The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-06-11

feel him tickling my heart-strngs
0E-Here is a coupI-t descriptive OF certain
member Of ;he British Par'iment who commit
ted speeches 10 memoFy
/ 'fWard has no heart they say, but deny it
Ward has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
A WoxDEarUL EscArG.-The Auburn .7dcer-
fi5er says that the escape Of James A. Cox OF
that city, al the late railroad disaster, was Won
deridl
'Alr. Cox was seated in The third seat from
the front in the SECOND passenger car-the car
that made the first fatal plunge. The 6rst pas
sengrr car cleared the bridge, leaving behind
The trucks, wheels and floor. All the passen-
gers escaped serious injury. The second car,
following, fell, striking against the abutment
OF the bridge, aud was shivered to aterns. Mr..
Cox GrSt heard the scraping of the two trains in
the collision, felt the tipping of the car, the
dreadful rush, plunge, and the awful crash.
The next instant he was standing on splinters
50 iae that twenty or thirty could be held in one
hand, the rain beating upon him aud the most
Profound sDiiness reignIng
ssThis awlulsilen lasted moment onTv,
when the terrible shrieks Of the wounded and
The fainter groans Of the dying, came NJ from
the shattered mass Mr. Cox, by slight effort
eytricaed himself from the ruins, and found
himself entirely unharmed, excepta slight and
unimportant scratch on his foot. He felt the
splinlers flying past his head below his feet 10
his knees were. ruins heaped up; on The left
were the crashed reHains of the Mack children;
in front was the fatally wounded Perkins, OF
Rochester, and almost beneath his feet were the
remains of Moore, of Rising Sun, and the body
OF lady transfXed BY two stakes.'
BRINGING AN OBSTINATE JURoR TO HIS SEN
sEs.-The Santa Cruz Sentinel, gives the fol-
neo nt Of meiRod lbs o5a3adsRttfadg adaRtfd die dFieGhpy GGhp
stinate juror;
Persuasion and Starvation are the approved
common law methods of producing the above
result; but a novel method was lately tried in
this town. By some means, a fellow juror, an
utter stranger to ali bis brother Jurors was pla-,
ced upon the jury, who dissented from the YER
dict agreed to by the other eleven. They came
to Joint conclusion without delay, but the
stranger perinaciousIy held out against them.
After an hour of argument, with no avail, it
was AZ last proposed that the jury should return
verdict Of ''guilty by eleven jurymen, who
believe the other one 70 be a confederate the
prisoner, and as great rascal This ended it.
the stranger saw twenty vigilance Commuters
in bis minds eye, and in FIVE minutes the jury
unanimously rendered a verdict of guilty.
TIE BRIrrsu MINISTER'S Views IN REGARD
To TnE RECENT OUTEAGEs IN THE GULF.-The
correspondent Of the New York Tribune SAYS
Lord Napier positively denies having had
any knowledge whatever the recent pFocee-
dings in the Gulfunll they appeared in print,
and says that he at once communicated with
the admiral Of The squadron, i0closing the state
ments made and comments upon them, with the
emphatic Injunction against their repetition.
He believes that the home Ministry were equal
" ignorant, and hence his conviction is deci-
ded that these acts win be promptly disavowed,
and the fullest reparaton made
So we hope, and the Administrator will take
care that we have security for the future, as
we'll as indemnity for the past,
EXPANSIVE BGNEvoLExcg.-Th following
sentence has been ascribed TO Fenelon 81
love my family better than myself my coun-
trr better than my family and mankind better
than my country for | am more Of French
man than Fenelon and more man Than a
Erenchman: - ..----,---r.--4-.s r.--4-.s---''
- 5sSambo, you black thief. Sambo, why
vou betray dat secret told you de oder day?''
81 betrav the secret? ! scorn de 'putation.
found | could't keep am, 50 ] told um TO some
body that could"
/ QE-I see the villain your face" said
western Judge to prisoner. "NIay it please
/ your Worship replied the prisoner, ''that must
! be a personal reflection, sure"
I5-"Tbey pass best over the world" said
Queen Elizabeth, "wbo trip over i quickly; for
it is bat bog-if we stop, %e sink.
!
GA dandy IS chap who would be lady
i If he could but as he can't, does all he can TO
/ show The world he Is no! man.
/ eZWho ever heard OF widow commit
4 ting snicide on account Of love? A little ex-
! perience is very wholesome.
A witness in an Irish Court of Justice, sta
ted that he was suddenly reused from his slura-
ber bv blow on his head. "And how did you
find yourself2" asked the counsel. eFast a
sleep, replied the witness.
\ sprightly little girl being asked 'what
is nothing replied, shut your eyes and you
/ will see IT,