\ Oil 131) 33. NEW SERIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE C i f BUSHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BV MEYERS it BENFORD, At the following terms, to wit: -1.50 per annum, CASH, in advance. s?.00 " " if psid within the year, v.!..-,,) " " if not paid within the year. j-y=\\"o subscription taken for less than six months. _7"No paper discontinued until all arrearages are , r .nl, unless at the option of The publishers. It has r.een decided by the United States Courts, that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment ol ar caraees, is prima jacie evidence ol traud anil is a .-r.minal otlence. !£7"The courts have decided that persons arc ae lountab'e for the subscription price of newspapers, .1 th-j take them I'iom the post office, whether they mbsrribe for them, or not. jj 0 C t V IF UNHAPPY JOHN. UT rally turbid with gold,** and crowned with eternal spring, in the broad vision >f Asia, — wfile between these extremes lies an empire • tore than six thousand miles in its outline, .v -red with the lichest soils ever visited by -• beams oFthe sun, and intersected by streams which pour their floods through "inland seas" • ; the great ocean. And already Science, in \ f-r azure robe, has taken her stand nn the I r. -t of the world, the summit of the Rocky u,tains, and gazing with dazzling eyes in ! e face of Asia, with a globe in one hand and i A in the other, whose trembling j ,t v lje, ififctinct with the pulsations of that won- j l-i-fni vein oi influence whicjr throbs j irounJ. the world, is pointing fut I" jbe mil .of the West the paraiU of ja'itude on •vhich the riches of the earth are to find a l.'gb" "\v !o the East. And, indeed, she is Row j ►'"boning into our Pacific ports the "daring j R I HIS" and flying steamer of every nation,, " 'Ri th.- wandering seas and distant tiansits a- ■ "md Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope.— : Fid yet our country is but in the germ ol her ■ reatnes-s and the infancy ol her years, in a century to come, at the regular rates of 1 cr. ae, she will contain a population of 500,- 1 >O,OOO. ft cannot be averted; for the gene- j r i! laws of the moral are as certain in their j , ""alion a? those of the natural world. D'v Angio-American race must eventually I.r .! nave of population over this continent. • I in the past is the best augury for - future. Had any one in the time of the >'dedi ration said that the handful of men living, and their descendants,in fifty year.-, spread to the Pacific ocean, he would have been rewarded as a run-mad enthusiast.— h d incredulity has been turned into faith and Nncy into Gel. Is it leg# probable that this powerful and master race, within the next half c-ntiiry, will have fallowed our eagles over all 1 -rural America? Already the pulse of the •1 other which ever existed. In the checks 01 balances, concord and harmony of its "em --' •"d members," it aoproaches more nearly "be -oUr system, planned by God himself, •n iny other; for, like the planets—each re v-; ng-ifj its a\i", while bound by the kindly law of gravitation (o the central luminary every State, possessing a separate, distinct, and independent government of her own, is, at the same lime, bound with her sisters into a perfect union around the Federal Government by the compact of the Constitution of the United States. The inference of dismemberment from terri tor.al expansion, springs from the error of con founding our representative republic with pure and primitive democracies, and applying the reasonings drawn from one to the other. The true distinction is, as Mr. Madison said, that in a radical democracy the people meet and ex ercise the government in person—in a repre sentative republic by their agents, ft follows, that the territorial limit oI a pure democracy is that distance form a common centre which will barely allow the most remote citizens, as olten public exigencies demand, to Come to the seat ol government: and that of a' representa tive republic, that distance which will permit the representative of the people to come to the central point as often as necessary without de triment to the public service. The application of'the agency of steam to transit on land and water, and th e emoloyment of the lightning for the transmission ol intelli gence, have endowed government, man, and the human mind, with a kind of earthly übiqui ty, which, in point ol time and practical effect, have brought the utmost borders of this whole ronl irient nearer to its common centre than were the limits of the old thirteen States to the seat of government in the days of the confederation. Our double sys-tem of government, State and Federal, in the practical influence and expan sibility of its machinery, is capable of adjusting itselt as well to the whole as to any of its seg ments. Whether such an extension ought ever to lake place, and the time and methods by which it shall be accomplished, if ever, are far different questions —questions which must be decided bv you in your day and generation, under a high sense of national justice, honor, and morality, when they shall arise. Discarding, however in'nature, all social dis tinctions springing from the accidents of birth and fortune, and founded on the intrinsic dig nity of man as man, our institutions know no : aristocracy but that of virtue and of intellect.— The equality of civil and religicus privileges and the great diffusion of political power a ' mong lire people at large, by which every free • man of the white race becomes an element in 1 our State and national sovereignties, has brought the patronage of the Government and the ca . pacities of the people into contact and furnished motives for high attainments in science, law, and political economy, unknown to the rr.onar ; chies and despotisms of the other hemisphere, founded as they are upon the.interest of the few. And, in consequence of the indefinite numbers to whom the high honors and dazzling rewards of our free country make their mighty depths of appeal, and whom they stir to rr.en •a! activity in their preparations for our ever returning "Olympics," our country is soon to be the "brightest spot" on the planet we in habit, and in the empire of the mind, of letteis, and of eloquence, the the- civilizd world. Carry forward your minds, th<*n, to that ' country which rises on the prophetic future.— Consider the immensity of her outline, itself a boundless image of liberty; crowded with a dense and rnighly people; belted with every degree of climate, reposing in the midst of the great oceans, and watered by a thousand rivers running to the seas. Behold her fields spotted with flocks and herds, and crowned with pur ple harvests; checkered with electric wires and public parks; studded with towns and cities, and ruled by the wisest government the world ever saw. Turn the radiant eye of contempla tion to her beautiful seats of art, where the genius of sculpture "pours life and soul and passion" into ttie breathing rnarbie, and the painter diffuses the beauty of the "face divine" on the living canvas. Look at her academies, colleges, and universities, thick as the stars, lighting the intellects of millions at their redun dant fountains. Gaze on her sacred judicial tribunals, graced with a learned bench and eloquent bar; presentins, in the language of Chancellor Kent, the image of the Sanctity of Temples. Contemplate her parliamentary bodies, in which eloquence, "All head to counsel, and all heart to feel." rules her "wilderness of free minds" with un bounded authority. Figure to yourselves her countless churches, the beautiful architectural creations of Christian ingenuity arid opulent de votion; whose exquisite spires are lifting the hopes of their immortal flocks to the worship of tiie unseen Shepherd in the realms of immensi ty. while their choirs and organs are pouring forth, through ail her valleys, a tide of choral harmony, which, in the of its grand j diapason, caught by the "pendent heavens," is echoed thiough eternity ! In contemplation I behold through the vista of unmeasured years that mighty Republic, lord of the ascendant in the firmament of the na tions; the favorite habitation of human liberty, and of the principles of a generous humanity; ' by its inherent 3d renovating influence locali zing all faction and fanaticism into specks upon its disk; in the integrity of its federation and the immutability of its sphere above the con vulsions of the "rolling ages," it shall ly shed the beams of freedom on the darkest regions of Ihe earth, and expand the circle of human beneficence aud Christian charity to the horizon of the world. young lady who refused to go into Ihe rifle manufactory because some of the guns had no breeches, is spending a few days at Sandy Hook, looking out for a ship that is said to be in stays. [TV 5 'A lady being about to marry a small man was told that he was a very bad fellow. 4 Well,' said the lady, 4 if he is so bad there is one comfort—there is very little of him.' BEDFORD, PA„ FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8 1859. f THE WHEAT* HARVEST. The wheat harvest is far advanced in several States, and the accounts are generally quite as favorable as could have been expected. In Kentucky, according to the Louisville Courier, the harvest will be a "splendid one." The yield of grain, that paper remarks, is not only extremely large, but the quality will be unsur passed by the product of any former harvest. In three weeks from this date the millers will be receiving the new crop of wheat. In the adjoining States, the accounts are good. The Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig has information that the wheat crop of some of the counties of lower Fast Tennessee v.il be a small one ; in the mid dle sections it r? promising, and in the uppei counties, except in some cases whert it was damaged by the fly, it will h Q abundant. Of Maryland and Virginia, the Baltimore American of Saturday says :—"Our letters and exchanges speak most encouragingly ol the growing crops, and in our own States and Vir ginia all agree on the point that the prospect never was better." The farmers of lower Virginia are now engaged in cutting their wheat. Generally the crop i* regarded as a good one. The Fredericksburg (Va.) .Veres says the harvest is progressing finely in that neighborhood. Alabama papers speak very flatteringly of the harvest in that State. The same is true of North Carolina. Tn Texas, the yield of wheal is remarkably good. The wheat harvest is in progress in Southern ; Indiana. The yield is reported "more than or- ' dinary," and "the grain good." In Southern Illinois, too, the wheat is being | gathered as fast *as possible. The Belleville Democrat .-ays : "Harvesting in this country is \ going on this week in good earnest, and we are j pleased to learn that the yield is very heavy, I —no rust." Other quotations might be made, i of similar purport. It is safe to say that the j Northwestern States, as a whole, will yield a fair average. Respecting the crops in Ohio and Illinois, j the following extract from the Cincinnati Price Current will be sufficiently definite.— The Cleveland Herald , remarking more I particularly with reference to the late frost, ! states that Mr. J. H. Klippart, Secretary of the Slate Board of Agriculture, has been over the most of tiie wheat belt ol the State, through Guernsey, Licking, Kncx, Fairfirld, Delaware, Richland, Crawford, and Ashland counties. He has examined wheat fields personally, wherev er he has b<-en, convereerl with tarmerr, made the subject his Viudy, and concludes that there will be three-fourths of what there could have been harvested under any circumstances. From Cincinnati Price Current,2'2d THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The wea ther during th- 1 past week has be*>n quite fa varable to the growing crops generally. Sun-1 day and Monday were rather hard days upon j wheat, being showery and close, and in some sections we iearn there are apnearances of rust upon late crops ; but yesterday was clear and pieasant. As regards corn, it may be said to have re covered almost entirely from tiie effects of the Irost of the sth inst., and it is growing rapidly, presenting a most vigorous appearance. The prospect at present is that this crop will be unusually large. The damage to wheat, from the frost, turns out to have been comparatively trifling in the aggregate. Fields that were supposed to have : been ruined, now promise a fair average yeld, j while the injury appears to have been confined j to a few localities, chiefly in Northeasten Ohio j and Western Pennsylvania. Potatoes are doing well, and the prospects are favorable for a large crop. Fruit, such as apples, peaches, and pears, will be short—one-half an average crop would be an out side estimate for the central west. From Northern Illinois the accounts regar ding fall wheat are unfavorable, and the pros pects for a good yield of spring wheat are r.ot encouraging ; while in Southern Illinois the crop is yielding handsomely. Everywhere, in Illinois, as in Ohio and Indiana, corn looks well. GE.Y. SHIELDS OA* BARRELS. A shoit time since, Gen. Shields, landing at Hastings, on the Mississippi, compared his freight and bill of lading, one item calling for seven barrels. Strange to say, however, the General could only find on the landing, six of his barrels. He was heard counting them over several times with the same unsatisfactory re sult each time. Moving the index finger of his right hand up and down in a pointed man ner at each barrel, thus he soliloquized aloud, with deliberate, military emphasis: 'One, two, three, four, five six.' And shaking his head, with dignified gravity, saying, 'Something wrong here,' he recommenced his account : 'One— two— three— tour—five— six; where the is the other barrel ?' Full ol wrath, he was proceeding to demand the production of the missing cask trom the officers of the bo3t, when, lo! on his getting up for this purpose from where he was surveying, with characte ristic dignity and gravity,his goods and sundries, it was discovered to his infinite amusement and that of the bystanders, that he had been sitting on the seventh barrel. iX?""At Pittsfield, while a young lady and gentleman were playfully contending about a gold locket the former accidently swallow ed it. The young gentleman immediately asked for the casket containing the jewel. [CF**The Emperor of Russia has presented at diamond broach, valued at SSOOO, to the wifn of Captain Hudson, in acknowledgment for th* courtesies extended by him to some Russia* officers, while engaged in hving the Atlarrtifi Telegraph Cable. c Freedom of Thought and Opinion. 1 SUM VERSES TO A SNAIK. BY BINKS. reptile ! long and ska'y knss ! Yon are the dadrattedest biggest thing I ever Seed, that and ty itself into a doable bo Not, and cum ail strate again in a Minnit or so, without winkin or seemin To experience any particular pane In the diai'ram. Stoopenjns inseck ! marvelous annimiie ! )'ou are no doubt seven thousand yerea Old, and have konsiderable of a Family sneekin round thru the tall -Gras in Afriky, a etin up Jittle greasy Niggers, and a wishing they was bigger, Yuare the aaim miserable devvle, I'll bet, that put redicklus noshuna Into the head of Eve, or his unkle, I Don't no witch. 1 wonder how big yu was when yti Was an nphant about 2 fete long ? I Expec you was a purtv god'd size, and Lived oe phrogs, andfizzards, and polly- W.igs and stitch things. Yu are having a nice time row, ennvhow— Don't hav nothin to do but lay oph And eat kats and rabbits, and stic Out yur tung, and twist yure tale. I wunder if yu ever swallered a man Without takin oph his butes. If thar wus B:ass buttins on bis kote, I spose Yu had to swaller a lot of buttin- Viholes, and a shu hamer to nock The soals oph the boots and dryve in Tie tax, so they wootdn't kut yure Stiminick. 1 wunder if vitrles taste Giod ail the way down. 1 expec so— At least, fur 6 or " fete. Yi are so almitey long, I shud thvnk if yure tale was kold yure hed Woodent no it till the next day, Bit it's hard to tell ; snaix is snaiks. Golden Era. THE ZOUAVES LS'WAR. From the Paris Journal des Debals. VERCELLT, June 1. The telegraph will have informed you of the glonous ILat of arms accomplished by the 3d Z laves beyond Palestro. This brave regiment mad' a beginning by capturing the cannon that wrre playing upon thpm. Bells and grape wev iflr6vn onvrnrtwc . tbttt was ait ; the ar'Jlerv men were dead. jet me give you the recital of a wounded Ziuavp whom I met yesterday at Torrione, two cr three hours alter the fight : "We were very quiet Ihere before a brook, when ve saw five or six horsemen on a height notiaroff; we said they were Austrian hussars reconroitering, and made ready to have a little convesation with them. But suddenly a pack of gripe came upon us, accompanied with a shdxt rof balb. The rascals had put guns on the hrl, and hid their riflemen in the wheat wlier we could not see a sign of them. While we wre looking about, grape mingle j with the convesation. The colonel sees from where the shot omes by the smoke. The officers turn to us : 'loiiaves !' they shout, lo the guns !' Vfe all lep into the brook. The water was up to our neks : our cartridge boxes take a bath ; and *e can't fire a single shot. It was a good 300 ards tothe Batteries. But didn't we go overthe ground like gymnasts ? How thev j fell The grape mowed the