BEDFORD GAZETTE.
-BEOFOKU, l'a.—
FRIDAY MAT 31, IS6I
- Meyers, Editor & Proprietor.
DELEGATE ELECTIONS..
The Democratic voters of the several elec
tion districts ot LJedfoid county.and others wh<
intend to act with them in good faith hereaf
ter, ar hereby requested to in<-et on
SATURDAY, THE 15th JUNE, NEXT,
at the hour and place to be appointed by theii
respective Vigilance Committees (who are here
by requested to gtve written notice of such tirm
and place of meeting) for the purpose of elec
ting two persons as delegates to the Demociat
ic County Convention, which is to assemble ai
the Court House, ;n Bedford, on TUESDAY
THE 18th DAY OF JUNE NEXT, at 2 o'-
clock, P. M., to put in nomination a County
Ticket to be voted lor at the eosuing election,
appoint Legislative and Judicial Conferees, ant:
attend to such other matters as may be ptopei
to be transacted lor th° benefit of the party. —
It is also particularly requested iba* active and
earnest Democrats be elected Vigilance Com
mittees (or the ensuing year and that their
names be returned to the President of the Con
vention. Bv order of the Dem. Co. Com.
G. H. SPANG,
May 10th, '6l. Chaitman.
Let us Stand by Our Colors I
Ever since the formation of the Government
a party has existed whose mission has been tc
guard with jealous care the liberties of the peo
ple of the Union. Under (he leadership of Jef
ferson, it succeeded in defeating the efforts o)
its opponents, the Federalists, to establish a con
solidated, concentrated Government, which was
to have shorn the States of their individual sov
ereignty, and to have eventually fused separate
and independent Commonwealths into one com
mon empire, with a general government mak
ing laws for and executing them upon the peo
ple, with regard to their local as well as their
general interests.* Under the administration ot
Madison, it secured to American Commerce the
freedom ot the seas, and vindicated the liberties
of American seamen, and this against the
protest and active opposition of its Federal ene
mies. Under Jackson, it overthrew that oJd
Federal dragon, the United Slates Bank, and
again preserved the nation from the threatening
danger. Under Polk it acquired for the Union
the golden hills of California, and under Pierce
and Buchanan it contended valiantly and till
the last hour for the equality of the States and
the preservation of the Union. All this while,
in all these contests for the liberty and welfare of
the people, this party, ffie grand old Democrat
ic organization, was bitterly opposed by anoth
er party banded together, primarily, for the
purpose of obtaining Government patronage,
and secondarily for the overthrow of the Dem
ocratic policy and the establishment of a con
centrated and powerful political dynasty. Un
der various names, too numerous to mention,
this opposition party came forward to do ba'tle
with the Democracy. Nearly always unsuc
cessful, it at last hit upon the diabolic expedien
of dividing the people into sectional parties
To this end the question of slavery was brough
into the foreground ot the political arena, thi
anti-slavery Republican party organized all ove
the North, and "Freemont and Freedom," pro
claimed as its watchword. Thus the first sec
tional anti-Union party was established, and it
appeal to the passions and prejudices f p, o
pie ot the North, partially resisted in 185G, sue
ceeded in 1860, to elevate a man to the Brest
rienlial chair, whose avowed and cherished be
lief was that ' The Union could not continu
to exist half free and half slave,'' and who ha.
declared that he " hated slavery almost as muc:
as any abolitionist." The North being tho
aectionalized, the South, on the principle tha
one extreme begets another, soon united in at
attitude of antagonistic sectionalism. The rc
suit, as the National Demociacy had alwavi
predicted, was revolution, and, now, our belov
ed country is on the very verge of dissolutioi
and anarchy. In this emergency the represt n
tatives ot the Democracy, the voters of the pat
ty of Jeffeison, Jackson and Polk, are asked ti
disband their organization, and to join band
with the men who established the first seciiona
party in the country, and by obtaining a cros:
with those excellent haters of one half of th<
Union, to improve trie Union blood of the Na
tional Democracy ! in this critical period, thi
good old Democrats of Pennsylvania, are asket
to fuse with the men whose persistence in thi
madness of sectionalism, despite the warning
and the adjurations of good and true men. ha
brought upon the country the ruin, desolatior
and horrors ot civil war! Democrats! Wit
you give up your organizatiou, now, when youi
opponents stand aghast at the very work of theii
own hands * Will you join them, now, mere
ly because they desire you to shoulder a portioc
of their own iniquity 1 We know the response
of your hearts. You will stand to your colors
You will ntafch to victory under the banners
of Democracy, the Stars and Stripes, the time
honored symbol of equal rights and the greatest
good to the greatest number !
" Torice is he armed who bath bia quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."
Another Despotic Outrage.
By order of the Administration at Washing
ton all the telegraphic despatches placed on
file tor the past three years, at the telegraph of
fices in New York city, have been seized, and
are now undergoing the inspection of the myr
midons of Abraham Lincoln. Thu3 the sacred
privacy of the family is invaded, and secrets
unconnected with public affairs, bfe interwoven
with the dearest interests of domestic life, laid
bare to the gaze of prying officials. Louis Na
poleon would n.jt dare to do the like, for fear nl
, a Parisian emeute tumbling him from his throne.
: The Czar of Russia would not venture upon a
deed so far out-stripping his own ab-oluie pow
j er, ie-t his subjects might send ' im, an exile, to
Siberia. But Abraham, the First, the demi
j gon of a deluded and willingly enslaved people,
j can seize private property, invade the sanctity
|ol the secrets of home,and grasp the very heart
. :rings of his pliant without a murmur
of protest against his tyranny and ururpation.
The Albany villas 4" commenting
upon the announcement of this despotic outrage
i spraks as follows:
" What is this which (he Pn s'dent has done?
Simply this; bv his own fiat, and not otily with
out rdor of law , but against ail law, he has
seized upon all the original dispatches which
i private individuals have during the last year,
i deposited in the telegraph offices of the princi
pal cities tor transmission to their correspond
ents. These dispatches are confidential, and it
i- a criminal off-nCe for a telegraph operator
to divulge them. But the President at one fell
swoop takes possession of th* m all, violates their
confidential character, and exposes to the eves
of his agents all the private correspondence of
tile country, whether of a business, political, or
social character
The next step may be, to seize ail the letters
in the po.-t olfices and open and reo i them.—
This would be quite as justifiable as the seizure
of telegraphic dispatches. The public mind of
England was startled a few years ago bv the
oiscovery that the pnst office had been violated
in a few instances by the government, and sus
pected letters had been opened to obtain infor
mation. A storm of indignation was poured
upon th" head of the Minister who sanctioned
this violation of private correspondence. If the
President has done w hat the Tribune above al
leges. we do not hesitate to donnunce the act as
a high handed outrage, unexampled under a
free government, and only congenial to a des
potism.
I A SCREW LOOSE AT HARRI3BURG !
Cur tin's Attorney General Resigns!
Considerable stir lias been created in politi
cal circles, by the resignation of Attorney Gen
eral Samuel A. Purviance. We have been
; convinced, /or some time, that there was sumc
: thing rotten in the Gubernatorial family, but
j did not think that the stench ol the corruption
would be so great as to drive out a member
thereof. Mr. Purv ; ance has done well in sev
ering his connection with the ih/amous adminis
tration ol Gov. Curtin, and no man will step
into the place vacated by him, without being
; ju.rt I v oupeet'd of w ill... x _
j rupt Executive in his schefoea ol plunder and
i peculation. VVe append a copy ol Mr. Pur
viance's letter of resignation. Our leaders will
j remark the tone of quiet but severe contempt
; pervading this brief epistle.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, |
Harrisburg, May 24, 1861. j
To ANDREW G. CURTIN,
Governor of Pennsylvania :
| For reasons which appeal to my self-respect
■ T cannot consent to continue any longer in cor.-
; nection with your administration.
1 therefore tender you my resignation ol the
i office of Attorney General of the State.
SAMUEL A. PURVIANCE.
The Magazines.
HARPER'S MONTHLY.—We have before us
the June numb' r, being the commencement of
; the Twenty-third Volume , >1 this able and a!-
I ways interesting periodical. There is a savor
of freshness and novelty about the pages of
; Harper that is exceedingly grateful to the taste
of the general reader. The illustrated articles
I are always oiigm.il and peculiar, and the Edi
tor's Diawer is a f.ature r.ot to be found in any
other magazine in existence. The contents ol
the June number, are : 44 The Coast Rangers ol
I California ;" =• R-crimination ;" Adventures
in Gorilla Lmd " Apple Blossoms," "Oiley
Farm;' "George R g.rs Claike," "Chartv
Spangler " What is Best . A Clergyman's
j Adventure;" " My Whistling Neighbor;" "The
j Adventures of Philip;" "Captain Alicant;"
! " Audience ol the Queen ol Spain;" 41 On be
ing found out," "Grace and I;" and the usual
features of the latter pages. Published bj Har
-1 per & Brothers, New York City.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY. —Number 44 of this !
truly literary publication, is on our table. VVe j
; have frequently expressed our good opinion of
. the JHlantic, and have no cause whatever to
| change it. Our old friend, the 14 Autocrat of
the Breakfast Table," still contributes to it, as
does, also, Mrs. Stowe, Pro/. Longfellow, Bav
ard 1 ay lor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Bus-j
j sell Lowell, and other standard writers. The
articles in No. 44, are: 44 Agnes of Sorrento;"
I "Greek Lines ;" 44 | he Rose enthroned ;" 44 A
Bag ol Meal ;" 44 Napoleon the Third ;" 44 Con
cerning Things Slowly L-arnt ;" 44 American
Navigation;' 44 Denmark Vesey ;" 44 New York
Seventh Regiment;" "Army-Hymn:" 44 The
Pickens-and-Sttalin's Rebellion;" "Recent A
rnerican Publications." Published by Tickoor
& Fields, Bostop, Mass.
WHERE IS COVODE ?- As even the Republi
can papers are compel led to admit that the
Siate Administration is corrupt and rotten,
would it not be well for iiiat partv to hold
a State Convention and recommend John Co- ;
vixieto lift the Curtin a little with his power
ful and far-smelling proboscis ?
JEP'The reported rapture of SewaJl's Point by-
Gen. Butler, is all a hoax. There was no i
there at all. 6 j
For the Bedford Gazette.
NEW ENGLAND IN 1812.
MR. MEYERS :
ll sometimes becomes use
ful to refer t i past events and recall former o
pinions fo illustrate the present. Hence 1 send
yon the following, taken from the Boston Co
lumbian Centinel, of August, 1812. The arti
cle-is headed "Separation of the States."
"if Mr. Madison will restore us a ourcommerce
"our rights, our means of subsistence, our peace
"we should gladly receive those blessing
"from hjs hand : —Bui if he can not do this (an
"we think he wants the inclination if not th
"power) let Mr. Clinton's or any other Dernc
"cra'.ic arm be extended to our assistance. -
"Nothing can be more reasonable than our r
"quest. We would simply stipulate that cor
"merre shall nut be systematically crippled
: "peace,and then be systematically forced ;
> "bear the burdens of war. Such a condition
; "unequal, and it cannot be endured. VVh;
"symptoms of disaffection to the Union is mar
- "ifest in declaring this truth ! The Uiuon
; "dear but commerce is still mote dear. IV
i "will cleave 'o the Union to the last extremity
"A settled policy to abandon commerce woul
: "be such an extren ily.—To expect the peopl
"of the Eastern States to renounce their corn
'•merce for the sake ol the Union when in lac
j "they agreed to the Union for the sake of thes
j "commerce is irrational and absurd. It iny?
; "be matter ol great indifference to the pe Jpt
"of those States m general, whether comm&t
or country sliali be permanent|y abaodonej
I "*< commerce which makes our countty valt
; "anle, as it is instrumental and necessary toll
"comforts which render it dear. Ari l whi
"the farmers as well as Merchants shall thoi
"oughly unoer ; 'and ttie tendency and beariii
"of the destiurti m of commerce, thev naigii
"prefer to imitate the their ancestor
"and quit a country winch will not protec
'Uhi ir riglits rather than submit to oppiessio
■•and rum. li'hen therefore the time shallot
•nre presenting to the. people, the alternant
-between severing the Union and submitting I
"a permanent anti-commercial policy, t tie re C<U
"be no difficulty in predicting the rest. IV'
| "pray the time may not airive ; but we belt-w
"it the pr-sent administration keep their plajet,
"it may be considered as at hand."
Such was the opinion of New England in
Augus', 1812, sixteen or seventeen monthsbd
fore the meeting of the celebrated Hartford o>n
veiuion. Such views she fearlessly maintaiied
in the midst of a war with a Foreign Eneny
was she right ' If wrong, surely she shojld
now, in the midst of civil war , have some n
dulgence towards the.sa.me '(Qetrinea now enter
tained by our Southern, brethren who dlaim (je
riglit ol opposing the systematic,, inauguraten
of an anti-slavery policy.
1"or the Bedford Gazette:
Five Hundred Dollars Reward !
MR. EDITOR :—1 he subjoined anonyrmus
i elter was received by ra a few day? ago." I*m
. accused therein of being a "Secessionist of (he
! blackest dye !" and of having attended a "Seces- j
| sion meeting in Cumberland." Now, Mr. Ed
; dor, I propose to pay the above reward to anv
! man, or set o' men, that will satis/at torily prove j
i U' al 1 ever attended any meeting al the kind in .
Cumberland or elsewhere, i have always DeetT J
a Lnion man—did nut merely become one at !
[ the eleventh hour, like 6onie of those who now j
i claim to be such thoiough Union men—but |
| stood up for the Union when reason and com- ;
| mon sense might have saved it and prevented .
, the necessity, it there be necessity, lor civil i
vvar, As I was then, so 1 am now, a Union '
i man to the core, and as such I expect to live
| and to die. II the reward of a consistent friend !
J of the Union and one whose heart's wish is to ■
see our country flourish and prospur, is that he i
i and his family shail tie driven a'.vay from their |
. home, then, indeed, there is but little encour
agement *o be a Union man in Bedford county :
■ and what is more, but little* law, order or civil i
| liberty.—l also ofler five dollars reward to the j
| author, or authors, of the cowardly anonymous I
Utter herewith appended, if he, or they, will
publish their names in your paper, provided
, they can bring the certificate of twelve of their
j nearest neighbors thai thVy have heretofore been
consi Jered honorable and sensible men.
Yours. &c.,
GEO. W. GUMP.
Napier tp., May 25th, '6l.
i [Tbe following is the letter nbove spoken of, speli
leg, &c., as in the original.]
Bedford May, 1861. !
Dr Sir
It is reported that you are a so- ■
cessionist of the blackest dye having a!len-d a
meeting ol that kind when in cumberlend not ,
| long Can it be possible that r. man Born '
, arid Bred and owey his all to Ihis fr-e land of!
ours can lend a hand to destroy the, constitution !
of Our imd and it the same as it came from the •
hands of Washington Jefferson Madisron &. oth- |
er fathers of our '"ounfrv and more has not the |
administration of affairs nt all ways bi en in
hands, of the opposition to the prv-ant admin- ;
istration with (a few Exceptions) And chiefly j
controled by the verry men who now are He- i
belling—lf there were Rights of which they :
were entitled why did they not give them to
them Ihe south and not Leave it untill power
was taken from them (Sir it is only a pretext) ,
Now sir the object of my writing is to inform 1
you that onUss you come out and proclaime
yourself a union man (so soon as your family is j
well) You will be driven from your home or j
Receive a halter, as cravat, yon must go to your
Iriends the Rebbels Yours truly as a caution
BROAD TOP COAI.. —The shipments of coal ■
Irom the Broad lop mine* lor the week ending
22<l nt., amounted to 5,362 tons, being an in
crease of 1729 tens over the shipments for the
coresponding week of last year. The Pbiladel- j
phia Mining Rfgialer says: "Of the 5,362
tons, 4,138 were passed upon the Philadephia
and Reading Railroad for t-dewater at the Rich
mond piets in this city, whence it is distribu- ■
ted in boats to points on Ne.w York Bay, Ihe
Hudson river, Long Island sound, and other
waters. Large numbers of miners from Cum
berland and Pittsburg are arriving at Broad Top
and are put to work in the mines." Several
parties Irom (he Cumberland region passed •
through here jately on their way to Coal moot, j
THE STAY LAW.
he following is a carefully revised copy of
I Stay Law, recently pasted by our Stale
jislature. Its provisions aieof the utmost
ortance to all classes of citizens, and should
attentively studied by every one of our read-
In some ol its particulars, in is quite mys- ,
ing, and well puzzle "even a Philadelphia
vyer:"
SECTion 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
fl House of Representatives ol the Common
alth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly
fct, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of;
e same : That upon ail judgments now re
aming unsatisfied, or which may be obtained
lit hin six months fiotn the passage of this act,
tere shall be a stay ol execution lor one year
orn the passage hereof as regards judgments
jtairteJ after the date hereof. Provided that '
I te defendant is possessed ot real estate;
Vitbm the respective county or counties in ;
*vhich such judgment shall have been obtained,
in an> other county within this Common-j
'"wealth, to which the said judgment shall hive
'?>een liacoteiT. d, subject to be sold for the pay
cment ofsuch judgment, worth in the opinion
lof any court or any judge in vacation, justice or
fatderman having jurisdictionup! such judgments,
jat a fair valuation a sum sufficient to pay or !
I satisfy the same, ever and above other incum
brances, and the amour t exempted hum levy
j and sail ou execution, ol said defended shall
jgive security for the payment of the same, to
ibe approved by the court, or a judge thereof
jin vacation or the justice or alderman before j
. whom the sane Mas obtained or may De de
; pending, within sixty days Iron the date ol j
| the judgement, or from the passage of this act,
i which security shall satisfy the court, judge or
j justice, by oath or affirmation, and such evi-;
I d nee as may be required, that they are the '
j bona fide owners ol real or personal estate with- j
jin the county v/here such judgment his been
! entered, Worth at a fair valuation double the !
amount ol such judgement, over and above all
I other debts and incumbrances, to which se
■ curity the plain'iff. n.av file exceptions as now
! provudtd by law,. And that in all actions now j
: pending, or instituted within twelve months
'alter the pasage of 111 is act, in any of the c urts
of this Commonwealth, on notes, bills, bunds, or
j othhr investments lor the payment of money, i
jor for the recovery of book debts, wherein the
defendant or defendants at any stage of the pro
! ceedings before actual sale by the sheriff, shall
j have filed an affidavit setting forth that the
! majority of their creditors, whose demands ex
j ceed two-thirds of his or their indebtedness,
have agreed in writing to extend the 0 |
I payment of the debts j'g e them resuectivy j,,
• thy court shall dirr-vi me prothonotarv to re
, pOi'i ine ternis-of the said extension, upon even
j evidence submitted to him by the defendant ot
(defendants, and thereupon the court shall enter j
an order in the cause, that no execution shall
j issue, except at the periods when, and in the
proportions which it shall appeal bv the rep rt
of the prothonotar v of the majority of ttie cred
i ilors of the defendant or defendants, whose de
mands exceed two-thiidsof his or their entire
indebtedness, have agreed as aforesaid, to ex
tend the time of pay merit of tfie debts due them
| respectively, and no person or firm, bank or
broker, holding collaterals as security for debts
j due or to become due, shall within one year
from the Uking effect of this act sell at public
jor private sale any such collaterals whether
the same consist of mortgage, bond, not-, or
j any paitv selling such collateral securities
within such time shall become responsible for
the same at double the amount for which it -
I was pledged to the owner of such collateral.
AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That the proivs
: ions of this act shall extend to judgments en
i tered or to be entered, as well upon" bond and
j warrant of attorney as upon mortgages to se
em p the same, and to any subsequent grantee or
j owner of the premises so bound, as well as to
1 (he original obligor or mortgager, nd also to
j all judgments or debts upon which stay of ex
edition has been or may be waived by tin* debt
or in any obligation or contract upon which
I such judgment has been or may hereafter be
| obtained, or by any stipulation entered info at
j any time separate from said obligation or con
j tract. AND PROVIDED, That nothing in this
! act contained shall be construed to stay an ex
! ecution that may be issued after the expiration :
jof sixty days from the -passage of this act for
j the pui pose of collecting interest due, 01 to be
come due, upon any judgment for any sum,:
j not less than SSOO, heretofore obtained for !e-s;
j than six months arrearage of interest. PROVI
i DED, That this act shall not apply so as to stav
' the coi!ect">n o? interest on judgments entered ,
for the security of the payment of money to
widows, orphans, or minors. AND PROVIDED
further, That this act shall not apply to any!
| judgment obtained for the wages of labor, or :
i debts contracted after the passage of this act, '
j but shall apply to all corporations, whether de- 1
j fendants or holders of collaterals.
1 SEC. 2. 1 fiat in all cases iri which a de- j
fendant souli be entitled to a stay of execu- !
jtion under the provisions of this act and shall
I neglect or refuge to claim the benefit thereof,
any mortgagee of the pr-miscs levied upon,
Ur other lien Cceditor, u hose estate or int-rest
{therein wqul. be affected by the sale ot the
.-aid premises, shall have tlu" like r j L ,(, t with
j the defendant to claim such slav of execution, i
SEC. 3. That upon all judgments hereto I
j for* entered, or which may hereafter be entei
| ed, upun conditional verdicts in actions of eject
j men!, a like stay of execution shall be had, upon
tfie same terms and conditions provided in the
first section of this act.
Sec. 4. I hat the provisions of this act
.shall be considered to apply to all judgments
ion whrcha sale by judicial process has been
1 actually made.
I
SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OP THE TROOPS AT
LANCASTER. —The Fourteenth and Fitteenth
Regiments ot tfie Pennsylvania troops, encam
! ped near Lancaster, are almost in a state of in
subordination consequent upon the shocking
condition of the commissary department. The
authorities have demanded a reform. Much ot
; the pork is rancid or putrescent, and the sup
ply of bread insufficient. For supper on Ttiuis
day night a company of seventy-four men had 1 |
only fourteen pounds ot bread", and the pork!
furnished them being unfit to eat was thrown I
away.
The Union Guards of Reading, Capt. Griffith, ! ;
and Keystone infantry of Womelsdorf, Capt.'
Shearer, are part of the 14th Regiment, it the j .
State cannot or will not provision our gallant j
soldiers decently, their friends will have to at- : ,
tend to their wants. It ,s a burning shame ,
thai they should be treated in such a way— I c
worse than a human man would treat his dog. : ;
Some one will have a feariul accouqf to render .
for all this.— Reiding Gazettt.
FROM WASHINGTON.
HIGHLY 1 M DOR TA-V T !
INVASION OF VIRGINIA BY FEDERAL
TROOPS!
ALEXANDRIA, ARLINGTON HEIGHTS AND
FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE OCCUPIED
BY GOVERNMENT TROOPS !
COL. ELLS WOR Til MUR D Ell ED !
THE MURDERER PUT TO DEATH !
WASHINGTON, May 24. Within a few hours
past there have been important military move
i ments. It was suspected yesterday that orders
hod been given for an advance of troops into
Virginia, but these being necessarily ola secret
1 character, the exact truth con! I not at that
time ue reliably ascertained.
The New York 2d, 12'h, ?:h, and 21st regi
! ments. New Jersey and Michigan brigades,' and
Col. Eilswoi til's Zouaves were, so far as is at
! present ascertained, constituted the forces to ad
! Vance upon Virginia.
j The Washington City National Rifles, Capt.
Smeud, at about fen o'clock last night passed o
! vet Long Bridge, which is ah ut a .' de in
length, and connects Washington with the
Virginia shore, and remain-d at the latter ter
minus until two o'clock this morning, acting as
an advance guard. These were followed by o
ther Pist* ic.t volunt-er ' c iTnpani s, acting in a
similar capacity. Subsequently the New York
2d ;uid*l2 h retina'iits, and the Michigan and
i New Jersey brigades crossed the bri 'g>r
The Virginia pickets having been driven in
j by the advanc guard, one ot the regiments took
! the read leading to Fairfax Court House, about
1 twenty m'les tom Washington, while another
i one of the New Ji-sey regiments stopped at
the Forks,* a n.ile from Long Bi i Ige, p., wait
for orders.
Fro n (>,OOO i > 10,000 troops were sent over
| into Virginia at an early h >ur U; morning.—
; Firing w u heard, occasioned hy the forcing of
Virginia pickets.
STILL LATER.
T:e New York Zouaves, 14ih and o9th New
York and the New Jeisey regiment buhl Alex
andria, while Arlington Heights are occupied
by several other regiments.
The entrance into Alexandria was attended
: by an event which has cast the deepest gloom
over the c.'tn.iiui'Ay. Col. EMswoitli, who had
iiuul. d doe. o ttie Secession flag from the Mar
; snail HOUSP, was soon alter shot by a concealed
toe. His dead body has been brought over to
the Navy Yard.
The accounts from Alexandria are somewhat
confus I, hut there is no doubt of the fact that
a man named Jacksun, who shot Col. Ellsworth
was instantly pu> to death ; some say by both
bullets and the bayonet.
Wh n the Federal troops reached Alexan
dria the V irginia troops fired at them and tied.
Visitors to that city say that the scenes were in
tensely exciting.
It seems to be true that a bodv of Federal
troops lias advanced o Faitfax Court House to
take possession of the junction of the Orange
and Alexandria, and the Manassas Gap rail
roads, with the view o! intercepting the ad
vance of the Virginia troops towards Alexan
dria from Richmond and other points.
IJI irnnfftz acrJvpfi
comprising so in* from New York and the two
Ohio regimen's. A third Connecticut regiment
came in this morning.
Archbishop Hughes for Peace.
The opinions of Arcbishop Hughes upon the
civil war, which have been looked lor with
much interest by a large class of our fellow-cit
izens, are gii.n tu the public in Ihe Metropoli
tan Record. We extract a portion of the re
marks of this eminent divine, who, we rejoice
to percieve, rai_.es his influential voice in favor
ol peace.
Aove aii the wars, a civil war is (he most de
plorable and the most destructive in its conse
quences, both to the victor and vanquished.—
Its progress is marked by ruin ami desolation.
It gives a loose rein to the worst passions of hu
man nature: lapiueand carnage, though horrU
bie to gaze upon, though terrible to witness,
cannot be compared to the moral evils which
it inflicts upon society. It is not in civil strife
that the tinkler altributesof'our nature are shown;
the mind of man becomes hardened and callous
amid scenes of blood and devastation. The
transition from a peaceful republic to a military
despotism is more iiy effected through such
a medium than people generally suppose. Man
kind are pretty much the same in every age of
the world. Materia! civilzalioo, it is hue, mil
develop the iniod and sharper, the intellect, but
it does not purify the asi/irations nor elevate the
moral nature of the race. * * *
We have fmard a proposition made bv a prom
inent speaker at the great deinonstiaiion which
was lately held at Uuion Square, that we trust
was either not seriously entertained, or had its
origin in the excitement of the moment. It
was nothing more or less than a recommenda
tion of the policy which Eogiaud has puisued
t • ward lieiand. The speaker expressed him
self in favor of taking away the plantations
from the Southern owners and bestowing them
as lacd bounties upon the Northern soldiers.
The idea, as we have intimated, is not an
oiiginal one, as it u%p partially earned into ei
fect against the people of Ireland, and as a
means bv which that people were to be utterly
exlerminat <d. lor ourpait, we protest against
sucii a wholesale system of spoliation—a system
which is calculated to plunge the country irre
mediably into a war that this generation may
never see the end 01, and to arouse feelings of
hatred and revenge that may live through cen
turies.
1 lie proposition to which we iiave referred
is, however, comparatively mild in its charac
ter when compared with the suggestion that has
beyn published in one or two of our New York
daily papers. It is nothing more nor less than
a proposal to incite the negroes to insurrection,
and by so doing, to precipitate the Southern
portion of our country into all the horrors of a
servile war. I his would be to re-enact on our
j own soil the fiendish brutali'ies of St. Domingo.
: It would be to rous? the savage nature of" the
| negro against our brothers in race and blood ; it
would tie to countenance atrocities and barbar
itits at the sight of which our whole country
would stand appalled ; it would be to encour
age the whole black population ol the South
to rise in arirs against the whites, to murder
womea and children, to massacre helpless in
fancy and age, and*io give a license to the ex
cesses and cruelties which characterise all negro
insurrections. * * • *
Have we now sunk so low in the scale of hu
manity ; have we so far forgotten our obliga
lions as christian men, even before we have
rightly entered into the heat of the conflict, to
camly tolerate or sanction a proposition as fi'en
! dish and as inhuman as that against which the
! elder Pitt raised his voice ?
We ask, in the name of God, what are we
coming to? it we must fight, cannot we fight
I like ci vlll zed, not to say christian men ! it is
! said that the Mohican warrior could tell by the
scalp of his victim to winch of the six hated
! tribes his dead enemy belonged, and that his
ha'red and disgust were equally expressed no
mailer if his foe was an Oneida or an Onandj^j a
ft was not an enemy of his tribe or nati ;
j merely, but a personal loe who sought his indi
jv i !ual life Is the contest, then, on- in which
private vengeance is to be wreaked under tie
cover of authority 1 If so, wv have onlv to e
a step lower in brutality and offer a bounty £>■
j scalps, greater or less, accotding as they are'- ri,
I from the heads of fighting men or of un reus mil'
: women and children.
The turning Eleciioo.
In the heat and excitement caused bv the
prospect of war, and the attendant circumWi
ces of political and financial prostration ;•
corning election has almost been lost si<rf)t . ■
Ptnhaj sit is best that when the coinn n',
... .j " coun
try is involved in imminent jeru u> l>y as ,H..
so far as i.s necesrary for the country'., safety'
! party bia, and party prejudice, and* endeavor
! to save that which is the ostensible ohj-ct of ai'
j parties, and without which parties could not
: exist. Now we have heard the idea frequently
[ advanced, and it has b-en publicly thrown
out through th 'coin nns of the Juniata Send
nel that in these perilous limes party lines
| should be entirely forgotten, ail parties meet
on one common platform audio the sir:t of
i unity thus fill the offices which become' vacant
i this fall.
So lor as our experience goes, this idea has
we belt >v., come from Republicans ; and we
firmly believe it to be but a ruse to add siteo'th
;to that parly, which has been for sometime
; trembling upon its foundations ; but an idea, and
a very plausible and seemingly lair one it is, to
| gull Democrats to the support of the Republi
can party. Ah, yes, thev must invent some
new story to tell. Wide Awake torch l.gbt
I processions are no-v not exactly the thm<*.
They cannot at this juncture ride into power
upon their sectional doctrines, the damning
- ffec.t ol which has already been made known,
and since this refuge of lies his failed tlmm!
they turn yjund and say to Democrats, in the
: clemency ol their souls, "Wfe will now unite
with you upon the common ground of our coun
try's safety." For our own part we are willing
upon ail and every occasion, when the eafety of
our countiy is imperiled, through any cause
whatever, to stand up in its defence, but nev
er to depart from those principaies which we
irt-iieve to be necessary for its perpetuation.
We hope evry Democrat is willing to stand
up for his country in its hour of trial, but stili
ciing 10 Democratic principles. We are in fa
vor ol holding delegate elections in the several
townships, holding a Democratic Convention,
nominating Democratic candidates , and then
electing them ;of keeping up the party organ
ization, and iall > itg around ttie principles of
, the Constitution as embodied in the Democrat
ic cre< d and we do not believe a desei'ion ot
these principles necessary even in time ol
war .-—Juniata True Democrat.
DysrErsiA —This is a very distressing com
plaint, onj gives the patient more sofTering
than almost any other disease,in fact, it is a
i combination of many complaints in one. The
symptoms are numerous aud are of the nature
of almost all other complaints combined.
From this fact, arise the very many cases
where this d-stase is mistaken for some other
and so improperly treated. The first symptoms
indigestion, flatulency, loss of appetite, heart
burn, headache, etc., if neglected, almost
always awaken soaie dormant disease and send
the poor sufferer to a premature grave. What
you must first do is to cleanse the blood and reg
ulate the bowels ; do this with the "Mountain
Herb Pflls," and you can bid defiance to dys
pepsia.
iEP"CaII at H. C. Reamer's and get a copy
of Raxt-r's Volunteer's Manual.
iCr" Don't believe one half the stories tele
graphed concerning the war.
-Jl A It SIiEU-
R1 rCHE\ —C|US r. —On the loth inst., by
Rev. 3i. E. Gilds, Mr. Daniel Ritchey to Miss
Su.-anua Crist, both of Union township.
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May 31st, 'CI. •
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