BEDFORD INQUIRER.
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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.
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; 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-