VOLUME 58. NEW SERIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY BY 11. F. MEYERS, At the iollowing terras, to wit: $1.50 per a.itium, CASH, in advance. $2.00 " if paid within the year. j $2.50 " < jf notoaid within the year, j QyNy fuhscnpticn taker, tor less than six months. piper discontinued until all arrearage® are paid, unless at ihe opt'on of'he publisher, jt has teen decided by the United States Courts that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment ol arrearages, is prima facit evidence ot fraud and is a criminal offence. [E?*The courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspa pers, if they take them from the post office, wheth er 'hey subscribe for them, or not. RAXES OF CHARGES FOR ADVER TISING. Transient advertisements will be inserted at the rate of SI.OO per square of ten lines for three inser 'ions or less, but for every subsequent insertion, 25 cents per square will be charged in additiou.— i'able and figure work double price. Auditor's notices ten lines and under, SI.OO ; upwards of ten lines and under fifteen $1.50. Liberal reductions made to persons advertising by the year. TO THE PUBLIC ! WHO ARE THE REAL TRAITORS? STEAD! MFAJD! MEAD ! lanous slanderers ol beU.r men and truer pa triots than thpmsel vis, still persist in Ihtir char ges of treason against quiet, law-abiding and peaceable citizen® of Bedford. Tjie fellows composing thaf clique, are the most miserable of liars and the cowardliest of poltroons, at the same time that they are the vilest of blackguards and tfie guiltiest of TRAITORS. * They are the falsest hypocrites, tne meanest dirt-eaters, the lowest demagogues, the filthiest buzzards that ever pretended to honesty, friendship or patri otism, or that ever gorged their greedy maws at the public crib. Tney were always dastard and contemptible, pharisaic, deceitful and trea cherous, unprincipled, unscrupulous, and un genllemanly,cowardly, mean and low, but since that pestiferous insert, the Treason-smeller , has got under tfj> ir clothes, every devilwh drop in their veins has become more Sxtanic, every hel- ! iish wish in their hearts more infernal, every dark and deadly thought of their minds, tenfold blacker and deadlier. Such monsters need ex position. The people MUST KNOW what these devils incarnate are afraid they will learn, viz : That they themselves, the howling, whin ing,whimpering BLACK;REPUBLICAN EDI TORS, ARE THE TRAITORS ! That THEY ARE THE DISUMONISTS whose deliberate I treachery helped to sap the Union of its foun dations y Now for the proof: On t lhV sth of April last, Abraham Lincoln hav been President one month,the Bedford Inquirer published an article in the second column of its editorial page, declaring that "the return of the Seceded States was not desirable," and that J they should be let alone, winding up with the following " treasonable" sentiment, which is nothing more, nor less, than the recogni'ion of the doctrine ol secession : '''■ Let the Seeeding Slates go! How evident that God, for gread and beneficent purposrs of his own, ins permitted this insanity to come upon therr. Let them go to work out their own ! destiny by themselves ! And if the dwellers , on the Atlantic slope of North Carolina and Viiginia choose that destiny, let them too go ! ; The policy of coercion is impolicy. The bonn- i dary between (he two inevitable nationalities J will be most wisely determined bv the elective • affinities of the population. Wherever that boundary may be established, it will be movea- j ble, southward, if Eastern Virginia, or Virginia entire, chooses to go with secession. Virginia will return whenever the interests of freedom there shall predominate over the slave-breeding i intererest. Till then let her go, if she will." Yes! let them go! " Let the Seceding States go!" This sentiment was all right i. enough when the Bedford lnqaircr published it; A was ever so loyal, patriotic and true, when uttered by a Black Republican, no matter how lousy a thief he may have been ; but let a Dem ocrat say anything of that sort, and lo! tfie Treason-smellers at once begin to bite, the In quirer fiends to bellow, and every Black Re- 4 publican calf that expects to pasture on Unfle ' Sam's farm, sets up a baa tb'at would drown th* roar of the cannon at Manassas.-—'f,Let the Se* •* ceding States go !" Such was the language of, the Inquir&'% few months ago. It it is treason , now to say as treason then, and, there- , fore, the tie according to their ev ery-day deciaMtio'ns, are TRAITQ>KS and ought to be hunk! t 1 , Again, in the Inquiyflr of Marcel 1, l#6l, , there is an the speechjaf A-' | braharn Lincoln at this speecy \ Lincoln said : * " .Now, in my view of the prpsen! aspect <%, affairs, there need be np bloc dshed, or wSr. THERE IS NO NECESSITY FOR IT." ' j * VerP * ° '? (la >' ,0 use '^ p l ar, g na g f> S£TMr. Lincoln, we would be at once denounced 1?y tlie Inquirer clique, as a traitor. Therefore, according to own rule, not only they, but • Mr. Lincoln, also, have been guilty of treason and ought to be hung. Again, Mr. Lincoln, in his Inaugural, en dorsed in the most fulsome style by the Inqui rer,, held the following language : " Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always, and when, after much loss on bcth aid>- and uo gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. This country, with its in stitutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it If henever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitu tional right of amending it. or their rev dution |cry right to DISMEMBER, or overthrow it " Thus taught Abraham Lincoln on the fourth of March last, and the Inquirer sung out Amen j most obediently. But suppose that we, or an\ other Democtat were now to make use of the i identical language of Mr. Lincoln, what woiilci be said of us? Why, dear read-m, the who!; blood-hound pack would bawl out 14 Treason ' Treason! Hang Him! Hang him !" Ever) Black Republican, from Abe Lincoln, the Rail Splitter, down to Francis Jordan, the back-out er, could utter such sentiments and be esteemed j loyal and patriotic, but as. for "us and our house," we must, forsooth, be published as trai ■ tors if we have the temerity to entertain them ! ' Again, in its issue of Nov. 16, 1860, the traitorous Disunion Inquirer published on its ; editorial page in the third column, without a word of dissent on the part of the clique, an article from the N. Y. Tribune containing the following " rank" Secession sentiments : The telegraph informs us that most of the, Cotton States are meditating a withdrawal fro'm the Union because of Lincoln's election. Very well : they have a r : giit to meditate, and medi tation is a profitable employment of lei-ure.— We have a chronic, invincible disbelief in Dis union as a remedy for either Northern or South ern grievances; we cannot preceive any neces sary relation between the alleged disease arid the ultra-heroic remedy ; still, vye say, if any body sees fit to meditate Disunion, let them do so unmolested. That was a base and hypocritic row that the House once raised, at Southern dictation, about the ears of John Quincy. Adams because he presented a petition for the dissolu tion of the Union. The petitioner hnd a right to make the request ; it was the member's dutv to present it. Ar'st now, if o-m consider the value of the Union debatable, we maintain their perfect right to discuss it. Nay, we hold with Jefferson to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish for ms ofeov ernment that have become oppressive or injuri ous ; and if the Cotton Stales shall become sat isfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless ; and we do not see I how one party can have a right to do what an other party has a right to prevent. We must ever resistthe asserted right of any State to re main in the Union and nullify or defy the laws thereof; to withdraw from the Union is quite another matter. And whenever a considerable secfTon of our Union shall deliberately resolve to i go ouf,""we shall resist all coercive measures de signed to keep it in. We hope never to live in : a republic w hereof one section is pinned to the ; residue by bayonets. There it is! 4 'lf the Cotton S'ates shall be come satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in petce!" Thus spoke General Greely and thus echoed groveling demagogues of the Inquirer. Thus were the people of the South encouraged to Secession by the Abolition sup porters of Lincoln Disuniontsm in the North And*now, from this evidence, according to the j same rule put iu force against us by these fiends iu human shape, we pronounce the Bedford Inquirer clique TRAITORS OF THE DEEP EST DYE ! TRAITORS deepest-dyed am doubly-damned ! TRATTORS whose offence a gainst the Union smells to the very heaven ! TRAITORS whose bones should hang as a spec tre warning to all future perverse and wicked generations of viper demagogues that may crawl npon the devoted soil of America.— THEY ARE THE TRAITORS ! LET THE BRAND BE PUT UPON THEM ! DIVISION OF VIRGINIA. Consideiable difference obtains in Western Virginia on the question of dividing the state arid a new state out of the western por tion., A bill has been wjtroducecLinto the Leg- at Wheeling, looCipg ta'ffhat end, but auspices that foreshadow the defeat ol .the.pfpjec 4 The Morgantown Slar is r-trongly in favor ol Division : the VVeUsbtorg Ilerald, is Jfcl n ? ! . v opposed to it andVtm Wheeling I.iitjfgencei occupies a kiud sf4iermaph>odi'.e position - be ing much in the same st de of mind wifh aes pecl to the question of Division tjifit tfie Horsier girl was with respect to matrimo nial question : 44 Sorter so and starter riot so, but a little more sorter than sorter not so,Vj W ' * " man in Sifn Francises, named Pulat r theirs, in whose history there is very much from which tve tnay now derive most profita ble lessons, encouraging, as well as humbling to our p r ide and self conceit. They were pun ished at times more terribly than the surround ing nations, because they sinned against grea ter light and knowledge, with the added sin of ung-atefully despising their eminently superior privileges and blessings. While they possess ed Ihe only true religion, and were favc,*d with visible and audible revelations of God's will, the rest of the earth was sunk to the lo w est depths of heathenish corruption. While tbey by a series ol stupendous miracles, continued daily lor forty yeais, weie deliveied trou. a most oppressive bondage, and elevated to a con dition ot perfect civil liberty, with a code ol laws enacted by God himself, and admirably adapted to their condition, ail other nations were eilher slaves or the subjects ol despotism. Is there nothing of this kind in the history o! God's dealings with this nation 1 Compare our blessings, our mental arid" material advan tages, our civil arid religious privileges, with thos- possessed by other nations, an (Ft hen say if we should not be piofoundly grateful to Al mighty G d, and his most loyal, loving sub jects. May fie in infinite mercy grant that the parallel between us and the Jews may stop here, and that vvarned in time, our fate may not be like theirs ! OCR SINS. t'But alas, how numerous, how aggravated, huw Heaven-daring have been our sins! Cor ruption, official and private, in high places ami low, extending to all rank? and classes, mo® especially those whose position should teach them better, has become almost the rule, and.integrity the exception. Luxury and e.v ....vdiiTht- Mi our tallies, to ares-, iun.ior.e, equipage, and architectural display, has been increasing at an alarming rate, sapping public and private virtue, and leading to innumerable frauds, peculations and defalcations, to obtain 'be of ir.dulgmg.thvse habits and appe tites. Intemp>rance,licentiousnts,and crimes of every grade have advanced with giant strides. In our love ol money, our worship ol the gold en mammon, we have been as truly idolatrous as ever were the Jews, idolatry and Sabbath breaking being two nl their chielest sins, and lor which, especially, God so often and so ter ribly chastized th-m, till at length, when har dened beyond reproof, be drove them away to become captives tnd slaves. God is now smiting our gulden idols; our much coveted and boasted riches are rapidly taking wings and flying away. Who can estimate the ab solute Joss ol property and depiecyatioo ol fan cied values within the last eight months? And how have we, iike the Jews profaned tiie sab bath, both in our public and private capacities .' Look at IheSabpath Jeseciatiun in all our cities, and all over Ihe land; call to mind the scenes of congressional wrangling on Gad's holy day in the capitol'of the nation, all of which might have been avoided by diligence and industiy on the part ot our represeuiaiives in ..lis;;.Log to their duties; and remembei too L tha! recent disastrous Sabbath battle at Bull's Hun, far which there was no military necessi ty; a baale sought by as, not by the rebels; had it been delayed beyond that fatal day, the firceaud positions of the enemy would have been better understood, reinforcements could havebeeu brought up fiom Washington and from Patterson's column, and our arms crown ed with success. So much for despising the Sabbath, and ignoring the superintending Ptov idence of the God of the Sabbath. How have we degenerated in the character of our rulers and officers, both elect ivp and apym-qlay pa ■•r,uny acknowledgment of cur dependence! ipon God, any humiliation, any confWsion qj' in, and in this respect the religiousness has \ oine far short of its duty. The pi ess has but choed the people in boasting of our immense \ •sources, proclaiming that the South was poor ] • d feeble, wbiie wr had an unlimited command j Ir iit*iaiiu is*•— lea by the greatest ot living generals that the * war should be short, crushing, and decisive tor j ill time of the questions at issue, and when ap- I prehensions were entertained of a collision ' with England, our valiant boasters were a match for a world in arms, and seemed tojcourl j in accumulation of enemies. And as il to leach us the vanity of trusting only in man, this reverse lias happened under ihe eve, or im mediate direction, oi the vast amount of civil ir.d military talent concentrated at Washing tan, while in Missouri and Western Virginia, without these advantages, and with forces greatly inferior in numbers, our arms have met with signal success. But I .must forbear further additions to the catalogue of national follies or sins, already long nough, and black enough. Who can say that any part of it is unjust ? Ail history, as well as the Bible, teaches that God punishes nations for their sins, as well as individuals; that he abases the prouJ, while he exalts the humble and penitent ; that " pride goeth before destruc tion, and a haughty spirit before a fall," is as true of nations as of individuals ; that the onlv way to avert His wrath, from nations or indl vid"als, is by humbly confessing, repenting, and •NPIING away from sin, acknowledging depend ence upon Him, and seeking his forgiveness and blessing. FRENCH ZOUAVE'S OriNio.v.—They tell □ story ola Zouave having been asked his opin ion of She English soldiers after the Crimean campaign. " Ah," said he, "set them down i't an engagement ready prepared and well fed, and no men can fight better ; but let them get in misery or distress, and no men know less how to get themselves out of it. Par rxample , our batallion was encamped beside an English regi ment, which had a magnificent buck-goat ; the Savalry horses of their army had no forage, and the poor beast, getting no food, sickened and died. At this time the soldiers he belonged to vv ithout rations to eat, or fire to warm UiMselves with; and what do you think they din I they collected some boards, and made a coffin, and buried the buck. My comrade arid myself, .shocked at such a wasteol good .hings, took the poor animal up that night ; pnrote (P --honnrur, we had three good fires from his cof fin, delicious messes from his flesh for seven dajs, and for the rest ol the campaign we slept on his skin, which kept us Irom damp, and sav ed us from sickness. Now, what can you think of the Englisli soldiers after such a piece of folly as that ? I have my cat, I carry him on my sack, and he comes under fire with me, as you may perceive from his having lost a fore foot, f love and nourish him, and lie in return will, should there be a necessity, provide me with two days good living." GENERAL POLK.— The Jiabigli (N. C.) Re trutcr has the full; ring ir. leference to Gener al Polk, of Memphis, at present commandant ol the Confederate forces in the Mississippi val ley ; "Bishop Polk is a native ol this city a giandson of Col. Thomas Polk, or.eof the sign ers ot the Mecklenburg Declaration, and a son of Col. Wm. Polk, who died here about the year 1830. The latter entered the army and served through the Revolution. He was With Gen Washington 3t the battle of Brandy wine and Gerinanlown, in the latter of which he was wounded. He was also with Gen. Gates at Camden, and with Gen. Greene at Guillord, and was severely wounded at Futaw Springs. At the close of the war he had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. e preserved from decav and destruction. KAPPA. PHYSICAL EDUCATION, NO. I!. Of late years the studies of Anatomy and Physiology are gradually being introduced into >ur schools, and in .6me places have been quite -xtensively siudied. Pupils often become very -xp-*rt in answering all questions that may be impounded. They know the name and partic ular situation of each bone, nerve and muscle. They can rehearse the subject matter of the book from beginning to end, and further, are iOie to tell what laws condition health, and yet the majority of them, from a waDt ol physical culture, are peculiarly delicate and effeminate in their character. Knowledge when misapplied or not applied at all is of no consequence. If we were to j ulge of the wisdom of the present age from the Iruirs placed before us, what a sad and melan choly judgment would be formed of those, whose duty it has been to act as instructors and trainers of humanity ! What myriads of pale, ronsumptive, and deformed beings would lise as testimony fir their conviction ! Could the voices ol Hat? d-ad be h<-ard, how many would cry out fiom their narrow beds but to condemn. IndepeadenCof the mere knowledge man may have gained, it is necessary that he make a proper application of it. The science of me chanics in itself is of but little moment. The great benefit we derive fnm it is found in its proper application. The steam engine, all the different kinds of levers, and all the other me chanical products, are of great benefit to man kind ; but, did we possess a mere knowledge ol the principles of mechanics, without making a proper philosophical application of those prin ciples, we would not be enriched by the many implements we now possess. The same is true of anatomy, physiology, and all the other sci ences. Without a practical application ot them, they must remain dormant in the mind, and neither be of any benefit to the possessor, nor to the world at large. It is argued by some, that the seeds of disease are inherited. Thn may be true, but it is not true in the majority of cases. It is also said that the carelessness of mothers and nuiss has much to do with ingrafting disease into the child. This, too, may be true, but it only ar gues tbe necessity of giving all a proper physi cal education, and ot having all thoroughly train their physical powers. In o'hei words, our mothers and nurses should have been phy sically educated and trained when they were school girls. Very few, indeed, of either public schools oi higher institutions, have adopted any systemat ic plan for the exercise of their bodily functions Sometimes an invalid listens to an address t and bears the physical education and physical cul :ure of man advocated. Feeling the necessity jf such training, he rushes off and takes exer cise so violent as only to be proper for the most muscular man ; as a consequence, tie receives more harm than benefit. A small dose of laud inum or opium may be a real benefit to the sys err, but too great an amount will wholly dead 'n the vitality ol the physical functions. It is >nly physical-culture cariied to its proper de ree, that is to be practised. When such shall >e the case, humanity may with propriety ex pect to be relieved of its many physical ills. PHYSIC A L WHOLE IHIIBER, 2967. THE CONFISCATION BILL The following bill providing for the confisca tion of rebel property, has passed both Houses of Congress : AN* ACT to CoDfisca,e Property used for Insurrec tionary Purposes : Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ameri ca, in Congress assembled , That if, during the present or any future insurrection against the Government of the United States after the Pre sident of the United States shall have declared, by proclamation, that the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, by combinations too powerful to he suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the mar shals by law, any person or persons, his heir, or their agt-n', attorney or employee, shall pur chase or acquire, sell or give, any property of whatsoever kind or description, with intent to employ or use the same, or suffer the same to be used or employed, in aiding, abetting or pro moting such insurrection or resistance to the law, or any person or persons engaged therein; or if any person or persons, being the owner or owners of any such property, shall knowingly use or employ, or consent to the use or employ ment of the same as aforesaid, ail such property is hereby declared to be lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found ; and it shall be the duty of the President of the Uni ted States to cause the same to be seized, confis cated and condemned. SEC. 2, And be it further enacted , That such prizes and capture shall be condemned in the district or circuit court of the United States having jurisdiction of the amount, or in admir alty in any district in which ttie same may be seized, or into which they may be taken and proceedings first instituted. SEC. 3 And be it further,enacted Thai the Alfy. Gen. or any dis'rict attorney of the United States in which said propeity may at the time be, may institute the proceedings of condemnation, and in such case they shall be wholly for the bene fit of the United Slates ; or any person may file an information with such attorney, in which case the proceedings shall be for the use of such informer and the United States in equal part*. Sed. 4. And be it further enacted , Thai whenever any person claiming to be entitled to the service or labor of any other person un* der the laws of any Stale, shall empioy such person in aiding or promoting anv insurrection t-w o. n: for ft it all tight to such service or labor, and the person whose laborer service is thus claim ed shall be thenceforth discharged therefrom, any law ti the contrary notwithstanding. THE H^PONSTBIUTY. The following remarks of Mr. Richaidson, of Illinois, in the course of debate in Congress, on the 24th inst., establishes the fact that President Lincoln, yielding to the clamor of the Tribune and the insane Abolition fanatics in Congress, is responsible for the advance of the Federal army betoie it was prepared, and the disastrous defeat at Bull Run : Mr. Blair (Mo.) The gentleman said that Gen. Scott had been driven to risk a battle by gentlemen on this side, but nothing has been said here derogatory to that soldier. . Is the ma jor general fit to command if he can be forced to battle against his own best judgment, and at the cry of outsiders ? Nobody on this side has said aught against Gen. Scott. The charge came from the gentleman from Illinois, and it was derogatory in the highest degree. Mr. Richardson. I repeat that General Scott had been foic°d to fight this battle. I will tell him what occurred yesterday morning. My colleagues (Logan and Washbuine) and myself were present with the President, Secretary of VVar and Gen. Scott. In the course ot versation General Scott remarked : biggest cowmrd from my seat. it. I have balfte against my judg ment, and I thihk tlie Preterit ought to remove me to-day for doing '"As God is my judge," lie added, alter 11 jpfr interval of silence, "1 did all in my power to make the army effi cient, and I deserve removal because I did not stand up when I could and did not." Mr. Washburne. As my colleague has re feried to Gen. Scott's remarks, he might also allude to what the President said. Mr. Richardson. I will Jo so. "Your con versation implies," said the President to Gen. Scott, "that I forced you to battle." To which Gen. Sco't replieii : 'T have never served un der a President who has been kinder to me than you ha-e been." But Gen. Scott did not re lieve the President from the fact of the latter having forced him to fight the battle. (Jen. Scott thus paid a compliment to the President personally. ] desire to say of the President that 1 have known him from ooyhood. If you let him alone he is an hone.-t man. [Laughter.] But I am afraid he lias not firmness to stand up against the politicians around turn. following is supposed to 1 describe the "Dixit-" w hose praise is giowuig univer sal ; Oh is not this a happy land With wine upon the lees? Where pot-pies smoke in six quart pans, And dumplings grow on Wees ? Where Nature's lessons may be read In every babbling brook .' Where bumble-bees don't sting a chap, And irmly cows don't hook ? latest description of the difference between a good soldier and a fashionable young lady, is, that one faces the powder and tha o ther powders the face. lazy fellow begged alms, saving he could not find bread foi his family. *'Noi I," replied an industrious menhamc ; "I am obliged to work for it." VOL. 5. NO. 3.