BEDFORD INQUIRER.
BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday Morning; Oct. 14, 1559.
"FEARLESS AND FREE."
D. OVER—Editor and Proprietor.
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1860,
:HON. SIMON CAMERON,
OF PENNSYLVANIA,
(Subject to the deciston of the National Convention.)
Glorious Victory!
Pennsylvania IIAS gone TWICE in
Snee-ession for the Opposifion!
BRINE 01T THE BIG GIN!
We have the proud satisfaction of announc
ing to our readers a great and glorious victory
of the People's Party in Pennsylvania, and
the total annihilation of the sham Democracy.
Notwithstanding the often repeated boasts of
Locofocoism that the Opposition never could
carry Pennsylvania twice in succession, they
have accomplished that hitherto unaccomplish
ed performance. Next fall we will carry the
State thrice in succession, as sure as the sun
will rise in the Kast on that day, and just as
ccitafnly will the Opposition cariy the Presi
dent. Locofocoism is demoralized and broken
up, and will never rise again throughout the
whole North.
The followiog despatches from our friend,
* 1). J. Chapman. Esq , of Philadelphia, are
short, but expressive, on that point :
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13, 1859.
To Inquirer: —The returns from the elections
on Tuesday are sufficiently full to leave no doubt
that the Opposition have carried the State by
about twenty thousand majority. Eleven Sen
ators were voted for this year all of whom were
elected by the opposition. Tho next Senate
will stand twenty-two Opp. to eleven Dent.
House sixty fire Opp. to thirty-five Deut. Op
position majority forty-oue.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13, 1859.
To Inquirer : —Ohio has gone Republican
by a majority of fifteen thousand, with a large
majority in the Senate and House. lowa and
Indiana are tending the same way.
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THE RESULT IN BEDFORD COUNT*.
Great Victory!
The elcctiou in Bedford County has resulted
in the election of John Tatlor, our candidate
for Associate Judge, by a majority of about
36. The balance of our ticket is defeated by
about 100 majority. This is a gain of about
50 since last year. U. W. William?, notwith
standing the slanders of the Gazette, gains con
siderably over last year's vote. Williams and
Walker are both re-eleotod to the Legislature-
Boys, we have carried the principal candidates
on our ticket this year, and a large gain over
last year. One fire more, and the County is
oars ! \\ e will give the returns next week,
ad will have mora to say on the subject.
The San Juan Affair.
The misunderstanding in reference to the
ownership of this small island in tho Pacific,
which is at this time threatening a great dis
turbance, may be traced to the loose wording
of the Oregon treaty of 1840, made uoder the
auspices of Jatnes Buchanan. This personage
was Secretary of State when this treaty was
signed, and it has beta charged that it was
through his advice that the Polk administra
triou backed down from its ultimatum of 54
dcg. 40 rnip., to 49 degs. The first aiticlo of
the treaty roads as follow:
■"ART. 1. From the point on the forty-ninth
parallel of north latitude, where the boundary
laid down in existing treaties and conventions
between Great Britain and the United States
terminates, the line of boundary between the
territories of bcr Britanio Majesty and those
of the United States, shall bo coutinued west
ward along tho forty ninth parallel of north
latitude to tbo middle of the channel which
sepr.rates the continent from Vancouver's Is
land, and tbence southerly, through the middle
of said channel, and of Fuca's straits to ttic
Pacific Ocean, provided, however, nav
igation of said channel and straits, south of
the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude re
mains free and open to both parties."
The difficulty is that between Vancouver's
island and the main land, or continent, there
arc no less than two, and according to some
accounts, three channels, instead of one, as
contemplated in the treaty. This important
ftet was not known, it seems, to at least one of
the contracting parties, at the time of exchang
ing ratifications. Mr. Buchanan docs well to
call to'his aid the cool courage and diplomatic
talents of Gen. Scott, who, it is to be hoped, is
clothed with full power to settle the vexed
question without being compelled to submit to j
further dictation from Washington- in the j
hands of the old soldier, the honor and inter- j
ests of the country are safer than when under
the guardianship of the present imbecile ad
ministration.
IMPORTANT FROM CALIFORNIA.
Senator Broderick Killed in the Duel
with Jujge Terry.
CAUSE OF THE DUEE.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. B.— The overland mail of the
i6tb ult., reached Jefferson City to-day.
The duel between Senator llroderick and Chief
Justice Terry took place, near San Francisco,
on the morning if the 13th ult.
Broderick fell at the first fire, haviug been
pierced through the lungs. He lingered till half
past 9 o'clock on the morning of the 16th, when
he died.
The community was profoundly agitated by
the melancholy event.
Judge Terry escaped unhurt.
During the political campaign closed by the
election on the 7th ult., Senators Gwin and
Broderick Inn led defiance at cue another, while
expressing their readiness to settle their private
i griefs iu a piivate way, or in the manner usual
I among gentlemen. A duel was looked for after
j the election, and the repot t that they were to
fight, therefore, excited no great astonishment,
though the result was anticipated with intense
i interest. But instead of a duel betweeu Bro
i derick and Gwin, it turned out that the affair
was to be between Broderick and Chief Justice
Terry, of the Supreme Court, la Cue Herald,
about two months since, the difficulty that oc
curred between Brodeiiak aud a lawyer named
Peiley, in which Judge Terry's name figured,
was detailed in full, uud the subsequent corres
pondence between Broderick, Perley and Kewen
was also giveu in full. Broderick, on that oc
casion, at the breakfast table of the Internation
al Hotel, iu Sao Francisco, said that Terry, (who
delivered a speech at the Democratic State Con
vention attacking Broderick,) did not treat him
well, aud that if he had received his deserts the
Vigilance Ceuiniittec, when they held him
(Terry) prisoner, would Lave buug him. He ai-o
said that when in that trouble, Terry received
his active aid, and his (Terry's) conduct was a
poor return for the services rcudered him when
he wanted ft Lends. Perley challenged Bro
derick, and, as is known, he declined to tight,
an the grouud that Perley was an inlerior.—
Soon after, Broderick announced froru the
stuuip that he would not accept a challenge
before the election, out that after it was over
he was ready for any of his enemies.
Ou Friday morning, the 9.h ult., Broderick,
was waited ou by Mr. Calhoun Bculrirn, as the
friend of Terry, who delivered a challenge to
mortal combat- It was at once accepted, and
it is understood the condition? agreed on wore,
(but no person ixcept the pi iueipals, seconds
and surgeons were lu know of tlio time or place
of the duel; Broderick and Terry immediately
left the city, a fact which soon became widely
known ami caused the greatest excitement. Ex
pectation wis ou tiptoe, arid the sole topic of
eoDvcrsatiou was concerning the contemplated
fight. It seems that a correspondence was open
ed with :he view of settling the difficulty. The
report is that Broderick was ready to give sat
isfaction by stuting ibat, although he usei the
language complained of ou the spur of the mo
ment and iu the heat of personal debate, such
were not the feeliugs of his heart. It is said
this apology or explanation was uot satisfactory,
and a meeting was agreed on to take place at
five o'clock on the morning of the 12th ult., the
wt apous to be six-shooters. At the appointed
time that morning the parties were on ttte field
iu presence.of about two hundred spectators and
several police officers. Tbo spot selected, uear
the Like House, beyond the Mission, and in
isatt Francisco county, did uot turn out satis
factory tu the seconds either in consequence of
the nature of the ground or the proseneo of the
police officers, who expressed their determina
tion to prevent the duel takiug place. Two
other places were examined, when, at lougth,
the party crossed the iiue iuto San Mateo coun
ty, and at a little after seven o'clock that morn
ing fixed on the spot and commenced measuring
the ground. The principals, with their seconds,
in a few miuutes took their appointed places. —
At this moment the Chief of Police and three
officers interfered. One of their number went
up to Broderiek and presented a warrant for his
artest, while another appioached Terry. They
denied the authority of the officers to arresr, as
they were out of the limits of San Francisco;
but it secmA that the warrant was endorsed by
a San Mateo magistrate. After considerable
time spent in deliberation, tbey surrendered
themselves and were liberated on parole. Messrs.
Broderiek and Terry then agreed to appear be
fore the Police Court at two o'clock on Monday
afternoon, the 12 h ult., the day before the duel
The result of that proceeding is a matter of lit
tle consequence now, as it did not prevent the
hostile meeting.
It is said that Judge Terry resigned bis seat
on the Bench before ieavng Sacramento. His
seconds were Messrs. Calhoun, Benham aud
Thomas Hayes. Mr. Btoderick's seconds were
Messrs. J. (J. McKibben and another whose
name wo do not know, but probably either ex-
S'ueriff Coltou, of Yreka, or Mr. John A. MOQ
roe, of San Fraooisco.
A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. —Some two weeks
since, au elderly Ucrmui fell during the night
down a steep flight of steps and struck the
sido of his head against the wall at the land
ing. He wis taken up insensible and carried
to his room. It was found on examination,
when he became conscious, thai he was para
lysed in all those parts of his body below the
neck, ari l that his neck was broken. He re
mained in this cofidition something over five
days, eoiiveisiug freely with his attendants, and
describing to them all the sensations which he
had. His attending surgeons, Drs. Thum ar.d
Goldsmith, we believe, ma le au attempt to set
the neck, but were obliged to desist, on ac
count of suffocation coming on wht-never the
head was brought into its natural position.—
Between the fiith and sixth days, the Durse
undertook to move hitn for the purpose of
changmg his linen, and in doing so ihe head
was uuwittingly turned so that the neck was
straight. Heath took place instantly. But
for this accident, there is ao telling how long
he might have lived. Altogether, the case is
a most extraordinary one, and no doubt will,
in due time, be published authoritatively in
some roedioal journal.— Louisville Journal.
BEDFORB IMBIBER.
From I he. Philadelphia Press.
DEATH OF DAVID €'■ lIItODEKIt K,
OF CALIFORNIA-
When, several days ago, it was announced,
by telegraph from St. Louis, that Senator Da
vid C. Broderiek had engaged in a duel with
Chief Justice David S. Terry, of California,
and that the latter had paid tho forfeit of his
life, we refrained such comment as would have
been uutural under the circumstances; not, in
deed, that a duel, with Mr. Broderiek as one
of the principals, was unexpected, because we
knew that the life of this man had been sought
by the myrmidons of the Federal Administra
tion for the last two years, and we could not
but conceive that, in a controversy between
hiru and any ouo of their representatives, the
chances would be entirely against the uian who
embodied independent thought and heroic de
votion to principle, for the reason that liroder
ick was not a duellist. Courageous as it was
possible for any man to be, he had r.ot culti
vated killing as a trade, and, while his convic
tions were such as would have led hint to face
death at any time, ho never boasted of the ac
complishment. so peculiar to those who are in
the habit of taking men's lives upon a punctilio.
Perfectly ready at all times to give up exist
ence fur that which be believed to be right, he
was not a proficient ia the art by which des
perate men, pistol in hand, can defend the
wrong; and, living in a community where the
tribunal of the duel was recoguized, whatever
his moral sentimcut might have been, be was
too physically and intellectually proud and
brave to resist it. lie, therefore, frankly ac
cepted the trial, knowing that when he went to
it tie risked his life among those who were
practised murderers.
We are uow called upon to peiforii) the
paiuful duty of announcing, on the authority
of late despatches from Jefferson city, Missouri
based upon information received by thedast
overland uiail from California—that the first
report, as to the death ot Chief Justice Ter
ry, was unfounded, and that in the duel which
took place on the inoriiiug of the lJth of Sep
tember, David C. liroderick was mortally
wouuded, ami died a few days after. This in
telligence will occasion profound sensation in
all parts of the country. Mr. Drcderick was
in every respect, a representative tuin; not
simply a representative of his class, but of the
great priuciple iuvoived in the s'ruggle be
tween the people and the Federal Administra
tion. be v men have attracted t<> themselves
more devoted friends than David C. liroderick,
and ttie news that he has fall n, in the very
prime of life, a victim to the insatiate and iu
satiabie m .lev.deuce of the Federal Adminis
tration, will he received by these gallant men
with sad aud heavy hearts. Mr. liroderick
was not thirty-niue years old at the time of his
death. It may be said of him that he died al
most without a fault, for saving the suscepti
bility of his nature, and the excitement engen
dered by his earnest devotion to what he con
ceived to be right, ho was, in all respects, a
model for imitation. V, hen, in a late speech
in California, he announced "that there was no
man who had ever een him under the iufluence
of liquor, or at a gaming table,or iu any house
of daub-till rtpuiatmn; ami that doriug
and eventful career lie had dischatged evciy
obligation to society aud his fellow 01011," he
pronounced, without vauity, an unconscious eu
logy upou himself, and the epitaph that may
now be written upou bis tombstone. E\ei in
the midst ot tnat wild aud wildering canvass,
when men stood ready to take each -other's
lives, and when he, of all others, was regard
ed as the signal embodiment of the great prin
ciple involved, there was no one bold enough
t > take issue with his statement, while alibis
ft lends and thousands of bis foes were glad to
cudvFsc it.
I'uc part austaiucd by Mr. Biolfiiek in the
struggle wuieh took place between Mr. Bu
chanan s officials and that bind of fearless
Dciucciats who refused to saoctioii the shame
less presetipuons of the Administration, at
tracted to htm the coufi ience of the country, in
the same degree that it aroused against him a
malevolent and mere.less antagonism. Himself
a man ot positive character, unbending will,
and iron nerve, he neither shrunk from the re
sponsibility oi hi? position, nor faltjred, iu a
double sense, in maintaining it. lie felt, from
the moment bis conscientious convi. lions placed
hitu in hostility to the most fligrant piece of
treachery in political annals, that he was en
tirely tight; ami he, therefore, gave no heed to
consequences, but pursued a straight and on
ward course to the end. Ho adopted no new
views, but heid on with characteristic tenacity
to the old teachings of the Democratic faita
confident that it ttie sequel did not find him
and his friends victorious, it would, at all
events, fully vinuioatc theiu before the couu
try.
Such a spectacle of firmness was n novoltc
in these days, but a still greater novelty was in
reserve. From the moment that Mr. Broder
tck toox his stand, he, and ail those associated
with him, became the objects of a series of
persecutions of the most abandoned audsavjge
character. For doing nothing more than main
taining a consistent and courageous adherence
to repeatedly deliued Democratic principles,
they have been traUuced and viilifl jd t>y every
instrument that could bo employed aguiust
them by the Administration. How Stephen
A. Douglas was attacked is historical. The
page that describes that achievement of tho
Federal Aduiiuistifctioo, foul as it is, is bright
aud clean iu comparison with that whiou pre
serves for tho amazement and indignation of
posterity the record of the cruelly practised
upon Mr. Broderiok. Never before in this
country have public men been so shamelessly
hounded for tne exercise of honest opiuious.
Brodetiek began life surrounded with disad
vant ges. Hi? progress had been a long, bitter
battle with adversity, Thrown in early years
among scenes which tested his his endurance
by teaching him uiauy of the severest lessons
of misfortune,Jio went to California, to use his
owu expression, that he "might rise above his
class," aud make for himself an honorable
name, ileuohiug tho new Slate when it was
boiling over with ah thd elements of iutcatiue
tumult and innovation; when it was escaping
from one condition of oxistenoe into auother,
h ? soon became an active participant in poli
ties, and, by his energy and his courage soon
acquired a place in tue front rank of the rc
marKabie race of utou ten years ago attracted 1
to tho shores of the Pacific. In such a commu
nity no ordinary talents could succeed. The
emigratiou from the older States was composed
not only of intellect of the highest order, but
of fiery valor aud daring ambition. In the
oager contest for promotion, iu ttio 6trife for
the lead, the weak and the corrupt had to give
way to the brave and the bold; and although
Sir. Hro'leriolt, in achieving the Senate of the
United State, after r posted failures, (having
at least at one trial, been deprived of hie seat
in that body by the most unblushing fraud,)
when he did reach it there was not a stain up
on his character, and not a friend who did not
feel proud of him
lie came into the Senate as James Buchanan
cauro into the Presidency The ballot-box
which gave the one the electoral vote of Cali
fornia, created the Legislature which elected
the other to the United States Senate. Brod
eriek had been to Buchanan in the contest for
delegates to tbo Cincinnati Convention a hero
ic and self sacrificing friend. At tire time this
contest took piaee, no man wielded a larger
share of power, honestly acquired, tlian Mr.
Broderiek; and this power he turned like a
torrent, into the Buchanan movement, thus con
tributing to the success of toe Buchanan del
egates to the Convention, while such men as
Senator Wur. M. Gwiu, Benjamin F. Washing
ton, the Collector at. Satt Francisco, and even
Milton S. Latham, the Governor elect, Mood
off, either indifferent or hostile. Oa the an i
vul of Mr. Broderiek at Washington, he soon
found that his foes had got betwoeu hiui and
the President of his choice, and tbat Mr. Bu
chanan, wirh that fatal facility so peculiar to
himself sieve he has grasped the sceptre, hid
begun to listen to influences against which an
ordinarily grateful man wonld have indignant
ly and hermetijaliy sealed bis bosom. Tho
very aspirants whom Brotlenuk himself, when
lie held the Legisl iture of California in bis
hands, had carried into place, and who had
voluntarily proffered to him tho whole control
of the patronage of his State, in return for his
generous magnanimity, usmp-d this patronage
with the assistance of the President, and at
teotpteJ to degrade their benefactor. Separa
ted from his friends by thousands of miles—
many of whom relied upon him to cure for
their interests in the sew dispensation of af
fairs—asking nothing for himself and having
attained his place in (ho Senate by no unmanly
merits, au ordinary organization would have
quailed under such a blow. But Broderiek
wrote back to California to tell the gallant men
who had 6tood by him. that he found himself
powerless at the Federal oapitol, and 'hat they
t mii-t bide their time.
To> proud to make this delibera'e personal
slight the bisis of a war upon the Adminis
tration, no man in Washington was capa
ble or willing to give a disinterested and effect
ive support to the President. No muu more
gladly responded to his promise of fair play to
the people of Kauscs ; for no man had seen
the great principle o£ Popular Sovereignty
more triumphant, especially in its results iu
the organization of the State of California.—
liut Mr. Buchanan, almost in a night, turned
his back upon the right, denied his pledges to
principle, written as they are, and were, all
over the campaign of 1856, and in nearly every
public document up to a certain period in 1857;
und when be attempted to make his own
metamorphosis a test upon his party, Mr. lirod
eiiek was found among the protestante. Ho
raised his voice against this guilty act, and de
elarcd LU ra.ol utioa cover to yield up his ow
honor at the bidding of the Executive.
Xpeu began a crusa'ie upi-n this nun unex
ampled, as w have sail, iu political annals.—
The word was given to uil the organs of the
Administration to show no mercy to the reso
lute "rebel." lie was singled out for disgrace
and decapitation. His name was held up be
fore the people as a hissing and 3 scorn. The
kennels were raked tor epithets agiiust bim.—
I tie most offensive fabrications were published
to discredit him. Every personal attribute
was denied to him. Tho tact that be had be-
gun life without the advantages of education
was flung into his teeth, coupled with incou
i ceivable in.-ult and ignominy. Upstarts tauot-
I ed hiuj with his ••low Lrth aud iron fortune."
i lie was iu a sort of social quarantine. lie was
poiuted at by the minions of cfticc as a traitor,
aud mjro than ouce threats of personal violence
were made, tie fulfil merit of which was ouiy
. prevented t>y the fact that tho3e making them
knew they had to deal with a spirit as interpid
as the priueiple he held iu his hands was irre
-1 sistible. The departments were shut upon him.
| Although a Seu.itor from a sovereign State,
having rights wbieh could neither be limited
uor lessened by party lines, ho wis as steadily
excluded from all participation in the affairs of
i 'he Administration as if he had sat in the Freuch
i Assembly. Nor was his owu course iu this
crisis marked by violence or passion. It is to
I his credit, that, while conscious that he stood
1 almost isolated in the Senate, he preserved a
; wonderful cquauimity and moderation of de
| portinent. No man would have more heartily
, rejoiced if the Administration had retraced its
j first false step, and regretted its contiuuance in
I the path of wrong.
Before the eiose of the last Congress, how
j ever, the man had made his mark, ever, upon
; many who had doubted biut at the start; and
when he left Washington, there were not want
ing Southern, as well as Northern UJCU, who
voluntarily did credit to his integrity, his sin
cerity, and unyielding devotion to principle, as
he uuders'ood it, and his uufaltoriug opposition
to all schemes of pluuder. He returned to
California, in company with Mr. McKibbin,
only to find that the way had been prepared
tor him by his adversaries, and that the long
arm of Federal power hid been stretched out,
holding forth the iron rod to lash him into
submission, or to cow bitu into silence. It is
impossible faithfully to describe to the people
of the older States—even accustomed as they
are to the insolence and profligacy of the effice
holder* of the Federal Government—the des
potic ooitrol of the office-holders in the States
of Or eg n and California, and in the Territory
of Washington. The millions appropriated by
Congress, in almost every conceivable and iu
eooueiviblo shape, under various pretexts, and
expended under the eye of Mr. Buchanan and
his satellites, are building up on the Pacific
border overshadowing official oligarchy,
which penetrating everywhere, is enabled to
crush out independent, opinion, and to domineer
over independent meu. When the vast sums
involved in the various mail routes—overland,
ist human, aud oceauic—the hundreds and
thousands expended in the suiveys of publio
lands, roturniog scarcely a dollar to the public
treasury ; the management of the various lu
dia.it tribes ; the fortifications of the coast ;
tlio navy yard, the docks, the public stores,
the custom house, the mint, the post office de
partment, the contracts for supplies of all
kinds, naval and military—not to speak ot the
extravagant hope; engendered hy the conflicts
between the applicants for itivaluible mines of
gold, silver, and quicksilver,and the enormtms
war-debt of Oregon nod Washington ; —when
we reflect on all these thing", we may readily
calculate the chances of success of those tnen,
who—however fearless and sincere, and how
ever strong in the cause they advocate—have
no wealth to oppose to such an array of pat
ronage, aud no offices to proffer to a commu
nity in a great degree dependent upon the
bounties of tbe Administration.
lu proportion as these immunities were con
ferred upon the representatives of the Admin
istration in California, so did their sense ot
impunity increase. They felt that no only
bad Mr. Buchanan clothed them with imperial
prerogatives and placet! in their hands almost
incalculable treasure, but that, no matter how
they might outrage public sentiment and pros
trate stored principles—so that all was done
in tho name of the Administration tbty
should he piotected from punishment and re
sponsibility. Hence, Mr. Brtderiok placed
himself under the fl.ig o! Popular Sovereignty
and resistance to Executive dictation—which
flag l.e found fly ing on his arrival, ably sup
ported by same ol the fitst intellects ID Cali
fornia— the cry was raised that he must be ex
communicated, that not only bad he forfeited
all claim to position in the ranks of the Demo
crauo party, but that his lift was forfeited. —
in the tuifllmeut of tiiis purpose, their fitst at
tempt was to eugage him in a personal quarrel,
at the beginning of (lie Campaign, lie deoliu
ed the challenge in a frank and explicit letter,
Daring it to be inferred that tie would fight
the battle for the right bravely io the end, and
then would be able to act without compromising
others.
\Y hat transpired in this campaign ts also a
nutter ot history. That Mr. Brodcrick should
speak plainly was to have been expected after
all that had taken place iu Washington aud in
California. Hut it was evident that he w; s a
marked man. Any oue who has paid attention
to the California newspapers will remember
how frequently it wax predicted that he would
bo shot down iu thl streets.
We have i.oticed, during all the campaign
which terminated in September in California,
a uumbcr of article*, iu Administration j uir
uals threatening the contingency wLioh Lwa at
last arrived, ami in one newspaper an indivi
dual wis referred to (wo cannot say whether
Judge ferry or aether person) as having been
designated as the executioner of David C.
Biodcriek. in this couueetion it may be well
to add that the Mr. Perley who challenged Mr.
Broderick at the beginning of the canvass
(which challenge he deoliued) had been the
former Jaw partner uf Chief Justice Terry.—
T'ue reader will perce;ve, from the whole his
tory of the la.-t two years, that, so far as Mr.
Broderick was concerned, it was a foregone
conclusion of the Administration that he should
bo sacriticod. Their purpose in this respect,
unhappily for them, has not been coneouled. —
The maumr in which they at letup ed to involve
Stephen A. Douglas in a personal quarrel at
the Federal Capital is fimiliar to all men.—
Their outrages upon the independent mea iu
the House, who refused to acquiesce iu their
abandoned betrayal of principle, are equally
notorious. During all of Mr. Broderiek's
participation iu the movement against the Ad
ministration on the Territorial question, his
friends Islt that his life was in constaut jeo
pardy, and when he left for California he seem
ed to be iiapiessed with the fact that he never
would eeo th.'iu again.
Many years ago the Aiu rioan people Were
profoundly excited by the Cilley due!. A
young Representative in Congress, for certain
words spoken iu debate, was eutrapped into a
conflict which he was too intrepid to refuse,
and went out upon the fic-ld and was slaughfer
ed. But Junatuan Cilley fell for an Adminis
tration, and iu a personal difficulty, David 0.
Broderick has yielded up his life for a sacred
p inciple. If he hid surrendered to the blan
dishments of the Administration, he might to
day be living among his numerous friends
It was only because be refused to compromise
the truth, aud to abandon bis solemn pledges,
that we are now called upon to in urn his un
timely death. Thus has closed a puro, beau
tiful aud stainless lite' Thus has fallen the
first great martyr to the politioal principles of
the campaigD of 1856 ! We ask the arch-trai
tor to those principles if, in his old age, and in
the sunset of his life, he c m feel that his hands
are clear of tho heart's blood of David 0.
Broderick 1
ARMIES FATAL TO FREEDOM.— Are we re
solutely to shut our eyes to the lessens of
history on this subject ? How were the liber
ties of llome destroyed ? Precisely in this
w iy—the extent of ber conquests compelled
her to maintain immense armies in ber remote
provinces ; and these, when summoned back,
became the willing instruments of tyranny at
home. "The decline of llome," says Gibbon,
"was ;he natural and iucvltible effect of i;n
moderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the
principle of decay; the causes of destruction
multiplied with the extent of conquest; and
us soon as time or accident had removed the
artificial supports, the stnpmdous fabric yield
ed to the pressure of its own weight. The
stoiy of its ruin is simple and obvious , and
instead of inquiring why the Rotuiu Empire
was destroyed, we should rather be surprised
that it had subsisted so long. The victorious
legions, who in distant wars acquired the vices
strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed th;
freedom of the republic, and afterwards viola
ted the majesty oj the peopled'
But, much more receutly. and uiuch nearer
home, we have had a warning example, which
it would be the height of infatuatiou to over
look. There can be bur one sentiment, aud
that of deep execration, at the atrocious aud
dastardly attempt lately (1358) mile upon the
life of tho Emperor of tho French, but amid
all our horror and indignation of that ciiiue,
we icust not forget that tho *tato of things iu
that country is such as no friend of freedom
can look upou without bitter regret. Every
trace of liberty has vanished. The noblest
tiiiuds of France are either in exile, or so fet
tered, gagged and humiliated, that they dare
not give any utterance to their thoughts. And
by what means has a Country ot thirty six
millions of sonls, certainly among the most
intelligent aud civilized on the face of the
oartb, been brought to this condition of abject
political servitude ? What was the instrument
of their enslavement aud degradation f We
entreat our readers to mark this answer— the
Army of Algeria, it will be found that this
is strictly correct. The officers, who were the
ready implements for suppressing every trace
of liberal institutions in France—your Buge
auds and St. Aruauds—were men who had
been trained in that school of African conquest.
The men who had fleshed their swords upon
the Arabs, were equally ready, when occasion
came, to strangle the lif erties of their own
country, end to sweep the streets and boule
vards of Paris with their dastardly and deadly
fusillades.— Herald of Peace
THE ROYAL HOUSES OF HAPSBUHO, OF
ACBTBIA, ANI> BKANDENBUBO, OF PaessiA.
The celebrated House of Hapsburg, to which
the Imperial family of Austria belongs, is of
Swiss ex'rac'ion. It originated in tbe canton
of Argaw. Tbe frniiiy boilt a lofty castle,
which, from its height and roeky position, ob
tained th-j Qouw of liapsharg, or Haur-castie.
It still txiots. The proprietors of this
kept extending their influence, uutil they be
came the must powerful family in Switzerland.
In 1273, Kodolph, Count of liapsburg, was
elected Emperor of Germany. His fautily re
tained the throne up to 1805, whcD they re
nounced the titie of Kuipcror of Germany, and
became Emperor of Austria.
The House of 11 raudeahu'g, tbe roy : >1 fom-
I i!y of Prussia, also grew up from an humble
! beginning.
J*n the eaily middle ages there na3 gradual*
ly formed, in tbe north of Germany, a State
calied the Margraviat* of Brsodenburg, of
which the old city of that name, on the Havel,
was the principal place. The reigning family
of this jetty State having become extiuct in
the first years of the fifteenth oentarv, the then
Emperor of Germany, (Charles IV.) gave it to
his son Sigisuiund, who succeeded inm on the
throne of Germany. Sigismond, shortly after
corning to the throne, resolved to have a Coun
cil of the Church convened, which took place
at Constance, a city cf the empire, and lasted
from 1415 to 1419. Being much tn want of
money for the holding of this council, he sold
the Margravlute of Brandenburg to Frederick,
a burgrave of Xuremburg and Cour.t of Hc
henjrolD.-n, a petty principality, which lies al
most in the centre of the modern kingdom of
W urtemburg, in the southeru pirt of Geran
ny. Frederick took possessions in the ncrth,
and became the founder of the present royal
family • f Prus-ia, which is rf en called the
House ot Hobenzollern.
THE WISCONSIN BEAU FIGHT.— The bears
seem to be cowing up flicker and faster in tho
nurtheru counties of Wisconsin. The Prairie
Du Ciiten Leader says, Mr. Otson Jackson saw
one a week ago, in lie towu of Ccuiec. Ed
ward Davis says the Kukapco woods arc full
of them; that they kill the hogs before the
farmers' eyes. Several have been shot near
Mount Sterling. Saturday week a large one
w is seen on the Grant county side of the Wis
cousin, opposite Biiig"port. In Grant Coun
ty, ue.ir the line, a liitle fellow, Id yeats old,
shot a big biaek bear. The Leader heard that
a worn m and child were p.-irtly eateD by a bear
up in the pitierit s, on the Kickapoo, but the
inform .tion is not entirely reliable. Out in
Ourtis' Settlement several were seen week be
fore last, and one was killed. A hear was seen
by a Mr. Barker the bluer day, within five,
miles of Madison, and he stood with his fore
paws on a fence by the roadside, and quietly
-urveyed Mr. Barker as he passed, lie after
wards weut into the woods. Severs! were re
cently seen near Sauk U.ty, and one was Killed
by a son of Mr. Alieiouu ou the farm of J.
Ftvuscb.
ELECHCITY IN CATS.—Tim extraoruinary
electrical character of the cat is weil knowo.
OD a cold bright day, if a cit be stroked, foe
hairs of 'he fur bristle up, and electrical sparks
issue therefrom, accompanied wi'h a slight
crackling. It appears too that tbeanitml may
be so surcharged with electricity that it will
give a severe shock to the holder. In order to
obtain this result, t'ue cat should be placed on
the knees and one hand applied to its breast,
while the other is employed in stroking its fur.
Crackling and sparkles soon makes their ap
pearance, and in a short?iitue, if the party con
tinues to stroke the animal, Le will receive a
sharp electrical shock that may bo felt above
the wiists. The cat seems to suffer as much
as the experimenter, for on giving forth the
shock she springs to the ground in terror, and
seldom will permit a repetition of the samo
process.
It is stated that Col. Fremont has written a
ielt >r, declaring that be is nut and will hot he
a Presidential candidate in 1860, lis is rep
resented as closing his Wte: in following lan
guage :
"I consented to iudd that telation in 1856,
against tny better judgment and will, but I
was assured that those who would rally around
tne possessed tire power esseotial to tny election;
and I confess that the 'bauble,' as it might
have been called by Oliver Cromwell, posses
sed attractions which I could not well resist.
Hut I would not again encounter all the vexa
tion, mortification, and annoyance I then en
countered, it the reward were to be ten thousand
presidencies."
: The following Daniel gentlemen will tako their
| seats for (he first iiuo in the United States Son
j ate on the first Monday io December next, on
I which day the first session of thirty-sixth Con
gress will commence: Willard Salisbury of Del
aware; .1 .me> \\ Grimes of I"T.r, Lazarus VT.
Powell of Kentucky; Kinsley S. Bingham of
Michigan; John C. Ton Kyck of New Jersey.
I Into is Bragg of North Carolina; 11. la. An
thony of Rhode Island; A. 0. P. Nioholsen >f
rennessee; J. W. Hemphill of Texas.
The St. L >uis Douioorat says that upwards
of four huudrod slaves leave that State every
week, nearly all of whoa go to the South, and
argues that this draining must soon rid the State
of Slavery. The gross reoeipts of moDey in
Missouri from this source, this year, it is thought
will amount to millions of dollars.
In awarding ihe premium of three silver spoons
to three babies bum at one birth, who were ex
hibited at the reieut National Pair in Chi .'ago.
President Tilghmau delivered a speech conclud
ing will the advice: ''go thou ami do likewise.
The town elections ot Connecticut have just
taken place. A very large majority of tiie towns
heard from haveelected Republican Boards, and
some of them show unexpected nnd gratifying
gvins upon the vote of list year.
C<>!. Benton once said that Mr. Douglass
co t tail was too close 10 the ground for him ever
to be President.