BY DAVID OVER. GENERAL ELECTION i'EftCLmCTION. PURSUANT TO AN ACT OF GENERAL As sembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitle i "An Act relating to the Elections of this Commonwealth," approved the second day ot July. Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, I. WILLIAM S. FLUKE,High Sher iff of the Couuty of Bedford, Pennsylvania, do hereby make known, and give notice to the Electors of the County aforesaid, that a GENERAL ELECTION will he held in said County, of Bed ford. Pennsylvania, on the SECOND TUESDAT, (9th) OCTOBER. 1860, at w' ich time, State end County officers, as follows, :u ibe elected, t" wit: One person for Governor of said Common wealth. One person, in conjunction with the Counties of Adams, Franklin, Juniata and Fulton, to represent the 17th District in Congress. One person, in connection with the Counties of Huntingdon and Somerset, to represent the 19th District iu the Stale Senate. Two persons, in conn-ction with tbe County of Somerset, to fill the offices of Members of the House oi Representatives, to represent the Coun ties <>f Somerset and Bedford in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania. (iu,- person to fill the office of Prothonotary, fee. One person to fill the offiee of .Sheriff. One person to fill the office of County Commis sioner. One person to fill the office of Poor House Di rector. One person to fill the office of County Auditor. One person to fJil the office of Coroner. 1 aiso hereby make known, and give notice, that the places of holding the aforesaid General Klec tioi iu the several Boroughs and Townships wiihin the County of Bedford, are as follows, to wit: The Electors of the Porough of Bedford and Township of Bedford to meet at the Court Douse in said Borough. The Electors of Broadtop township to meet at tin- School House in Hopewell. The Electors of Colerain Township to meet at the house laU-ly occupied by Benjamin Kegg, in Kainsburg, in said Township. The electors of Cumberland Valley Township to meet at the n-w School House elected on the land owned by John Whip's heirs in said Town ship. The Electors of Harrison Township to meet at shool house No. 5, mar the dwelling house of Hen ry Keyser in said Township. The Electors of Junita Township to meet at Keyscr's school House iri said Township. The Electors of Hop.-well Township to meet at the sc.ioo! Ileus.; near the house of John Dasher in said Township. The Electors of Londonderr/.Township to meet at the house now occupied by Win. li. Hill as a shop, in Bridgeport, in said Township. The Electors of the Township of Liberty to meet at the school ltoasc in iStoneretown lit said Township. The Electors of Monroe Townshi > t<> meet at the house lately occupied by James Camel, in Clear ed 1 in said Township, The Electors of N -.pier Township and Schelis burg Borough to meet at the brick school House in the Borough of Schellsburg. The Electors of E is: Frovid<-oce Township to meet at the house lat ely occupied by John Nycum, Jr., innkeeper, in said Township. The Klectois of Snake Spring Township to meet at the School House near ihe Metiio .ist Ctturch, on lands of John G- Hartliy. The Electors of West Fro'idonee Township to meet at the new log School House at Bloody Hun in said township. The Electors of St. Clair Township to meet at the store near the dwelling house of Gideon Trout, in said township. The Electors ot Union Township to meet at the school bou-*e near Howry's Mill in said town ship. The Electors of Southampton Township to meet at the .iso of M ;Ilium Adams in said Township. The Electors of the Township of Middle Wood bury to moot ;it. tin: house of Henry K.uk.-, in the village of Wood berry. The Electors of South Woo ibeny Township to meet at th ■ house of Satuuel U-ter in said town ship. The election to he opened between the hours of 7 and 8 o'clock in the forenoon, by a public jcoc lauiation, and to keep open until seven o'clock in the eveuit;g, when the polls shall be closed. MOTIVE IS HEREBY Gil EX: That every person, excepting Justices of the Peace, who shall hold any ofiieo or appointment of profit or trust under the United States, or cf this State or any city or corpo rated district, whether a commissioned officer or otherwise, a subordinate officer or agent who is or shall he emploped under the legislative, executive or Judiciary department o( this State, or of any city, or of any incorpora ted district and also ; that every member of Con gress and of The State Legislature, and .of the ; elect <>r common cou-onl of any city or Commis sion** incorporated district is by law incapable of Isold; . .r txorcis'n-r at the time the office or : .points 'of Judge, inapt etor orclsrk of any euH tion . iis Uoinmonwealth, and that no in spector, judge, or other officer of such election Shall bu vl gible to he tin n voted for. A d tli said act of Assembly, entitled "an sat relatv to elections of this Commonwealth," passed July 3, 184b fartbor provides as follows, to wit : "That the inspectors ml judges sh.ill meet at the respect v places at ; ointed for holding the election in the district at which they respectively ue*ung, before eight o'clock in the morning of the 2d Tuesday ot October, and each said inspector shall appoint one clerk, who shall be a qualified voter of such district. '•ln case the person who shail have received the highest number of votes for inspector shall not at tend oil the day of anv election, then the person who shall have received the second Highest number of votes .or Judge at the next preceding election, shail act us inspector in his place. And in case tlie person who has received the highest number of votes for inspector shall not attend, the petsou elected Judge sliall appoint an inspector in his place, ami in case the person elected Judge shall attoi \ then the inspector who received the n- heat uibier of votes shall appoint a judge in his p'ace; and if any vacancy shall continue in the hoard lor the space of oe t our after the time fixed b law for"the ©pdhitig of the e cclion, the qualified voters for tn tows hip. ward or district fur which such officers .-hall l ave l>een.elected, present at the election, shall elect one of their number to fill sueh a vacancy. '■lt shall be #ui duty .of the several assessors re specf -jy t'< attend at the place of holding every general, sp al, cr town hip election duting the whole lime said electi ois kept open, f the pur j>ose of given information to tho inspectors, and judge, when called on, in relation to the right of any person assessed by tbeni to vote at such elec tion, and on such other matters in relation to the assessment ot voters, as the said inspectors or eitbor of" them shall from time to time require. "Mo jierson shall bo permitted to vote, at any election as aforesaid, than a white freeman of the age of twenty one or mere, who shall have resided A >'■; k■ ■ ; -aper, Devotea to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. in this State at least one year, and in the election district where he offers to vote ten days immedia tely preceding such election and within two years paid a Slate or County tax which shall have beeu assessed at least ten days before the election. Bat a citizen of the United States who has previously been a qualified voter of this State and removed therefrom ami returned, and who shall have resided in the election district and paid taxes, aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote after residing in this State six nmntbf; Prodded, That the white freemen, citizens of tile United States between the ages of twenty-one and •*<-.,-tv-two years, who have re sided in the election district, ten days its aforesaid shall lie entitled t - v 'e, although they shall not have paid tax. "No person shall he 'admitted to vote whose name is not contained iu the list of taxable inhabi tants furnished by the Commissioners, unless ; First, lie produce a receipt of payment, within two years of State or County tax assessed agreeably to the constitution, and give Satisfactory evidence on his own oath or affirmation of another that he has paid sucii a lax, or in a failure to produce a receipt shall make oath to the payment thereof, or Second, if ho claim aright to vote by being in elector be tween the age twenty-one and twenty-two jfears shail depose on oath or affirmation, that he resided in tbo State at least one year next before his ap plication, and make such proof of residence in the district as required hy this act, aud that he does verity believe, from the account given him that he is of the age aforesaid, and give such other evidence as is required by this act; whereupon the name of the person s<> admitted to vote shall be inserted in the alphabetical list by the inspector, and a note made opposite thereto by writing the word "tax," if be shall he admitted tu veto by reason of having paid tax, or the word '-age," if he shall be admit ted to vote by reason of age, and • ither case the reason of such a vote shall be called out to the clerks, who shal' make the like note iu the list of voters kept by them. "in all cases where the name of the person claim ing to vote is not found on the Lst furnished by the commissioners, aud assessors, or his right to vote whether found thereon or not. is objected to by any qualified citizen, it shall be the duly of the inspec tors to examine such person on oath as to his qual ifications, at d if he claims to have resided within the State for one year or more, ins oath shall be surtiei nt proof thereof, but ho shall make proof by at least oue competent witness, who shall be a qualified elector, that he has resided within tin district lbr more than ten days immediately pre ceding said election and shall also lymself swear that his bona fide residence, iu purauaucc of his lawful calling, is within the district, and that he did not remove within the district for the purpose of voting therein. "Every person qualified as aforesaid, and who shall, make due proof if required, of bis residence and payment of taxes aforesaid, shall be admitted to vote in the township, ward or district in which he shall reside. "If any person shali prevent oi attempt to pre vent any officer of an election under this act from holding such election, or use or thereaten anv vio lence to any such officer, and shall interrupt or improperly interfere with him in the execution of bra duty, shall block we f/, 1 ,!-.<> 0 UD 'J'." Window or avenue to any window where the same may 1*? hollen, or shall riotously disturb the peace of such election, or shall use or practice intimida tion, threats, force or violence, with the design to influence undti-ly or overawe any elector, or pre vent him iroin voting, or to restrain the. freedom of choice, such peison on conviction shell be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and to be imprisoned lor any time not less than one or more than twelve, months, and if it shall be shown to the Court where the trial of such offence shall Imj had, that the person so offending was not a resi dent of the city, ward, district or township where the sui-l offend was committed, and not entitled to vote therein, then on conviction, lie sh.ill he sen tenced to pay a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and be im prisoned not less than six months not more than two years. "II any person or persons shall make any l>et or wager upon the result of any election within the Commonwealth, or -shun offer to make any such bet or wager, either by verbal proclamation thereof, or by any written or printed advertisement, or invite any person or persons to make such bet or wager upon conviction thereof lie or they shall forfeit and pay three times the amount so bet or offered to be I Hit. And the Judges of the respective districts afore said, are required to meet at Bedford, ou tho Fri day next following the holding of said Election, then and there to perform those things requred of them hy law. Given under my hand, at ruy office in Bedford, this 281h day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and the 85th of" Independence of the United States. WILLIAM S. FLUKE, Sheriff. Sept. 28, 1800. For the Inquirer. DEMOCRATIC THUNDER Mr. OvEft: I have beeu a =ilent observer of the Democratic party of late, aod it re minds me.rf a story i read some time ago, which 1 wiii relate: In Queen Ann's reigu there lived a very sage ami able erric, named Dennis, who in his. old nge was the p.ey of a strange fancy, that be biruycif had written ail the good things in all the g -"d plajs that were acted. Every good passage that he met with in any author, he insisted was ins own. "It is noue ot his," Denni* wulu always say, "It is mine." He went ouc day to see a new tragedy. Nothing particularly good, to Lis taste, occurred, until a scene iu which a g'eat wis represent ed. As soon as be heard the thunder rolling over his head, be exclaimed, "/Aifj my thun der !'* So it is with the Democratic party. Every good thing said iu the great tragedy enacted oo the political stage, they contend has been said by a Democrat. Every good address de livered since tho foundation of the world, was delivered by a Democrat; it it all thnr thun der. They bear the muttering thunder of the storm of Republicanism rolling over their beads, aud exclaim, "THAT'S OUR THUNDER." YONY. ♦♦♦ - Who I§ Maj, Tate For? Maj. S. H. Tate is electioneering with Breck inridge men, as a Breckinridge mac, and with Douglas men as a Douglas man. Who is ho for? Won't he cheat somebody. Douglas una, Breckiuridge man, can you trust him. To be sure you won't be cheated, make him sign a statement with bis own name stating for whom he intends to vote for President. BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1860. Importance of the Congressman. Our friends io Bedford County,jjught, by this tune, to be well acquainted with the vast importance of the Congressman from this Dis trict. Had cot Mr. MePhersou been in the House, last winter, Mr. Pennington would not have been elected Speaker. In his place, Mr. Uncock, a rank free-trader, would have been elected Speaker. He would have constituted the ' i'lnruittac of Ways and Means, in such a way that there would have been no Tariff bill reported. Mr. Pennington placed on ibat Committee a majority of Tariff men, conse quently that Committee reported the Morrill larifi bill, which passed Hie House, but was defeated by the Locofoco Senate. It is qnite probable, troui tbo present arrangement of parties, that the like result may occur again. It Mr. Sehell is elected to Congress, although he pretends to be in favor of a Tariff, his duty to his party, and to keep his position in that party, ho wili have to vote for tho Locofoco candidate for Speaker, which in all probability will be Bocoek,or some other Free Trader,who, if he be elected, will constitute tbo Committee of Ways aud Means of a majority ot Locofoco Free Traders, wbo .will never report a Tariff bill at all. Thus SchelPs election would de feat the Tariff by his voting for a Free Trade Locofoco Speaker. It will also be seen that he can have 110 influence, as a .Locofoco Con gressman, with bis party in favor of a Tariff. John Cessna, Esq., who was a delegate to the Charleston Convention offered a resolution iu that body in favor of a Tariff, which was laughed down. Mr. Henry D. Foster, the candidate for Governor, iu this State, went io Washington, during the session of Congress, to electioneer with the Democratic Congress men in favor of a Tariff. He strongly urg> d them to pass the Morrill Tariff bill, stated to them that if they did not do it, he would be defeated for Governor, aud consequently they would lose the President. What was the re, suit? Two Democrats only in the House, and two iu the Senate, voted for the bill. It will thus be seen that if Henry D. Fost r, their o<4t*tliUa*o fxrr OwTcroyt, *ri%U bhv urgaimUHlf lit; brought to bear 00 his brother Locofoco.*, could do nothing for the Tariff, Mr. Soueli wii! not be able to do even as much, ilis election over MePherson may, aud we believe would defeat the passaga of a Protective Tar'ff bill by .the uext Congress. Another great reason why all who sincerely desire tho success of our honest standard bearer for President, Abraham Lincoln, should vote for Ed ward McPhetson, and against Win. P Sehell, is, that the election of Sehell may make the House of Representatives Locofoco. If such be the fact, they would oppose every measure of his administration, aud he would be powerless for good to the country. If you are anxious for a change, Lincoln man, of the 17ih Congressional District, vote for ihe Con gressman who will bo of some service to you ou the Tariff question, aud 011 all other ques tions to which our party i pledged. We absolutely consider the Congressman of more importance thau the Governor, and we would rather sec any man of our party vote for Foster than for Sehell. Foster's success might not defeat tho Tariff, and could uut op pose, in Congress, the admin intra lion of Lin coln, whilst the success of Sehell would kill the Tariff, and in all probability make the nest Congress agaiust his administration. Lincoln rucn, ponder well this serious matter. Major Tate—Extra Fees. The following are a few of the items which Major Tate has inoreascd to about double what they were under other Protboootarys.— You, voter, that had to pay Mtj. Tate these extras , will remember this when you come to vote on Tuesday a week. Ought you to vote for a man who has no more feelings for the tax ridden people of Bedford County, than to charge them twice as large fees as otVr offi cers. Read tin's statement of a few of tie items: Under Tate. Under other officers. For entering Judg ment Note, 1 03 02 £ For entering Judg ment on Tran script from Jus tices' Docket, 78 37J Swearing Constables, 75 23 Broadlop aud Congress Wo understand that tbo frieuds of Mr. Sohell aro urging his special claim* beatuse of his services rendered to Broadtrp. We submit it as a fact worthy of consideration, that, Broadtop has done more for Mr. Sehell than ever ho did for it. LfICPCO TICKET. Breckinridge men of Bedford Bounty, re member that Foster, Sobeli, Scott, Tate, John J. Cessna, McMuliiu, aud every man on the Democratic ticket, is for Deugles. How do you like it? For the Inquirer. HON. W. P. SCHELL. Mr. OVER: — ID your paper of lust week, your correspondent, "East Providence," wish es to know if it is true that the Don. Wm. P. Schell killed the Witness Fee Bill in the Sen ate. As I have been asked that, or similar questions by oilier portions of the county, 1 feel it my duty, therefore, as the repre sentative from this county, to auswer that ques tion. la the first place, wheu I wont to Ilarris burg hisi winter, I had my mind on two bills which 1 was very anxious to get passed, viz: One lor the sale of our County Poor House property, the oilier to raise the fees of witness es attending Court io Bedford couuty, to one doiWr per day. Accordingly, on the 24th day of January last, 1 had a bill passed through the House, allowing witnesses one duller per day and mileage, which bill was sent to tbo Senate for concurrence. (See House Journal, page 152.) 1 called Mr. Scbell's attention to the bill ou the 28th of January, and he prom ised to attend to it. I called his attention to it several times during the session, and he al ways promised to call it up. in the Senate, but neglected to do so. I called on him on the 2d of April, just the day before the adjournment. He promised me then, that he would positively call it up-and put it through. I urged him to do so, and t< Id him that i believed that at least nine per-ons out of ten in the county wished the bill io puss. After all bis piomisea, he never did any thing with it. It was no: for the want of time, for lie hoi ail the time that be needed. Now, your correspondent from East Providence is I liit-dak; .i i-i supposing that Mr. dohell killed the win -i fee bid. Uc did not do that, he ; only jit .t die. Whether Mr. Schell was op posed to giving witnesses attending Court as much as would pay their boardiug, or whether determined t" '[.-pose everything that I lavished to get pis.ssd, Lam unuble to say. 1 bad two other bills, one tor the removal of the elect ee n St. Clair, and the other for the re t mot af of *ne ejection ill Middle Woodbeivy i Township*, which were treated in the same way. As tor the Poor House bill, the people of Bedford County understood it perfectly well, and wi]| know whether Mr. Scbell's amend ment made it any belter, or whether tl.ey were i calculated ti injure .t; that is for tie in to ' judge I will aW here slate, il at Mr. Schell and rn''lV" Woo .,> ■'l-■> ot" tar-aiM aU I h." t.iuo, and lie could not have treated me hotter, only be refused to p.my bills. 1, on the utaer baud, passe t ail bis bills (which were a good many,) through the House, except one to pre vent tie fi.-hing for trout, with seines ami uets, in mo county of Bedford. Ido not wi-h to say anything calculated to injure Mr. Scbeli, for 1 n.u-rtaiu none but friendly feelings towards him. My object i- to give fact-, ami settle wroug impression* 'amongst the people, through the County of Bedford, on this sub ject. " G. U. WILLIAMS. NAPIER TT , Sept. 25, 1860. Henry !>. Foster and the Irish. Some days since wo were credibly informed ihat a number of the more intelligent Irish voters of this county were about to vote against llenry 1). Foster, for Governor. On inquiring the reason, we were told that it was because Foster, when in Congress, in 1847, voted agaiust the lie-solution grautiog relief to Ire land, at the time her people were suffering all lite horrors of famine. Wo had forgotten thi.'j but ou turniug ti the records of that date, we find that Foster did vote against said Resolu tion, and all who wish the evidence, need only turn to the Congressional (llo'je lor the session of 1847. page 572, or to the Journal of the House of Representatives for the same year, page 473. It is true, therefore, that when the crops had failed in Ireland, an J her people were ou .the poiui of starvation, and sufferiug amidst the horrors of that dreadful famine, anil when the American people everywhere were pouring out their money and sending their grain for their relief, HENRY 1). FOSTER, then ia Congress. voted against Ike "Bill for the Re lief oj Ireland." No wonder the- Irish are about to pay him back now, lor his refusal to vote for their relief then, "v? friend in need, is a friend indeed." BiWiIE—FALSE TICKETS! SAMUEL H. TATE is now sen.ln out what pur ports to be the People's Ticket, but it lias the name of Samml 11. Tate upon it instead of Jeremiah K- Bowles. The same game is being played by Wil liam P. Schdi's friends. They leave out the name of Edward McPherson and put on Scbell's. John J. Cessna and tlie other Locofoco candidates are doing the same thing. Take no ticket from any man unless you know him to be against every man ou the Locofoco ticket. Examine every ticket, and see that every uame is right. r Remember, Lincoln ami Ourtiu men, when Mr. Sohell or any of bis friends urge you to vote for him, and against our talented candidate, Edward McPberson, that he never voted for a man on cur ticket in his life. That a? tue election next Tuesday week, he will vote for a full LocoJ'oco ticket, from Foster down /< Aud itor. Ask him or his friends, whether ho will vote for Lincoln, Curtin, or any man on our ticket. He won't do it! Then, don't vote for him. Which Ticket is he For? The following extract is from the last Juni ata Democrat. It will be seen that that paper states that Wm. P. Schell, Esq., is in favor of the fusion electoral ticket, and that he so ex presses himself: "We understand that Mr. Sehell expresses himself favorable to the Union Electoral Ticket, and no man familiar with his popularity in the oouuties of this District, caD for a moment doubt that he will be triumphantly elected; and that the citizens of our District will congratu late themselves upon his election when his valua ble services as a conservative, assiduous and faithful representative will have assured them of his possessing the Jetfersoniau qualifications of honesty and capability." Now in Bedford Couaty it is well known that be favors the straight Douglas electoral ticket headed by John Cessna, E-q. Why is this, Mr. Schell? How docs it come that iu Juniata county, you pretend to be iu favor of the fusion electoral ticket, and in Bedford County, you and your party are iu lavor of the straight Douglas ticket as follows: ELECTOES AT LAME. •Richard Yaux, John Cessna. DISTRICT ELECTORS." DISTRICTS. 1. John Alexander, "2. Fredk. Stoever, 3. Godfrey Metzgir, 4. Edward tVarciuau, 5. *G. W.Jacoby, 6. Joseph Doivdall, 7. Isaiah James, 8. Geo. D. Stit/.el, 9 John Black, 10. George Gross, 11. Wrn.L Dewart, 12. *S. S. Winchester, 25. Gaylor ! Church *On the Reading Ticket. Who is to be deceived l I'ray, tell us! till. SCHELL Li) EXTBI PH. Remember, voters of Bedford County, that \\ m. P. Schell voted f->r toe bill increasing his pay from $5OO to $7OO That bad he voted aguiost the bill, it would have been defeated. That he has received by bis own vote, $2OO a year, amounting to $6OO in his three years' Dun. That this vote of ScL ell's costs the State, every year, the suto of $26,600, that ought now to be going towards the payment of the State Debt. Might be not, should he be elect ed to Congress, consider his services of so much importance, like in the Legislature, that he would again vo'c for giving himself ezfra pay ! Here is the vote fr< n: the Legislative Record, 11-ad it: In the Senate, on the 7th April, the question of th" $2OO extra pay came up. Mr. Mvermoved *hat instead of the $2OO additional pay, the annual coin jiens irion sliaii hereafter he $7OO and mileage, in stead of $5OO and mileage, us at present—which was agreed to. Mr. Ely then moved to amend, that the section shall not apply to the memiiers of the present Legislature. Not agreed to —yeas 15, nays 10. The question was then lost by at'e vote, 16 to 16—S< Sli:j.L. voting yea. >lr. Baldwin moved to reconsider the vote on section fifty-seven, to increase the pay of the mem bers two hundred dollars. Agreed to. Aud the section passed—yeas 16, nays 14. as follow, viz: YSAS —Messrs. Bull, Coffey, Cresswell, Finney, Francis, Gazzam, Gregg, Han is, Ingram, Marselis, Myer, Randall, Rutherford, SClflElala, Straub and W'ilkins—l6. NATS— Messrs. Baldwin, Brewer, Buckalew, Craig, Ely, Evans, Fetter, K.nox. Laubach, Sehaet ter, Steel, Turuey, Wright, and Welsh, Speaker— -14. DITCH." Remember, German voters of Bedfcrd Coun ty, that Maj. S. H. Tate, when, a few years ago, lion. John Taylor was a candidate for Connty Treasurer, called you "D—d Dutch'' because a few of you voted for Taylor. We can prove this by respectable Germau voters of Bedford Borough, if Tate denys it. "NeFer Wan?s a Whig to Vote for Uiro." Remember, Whigs of Bedford County, thai Maj. S. H. Tate, said a few years ago, in Bloody Run, that, he "never wanted a Whig to vole for him." We can prova this by many respect able citizens of Bloody Run, if Tate denys it. Henry Clay "a Murderer." Remember, old Ciay men of Bedford Coun ty, that Maj. S. H. Tate, in 1844, publicly charged Henry Clay with being "a murderer." We can prove this by plenty living witnesses, it Tato denys it. Remember, voters of Bedford County, that neither Maj. S 11. Tate, nor his friends, have dared to deny these charges, nor the other, in reference to doubling his fees. Win. P. Sehell, Esq., made * strong speech at the Douglas ratification meeting in Bedford, in favor of Douglas. Remember this, Brock mridge men of Bedford, Franklin, Juniata. Adams and Pultou. Don't be deceived, for he is in favor of tho straight fitoughs ticket headed by John Cessna. Remember, voters of Bedford County, that Win. P. Sohsll voted in he last Hou-m of Representatives against the Tariff Resolutions, and in favor of the corrupt ajlaitnistration of President Buchanan. Mr Sehurz and his Assailants. When Christian was traveling on his ven tnresome and unpopular Journey to the great City, he had occasion to pass a certain cave, which was surrounded with the bones of pil grims slain by two old giants, Pope and Pagan, residing there. John Bunyan, looking after him wttb some anxiety, says: "By this place Übristiaa went without much danger, whereat 1 somewhat wondered; but I have learned since that Pagan had been dead many a day, and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the uiany shrewd brushes that ho met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff iD his joints that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning nt pil grims as they go by, aud biting •his nails be cause he canaoi come at them." This decrepit and malicious old party did his best to injure Christian, calling out to him: "You will never mend till moie of you be burned." But the pilgrim wisely "held bis peace, and set a good face on it; and so went by, arid catched no hurt." as malicious as old Pope, and equally impotent, is a portion of the anti-Republican press of the country. An illustration of this snail be given. In the Journal of Ooiumerco the other day, and in several other papers ipo*- ved by the same bitterness of spirit toward the Republican party, the following paragraph ap pears, purporting to be a fair quotation from a speech delivered last winter at Springfield, Mass., by Oarl Scburz: "There is your Declaration of Independence, a diplomatic dodge, adopted merely for the purpose of excusing the rebellious colonies in the eyes of mankind. 1' here is your Declaration of Indepen dence, no longer the sacred code of the rights of man, but a hypocritical piece of special "pleading, drawn up by a batch of artful pettifoggers, who, when speaking of the rights of ma*, meant but the privileges of a set of aristocratic slaveholders, but styled it the rights of man, in order to throw dust in the eyes of the world, and to inveigle noble-heartea fools into lending them aid and as s.stance. These are your boasted revolutionary sires, no longer heroes and sages, but accomplished hutuhuggers and hypocrites who said one thing and meant another; who passed counterfeit sentiment, as genuine, aud obtained arni3 and money and as sistance and sympathy on false pretenses! There is your great American Revolution, no longer the great champion of universal principles, but a mean Yankee trick [bursts of applause aud laughter]—a wooden nutmeg—the most impudent imposition ever practiced upon the whole world.'' 13. 'Joseph Laubach, 14. 'ls uic Beck hard, 15. 'Geo. D. Jacks-) i, 16- Wm. L. G-'igis, 17. 'Joel B. Banner, 18. *J. D. Crawiord, 19. Francis Lucre, 20. 'J. B, Howell. 21. John Galohn, 22. 'Samuel Marshall,- 23. *Wm. Book, 21. James S. Leonard, Having printed this as a fair quotation, these papers proceed to comment upon it with tha iHtisfrts,*.- belonging to their style, visiting with an indiscriminate lash Mr. Schurz, the people of Springfield who heard him, and the whole Republican party. "Mark, now, how plain a lule shall put you down." Mr. Douglas had given to the Declaration of Independence au interpretation which hmi too it to white men, and had said that tha opening r. ntence was only meant to declare that British subjects in America were as good as British subjects in Great Britain. With ail the loree of his eloquence, Mr. Sohrfz op posed this doctrine, aud insisted that such a theory would render necessory a new reading ot history. Then follows the paragraph quo ted above, aud, joined to it in the original but suppressed by these dishonest journals, appears this sentence: "That ia the way Mr. Douglas wants you to read and to understand the proudest pages of American history! That is ttie kind of history with which ho finds it necessary to prop his mongrel doctrine of popular sovereignty. That is what he calls vindicating the character, and the motives, and the oooduct. of the signers of the Declaration of Independence." Ibe intelligent leader of any party, needs no proof to convince him that Mr. Schurz could never have been guilty of committing so stupid an atrocity as that charged upon him. The rery clearness of this truth, however, enables us to see, beyond the possibility of a mistake, that the misquotation referred to was ia every oaso a deliberate, pitiful, cowardly lie! Does The Journal of Commerce object to this language of comment? In tbc same number ot that paper which contains the perversion here alluded to, occurred this editorial remark: "fYe know of no difference, morally, between a direct Jalsehood and a deliberate and willful miiquo tation for the purpose of accomplishing the same result ." Wo commenced by an allusion to the impotent monster immortalized by Bun yan; but iu view of the wbolesomo "sentiment" just cited, aud of toe source from which it comes, we are quite ns forcibly reminded of Joseph Surface, and the excellent apothegms with which he always prefaced -md, followed hi? meanest tricks.— JY. Y. Yrib. Keep it Before ike People! That eveiy vote cat for H&ory D. Foster, at the State Election, is a veto to sustain aud endorse the present wretched Nations! Admin istration! That every ote cast for Henry D. Foster is a vote in favor f the spread of Human Sla very! That every vote cast for H. D. Foster is a vote against the Homestead Bill! That every vote cast for Henry D. Foster, ia a vote against the Protection of Amc-icau In dustry! That every vote cast for Henry D. Foster, is a 7cte approving t>f the robberies which have been committed during the past three or four years by Buchanan and his coadjutors upon the public Treasury! That every vote cast for H. D. Foster, is a vote endorsing the Drod Scott decision which says that the Constitution carries Slavery iuto every Territory of this Union! That every vote oast for Heorj D. Fust r is an indirect vote for JOE LANE for tue Pres idency! Freemen, remember these things when yon come to deposit your ballots. VOL. 33, NO. 40.
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