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BEDFORD, Fa.
FiitUty Morninjr. IEC 28. 1535.
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"Fearless and Free."
3AVIP OVER, EDITOR ANP PROPRIETOR
NOTICE.
The first examination and exhibition of,
the Allegheny Male and Female Seminary, j
will be held on the first of January , 1856. !
Examination to commence at 9 o'clock, j
A. M. Exhibition at 6 o'clock, P. M.
JOHN POLLOCK.
KOHBESI OF THE AIiSEXAE.
A. DIUSF. Superinterdaw O< THE
Stale Arsenal *> Harri-burg. ha" been nrre-i- j
an.! is now in the Dauphin County Jail on j
a. charge oi abstracting and trauiluieutly it i--
pof ing of certain arm? belonging to the Com- ;
ITIOI. tvewitii. A. t oUCa.X.H member eleet tot
file Legieluiiire iroro J !n A.lelph.a. ami a: nre
ernt comliicior on the Pennsylvania Kail j
J.'oail. is al>o fi'ongly implicate. 1 , in ihis dirty ■
.rjn .action, H: d ims been bound over to an
swer at tr.e approaching Criminal Court in
?r.irriL'Urg, which takes place in January, .
when ail the lac is connected with DIE o.i*e
will i.e fully developed The arms have been j
re.-ov. red ;u..J wilt be returned to :iie Arse
•.*\ An example will I E SET in this ce.se, j
Wiiiclv, vvethwk. wilt be instrunieiiiHt in put- j
t ng a check to Common wealth stealing. )
which has been earned in an u'arming extent \
-dnring the past fifteen or twe.nty tear" a fact !
ganeialiy admitted, whilst ihe ofienders have 1
t> ape.t punish menu—BEEVO! l> GAZETTK. J
'J ha above article T# iram the lie i.- r.T G.I
JE'TE of last week. This James A. DRANT i. j
A violent Lacofuco, and on that account AMI i
NO other, WAS appointed by Adjutant General J
GEORGE W. Bow man ! to ih.t very O ffic oi .
Supeririieadent of THO State Arsenal ZT Har
r'-burgl A good appointment ! MR. A. Co- j
URNS, is A Locotoeo men. her elect tottie LE j
G.-!a;ar irom Philadelphia. WHY ditl'n: j
brother George state THERE facts in the article j
QUOTED ABOVE? The Gazette eats truly, that i
this "Cornmonwi alth stealing" "HAS bee:. I
CARRIED to- an alarming extent for lite PAST fif- J
teen or TWENTY yenrs." But it forges* to tei! }
FAI its OWN editor has held HIS -BATON a aood |
PART of the TIME, arid mat the COMMONWEALTH
offices ,IAV<3 betn near y all LL.is lime :u .he
i-'.uu* UL DIE Loco.'UTO party. So WE GO'
PARDON OK DR. BE.'.HE
TYE. publish on our first page DIE official
rlocnrneui oi the Governor, STALING HIS REASONS
lor tie pardon of L>r. LLEULE. who WA* found
guilty, a August Sessions, J-AI, I:I Philaocl
pt.-.a, of rape, alledged to HAVE been commit*
WU c;. the pet.-on of 31>.S Mudge. The GA
xetie OF WEETR- tn-RMW.ast. puhhstretl an arfi.
. IE, condemnatory of the Governor, and mis
representing the facts IN tiie CAFE. It v. id be
MEN. on referer.ee to this OFFICIAL LINEAMENT
tharhis PARDON WN* r-commended by a P-eat
rnauyof the most celebrated Physicians and
Denti.-ts ir, Philadelphia, NOW York, ai.d
otter PLACE*, rf every fhade of poiries, on
ae grounds ii-sufiiciet cy of evidence, AND
SHE general belief of his innocence. !: willaiso
BE seen that AMONG sin: run.her who A-K for
hi® pardon are FIVE of the Jurors who tried
tie USE, Chief Justire Elfin Lwi, am!
ASSOCIATES Jeremiah S. B'a' lc and Gecige VV.
Woodward, rF the H.ijirente Court of Periu
/yUaiiia: R.-v. John Chambers, I!E. A be it
Jstaer. A- V. F'ajeorts, Ct.urle® J. Inger-olt,
KUIVARA G U ebb, editor of THE Penosyivaoi
au, and t<y thonsaoda v( OTHERS, including
•omeof tlve most distinguished Judge-. Law
yer#, Doctor®. DIVINES, GOV^R^<-R,, E.v-Gover-
I.ors, SR.TIIIICTS aint L.itere*C\- men r of ALL par
..es, in the nation.
■Yuh this array, plrad.ng for HIS pardon,
how else contd A per*OßQ placed in Governor
Pollork'S situation, an- DEAD THE document
.<I JJDGE tor yourseiv e whether the article
II DIE GAZETTE IS fair AND ho..orai)LE, AID
* .SI ASK YCNRSEL-VES why LIOWNIIA don't puU
t.HE OFFICIAL PAPER, W.'.i. 5 INCLUDES the
i.S-,E , f #O A,any r.F H E FAACEIIJ POTXIEAL
friend T
RNCUCA*- IT itie LA-L URRNAI irom £..RXPE :
so far US UJO OUR is ccric.erncd, IS rju.TE inic
wreun-g Peace rumors continue.
Fur the iate-L news from Washington, WE
•efer the render to the letter of our CORRESPON
DENT in another part f ihi- paper.
TIN PENNSYLVANIA Legii-LA:LIRE meets ON
Tuesday ucx*
L?" T IIRR certifier O ( onr paper comp ete#
>'.) SIIIH YEAR R rc.E ,E BA INREA Jut'er our
CONTROL.
A L-AR'T ) N'S II'NR U> ,N OUR pairoos AR.D
IR^NDS.
RF ri.-'WA® PASSED off pleaearufy, roa
♦.sleriitg LFI rain AND MILD or that ii- v
SgrATTER editor of the Cin
ciauati Gaz.iuo tuakas tfia followiogstaie
nmct on what he considers good aaifior
it Y.
"With respect to thit Coleman, we bare
a woritnsay. A gentleman from Kansas
called RUA yesterday, and told us tbat
hud "jucsped 1 ' the very claim from
wfcich. be HATJ'juf- been driven, having with
bis of bellies driven away two families
wuo bad-settled there, destroying one of
their bouse#, and unroofing tho other. Ho
had made rat ions to build a bouse on
thw same spot,, -oi expected to "keep a
tavern." Qur iufarccujUa-aya tbora aro not
sixteen bcusc# i that neighborhood, and
e ur.ilersraiid him to stij be l.ai recently
piiased through it. If thia statement bo
"rue, ac i wj believe it ie, then the people
cf Kansas Lave yniy lata executing "squat
ter law" upon Co'.caiua No AdaabUtr.a"
and we think Gov. Shannon and President
Pierce will fiad it a very bard thine to
do."
HACNTEH BY AN ASSASSlN.—Accord
ing *o a correspondent of the Lynchburg
(Va.) Republican, a citizen of Smyth coun
?v, George W. Richardson, by name, has
for several years past been put sued by a
malignant and unknown foe, with the view
I apparently of murder, but for what object
'is a complete mystery. He has been as
; soiled with rocks, fired upon, beaten with a
I club, and stabbed during the hours of dark
ness; and yet lie has escaped with his life,
although at times badly injured personally.
Last summer bis barn was set on fire, and
his crops destroyed, probably by the same
mysterious enemy: and recently a package
was sent t® Mr. It., which was found to
contain a large apple; but he forbore to
taste it until he had examined it, and well
for him it was that lie did so-—f*>r the ap
ple was thoroughly poisoned with arse-
During tho last month, while Mr. R. wa?
visiting a relative in Marion, a negro let"
word for him that his aunt WHS lying dr'-n
--gerously ill some three miles distant. lie
immediately repaired to the place, and
found his aunt perfectly well. Concluding
that there was a plan to waylay him on his
return, he determined to remain where he
was. During the night ho lay down to
sleep near a window, but was soon after
wards awakened by the report of a pistol
and a smart sensation of pain in his face and
head. It was soon discovered that he had
been fired upon through a broken glass in
the window, and that the ball bad barely
grazed the skin of bis head, and l-.dged iu
tbo pillow. This last outrage has sc. greatly
aroused the indignation of 'he citizens of
Smyth, that every conceivable effort will
now be made to discover the fjomdish auth
or of those foul designs. Tins is certainly
the most remrrkahie instaDccof persevering
villainy and miraculous preservation trosu
death tbat we over heard of.
A DESFEEATE VILLAIN. —The 3t. Louis
Democrat records toe crsc cf one Wui. F-
Morgan ; n tbat city, a young lawyer, who
was arrested for stealing, and agaiust whom
some of the foulest and meet heinous crimes
known to the law aro made. Among them
that be ferged and procured the record of a
deed for a piece of property Belonging to an
old mulatto woman cf tea: city, and that
sonic time agoh-? empieyed two men to take
the life of this woman, so that there
be no difficulty iu establishing his claim to
her property. The woman states that two
, men did come to her house, one a red and
I tie other a black-haired man, and after trv
| ing to drug her with brandy and wine, hit
| her a terrible blow on the side of
I the bead w'.tb a stone and left her for
! dead.
SINGULAR —Santa Anna .ud the Seven
Millions.—A very singular fact in relation
to the Mexican Legation at Wasbingtou has
be-.-a brought to light here within a f-w
days. It scemc thbat when BtnU Anna
received intelligence that the Mesiiia treaty
had been ratified, and that the seven mil
lions had been piaid to Gen. Almonte, and
by him- deposited in Bauk, he became seri
ously alarmed lest his minister should prove
as big a rascal a? himself, and appropriate
the money to his own purpose. The temp
tation, to Lie corrupt mind, seemed so ir
resistible tbat he forthwith recalled Gen.
Almonte and sent a minister's commission
by tho same mail to Seuor Arangoiz, then
Mexican oonsul-Gcoeral at New York, who
by this means became '.he trustee of the
seven millions deposit. Araugoix availed
of this opportunity to retain a eom
mr-iJoo of one per cent or §70,000 for his
services in band!ing (figuratively) j>o large
an cmunav of speaie, whereupon 3srta Au
ra turned him out and reinstated Almonte.
Singular to ssy, thin transaction never be
came public, DV was it known to the Gov
ernment cf fhe United State# until quite
recently.
Do You EAT I'/DRK?—Physicians have
rest discovered tbax the tape worm enly
troubles those who fit pork. The Gazette
Medicale asserts that tber Hobrcws uro nev
er trsublod with it: the pork butchers are
pa.-iicbts.riy liable to it, ami tbat dogs fed
on pork are uciversally /tr afflicted—in
jfaet, i turns out that a smalfp irasit c worm
■ called CTqsteC-rsiis, (from two words sigoi
fving a small sect and a foil,) winch much
effects pork, no sooner reaches fhtsiomiich
than from tho change of diet and position
it is metamorphesed in the well know tap>e
worm; and the experiments of M. Kuch ta
meister, of Zittoria, npoa a condemn.td
criminal, have established the fact beyoc-1
all contradiction. Pork eaters will pica*
iinako a note. . •
DEATH or ROBERT SCHUYLER.—N. Y.
Covriirdes Etsts Unix, of IVea. 19 puh
]isha# the followiog extract from a Paris let
ter:
"Robert Schuyler died about the middle
of the list month to tho vicinity of Qecoa,
where ho had resided for sotoe time under
the strictest incognito with his family. His
coloeisl frauds have not eurichcd bitot he
received from Auieric* the means of subsis
tence. His place of residence would havo
been known long ago but Cur the interest
which many persons Ojocupiojj very impor
tant positions ia tiw management of several
V J TT.i?sa Rnad.
BEDFORD INQUIRER AND CHRONICLE.
exerted to ktwp it iu the shade. Since lis
absconded his health has steadily declined,
and he dierl litterally oF broken heart. —
Many distinguished financiers of New York
will not b-o sorry to hear of his death, lie
leaves, Imm told, a laree collection of im
portant papers which add—for they will b e
published —a curious chapter to the history
of your New World speculations. His body
lias bean temporarily embalmed, and will
probably be sent to America,"
Car. of Ike Inquirer and Chronicle.
WASHISOTOI:, DEC. '24, 1855.
The vrery tread-mill operation of bal
loting for Speaker has been relieved during
the past week by some rich debates, in
which members took occasion to ventilate
their pol itics and patriotism to their own
infinite satisfaction. A dull member wns
rarely p Drmitted to get far on in his defini
tions wi ;hout being iutenupted by some
awkwar d question, which generally had the
happy effect of drying him up. At times
the v it. and repartee popped over the ileuse
like effervescing ginger Leer in June. A
few of the speeches have been good, but
the majority execrably bad. If any indi
cation of the future cau be had from what
we have seen in the short period since the
meeting of Congress, before an organiza
tion has been effected, the number of
deaths (political) will astonish the sexton.
Several have been unceremoniously carried
from the field during the week, and if eve.*
heard from again it will only bo in the
way of very faint spiritual rappings. They
won't make good ghosts. Greeley, who al
ways looks at things in a philosophical way,
very sensibly suggests iti view of 'the num
ber, and to economize space as much as
possible, that they bt stuck in the Congres
sional burial ground endwise, like driven
piles.
What astraugc j inible of discordant po
litical and social elements does the House
present'. Republicanism, Democracy,
Know Nothing sm, MorntonDm, Passional
Attraction, Filibustering, Fount-risen, and
nearly every otuer "ism" and "r.tiorr" has
its representative on that floor. Any one
but a hopeful .and enthusiastic disciple of
demoeracv would despair of harmony ill
this strange political omnium gatherum.—
The elements are just now so tuixed up that
Shakspeare biuue'f could not ' name the
rran for Speaker. I was in the lobby the
otiier day when GiJdings made one of his
ij harangues against slavery. He bad
considerable difficulty in obtaining the floor-
Again and again be essayed to catch the
eye of the clerk, which eye pertinaceously
refused to be "caught." Determined not
to "give it tip so he planted himself di
rectly in frant of the Clerk's desk, ami
thus gained bis point, 3nd "pitched in."—
He is a man cf targe muscular frame, with
a very slight tmdency to corpulency. His
face i 3 marked with an ugly seam, and it
not at all prcposeasing. His menoer is ex
ceedingly ur.plca.-aat. He Las away of
lashing himself into w rage by Mrisiog bis
legs, which sends his eoat flaps bobbing up
and dowix like a shirt on a clothes line in a
uijrh wind. Hif ordioary tone of voice r-J
--seiobles the grating sound of a sharp set
cross cut saw. When aronsed, ho remiuus
you of vine of SHIRES' four-horse power
threshing machines iu full operation Gid
dings is the enabodiemont of Northern abj
litionsim, and whenever 3 outhero members
wish >o make an emphatic denunciation of
the north, tbey sutn it all up in Giddiogs !
I believe him to be an earnest, sincere man,
and his bold way of sending homo thrusts
at Southern members, and his quickness la
repartee, make him a formidable antagonist
The extreme hatred in which be is held is
the best proof tbat bo is far froa being des
pised.
Tho speech of Giddings brought out a
Virginian, named McMullen, who reminds
mo very much of "Sloggins," with the bro
keDuosc, black eye and bull dog. ITc lur
ously avowed his determination to dissolve
the Union if 'he North would repeal the
Nebraska-Kansas bill, and to haJd on to
tbecaptUi; if the north undertook to take
it, it mu"t bo over Lix dead body I He
was very loud in bis denunciation of the
Republicans. In tho excitement of the
moment, ho no doubt imagined himself n
Virginia overseer flourishing the lash over
a pack of plantation nigi.ers.
Yoa have beard of the chap who went
about making temperance leotifc-es, audi took
' with him his drunken brother to show the
effect of intemperance. Whenever a nor
thern member makea a speech on the evils
of slavery, Mr. McMuliin, or seme other
southern meruber is always ready to affcrl
in his own person, ao iliustratioa of the
text.
Mr. Henry M. Fuller, who hw reemtiy
become a convert to the "popular eaweraign
ty" doetriae of the democracy, aa inis jnst
Vow iii a* tr a ted aad practised with pita and
gmn in Kansas, answered tbo question pro
pounded to biro the other dwy by bis M>a.beo
inetrnotors, witb wonderful aptness. eoo
side.'ing his short norMtUte. H ia a bet
ter Nebraska democrat now tbas Richard
son, aO|i would doubtless rote for that gen
tleman for Speaker, did bo not labor anier
the melancholy delusion that Richardson
and tho (fcar.ocrncy will vote for hm.—
When the question of the admission of Utah
with her present social system was "spear
ed" at hiua, he declined to answer, his tu
tors hiving failed to instruct kirn on that
point. As the question was being asked,
jay attention turned to Mr. Bsrahisci, the
delegate from the polygauius kingdom of
tbe Latter Day Saints, who was regarding
the scene with much interest. He seemed
disappointed when no answer was given to
the question.
Bernbisel is a tall, spare mac, with a few
scattered white hairs on his head, aud is
apparently about sixty years of age. He
dresses in plain black, neatly and genteelly
like a Christian. He is a rathc-r dry look
ing old institution, yet there is a keenness
iu his grey eye, and a sharpness in his elon
gated visage which denote something of the
energy and ability he is said to possess.—
He looks, however, more like a criydy old
misogynist >..iau the lustful possessor of uo
less than eight wives. When the discus
sion of the "putriarchi.il institution" ot
Utah comes up for discussion, Bernhisel
will, no doubt, bo heard iu regard to its
blessings. There was a peculiar twinkle in
the eye of the venerable polygamic, when
Cox, of Kentucky, the other day referred
to Abraham and the patriarchs for authori
ty for the peculiar institution of the South,
which perhaps meant to say that his own in
stitution rested on foundatiins equally
strong.
Utah has a population five times greater
than Kansas and Nebraska together, yet the
latter have already taken initiatory step;-
for admission to the Union. The inhabi
tants of Utah don't seem to be in any hurry;
they intend to apply the new doctrine of
popular sovereignty in their own way, an
stay out. Governor Young is perfectly
satisfied with thing:) as they now stand.—
110 is the temporal and spiritual sovereign
of an independent kingdom—an imperium
in imperio —and has declared his determi-
nation to keep bis place, the United States
to the contrary notwithstanding. 1? seem*
to me that the Kuiigsant Aid Societies, af
ter having settled things in Kansas to their
complete satisfaction, should turn their pi
ous attention to Utah, and ru-h a sufficient
majority into that territory to wrest its lo
cal affairs from the hands of the Mormons.
The oufy difficulty in the way of the plan,
and which has perhaps occursel to the Aid
Societies, is the danger that the emigrant
would, a a fast as sent, beeouie converts to
the beautiful faitii and practise of the Mor
mons.
The election of Banks to the Speaker
sbin is only a question of tine—you may
rest assured of that, it may not be next
week, or the week after, but nobody else
will be Spc niter but N.'B. Banks, Jr., of
M .Sfuchiwetis. The majority of the oppo
sition, catting one hundred and eight votes
for him, have no thought of yielding to the
miserable s-joad which obstinately prevents
an crgaalzsiti' a of the House. Fuller's
force is spent, none of the Pennsylvania
delegation'voting for him but Broom and
Miilward, -whose consistency would be much
better disp tayed by voting for Richardson.
The democracy have thrown down the gaunt
let, and iu their caucus resolution have
frankly declared their willingness to go to
the country on the principle of the Nebras
ka-Kansas bill. Fuller and his friends are
more ultra [ro-slavcry. They arc unwil
ling to allow the North the poor privilege
of making ftn attempt to recover her stolen
rights. HSk recreant abandonment of the
principles which he was elected, and
the motive* which influenced his conduct,
have inspired no other feelings here amoug
all parties "eut intense disgust. The signifi
cant allusion to bis position by Cobb, of
Georgia on Friday lass; bis triumph over
his (Cobb's) friend, Ilondrick B. Wright,
on the Nebraska issue, was far from being
pleasant. KlectcJ as an anti-Nebraska
man, and his antecedents being favorable,
with the exception of his vote for the Fu
gitive Slave Bill, his colleagues voted for
him as long as there was a reasonable chance
of bis aiettioa. But Mr. Fuller was deter
mined no'- to abandon his hot quest of the
Speakership, and reveng d himself on his
colleague* by going ever to the Sooth, and
promising not to "agitate!" You use hard
words ia Pennsylvania about Best and oth
ers who turned up on the wrong side when
wanted, but llcnty H- Fuller has improved
considerably on alio" them. His true po
sition wan kept iu the dark until conceal
ment was no loogar possible. A malicious
I/ocofoco friend, who writes newspaper let
ters, ami makes horr.hly bad puns, insKts
that there is a very ilight change in Fuller's
position after all; from being unti-Nebras
ka, he only turned "Anti-Nebraskal!" Ho
acknowledged the atrocity of the pun,
and proposed an adjournment to the nearest
restaurant.
K.
17""The latest reports seem ta warrant us
in stating that the storm in Kansas has
j blown over that the sawogo nkib, the poHti
oal friends of the "BarmenioM Democracy"
in the States, the toads of Meserc. Pierce.
Douglas, Sriugfllow, etc., though far
outnumbering tb little band of Storpe
* hooters in the drroted town did not feel
themecltee waraotd in making an attack.—
The druc.ken, fieodib mob has it appear# dis
banded and taken thebaek track. Had Mr-
Pierce, instead of Mr. Shannon been there,
he would have nnloubtedly effected the re
duction of the place by some successful
flint.
>toai!.ime we <-#n afford to wait for the
particulars of tliij falling, away of the whis
ky Boanerges of the "Roaring forks of the
1 Big Miisoory."
From the C itamberxburr* Reposotory.
Bi:v. Dft. Xc&iSLT,
Whose death was announced last week,
was licenced to preach the Gospel by the
Presbytery of Carlisle in the fall of 1527.
Immediately afterwards, ho was invited to
take charge of the church in Bedford, Pa ,
over which, after ordination, he wa3 instal
led, pastor, and continued in that capacity
four years, when he was compelled by a
bronchial affection to resign his charge and
de9i*t from the labors of tho ministry for
abcut two years. After regaiuing his
health he became pastor of the second Pres
byterian church iu Carlisle which he served
wiih eminent sac-cess for about five ypars.
About this time, vigorous efforts were made
to arouse the branch of the Church to which
he belonged to the importance of the work
of Foreign Missions, and Mr. McKls'.r was
urged to embark in this work as an agent:
which be did, and served in that capacity
three, years, with an efficiency and success
the result of which are probably felt to this
day in the region in which he labored. In
the fall of 1841 he was chosen pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in this place and labor
ed as such until the close of 18)0. To his
faithfulness and zeal in high calling whilst
amongst us, all hear testimony,and the bles
sing which attended his labors many have
cause to remember with gratitude. After
laboring for a short time in Pittsburg he
was employed by the Board of Domestic
Mission of the Presbyterian Church as an
agent and itinerant missionary, in which
sphere, being suited to his tastes and health,
as he supposed; lie labored with much zeal
and also with much success until lie
was lai! a: ide by the attack of disease which
finally terminated fatally, and which Was
probably in some mesurc induced by Lisover
zeaalous labors. He knew not how to spare
himself, and often labored, as his friends
believed, beyond his strength.
He gave every evidence of a truly good
man, according to the high standard of the
Christian calling. In all places wherever
he was known, among saints and sinners,
there lias been but one opinion as to the
depth and fervor of bis piety which evinced
it-eif in very early youth. He" was kind,
affectionate arid attractive in aspect ar.d ad
dress. fie had large views of the duties of
tho Church, and of society; the first to en.
ricavor by missionary operations to spread
the gospel over the world, and by family
religion to educate devoutly her baptised
youth; the second to purify itself by wholc
nom mid prudent moral reforms. Every
cause which he believed good received from
him a cordial support. As such he will
be remembered by our citizens generally.
But he has res'nd from his labors and his
works do follow Lira.'
"the jnst
K-.'pps something of his glory in his dust." *
Ihe Foreign Parry,
The Ami-American papers are beginning
!o feel very sore at being branded a3 organs
of the foreign party.
Unon '.his subject the Louisville Journal re
marks:
They sty that there is an insignificant
toreig* vote at the South. They don't like
nicknames. They have called the Ameri
can party the "mushroom conspiracy" the
,'dark lantern" party, ana have been very
profuse in the epithet of 'murderers,' 'thugs,'
'churchburners,' 'midnight conspirators,'
and auy thiog else that is rile and criminal
towards the individual in ambers of tb t >
American party. Theyhavo abused Amer
ica and Americans; t&ey have insulted the
native born of the country by pronouncing
them unfit to govern themselves and landed
to the skies the great mass of foreign im
migrants, as.the only people in this country
fit or capable of exercising the rights of
popular sovereignty anu now forsooth they
object to being called the organs of the for
eign party.
There is beyond doubt a foreign party in
America. The Qcnnaos and Irish have or
ganised political astweiat i:>n aa Germans
aDd Irish and not as Americans. They arc
opposed to Americanism. They have found
that they were able to control, by their
mercenary votes, this last President*! elec
tion, and they hope by a concentration of
their strength aided by the Anti-American
native born citizens, to continue to control
all our State and national elections. They
have determined to do so by force of arms
if necessary. Against this combination of
foreigners the American party is Contending.
The Americans are struggling to retain the
birth-right given to tbeui by their fathers;
they are endeavoring to preserve the Ameri
can instiutions which were founded by tho
revolution; they aro seeking to pcrpetwate
the American Union and to defend it against
foes at ho aw and abroad. The constitute a
national, and American party, opposing the
insolent agression of foreigners, aud those
wno oppose them not only deserve, bat are
really aiders and abettors of foreigners, aud
can only be known as tho organs of the for
tign party.
DEATH OF JAMES OGLE—We re
grot to learn that Jaßes OuLE, Esq., ex
pired at the residence of his mother, in
Somerset, on Friday, the ,11th ' inßt. Mr.
OGLE studied law with W. H. Postleth
waite, Esq., and was admitted to the Bar,
bat Dever practised Ids profession. U 0 W as
a son of the Hon. Charles Ogle, deceased
and cousin to Hon. A. J. who died
Ml. tlie jear 18& L
Condition of the Mornpns.
Mr. Gr<*ely, ii tbe midst of hif 'engineer
ing for the speakership, at Washington has
founu time to converse with an intelligent
gentleman who recently made the trip from
the Pacific across the Plain? and who gave
a horrible account of the moral aDd social
condition of the Mormons, with whom he
spent, some months? Ho left them wallow
iug deeper in the slough of filthy sensuality,
with a certainty of going from bad to worse
till their whole fabric of imposture is ex
ploded by the miseries it creates and diffuses.
He says the women are nearly nil anxious to
fly front the horrible den, especially those
who have been "sealed" as the "spiritual
wives" of the scoundrelly hypocrites who pre.
pagate aud uphold this monstrous delnsion
Nearly all the leaders have from three
womeu each up to Hrigham Young's seventy
some of whom make a poor living by wash
ing the clothes of the United State soldiers.
Hondreds of these deceived, abused women
certainly attempt to beg the privilege of
coming nwav with the tioops and trains pas
sing from time to time through or coming
from Salt Lake city, but this cannot be al
lowed. Nearly all would get away if they
could. Such pictures of distress and des
pa r as are presented by many of tLese de
ceived and abused women can be found
nowhere else than in Utah. Hundreds of
of thetu never heard nor dreamed of the
"spiritual wife" system until it burst upon
their amated vision on their arrival at Salt
Lake. And such a mixture of profanity
and bl tasphetuy, nonsense, impudent as
sumption and buffoonery a? is contained in
their sermons and other religious exercises
cannot be paralleled in the world. A 'Gen
tile'of any account is carefully watched ftoin
the hour he ventures among them, aud there
is little scruple as to the means whereby a
troublesome intruder is disposed of. — Ball.
.Qui *r.
ProcJamUiou by ibe President.
Whereas information has been received
by me that sundry persons, citizens of the
Uuited Sates and others residents tlirein
are -ire preparing within the jurisdiction of
the same to enlist, or enter themselves, or
| to hire or retain others to participate, in
. military operations within the State of Ni c _
aragua:
Now therefore, I, Franklin Fierce, Presi
dent of the United Suites Uo warn all per
sons against coaaeating themselves with
any such enterprise or undertaking, as besug
.contrary to their duty as good citizens end
Io the laws of their eount/y, aoi threat
ening to the peace of the United States,
j Ido further adutouisu all persons who
may depart from the United States, either
i singly or in numbers, organized or unorga
j uized, for any such purpose that they will
thereby cease to he eutitied to the protec
tion of this Government.
I exhort all good ciiis-'ns to discounten
ance and prevent any such disreputable and
criminal undertaking as aforesaid, charging
ail officers, civil and military, having lawful
power in the premises, to xeercise the same
or the purpose of ouititaing the authority,
fand euforcing the laws of the United State,?
In testimony whereof, I have bereuuto
set my baud and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed to these pres
ents.
Done at the city of Washington, the
eight day of December, one thousand
[L. e.J eight hundred and fifty-five, and of
the Independence of the United States
the eightieth.
FRANKLIN FIERCE.
By tit President:
\V. L. M Alter, Secretary of State.
Gen. (ass no Candidate.
Gen. CASS authorizes the Washington
Union to say, that in the caucus of Demo
cratic Senators, ou Wednesduy list, he de
clared that he was not & candidate for the
Presidency, atid that he was unwilling for
his name to he presented as such to the
Democratic National Couventioa.
The Detroit Free Press publishes the
follow ing note from Gen. CASI?:—
DETROIT, NOV. 24, 1855.
Gentlemen: —l have received your letter,
asking me if 1 am a candidute f.r the office
of President of the United States, and ex
pressing the gratification it would givo you
to support tue for that high station.
While thanking you for this manifestation
of your kindness and confidence of which
I shall always preserve a grateful recollec
tion, 1 reply that I aui not a candidate for
the presidency, nor do 1 desire that my
name should bo presented in connection
with it to the consideration of the Demo
cratic party of the United States.
I am, gentlemen, with great regard 'ruly
yours,
LEWIS CASA. ■
Andrew J. Webster, Esq., and others
Philadelphia.
Ak AQUUCAN VIOLISST .BXTfIAORIU
NAnT--—We. have received a
genuineness of which ws csnrro(. vauob
from Mr. Benjamin Adams 6f'West Wil
lington. Conn., who represents himself as a
self-taught genius on ibe violin, and needs
some aid or partuership of some kind in
concert-giving ' He wishes to prove several
marvelous things, aui we givo his desirca in
bis own language:
•I wish,to prove wo h vo a Yaukecborn
citijon who is superior on the violin to any
that bavQ crme on the stage,. I can do it.'
I can play four parts at one time on the I
violin- I can ply whole pieces of music
on tbe siridg, with one finger only, and with
rapidness, and many curious execatfan* f
can preform: also my music will be whoilv
original, and beholden to no foreign cita
positor. I commenced playing at sever)
years of age, hive practiced for twenty-nine
years, irore or less; never went to a uiusic
scbool iu my life, and aui therefore self
taught—a regular Yankee genius in music
as some would term it. I could give you
quite a history of my life and manner of
playing, together with the success in gain
ing the point of playing tbe instrument, as
I consider to the nicety of if. I can pin
it with n>y arms laced with a cord to my
body, as well as to have them at liberty."—
,VYw York Tribune.
AIKXICO
J If we were asked, what country pfe'rndNy
| to be virilized, was the mo*! unhappy i i -,u
j civil, aoci a), at.it Kovpfßraentnl 'etatjoii*. vr (
shoo Id ilpelim* 'hat we teiieved it lo be Me*-'
ten. in addition to the contest end Mow,
between contending faction* hi the attemptc...
government, church and Bta;c j>re now a?
war. An attempt has been made by i:e i.t.v
regime to di**ever the church from die State.
{ and lo lLi*euU it promulgated a decree de
priving ecclesiastical judge* of jur if diet ion
it civil cafe*, and requiring them to hand
over ail the evidence* in various cares to the
civil autl.orit.e*, and thenceforth to i.uier.o
lejal connection with '.lie fame.
The coiifequeiice i* as it always hz? bee-,
when a corrupt church ba* been called trio.i
t o g.vr up power that it ran in tight lay no
claim to, to wit. the principal Bi.-hop ha*
headed a powerful opposition, declared he
would rot comply with the command of :;•
government, but would appeal lo the Tope.—
Of course, he. the Bishop of Mevico. re
clare* that no authority but that oi the i erH
could -cl-jse him !;oi;. the oath he had laker.
maintain the<e privilege* Am! .hi* piri*.
diction oi the church. Th;e a* -a subject o!
dt-cu-f :o;i tip to tiirt da:e of the U:e.l tulei
-1 igence
j Do Romish Biehr.p* take ruch oaths el?, 1 ,
where?—Pit rstueo JoCaXAL
MAH RUBD: ~~
Near Scbelisbarg on Wednesday evening
the 19th inst., by John Smith Ksq. Mr
J erwiah FRY of Somerset County to Miss
NANCY SttAF£Rof Nap>srTowtmhip,
On Sabbath evening Deer., 23d by Jsujc*
Allison Esq., Mr. Jno. SHOEMAKER of Sith
Wood berry tp. aud Miss CAROLINE Boedeu
of Napier tp.
Alienlion Riflemen !
W YOU are hereby notified to appear i r
I parade ui winter imitonn w ,lh p. rr.; ~.n,
and twelve rnm d- t.t catlrtifeje. on TUESDAY'
Jte K:h .lay ot Jawry. U56. A. Unit turn
out i* itefired
Uv or ler of the CapNi",
VM .'KKEFFE. 0. a
Too ?<?. 1035
Improved Daguerreotypes.
I \ Tl> vLo wi&b to have a good likeness of
1 - V. themselves or of their friends, can now
be accommodated at thcTxclwuge Building.''
immediately above the Store <-f Mr.
Cramer, vvLvrc Daguerreotype*of all siiv-a are
done up in the most beantuul ml* by TitC
; MAS It. GET'fY.s, JR. Taken sisgiy „r"t,
gruupes. Person* taken after cicccase-
LaJivs and Gentlemen are re-pcctta'ly lev.
ted to call and examine the specimen*. "
Yottng lady brine in that vencr ibk father
and that watchful mother, and secure a likeness
to-day, for to morrow. : t may be too late.—
Mother bring on these little one*, w.th curing
locks and sparkling eyes, they wiTi mike pn ;
pictures, and then should death remove ihun
you can exclaim,
"Gone to their rest, yet we wee'd not recall
them,
Btck tot hi* world of sorrow an 1 pain.
Gone to t'>eir rest where no ill cs&bctali them.
Yet we have their likeness both perfect and
plain."
Gold lockets, single snd doubk— s'.ao fancy
cases constantly on hand.
Instructions given in the Art and apparatus
furnished on reason a hie terms.
Bedford, Dec. 21, 1855.
NWS POII TUB flOflT
LATE ap-ritai, or xrw axp CHEAP doom ax
Rei r>'s Colovxadc STOKE.
The subscriber baa jnst returned from tbe
Eastern Cities, and is now receiving and open
iug a large assortment of splendid Goods, se
lected with care, and suitable to the season;
comprising LADIES* DRESS GOODS of the newest
styles— Silks, Merinoes. Cashmeres, Persian
Twill, Alpacas, Delaines, C. Biar.e and Wool
Plaids, Inserting. French worked Cottars and
under Sleeves, Silx and Gum belts, Cloths of
al! shades, Cassimers, plain and foncy .Satinet:?,
Jean, Tweeds, Overcoats, Buffalo Overshoes
for Ladies and Gonts. Gun Shoes and Sasdei*.
Boots and Shoes, & large assortment. Hard
ware and Queenswsre.
GROCERIES— Comprising Kio, Java, La
guira Coffee—Sugars of all descriptions—Sy
rups and Molasses—Rico—Tobacco—Bpcria
Gil. &e., ka.
Bring on your Oa*h and Produce to Repp's
STORE, where you will find all your wsnt*. at
tbe lowest cash prices.
Bedford, Dec. 21, 1555.
Straj Sleer.
' YIAXE to the plantation of tire subscriber.
VV living in Union Township, Bedford County,
sometime in June last, a RED STEER, supposed
to be about two year* old. with a notch out of
the lower part of the .left ear. The owner l*-
reqnested to come forwiri, prove property,
pay charges, and tike him away.
Dec. 14, "f>s. DANIEL BTINEMAN.
Turnpike Kleeliou.
THE S'ockholders in the Somerset and Bed
ford Turnpike Road Company, wilt lak*
notice that an Elect! >n will b held at I he hotis >
1 of Jdkhu* Pilnii r. to AlVegbeiiy township, on
| the seventh 4v of J inu iry next, io eio.it oa>
I'resii-mt, six M mi; -rs and a Treu ifsr, ts
condunt thu aCiiw of thnand cvnptoy ti* aa
•ulng year.
BENJAMIN KIMMEU ... -
I * President.
DM-14, 6oi.
'|rilE GOOIO TXMB GOXI9. n
. BE T. S. ASTHFX, , .
TjSo* who wish tvwr anmothlag
huig-cßped od dry, shewid rood this Nook
t It is hiving aa iiumoasc ealot 50W> caphw
having her:r osdarcd in aiv inoo of pabhcslf-m
We >d x ccpy by tuai>, poit-paid, on re
ceipt of the price, f l
J. W. BRADLET,
48 North fourth Str#et.
PTuladulphia, T-
Dec. n, 1851.-C
S.B. rVgents wantC't to this and dthtr
popular hooks, ia all pu tsoi the Ui'lteJ b: ,:<iA
for our List aud terms !o Agutx.