It is expect'.J that a full turn out wilbe
made, as business of import tnce d. minds everv
member present, who wishes any benefit arising from
tiie late Military Law, passed April, 185.3.
By order of the Cupt.
H'Af. DIBf.RT, O. S.
B.c. 10, ISSS.
Kxerntor's A'oiice.
LETTERS testamentary having been parted to
the subscriber, living in Cumberland Valley
Township, n the Estate of Catherine Hardinger,
lat.* of said To wnship, dee'd all person indebted te
s iHt est.tte are hereby uotiiic i to ni ike p xjh•
nwiiately, and those hiving cliams against the saioo
win present tfacm properly authenticated for set tic.
menu
r> , 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.