~ the BEDFCEX) gazette u rtttttfillE'D EVEIIY FRIDAY MOCNINO BSV SB. F. H3KYKRS, At the following terms, to wit i $1 .50 per annum, CASH, in advance. J2.00 " " 'f P a ' t ' within the year. $•2. .10 " " " not .paid within (he year. CJ-No subscription taken tor lees than six months- OS^N o paper discontinued until ail arrearages trf paid , unless at the option of the publisher, it has been decided by the United States Courts tha ! tbe stoppage of a newspaper without the payment 0 t arrearages, is jtrima facie evidence 61 fraud and a s a criminal offence. [r7"The courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspa pers, it they take them fiom the post office, wheth er'hey subscribe for them, or not. From Ihc Caucasian. JEFFERSON IN 1797 —1301. d flic Vice President stood alone. With the narrow prejudices and tyrannical meas ures which were gradually being moulded info the dietincfive.features of the adminis tration, the more liberal spirit and enlighten ed views of the great Republican could form no association. Thro'all the dark storms of federal hate and malice, which, spider like, were directed against Ju belle France, whose noblest and richest, blood, but sixteen years before, had been so copiously shed in the work of baptizing a new nation in the smoking trenches of lorktown; tlirough all the hurricanes of fanaticism, engendered by a thirst for aristocralical power, and which were dually assuming shape and form in those Alien and Sedition acts which were subsequently destined to dig political graves for their blinded authors; lie alone, unawed by the. then almost crushing influence ot the government, remained true to the inter ests of the people; ihe only custodian of the common weal, in that dark hour of the voting republic, when liberty had well nigh fallen stillborn, who was "weighed in the balance and not found wanting." Despis ing from the depths of his noble soul, the petty tendencies to aristocracy which char acterized the administration of Adams, he took no pains to conceal his righteous con tempt of the tinseled adjuncts of monarchi al power, now seeking to gain by insidious approaches a foothold 011 the floor of the Presidential mansion; but that the match less power of his sarcasm, attacked without mercy those vanities and emblems of con centrated power, which he conceived but illy comported with that simplicity which should ever characterize (be dispensation of authority, in a government deriving its sov ereign powers immediately from the body of the people. Whilst resisting those claims of France which were manifestly unjust, he as prompt ly opposed the unnecessary haste with which the dominant party was endeavoring, with all the energy of demoniac rage and fiend ish hate, to array in hostile, opposition the allies of a former glorious war, and to cause the joint conquerors of lordly born Corn wailia to imbrue their hands in each other's blood. The titled snobs of haughty En gland, who for centuries had rioted in secu rity upon the sweets which their iron heels had remorselessly wrung from the poor man's blood and sweat, had. beheld with conster nation Jhe sudden downfall of the French nobility in that terrible conflict, which a similar course of grinding oppression at the hands of the blotted and haughty I lour lions • had at length forced upon a trodden people, had at their behest, their Tory sympathi zers, who had survived our own revolution ary struggle, and who formed so great an element of the federal party, now combined with the administration, in decreeing eter nal hatred and unflinching war against the land which deserved the reverence and sym pathy of every true American heart. And now commenced those intolerant proscrip tions and relentless persecutions which, un til our own day have never found their par allel. The press was shackled, trial by ju ry denied, personal liberty restricted, and all the most sacred rights of freemen scat tered to the tour winds of heaven by the arbitrary hand of usurped power; whilst in every breeze fluttered .those black cockades —the badge of the peace party, —which ta ken in connection with the prevalent excite ment, only needed the addition of a deaiii" 1 head and raw bones, to have convince t a dioini.cre.sted observer thai America was a bout to engage in a scheme of undistinguish ed piratical plunder. Bur through all the blinded.frenzy of the war excitement, and all the heated ebulli tions of public feeling—consequent upon the passage of the Alien and Sedition acts which succeeded it, the Yicc President un mindful of the deep-mouthed hayings ol the hounds of the Administration, pursued that conservative course, which his con science and a knowledge of his Constitu tional obligations alike dictated, and assum ed that position, which viewed fit this dis tance of time, appears ti3 the only green spot in the black desert of fanaticism with which he was surrounded. lie who, ufitcrritied by the shadow of a British scaffold, !ir I calmly announce the "inalienable righ oi man to an entire world, was not deterred from sounding the alarm to his own lollow citizens, when he beheld those "rights" at tacked by the insidious hands of tiiose who had sworn to support them; he who had . seen the best blood of the land poured out like water, in the hallowed work of conse crating a temple sacred forever to Freedom, could not behold its fair proportions marred without attempting to stay the desecrating hand which impiously sought its overthrow; he who had done so much to procure, a sep aration from the mother country, could not silently behold a people whom he loved, sinking heneath the social position of the down trodden white slaves of Europe; but it was then that lie, together witli those no ble spirits whom his warning words and burn ing eloquence rallied'found himself, laid the VSSS.II.TSK 58. / NEW SERIES. foundation of that organization, which in the year 1801, swept away every vestige of an administration, which too long liadcuin bereiLthe fair earth with its fell pre tence, and which lochia day, is only remembered its the synonym of all that is despicable, and the counterpart of ail that savors of blinded folly. Sixty-one years have slowlv rolled their wonted course down the slope of time, since Thomas Jefferson laid ihc foundation of that party, which bv its liberal policy, made A moriea a happy and an honored nut ion; the sacred hand which alike inscribed the glori ous Declaration of Independence, and laid the corner stone of Democracy, has long since blended with its kindred dust; but the "self-evident truths"which compos" the one, and the hallowed principles which are the pride and glory of the other, are as im mortal as the soul which gave their birth. Four times tiuce its creation, has the Dem ocratic party been stricken to the earth by the mailed' hand of ruthless error: thrice has it arisen with renewed energy, and as serted its rights to direct the destinies of a progressive people; and if the signs of the times admit of an interpretation', its undaunt ed crest will soon again confront its natural antagonist, as in days of yore. The same fanatical ideas which warred against its birth will be arrayed lo stay its further progress; the same blind devotion to concentrated and centralized power, beneath the weight of which tho once fair name of Adams sank to merited dishonor, has become the policy of dear, good, easy Abraham Lincoln, and if Democracy exhibits but a tithe of the vi tality imbibed in its inception, in the histo ry of the second President, the sixteenth may read his own. Meanwhile, if Demo crats desire to be known as the political children of Thomas Jefferson, they must do as did their father. What he did is a matter of hLiory. From the Budget of Fun. Hon.W. Eones at tiie Union Mass Mooting. HIS VIEWS OF Till-: wilt. As I, Ben Lopcr, was pursuing my perambu lations on Tuesday, July 15th, I bethought my self that on that day the gVcat Union Mass Meeting at Union Square was to come off; and although it was rather warm, I turned my steps •.' tic.it vh in'ity. i.mi.*ludijis that it was my-duty to add my distinguished presence to the occasion. As I turned into the Square, and was just commencing myself in®he multitudi nous crowd, won Tiiil to relate, I beheld just in front of me an individual attired in an army regulation-hat, whom I recognized as our iriend Billy Bones. As 1 had not been I'ortuuntc c nough to g' l time to slop at the Peoples Hall for Free DUeuwiion, and had no speech from Mr. Bones for this mouth's Budget, I followed him, not doubting that lie would ieel the inspi ration of the oeca-ion. I WHS not disappointed. As lie walked, lie eoinm■•ni-.-d muttering to himself, in a voice like the sound of distant omnibuses, and a crowd of !)oys and men, with dirty clothes and had hats, belonging to the "Great 1 nwashod," gathered around him. Some one who knew his antece dents commenced to cry, "Speech, Hones!"— "Ist>ncs, speech!" and the cry was taken up by the crowd. I 'pon this, Mr. Bones ascended the stonework around the Hark, and held on by the railing, preventing him from gesticulating as much as usual. * lie then made a rousing speech, which we herewith present to our reader.'.. \\ o pride ourselves upon otir cnterpri-e, as none ol the daily papers, which tried to make such a splurge with their fall accounts, had the good fortune to get it. It is undoubtedly the most eloquent and imp i : ive address delivered on thai day. Mr. Bone hung his hat on one ol the iron pickets an I spoke as follows: Address of IF. RIM*. /•>■/., at the Union Mass Jftetin;/. Frens, comitvvmen, lovers, Humans. Ncw\'oi lers. li i hncai, Dnlchmcn, Scotchmen, French men. Fnelishnicn, Niggers and Octoroons —I greet you in de name oh dc Ametican Duple! (Great che ring.) In dis present emergency ob dn national crisis, 1 I'oei my soul bobbin up an down in my bosom, like a crazy per pus in a pond ob rod hot soap-grease, an my enthusiasm mams ober like a bottle ob gin. '.i-p<>j>, to :ay noliin ob dc sweat dat in lianmn ingloluilorious perspirations o.i my tilabaster brow. Am 1 not right ! (C'h rs.) 1 tut, my ('reus, 1 don't carc a continental inill dam for dat —but, on de contrary;, I shall spoke to you on dis momentous occasion, when dc hin der tones ob dc prupondcrulin masses is ascen din up into de auburn firmament, like hinder an Mars, for do Union, de Constitution, an dc utter annihilation ob a dire an deep an dreadful an damnable insurrection! (Loud applause, and cries of, "Go in, Simmons I") 1 shall spoke to you, I say, Mr. Fre.idetit, like Demosthenes brayin at do moon, or like a roarin magnitudin ous whale, seekin whom he may devour on de top ob a gorgeous an gigantic cloud-rapt iceberg, purSuin its grand an irresistible way along de glitterin confines ob sebenteen tousand liemis phcrcs, towards dc inwulnerablo precipices ob de Mediterranean Ocean. (Thunders of Jip plausc.) I shall try to pour some ob Nixon's liquid lire into de parched an drivelin eelskins ob your souls, until you rise like a mountancous catarack, an swear dat dis rebellion shall be ex terminated', so dat de las spark ob daylight dat might find its way into black an infinite dark ness, eben on de fur ob a demoniac an pande moniacat pussy eat, would not be able to dis cober do least atom ob its accursed an infernal proportions? How's dat, now? Tree cheers! Hip, hip! (Tremendous cheering au waving of hats.) Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1862. Fellow-patriots an hunkey boys, nldo tie wed <lcr is hotter dan molten Santa Cruz ruin mixed wid tunder an lightnin, an dough do sun sends clown his burnin rays like a perspirin lobster, an I feel tis limber as an injyrubber stovepipe—yet, sir, as Silovancous Corn Cobb says in do Fnhjer, rlis ling must be did. To be or not lo bo—Jut's tie question. Are you goin to snivel an die, or are you goin to go forth like a marshal horioatl in his warlike pride! Will dis become, osdepo ickt remarks: iJe greatest nation in all de Lord's creation, An be de hull world's wonder, An hub do biggest tunder, Accordin to our popilation. Or, 011 de odcrhand, shall we go down to dis honored an undistinguishable fragments I Hey? (Clit*;rs, and cries, "That's so!') If you want to die, you'd better wrap yourself wid sackcloth tin ashes, an lie down 111 a ditch, an stick a pin in your big toe an bleed to death. (Derisive and sarclstic laughter.) O.lerwiso, you hud better go an volunteer. (Cheers, and cries of "i'itch ill, 010 feller!" "That's light'") Den we'll crush de rebellion in tree months, snre's tunder! Great Ctesar! are we monks, an muffs, an shrimps? or are we American feller-citizens I I ley ? (Enthusiastic demonstration. One man is so excited that lie throws both his shoes into the air.) What did Gen. Fremont say when lie resigned for de good ob his country ? lie said —lie said—yes, lie said—dat's what lie said Dat was heroic! You needn't say you're 100 delicate. If you hain't got strength nuif to haul tv broiled codfish off a gridiron, you ought to gib dat strength to your country. Dat's what's da matter. (Cheers.) We want more men. Do you ax how many? Let me answer in de glorious words oh Ban Wood Burke, — "4-11-14." I'm delicate myself; bu, my feller citizcns, I was one ol> de tree mouths men— oll Blackwull'slsland. (Cheers, cries of "llura-a-r! Will you lead us?") Yes, fellor-skideyuiidiiiks, ] will lead you! (Uproarious applause.) I hub applied to Gubmciit to raise u colored brigade, an I wouldn't mind takiu a few white folks to fill up. I'm do brigadier, dough. Feller-laborers, next to supportin myself, I goes 111 for supporlin de Gubment. But you'll allow me to remark dat J objeeks to some tings, Here, when 1 was spoutin away to my feller constituents, some time ago, for de Sear Spran gled Banner, somebody goes an stops all de re eroolin. Dat was smart, wasn't it? (Groans and hisses.) I'd a spos'd a biied owl would a had more sense' 11 dat! (Laughter.) My indig nation lias rosea about it. Day hadn't enough men I No, sir, I deny de assertion, an repudiate It, im urainl 111 fta '!> niUtmnrAsti. wrong, an wid not a darn bit ob truth an in tigriiv about it. As William Cullau Bryant's minstrels remarks, "Am 1 not light?" (Cheers, and erics, "Yes, sir, horse, buggy.") If such a ling, sir, was goin to bo did, an to continue to lie did, I would march, like Fernando Wood, sir, into de Congress, an scatter it to de fourteen winds ol) hcaben. (Sensation.) I will raisedo standard, sir, ob new peek measures an more men! Dis is a euris world, sir, but do world ain't so much to blame as de people what libs 011 it. (Applause.) Teller-hearers, yon must ail go to de war.— It's jest as impossible, sir, to crush dis rebellion widout men as it is for a shod to swim up a slnulpole wid a fresh mackerel under each arm. Wid men, sir, we can mash Jell Davis, like a gallynapper under a five-hundred pound trip hammer. You ought to blaze; you ought to be a shinin light, so if dey undertook to hide you under a bushel basket, you'd burn it up. (Cheers.) If it snows an landers, nu hails an sleets, an lightnins an blows like a hurricane, an rains like a house afire, you ought to brave it all! (Three cheers and a tiger.) Don for ward—-inarch! Make way for Liberty! Neber surrender to rebels! Neber eognonimously strike your Aug to treason! Come on, Macduff! Wo must go piong shot tin shell, an flame ansinoko nu saber stroke, an pilch in for Union an Lib erty now tin for eber, one an inseparable, an go in 011 your muscle, an tight, sir—an fight, feller monks; I repeat it, sir, we must fight, an damn ed he lie who first cries enough! (Tremendous enthusiasm ) Ist me close wid a sweet quo tation from iShitkespoke: Little pigs lie wid dcir noses bare, Ling nngderang dare; Lillebuloro! Lillebulero! Liliebiileroley! Oh, my daddy's a bonny wee man, An he's gone for a sojer to Dixie's Lan', Sing aiigdcraug dang. | (Loud and continued cheering.) A MATRIMONIAL CARD.—I have lived solitary '< long enough; I want somebody to talk at, quar rel with, t lion kiss and make up again. There fore I nin open to proposals from young ladies and widows of more than average respoctabil ! ity, tolerably tame in disposition, and hair of ! any color but red. As nearly as I can judge of myself, I tun not over eighty nor under twenty five years of age. lam sound in limb and 011 the nigger question; am very correct in my mor als, and first rate at nine pins; iiave a respect for tiie Sabbath, and never drink only when invited, i Am a domestic animal, and perfectly docile when shirt buttons are Ml right. If I possess a predominating virtue, it is that of forgiving | every enemy whom I deem it hazardous to han dle. " Money is no object, as I never was trou : bled with any and never expect to he. j (KtDanif.l Webstf.h said: "Small is the sum that, is required to patroniz.e a newspaper, and ; amply repaid is its patron, I care not how liurn i ble and unpretending the Gazette lie takes. It is scarcely impossible to fill a sheet without put ting into it something that is worthy the sub scription price. I well remember what a mark ed difference there was between those who had access to some good newspapers and those who had not. Other tilings being equal, the first i were always superior to the last in debate, com ' position and general intelligence." Tka Indian Depredations in Minnesota. The Sccno of the Atrocities. The details of the Indian atrocities in Minue soui, as they are given to us by the journals in that State, become more and more horrible.— In answer to the Governor's call, hundreds of armed men are hastening to the scene of the a troeious murders, and, unless the reports of dissatisfaction among the* tribes further west ward is correct, we hope, before many days have passed, to record the fact thai the insur rection has been quelled, and that the warrior who, from disappointment at a temporary pro crastination upon lite part of the Government, as is alleged by some, or from false and decep tive promises and statements of fiends in the employ of Southern Traitors,as is stated by others, have ui*ged their followers to the per petration of deeds which, in their enormity, makes the blood curdle, have met with that reward which their crimes merited. Browne and Reuville counties, in which the enormities have transpired, are situated in*ihe sbutliwestern corner of Minnesota, the two counties being separated by the Minnesota, or .St. Peter's river. This stream has source in a series of lakes lying between latitude 45 degrees and 50 minutes north, and Hows south-easterly, for about three hundred miles, to its confluence With the Blue Earth river. It then has a north east course for a distanee of about one hundred aid twenty miles, until it reaches the Missis sippi, ul Fort Sncliing. It is navigable about forty miles, but small boats can run up to Pat terson Rapids, two hundred nnd ninety-five miles from its mouth. New Ulm, the scene of one of the most atrocious of the depredations, is a town settled within a few years, located on the right bank of the Minnesota, and in the southeastern portion of Browne county. Fort Rtdgley, i 3 in Renville county, about ten miles above and on the opposite bank of the liVor. It has of late years been used as an artillery post, hut previous to tho rapid increase of pop ulation of the State was an important fortifica tion. In 1850, the white population of Minnesota was only 9077; but so rapid was the immi gration,that in 1850 it had to 175, 545. It is snid to have bco.ll first visited by two white traders intheyear IGGt: but until 1815, it was the homo of t lie Sioux and Chippewas, the only representatives of civilization being the trappers, traders and lumbermen on the St. Croix river, and a few missionaries The Sioux, who atrpear llius far to have been the perpetrators of the murderous deeds recor .'ioi *-< ii ♦'•c pas! few day saw ■ a eourng-oiis, warlike rtmt powtll'mv little, -WiTfr - i..; .. have extended from the Blue Earth region to Ihe Rocky Mountains. Their principal agency is a few miles above Fort ltidgloy. i hey also call themselves Dacolhas, and have always cher ished the deadliest animosity to the Chippewas, with whom tliey are at constant war, and tho acts off enmity mutually indulged in by the two tribes have no parallel in Indian, history. Tradition has it, that, long before Ihe visit of the first white man to their territory, there exis ted nt tho mouth of (lie Menomee river an ex tensive Menomee town, uudcr the jurisdiction of a chief of influence. (dome, distance above, upon the banks of tho same river, were four Chippewa settlements, also under the guardianship of a powerful chief tain. After a friendly intercourse of long du ralion, the Menomee ruler obstructed the stream, with a view of stopping the fish from ascen ding. A fnmiitfe was created among tlie Chip pewas, and remonstrance provoking insult the war began- Tho Sioux were the principal al lies of the Monomers, and until the year 1830, when the United States Government deemed proper to interfere, hostilities continued almost without intermission. They formerly nu ml Hir ed thirty thousand in all, seven thousand of whom were warriors, but in 185.'!, disease had so decimated their numbers, that not more than eigiit thousand remained. The Chippewas, from whom danger also ap pears lo threaten, and who are known also by the name of Ojibwnys, tire a type of tbe Algon quin stock, and at a very early period were dis covered by the. French occupying the basin of hake Superior, to which point they staled they had come tnanv years before, from the east. On November 23, 1785, the first treaty between Hit#United States and this tribe was sigyed. for the purpose of assigning the boundaries of their possessions. hi 1795 they were a party to a treaty of pacification, and in the year 1805 and 1808 made large cessions of laud, by treaty, to our Government. In 1815 they took part at a con ference held at Detroit for the pacification if the Northwestern tribes with each other and with the United States, and in the following year ceded all their remaining lands in Ohio. In 1854 and 1855 they ceded nearly nil tho lands then in their possession, many of which reser vations were set apart, and every exertion was made l>y the Government agents to induce them to adopt habits and pursuits of civilized life. The attempts, howevcp, were generally useless. They l\ive rarely evinced any inclination to im prove the opportunities offered. They tire brave and expert warriors and fish ermen, but, in general, are contemners of arts industry and letters. The use of tho bow and arrow they consider the noblest employment of man, while agricultural and mechanicaal labors they regard as degrading in the extreme, and upon till occasions have opposed the introduc tion of schools and industrial improvements. Repeated attempts have been made by Christian missionaries to improve their condition, but they regard them With suspicion and look upon them as interlopers who contemplate and design tho overthrow of their primitive system of living. The Chippewas are tall, well developed and good looking. What their actual strength is at the present time, it is difficult to estimate, but prob ably they do not number more than ten thousand. IVUOI.E NCIURE3B, 3038 The Arrest of Ingersoll—Plain talk from a Republican Paper. The New York World , u republican newspa per is outraged by the systematic attempt to stifle (roe speech and a free press. It actually published Ihe "treasonable" speech of Mr. IB gresoll, an'! makes these stinging observations: We publish elsewhere the speech delivered by Charles J. Ingersoll, at the Philadelphia Demo cratic meeting on Saturday last, for which he has been arrested by order of the Government. It no doubt contains a world of incendiary and disloyal matter, or c!.-c he would have been ar rested; but a great many honest people will "cudgel their brains" without finding it out. lie expresses a doubt as to the wisdom and hon esty of the administration, it is true ; hut then Horace Gr - ly and Wendell Phillips have done the same thing in a liftv 7 fold more offensive manner—yet the one offender receive? a lvspect ful letter signed "A. Lincoln" and the other is ! sent lo jail. It is an extraordinary spectacle which wehav witnesscd for the la-t year—a free people, the freest on earth, tenacious of their rights, impe rious for tin? largest liberty, quietly submitting I to the suspension of their rights and liberties, to a restricted freedom of the press, the suspen sion of the writ of habeas corpus, imprisonments without trial, liberations without reparation. The President of the United .Status and his advisers will terribly mistake the temper of the American people, the secret of their submission to, of their demand for, these stretches of exec utive power, if lliey presume or act upon the presumption that they will tolerate tliem for any other end whatever than the suppression of the rebellion. Abolition Disuniomsm. The abolitionists continue to curse and revile the Union as much as ever. The Chicago Tri bune of August 19lh ult., says: " W'iiiit means tins talk about restoring the Union as it was! There can be no 'Union as it was' until the Confiscation Act is erased from the Statutes; that's certain. 'THE UNION \SIT WAS'WILL NEVER BLESS THE VfSTO.V OF ANY PRO-SLAVERY FANATIC OR SECESSION SYAIPA THIZEII, A.NDIT NEV ER OUGHT TO. IT IS A THING OF THE PAST, HATED OF EVERY PATRIOT, AND DESTINED NEVER TO CURSE AN j HONEST PEOPLE OR BLOT THE PA CES OF HISTORY' AGAIN. The act con fiscating the property and freeing the slaves of traitors will not be repealed!" We could fill one entire page each week,from tliis till the it'l Tuesday of October, with just Willi frnw ■AMimrav crmrrrn .and papers. But we don't choose to occupy tiki much space with such trash; for the true char acter of these Northern disunionists is becom ing pretty wcK known. A TiiitniPic ENCOUNTER WITH A BOA CON siiUCTolt. —One of the most thrilling incidents which ha- ever come to our knowledge, occur red a few days since in a "side show" with Van Am'ourg A. Go's Menagerie, where two enor mous snakes—an anaconda and a boa constric tor—are on exhibition, liotii of tho huge rep tiles are kept i.t one case with a glass lop opening at lite sides, an 1 the keeper was 111 the a-i of feeding them when the event occurred. The longer of the snakes, the boa constrictor, which is some thirty foot long, and as large a round the middle us a loan's thigh, had just swal lowed two rabbits when the keeper introduced his arm and body into Ihe cage for the purpose of reaching a third to the anaconda, at the op posite corner. While in this position the boa, not satisfied with his share of the rations, made a spring, probably with the intention of securing lite re maining rabbit, but, instead fastened his jaws upon the keeper's hand and, with lite rapidity of lightning, threw threeeuils around liini. tlui-* r< 11 le. dig it"1111 entirely helpless. 11 'l.- shouts of distress nt once brought several men to bis as sistance, and among lliem, foilnnately, was 11 well-known showman named Townsend, d man of great inusanlar power, and what was of much more importance, one wiio ha I been familiar with tiie habits of these repulsive monsters all his life, having, owned sonic of the largest ones ever brought to this country. The situation of 1 ho keeper was now perilous in the extreme. The first thing lo bedonowas lo uncoil Ihe snake lioiu around liini, but if in attempting this the reptile should become in the least degree ail;, -rod, he would, in a second, contract. lii- powers suliieient to crush the lit!? out of an ox. A r-ingle quick convulsion of the creature raid the keepers soul would be in eternity! This Townsend fully understood: so without attempting to disturb t he boa's hold upon the keeper's hand, he managed by power ful yet extremely cautious movements to uncoil (lie snake without exciting hint, after which by the united exertions of two strong men the jaws were pried open and the man released in a com pletely exhausted condition. The hi to of the boa constrictor is not poisonous, and although the bitten band was immensely swollen the next day, 110 serious results wore apprehended. A more narrow escape from a most horrible death it would be difficult to imagine.— [Columbus {Ohio) Statesman. A COSTLY BLUNDER.—A saloon.keeper in Cleveland, in the scarcity of change, conceived the idea of issuing tickets "good for one drink" to regular customers, when lie couldn't change their money. In printing the tickets, the print er made tv mistake, as tho saloon keeper discov ered to iiis cost, after distributing a large amount of tliein. The ticket road, "good for one. drunk." A number of two-fisted drinkers, who got hold of some of the tickets, have been indulged in a series of drunks ever since, greutly to the pecu niary loss of tiie "salooner." CJTTIIE right man 'lll tiie right place: A hus band at home in tho. evening. , I flat ts of 2lh)trtUing [ One Square, three weens or leu. , ,|IN One Square, each additional iniertion leu * than three months 25 3 MONTHS, 6 MONTHS. 1 TEAR One square • $q 00 $3 00 $5 00 TITO squares 3 00 5 00 9 00 Three squares 400 700 12 00 I Column 500 900 15 00 J Column 800 12 M 20 00 ) Column 12 00 18 00 30 0b One Column 18 00 30 00 50 00 The spice occupied by ten lines Of this size of type counts one square. All fractions of a square under five lines will be measured a9 a half square ; and all over five lines as a full square. |AII legal advertisements will be charged to the person hand ng them in. , s VOL. 6. NO. 6 WerrEßN CROPS.— lMinndsota promises an extraordinary wheat crop. Sample.s'of the new {Train are of the first quality. The St. Peter Statesman says the crops generally will average a larger yield this year than aver heforc. The most moderate calculation of the pres ent Ohio crops makes it at least 00,000,000 bushels, or 10,009,000 more than was raised last year. Of this quantity tlidfe will be a sur plus beyond the State demand of' some 17,900, 000 bushels, A Pennsylvania editor says:—Many years have passed since the farmer has secured so large a harvest—not within our recollection has there been anything like, it. Phi hay se cured and yet to be cut will make by far the largest crop ever before liarvesteA The prora- I ises for corn could not h: better, and a few i rains through August will till the cribs to over flowing. It is a peculiarity of Western papers this season that "croaking" over apprehended short, crops is dispensed with. AITI.YIKU TIM TEST.— The following dia logue occurred on the sidewalk of one .of the streets in this oily;"yesterday morning, between I a Democrat and Kepublican who happened to | meet: Rep i.—l have heard it said repeatedly that you are secesh. Don. —Probably you have. Hut let us sec who is sceesh, you or me. I propose that we both go before a Notary Public and each take ' the oath of allegiance to the Constitution as it ■ is, and of fidelity to (lie Union as it was before secession began. Will you do it I R'jj.—Hem ! Well, I don't lulovv. I think it it's hardly worth while. Don.—(starting) — Come along. I am ready to take the oath, and if you are not a secessionist, you certainly are. Come, it is but a step to 'Squire Miller's office, and it will not take ten minutes. I will pay fur both. (Kepublican moves off.) Are you not for the Constitution and the Union! Rip—lloin 1 Yes, if slavery is abolished. Dan. —Then you are not for the Constitution ns it is, for that recognizes the existence of Sla very in the Union. You are, therefore a seces sionist. If you are not, you will go with mo and take the oath of allegiance to the old Con stitution mid the old Union. (Exit Kepnbli ean, sneaking off with both hands behind liiin, pressing down his coat tail.) — Ohio Statesman. MASTER AND SCHOLAR. — -'When I was a boy,' said an old man, 'we lmd a schoolmaster who had an odd way of catching his idle boys. One day he called out tons: qtfiva lnv.' eln-m- " •your boy idle, I want you to inform me, and f \\TR attend to the case.' 'Ah,' thought I to myself, 'there is Joe .Simp son that 1 don't like. I'll watch him, and it I see liiin look oil his book. I'll tell.' It was not long before I saw Joe look off his book and im mediately I informed the master.' 'lndeed,' said he; 'how did you know he was idler •I saw him,' said I. 'You did; and were your eyes on your look when you saw him ?' 1 was caught, and never watched for idle boys again. Jl' we arc sufficiently watchful over our own conduct, we shall have no time to lind fault with the conduct of others. ' Mns. FAKTINGTON AGAIN—"I)o yon think people are troubled as much with tleabottomary now, doctor, as they used to be before they dis covered (lieanti-bag bedstead!" asked Mml'ar tington of a doctor of the old school who at tended the family where he was staying. "Phle botomy, madam," said the doctor gravely, "is a remedy, not a disease." ".Well, well," replied she, "no wonder one gets 'em mi.ved up, there is MI many of 'em. We never heard in old times of trouse:s in the throat, or embargoes in the head, or neurology all over us, or consternation in the bowels, as we do now a days. lillt it's an ill wind that don't blow nobody good and the doctors flourish on it like a green buiso tree. But of course llioy don't have anything to do with it, they can't make 'em come or go." Cl)X\ KRSAIION EEnVEIiN A iIEPLIIUCAJJ ASI> Dt.siocii.vr. —"You Democrats needn't com plain I hat your parly doctrine in favor of a hard currency isn't being carried out, for We've" •_ot a currency now hard enough in all con- Scl'Uee.'' "Y s, ibis shinplaster system is the hardest kind of a currency."— J/artfoid Times. The increased number of persons in New York wearing the sober livery of the respecta ble but unmilitary society of Friends seems to have Suggested the following epigram: Old Abe's a magician whose talent extends Wert to making an army of shakers; For his late drafting order has made "troops of Friends," In fact, filled the city with Quakers! Said an old preacher onee, "Fellow-sinners, if you wore told that by going to the top of those stairs yonder (pointing to a rickety pair at one end of the church,) you might sfmnrc your eternal salvation I really behove hardly any uf you would ry it. But let any man pas claim there was five hundred dollars up* jWe for you, and I'll be bound there would tie Sucfi a getting up stairs as you never did sco." "Doyou keep nails hero?" asked a sleopy looking lad, walking into a hardware store, the other day. , S "Yes," replied the gentlemanly proprietor.# "We keep all kinds of nails; what kind artd how many will you have?" "Well," said the boy sliding toward the door, "I'll take a pound of finger nmlsandg bout a pound and a half of foe nails.
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