BEDFORD GAZETTE. ISLUFOKR, Pa.— FRID.W nxrrn MAT H> ISGI B. F. Meyers, Editor & Proprietor. " DELEGATE ELECTIONS. The Democratic voters of the several elec tion districts ot Bedford county,and others who intend to act with them in good faith hereaf ter, are hereby requested to meet on SATURDAY, THE 15th JUNE, NEXT, at the hour and place to be appointed by (heir respective Vigilance Committees (who are here- I by requested to give written notice ofsucli time and place of meeting) for the purpose of elec ting two persons as delegates to the Democrat ic County Convention, which is tar assemble at the Court House, in Bedhrd, on TUESDA\ , THE 18th DAY OF JUNE NEXT, at 2 o'- I clock, P. M., to put in nomination a County Ticket to be voted tor at the ensuing election, | appoint Legislative and Judicial Conferees, and attend to such other matters as may be ptopet to be transacted for (he benefit of the party. — It is also particularly requested that active and earnest Democrats be elected Vigilance Com mittees (or the ensuing year and tha' their names be returned to the President of the Con vention. Bv order of the Dem. Co. Com. G. H. SPANG, May 10th,'61. Chan man. "Whited Sepulchres." The leaders and drill-masters of the "Repub lican" party (late of Bedford county, deceased) who used to sneer at the Democracy as "Union savers," have suddenly become the loudest T - nion-shriekers in the country. The change wrought in these once doughty contemners of Democratic warnings as to a dissolution of the Union, is to all outward appearances, complete and effectual. But we know many ol them that are urging forward the impending civil war, who care but little lor the Union when placed in the balances against their hatred ol the South. They retain the feelings that prompted them not long ago to say, "Let the Unioft Slide," "This Union is not wortli pre serving in connection with slavery."-Ac., &.c. Their hearts are full of bitter,|revengeful blood, and under the guise of Union-saving, they ex pect to eke out their vengeance against the ba ted slaveholder and ail who dare to speak out for his rights. These despicable hypocrites, who laughed at and mocked us, when westrovp to prevent the calamity that has fallen upon our land.nowjhave ttie shameless audacity to assume the title ot Union Men, and in the sacred name ol our country, to justify anarchy, oppression for opinion's sake and the rule of the mob.— They are "whiled sepulchres," lair without, but within "full of corruption and dead men's bones." Of men like these, we say to the peo ple, beware ! Trust none whom you know to have been the hater and reviler of Southern men and Southern institutions. Let the true Union men, who are honest in their desire lor a resto ration of the Union, be vigilant lest they be led into a crusade against slavery, whilst ostensi bly fighting for the Union. The Government should be our motto, and The Government alone. Who are to do the Fighting? We are told that Gov. Curtin has appointed Gen. Patterson, Gen. Cadwalader, Gen. Hale and Col. Wyncoop, all Democrats, to responsi ble positions in the a'mv, and this fact is cited as a reason why Democrats should abandon their party. Gov. f'urtin knew that the above named officers had seen service ar.d wpre the best tacticians and commanders in the State.— He supposed, too, that the prestige of their names would be calculated to cause the'rapid enlistment of Democrats. The Democracy were to do the fighting, as they have always done before, and to draw them into the service it was necessary to make Generals and Colonels of some ol their old leaders. For prudential reasons, Gov. Curtin gives the Democrats office where bullets are expected fo fly, but places his Republican friends on the feather-beds of civil offices at a safe distance from the enemy. We have referred to this matter only because the blood and thunder organ across lots, urges it as a reason why Democtats should give up tbeir organization. "We've got 'Em Now!" This was the triumphant ejaculation of the ostensible editor of the blood and thunder organ across lots, on the occasion of an enthusiastic war speech delivered by ajprominent Democrat of this place a few weeks ago. That pink of editorial patriots londly imagined that the Demo cratic organization was to be abandoned and (hat there would be DO party left to hold Republi canism to an account lor the ruin it has brought upon the country. Perhaps he had in his mind's eye the mongrel fusion ticket which he propo ses in his last issue. Tte Democrats and con servative Union men will show bim who has "got 'em!" IF" We call the attentioMi our readers to the advertisement of the saleef ifie real Estate of Daniel Means, late of Monroe tp., d*ceasecf. Persons desirous ot purchasing a fine property will do weli to attend. OF* There is a rumor of a fight between a U~ S. vessel and a Southern privateer. f THE BIGHTS OF FREEMEN. Citizens of Pennsylvania Read ! A large standing army having been called into service, and (he commencement of a long and bloody war being, perhaps, near at hand, it i is well that the people should Know their rights j under, as well as their duty to, the General 1 Government. Whilst we are sending forth our troops to fight for the Union, let us watch with c-alous care lest that Constitutional Liber ty, wittiout which the Union were a worthless thing, indeed, be wrested -from us and tram pled under loot by the very men to whom we trust that holy birthright of our citizenship.— Keep it before the people, therefore, that the Constitution of the United States guarantees the following : 1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the peo ple ppaceably to assemble, and lo petition the government for a redress of grievances. 2. No soldier* shall in time of peace be quar tered in any house, without the consent ot the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner pre scribed by law. 3. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated ; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seiz ed. 4. In ail criminal prosecution*, 111* accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial by an im partial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall havebeen committed, which dis trict shall have been previously ascertained by law ; and to be informed ol the nature and cause of the accusation: to be confronted with the witnesses against him : to have compulsory pro cess (or obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his d-fence. The Constitution of Pennsylvania also sets forth in its Bill of Rights that, 1. All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are lounded on their au thority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness ; lor the advancement of these ends they have, at all times, an unalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform, or abolish their government, in such manner as they may think proper. 2. The printing-presses shall be free to eve ry person who undertakes to examine the pro ceedings ol the Legislature, oranv branch of Government, and no law shall ever be made to restrain the light thereof. The free commu nication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any sub ject, being responsible lor the abuse of that lib erty. In prosecutions for the publication ot papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper lor public informa tion the truth thereot may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 4. The right ol citizens to bear arms in de fence ol thpinselves and the stale, shall not he questioned. 5. No standing army shall, in time of peace, be kept up without the consent of the legisla ture ; and the military shall at all times be in strict subordination to the civil power. The Proof of the Pudding. Governor SPKAGOE of Rhode Island, when the Government called for troops lor the de fence of the Capital, marched at once at the head of his State's regiment, and is now in Washington, ready to do a soldier's and a pa triot's duty. Governor SPP.AGUE is a Democrat, in tact the only Democratic Governor of a Northern State this side of the Rocky Moun | ta:ns. Why is it that some of the Republican I Governors do not follow his example ? Sprague j was willing to compromise and to do any thing |io prevent the war. The Republican Gover i nori were opposed to Compromise and wanted j the war to own". Why don't they march ? The Bedford Gazette is weekly publishing ar , tides editorial and otherwise, in which it at tempts to divide public opinion in this county, which is now almost unanimous in favor of up holding our country in the war forced upon us by the traitors who are now in rebejlion against the Government of the United States." We state without fear ot successful contradiction, that there are not twenty disunionists in Bed ford county and they follow the ieaa of the Bedford Gazette. —Bedford Inquiier. It is false that we have ever attempted to di vide public sentiment as regards the support of the Government. We have striven to prevent the disorganization ol the Democratic partv, the crushing out of free speech and a free press and th° endorsement ot she policy nf the Lin coln administration prior to the taking of Fort Sumter. If this was attempting to divide pub lic sentiment we plead guilty, and are proud of the imputation. The blatant hypocrite that wrote the article from which the above is an extract, has amused himself for some weeks by calling us " traitor," " disunionist, ' &c. Now, this same self-right eous scribbler, who assumes such great virtue and patriotism, said but a short time ago, in the hearing ola friend, that he " wished to God, John Brown was alive now, that he might ful fil his purposes upon the South." Such is the patriotism, such the Union-ism, such the Chris i tianitv of this great stickler for the Union and the Laws. Hear him talk and you would suj>- pose him a very Gabriel. Unveil his heart and you have before you the hideousness of Mokhanna. JOHN FLEMING, Gardener at Bedford Springs, will accept our thanks for some speci mens ot his new potatoes, "Fleming's Seed ing," and also for some fine cucumbers and let tuce, all of whtch were duly appprecialed. OF"" Remember that the Stars and Stripes are the emblem of the Constitut ion and as such must be maintained. Hurrah for Democracy, the Stars and Stripes and the American Union ! I In Allegheny county in this State, where the Republicans have 10,000 majority, they a gree with the Democrats to hold a Union Con vention, and nominate and support candidates from both parties. The same is the case, we believe, in other counties. Now we propose the same plan of "dropping" partyism in Bed ford county. What say you, Gazette *—Bed ford Inquirer. In one column you call us a traitor, and in the next you ask us to join you in forming a Union ticket! In one paragraph you denounce us as a Disunionist and in the next you would have us assist you in electing to office some cl your new-fangled, made-to-order, paterit-iiglit Union men ! No sir! The Democratic party is a party of principles, and when its members go to the polls to vote, they expect to have a ticket presented for their acceptance pledged to represent those principles. They want a ticket composed of men who believe in, and who are willing and ready to carry out, the doctrines of the Demociatic party. As the editor of a Dem ocratic paper, it is our duty to see that the De mocracy are not without such a ticket, and to that duty we hope we shall never prove recre ant. It you and your party are anxious to give up what you styled your principles, if you think it is necessary for the country's good that you should do so, we shall not have the slight est objection. As for Us we intend to vote lor a pure, straight-out Democratic ticket at the next "lection, no matter what may be the pros pect of its success. We will cling to ptinciple though we should be in a minority of thousands. As to the " Republicans" of Allegheny coun ty sharing the offices of that county with the Democrats, we are assured that they intend do ing no such thing. There has been some talk about their intention to da so, but they have not done it, nor have they any idea of doing it. The same motive that prompts the " Republi cans",|n Bedford county to seek the formation of a Union ticket, will deter those of Alleghe ny from consenting to such a ticket. The love ol the spoils is their ruling passion and by that they will be, as they have been, governed in all things. [l?°* The Inquirer publishes a long string of grievances suffered by the Government at the bands of the South, winding up with the taking of Fort Sumter. Nobody denies history. On the contrary we say that there were twenty in stances prior to the taking of Foit Sumter, that would have justified the Government in making war, if the taking of Fort Sumter was justifica tion. If President Lincoln intended 10 coeice the South, he had just as much cause to do so on the day of his inauguration as afterwards.— Yet he declared in his Inaugural Address lhat he would do no such thing, and that he would not oven send "odious officials" among the dis affected people to carry out the laws. •'BEWARE !' That erewhile windy advocate of freedom ,nJ '••*• ,h ;"6" ♦•- D - Zn.Kju.trer, threateningly tells us, every now and then, to "beware." For the especial benefit of the scrib blers for that sheet, we publish below and adopt it as expressing our own sentiments, the reply of the Concord (New Hampshire) Standard, to the Boston Journal, when the latter threatened the former with mob violence. DEFIANCE. While fhe Democratic Standard will as ; t has ever done, adhere to Ihe flag of the Union, and stand by the constitution and laws of the country, it will maintain to the last extremity, with our blood it need be, the freedom of speech and the press, the sacred birth rights of Amer ican freemen. And we now say to the editor of the Boston Journal, that if the mob, at his instigation, shall assaii our person or property, it we survive, we will hold him responsible for the outrage in property, person and life. We tell that malignant and blood-thirsty mis creant, that the blood of the first Dembcrat of the Granite State that shall be shed by aßlack Republican mob in this contest, will be avenged by all the Democrats of the Grande State. Be ware of the entertainment to which you are in viting your countrymen at home, by your bar barous and bloody counsels. It is enough to have a sectional civil war. Beware how you instigate a war of factions at home. We commend to the editor of the Boston Journal the following extract from a speech of the Hon. Lyman Tremain, delivered a', the great Democratic meeting recently held at Al bany, N. V. Ihe coat fits his back exactly. The sentiment ot that portion of Mr. Tremain's speech is the unanimous sentiment of the Dem ocratic party of the entire North, and will be maintained at all hazards : CAUTION AGAINST ASY INVASION or CONSTITU TIONAL RIGHTS Pardon me, fellow citizens for a few words of caution. In times of great excitement, like the present, there is imminent danger that in an excess oi zeal to accomplish one supposed good result, other constitutional and sacred rights may be infringed. It has been with indigna tion and pain that I have heard rumors of threatened mob law directed against citizens or newspapers for the free expression of their sen timents. H- is an enemy of the public wel fare who suggesis or sanctions such sentiments, and should be marked arid condemned by alt good citizens. In most cases, J presume, if V ou examine his history, you will find that in other timeg he has been the most blatant advocate tor Free Speech and a Free Press. Never was their greater necessity for preserving this free dom unimpaired than when the military power takes the place of civil authorities. A free peo ple will never consent to be hurried into a mil itary despotism, or any other usurpation of pow er, by stifling free discussion. I have no fears that any attempt will ever be made, in this law abiding city of Albany, fo punish any men or any press- for expressing his or its opinion upon public affairs, w.th perfect freedom and inde pendence. Without these privileges, the Gov ernment for which we are struggling would not be worth preserving I know I speak for you and thousands of others when I sav, "woe, woe be to the man or men, or the press or presses, which shall successfully stimulate a mob to sup-' press either Freedom of Speech or the Preys." For the Bedford Gazette. ST. CLAIR TP., May 20tb, 1861. | BENJAMIN F. METERS : We see it stated in the last Inquirer that j there are twenty disunioniats in Bedford. Don't i thee think twenty one could be found by going to David's printing office? We don't know who the twenty are, nor what party they be long to ; but we know who the twenty first one is. TIIP writer of this has beer, a tolerably close observer of tilings in Bedford county, j for a number of years. He has never seen as j much treason, disunion and abolition any 1 where, as he found, to his sorrow, in the j Inquire! of sth April, last, in an article headed: j "Is the voluntary return of the seceding States | desirable"? That article labored to show that j a return ofthe States with slavery Was not des ireable, and our friend David, with a number of othprs, approved the sentiment. It their voluntary return with slavery be not desirable, is not forcing them back much more undesira ble ? Ah ! thee knows it well, David, that the publication of such an article two years ago, would not have been safe for thee. Beware.'" IWe love peace, we can see no good in war Our homes are happier, our firesides brighter, j when no enemy lurks around. •\ e would prefer letling'slav"ry alone, mind our own business, and le' slavery take care ol itself. It a sin, v> are not responsible for it. If no sin. Lien we have committed a very grave i c ln by meddling ourselves with it, and bring ng about, or at least helping to bring about, this inglorious fight of Cain with Abel. A FRIEND. The Catholic Clergy and the State of the Country. We find in the Catholic Telegraph of this week, the Pastoral Letter of the Third Provin ' cial Council of Cincinnati, to the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese. The letter is signea by, fJohn Baptist, Archbishop of Cincinnati, f Peter Paul, Bishop of Zela, Coadjutor Ad ministrator of Detroit. f Amadeus, Bishop of Detroit. • fMaitib John, Bishop of Louisville, f Maurice, Bishop ol Vincennps. -(-George Aloysius, Bishop ol Covington, -(-Frederick, Bishop of Saut Marv. fJohn Henry, Bishop of Fort YVayne. "This "pastoral letter" speaks of our nation al troubles as follows : Wherever Christ is to be preached and sin ners to be saved, thpre she is found with her j ministrations of truth and of mercy. She leaves j the exciting question referred to precisely where j the inspired Apostle ol the Gentiles left it : j contenting herself, like him, with inculcating on all classes and grades of society the faithful discharge of the duties belonging to their re : spective states of lile, knowing that (hey will have to render a strict account to God for deeds ; in the flesh, that this life in short and tran sitory, and that eternity never ends. Beyond : thi, point her ministers do not consider it their ! province to go, knowing well that they are the i ministers <>f God, who is not a God of dissension, ; but ot peace and love. Had this wise and conservative line of con j duct been generally followed throughout the | country, we are convinced that much of the I i embittered feeling which now unfortunately ex ! ists would have been obviated, and lhat brother | love, the genuine offspring of tiue Christianity, instead ofthe Iratricidal hatred which is obvi ously oppOSeil to lis essential genius and spirit s would now bless our country, and bind togeth er all our fpllow citizens in one harmonious brotherhood. May God, in His abounding mercy, grant that the sectarianism which di vides and sows dissension? may gradually yield i to the Catholic spirit which unites and breathes unity and love. NO PARTY NOW ! Ihis if the cry of the Republicans all over the land. A man who dares to call himself still a Democrat, is denounced as little better | '.han a secessionist and traitor ; and in this city, ; the mere fart that a number of citizens whose ■ loyalty r.o one can question, consider it their j right and duty to keep up the organization ola j "Democratic Club," has aroused the indigna tion of a self-eonstituted and secret 4 Vigilance j : Committee" to such a pitch that, we are told, they have threatened to stone the house in which the meetings of this Club are held. E- , ven our neighbor of the Journal, who has just j received his appointment as Postmaster, for no j I other reason than that he is the political friend j iof the Administration, cot .-nits the gross incon- j sistency of repeating this "no party" cry. A desire to soften the asperities of partizan ! j controversy, is a( all times commendable ; and at this time, ol all others, when the country is ! engaged in a war for the preservation of its ' lawfully canstitutrd government, it is to be ex ; pecteo tiiat all good citizens will us - iheir influ ence to restrain the heat of political discussion, and prevent any offensive demonstrations or ex pressions of political opinion. But, we would, j in all candor, suggest to our Republican friends j that, as they are now iff power, it should be their business to set the example of wiping out party distinctions and differences. So long as the Administration at Washington continues the work of "proscription for opinions' sake" we mean, removing from office good Union men merely because they are Democrats, and ap- 1 (pointing in their places other Union men mere ly because they are Republicans —so long as this goes on, the sincerity of the men who cry "no party" so loudly, is open to suspicion.— There is a glaring inconsistency between the word and the deed; and people who are given to reflection may well be excused if they come to the conclusion '.hat this apparently generous abandonment of party, means only a disposition to tolerate "no party— but our own !" In sustaining the Federal Government against those who have traitorously made war upon it, and supporting the Administration in its deter mination to enforce the Constitution and Laws in every State of the Union, there should in deed, be 44 no party." An issue of this kind rises superior to all other questions, and the true patriot, of whatever political faith, is call ed upor. to offer up every party feelJing and prejudice upon the altar of our common coun try. So it is at the present time. Democrats can give no better evidence of their fi-Jelity to the Union, than in the alacrity with which they have reipooded to the call </ the President tor troops to aid him in crushing the rebellion at ihe South* In the gallant Armv of Volunteers that P. en?) hania and the other loyal States have sent forth to the tented fi-ld, ready to do and die lor their country, there is "no party " Uemocrats, V* higs, Republicans and Ameri cans march shoulder to shoulder under the same glorious flag, and with one heart and one mind, have sworn to defend and protect it to the last. I On the question of maintaining the consritu i ion, the Laws, and the Union, there must be, , there is "no party." But, upon all other ques tions of public interest, there will continue to be differences ofopinion, and these differences Will divide mer, as heretofore, into political I parties. The Democratic party finds nothing ;in its past career or in its present position, to j to induce it to abandon its principles or organ- j ization. It will therefore adhere to the one I and preserve the other, regardless of denunci ation from any quarter. It violates no law, and infringes upon no man's rights, in doing so ' ! On the contrary, the Constitution expressly guaranties to ihe people, at all times, " the right peaceably to assemble"— Reding Gazette. Letter from Judge Campbell to Sec retary Seward. Our readers will remember that when the Confederate Government was first organized at Montgomery, three Coinniis-ioiieis were sent by Mr. Davis to confer with the Government of the United States for a settlement of the dif ficulties between the South and the Adminis tration at Washington. These Commissioners were not received, or recognized, by President Lincoln, but a correspondence was carried on with them through a friendly intermediary, the j 1 HON. JOHN A. CAMPBELL, at the time and for | i I j many years, a Judge of the Supreme Court of j j the United State?. The high character and ! | patiiotic motives of Judge Campbell, are ac-; i knoweledged everywhere, and the following ! letter from him to Secretary Seward, is, there j lore, entitled to considerable weight in settling i ihe question as to why Fort Sumpler was fired upon by the Confederates. WASHINGTON CITY, Saturday, April 13, '6l, SIR : On the lslh Match tilt., I left with Judge ford, one of the Commissioners of the Confederate States, a note in writing to liie effect following : 44 I feel entire confidence that Fort Sumtrr will be evacuated in the nex' leu days. And this measure is felt as imposing great responsibil ity on the Administration. I feel entire confidence that no measure changing the existing status, prejutliciously to the Southern Confederate States, is at niesent contemplated. . I feel an entire confidence that an imme diate demand for an answer to,the coinmunua tion of the Commissidners will be productive of evil and not of good- Ido not believe that it ought at this time To be pressed." The substance of this statement I communi cated to you the same evening by letter. Five ; days elapsed, and I called with a telegram from j (jeii Beauregard, to the effect that Sumter was not evacuated, but that Major Anderson was , at work making repairs. The next day, aft—r conversing with you, I communicated to Judge Crawford, in writing,; that ttye failure to evacuate Sumter was not the j result of bad faith, but was attributable to caus- j es consistent with the intention to fulfill the en- ' gagement ; ana that as regarded Pickens, I should have notice ot any design to alter the existing status there. Mr. Justice Nelson was present at these conversations, three in number, and I submitted to him each of my written com municalions to Judge Crawford, and informed Judge C. that they had his (Judge Nelson's) sanction. I gave you, on tb 22d March, a substactantiai copy of the statement I had made on (ho 1 Sth. The 30th of March arrived, and at that time a telegram came from Gov. P.ckens inquiring concerning Col. Lamon, whose visit to Charles ton he supposed had a connexion with the pro posed evacuation of Fort Sumter. I left tfiat with you and was to have an an swer the following Monday (Ist April.) On ! the Ist of April I received from you the state ment in writing, ".I am satisfied the Govern- ! rnent will not undertake to supply Fort Sumter | without giving notice to Gov. Piikens." The words 44 I am satisfied" were lor me to use as expressivp of confidence in the remainder of the declaration. The proposition, as originally prepared, was, '•The President may desire to supply Sumter, hut wii! not do so," occ., and your verbal ex planation was that you did not believe that any such attempt would be made, and that there was no design to reinforce Sumter. There was a departure here from the pledges of the previous month, but with the verbal ex planation I did not consider it a matter then to | complain of—l simply stated to you that 1 had that assurance previously. On the 7th April, I addressed you a letter on tfie subject of the alarm that trie preparations by the Givernment had created, and asked you if the assutances I bad given were well or ill founded. In respect to Sumter, your reply was " Faith as to Sumter, filly kept wait and see." In the morning's paper I read, " An authoi ized messenger from President Lincoln informed Gov. Pickens and Gen. Beauregard, that pro visions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise by force." This was the Bth of April, at Charleston, the day following your last assurance, and is the evidence of the full faith I was invited to wait for and see. In the same paper I read that in tercepted dispatches disclose the fact that Mr. Fox, who had been allowed to visit Major An derson, on the pledge that his purpose was pa cific, employed his opportunity to devise a plan for supplying the fort by force, and that this plan had been adopted by the Washington Gov ernment, and was in process of execution. My recollection of the date of Mr. Fox's visit car ries it to a day in March. I learn he is a near connexion of a member of the Sabinet. My connexion with Commissioners and yourself was superinduced by a conversation with Jus tice Nelson. He infurmed me of your strong disposition in favor of peace, and that you were oppressed with a demand of the Commissioners of the Confedeiate States for a reply to their first letter, and that you desired to avoid it if possible, at that time. I told him I might, per haps, be of some service in arranging the diffi culty. I came to your office bis re quest and without the knnwledge of either of the Commissioners. Your depression was ob vious to both Judge Nelson and myself. I was gratified at the character of the counsels you were desirous of pursuing, and much impressed with your observation that a civil war might be prevented by the success of my mediation. You read a letter of Mr. Weed, to show how irksome and responsible the withdrawal of troops from For! Sumter was. A portion of my com munication fo Judge Crawford on the 15th of March, was founded upon .these remaiks, and the pledge to evacuate Sumter is less forcible than the words you employed. These woids were: Before this letter reaches you (a pro posed letter by me to President Davis,) Su.nter | will have been evacuted." c °nn>*oners who received (hose com mon,cations conclude they have been abused and overreached. The Montgomery Govern ,{". ro"ur;— :z'. prepared to arraign you he lore thrcountrvin corfnect.on with the lre S ,dent. 1 placed I nL remptory prohibition ~| JOn thia, a, being con trary to the terms of my communication! wiS, them. I pledged myself to them to common,- cate information upon what I considered as the best authority, and they were to confide in the ability of myself, aided by Jodg- Nelson, to de! term,tie upon the credibility of my informant 1 think no candid man who v. ill rea(i ' what I have written, and consider for a mornert what is going on at Sumter, but will that the equivocat.n|couduct o the Administration as measured and mlerpreted in connection with these promises, was the proximate cause of the great calamity. I have a profound conviction that the tele grams of the Bth of April, of Gen, Beauregard" and of the lOth of April, of Gen. VValke-° ttJ S-cr.1.,, of War, can bo Mm*] „ j! else than their belief that there has been sv s j tematic duplicity practiced upon them through ou It is under an oppressive sense of the j weight of this responsibility, that I submit to i you these things for your explanation. Very respectfully, JOHN A. CAMPBELL, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Hon. VVM. H. SEWARD, SEC. of State. % FROM CHARLESTON. THE BLOCKADE SUSPENDED. Arrival of Foreign f essefs. WASBINTON>MAY 20. J The Charleston Courier, of Friday, says for J the past two days our port has been without the prser.ce of the Niagara, which has left lor parts | unknown. She has been reported off Savannah, j in company with the United Slates J Perry, and was seen oil North Edisto, but at present there is no certain information oI her I position. The steamer Huntress observed near the Bar, has also left so that our port is bonsequentlv without* obstruction at this moment. "V esterday we had several arrivals Iron fo reign ports. Among them is a cargo of molas ses from Cardenas. A Brit sh brig with | pig iron and coal from Glasgow. The latter 1 has been token up to return to the same port, and is engaged to take a full cargo of Sea Is land cotton at the enormous freight of 24d.per pound. Such a rate has not been given in the memory of the oldtst inhabitant. Capt. Eizay, of the U. S . Army, has ten dered his services to the Confederate States. TRADING ON BORROWED CAPITAL. —To read the Boston papers alone, one would conclude that Massachusetts was doing all that is beinc done in the war line, and that her troops are about all that are in the field. And to read their highlalutin stuff about "M issachusetts blood shed at Baltimore," one unacquainted with the facls would think a whole regiment of her sons had been slaughtered there. We have no desire to disparage the new-born patriotism of that State, or to detract Irom the credit to which she is entitled for the promptness and ' unbounded liberality she has displayed in this great crisis. It is the first time she has been on the side of the country and the Government in time of war, since the formation of the Union ; and, being a new convert to patriotism, it is very natural that she should rnaaife&t great zeal. But her people and their organs ought | to be a little Jess boastful, and especially should •hey not claim credit for what belongs" tooth ers. A very large portion of the troops she has furnished, are men ol other States tempor arily residing within her limits; and not one of Ihe men killed at Baltimore was her son two of them belonged in Maine, and the other, young Ladd, was a New Hampshire boy belong ing in Alexandria. How much "Massachusetts blood' was shed at Baltimore we do not know, 1 but it is certain that no Masscnusetts life teas i 'Are/ and in view of this fact, we think it about firr.e tor the Boston papers to dry up" on that subject.— ConcurJ(A. //.) Patriot. NORTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. —The Albany Evening Journal reminds its readers of the ■ constitutional impediment lying in the way of the sp' edy formation ola new State to be com dased of the counties situate in the Nothweslern part of Virginia. It says: "The indications are that Western Virginia will apply for admission into the Union as a new State. How will she be recognized by the Federal Government? The Constitution, ar ticle 1, section 3, declares that— "No new State shall be formed or erected wi'hin the jurisdiction of any other State, nor any other State be formed by the junction of two or more States or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress, "The consent of one of the parties will of course be withheld. "Old Virginia" will ob ject to being bisected in thia summary manner. How will this constitutional impediment be overcome ?" C. Reamer has been elected Captain, W. W. Anderson First Lieutenant and Win. Bowles, Second Lieutenant, of the Bedford Dragoons. This is a fine company of horse men, and should be accepted by the Govern or and put under pay for the defence of the border. j- DIED— GUMP.—At the Forks of the Road, on the sth inst., after a brief, though painful, illness, James Buchanan Gump, aged 4ys., smos. and 25 days. Christ hath called our boy ; Why should we mourn for bim * He haa tasted of that joy, Which is unmixed with tin. 0 God, of love and light, Enable us to tell ; As did the Shunamite, That, "with our child 'tis well." P* ** * STUCKEY.—On the 16th inst.,George Wat son Stuckey, aged 7 ys., 1 mo. and 23 days. Another gem for Jesus' crown. BARKMAN.—On the 30th ult., in Mon roe township, Joseph Barkman, aged 68 years. The deceased was a prominent and highly esteemed citizen of Monroe township, where he had resided for many years. His death leaves a vacuum in the community which will no< soon be supplied. May his ashes rest in peace!
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