The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-05-04
T,ranny or fhe Seeret order.

and judgments INTO the power OF irresponsible
and sctrming managers and are bound by hor-
rid oaths 10 carry out the brfestS OF the midnight
council. We have before Us case in point.
When the Senatorial eipction was pending in
Massachusetts,, some ofthe Know-noihings gave
signs of opposition TO Wilson, the nominee OF
the majority whpreupon, the Worcester Jour
nal, thr leading Know-Nothing paper in the
State, made the following statement as 10 thu
obligation of KnowNothingism
s.If BY honorable means, Wilson's nomination
can be reconsidtred, il is fair to do it-more
than that, il would be policy for the party To do
il, but until that is done, every member oi the
party that votes against bin, violates his obga-
ton, bellies his pledges yes, perjnr"s his soul,
aud be is not a man Of honor. His personal
enemies kHow what they are guilty OF IN voting
against him, when majority declare for him."
Here is full confession of The workings Of
The diabolicai machinery. Unless a member
disregard his conscience and fellows the CON-
mand of "a majority" be is denounced as per-
jurng his soul, and, as such, published through
the Lodges of the Union. The voice OF consci-
ence is stfrd and suppressed by the cath which
members are required TO take, piedglng the MI
nortv 10 vote in all cases according to the de-
cison of a majority. The penalty Of refusal
thus 10 vote is The branding the offending person
in all the lodges ofthr Union, liar, scoun-
drel and periured vi!Iain, IN the eyes OF God
and man. By the exercise of this drspotIc reg
nlaiion. they rely upon ruling the minority, and
forcing them TO suhServr their miserable pnrpo-
Srs Every man is oaih-bound 10 vote accor-
ding to the instructions of the lodges. however
his conscience and Judgment may disapProre
and condemn the action vioiatIse OF right, as
dangerous to the community, as reasonable 70
thr Constitution and to The Union. Is such an
order necessary ~ free country, when the poll
icy of laws is to make each man FREE, moi 10
enslave the conscience by oaths !--Phiiadel-
phia .1fgus.
Kyow-NoTnNG PGo~cGiPrioN.--TE Evans
Vile Enquirer saws: '.Wr are told, on good
authority, that C. H. Todd thr defeated caadi-
date for City Clerk, Yesterday discharged bis
washerwoman, Mrs. Frawl-y, who has donr
his washing for some time past, giving r~a-
son that he would not employ an Irish woman
or foreigner of any kind
Todd adopts the principle that "Americans
must wash Americans
DEFEAT OF TIE Know NorniNGS IN HART
FoED.-The Democratic party here nominated
! I
which was supported BY the anti Know Nothing
Wings in our city to-day. This ticket is elect
ed with the exception of the Old clerk, Henry
Francis, who succeeds on personal Consideration
alone, by about one hundred votes The Onion
ticket carried four OF the SIX Alderman and
thirteen OF the twenty four Counciimrn, max
ing nineteen anti-K now NothingS 10 eleven
Know NothingS in the joint Council. The
! MI ba,. rit
on a full vote.
~ Some months ago were induced
partly by philanthropc and partly, perhaps, by
curious motivrs-to attach ourselves TO so-cal-
( ~ NO @'-- @-.---:I Th.4 aet4nsihls. prin-
ciples Of the OIder were such as we could Sym-
paihlzr with most hrartily and il did not even
occur TO us that these ostensiblp principles were
to br classrd among the ssgoody ouisdeS'' that
''ialSehood hath" We were not long in learn
ing, however, that s'confu>ion to Poperv' was
only a bait to catch the unsuspecting and that
the council of which had become part was
nothing more nor less than political hot-bed,
from which were produced all sorts of schemes
and Vaccinations, conducting 10 the advance
ment o ndlvldnals and cliqueS, instead of en-
hanclng the general good We, therefore, with /
drew.-B9falo ErPress, (INig.)
TIE HoGEoEs OF WAR-A FEARFUL TRA-
GEpY.-The London Times LAYS before its rra-
ders the particulars Of a horrible affair, which !
recently occurred near the Dutch settlement OF
Fransvaa, at the Cape Of Good Hope, and which
can only be paraleled in atrocity among the a.
chevmrnts OF modern times, hy the exploit of
Nlarchal St. AInaud in Algirrs, when be sInok-
ed and burned TO death thousands Of his barbarian
opponents who had sought refuge in deep and
spacious cave:
"In the case at the Cape of Good Hope, the
Cafre Indians had murdered, in October last,
under circumstances of great barhariiy, ten or
twelve men and women of the Dutch settle
mpnt. Immediately General Pretorious raised
an army Of 300 men, and, accompanied by Com
mander General Potgiettrr, procrrded on an ex-
prdltlon to revenge the blood of the victims
After an absence Of several W epks they reached
some remarkable subteranean caverns half a
mile in length, and from three to FIVE hundred
feet IN width where the Caiirrs had entrenched
themselves. Upon his arrival at fhs spot GEN
eral PreterIonS attempted 10 blast the rocks a.
bove the cavrrns, and thereby crush the savages
beneath the ruins. The peculiar character OF
the stone however render this scheme impracti-
cable, and he then stationed his men around
the mouths OF the caves, and built up walls in S
front OF them. After few days many of the I
women and children were driven bv hunger S
and thirst from their hiding places, and were c
allowed TO escape; but every man who came /
orth was shot dead by Their rifles. On the 9Th {.
IT November, at the close of a siege of three c
weeks, the hesegerS, seeing no signs OF life, en-
cred the cavernS, and the silence Within to- a
gether, with the horrible odor arising from the
lead, told how effectually their object had been !
More than nine hnndrad Coff.,re p