iiii|i jt mm. BEDFORD, Pa. rrldti) Mottling R'ov 1. "Fearless and Free." DAVID OVER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Presidential Election. BEDFORD COUNTY—OFFICIAL. Buchanan, Union, Fillmore. Bed. Bor. 121 *8 11 Bed. Tp. 222 131 Broad top, 47 <0 0 Colerain, 146 1(6 - Cuuib. Valley, 199 8 2 Harrison, J~ 68 ~ Hopewell, *-'0 Juniata, 164 94 0 Liberty, 95 44 1 Londonderry, 101 29 Monroe, 118 144 0 Napier, 169 144 % 0 Providence E.,* 54 140 Providence W. 106 210 0 Scbellsb'g Bor., 53 31 St. Clair, 157 205 14 Southampton, 184 .2 05 Union, 133 162 Woodbury M., 147 193 Woodbury S , 120 109 1 2458 2090 152 2090 Majority, 368 Straight vote, 152 Bachaiian'amnj. *>l6 Of the 2000 Union votes, Fill mora had 1731, and Fremont 306. In Southampton the Straight Fillmore ticket was voted by mistake of the canvassers. The same thing occurred in regard to 31 votes in Lon donderry, making 96 in all; reducing their majority against the Union Electoral ticket to 270. This reduces the whole intentional straight vote in the county to 56, and those subtracted from the Buchanan majority leaves the total Locofoco majority in the county 216. Of these 54 votes more than one-half were obtained by trickery aud de ceit, and by the insidious efforts of one or two traitors in the American camp. Con sidering the adverse circumstances alj around us in Bedford County; the late day at which the h rticn ticket was formed, and the impossibility of circulating it over our extensive territory; the desperate and ma lignant representations of an unscrupulous foe: the cunning wiles of rank traitors among us, who professing the teuderest love for Millard Fillmore, stabbed hint under the fifth rib; considering all these things, we have done well in Bedford County. Our friends have acted nobly throughout the county, but wC cannot refrain from con gratulating our American and Republican brethren in Hopewell, the Wood burjs, West Providence, Uuion, Monroe and IlarrisoiS. THE RESULT. The following is the probable result of tha recent Presidential election : FOR FREMONT. No. of rotes. Maine, 8 New Hampshire, 5 Vermont, 5 Massachusetts. 13 Khode Island, 4 Connecticut, 6 New York, „ 35 Ohio, 23 Michigan, 6 Wisconsin, 5 lowa, 4 llliuois, II 125 FOR BUCHANAN. Pennsylvania, 27 New Jersey, 7 Indiana. 13 Delaware, 3 Virginia, 15 Georgia, 10 North Carolina, 10 South Carolina. 8 Alabama, 9 Mississippi, 7 Tennessee, 12 Kentucky, 12 Arkansas, 4 Tesae, 4 141 FOR FILLMORE. .Maryland 8 Not fully heard from, but all probably gone for Buchanan California, 4 Florida, 3 Louisiana, 6 Missouri, 9 22 From the figures above, it will le seen that there is no doubt of the election of Bacbanan by the people, by a small major ity. The price of niggers has riz ! In Ohio, the Democrats have carried seven members of Congress, and not oru of them has a majority of the votea in his District! They have pluralities, it is true, but not ore has a majority. If the 23,000 men who voted the Fillmore ticket in Ohio, bed been obliged to choose between the defeated Republican candidates and the successful Democrats, not a single Bucban- For the Inquirer and Chronicle. THE BEDFORD TOWNSHIP MASS MEETING. BEDFORD TOWNSHIP, NOV. 3, 1856. D. OVER, ESQ. — Dear Sir —< In Thurs day the 30th day of October last, about 300 democrats, counting men and boys, met at Barley's School House, near whcie 1 re side, to hold a political meeting. After their horses were unhitched they oatue into my vard, and wanted me to give them some cider. I replied I had none except some first rate old cider, now six years old, being what was left of some I had manufactured and cured by condensing three barrels into one. They stated they must have it, and demand ed my price. I one dollar per gal lon, and they replied they must have it, and said they would pay me. 1 then took a pitcher aud drew the cider and distributed six gallons, being all I had, amongst them, cautiouiug them not to drink too much, for it was so strong it would make tbcin drunk almost as soon as whiskey. One reason for this caution, Was that I saw a large num ber of them had rather much liquor in them already. One gentleman replied I don't care how strong it is, 1 am drunk already: to which 1 answered, then go ahead, you know best I suppose what is best for you. They drank all my ctdcr, but I received no pay whatever for it from any of the party, neither at that time, nor siuce. Whilst the cider was being used up, din ner was ordered, and soon afterwards it was ready, and about half after 12 or 1 o'clock they commenced sitting down, and the table was filled up and kept full nearly all the time or until the close of the meeting about 4 o'clock, P. M. f or later, I giving thein such as I had, and they appearing to do ample justice to what was set before them. Some 140 took dinner, and some GO horses were fed with my oats, aud with my hay. All I received for dinner and liorse fecd was §10,85, which was paid in by some respectable gentlemen of the party, among whom I can name Maj. §, 11. O. E, u 6 !i, Thom as Lyons, John A. Mowry, Patrick Wall, Nicholas Swartz, John Alstadt, and a few others, of whom I collected the above tucn" tioned sum of §10.85. The balance of the party left without pay, or thanks, or any marks of decent respect, and all because no doubt of my polities, which as a matter of course, all very well knew, as I have no concealments on the subject. Had I been what is called a democrat that duv, I might and no doubt would have takeD in §50.00, which would have been something near a reasonable compensation. * If anj delinquents see proper to do justice in the premises, they may yet do so by paying over to O. E. Shannon, Esq., the amounts due from them respectively, and I hereby request him to pay the same over to the Treasurer of the Poor House of Bedford County. It seems to have been begrudged to me for political reasons, and I am willing to lose it, but think it no dis credit to apply it to the poor of the County, especially as I understand the funds are low there- by reason of former nrismam ge ment in that establishment. I also agree to aiiow six months credit on all accounts because of a boast made to me by one of the politicians pf the same party that he had ?5,000 to spend f? buying up votes, and recent results seeming to indicate that but little if any of that fund can cow he left. If any are unable to pay these sulall bpls, oi are disposed to plead the baby act, ii is hoped the big blow horns of the party will come up to the rescue, and see that all ae" counts are squared. But we have but two big guns anywhere in Bedfoid Township.— One fired ofi' and the ball lit under the stairs in the big house at Harrisburg; and when the other went off it happened to hit the Poor House Treasury. The one was reloaded and aimed at the .Sheriff's office, but that time happened to miss fire. Two vigorous attempts wero made by tho valiant democracy that day to commit de predations on the milk, butter, &c., in the spnnghouse, hut after only partial success they were diiveu out by my wife, who lock ed the door to prevent further damages in th 11 direction. In conclusion 1 may add as another in cident of this great demonstration that when my bogs came Lome that evening they were badly effected by partaking of the afore said cider, it having for some cause or oth er, not explained, refused to stay on the stomachs of a large number of Democratic patriots. lam happy to say the hogs are now all much better, and bid fair to all set well. Respecting one and all present on that day more than they gave evidence of res pect for me, I am, Yours, truly, THOMAS IMLER. REVIVAL. —The revival still continues in theM. E. Church —the altar is crowded nightly. Rev. Mr. GIBSON is a powerful and effective minister iu the cause of Christianity His labors here have been very effectual in bringiug sinners to repent ance. ViUHA. Oct. 24.—Ex- President Van Buren, and his son, Smith Van Burcn, were thrown from their carriage yesterday after noon, by their horses taking fright and running away. One of the aims of toe former was broken, and the Uttet was THE CENSUS OF RUSSIA. —The Monitor de i'Annee gives the following as the re. suit of the census of the Russian taken by order of the Emperor at the time of his accession to the throne. The total number of the population amounts to 63,- 000,000, the principle elements of which give results unknown to the rest of Eu rope. The clergy of the Russian church stand for the enormous uuniber of 510,000, that of the tolerated creeds, 35,000: the hereditary nobility, 155,000; the petty bourgeoise, including discharged soldiers, 425,000; foreigners residing temporarily, 40,000; different bodies of Cossacks colo nized on the Ural, the Don, the Volga, the Black Sea, the Baikal, the Bischkirs, and the irregular Kalmucks, 2,000,000; the population of the towns, the middle ana lower classes, 5,000,000; the population of the country parts, 45,000,000; the wan dering tribes, 500,000, the inhabitants of the trans-Caucasian possessions, 1,400.000; and the Russian colonies in America, 71,- 000" At the accession of the Emperor Nicholas the census then taken only gave a population of 51,000,000. This large in crease iu the space of thirty years may, however, be readily understood when it is considered that the Russian territory has now an extent of 22,000,000 cf square kil ometres (a kilometre is five-eighths of a mile.) and a length of coast of 27,000 kil ometres. If the population continues to increase iu the same proportiou it will, by 1900, amount to 100,000,000. The llus sian empire, accordi ig to the same docu ment, contains 112 different peoples, divi ded into twelve principal races, the most numerous of which is the Selavonian, in cluding the Russian, including the llus. sians properly so called, the Poles, the Cossacks, and the Servian colonies of the Ducipcr. These populations iuhabit the finest and most important provinces of the empire. Remarkable Cases—Criminals who HAVE RETURNED TO LIFF. AFTER EXE CUTION. —Tbe following' singular circum stance is recorded by Dr. Plot, in his Na tural History of Oxfordshire: In the year 1600, Anne GreeD, a servant of Sir Thomas Reed, was tried for the mur der of her new born child, and found guil ty. She was executed in the court yard at Oxford, where she hung about half an hour- Being cut down, the was put Into a coffin, and brought away to a house to be dissect ed, where, when they opened the coffin, not withstanding the rope remained unloosed, and straight about her neck, they perceived her breast to rise, whereupon one 31ason, a tailor, intending only an act of charity, set his foot upon her, and, as some say, one Oram, a soldier, struck her again with the butt cud of his musket. Notwithstanding ail which, when the learned and em'nent Sir Wm. Perry, ancestoi of the Marquis of Landsdowne, then Anatomy Professor of the University, Dr. Wallis and Dr Clark* then President of Magdalen College, and Vice Chancellor of the University, came to prepare the body fur dissectiou, they per ceived some small rattling in her throat; hereupon desisting from their former pur pose, they presently used means for her re covery by opeuing a veiu, laying ber in a warm bed, and also using divers remedies respecting her senselessness, insomuch that within fourteen hours she began to speak, and the next day talked and prayed very heartily. During the time of this her re covering, the tfficers concerned in her exe cution would needs have had her away again to have completed it on her; but by the mediation of the worthy doctors and some other friends a?ith tbe then govctnor of the city, Col. Kelsy, there was a guard put upon her from all further disturbance until they had sued out her pardon from the government. Much doubt indeed arose as to her actual guilt. Crowds of people in the meantime camo to sec her, and many asserted that it irmst be tbe providence of i God who would thus assert her innocence. ! After sonie time, Dr. I'etty, bearing she discoursed with those about her, and sus pecting that the women might suggest unto her to relate something of strange visions and apparitions she had seen during the time she seemed to be dead, (which they had already begun to do, telling that she said she had been in a fine green having a river runuiug round it, and all things there glittered like silver and gold,) he caused all to depart from the room but the gentlemen of tho faculty who were to have been at the dissection, aud asked her concerning her sense and apprehensions du ring the time she was hanged. To which she answered, that she neither remembered bow the fetters were knocked off, how she went out of the prison, when she was turn ed off the ladder, whether any psalm was sung or not, nor was she sensible of any pains that she could remember. She came to herself as if she had awakened out of sleep, not recovering the use of her speech by slow degrees, but in a mauner altogeth er, beginning to speak just where she left on the gallows. Being thus at length perfectly recovered, after thanks given to God, and the persons instrumental in bringing her to life, and procuring her an immunity from farther punishment, she retired into the country to her friends at Steele Barton, where she was afterwards married, and lived in good re pute amongst her neighbors, having three children, and not dyiDg till 1659. BEDFORD INQUIRER AND CHRONICLE. girl, who was wrongly executed in 1766, is given by a celebrated French author, as an instance of the injustice which was often committed by the equivocal mode of trial then used in France. About sevcuteen years since, a young peasant girl was placed at Paris, in the ser vice of a man, who, smitten with her beau ty tried to inveig'e her, but she was virtu ous aud resisted. The prudence of this girl irritated her master, aud he determined on revenge, lie secretly conveyed into her box many'things belonging to him, mat k Q d with his name. lie then exclaimed that be was robbed, called in a commissaire, (a ministerial officer of justice,) and made his deposition. The girl's box was searched, and the things were discovered. The un happy servant was imprisoned. She defended herself only by licr tears, she had no evidence to prove that she did not put the property iu her box; aud her only enswer to their interrogatories was that she wa-i innoceot. The judges had no sus picion of the depravity of the accuser,whoso station was respectable, and they adminis tered the law in all its rigor. The iuno ccnt girl was condemned to be bung. The dreadful office was not effectually perform ed, a it was the first attempt of tho son of the chief executioner. A surgeon had pur chased the body for dissection, and it was conveyed to his house. On that evening, being about to open the head, he perceived a gentle warmth about the body . The dis secting knife fell from his hand, and h e placed iu a bed ber whom he was about to dissect. His efforth to restore her to life was ef fectual, and at the same time he sent for a clergyman On whose discretion and experi ence be could depend, in order to consult with h-m on this strange event, as well to have him for a witness to ' u i s conduct, The moment the unfortunate girl opened ucr eyes she believed herself in the other world, and perceiving the figuro ot the priest, who ha 1 a marked and majestic countenance, she joined her hands tremb lingly stud exclaimed, "Eternal Father, you know my innocence, have pity on me." In this manner she continued to invoke the ec clesiastic, believing in her simplicity that she beheld her God. They were long in persuading her that she was not dead —so much had the idea of tho punishment and death possessed her imagination. Th# girl having returned to life and health, she retired to hide herself in a dis tant village, fearing to meet the judges or the officers, who, with the dreadful tree in cessantly haunted her imagination. The ac cuse!"'' remained unpunished, because his ciime, although manifested by two individ ual witnesses, was not clear to the eye of tho law. The people subsequently became acquainted with the resurrection of thisgiid and loaded with reproaches the author of her misery. Til K CITY OF MEXICO. | The Charleston Courier has an interest ing letter from a correspondent in the citv of Mexico, from which we extract tho fol lowing sketch of the appcaranco of that city "Mexico, in its prominent aspects, is a striking and attractive capital. Its archi tecture, particularly in its churches and public edifices, cannot fail to impress the stranger. Its spacious streets; its open plaza, fl inked on one side by the cathedral, on the other by the ample-proportioned pa lace; its charming Alameda, with its shady avenues and winding walks, together with its far-reaching, smoothly graded passo, where beauty and chivalry daily meet, vieing with each other in richness ot display and genuine courtesy, are all most inviting and imposing. "But Mexico is not an industrial City.— Its thoroughfares are. ever thronged from early dawn, where crowds are seen of aged matrons charming senoritas wending their ways to niatfns, and through the whole day with a dense population. But it is not the stirring multitude which characterizes our Atlantic cities. There is through the nias3 an absence of bustliog animation, a listless inertness, a moving to and fro, seemingly without aim or object, a void at once of occupation or amusement. A passing incident, a picture shop, rapidly draws around it a listless multitude. It is true most of these are Indians, who centre in the metropolis, from miles around, to traffic their little wares aud spend the hours in slnggish inactivity. "There is, indeed, a great display of wealth, and apparently no scarcity of the precious metals. But, in the absence of prominent resources or striking indications of busy traffic, you inquire, whence comes it? You look in vain for those stirring marts where the mercantile of a city concentrate and are pursued on a great and expensive scale. None of those gigantic workhouses or merchant palaces which you witness in our Broadways and Chestnut streets; few of those confusing dies from the rumbling wheels of loaded drays, the olank ing noise of bu-y workshops, or the hoarse, harsh whistle of the steam-pipe. Retail shops, scattered over the city, would seem the chief depository of traffic; and even the famous Partalis, where those are collected, aud where beauty and fashion congregate, are meagre aud insignificant by ibe side of our llayne and King streets. "The capital, indeed, would seem to be the centre, not of the realizaticq of wealth, but rather of its expenditure. Hero would ap pear to be concentrated the riches acquired eisewbere, and the chief competition to be in its vaiu ostentation and grandeur of display. The striving industry is one of dissipation, uot of acquisition. The Alameda and the Pasco are the busy marts where the only rivalry is displayed, and its fruitful enter prises developed in sumptuous dress, costly jewelry, and expensive equipage, and where the real struggles of life are portrayed in earnest efforts to contend with and outdo one another." RAPACITY OF THE BRITISH ARSITOCRA CY.—In evidence of tho wealth antissed by ancient families, the traveler is shown the places in Picadilly, Burlington House, Devonshire House, Landsdowne House in Berkshire Square, and lower down in the city, a few noble houses which still with stand, iu all their amplitude, Che encroach ments of streets. The Duke of Bedford includes, or included, a mile square in the heart of London, where the British muse nm, once Montague House, now stands, and the land occupied by Woburn Square, Bed ford Septate, and Russell Square. The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years tho series of squares called Belgra via. Stafford House is the noblest palace In London. Northumberland House holds its place by Charing Cross. Chesterfield House remains in Auuly street. Sion House and Holland House are iu the sub arbs. But most of the historical houses are masked or lost iu the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them. A multitude of town palaces contain ines timable gallaries of art. In the country the size of private estates is more imprwivc. From Barnard Castle I rode on to the highway twenty-three miles from High Force, a fall of the trees, toward Darlington, past Kaby Castle, thro' tho estate of the Dubc of Cleveland.— The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a direct line to the sea, on his own property. The Duke of Sutherland owns the country of Suther land, stretching across Scotland from sea to sea. Tho Duke of Devonshire, besides his other estates, owns 95,000 acres in the county of Derby. Tho Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Gunwood, and 300,000 ut Gordon Castle. The Duke cf Norfolk's part in Sussex, is 15 miles in circuit. An agriculturist bought lately the Island of Lewis, in Hebrides, containing 500,000 acres. The possessions of the Earle of Lans dale, gave him eight seats in Parliament This is the Heptarehv again; and before the reform of 1822, one hundred and fifty four persons sent three bundrei and seven persons to Parliament. The borough-mon gers governed England. These large dominions nre growing larger. The great estates are absorbing the small freeholds. In 1786, the soil of England was owned by 200,000 corporators and pro prietors; and in 1822, by 32,000. These broad o?tates find room on this narrow isl and. All over England, scattered at short intervals, among shipyards, mills, mines and forges, aro the paradises of the noble, where they live long iu repose and refine ment, heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity out of which you have stepped aside.— R. W. Emerson's Travels. A WESTERN OPERA HOUSE. —Our Oin ! cinnati friends, we see, are following the | example of their Eastern brethren in the matter of opera houses It is said that a | magnificent structure is abont to be erected forthwith in the Queen City of the West.— | The Cincinnati Daily Sun says: "We want entertainments for tho million: ; the 'select' are not the best paying always. It has been fully tested, that even in the great city of Gotham, with its 150,000 strangers in search of amusement, an Opera flouse and an Academy of Music, with the best talent that can be procured, have fail ed to remunerate either manager or pro prietor. Ilore, in the West, the novelty of the enterprise might take for a season. But we frankly express the opinion, that as an Opera House simply, the enterprise will prove an entire failure—but combining the two, as we have suggested, it would be sus tained. Snob gentility may deem the com bination repulsive to good teste—positively vulgar! We are not writiug a disquisition on teste—but on dollars and cents—with out which good teste and good society would have very few public or private amusements. Wo do not like to see a public-spirited citizen embark in a great public enterprise with an almost certainty of failure, wheu that failure may be avoided by combining the experiments which will ensure suc cess." LOUTS NAPOLEON FEARS ASSASSINA TION.—It is stated that arrests continue to be made in Paris of individuals suspected of conspiring against the life of the Emperor. The conduct of his Majesty on the occasion of his return to Paris, and since, gives the impression to the public that those arrests are based upon faots which fully warrant the utmost rigor of the police. His entry into Paris was private, unannounced as re gards the hour, and made under the most cautious circumstances. His carriages which was closed, was surrounded by mounted men, and instead of passing over the usnal route, they passed rapidly through the city by the river quays. Thanksgiving Proclamation. PENNSYLVANIA, S : In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. JAMES POLLOCK, Gov ernor. FELLOW CITIZENS: —A public acknowl edgment of the goodness of Almighty God, and of our constaut dependence upon his Providence, is eminently beeoming a free and enlightened people. As the ''Giver of every good and pet feet gift. He has crowned the past year with his goodness and caused our paths to drop with fatness." Our free institutions, our rights and privileges, civil and religious, have been continued and preserved. Sci ence and Art, with the great intcresis cf education, morality and religion, have been encouraged aud advanced: industry, in all its departments, has been honored and re warded, and the general condition of the people improved. Our Commonweah has been greatly bles sed. The ravages of disease and death— of famiue and pestilence—have not been per mitted to come near us; nor have the hor rors of war disturbed the peaceful quiet of our homes. The earth has yielded her increase and richly rewarded the husband man. Abundant prosperty, with smiling plenty and the blessings of hcahb, have been ours. Acknowledging, with gratitude, these blessings of a kind Providence, let us "enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise; be thankful unto Him, and bless llis name." Deeply (impressed with the importance and propriety of this duty, and in accord ance with the wishes of many good citizens, I, James Pollock, Governor of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby re commend Thursday, the 20th day of No vember next, as a day of General rhanks giving and rruise throughout this State! and earnestly implore the people, that, apstaining from all worldly business and pursuits on that day, they uuitc in offer ing thanks to Almighty God for His past goodness and merev, and humbly bosoech Hiui for a continuance of His blcSDgs. Given under my ban 1 and the Great Seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this 21st day of October, in the year of our Lord on e thousaed eight hunJve d and fifty-six, and of the Commonwealth the eighty-first. By the Governor: ANDREW G. CIRTIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth DEATH OF COL BOONE. —The SpriDgfield (Mo.) Advertiser mentions the death of Col. Nathan Boone youngest son of Daniel Boone week before last, aged seventy-six years. Thus it is that the families of those old pio neers, whose history reads like a rotuauce, and to whose intrepidity and marvellous powers of endurance and unyielding deter mination, we owe the reclaiming of the "bloody grounds" of Kentucky, and the wilds of the West, from the dominion of fiercely savage tribes, are passing from amongst us. Boone is a name associated with much that is manly and heroic aud grand in pioneer character. His descen dants have been among the most highly respected of the advancing settlers in the Valley of the Mississippi. His own history imparts spirit and thrilling interest to many a tale, and our own favorite Missouri artist, Bingham, had advanced his own fame by the historical painting of Boone, on his way to the West, in momentary fear of attack from crafty foes, as he passed the defiles wuere Indians love to make their ambus cades. His son, Nathan Boone, was marked by the satnc active habits, the same love of adveuture, and the same taste for military service, that characterized his father, and during most of his long life, down to the war with Mexico, was employed in military duty upon the frontier. I HORRIBLE AFFAIR—BOY EATEN UP BY A DOG. Yeastcrday afternoon; while a boy named James O'Connell, aged about 12 years, son of Mr. Barney O'Conuell, who lives on Third St , South Tioy, was passing along the sidewalk, Dear bis father's residence, a man unknown, set upon him a largo and savage bull dog. The boy, on turning, and seeing the dog coming full speed upon him, naturally become very much frightened, and endeavored to escape by running the man meanwhile encouraging the nobler brute onward. He caught the lad in tho middle of tho back, his teeth sinking to the bone, when, by clasping his jaws, and jerking with them.Ae tore out a strip, clean to the bone, a s large as a man's hand. His rage increased with the taste of blood; it was now impossible to shake off the dog- He again caught the boy by the thigh, and bit out a piece as largi as he could grasp with his teeth, laying the bone bare here.— Another bite was iuflioted upon the leg, but vas not so serious as the others. Over two pounds of flesh must have been ex tracted by the dog. The boy was literally being eaten up by the monster. The brute who set the dog upon the boy deserves— as we hope he will receive—severe punish ment. Dr. Burton, who was called to at tend the case, did everything for the boy that lay in his power, but it is hardly pos aible that he can recover.— Troy Times. MONTPEUER, VT., Oct. 22—Solomon Foote was this morning re-elected TJ. S- Senator for six years from the 4th of March next, by the State Legist store. HORRIBLE AFFAIR. Ttwas announced in onr last Saturday'* express, that Lewis B. Ferwood Esq., an influential and widely known merchant of Grauvillc county, N. C. had come to l.ji death on the night of Tuesday, tLe 21st, in a sudden and mysterious manner. About Lis usual hour of retiring, 9 o'clock, his over seer left him in his chamber. He was then in his usual health and condition, both of mind and body. Some two hours after, his negroes reported to the neighbors that be had fallen in the fire and been burned to death. The neighbors immediately assent bled and found liiin a corpse. Burns upon different parts of his person were discover ed, but Lis hair was not singed even, and his clothing was without a scorch. Und.-r these circumstances, it was supposed that the burns must have been scalds from ho: water. His two little daughters wercasl&rp at the tiure in the chamber, but of coarse could tell nothing of the sudden and tnvs tcrious manner in which tLcy had bec-a deprived of their protector. An examination being instituted, sus picion rested upon the negroes, and it is now ascertained that he was foully and -kicking- Iy murdered by two of the slaves. From such facts as we have been, enabled to gather, it seems that a negro mau belong ing to biui bad for some time absented him self. Mr. Noiwood suspecting that two of his negroes were harboring the runawav and to prevent a continuance of the practice, had for several uights previous to his mur der locked up the two suspected in aa out house oa his premises. On the fatal night, however, he was stunned by a biow, and a large pot of boiling water which had bees prepared .for tie purpose, was pouted through a funnel down his throat until life became extinct. lie was then eonveyel to his chamber, and the ueighbbrs apprised of his death, at we Lave state ! above. We understand that two of his ncgrce have been arrested, anj are now in jail. Others probably will be implicated in participating in this diabolic! outrage. It, is one of the most cruel anl attroeious murders that we have been called upon to record; and we sincerely tru<l that the fiendish perpetrators may pay tie penalty of the horrid crime by a forfeiture of their lives. The deceased was well known in Peters burg—especially with the mercantile por tion of the community. iJe is represent;! to us as having been an estimable gentle man, a good neighbor* a kind human? master, and his loss will be seriously fel* in the neighborhood where he lived, anl was universally respected. Peltrsb/rp ( fa.) Express. THF, PROGRESS OF OVR COCNTRV. —It c stated that toe population of the eleven it fant colonies in 1701 was 262,000 souls.- Georgia and Delaware were udded to the number about 1749, and the census rcpor* give us 1,046,000. In the year 1775 tin thirteen colonies had 2,303,000 whites an i 500,000 slaves. After the adoption of t;e present Constitution, in 1790, there w?re thirteen States, with 3,172,664 white, 50,• 456 free colored, 697,807 slaves. In ISO) the States had increased to tliirtvone, and the population to 19,550,000 whites, 431- 000 free colored, and 3,204,000 slave? The total population at this time is ap proaching thirty millions. The number cf electoral votes is 296, requiring 149 to elect a President by the people. The free States have 176 and the slave 120. AN IMPATIENT JURYMAN.— AD Arkan sas correspondent of the New Orleans P'-c --ayune gives tho following as authentic. \ou are all like to crack jokes at sbo ex pense of Arkansas; uow here is one on yotllr State, absolutely true. I got it frcic aa eye witness : I The District Court in one of our north j ern parishes wag in session— 'twas the first i Jay of the Court; time, after dinner.— ; Lawyers and others bad dined and were sitting out before the hotel, and a leng, lark, : unsophisticated countryman came up aid ! unceremoniously made himself one of "ere. | and remarked : i '-Gentlemen, I wish you would go on with j this Court, for I want to go home—l left | Betsy locking out.'' "Ah !"' said one of the lawyers, "and pray, sir, what detains you at Count" "Why, sir," said the countryman, "Do fotcbed here as a jury, and they say if I £° home they will have to find me, and they moutn't do that, as I live a good piece."' "What jury are you on?" asked a law yer. "What jury?" "Yes, what jury. Grand or traverse!' ! "Grand or tiavis jury? dad-fttched if I | know " "W ell," said the lawyer, "did the judge charge you?" "Well, squire," said he, "the little fel* low that sits up iu the pulpit and kinder W* ses it over the crowd, give us a talk, b Qt ' don't know, whether he charged anything or not." The crowd broke up in a ro3r of laugh ter, and the sheriff called the court. HORRIBLE CRUELTY.— ChiId Burnt Deat/i. —A tragedy took place at L3ckp° r '' N. Y., on Tuesday, exhibiting such cruelty as to be almost iocrodible. A bid® boy, five years of age, belonging to a Story, was roasted alivo by afiead in hum** shape —a white woman —named Crcgg. " The evidence elicited bofore the eoronef' jury shows that the victim was left with
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