BEDFORD, Pa.
frlday Morning, DEC 21.1155-
''Fearless and Free."
DAVID OVER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
NOTICE.
Tbefirst examination and exhibition of
the Allegheny Male and Female Seminary,
will be held on the Erst of January,. 1856.
Examination to commence at 9 o'clock,
A M. Exhibition at 6 o'clock. P. M.
JOHN POLLOCK.
"REFORM!"
Many of our readers will besuprised that
after the reforms made by the American
Board of Directors, at the Poor House, in
reducing the high salaries of the officers of
that Institution, and which had been in
creased by Locofoeoism, from about what
they have now been reduced to, for the pur
pose of rewarding political favorites, and
also abolishing the office of Attorney,
which was about as necessary as tke fifth
wheel to a wagOD, and sating over three
hundred dollars to the tax payers, the Bed
ford Gazette comes out against the Reform,
and advocates an increase of the salaries
even above what they have lately been un
der Locofoco rule. Mr. Bowman says that
the Poor Honso Physician's salary should
have been increased from §IOO to §2OO,
instead of being decreased to S6O! And as
a matter of course, be advocates the in
crease of the salaries of all the other officers
of that Institution, to double what they
have all along been. So tbat whilst the
Auierioon party has reduced the salaries,
which were already too high, -saving over
SBOO to the people, the Looufocoa advocate
their increase that much, which is a differ
ence in favor of the people of over S6OO in
this one matter ! How do you like the dif
ference, tax payer 1 Had Locofoeoism tri
umphed at the last electiou in this county,
according to tho Gazette , the salaries of the
Poor House officers would have been in
creased over S6OO, but the Americans oar
ried the day, and they commenced the Re
form,by reducing them mere than s3oo'
A difference of S6OO at one sweep between
the two parties in that institution is no
small matter'
We hope the people of the county will;
open thcii eyes to this matter, and ee
which part} is truly the party of Reform, '
and vote hereafter accordingly. LotV.eo- 1
ism always goes in fr she loaves and fishes I
of office !
CONGRESS
Has not vet effected an organ nation. On |
the 16th icst., the last ballot stO'nl for !
Ranks 106, Richardson. 73, Fuller 3. w .
Scattering, 7. Tbo organisation appears as
far off us several dsjs ago. (to the heads ;
of the Locofocos and the Abolitionists will :
have to rest the responsibility of the delay
la the organization of the House
X/"Wc call the attention .if our readers
to tho advertisement of Mr. Thomas R.
Gettya, Jr. He has received a large and
rpjeodid assortment of all kinds of cases,
uud lakes pictures truthful and life-like.—
Call oa hiai,all who wish to present your
sweetheart or friend with a splendid dagucr
rt .n likeness, on Christmas or Xew Year
WHAT MAKES PAPISTS CRIMI
NAIJ&. —The notorious Bishop Tiinon, of
Buffalo, has been imitating Leo X. in his
desire to build, and in his use of means to
obtain money. A recent psstoral letter
thus begs and promises:
"On Sunday uoxt,or op any day more
impropriate for that purpose, each pastor
f hail reriove donations, either by a collec
tion in the church or hy visitation, as may
be considered most proper. And according
'o the power invested in u% wc grant abso
lution for forty days to any one who, from
tor the holy Catholic unity, and for tbc em
baliishtncnt of the house o? God and to the
honor of tho holy St. Joseph, w ill contrib
ute one shilling or more.''
Forty days absolution for a shilling!—
Cheap sinning at that!
COOL HIPIDEXCE.
A" German paper, published in New York
city, ealied the Stoat* Ztitung, contains the
following, af Laving been recently adopted
bv the Government of Wcteaiberg, in
Germany
Whereas, It has repeatedly occurred that
German emigrants to Amerioa , and among
tUuu natives of Wurlemberg, who desired
to return homo oa account of sickness or
incapacity to labor, have been forwarded to
this country hy the German Emigration
Society ol Sew Y'ork; and
Whereas, It is deeirablo that those who
have oner emigrated to America, and espe
cially those who have been transported
thither,at the oipense of the State, or the
communes, and are unablo—whotherornot
it be from any fault of their own—to earn
their subsistence, should not return here to
be a burden to the State of the communes
(which in that case will have defrayed the
expenses of their journey in vain) and
Whereas, The American anthopities are
scarcely authorized to send back those who
having once been admitted to the country,
cannot earn their subsistence in America;
and
Whereas, It is much less the business of
the German Emigration Society of New
York to promote the return of such individ
uals; therefore
Resolved, That necessary steps are to be
taken to prevent their transportation back
to this couotrv.
The Staats Zietung treats the matter very
gravely, so that it caunot be a joke, as the
reader might at first suppose. It appears
that in consequence of the general outcry on
this side of the oeeau agaiust the deluge of
foreign paupers poured into our country, the
New York Commissioners of Emigration
have dene, what it was clearly their duty to
have always done, but what they have shrunk
front attempting —they have sent back to
Europe many foreign immigrants who have
arrived at New York helpless from sickness
or other infirmity. An item in the Tribune
which we lately copied, infornted the public
that the authorities of Great Britain bad
Jetermined to take steps to prevent the re
turn of foreign pauper eiumigrants to that
country after they had been sent to the Uni
ted States. The action of the authorities of
Wurteraberg is of the same kind, and it is
therefore clear that this matter is rapidly
approaching an important crisis. As these
paupers, when not sent back to Europe, are
distributed by the New York authorities
very freely over the Northern States to be
supported, this is a question of great interest
to us all.
From Kansas.
Outragious Conduct oj the Alissourians
The St. Louis Democrat, of Doc. 12th, i
has a letter dated Leavenworth, Doe. 1. 6 j
P. M., which says;
"The militia organized to day'
"At ten, o'clock it was discovered that !
Mr. G. McCree had escaped from prison by |
cutting the door around the lock.
"At an early hour in the morning intcl- j
ligenoe was received that two thousand arm
ed men had rendezvoused at Kickapoo.—
Six pieces of cannon, it was reported, had
been seen in that city. This rumor has
received repeated confirmations to day.
"By the different accounts deceived at this :
point, up to the present moment, it is esti- j
mated that there ara froic three to four I
thousand ttrLiad tnon. regularly, orp-mi-xod ;
into companies, and chiefly from Platte, j
Buchanan, Clay and Jackson counties,
Missouri, in the Territory to day."
The letter goes on to describe the enrol
ling of militia. Forty five names vrere put ;
down, only seven of whom were oitizeu® !
of Kans-s. The rest were from Missouri, j
From thi St. Louis Democrat Die. 12.
Faturpav KvtM.NO, Dec. 1— 8 P. M.
Mr. Propper, a gentleman of this city, I
of undoubted veracity, has just arrived from ,
Ksn?a- City via Westport M >.
fie states that one hundred armed men i
left Westport yesterday for Lawrence, and
that, one hundred additional are prepared to
; march tomorrow. He says that they are of
; the lowest class of rowdia*, and heard them
| say repeatedly that "they did not care a
d— u whether tbu reports of a rescue were
j true or not, they would go to the d—n
i Yankee citv, burn it down, and ravish all
r
t'ne women. 1 don't choose io put in all
i their t aths: but they did not use such
i language without swearing most profanely.
I .Similar language was often heard here to
-1 day.
Twenty of the most re*peetable citizens
l of Westport intend to march rapidly to
1 Lawrence to tuorrow, in order, if possible, to
i prevent effusion of blood. Kansas City, to
1 her credit, refuses to act, and denounces the
; proceedings of the Mis.'ourians. Not more
than twelve men will go from there.
One hundred men left Lexington for
Lawrence Five hundred men, it was re
; ported at Kansas City were expected from
' Clay county. Will not the Governor of
MLsori act*
General Calhoun at the Shawnee Mis-
I si on.
Latest News—MeCrea heard from.
i
r.FAvrv worth, Sat. Ev'ng, 11: 15 P. M.
| 1 re-open my letter for the second time to
send yon additional intelligence.
A rider ha? just arrived from Lawrence.
; Ho states that a public meeting was held in
Lawrence yesterday, at which resolutions
was passed denying the truth of the agrarian
■ reports circulated for the politeal purposes
lof certain Missouri politicians; declaring
that they are and eve: have been ready to
srrendcr any person on proper warraut, but
I stating their determination to refuse obed i
eaee to unauthojixed mobs.
Mr. McCree was met to day riding on a
spirited bay horse towardws Larence. He
sent word to the territorial Marshal in this
city that he would appear at Tecjumseb when
his trial came on, but did not choose to sta*
| at Leavenworth to be taken from prison and
1 hanged by a mob.
Mr. P arrott and other gentlemen from
Leavenworth have just left for Lawrence, to
j pi event, if possible; any encounter between
tbo 'law and order men,* from .Missouri, and
1 the residents Kansas.
P. S.—Observe that Gov. Shanon's proc
lamation i dated Nov. 29, and that Mr.
, Eastin's Call is dated Nov. 28. Let the
reader bear this fact in mind, as it will be
made point at law in Congress.
For the. Inquirer and Chronicle.
BEDFORD CEMETERY.
JMeetings of the Corporators—Selection of
a location—Plan of proceedure —The
books open—Subscription of stock—
Election of Officers —General meeting,
ci'c., <S"c.
MR. EDITOR .—lt will be gratifying to
many of your readers to know that the
cemetery enterprise is still in esse— a live
project—that the ball tV in motion, and
will be pushed forward as rapidly as the
state of the route admits! Two meetings
of the Corporators have been held, at the
first of which aco nominee of five was ap
pointed, with instructions to view, exam
iue and report upon the respective merits
apd advantages of different locations, and
whether, and at what price they could be
had. Their report, in part, was made to
the second meeting, held on the evening of
the Bth iust., and the committee continued
until the next meeting, with further in
structions, at which time they will make a
final report, and the location be perma
nently decided upon. At the same meet
ing a committee of five was appointed to j
solicit the subscription of stock, and the j
plan of operation is just this. In the first
place, ten. twelve or more acres of suitable
ground will be necessary, and this, of course
must be purchased at the lowest price, and j
upon the bc<t terms possible. This land i
must be paid for. It must be suitably and j
handsomely enclosed. It must, under the
direction of a rural architect, be properly
and attractively laid off and divided into
lots, a carriage way and walks, Ac. 1 lie
land tuay cost SIOOO or §I2OO. I lie
fence, and services of an architect, may be
at a cast of §3OO or S4OO. Then also
will be the expense of a house or dwelling
for the sexton, who is to have charge of the '
grounds, Sic.
i And to nfeet this outlay, and ascertain j
whether the corporators would be justified :
in incurriug said liabilities, it is proposed |
in the first place to eoe what amount ol
| stock can be subscribed. The price of each 1
share of stock will be SIO.OO, and will en
title the subscriber ro a lot iu the BEDFORD
j CEMETERY. The payment of this stock
will be in easy payments, so that every one
i can and will be expected to take at least
I one share. The day laborer, and the hon
i est. toiling mechanic, whose bread is earned
i by the sweat of their brows, can, and will
1 be glad to pay for a burial place lor them
! Mrdtcs noJ f.uuiUer t!® email (um of $lO.
j Bscs use, if in life, lie has laid by nothing
more, he will have the satisfaction of know,
ing that he, at least, has earned a burial
place. That lie, and the loved ones of his
j fire-side may repose ultimately in their own
I soil, land which was by pood and sufficient
I deed conveyed and guaranteed to them.—
' anl it is a pleasant reflection also, that
| when, in after year", relatives and friends
! may have sunk into the tomb, when there
j should be left no kindred haDd to plant the
willow or strew the flowers of affection
I your graves, within the cemetery walls, will
suffer no neglect. There will be no rank
ling grass, the nest of slimy serpents and
of toads, left rotting over you, ar.d the
grunt of hogs will not disturb your sweet
repose' The. good old sexton, with his re
j forming spade, and shrubs and flowers and
i pruning hook will be there. His Register
will show the rauge and number of every
i grave, so that, whether marked by the
j sculptured marble or not, no grave can be
lost, (which, unfortunately, is the ease in
! almost every oue of the town graveyards
I now.) But we. are getting from the point
1 about which we intended more particularly
| speaking. Not only the mechanic and man
! of family will be expected to take a lot, at
j the low price mentioned. But the young
! man, who has at present no family to pro
| vide for, will find it a good investment of
Iso small a sum. It will be good stock, and
; may be sold to advantage, if never needed
for himself. Then, also, there are those
i who arc not mechanics or single men, witb
-1 out property and with limited means, but
! merchants, lawyers, doctors, farmers, men
; of families and men of capital, gentlemen,
: Ac., Ac., who will be expected, and will
1 take several shares. The enterprise de
' serves the greatest encouragement. It. is
an improvement which ail may encourage.
There is nothing of party feeling or sccta
' nanism about it. It points to the common
j platform upon which we must one day all
j appear.
No stock will be required to be paid in
before the Ist April, 1856, and then where
more than one share is subscribed, in easy
instalments. And we may notice further
in explanation of this manner of subscrip
tion by stock, Ac., that it is this way. So
soon as a share of stock is paid in, a print
ed certificate, signed by the' President, Sec
retary and Treasurer of the association
will be given, and upon presentation of the
same, as soon as the lots have been laid off
by a Rural Architect, and are ready to be
conveyed by proper metes and bounds, the
holder of a certificate will be entitled to a
credit for the amount paid, as per certifi
cate, upon any lot or lots he buys, whether
that be at public or private sale.
And this plan, whilst it cannot fail to be
entirely satisfactory to all, will at the same
time determine whether the corporators will
be authorized to go on.
When once completed, many persons, we
BEDFORD INQUIRER AND CHRONICLE.
hear, say that they will reraovo their rela
tives and friends to the Cemetery, where
their graves will be properly cared for.—
This is being done all over the country,
where in other villages and towns they are
establishing cemeteries, and will be the case
here. A law, also, it is said will be passed
by and bye to prevent further interments in
town. Tho Reformed and Lutheran Con
gregations will have shortly to purchase
new grounds The Presbyterian yard is
filling up, and like the Methodist and Cath
olic yards, has not much more space left.
All must, in the course of a few years, be
enlarged at considerable expense, if no oth
er arrangement is maue. All are in an un
protccted or neglected condition, and
something should bo done.
On Saturday night before Christmas,
there will be a public meeting, and it is
hoped that all interested will attend. In
the meantime, tie generosity and public
spirit of our citizens will be tested by the
committee whose duty it is to solicit stock
and report at the time referred to. Time
and space forbid our saying more in this
connection. The time has come for action,
and we hope all will lerui a help'ng hand.
<• Life is short, arid time is fleeting,
.dnd oca hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating,
Funeral marches to the CRAVE!"
Remember, you who would refuse a tri
fling contribution for a good work like this,
who would have the oouuuittee on subscrip
tions turn away unassisted and unheard—
remember, that your eye may soon lose its
lustre, your heart soon cease to beat! The
next funeral train that winds slowly and
solemnly to the place of sepulture, may bo
possibly following to the grave that body of
which you are now so careful and so proud !
Would you have it interred with decency,
and laid to sleep where it would be suitably
guarded, where the flowers planted by the
hand of affection might not be destroyed,
nor the last trace of your grave be ulti
mately forgotten ? then don't say that you
can't spare $lO for a CEMETERY now!
From Ihe .V. Y. Tribune
THE SENATE IN 1855.
WASHINGTON - , Friday, Dec. 6,1855
'We all do faue as a leaf." That is the
ultimate mundane result, prior and prefatory
to which, we are unmistakably growing
old. I realize it nowhere more forcibly than
on returning, after a prolonged absence, to
the Senate chamber of the United States.—
The first thought here is inevitably of the
great departed—of Clay and Webster,
Calhoun and Forsyth, Silas Wright arid
Peindexter, whom with younger eyes and a
fresher heart, a more hopeful spirit, I saw
sitting here on my first visit, nearly twenty
years ago. They have passed away from
earth with John Davis and Roger Hunting
don, J T. Morchead, Phelps, Prentiss, and
many others who have since filled tqeir scats ;
while Corwin and Ewing of Ohio, Tyler
and Rives of Virginia, Benton of Missouri,
Manguuv and Badger of North Carolina,
though still living, have goDe into retire
ment, and no longer challenge the publ io
regard with a calmer interest, a more languid
pulse, I know that the Senate of 1835,
tested by the most unswerving standards
was abler than that of 1855.
Perhaps this Senate is composed of young
er men than that of twenty years ago, but
I doubt it. For here sits Gen. Cass, a ve_
teran wbo has already passed the seventy
years alloted to man, locking heavier and
duller than when 1 first saw hiru, but still
unwi inklcd and healthy, a striking example
of the conservative dower of rigid temper
ance even though confronted by the dis
tractions acd anxieties of political life.—
Here is Mr. Crittenden returned again, after
many vicissitudes, looking visibly* oldcr ?
and with a scenting scar on the right side of
his face which rnars his phosiognomy, but
who s*enis as alert, as sanguine, as ready
for a parliamentary tilt, as in his vivacious
prime. A.s to John M. Clayton—who lam
confident, was sitting here twenty years ago
I know not bow much longer—he looks
better, heartier, brisker, and positively
youDger to-day than he did when be left the
Senate in 1849 to Gen. Tajlcr's Secretary
of State. His circumference is still gen
erous, but he looks as if there were many
years of life and work in him. I trust there
may be.
John P. Hale's rosy faee lights up the
Senate once more, and his humorous com
ments on whatever is going forward serve
greatly to relieve the solemn dullness which
habitually broods over this haunt of Fogy
;sin. Hale used to threaten to resign when
here before, but he seems now quite re
signed to the despesation which sent hiru
back again. I think his resignation to this
will prevent resignation out ol it. His new
colleague, James Bell, is a pale, slim, elder
ly lawyer, who will command the respect of
tie Senate by probity and industry without
wasting much pf its time in brilliantly use
less speaches.'
I had not thought, a few years since,
ever to see Pitt FtssendeD hero as a Sena
tor from Maine, but the change from the
line of Shepleys, Fairfields and Bradburys
whom he succeeds, is very welcome. Nor
have I yet quite 'got the haDg' of seeing
Henry Wilson, 'the Natick Cobbler,' in the
seat of Daniel Webster. As my eyes rests
on his ronnd, full, earnest face, I am temp
ted to beckon him out and quietly inform
him that the Senate is very particular in
excluding outsiders from its scats: and then
it flashes over me that be is there the accre.
dited representative of Stato street, Har
vard Univerity, and the Daily Advertiser:
so I held my breath and inly wonder what
w ill turn up next. And practically, Mass.
achusetts has not often had a more faithful
or useful Senator than Henry Wilson. Mr.
Sumner has been longer here, and wears
his Sentorial honors as a mater of course—
Shall we not soon see Pennsylvania and
! New Jersey likewise represented in the in"
! tercst of Universal Freedom.
You will have heard bow the majority Of
the Sanate have resolved nor to recognize
the republicans as belonging to a national
party, or entitled to consideration in the
making up of Committees. So Messrs.
Seward, Sumner, Hale, Wade, Fessenden,
and others, will figure at the latter end of
the Committees on revolutionary Pensions,
Enrolled Bills, Ac., while the lead in the
Committees on Finance, Foreign affairs, th e
Judiciary, Ac., will be assigned to states
men of the grasp of mind and fullness of in
formation of Billy Wright,J. W. Jones, and
Wheeler. I state this not byway of com
plaint, but of illustration- Dogberry long
ago enunciated the strong truth "that when
two ride a horse, one must ride behind," and
I cheerfully accept the dispensation. But
how is the majority to navigate, in view of
the reported fact that Messrs. Fish, Pratt
Jones, Benjamin, and perhaps one or two
other old Hue whigs, have thrown down the
weapons of their rebel lion, and applied for
admission, if not fully into the Demoerat-
I ic camp, at least into some limb of neutral
ity, where they may be made welcome to a
share of the good things dispensed from the
majority table? These being stricken off
on the one side, and the Republicans on the
other, there will remain for a regular "Na
tional" opposition only Mr. Crittenden
aforesaid and his colleague, with John Bell
of Tennessee—who first came into Con
gress some thirty yaars ago and who bo
gins to show on his dark, broad anxious
visage the furrows of ago and care—and
James A. Pearce of Maryland, the scholar
and gentlemen for excellence, who never
discredited his place in the Senate by an
angry, rude or impertinent observation, and
wbose sunny countenance bespeaks calm
goodwill and peace wish all mankind.
Rather a select "National"'party this must
be; but you might belong to one far more
numerous yet a good deal less respecti
ve
H. G.
One Week Later from Europe.
Rumors of Russia In Favor or
F*ace.
NEW k ORK, Dec. 13.—The steamer
Baltic, with advices from Liverpool to the
! Ist inst. is below.
I llcr commercial advioes quote Cotton de.
| clined iai, the market closing firm. The
I sales of the week amount to 49,000 bales.
Flour has declined Cd. and Wheat
la2d.
Rumers prevailed that Russia proposes
to make negotiations for peace.
There is no war news. The only features
of importance in the news of the week is a
variety of rumors all stating that there is
at lea> t a prospect of peace.—One rumor
says that Russia had formerly requested
Prussia to make conciliatory offers to the
Western Powers, and Prussia is reported to
have accepted the mission, to which Austria
assents. But the most definite form of the
rumor i 9 that propositions have been sub
mitted to Napoleon on behalf of Russia
which can be honorably accepted, uauielv :
that Russia will conclude peace with the
Western Powers without the intervention
of cither Austria or Prussia, Russia acce
ding to the guaranteed independence of the
Dawubian Principalities, the freedom of the
Black Sea—both parties to continue their
preparations for war, but no active hostili
ties to be entered upon up to an agreed
date.
All this is possibly premature, but hopes
arc strong that pe'ace maw arise.
The excitement in England respectiug the
difficulty with the United States had almost
passed away.
The Danish Conference on the Sound
Dues question mefn the 20th ult. and took
no action.
The KiDg of Prussia, in his speech to the
Chambers announces decidedly the continued
neutrality of Prussia.
Some unimportant changes have occnred
in the English (fcbiuet.
The King of Sardinia arrived at l/ondon
on l riday, where he met wttb an enthusias
tic reception.
General Canrobvrt left Copenhagen for
Paris on the 30th ultimo. His mission is
said to have proved most satisfaotoiy.
Ntw ORLEANS Dec. 13—Dates from
, Vera Cruz to the Bth, and the City of Mexi
co to the sth, have been received by the
steamer Mexico. A conspiracy had been
discovered, tho object of which is to inake
General Uraga "President. Uraga Padre
' Miranda and Col. Opollo had been arrested
and the affair eras ausing|reat excitement.
Col. Kobles has been appointed to succeed
General Almonte.
It waa reported that Comoufort would
retire frooi the ministry.
The church WAS opposed to the existing
government and affairs were in general con
sion.
NEWS FROM KANSAS.
CHICAGO, Dee. 12.—Mr. Parsons, of
Massachusetts, who left Lawrence, Kansas
Territory, on the 3d inst., informs the Chi
cago Tribune that 700 men were under
arms in Lawroncc, and 318 Missourians were
at Waukesa creek seven miles distaut, with
rifles and cannon, Mr. Parsons met a com
pany of Missourians, bearing nrras, just
over the border, on the 4th inst. They had
baggage wagons and stores with them. On
the 6tb, be saw another company with three
pieces of aitillery.
The Teaeher and Parent.
'J'he winter season is rapidly approach
ing, and the people are beginning to look
around for their sehool-teacLera, than the
selection of which there can be nothing of
greater importance; yet in many localities
this important responsibility is unfelt and
unappreciated. When we reflect that the
most tender interests of the child for this
world and for eternity, are to be intrusted
to the teacher, that he is to train up the fee
blest and most helpless of ail creatures into
a godlike sovereign of animated creation;
and that one misstep may forever roin and
blast the immortal soul, it is truly astonish
ing that so great indifference exists in com
munity in regard to this subject. I have
often thought, if angels ever leave their
bright homes in heaven, and hover unseen
around the abodes of men, if ever they feel
an anxious solicitude for the future destiny
and welfare of man, it must be when the
teacher enters the school-room to discharge
his high and holy duties. There he exerts
an influence in the formation of character
which extends, not through time only, but
through eternity. The minds with which
he comes in contact are tender and impress
ible, and he can mold them at his will, eith
er for the glories of heaven or the darknv.s
of perdition.
Parent 9 who are fully conscious of thet r
responsibility iu properly educating and
training up their children, must feel a deep
and lively interest iu securing the labors of
devoted and well qualified teachers. They
can not throw off this responsibility without
a fearful foreboding of the future. Too
many ot our teachers enter the school-room
without that enlightened conscience and no
ble purpose; which are ever demanded.—
They can easily engage in the holy and sa
cred duties of the office, without prepara
tion but it is not so catv to undo the mis
chief which a mistake may produce in the
development of the mind, at that tender age
ia which mistakes are most fatal. Ignor
ance will uot excuse the teacher, for he has
assumed to fill a place where ignorance it
self is a crime; and the responsibility is
still on him! "Just as true as it is a great
thing to guide the mind aright, just as true
as it is a deplorable, nay, fatal thing, to
lead it estrav, so true is it that he who at
tempts the work, whether ignorant or skill
ful, whether tboghtless or serious incurs all
the responsibility of success or failure; a
responsibility he can never shake off. as
long as the human soul is immortal, and
men are accountable for such consequences
of their acts as are capable of being fore
seen." Yet many give not only no atten
tion to any preparati on, but retort to the
business from sordid and selfish motives,
and frequently from a conscious unfitness
for any thing else. It is not so in oth
er professions, and should sot be so in
this.
Let the teacher, then, be impressed with
the overwhelming importance of his posi
tion: let him go to his work with a thor'
ough appreciation of its responsibilities: let
bitu devote every power of bis soul to a
thorough preparation for its duties, and
above all, let him go to it with motives
which are pure and holy before God.
x'arents, would you bave moral,religious,
intelligent, thoroughly-qualified, kind, and
affectionate teachers, to train up your i
cbildron, you must use discretion in making
a selection. And when you have selected
your teacher, do not place him in your
school-house with your children, to work
all alone, but visit hitu, in school and out !
of school; talk with him in reference to the
progress of your children, and of his vari
ous plans for promoting their moral and
intelligent growth: encourage him by your
smiles, your visits, and your counsel, as
well as by your dimes Let him know that
you feel an interest in the prosperity of the
school, and he will labor with renewed en
thusiasm. When you employ one to feed
your pigs or calves, you arc sure to visit
them, and inquire after their welfare, and
why not fed an equal interest in the wel
fare of the immortal souls of your own off
spring? Parents should awake to the res
ponsibility which rests upon tbcni. The
question should not be, what is the lowest
price for which wc can get a teacher? but,
where C3n wc get one who is thoroughly
qualified, intellectually, morally, and phys
ically; one who feels the responsibility of
his office, and who understands the capa
bilities of the human soul? God grant that
the community may be aroused to a sense
of their duty! T. B. R.
December, 1855 .—Christian JdvoCatc.
Recent A J vices from Utah territory stata
that the Great Salt Lake City has been
nearly destroyed by ,an earthquake. Oae
of the mountains bordering the Lake, slid
into it and forced the water therefrom up
to the second stories of the buildings, and
demolished many of them, tearing up itn
provoincats and making dreadful havoc. At
last accounts the water had nearly subsided
and one side the lako for one mile in length
had been filiod up by the sliding monotaiu.
ArolibUhop Ilughes says that he hss a vi
vid conception of the evils of Protestantism
Prentice supposes that's an immaculate
conception.
MARIUBD t
In Schellslurg, on Thursday evening, U, e
13th iust., by John Smith, Esq., Mr. LEVI
W f.ihzl, of St. Clair tp., and Miss Nancy
Hoover, of Morrisons Cove.
Baltimore Dec. 17— Flour.— The
operations on 'Change to-day embrace 1,000
bbls. City Mills Flour at S*S.37i, 300 bbls,
do at $8,50, 500 bbls do. deliverable from
the 10th to the 20th of February at $8,02 i,
500 Ibis. Howard Street, and Ohio do. fur'
immediate deiivery at $8,75, audJl 000
bbls. Ohio do. in settlement of a contract
j also at 98,75. Since 'Change we have heard,
of sales of 220 bbls. Ohio Flonr at $8,75.
Improved Daguerreotypes
ALL who wiib to have a good likeneis of
themselves or of their friends, can now
be accommodated at the ''Exchange Building,"
! immediately above the Store of Mr. A. it
! Cramer, where Daguerreotypes of all sizes are
! done up in the most beautiful style by THO
; MAS R. GETTYS, JR. Taken singly ur in
■ groupes. Persons taken after decease."
j Ladies and Gentlemen are respoctlullv invi
; ted to call and examine the specimens. "
Young lady bring in that venerable father
j and that watchful toother, and secure a likeness
| to-day, for to-morrow, it may be too late
i Sfotherbring on those little ones, with curling
; locks and sparkling eyes, they will makepret
; ty pictures, and thsn should death remove tlitm
; you can exclaim,
! "Gone to their rest, yet we would tot recsit
thein.
Back to this world of sorrow and pain.
Gone to their rest where no 111 can befall then:,-
Y'et we have their likeness both perfect ami
plain."
i Gold lockets, single and double—also fancy
j cases constantly ou hand.
Instructions given in the Art ana apparatus
| furnished on reasonable terms.
| Bedlord, Dec. 21, 1855.
lews for the People.
LATE arrival or *xw Axn chlai> coons r
Resn's Colon n Ate Stokl.
The subscriber has just returned from the
| Eastern Cities, and is uow receiving and opet
| ing a 'urge assortment of splendid Goods, se
lected with care, and suitable to the season;
comprising Ladies' Dress Goods of the newest
styles—Silks, Meriuoes, Cashmeres, Persian
Twill, Alpacas, Delaines, C. Biaze and Wool
Plaids, Inserting. French worked Collars and
under Sleeves, Situ and Gum Bella, Cloths of
all shades, Cassimers. plaiu and fancy Satinetts,
i Jeans, Twetds, Overcoats, Buffalo Overshoes
j for Ladies and Gents. Gum Shoes and SaadeD,
■ Boots and Shoes, a large assortment. Hard
: ware and Queensware.
GROCERIES— Comprising Rie, Java, La
i guira Coffee—Sugars of all descriptions—Sy
rups and Molasses—Rice—Tobacco—Sperm
; Gil, 4c., Ac.
Bring on your Cash and Produce to Rise's
Sroas. wheryou will Hud at! vain wants at
I the lowest cash prices.
Bedford, Dec. 21, 1855.
! TV'ANTED AT REED'S COLONNADE
▼ V STORE,
'tVhiat, RiS, BtTTia,
Oats, Coks, Loot,
and L*jtD,
• In Exchange for Goods.
! Bedford, Dec. 21,185.'..
i _
fpHE Partnership heretofore existing between
| -L thy undersigned, under the uamw and Brir:
1 of W cisel & Poster, in the Coach and Wagon
j Miiflfsctoi'y, v 4( tbii dar disoiyed tty nsutua.
j consent. The business of the late firm will bu
I settled up by U'm. tVeisel, who is authorized to
j collect ull accounts, Ac., and par the debts of
j the 3rm.
WM. WEISEL.
JOHN FOSTER.
Dec. 11, 18 -nfil
Stray Bull.
CAME ;o the premises of the subs, rioer, i.t
ing in St. Clair Township, about the fir.t
of September last, a red and white spotted
Bull, with apiece off the left ear. and notch
out of the uuder side of the right—suppose,i
to be one year old last spring. The owner is
requested to come forward, prove property,
pav charges, and take him Awav.
J. P. BOWERS.
Dec. 21, 1865 -c*
Stray Cattle
rpHREE head of Cattle have been tresspass'
JL ing on my premises tor three months just,
and 1 have now taken them upas strays. One
red Heifer, with a few white spots. One red
Heifer, with white face and white stripe over
the luck. One Steer, brindte, and while spot
ted. All two years old. No ear mark. The
owner is requested to come forward, prove
propertr, pav charges. and taketheiu awav.
DAVID GOUGHKOUK.
Dec. 21, 1855-c' Union Township.
"THE GOOD TIME COMIXG,"
Br T. S. ARTHUR.
Those who wish to hear something of that
long-ex peeled day. should read tiiis book,
j It is having an immense sale; 5000 copies
i having been ordered in advance of publication.
We send a copy by mail, post-paid, on r<-
! ceipt of the priee. f l
J. W. BRADLEY.
48 North Fourth Street.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dec. 21. 1551.-C
N. B. Agents wanted to sell this and other
popular books, in all parts ot the Uoited States.
Send for our Lilt and terms to Agents.
Public Sale.
BY order of the Orphans' Court of Bedford
County, there will b: exposed to Public
■ ; Sale, iu Juniata Township, on AfTt/flWi "is
1 ' 2d day oj FEBRU.IRY, nrzt, 1856, at 10 o'-
j clock, A. 11., the following Real Estate, to wit:
A tract ot land containing 67 acres, and al
lowance, late the property of Joseph .Vodro,
dee'd, adjoiuing lands of Joseph Boyn, Valen
tine B. Wert 7., Jacob llillegass, Jonathan
t FVichtner and others, on the road leading from
; Schellsburg to Buena Vista, and about half a
j mile from the latter place.
, The improvements area good Story and a
, ! half LOG HOI SE, Log Stable, with threshing
! i Boor attached, and other out-buildings, with a
- i good Spring close to the house. About 4'l
C ■ acres of t his land is cleared and under fence. 7
I or 8 acres of which is meadow, and more can he
• made. A running stream passes through this
- farm.
I Tirms made known on day of sale,
i j JOSEPH DULL, Mm'r.
j P. S. For information in regard t6 this farm
! apply to Lewis A. Turner, BuenA Vista, or John
, ! Wyant, living oa the place. Dec. 14,55-e
Turnpike Election.
THE Stockholders in the Somerset and Bed
ford Turnpike Road Company, will take
notice that an Election will be hekl at the house
of Joshua Palmer, in A llegbeny township, <n
the seventh day of January next, to elect one
i j President, a;x Managers and a Treasurer, to
conduct the affairs of the said company the en
suing year.
BENJAMIN' KIMMKL.
President.
Doe. 14,^1855.
Stray Steer.
CAMK to the plantation of the subscriber.
__ living in Union Township, Bedford County ,
sometime in June last, a Red Stukr. supposed
to be about t.vo years oki. with a notch out ot
■ the lower part of the left ear. The owner is
\ requested to come forward, prove property.
' pav charges, and take him away.
! Dec. 14. '55. DANIEL STISE.V A.N