The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-08-22

of dropping the stolen name Of ''repubcan,"
and taking tke appellation of E'Freez-rs. >
The change would BE- sIngularly appropriate.
The PEosPscr BRIGnrExs EVERY DAY IN
OHro.-A correspondent of the Statesman, at
Perryton, Ohio, writes on the 18th instant:
''The Democracy are all in the line, eager for
the contest; even those who departed from the
faith, and went worsbPPing strange gods in the
camp of know-nothingism, have, Prodigal-lke,
returned ro the house ofther fathers, renewed
their covenant, and are ready 10 do their first
work over whereas the black republicans seem
rather ukewarm, and, like the editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial, speak OF the PhIladel-
phia platform as "a thing over which the shall
low may laugh, the judci0us grieye, and the
unlriendlY eXut consisting Of an unsafe col
lection Of truisms, Platitudes, and tallacies.'-
No sooner did this article appear in the Com
mercial Speaking SO disparagingIy fthe plat
forml than quite effort was made here to
raise club in It's support, rather than the New
York Tribune, whose club at this place Is about
expired and no effort is being made for lis con-
tinuance. You may be assured thal fusion has
seen its best days, and is rapidly passing into
the grave of forgetiulnsss, and none viii be left
to tell its fate"
ANOTHER PRoMINENr "OLD LINE WHIG" FOR
Buchanan AND BREcNENRlDGE.-s.IH cry is
still Hey come !"-At meeting of the 'sWheat
land CLUB" recently held in the city of Lancas-
ter, over ONE HUNDRED new members enrolled
their names. Many OF them have hitherto eth
er taken no part in politics at all, or have open
" esponsed the cause otthe opposition. Among
those who, on the above occasion, openly avOw
ed themselves in favor of the election OF Bn-
chanan and breckenridge, was Mr.. Christian
kieier, for many years highly prominent and
Influential citizen Of Lancaster. Mr.. hielttr
was elected several years in succession, men,
Der OF the State Legislature, on the regular
Whig Ticket OF Lancaster county, and general
ly ran ahead OF bis ticket. in the Legislature,
he welded powerful influence, and was high
lv esteemed for talent and integrity. Subse
qnrnlv he was elected for several successive
wears as the peoples candidate, to the Mayoral
lty of Lancaster city, aad always by command
ing maiorities. No man in the city or County
Of Lancaster W-lds more pow eriul influence
than Christian kieffer. He is Mr.. Buchanan's
neghbor, and knows him. Hence his support
of one, who, to know WE'LL is 10 know iavoGa-
bly,, and to love We learn that hundreds OF
the sold Line Wings" OF Lancaster refuse to be
marshalled under the black banner Of Fremont
and Dsunion. They love the Constitution and
the Union too well, to bt identified with any
such sectional and herrtical faction. II Sew
ard, GiddingS, Hale and Company, would make
capital for the Disunion Schemes, they must
not 60 TO the patriotic regions OF Lancaster coun-
".
STARTLING INCIDENT AND MEAcULous Es-
cAPE.-The Kanawha Republican relates the
following
On the 10Th inst, two gentlemen were
deavorng to cross the Kenawha river in skif,
about one mile above the Kenawha Fails. Be-
ing strangers, and not knowing the character OF
the river, they did not have oars, and were on
ly provided with an ordinary pole. They
soon reached deep water, where bottom could
not be obtained, and rapidly drifted towards the
Falls, and apparently towards eternity, as no
human being or animal has ever been known TO
90 over the Falls and escape with life. The
men despairing, sat down in the skill, and as
they approached the brink OF the cataract, the
boat took fortunately course with her bow
down stream, and descended the first fall in safe
ty th" second pitch she plunged under the wa
ter in the boiling whirlpool, which is at the
foot.
One of the gentlemen, named ]. r. F Nose
ly, OF Amherst county, together with his favor
lie dog, s'Taylor," (aso in the skif with the,n)
came TO the surface about fifty yards below, and
saved themselves by clinging to the skifi, which
had turned bottom upwards, from which they
were taken some distance below
The other, James T. Christian, Of Arpoma-
toy county. did not make bis appearance above
the water for the distance ofa hundred yards,