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IS PUBLISHED
('.VERY FRIDAY MORNING,
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J. R. MiRBORROM A3il> LITI,
us
JI'LIANASt., oppositethe Mcugcl House
BEDFORD, PENN'A
TERMS :
Si.oo a year if paid strictly iu advance.
II nu( paid within six months S'J.SO.
If not paid within the ycuf #3.00.
IJwfctftoUMt & gusinm tfardg.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
B. P. MEVERS J. W. DICKERSON.
M YERS & DICKERSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Bedford, Pknn'a.,
Office s:un as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P.
Sekcll, irt o doors cast of the Gazette office, will
practice in the several Courts of Bedford county.
Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained nnd the
purchase of Real Estate attended to.
May 11, '66—lyr.
JOHN T. KEAGY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Bedford, Pknn'a.,
Offers to give satisfaction to all who may en
trust their legal business to him. Will collect
moneys on evidences of debt, and speedily pro
cure bounties and pensions to soldiers, their wid
ow.- or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph
iffiee. aprll:'66-ly.
I B. CESSNA,
•J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
(Ulicc with John Cessna, on Julianna street, in
th< office formerly occupied by King A Jordan,
and recently by Filler A Kcagy. All business
entrusted to his care will receive faithful and
prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ae.,
speedily collected.
Bedford, Juno 9,1865.
J- M'D. SHARPE E. V. KERR
OHARPE A KERR,
0 A TTORNE PN-A T-LA IE.
Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad
joining counties. All business entrusted to their
care will receive careful and prompt attention.
Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col
1, ctcd from the Government.
Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking
house of lleed A Schcll, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf
JOHN PALMER,
Attorney at Lin. liciiforil. Pa,.
AY ill promptly attend to all business entrusted to
his care.
• u Particular attention paid to the collection
of Military claims. Office on Julianna St., nearly
.pp'tsito the Mongcl House.) june 23, '6a.ly
J. P. DIRBORROW JOHN LUTE.
1 \URBORROW A LUTZ,
i ) .ITTOtUVEYS .IT J-./ U A
Bebford, Pa.,
V .1 attend promptly to all business intrusted to
t' ir care. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents
ai.d will give special attention to the prosecution
■* laims against tho Government for Pensions,
p.; U Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac.
office on Juliana street, one door South of the
'Mengcl House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer
( ffice. April 28, 1865:t
TISI'Y MTALSIP,
C.J ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, PA.,
Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all busi
- entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
ju i c unties. Military claims. Pensions, back
i .i. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Si .inn A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south
of the Mcngol House. apll, IS64.—tf.
MUtTA. POINTS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, PA.
Respectfully tenders bis professional services
• the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter,
i -.p, on* Juliana street, two doors South of the
"Mcnglc House." Dec. 9, 1864 tf.
\T IMMELL AND LINO EN FELT ER.
IV ATTORN B* AT LAW, Bedford, pa.
Have formed a partnership in tho practice of
the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South
of the Mengel House.
aprl, 1864 —tf.
JOHN MOWER.
,J ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Bedford, Pa.
April 1, 1864.—tf.
DEMISTS.
C. N. IUCKOK I- • WINNICH, JH.
( \ENTIBTS, BEDFORD, PA.
1 ) Office tii the Bank Building, Juliana Street.
All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me
i tnical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per
f rmed and warranted. TERMS CASH.
Tooth Powders and Mouth Wash, excellent ar
ticles, always on band.
jan6'6s-ly.
I \ ENTISTRY.
IS I. N. BOWSER, RESIDENT DENTIST, W OOP
!Y. Pa., visits Bloody Run three day* of each
in nth. commencing with the second Tuesday of
the rat,nth. Prepared to perform all Dental oper
ations with which he may be favored. Terms
:thill the reach o/ all and strict'>j cash except hi,
in. ial contract. Work to be sent by mail or oth
wise, must be paid for when impressions are taken,
auga, '6Ttf.
PHYSIdilg.
1 IR. GEO. C. DOUGLAS
I ) Respectfully tenders his professional sort ices
to the people of Bedford and vicinity,
crßesidence at Maj. Wasbabav.gh's.
-CJ- Office two dooTP west of Bedford Hotel, up
stairs. *ul7: r
iirjf. W. JAMISON, M. D.,
Y Y BLOODY KEN, PA.,
Respectfully tenders his professional services to
the people of that place and vicinity. [decß:tyr
OK. B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office und residence on Pitt Street, in the building
lormerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius.
April I,lß#4—tf.
T ~LT MARK"! HO M. D.,
tJ • Having permanently located respectfully
tenders his pofessiynnl services to the citizens
of Bedford and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street,
opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal
mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf.
BAMHFRS.
O. W. RCPP 0. X. SHANNON F. BEXRIUCT
RUPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS,
BEDFORD, PA.
BANK OF. DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North
and Si uth, and the general business of Exchange,
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected arid
Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought and sold. apr.ls,'6-1 tf.
JIIWF.IiKK. Ac.
ABSALOM GARLICK,
Clock & Watchmaker and Jeweller,
BLOODY KT s, PA.
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Ac., promptly re
paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted
to give satisfaction.
He also keeps on hand and for sale \VA TCIT
ES, CLOCKS, and JE WELR T.
jJHT- Office with Dr. J. A. Maun. my 4
JOHN REIMUND,
CLOCK AND WATCH MAKER,
in the United States Telepraph Office,
BEDFORD, PA.
Clocks, watches, and all kinds of jewelry
promptly repaired. All work entrusted to hi? care
warranted to give entire satisfaction. £nov3-lyr
DANIEL BORDER,
PITT STREET, TWO noons WEST OF TIIE BED
FORD HOTEL, BEE FORD, PA.
TCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY, SPECTACLES. AC.
He keep? on h*n<l a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, bc?t
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in his line not on hand,
apr. 28, 1865—m.
HIIiBORUOW iL IVTZ Editors and Proprietors.
TIIE STRANGER ON THE SILL.
Br TIIOHAB.BLCHANAN READE.
Between broad fields of wheat and corn
Is tho lowly homo where I was born ;
The peach tree leans against the wall,
And the woodbine wanders over all ;
There is the shaded doorwry still,]
But a stranger's foot has crossed the sill.
T here is the barn—and, as of yore,
I can smell the hay from the open door,
And see the busy swallow's throng,
And hoar the pewce's mournful song ;
But the stranger comes—oh ! painful proof—
His shsaresare piled to the heated roof.
There is the-orchard—the very trees
Where my childhood knew long hours of case,
And watched the shadowy moments run
Till my'life imbibed moro shade than sun ;
The swing from the bow still sweeps the air,
But the strangers' children are swinging there-
There bubbles tho shady spring below,
With its bulrush brook where the hazels grow ;
'Twas there I found the calamus root,
* And watched the minnows poise and shoot,
And heard the robin lave its wing,
But the stranger's bucket is at the spring.
0 ye, who daily cross the sill,
Step lightly fori love it still ;
And when yc crowd the old barn-eaves,
Then think what countless harvest sheaves
Have passed within that seented door
To gladden eyes that are no more !
Deal kindly with these orchard trees ;
And when your children crowd their knees
Their sweetest fruit they shall impart,
As if old memorios stirred their heart;
To youthful sport still leave the swing,
And in sweet reverence hold the spring.
The barn, the trees, the brook, tho birds,
Tho meadows, with their lowing herds,
Tho woodbine in the cottage wall—
My heart still lingers with them all.
Yo strangers on my native sill,
Stop lightly, for I love it still
JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING.
BY WILLIAM CL'LLEN BRYANT.
Ob, deem not they arc best alone
Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep,
For God, who pities men, hath shown
A blessing for the eyes that weep.
The light of smiles shall till again
The lids that overflow with tears ;
And weary hours of woe and pain
Are promises of happier years.
There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled night,
And grief may hide an evening guest,
But joy shall come with every light-
Nor let the good man's trust depart,
Though life its common gifts deny ;
Though with a pierced and broken heart,
And spurned of men he goes to die.
For God hath marked each sorrowing day
Anil numbered every secret tear,
And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all his children suffer here.
SPEtCII OF THAIJDEI S STEVENS.
Delivered at the great Union Mass Meet
ing in Lancaster, ou the 27 th ult.
I come not to make a speech, but for the
want of one. When I left Washiugton I
was somewhat worn down by labor and dis
ease, and I was directed by my physician
neither to think to speaK nor to read until
the next session of Congress, or I should
not regain my strength. I have followed
the first injunction most religiously for I
believe I have not let an idea pass through
my mind to trouble me since Congress ad
joined. The secdnd one, not to speak, I
was seduced from keeping by some noble
friends in the mountain district of Pennsyl
vania. and L made a speech at Bedford, the
only one I have made. The third one, not to
read. I have followed almost literally. It is
true, I have amused myself with a little
light frivolous reading, I have taken up the
dailies and publications of'that kind* and
read things which would make no impress
ion upou the mind. For instance, there
was a serial account from day to day of a
very remarkable circus that traveled through
the country [laughter] from Washington to
Chicago, and St. Louts and Louisville back
to Washington. [Renewed laughter.) I
read that with interest expecting to see in
so celebrated an establishment —one which
from its heraldiug, was to beat Dan Rice and
all the old circuses that ever went forth. 1
expected great wit from the celebrated char
acter of its clowns. [Great laughter. J They
were well provided with clowns ; instead of
one there were two, as the circus was to
have a large circulation One of these
clowns was high in office and somewhat ad
vanced in age ; the other was a little less
advanced in office but older in years. They
,-tarted out with a very respectable stock
with them, for instance a celebrated general,
they took with theiu an eminent naval offi
cer, and they chainedhim to the rigging so
that he could uot get away, though he tried
to do to once or twice. They announced the
most respectable stock company that ever
went forthwith a manager or circus, though
they had not a very good man for the spring
boards, but they took him with them for a
short distance a very good man accustomed
to ground and lofty tumbling, called Mont
gomery Blair. [Laughter.] And as they
wanted to get up side shows, as is always
precedent where anything is to be made out
of these concerns, they switched him off in
various directions with a hand organ and a
monkey. In the East they called his mon
key Senator Doolittle, because lie looked so
much like one. Up through the mountain
region where 1 encountered them Montgom
ery Blair was there, and his monkey and
organ was called Judge Kimmell. [Laugh
ter. |
But the circus went on all the time, giving
performances at different points, sometimes
one clown performing and sometimes the
other. So far as I was able to judge, the
younger clown was the most vigorous, and
bad the most energy and maligniuty. The
elder clown, owing to the wear and tear of
age and suffering—you know he had his arm
broken aud his jaw broken, and his neck
broken almost —[laughter] inducing a ne
cessity for certain opiates, which had very
much worn down his vigor—l looked upon
his performance as rather silly ; for instance
the younger clown told them in the language
of the ancient heroes who trod the stage,
that he had it in his power if he chose to
be, Dictator. The elder clown pointed to
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the other one, and said to the people, "Will
you have hitn for President, or will you take
him for king !"—[Laughter.] He left you
but one alternative. You are obliged to
take him for one or the other, either for
President or king, if "My Policy" prevails.
lam not following them all around. I shall
not describe to you how sometimes they cut
outside the circle and entered into street
broils with common blackguards ; how they
fought at C'leavelend and Indianapolis and
other points. I shall not tell you ; for is it
not all written down in Colonel Forney's
Chronicle f [Laughter and cheers. ] Put
coming round they told you, or one of them
did, that he had been everything but one.
Ho had been a tailor, I think ne did not
say drunken tailor ; no he had been a tailor
[laughter]: he had been a constable I laugh
ter] ;he had been in the Legislature ! God
help that Legislature ! [Great merriment. ]
Ho had been in Congress now he was Pres
ident, Ho had beeu everything but one—
he had never been a hangman, and he asked
the leave to hang Thad Stevens. [Laugh
ter.J
Now I have given you badinage enough.
As I stated that I would not make a speech,
I will state one point of some substance.
The great question between the President
and Congress is not how we shall reccon-
the States but who shall have the pow
er ? That is the great question for this na
tion to determine, and upon your decision
i depends the security or the despotism of this
Government.
When the Southern States went out of
the Union through rebellion, and all the
ties that bound them to the Union were
consumed in the hot fires of the wa r , they
became conquered provinces under our
armies. By the law of nations the sover
ign power of this nation was to fix
their fate, M ho is that sovereign power?
[Cries of "Congress," "Congress."] If
that power is the President, then he is right
and may go on reconstructing the State in
his own way. But if Congress has the sov
ereign power then the issue is in our favor.
As I said, the sovereignty of the nation
must fix the status of the new States and of
conquered nations. By the Constitution of
the United States, in a single sentence, the
first paragraph of the first article in the
Constitution says that all legislative power
shall be vested in a Congress of the United
States, which shall consist of a Senate and
a House of Representatives. There is the
whole legislative power of the nation. You
cannot find a word in the Constitution
which gives to any other branch of the gov
ernment one particle of legislative power.
How, then, is it that the soveign power rests
in the President ? In this country there is
but one depository of sovereign power, of
the sovereignty of the nation. It rests in
the people, and no-whereclse ; and the peo
ple speak through Congress to all their ser
vants. Therefore, it is you, the sovereigns
of the nations, who are reconstructing these
States. In no other branch of the Govern
ment can you find a particle of sovereignty.
The President cannot even erect a bureau;
he cannot do a legisiative act. He is the
servant of the people as they order through
Congress. Now, then, Congress is the soy-
through them ; and Andrew Johnson must
leant that he is your servantjchoerßjand that
as Congress shall order he must obey.
[Cheers, j That is the whole question. The
question of how our States shall be recon
structed is another one to which I shall not
now refer. 1 shall only apologize for hav
ing detained yoa.
Mr. Stevens here retired, but the calls for
Lis reappearance were so prolouged that he
again came forward, and, and, amid loud
cheering, said :
I suppose you never fought chickens in
your young days. [Laughter. 1 If you had
you know there was a breed that they called
the "Wheelers." They would fight awhile
and then go back, and then turn and fight
again. I must be a Whe< I suppose.
|Cheers and laughter.] And since you have
called me out, and 1 am able to speak, I will
explain one single point, which 1 have been
informed, my friend Mr. Doolittlemade par
ticularly upon me, and which, I have no
doubt, some of my Republican friends con
sidered particularly well made to put me be
low the ticket. I cannot blame them in this.
I shall not blame them for anything of the
kind, but 1 shall be just as good friends with
them as before.
But let me explain lie spoke of negro
equality. Let mo tell you exactly how it is.
lie, I understand, found fault with me, par
ticularly because 1 advocated what he called
negro equality. Under our law thure is not
a word said in either the civil-rights bill or
the new proposed amendment about color.
It simply provides that the same law which
punishes one man shall punish any other for
the same offence; it simply provides that
the law which gives a verdict to one pan
shall render the same verdict to another,
whether he is Dutch, Irish or negro.
[Cheers.] Is there anything wroDg in that?
[Voices, "No!"] That is the doctrine of
negro equality. There is nothing which
prohibits the negro from learning to read
aud write and say his prayers. There is
nothing iu it which says lie shall have any
thing superior to another.
1 admit that these Copperheads have
cause to complain that there is such a
provision, for there is great danger that
those who find fault with this provision will
find rivals among the colored lace iu busi
ness and in life. There is one thing, how
ever, which I noticed Mr. Doolittle alluded
to —a bill which I introduced for fixing the
condition of the Southern States —and since
I am here I wiil say one word in explanation
of that. I introduced a bill into Congress
for the purpose of enabling the rebel States,
under certain conditions, to form loyal gov
ernments. They have no governments now
except some counterfeits put up by Andy
Johnsen. ["Three cheers for Thad. Ste
vens."J
I proposed in that bill that every one of
those conquered States should be put upou
the same looting with a Territory; should
elect delegates to a convention to form a re
publican constitution,]not such gsthey have
got now, with slavery in them), and in fixing
the right of voters to elect those delegates!
made it universal—l allowed the rebels, I
allowed the black men, allowed every man
to vote lor delegates to the convention.
When they canie to form the constitution
they should form it to suit themselves (not
doing as Andy Johnson did, dictating what
the terms of the constitution should be),
and when they formed it, they should be al
lowed to refer it back to the people for rati
fication ; and if ratified they might present
it to Congress. Now, I did hope, in doing
this, that our loyal friends, together with the
loyal colored men, would carry the conven
tions and give negro suffrage. Every loyal
Southern man came to me and asked me to
put it in the bill. There was not a loyal
man, from Governor Hamilton to Governor
llolden, Chief Justice Powell and Governor
Sherwood —there were twenty of these men
driven from their homes —who dare not go
back for fear of being murdered. They
came to help me to fabricate the bill. It
was not the rebels that did it; it was the
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 17. 1860
loyal men that said give us that bill; arid
the vote of the loyal white men, added to
that of the loyal black men, can carry every
State but Virginia. I was in a caucus one
night, when Governor Hamilton told us "to
give them that law ; and although we are
now in the minority, and I dare not go home,
for I should be murdered—give us that bill,
and we can carry Texas on the side of the
Union by twenty-five thousand majority."
Governor Holden told me the same thing,
ana so did everybody except the Virgin
ians. *
The noble men who went to Philadelphia
after the traitors, convention, passed reso
lutions asking that this very thing should
be done by Congress, a copy of which they
sent to me to strengthen ray hands. This
is confined to the rebel States alone. lam
for it; first, because it is right; second, be
cause it protects our brethren there; third
ly, because it prevents the States from go
ing into the hands of the rebels, and thereby
giving the President and the Congress, for
the next forty years, to rebel hands. lam
for it, and I shall go for it, when Congress
meets, with all my might.
Now, however, remember that Ido not
say, and never mean to, that when these
amendments which I now propose are adop
ted, the rebel States shall be allowed to
come in, until they present constitutions
containing the essence of liberty; and when
they do that, I will let them in at any time.
With regard to the question of negro suf
frage in the free States, every one knows
that I am not afraid to express my opinion.
Everybody has a right to vote and pay his
taxes,, and whoever is governed by the laws
has a right to make them. I in the
Pennsylvania convention that amended the
Constitution which put in the world while
and disfranchised a large number of voters.
I voted against it, and while every other
man put his name to the constitution that
it might go down to posterity, I refused my
name and it is not among the signers, for I
was proud of the instrument and am not not
now. This question may be thought a little
in advance of the age. What is this world
but a world of progress? and what is the
statesman worth who is afraid to fight in
the front ranks? The liberty of the world
is not yet effected. Half the world is yet in
chains, half the world is yet under kingly
government.
We must go ahead, and though 1 can do
but little, I shall do what lean, and if, when
I am dead, there sprouts any vigor from my
bones and my grave to help forward pos
terity to proclaim the as doctrines
of universal liberty and universal suf
frage, and universal disenthralment from
kings, I shall be satisfied.
1 he Goddess of Liberty is represented in
ancient statues as a very nice little goddess
but very small. I want her to grow—to put
on the habiliments of mature age—until
she can embrace within her folds every na- I
tion, and every tribe, and every human be
ing within God's canopy. [Loudcheers.] I
care not what you say of negro equality; I
care not what you say of Radicalism: these
are my principles, and with the help of God
L shall die with them, I ask no epitaph, I
jionq, but I shell go with a pure
whole human race, aim iicvhr naving injured
a human being.
DOMESTIC SEWS.
A movement is on foot to establish a
public library in Calais, Maine.
THE cranberry crop at Harwich will only
be an average one, but it will take a thou
sand people to gather it.
GEORGE Francis Train is announced as
the independent Fenian candidate for Con
gress, in Nebraska. Paddock is the demo
cratic nominee, andTaffe the republican.
THE managers of a Philadelphia theatre
have sued the editor of a Sunday paper in
that city for libel.
THE Ohio floods enabled gentleman of a
quiet turn of mind, in Columbus, to fish out
of their upper story windows.
A race horse having been recently killed
in South Carolina by lightning, the owner
said there was some consolation in knowing
that nothing but a streak of lightning ever
caught him.
A fragment, eight feet long and eleven
inches in its largest diameter, of an ivory
tusk originally about eleven feet long, be
longing to an animal of some extinct race,
was dug up in Milford, Clermont County,
Ohio, one day last week.
ON the upper Sacramento river in Cali
fornia, a little steamer, with its cabin fitted
up as a store, sails up and down, stopping
at all the farms, selling merchandise, and
taking chickens, eggs, etc., in exchange for
her coffee, sugar and calico.
LIEUTENANT Isaac H. Fol.ger has been
appointed Collector of Customs at Nan
tucket, in place of Hon. Alfred Macy, re
moved. Lieutenaut Fol.ger belonged to the
58th Mass. regiment, and lost a leg at the
battle of Coal Harbor, June 3d, 1864. He
roprefcnted Nantucket in the legislature
last winter.
THE Chicago papers announce that the
half interest of Trussell, the gambler, re
cently killed by his mistress in that city, in
the fast trottiug horse Dexter, has been
sold by the administrator of the estate to
Trussell's partner for SIO,OOO cash. Dexter
was purchased by them only a few months
ago for $14,000.
THE rebel admiral. Raphael Scmmes,
has become the editor of the Mobile Gazette
His assistant is Pendleton Colston, judge
advocate of the rebel navy during the war.
The paper will of course support President
Johnsons's policy.
ASTRONOMERS predict a partial eclipse of
the sun on Monday, Oct. 8 Only one
eighteenth of the solar disc will appear ob
scured in Boston, and the eclipse will begin
at 11 o.clock and last about one hour. At
St. John's, N. F., about three-tenths will he
obscured, and to the southwest of New
England the eclipse will not he visible.
AT Pittsburg the President received a
small box, addressed to "His Excellency
Andrew Johnson," and brought by some
mysterious channel. It was at once surmis
ed that the box contained a torpedo or in
fernal machine of some kind, and the great
est care was taken in opening it, but nothing
was found but the body o?a dead duck. It
is easy to see the meaning of the joker
who sent it.
A WRITER in the Atlantic Monthly proves
by statistics that a man's longevity is in gx
act proportion to his educational attain
ments, provided his health has not been in
jured by overmental exertion. It seems
that increasing intelligence and decreasing
war have prolonged the average length of
life in Europe from twenty-five years in the
seventeenth century to thirty-five in the
eighteenth, and to forty-five in the nine
teenth. The best educated communities are
the longest lived.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Ihe Votes iu alt the Gubernatorial
Contests Since 1790.
The following interesting table shows the
result of the vote for Governor of Pennsyl
vania, from the first contest in 1790, to the
present time :
_ VOTES.
I(9o—Thomas Mifflin, Democrat, 27,825
Arthur St. Clair, Federalist, 2,802
Whole number of votes, 30,627
Thomas Mifflin's majority, 25,023
1793—Thomas Mifflin-, Democrat, 18,500
F. A. Muhlenberg, Federalist, 10,706
Whole number of votes, 29,206
Thomas Mifflin's majority, 7,794
1796—Thomas Mifflin, Democrat, 30,020
F. A. Muhlenberg, Federalist, 1,011
Wholr number of votes, 31,031
Thomas Mifflin's majority, 29,009
1799—Thomas McKean, Democrat, 37,244
James, Itoss, Federalist, 32,643
Whole number of votes, 69,887
Thomas McKean's majority, 4,601
1802 —Thomas McKean, Democrat, 47,879
James lioss, Federalist, 17,034
Whole number of votes, 64,913
Thomas McKean's majority, 30,845
1805 —Thomas McKean, Democrat, 43,547
Simon Snyder, Democrat, 38,485
Whole number of votes, 82,032
Thomas McKean's majority, 5,062
180S —Simon Snyder, Democrat, 67,975
James lioss. Federalist. 39,575
John Spayd, Independent, 4,004
Whole number of votes, 111,554
Simon Snyder's maj. overall 24,396
1811—Simon Snyder, Democrat, 53,319
William Tilgham, Federalist, 3,609
Whole number of votes, 56,928
Simon Snyder's majority, 49,710
1814 —Simon Snyder, Democrat, 51,099
Isaac Wayne, Federalist, 29,566
W hole number of votes, 80,665
Simon Snyder's majority, 21,533
1817—Win. Findley, Democrat, 66,331
Joseph Heister, Federalist, 59,272
Whole number of votes, 125,603
Wm. Findley's majority, 7,059
1920—Joseph Heister, Federalist, 67,905
Wm. Findley, Democrat, 66,300
\fUscim~rivnhxi 1 °i ,oos
1823 —J. A. Schulze, Democrat, 89,928
Andrew Gregg, Federalist, 54,211
Whole number of votes, 111,139
J. A. Schulze's majority, 35,717
1826 —<). A. Schulze, Democrat, 64,211
John Sergeant, Federalist, 1,174
Whole number of votes, 65,385
J. A. Schulze's majority, 63,037
1829—George Wolf, Democrat, 78,219
Joseph Ritner, Anti-Mason. 51,776
Whole number of votes, 129,995
George Wolfe's majority, 26,443
1832 —George Wolf, Democrat, 91,335
Joseph Ritner, Anti-Mason, 88,165
Whole number of votes, 179,500
George Wolf 's majority, 3,170
1835 —Joseph Ritner, AnttMason, 94,023
George Wolf, Democrat, 05,801
F. A. Muhlenberg, Democrat, 40,5t>6
Whole number of votes, 200,410
Joseph Rimer's plurality. 25,202
1838 —David R. Porter, Democrat, 127,821
Joseph Ritner, Anti-Mason, 122,325
Whole number of votes, 250,146
David 11. Porter's majority, 5,496
1841 —David 11. Porter, Democrat, 136,504
John Banks, Whig, 113,478
Whole number of votes, 249,982
David 11. Poiter's majority, 23,026
1841 —F. 11. Shunk, Democrat, 160,322
Joseph Markle. Whig, 156,050
Whole number of votes, 316,372
F. R. Skunk's majority, 4,272
1847 —F. R. Shunk, Democrat, 145,081
James Irwin, Whig, 128,148
E. C. Reigart, Native Amer
ican, _ 11,247
F. J. Lamoyne, Abolitionist, 1,861
Whole number of votes, 356,337
F. 11. Shuuks ruaj. overall. 4,825
1848 —W. F. Johnson, Whig, 168,522
Morris Longstreth, Dem., 168,232
Whole number of votes, 336,754
W. F. Johnson's majority. 299
1851 —William Bigler, Democrat, 180,499
Win. F. Johnson, Whig 178,034
Whole number of votes, 364,538
WM. Bigler's majority, 8,405
1854—J.Pollock, Whig andAmerV 204,008
William Bigler, Democrat 167,001
Whole number of rotes, 371,009
James Pollock's majority, 37,007
1857 —Wm. F. Packer. Democrat, 188,887
David Wilmot, Republican, 146,163
Isaac Hazelhurst, American, 28,132
Whole number of votes, 303,155
Packer's majority over all, 14,619
1860 —Curtin, Republican 262,403
Foster, Democrat, * 230,239
Whole number of votes, 492,642
Cnrtin's majority, 32.164
1863 —Curtin, Republican, 269,496
Woodward, Democrat, 254,171
Whole number of votes, 523,667
Curtin's majority, 16,325
TOLCHE 39; NO 46.
NEWS ITEMS.
CURING the rain storm in Ohio on Tucs
.s%, spans of the Ohio and Mississip
pi Railroad bridge across the Big Miami
river were carried away.
i 7j'- E e S nveDtioa New York soldiers,
held in Syracuse, adopted resolutions sus
taining Congress.
THE unconditional union men of North
? a a convention in Raleigh on
Thursday, and nominated a candidate for
Governor. The convention indorsed, unan
imously, the amendment to the Constitu
tion.
The returns from 478 towns in Maine give
General Chamberlain a majority of 27,258.
i he remaining towns, in five hundred votes
cast last year, gave Governor Cony 89 ma
jority.
IT is estimated that two million bushels of
corn have been destroyed by the floods in
the Miami "bottoms. The storm seems
genoral in the West and Northwest.
A JOINT meeting of the New Jersey Leg
islature, held on Wednesday, declared Cat
tell elected by 44 votes, the democratic mem
ber-! not voting. The Legislature then ad
journed fine die.
Jhe receipt from the internal revenue
since the Ist of July are $85,086,0U0, and
from customs $42,000,000, or an aggregate
of over $130,000,000. -
THE New York Daily Times spoke with
some seriousness of the condition of Mr.
Seward but it would seem that he was able
to pay the President a visit on Saturday af
ternoon. We have no later information.
ADVICES from Mexico to the 11th inst
speak of a disastrous defeat sustained by
the imperialists in Michoacan.
THE South Carolina Legislature adjourned
on Friday night, having, among other acts,
passed one granting the equal civil rights of
negroes, and taken steps to supply the
wants oi the destitute people of the State.
A CHICAGO despatch says that the liabili
ties of the Producers' Bank are $183,850,
and the assets $110,923.
A DESPATCH to the Philadelphia Press
from New Orleans denies the charges
against the discharged colored soldiers of
having shown a disposition to be riotous.
IT i i said in a San Francisco despatch that
the whalemen threaten to hang Thomas P.
Manning, who betrayed the whalers in the
Arctic Sea into the hands of the pirate
Shenandoah. He arrived there recently in
the ship Galatea. Another pirate, who
accompanied him, left on the Sea Serpent,
but Manning is believed to be still there.
THE President has recognized J. W.
Currier as consul-general for the Dominican
Republic, in New York. This is the first
instance of the appointment of such an offi-
A circular from the Treasury Department
prescribing regulations for the allowance of
drawbacks on imported salt used in curing
fish has just been issued.
THE Loyal Southerners were at Toledo,
Ohio, on Saturday evening, and addressed
a large meeting there.
IT is stated that General Custer has been
commissioned as brevet major-general and
will be assigned to command in Kansas.
COUNTERFEIT hundreds on the Central
National Bank of New York are in circula
tion.
A despatch from Washington says that
the President, on Tuesday, appointed Gen
eral Dix, Minister to France; Brigadier-Gen
eral Hugh Ewing of Kansas, Minister at the
Hague; and W. J. Valentine of Massachu
setts, to be Commissioner to the Paris Ex
position of 1867.
A despatch from Ogdensburg speaks of
the concentration of Fenians in Northern
Y ermont, with a view to a raid upon Canada.
CORNELIUS Vanderbilt has refused to car
ry the United States mails by his railroads
after the 15th inst, unless the compensation
is increased.
A bank messenger was robbed of $24,000
iu Wall street, New York, on Tuesday.
The thief was arrested and the money re
covered.
QUEEN Emma arrived at San Francisco
on Tuesday.
THE American Board oi Foreign Missions
met on Tuesday at Pittsfield, Mass.
AN Austin (Texas) letter says a general
attack on the Texas frontier settlements is
intended by the Indians.
THE directors of the express company of
which the ex-rebel general, Joseph E. John
ston, is president, have m ado. an assignment
of their property for the benefit or their
creditors and others.
THERE were seventy deaths from cholera
in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday.
THE colored union leagues of New York
paraded on Monday in honor of the eman
cipation of their race.
THE English papers publish no telegraphic
news from America by the Atlantic cable,
but rely o nthe steamship arrivals as before.
AN artist named Urani shot liis employer
a plaster cast manufacturer , in New York,
on Saturday morning, and then shot himself
James It. Hood of Tennessee was on
Saturday commissioned as Secretary of the
Territory of Colorado.
By an order from the War Department
the headquarters of the Department of Ten
nesson is transferred from Nashville, Tenn.,
to Louisville, Ky.
A Salem, Oregon, despatch says the
: House of Representatives has passed the
amendment to the Constitution by ayes 25,
i nays 22.
A collision recently occurred on the Mobilo
and Ohio Railroad, between De Sota and
Quitman' resulting in the death of seven and
the woundiDg of seventeen persons and tho
destruction of two locomotives and several
i cars.
DR. CHARLES H. SWEPT, of Kennebunk,
was poisoned with morphine and died Sun
day night. His wife has been arrested for
' the crime.
HON. HENRY May, formerly representa
tive in Congress from the third district of
Maryland, died in Baltimore on Tuesday
morning at 9 o,clock. He was the imme
diate predecessor of the late Henry Winter
I Davis.
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THE total number of delegates to the
Cleveland Convention was 531.
CERTAIN i ale law student* have started a
new . ->cret society, called the Justinian
A locomotive exploded on Monday morn
iDg at Phillipsburg, N. Y., blowing the
engine-house to pieces and causing other
damage. No lives were lost.
AT a Fenian picnic on Monday, Mr. Ste
phens made a speech in which he repeated
that fighting would commence in Ireland
this year, and he would be with them in the
fight.
MR. HARTZ and son, who were injured
by jumping from the burning building in
New lork, Sunday morniug, died on
Monday evening in the New York hospital;
and also another person whose name is not
ascertained.
A portion of the wall of a building in
Milwaukee fell on Monday, and buried
eight persons in the ruins, two of whom
were killed.
IN the race at Chicago on Saturday be
tween the horses "Cooley" and "Butler"
five heats were run, and in the last heat
"Butler" came in without his driver, who
was atterwards found lying on the track with
his skull broken. The last heat had been
delayed by "jockeying" until after dark.
The driver of the other horse is in custody,
being suspected of having dealt foully with
his opponent.
FOREIGN NEWS.
ABTXMIJS Ward will begin his lecture
season in London early in October,
M FERTINSET, a Frenah lion-hunter, has
invented an explosive bullet, which not only
destroyed targets, but when aimed at a loaf
of bread, blew that to atoms.
THE admirers of "Rab and his friends" will
be pained to learn that the author, to quote
the London Athenaeum, "is in the worst
condition of health in which his friends
could fear to see him."
AT an execution in Manchester, England*
£25 were paid for a good position at a win*
dow commanding the spectacle.
AN association is to be organized for set
ting up in the various arrondissments of
Paris twenty establishments for soup made
from horse flesh.
A recent caricature in the Paris Chariva
ri, represents a Prussion general sitting on a
marble bench in a public garden smoking a
cigar. A pretty little girl whom he has
been noticing says to him, "General my pa
pa likes you very much.,' "What is your
papa's business, my dear?" "He makes
wooden legs."
AN inventor in London claims to have
discovered a method of making illuminating
gas for actually less than nothing. He ex
tracts it from vegetable substances, which
ICAI* — 1 * • J. J - I
producing the gas, become matter of cash
convertible value ; so that the more of the
new gas one manufactures and consumes,
the greater advantage it will be to him pe
cuniarily.
MR. Thomas L. Plant of Birmingham,
England, writes to the Birmingham Daily
Post that, after thirty-one years' attentive
study of meteorological elements, during
the last six years of which he has endeavor
ed to advance the subject to practical scien
tific importance he has at length come to the
conclusion that weather predictions cannot
be made with sufficient accuracy to beof any
value, and he shall not therefore publish any
opinions in advance.
THE London lancet calls attention to the
danger of using "perambulators" too much
for children old enough to walk, and re
marks :
"A pebble in the streamlet scant
Hath turned the course of many a river,
A dew drop on the baby plant
Has warped the giant oak forever."
A NUMBER ot English ladies, presided
over by the Dutchess of Sutherland, have
published in the times a manifesto against
shopping on Saturdays, with a view
to promoting the Saturday half holiday, in
compliance with a resolution adopted at a
meeting of ladies held at Stafford House on
the 23d of July last.
AN English Magazine relates of the late
Squire Osboldeston —whom it calls the
greatest sportsman the world ever knew
since the days of the Assyrian Nimrod, —an
anecdote illustrating the fact that, like all
true fox-hunters, he was not insensible to
female charms. When Osbrldeston was on
a visit at Lincoln, he met at a dinner party,
Erevious to a country ball, the beautiful Mis
lurton, afterwards Lady Sutton. It hap
pened that Miss Cracroft, a rival beauty,
nad a nosegay, in which was a hothouse
flower of exceeding rarity. It attracted gen
eral admiration, and Miss Burton espocially
admired it whereupon her rival, for some
reason or other, twitted her after the man
ner of dear friends. This was not lost upon
Osbaldeston. Pleading an excuse after din
ner for leaving the wine party, he got upon
one of his horses and rode to the house of
the person from whose conservatory the
flower had been obtained, 25 miles distant,
and brought back another and more brilliant
specimen, which Miss Burton displayed in
triumph at the ball supper. The distance
was accomplished, at night, in about four
hours.
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B(sUAsgure yourself that employment is
one of the best remedies for the disappoint
i ments of lifo. Let even your calamity
have the liberal effect ot occupying you in
some active virtue, so shall you in a manner
remember others till you forget yourself.—
Pratt.
sin is mortal, destructive of
the happiness and subversive of the recti
tude or the soul that commits it. The guilt
of no sin can be removed by anything snort
of the blood of the Divine Saviour ; nor
can the defilement of it be taken away by
any other power that that of the Holy Spir
it.
BgL.One exceeding warm day in July a
neighbor met an old man, and remarked
that it was very hot. 'Yes,' said Joe, 'if it
wasn't for one thing, I should say we were
going to have a thaw. 'What is that ?
inquired his friends, 'liiere s nothing
froze,' say 3 Joe. The man went his way,
much enlightened.
A DELICATE JAM.— Getting nearly
squeezed to death in a crowd of angels in
crinoline. ______
#®-When is a plant like a hog ? W hen
it begins to root.