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The courts hare decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is l,rima facia evidence of intentional fraud. erofrssionat $ gastons* £ards. attorneys at law. J OJIN T. KEAGY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. S&, Office opposite Kecd A Schell'S Bank. Couaeel given in English and German. [apl26] | R I,MM ELL AND LINOEXFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEoroan, FA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. 1, 1 564-tf ■YJ\ A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. ,E9~Colleetions promptly male. [Dec.9,"t-tf. J. J AYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness intrusted to his care. Office withG. H. Spang, Esq., on Juliana street, three doors south of the Mengel House. 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Onr facilities for doing all kinds of Job Printing are equalled by very few establishments in the country. Orders by mail promptly filled. All letters sfequld be addressed to Jo}lN LlfTg. 3 Hocal anli Smrral ilrtospaprr, Dcbotrti to |>olitirs, (Ptmraticm, Hitrvatuvr anb ittorals. Uocinf. From the West Branch Bulletin. : "The Democratic party has always been friend ly to the soldier."— Democratic Paper. Ll*p it not, ye mengrel traitors, You have been the soldiers friend, Ye the aiders and abettors, AH that treason doth portend. When the rebels at Fort Sumter Trampled on ear glorious flag, Copperheads in glowing bumpers Toasted the Palmetto rag. When the news of Bull Run battle Filled each loyal breast with woe. Whose was the prophetic prattle? "The South will win, I told you so." When the "hcru,"' George McClellan, Played "cat's paw" to Bobby Lee, Then you gave your bright new shiilin' To the war Democracy. When we placed them kort <tc combat They in turn were forced to flee: You wore long faces, what a sin that, "Say f poor aid Mrs. Smith, says she," When your names the wheel had P iidletl For the draft the records say, It was found ye had skeedaddled To see your friends in Canada. When we made secession tremble With Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, Ilow ye wriggled, how dissembled, The country's confidence to gain. We were tyrants, butchers, Xeroes, Killing off our I vour) noble friends; They were honorable heroes Starving us in slaughter pens. When thty killed onr noble Lincoln, Then your foul-mouthed traitor press Fell in love with Andy Johnson, Did they know him — answer yes. Then you held a great convention, Made concessions, grunts and whiaes; The rebel allied coalition, Shaking hands across the lines. Lisp it not ye mongrel traitors, Ye have been the soldier's friend: Ye the alders and abettors, All that treason doth portend. Go rei>ent in cloth and ashes, Wipe away the bloody stains; Give us back our fallen comrades, Then we'll call you friends again. LETTER FROM PETER COOPER TO HORATIO SEYMOUR. NEW YORK, August 13th, IS6.S. To THE HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR : My Dear Sir, —In the last letter I had the honor to address to yon, I had the pleas ure to thank you for the prompt answer to a former letter, and for the assurance I received that "we agreed in the end to be realized, namely, the restoration of the Un ion and the preservation of the Constitu tion." You will recollect that I then stated that I was so deeply impressed with the ab solute necessity of maintaining the Union and the Constitution that I desire to see all the powers that God and nature had given to us brought into requisition to save our country from being dissevered and made the sport of foreign and domestic Saracens. 1 feared then, as I fear now, the danger of our being drawn into error by men who have no faith in a real democratic form of government. In that letter I stated that I was then, and I have still continued, to the ~*thycar of my age, to be 11 firm be liever in a truly democratic republican form of government —I mean a government founded on those eternal principles of truth and justice which our fathers declared were self-evident, namely: "That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among : men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." In the very first words of the Constitu tion, formed by our fathers, it i 9 declared that "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, es tablish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves aDd our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Our fathers, in forming for us this Con stitution, believed that they had embodied in the forms of law, the highest wisdom, virtue, and intelligence of a whole people. They meant to make the wisdom, the vir tue. and the intelligence of the people the means to insure all the blessings required to make us a nation with all the powers neces sary "to establish justice," and "to pro mote the general welfare.'' To enable the people to do this in the most convenient manner, they declared, in '■ the first article of the Constitution, that | "All legislative power herein granted shall j be tested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and Home I of Representatives." They then describe the mode and manner by which the people's representatives shall be chosen, who are to make all laws which ; shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers of Congress, and all other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department thereof. Among these powers there is nothing plainer than the intention of the fraroers of the Constitution to vest in the people's rep- i resentatives the right to suspend the writ of habeas corpus whenever in their judgment "the public safety may require it," to sup press rebellion or repel invasion. I have been led to address this letter to you, as standing at the head of the l)emo j cratic party —m party with which I contic j ued to act so long as I believed it was labor ing to promote the greatest good of our com mon country; but when I became convinced tbattho Democratic party, with which I had been so long connected, was lending its pow er and influence to sustain men and meas ures that had so far perverted the Constitu tion of our country as to deny the rights of manhood to 4,000,000 of human beings— and when I saw that I was acting with a party which was lending its influence to men and measures that were raising up in our country the vilest form of an arietocrey —an aristocracy that claimed it as a right that "property should own labor," and claimed the right to mix their blood with the black race, and then sell their children to be enslaved with all their posterity, then I considered it my duty .to my country to aban don a party that had abandoned the great principles of truth and justice. What tongue cap describe the horrois of a system that allowed a father to sell his child, who may have had spvep-eights of BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, SEPT. IS- ISGB. white blood in his veins, to a brutal master, who had the power to confine him on a plantation, under a more brutal overseer; perhaps a Northern man, , with his con science callous to every human feeling, and whose principal recommendation might be that he could whip out of the unprotected slave the greatest amount of labor! Thomas Jefferson might well say, in view of such a state of things, "I tremble for my country when 1 remember that God is just." John Wesley has well declared that such a system contains within itself the sum of all villiany. The enormity of human slavery will appear from the following ad vertisement, copied from The Georgia Mes senger: "llun Away—My man, Fountaine; has holes in his ears, a scar on the right side of his forehead, had been shot in the hind parts of his legs, is marked OD his back with the whip. Apply to Robert Boasley, Macon." We might well have said, in view of a system that allowed such cruelty, as God is just that the time must come when those great principles of our Declaration of Inde pendence that declares "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," must be vindicated in our own country. Allow me to repeat what I said in my last letter, namely : that I, who servod my country in person and by substitute from the commencement of the war with England to its close, feel that I have a right to plead with my countrymen of every .-hade of political opinion, and to beseech them by every consideration that can move our manhood to consider carefully the dangers that threaten us as a nation. It has been to me, for years, a source of profound regret to find so many ol those, whom I have esteemed and honored as friends, taking pr. *. with and forming all kinds of excuses for men who have done all that was possible to destroy our Union of States; and now I regret to find those very friends calling themselves Democrats; and. at the same time, uniting with those who were leaders in the Rebellion, and striving to aid them to build up what they are pleas ed to call "a White Man's Government," by which they mean to hold 5,000,G00 of human beings under a ban or disqualifica tion that will prove as destructive to their happiness as the slavery from which they have been delivered. I have been at a loss to see how a mind so elevated as yours could for a moment consider it possible for a democratic government to enact a course of class legislation that would make one law for the white man and another for the black man. John Stuart Mill has said with great pro priety that "There Is no true democracy where large classes of a community are de nied equality of political rights." He further declares that "Every Govern ment which permanently divides the people into a governing part, ami a governed qui, t is an aristocratic Government, by whatever name it maybe called." I find that the very men who profess so muehconcern forthc preservation of the Con stitution, are now most earnestly laboring to make proselytes for a white man's govern ment, which can only be had by legislating for a class, thereby adopting a principle that is at war with the very letter and spirit of the Constitution which they profess so much to revere. Such a course is as incon sistent as the profession and the practice of President Johnson. He declared at 'one time that "treason against the Government is the highest crime that can be commit ted," and that those engaged in it "should suffer all its penalties." "Treason," he said, "must be made odious, and traitors must be punished and impoverished." He went so far as to say, "They must not only be punished, but their social power must be destroyed; if not, tbey maintain an ascendency, and may again become numer ous enough for treason to become respecta ble." lie said, "After making treason odious, every Union man should be remu nerated out of the pockets of those who have inflicted the great suffering on our country." He then said, "I hold it a solemn obliga tion, in every one of these States, where the Rebel armies have been beaten back or ex pelled, I care not how small the number of Union men may be, if enough to man the ship of State, I hold it to be a high duty to protect and secure to them a republican form of government unt-.l they gain strength. They must not be smothered by inches." In reference to a Convention to restore the States, he asked: "Who shall restore them? Shall the men who gave all their influence and means to destroy the Govern ment? Are thoy u. participate in the great work of re organizing the Government, who brought this misery on the States? If this be so, then it is said in truth that all the precious blood of our brave soldiers and offi cers will have been lost, and all our battle fields will have been made memorable in vain." He then asked, "Why all this earnage?" and said "it was that treason might be put down and traitors punished." lie said "traitors should take a back seat in the work of restoration." He said "the traitor has ceased to be a citizen, and in forming rebel lion has become a public enemy, and has lost his right to vote with loyal men." He said that the great plantations of the traitors "must be seized and divided into small farms and sold to honest, industrious men;" also, "The day for protecting the lands and negroes of these authors of rebel lion is past." To cap the climax of inconsistency with all that he has since done and tried to ac complish, he said that he had been deeply pained by some things that had come un der his observation. He said, "We get men in command who, under the influence of flattery, fawning and caressing, grant protection to rich traitors, while the poor Union man stands out in the cold." He went on and said that "traitors can get lucrative employment while loyal men are pushed aside." He said, in relation to reconstructing the Southern States, that "We must not be in too much of a hurry. It is better to let them reconstruct themselves, than to force them into it." But as soon as he became President, we find him hurrying Reconstruc tion on a plan or policy of his own, and re sisting, with all the power he possessed, the mild measures prepared by Congress, and intended to enable the Rebel States to re construct themselves with the least possible difficulty or delay- It is difficult for one to imagine JJOW any honest, intelligent man can join with Presi dent Johnson, and charge the majority of Congress with being a class of radicals and traitors, hanging on the skirts of a Gov ernment which they are trying to destroy." It has been equally difficult for me to form an apology for such unreasonable charges as I find in your speeches-—and in the speeches of others claiming to be Demo crat:—against an administration that has had to contend with every form ofdifficulty and misrepresentation that the ingenuity of those who were in rebellion against the Government, and of all who were in sym pathy with them, could invent. Tregret to find in several of your speeches thai you make no allowance for the extra ordinary and trying circumstances through which the Government has been compelled to pass—circumstances that would hive made it wi-o and proper to have raised money by forced loans, if no other means could have been found to save the nation's Hi*" ?ou have said truly in your late speech that the Republican party "denounces all forms of repudiation as a national crime." You then try to throw on tbat party the odium of a deliberate design to repudiate the national debt. I he repudiation of the national debt is one of the last asts that the Republican party will ever tolerate or allow. I have been pained to find iD your several speeches a course of reasoning that is tending to revive the rebellious spit it throughout our Southern States—a cour-e of reasoning that has already won for you the enthusiastic support of those who were most prominent in the Rebellion, and of all who are in sym pathy with them throughout our country. I am sory to sec in your speeches an effort to prejudice the laboring population with the statement that the Government Is intro dueing a system of unjust and unequal taxa tion. It is certain that our Government could never stand in the presence of such laws as prevailed throughout the Southern States before the Rebellion; laws that made it a crime to "unbind the heavy burden, and let the captivt- go free;" laws that made it a crime to teach a poor helpless slave to read and write, fearing that a knowledge of the Declaration of Independence, that declares the unalienable right of every man to his life, his liberty, and the pursuit of happiues,. would make him unwilling longer to remain a slave. To talk of such a system and sueh laws a bave prevailed at the South being demo cratic, is to talk of a living body without an animating spirit. The Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph, the offi cial organ of the Catholie Church in the West, has said, with great propriety, that "the interest of humanity and the welfare of white labor, in particular, arc involved in the question of Slavery more than in any other, and it is the duty of men to prepare their minds conscientiously that they may, as far as possible, maintain what is best for the rmonic. Every one acknowledges that Slavery Is an evil. No man who u tree would ever consent to be a slave. It is ab horrent to his nature. No one can allege any right to reduce a human being to that mi.-erable condition. It is deto-table to mind and heart. And moreover he who re duces a free man to .Slavery is excommuni cated by the Catholic Church. Slavery was the cause of our national troubles. It was for Slavery that the war was commenced, and the blood of the brave men who have fallen on both .-ides has been shed by this insatiate monster. The hope of its restora tion is not abandoned. There arc multi tudes of men who would love to sec it in the as-cudant as it was before." Never were truer words said than that "Slavery was the cause of our national troubles." Notwithstanding ail the misery that Sla very and the war has brought on our coun tiy, let us assure all who took part in the Rebellion that we intend to do them all the good wc can. We intend to secure for them and for ourselvesthe constitutional guaranty of a republican form of government, which is the greatest earthly blessing our nation can possess. It has been with more than ordinary sor row that I find among the errors of your late speech other grave charges against the Re publican party. You say it has adopted "a policy of hate of waste, and of military despotism, ' in all of which you are as|mucb in error as when you state tbat the Republican party has expen ded $-"><10,000,000 of the taxes drawn from the people of this country "to uphold a des potic military* authority, and to crush out the life of the States." The facts, as shown by Mr. Blaice in Congress, arc that only a very small part of the amount you name was expended in maintaining the authority of the Govern ment over the Rebel States. Let us unite to frown down that spirit of rebellion that found encouragement in the Democratic Convention that met in Chicago, when it virtually recognized the principle of fseccs sion and Disunion as an established fact, by proposing "a cessation of hostilities' and a call for a convention of all the States to meet in their sovereign capacity and de liberate with rnen who were then in active rebellion, putting forth all their efforts to overthrow the Government by fort*. You charge the Republican party with "proposing to deprive the people of the South of their right to vote for Presidential Electors." You then say that "the first bold Steps arc taken to destroy the rights of suffrage." This reasoning is unaecouutable in view of the fact that the Republican party has been constantly making efforts to extend the elective franchise on a principle of equal rights to every man without regard to country, caste or color. Nothing could be more unfair than your charge that the Republican party intends that "there shall be no peace or order at the South save that which is made by arbi trary power." I will close this long letter by saying that I believe it would be the proudest day of your life if I could persuade you to unite with all who are laboring to se cure a purely Democratic Republican ad ministration of our State and General Gov ernment. For one, I desire to do what I can to secure peace and prosperity to a country which in the course of nature I must soon leave, but with an ardent desire that it may forever remain a glorious Union of States, where goodness and greatness shall be the motto and inspiration of the people. I remain, very respectfully, PETER COOPER. COPPERHEAD OPINIONS OL GEN. GRANT BEFORE HIS NOMI NATION. •Some months ago the copperheads were rather hopeful that Gen. Grant might be prevailed upon to become their candidate for the Presidency instead of the Repub . lican. Their opinions of the man at that time may fairly be taken as honest ones, therefore we propose to lay some of them before our readers and from time to time compare them with such opinions as they have already expressed since his nomination and may hereafter express. The Pittsburg Post one ol the most reliable Democratic papers in the State, within a few months past has spoken as follows : Suppose that, contrary to the wish of some of the leading Radical Black Ilepub licans, who want the office themselves, \}eu. Grant should be nominated for the Prcsi i dency by the Republican party, which course ought the Democratic party to pursue? | Ought ice to nominate a mart in opposition I to General Grant t Ought we to charge him with being an ennny to his country, or in favor of intrust measures, merely Beeaute he may have received said nomination f |* * * * We are inclined to believe that more de pends upon General Grant now than upon any other individual in the United States. We believe him to be far superior to the ma jority of the far sighted politicians vcho have been ruling the nation without bring ing peace or economy to our legislation. He is known to fall the people as a straight forward man. and, so far as can be judged. " man well disposed to dad fairly with the people of all sections of the Union. * * * * What Utter thing can we do in case of General Grant s nomination ly the Repub liean party than to VOTE FOR HIM FOR IIIE PRESIDENCY ? Our aim should be to strengthen his hands; to render him as much as possible independent of partv, and to ELECT HIM AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE. If unanimously, so much the better. WE SOLMSLY RELIEVE THAT ITTHF. PEO PLE GENERALLY OF THE UNITED STATES CAN COME TOGETHER WITH REAL UNANIMI TY ON GENERAL GRANT, IN REGARD TO THE PI:ESIDENCV. IT WILL BE THE HAPPI EST THING FOR OUR COUNTRY THAT COULD POSSIBLY OCCUR. The future good effects of this almost incalculable. We earnestly ask our Democratic friends every where to consider this subiect carefully. The New York World, the leading and most re.-pectable copperhead paper in the country, spoke as follows of Gen. Grant in W>s. LIEUTENANT-GEN'F.RAL GRANT. From The World, April 11, ! 865. Gen. Grant's history should teach us to di-criminate better than we Americans are apt to do between glitter and solid work. Our proneness to run after demagogues and -pouters may find a wholesome corrective in the study of such a character as his. The qualities by which great things are accom plished are here seen to have no necessary connection with showy ar.d superficial ac complishments. When the mass of men look upon such a character, they may learn a truer respect for themselves and each <-'ther; they are taught by it that high qual ities and great abilities are consistent with the ,-ira [ licity of taste, contempt for parade, and plainness of manners with which direct oarnpjf rrtfn t* frnn>raniajl gum. patby. I lyases Grant, the tanner, UJysses Grant, the unsuccessful spplicant for the postofdity Surveyor of St. Louis, Ulysses Grant, the driver into that city of his two horse team with a load of wood to sell, had within him every manly quality which will c:m-c the name of Lieutenant-General Grant to live forever in history. 11l- career i- a lesson in practical democracy: it is a quiet satire on the dandyism; the puppyism, and the shallow affectation of our fashiona ble exquisites as well a< upon the swagger of our plausible, glib-tongued demagogues. Not by any means that great qualities are inconsistent with cultivated manners and a fluent elocution; but that such superficial accomplishments arc no measure of worth or ability. Gen. Grant's last brilliant campaign Eets j the final seal upon his reputation. It j stamps him as the superior of his able an- i tagonist as well as of all the commanders who have served with or under him in the i great campaigns of the last year. Tt is not necessary to sacrifice any part of their well earned reputations to his. Sherman and Sheridan deserve all that has ever been said in their praise; but there had never been a time, since Grant was made Lieu tenant-General. when anybody but Sher man, on our side, could have been classed with him. Since Sherman's bold march through (leorgia, and his capture of Savan nah and Charleston, there have been many who in their strong admiration of his great achievements, inclined to rank him as the greater general of the two. That judgment, we take it is now reversed by the court of final appeal; not by dwarfing the reputa tion of Sherman, which suffers no just abatement, but by the expansion into grand er proportions of that of Grant. Grant stands preeminent among all the generals who have led our armies in the late war, in that he has exhibited the utmost strength of will of which the highest type of manhood is capable. The defenses of Vicksburg and the defenses of Richmond were both deemed impregnable, and were defended with a prcportionable confidence and obstinacy; but they both yielded, at last, to Grant's matchless persistence and unequaled strategy. And, in both cases, he not only took the long contested posi tion, but compelled the surrender of the whole force defending them. Nothing could be more clean and complete, eveu in imagination, than Gen. Grant s masterly execution He did not merely, in each case, acquire a position which was the key of a wide theater of operations; he did not merelv beat or disable the opposing force; he left no fragment of it in existence except as prisoners of war subject to his disposal. I t any body is so obtuse or so wrong headed as to .-ee nothing great in Gen. Grant, beyond his marvelous teuancity of will, let that doubter explain, if he can, how it has happened that, since Grant rose to high command, this quality has always been exerted in conspicious energy precisely at the point on which everything in his whole sphere of operations hinged. There has been no display of great qualities on small occasions; no expenditure of herculean effort to accomplish objects not of the first magnitude. It is only a very clear-sighted and a very comprehensive mind that could always thus have laid the whole emphasis of an indomitable soul so precisely on the emphatic place. How, if he be not a general of the first order of intellect, as well as of the most heroic determination, does it happen that in assigning great and bril liant parts to his subordinate commanders, he has never, when the results of his strategy were fully unfolded, appeared in the picture except as the central figure? However it may seem during the progress of one of his great combined campaigns, it always turns out at last, when it reaches that complete ness and finish in which he contrives to have his campaigns end, that we see htm standing in the foreground, and that the grouping Is always such that the glory of the other generals, instead of eclipsing his own, gives it additional luster. It is this surenesa ofjudgement which sees precisely where lies the turning point; which sees precisely what are the objects that justify _ the utmost stretch of persistence; it is this ability to take in the whole field of yiew in just per spective and due subordination of parts, that is the mark of a superior aiind. Gen. Grant has taken out of the hands of all critiesthequestion whether it belongs to him. lie hss won his greatest triumph over the VOL. 41: NO. 35 most skillful and accomplished General on the other side; over a General who foiled him long enough to prove his great mastery of the art of war: and the completeness of whose defeat is a testimony to Grant's genius such as victory over any other Gen eral of that Confederacy, or even an earlier victory over Lee himself, could not have given. Apply to Gen. Grant what test you will; measure him by the magnitude of the obstacles he has surmounted, by the value of the positions he has gained, by the fame of the antagonist over whom he has triumphed, by the achievements of his most illustrious co-workers, by the surcness : with which he directs his indomitable energy to the vital point which is the key of a vxst field of operations, or by that supreme test of consummate ability, the absolute com pleteness of his results, and he vindicates his claim to stand next after Napoleon and Wellington, among the great soldiers of this century, if not on a level with the latter. On the 21st of-May 186A, the very day Gen. Grant was nominated the same paper begins to disparage his merits in the face of its past opinions as expressed in the above article and attacks him in the follow- S ing style. From Th> World, AZay 21,18<>8. * * * It was possible for Grant, after his failure "to fight it out. on one line" in his advance of I*o4 upon Richmond, to lav ish the lives of thousands of American sol diers and to expend hundreds of thou.- mds of dollars of the nation's treasure upon a new campaign, and so finally wear and wor ry down the strength of the rebellion which had already been mortally wounded by Meade at Gettysburg. Such is copperhead patriotism! Such, copperhead consistency! But the successful General, the gallant soldier, the true patri ot cannot be hurt by such mendacity. The honest expression of their sentiments be fore being tainted with partisan hatrad. bitterness and falsehood, will be taken by the people as the true measure of merit, while the partisan abuse that follows will be justly ignored as the ravings of disappoint ed. unscrupulous and despairing party lead ers trying, but in vain, to tarnish the bright ness of the fame of the man whom they were unable to control and use because of his sterling integrity and devoted patriotism. "A WIIITE MAN'S GOVERNMENT." For an example of the mode in which the Southern Democracy ocaaisona'.ly vary their occupation in shooting "Radical niggers," by trying to coax them to become "colored Democratis," we submit the annexed cate chism. which has been prepared for the use oftbe Virginia freedm en by the Richmond Whig, one of the leading Democratic rel-el journals of the South. It covers the whole ground, with more than usual fidelity to the truth, and makes very fair reading for the Democrats hereabouts, who belieave in "a white man' 3 government." The Whig asks: Who gave the negreos the right of suf frage in New York? The Democratic party. Who presided over the Convention which gave this privilege to negroes Martin Van Buren, a Democrat. Who afterwards elected Martin Van Buren President of the United States? The | Democratic party. | Who married a negro and by her had ' muiauo cniiurcu: nw—a m. 0~1 . - good Democrat, Who elected Richard M. Johnson Vice President of the United States? The Demo cratic party. If President Van Baien had died, and Richard M. Johnson had become President who would have become the Democratic mistress of the White House? This negro woman. Who made the negroes citizens of the State of Maine? The Democratic party. Who enacted a similar law in Massa chusetts? The Democratic party. Who gave the negro a right to vote in New Hampshere? The Democratic party. Who permitted every colored person own ing $250 in New York to become a voter? A General Assembly purely Democratic. Who repealed the laws of Ohio which required negroes to give bonds and security before settling in that State? The Democrat ic party. Who made mulattocs legal voters in Ohio? A Democratic Supreme Court, of which Ruben Wood was Chief Justice. What became of Reuben Wood? The Democratic party elected him Governor three times. Who helped to give free negroes the right to vote in Tennessee under the Constitution 0f1797? Gen. Jackson. Was General Jackson a good Democrat ? He Generally passed as such. VALUE OF THE SAIJUATII". 1. The simple rest from labor by which wearied bodily powers may be restored makes this institution beyond estimate val uable. Week-day efforts run the machine JOWD; the Sabbath winds it up. 1!. The reaction upon the body of the res ted, the refreshed and enlivened mental powers which Sabbath rest secures, is of great value to the physical system. 3. The cleanliness which a well kept Sab bath always brings, in connection with the changing of apparel etc., is evidently favor able to health and vigor. 4. The honored Sabbath powerfully re pulses every species of vicious indulgence, and favors all those virtuous habits which so strongly befriend man's physical wel fare. The most satisfactory experiments have shown that a vastly greater amount of physical labor can be accomplished with the rest and refreshment of the Sabbath than without it. 6. The same has been verified in refer ence to laboring animals, such as horses, etc. Hence the laws of the Sabbath ex pressly mentioning them —''Thou nor thy cattle.'' 7. Every species of human industry is befriended by the Sabbath's regularity—re turning rest, restoring wasted powers, in vigorating wearied faculties, and putting the human engine in proper order for the demands made upon it by the succeeding labors of the week. Hence both the wisdom and benevolence of God beam forth in the institution of the Sabbath. j A TREATV.— By a treaty ratified in I >2B, j 1 between Prussia and the United States, each j nation agreed, on demand, to arrest and i deliver up the deserters from the ships of the other. Recently, however, the question has arisen whether deserters from vessels belonging to the ports lately acquired by Prussia come within the provisions of the j treaty. The Prussian Cabinet has decided that they do, and hereafter deserters from any ship of the class named will be liable f to arrest and return to their vessels in the ' United States port?. RATES OF ADVERTISING. All ndvertiscmeotn for lo?a than 3 month* 10 ccnU per line for each iDeertion. Special notices one-half additional. All resolutions Cif Aatocim tions, communications of a limited or indiridal interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding fire lines, 10 cts. per line. All legal noti ces of ererj kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in loth papers. Editorial Notices 15 cent* per line. All Advertising due after first insertion A liberal discount made to jearly advertisers. 3 moots. 6 months, I je >r One square —.... $ 4.50 $ 6.00 slo.' Twe squares - 6-00 9.00 16.00 Three squares B.OH 12.00 20.00 One fourth column 14.00 20.00 35."0 llalf column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column - 30.00 45.00 80. ; fC PAY YOLK DEBTS. Not oiily is there no essential difference between a public arid private debt, a lor;.! and a domestic or. ditCr or debtor, bat • universal applicable truth, that thirig whicb are apparent trifles when attended to, become fearfully important when not atten ded to, holds good regarding debts also. J t i.-, no great thing, indeed, if a lad knows tl multiplication table, or if a man keeps his hands and nails clean, or if he abstains from lying; but it is a very serious thing if a man has grimed nails; it is a tremendous thing if he does not know his multiplication-table, or if he is u iyi'.g creature. It does not dis tinguish a man if he keeps his word, but it marks him prominently if he does not. Paying our debts is the regular thing; not paying, the exception. Being honest is no great thing; but being dishonest is a fearful shame. When a nation contracts a debt, it is no historic glory if it fulfils its engagc ; meats anctray *nd loyally. Tho leader expected thus much Would he hare given you, otherwise, his money? But when a nation does not pay her debts up to her ca pacity of paying, and does that for which a merchant is ignominiously thrust from the exchange and cast out, it is a most tremen dous thing, and will stand forever as a dis grace on the record of history and the con sciences of the citizens. People talk so much of our prosperous country and future wealth. Let them never forget the far more important moral prosperity, and the desirable wealth of unspotted Lonor of the country. No greater trea-ure can be hand ed down to future generations than an un spotted reputation, be it of an individual family or a va-t nation. Be honest—pay your debts—steal not. It is not much if you observe this; but it is overwhelmingly much if yon become dishon est. or dishonestly do not pay your debts, or become a'thief.— from Dr. Lltbers Course on Political Economy. ANNEXATION FEEUN*<I IN NOVA SCOTIA. —A correspondent of the New York Post. who claims to be well informed, writes from Nova Scotia that there is a strong and nearly universal feeling in that provinceis in favor of annexation to the United States. The peo ple are intensely opposed to confederation, and the course of the British Government in attempting to force them into it has alienated them from the mother country. The writer remarks: "Nova Scotians have appealed in vain to the Canadian sense of hoDor and justice: in vain they have invoki d the home Government; and now the a ternative is openly debated, and thequ-.- ti eagerly a-ked of every visiting citizen of • United States: 'Will your Governn nt standby us if we appeal to it for aid, even at the risk of inevitable war with England The Stars and Stripes are greeted with cheers, and American citizens, who were once treated with coldness and disdain, are now everywhere received with cordial greetings. This feeling is scarcely • > manifest in New Brunswick. For.instao • on tlie 6th instant there was a pic-mc on Partridge Island, in the harbor of St. John. It is Government land, and contains a light house station, a marine hospital, a 1 a battery garrisoned by British soldiers. T ro or three thousand people were present. From either corner of the hospital building a large American flag was floating, and under the streaming bunting, beneath the hag piazza, her Majesty's baud of the IT'h Regiment was playing occasional American airs; but no British flag was to be •on anywhere. The impropriety of the thing was pointed out by Americans present, ami a British ensign was hoisted between its rivals, but its unfolding scarcely elicit <1 a cheer. MODERN DISCOVERIES.— Bayard Taylor, the celebrated traveler, thus sums up tho results of modern discoveries; Within the last twenty-five years, all the principal! it ures of the geography of our own vast int-r --ior regions have been accurately detcri: ti ed; the great fields of Centrala Asia have been traversed in various directions, from i Bokhara and Oxus to the Chinese walk the haif-known river systems of South America have been explored and surveyed; the icy continent around the South Pole has be u discovered; the Northwest Passage—the ignis fatuus of nearly two centuries—is at last found: the Dead Sea is stripped of its fabulous terrors; the source of the Niger is ■ longer a tnytb, the sublime secret of the Nile is almost wrested for his keeping; the Mountains of the Moon, sought for fltMi years, have been beheld by a Causcas ian eye; an English steamer ha 3 ascended the Chadda to the frontiers of Barnon; Leiebardt and Stuart have penetrated the wilderness ot Australia; the Russians have descended from Irkoutsk to the mouth of the Amoor; the antiquated walls of Chin ese prejudice have been cracked, and are at last tumbling down and the canvas screens that surround Japan have been cut by the sharp edge of American enterprise. Such are the principal results of modem explor ation. What quarter of a century, since the form of the earth and the boundaries of its Mand and water were known, can exhibit tuch a list of achievements' THE CAPTURE OE HUHAITA.— The laic.-t news from South America is to the effect that the 1 'araguavanshave been starred out of their stronghold, and that the allied ar mies have taken triumphant possession of ilumatia, with all its guns and ammunition. The report has an air of probability wanting in previous minors of Brazilian victories. It is a wonder how the Paraguayans managed to hold ont as long as they did. Whenever the enemy cave them a chance to fight, they showed themselves more than a match for the legions brought against them. But while the allies had an unlimited supply of provisions, they had the greatest diffi culty in keeping their garrison from starva tion. It may be Lopez has fallen back to some other point of defense, and he may yet astonish the allies by some desperate fighting. It does not follow that the war 13 over because Ilumaita has fal ! len, and a correct version of tho affair | may show it to have been less disastrous for the Paraguayans than would appear from the reports already published, PEXNSTT.VANIA. perhaps it is not gener ally known eyen within her own borders, has a greater length of railroad than any other State in the Union. In round num bers. she possesses four thousand nufea to New York's three thousand, or one nu.e of rail no syery square mile of her territory.
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