LIIMRII! m HIROMfLE.
~ BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday StvmfNf, May it.
"Fearless and Free."
DAVID OVER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
FOR PRESIDENT:
MILLIRD FILLMORE,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
A\I)UEW JIfKSON DOXELSRN
OF TENNESSEE.
fcMOX TICKET.
Canal Commissioner.
THOMAS E. COCIIRAN,
Of York County.
Auditor General
DARWIN I'HKLPS,
Of Armstrong County.
Surveyor General • j
BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE,
Of Bradford County.
MRIUN 31EETIXG.
There will lie a meeting of the Ameri
can party of Bedford County, on Tuesday
evening of next Court, (May 6th,) for the
purpose of consulting together, and making
arrangements fer the coming campaign.—
Speakers will be present to address the
meeting.
Locofoci'ism is defunct in Bedford coun
ty, and since their inglorious defeat last
tall, and at the Spring elections, the foreign
party die harj. Their day is gone by, so
far as good old Bedford County is concern
ed, and it only behooves us to make one
more glorious effort, and Foreign Catholo
eism will be o prostrated here, that tlict
wili never hereafter be able to make a seri
ous effort. Americans ! arouse 1 buckle on
your armor 1 and once more march onto
battle and to victory I The cause is a glo
rious one, and those only who love their
country, her free institutions, and liberty—
can engage in it. The elections in the dif
ferent .States that have come off this
Spring, have all resulted gloriously for
the American party. The foreign party
bus met with total rout. Americans of
Bedford County ! open the campaign deter
minedly, and join with your sister Counties
and States iu the good cause ! Let ihete
be a good turn-out at the meeting 1 Cone
one, come all!
••Forever float that standard sheet,
Where breathes the toe but fall* before us, I
With Freedom's soil beneath our teet.
And Freedom's banner waving o'er us."
April 2f>, 1556.
Lost Children!
On yesterday (Thursday) week,two small
beys, children of a Mr. (.'ox, a very worthy
man, one five and the other seven years old,
living at the foot, of the Allegheny Moun
tain, in I'nion Township, in this County,
strayed away from their houie, and have
not vet been discovered. They left in the !
morning, and their absence was not noticed j
for a couple of hours after. The father j
started after them hut could not .see or hear
anything of them. This is a very wild sec
tion of country, and in pla.-es almost im
passable from thickets of trees and bush
es. Nearly every day since there have
been from 300 to 1000 persons, men wom
eu and children, fioiu that portion of Bed
ford and Cambria counties, oa the bunt.—
They have a surveyor along, at.d hunt in
circles. They have examined the country
for many miles. On lu-.t Monday about ten
miles from the patents, in the wilderness
children*' tracks were discovered, but they
conld not he followed but a short distance.
The children may yet be alive, as there are
a great many chestnuts and beechnuts front
last year on the mountain. The most cause
of fear is from wild beasts, as there are
wolves and wildcats in that region, and at
this time of year are said to ho quite fero
cious. The people are quite excited, ami
determined not to give up the bunt until
they are found, dead or alive. Some of
the citizens of this place are talking ef
joiniug in the hunt, and we nope a large
party may start out. as the people there are
almost exhausted. This is truly a heart
rending occurrence.
The following letter from Mr. WILLIAM
GRIFFITH, a kind ami bone r olcut gentle
man 0? Union Township, was addressed to
Mr. F nr.D. BEECLK of St. (Jlairsville, on
last Saturday :
Ma. BEEOLE: —Please urge up-m ail who cau
to join in the search fr the lost childreu, at
the bead of George's Creek. It is now pretty
crrtaio they are on the mountain bevona King's
Cabin, ani unless greater numbers engage, it
may take t.ll next week to And them, "T trust
it is not to be supposed that there is so little
humanity in the people of our country as to
suffer those children vo linger out a nine days
de.th by starvation.
Arouse tue community to search day and
night till tiicv are found.
Yours, VTH. GRIFFITH.
Since the above was in type we received
the following letter from Mr. GRiEFim, by
the Wednesday evening's mail :
LOST CHILDREN—NOT FOUND YET.
The two_sons of Mr. Samuel Cox, one C>\'
the other 7 J-ou-s old, who ware lost in the
woods tn our Ui'ighh jr.oool on Thursday ma ru
ing last, are not faun i yet. Business is en
tirely suspanded. ail all tha community en
jj-tged in the search. The assistance of our
Iraenisat u distance is'-caru jslly saUcitc 1 to
ruitiatn the search.
Mr. Cvps will pleas; publish the above, and
oWive. WV. GRIFFITH.
L'. T -wp . April 31:11. 18 S,
We showed the letter to a number of our
citizens, and the conclusion vas come to to
call a town meeting that evening. About Bjt
I o'clock the Court House boll was rung', and
j immediately a vary largo and respectable
j number of our sympathising citizens con
i vened in the Grand dury room. lion.
ALF.X. KING, on motion, wa? called to the
Chair, and Capt. A. J. BANSOM, appointed
Secretary. The object of the meeting be
ing stated, quite a number volunteered to
go on the search, and funds were immedi
ately raised to defray any expenses. Early
i yesterday morning, notwithstanding a very
| cold rain, about 2d persons left this place
| for the neighborhood of the unfortunate oe
| eurrence,'souie 20 miles distance. A good
I many more, we have no doubt, from the
| feel ing on the subject, will Have to-day,
and were not next week Court, probably 100
frcni Bedford would be there. Those who
have left will be out for several days unless
the children bo found in the meantime.—
The citizens 'in other portions of this and
Cambria and Blair counties are earnestly
requested to join in the search.
LAT ER.
Just ss we were ready for press, yester
day near noon, a rumor, which we hope may
prove true, from Scuellsburg, states that a
man from Johnstown, traveling over the old
Lambert road, very seldom traveled, dis
covered the children on Wednesday even
ing, in the road, about fifteen miles from
their fathers. Thcoldest a few steps ahead
of the other, and telling it as it was Cfvhlg .
that they would soon be gome. The gen
tleman took the children to Gen, Burns',
about three miles above Sebellsburg. The
General sent them to their pareuts the same
evening.
A good many more of our ehizens, were
ready to start when this tumor arrived.
I'. S. The last rumor is believed untrue.
PROGRESS A SI7~A NTI-PIIOGRESB.
The Unisers , the leading Roman Catho
lij journal of France, and indeed, of Eu
rope, lays down, on the 3d of April, the
following axioms:
"Railroads are not a progress;
"Telegraphs are an analagous invention;
' The freedom of industry is not pro
cress;
"The invention of gunpowder is not a j
progress;
"Machines derange all agricultural la
bor:
"Industrial discoveries are a sign of
abasement and not of grandeur."
\\ e like these broad statements. There
can surely be no mistake JM to their intent,
no overclouding and mystifying meanings
in such sharp, curt axioms. Now the peo
ple knew what is orthodox doctrine as re
gards human improvement. It is the mid
dle age versus the present, uud they can
choose betweeu the philosophy and achieve
ment of these two eras.
Wc have cut the above from the New
York Tribune, a most bitter ami-American
paper, but one which does not pander to
Catholoeism, but publishes facts as they
are. We wage 110 war upon the institution
except us a political oue; and yet that
church as an engine of civilization at.d en
lightened progre>s, boldly advocates doc
trines at total variance with reason and
wi:h the spirit of the age.
In religion one of its cardinal doctrines
is that "ignorance is the mother of d-vo
tion,' and in the above list of monstrous
heresies and folly, it is shamelessly an
nounced by the highest authority, that
"machines derange all agricultural labor,"
and "industiial discoveries are a sigu ef
abasement."
Reasoning upon the above premises,
Mexico is superior to America both in
Cbureb and >tate. Its Christianity is more
to ire desired, because they have made no
"industrial discoveries," and have con
structed no railroads or telegraphs. The
ignorant boor in Mexico and Italy does his
transportation ou foot, with his burden up
on his back; and the still ignorant tiller of
the soil scratches its surface with a crooked
stick for a plow, with his wife hitched to
■ one cud of too yoke and his cow to the
! other. And this condition of things is held
| up to us in the middle of the nineteenth
century, as the most desirable state of ag
i rieulture and the arts. This may all do
! well enough in Roman Catholic countries,
where these things are always found, but
j may the Lord deliver protest mt America
I from such principles and from such pro
gress.
\\ e would call attention to the notice of
the Hopewell aud Bioouy llun Plank and
Turnpike Koad Company, calling in two
instalments on the stock subscribed. The
Directors met at B'oody ltun last week,
and put he whole road under contract.—
The biddings were spirited and numerous,
and th'* interest manifested by tue crowd of
persons in attendance, clearly indicated the
favor with which the enterprise Is regarded
by the public. It is, we learn, the inten
tion of the Company to push the road on to
completion the present season; they are
commencing and wilt prosecute it with all
tbc energy they ean bring to bear upon it;
its great importance to this whole region of
country is manifest, and is now acknow
ledged ou ail hands, and we hope, there
fore, that the call made by the company
will be promptly responded to by the stock
holders, and that the means be placed in
their bauds to carry on ttie work with vigor.
1 he Rev. Mr. SAXPII;, the uew Presby
terian Minister, has arrived in Radford,
and services tuay hereafter be regularly ex
pected in that church. He is said to be an
excellent preacher by those who have heard
him.
COI : RT WEEK.
Next week being Court, we hope to see
many of our fiionds, from the country, and
we would be pleased to enter a large num
ber of Americans on our subscription book.
As the next is the most important election
: we will have for years, aud the campaign
; will be quite an exciting one, now, at its
commencement, will be a favorable time to
subscribe for our paper. Americans circu
late the documents.
Our reader? in this place are aware of
I the loss our colored population met with on
; the 25th nit., in the destruction of the floor,
| altar and benches of Mount Zion Church
:by fire. It is supposed the tire originated
j f rom the lamps—one of them probably not
; being pot out. They wish to repair the
| loss, and it is supposed it will require from
§75.00 to §IOO.OO for that purpose. We
trust our citizens will cheerfully subscribe
the amount.
THE QITARTKKLY MEET-NO which was
to commence on Saturday next, in the
Methodist Church, has been postponed on
account of the illness of the Rev. Mr. GIB
SON".
Mr. JOB I-AN, with bis family, returned
home from Ilarrisburg, on Friday evening
last.
(Clippings.
The amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania passed both houses.
The wheat crop of Virginia is said to look
very thrifty.
California Gold-dust sells in Philadel
phia at §loal7 25 per ounce.
They are enjoying ripe strawberries at
Savannah.
The estimated receipts of the New York
Central railroad for the year 1856 are eight
million dollars.
Nine hundred Mormons have sailed from
Liverpool on one vessel, for this coun
try.
The Municipal Telegraph, for fire alarm
and police purposes, ir in full operation in
Philadelphia.
The celebrated mare, "Fashion:" died
near Lexington, Kentucky, a few days
since.
Th - Treaty of Peace was signed on Sun
day. The pen used, the quill of an eagle,
has been presented to the Empress Ku
ginie.
I and warrants are quoted iu New York !
at $-1,10*1,12 for 160 acre?, ?1,06a1,07 j
for 120, $ 1,16a 1,20 fur forty acre war- j
rants.
A New York Burglar got stuck fas? in
a chimney-flue the other night, aud yelled
murder when a fire was placed below him
next morning.
A man in Arkansas has sent Prentice,
of the Louisville Journal , a live eagle, to
he kept caged until Fillmore is elected
President, and then set at liberty.
The lowa City Gazette says the arrival of
migrants to that State, in that city alone
are from two hundred and fifty to three
hundred persons'each day.
1 wo cf the Kansas Congressional Com
mittee were at Leavenworth on the 14th, i
awaiting the arrival of Mr. Oliver, the \
third.
James Woods, a deaf mute, was killed
by a locomotive, last Saturday, while walk
ing on the Cumberland Valley Railroad,
near Carlilse, Pa.
Mr. Buchanan, our late Minister to En- i
gland, arrived last week in the Arago. He 1
was received with enthusiasm by his politi- !
cai friends aud others, in New York aud I
Philadelphia.
The Erie Railroad Bill passed finally on \
Monday, the House receding from all a- j
mendmcnts non-concurred in by the Senate
by a vote of forty-eight to thirty-nine. The
Governor approved it next day.
S. 11. Jerome, the cbok man, writes the
Tt'.bunco. letter from London, in which he
denies the major part of Barnum's state
ment. in regard to the affairs of the Jerome j
Company.
The ruins of the Temple or Diana which
were known to have existed at Marseilles,
have just been di covered by the workmen
employed in digging the proposed new Ca
thedral.
HON. HENRY D. MOORE, formerly mem
ber of Congress, bas been nominated as the
American candidate {,>r Mayor of Philadel
phia, vice James <\ Hand, Esq., de
clined.
As a sample of the value of real ctstate 1
in Cincinnati, the Commercial mentions a
reccut sale of thirty-nine feet on the west
side of Sycamore street, suuth of Second.'
and running back 95 feet to an alley, at
% 19,000 cash —over $-187 per foot front. j
The State Fair this Full will be held in
Pittsburg, if the citizens continue to sub
scribe as liberally as they have thus far.—
But two hundred of the two thousand dol
lars required for the purpose remains to be
subscribed.
A Hint to the Ladies. Recently one of
| the most renowned French pulpit orators
the Abbe de Dcgnerry, observed in a Jer
luoo, "Women, ow-a-days, forget iu the
| astonishing amplitude of their dresses that
| the gates of Heaven are very narruw.
Mr. Buchanan was a Federal member of
j the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1814 end
BEDFORD INQUIRER AND CHRONICLE.
IS 15—having defeated Judge Rogers, of
tlie Supreme Court, for that office. He was
a congressman of the same party from 1820
till 1828, when he became a "Jackson
man," and then joined the Democrats.
j Within five miles of Alliance the damage
i done by the recent tornado amounted to
| nearly a hundred thousand dollars. Among
other losses wo see no ted is that of a grove
of timber, seventy-five seres, owned by
Iskac N. IV ebb, and worth five hundred
'
dollars.
MKS. lUtAPFOan, of Canton, Mass., has
recovered $325 damages for false impris
onment, from a dry goods dealer in Boston
named Hunt, who forcibly detained her
baif an hour in his store, to compel her to
purchase goods at a higher price than she
was willing to pay for them.
PAIiTIZAN LEGISLATION.
Partisan legislation has become the bane
of our State. We owe to this debased and
debasing motive many of the sad blots
which mar our statutes, and so far from di
minishing under the pointed teachings of
experience, it seems to be annually growing
upon us ; especially when the party now
dominant controls our legislation. It is
tbo great enemy of wise aud just enact
ments. It Strikes at the very highest and
noblest prerogatives of the representative?
and makes him the slave of pas-don, of pre
judice and of fanaticism, instead of the high
toned, liberal and patriotic. The history
of all parties will fully justify the assertion
that any legislator who sinks all else in the
mere partizan. is not only a faithless but a j
dangerous, man in so responsible a position,
and is a recklessness of sacred trust j
for which there can be no rational justifica
tion.
While no party can claim entire exemp
tion trout the curse of partizan legislation,
the blurred and bloted history of the pre
sent dominant party in our Legislature fully
warrants tue assertion, that it is, aud ever
has been, pre-euiincntly the guilty party, j
Even grave State questions, involving the j
political, moral and social well-being of the
people,have to bo measured, judged and acted
upon mainly with reference to their popula r
effect, or to the influence they will have
upon the success of the party. Such has
been the fate of the license question iu
this State. It has not been acted upon as
a great moral reform, demanding the sober
reflection and conscientious judgment of j
the legislator; but simply as a question of
votes. However it may be discussed in the
bails ot the Legislature, yet the question
of party iueecss overrides all sense of pub
lic duty, and inevitably shapes final action.
Does any sane mau believe that the present
intensely Democratic House desired the un
conditional repeal of the restrcctive law of I
last session ? Unsuspecting as some of the
members may be, none were so jolly green
as to sweep from the statute book the act of
last year, without substituting a judicious
license law. And yet the records show
that the llou-e voted for unconditional re
peal by nearly a strict party vote, aud sub
sequently gave quite as strong a vote —
nearly two thirds—in favor of the most
stringent license law that Las ever teeu
adopted in Pennsylvania. Did the House
thus suddenly and radically change on so
vital a question? No one thinks so—noue
of ordinary intelligence could believe so.—
The free whiskey influence which had been
thrown on the side of that party, through
the agency of the Liquor League, had to be
respected aud appeased. ludeeJ, a consid
erable number of the members of the House
were secretly, and suiue publicly, sworn to
the unconditional repeal of the law of last
session, and they had first to discharge their
solemn obligations—taken for the sake of
po'iacal success—aud then they could bring
an unbiased jadgment to the settlement of
the question in accordance with the mani
fest necessities of the times.
Perhaps the most humiliating instance of
partizan legislation we have witnessed re
cently, occurred iu the Senate a few days
ago, on a bill to change the venue in certain
actions for slander brought by VICTOR E.
PIOLKTT, of Bradford county. With this
gentlemen most of our readers are familiar
by reputation. He is the same man who
couldn't be bribed, some years since, when
in the House, and the same who was reject
ed by a Democratic U. S. Senate, when np- j
pointed by President POT.K to an important
commission in the Mexican War. Having
remained in retirement for eight years to
recover public confidence, he re-appeared
upon the political 6tage as one of the Dem
ocratic nominees for Assembly in Bradford
county. Strange to say, the people recog
nized him as an old political acquaintance ;
his public acts wore freely canvassed by
the people, and he was defeated by an over
whelming vote. Smartiug under withering
popular rebuke, he instituted suits against
ecvtral persons for slander, and fearing to
have the cases tried in his own county by a
jury ofiiisown neighbors and acquaintances,
he applied lo the Legislature to have the
venue changed to (looroe county. Monroe
it mast be remembered, is the strongest
Democratic stronghold in Pennsylvania, and
though quite distant and peculiarly difficult
of recess for witnesses and parties, it was
the only place where Mr. PIOLKTT was
willing to try his political suits. We cer
tainly hoped that in the Pennsylvania Sen.
ate, containing such men as WILKINS, BECK,
I ALE'V and BROWNS —honest lU.eu and good
[ lawyers—such a bill couli. pot meet with
f encouragement at all, but partixan instead
of public legislation was demanded, and
a strict party vote forced the bill to third
reading, we believe, where it now rests.—
That it is purely a political measure, is de
manded solely on political grounds, and de
signed to enable a damaged politician to
visit vengeance upon an honest people, who
despised his trickery aud repudiated the
mau, no rational person can deny; but still
it is forced through the highest legislative
tribunal of the State by the omnipotent pow
er of party drill.
Another specimen of contemptible parti
zan legislation is the effort of the present
Legislature to abolish the office of Tonnago
Agent on the central uud other Railroads.
The State receives a per centage or. certain
articles transported over those roads, and
the charters of those companies provide that.
Agents shall be appointed who shall have
access to the books of the companies and
make regular settlements. During Gov.
BIOLF.IL s Administration those Agents
were promptly paid and no one thought of
abolishing the office: but when Gov. POL
LOCK appointed Lis friends—though he al
lowed Lis opponents to remain in for ninths
after Lis inauguration—the present Demo
cratic House suddenly discovers that the
office is useless. Accordingly, they first
refuse to appropriate money to pay the
Agents for the time they have been iu office,
and when shamed out of that, a bill is pro
posed and passed in the Senate to abolish the
office altogether. It should be remembered,
too, thai the same appropriation bill which
origiually lefused to pay the Administration
Tonnage Agents, increased the salaries op
the Democratic Supreme Judges retained
the odious 3500 compensation for members
of the Legislature, and scattered money
with a lavish hand upon Democratic favor
ites generally. Such is Democratic con
sistency, and such is the demoralizing ten
dency of partisan legislation.— Hunisburg
Telegraph.
NPEUIEiI PIAtToTtIIE LIGEiI
LEER BILL.
Our readers are very generally informed
we presume, as to the course of the "Demo
cracy" in the Senate of the State, on the
Lager Beer Bill, which was passed through
the House by a majority of one, but they
may not be so well booked up iu regard to j
the course pursued by the party, which last j
fall courted so strenuously the vote of the !
Liquor League, to which it was indebted |
for its power in the Legislature. The foi- j
lowing sketeh of the debate in the Senate j
on the "Lager Bill," will show the position I
of the so-called Democratic members after 1
they had obtained their places in the well |
cushioned chairs of the Senate.
The bill was reported by the Senate com- j
mittee, with a negative recommendation, but I
was afterwards called up for the actiou of |
the body, when Mr. Brown, a Democratic j
Senator from this ciiy, said :
''lt had been reported that a desire was
manifested, in a certain quaiter, to smother
this bill—not to let it see the light. Now,
so far as he was concerned, he had enter
tained no such iueliuation. On the con
trary, be desired to have a vote upon it."
Mr. Piatt the Speakes, also a Democrat i
from the Wyoming district , took the floor, j
and indulged in the following very piaiu i
talk :
I suppose, Mr. Chairman, that when we
passed the bill to which this is a suppliment t
am] that, too, by an aimost unanimous vote,
there would bn an end of the irritating aud
exciting subject of it, at least for the present
session, But it seems uot. For the last
three years, the question of the sale intox
icating Liquors has beeu agitated all over
State—frouioue end of this Commonwealth
to the other, aud now, at this late period of
the session—when we arc on the eve of final '■
adjournment, this bill has been pressed npou i
our attention, on the plea that it is absotu- !
telv necessary these counties should be re- j
lieved from the operation of the bill passed
by us a few days since.
Hir, it is argued outside that it is imperi
ously necessary that some relief should be
afforded to some sections of this Common
monwerlth. Aud—for what? It has been
asserted that unless this measure shall be
carried certain {senators who voted for the
bill shall be read out of tho Democratic
part}-. Sir, it has been asserted—l repeat |
—that certain Senators are to be proscribed |
that, upon this issue thev are to be read out
of the Democratic party, because they have
thought proper to exercise their judgment
and act in conformity to their conscientious
convictions of right!
Mr. Welsh (interrupting) said that so far
as the eontyof York was concerned—aud
the allusion of the Honorable Speaker might
be to it—he had not heard any threat nad e
there.
Mr. Piatt proceeded—l apprehend that a
voice has come up from York, and 1 believe
that the same tbiug has come up from Phi
ladelphia.
Mr. Ingram—So far as Philadelphia L
concerned, I have not heard a word
Mr, Piatt—The senators must have beeu
deaf to what has been said outside, to con
%
trol the action of certain Democratic Sen
ators upon this floor. Why, have I not a
right to record my vote in favor of this
measure, or rather, the bill upon which wo
all recorded our votes a few days ainoe,
when the people of my part of the State
gave a majority of 5000 in vavorof it? Sir,
I will not back down one foot, aye, nor
even oue inch, on this question. ,\pd if
the Democratic party is to be trampled un
der foot, if it has no bases bat thai of >niu
I and lager beer, why, then, let it go down
' But, sir', I ria ? above this miserable rum
! question, the advocates of which are en
! dcavoring to control the people of this Com
monwealth; and if you, sir, or any other
| Senator, chooses to regard his vote against
this abonmible evil, he haS a right to do it.
And if it should be necessary, I will go
outside of the Democratic party to lift my
voice against the traffic iti ruui. Sir 1 re
peat it is a slander upon the Democratic par
ty to intimate, or to say it does not include
the doctrines of morality, decency respecta
bility.
If the Democratic party cannot bo sus
tained out side of these rum shops, or filthy
! holes, I will, for one, stand outside of it.—
j but, sir, I again asservate tb.rt the Deum
; orotic party is not to be sustained in that
way. It is a slander upon it—l care not
j whether it couies from Vork or from l'hila
| delphia, or any other part of the Common
wealth; and the party had better, a thousand
times, go down than the glorious cause of
of Temperance should be defeated.
The committee here rose and reported the
hill, without amendment.
Mr. lugraiu thought that there was no
foundation for the report referred to by the
.Speaker, lie hat! heard no such statement.
We must, legislate to suit the governed, aud
the present law docs not suit a large por
tion of the people—those who had been au
customed to a take a glass or two of beer
after a hard dad's work. They could no 1
do well without it. The petitioners felt
they really could not live up to this new law
lie therefore hoped the bill before the Sen
ate would pass the Senate and become a ,
law.
Mr. Taggart moved to povpouc tin
consideration of the bill indefinitely, which '
motion was negatived—yeas 12. nays lU. !
On motion of 31 r. Buckalew, the lurth- \
er consideration of the bill was then pos
poued for the present—yeas 14, nays 12.
J)ALL/ .VCTRS. LJSEZ.
IRISH INSOLKNCETAND LOCOPOCO
SEUVILITI'.
Ia a speech made at the Lord Mayor's
dinner in London a few weeks since, mr
Minister, Mr. Buchanan, is reported to have
said' 'Wherever tlie English language is :
spoken, there political slavery cannot ex- ]
i>t.' The utterance of this geueral, and !
we presume, uustudied remark intended as !
equally laudatory of our country a.-i of Eng
land, has fired the blood, and kindled the
wrath of the Irish refugees among us, who j
have latelv been endeavoring te wreak their ;
.
hate npou England, by stirring up disten
tion between that country and this, and ae- !
cordingly, with their usual insolence, they j
assault and threaten Mr. Buchanan. The I
Irishman Americtui, a New Vork paper, I
says, that by the utterance of the above |
sentiment, Mr. Buchanan 'forfeited its re
spect,' that 'he forgot his Americanism, and
permitted libations of chainpajgne to u.ud- j
die or drown his patriotism,' 'rhat he was
caught in the toady's trap, and then i' pro- j
ceeds to threaten him as follows:
t
"We trust that this fatal seuteuce may i
not have been spokeu. If the report be j
correct, we cannot any longer uphold the !
claims of Mr. Buchanan to the first office ot
the Oooiniouwealth. We hone such lan- ;
guagc may be satisfactorily accounted tar, '
explained, or withdrawn. OthetwKe, let
us have a Know Nothing President rather j
than a toady of England."
Th; Citizen , a paper started by John
Mitchell, apolitical Irish refugee, al>o pitch- \
es into Mr. Buchanan, for daring, as a Min- i
ister, to be corteous to Great Britain, and
straightway proceeds to threaten him with
the political itifln?nce of our alien popula- j
lion. Hear it:
"In view of the fact of his heiug a can
didate for the Democratic nomination for j
the highest office in the country, and con- i
sidcring that the votes of the American
Irish aud the Germans, are necessary to his '
success in the we.it of his obtaining the
nomination, and considering further that
the Irish race, with but few exceptions, de
test the British Government, regarding that j
tyranuy as the- empire of the devil—that in j
many instances there is inure freedom where j
; the German language i spoken thau where I
the English is the mother tongue —and fi.
nally, that the native born American peo
ple have but little love for John Bull—we i
are at a loss to account for the cxtraordi- j
nary course pursued by our Minister at the '
| Court of St. James. Had be been the none
: inee of the Know Nothing faction, or as
| pircd to that honor, \vc could readily under
j stand his flattery of England and her insti
! tutions, and his bringing Republican freo
j dom to the same level with a monarchy in
! which the people who pay the taxes aro mere
j cyphers, and in which an oligarohy of des
; {lots 'work their wantonness in form of law.''
; Is not this the veriest iosolenoe of pre
sumed power 1 How dure Mr. Buchanan
utter a kind er oorteous sentiment to any
country, without first consulting tle alien
vote at home. And does it not prove, what
has often been asserted, that the Irish nev
er heoome good American oitirsns? As
Irishmen tbey hate and detest Engl irtd, 'as
l the empire of the devil I —they never forget
or forgive their fancied or real wrongs—
| they plot constantly to embroil their adopt
' od country in a war with her. in the hope
f that their revenge will thus be glutted, an J
j and as with Mr. Buchanan, they audacious
ly threaten to. defeat nr\! overthrew all who
will not take sides with •hetn, or join then*
with the Irish ami German vote at. the
; polls. And yet we are told that foreign in
fluence does no barm..
In connection With this Irish insolence
is the note worthy meekness and d. c-ili- •
with which the locofuco press and its part ,
receive tlris truculent hectoring of I'ennsvl
vanta's favorite son." Not a voice anion •
them has been raised to rebuke this Irish
assurance—not a drop of ink has been shed
to repeal the gross accusations of toadyism
aud drunkenness from their much lauded
caudidatc. They know, as well a* does the
Citizen, that "the votes of die Irish r . t|: |
Germans arc necessary to his uucce s in
the event of his receiving the iJoiiiinatmn."
and this very knowledge, <m wincu the Irish
base their insolence, makes this '-utitcrri
fied democracy" quail like pigeon I'. or. -
caitiffs, before their tode and doui:neeria
power. Lit an American bom eitizeu
aught derogatory of .Mr. Buchanan, and
the locpfuco press will so bcime and h>
foul him, that a starving dog could scarce
be induced to fork his bones: but an\ e<n
vy bog trotter, who is entitled to a votc
may vent his rheum upon him, and this
same press will servilely submit t > the in
dignity. because the Irish vote is riecessarj,
and it always sticks togdher. We expect
to see Mr. Bucbinan in ihe confessional
before the next campaign is over, "accoun
ting for, explaining or withdrawing" ids
unfortunate language, in accordance wit ft
the demands of the Irish ,dmerictn, ai.u
thus more fully display the disgusting, ser
vility of modern locofoeoi.siu to Irish inso
lence.—-Som 'rs 'f llsral!.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SAX
TON AND MuliklSON'S t'OVE IL'KN
-ITKE UUAD CO MI'AX
SLCTI 1. Dt it enacted by thr Senate
and HJJSZ of Uepresentaiivts vf the Com
monwealth oj Pennsylvania in General As
sembly Met, and is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same, That Jac)b 1-Ycklei,
Daniel Dire, James Six ton, George T-
Bloom, George I>. Barirdollar, C. \V. Asli
eom, George IlLodes, John C. Everharr, P.
Vandevander, John Long, A. J. Crissman
C. Glig, J 'seph Crissman and Isaac Ken
singer be, and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to open books, receive sub
scriptions, and organize . company by il ■
naiuc, style, and title cf "Thr- Saxtoit and
Morri-Oii's Cove Turnpike ro.id Coiupinv,"
with power to construct a turnpike road fri.u
the town of Saxten on the- Huutingtijn and
llroid Top railroad, Bedford county, to the
town i.f Wood berry in Morrison's Cove
Bedford county, with a lateral branch lead
ing from the most convenient point on i'u->-
sey's mountain upon said road to the ITM
of Martiusbttrg, in Blair county, subject t
all the provisions aud restricti-ms of au a '
regulating turnpike and plank road cotnj
nies, approved the twelfth day of J muavv
one thousand eight hundred and f. i i -,-tiinc,
and the supplements thereto.
•Sic. Th.it the capital stock of sail
Company shall consist of one thousand shares
of twenty dollars each, Provide!, Tli.it sai t
compauy tiny from tint; to time bv a v-te
■ if' the stockholders, or a m j rity of them,
at a meeting called for that purpose, in
crease (heir capital .-took so tuuch as in ti:i r
"pinion may be necessary to carry out the
true intent and moaning of this act.
3. That if said company slid! me
commence the construction of the road from
Saxtoit to Wcodherrv within two years and
complete it within five years from the p...--
sage of this act, the same shall be null and
void except so far as to authorize the -et
tlement of the affairs an 1 payment ot the
debts of said company.
Approved the ninth day of April one
thousand eight hundred and fittv six.
SO.M KTHI.NC. OF A FAMILY. — A corres
pondent of the l.'rhana (O.) Citizen, writes
from Bonrbou Comity, Kv., a brut a family
as follows :
The old gentleman a native of Mary
laud, and is now in his 70th year; was
brought to the state of Kentucky, when quit"
young, and has raised his family in the abut e
euuuty, consisting of six sons aml three
daughters.
In the following table y u have the
height, weight, and entire ages of the whole
family :
Height. Weight.
Father, 0 feet 4 inches. 200 pottn • ->-
Mother (5 " 4 - lib-"' "
Tims. 0 " 4 " -430 "
James, 6 " ( " --0 "
Sarah, <> " I '' I'•> "
John, 0 " 1 1 i " —Gt
Mary. 6 " 4 " 4t'U "
Elijah. 6 " S " 210 '•
NUrtlia, (> " G " 440 ".
Kli, 41 0 44 107 44
Daugh'rG " 3 t. 1 (it
Computed strength of father and sons, 0,-
f>oo lbs. Entire ages, f>s7 years.
The family are all Jiving except the
j youngest daughter, are 1! healthy, and ol
I the first families, in Kentucky. 1 must add
! that several of tba grand-children are over
! 64 feet, and still growing.
) Sn.ytrE's -It is, Uutel tint
j Sharpe's rifles sell in lyittas for a mare tri
fle. Some keen Yankees there, the Dayton
Empire inf-wua us, have beeu buying them
up, almost from the I'rt.t month *4 their io
tnnlnetio#i, shipping tficm Hist and re-seb
liug thciu in the humbugged, to bo again
scut back as 'aid to Kalis is. 4 It, is *upp"
sed that a large number of the-" faaroa*
weapons have been paid for by the II volr-a
I and qthcrs. half a dottn tints* over