vols'jar: ss. NEW SEKIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY MEYERS BEN FORD, At the following terms, to wit: 5 1.50 per annum, cash, hi advance. >2.00 " " 11 paid within the year. s>.so )| n.t paid within the year. 05?* No subscription taken (or less than six months. C-/~-No paper lis< .jntiiuieii until all arrearages are paid, uelei-s at theopiion o. the publishers. It has seeri decided by the United States Courts, that the stoppage of a newspapei without the payment of ar rearages, is p, una farie evidence ot fraud and is a crin ir.al of. ce. cy I he com !i have decided that persons are ac countable (or the ;iiliscripfion price of newspapers, if they take them fiotn the post office, whether they subsriibe for them, or not. POLITICAL. The total revenue of Hie year before Mr. Buchan an came in. was s■>.' O'l OOP. The total revenue of Mr. Buchanan's first fiscal year was UOtl,- 000 I '!! YYV take the above ftnm the Washington cor respondent of the New York Courier and En quirer. The startling exclamation points giv en would seem to indicate a determination up on the part of lite writer to hold Mr. Buchanan responsible for the fulling off in Hie revenue a rising I'rorn the reduction i i the Tariff, made by the Republican Congress f 1857, and the great falling ofi'in importations caused bv the financial and commercial revulsion of 1857 ' YYe wonder the Republican press do not insist that Mr. Buchanan is responsible fir the failure of the oats crop this year! He certainly lias ijuite as much to do with it as he had with the falling of] in the revenue from customs ! By the by, the Republican press, when they pub lish such tacts as the above, triSwer their que ries wliv the Administration has been obliged to resort to a ! an in the i-.ns of the*benth, communicating his views usually in ; shott, (Matched sentences, sometimes not at a!, but when he did, iKling the exact point, and I diffusing additional 1 il.t on the principles in qm-stion. When appointed to deliver the opin- J ton, he generally made an examinatim of the ; authorities, and sometimes, it must be admitted, too brive of them beams in his writings as affec ti m will beam in the human countenance. Ife not only looked on them with the admiration of an artist, as symmetrical and beautiful parts of a [great fabric , but he regarded them as the b -st rampart which the common sense of man kind has yet thrown up against the despotism ol the king or the judge, of the purse or tie sword. We shall see her eafter that the last thing he ever wrote for publication, was a declaration of his unshaken loyalty to the doc trines ol'the common law. A past of the lan- which lie applied to Judge Kennedy, might as justly have been uttered of himself; lor like Byron in many of his characters, he was probably desciibing himself without seeing that the vvorid would recognize the "He clung to the common law as a child to its nurse, and how much lie drew from if, may be seen in his opini ms, which, by their elaborate minuteness, remind us of tin- overfulness of Coke." The Chief Justice was also an admirer of our Pennsylvania system of law, io which the substantial principles of equity are applied under the forms of the common law. The i wonder is that in any case th v should have been separated. To appoint one judge to cxe. cut'- the law, and another to do equity, seems like creating one man all head, and another all heait. To execute the law upon a suitor's per son or property, an I to allow him in the mean time to apply to a Court of Equity for relief, or to turn him out of the latter because his case has no equity in it, with the assurance that he will have no difficulty in recovering in a court of law, in other words, to prnriit two different rules o( legal du'y on the.same subject, to pi ess on the same n an, at the same lime, — is a state of things which th" ma*s of mankind will nev er understand, if each individual man should rival the patriarchs in the term ol natural life. From the day when Lord Brskine uttered his quiet huir.oi on the subject, down to tile publica tion of Bleak House, the severest sarcasms on this state of tilings have been Hung in to the faces of lawyers, without the possibility of turn ing the point of one of them. The Pennsylva nia system of law is among the lew that have b-'en mensuribiy I r-e horn the reproach)-- which the learned and the iml-arited have thus conspired to hurl at the whole science. I: is natural that the mmd of a man like Judge (fib son, who had done so much to advance this system,-and who had witnessed the strides w hieh the legal worul seemed making tow ards it, show! i 1 -ei SJIII - pri 1 •:n perpetuating it. — With this spirit, it i< consistent, that when oar legislature adopted certain equity remedies, and provided for sepaiate equity proceedings, he should endeavor to carry tlu-sn taiiiv into practice. An opposite couise, it he could have pursued if, would have caused disquiet and disaster. Besides this, whatever lie might have thought, he was n it i man to set himself up a g,l isw h• s- em- dto he use! i| lelorih. lie l.ji! seen delects which some of these remedies see med to supply, and lie applied them in the veiv spirit in which 'he profession and the hgisla ture ha ! called them into being. So successful ly was this dune, that with all his attachment to the common law, it has not been ur.lrequenl to hear from those most devoted to the equiiv system, the admission that lie would have made a better chancellor than lie was a judge. It is pertinent to remark here that he had no undue fondness for the civil law. 11 is mind was too liberal—for the mind of a scholar is always liberal in its appreciation of learning—not to admire the beauty, wisdom and simplicity of many parts of that system, and its adaptation to to the state of society in which it has grown up: but it must be admitted that he ever and anon cast a suspicious glance on the efforts of Judge Story, and the writers ol that school, to infuse its principles into our cherished common law. He could not have denied that many of the branches of our laws have been enriched in this mode, but lie was alive to the danger of push ing such improvements too far. 1 need refer the reader only to the opinion delivered in Lyle vs. Richards, 9 S. K K. 322, and in Lo gan vs. .Mason, 6 VV. KS. 9, in proof of the ex istence of tiie.se viewsin the mind of their author. In summing up the personal characler of Judge Gibson, 1 do not mean to represent him as faultless, for then he had been more than hu man. Doubtless he had his defects: whatever they may have been, I do not propose to discuss them. Fo do so, would be to imitate the con duct of some visitor to a gallery of art, who should employ himself in tracing raugh images in the dust of the floor, and not in contempla ting the beautiful conceptions of genius on all sides around him and above him. 1 speak rath er of what Judge Gibson was, than of what lie was not. His case has been removed to that great app. Hate Court which, while it ad ministers perfect justice, is governed also by Freedom of Thought and Opinion. 'perfect mercy. Jurisdiction having vested there, on the soundest principles of jurispru ; dence no allegation should be permitted against him here. He certainly had small faults, which to small eyes were large enough to shut out a perception of his great qualities. He despised Hie anise and the cumin, and necessarily lost the respect of those valuable members of the j State, outside arid inside of the bar, who do the least important things first,and the more impor- ' tnnt last. Frank, generous and confiding, he j spoke on the bench and elsewhere, of persons ; and of tilings, with that impulse which jione j hut an honest heart can know; and in doing so, he occasionally lost in dignity as much as he gamed in the pleasure of giving expression to his real sentiments in his own way. If, as a presi- j di.ag officer, he had preserved order more rigid- ; !y> his Court would have been a more solemn place, and if he had attended more directly to w hat was passing before him, the business would have been more efficiently despatched. But e nougli of what he was not. The qualities which he possessed were striking and peculiar. That which most impressed those who knew him best, was the exceeding kindness oftiis heart. The knowledge ofthis was a key to his charac ter. Any newspaper editor or legislative ora tor who had abused him, might have approach , ed him with the profoundest confidence, not on ly that lie had forgiven, but actually forgotten, j any calumny however gross. In that respect, i at least, no man could have reduced to practice i more dmec'ly, the morality of the New Testa- j inprit. He cherished no antipathies, and form- j ed no prejudices. In every relation, public and private, he display ed that charity of the heart which makes a man a gentleman, despite of ear ly associations and even of bad manners. In the liveliest salli- sof his wit and humor—the last acts on which benevolence exerts its restraining : influence—he never allowed himscll to trench on the sensibilities of others. When he said anything from the bench approaching severity, j as he sometimes did when worn down by a dull and tedious argument, no time was lost in try- ; injj, bv a remark of a different kind, to wear away its effect both on the speaker and the au- j riience. He was a sound critic in the best sense j of the term, and when a harsh observation was made of one whom he knew, he was gen erally aide to relieve its effect by p doting out >:ne exct Hence which had escaped the atten ti in of o'hers. To the young, and especially to those vv ho were endeavoring to become the architects of their own fortunes, he was kind, affable, and indulgent. But the picture requi res higher coloring. There was something in his magnanimity, in his to-giving temper, in his kindly ch.. i'v, in his rapacity : appreciate i excellence of any kind, in any foTin, which; despite his apparent unconcern of manner and slus'gishne.vs of bodv, elicited and compelled at- • fection. There was a true fire of the heart which glowed unceasingly and cast even the j splendor of his intellect into the shade. No man ever more cordially despised a co!d,ca!cu- ' filing, spider-like lawyer, weaving day by day his miserable toils, giving up nothing, retaining his 2ia-;> on every victim ol chance and folly, ' and employing hi-, powers only for the produc tion of misery and the practice of oppression.— j No man ever spoke into being with so little* ef fort, ardent and permanent friendship, llesat on the Supreme Bench with twenty-six differ ent Judges, none of vv horn owed their position to his influence, and almost all ot whom, on their accession, were comparative strangers to him, and yet it may be doubted whether the purest and happiest household ever lived in more absolute harmony than lie enjoyed in his personal inter course with his associates. In j regard to any body of nun long associated to gether, this fact might be worth repeating; hut in that of so many independent men, of strong ; int-llects and wills, employed together in the daily examination ol exci'ing questions, where . conscience ami duty required each man to stand i bv his individual judgement, the case is some- j what remarkable. His intellectual acquire ments were great, and he had a right to be : proud of them, hut that would bo a poor monu- j meot to his lame, \v Inch should omit to mention those higher ami finer qualities ot the heart, which placi d him so far above the level ot or- , dinary men. It is almost unnecessary to speak of him as a man of integiity. I verily believe that the i mere force of habit in seeking the truth and , finding reasons to support it, would have driven ; him to the rigid, against every co-nipt inilu- ! ence that could have been brought to heai upon , i him. But the truth is, no idea opposite to that j of his utmost purity as a judge, was ever asso- j i crated with his name. There was something i in his character, conversation, manner anJ ap • pearance, which would have crushed such a I thought in the bud. A man who had approach • ed him tor the purpose of corrupting him, would • have been as much-disposed to fall down before > him in an act ol homage, as to have attempti d • to carry out his purpose. Alter a lifetime devo .ted to the service of his country, it is surely no mean praise of a public man, that declarations like these can he uttered, with a certainty that they will be credited, not less by the suitors a gainst whom he decided, than by the profession who practised before him, and Hie community j whose laws he enforced. A QUAKER JOKE. A correspondent sends the Buffalo Express j the following good thing for the hot weather : K , tlie Quaker President of a Pennsyl ! vania Railroad, during the confusion and panic last fall, called upon the W Bank, with j which the road had kept a Ir rge regular account, and asked lor an extension of a part of i pa per falling due in a few days. The Bank Pres i ident declined rather abruptly, saying in a tone I common with that fraternity : "Mr. K., your paper must be paid at maturi : ty. IYe cannot renew it." "Very well," our Quaker replied, and left the Bank. But he did not let ttie matter drop here. On leaving the Bank he walked quiet ly over to the depot and telegraphed all the j agents and conductors on the road, to reject the uills on the VV Bank. In a few hours the ; trains began to arrive, tuil of panic, and bung ing the news of distrust of the VV Bank all along the line ol the road. Stockholders and depositors flocked into the bank, making the panic inquiry "What's the matter!" "Is the ; bank broke ?" A little inquiry by the officers showed that the trouble originated in the rejec tion of the bills by the railroad. The President j seized his hat and rushed down to the Quaker's ! office, and came blustering in with the inquiry: "Mr. K., have you directed the refusal of our currency by your agents o '' "Yes," was the quiet repl\-. "Why is this ? it will ruin us." "Well, friend L., I supposed thy bank was about to fail, as thee could not renew a little pa i per for us this morning." Jt is needless to say Mr. L. renewed all the Quaker's paper and enlarged his line of dis count, while the magic wires carried all along the road, to every agent, the sedative message, I "The VV' Bank is all right. Thee may ' lake its currency." THE CROPS J.V TEXAS„ G. VV. Kendall writes to the New Orleans Picayune the following statement regarding I the corn and Chinese sugar cane crops in Tex- j j There is to be no want of corn in western j Texas, for every field which escaped the rava- j : ties of tile grasshoppers, is yielding abundantly, j and many localities escaped these pests entire- j ly. The crop ot Chinese sugar-cane, which j laughs at grasshoppers and droughts, is at Ihe same time immense, and the first heads of ripe seeds are already gathered. Some ol my neigh- | bors are having it ground, and are making; bread of it, speaking of it in commendable | terms, while every where they are preparing ' : to grind the slaiks and convert the juice into i syrup or molasses. fhat this is to be a valua- ; file addition to our crops in this section, there I ean be no doubt; it stands a drought better than any other plant —is no more affected by dry j weather than a good article of bread—so many ! • say: the leaves make an excellent fodder, while j | the stalks can be converted into molasses and j 1 perhaps sugar—nothing is lost. I have often i ; heard it stated that the giain is hurtful to hor , ses, and tiiis may he so; yet if any one has any to spare, I am willing to feed it out to my work j animals as an experiment, am! will run all risks jof its injuring them. In fact, I fed out no in i considerable quantity ot it last year, and would j have used it more fieelv, had J had it to spare. : A bushel ol it weighs some forty-eight pounds. ; or eight pounds less than a bushel of corn. We i , have not yet learned all its uses. MODESTY.— "Who shall win the prize V There was a meeting of the flowers, and the j judge was appointed to award the prize of 1 beauty. "VVho shall win the prize?" asked the rose, 1 proudly rushing forward in blushing beauty, in full assurance of its winning worth. | "Who shaii win the prize-?" asked the rest of the flowers, as they came forward, each one j conscious of its own attractions, and each equal- ; , ly sure of receiving the reward. •'I will take a peep at the assemblage,"! thought the violet, not intending to make one i :of the company, "and see the beauties as they! - pass." Just as it was raising its modest head from • iis humble and retiring corner, and was j looking in upon the meeting, the judge rose j to render the decree. "To the violet " said he, "I award tlip prize of beauty, for there is no trait more rare—none j j more enchantingly beautiful, than modesty." THE SAW AND THE SAUCER.—"I come for the saw, sir," said an urchin. 1 "What saucer?" asked the neighbor. "Why,the saw sir, that you borrowed," re ! plied the urchin, j ' "L borrowed no saucer." "Sure you did, sir—you borrowed our saw, ; ■ sir." "Be off. I never saw your saucer." ; "But you did sir—there's tl.e saw, sir, now j j sir." . , | "O, you mean the saw.' Why the thunder j didn't you say so alWrst ?" f£p=At a negro celebration, lately, an Irish- ; man stood listening to the colored speaker expa tiating upon government and freedom: and as the orator came to a "period" from the highest and most poetical flights, the Irishman said : "Bedad, he ipakcs well for a uagur; don't he now ?" . Somebody sai I—"He isn't a negro, he is on ly a half regro." # * "Only aha I nagur, is it ! Well, if a halt nagur can ta k in that style, I'm thinking a whole nagur might bale the prophet Jeremi ah !" IVHOLK 3811. VOL 2, NO. 6. AX INCIDENT OF THE LAST WAR. Allow me to relate an incident of the last war , with Great Britain, on the Canada border, which j develops true heroism on the part of a young otlicer then in his teens, hut now a worthy and distinguished citizen of the State of New York. The facts were long JJO related to me by an old soldier, who saw and participated in the en terprise. In August, JSP the American army, under Major-General Hampton, broke up their en c mpment at Burlington, and crossed Lake Cnamplain, n bn euux, to the Cumberland Head, on their mar to Montreal, expecting to encounter the British airr.j on their way The e were our elite corps, of two hundred men each, severally under Colonel Snellirg. Colonel Wool, Colonel McNeil, and Colonel Hamilton. They arrived at Cumberland Point, at twelve j o'clock at night. j It was arranged that Colonels Sneliing and ; \Y 00l should proceed down the Lake, in batteaux, ; and that the two corps, under Colonel McNeil : and Hamilton, should inarch down by land and | a tack the British aimy on the Canada shore.— l Colonels Snelling and Wool arrived first, and succeeded in d.iving in the British outposts to the main body, and occupying their places. Alter marching about twenty miles, Colonel i McNeil 's command, on coming out of the woods at about sunrise, and seeing the detachments of | Colonel Sneiling and Wool, mistook them for tfie British army. Lieutenant Aaron Ward, be- I ing in command of the advance guards of about ! fifty men, halted till the Colonel in command S should come up and give orders. Colonel Mc- I Neil soon came up and ordered Lieutenant j Ward to gain the first fence, parallel to the road where the troops appeared; but otherwise to advance to the second fence. He advanced to the second fence, and formed his company, when a flag was presented, and the adverse ! corp s proved to be the first detachment, under j Colonels Snelling and Wool. Colonel Snel ling's corps soon after embarked in '.heir boats, leavingthe residue under Colonel McNeil. In the course of an hour the whole j British army were observed advancing, in order of battle. Lieutenant Ward was ordered to ad vance with his company. The road was five rods wide, and the efiertfy three-quarters of a mile ahead. Lieutenant Ward, then about seventeen years of age, and j on his first campaign, steadily advanced without flinching, and received three discharges from | the enemy, without returning a shot; and while re-loading tor (he fourth volley, Lieutenant Ward ordered his company to fire, ami immedi ; ately after blazing away he charged bayonets ! on the enemy. Their advanced guard of regu lars, under Captain Myers, was immediately routed, and retreated to their main body, pur | sued bv Lieutenant Ward's company, leaving several killed on the fieid, which was instantly I occupied by the Americans. This skirmish con centrated the whole American army, and the British army retreated in disorder. Colonel, af i terwards Genera! John McNeil, at the c'.pse of I the \va-, held a civil appointment for several years, in the revenue service. Lieutenant, now General Aaron Ward, of New York, after serving faithfully during the war, has since, for twelve years, represented Westchester district j in Congress. ' A man of consummate skill and bearing in the field, be was a uselul and faithful representa • tive of the people on the floor of Congress, and j merits well of his country. Hosfou Journal. TIIE MEMORY or THE DEAD. — It seems to be an innate principle ofthe human inmd to treat with reverence the memory of the departed.— They seem tons in their narrow resting places, to have become holier than moitals like ourselves. Their faults, their follies and j their foibles, are all forgotten. The hand of ; death has purified—sanctified ! Itis'well. It embodies human nature ! Palsied be the tongue that would idly caluminate their character ; j palsied be the hand that would rudely disturb j their repose! How simple and beautiful is the ! sentiment ofthe Latin bard —"Nil mortuus nisi bonum." And an English poet has said, with tender j pathos : ; "When low in the dust lies the friend thou hast loved, ! Be his faults and (lis follies forgot by thee then: ! Or if .'or a moment the veil be removed, j Weep o'er it in silence, then close it again." WHAT IS THE EARTH ?— ANSWERS.—"What is earth, sexton ? A place to dig graves.— What is earth, rich man? A place fo work slaves.— What is earth, gray beard ? A place to |to grow old.—What is earth, miser ? A place t. dig gold. What is earth, schoolboy? A place | for my plav.— What is eaith, maiden? A [dace to be gav. What is earth, seamstress? A place I where I weep.— What is earth, sluggard?— A sood place to sleep.— What is'eartb, soldier? 1 A place for a battle—What is earth, herds ! man ? A place to raise cattle . —What is earth j widow ? A place of true sorrow.—What is earth, tradesman ? I'll tell you to-morrow.—• : What is earth sick man ? 'Tis nothing to me. What is earth, sailor My home is the sea . What is earth, statesman ? A place to win fame.— What is earth, author ? I'll write there ;my name.— What is earth, monarch ? For my r alm'tis given.— What is earth, Christian* the gateway to heaven." Pcac'i Leaves for Yeast. — .Mrs. Daniel R. Mitchel, of Rome, Ga., says the Rome Courier, has discovered that peach leaves are superior to hops for making yeast. The bread made from it is quite as light and equally well flavored.— We understand that the yeast is made in the same way, except that dried peach leaves are used instead of hops. says that "nothing can be aisier than to repale the union of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. It is only necessa ry," says he, "to transpose two letters, and they will become untied kingdoms at once"'