BEDFORD INQUIRER. . a BEDFORD, Pa. Friday Moriifugr. HI are It 8, IS6I. "FEARLESS AND FREE." 11. OYER—Editor and Projirletor. LYjtUGURJJL ADDRESS. In fco-day'p paper we publish the Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln. It is a very able and well written document, and coricih tary, but firm iti its tone. lie favors Na tional Convention, sad the Corwia amendment, which provides that Congress shall not inter fere with slavery in the States. The address is brief and needs no synopsis from us, as we believe everybody will read it. It has been received with general satisfaction, and has al ready produced a .good effeof. Thank God, we have at last a capable and honest man at the bead of affairs. THE TARIFF. The now Tariff Act, passed last week by the Seoate, as it- cams from the House, without the duty on tea and coffee, was signed by the Presi dent, on Saturday. Every Republican in tbe StDtilo voted for the act, aud every Locofooo, but Biglvt, voted against it. It will bo re membered that last summer, Douglas, iu his electioneering tour through Peumylvania, de clared himself to be iu favor of a Tariff for the protection of Pennsylvania interests, yet he voted aloug with his party, against the Tar iff, thus proving true to his former Free Trade record. We have confidence that with the ac cession to power of tbe Republicans, and tbo passage of tbis Tariff aet, limes will tmprore lr the better. THE CABINET. The following ia the Cabinet of Mr. LD.colc, a-- confirmed by the U. S. Senate. Secretary of State—\Vu. 11. Seward, N. Y. Secretary if the Treasury— S. P. Chine, vbio. Secretary of War—Simon Cameron, Pa. Secretary ui the Navy—Gideon Welles, Cnu. Swrct.ry of the iu'.trior—C. B. Smi h, la. Attorney General—Edward Bate*, Mo. Po>t Master Genera!— Montgomery Blair, "Maryland. C- W. ASHCOJJ, ESQ., our worthy member of the House of Representatives at Harm turg, was in town on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the Legislatutu having adjourned over till 12th inst. lie lo"ks well and tears tia honors meekly. The Inauguration -ceremonies on Monday, passed off pleasantly. Au immense uumber of people were iu attendance, and nothing occur red to mar the good feeliog that prevailed. We call attention to tbo advertisement in aueiber column, headed "Wanted." To a uiaD with a capital of SIOOO, wo think this would afford a good opportunity to invest bis liton-y at u business that would pay well. A number df those indebted to us, have promised to pay u by the first day of April, when we have a heavy payment to make. We hope tbey will do it. The attention of Constables and offioeri ot election, is called to an adver?)*"tofct in an other column. NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION. GobDStoaouoH, N. 0., March 2.—The of ficial returns of Wayne county give 1008 for the Convention. Toe secession delegak-s ore elected. Nash county gave 919 majority for the secession delegates aDd 86 tmjority for the Convention- Wako county has elected Union ists, and gives a majority of 160 for a Con vention. Warreu county cleats Secessionists, and gives a largo majority for a Convention. "Pearson county went for the Convention, but elects au Uuiouiaf. Northampton elects one Union and one Secessionist. The county gives -m majorityfer the Convention. liALkiuu, Msteb 2. The mails and tcio -jjrspb furnish reports from tLirty-soveu couu ttes. There are tweniy-ono for Compromise and thiiteeu for Secession, wh'ie tbiee are <Ji >idt i. It is probable the State has decided against a Convention by a small majority, Many of the Union counties hsvo given majorities fer the Coaveotiou. RALKJGH, March 2-lli P. >l.—ln 47 cvuu'.ice, the Union men have a majority of 23 delegates, and there is a majority against toe C .tv ntion of about 8000. M IS.- OUltl CON VEN HON. St. Lows, March 2---do the State Conven tion, ye-tor Jay, the motion to table the mo tion to reeoustder the tate by which the reso lution requiting the members to take oath to tupport me Constitution of the United States tat! oi t u* State ol Missouri was adopted,.was lost—yeas 05, nays 80. The members quali t:od in the afcrttyon, and the Convention was jterroafiently ergrnia d by tbi- tie- torn of ex- Goveroor Sterling Price as Ptestdeot, and 3. .Jb Low as -.The President laid before tbe Convention a onsnajUDioattoo trout Lutiiei J. Glenn, auuouu tiog himself as Oouinmioner from Georgia.— Jtje cotuniu dotation was laid.on the table, and Cuuvtn son adjourned Inaugural Address, of Abraham Lincoln. Fdlcw CUtztut of the Unitfi State*:— la compliance with a custom a# old as the Gov ernment itself, I appear before you to address you briefly, and to take, iu your presence, the oath pre scribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President before he enters oo the execution of his office. I do not consider it necessary at present for me to dhcuss those matters of administration about which there is uo special anxiety or excitement. Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never he-, u any reason able cause for such an apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspu tion. It is found iu nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote front one of those speeches when I declare that '•! have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of Slavery in tin States where it exists, I believe I.have no lawful right to do so, and 1 have no inclination to do so. Those who Dominated and elect* d n,e did so with the full know ledge that i toad mad'-' lb s and many siuii.ar decla rations, anu had never recanted them. And more than this, they placed in the platform for my ac ceptance, as u law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I uow read. Resolved, "That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the of each State to or !er an I contr d its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclu sively, is essentia! to iha: balance or power on which the perfection an i e i iarance of our political fab ric depend. And we denounce the lawless in vasion by an armed iorce of the soil of any State or territory, 110 mutter under what pretext, as among the gravest of Climes." I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so, I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is suscepti ble---that the properly, peace aud security oi no section are to be iri anvwtse endangered by the new incoming Administration. 1 add, too, that all the protection which, consis tently with the Gouatitutiou and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all the States, when lawfully dem >nd"*t, lor whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another. There is much controversy about the delivering of fugitives from service or labor. The clause 1 now read is as plainly written in the Constitution, as .:ny other of its {.revisions. "No person held to service or labor in one State under tin* laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequ nee of any law or regulation therein, he discharged from sucn service or lauor, but shall be delivered up on claim of toe party to whom such service or labor may be duo." It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it lor the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves, and the intention of the law-giver is the law. All members of Congress swesi their support to the whole Consti'ution—to this provision as much as to any other—to the proposition then teat slaves whose cases come within the terms of this el .use, and shall be delivered up,"* their oaths are unani mous. Now if they would make the effort in good tern, per, could they not, with nearly equal unanimity, frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath ? There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by National or Stale authority, but surely that difference is not a very material one. If the slave is to b ■ surrendered, it can be of but littie cons< quence to hint or to others, by which authority it is done. And should any one iu any case bo content toat his oath shall go uukept on ;a merely unsubstantial controversy as to bow it shall be kept ? Again—ln any law upon this subject ought not all the safeguards of lioerty known in the civilised and humane jurisprudence i be introduce . so that a freeman may not be, iu any case, surrender ed as a slave ? And might it not be well, at the samo time, to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution, which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges aud iininuniUoß of the citizens in tha seViral States." I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservation and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hyper critical rules. And while Ido not choose now to specify particular acts to Congress as proper to ha enforced, 1 do suggest that it will be ruuch safer for uil, in official an I priva.e stations to con form to and abide by all those acts which stand un repealed than to violate suy of them trusting to Qn<t impunity in having thera held to be unconsti tutional. It is scarcely seventy-two years since the first in auguration of a President under our National Con stitution. Duriug that period fii teen different and greatly distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the Govern ment. They have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success. Yet with al this scope tor precedent, I new enter upon the same task for the brief term of lour years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably atiempiea. I bold that in contempla tion of the universal law and of the Constitution, the union of these States is [lei petuai. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental laws of all national governments. It is safe to as sert that the Government, proper never had a pro. vision i:i its organic law for its own termination. I shall continue to execute all the express provi sions ol our National Constitution and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itael!. Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in Uio nature ot a contract merely, can it be peaceably unmade by loss than all the parties who made it ? One patty to the contract may violate if, break it so to speak, but does it not require all to lawfully res cind it 7 descending from these general principles, weflni the proposition that an legal contemplation the Union is perpetual, confirmed by tbe history of the Union itseif. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It wit formed iu prt by the articles of association in 1774. it was matured and con tinued by the Declantioh of Independence io 1776. It WHS further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expre.siy plight .-<1 and eu-' gaged that it should he perpetual by the articles of confederation in 1778, an I finally iu 1783. One of the declared objects for ordaining anl establishing the Constitution, was to form a more perfect Uaiou; but if the destruction of tire Union by one or by a part only of the States be liwfully possible, the Union is less than before the Constitution ; having lost the vital element of perpetuity it follows Irom these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union, and that resolves or ordinances to that effect are leg.lly void, and that acts of violence within any State or S ttas against the authority of the United States, are in surrectionary or revolutionary according to cir cumstances. I therefore consider thai in view uf the Consitu tion and laws tbo Union is unbroken, and m tho extant of my ability I shall take care, an the Cm stitution expressly ei joins on me, tnat tee Uws of ilk' Union tie faithfully execated in all the Slates. Doing this 1 do\ mto ha only a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform it so far as practice hie, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold ibe requisite mean-, or in some authoritative m inner direct the. contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace but only as the declared purpose of the Union, that I will Constitutionally defend and maintain it. In doing this their need be uo bloodshed or violence, sat there bhtli he none unless it. ho forced upon tlio National authority. The power confided to uto will be use 1 to hoi I, occupy, an t piss*ss the pro perty and places belonging to the government, ami to collect the duties on imports, but b.-youd what may be necessary lei lb-se (Injects there will be no invasion, no using oi force ague at or among t.. people aiiywiiere. Where hostility in any interior locality shall W so great and so universal as to prevent Competent resident citizens from holding Federal ofiice*, there will be DO attempt to .LPREE BIBFOEB INQUIRER. I obnoxious strangers among the people, for that ob ject. Vfhile the strict legal "right may exist in the | government to enforce the exercise of thea* offices tbe attempt to do so would bo so irritating^ n d so nearly unleash 1 with all, that I to forego for a time the uses of such offices. Tbe mails, unless repelled, will contioue to be furnished iu all parts of the Uuion so far as possible. The people everywhere shall have that senftfl of perfect security which tho most 1 favoratle and ealui thought arid reflection on the part of the Government can give them. The oourse here indicated will be followed, utiles.* current events and experience shall show a uiod : ification or change to be proper, and in every i oaso and exigency my be*t discretion shall be ; exercised according to circumstances actually i existing, and with a view aud a hope of a peace ful solutiou of tho national troubles and the : restoration of fraternal sympathies and affec tions. That there arc persons in one aectioo or auoiher who seek to destroy the Union at all events, aud are glad of any pretext to do ir, I will neither affirm uor deuy; but if there bo such, 1 need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union, may I uot speak, befoie euteriug upon so giave a matter as ibe destruction of our uational fa brio with -all its benefits, its memories and hopes? Would it not be wise to ascertain pre viously wby we do so? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that auy portion of the ills you fly from, have uo real existence. Wilt you, while tho certain ills you fly to are greater tbu all tho real ones you fly froiu? Will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake? All profess to bo content in the Union, if.ail Constitutional rights can bv maintained. Is it true theu that any right plainly written in the Constitution lias been denied? I ibiuk not. Happily the huurtc mind is so constitu ted thai no party oan reach to the audacity o! doing this. Think if you can of a single in stance iu which a plainly written provision of the Constitution his ever beeu denied. If, by the^mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written Gun satutiuual right, it might in a moral puiui of view, justify a revolution. It certainly wouia if such a right were a vital one. But Such is not our case. All tho vital rights 'of minori lies and of individu .Is are so plainly as.-urei to them by affirmations and nogaaou-, guaran tees aud piohibitious iu the Constitution, that coot-overflies uever art>e concerning ttietu. But no organic law cau be framed* with a ! provision specifically applicable to every ques tion which may occur in practical administra tion. No Brest leut oan auimipate, uor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by National or State authority? The Constitution d<>os not expres-ly say. May Congress probib t slavery iu the Territories? The Constitution does not express! v say- Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories* Toe Constitution does not exprrssiy say. From questions of this class spring all our Constitution il controversies, au i wo divide njiou them toto majorities and minorities. i r the minority will not ucqaiesoe tue imjinty must, or the government must cea®e. There is no other alternative for continuing the Government but acquiescence on the one side or ttie other. If a minority in such case wiil secede, rather than acquiesce, they toike ;i precedent which iu turn will divide aui rum them for a minority of tbeir owu wiil secele from them whenever a majority refa-e* to hi ecutrol'.ed by such a minority. For instance, why imy cot any portion of a new Coufadoracy, a year or two heuos, arbitrarily eodo tgaiu, precisely as portions of the present Uuiou now claim to secede from it? All who cherish dis union sentiments ate uow being educated to the exact temper of doing this. Is there snob,* per tect identity of interests among the States to compose a new Union as to produce Luruuay ooly and prevent renewed secession? Plainly, tbc central idea of secession in the essence of anarchy. A majority held iu re straint by CoDStuttuoal ehecks aud limitaJious and always changing easily with tha deliberate changes of popular opinious and sentiments, is the only tru<> sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejeats it, docs of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is im possible. The rule of a miujrity as a perma nent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, *e that rejecting the majirity principle, auarohy and despotism -in some form is all that is left. 1 do not forget the position assumed by some that Constitutional questions are to be decided by tbe Supreme Court, uor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a saoit as to the objiot of that Bud, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in ail parallel cases by sli other Departments of the Government. Aud, while it is obviously possible that such deciaiou ; may br erroneous in any giveu ca*e, still the evil effect following it oemg jiuritoJ to ibat particular oasea warn tbe chauce that it in>v b<- overruled and never become a precedent for older cases, oan be better homo than could the evils of diff :reut prtotice. At the .-atna the candid citizen must confers, that if the polics of the Government upou vttai questions, effect iog tbe whole people, to to he irrevocably axe t by the deeistuus of ibo Sup-cine Court, the iustant tbey are made in ordinary litiguiou boiwecu parties in personal actions, tbe people wiil have ceased to be their own rulers, havtug to that exteut practically resigned their gov ernment into the bonds of that eminent tribu nal. Nor is there iu tbis view any assault upon the Court or the Judges. It is a duty tnuu which tbey may uot shank to decide cases pro perly brought before them, and it is no fau to! theirs if others suck t > turn their decisions tj political purposes. Oua tea.ton of our .country believes that slavery is i tght, and ought to be extended, whtio tue other bv.ieves that it ta wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the ouly substan tial dispute. The fugitive -lave clause of the Gcttstttuiioa, and the lw for Ibo -suppression of toe foreign slave trade, are each as well en forced perhaps js auy law cv?r cau bo in a community woaro Utu .coral Seuoo of toe poupio imperfectly supports the law itself. Too great' body of the pooplo abide by tbo dry leg.i ob ligation >0 both cases and a tew break over to each. This I think oanaot bo perfectly cured, and it woiild bo worse iu beta oases alter the separation ot the scotiutu thau before. The foreign slave trade, now t:nprf)o?ly suppressed, would be rovtveu wuaou restrictiou in one eOetiou; whiio fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not he Surrendered ul all by tiro other. Bey-it-ally speaking we cannot separat-e, wt cannot remove our rcip-totive aeoaous t-om paoh oilier, uor build au laipnasinfe wuii butweeoi I thpin. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the pre.'enoe and beyond ibe reach of each other. But the different paits of our country cannot do tbie. They cannot I hut remain face to face, and an intercourse , either amicable or hostile must continue be ; tweeu thetu. Is it possible then to make this in* , tercouse more advantageous or more satisfac tory after separating than before? Can alieus make treaties easier than friends can make j laws? Oin treaties be more faithfully enforced j between aliens than laws among friends! Suppose yon go to wr, you cannot tight al ways, and when, alter much loss on both side* and do gain on cither, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of inter course are agaiu upon you. Tbia country, with its institution*, belongs to the people who in habit it. Whenever tbay shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to di.®m ß uib?r or over throw it. I cunot be ignotant of the fact that tuaoy worthy aud patriotic citizens are desirous of having the national Couatitutiou amended. While 1 make no recommendation of amend ments, 1 tully recognize the rightful author ity of the people over tbc whole subject, to be exercised iu cither of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself, aud I should, uuder ex - istiog 3'r?uuMtauee, favor, rather than onpose a futr opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it. I will veuture to add that, to me ! the Convention mode seems preferable, inas much as it uilows the amendmeut to originate with the people themselves, instead of permit ting them to take or reject a proposition ori eiuated by others uot especially chosen lor the purpose, and which might not be pieeiselj -uch as they would wish to accept or refuse. I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution, which amendment, however, 1 ( tiavo not seen, has passed Congress, to the ef fect t!at the Federal Goverumeut shall never interfere with the domestic ttmitutious of the fet.tes including that of persons held to ser vice. To avoid a misconstruction of what 1 hive sadd, I dep.rt from my purpose, uot to "peak of particular amendments, so lar as to ! -ay thai, holding such a prevision to re uow implied as Constitutional Jaw, 1 have no ob ject ion to its being tuade express and irrevo cable. The thief magistrate • eaves all his autho rity from the people, and tUey have coulerred none upon him t.< hx lines for the separation of the t'titcs. Toe people themselves can do this also if they choose but the executive, as *ueb, has uotiiiug to do with it. His duty is to administer the present Government as it caure to his h.nds, and to trau-mit it unim paired by biiu to his successor. Why should there not be a political confi dence io the u'tuuate justice of the peoplt? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either part) without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty liuler of nations, with bis eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth *ad that justice will surely prevail by the judgments of this great tribunal of the Arne noan people. By the frame of the Government under which we live, this same people baro wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provid ed for the return of that lit le to their own hands at very short intervals. While toe people retain their virtue and vigilance, no Administration, by any exiremr of wickedness or tolly, can very seriously in jure the Government in the short space of four j years. Mjf Countrym°n —One and all, think calm iy and well upon this whole eu Nothing valuable cau be lost by taking tiuto. if there be • u object to hurry any of you io butt haste >o a step which you would uever tike deliberate ly,that object wiil be frustrated by taking time. But no good object cau be ft us (rated by it.' Suoh of you as are uow dnaatufied, still have the old Couatitutiou unimpaired, and on the sen sitive point, the laws of your own fr* uing uu der iqwhiie the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it w mted ti change either. If it were admitted that you who are disiatis-1 fi'.'d hold the right side iu the dispute, there still is no siuglo good rßa*ou for precipat* ao turn. Intelligence, patriotism, Chri-tiani'y, and a firm reliance on Hwu who has uv?r yet forsaken ibits favored land,rostill c-mpetent to adjust iu the best way all ourprcseut difficulties. la your hands my dissatisfied douutrymao, and not iu untie, is the motueufciua issue of ci vil war. Tho Government will not assail you. You em have no conflict in that w.thout being yourselves toe aggressors. You have no oath .registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ♦•preserve, protect an J def-ad it" lam loth to close. W.e are net enemies, but' ftisuds. We muet not oc enemies.— though passion may have strained, it must' uot break our bonds of affection. The mystic chord-, of memory stretching 'ro:u every battle-field and pit riot grave to every loving heart and bcaetifltone all over ibis oroad land, will yet swell the chorus of tiie Uuiou, wbea again touched, as surely as they will bo by tbc belter angels of our nature^ Tlc Twlggg Treason— {Dismissal from the service for Treachery. Washington, March 2. The Secretary of War his puhlishoi an of ficial order dismissing Gen. Twiggs from the artsy for treachery to the flig of his country, in baring surrendered, on the demand of ,tbe .ntborities of Texas, the military posts and other property of tbe United States in his dS partmeut aud under his charge. War Department, ) Adjutant General's Oveiuk, > Washington, Match 1, 18GI. ) 'Hie following order is published for the in formation of the Army: •War Department, March I. By the direction of tbe President of the ti nned Stales, it is ordered that Brigadier Gen era!, David K. Twiggs be and is hereby dts -timed troiu ihe Aruiy of the (Jniied Stater, tor bis treachery to the flag of hie country in h.vujg surrcodcJ, on fbe 18th of February, 1881, ..Q tho demiad of tne authorittes of Texas the military posts aud other propetty of the Unit Stales in hie department and under his charge. J. liol.T, Secretary of War. By order or the Secretary of W .r, 8. CtiopEK, Adjutant General. Forty-three army officers have resigned their oontmiasiuus oiuao the pataage of the Sou'h Carolina oruinuuee of -cceostou.several of them, however, without lefetencc to thai subject. THE LATEST NEWS. | Last Da/ ol (he XXXV'Lh longrfifl. ; Closing Hours of the fid Session EXCITEMENT IN THE SENATE. I Speeches of Lane for Secession and Johnson of Tenn. for the Union. Extraordinary llnlhusiainn iu the Galleries. THE GALLEIUEiS CLEARED. PERSONALITIES IN THE HOUSE. WASHINGTON, Mweh 2, 1861. Tbe closing hours of Congress have been uttendsd with no scenes of disorder or violence ;<a have been exhibited on precious occasions; but (be excitetueuf ou the floor aud iu the gal leries Las seldom beeu equaled. lo the Seuute fhe Beaoe Oonvcution propo sition weic t.ken up, ud /Ir. L.ioc of Oregon, made a three Louts speech, aUackiug Seuator ! Jt'hnseu, of Tennessee, and defending the right • of Feeeasimi. Mr. Johnson, <d Teunrssec. made a patriotic ; epftevh io reply, tiuiitig which there were frc { quent outbursts ol applause in the galleries, and the Ghai/juuti oi tiered tbeui cleared; Lut subsequenlly suspended the oider. Mr. Johnson sutd: Sbutv me thote wtto mk war on the Government and flie at it- vesjds. and 1 will show you trait rs. It he was Ft>si detii of tbe United States, by the Etetuai Gud be would have tbeui hung. This brought down Ihe galleries, and they could not he restrained. They woao ordered to be cleared. The order Was received w.tu a few hisses, when the wuoie crowd rose and nuis. forth iu most tumultuous applause, accompa nied with yelling aud shuut.ng, the uuiat cu! iiniiuuog iu tbiee rousing cheers for the Uuieu The galleries were aii cleared aud the doors locked. Senator L'l ittendeu made a oiotion to adj.uru till Sunday ooou. This was oLj'cted to by severil members who wanted the Senate to keep the Sabbath boly. Mr. Uriiteußu—holy! We would keep r holier th-.u we ever did by savin® the country from ruin and bloodshed. The motion was loaX Tbe rule which prevents bills from being reid and pa sued on tbe same day, so far as re lates to the propositions to am_'ud the 'Joastuu itn, wis suspended. Tue House refused to tUsLt nd the rules in order to take up the bill providing for t m col lection of customs ou shipboard, and nutboii aing the Fiesideut, if he deem it reaeesary, to employ tbe aimy aud naval forces, &3. I he House adopted the reeoiuiiou ecnsuriog the Secretary of the Navy for aeceptiug, with out delay, the resignations of oflicvra who were iu areas agaiuat the Government. Ou motion of Mr. IJhelps,1 J helps, a complimentary (•solution to Speaker Fenuiugtou was adopted. It met with a few oi j*cuona. Tbu reports of the Committees of Conference were trout time t > itvuc concurred in. Daiiug the proceedings of the House, per sonalities passed between Messrs. Steven-it; (Ivy.) aud Phelps (M 0.,) the former charging the latter with tucuuststency and an urdeut love for the North. Subsequently, Mr. Stevenson withlrew his objcctiooabie remark*, and the excitement, which wan waxiug hot during the controversy, subsided. Probably, deeming it injudicious to continue the session thiougii the night, lest those pet ->ual altercations might be continued, ih>- House adjourned til; Monday at ten o'clock. All the appropriation hills iiiat b id been re ferred to Goufcreuoe G 'mmiitees have beeu fa vorably sotod ot end pa-.sed. THE LATEST. WASHING TUN, Alaioh 2, Midnight. The Senate is si til in sefl-iou, haviug under cousiieratiou the joint resolutions of tbe H.-use, being Mr. Gorwin's propositions froui the Com uiiitee of thirt/„threo for the adjustmiut of the national difficulties. They were taken up by a vote of 25 against 11. A verbal amaodment waa moved by Mr. Pugh who s iid the grammar of the resolutions was allocking!)' bad. The vote stoei 19 yoas to 19 uay-s, wild the Vice President east his vote in tua affirmative. Mr. DougUs appealed for a reconsideration, and the vote was reeou*i(irad. After sums difficulty tbe doors of the gal leries were again opened, and ths people pour ed in till they were orowded. A tooiion to adjourn was lost. Mr. M ason f Va.) declared that tho Senate; was under tbe control of a lawless mob. Mr. Pugh's amfludment was -again put and lost. Mr. Pugb moved to amend by submitting the Crittenden propositions. Mr. Dooiiitie moved bis amendment deny ing the right of any State to secede. A leugt'uy debato folluwod, in which Mr. W iglall and others pattiaiputed. Mr. Wigull saii nothing short of au ac knowledgment of the right of secession would satisfy tbe Snath. Ou motion of Mr. Haotsr, the Senate took a recces till tu morrow (Suuday) ut 7 o'clock P. M., and tba Sen eta adjourned shortly aficr mid night. WASHINGTON, March, 3, 1 A. M.—The streets arc crowded at this bour, more than they have beeu at mid-day for many yours. Tbe popie, who are mostly sltaugcri-, at tracted by the iuaugural ocroumuics, arc ex ceedingly noisy, mud improvise oat aqmlt ere oaues aud indulge iu other pieu-au:ries to their he-arts' cuuteut. Tbe whole city is alive with the tustic aud eonfus.ou. ORIGINAL PRAVSR.— A Ltie boy kueoiing at bis uiotncr'a koee, to amy bis evening prayer, naked leave to pry to bis own words, and with cbtid-lik<* simplicity aid; "God biesa li'fle \V tliie, and duo't lt-t the bntiss buru op —God bit- paps and Oiatus —Gml bless Ua aad ufakc uif boufo go ou easy io the aioruiug," "Which shall bo preserved—fbe Uoion or tbe Republican party!"— iiorrtusburg Pulriat and Union. Both. The Union woald be past saving if it wae not for trie Repubticau p*rtf—D iwr crais Lav tog dooUred them si" tw-s -aJi ee,3wi?'on iate.— Eetttcettg Journal. f For the Bedford Inquirer. GRAND LAROKNY. MR. EDITOR:— "A withered curse, the man that steals, Ami shum net God. but feare.h man." J One of the BOLDEST acts of larceny WAS D;,. | covered yesterday, known to the history ot OUR J country, by two yoan* men, nameiy, WiliUu, j and Lewis Oroft. Wtliiam has been CNGGJJCJ ' an apprentice witb Henry BRUMBAUGH *I O j 0 R. BemColL r'S uiill, VV OLD berry, P I | Lewis HAS been engaged in driving his FARING < TEAM j About midnight on the 26th iost., Mr. Bra, N . j baugh seen a term driving away (*S HO t'I.I-jghtl | from the mill, and on inquiring of bi. AJPREN ! tiee, VViltiuui Croft, in the morning, he NI-RI j knowing anything of the suspicion, TEAM, BIN | Mr. Brumbaugh soon discovered that WIIEAT I was MISSING from the mill, AND took STEP, T O ' DTS< over where it BAD gone, and THE THIEVES.-. He attend IG'YAIUTD for Hollstitya U g *iti, a sample of THE wheat that WAS stolen, *UI 0 a it quiry of the MERCHANTS there, he found IH*T Lewis (Jrofc had sold to MOPAD IVFL I 01., t.iurty-four and a half bushels of WHEAT on tbst morning, and on corupartng ir with the sample it proved to bo of the s >ui" kind. Mr. BRUMBAUGH returned immediately, SAD a: tested B< th of them. To y ooufo-sed fiat they had stolen three loads of grain, amount ing in all to one hundred and IL.TR;> OUOIELS, CUD sold at Holiitbysburg to MEFSUDEI. & GO.' •iii stolen from G. R. B rndoliar'S mill I U IHE' deal hour of midnight. Last night they were both io the bands if the COUATVBLE— SamueI CURIU ok —at iienry F tick's tavern. William Urufr, in .-MI,. MYJ. leriaus m iuner escaped out of THE ha.. ; A oi toe ih.-er, and is now at large. Lewis Orutt W 6 A utxt d.y taken to the j.TL TU B -LOIC. Lewis Cruit SAYS Unit IT he U.s to GO to TUE pt uiten; iR Y "here are tin SO more who were interested in the iheft, t.at will NAVE , TO along with Liui, and every rn-UUS pi-it,ie shoiiid be resorted to to ferrit *UT THE ACOUA urels who re not yet known in ME public. Wood berry, Feb. 23. ISGI. Jisiice. Wnliam Croft, the OTHER young man engag ed in tuis robbery, WAS CAUGHT L>y CONSTABLE Coruiark, on Monday teeming la,f, on LISTS Ilill, and placed in jail the same D._v 3SULJ&. JEL JtrA X JtL! JLJ . On the 2Ut alt.. 'at ST. liiisvitic. :>Y KV. E. Git.lS, Sir. 'A M. C. !• OVBIT, TO MIA C.VRAAATXS SBLITJ, both o. St. Co.. fowrismp. OB the evening JGRH uit , at the residence of the Justice, in Evansvillc, by Leiuncl tv.IS, ESA , Mr. David BODS ot AUl.Tatown, Bi ir Co., TO MIOS Wealthy FOSTER of Bedford County. On the evening of LAV 7th ulc., AT the s. me Lee, by the. same Air. KEEA Watkius oi B • flori Co , to Si.s Abagaii Frgard of Huntington Co.. Fa. IU Ceatvrviile, Be.ltorit County, on TIMRSDAY the 2lst of February, 1861, iyjacobß. Aieitrsya, Esq., Air. Jacob il trdmaD of Kicbl.nd Co . U.io, to Aliss Alary Wii.ison ot Alleghany Co.. .WU. In Champaign City, 111., or. the 21 si nit., T.v REV. WM. Aitmuali, Air. E. M. Fisher OL B. Uford, Fa , to Airss Kate Baiiey FORMERLY trom SOMERSET Co. PD. The bride and groom have our best WITHE# lor their futute happiness February 20th, Airs. Mary Walker, in the 53rh yeir of her age. Fainiui ana WASTING D.AEASE N.d long confine:! her to the couch o! sulfciing M iuy days and 'tights were spent i.T that last CO fiici of our luoitil nit tire when it SEEMS too WEAR to ive and is yet unable to die. This STRUGGLE SUE en dured with am . jiug patience and T- rtitufle. A calm and scriptural trust in her God OUT KE.lecrar riever forsook litr, anil sustained her sou 1 in pea :C. Kind Providence also soothed her lot, by gcu HER the assi lious. devote i care of au a flection ;lo and faithful daughter who smoothed her pillow with ONE hand, while with the other, aided by a faithlul brother, she supported the Jami y. ,\l.v the blessing ot filial piety ever r> t upon their neads, AND may their mothers path to the GRAVE guide them iu the patg of lite. J. At his residence, ne ir Schellshurg, oa Tuestiar mnrniug, Feb. 26tli Mr. Juntos \Y T liauts, aged tit years and 16 iaya. The deceased was born in Chester counry, Pa. His parents moved to Bedford county WHEN he WAS but 2 years of age, where he HAS resided ever since. HO was blest with retnaraahly good he>hb, until something over three years ago, HE was strick en down by weakness of his iiuibs, when lie WU confine.* to his bed until his dea H, but during all that tiute tie Miitered very tittle pain. U t.ore his affliction with uatieuce aud resignation. G. W. Somerset Herald please copy. In Union Township, on Thursday the llrh ult., JACOB Mauk, aged 67 years, 10 uioulus and -I days. On Sundiy 3d inst., in St. Clair Tn., of con suiuplion, *VIN. Ickos, son oi Cotirod Ickes, in tto 17TLI year of his age. _____ To Con.siab!ps aud i fiictws of Election. BY the Act of Assembly, approved June JL, 1539, Pbainph. Laws, p. 376 )it IS provi <O T: SECTION 2. That the officers and other persons, holding and conducting such .1 etimis fir Aiuer men aud Just'cns of the PEACE, SHALL nuse true re turns of such elections, waich s I dl BE KM L= 1 by tlie Constable to the Proth.tftotiry oi the P'OPER county, to be filed in his ottl.E A.ii the salt Pro thonoturif shall forthwith srud i certified copj of such return to t!u Secretary of tit (Jouimjaweallh And by the Act of April T3, LFLAJ, (Pamph, Laws, p. 6'J J-) SKCTION 1. That e*-ry JAIRS.M hereafter elected to the office of Justice of the Peace .R AMernim, shall, within thirty days after the election, ii he in teu.ls to accept said office, give not tee thereof writing, to the Frotbonotary < the Gouimon Fleas ol the piopo-r county, who shall immediately i tforrn the Secretary of the ( : o;nmcn<. tilth of slid acceptances and no com minion Shalt tisue until the Secret.ry of the Com.-noHtt\a,th hut teetered the notice aforesaid. S. H. XATE, March 8, 1861. Proth*y. ~ NILLLT hliiOuL F|THE uu tcrsi.U 'il hereby informs TD citlasJns of A Bcdior T and vicinity, tn tt he WIL. OPE-I A "select schoo'," ooaniuenoiag Monday, April lh. aud continuing tour IN >ATNS. A NUTOI.ti CLASS will also bo .NIUI D. llui ig himself pua,E.l TIUROOGH A full course iu the State .NU.ui-1 ai T EMP. aying NONE but efficient aa .istauts, he FEELS warranted in ia- Stiru g salisf actiou. I'up.is OI al. g nl ;s WID LW received. Tcacuevs throughout tin county M.Y AND it to thetr adv inuge to APPLY soon. Term* moderate ■ App>y to A ,V. K ALLB, Trine. pal of the '• JS tay'ord La. TEA o chord - March 8, lctil. last NI.CF. THE IKIOK* oi the 1 ite FINNA of Reel IT Minnlcb, and J. Reed 4- Co., are iu ihe hands of tue AN l * - •criber for coil CTIOA. iteotors tner. on. d AIRNTS ol saviug coats must Call an i settle ou of TWLNRE the Ist D y of Aprti, as after THAI D it • fO will UIASI USE of thal.W in CoiiUuUQ'-, wilh'Ul." VESFIECT 10 TO persons. JBIIF i' ■ KELL>, MSAOFT M , iWBi. A'.TOTMSY A? LEW-
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