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BEDFORD, Pa.
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"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