lytivani to n, le* n) Valli" *I" Letter of the See. John Chambers Plo.anflo Iphia Letiqr. ..; Mtssas EDlToitti :—During a recent c 141 t to the Bedford Springs, I was celled upon 1) some of the matt ardent friends of Temperance in the State, and invited tv address the people of Bed ford on the importance of inducing evt ry friend of humanity to vote for s prohibitory liquor law IA the ensuing election I most cheerfully com plied with the rtsquem of these gentlemen, and I had hoped that I had discharged the duty unpos ed upon me to the satisfaction of all I regret to observe, however, that my remarks on that occasion have becomes topic of nevi:4 pa per discussion, and my motives impugned I deem it due to others as well as to u slf-that the truth should be known My recollection' is, that I urged up th, p. ple present On that lm.)easiou the ato_p.rtauta the temperance reform igenerally, and exhoited them to vote fur a prohibitory law at the next vitiation I expressed the belief that the whole ituestion was ine,ilved in the res.llut,oti , ibt the people to vote for and a o tain-t a to obilo tory law, and that the real trielcl. , l3 teanrwralke shoul4l direct their attellt4oD t.. that pmut and that only 1 laelared nay hello atilt it the law was demanded in this wii), he the ~I.!t of the people, it mattered but little wla titled of Governor —the law .huuld he aa.tucti. , ned that no man would ,et barnacle against the will of the people I ,aid then, as I repeat now, that I believe either of the distinguished gentlemen would carry out that will if put in a kortu tent with the terms of the Constitution did say that tloveruor Bigler Yr 40 it ,1 beinucnit to resist the will of the people. and that I had every eonfitien,e berod.e• to hi. Je•irt• to do any reasonable and proper thug to t the vie* of intemperance; that I limos from ,or respondence and personal int, reour., with Mtn, that he held the dile:trine that the will ot tht• people should be binding so fah en reltito‘l to the policy of the measure, but that he will n ot yield his right to judge of the eoll,tittlti“tiaht) and Justice of a law when it came Isf re hint he would not so far forget the dignity of •ia lion or the obligations of his oath. But litt‘t t nor Bigler has written to m, nit It•tter int•ou-t• tent with his manly letter to the Temporanee Convention I felt more at liberty to r.a) what I del ~t iov Bigler. Lecauoe I believed au atteMpr h id been omit: t.i proititute the .aereki teiu pomace to mere partetau ends, and t.. turu u, in finioce against Lis re-rleetiou I ltd u t he-ir.Lte, so I tamp not, to rebuke this attempt, Aml I in tend no to do whatfArer and wherever I ma) tu, it, and thus is the true and real eatew ..t the eom plainta Which have been pref ., rre.l apitea my Bedford addreet I also, at the same meeting in Bedford, rely) rod to a sect et sworn political organization. wire, object, an far as it is made known, ts tip disfrin. chime ever y a d o p te d citizen of this o,,ritt-e,alu try, and that too, in the face of guar:into , . of the Constitution of the ()aired State , , well as of our own beloved Commonwealth, 1, .ti, ..f which reooguite the adopted citizen on thi situ• broad platform of civil and religion- lile•tc u ith the native born. Doubtless then, "the head and front of my offending, - in the ey e . of ~1 the unknown and aitkii,ricliig .troug sad uncompromising opposition to .1, whether Pp-eters/int or liipat, and with the., men the same objection rests against tiol Rig. ler, because of his tired determination not to % claw the Constitution and laws of tin- land, by disfranchising adopted cit.tens, either iti aee•ottit of their religion or the place of their forth There are in In) own church, and to ever . % other church in this -Land of the free and home of the, brave," men of foreign birth as pure pa triota, and as good men a.. ever breathed the air of fn.:Wu—men, who to ibi Is the ,Cosstitution and l a ws of tb. country of their adoption. Are these men to be disfranchised and stricken down like felon-, by the iron baud of a secret sworn band of petty despot. true -hearted, l'imstitutiou and law-lacing JCaa christian and patnt , o will an• Mer But if the men who have emigrated front Scotland, Ragland, Ireland, Wales, tat rmany, France, and elsewhere, and made this the land of then adop Lion, citizen by choice and not by accident, aud smog whom are to be found soup ot or best citizen,., are to he turned out of poittical society and treated like serfs, solely because they sere born out of the United States. let rho:. who ir, secretly sworn thus to treat them, tallow the ei ample of the M a yor of Philadelphia, sod SNOW their purpose. and not hide thems,ive. or their actions (min the light of day it ,silt he much more in accordance with the t, -• \iiii ti can character So far as rep: 1. thr bald and weak u, v. 1111. , 11 that I wad gtnouptde the State for R ig kw, anti the vulgar and chililiab clamor f.r -Out. hater, - 1 can afford far ar l am • myself to itreat them with merited • ni t. ay .. sad to let pls.+ we tli. idle %Ain i 1 have a higher, holier, better E o_jet• — t h. of a:Prohibitory Law—and am ther..fore Dot ala rmed the..- Temp, /11 T,,q„,/,, neither will they prevent we from urging upon every Mend of lrutuanity in the State, 4. , ‘ .it, for a Prohibit ~yLii{uur Lax witie,ut , ind for Orll,vernor fur whoioniecer tlit) .&a it ni) own vote, t wtjl •1:1, 1631 tioverao3tr, 11. or Lao ,ath,r 11/31i h my rote for the ofEtet 01 . Gos ar. tatala..— willing to •lubtnit to the will ~t thn this great and all.amportaut yue-tioo --nor ea", L vote fora member .1f either tar aua ka aat tha 1... g Istature ou any lather groaltaal fan will 1 vote for a member of au) J. •••uat Protestaut hariug g ' rcaa-aau 1.• believe him much Ilow eoulal I vaate tsar who are alworu to disfrarieht-e tu) lather, ill) itti ale, my brother, all,' A.LtiP %at sod detirftst friend.' that I lau% , anal • anat. at Ha beet turn ate wy church Yours, &c , Wafts rfo. Este —We pai,l a low! ‘l4it, yesterday, to the wreck of the Ern wish Ii 1.• now being hauled out of the creek I. the land just above the ship yard of Rants The part of the v. svl alluded to is the middle portion, and is about one blindr,l Alp] thirty feet is length Of this about flirt feet .had been battled out of the water ye.t..rday t..renoon— hauling having been cumuli:n...l on Ott-previous evening It t, a ellrious coincidence connected with the Erie, that she was burned on the 4th of August, 1841, and that her is r,ck was raitwd on the Wait day of the' month t'64 The expenses ineenTed thus far mu raising hay.• be. , 11 about $12,- 000, and the value of coin, irou,lk . &c , already tikes trots her is alsmt 515,01111 to iIIS,OOO-40 that the venture has not thte. far prove 4 an un weimesehl one While we were on the' wreck wee of the men picked up thr cane of a silver watch, sad a day or two since about 111,200 in juncion gold, bright as if just from the mint, gni lowa Dearly midahips It is supposed that "b oat $BO,OOO of coin are still in the part now Swiss healed out, and this sum will be "angered" by the parties roped in getting her np. The mark is fo ndrkexed under the supervision of Mr. than, o f the irm of Mann, Vail & Co , at whose warehouse easy be seen large quantities of stuff taws from the wreok.— ANjj,mL. eoffri,r SUMMAR DIATEL-4}eii... t !Wh ose , Is benr os t h e m a ne d , employed just below the eisy, as Toseley last, while in apparent health, west OD the easerseter under glom he was work medo=cul hist to send (Or prat, say wag he die in half an hour. The contract or being inclined to humor what he supposed was the assn's whin, complied with his request O'Halloran confosned; sad atter receiving the last rites of his raligina, laid dwell upon the grass in the Said where this singular texurreace took place, and, after a while, quietly Mani sway in death. He had no sialsdy of which any one we,, otigninani....-chicasto Jejferaumtuk. JOHN CIIANIBER eletkip Obstrbtt. BRII, PA SATURDAY HORNING, AUG. •:6, 1854 DIMOCRAIIC IWAI2 1101X114121011 YOK GOVZANOR WILLIAM BIGLER, Of Clearfield County JUDOS OF SUPRSMS COURT JEREMIAH S. BLACK, Of Somerset County FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER HENRY S. MOTT, Of Pike County. The Desocruie Address \V t.- givt• upon the outside of this week's paper (tit Address, No I, of the Democratic State Com mittee This paper to devoted exclusively to a discussion of the ts-ue presented to the people by the •uw and uhjeetis it that ..eeret organization, called ••Know Nothings, - of which Judge Put: L o ck, th e opposition Candidate, it is well as eertaitttd, is a member' And we ask for it, from all 1111 r readers, no matter what their poli tical pr , slivitie-, a ',•arefol and candid esamina tiou Li, is upon a 3 tilleck which demands of ev ery man strieu, retieetitiu"lle issue is whether men shall be allowed to worship tiod according to the dictates of their own conscience, or whetb ,or they shell ree Whether persecution shall be revived in the nineteenth century, ur whether it shall not' \\' :,ether twenty millions of Pro testants shall persecute and proscribe—deprive of all participation in the affairs of government -a few hundred thotutand believers in another or whether, in the language of the Consti tution of tear country, "no religious tests shall h. required Another issue is, whether the p hey ~f our government, in regard to naturali zation and the eueouragement of emigration, nn• der which we hay.• and prospered, and iuultiplied as no nation ever did, shall be chang ed to the narrow policy of a secret midnight cau cus -1 bigots Whether the good old Jeffersonian iequutition, ••is he honest, is he eapable," shall he set aside iu the bestowment of honors and office, by one of hirth ('pun such an issue, it is easy to determine where the Democracy ought to be, an•l by reading the address under consideration, it is as easy to determine where they are' Read th• ,ddre,s, and then judge: Its Legitimate Fruits 11 . , I t, ro giving newspaper notoriety t ti g ht that occurs, because we be lieve eliat uc) bad There are ominous, however v.lien "AWL ,k,cusretices "point a moral, and adorn tel.. One of that kind took place as Tlittrolay 1)r .Johnson, of this city, a bro ther 1 the l'ldtrot ot the r 'unstitution, was met upon the .trect by a N:gro Barber named Clif f‘ortl, when, in consequence of some fancied inju re, an injury, by the by, that had been adjuib eated before legal tribunal,) the latter eom 'mowed , violent %smolt upon the Doctor by knocking how down, and beating him in a must shocking manner "It is not necessary to our purpose too viiy One word fur or against the Doc ir or his assailant., with them the public have no thin, to I. But to the ps.litieiaus and the par. ties who, by their •.t ;.s.l and Liberty" harrangues --tlieor constant appeals to the passions and prejudiees of the people—their unceasing efforts to instill Mt.. the winds of whites and blacks the fanatical dogmas of the day—their anti . Nebraska crusades„ and its legitimate result, the waking of black- believe that the "negro ques• "tile great question which now absorbs large skate of public atter s ,tilo, - we have no doubt way be asoribeAl 311 such ocourrenocs.— These pion:dans and abuse parties teach the blacks that they are 3/04 g ) , %I—ua3., better than t For than, Ofit,..USl itt) , they hold con % ell! io n s --for them, s isteusibly, they agitate the e on ti tri , threaten 4 J . /solution ,11 the Union, and pl.-claim through their orgzio, the. New York Tr d'art, , rant I f vrrh. , "Better that confusion shook! cool, —l,etter that thsoord should reign iu Council- —better that Cougresm should break up in wild disorder, nay, better that the capitol moult should blaze by the torch of the inceudiary, ar tell and bury all its inmates be 'neath its crumbling ruins, than tint' the white inv. should have the privilege of deciding the nature of the institutionr they propose to rear in the tree and boundless west. We say the par • ,es and the partlzaus we allude to proclaim their t,. risies ostentibly for the Macke: but it is only ostensibly! It's 3 base sham' It is power and plat., they seek for themselves, not the freedom or the welfare of the negro! It's their own ag grandizement they are after, hence they seek agi tation to obtain it; and that agitation can only be accomplished through "Saratoga Conventions," "Fusions" re-unions, and the like. h. • f It is said by the Pittsburgh Pot!, upon what it believes to be good authority, that at the convention ut the Know Nothings, at Philadel phia, the other day, they quarrelled among them selves, and drew sod flouriehed knives bravely. The quarrel Arose on the question of transferring the whole vote of the order to Pollock The re. the Riecutive, and as a private citizen, he lids solution was vote 4 down The Bradford men labored unremittingly for the adjustment ..f not only prevailed to that, but they also prevail- our railroad difficulties satisfactory to Erie and ed in electing th e .ehai rinau of th e convention.— just to the State If he has not succeeded in all Twice Bradford beat Pollock in the convention. that we could wish, it is only bemuse he had and the convention finally adjourned without de- not the power At any rate, the adjustment of ciding the question as to which of the two claim- the Western road question only met his , y p,•.. ants should receive the undivided vote. Brad- ; ail after it bad been approved and r o t,,i /;„ f or d w ill p ro b a bly p rev ail The nativ es , who the members from Erie courtly. as well ur the form the basis df the order, will stick to Brad- friends of the Sunbury and Erie road generally: ford The few Democrats who have joined will . And now, will Krie county app - ibve of these vote for Bradford, but not for Pollock. Brad- ; acts sad these efforts of Gov Minya in her he ford's ()hawses of securing the vote are the best. • half ?—or will she disapprove of them?" That This is evidently what the GazeNe apprehend' iis the issue Twist it, turn it., as you may, that w h en it declares i ts d eterm i na ti on t o tu s k the is the uses, and the only one, which the election result of their action next October before laying in Erie county ought t o decide. And hence, let any thing is the way o f ap p enwa l or di sallow ,. us look a moment upon the effectosfr decision al;" if it don -hods cause of di eetisfaetion (i. e. j will have upon the future: ID a few days th e if they don't vote toi Pollock) it will boldly and'W Supreme Court.of the State will decide the ques unhisitatingly express them." What a "bold" tion st issue between Erie and liarborereek, and Editor! Hero is an element that his party may I tbe Railroad company. We take it for granted or may not we' Until he ascertain whether' that that decision, in all essential points, will be they use it, he is mess, but the waviest the lin our favor. We know, from the movements question is decided—es soon so the grave yard ia I of the railroad men, that they look upon it in past—he promises to become as' "bold" as a lion, that light, and are even now preparing to go be arid "whistle right out" spook or no spook! We fore the legislature to have the holes in their say again, our neighbor is a "bold" man—as . charter mended. The contest in the Legials "bold" as a abs?!! tuft next winter, then, will decide whether the railroad coasbiaation shall triumph, or the pet sign. Thciaac 1' Jocaap, charged with s h oo t. pie; god it it 'Of the peep& of Erie b. MI jug in gm T•levapb Olioe, at Hamitic's, sear their eleittiu« B . * Octobor 'Aid' if than he If ei t asiar is ti, gr o o m a. s o ws , h as b en Uot. Bigler. cootie ib t hi' latter . wd to bail in SIO,OOA. He hand so diflosity r.l (t t l 4 l l 2 i Pt'id" uf . ( h'osiwl , ••, it csukuut iv securing the regained amoont. be that either his 'fries& or himself Misr that gliongd net be ?apt 12=ZIEI 'The election which is la Mike plow* in theober is one in which Erie, sad her citisens, have mote direct and local interest than any that has occur red for years' l'pon'its result mainly depends whither the policy adopted, and the course pur sued by this city and Harborcreek towards the Erie and North East railroad, backed up by the pod wishes and words of encouragement thee ex• tended to us, from the balance of the country, shall be heralded - forth as having been approved, or this approved, by the "Sober second thought" of the People' This is the imam involved! Tbis is the question which must and will be decided at the ballot-box in October In that decision, what ever it way be, we, for one, shall feel ourself hound to acquiesce' If the "either second thought' of the people shall thee declare that the city has been wrong—that. Ilarborereck Les been wrong—that those who sympathised with us abroad,—who exercised their personal and of ficial influence in our behalf, and by that means averted the interference of the Federal authori ties,---have wasted their eytupaties upon, and then influence in favor of au ungrateful and forget ful people—then, we say, in that event, we as a Democrat, bound to obey the decision of the ma jority, will deem it our duty to acquiesce, and henceforth' interpose no obstacle u. the utmost fruition of the hopes and wishes of the leireeuirs of that road In that event, they may place their iron heel upon the neck« of this people, and front us they shall bear no word of remonetra4ce or complaint And why; because at the peoiele so decide, why should te. tiomplaio! &Num/ if the people of Erie and Erie County love their party better than their liberties, it' they ale dee posed le submit their future to untried hauds, because party fealty dictates thus, in prefereuee , to the hands of one who periled his personal, politics.l and official reputation, in order to sus tain us, they give the best evidence in the world to nit that that which they considered paramount to every other oonsideration a few mouths sieve, is now considered of but secondary impertance Why du we talk thus? Let us review the past and See Wheu the President and fiancees of the Erie and North East Road, ou the lit day of No vember last, issued their tuauifesio, and declar ing their determination to etrike a blew, as we thought, rt the local interests tat our city, and the general interests of the Ciuuutonwealth, all classes, and all seam, and all parties, united heart and hand in determined opposittou 'jst persie nal feuds were forgotteu—poltneal differeuves were laid upon the altar of the g, nem) i Misl— ead like a band of brothers we all pledgee our selves to know no differeuce until we had achiev ed our rights, or were erushed in the etinfliet It was to no longer, -Is lie a Whig'" he a Deutecrat(' but is he faithful to Erie! We grant that no direct pledges of this kind, were given None were required, for then it was that the people of Erie, outside the ruilroail to &tenet, were a unit. They thought alike, they acted alike, they spoke alike Had it not been so, we would have became an easy prey to our powerful opponeuts .Ind h. re we do not wi-h the people to forget the pots - . r ch o re agattot whom Erie, isolated au I alun, boa: up arms -- They were a powerful eiiilia nation, ex tending from the Atlauti ie ili. NI rep resenting more that. tifty if ,-,tpital, an,l controling, to som au 1 ,titluencitig iu others, by mean- r-mal its, tie teeire newspaper pree, ,if the eoutitiy -an engine at all times powerful, and in our ease twist unfortunate • ly so t uder the pri-esure of this outside influ ence we were jbe point of being crushed— crushed by a combinative' that, misrepresented as we were, we could not withstand. The entire country, outside the borders of our own state, was against us, while within our state few, very few understood us, and fewer still sympathised in our struggle. The agents of the railroad were in Harrisburg endeavoring, to poison the ear of the Executive, and invoking the power of the Commonwealth to crush us in this mission the failed, for they found a man in the Exeent tt chair who had a heart to feel for the oppreesed, as well as a head to fathom the waives of the oppressors He had also the courage to fool 'w the right when the path was clearly pointed out That man was Was Brotxa it was then that he sent us words of encouragement—of sympathy —of hope' And from that hour the tide if pop ular s. ntintent against us, titeitiltly set hack From that hour our opponents saw the baud wri ting upon the wall; and to avert the fate it fore told, they then app. lied to a Federal court - We need not repeat the history , if that disgratee ' ful prostitution of Judicial authority, but their is one fact which certainly ought uot to he for got When they had eucceeded in securing the eo operation of that court anti its officers. and had also secured a false return, setting forth that the Marshal had been resisted in the discharge of his duty, and hence had a pretence for iuvok lug the interference of the Federal Executive, and through him the military force of the I 'ne ted States, William Bigler, as Governor of the Commonwealth, again stepped forth to ward off the blew He succeeded, and once more the President and ihrectore of the Ene mei North East road, with the powerful combination at their back, were foiled by the tinunese and inflii , ence of Gov Bities:a And frem that day, as will 11 011..11 1, 1 to thwart the popaki' will of pesspl, as deeply interested as onts.rihse Pointedly sod etuldtedeally expressed' It is ties for the people of Erie to decide, we ey, anti tip on their deelsion depends l b. mud" We do not say this bemuse the Iroise of the people of Erie are necessary to 1160111141 . 1iis deaden! By no means ' That event it simply decided as definitely as any eyelet in the fusee can be deci ded that depends upon votes! The only ques tion now uh, how large his majority shall be— whether it shall be 15,0011 or 20,000! But we say it, becau.se we desire the issue to be distinct ly understood, so that in the fa/ore tier guy he no complaints or repining's! We want the people to uuderzatand whom they will serve— thetnselv,,,, or Know Nothing intolerance;-- themselves, or party fealty; themselves or An ti-Nebraska agitation ? : themselves, or temperance demagogues; themselves', or the Shanghai omit bittatiou: As ye make your bed so ye shall rest, and do not quarrel with it. if it proves a bard wie ' - - - Tomporanoe and Know Nothings—Rev. John Chambers' Letter We publish this week, the letter of the above mimed gentleman, which appeared in the Leiiyee of Monday Mr. Cham b er is • Presbyterian clergyman., and has probably the largest congre gation of any elerytuan in the State. He ig an ardent friend of the Maine Liquor law, and has olt*.o been praised by the Whig press for his el. 041:WO( lidvoi.sey of that mase He is uuw con demned by the same press because he refises to prostitute that oallSe• tee the • lleVe..l of Whiggery See Los Is tier sit this day's paper for his opinions on that Inbprt Ile al. , takes strong ground against the Know Nothing , fie witnessed the scandalous con duct ot and his Know Nothing t'ouncils since the lite election in Philadelphia, *MI Lai tike the great MAs of the peo ple of Philadelphia, thoroughly disgusted with this conspiracy of political trickster., who dare not play an open game The reaction in Philadelphia on this subject is w.LII known, and extends to all ranks and classes ot OIL people The term Kuow Nothing will he, in that city, a term of reproach and derision h,.r..,ift,r A few young ladies have been turned out ot employment, appointments and onlitian ce. delerlaillled in their secret coo• chive.; and the Mayor of a great city has pros trated buns If like a poltroon before au associa tion that Jar, not ornly •igow its exi.:+tenci.., and who*• itwitiber , dare not own their conuection Kith it No wonder the people, are disgusted, ,11,1 the ieaction violent th. r So .ay , thy Pittshurgh • mar The doesn't like our reasons why the Denweratic Central Committee did not, in their second address, (a document, by the by we -hall publish next week') discuss the Nebraska question It don't like the third address, either, although that I. devoted to the discussion of that tnea..urt Now. this is not uuexpeoceci to us; therefs,re, i r ,• .611 no t s ho t " a single tear over the (;.,-ette'. dislike. That paper never did like ati3 thing that savored at all Democratic, and we did not expert it. taste would improve at this age "I it- corrupt and vindictive party life The eliar g e, however, that the address 4hittioi the 9 t i 'II 1, a, puerile as it is false, as our readers shall .see moon as we can find room for the doe ucuent Neither does this Bigler shirk the is .ole lie ha. met it boldly upon the stump, and will meet it boldly wherever he speaks; and our coternporary can rest assured that nee of the pla ces he will speak will be Erie The Giszeite ham a good deal to say about a "great question whi,•6 now absorbs a large share of public attention •• Will our cotomporary tell ua what that "great question" is! What's its forte? and what's its shape? We know very well what it was, in its opinion, a few weeks since Then it was the repeal of the Nebraska bill, and the restoration of the Missouri compromise; but what is it now? The Missouri compromise the rte hap always opposed It denounced Mr Buchanan like a pick poeket LsTause he savored the V: I..uskuu that line to the Pacific, and heave any tears it shisis over that compromise now are crocodile tears, or its denunciatons of that great wan we:e of the basest kind, the result of A bad heart or a had cause, or both combined: The repeal of the Nebraska bill it knows to he impossible: That humbug ha' been abandoned byeven great er fanatie•k that , iur neighbor, it has been scout ed, al,u, ar ilk by those who first set the ball in motion, and who t aialy hoped to make it a hob by that would satiqy land thew in power and place' Wh:d then is the "great question which now absorbs a large share tit' public attention," and at the same tune 90 disturbs our neighbor's dreams" It cannot be whether slavery will go into KaLIStl • ;t1),1 Nebraska, or not? 0, no, it can't lie that, tot Poid.oca, the great "Know Nothing, - knows something upon that point, and -ays it ra•ver. nu, never, can What then is the "great iine•thm - which so painfully exercis es our neighbor's wind? "Auswer--oson..r— , somebody •' Nur It Is worthy of remark that while the 11,1 y, Ia /4 n, Otaiterrrr and otherl)emocratic organs denounce .fudge Potamett as a Know Nothiug, they are engaged in the Yupport of Henry S Mutt fur Canal Commissioner, who is asserted to be a Know Nothing and the (wadi date of the Know Nothings!' What consisten cy !—C,l,2.zette True, " what consistency " And now let us try your "consistency" and your pluck, too We say th at , c o l Mo TT i s not a member of the se cret organization (Ailed Know Nothings." We assert farther that Roo .lAmxs Pot,Loeu is And to test whether our assertions are true or not, we challenge you to join with us in a letter to both Pot.t.n,•K and MoTT If Marc does not come square up to the mark, and deny all con nection or sympathy with that order, we will pledge ourself to take his name from our Edito rial columns, and use all honorable means to se cure his defeat' If o n the other baud l'ot.bocK du, s not come square up and deny all connection sad sympathy with the Know Nothings, you shall pledge yourself to take hix name from the Editorial columns of the Gazette, and use all honorable means to secure his detest Now " fish or cut bait," or forever after hold year peace : 81:01.11CT SOCIIMItS.—T • he Evangelical Luthe ran Z•ty nod of Ohio, and the adjacent States, have pursed a resolutiou not to admit to elms-eh Man btrAiiip any person belonging to secret societies. Will some of the churches in t h is State rebuke thi• anti-Christian spirit of Know•Nothingism which is now rampant in our midst? The Rev John Chamber%, with all the noble nianlioess of. his nature, has stepped forward in this line of Christian duty Who will follow it the setae Pot! dime wes.wisse Ga lesii the forlorn hope of not was befouls he yes esti maim st Washisni has not cured those who. Bedford °vulvae, who. la addition to editing nee of the best in Bed him on. Honest Woolf, ha never suspect- Deln"rratie papers Lb. 14"1" ' h " lda tit* r"Ponitbi• poet of Adjutant Getters' of the e.irameasetiahh. He was eo lid th a t tim e who acted with him, were not as route for Meadville. to inspect the State Arsenal there. - honest; but he has bad a sad awakening, and he I Politically, the General is as , enthusiastic ea ever. lie finds that the road they had marked oat for him j says, sad we have no doubt of the fart, that the guberna torial question is. already settled—that the only point yet is one he cannot conscientiously travel. Hence uncertain ts how large Biomes majority shall be This he has resigned; but in doing so he finds it necee- ~,areded, he arerr, by the politicians el the sari airy in pi liah NI island" to his togaggiggleattad.- I, Otis parues who bare risked Bedford nesines dsriag tas few week". It was not, however, of the political as fending and explaining the whys and the where- P s " fore, of his courts. yrs. It. wee, it is essay poet of affairs that we were about to speak, but of thw ea thapiasio• sad gronfytog reesepnou our Berman matt&ll seen that Smith has little faith in the integrity friends extended to the 'letters! upon his return fr..w of the Anti-Nebraska agitators. And it is easy Meadville, tin Saturday Seen after it was aseeruined ID ate, too, that he know' very Well that the rea- 3ne general had arrived, the Battalion formed upon the be te d ei, sttleSqUale 11/ military order, and sent ire a doperstion eon be has been abused and denounced, re.duc.t the pleasure of an cause he was too honest and honorable to du thy' General promptly 4,111.110.4. Slid wry introdu e .,o by dirty work expected of hint by those, not only, in reply to the enthusiastic greeting with Who sent him there, but by the fanatics in ill wh i ch h e ern e received, he said that it was &suttee' tea as parts of the Union. He is too high-minded/1, It wta w . lbe h h ttl: gratifying that he appeared before that Battalion, oud lu like and brat w as ti dulled h'ee'Snillte". one I f u tai h i:es7,7 n ' t ‘ iCi l hold the place and disappoint that numerous the tioneral, %isittug Pennsylvania's lake city, net class, who expected to make a bully of him, tor the porn,. or meeting officers, either military or pot,. without regard to his own sense of duty, under the oath required by the Constitution Sad' . ""4l' pettLiet is ,llns P eet or congratulate frum the .. , 17:e , w , r o a t : ,. ::: " o r o , ly t h y where resuming s.()ntiti 1: I . duty d bi i n n i e t 41: t r r e s :s t '1 :1 , 171 1 : , he-- n en - "I noticed strictures upon almost the very fi rst L entirely unexpected, upon this hi s Brat visit t,. th e rot, sentence of my very first speech in Congress, which taught the that my official, no more than wera•ea ground o 1 perry, hr was tr e e to •ar was highl y my private life, was to be exempt from the in gratifying Ile had reviewed and Pu '' t Y rnarid, oa %anon. , parts oh the btatie, when they wer r elein pe e"ln h ; justice to which I have here alluded It so bap petted that I begun that speech with expression, to legend th e .1 their e i nuntry in Mexico__ b,, pad hihro, tortlurtne.l lhe same duty with those who had just re Of civility towards those around we, and with kind and charitable interpretations of the duff' - -- tipped from the held tit gtory• cut Irian the si.laierl% epees between them and myself No sooner was tearing .1 those he was , then aildressoug, he het uo 414Ut/I the speech in print than many Abolitionists coin- that it their "sung> rognlrel their son wee, they would plained of my courtesy to slaveholders, and in h ethi tir•t bo h onhnhoer to go. and the last to leave where sisted that I had been guilty of making light 'hulk r Like th e apt Iguaer's i . ouipaur. the radical differences between Slavery and Ab ek..ry wan 01 ehhoral clanks in that ' river% hierlOnn terent olition—betweeu Slaveholciers and Abolitionists s " "1"1"`i Ly ' ls ' ghillhint and who ]ought with on. Assuming as they did, that I was "a une..id. Ire. cry from rUI tbr u 1 Sis sies, Abolitionist," they further and very naturally to. laud •I,oht who. then , tooti belote min, would assumed that I stood up to make that speech With not step to inyuire before they the orders their nothing but Slavery and slavebolders, in my t•y. nhlnn. J cr is li,. *"I .•r.Lie poiEto id affinities, o r the acme' Two things, which they should have remembrr ""'" r '" ,, 4 1 " tth. l4ll, ' knelt ]store the god od, they -seemed entirely to have forgotten beta, • Neither their Comilla/tiler 14 Chief sick them that w, re born, or under what .retariati creed One of these is, that I entered Congress with h [tie eilkerience tit sae{ hr, the war such peculiar theories of civil government—ma war .1 1'1.... Sol ,/r war with Mei /C 44 La+ settled the tured and cherished, however visionary and false —as I foresaw must be continually bringing out 1""'"u° " ' at It4 " . ` "h" had at , l fromthe tyranny .ind differences between my asawiates and my sell 1 ) 7:: ' ; "h" • V 1 '4 1 4- hoh made their al-. tree. Lace ur -trong arto• and as not on the question of Slavery only, but on in numerable other questions also The other li', that among these theories is the duty, resting; imperatively on the inmates of a legislative Lail, to know nothing while in such hall of each (oil er's private' character and private relations; and to recognize and treat each other as gentlemen Again, as an Abolitionist 1 desire the au ne.sation of Tuba a, Our country, because that would end the connection of ('uba with the Af rican slave trade, and would, also, go far to end the trade every where Ido not forget the chow , . that to American slaveholders are in favor c,f re-opening that trade with the country. But know that the charge is nonseusical Not only -does their interest forbid it, but I do them no more than justice when I say that their civiliz.l - forbids it They have outgrown the barbar ism of the African slave trade May they speed ily outgrow other barbarianisms which fall but little short of it I said, that, fur having wade th, ferred mean my ,perch on t h e M ex i cali Treaty--the newspapers ha% e call, d buster." They have called me -pro-13% cry - ,t so. But if to be tu favor oi .Lnuezing 1'0 , 4 t. our nation makes me -pro-,l..‘ery, - then I Lae, been "pro-slavery" fur years, 4- thane of you know who, for year. have heard me speak in favor of it. I readily admit, that if I stood upon the platform ooenpaed by many anti-slavery wee, and had a creed made of nothing else than "no more slave territory, - I should 4ilt:Wr VP Li) be stigmatized as "pro-slavery - for consenting to have Cuba eowe with her slavery iti,o our nati,.o —for then, according to wy own creed, I should be "pro-slavery." But I thank God, that he has not left me to take my stand ou that narrow pl form nor any other like it." Give us an Answer ! 111=7 We have answered a great man) q uestions propounded to us by our neighbor c,t,the t,',/- •:ette, and if the answers have not been satisfp - t,ory, the head was to blame, not the heart. -- Now, as "one good turn deserve!, another, - as the fellow said when he bad the chap', nase up on the grindstone, will our neighbor answer us one or two' does Judge h ItleUr/ when it _e says that -slavery can have no 1 e.ridenee to those territories Kansas and Ne braakat either by act of Congress. ..r itu,i•-r the /aka pretense of popular sovereignty What did you mean when you told your readers that the Kansas and Nebraska bill "legislate, slave into those territortesY" Did you tell the truth, or did Judge Politick Which, 0, Priest. which' Again, what does Judge Pollock mean when II says that, •'lf slavery enters those te rri t ories . will he there not only without the authority ..t constitutional law, but iu violatiou of law Then, what did you wean wilco you solimuly a. sured your readers, that thkier territories, although dedicated to freedom by that "iolplnn compact, the Mis.souri compromise," had been git eu oei to slavery by the "Nebraska swindle," as you sada& sullen the Nebraska-Kansas bill.' hid Judge Pollock tell the truth, or did you . ' \V hicti' 0, Priest, which? If Judge Pollock tells the t,iit/‘, :uhi "'laver) caw haven() legal exuitence in the tarritoriet., either by aet l'otigre.s, or under the (*Ake pre tenet• of popular ,overeiguty" ---if it P: true that "if slavery enters those t. rruories it will be there, not only without authority .if e.iniat it Ut law, but law," what is "the grt at question which now ab•orbr a large ...hare of pub. tic atteutiouf" Don't "couetwle to I„• a Know Nothing on theNe questions, - but "answet ,ire , r—likt• toatoebody'' ugh. The letter of Judge Black k which, by the by, we will give in our next,) to the temper ance men seems to meet with universal appr4dia- Lion It contains sound doctrine, and Las well and pointedly rebuked the efforts of whigs to make the temperance cause a party issue. The Philadelphia le lyrr hat, following on the subject: It is well said by Judge Black, that the law was made for the protection of the weak and the unpopular; and it may be added that.the tyran ny of a majority requires 64 firm and independ ent a judiciary as that of a monarch. Wheu James 1., of England, required of his Judges that they should pledge themselves to decide a certain ovtuttittaional question according to his wishes, Chief Justice Coke answered, "When the casr happens, I shall do that orhirh ooholl /it . 14r a judge to do." HOPI G TAROK DAASIX. —The Whig candi date for Canal Commissioner was in town )ester day. He informed his friends that he had sent in his declination six weeks ago, but that the committee - had as yet taken no action upon it. This he was forced.to do in oonaNuanoe of hav ing the misfortune to be born in Scotland. Of course the radical Know Nothings would not touch hint A of about owe hundred Know Nothings from Fritssieugh rent east yes terday. A oonvention of tbs order will .no no Soul* soon pia* t h e assa to take Mr. Dude's place.-- Skudani. CM 'Omni ab A lititary Visit A. t W e were city ousel% rained leo im•t. get , k .by 11 visit tifrom mar,v.timmmod ftftimporary, 040s1. NowliamoledW brat e h• :art- 11 S ru.•ttuln.4 ill , l lye 13tel thAt 143• ;I'ooli them 3 ,Fit•lter 34 U 1,30, they pore I All I /VI u, w•,ntr« 1.41 AP, t...rio Upult whether nutt‘e nc.).teti, that neither %•ntt C. , lntaxot.ler in t n 4' I,uttm• rnl. writ Its% e LIO 'Zeal 0.1 til tAt• :At a. rifiltu.stalg *Kunst au) wan. r ,, r 11,, is”rd 41.,11.• Ilia • I Lb lllab, r OPP *LI t I 11,- • Me 6 4 4 ~.44 4-i 41. h i.• "untr) whery 14. r-hip -I .4 , 111,„! • 1 . , .. 1 the. 1•.. n ., leut, 6• prr-rn'•r rolintry err.,r I= ME .rlii .1 tl4. •Lintr), tn- lotit at, I r. Llit. , l.'llkit , r, whether itese tteet'v Pr. , t,t.mt RIIs I,t .• aLid Ill3=ll d... 1 , I l• att ILe trenenti eldriotutiell nv lnar~kin~ i. in,tiar% Ir ••,Is ku.4L 1.. f tiattcrllLi u. Ilf e tab , ~11f1 Ilfeh e.e,.reft 11 ty.• K„ E „i, the runt r yr a .iu.l trw prr,..tial retirrti t.. \% Ow thri.e =II .-rn' I: 'lts.,l tinn.• th,rt, en OEM MEMO MEM I.iht.•le I I I •, %ay 4.1 .telnrv•t. and ' 1 ,, II In. , ' Irti 1)) etteet 11p. 11.11/Itrr) Ar A ,A A A A •1.11 hat • he plen.4llr.• ..t )1 nmptiri , trig that aftrr due tawtt,r, the A djutato tieneral hno •unrluded to I. Ai , 1% , 4 , 1 .:1 I it.ar). -..uu•trw. - 'or 140 ter, .1 artalt-rN ' f 1% fi iic and " rum un ni.prir. in t'le el 111 , 1 ure • -rent pl • k•eause Cap: Woad, thr Lwal Mail Ag..nt 11,.:. about to k,e rvin..% ed. W r think they .tota, e con•istency it rho N ...miplato be aun ttr wam'ot retuoved long ago N. I , 4ent the etu (.10 Iltpartateat u.,lk r ,rt."l utteuar Gar test c., duty uud cu. "nu .dt.•nor • hill !Iv I it 1:r1,.r.•, li-w. v. r, 114 s, .lecisite steps! .sk u m iho :...p , eetai Agent, Mr at, hod :.• V ,• tiln , l .114 IVA, there a week, ah. kb...VI t., the 1'..•1 Mater r I •ipt Lt. ..1,04,1f11.411 al. 1 in w l.ll It.lllllol . tb •tilt v.,14 y t tr w„u•trut. &ti t hu4 ,141.1.0 tn. up-r, th. ni. tio . 1% 14,4 vt. r 1 ;311..... I It, • 'lrk• ••1•IV IfKrat. thgulg. M,--r• Isryant a. ,I 15,,, I I• t:,. F furl I u'.o 11.1n4 and Lq a I,,titet „t r• u.kw• intt,l that 0 1111, ilk. .111 ...1 t th•. rtia.tug 01 all ttir entiy, =I "r ut Wlt• l‘• return 14.tn1,.... . 1 .1 r .//rerril •Upply ..t Pesette- %ht. lir 1 tip,u ur tattle ‘e,.:.r'la) Ilt• 1:EMIMMIII ;it u I le we gut••• vh..tat the •uppt) ..t t. Iter ME A 1 1 IA , /i.• :12 Ir. Ir-2: 2.12, =MEI .c. • 1(111131 I r,.% t• 1 1,4 4 '4 141 ii , r,?1 . 111 " , 01•••• 11/li . Ih. 11,1,1 •ttgli tt , rtl,.rtr.•t .•'lf • - unnoun, • thus \ Ir , It • •.• h i,drhine; , •hth.l r•hg. h 'he •• 1:111LI: iJW ••• ll,e ...LI PI p E la) A,. i 111E11 tht tupth,, pa ISt ,{Ailti RE I IP II tl ii i uiu , a oi I • 'ynnker: 11 n e ....I 1 ,0. trait• thtti the I.: ht.! ill, 1 I • • gtig I • w .1:It r the ery .int hit.iol I .er ..11 k it. lii i k a. nMn 1ii%,,11114; It I IPA- V/ ili 6 , ,a lt% excre,lingl) reakal.le 1. ..ur N•.O I..rk • orre”.. , u•lent oil our out.u.le Prt 11:3!lor 41 ' , he'll .111 it :•*/- I I) Malt led tutu r oi the 111 t. /tl4 utr ularrtwge • tht• L IL In .1( that ”faintly entre , will iirown hi• iv•r , kerr bun &len," rte. tau. • ~ite ~.116,1 .peak. 0,41 rap., ~,,, rsv tea as the M s evil btlt we thiuk tr he i,Cut •'Aurae down . ' until "f.illtily re•prm'dMhttus •' du it, ue'll .tauil r icwki wLite Sri Lys Firer have leeen ragtag in various party if the vounty for •el , •ril weeks, mut they are not eitinguoh yet "'Much eatuahie timber has !teen destroyed to say nothiug of the knives and other loose property who h has suileresi. Nothing short of a weeks rain will Flay the hand of the destroyer, and such a Messing appears a.. insprubs We at the present writing as it did a month eta, e, A. Among the numinationm in Crawtord. none give. , wore pleseure than that of our friend Wm. Loi.. for Clerk of the Court. lie well qualified fur tae —l4 a IMO: %Ad reliable Democrat,—a whole Sondra fellow, whose election hy the 1..00e we confidently eount upon recording in october' May hl. rhaduw victrr gr .w end that la wishing a good deal! w4fr- Herr to •utur capital which we bopr will ti‘ul use fullower among our reader*. if you want to eerye humanity effeenvely, don't com menc•e *ending tracts that are never road, and duntlei *turn! that are never worn, b. Afriea, but help the needy ar• ;lad you. If there be an) old mail• about, get them husi.aude; if pour glee them money; if widows, COIIIO6 them if pretty girl', please thew; if pagan/A, preach the wurd to theta, stir thew up. turn. twi.t, l y, hod. stew of ,nok there into something Christian and good. After the 4 Link out fur the heathen and other t..lk 'in foreign parts' - - Don't tonsil the trash .t the halantazo. Railroad Bank, the Sisk of Washten.u. and Tennessee money generally. Our rn.ler' PLOUId Me 3 ram P WU) arty Where await., or Knything oh* motet. we wteb they'd let nq knew as. An loon littlit.r pheeu tiue.l f.. 0 t noticing r girl in church.- -ba, Arr.. Cheap enough( We tiw.t. Lugged a girl to church *ewe ten v-an ago, aa.l the wrap,- be: mat as a thouaana &A tm* avert e•lif rhecoam ) ugo, - •r ) lately, but theu final to your lo: , . f= doidallers, Ltie " 1011 7's to as lacreamid population. thrtr Lint, 1 1 14(,, ,r thetr .voluur,l be. ,‘ th, ...entry when, nay /...er o,d I rroi) I, ielt fr. e i❑ Cll,l. or. i hirer for hi, I •woi..i,K,•%,tb, WIIII thl., WO ~ •yt pt rf•rmr I hi• •Ititte 1113111=1E1 1,•. Prowlar, Plkkini •, ~ a, t:lla II W.IN not t..r th,• taut 11 •,t. • tor, =MD 'chess ,rasa D E,.. Treellk.g A N 1.....,, 'A. 13*.erter- There to a pia,. New I'.rh city w eurtositiee Worth otraatiorattag--It, Avast, war rwastilla. I des't owes tmerterhus Zgypuest heerserpluce wad Owen relebrit7 to other ..tierce, but 1 I which LI shut up inbOta those watt• %our iorttopond,ht hepl.rnrd la At week, ri'.t "11 1.01. '4kton, h4.wip, Illy wretetwd fl s ida,l Don'ts no 141bcsa4r An gettaug to. tLe ifl the dayOsading into the 111 , 14.• et. to three story plastered ...Hikes, f..r to, prowners Soo ran walk al..ng the freely. thr ,ugh the grat,4 dour.. Thvy are allowed t.. reertv rhythm, fricuti., and vain) , much Ithert) with uwo. The .pot ~t gr,,uod on which , h tvrtuerly r klu‘ k-pool, 3'14 a Aami. ..1 kit 111111 ark •h,At lalgith (1N.., , Ir art.A.ltle4 • - oat 11114 irr,•uu , ”uhurtuent. There , ~,,, with the operation of the Liwyer•," bete t law, talking ' ,i. 4 1.4 ..cult , ttid Lad••q. thin% lin. He s%•l that if he u."I .111% P. (e.• 4 .• Tomb. lawyer - be itaktal huh h..," that ...Ott 1.. II du). nu I hatted that then: Oar luo)erli, and ~n•tat,t..• ,11 t Lvs pokillVe eV 1.L..11., that II i bargt44k t Ittt '464,117, , t T„ Lo b,„ ",i ~,.t the uext by they have paid .flait ..1 2111 4 41 W With thy n stun• ••t the. Irishui.tak 'lota wip,tn I t•ilk,. liehrtri tilleUV/4 ienr,ll", 4.11/A r .tru , k a watchman, while .011:. %/1 n.,w abut up wilt, i p,ckp,,ek,4atal won A t re. d count. , tat.,, prt•ua. H.r ,rt.11:1011 . roaultmg from the u• or of It w.f . , sand dewy that alert: umcbt Mame I t.nsutattti till 131, wage- he t-ttulti unto., wtttal I Jr.tti: Liao-• R ttttt t man wtth `tam It U•e• trvestany. winch pia I flit Urtlll3l,, ..,, iug tu.puiito,u forrot. Auv.tig thrw, ••%•rt mgt g bitit,ell, 6,mrclt Li trig, t.l Itty up i Ittlln w.giry, ctrl ,It. he is the mrroc t in.tutau It. Kv‘...l t. A 'I. Way MALI el,ll •.lt , money, t nnbu•ly till he hi It to IL pity thni pt. ,unict hr taught n t.w Tdl ) to. Lot. 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I Alpi •" I Hi". 110 ilk., 11. 11 Irt•I .1 L.-tr , „ t I.' r•t at =ES= Ito ..sr , . in hii•ll II • 1 11 'l , t.i ...is .sr , barr wax pert.•. tly 6intight 71 r.. 1., MEI hattAe.i the ba.r tnr trq d a) I)..th had kittit% hakr pcv i t,r th.• irt.r, h.• -Kj.1,1 h.' r. I &might.- 1,14A.6 •nd A,.,kt • hr - Watilra t.. t.t •,.... he ut,..i. , Iri.,rher ~.i,,, 1 J • 1.1 t Ir rNt 111 I r triti3 I lIC 411. I, thou I lIIe nght •:dam.: ..rf thew 111, pr”. e, , 41,1 IL I) ] tist.l 14.1 An% •1-.. I I ear h .N• vlli4 ... buemn.appearaner va.oaoth thirte.t) awnth- the ss Mr ha ; • h.tp. ..t,e• 111 th I. "II ••4 .1.• maul Et!. Pa, I.• ad..,1 4,r /phtl, '• uld at,l tut.+ a sityr v: 1 ,, • month< .Id. Thls il , l .1 grriat readily ' 1t i:.• ' most un4ut.-ttlonal.l w4O. r. , 10f thetwriVe., yv. "rh.• ••ry r 4(111 (her the "tria , .gl,' tho %id to,l Tt,k• IZZI th.o Smith will h.. ry, ihere'p the cretizt •••üblo pendent ‘ , .le of the r, etn..n poled to feu Ulm Mr 4qm:b. Ntothlng`. 11010 tlal , lll4tned ANA N ..t oil 1... prritir nr 1. .t.•r LI. +Upp"rt. hin I. h. bltod"rtn, odd "t,• .);•1” 'l% I•l4lll , apV.Ule.l • art • t *um, the w.,rki , • • he m.o) I" me .