BEDFORD INQUIRER,
BEDFORD, Pa.
Tridaj Morning, Dec. 7, 1860.
"FEARLESS ANI) FREE."
D. OVER—Editor and Proprietor.
The Cabinet—Gea. Cameron.
Pennsylvania deserves a place in the Cabi
net of PRESIDENT LINCOLN ! Who denies
this 1 No one. Her delegation at Chicago,
were tn favor of making Gen. SIMON CAMER
ON, the Standard-bearer of the hosts of free
dom, in the late csnvess, and when it became
apparent that he would not be nominated, the
Pennsylvania delegates, recorded their votes
'in favor of Mr Lincoln, and this course of our
members of that Convention, made that gen
tleman the candidate, and consequently the
President. Gen. Cameron immediately ac
quiesced, and no man iu the Union did more for
Mr. Lincoln's success, and the success of our
glorious cause. His labors iu behalf of Gov
ernor Curtin, were ardoua, and our success,
principally through Gen. Cameron's efforts at
the first election, made the eleotion of Mr.
Lincoln a forgone conclusion. Nor did he
stop here. His exertions were continued for
Mr. Lincoln, and he bad tbe proud satisfaction
of knowing that his State gave the largest
plurality, and tho largest majority, of any State
iu tbe UDIOD. We do not knew the views of
Gen. Cameron on this matter but if he would
accept a place in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, he
ought to have it. It would satisfy the people
of our State, and add credit to the Admiuis
traiiou of President Lincoln. No man is bet
ter qualified, than Gen Cameron, for tbe In
terior, Treasury, or Post Office Department.—
He would equally adorn either station, and re
flect honor ou the Stati of Pennsylvania.
State Treasurer.
Among the most important acts of tbe next
Legislature, will be tbe election of State Trea
surer, in place or Hon. ELI SLIFER, who will
not again be a candidate. Wo only bear of
the name of one gentleman in connection with
this station, and that is that of Hon. HEN'RY
D. MOORE of Philadelphia. Mr. Moore is one
of the ablest and most talented men in the
St.to, and Las rendered very efficient service
iu the late campaign, as well as in former ones.
He is well and very favorably known in our
Couuty, and his election would ha hailed with
delight by our people.
TOWNSBIV AND LOCAL LAWS. —We are
indebted to Mr. EDWARD F. JAMES, of West
Chester, Pa., the publisher, for a copy of the
work bearing the above title, by WILLIAM T.
HAINES, Esq., of West Chester, a member of
the bar of that place. This work is a compi
lation of the laws relating to the duties cf
Justices of the Peace. Constables, Supervisors
of roads, &j. It alio contains a number of
blank forms for instruments of writing most in
use. The work is valuable, aud should be in
tbe hands of every man. It is for sale at the
Bookstore of H. C. Reamer, Bedford, Pa.—
Price §1.25.
BEDFORD LYCEUM.
The members of this Lyceum will meet at
the Court House on Saturday eveuing next, at
Gi o'clock. Performances for said evening,
Dechaiation, by John Palmer; Essay, by A.
N. Raub. Qaestion for discussion: "lias a
State a right to secede ?" Affirmative, O. E.
Shaunun; Negative, A. King. Tbe public are
invited to attend.
Neither Mr. Lincoln nor Mr Douglas will
receive an Electoral voto in the South. Noi
thcr Mr. Breckinridge nor Bell will receive an
Electoral vote in the North. How is the ac
* eount of sectionah-m Lercf Is it tight for
the South to vote only for men who favor
Slavery aud wrong for the North to rota for
men who favor Freedom ?
POOR HOCSE APPOINTMENTS.— Tho Poor
Directors on Tuesday appointed Mr. George
Widel, of Bedford Township, Steward vice
Win. Leaiy. The old Miller, Treasurer and
Cierk, were re appointed. We learn that there
were about twelve applicants for Steward! and
quite a number fer Miller.
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, for November,
has been received. Its contents ate very in
teresting. It is a work that every one ought
to have. Price §3 a year. Black wood, and
any one of the British Quarterlies, §5; the
four Quarterlies aud Blackwood, §lO. Leon
ard Scott & Co., 79, Fulton St., New York.
AGENTS WANTED. —Tho attention of per
sons in want of employment, is directed to an
advertisement in another column, for canvas
sers for Township and Looai Laws of this
State.
California And Oregon have both gone for
Lincoln, wh*eb increases his vote to 180 elec
tors, whi lb gives htm a majority of 57 over all
opposition.
Tbe Bedford Gazette, of tho 234 ult., bad
an article headed "Nullification in Pennsylva
nia," in which it charges that the .Republicans
of Pennsylvania have passed laws iu conflict
with the fugitive slave law. The laws passed
in Pennsylvania are principally designed to
prevent kidnapping and riotous proceedings in
case of an arrest of a fugitive. If these con
flict with the fugitive slave law, the singular
feature will be presented this winter of a set
of Belf-styled . democratic papers and politi
cians appeaiiitg to the People's and Republi
can party—or as tbey like to stylo them, the
if/acAiJlGpttblieaa party — to do justice to the
South by repealing acts every out of which was
passed by legislatures either in part or wholly
democratic, and sanctioned by democratic gov
ernors ! Kvcu the new Penal Code adopted
last winter, and copied by the Gazette, cou
taioing some of these provisions, was the tabor
of three democratic lawyers, and signed by a
democratic governor! The People's and lie
publican party Laving both branches of the
Legislature and the Governor, we hope they
will appoint committees of able men to exam
ine these laws dispassionately, and if tboy arc
in violation of the Constitution of the United
States or laws made in pursuance thereof, re
peal these democratic violations—first, be
cause it would be right, and secondly, because
the People's and Republican party, with more
majority than many slaveholding States have
votes, can not only afford to he just, but mag
nanimous.
Several of the Locofoco papers, and the Ga
zette is among the uurnber, are now busy in
defending the treason of South Carolina, and
one or two of the other cotton States. This
is nut strange, as there were tories iu the Rev
olution, and there are tories in the North now!
If some States have enactments obstructing
the enforcement of the fugitive slave law, tbey
were passed generally before the Republican
party arose, and many of them by tbe Locofo
cos. All such laws ought to be repealed.—
We do not uphold tvroDg laws in either section
of our Republic, but those who throw all the
aggression on the North ought to carry hack
their memories a few years and recall the ex
pulsiun of Mr. Hoar from South Carolina,
Laving been sent there by the State ot Massa
chusetts as an agent to see that no injustice
was done to the free negroes ou board the Mas
sachusetts vessels, to tho brutal and cowardly
assault on Sumner, to numerous cases of kid
napping, and the maltreatment of Northern
men in tne South, too often without cause.
As the public see in to Lave but little know
ledge of facts reiatiug to this subject, we quote
a portion of an article from the Philadelphia
Inquirer, which will perhaps enlighten some
folks who seem to have more faith in "demo
cratic" newspaper statements than they have
in aught else that is in print—the Scriptures
not excepted :
Iu IS2G, the Legislature of Pennsylvania
passed the act "to give effect to the provisions
of the Constitution of the United States, rela
tive to fugitives from labor, for the protection
of people of color, and to prevent kidnapping."
Under this aet a person named Edward Priggl
was indicted by the Grand Jury of York Co.,
for having carried off a negro woman from the
Stite, with intent to sell and disnose of her as
a slave. The negro wis shown and admitted
to have been a slave who had escaped frotu
Maryland. The defendant, Prigg, was the
agent of her owner, who bad*obtsined a wur
raut from a magistrate, in accordance with tho
act of 1826, on which the negro was arrested
and brought before the magistrate, who then
refused to have anything to do with the case.
Prigg theu took the slive back to Maryland
without complying with the provisions of that
act, requiring biui to establish his claim beforo
a magistrate. For this he was indicted under
the act. The defendant was found guilty, and
the case was carried up on appeal to tho Su
preme Court of the U nit id States, which gave
a pro forma judgment against the defendant,
and thence to the Supreme Court of the United
States. Oo the argument before the latter
tribunal the cause was conducted on the foot
ing of au amicable suit between Pennsylvania
aud Maryland, which had become a party in
interest; and tbe good faith of Pennsylvania in
passing the act of 1826 was admitted by the
counsel lor tho defendant. Tho Supreme Court
decided that that part of the act of 1826, un
der which the defendant has been indicted aud
convicted (or kidnapping, was unconstitution
al, because under the clause of the Constitu
tion, the owner of a fugitivo slave had the
right of recaptiou, provided he can do it with
out aDy breach of the peace or illegal violence.
And the court went further and decided, tho'
with some dissenting voices, that the whole of
tbe portion of the act which provided the mode
iu which the reclamation of fugitives from la
bor should be couducted was unconstitutional,
because CoDgress bad exclusive jurisdiction
over the subj;ot. Tbe court futtner decided
that the ooustitutioaality of the power confer
red upou State magistrates by tbe act of Con
gress of 1793 was doubtful, although euob
magistrates might, il tboy choose, exerciso that
authority, unless forbidden by the State Leg
islature.
The case was decided in 1842, and the act
against kidnapping being held to be unconsti
tutional, a large olass of persons were left
without any protection from abduction, since,
if tbe negro stealer could only escape with bis
victim to a slave State, be would be able to
dispose of bim beyond recall. Accordingly,
tbe Legislature of this Scats, in 1847, passed
an act on this subject, which is still in force,
except a single section repealed ia 1852 for
bidding the use of tbe Sute aud county pris
ons, for the detention of fugitive slaves. This
act is, in aubstauee, as follows:
The first and second sections agaiust kidnap
ping are almost identical with those of the act
of 1826, except that the words "free negro or
mulatto" are used instead of "uegro or mu
latto." These sections have siuoe been held
ooDstitutiouai. The third section prohibits
judges aod other magistrates of the State from
exercising anj jurisdiction in fugitive slave
cases. While this section is predicated upon
BEBFOEB ffiOTIBIJt
the principle roooguizeil by the United States
Supreme Court, that the States have a right
to prohibit thoir magistrates from acting uuler
the fugitive slave law of 1793, it perhaps
wouid Lave been as well if the State had ab
stained from any legislation at all io tlii* par
ticular. The admission ol the court that a
Statu might prohibit her magistrates from act
ing under a' Congressional law, did not require
that every State should proceed to do so
Besides, the genera! current of the opinion in
Prigg's case is agaiust any 'interiuedeliug' of
State authority in the matter. Pennsylvania
would have set a good example to tbo other
States if she had literally complied with the
judgment of the Supreme Court, and left all
legislation ou the subject to Congress.
Now, however, the present fugitive slave law
by implication, takes away the power to not
under it irora all State judges and magistrates,
and couddes those powers exclusively to the
United States commissioners and judges The
fourth section of the act of 1847 prohibits the
owner of the fugitive from retaking him iu a
violeut and tumultuous manner, so as to dis
turb or endanger the public peace, and imposes
a penalty or liue, of not more than one thous
and dollars, and imprisonment for uotjuore
than three months, ou conviction. The limita
tion to the right of recapticu, indicated by the
Supreme Court, was that the owner must exer
cise it without any breach of the peace or iiio
gal violence. The fifth section of the act of
1847 reserves the right of the State judges to
issue writs of habeas corpus in all cases of
arrest and imprisonment. This act has been
rc-enaoted iu the penal code passed at the last
sessiuu of iho Legislature, with tin additional
seoiioft prohibiting, under a penalty of five
hundred dollars, any attempt to enforce a sale
made witbio this State of a fugitive slave who
is within this State at tbe time of sale.
A SPICY LETTER.
A committee of young men in Boston, of
which James Kedpath, the notorious English
Abolitionist, is the Secretary, recently sent a
lettsr to Gov. Packer, inviting hitu to partici
pate iu a proposed meeting at Trewoct Temple,
in Boston, on the anniversary of the execution
of John Brown. Gov. Packer returned the
invitation, with the following reply, written on
the blank leaf cf Bedpatb'a letter :
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ilarrisburg,)
Pa., November 21, 1860. J
Sir : In iuy opinion, tbe young men whoso
names are attached to the foregoing letter,
would better serve God aud their country by
attending to their own business. John Biowu
was rightfully banged, and bis fate should be a
warning to others bav.ng siuiil<r proclivities.
WM. F. PACKER,
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Mr. JAMES REDPATH, Boston.
Sam Houston fiat been making a speech at
independence, Texas. We quote from a re
port pritt.-d in a Grlvestm paper :
"However much be might regret thf elec
tion of Lincoln, still, if com tututiouaiiydull
ed, ho ought to, and should be, inaugurated.—
Yen! they would have to walk over his (lead
body, if tie was not!''
The Governor was very severe on Calhoun
and S .utL Carolina, but lauded Beaten, Clay
and others, lie never missed an opportunity
to give a thrust, and to heap abuse upon S.utfi
Carolina and her doctrines.
Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, has refused to
convene an extra session of the Legislature.—
lie is unwilling to "place Maryland in a po
sition appearing to join in atiy treasonable de
sigus against the Uuion."
Congress met on Monday, and organizsd.—
The Message was read on Tuesday. We have
not yet seen a copy. We will lay it before our
readers next week. Good feeling seemed to
prevail.
Yesterday weak, Thanksgiving day, was gen
erally observed in this place. A sermou was
preached by Rev. 11. Ileckerinau, of ibe Ger
mau Reformed Church, iu the Presbyterian
Church. Subject, slavery.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.—We call attention
to the advertisement, in another column, in
reference to tbe meeting of the Teachers' In
stitute, on the 27th inst.
The 27 electors for Pennsylvania, met in
Ilarrisburg on last Wednesday, and oast the
vote of tbo State for Liucoln.
Every Free State, except New Jersey, has
goue for Lincoln, and four-sevenths of that
State has gone for him.
SARSAPARILLA.—This tropical root has a
reputation wide as tho world, for curing one
class of disorders that afflict mankind—a rep
utation too which it deserves as the best auti
dote we possess for scrofulous complaiuts. But
to be brought into use, its virtues must be con
centrated aud combined with other mcdioines
that increase its powe. Some reliable com
pound of this character is much needed io the
cummunity. Read tho advertisement of Ur.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla in our columns, and we
know it neods no euoomium from us to give out
citizens confidence in what he offers.— Organ,
Syracuse, N. Y.
TRENTON, NOV. 23.-All the banks in West
Jersey have suspended specie payments to
day.
TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 23.—80 th the banks
of Trenton have suspended specie payments.
They wit! pay out only small amounts to busi
ness meu in tbe city.
It is said that Horace Fry and his handsome
wife are again liviug iu tbe utmost harmony
and happiness at tho Continental, in Philadel
phia.
The New Orleans Courier says that a paper
is about to be started iu that city for the avow
ed purpose of sustaining the administration of
Mr. Lincoln.
Corraipondcnce of the N. Y. Tribune.
South Carolina Wilt Surely Secede*
WASHINGTON, NOV. 25,1860.
There is no use of blinking the fact, or
striving to delude ourselves with deceptive
hopes. We have got to confront tho naked
issue of Disunion, which is already almost
upon us, and cannot bo put aside by toy small
arts or expedients. South Carolina will de
clare herself out of tbo Uuion by ordinance,
in forty.eight hours after tbe Convention shall
meet on the 17th of December. It she can
not get a good partner, she will play the garno
alone. So much i 3 certain. It is unnecessary
to go back and inquire bow this condition of
things was brought about, or who is responsi*
ble. Everybody knows that the Pierce and
Buchanan Administrations, aided by Douglas
and other reckless leaders, must answer for tbe
crime. The question DOW is, how are we to
meet the crisis at hand, and bow dispose of it
with the least shock to our institutions, and
tbe least injury to all ooucorned . f
The conspiracy to combine the Cotton States
under an independent Government, with the
re-opening of the African slave-trade as its
leading idea, is not of reeant origin. It has
been progressing gradually for years, and be
come mors compact arid united, as the inevi
table loss of the power, so long directed by
that influence, approached its culmination.—
if Col. Fremont had beeu eleoted four years
*3O, a demonstration would bare been made.
It was all planned here for a large portion of
the South to retire from the House of Repre
sentatives when the votes of the Electoral
Colleges were to be counted. They ouly
wanted a convenient pretext to set the ball in
motion. This has been found io Mr. Lincoln's
success. Sontb Carolina has for the third
time, in less than a generation, taken the lead
iu a revolutionary scheme. Her politicians
have at last, and by persistant effort, succeed,
ed in misleading tho bedj of tbo people, and
in silencing all opposition—even that which
pattioiically mourns the rashness of this at
tempt.
Disregirding all consequences, she will take
the plunge, and to lugure the cooperation of
the trt-rU's which still hold back and cling
to their traditions, aha desires a collision
with the General Goveruuieut, and will not
scruple, if need he, to provoke one. lier
ambition is a Cotton Empire, with South Caro
lina at tne Load of it. Seecabioo is disunion,
and is so meant by Uer. It is not possible
under our Constitution, as a peaceful resort.—
South Carolina does not wisn that it should be
so. She wants a levolution with blood, to
cement the unity of her projected empire With
Cotton for Kiug. The Piesideut has only
power to execute existing laws and to summon
the militia in certain cases, lu the unusual
state of atfairs whieh would arise if South
Carolina attempted to open the port of Char
leston—her only oue—additional legislation
would be required from Congress, and in the
existing state of parties that would uot be ob
tained. So far as the militia are concerned, it
would be an absurdity to call them out in S.
Carolina. The of course could resist
au attempt to seize the forts and property of
the U. S. by lorce, aud he might go further.—
liut would it be wise to djp so t Thut is the
question.
Looking at tbe whole subject calmly aud im.
partially, it appears most prudent, since South
Carolina has declared her hatred of the "ac
cursed Union," to let her depart iu peace.—
When the President notifies Congress of her
oruiuauce, let it be fairly considered and ao
cepted by a solemn vote of both Houses. —
Give her tbe public pioperty within her bor
ders, treat her liberally iu till thiugs, and with
the best wishes for her prosperity, let her make
the experiment of a separate Government.—
The case has no precedents in our history, aud
has therefore to be treated according to its
necessity. Two-thirds of both Houses may
propose ameudmeuts to the Constitution, and a
similar vote or even a majority might be per
mitted to release a State from ber obligations
under it. In no event ought ooercion to be
tried, because however great the provooatiuu
may be to assert the full powers of tne Gov
ernment, this Union oaunot bo held together
by compulsion. A single blow iu such a con
test would drive every Southern State in sym
pathy, aud by the forc6 of an irresestible at
traction to the side of South Carolina. She
knows thai, and wonld rather have it struck
than not. Judge Magrath expressed as much,
at tbe first meeting after he abandoned the U.
Stites Court, and be means ail he says aud
sometimes a little mote.
There is no good reason why this rupture of
old ties should be bloody. South Carolina has
been discontented and morbid and morose for
thirty odd years. Her people can never be
oonvinecd by conciliation, or persuaded by con
cessions. Every advance will ba treated as
the prompting of a craven and selfish uature,
ready to surrender principle wheu supposed
interest is involved iu danger. Already her
organs repel suggestions for the repeal of Per
sonsi Liberty bill* as dictated by fear aod
truckling.
It is useless, therefore, to move iu that di
rection. We are brought, then, to the aiter
native of meeting the issue by civil war or by
peace. The horrors of the first promise uo
solution, but anarchy, desolation, and bank
ruptcy. The other an easy transition, if we
will confront it bravely, and not suppose the
heavens are to fall because South Carolina is
about to set up for herself, or even to form a
Cotton Confederation. It will not require much
time for ber tax-hardened people to discover
how they have been betrayed into rashness, or
to visit opon the authors of their certain ruin
the penalties whiob ought to follow such crimi
nal decepton._
From the Southern Standard, Trenton, Tenn.
Opinions of the Southern Press.
SouTa CAROLINA. —This fountain-bead of
tories, uullifitrs, rebels, hotheads, fools, aDd
traitors, has become standard of Southern
statesmen It furnished the main body of tories
in the Revolution. Then supported Aaron Burr
for the Presidency instead of Thomas Jefferson,
the author of the Declaration of Independence
and founder of the Democratic patty. The
next characteristic step was to nullify the laws
of Congress and draw the sword agaiust a Gov
ernment pie-ided over by such men as Jaoksou,
Clay, and Webster. Ever since theu the tur
bulent and disuniou elements of the Govern
ment h*ve made their headquarters in South
Carolina.
They were maddened when Calhoun failed
to effect the fell scheme of secession, aud have
ever since made their patriotism subservient to
revenge. The State ban no cause for coinplaiut.
No slave can escape from her far southern bor
ders. Tbo tariff pays the expenses of the Fed
eral Government, and there is nothing lackiug
but to keep up a State Govdrnrueut to her liking.
The Federal Government, then, does not lay the
weight of its little finger upon her, hut has to
enduro her Congresstueu who swim in whiskey
and buily all Washington.
The truth is ibat South Carolina never had
a scintilla of wisdom, moderation, or conserva
tism, aud has now become completely de
ranged.
We love Tennessee and Kentucky. Their
banners have floated over every battle field in
triumph and glory, and never did cither utter
& seutiment disloyal to the Uuiou. Their citi- i
zeas are noble and patriotic, and have ever de
lighted to honor such men as Clay and Jack
son.
Upon these men, even in her better days,
South Carolina waged an unceasing and mali
cious war. What, then, shall we do iu this
hcur of peril? Will Oid Whigs abandon the
teachings of Clay, and veteran Democrats re
pudiate the maxims of Jackson, to worship at
the sbrino of South Carolina, just when her
madness and revenge have reached the climax l
VY o hear the answor from every bill top and
every valley—from every Whig aud every Detn
ocrat coming to the conservative element of the
other States, louder than seven peals of thun
der. No! never, while the past is remembered
or true statesmanship has foothold in America!
The border State 3 bear the suffering and loses
resulting from the Uaion, and will not hesitate
to repudiate the spurious guardianship and ap
peal to the Constitution and the Union for pro
tection iustead of a set of madmen.
South Carolina would bring Canada to our
doors, nullify the Fugitive Slave law, surren
der the Capitol, the Treasury, and the army of
the uation to our enemies, that they might em
ploy them in the destruction of our towns aud
oiiies, in laying waste our farms, and in stirring
up tko servile population to indiscriminate aud j
barbarous murder when the gallant SODS otnhe
border bad been called away to forma bulwark
for the protection of South Carolina and the
other rash seceding States. Oh! what philan
thropy! It entails war, famine death, and should
be greeted not by the smiles of heaven or tbo
congratulations of mankind, but with scorn by
all patriotic men, and the instigators should
daDCC to the deadly music of the oanoon.
From the Cumberland Civilian.
Some mad caps iu Baltimore have hoisted a
Palmetto flag, and some few thoughtless men
in other portions of our State avow their eym
patby with the accession movements of the oot
ton States. On what principle this is done we
are at a loss to comprehend. If the star span
gled banner has lost its virtue—if it is no lon
ger the standard under which patriots can rally,
is there not the standard of our own noble State,
which never trailed before its enemies or been
lowered in the presence of tyrants? What is
theie in the Palmetto standard to attract atten
tion, that preference should be given to it over
that under which the old Maryland line so gal
lautiy fought? Who can call to mind the bloody
scenes of '76, when the tories of South Carov
liua so indiscriminately put to the sword the
patriots of the Revolution and mercilessly burnt
up then hautes. aud then talk of enlisting un
der its standard and sympathising with its mad
schemes of disunion. No man of Maryland
birth, in whose veins flows the blood of Revo
lutionary sires, cau give bis countenunoe to the
present doings of the cotton States.
But why is it that the extreme Southern States
wish to secede from the Union l The ouly rea
son that at present can be urged is that some
of tbe Northern Stales have passed laws that
obstruct the enforcement of the fugitive slave
law. But these laws have been on their statue
books for a number of years. If they are so
obDoxious as to justify a dissolution of tbe
Uuion, why is it that there has been no move
ment like that of the present nntil this day?—
\Y*O hesitate DOI to say, that being without just
cause, this is adopted as the pretext for the
present movement. The extreme South has
beeu ->uxioii9 for years to re-open the slave
trade—under tbe present government that can
not be done, hut if they can erect a Cotton
State Republic, they oan accomplish their pur
pose. Negroes can be imported from Africa
at SIOO each. By such a process their labor- j
ers will be greatly increased aud by consequence
they themselves enriobed. But it will impov
erish us. Our slave property will largely de
preeiate, aud men who now count their thou- '
sands will hardly be worth hundreds—heuce
they don't want the border States to go with ,
them, for they fear that they would oppose tbo
openiug of the slave trade. The secret of the
secession movemeut is not the aggressions of
the North, but a desire to open tbe acouieed
slave traffic.
Pennsylvania made the first turnpike road iu
tbe United Sjatos, laid the first railroad, es
tablished the first water works, ran the first
lououiotive, established the first hospital, the
first law school, the first pnbiio museum, the
first hall of music, aud the first library io the
world opened freely to all. It has also given
the largest majority against Locotocoism of any
State in the Union at the late election just
passed Good for toe Old Keystone!
When is a star like the Repu'olioan Presi
dent? When it is a bhnkiiV (Abe Lincoln.)
PiHsborg aud (ouoelkrille Rail
Road.
During the trial of the Railroad oases last
Court, the financial condition of the Uompan},
and the prospects of the road, were given by
one of the officers conversant with its affairß.
A. L. Russell, Esq., the Secretary and Trea
surer, under uath ; gave substantially the fol
lowing statement.
Lite floating debt of the P. & C. 11. R. Co„
which Was $500,000, hke been reduced, within
the last few years, to$100,000. The Compa
ny has also paid the Payette R. R. <j o ., for the
construction of about a utile of the main stem
above WnneUville, and is now buildioo the
City division, from Port Perry to Pittaburg a
distanced 10 6 10 miles, which will be ready
tlis winter. The Company have negotiated for
the Rails froui the Cambria Iron Co., and the*,
are being delivered aud laid. The completion
of these 10 6 10 miles is the first iuiportiot
requisite to the fuither extension, of the read
Eastward. The completion of the Ci'y di
vision will make in all a paying and uninter
rupted roAtl of GO miles in length.
Ttie work at the Sand Patch Tuanel, with
the approaches and the heavy sections east o!
it, cost the Company, the sum of $218,203 G5.
Th* Tunnel can be completed in about the same
time other heavy sections on the road, sa.
about a year.
Arrangements have been ut&de with, and
Baltimore had agreed, to retire her one million
mortgage, which she holds for her million spent
on the road,*und permit the Compauy to rai*e
by mortgage or otherwise sufficient to complete
the road. Negotiations are now being made to
raise this sum with a show of success. Mr.
liusseli further stated that with GO miles of
road completed and stocked, the sum expeude I
on the Saad Patch Tunnel, and other heavy
sections, with the amount of subscriptions not
yet collected in, will be a sufficient basis, upon
which a fund can be raised to complete the en
tire road, and he Las hopes of seeing it put
under contract within a year from next spriag.
11c also stated that ths suspension of the
paymout of interest on the Stoek paid ID, was
only temporary, and the same was done by oth
er Railroad companies of the time of the crisis.
That the Pittsburg and Conuellsvilie Railroad
Company is now in a better and more flourish
ing condition than either the Fort Wcyne or
the Peuua. Central Companies were at the same
stage of their history.
Mr. Russell is a gentleman of high charac
ter aud is favorably known here, is a uative of
Bedford and was a Secretary of the Common
wealth under Gov. Johnson's administration.
He has uo stock or other interest in the lload,
besides being one of its officers and friends aud
his testimony may well be looked upon with
interest by the many friends of the read here.
It is not often when a sworn testament, with
an opportunity of cross examination, cao be
had of the financial condition of a cooperation
and never from amors reliable and trust-worthy
source than the foregoing.— Somerset Herald.
NEGRO EQUALITY.
Oue of the bugbears if the lata Presiden
tial campaign was, that the Republican party
and all ttoc supporters ot Lincoln wanted to
make negioes iu all respect* equal to whites.
The falsehood of this statement has been abuu
dautly proved, lu the State of New York,
whete Republicanism is of the strongest Sew
ard type, the question of amending the Con
stitution, so as to allow negioes to vote, ws
submitted to the people at the polls on the
same day that they were to rots for President.
And yet, while there was a majority of about
fifty thousand for Lincoln, the proposed negro
suffrage amendment was defeated by more than
oue hundred thousand. Lincoln bad 3ti1,210
votes, bat negro suffrage had only 172,477,
showing that nearly two huudred thousand
Lincoln men were opposed to it. If the same
ques'ion had been submitted to the pcopje of
the other States that voted for Lincoln, it
would have been decided in the same way, aud
in most Sutra more emphatically than it was
in Now York.
Of the two ladies who opened tbo respective
balls of New York and Boston with the Prince
of Wales, Mrs. Gov. Morgan was, in early life,
a milliner, Mrs. Gov. Bmks, a factory girl.
Coughs and Colds ! Coughs *and Colds !
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Let uo one neglect a cold or a slight cough.
Thousands, doing so, have had one cold added
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the air passages, has become excessively irrita
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chronic cough, chronic pneumonia, and con
sumption gallop along. The best time to cure
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Specific Homeopathic Remedies, aud if you do,
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more cure and more pa'ience is necessary for a
care, though it lies io the same direction. Oar
advice is, to keep the feet warm, the head
cool, and take Humphrey's Homeopathic Cough
Pills.
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These Remedies, by the single box or esse, are
sent by mail or express, free of charge, to any ad
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REMEMBER, Strumous or Scrofulous af
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