BEDFORD INQUIRER. BEDFORD, Pa. Friday burning. Jan. 4, IS6^ "FEARLESS AND FREE." D. OVER—Editor and Proprietor. Won't some of out subscribers who never pay n.- any money, bring us some Dour, wheat, rye, corn, buckwheat and wood ? We need all these things, and haven't the money to buy them. The Bedford Gazette has an article last week condemning the citizens of Pittsburg for the course they took iu relation to the removal of anus from the a i serial at that place to some Forts at the otouth of the Mississippi River.— It was no wonder that the people there were excited when it was known that the Northern arseDals were being drained of their arms and accoutrements to go to the South, were they will be put into Forts, not properly manned, and be easily taken by the Southern secessionists and turned on the North. We notiee among the most active persons in the late affair the venerable WID. Wilkius, Judge Shaler, and other prominent Democratic leaders. It was eoufined to no party; all persons of all parties shared in the general excitement. The Gazette as usual, condemns these people, calis them ab oittionists, and defends the traitors in South Oaroiinr-, aud other cotton States, although thoy are covered ali over with the blackest treason. In the Revolution the majority of the people of South Carolina were Tories, there wore also Tones in other States, and they were a by word aud a reproach for ever after, aud tuo disgraco even descended to their posterity. In the present times, wbeu disunion is almost cer tain, we lind some of the 6ttme class in our midst—the Gazette editor is one of them—let them beware! The time for taking sides for our country or against it, is at bund. Pause well before you connect yourselves with the diunionit>! We are glad to find by the f.il lowing, that the people of Pittsburg have placed themselves right: Mass Meeting at Pittsburg—The iie sistaure Movement Deprecated. PITTSBURG, Dec. 27, 1860. AD immense met ting of citizens wis held to day iu the street, opposite the Court House, relative to ihe removal of ordinance from the Allegheny Arsenal to the Southern forts. Gen. Wtu. Robins in presided. Several speeches were delivered, among others by Gen. J. K. Morehead, the member of Congress from this District. Several resolutions were adopted, by an al most unanimous vote, declaring the loyalty of the citizens e.f Pittsburg to the Union, and their ability to defend themselves against enemies of the Union; deprecating auy iuteifereDce with the shipment of arms under the order of the Government, however, inopportune or impolitic the order may be: tnd depleting the existence of this state of things, and the connection of frauds with the administration of importadt departments of the public service, es having shaken tho confidence of the people of the free States. Also, the following resolution: Received, i bat while Pennsylvania is on the guard at the Federal capital, it is the especial duty to look to the fidelity of her sons; and in tht view we cail on our President as a citizen of this Commonwealth, to see that the Repub lic receives no detriment at his hands. It be hooves the President to purge his Cabinet of every man known to give aid and comfort to, or iu auy wise countenancing the revolt of any of the States against the authority of the Con stitution aud the laws of the Union. A despatch from lion. Robert McKuigbt was read, asking the people to make no further re sistance, but ask for a suspension of the ship ment of the guns until farther advices from Washington, and approved. The Hon. Henry M. Fuller died at Philadel phia on the 26th io-t, aged 40. He was born in Bethany, Pa. educat 1 at Princeton, studied and practiced law at Wilkesbarre, joined the Whig party, was chosen by them to the Regis ature, aud to Congress iu 1850; recbosen by the American party in 1854, and was their canoidate for Speaker in the long struggle which ended in the eloitiou of Mr. Banks.— Last October he was tho Constitutional Union candidate for Congress iu the lid District, but was beaten bj the Republicans. lie bad large interests in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, and was a warm friend of the oause of protec tion to American industry. He leaves a widow aud a family of seven children. AMBROTYPKS. —Our frieud Prank B. Stew art, the excellent Aaibrotypist, has located in Altocna. Wo bespeak for bina the good will of the people of that town. He takes the most perfect likenesses. All our people were pleased with his piotures. We understand that Mr. Vail ado is in partnership with Mr. Stewart. As a Painter and 4'botographic artist, Mr. ValiaJe has few equals, lie took many pictures in Bedford during the last two years, to the satisfaction of all parties. A dispatch from Ilarrisburg says that Geo. Cameron has been selected by Mr. Lincoln as Secretary of the Treasury. We hope this may prove true—-as no better selection could be made. "WHY IS HE SILENT." Under this eapiion the Bedford Gazette of last week has an inflammatory article condemn ing the President elect, because he ba9 not pub lished a manifesto to the Sou'b, in order to mol lify their passions. It would be superfluous. Are not his speeches beforo the country, ; n which bo counsels moderation and justice to the South ? If one were to rise from the dead, in tba present inflamed and treasonable stato of the public mind in,the South, he could have no effect upon them, if he were to preach modera tion and Union ! Mr. Linoolu is as yet only a private man, and wbeu he becomes invested with the cares of State, he will do all a firm and patriotic man cau do, to ali sections of the confederacy alike. Tho Hon. Henry W. Milliard of Alabama, who served iu Congress with Mr. Linooln, and kDows how groundless are the Southern mis representations of his character and views", in bis letter to Belmont and others, thus silences the clamor for a soothing declaration from Mr. Liueolu : "It is supposed very generally that we ap prehend some immediate mischief from Mr. Lincoln's Admiuistcation; some direct and plain interference with our rights ; and we are ap pealed to by our Northern fiiends to wait for some hostile demonstration on bis pari ; wo are reminded that his character is conservative, that be will see the law providing for the return of fugitive slaves faithfully executed; that lie does not propose to interfere with Slavery in the States where it exists ; that his Cabinet will be unexceptionable; and that a majority of both Houses of Cougress will oppose his measures. Now all this may be oonceded, and yet it' the whole Southern mind could bo brought to yield implicit faith iu those assu rances, still the attitude of the Southern States would remain unchanged. "It is not any apprehension c( aggressive action on the part of the incoming Adminis tration which rouses the Southern people to resistance, but it is the demonstration which Mr. Lincoln's eleoticu by such overwhelmed majorities affords of the supremacy of a senti ment hostile to Slavery iu the Dou-slav.holdiug States of the Union." ' * In ether words, the South does not appre- Lcmi any wrong fr >iu Mr. Lincoln, but objects to the vote by which ue was elected. How can he say anything that would obviate tins 1 TME CRISIS. Our paper is pretty much taken up W'th matters in reference to the present disturbed condition of affairs iu the country. It is no use unocing matters. All hope cf a peacabic solution, is almost as on end. South Carolina, aud the other cotton states appear to be deter mined to plunge the country into oivil war, and the so met the people of the Noitfc come to tbe knowledge of this matter, the better.— Our county is on t! e border, and the sugges tions of the following article from the Pitts* burg Gazette , is quite appropriate for this region, as well as everywhere el*e in the North : LET TIIE PEOPLE ARM. —We give this ad vice relaotsnily. We have been loth to be lieve it necessary. Bu: events are crowding ou us so rapidly auti rendering it so necessary, that we can no longer refrain. The time has come when it would be criminal to withhold it. Our ndvioe, therefore, to every Noitheru man is, Arm yourself at once. If you hive a gun, get it ready for instant use , if you do unt own one, get oue as soon an possible. For it will take time to get oue. The North is, to day. almost bare of aims, and he who orders oue to bo male will have to wait souio time before his order can be filled. Look at the facts. The Northern arsenals belonging to the United Stitee have tecu do. uuded, withiu the last three mouths, every available arm within them having betn shipped S uh. The State arsenals have all been emptied by tbe Southern demand, and have orders far ahead of rtietr ability to supply. Toe Government has ordered all the United States troops to the Pacific Coast, out of the way ; and all tho available forea of tho Nvy has been sent to distant stations, where orders of recall cannot reach them under a mouth's time. the e facts demonstrate that while the South i-. fully armed and ready tor war, the North is defenceless. The mTlitsrj spirit, besides, has not been active tpr souio yeais past, and the number of volunteer companies is smaller than it was. Tbe number of arms in the hands of the vol uutccr soldiers;, therefore, is comparatively trifling, fiance our chief reliance must be ou the arun iu the banes of individuals , and no Ropub icau should now feel himseli secure without one. ' We are not alarmists; but it would be criminal to hide from the people the Got th.t they are i dancer. They have been bitrayed by their Government iuto the ban Is of their enemies. There is a well seated purpose on tho part of tbe Southern hot-heads to take porsersicu of Washington City, and prevent tho inauguration of Lincoln. Wbeu that con spiracy develops itself, as it will, in what position wtii tbe North be to resist or oreveut it? Uan she do it in her present unarmed condition ? She has numbeis : but she has not the weapons, 1 ud sho will he false to herself if she does not supply tne lack at oooe. ALLEGHENY MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARY. —We call attention to the advertisement of this excellent; institution. Under the man agement of Rev. W. W. Brim, it will keep up its riputaiiou. It is a Bedford County in. stituiiou, and consequently odgbt to be en couraged iu preference to o'hers outside of tbe County. The Tory orgv, around the corner, last week, baa an article defending South Carolina; aDd says that she has not been guilty of treas on. Wc would like to ask this paper if the seizing of Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinekney tbe Arsenal, Custom; House, and Post Office, and raising tbe treasonable Palmetto flig upon tbem, is not treason? Tbe Legislature met on Tuesday, and organ ized by tbe election cf tbetr officers. We havo uot as yet seen tbe Governor's message. BIBFORB IMQUmilt BOLD NATIONAL ROBBERY. Go vernivcLt officials at Washington, and the whole country, have been startled at the re recent disclosure of Goddard Bailey, one of the Chief Clerks in the Interior Department, of the abstraction from the safe of the Do* purtiueut, of nearly a million of dollars, in bonds and coupons, convertible ioto money at any time, it is said that men in high places of the Government are strongly implicated in the robbery. The Secretary of War is strongly suspected. "Independent," of the North A meiieuD, writes the following in regard to the matter: The robbery—for defalcation is not the word applicable to the occasion—of tho safe of the Interior Department of nearly nine hundred thousand dollars in State bonds, transferable by detiveiy, has uaturdly pro voked uiuoh ruoark here. Goddard Briey, the person who admits having abstracted the securities, and who voluntarily gave the infor mation to the Secretary of the luteriorj is a native of Charleston, and the son of a former Attorney General of South Carolina, although his appointment is nominally ascribed to Ala bam iin the blue book, lie acted as the pri vate secretary of ir. Thomp- n, ami bad charge of tho trust funds of the Indiana, amounting to some three millions in all. Va rious rumors are afloat as to the purposes to whiob these funds were applied, but nothing short of a thorough investigation will probably disclose the whole facte connected with that astounding transaction. It is very certain that confederates must have been connected with the operation, iu order to dispose of so large an amount of bonds, ami intiuftfciofie have boon thrown out implicating parties of more consequence thaD the immediate aotur in this affair. Mr. Thompson, as Secretary of the Interior, is the trustee of the lauiau funds, and their legal custodian. It is utieily incomprehensi ble how be could have permitted such an enor mous amount oi securities, which arc convert ible like batik notes, to have remained iu the keeping of auy subordinate, aud exposed to such casualties at attach to a coinmou irou sate, and the temptations *ikely to beset an ir responsible clerk, who gives no bond# for the discharge of his duty, and could give none ad equate to such a trust. A thorough examina tion may furnish developments that wilj sur prise and shock the country. vstaiiling as this evout is, the public bere have been prepared for disclosures quite as se rious. ihe worst is by no means told; and when some of the dcp.rtun nts are overhauled by their -uecessors m office, revelations will be made far more astonishing than any which have yet leaked out. The investigations of ibo last C'-ocgress proved, beyond the possibil ity of a doubt, that a system of corruption Was established here without parai;ci in tire history of the Government. Contracts, j.iba aud fa vors have been parcelled out through notorious agents and infamous employees, which have cost the country millions of ..oliars. Largo sums thus procured wore uel that ef fect, but aecordiug to his discretion as oom tmindf-r of the post, by choosing the most strategic point in his jurisdiction defensible by a small force. CONVENTION —TENTH DAY. CHARLESTON, Deo. 27. — After prayer and reading of tbo Journal, the President an nounced the reason why the ordinaneo ot yes terday was not primed in tho Journal. It was immediately moved to go into secret session. Mr. De Trevilie tried to get in a re solution, and commenced reading it us follows: "Resolved, Tuat tbe Governor of South Car oliua be authorized aud, requested to take pos session of Foils Moultrie and Sumter." Here be was interrupted by a demand that tbe pre* vie us motion for a secret session should be put whiob was done, aud the motion was carried, and the Conveutipn weut iuto searet ses sion. FROM A PRIVATE SCL'RCK. The Telegraphic reporters say that the fol lowing despatch is from a reliable source, and and is probably intended *s a response to in quiries froru tnis city: CHARLESTON, Dee. 27. —1 have just had an : interview wiib Capt. Foster, now iu command at Fort Moultrie. He says thai JLjor Ander son ha.; acted upon bi3 own responsibility; that Fort Moultrie fans not been set on lire, and thai iie (Foster) is stii! at Fort Moultrie with a few of tie regulars. L The Owrt Act Commuted. CHARLESTON, Deo. 28. —The Palmetto flag was raised yestei day afternoon oyer the cus tom bouse and pose office at SP. M. About the same hour the palmetto flag floated out to the breeze tt Castle Pincknej., and a large military force went over Lift night to Fort Moultrie. Tue ball has opened at lust. CHARLESTON, D haft of A spoon.— Two or three application- will rclie e. Some recommend powdered aloes peilitory with tho camphor, but übservation and experience have satisfied us, that tho camphor is sufficient alone. It acts probibly by its "virtue as a diffusible -timui-mf, aud antiseptic qualities. Tne Lest jjd -a, however, is to send for an experienced j physician, without delay.—.Vein York Ex mi ! nert, of Bedford township, in the 84Ui year of her age. On the 4th ult., Miss Mary Jane, daoghtrc of Mr. John Imler, of Bedford township, in the loth year of her age. On the 7tli ult., Mr. John Bowser, of Friends Cove, iu the 76th year of his age. On the Ist Doc., Mrs. Catharine Price, wife o' Valentine W. Price, aged 88 years, 5 months and 13 days. Look upon me, Lord I pray thee, Let thy spirit dwell in ma! Thou has sought me, thou has bought Only thee to know I pine, Let tne tlnd thee, let ine find thee, Take my heart and grant UI-J thluo ! Nought I ask tor, nought I strive for, But thy grace so rich and free. That thou givett whom tuou Invest, And who truly cleave to ttee, Let me find thee, let mo find thre, lie hath all things who bath thee!