DEDFORD INQUIRER. ;
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BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday >lorni?r. TKB 4 IS.>9.
"KutLSSS AXD FREE."
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s. OVER—Editor aiid # I*roprietor.
MONEY ' MONEY 1 I —The approaching Court j
will be a favorable "opportunity for many who j
owe us for subscription, advertising and job !
work, to call and settle. Those not coming to i
town can send the amounts with their r.eigh- j
hors who do come. This is intended- fot all '
who are indebted. If persons cannot pay ell
rhey owe u?, (md none owe us very large bills, |
they can certainly pay us a part cf the amount) J
We have payment* to make, ard IUUS' have J
money some hew or ann'h.r.
Jan. 2S, 1859.
CONGRESS AND THE TARIFF.
It i- well-known that some of ibe Locofoco
press of Pennsylvania, among the rest the Bed
ford Gazette, charged that the Opposition in
Congress were not disposed to do anything in j
favor of the suffering interests oi Pennsylva
nia, and, in fact, of the whole country, L-y in
creasing the Tariff. We pronounced this false
at the time, and the acts ot the Opposition 1
siaee the meeting of Congress, prove that they j
ure ir: favor of increasing the duties on foreign ,
manufactures The position the Opposition ;
took in their caucus, and also their proves
she ftlsify'of all the Locofoco charges to the;
remtrary The Locofoco Senators and Mem- j
hers in Cougrrss, with the exception of those t
trom this St i'c, ire alar st unanimously eppe- ■
e t to Protecti -n.
The Washington correspondent of the North j
American "The only possible hope for a
iuo.lifi.-at 3li cf t.. .-iff at this .-esrijti is
through the action ot - 'Terence Committee,
loi i cbiMiig hours that i. '. chance is desper
ate, and depends entirely -n the refusal of
she House to grant a lo xcept upon this ex
jiress condition. Eve. m there is too much j
reason to fear that the Senate will not yield its
repugnance to a change, so obstinate i the j
purposo of the Democratic majority to refuse |
any concession on t'uia subject. They sre umrc j
inoiiued io lug-ud mi txtra session, then to i
conquer their prejudice*. The Pause is likely .
In stand firm, unii to insist upon provision be- :
ing mide to extinguish any debt that may be ;
created. The Republicans- have held a caucus,
aud unanimously ngtecd to vote for a modifi
cation of the Tariff. Their stand is clear, pos
itive end unqualified, as will be seen whenever
the test shall be made iu the blouse. On the
vtiter hand, the Democrats in that body will
hardly muster twenty votes, including the
Pennsylvania delegation. Tiiis a'gnifieant fact
tells the whole story, especially when connect
ed with the positiou of the Democratic ue.j >ri
ty ir. the Senate. There is no difficulty in
knowing what poiiticai interests in Congress
arc for and against the policy of reasonable
} rotection,"
BEDFOKD HAIL HO ID COSIiMNt'.
It will be seen by referring to another cui
uiuri, in this week'* paper, that an election for
officers of the Bedford Hail Road Company,
will take place on Saturday 19.h lust. I; is
the determination now to put the Road under
contract early in iho Spring, and push it along
vigorously to completion. Wo have pretty
good authority tor saying inat an additional sum
d probably about $25,000 of s'ock will be
taken by a good Company outside of 11.is coun
ty, which will make in addition to the $75,000
already secured, §IOO,OOO. The luieuco, es
timated at about §130.000 will hare to be
raised within tiic County. About, we presume
§35.000 of tills has been .subscribed leaving
yet in round numbers about §IOO.OOO to be
raised. Can this be secured? We believe i?
can. Our citizens should ga to work in fam
es', and ail tjke their &Larc of the above
amount, aud tho Road niil mct certainly be
made. Firmer?, that own lands along the route,
or within tea or fifteen miles of the Road, your
lands will be increased iu value considerably,
and you will have a good Lome market for year
products. On your liberality much depends.
It' you avail yourselves cf the present opportu
nity you will have the Road, and if you let it
pass by unheeded, in our hottest opinion, we
will not have a Rrii Road for the next twenty
year*. \rit us uli d > our best, aud the result
will tend vastly to develop* our now dormant
but aunost iitexhau-- uio agricultural and min
eral resource?, an i Increase the wealth of the
County.
<(irrat Republic Monthly for
Februiry has been received. It is a very vil
li ible number.
Also, Fitlersou's Mgsa ; ne. It is one of the
Lot in tb< country, a.-i .*. especial fav<.rite
among the Indus.
G W. William?, Esq , ofHouse of Uep
r sentaiivcs, was at homo a vtiy or two ago,, tu
visit a sick child. Hon. W. R. Seh el I, of the
Bmate, was . lao on a vi-.it hoin -.
(100. G. Walker, of the Ilou-c of H-prenn
lattfej has our thaok* for tmoy favors.
AKOTHKK I lUK —On Saturday night istt,
üboul 9i o'clock, tlie eiy of fire was again heard
in our village, The fire w; 3 found to proceed
from the small new barn belonging to the heirs
of John Ulnar, dee'd. The flames sprAd rap
idly, and tiie building was totally destroyed.
There were scarcely say exertions made to save
the bunding, as there were no buckets or any
thing else on the ground to aid in extinguishing
the fire, although a stream of water runs right
by. The Engine Company, after the building
had burned down, as usual, hud the small En
gine on the ground, and even then were unable
to work it, placing the hose on tie wrong end,
and hardly a members being with it. it
is the almost unanimous opinion of all, that bad
we no Company, the engines would be better
attended to, and property would be in a safer
condition than it now is, A small quantity o?
grain was consumed.
The frrqucuey of the destruction of stables,
by lire, in this place, is alarming, and (hero
appears to le no doubt that they are all the
work of an incendiary. It :3 only about five
yems since u barn on the same spot where this
one stood was destroyed in the same way. The
loss by this last fire is supposed to be from
§l5O 00 to S2OO 00.
Let our citizen* he on their guard, aud they
may yet discover the fiends, and hare them
placed safely cut of harm's way.
REVIVALS.—Theio is quite a revival of re
ligion going on in the Lutheran Church in
Pleasant Valley, Bedford Tp. Some thirty or
forty have professed conversion, and the good
work still continues. A union meeting is also
going on in Sbover's Valley. A great many
have joined the church.
Peterson's Detector for February Las been
received. It contains a list of Si new coun
terfeits since the last'number. In our opinion,
it is the best Detector published in the country.
FALCONER TO SCOTT. — TUC person who GOT a
volume of the British poets, from us, Falconer
to Scott included, several years since, will
please return the same.
VESUVIUS.—We have been F emitted to
make an ixtract from a letter addressed by
lion. Joseph 11. Chandler, Minister Resident cf
the Cuurt of Naj Is?, to Professor Henry, of
the Smithsonian Institution, in which Mr.
Chandler furnishes a brief account of the cir
cumstances current at Naples at the date of
the letter, December lGtb, relative to an ex
pected eruption of Mount Vesuvius, lie say*;
"At the present moment the people of this
city are in great excitement at the indications
ot a dangerous erupti.ui from Mount Vesuvius.
For a luug time great misses of liv.i hare been
i-suing from apertures oa the side of tire moun
tain, .about half way up, and these apertures
have been augmen'ing in rumbt-r and size so
rapidly that not only is there apprehension of
an eruption, but serious fears are expressed
that the sides of the racuntjin will soon be so
w<.>ru and perforated as ;o be no longer able to
sustain the superior portion, and people sre
Jewing tiro viciuitp aud coming into tie ci'.T
proper. Last nignt tire mountain was truly
grand. The hundreds of groat fires on the
sides (red hot lava) were terribly brilliant,
while the vast volume of smok* that r'-&e slow
iy from the crater above, Lai in side iilumina-
j ted by the tare on the minks, and presented nn
nppearance of indescribable grandeur. I, of
[ course, nm unable to say whether these fears
| are well founded, but they are entertained by
i men of science an 1 experience here. To-day
I the people arc commemorating 'he first anni
versary of the awful earthquake of 1857, and
j they are ali going t'J church. Wo seek God
when we find no help in bittS; and perhaps it is
i a part of God'j providence that we should be
visi'ed with scourges that man cannot direct or
; withhold.— National Intelligencer.
TIIE FIVE VENTS POSTAGE.
The n icuir t to mcrease the letter postage
j from three to five cents, meets with general
condemnation with the i'ress. No such propc
! sition can or to pass the House, or ex
! cept to fir.d favor with the country. Experi
ence has demonstrated in England that a re
{ Jue ! inn of the rite has increased the revenue,
where, notwithstanding a! 1 our boosted tn'elli
i gencc and free schools, four times as many let
ters pass through the mails aanuidy t>s in the
! U. States, and it is well s-tid that "no franking
j'.. , . ,
j privilege exists there, and if it was abolished
! here the revenue of the Department Would uot
only be increased, but a large saving would lie
; made every year by arresting the immense waste
] in public printing which it notoriously cncour-
J ages, and with no advantage whatever to the
j century."
CONGO IDEA OF HOOP 3.
j Some of the Wanderer's Africans are in
' Mississippi. The Vicks&yrg Sun Siyst
•'We do not think they are valuable from
j the fact that we believe that no man would like
i to oversee a sst of hideou, sensoicss-looking
! creatures: besides, it would, in our opinion, be
i a great deul of trouble to keep them t work.
They can ask for tobacco end whiskey, and
| perhaps chew the former and drink the latter,
but they can un nothing else, ihey know m
tbing about tho use of clothing, and would as
j soon place a pair of punts ou their shoulders os
jon their legs. Oco of them has formed a
; great fcncy for umbrellas, and tvhen a couple
of young lad'cs approached him, dressed i:i the
j present extensive fashion, he flung down his
hoe, and followed them with nil possible speed,
1 and as he cam* near them, he vigorously grab
| bed at the skirt of the dnss of one of tbctn,
but before iie succeeded in getting hold of it
one of the attaches of the Mississippi Central
Railroad succeeded in knocking him down.—
Mr. Montague then took hiui in charge, and
asked him in his own gibberish what ha pur
sued the lady for, when he replied that she had
an umbrella under her dress, and lie wanted
it.
From Forney's Prut.
'ihe Thirty Million Project.
Tlic debate iii the United Htatcs Senate, on
Monday last, upon the proposition to place
§30.000.000 at the disposal of Mr. Buchanan
for the purchase of Cuba, was very interesting
and instructive, particularly the speeches of
Senators Seward end Toombs, the former hav
ing spoken against, end the hitter in favor of
the appropriation. Both Seßators may well bo
proud of their efforts, ;:s each was in its way
creditable, forcible, and eloquent. Mr. Sew
ard's exhibtt of the financial policy of the
Administration was very striking. After eta
ting that §30,000,000 was but an initial sum,
which might he extended to §200,000,000 or
more, according to the will and pleasure of tL-c
President, be Bail:
'•I will assume that it authorizes 'he Presi
dent to contract a debt to Spain without again
consulting Congress or tho Senate of the CJ.
States, for the sum of §250,000,000. This
proposition conies a: a time when our revenues
are reduced to §50,000,000 and there is a con
fessed deficiency for the year of §30,000,000. I
It is immaterial whether we tor row 'lris §3O,- J
000,000 to pay to Spiin, as the bill pAposes,
or whether we pay it out of the receipts of the
revenues flowing into the Treasury,and borrow
the tnoney to supply the place of what we
thus übi'.rtcr. It proposes nothing less than
to authorize the President of the United States
to create at ooec and absolutely a debt of §3O
- and indirectly a further debt of
§220,000,000, in addition to a deficit, which
is virtually an existing debt against the Trea- j
sury of §30,000,000: making §60,000,000 of j
new debt certain, and §220,000,000 contin- j
geni. This, aided to an already funded debt <
of §60,000,000, will rais< > tlre national debt to j
§280,000,000. This is to bo done under ex- j
traordioary circumstances. Wc have at this 1
moment no financial system— no system of re- \
venue. We have, indeed, a tariff law which 1
brought last year into the Treasury over §4O,- j
000,000, and this year expected to 'ring m j
§50.000,000 ; but a revenue iaw which leaves ;
an annua! deficit c rnot Le said to corutiiu'e a 1
fiscal system. Congres-, after being in session '
m w near two months, Im utterly foiled to ie- j
vi.-c any kind of revenue system whatever.— !
No. has Ihe lix-wuti v j Administration submit- ;
ted to Congress any* system for this emergency,
'ibis vatcirer.t is strictly '.rue, if you consider !
that ib s President wecontends one system in his 1
annual message, and that the Secretary of the i
treasury, bis own responsible n.in'sier of ti
nar.ee, submits to us as---t!**v sni widely .j!ff
crcut ore.
"This great increase of ti.<- public debt we
are asked to make at the very hour when, in
eompiircee with tbo Executive recouisienda
tton, we are proposing to authorize him to build
tho Pacific Railroad, at a c.'**. ; f nd !es than
§125,000,000 more , ad, 6 •• ulta:t< with
thi a . In the same message, we re also jsked ie
antborizs the Preside;.t to in-re tile armv into
Mexico, which cm cost at thing less than §IOO
- more ; and, at the g.-mc time, in pur
suar.ee of recommendations rf the same weight
and authority, we are cskvu to authorize Litis
to employ 'he army and the p.. cy against ji*:
so many Spanish American Sta'es nu th's con
tinent as iic fl ail choos", which can rrq-iirc
nothing less than §100,000,000 roe, to,'
without any financial system at uii. a rc to
avc . 3 lei v't t!.;f Uoocrcss .f
t'..e 11 -itcd states, cn the rccntntr.eed-Uion rnd
applicntim of the Pr< sider.t to strengthen he
arm of the Executive, while weakening the
power and tho constitutional force cf the Sctrai"
end the I louse of Ren: erentr.'ivn-p j of
§500,000,000."
fir. i'oombs, m bis reply, summarily disposed
o: Mr. Sewari'a financial difficulties by avow
ing his hostility to the Pacific lUilioad bill ad
most cf the other expenditures suggested, and
iiy declaring tb it Cuba wis worth to this Union
ail tlic money that Mr. Buchanan would pay
for it. An enumeration of national advantages
likely !o awruc from the an.ncxatiou of Cuba,
a bold defiance of French or English interfe
rence in case Spaia agreed to set! us that is
land, and a masterly defence of tha practical
working of our institutions ever now acquisi
tions, without regard to the character of their
population, formed tuo main points of his re
tu .rkabiy aide and telling speech.
But we see Utile reason to bono that the
speedy acquisition of Cuba is at all involved in
bis controversy. Ail the sigus of tbo times
indicate tho uit°r improbability of our being
able to purchase it now. Mr. Seward weU
sai l, after quoting the recent proceedings in
the Spanish Chamber of Deputies :
"Now, sir, after having shown (hat there is
not the least earthly prospect of requiring the
Island of Cuba by or in consequence of the
passage of this till, what follows? It follows
that the question whether Cuba is desirable, and
ought to be attained, is not of all in debate. It
is an idle, a visionary, and mischievous abstrac
tion. There is no such question here ; but the
question which is presented is, whether the Con
gress of the United States shall authorize the
President of the United Stales to offer an in
dignity to Spam. Th it is all.''
The President has asked for unusual, extra
ordinary, sni dangerous powers, and he has
cot givea Congress the slightest reason for
belcving ibat any substantial good oan result
from a compliance with his request. Tho belief
that Cuba will one day become in integrial
portion of this Union is almost universal, but
there is uotbing to mark this as a propitious
period for accelerating that event, or for select
ing Mr. Buchanan and tho scheme be has de
vised us the agents through which ihat end is
to be attained.
UNHAPPY MATCHES.—A year utd a half
ago, four young ladies in Cincinnati wore mar
ried at the satuo hour. Two have ninec sepa
rated from their husbands, and the other two
arc trying to get separated.
Japan letters say tha expedition of Mr. Rood
to that country will Cost, including the honora
, l ie gentleman's salary. (§14,000 trr vear.l at.
lcat §IOO,OOO. V J ''
• THE OXFORD FRAUDS PROVED.
A very important and interesting paper, even
Jat this late day, has just appeared in the Na
j tional Intelligencer, Mgned by Ex-Gov. \V*lk
i er and Kx-Secrctury Stanton, and addressed to
j the people of the Unwed Stat. s. it relates to
j the forged Oxford returns, rejected by Walker
| and Slanton, thus deciding (he political coai
j plexion of the Kansas Legislature in 1857.
I They bring us evidence a letter of Mr. Batt
{ Jones, ooe of the Oxford election Judges, and
1 whose name purpcrtod to authenticate the re
turns. Jones zolemuly nrow3 that he never
authorized the use cf hit natne as Judge or
knew anything about the election, and that he
j would have made the expo-are sooner, bat
j from the persuasions of friends, and theexcite
' rncnt then prevailing Ho thercfoie never
j subscribed them, nor authorized any one to do
Iso for him, and consequently they arc an aa
j mittcd forgery, as alleged at the time by Messrs.
, Walker ar.d Stau'on.
| It is, therefore, now a conceded fact, that
! the Oxford returns Were a forgery, and that
they were properly n-je" f ed by Mostr*. Walker
pnd Staiiloo, notwithstanding they were so vi
olently nsailed r.f the time for acting upon that
v inch to them was a certainty. As these and
other forgeries were incorporated into t' e Le
cobipton Constitution, it i® clear that :':iat in
strument, says this r&r?, "was reeking with
' fraud and forgery, and should have icon—as
j Senator Hammond said ki.ked cut of Coo
j press." Vi hat that Senator has alreeily had
| (Le courage to concede, we canuot doubt, will
! soon Le the sentiment ri the whole country;
i nnd the sober second thought of the people of
| the South, will eventually unite with the alznos*
! unanimous verdict of the people oi the North
! n<l West, in stamping this base counterfeit and
| imposture wi h the brand of infm.v an ? ex—
j crs'i'jti." —Pilts. Chroaic'i.
\ew iace of flninan
j _ Some time iiice a paragraph appeared iu a
; New South Wales journal roiifive to the dis
| eevery, in the fur interior, of a new race of
j black®, {< w'.o had n? hair on the top e-f their
j heads, at the place !.e wool ought to
J grow. * The accrunt cf this mist rxtraordiua
j ry discovery ! us been corroborated by sa cye
j wi ne?s, a Sir. Thompson, who has .in ived frim
j wimrc the obcriginaD ruraliz'. They sre. he
says, of is copper f: in-, ru i err t .1 nd athle
j ttc, much super: r in every respect to their dark
sktnncd brethren. woman arc a.so ssidto
| have more cl-iu.s to beauty. They, !.• w. ver,
' ore also deficit ct f 'l.ui :s rent railv ocknuwi
i edged i. ' e tiir 'glory rf r wn Mr. Thonip
• son, it appears, w s ; t camp en the Upper is
--| ionne, wi h '1 e:.--, rn gr-iuc 1 hitherto ui.'ro 1-
den i.y w-.i'e man, when he w s suddenly sut
prisct; by i visit t'.cni these bald-pated, coppcr
j colore j beiugs. They rppoar to have friendly
j inton'ir.Di, an.i us nethir.g wi nr-iieed in their
conduct of ar. aggressive n Hare, a cenversa-ton
jof nods ard signs ;-n u- '. After a while, r.
: sovere'gn was a' own to hem, wl-cr. ooe r-f them
j picking up a stone, p iotc i with it's finger to
I 'hs far West, and intimated that sfeues of n
i simtiar dc-vrqo.on to the sovereign ware t6 La
i picked ' p cn the grrnn-'l in masses as large r,3
the i-f he pi n Und <> rito r "i
j-o be some dr..-.dr. ". miles furfh-Cr in the inte
j r ' &r - - 'S~ ;d '".ZIT btoiiti mof bring-
I '-tg Sn:e vf '.ke'o ctones a' their rest visit.—
Mr. fupmp?on mtends to return 'gain ♦< the
—r' r ■" te - Ti- 1 t'eeir crr.val. If this
VCry co •••©, tire age cf wonders truly has nc*
| ceased.— Bombay Telegraph, Sept. 1.
i
ELOHPHY AM. ANDEHSSEM —Tho Palis
j cot respondent of she A'atimw' Iniethgencn
1 S3V6 :
"Th-. fallowing story ban heen rctuttd io me,
i luiisira.: ve of ihe , aiicsophy of chess ; whie-,
ap-r ugh dispursged, 1 find by some of our
journals enjoys the additional admiration of Dr.
| Frank!:'.), as requiring the c-xir'ion of every
j originating facility of the niind. la thr cuurse
Jof one of the g tines between Messrs Morphy
, anil Andresen, a move cf ;be form or r x ited
| much surprise among the bystanders. He Unci
: declined to taku a piece, which, although ap
; pareatly au exchange of knights, would h-.vc
: resulted, it was thought conclusively in Lis
: favor, the game proceeded, nevertheless,without
verba! comment, anl was rapidly won by Mr.
• Murphy. No sooner did ho deliver the "check
ante" than i.-ae of tho most in'ocse of the
; lookers on, breathless rrhh pent-up emoiten,
; exclaimed, "for the love of heaven tell lae why
: you did not fake the knigh'."' "Because,"
1 said Mr. 51 rpby, ail -.live to the nature of his
i friend's concern, "it was a deep-laid plot. In
| a few moves 1 should have lost the game by n
I stale mate. Mr. Anderssen saw the gamo was
desperate, and he planned this snare for me."
j 3o saying, he replaced the piece us th-y had
l been at tlic critical uioineat # and demouitrated
i the result by a series of moves which would
! have been inevitable had he taken tho knight,
j 'Was I uot right, Mr. Anderssen V 'Precisely,'
ejaculated tho bewildered gentleman, thinking
possibly that the prince of darkness was cot
! without a share in (he composition of the voting
; Prance::"
j -
More Rebellion,
The Philadelphia Press says the coming Doin
j ocratic State Convention, which nieetn on the
1 4th of March, has been packed by the Nation
-1 al Administration, and that the purpose is to
| crush all who will cot hew down to the Buch
anan dynasty. The Press adds :
"It remains to be eeen whether tho s. ourge
( is to bo newly applied to those who rebelled
j before, and whether tho agents of a centralized
j despotism nro again ready to Jo the bidding of
| their superior®. They may be well nssured
| that the principle which they could net repress
! in 1858 has strengthened its loins, for tho great
j battle of 1850; and that the troops who fought
: against them in two pitched conflicts have been
j disoipiiricd by tho collision, and aro not un
i willing, if it must be so, to accept all tha rc
i sponsibkiitics of a new cncountor. Daily there
!is an awakening of the public mind. The Dom
| ocrats of Pennsylvania, disenchanted of their
I attachment to the mm who has deserted, and
' aftor deserting has sought to degrade the in,
! have imbibed a stiil more passionate love for
that which tboy conceive to bo right, and will
be right, aud will bo content with nothing short
of tho amplest and most unequivocal recogni
tion of their principles."
See ad vert Dement of Smford's Liver Luvig
orator.
THE CAMELS.
\V* visited Parson's wharf, on Tuesday, to
witness a feat of strength performed by one of
Mrs. Watsou's camels, of which there were
near a doz<;n on tho wharf, of uli sizes and
ages. Upon tiio word of eoumiaud being giv
en, the cauiel lay down, ready to receive his
load, which consisted of five bales of hay.
weighing, in tbe aggregate, over 1 ; 400 pounds,
which was firmly bouud to the pannier placed
upon the animal's hump. Upon the utterance
ot the word of command by the native keeper,
the huge animal rose, without an effort, to his
fw, and walked off in a stately manner along
the wharf and through the city. We were in
formed that the same camel had 1,600 pounds
placed ou him, with which enormous weight he
easily rose. 'I he animals ore uli exceedingly
tractable, and sc.. in to have much affection for
any one who treats them kindly, as an exam
ple of which Mrs. W. informed us that one of
them—a pretty while one, which she Lad pct
ted—would always itiw her, wheu she went
within kissing distance, which tact we really
thought proved itse amm-a! to possess an excel
lent tas'e, as well as au : fiectiouate disposi
tion. In their native country, the average load
for a full grown camel is some 800 pounds, with
Winch 'Ley will pertcrm long journeys over
deserts, with but little food or watei. We
doubt not tua! wita tbe abundant forage found
:u tt.i parts ol 'iexas, and u full supply of wa
ter generally, the camel will improve ;ti'strength
and general appearance, and be abie to trans
port larger loads, at h more rapid pace, (ban in
its native country.— Galveston *Yevs.
> C TRANQK DEATH FIIOT.—The Paris corres
pondent of tue Philadelphia North Auac.icsn.
in his letter of December 2, notes the shock
ing fate of si -.. g;. ! ar:' >ien. Ardant, who, af
ter commanding tbo artillery through the Cri
®?an war, has just met Lis death by a singular
ncc ucnt -1 i incemies. I;; company with Mar--
sua! \ aiiian', the Ministers of \\ ar and a large
nutnner of general 1 tficers, be wav watching
the off-ets of the explosion of bombs from a
biock house erected for ('■.*! purpose. A very
smail rpprkng rf less than an inch wide was
left l.r the purpos 1 of ob? n rv cud the of
ficers fook their t 'res st this altcrtiaMy.—
Sc-.rceiy had Geo. Arci-.ot piac-d himself be
fore i% when a bomb exrioded, and a fragment
passitrg thrnuoh the apcrtarc, attack him on the |
forehead with sue 1 I roe :s liter?!'-, (o c-a"er
his brains -n L\< brother officers MIOUML Thus 1
•iic-', in t it* mt r- frierd? nud peace, by ati
aunos; inconceivable hazard, e. gallaNt soldier \
who has passed anse.;' i d to-ouch a liand-d !
combat".
DEVT2I OF .lifts. McPIIEItSO*.
V. e -ncounco Tith sorrow ar "cr our obitua
ry head to-day the death cf Mrs. CATHARINE
MCPIUIRSON, relict of the Lite J. B. McPfcer
son. Esq-, and mother rf Hon. EiwarJ Mc
pherson. our Congressman elect from this di
tnct. Sbc -died at the residence of her Son-in
law. Dr. N. B. Sect?, iti Hagrr town, Md., on
Tuesday rucrr.ing les', while thereon a visit.—
He. remains were borne on Wednesday
evening auci interred Ever Green Cemetery
C;i . followed by m-ny friends who wi.l
bold be: iu remembrance and esteem her memo
ry Jr> v her many fiac qualities as 9 Christian, a
neighbor end friend. She died it, the 68th
year cf h?r a?" This i s three deaths which
has occurcd in the fomi'y with;', the abort space
ol oas yci. true it is that "troubles nsvrr
come singly.''— Gettysburg Star.
SjDM'imen of lifmofratic Morals.
I'ir. Iv'-s:• ~f S. 0., in a speech in Congress
few days sg ■, declared himself for tlio imme
diate acquisition of Cuba, without negotiation
cr ar.y other . rdy process. He did not extend
the sari- favor ;o Mex'c t>- Central America,
which re (bought were not needed to earrv out
the same principles of progress.
And Mr. C x of Ohio, declared ids iihng
i;'\s to vote for tbe til, introduced by Mr.
Branch, but L? w.s rot particular as to tbo
amount Appropriated, looking to the negotia
tions for th n purchase of Cuba, and !o' king the, j
to the or Jelly seizure cf it.
What are we coming to when such sentiments j
can be thus freely enunciated in tbe Congress j
of the C. State?!
STATE FINANCES.
fho S :Uc Treasurer estimates the raver.ua
for the current yerr at §4,088,800, which, with
the balance i'i rr.e IVeisury at the elos t of the
year, will inaae a total of §4,980,827- The
o;dir..try cxpetts.-s, mcUtii; g §250,000, to tbe
Sinking lain', he estimates at §3, lo 1,017,
which wool 1 ic-.iv a bnlar.ee in the Treasury at
the cad of ■!••-. y>-r, of §1,829,810. This os
tituatc tTcuiu justify an appropriation of §i,-
250.000 toward ike extioc iou of the State
Debt, and we trust that that appropriation will
be nude. The finances of the State were uev
er in so pro porous a con ,i ion as now, and wc
shculd therefore take advantago of the rror
perity to reduce cur funded debt.
Beatli and Lite.
Within a few days a lady residing roar Per
kioiuen bridge, Mentgoroery county, Pa., lost
two cl.iLircr, ly '.lie measels. Baton tbe even
ing of the funeral the lady bote twins! This i.s
almost as singular ns ■iu following ca-e in
which a lady died the same day i-he was mar
ried :
MAR HIED.—In Prattsviiie, X. Y., on tho
10th ir,st., by P. K. Salisbury, Esq., John Biv
ens, of Middietown, Delawaro county, N. Y.,
to Miss M. A. Turk, of Prattsviiie, Green coun
ty, N. Y.
DIED.— In Prattsviiie, on tbe 10th inst, of
asthma and bemoirhago of the Inngs, Mrs. M.
A. Bivens, wife of John Bivens, in the 29th
year of li*f age.
■A VKRY SAI> STORY.— An Engii-h papoi
relates toe death of a fathet front grief. It
says:
"ll's boy, aged eight years, w*s aeeused on
a charge of stealing a sovereign. Bail was re
fused, and the lad was sent to prison. The
father, on parting with hi* child, took the mat
ter so deeply to heart that ho went home and
never again looked up. A doep-soated melan
choly took possession of him; ho was obliged
to give np work, and on the day bis little boy
was tried, tbo father breathed bis last. The
surgeon that attended him says that be died of
a broken heart. The boy was discharged '*
.orst (OH.MOK SCHOOLS.
1 The annual repen tof the Superintendent
! Common Schools of Pennsylvania, shows that
there are 11.281 schools in the State, being an
, increase of 325 over 1857; that there are 628 -
201 scholars in attendance upon the scbooN
j being an increase of 28,633 over 1857; th' s t
; the number of teachers is 13 856, and that t)' e
j average of salaries rf male teachers per month
is §'24,25. The average ccst or instruction for
j each scholar, per month, has bern 53 cents
; and the total expenditures for school uurposeil
j during the year, were §2,427,631 41. These
figures include the city of Philadelphia, which
| has heretofore been omitted from the State Sn
i perintendent's Rp< rt.
! TRIAL OF THE FUNKS— The Franklin Co
j Court having commenced its January scs?ip n
on Monday of last week, David atid Daniel
Funk, charged with the murder of Jchn O*-
| born, were arraigned on the following TLnrr
j diy, and separate liiais granted tltein. Th o
ca.=e of Daniel was taken up iuiiaediittcly,
j continued until Monday of this week, (Coun
having sat on Sunday,) when it was given to
the jury, who, after an absence of a few honr.
returned with a verdict of murder in the sec
ond degree. The prisoner was sentenced te
the Penitentiary for five years and six months.
The jury iu the case of David Funk rendered
a verdict of "not guilty," and the prisencr w
st? Leo.
I KNEI RATING CHINA. - Lord Elgin, ti, e
B;i;i>h Minister in China, has projected on ex.
pedition up the Yengtse river, which promises
many imcrcating results. With a squadron of
st.r.ui corvettes .nd gun boats, six j n Dumb r>
aMt r. ; h th? C 'ii<cr.t of the Chinese authoiitie,'
he : 9 a- far as liaugeiiow, the principal
comiucrci; ! emporium co tlio river, five l, Un
drea miles fr- m its mouth, and more thau thr.-a
hundrtd miles abcra Nankin, hitherto the u t.
met limit < f "outside barbarian" navigation
The Yacgtso is called the Mississippi of China
but es i' dr:.ins about one-tLird cf China, th
popuLit." rv. i's banks must be eight or t en
'ime* ac r;-jc}j as t'uat on the Mississippi.
; iißir.r ING Scrsr. IN A Cnracn.— At tiis
M-- • cine, in Paris, on Christmas eve, the well
kr.owu Abbe Britain preached in the evening,
an ! r.s bo s one of the most eloquent ptdpi*.
iralcrs, r well r.s one of the most learned
theo giir.i of France, a very large coagreg*.
tion a'.s-tul'lod to hear him. Ascending th.i
f-i'-Ipi's he gave fottii no tex', but after a pausu
cried .0 a sonorous voice, Saviour is born
uv.to c.-!" He then repeated the cry, ni then
said: ' My breihrtn, why do you not receive
t:,at glad tidings wi'L so HalielujaL!" There
upon the whole congregation stood up asdetied
"Hallelujah!" After which ho proetedtd t
deliver Lis scrracc.
A FRCTRIVE SLAVE IN THE WHITE Ilorei.
lie EITORIIR.G Post's asiiington
dcat feßs a good saying by Thaddeus Stcvenr,
the Republican representative elfct from Mr
Buchanan's district :
"A gen'iotaar. was referring, in presence of
Thad'ieus Stevcf, to tho possibility of Mr.
Buchanan turning against ;|tc 8ou;h for the
purpose of retrieving Lis hut fortune in Peon
*}':v sr.J sr l-e- 4 Mr Stevens what ha
'hougiit w u'd L? :h.- result. Mr. Steven.* r>
plied that there won Id be no trouble about
that, as tne SotriL could reclaim him anv tins*
under the Fugitive Slave Law! The inqnir r
•eetrac perfeerlv ea'iafiid."
Ihe probei.l iersicn gives to oieuthers a
thousand a'o'fars a month, besides mileage and
perquisites. Deducting the Suadays and holi
days, the present "short session will allow
about 60 working days ; for, hv constitutional
reauircmer.', it must oiese on the third of
March, which will give to eaoh member nearly
fifty dollars per day fnr every day employed,
exclusive of mticage.
The Sc'uwarts Demoorats of Berks, have or
ganized thcmseiveß into a distinct party, and
hav* resolved to carry on the war against thn
Buchanan hunkers. We have thus three par
ties iu Berks. This will make future political
movements interesting, and very much tend t
equalize the chances of success at all elections
hereafter to come off in old Berks.
GEN. SCOTT'S OVERCOAT STOLEN. —When
Gen. Scott arrived in New Orleans, some one
near hbn in the crowd which pressed around
him at the St. Charles asked permission tocat
ry his overnoat. The General granted tho re
quest, and the person in carrying out his in
'entions in getting the coat in his possession,
carried it entirely away, and the General ha*
not heard of it since. In consequence tbs
G"R.'rs] Lad to call upon a tailor the next day.
SENTENCE OF 0. M. DONOVAN.
HARRTSBCRO, Feb. 1 — O. M. Donovan, an
ex mmbcr of tho Legislature, w'uo was convict
ea of sn assault and battery ou J. M. Church,*
member from tbe city, was, this morning, n
--teroed by Judge Pearson to an imprisonment
of three mouths, to pay a fine of two hundred
dollars, and to give security in §IOOO to kear
peace.
THE TEN MILLION LOAN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—From information
received at tho Treasury Department, it is esti
mated that about one-fourth of the recent ten
million lopn has already been paid in. TLs
only certificates of stock a" yet issued arc to
tbe Bank of the Metropolis, Washington, fe r
SIOO,OOO.
DOINGS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. —It is report
ed that Douglas has promised to go to New
Hampshire to electioneer aud canvass agatns'
tbe opposition. If he succeeds as well s oth
ers have, in attempting to redeem tho Old
Granite Sta'e, he will come back "with a flea in
his car."
DE ATH OF W. A. PRESOOTT, THE HI
TORI AN.
BOSTON, Jannary, 29.—William H. Pre*
cott, the Historian, died yesterday, very "I®"
denly, from paralysis, lie had beeu enjoying
his usual health up to the moment cf hvi
death.