VOL tut: 57. NEW SERIES. .. ri -k . o.- "... •• . 'I t y Tenu IXV AH IA ELY CASH. |jj!' h.t r it ami. b 4M, '■ y\f I -- >M JOE KEEP. G. CV nuPP, J..* SCHEL F.ED. HUPP AND SCHKLF, BXDERS St DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD, PENN'A. RAFTS bought and sold, collections mad ' and money promptly remitted, deposits solicited. REFERENCES. HON. JOB MANN, Bedford, Pa. 41 JOHN CESSNA, 44 JOHN MOWER, 14 " R. FORWARD, Somerset, •' BrNN, RAIGTBL & Co., Phil • J. WATT &. Co., Pittsbur •' J. W. CcRLEY, Si. Co., 44 -1 w\\ X SHAWO.V HAVE formed a artnership in the Practice of the Law. Oilice .early opposite the Gazette Office, where cne r the other may at all times be found. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1859. rag r. tm- ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. f ypectjutly tenders his services to the Pubhi •LP Cilice second door North of the Men i louse. Bedford, Aug. 1. 1859. / \ h fijtrrici- ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEHFORD, TA-, VN ILL promptly attend to all business en 'rusted to his care. Oihce on Pitt street, two ours east of the Gazette office. He will also attend to any surveying business that may be entrusted to him. [\ov. 4, '59.{ X UIJV PALMER, v f f ATTORNEY AT LAW, •BEDFORD, PENN'A., t ill promptly intend to all business entrusted to j rare. Olfice on Julianna Street, (nearly oppo . e the Menge! Xlcuse. faprtl 19 4 '60.| I K. MGIRK, ) ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PENN'A. ° Tree on JCLI ANNA STlflirr, sime as occupied bv WILLIAM M. HALL, Esq. [april 19,' hi J HIV BORDER f J GUNSMITH, BEDFORD, PA. '<* !■ nt the east end of the town, one door west he residence of Major Washabatigh. A !l guns of my own manufacture warranted. May 'il.'nK.- ANHLL KETTFRMIN— COUNTY SURVEYOR. 01 LD hereby notifiythe citizen? ot Bed ! county, that he has moved to the Borough Bedford, where he may at all tim-s be t.nd by persons wisliing to see htm, unless ent upon business pertaining to hi? otfice. April 10, 1558.-tf. X AW X SPWG— - i 3. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, FA. 1 He undersigned nave associated themselves in i'ractice of the Law, and will attend promptly ill business entrusted to their care in Bedford 1 sJioifting counties. XT" Office on Julianna Street, three doors south ' the "Mengel House," opposite the residence o i-Tate. JOB MANN 1, 1850. G. H. SPANG. * XV. LI\GB\FKLTER •/ ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND LAND SURVEYOR. H't/J attend u-ith promptness to nil bust nets entrusted to his care. A'ii.t. PRACTICK IN BEDFORD AND FULTOS COUNTIES. '""Otfice three doors North of the "Inquirer" i Office. T\R B. F HARRY - ' . RESPECTFULLY fendeit 1... services to the citizens of Bed •crd and vicinity. >tfice and residence on Pitt Street, in the -"V iormerly occupied by Dr. John Hofius Aug. I, 1859. n F. c. mill ~-f RESPECTFULLY begs o tender his Professional Services to the ens °' Bedlord and vicinity. Otfice in Julianna Street, at the Drug i ;1 - Book Store. Aug. 1, 1859. §7 LGODBOLD, TUNER & REPA IRER. e ' Hon. S. L. Russell, John Mower, ' K - fwnnon, Esq., Dr. W. H. Wstson, Rev. "arnea, M ri , ey tet. ■ne 29,'60. 1 • i I HI II || llßHlilll THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY MORNING BY hi ii. i\ Mi;vi;s, At the following terms, to WH : $1 .50 per annum, CASH, in advance. $2.00 if paid within the year. $2.50 " " if not paid within the year. tE7~No subscription taken for less than si* months. CEF"No paper discontinued until ail arrearages are paid , unless at the option of the publisher, it has Been decided by the United States Courts that the stoppage of a newspaper without tr.e payment ol are rearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and is a criminal offence. courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription'price of newspapers, { they take them from the post office,whether 'hey übscribe for them, or not. RAT £ S OF CHARGES FOR ADVER TISING. Transient advertisements will he inserted at the rate of $l.OO per square of ten lines for three inser tions, or !•;>-, but for every subsequent insertion, 25 cents per square wil I be charged in addition.— I'able and figure work double price. Auditor's notices fen lines and tinder, $l.OO ; upwards often lines and under fifteen $1.50. Liberal reductions made to persons adveitismg by the year. ORIGINAL POETRY. LINES. Where Potomac rolls his wave, A'hich unchanged, and changeless, flows— There the Hero, in his grave, Neither strife, nor battle knows. Let the cannons thunder on, Ti 1 they startle all the shore— He will hear and heed not one, Sleeping there forevermoie. Once he led a brother-band, And they came from South and North, , Fighting for theii native land, And for all that Freedom's worth. And together there they lie, Side by side, on hill and plain, 'Neath New England's azure sky, And along the Southern main. O'er iheir graves the legions pour, Sons of those who slumber there, In the madness ol the hour, Heedle.-s of the things that were. Back ! my brothers ! cease your strife, Ere their dust you desecrate ; Here, for Freedom, gave they life Here, tor you, they met their fate > Back ! O Sons of putriot Sires ! Pause, before the deed is done, That will iight War's bloody fires— Fiercer none since Time begun. Oh ! shame not the glorious dead ! Let them not have died vain ! Calm the hearts, to hatred wed, Bidding love return again. ANOTHER OF THE TWENTY. HAVE WE A CONSTITUTION?—No. 2. "PUBLIC .NECESSITY IS apt to prove PUBLIC FEELING, and on this rock we are in danger of making shipwreck of the Bill of Rights."— Daniel Webster. The great and good WASHINGTON, in the legacy ol undying love and w isuom which lie bequeathed in his affectionate Farewell to thos* tor whom lie had done and suffered JO much, with earnestness caution? his country men against those dangers to which his un erring sagacity foresaw tne government he had he!p-d o found would be subjected. Prominent among ihrse he headed sectional dissent ions and conflict: and, above ail an usurpation by ths Executive of powers not granted by the constitution, uuder the specioue pretext of State necessity. .Now that ttie evil is upon us, well may we be startled by those prophetic predictions, and touched bv the wisdom of the admonition. Head from his tareweii address. "In contemplating the causes, which may distuib our union, it oc curs, as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished lor char acterizing parties by geographical discrimin ations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Westc.n; whence designing men may endeav or to excite a belief, that fhete is a real dif ference of local interiMs and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is, to misreptesent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and burnings which spring from these misiepreseotations; thej- lend to len der alien to each Other those who ought to be bound together by fialernal affection. ' # * •*# * "I have alreedy intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular refer ence ot the founding of Ihern on geographical [lncriminations. Let me now take a more coinptehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the panefuf effects if the spirit of party, generally. "This spirit, unfotunalely, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strong ?st passions of the human mind. It exists, tnder different shapes, in all governments, Tiore or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; Nil, in those of the popular form, it is seen in Is gnatest rankness. and is truly their worst ?nemy. "The alternate domination of one faction >ver another, sharpened by the spirit ot re venge, natural to party dissension, which in Liferent ages and countries has perpetrated the nost horrid enormities, is itselt a lrightful lespotism. Rut this leads at length to a more ormal and permanent despotism. The dis orders and miseries which result, gradually ncline the minds ot men to seek security and epose in the absolute power of an individual - BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY, 5 186 L and sooneror later the chief of some prevail ing (action, more able or more fotunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purpose o| his own elevation on the ruir.s of Public Libert}'. "Without lookng forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to b-* entirely out ol sight,) the common and contin ued mischiefs of the spirit of paity are suffi cient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. *##*# "ft is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire cau tion, in Uioe entrusted with its admitiHtra ■ to confine them-elves within ineir r>-sp~riiv constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercis. of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment lends to consolidate the powers of all the de partments in one, and thus to create whatever the form ot government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and pronv neßs to anuse it, which predominates in thehu inaii heart, is snfih ient to satisfy us ol the truth of this position. The necessity of reciproral checks in th" exercise of political power, by. dividing and distributing it into difTrnt depos itories, and constituting each the Guardian of he Public Weal against invasions bv the oth ers, has been evinced by experiments ancient rnd modern-, some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To prserve them must oe as necessity as to institute them, if, in lie opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be n an}' particular, wrong, let it be corrected by in amendment, in the way which the Coristi ution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for, though this, in one instance nay be the instrument of good, it is (he cus omaiy weapon by which fiee governments aie feslroyed. The precedent mus' always great y overbalance, in pel mam nt evil, the good it nay at any tune yi~fd." Some thirty years ago a small cloud, no big ger than a man's hand, appeared ;n tlie horizon, t harbinger of that darkness winch now over shadows the land. A small band of enthus asts, trsiding in States where s!av> iv had n ■ existence, inaugurated a system ol interference with the institution in those States wheie it was legalized and protected by the Federal Constitution. We all know the consequence! Bitter heart jurnings, an alienation and mutual misoncep ion between citizens of different sections of he country, a necessary denial to the slave oL hose ameliorations of Ins lot which sriiranttiiopists vvrre rapidly introducing, ami] rreat material loss to the whole country. This, however, was the act of individuals. I tnd not of a distinct seclion of the country ; j ind while it prepaied a state of feeling at the south unfavoiahle to neutral harmony, there was no definite aggressive act. On the 12th day of September, 1850, how ever, on a motion, before the Senate, to abolish he slave tiade in the District ol Columbia, Mr W. H. Seward moved as an amendment, to a holish Slavery in the Wistrict of Columbia. The amendment tailed, but this was the en lerir.g wedge of that "higher law" and "irre pressible conflict" party, which has rent in twain the best government winch ever existed A strictly sectional party was, step by step, built up, through the persistent nnergy ot that astute leader, on the basis of hostility to slavery on the part of those who had no interest in the institution; our hails of Congress were made the arena for bi'.ter strife between tfie agg r essors a gainst and the defenders of these constitution al rights; men then first began openly to cal culate the value of the Union; and as a culmin ating evil, a Federal President and Vice Pres ident were elected, constitulionally, but by greatly less than a majority of the people, on a purely sectional platform. A portion of the South, as had been openly predicted, goaded and maddened by the taunts and threats of a radical party press, then claim ed the right to withdraw trom the government and to establish an Independent Confederal claiming ullinrate and absolute jumd • all the territory within th-ii res, . subject only to the liability to account for any excess of money expended for their benefit. Congress met, the Republican party was in the majority; Senator after Senator and member after member operJy proclaimed upon the floors of the respective houses, that they and iheir States diss 'ved their connection with the Union; no arrests wpre made, Congress, under the Constitution the <>ofe arbiter, refused lo regard this as a case where force could be exercised, and distinctly declined to invest (lie elect with the extraordinary powers which his friends solicited. I am of the North; the same flag under which I have always lived, under that I desire to die; in indissoluble Union of all the States is my first prayer; but, as well might you compel an nitraged wife to the embrace of a husband whom she detested, as te effec that re-uniou jy force and violence. JUNIUS, THE GOVERNOR OF WESTERN VIRGINIA Prank H. Pierpoint, Esq., who has been recent ly elected Governor of Western Virginia, is a esident of Marion county, one of the strong Union counties of Northwestern Virginia. He las been a member of the General Assembly of he State, and htas had considerable legislative •xperience. He is a councillor at law by pro ession, and occupies a good position at the jar. He is yet in the prime ot life, being a aout 4-5 years of ge. He has a fine personal ippearance—a full form and florid complexion, ind is an earnest public speaker. He. was a warm supporter of Rell and Everett at the last Presidential canvass, and is now an uncondi ional Union man. He was a member of the 'irst Wheeling convention, and was a zealous jppoent of Mr. Carlile, in his efforts to effect, it that time, the organization of a provisional government. Freedom of Thought and Opinion, SECESSIONISTS. Latterly, we seldom read the New York Tri bune. We have long since concluded that it was a dangerous sheet—the very embodiment o! vice. Hence it was only the other day we noticed the following which appeared in the Tribune of Nov. : I( the Cotton States unitedly and earnestly wish to withdraw peacefully from the Union, we think they should, and would be allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel them bv force to rt-niai'n, would be contrary to (he principles n trial-d in theimmorta. Declaration of Inde .'•ndt-nee—contrary 10 the fundamental ideas >n which human liber'v is based." The same paper in speaking of affairs at the South, recently said : " We repeatedly asked those who dissent from our views in this matter to tell us frankly whether they do or do not, assent to Mr. Jef ferson's statement in the Declaration of Inde pendence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed ; and ! hat when anv form of government becomes de- Rructive of these ends, it is the right of the people (r> alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, \.c.,&.c. We do heartily ac rept this doctrine, believing it intrinsically mind, beneficent and one that tl universally ac cept 'd. is calculated to prevent the shedding of seas of human blood. iLr*And if it justified he secession from the British Empire of three millions of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of five millions of Southerners from the Federal Union to ISGI." Much of of our trouble can be dmbly charg d against Greeley and his co-workers. The recession question w as being agitated as early as Vovemher, and Greeley said, "If the Cotton ■hates unitedly and earnestly wish to withdraw rorn the Union we think they should be allow ed to do so." Mr. Lincoln was silent. The youth, from Greeley's jx>sition, thought that would be ifie policy of tlie new administration. Thev did s'cede. The fitends of the adminis ra'ion cried, " L-t them go, we don't want I m ha; I. Such were not the sentiments of he administration, however. Now Greeley ind others, after having encouraged the South 5 their mad designs, say, we must not onlv con fer, but devastate their homes. Wf at can the People think of such men ? Are they not as rfumous as Southern traitors. Do you believe y-n who advocate secession are in earnest when fessfv rati the attention of :be to these ertiments- of Greeley and more especially the ittention of those throughout the country who ire forming lists of " secessionists," who, they ay, ought to be mobbed. Here is an avowed lecessinnist. It is the sentiment of the leading "tress ol the Republican party; the same in el ect, if not in words, has been uttered in our >wn Court House. Was Greeley evpr threat-] >nd by inobs for such expressions? Were j hose who advanced the garre views in public j meetings ever threatened by mobs—ever called secessionists? No, they were Republicans, good 'oyal citizens. Bui let a Democrat, even though ienying the right of |seCession hut express a jesire for peace, and he is called a " secession ist" and is threatened by mobs. It is lime the people should know the truth. Democrats have ever denied the right of secession, never heless have been endeavoring to bring about in amicable adjustment : have begged and pray ed for compromise, and now when the country is in danger, they are standing up boldly in ber defence. They want peace but if peace cannot be had, they will fight as they have ev er done, gallantly and willingly for the Union. Whole regiments of Democrats arp in the field. Over on half of the troops now in the field are said to be Democrats, nevertheless they are termed "traitors." Is this their reward ? It is painful to us to refer to these things in a polit ical aspec', yet we cannot help it ; every day we hear unprincipled demagogues calling this and tha Democrat a " secessionist," not because . acfccowl'-i'g d the tight of secession, •t l\ t (ause they are Democrats. n - say t u tia.se busy bodies lha' when the nine comes fully to test who will fight fur their country, it will not be those who prowl around branding loyai citizens as traitors, who will be found first to defend (heir homes and country, but they who are for peace, and who will on ly take tip arms when peace cannot be had, will be first in the ranks, and their swords will be the first to leap from their scabbards when the conflict comes, while the big mouthed enthusi asts, always cowards, trembling flee.— Somerset Democrat. PRACTICE VS. PtIECEPT- Two weeks ago we published an order from Gen. Cameron, Secretary of War, to the Gov ernors of the several States, lequesting them to appoint no person a field oliicer in tfie volun teer service, "unless a graduate of the military academy at West Point, or known to possess military knowledge anil experience yet in the face of this we have the announcement from Washington that this same Cameron has appointed, in the legular service, B. Rush Pet riken, Colonel; John P. Sanderson, Lieutenant Colonel ; Geo. R. Smith, Major—three woi ttiies who know as much about military science as a horse knows about preaching—three bro ken down political hacks, whose only claim o place is thei- service heretofore rendered in ihe Harrisburg Lobby. Never be/ore, we be lieve was the army of the United States made a place of reward for mere party friends and party services, certainly not by the promotion >f civilians over military men grown gray in the service of the Government. And if it b u attempted to justify so dangerous an innovation, oq the plea of fidelity to friends, we have only to say it is a cheap gratitude which makes all its drafts for the payment of its obligations on Ihe public Treasury.— Easton Sentinel. &I) t Schoolmaster 21 bro ab. SCHOOL ETHICS FOR PARENT AND CHILD, No. 3. The principal autj- parents owe to the school is that of supplying, through their proper rep resentatives, the directors, a sufficient number ot good teachers. There is a prominent differ ence existing between School masters and school teachers. TfS many of our schools are master ed and not taught ; but, we are glad to know that the number has sensibly diminished since the establishment of the County Superintenden dency in oui own as well as other States. We have had, and yet have too many who call themselves teachers, who are a burden to the cause and a disgrace to the profession. M> nin former fimes, who were found wholly unfit for any other position, readily obtained situations as masters of the district schools. Cases have even occurred in which men, who were found incapacitated to feed the village swine, were ac cepted as the masters of the village schools.— Such was truly a pitiable state of affairs, when men virtually acknowledged their children to be inferior to the herds of pigs that wandered up on the neighboring hills. The impressions that last through life are those which are made in youth. The teacher being the proper one to inculcate knowledge, should then be a person, who is in evn boys ; one charge, and the day is ours " Hie words were h-s last, for a Carolina rifle mded ills lile the n*xt moment, and he fled in error back. At the redoubt on the right a tompany of about 300 New Y ark ZnTaves : barged on one of our guns, but could nat stand he fire of the infantry, and retreated precipi iately. During these charges the main body of the pnemy, on the hill, were attempting to concen rate for a general assault, but the shell from the towitz-r battery prevented them. As one re giment would give up the effort, another would >e marched to the position, but with no better uccess, for a shell would scatter them likg :haff Tile men did not seem able to stand fire it all. About one o'clock their guns were silenced, ind a few moments after their infantry retreat 'd precipitately down the road to Hampton. )or cavalry, numbering three companies, went n pursuit, and harrassed them down to the •dge of Hampton. As they retreated many of he wounded fei; along the road and died, and he whole road to Hampton was strewn with taversacks, overcoaty, muskets, &c., which the nen had thrown off in their retreat. After the battle I visited the posi'ion they inld. The houses bdiind which they had been >id had btrn burn' h v o nr A mnnri ♦*- rard were the dead bodies of the men who had teen killed by our cannon, mangled in the most rightful manner by th- shells. The uniforms in the bodies were very different, many of hem are like those of the Virginia soldierv. A. ittle further on we came to the point to which hey had carried some of their wounded, who lad since died. The gay looking uniforms of "few York Zouaves contrasted greatly with the paled, fixed faces of .'heir dead owners. Going 0 !he swamp through which thpy attempted to lass to assault ourlin-s, there was presented aa jtheFbloody scene. Bodies dotted the black mor tss from one end to the other. Isa w one boyish, ielicale-looking fellow lying on the mud, with 1 bullet hole through his breast. His hand was oressed on the wound from which his iife-blocd tad poured, and the other was clenched in the ;rass that grew near him. Lying on the ground was a Testament wnich had fallen from his pocket, dabbled with blood. Ou opening the :over 1 found the printed inscription, "Presen ted to the defendeis of fheir country by the New York Bible Society." A. U. S. flag was stamped on the title page. Among the haversacks picked up along the route were many letters from the Northern Stales, asking if they liked the Southern farms, and if the Southern barbarians had been whip ped out yet. The force of the enemy brought against us was 4,000 according to the statement'of the six prisoners we took. Ours was 1,100. Their loss in kil'-d and wounded must b® nearly 200. Our loss is one Liled (Mr. tV\ ill, of N. C.) and three wounded. The fatal cas® was that of a North Carolinian who volunteered to fire one of th- housesjbehind which they were stationed. He started from the breastwortc to accomplish it, but was shot in the head. The wounded are Harry Shook, of Richmond, of Browns' Battery, shot in the wrist, John Werth, of Richmond,of the same Battery, shot in the leg ; and Lieut. Hndnail, of the same Battery shot in the foot. None of the wounds are serious. fhr Louisiana regiment arrived about one hour after the fight was over. As there was force enough at oid Point to send up to Bethel and surround us, we took up the line of march and came up to Yorktown, where we now are. Dining the entire engagement Col. Mag ru der was in every part of the field, and display ed consummate generalship and courage, direc ting every movement ir. person, and exposing himself with a recklessness of danger which was seen and admired by all in camp. fl^^ ,f Mr. Smith you *aJ you boarded at the Columbia Hotel six months: did you foot your bill?" "No sir; but what amounted to the same thing —the landlord footed m j ." Verdict for defendant. Call the next cue. v014.n0. a.