BEDFORD INQUIRER BEDFORD. Fa. Friday Morning Mo v. 25, 1555). "FEARLESS AND FREE." H. OVESi— Editor and Proprietor. VOR PRESIDENT IN 1860, RON. SniON fIMEBON, Of PENNSYLVANIA, (Subject to the decision of the National Contention.) PEOFLI 'S STATE CONVENTION. The Citizens of Pennsylvania, w'io are op posed to the principles and measures of the pres ent National Administration, and to the elec tion of men to cfSce who sustain those princi ples and measures, arc requested to meet in their respective counties, and to elect delegates equal in number to tbeir representatives in Gen eral Assembly, to a PEOPLE'S STATE CON VENTION, to be held at H AIiRISBUKG, on WEDXESDAY, February 22.1860, at 12 M., to indicate their choice for the next Presidency, nominate a candidate for Governor, form an Electoral ticket, appoint Senatorial, and to des ignate the time and mode of fleeting District Delegates to the National Convention, and to transact such other business as may be deemed necessary to ensure succtssat the General Elec tion. LEV I KLINE, Chairman People's Executive Committee. The Gazette of last week says that the Lo eofocos of New York have gained since 1856, "two hundred and fifty thousand rotes /" Instead of that the Republicans were beaten by the united American and Lo cofoco vote some 40,000! Let the Ga x tte tiy again his claims to relationship with Tom Pepper are certainly fully establish ed. Ilere'3 the Tribune's article: The Express exults over the result of our re c~nt election on this basis: ♦The Fremont majority in this State,in 1856, was 80,126." Hence it argues that our late election shows ' a Republican loss. But Fremont's majority ; aforesaid was a plurality only. Tho united ; Democratic and Amc-ricaa vote was more than j forty thousand higher than Fremont's. Now, j the candidates who received the united vote of. the Democrats and Americans are either de- ! feated, or if elected, have certainly not a thou- | sand majority over those supported by the Re- ; pubiioaas alone. Never before did the Repub- j licaQ3 poll so a proportion of the entire j vote of our State as at the election of week be fore last. People's Meeting. Tl.o People's Meetiug on Tuesday tight was j large and enthusiastic - , at ie addresses were made , by lion. A. Kiug, lloss Forward, Esq., of Som < r-<e% and lion. F. Jordan. Spirited Resolu tions were adopted. Jobu 11. Filler, Esq., was cbosou Representative Delegate to the next State Gotvehtion. Hon. S. L. Russell, John King, Esq., and David Over, were chosen Coa f rees to appoint a Senatorial Delegate. The proceedings will be published io out li! xt. That our hands may bo able to keep Ttnnks giviug Day, our paper is published a little ear lier this week than usual. The Boot on the Other Foot. Since the riot at Harper's Ferry, the loading Democratic presses of the country havo been laboring bar 1 to fasten the odium of the affair upon the Opposition party, because the names ul some of its members are mentioned in a few of the letters fouud in old Brown's carpet-bag, which, wc have no doubt, tvtre written by sjme. l/XO loco, thinking thai they would Bud their way into the public press, and be the means of manufacturing a little political capital for the defunct carcass of Modern Democracy. If this is to bo the tost, the Loco Fuco party ia equally responsible for the Harper's terry af fair, as a number of ihe shining lights of that party are a.'ixed up wi'U the transaction, if we arc to judge from the letters found in that •famous carpet-bag. Let us examine toe case, and n ee f wc em't put the boot on the other foot. o.ipt. Cook, it is odaii'ted, is a Democrat.— Tim P.usburg (iaitlte says ho is the brother in-law of Gov. WilUrJ, of Indiana, one of the whiskey-drinking, toimc -o-cbewing, vitupera tive k'n 1 of Democrats ; and that distinguish ed light in tue Democratic church, with Dan'l Webster Voorhces, Democratic United Spates District Attorney, and Jos. E. McDonald, Democratic Attorney General of the State of Indiana, are all at Charles town, Virginia, to 1 >ok after the fate of the commander of the Democratic forces of the "Provisional Govern ment,'' Gov. Wiliard's distinguished brothcr in law. Bright and Pitch, the U. S. Senators by virtue of the false certificate of Willard, ought to volunteer their services. Old Brown is not so fortunate as Cook ; he lias no State or Federal rfficcr to plead his cause. Arc uot these Democrats, then, "eleai iy implicated" with Cook ? Else, why do they rush, with jigbtuicg speed, to his rescue ? Ho did not send for them, or employ them, nor did any ooc else soiiait their attendance ; yet they set cH t',r Cuarlestown the moment they heard of llook's arrest. But this is not all. Auioug the John Brown literature which has Leeu published, we have the following : "We have also a small memoranda, bouk, which belongs to Kealf, one of the party ; on the fly-leaf is writteu tho address of 'Elias Longley & Bro., between Fourth and Fifth streets, Cincinnati,' and 'my dear friend James Guthrie, Louisville." The "very dear friend" of this conspirator, "James Guthrie, ->f Louisville," is a celebra ted Demcratio candidate for ihe Charleston nomination, liis way to Charleston, it seems, lies through Chariest jwa. How is it that he should be found to occupy such close aul con fidential relations with this gmg cf conspira tors I It Senator Seward is to be implicated, how is Mr. Guthrie, the "very dear friend" of some of the plotters, to escape suspicion ? He, too, is "ciearly implicated." But the mine grows lioher s we proceed.— One of the letters iu John Brown's carpet bag, signed J. Smith, directed to llenrio, of Chaniberaburg, commehcis thus : ''Dear Sir: I yesterday received yours cf the i'dtb iust., together with letter of instruc tions froai our mutual friend Isaac, enclosing a draft for $100." Can "our mutual friend Isaac" be uny other than the present Secretary of the Navy, Isaac Touoey ! Certainly this points as explicitly to him as the initials and other hints contained in Brown's correspondence which the i'euioc racy are trying to apply to leading Republi cans. A correspondent of one cf the eastern pam pers says : "lias it ever occurred lo you that Guv. Wise is at tho bottom of this Harper's Ferry insurrection ? Brown was but endeavoriog to carry out the programme which the Governor had proposed lor himself iu case Fremont had been elected to the Presidency, viz : Seize upon the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, raise an army, march to Washington, take possession of the city, and dissolve the Union." Clearly the Governor gave to Br. vn •',? hint upon which be acted. THE WIIEAT-HTACK INSURRECTION. Oa Thursday night a s f ack of wheat on a farm, about three miles from Chariostown, Va., was burned, either by accident er design, and the grand o!! Common wealth of Virginia was immediately shrkeu to i s centre. Gov. Wise and President Buchanan were ir.stsutly tele graphed to; troops were seat from all quar ters, end within twenty-four Lours there were 1 more than one thousand well armed men at Charksiown, and tho Federal government was | hurrying on powder, minio ball* and howitzer I shells. "Behold how great a matter a little fire kindlcth." The State of Virginia is qua king, ail about a burnt grain stack. She has j an army in the field, but nothing to fight; for ' the insurgent fire whs burnt out long before a ! soldier arrived. It did not even require a bucket of water. la the midst o.' the gloom created by the impending tragedy at Charles; own— the exe cution of John lirowu ani hid associates—tLi whiai stack insurrection excites feelings of the ludicrous that cannot lo repressed, aud it will, we know, to a subject of mortification and shcrno ia Virginia, aud cf noicule at the North. Lot there be nothing more said of "an irrepressible conflict; I 'an irrepresvit lc terror is the phrase, for such a terror has seized upon the Virginians, and they ;re r.o longer able to siecp souudly in their beds. Phuniom iu>ur gents haunt them; spectru! Browns and Cooks flit across their paths. '•Shadows, te night, Have struck more terror to the heart of Richard. Than can the substance of tea thousand soldiers Armed in proof." But even a tilly panic like this, which far surpasses in absurdity the Harper' J Ferry panto, is not to be treated flippantly. It be trays a much more serious organic and consti tutional weakness in the slave-holding commu nity thao we at the North have had any con ception of. Let the Southencrs talk as they will about the loyalty of the slaves and the security of their masters, this last fright shows that neither can be reiied on. The whites are in constant diead of tue blacks ? the patriarchal institution is a continual nightmare to the Southerners. One or two more such displays of weakness an t terror will show the blacks how great tucir power is und how much they sre feared, and when they arrive at this know ledge, there will come the day for a real, well grounded terror. It is time for the people of Maryland and Northern Virgiuia to think seriously of what they suffer from slavery ; to contrast their condition of nervous uneasiness with the secure p.ospority of (heir neighbors iu Pennsylvania. It is time for them to acknowledge that slavery, in (heir latitude, at least, is an evil and a burden, it is time for tueni to begiu to rid themselves of it—not by sudden emancipation, for that is out of the question; but by driving slavery further SJutb, thus opening their terri tory to the blessings of freedom, and brioging security to a panic-stricken people.— P/iila. Bulletin. A Little too Fast. At a Democratic mans meeting at Maus&eld, Ohio, just before the lute electiou in that State, Senator Douglas, the aspiring candidate for the Presidency ; Kufus P. lluuuey, the Democratic candid ite for Governor \ and Geo. E. Pirgh, a Democratic candidate for re-election to the United States Senate, were present. \Y e have the following report from one of the Cleveland papers : "Douglas 1 Dooglis 1 Douglas 1" shout the Popular Sovereigns. Senator Pugh—"Fellow Democrats ! I have the pleasure of iDtioduoiog the ucit Presi mwmm mmmm. 'deut of tho United States—Stephen A. Doug las 1" Senator Douglas—"Fellow-Democrats ! 1 cannot mike a speech to you now, but I take the liveliest satisfaction in introducing to your high consideration the next Governor of Ohio, the Hon. Rufus P. llanney !" After u few words of spclogy for not speak ing, from the "next Governor," the cry is "Douglas ! Douglas! Douglas !" again from the popular sovereigns. Senator Douglas—"Fellow-Democrats ! 1 must he excused from addressing you at this time. I am, however, more than gratified in introducing to you the present and the next i Senator from Ohio, the ehqaeut George E. : Pugh !" I'ugh bows, smiles, and roars ! The sovor j eigus "throw up their greasy caps." They I uncover before the illustrious trio of next Sen j ator, Governor, und President! "Expressive silence muse their praise." Since then the Ohio election has been bold. Runuey was not elected "the next Governor of Ohio;" Pugh will not be the "next Seua : tor," and as for Douglas—well, his chauces j are about as good as were those of Ranucv ! and Pugh ! STATE TREASURER. The Hon. Henry D. Monro has been ug i gested as tho next candidate of the People's I Party for State Treasurer. We do not know > whether Mr. Siifer wiii again seriously con j template pushing his claims or not, hut the \ people of many portions of ihu State think ' that two terms in that office is enough for any j one roan. Mr. Siifer has made a god officer, ! hut we think he should stand aside, and give others a chance; besides he belongs to a pirty thai professes to the principle of rotation in office. Mr. Moore, should he be so fortunate as to secure an election, would tnake an able aud efficient officer.— Bedford Inquirer. The handsome majority we have in both i branches of the Legislature will no doubt in duce other gentlemen to sek the office of Slate Treasurer, but Lancaster county is not like ly to have a candidate, the name of tho Hon. Henry I). Moore will have quite a3 strong el-iim.3 upon the members from ibis county as any other likely to be presented. Mr. Moore aid good service to our cause in Philadelphia during the last c.mpaigrj, and it is no more and (Uven members of tho House that the claims of Philadelphit shcull be recognized. It has too long been the ptactiae of both par ties to ignore the claims of Pkili-Jelphia tn the distiibution of State offices. When has Philadelphia hid a Governor, U. S. Senator, Auditor or Surveyo- General, or State Troas urei? We from tho interior may have the powet to continue to ignore Philadelphia, but might docs not always make right, and pobcy as well us justice should induce tho Republi- of the interior to extend to our Philadel phia triends tho right band < f fellowship and good will, and show rbeui by their acts that when we ask them, iu view of past differences, to continue iu the good work 4 of casting a uui- | ted vote against tho Candidates aud measures of the Democratic party, that we mean that it shall be cordial and sincere, aud to extend to the distribution o~ tho offices also. Wo be lieve Mr. Muoro j tr "Representative" man, of a large cb meut of our strength in Phila delphia, of irreproachaMe private character, and in every w..y qualified for the office; nud without having any unkind feelings towards Mr. Siifer, our present acknowledged able Treasurer, or suy other gentleman who may be named in connection with the office, we hearti ly endorse all that is said by the Bedford In- ! quirer, in iV.vrr of Mr. Moore.*--La<ic<:*for j Examiner. j STATE TKEASUREJJ. —The uome of Henry j D. Moore, formerly a member of Congress from the city of Philadelphia, is mentioned as ' a candidate for State Treasurer, in the room j of Eli Slifex, the preseut incumbent, who, it is said, has become wealthy out of the iat pick- i ings obtained from the office, from a tsro years' ! holding. Strong efforts will be made to elect ; Mr. Moore, who will go before the Convention , backed by the whole city delegation,— JJela- j ware Republican. .CONTESTED ELECTION. Since the glorious and complete overthrow of the Democratic Reformers— the par excel- ! lent gcutleman of Baltimore, by the bono aQd sinew of that glorious old city, they have ta- i ken in hand to contest the election of every man who was not on their ticket, even to the ; Magistrates and Constable, with a kno'.viedge of the fact, which no honest and sane man will ' deny, that Bait, is overwhelmingly opposed to j them, they imagine tint because the democracy has a majority in the Legislature, they will be able to succeed in their designs of robbing the Americans of the positions to which they have been elected. But in this they will be disap pointed, for we opine that neither the Legisla ture or the courts will refuse to acknowledge J (he justice of the claims of those men who ; shall present their certificates of -election.— \ We arc pleased to see, however, that the <ie- I mocracy is not to have it ail its own way. — While they contest tus seats of others, theirs | will also be contested, for unless the journals j which reach us are unreliable, the most gross i frauds and outrageous bribery has been prac ticed to defeat the Opposition in the State.— The Snow Hill Shield, a democratic paper, de nounces their course in Worcester as scandalous open and uublushinz. In Kent county, two Custom House officers were on the ground in- i terfering in the election, aud it is reported that j as high as §SO were p-:il fur one democratic ! vote. Bilt. county was carried fot the Democ- • racy by notorious colonizing from tbo Ist and ! 2d wards of the city in the 12tb district, front, the Bth ward, in the 9th district, aud from tho 18th and 19.h wards in tt.e Ist district. The Hunters, a democratic club in tue 17th ward, numbering about 100 meu, voted in the sth district tu Anne Arundl* county. In Freder ick, too, it is s id there is ample proof of ille gal voting, and we iiavo frequently heard the inquiry proposed, 'where did the iuttueuse in crease of votes in Weaternport, in this county, come from?' Instead of there being an in creased vote at this precinct, every fact with which we are couversaut poiuts to a falling off from what it was two years ngo. With these facts before them, our friends in Worcester, Kent, Frederick, JJaltimoro aud Anne Arun dle, and possibly several other counties, have determined to aontest the seats of the members returned to the legislature, aud if there is ! anything like fairness showu, tbo democratic majority may dwindle down o tho little end of nothing heat out.— Cumberland Telegraph. Wreck of (he Royal Charter. Harrowing Scenes on Board and in Water. Full particulars received by the Asia of the wreck of the Royal Char lor, show that the di saster was one of the most appalling on record. AD eye witness says : Tho scenes on board during the last hour wore painful beyond description. Wives aud husbauds, children and parents, lovers and fiionds, were embracing each other will the consciousness that they were about to meet in evitable death- The ltev. .Mr. Hodge, a cler gyman from New Z .-aland, before this had eoni ineoced a prayer meeting in the saloon, which was earnestly participated in by most until the crash and ruin, aud the flooding of water '-ren dered a panic universal. On the vessel break ing open, numbers of people were to be seen flowing about for a few minutes, but with the strength of the wares, the masses of debris which covered the .seu and struck many a brave and struggling man's brains out, but few were able to gain a firm hold of land. Four hundred and fitty-fivc persona were kiiied and drowned. A gentleman named Welsb, while in the lower ealoon, tied two black canvas bags full of gold around bis neck; bo was lost. Several other passengers fasteued money about their persons; all were lost. The captain was seen giviug orders on deck with a spar lashed to him, so that be might be prepared to flu •. He was again seen strug gling in the water, lay lug bold of a yardarui, and it every now and then being washed from his grip. On recovering bis spar, by a deter mined effort, be on two occasions cried out cheer fully, "There is hope yet." After this he and Mr. Do wie, the second officer, were seen on the lee side of the ship, struggling to reach the shore, when a boat fell from the davits and struck ihcm both on the head, after which they were seen no more. Hue incident is related, that when ihe oaptuiu bad beer, struck prostrate on j deck, exhausted, be Saw the water steal a child I from its mother's amis—a Jewess—and d ish it | about tho deck, be cried out to the chief officer, ' Mr. Stevens, to give a band there, and to lash ! the child by a rope, no doubt expecting at that j time that help would be SJOU available. On shore, the villagers and the sailors who had es- j caped unhurt linked hands, aud 'he bravest j stepped into the surf to catch bold of those whom the waves bore towards them on their crests be fore they were drawn back into the sea. Fore- | most in one link was Geo. Soaicar, aud he was j instrumental in laying hold of uine out of those i rescued, until exhausted, he fell senseless ou ? the rock, and was borne away . Gerrit Smith's —ltteoipi to Commit Suicide. With regard to insanity of G.'rri: Smith, 'he Utica Herald says : We ore greatly pained to learn that Gerrit Smith, the free hearted but sadly erratic phil anthropist, became ou Monday last an inmate of tiie New A ork S ate Luoatic Asylum, where it has been found recess iry to place him OD account of marked insanity. We learn that he is vorv violent, aud has exhibited a disposi tion to commit suicide, and that an attendant keeps constant watch over him to prevent him from iayiug vioient hands upon Limself. This result we bear attributed to the connection of Mr. Smith's name with the Harper's Ferry af fair, though many will regard it as the con sequence of long sealed and marked disease. Mr. Smith is said to have au hereditary dis position to insanity. His father, Peter Smith, though toe possessor of un immense estate, and surrounded by every circumstance of p/osperify, WAS subject to iits of profound des pondency daring wtiicb he was under the im pression that he would die a beggar. UuhvC ins noted son, Le was exceedingly sharp in hi" bargains and money affairs, it is also said that the iate Peter Sken Smith, the brother of Gerrit, was for soma time an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum, though when he died, Le was generally regarded as in possession of his reis/O. G"rnt Smith has lost ail hi< children except one, the wife of Colonel Miller, cf Pe'ers.boro. A nephew of Mrs. Smith, Col. Fitzhugb, was the captor of the fugitive Cook, a fact whic.b greatly dis turbed liie mind of Mr. Smith. Jot n Coch rane, a democratic politician of th'a city, another nephew of Gerrit Smith, has also, by his speeches, purgod himself of any complicity in the Harper's Ferry affair. No out is al lowed,to fee him, but it is understood that he refers ia Lis ravings to the Harper's Ferry matter., cad supposed himself arrested. MAKING FOOLS OF THEMSZLVES. —Our "chivalric" Southern friends are determiued to make themselves ridiculous. Recently a Yan kee was arrested in Mobile, and tbrcateued with §5,000 Sue if he did not leave the city at once, for uttering -'treasonable" language, by boasting that h had voted for Fremont, and expressing bis opinion of the "peculiar institution." Now wc find, in the Richmond tV/iisf, the following advertisement: REWARD.—JOSHUA It. GHIDINGS having openly declared himself a TRAITOR in a lecturo at Philadelphia, on tbe 28th of October, and there being no process, straugo to pay, by which he can bo brought to justice, I propose to be ono of a hundred to raise Sjj>lo,Uoo for Lis safe de livery in Riohmoud, or $5,000 for t'na pro duction of his head. Ido not regard this pro position, extraordinary as it may at first seem, either unjust or unmerciful. The law of God and the Oonstitu'ion of his country both con demn him. For satisfactory reasons i withhold my uauie from the public, but it is the bands of the EE iter of tho Richmond Whig. There will be no difficulty, I aiu sure, in raising the SIO,OOO upon a reusouabie prospect of getting the said Giddings to tins city. Richmond Nov. 1, 1859. • - -■ PRCACHING AN I) PRACTICE. Hon. Frank P. llUir, Jr., in order to illustrate the sinoeri i ty of his free labor preaching, emancipated in 1 the Circuit Court, yesterday, five slavos, as j follows : inrah, wife of Duprc, aged 12 and | 13 years ; also negro girl Courtenay, daughter iof said Sarah, about 12 years of ago; ulso i Sallie daughter of s*i i Sar.ib, about 9 years i of ago, also Lewis Williams, aged 45 years.— .V.'. Louis Bulletin, For the Inquirrr. | THE ADVANTAGE OF USEFUL KNOW LEDGE. Wo can hardly iungmu a more gloomy old age lhan lliat which falls to the lot of persons who have neglected to acquire ireful know ! ledge while young. Their youag dav# are j usually spent in acquiring external accnm | plii-hiiientH, while their juiud is almost entirely j neglected. M neo middle and old age arrives, j their bairen uiinds sigh in vain for eujoyments. j The pleasures which passed off so well iu youth | are eutireiy out of place in old age. When ! such persons come into society, and the oon | vernation happens to turu on some important j subject, as, for instance, ou science, or the his ! lwy f his country, they are compelled to be ( tray their ignorance by remaining silent, lint | very different is it with the man who has his ! mind well stored with useful knowledge. He ! will be welcomed and sought for by both old : and young, and every person will feci delight |td and benefitted while in his society. He I W 'U also be well prepared to fill any position, witu credit to hitnseli, which he may be called ou to fill. ihe advantage of useful knowledge is of great importance to mothers, because trie care, and, iu u great measure, the moral training o. her children are almost eiitiroiy lelt to her self. How "-Lull she bring them up iu the way they should go, wbeu her only aim has been to sbine like the butieifiy of summer, by the biiiliaucy of her cclors, and where tcr highest accomplishment has Leeu 10 make a poiit bow ! But uiore pleasant is the position of the mother who w. diligent m storing her mind with si, kinds of knowledge. Her ac complishments are ull of a high, elevating character. Che will Lave a urge store of use ful knowledge, from wui-h to draw instruction toi her children. She will have no time or in clination to listen to or tehearse the firing stoiies which circulate so rapidly in nearly ev- ! erv neighborhood, injuring many innocent per sons, and creating a feeling of ill will between | those who should be good friends. "She i opens her mouth with wisdom, and in her toDgue is Ihe law of kindness. She looks well to the ! ways of her household, add cats not the bread j of idleness. Her children rise up end c*ll her ; blessed; her husband uiso, and he praises her." i Give such '-of ihc fruits of her h-intls; and let ' her own works praise her." (J jouili ! consider well the importance of u-eful kuowiedge, and the pleasures and com forts it gives through oil age. Improve weii your time, cud do not spend it iu useless amusement-, which the young are so apt to in dulge iu. Remember that "knowledge is pow- j er," ud by possessing it, you may become! great aud virtuous. Tne world's greatest men ! and women were those who, while young like • you, and ail through iii'e, devoted their time I to some useful employment—to labor of the ; bauds, or Lead, or heart—and you, by follow iug their example, may yet shine like a bright star in the physical, intellectual or religious world. S. B. Iv. j Mr. Isaac Adams the inventor of the print- j ing press bearing his uame, admitted to ■ be the best hook press iu use, is out in a card j in the Boston Atlas renouncing modern De- ' inoerajy. It is a wonder that a man of Mr, Adam's genius should have remained wi'h them | so bag. lie thus speaks out : "The negro is the fulerum, ana lh-t United States Judiciary the lever by means of which those in power, an i their instruments, arc et tempting to subvert a right without which the people would soon be reduced to u state not fur above that of the Southern sieve. They crt "Popular Sovereignty !" and as Mr. Hallett said in his speech, "they menu whatever they flease by it;"' hut wiieu they say that slave properties ij the Territories must be protected by the use of the United States Courts for tnr.t purpose, even against the wiii of the people, and in spite of t.:.y tentorial law aguiu.it it, they mean ail they say, however thick the wordy covering of their intent may be" Roger A. Pryor has been elected to Cong ress frota the Petersburg district, in Virginia, to till a vacancy, iie is a believer in the "irrepressible conflict" between ">!uve labor end Free Labor," agreeing with Mr. Seward as to the existence of the conflict, and its con tinued existence, until one system is over thrown. Just now the Democratic papers are very busy in denouncing Mr. tfewari for ex pressing a like opinion. Vet they are rejoicing over the eiee'iori to Congress of Mr. Pryor, who, on the 2lih April, 1852, (long before Mr. .Seward uttered a Iik a thought) thus ex pressed himself : "Th<re must be a last oatlle between slavery ct.i l abolition, iie struggle will end only with the destruction of one or the other of the two hostile parliis. Shall the S-nth postpone the last decisive conflict uutil defeat is inevitable? The strength of the enemy is hourly increas ing. Every ship load of emigrants discharged in the streets of New \ort, AUGMENTS TUB FORCES OF ABOLITION, and every decennial count of the population of the country, rnaras the rapid dec'ino rf the South "There wao DO question of Jurisdiction to be settled, as he had made up his mind fu;lv : and after determining that the prieoucrs sbouid be tried in Virginia, HE V, OULD NUT HA\ E OBEYED AN ORDER TO THE CONTRA RY FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES."— [Extract from Go er 7ior Rise's speech at Richmond, after his return from the Harper's Ferry Riot.j tt?"Col Forney, in the Press o? Mo'itiay, says that in his speech, made on the above oc casion, of which tbo above is an extract from the telegraph report, Gov. Wise "has display ed a sagaoi'y and a liberality which should en title hiui to thetbauksof all Union-loving and Constitution obeying citizens," and has also "elevated himself info the atmosphere, of the Union!' Queer notion ! The Administration press are just now doing more than ten thousand, 'Ossawatomie Browns' could do, to excite an insurrection among the Slaves at the South. Only convince the Slaves, {as these papers seem determined to do) that all who profess Republicanism are ready to aid such an insurrection, and risings, at a hundred points, may be very speedily look ed for.— Alb. Eve. Jour. "Dou't fail to see SIXTH ANNUAL AN NOUNCEMENT," and brilliant offers, in au o'ber column. The following communication, over the w-ll kuown signature of a venerable native of ; Western Pennsylvania, appears in lb Pitts- J burg Gazette of Friday: TWO INstRRKOTKMtS , Editors:—Sixty-five years ago, when oar pop ulation was not cne-fifth of what it j s nfj £ when our U. S. Constitution was new and un tried, an insurrection took place in the count™ • arouud Pittsburg—public officers were grossly 1 abused by the insurgents, the U. 8. mail , robbed, friends of the government were driven j away, several thousands of men assembled io hostile array, the dwelling house of the chief officer here was assailed by armed men, and fi nally it, with the barn and its contents, w<>re burnt. An army of fifteen thousand men w*3 march ed out here, the insurrection wr i3 suppressed, * large Dumber of the rioters were arrested, i w . of them were tried for trea-on, convicted ani sentenced to death; all the others were dis charged, and finally George Washington p ar . ' doned the two who were coDGcted. So tL at the insurr ction was suppressed, and peace re : stored without ahedding cue drop of blood.— Truly this WMH a most glorious display of lenity j and Obmtiaa tenderers". I Recently another insurrection has occurred, j in a neighboring State, the rioters, instead ,f being many thousands io number, were fifteen j white men and five colored : troops were : promptly assembled, the insurrection crushed : it once, three-fourths of the insurgents killed end new four of the five survivors are under trial rot their lives, and no doubt, owing to [ the evidence uud the prejudices of court and ! jury, will bo found guilty, sentenced to death i and executed. . The two insurrections present a ntEirkuaie | contrast, and will, u<> doubt here T'er h? com , mettted upon freely. (', 1 _ _ _ """" Gerrit Smith, of abolition notoriety, is new an inmate of th? New York State Lunatic A>y luut, vrhife it I.as been found necessary to place him, en account of marked insanity, iie is ve.-y violent and has exhibited a disposition to commit suicide. This result, it is stated, i? at tributed to the connection of Mr. fc'inifh's naate with the Harper's Ferry affair, though macy will regard it as the consequence of long-scit ed and unrked disease. A nephew of Mrs.' Smith, Col. (Jlaggut Fitzbugb, the captor of the fugitive Cook, a fact which, it is also said, great ly disturbed the min i of Mr. Smith. A SIGNIFICANT FACT. —Although is is al ledgeu th.t a tu Lei of fsympathiziug letters, found iu tise custody of Brown, are in 'be pos ses don of Gov. \Yi-e, it is a uotorious fact that thus iar not one has been produced which W*B written by a memte.- of the Republican parts. If there were such in existence, we have not a doubt that they would bo forthcoming, as the Governor aud his frieues are extremely anxious to make out a cteoi case of complicity with th* insurrectionists on the part of leading men in the ranks of the grca: free soil organization. Mr. Ore • ey caen notified John Brown tbit there were sonic letters for him a; bis office, and that, he states, is ali he ever bid to do with him perscutily. G< eeley supposed Brown was in Canada, wnen ha turned up in Virginia. Brown also took the Tribune, and read the Bible. That is the "proof of Greeley's com plicity with Brow a Is not tu'f, s r B.; proof? There is a great deal of discussion go ng ot ju.-t r.ow upon the qtua'ton of hanging C! i Brown. Our opinion i?, that it turns eutireiy upon polical couaii'. 1 atious. He will be dealt with tu au; uuer that will bring ths ruost capital to the Democratic party, as ho is in their hands St Is a common observation that there arc more sufferers from debility, am out; Americans, than can be found among r.ny other civilized nation. The reason is obvious. We tike too little exercise, and forget the wants of the body in the absorbing pursuits of business. In all such cases, ordinary medicines can do little good. What is required is just sue-h a tonic and invigorator as Dr. J. Hostet tcr has given to the world, iu his CELEBRATED "BITTERS." The weak a.. .1 nervous denizen of the counting-house, the exhausted toiler upon the shop board, and the prostrate 1 student of the mid night lamp, have found a wonderful regenerator iu the "Bn~rKR3," and prefer it to more pretentions, hut less tlficacious medicines. But it should n>; be forgotten that the agent which is so magical in its infiue: ce upon a frame which is merely debilita ted, is equally powerful in assisting nature to expel, the most terrible forms of disease. Who will not give it a tml i Sold by druggists and dealers everywhere. advertisement in another column N'-.v 4, 1859. M EPIC A H IM POSSI niLi rrss. Fir along time a certain class of diseases hare baffled the skill and practice of the most eminent members ot the regttianuedical {acuity. Forem>s' among these we might instance epilepsy or falling fits. Happily nut by the skillan.t inventivegt-rrius of an eminent chemist of Baltimore, Md., this disease has been brought within the means of * cure. We allude to the preparation called the VEGETABLE EXTRACT FPlT.nrnc PILLS, invented and prepared by Dr. Sera S. UAXCF, log Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. Since tbeirdiscovery many poisons who hat given up all hope of ever being cured, have been restored to tins full enjoyment ft health. Prominent among these we might enumer ate Mr. fiAnmsox LiQirrroOT. of Huntsvillc, Ala lama. Mr L. has sufifere ias much from Epilepsy, p.s any other person iu the world : never knowing what it was to pass a week without having an at tack, and often falling in the streets of fluntsville- He is now fully restored and has not had an attack for more than a year- l)r. Hance's Fiils have been the sure cause of this cure. These pills also cure all modifications of Fits, Spasms, Cramps <J-c., and are very serviceable fur jersons of weak nerves Dr. Hance, sends them to any part of the coantry on the receipt of a remittance. Price, one box, $3: two boxes $5; twelve boxess24. Address Srra S. IIAKCE, 108 Baltimore street, Baltimore. Md. ANOTHER LETTER FROM TEXAS. TRAVIS. CO., Tex**. Aug. 15, 1854. : Messrs. Fleming Brothers— Dear Sirs There were 1 several cases of Chilis and Fever in ray mother i family at the time we received the M Lane's Liter ' Pills ordered in my letter of June 12th, and a few doses administered in each case produced the de sired effect, thus demonstrating tbo efficiency these celebrated Tills in that disease. Mother has not been Doubled with the sick ha<i i ache since she has commenced taking tln-ee l ib*. and as we hive but few of them Isft. >ou will please ! send us another ddl ir's worth. Direct as before, to ! Austin. Texas. KespvctfuHy yours. _ XIERDITiI \V. HENKi rryPurehasers will be careful to ask for PR- M'LANE'S CELEBRATED LIVER PILLS roar- I nfsctured by FLEMING BROS, of Pirrsßcan. FA. There other Fills purporting to l>e Liver I : now before toe public. Pr. M'Lsne's Liter PilU, aiso his celebrated V ennuugo. row ho hiul at ah respectable <i*ug stores. - ' ® i WXI *.
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