ring his long life the nation ins not been un mindful of bis merit, yet on calling to mind how faithfully and brilliantly he has seived the country, from a time far lack in our history, when feu of the now living bad been born, and henceforward continually, I cannot but think we are still his debtors. J submit, therefore, for your consideration—what further mark ol recognition is due to him and to ourselves as a grateful people. With the retirement of Gen eral Scoit came the Executive duly of appoint ing in his stead a general-in-chief of the Army It is a fortunate circumstance that neither in council or country was there so far as known any difference of opinion as to the proper per son to be selected. The retiring chief repeat edly expressed his judgment in favor of Genetal McCiellan for the position, and in this the na tion seemed to give a unanimous concurrence. The designation ol General McCiellan is, there fore, in a considerable degree the selection of the country, as well as of the Executive, and hence there is better reason to hope |he will be given him the confidence and cordial support thus bv fair implication promised and without which be cannot with so full efficiency serve the country. It has been said that one bad Geneial is better than two good ones, and the saying is ttue if taken to mean no more than that an army is belter directed by a single mind though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross purposes with each other, and the same is true in all joint operations, wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view, and can differ only as to the choice ot means. In a stoim at sea, no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet, notfimfrequently all go down together, because too many will direct, and no single mind can be allowed to control it. Every day continues to develop that the in surrection is largely, it not exclusively, a war upon the first principles of popular government, the rights of the people. Conclusive t-vidence of this is found in the most gr3ve and maturely considered public documents, as well as in the general tone of the insurgents. In those docu ments, we find the abridgement of the existing light of suffrage and the denial to the people of all right to paiticipate in the selection of public officers, except the legislature, boldly advoca ted with labored arguments to prove that large control ol the people in the government is ihe source of all political evil. Alonarchy itseif is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people. In the present posi tion, 1 could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism. It is not needed, nor fitting, here, ihat a gen eral argument should be made in favor of pop ular institutions, but there is one point, with its connection, not so hackneyed as most others to which I ask a brief alttention. It i 3 the ef fort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor, in the structure of govern ment. It is presumed that labor is available only in connection with capital ; that nobody labois unless somebody else owning capital, somehow, by the use of it, induces hirr. to la fior. This assumed, it is next considered wheth er it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is natu rally concluded '.hat all laborers are either hired laboiers or what we call slaves: and further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired iabor "r W' 'between capi ta! and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed lor life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all in ferences from them are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruits of labor, and could never havp existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights ; nor is it denied that there is, and prob ably always will,be a relaiionbotween labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole laboring commu nity exists within that relation. A lew men own capital and that few would labor them selves, and with their capital hire or buy an othei tew to labor for them. A large majority belong to i.either class; neither work for others nor having others working for them. In most of the southern stales a majority of the people of all colors are neither slaves nor masters, while in the northern a large majority are nei ther hirers nor hired. Men,with their families, wives, sons and daughters, work for themselves on their farms, in their houses and in their shops, taking the whole product to themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the one band nor of hired laborers on the other. It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons mingle their own labor with capital, that is they labor with their own hands and also buy or hire others to labor lor them. No principle slated is disturbed by the exis tence of this class. Again, as has already been aid, there is not, of necessity, any such thin? as the free hired laborer being fixed to that con dition for life. Many independent men every where in these States a few years back :n their lives were hired laborers. The prudent penni less beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own ac count another while, and a< length hires anoth er new beginner to help him. "This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all—gives hope to' all and consequent energy and progress to all. No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from pqveity, none less inclined to t3ke or touch aught which they have not hon estly earned. Let them beware of surrender ing a political power which they already pos sess, and which, if surrendered, w ill surely be used lo close the door of advancement against such as they, land to fix. new disabilities and burdens upon them till all ol liberty shall be lost. * From the first faking our National Census to the last, are seventy years, and we fina our population at the end of the period eight times as great as it was at ihe beginning. The increase of those other things which men deemed desi rable, has been even greater. We thus have at one view what the popular principle applied to government through the machinery of the States and the Union has produced in a given time, and also what, if firmly maintained, it pi onuses for the future. There are already among us those who, if ihe Union be preserved, will live to see it contain two hundred and fif ty millions. \l ith a fehaoce on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed tn the great task which event? have devolved upon us. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHIXOTO.U, DEC. 3, ISCI. BEDFORD GAZETTE. __ -BEDFORD, Ia.~ FRIDAY BSC. 13, IS6I - F. Rlovers, Editor & Proprietor. Wood! Wood! Wood!— Subscribers who have contracted with us to bring wood, are hereby no tified that we are in need of the article, now, and must have it soon, or we cannot take it at all. [Gr*The report of a battle between 3,000 Unionists under Parson Brownlow, and a body of Secessionists at Monislown, Tennessee, in which the latter were represented as having been routed, is contradicted. President's Message. Sensible people have some cause for gratula tior. in the tone of the first Annual message of President Lincoln. True,it does not come up to that standard of statesmanship which character ized the State papers of the illustrious past, and it is not emphatic and decisive against those extreme measu r es deprecated by all who hold moderate and reasonable views, still its recom mendations are not fanatical, nor even radical, and it holds the balance quite even between the conservative and revolutionary puties of the North. So tar as the Message goes, it la better than anything we had expected from a man who so frequently and boldly avowed his sympathy with Abolition. Contrasted with the views recently expressed by Air. Cameron, Mr. Trumbull and other leading " Republicans,'" the Message apppars moderate, indeed. It is plain that Mr. Lincoln has repented of his sins on the slavery question. He has had an overdose of the medicine prepared by himself and DR. SEW ARD for the purgation of the American Repub lic. He is evidently no longer ot the opinion .that " this Union cannot permanently endure half free and half slave!" He begins to think that it need not " become all one thing, or all ihe other!" He is convinced that slave labor can flourish where climatic causes operate almost totally in its favor, and that it is not wholly incompatible with the employ ments of free men under the same form, of gov ernment. Mr. Lincoln's conversion to the Democratic theory on this subject, was, doubt less, made under great tribulation of mind and much against the w ill of the President; but it was inevitable. The calls of inexorable duty haunted him continually, and, dreadful as was ; u^) mtmmmy tucu 'miu w*e Hit? Of 1 (hat beloved Chicago Platform. Whether be ! will be able, finally, lo get his feet fairly upon the lock of the Constitution, remains to be seen: i but one thing is certain, viz: the President is j now walking in the right path,having turned his ' back upon those abolition advisers who would have chaos come again through the broken flood-gales of Southern slavery. We shall, therefore, not complain on account of some things in the Message, which, in our humble opinion, had better been omitted, nor because the President did not see fit to touch upon top ics which seem to us of vital interest to the A merican people. We can afford to overlook the conciliatory hints to the Abolitionists, and even to lorego the satisfaction we would have experienced in reading a convincing justifica tion of the seizure and imprisonment of citizens ! of loyal States, without process of law, and the forcible suppression of newspapers which chose to differ from the Administration in the settle ment of our National troubles. In short we do not find fault with the Message, because the " time is out of joint." and every thing else is " fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils." Practical Abolitionism. Notwithstanding the apparent hostility of the | President and a majority of the Cabinet to the ! barbarous proposition to arm the slave? and em- I ploy them in the pillage and murder of their j masters, we find the Abolition element in Con | gress, headed by Thaddeus Stevens, Owen Love 'joy, Lyman Trumbull and other hot-headed I fools, striving with all their might, to rush through Congress a law declaring the freedom of four million negroes held in bondage by reb el masters, and when freed, to place in their j hands the weapons of war and elevate them to .the level of the Union soldier. Already the ! Crittenden resolution, which was adopted by the last Congress to set forth the objects of the war, has been repudiated by a deliberate vole of the House. Even our own member, MR. M'PHERSON, who heretofore generally voted with the conservatives, has gone over to the ultra Abolitionists, and voted to lay on the table j the motion to re-affirm the Crittenden resolution. • Now, how in the name ol all that is reasona ble, can this benefit the Union cause I Will it I make the Border States firmer ? Will it win lus battles' Will it strengthen our treasury? Will it render us more secure in our lives and property ? Alas ! no. An act to emancipate the slaves, will either fall still-born upon the negroes of the South, or it will hurl them upon the North fur maintenance and support. It will either be a dead letter, or it will affect the Union men of the South as seriously as the Se cessionists. Rapine, plunder and desolation will certainly follow the passaged such an act. i Even were it possible to colonize the slaves in a foreign region, the sudd-n uprooting of a so cial system which has grown with our growth and strengthened with our itrenglh,would prove the source of inconceivable disaster. We shall, therefore, oppose in the future (as we have in I the past) the designs of the Abolitionists. We shall oppose every thing that may have a ten dency to bring about the results they desire.— Be it in lime of war or in time ol peace, four millions of helpless, ignorant Africans shall not be cast upon Northern society, if our hum ble efforts can prevent it. Local and miscellaneous. ... .Spring-like, the weather, as we write. . .. .Pouring in, new subscribers. ... .Slow, but not sure—the mails. . .. .Stale, flat and unprofitable,—the news from the seat of war. ... article signed " Verar," will ap pear in our school column next week. ... .An ugly " varmint"—that snake seen by certain friends oi ours, on " a good occasion." ....Still continues —the slaughter of fat porkers. Mr. W.T. Cook, Blacksmith, killed one on Tuesday last, weighing 581 i lbs. ... .Moved—our school column to the fourth page. " Simon's" lucubrations will he found in that part of our paper for the present. ... .Why is Simon Cameron an amalgama tionist ? Because he wants to embrace regi ments ot negroes in his arms. .... DEAD. —We regret to learn the death of Patrick Haney, an old and highly esteemed cit izen ol Cumberland Vailey township. Peace to his ashes. . .. .Capt. D. W. Mulhn is at present on a visit to his friend? in this county. The Captain looks well and brings a good report from the boys in his command. ... .Elegant English—the following sentence from the President's Message ; " Nothing more occurs to add or subtract to or from the princi rdes or general purposes stated and expressed in that document." ....HARD "CRABS" —those critters which passed through our town the other day, evi dently "rejected" army horses. They were regular, living, moving (slowly) advertisements for, —"Oats wanted! inquire within." .. . .The job of budding the bridge over Dunning's Creek, near this place, was let by : the Commissioners, on Tuesday last, to Mr. B. j W. Garretson, for $349,00, Mr. G. to have j the privilege of using the timber in the old bridge. DEATH OF SOLDIERS. —Two young men named Hyde and Turner, both from the West- j em end of this county, and members of Capt. ! Filler's company, died a few days ago. Turn-; er's death took place at Camp Ctirtin.and Hyd 's at Foitress Monroe. Their remains were rent home to their friends. . .. .STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. —We are pain ed to learn that Lieut. .Pks. Wisharf, brother ot r'url i' -i - i —.t 1',.1, ~ T L lightning, in his tent, at Cainp Kevin, Ky., and injured so seriously as to be unfit for dulv. The scabbard at his side was completely fused by the subtle fluid. He is expected home in a few da}'?. ... .Three-cornered—the recent contest for Mayor in New York city. The Democrats having 25,000 majority, concluded that there would be no fun without having two candidates and, therefore, divided their forces as nearly equally as possible, so as to give the Republi- j can" candidate a chance to run in. The vote' stood a? follows : P ernandoWood, Mozart Dem. j 24,174 : C. Godfrey Gunther, Tammany Dem., ; 24.813; Geo. Opdyke, Rep., 25,584. The Herald savs It at Gunther will contest Opdyke's election. An Appeal to the Ladies of Bedford County. Having been called upon by the United States Sanitary Commission at Washington, (by a cir cular addressed lo the Loyal Women ofAmer ica,) asking contributions for the relief and com fort of the sick and wounded soldiers and sail ors in the Army and Navy ; and being desire us of evincing their sympathy, and responding to the call ol the Commission, they have appoint ed a committee to wait upon the members and their lady friends, asking them to encourage their undertaking, and help to relieve the suf ferings of the sick and wounded, bv contribu ting whatever they can, whether in money, quilts, blankets, under-shirts, drawers, woolen socks, slippers, jellies, preserves, farina, dried fruits, car. fruits, illustrated newspapers, books, and such other articles as may be useful in such cases. Donations of any kind will be received at the Court House—in charge of S. Jl.Tale. We hope the ladies of the eounty will all send lo this place. The matter is worthy the atten tion of the charitable and patriotic. Correspondence of the Philadelphia Inquirer. IMPORTANT ABOUT THF, REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. Last Thursday, Gen. CAMERON completed his report and sent it to the printers without sub mitting it to (he inspection of any one. On Sunday last it was completed, and proofs fell into the hands ol Gov. SEWARD. He became very much alarmed, and on Mondav morning a Cabinet council vyas called and the President's 1 Messag'e, which had been completed on Sunday night, was also brought up. After a lengthy discussion it was concluded to keep the Message back until Tuesday, and further consider the question. At another meeting on Monday SEWARD secured an interpolation of his ideas in the President's Message, verbatim, and the President's matter was cut out. Arranged in this way it was sent in to Congress on Tuesday. In the meantime, Geneial CAMERON was ask ed to change or moderate his report. He re/u --sed, and up to eleven o'clock P. M., Tuesday, it was thought to be inevitable that either General CAMERON or Governor SEWARD must leave the Cabinet, and an entire recast be made. The President finally settled it by going to General CAMERON and insisting upon his con fining hi 3 report to a statement of the past, and not dictate to Congress what they should do! CAMERON insisted "hat his policy was correct, and must be carried out at once. The President | assured him that it did not follow, it he chang ed his report or left out any of it, that he must necessarily change his policy, but that he could carry it out ; only let Congress take hold of ttu matter first. With this understanding, General CAMERON made an aheiation, which we tele graphed you afier midnight. Secretaries WELLES and OILASB both si Jul with General CAMERON ; but WELLES would not make any fizht on it, and "would leave it to the President." CHASE, also, would not stand up to the fight, and CAMERON consequent ly, at the last moment, modified it. In the meantime, it only remains for the Senate and House to dictate what shall be done. FMra|IITON. THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS-FIRST SES SION. WASHINGTON, Dec.s. SENATE. —In the Senate Mr. Rice (Minn.) asked leave to record his vote on the expulsion of Breckinridge, as he was absent yesterday. Leave being granted, he voted yea. Mr. Sumner (Mss.) offered a resolution to print 10,000 extra copies of the President's Message and accompanying documents. Re ferred to the Committee on Printing. Mr. Sumner presented the petition of citi zens of Haverhill, Mass., that the slaves of reb els be liberated unconditional!}', and the slaves of Union men on fair payment. Mr. Chandler (Mich.) offered a resolution to appoint a committee of thrpe to inquire into tne disasters at Bull's Run and Edwards Ferry. Mr. Lane (Kansas) moved to amend and in sert Springfield, Wilson's Creek, and Lexington. Mr. Chandler hoped that the resolution would not be amended. Mr. Lane said that a man entitled to honor perished at Wilson Creek, and p n rished because he was not relieved when he could have been. The people want to know why the gallant Ly on was sacrificed? Why regiments were sent to Cairo instead of to the relief of Gen. Lyon, and whythe army moved at a snail's pace to reinforce Mulligan? The people warded namps, and, in his opinion, would not have to look tar for the man who permitted the sacrifice of Gen. Lyon. Mr. Lane's amendment was not agreed to. Mr. Grimes offered a substitute, to appoint a committee of two members of the Senate, and three membeis of the House, to investigate the causes of all the disasters to our arms. On motion of Mr. Fessenden, the subject was posponed till to-morrow. Mr. Wilson (Iowa) moved to take up the resolution to investigate the case of Colonel Miles. He said that the court ol inquiry found that Colonel Miles was intoxicated to a certain extent, enougri to justify Colonel Richardson lo apply the epithet to him, but not enough to remove him from his command. He wanted all the facts of the case vo goto the people. The resolution was agreed to. Mr. Trumbull (III.) introduced Ins bill for confiscating properly and giving freedom to the slaves of rebels. He said the bill provides for the absolute and complete forfeiture, forever, to the United States ot every species ot property, real or per sonal; wherever situated within the United States, belonging to persons beyond the juris diction of the United States, or beyond the reach of civil process, in the ordinary mode of sent rebellion, who during Us existence shall take up arms against the United State?, or in any wise aid or abet the rebellion. This forfeit ure to be enforced against property in the rebel lious districts through the military power, and against property in otherjportions ol the United States, in which the judicial power is nut ob structed by the rebellion, through the individ ual seized and forfeited, be subject to the just claims of loyal creditors, to be held for the ben efit of loyal citizens despoiled of property by the rebellion, and to defray expenses incurrtd in its suppression. The bill also forfeits the claim of all rebels. 1 and those who give them aid aud comfort, to i the persons they hold in slavery— declares the ' slaves thus forfeited, free, and makes it the du ty of the President to provide for the coloniza- j tion of such as may be willing to go to some tropical country, where Ihev may have the protection ol the Government, and be secured in all the rights and privileges ol freemen. The propeny belonging to traitors or those giv ing them aid or comfort, who imj be convicted by judicial tribunals, to be forteited on their conviction. The real estate for life and the personal property forever. Mr. Trumbull argued at some length in sup port ot 'he bill. The bill was ordered to be'printed and referr ed to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Clark (N. II.) gave notice that hp should offer an amendment to the Fugitive J Slave hill. The Senate then went into executive sessian, and subsequently adjourned until Monday. HOUSF.. —The Speaker announced that the vacancies in several ot the standing commit tees have been filled, as follows: On Wavs and Means—Messrs. Hooper anil j Mavnard; on the Judiciary—Mr. Wilson; on j Territories—Mr. Shiel, on Indian Affair?—j Mr. Phelps, (Cal.,); on Public Buildings— ; Mr. Biair, { Va.,); on Military Affairs—Mr. ■ Dunn: Committee on the Establishment ufa i Western Armory—Mr. Kellogg, (III.,); on the \ Pacific Railroad- Mr. Sargent. Mr. Gurlev (Ohio) offered a resolution, 1 which was adopted, requesting the committee on fhe Judiciary lo inquire it a censorship of the press had been established in this city, and if so, bv whose authority, and by whom it is now controlled, and report if such censorsnip has not been used to restrain wholesome politi- ! cal criticism ana discussion, while its professed and laudable object has been to withhold from the enemy information m relation lo the move ments of the army. Mr. Stevens (Pa.) submitted a seties of res olutions referring tiie vaiious branches of the President's message to the appropriate stand ing committees. Mr. Arnold (III.) moved that (he part rela ting to the defences and fortifications of the great lakes and harbors, be referred to a select committee ol nine members. The question was debated whether it should be thus referred, or to the Committee on Military Affairs. It was contended on one side that the great West and Northwest should not be ignored, and on the other side, that the subject of defence concern ed not a section, but the entire country. The question was finally referred to a select committee by ten majority. The resolutions of Mr. Stevens, as thus amen ded, were adopted. Mr. Blair (Mo.) introduced a resolution re ferring that portion of ihe message in rela (ion lo (he colonization of slaves liken from armed lebelstoa select committee of seven members; which was adopted jn committee of the whole on the state of the Union, but was afterwards rejpcfed by fhe House. Mr. Lov-joy (Til.) introduced a bill propos ing to repeal ail laws reqnirirg pas es to per sons of colorgoing Northward. Referred to ; the Committee for the district of Columbia. Mr. Hickman (Pa.) introduced a hill provi ding for a IJoa-d of Commissioners to revise and ; codify the general statutes of the United States. | Referred to the Judiciary Committee. The House then adjourned till Monday. AN ATTACK ON FORT PULLASKI EX PECTED.—GENERAL FLOYD'S COM MAND. * BALTIMORE, Dec. G. A despatch from Savannah in the Rich mond papers of yesterday, dated the 4th inst., ; says: j "Sixteen of the ships of the enemy are now j • inside the bar and an attack on Fort Pulaski/ is hourly expected." j The Richmond Despatch ol yesterday says i that it is currently reported that Genera! Floyd's : ; command has been ordered to another impor j tant post for duty. A telegram dated Nashville, 3d inst., savs 1 1 that General Floyd has fallen back to with- J | in thirty miles of the, Virginia and East Ten- j 1 nesee railroad. | REBEL MOVEMENTS IN MISSOURI, i Our lalest advices from the South are that : Gen. Price has moved a part of his force fntu ' ■ Osceola, to a point five miles distant, where he j i has established his headquarters. Gen. Rains' j command remained at Osceola. A train of fitly wagons from Lexington, laden i with supplies for general Price's aimy, passed ■ (unmolested within fiifteen mil s of this place !on Monday last. Th°re are four regular recruiting offices in 1 Lexington enlisting recruits fir G-n. Price's | army. A meeting was field there last Friday, : at which several prominent secessionist spoke,, | urging a united effort in •behall of the rebels.! j Similar meetings have been held in Clay, Ray ; and other river countirs and subscriptions for 1 money, clothing, fee., are in circulation. ft is not, perhaps, generally known, but it is j believed lobe a fact that Saline County, Claib ! Jackson's residence, in Ju 1 v list, authorized the Commissioners to raise $109,000 to be ex pended for the benefiit of GPO. Price's army. Other counties along the Missouri River are believed to have done the same thing. It is stated on good authority that when Price was besieging Lexington a delegation of citizens was rent to him (torn Saline county with an urgent request thai he would not al j low his army to eater that county, which was I complied with. The reason of this request was because of the great fear entertained by the in habitants of the county of the plundering pro- ! j pensities of Price's rebels. The counties along the Missouri River, west of Jeffi-rson Ci'.y, are the -richest in the State,; ; and have furnished nearly as many men and j !as much means in behalf of the rebellion as ■ i the balance of the State. They '.save been al ! most entirely exempt from marauders, and have j ■ never been visited by Federal troops. FRANKFORT, Dec. 6. I In the E. T. Burns (dis i union) of Owen County, offered a series of i j resolutions, including a demand on the Fed ! eral Government for the return to Kentucky of . Ex-Gov. Moorehead, and o'her political priso- \ ■ ners, and affirming that the President's Mess [ age foreshadowed the impossibilitv o( preser ! ving or reconstructing the Federal Union, which j I were referred to the C-ommitee on Federal ' i Relations. The Union members to-night are holding a ; caucus to agree upon resolutions regarding the j j present s'ate of affairs, which will probably be i offered to-morrow. ! FMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY. LOUISVILLE, Dec. 8. ' ; Several letters from Somerset and Stanford, I j dated the sth inst., hare just been received.! j They s.av that the Federal forces under Gen | Sclimff have bPen compelled to retreat this side ' of Somerset, and the rebels, 10,000 strong, have crossed Cumberland liver, and are marching on Somerset. Men. woman and children are leaving Somerset in every possible conveyance, and rushing into Stanford. The Stanfoid people think that Gen. Schmlf should be reinforced, and the Democrat editor ially thinks that Gen. SchmfT's purpose in fal ling back on Somerset is to catch Zoliicofler in a trap. The Commercial's Frankfort dispatch says the conduct of the P resident in modifying Sec i retary Cameron's report, and the confidence j which is placed in Generals McClellan, Btiell and Halleclr, aie having influence to calm the j anxiety of the Union men. If the Government ' adopts the policy oi Mr. Cameron, it would de : moralize, ii not destroy, the Union party in j Kentucky. FROM ST. LOUTS. Sr. Lor is, Dec. 7. | Memphis papers of the sth inst.. contain a ; despatch from Richmond, announcing the ap | pointment of Genera! Heath, of Virginia, to the , command of the Department of Missouri, thus virtually superseding Genera! Price. Some papers say there is great excitement at Nashville in regard to the drafting of troops. Some ten thousand additional troops have | arrived at Columbus, Kentucky, since the bat- I tie of Belmont. The rebel troops are rapidly I concentrating there, and they declare that sev i enlv-five thousand men cannot take the posi | tfon. ' A telegram from East Pensacola reports that j the federal fleet is offi Horn Island. T1 Jersey Redeemed. 1 he Democrats of New Jersey made a clean : j sweep at the recent election. They not only s I elected a majority of the Legislature, hut rolf :edup a majority of 9,474 in the State! This is | considerable of a change since the election of ;Od Abe ,n.1860. The people are becoming i satisfied that these new fangUd notions about I niggers are not suited to tins great nation, and | that the Democratic party is, alter all, the only ; party fit to govern this country. New Jersey I has taken the lead in repudiating the Black ! Republican party. "Bully for her !" t. Wl Sfwl Coming. i lie Chicago Tribune concedes that the Le gislature of Wisconsin is Democratic by ten' 3?^s;r n, ''' Jmor " ,ha "l _ . 11l in of-! Too I 1,0 Springfield (JJI.) Regiiftr publishes a complete li>t of (ho members elected lo the Constitutional Convention in There are I fifty-two I). mrrrats to twenty-three Re publican*, being IT, or- than two to one. In al luding to lit.' result the Register SIVS _ "it is a forcible commentary upm the present s!a! e of public opinion in Illinois, and ilie idle clatt r of the Jl-pubhcan j wnuls of the State, which have incessantly contended that nothing but sympathy u ith secession was at the founda tion < I Democratic determination to maintain the organization of flie Democratic jmtv of ll e "itate. ]f these journals have spoken" truly then a Jarge majority ol the people of Illtno"-/ a:e Secession isle, and haw confided the busine'n of one of the most important political lodic ever elected in the State to the hands of sym pathisers with treason ! giving them two to one over the party nf self-constituted "only pure patriots. ' Uliile it places the assumptions of the latter class m ridiculous light, putting pop ular condemnation upon their presumptuous ar rogance, it it Us that the people of Illinois, in this hour of the country's day of sore trial have confidence in the Democratic paity as s Jch an I arc u i,!uj to confide to it the remod eling of their fundamental law, which, proba bly, is to be the lule of their public action for twenty or more years to come. Ii te||. s further of the "popular distrust of the powers that be State and National—of returning reason among the masses of the people as to their public af fairs. It tells that they ar casting'abcut for a remedy, and that they "arc looking"'* the Dem ocratic, party fir it. It tells that the disband menl of the Democracy is a preposterous iJa that it "still lives," a working institution for the maintenance of the Union and the Consti tution that we have hitherto thrived.and pros pered under." A THING or BEACTT, JS A JOV FOREVER. — Who cau he beautiful with a sickly pale com plexion. Keep the pores of the ekin free and the blood pure, and your cheeks will vie with the Rose and Liiy. The Skin is formed with thousand of pores m evtty inch of surface whose oflic? it is to carry otT the impurities of the blood—the acknowledged cause of all diseases ol mankind—when it :s dry and parched when it i; covered with eruptions—when it le cold aril clammy—when tlieie is inwaid fever or inflammation —it is impossible for the skin under these sircumstances to perform its proper functions, ar.d to carry off the impurities from the body designed by our Creator. JUDStXVS .MOUNTAIN HERB PILLS remove there obstructions, and produce free and healthy blood, remove tlie eruptions from tbe skin, and cause it to brighten with the flush of youth and beauty. Beauty so much admired and loved. Beauty **-*ithout paints and cosmetics— but beauty produced hv health and happiness. Judson's Mountain Herb Pills are Eold by all Medicine Dealer?. To Consumptives. ffMIE Advertiser, having been restored to a health :n a very few-weeks bj a very simple remedy after having suffered several years with a severe lur.g efßc'ion, and that dread disease, -consort!prurn— 15 anxious to make known to his fel'ow-sufferers /he means of cure. 10 ail who de-ire it, he wilt send a copy of the prescription used, (free of charge,) with direction* ;or prpperinsr and using the same, which they will find a SCKE CVRE for CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, BRON CHITIS, 4c. Ihe only object of the Advertiser in sending lite Prescription is to benefit the afflicted, and spread ii I rmat;on which he conceives to be in valuable, an * e hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, as it will cost them nothing, and mev prove a blessil 1 Parties wishing the prescription will please ad- Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON, Williamsburg, Kings County New York. [3 ir.enths.] i;SIILOYME\T [s7s! AGENTS WANTED! We will pay from $23 to $73 per month, and of expenses, to active Agents, or give a commission. Particulars sent free. Address ERIE SEWINO MA CHINE COMPANY, R. JAMES, General Agent, Milan, Ohio. Aug. 23, '6l. - BHttfl)- HL LL.—Near Schellsburg, Nov. 25, Han nan Hull, in the 17th year of her age. SHAM LIS. —ln Pleasantvifle, Oct. 6, Mrs. Hester Shawlis, in the 361[ year of her a;e. STH'ER.-On the 19th N'o*., John Wesley, sou of David and Mary Stiver, of Bedford town ship. He was born January 24, 1547, and wis therefore not quite fifteen years old, when rsll e