!hf fPtlfutii ftnjttiw. BEDFORD PA., FRIBAT, XOV. 24, 1565. IfiT Our readers will observe that our usual editorial matter is omitted this week in Older to make room for the evidence in the Reed trial now going on in Court. We give the evidence on the part of the Com monwealth this week to be followed next by that of the defence. OUR IRON MANUFACTURES. On our first page this week will be found an able article from the pen of I). J. Mor rellof the Cambria iron works, on the condi tion of the iron manufactures of our country, the cost of production, the internal revenue tax. the duties on foreign iron, &c. All who feel an interest in the development of our manufacturing resources will find this article worthy a careful perusal. It showa most conclusively that our iron manufac tures are not only without protection but that there is an actual premium on foreign iron. And is corroborative of what we haw before stated that the premium upon specie is the only thing that enables our manufac tures to go on, and that unless Congress either reduces the internal revenue tax or increases the duties on foreign iron, our manufactures will be utterly destroyed as soon as gold comes down to par. A LEAK DETECTED. Postmaster General Dennison, in reor ganizing the postal service South, has of fered us a clue to the manner in which the service in that region was always a losing one for the government To render the matter clear, we append an official statement showing the mail service at the South, its present cost, and the saving as compared with the same service prior to the war: .AJo. of mile* State*. of service. Cost. Suriny. Virginia 2192 #102,337 #116,780 West Virginia 760 12,696 4,098 N. Car01ina....'..... 2088 44,843 51,628 8. Carolina 1788 68,904 97,777 Georgia 1788 74,255 92,250 Florida 408 15,948 8,275 Alabama 1514 55,971 133,582 Mississippi 1110 84,973 35.098 Arkansas 1707 50,475 76,406 L0ni5iana............ 2047 74,858 151,592 Texas 2630 89,597 77,997 Tennessee 1320 52,752 49,317 The whole number of routes restored is 241, comprising 18,553 miles of service, and the cost is $8'J5,796 less than the contracts for the same service in existence at the breaking oat of the rebellion. Commenting on these statistics, the North American, soys that the whole of that amount was taken out of the National treasury without any justification, and through the connivance of the Southern politicians who controlled Con gress and the Administration. The mode of cheating is thus explained. Where a mail route branched off from a < main route of travel the contract was made, not from the starting point of the branch, but so as to cover the whole of the main route, which was paid for thus as many times over as there were branches starting from it* Of course the politicians who managed this fraud must have regularly received their shares of the plunder. The Postmaster General esti mates that the mail service at the South, as now organized, will be self supporting. If the rebels can succeed in proscribing the circulation of loyal papers again, as they are now trying to do, and keeping the negroes and poor whites in the same abject ignorance as before the war, it will be a matter of doubt whether the service can be made to to pay. In view of this, the National gov ernment clearly has a right to protect the the mails and the rights of the people a gainst the pernicious designs of the rebels, and we presume that Congress will adopt stern repressive measures for that purpose, or else refuse to appropriate money at all for the Southern Mail service.— Harritburg Telegraph. THE ELECTION AND THEIDEMOC RACY. Our Democratic friends were not unprepa red for their defeat in the Middle and Wes tern States on Tuesday, however good a face they managed to put upon matters during the canvass. In New Jersey they doubtless had a hope that the vie inertia might keep the State from going over to the republicans, but elsewhere they had no great expectations of success. The entirely unprincipled course of the leaders of the party daring the war de stroyed all remnants of confidence in their recent shameless bids for a southern alli ance have not mended matters, and now there are few intelligent Democrats who do not see that their organization has lost all hold upon national politics, and that there is no chance of regaining its position, upon any thing resembling the old basis. Recognizing the forlorn condition in which the party was likely to find itself as soon as the returns should come in, the New York World, on Tuesday morning, gave a very sig nificant foreshadowing, in some particulars, of the course to be pursued in case of defeat. Writing at the last moment, when the verdict was not yet made up, that able representative of the New York democrats declared that if that day's election sbonld be carried by its friends, the Representatives from the South ers States would be admitted, the republican party divided, and the democratic party re stored to its old influence. Our own estimate of the political significance of a canvass con ducted as this had been, is not quite so high as the World' s;but that paper is an impeach able witness as to the intentions of its party in case of defeat, "Suppose then," says the World, "we do not carry the election? What "will President Johnson do then? Will he "stand by his policy when Congress has con "demned it? or, will he snccumb to their de "cision, and consent to have his judgment "overruled? That this question should be raised at all, as to the President's disposition to insist upon the policy which the democrat ic press and orators have sought to represeut as his, is in itself significant; but still more so is the Worlds method of meeting this sup posed case of political defeat and presidential defection; ''The position of the democratic party has undoubtedly been peculiar. It has zealously supported a President whose election to an inferior office it only iast year opposed. But his policy on the paramount question of our politics has been such as the democratic par ty would hare dictated... "We take this occasion to say, that whatev er may be the result of this election, the de mocracy will not desert the President unless he desert his principles. If he stands by his reconstruction policy, we shall stand by him. Can he desert it? If he pleases, yes: for the republicans have already invented for him a pretext for yielding, ana have tried to put it into his mouth. This pretext is, that his re construction policy is only 'an experiment'; that it is not fcr him, but for Congress, to say how far il is successful; and that if Congress decides against it, it is his duty to submit." Preparations for abandoning the man whom the democratic party took up at short notice could hardly be made more openly and with less disguise. If the President does not car ry out his policy with the democratic inter pretation, he is to be treated as abandoning that policy. If he treats the action hitherto taken as experimental and subject to revis ion, and not as final, in short if he holds to that reservation of the right of ultimate re vision which has been set forth in all his proc lamations for reorganizing the several States, then he is to be regarded as weekly accepting a present "invented" for him by the republi cans. Indeed the World goes farther and says that in that case there will be "good "grounds to question the sincerity of his past j course." Everybody who is accustomed to observe the progress of political matters knows that such a hypothesis as this, made by our New York contemporary, is not thus put forth on the day of an election, if any hope remains of carrying the day; and that suggestions of this sort as to the possible infidelity and in sincerity of a maa who but yesterday was noisily applauded in the same quarter, are ominous of sudden cbange to a position of hostility,—presaging not merely hostility to his policy, but a bitter personal warfare a gainst thejjman himself. In short this lead ing democratic organ virtually declares its readiness to resume the weapons of offence which it used with such zest and perseverance against Mr. Johnson down to the middle of April. Adulation and fawning were then substituted for calumny and invective with marvellous ease and celerity; and the pros pect now is that they will in turn be displaced by the old style of attack with equal facility. The democratic party have paid the Presi dent the dubious honor of conducting their campaign thus far very much as if it were a struggle for the control of his person and ac tion ; and having failed, they propose to drop him. Their pretence of great popular strength has been exposed, and the President himself has contributed to their "demoralization," by his peremptory announcement of certain conditions as requisite for the recognition of any reorganized State. They will now give him up, almost as easily as they will let Gen eral Slecuin fall, the convenient but unsuc cessful tool of the moment. The people of the South will learn that their hopes in the future cannot be safely built on the renewal of the democratic alliance, and thus, unde ceived as to the false expectations which they had been led to form; they will, we may trust, be ready to recognize more completely aod to meet more frankly and wisely the necessities which events, atad not the will or influence of any party here, have thrust upon them. — Bog ton Advertiser. FOREIGN NEWS. The general belief in England is that the U. S. Government will not press to a quarrel the controversy in regard to the Alabama claims. A special Commission has been appointed to try the Fenians recently arrested in Ireland It consists of 12 judges, who are to hold the court in Dublin, with power to adjourn to Cork if necessary to facilitate operations. It is reported in England that Mr. Adams the American Minister at St. James, is soon to resign and return to the United States Mr. Gladstone the leader of the new Gov eminent in the British House of Commons, iu a recent speech in Glasgow, declared in in favor of extending the franchise to the peo. pie. The Danish Ministry has resigned. The preliminaries of a treaty of commerce between England and Austria have been con cluded. A new Greek Ministry has been formed un der M. Del egeria. The Frankfort Senate has again refused in decided terms to accede to the demands of Austria and Prussia. The British Envoy in Brazil has notified the Emperor that the English Government desires the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Emperor replied in like terms. It it reported in Florence that King Victor Emanuel it about to abdicate the Italian throne The Pope finds a difficulty in making those terms with him personally which he would be willing to grant to a soTereign who had never raised a hand against the Father of the Church The cholera has broken out in Leipsic, Ger many. i Several cases of cholera have occurred ia Woolwich Eng., none of which proved fatal. RECONSTRUCTION. The Missouri Legislature has appointed a committee to memorialize President Johnson to release all the Union prisoners now in con - finement for offences committed during the war, on the ground that rebel soldiers, whose crimes were infinitely greater, have been pardoned. Mr. Trumble, on the 15th instant, offered a resolution in the Tennessee Senate, declar ing that Jeff. Davis and the other Souther a leaders ought to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. Gov. Hamilton has notified President John son that he intends calling the Texas State Convention in December. Of the Seven rebellious States for which President Johnson appointed Provisional Governors, all except Texas have held their State Conventions and abolished Slavery.— Four of these, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida, have declared their se cession ordinances null, and two, South Caro lina and Georgia, have merely repealed them. A petition, asking the pardon of Jeff. Davis, signed by 1,200 of the ladies of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., has been presented to Pres dent Johnson. The Hon. Kennneth Raynor of North Car olina had a long interview with President Johnson on the 16th inst., in regard to the restoration of that State to the rights and privileges of tht Union. Major-General Augur, commander of the Department at V ashington, has ordered that hereafter no colored man shall b whip ped under any law of Virginia, within his department. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles is in Richmond, on an important Government mission. DOMESTIC. John Mitchell has sailed for Europe. He goes to Paris on a Fenian mission. The order of Gen. McDowell, commanding the Depart ment of California, forbidding the transportation of arms into Mexico, has caused much dissatisfaction among the friends of the Mexican Republic in the Pacific States. President Juarez's consul at San Francisco has remonstrated against the execution of the order. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, present Secreta ry of the State of New York, has been ap pointed U. S. Minister to Japan. Cassiux M. Clay, U. 8. Minister at St. Pe tersburg, in a letter to Secretary Seward, ad vises tbi t the importation of cattle from a broad should at once be order to prevent the introduction of the cattle plague into this country. The ex-Rebel Attorney-General, George Davis, was brought a prisoner to New-Yerk. on the 15th inst., by the U. S. steamer Mem phis from Key West, Florida, and handed over to the national authorities in that city. The body of Collector King, who commit ted suicide on the 13th inst, by jumping off a ferry boat between New-York and Hobo ken, has not yet been recovered. Before going on' board the boat, Mr. King purchased a 25 lb bag of shot, which he had secured around his neck by a cord and carried under his over coat. Colonel Robert Johnson has been appoint ed private Secretary to the President, his father. Owing to the great cost of living in Wash ington, quite a number of Congressmen have engaged apartments for the next session in Baltimore, where prices are much more reas onable. THANKSGIVING DAY IN PENNSYL VANIA. The following is Governor Curtin's proc lamation, setttng apart a day for thank s giving: Pennxglcania S. S. —ln the name and by the authority ofthe. Commonwealth of Penn sylvania Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of the said Commonwealth. PROCLAMATION. With feelings of the mosfr profound grati tude to Almighty God, invite the good people of the Commonwealth to meet in their places of public worship, on Thursday, the seventh day of December next and raise their hearts and voices in praise and thanksgiving to Him, not only for the manifold ordinary blessings which during the past year He has continued.to heap upon us. for abundaut and gathered harvests, for thriving industry, for general health, for domestic good order and {jovernment, but also most expressly and fervently for His unequalled goodness in having so strengthened and guided our peo ple during the last four years that they have been enabled to crush to earth the late wick ed rebellion and to exterminate the system of human slavery which caused it. As we wrestled in prayer with Ilim in the dark time of our trouble —when our broth ers and sons were staking life and limb for us on many a bloody field, or suffering by tort ure and famine in the Hells of Anderson ville or the Libby—so now when our suppli cations have been so marvelously andgraci-' ously answered, let us not withhold from Him the homage of our thanksgiving. Let us say to all, "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve, but as for us and our house ice will serve the Lord." Come then ye people whom He hath so helped and led—coiue ye war worn and mu tilated men whom He hath spared to return to your dear homes—let us throng the gates of his temples-let us throw ourselves on the knees of our hearts with awful joy at the foot of His throne and and render aloud our praise and thanksgiving to Him, because he hath made the right to prevail—because He hath given us the victory—because he hath cleansed our land from the stain of human slavery—and because he hath graciously shown forth in the eyes of all men the great truth that no Government is so strong as a Republic, controlled, under His guidance, by an educated moral and religious people. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State at Harrisburg. this seventh day • —' —of November, in the year of our Lord L. s. one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, and of the Commonwealth the nine tieth. By the Governor. ELI SUPER, Secretary of the Commonwealth WASHINGTON NEWS. The Louisiana Freedmcn not to be left Unprotected—Anxiety about the late of Collector King—Expected Develop ment in the Pardon Brokerage Busi ness—A Fort named in Honor of Major Gen. Wadsworth. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Nov. 14. TIIE LOUISIANA FREED.MEN. Commissioner Conway, of the Freedmen's Bureau who has recently arrived here from Louisiana, has had an interview with the President and Gen. Grant on the subject of freedmen's affairs in that State, and has re ceived the assurance that these matters will not be surrendered into the hands of the Copperhead civil authorities, or into those of galvanized rebels. The military force in Louisiana is still large, and Generals Sheri dan and Canby still exercise the controlling influence there. Gov. J. Madison Wells has considerably overreached himself. RUMORED DEATH OP MR. KING. The reported death of Preston King, and the peculiar circumstances under which it occurred, causes considerable feeling here to-night, and further particulars are awaited with much anxiety. The report that he had tendered his resignation had no founda tion. v It has been Rtated that Preston King re cently resigned his position as Collector of New lork. The government, however, has received no letter from him to that effect. PARDON BROKERAGE DEVELOPMENTS. Lucy L. Cobb, a woman somewhat noted here as a pardon-broker, and whose appari tion has become very familiar to all regular frequenters at the White House, went before the Grand Jury yesterday and made oath to the fact that Brevet Brig.-Gen. L. C. Ba ker did, on Nov. 8, forcibly and feloniously take from her Treasury notes to the amount of two hundred dollars; and Joseph L. Cobb, her husband, makes oath that the said par ty, did in like manner, take from him the pardon of one Clarence J. Howell, and a letter addressed by said Howell to Secretary Seward It is # quite likely that the Grand J ury will bring in an indictment. And if the case comes to trial, there will pro bably be some rich developments concerning u | ja , rc * on brokerage business, especially if the lady plaintiff in this case is willing to tell all she knows. PENNSYXVANIV FINANCES. A.correspondent writing from Harrisburg to the Chambersburg Repository , evidently i!JrTL° u J> .posted in what he writes, says: ■ • nan ci*l condition of Pennsylvania, as it will be presented in the official reports at the close of the current fiscal year, will be better than ever before. The debt was re duced some SBOO, 000 during the last year, and a large sum is still available and appli cable to its liquidation. In addition to this the btate has paid eorne $890,000 of military $200,000 for transportation, sl,- 800,000 of direct tax, and $750,000 for mili tia called out under an order of the President for which the General Government is bound by every consideration of justice and good faith. It is a most remarkable record that Pennsylvania, with all her generosity and immense expenditures to sustain the Gov ernment anu defend herself, has less debt to day than before the war.—Her credit was never better. Baring Robbery in sao Franrinro. > A 7 RANCI3 °o, Nov. 14.—About three o clock yesterday morning two men, disgui sed, entered the office of the What Cheer House, where only one clerk was in charge. They knocked him senseless by a blow on the head, took the key of the safe from his pocket, and robbed the safe of $20,000 in gold. The robbers escaped unmolested, and no track of them has been discovered. THE HOt'llS EMPIRE. ! Muxaniiliaii's Mexican Monarchy Crum bling--Curious Conversation Between iirouyn tie l'liuys and Mr. Dayton— Mr. Seward's Reiteration of the Mon roe Doctrine—Singular Admissions of the French Minister—The Arrange ments for French Troops in Mexico. WASHINGTON, (Sunday Nov. 19. As much importance is attached to the ! statement of the Independence, Beige that the evacuation of Mexico by the French troops may be looked upon as a thing de cided on, in principle, it will not be unintei -1 eating to recur to the fact, that about two years ago M. Drouya de l'Huys said to Min ister Dayton that the dangers of the Gov , ernmeut of Maxamilian would come princi pally from the United States, and the soon • er we showed ourselves satisfied and mani j fested a willingness to enter into peaceful relation* with that government, the sooner would France be ready to leave Mexico and the new government to take care of them selves, which France would in any event do as soon as it with propriety could; but that it would not lead or tempt r.he Archduke in to difficulty and then desert him before his government was settled. lie added that France could not do that. Mr. Seward, in reply to this narration of Mr. Dayton, in structed him to inform the French Govern ment that in the opinion of the United States the permanent establishment of a foreign and inonarchial government in Mexico will be found neither easy nor desirrble. The. United States, consistently with their prin ciples, can do no otherwiso than leave the destinies of Mex*4jn the keeping of her own people, and recognize their sovereignty and independence in whatever form they themselves shall choose that this sovereign- Kand independence shall be manifested, was previously declared by M. Drouyn de l'Huys, that as to Mexieo. "the purpose of the French Government was to take the city, to give some kind of order to the condition of things there, repay themselves for debts, expenses, '&c., and then leave the country." The text of the convention concluded be tween France and Mexico to regulate the conditions of the stay of the French troops in Mexieo for the purpose of establishing order and consolidating the new empire, "done at the Castle of Miramar, the Kith day of April, 1864, provides that "the French troops at present in Mexico shall be reduced as soon as possible to a corps of 25,000 men, including the foreign legion. This corps, in order to safeguard the inter ests which led to the intervention, shall re main temporarily in Mexico on certain con ditions, among them that the French troops shall evacuate Mexico in proportion as the Emperor of Mexico shall be able to organ ize the troops necessary to replace them. Tiie foreign legion, in the service of Franco, composed of B,uou men, shall, nevertheless, remain in Mexico six years alter all the oth er French troops shall have been recalled. From that moment the legion shall pass into die service and pay of the Mexican Govern ment, which reserves to itself the right of abridging the duration of tbe employment of the Foreign Legion in Mexico. It was further stipulated that the expen ses of the French expedition to Mexico was to fee paid by the Mexican Government, at the sum of.'two hundred and seventy mil lions far the whole duration of the expedi tion. down to the first of July, lr>G4, tbe sum to bear interest at the rate of three per cent, per annum. From the first of July, all the expenses of the Mexican army shall be at the charge of The above is given merely to show what was the originally declared purpose of Na poleon in establishing a monarchy in Mexi co, and the conditions in part upon which he furnished material assistance. Report that the Liberals have been Badly Defeated.—Cortina* Said to be Woun ded and Other Dene rals Killed.—Deni al of -the Firing Upon the American Shore by the Imperial (Kiiibout.—Alle ged Conspiracy to Murder Mejia and Surrender Matumoras.—Arrival of French Troops at Vera Cruz.—Raising of the Siege of Matumoras by the Liber als, NEW ORLEANS. Saturday. Nov. 18. A late Matamoras Rancherd claims that the Liberals have been badly cut up, and says that Gens. Pensa and Galinda were kil led and Cortinasand Hinajosa and Col. Garsa wounded. The Rauchero denies that the Imperial gunboat Pajfoano fired on the peo pie on the American side. Complainiug of the support which the Liberals derive from Brownsville, it also alleges that a conspiracy was thus encouraged and hatched to murder Mejia aud surrender the city. The same pa per announces the srrival of a number of transports at Vera Cruz with French troops part of which would be immediately sent to Matamoras. The Galveston Bulletin ol' the 10th, says the steamer Alabama from Brazos, reports while she was loading Gen. Weitzel sent dispatches by eight officers belonging to the Federal service to the French ship of war, the purport of which is unknown. .She also reports that a squad of Liberals fired into the French ship which returned the fire, killing one of the Liberals. The steamer Patol sunk in the harbor on the 10th inst. Crew saved. T NEW ORLEANS, Sunday, Nov. 19. The correspondent of the Times at Mata moras says the Liberals raised the siege of Matamoras on the night of the Bth. and de parted to unknown regions. Itwasgenerally thought that it was only a feint to surprise and capture the city. No French troops had yet arrived at Matamoras. The Rancfuro says the Liberals left a number of blankets, arms, &e., and some few were caught napping. It also states that the principal Liberal force had gone in the direction of Camargo, but dispersing in different bands. The imperial cavalry pur sued them for five miles. Escablo's coin maud took the route up the river. The arrival of the French squadron at the mouth of the Rio Grande is reported. One Garcia was arrested at Matamoras, charged with treachery in the Cabas conspi racy and with being coucerned in the shoot ing of Cabas, then Governor of Tamaulipas. Rumored Mexican Intervention—Fund* ing of Compound Interest Notes—Eng* lish Oliicials Countenancing Piracy— Pardons to be less freely granted. Ntw YORK, NOV. 18. The New Orleans Times of the sth says : In relation to rumors of naval and military preparations, &c., we have information that we arc not at liberty to disc-lose, giving posi tive corroboratisn to these rumors: We hes itate not to say unless the French troops are removed from Mexico before Christmas there will be active intervention on behalf °£ , e If . ra ' s ) !IQ d the traditional policy of the I nited States will be vindicated. The Commercials Washington special says T Secretary McCollooh will soon again exercise the power conferred upon him by the act of March last, and offer to fund all the compound interest bearing legal tender notes at nar. with accrued interest into 5-20s at a fixed pnee. There will be no limit as to the time for subscription. tt -11 L° a Colfiut arrived this morning. He will be serenaded to-night. The Cherokees have disposed J. Koss, and proclaimed Downing as Chief, with appro bation of our government. Documents have been received clearly bringing home to British officials the charge of knowingly and willingly countenancing the departure of the Alabama on her pirat ical career. It is shown that. S. Price Ed wards. Collector at Liverpool, permitted her to start, after orders from the Foreign office to detain her, and that he permitted a por tion of her crew to join her after the confes sion to the Sui veyor of the port that they were going to join the gunboats. The Post's special says: Reconstruction was considered in the cabinet, The Presi dent is dissatisfied with the conduct of the leading men of the South, many of whom he has pardoned. The body of a man was found in the Hud son river to day, supposed at first to be Mr. King, but it proved to be that of a German. The expression gains grouud that the body will not be found. Preparations for the reception of General Giant at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on Mon day. are being made, regardless of cost. The Tribune's Washington special says : The President has plainly intimated that he will hereafter show greater discrimination in granting pardons. Among the visitors at the White House yesterday was a notorious ex-robel General, who insisted on sending up his card, with the request that the President would imme mediately grant him a private interview. The President returned the card, with a verbal message that he considered the re quest impertinent and could not accede to it. Among the applications for pardon is Martin J. Crawford, formerly a prominent member of Congress, from Georgia; and a prominent rebel during the rebellion. The World'* special says there were large numbers of pardon seekers and other visit ors at the \\ hite House to-day. President Johnson had given orders not to allow them in the lobbeys as he wn too much engaged to see anybody. They contented themselves with inspecting the East room. The guard of soldiers who have been sta tioned around the White House for the last two years, were yesterday, by order of Pres ident Johnson, removed. The Herald's special says: "Telegrams were received last night by the President. General Fiske and the Freedmen's Bureau, signed by seven or eight leading influential men of Tennessee which remonstrate against the anticipated removal of the supervising officer of the above Bureau now on duty in that State, and the appointment of a civil ian of the State instead. FROM EUROPE. Pirate "Slienundoali"--ller arrival in Liverpool—Surrender to the llritish authorities—Captain Waddell's state ment—Oil Discoveries in England. NEW YORK. NOV. 20. The steamship City of London and New York, with Liverpool advices of the Bth and ■Qoeenstown telegrams of the 9th, arrived at Quarantine at an early hour this morning and were detained until 10-30 for investiga tion. The steamers Hecla, Nova Seotian, and Citv of Baltimore had arrived out. The pirate (Shenandoah arrived in the Mersey on the 6th and surrendered to the guard-ship Denegal. She is now in the hands of the naval authorities. Captain Waddell states that the first in formation he received of the close of the war was on the 30th of August from the British war vessel Barraecmia, and that he immediately consigned the guns to the hold ami steered for Liverpool. The Dai It/ News says the Americans may le inclined to say it was only fitting that her end should be as British as her origin ; but it cannot help asking how the Shenan doah has been able to pursue her course without tbe least interruption by the Amer ican Navy. Can it be possible that the ex pectation of recovering compensation from England for the losses resulting from her depredations, made the American Govern ment less eager for her capture? if the world should come to that conclusion, it would be one of the strongest possible ar guments against the admission of such lia bilities as Mr. Seward is now" endeavoring to establish against England. It is stated that Captain Waddell, of the Shenandoah, has sent a letter to Earl Bus sell, the contents of which are unknown. The captain and crew remain on the Shenan doah. The London Star says the vessel will be claimed by America, and there is no reason for refusing the request. The liondon Times says the personal lia bility of the cantain gives rise to perplexing circumstances, out strict justice will be done by the tribunals. Karl Russell as Premier, and Lord Claren don as Minister of Foreign Affairs, have been installed into office. It is expeeted that no material changes will be made till February. The Sharping Gazette states that oil springs have been discovered in England. The French army was to commence the evacuation of Rome on the sth instant. The Paris Bourse on the sth was flat. Rentes 68f. 25c. The Spanish Government has ordered a strict watch on the coast of Cuba, owing to the Jamaica insurrection. The new Danish ministry has been consti tuted. It is inclined towards the liberal con servative policy. Bombay, October 30. —Goods are duli. Ex change 2s. 1 |d. Consols are declining. The Very Latest. QI-EENSTOWN, November 9.—The steam ship City of Manchester, Balbee Pennsylva nia , jfrom New York,arrived at Queenstown today. LIVERPOOL, November 9. —The captain and crew of the privateer Shenandoah have been released on parole and it is believed the matter will cause no difficulty. There is no other news of any importance The Cattle l'lugue. Minister Clay has addressed a letter to the Secretary of State, dated St. Petersburg, Oc tober 17, in which he says: "I deem it my duty to warn the United States against the importation of the cattle plague into our country. Being a farmer and feeling great interest in such subjects, I have read every thing upon the subject which is accessible, and I will give you only the result of my con clusions ana observations. Thecattle plague is the cattle pest in this country. It is more or less prevalent, and generally kills whole herds; like cholera, it is both contagious and infectious. By those terms I mean to say it is communicated from one animal to another by physical imposition of the virus upon any animal from any object containing the virus aud also that the virus may be carried in molecules in the air, and thus produce the disease. It evidently did not originate de novo in England, but was carried there by ship loads of cattle from Russian Baltic ports If this theory is correct then all importations of cattle from abroad should be at once pro hibited by Congress, if not otherwise possi ble to be prevented,and it would pay well to call ('ongress together for that purpose only. No ship having a cow or sheep or animal from Europe or countries having the best should be allowed to land in America with out sufficient quarantine. Every disease must, at some time, having originated from a violent disregard of natural laws, and this as others; but 1 am of the opinion that there is nothing in the management of cattle in Great Britain or America to generate the iisease. So also, no sanitary precautions can arrest it short of absolute non intercourse I believe it to be a species of blody murrain, aggravated by the marshy nature of Northern Russia and the utter disregard of all the jaws of health which is shown to man and beast, especially in regard to ventilation and cleanliness, which prevails in these cold cli mates, where great expenditure of heat is required, and fuel and food scarce. The same causes are producing now the aggra vated typhus fever here wnich is called out side of Russia the plague. England was warned long since of the danger of direct in fectation of cattle from Russia, but failed to heed the advice. I trust otir country may be more wise and more fortunate.'' HK who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never re member it MOST of the shadows that cross our path through life are caused by standing in our own light. Mr. Nasby wuileth over Noo Gcrney. ON THE WING, NUT. 9, 1864. Never wus I in so p!ea*>aut a frame uv uiind ez last night. All wuz peace with me for often bein buffeted about the world for three skore years, at last it seemed to me cz tho forehunce, tired uv persekootin a itu forchnit bein, had taken me into favor. I hed a solemn promise from the Deinckratic State Central Committee in the great State uv Noo (jersey, thatez soon ez our candi- I date for Governor was dooly elected, I should hev the position of Dorekecper to the House uv the Lord (which in this State means the Caputal & which is certaiuly better than I dwcllin in the tents uv wicked grocery keep ers. on tick, ez I do) and a joodishus exhi bition uv this promise hed prokoored for me unlimited facilities for borrerin, wich I im proved, muchly. On Wednesday nite I wuz a sittin in my room, a enjoyin the nleasin reflection that in a few days I should be placed above want, & beyound the contingies uv fortune. Wood ! oh wood ! that I had died then and there, before that dream ov bliss wuz roodly bro ken. A wicked boy cum running past with a paper wich he had brot from the next town where there lives a man who takes one. He flung it thro the window to me and past on. I opened it eagerly, and glanced at the hed lines! •'Noo Gersey-5,000 llepublikin." One long and piercin shriek wuz heard | thro that house, and wen the inmates rush | ed into the room they found me inanymate on the floor. The fatal paper lay near me, expiainin the cause uv the catastrophe. The kind-hearted landlord, after feelin uv my pockets and diskiverin that the contents thereof wood not pay tjie arrearages uv board, heard a hurried consultation with his wife as to the propriety uv bringin me to, he insisting that it wuz the only chance uv gettin what wuz back —she insistin that ef 1 was brung to I'd go on runnin up the bill bigger aud bigger, and never pay at last. While they was argooing the matter pro and con, 1 happened to git a good smell uv his breath, wicn restored me to con&ious ness to wunst, without further assistance. When in trouble my poetic sole ailuz finds rent in song. Did ever poet who delited in tombs, and dark rollin streams, and con sumption, and blighted hopes, and decay, aud sich themes, ever hev sich a pick of sub jects ez I hev at this time ? The follerin may be a consolation to the few Dimokrats uv the North, who have gone so far into coppcrheadism that they can't change their base: A Wale ! In the niornin we go forth rejoicin in our j strength—in the evenin we are bustid and wilt! Man born uv woman (and most men are) is uv few days, & them is so full uv trouble i that it's skarsely worth while bein born at ; | all. In October I waded in woe knee-deep, and : j now the waters uv afflicshun are abyut my i ; chin. I look to the east, and Massychusets rolls ; i in Abilishun. To the west I turn my eyes, and Wiscon j sin and Minnesota and lllinoy ansers Aboli j shun. Southward I turn my imniorin gaze, and j Maryland sends greetin—Ablishun. In New York we had 'em, for lo! we run a soljer, who fought valiantly, and we put him 011 a platform wieh stunk with nigger— yea, the savor thereof was louder than the Ablishun platform itself. But behold! the people jeer and flout, and say "the platform stinketh loud enough,but I the smell thereof is not the smell uv the Afrikin —it is of the rotten material uv wich it is composed, and thecorrupshun they hev j placed on it" —and New York goes Ablish ; nn - Sloeiuu held hisself ui> end sed "come and buy.' And our folks bought him and his tribe, but he getteth not his price. Noo GERSEY — ABLISHUN ! ! Job's cattle wuz slain by murrain and hol ler-horn and sieh, and not liviu near Noo j York, the flesh thereof he could not sell. But Job hed suthin left —still he cood sell • the hides and tallow. Lazarus hed sores, but he hoi dorgs to lick them. Noo Gersey wuz the hide & tallow uv the Diniocrisy, and 10, that is gone. What little is left uv the Dimocracy is all j sore, but where is the dore. so low as to lick I it ? Noo Gersey wuz our ewe lamb—lo ! the strong hand of Ablishun hez taken it. Noo Gersey wuz the Aryfat on which our ark rested —behold i the dark waves uv Ab lishnism sweeps over it! Darkness falls over roe, like a pall—the j shadder of woe encompasseth me. Down my furrowed cheeks rolleth the j tears of anguish, varyin in size from a large j pea to a small later. Noo Gersey will vote for the Constooshne Amendment, and lo! the Niggers will pos sess the land. I see horred visions! On the Camden and Ambouy nigger brakesmen —and at the polls, niggers ! Where shall we find refuge? In the North ? Lo! it is barred again us by Ablishnism. In the South? In their eyes the North ern copperhead findeth no favor. In Mexico? There is war there, and we j might be drafted. Who will deliver us? Who will pluck us from the pit intn which we have fallen. Where shel I go the Lord only knows, but my impression is. South Karliny will be my future home. Wade Hampton is electid Governor, certain, and in that noble State ! one may perhaps preserve enough of the old Dimocratie State Kites leaven to leaven the ; whole lump. "I'm aflotc—l'm aflote On the dark rollin sea.'' And into what harbor fate will drive my weather-beaten bark, the undersigned can not trooly say. Noo Gersey—farewell! The world may stand it a year or two, but I doubt it. Mournfully and sadly, PETROLEUM V. NASBT. Late Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispena&hen. ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE. Estate of PETER OSItORS late of West j Providence toienship, deceased. Letters of administration on said estate having : been granted by the Register of Bedford County i to the subscriber, persons having claims or de mands against the said estate arc requested to ( present them properly authenticated for settlement and those indebted arc notified to make immediate , payment. . JOSEPH FISHEI Oct. 20, '6O. Adm'r. ( ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. ' Estate of STEPHEN TUCKER late of ( Redford Borough, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Adminis tration have been granted to the undersigned, residing in Bedford Borough, by j the Register of Bedford county, on the said estate, t All persons indebted to said estate will make irn- 1 mediate payment, and those ha\ ing claims against 1 the same must present them properly authentica. ( ted for settlement. £. M. ALSIP t Oct. 20, (55. Administrator. ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE. # Estate of ADAM OTTO, late of Napier , toietuhtp deceased. 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