BEDFORD GAZETTE."
B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
FRIDAY, : : : i i T i MAY S3, 1869
sacrament of the I.ord'i Supper will be ad
ministered, (D. V.) in ihe Presbyterian church, ot
this place, on next Sabbath. The pastor expects the
assistance of Rev. W. A. Fleming, pastor-elect of
the Presbyterian church in Canton, Illinois.
tiyßev. S. Kepler will preach ((iod willing) a Ser
mon for the Young, in the M. £. Chinch, on Sab
bath evening next.
CyThenew church on the land of Jacob Dibert
in Bedford township, will be dedicated to the ser
vice f the Triune God, on Sabbath, the 25th, ir.st.
The .public are respectfully invited to attend.
DELEGATE ELECTIONS.
The Democratic voters of the several election
•districts of Bedford county, and others who in
tend to act with them in good faith hereafter,
are hereby requested to meet on
SATURDAY, 21, ST OF JUNE, NEXT,
at the hour and place to be appointed by their
respective Vigilance Committees (who are here
by requested to give written notice of such time
and place of meeting) for the purpose of elect
ing two persons as delegates to the Democratic
County Convention which is to assemble at the
Court House in Bedford, on TUESDAY, 24th
JUNE, NEXT, at 2 o'clock, P. M., to put in
momination a County ticket to bo voted for at
the ensuing election, appoint, conferees to meet
conferees from the remaining counties ot' this
Congressional District to nominate a candidate
for Congress, and attend to such other matters
as may be proper to be transacted for the bene
fit of the party. It is also particularly request
ed that active and earnest Democrats be elected
Vigilance Committees for the ensuing year and
that their names be carefully reported to the
President of the Convention.
By order of the Dcm. Co. Com.,
JOIIN S. SCIIELL, Chairman.
Hunter and Abolitionism.
General David Hunter, commanding the
"Department of the South," (which includes
the states of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida,) has issued from his headquarters
at Hilton Head, S. C., a proclamation abol
ishing negro slavery in the three states over
which his military superintendence is author
ized to lie extended. The proclamation
.reads as follows:
"HEADQUARTERS DERAIMI'T or THESOITH, J
HILTON HEAD, S. C., May F, *62. j
"GENERALORDERS, No. 11.—The three States
(•f Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, com
prising the Military Department of the South,
having deliberately declared themselves no long
*r under the protection of the United States of
America, and having taken up arms against the
United States, it became a military necessity to
declare them under martial law. This was ac
cordingly done on the 2.lth day of April,
1802. Slavery nnd martial law in a free coun
try are altogether incompatible; the persons in
these States—Georgia, Florida and South Car
olina—heretofore held as slaves, are therefore
declared forever free.
[Official.] "DAVID HUNTER,
"Major General Commanding,
"ED. W. SMITH, acting Adjutant Gen."
When preparations were first going for
ward in the North to carry on the present
war, we charged it upon the "Republican"
administration that it was their design to
make it a war for the abolition of negro sla
very. The charge was distinctly and em
phatically denied by the organs of Mr. Lin
coln, and we were, triumphantly referred to
the inaugural of the President and the res
olutions passed by Congress declaring that
the wax was not waged "for the purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights
or established institutions of the Seceded
States," as a full and complete refutation of
the indictment thus brought ngainst them.
Hut the sequel shows that we were right,
after all Congress and the President have
seized the opportunity which the war has
given them, to liberate the slaves in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and according to Gov,
Letcher, of Virginia, that State alone has
lost, since the beginning of the war, nearly
fifty millions of dollars in slave property!
And now, to make the assurance of an Al>-
Akhtion war doubly sure, Gen. Hunter lias
issued his pronunciamento setting free one
million slaves, belonging indiscriminately to
rebels and l r nion men, and this upon the
ground that slavery and martiid law are in-
compatible. Though Hailed;, Butler and
Dix have till held martial sway In States
where negro slavery exists, without detri
ment to the interests of the Government, or
the "peculiar institution;" though the Pres
ident was compelled to modify Fremont's
emancipation order, which was not half so
bold and sweeping as tliis of Gen. Hunter;
though the President and Mr. Seward ex
purgated Cameron's report of the proposi
tion to free and arm the slaves, which it ori
ginally contained; and though the ostensi
ble and outward policy of the Administration
Lis been to discountenance any open and
undisguised interference with slave property
(except in the District of Columbia); yet
tlijs Abolition general, burning with the tin
holy fanaticism of his political sect, eagerly
avails himself of the most flimsy pretext to
jwocluiiu freedom to the negroes within the
Confines of his department. We have nei
ther space, nor patience, to dilate upon the
enormity of this assumption of a power
which is granted nowhere in the Federal or
in any State Constitution, and which can
never be justified, except on the ground that
"might makes right," and that the soldier
is dictator to the citizen. We shall only
take the liberty, at present, to enter our pro
test once more against the conversion of the
federal army into an engine for the abolition
of negro slavery. If the war is to be wa
ged for the purpose indicated by Gen. Hun
ter's proclamation, the sooner we know it
the better. The people of the North do not
intend to pay twenty hundred millions of
dollars to furnish a set of madmen at Wash
ington, or elsewhere, the means wherewith
more effectually to dissolve the Union, mere
ly to obtain the cheap and delectable pleas
ure of taking to their hearthstones three mil
lions of stupid and bestial negroes. They
look with intensest anxiety for the action of
the President in regard to the conduct of
1 lunter. They hope and pray for a revoca
tion of his abolition order; aye, they de
mand that the miserable fanatic who has ap
plied the. torch afresh to the temple of our
liberties, shall be removed from his command
and placed where his political madness can
no longer endanger the public safety. "Will
Mr. Lincoln be equal to the emergency?
W ill he, for once, have the moral courage
to meet the issue fairly and fully and with
out shifting, or evasion? We can scarcely
hope for a "consummation so devoutly to be
wished."
—
The Washington Intelligence Office.
Secretary Stanton has lately issued the
following order:
OFFICI MILITART St'PRItVJSOR OF TBLEQUAFU, I
WASHINOTOM, D. C., May 6. t
To th* Military Operator at Cairo :
SIR: AS loon NJ nsws is received of the battle
expected to take place at or near Corinth, you will
send to this office abstracts of the same, together
with the source from which they were derived, and
not allow any reports to he transmitted from the of
fice at Cairo until the War Department gives per
mission.
Ey order of E. S. SANKORD,
Military Supervisor of Telegraph.
It would seem—-judging from this extra
ordinary arrangement—that the Secretary of
\V or lias established an Intelligence Office
in his department, in which he hopes to mo
nopolize. the entire business of the quid
nuncs and newsboys. "Abstracts" of the
news arc to be sent to the War Department
and the telegraphic censor is to "allow no
reports to be transmitted until the War De
partment gives permission!" Now, in the
name of all that is free and intelligent, what
does this
of news puf upon us, even by the direct act
of the Administration? Can it be possible
that Secretary Stanton has been manufac
turing some of the Jute, reported victories out
of electricity and copper wire ? The people
will not brook this presumption upon their
intelligence much longer. They are to pay
the piper apd they want to know what kind
of music he makes. It is their right to know
whether we have victory or defeat, and they
will not be satisfied with the siftings from
Mr. Stanton's Intelligence Office, or any
news that must be "doctored" before they
can be permitted to know it. We want no
more Pittsburg Landing stories.
Piety in Danger.
"Oh that we had a minister hero now like
him!" If any person is curious to know where
this language occurs, they can find out by read
ing the editorial columns of the last issuo of the
Bedford papers; and it is hardly necessary to state
that it is not to be found in those of the Gazette.
It seems that the preachers of Bedford are of as
little account in the estimation of the person
who makes use of the above quoted language,
as the "improvements" and "enterprise" of tho
unfortunate town. He sighs for other preach
ers ; his spiritualized, almost ethereal nature is
too harshly jarred by the crude and indigestible
sermons at present administered to his religious
stomach. In pity for this distressed churchman,
our ministers ought to resign, so that in the stead
of each one of them there might bo a duplicate
of the reverend abolitionist for whom his sanc
tified soul so fervently yearneth. It would be a
great loss to the church, and altogether the fault
of the preachers, if this pious individual were
to "fall from grace," merely because he can have
no abolitionist to preach for him.
IN HONDURAS Invalids afflicted with
Scrofula visit the streams that have drained
from the wild lands where Sarsaparilla grows.
It is found that the waters become impregnated
with the medicinal virtues of this drug, and
the natives drink it, bathe in it, and live on it
for weeks. Whatever its effects, these "ivater
ing-plaeef' have a reputation not inferior to out
own S:;ratoga, and great numbers surely obtain
relief at them from eruptions and ulcerations.'
Yet I find all classes have more confidence in
Dr. Ayeris Extract of Sarsaparilla, than in the
impregnated waters or any compound of tho
root that they can make. Those who can af
ford to buy it, do so, and it is in very gonend
use here, curing them surer and quicker than
they can got relief without it. Not a few of
our staple products go thus to foreign lands, are j
there manipulated by scientific or artisan skill, j
end then come back for our consumption and!
use. [Correspondent of the Herald, lroinTrux- 1
illo.J
HOME NEWS.
THE INSTALLATION of Rev. W.PriJcaux,
as pastor of the Presbyterian church of Schell
burg, will take place next Thursday. The ser
vices will be conducted, it is supposed, by Rev'ds.
D. D. Clark, T. K. Davis, and R. F. Sample.
BuKOLARY.—The house of Mrs. Wag
ner was burglariously entered, one night last
week, and some six or seven dollars (all the rea
dy money about the premises) were stolen there
from. There seems to be quite a business do
ing in this line, about here, just now.
——o— — %
NEW FANCY STORE.—Messrs Shuck
Brothers (as will be seen by reference to our ad
■ vertising columns) are about to open out a
new fancy store in the splendid brick building
lately erected by them immediately West of the
old stand of S. and W. Shuck. The new es
tablishment is to be under the supervision of a
lady who has hud a long experience in the busi
ness in the city of Philadelphia. Our lady read
ers will doubtless find it to their advantage to
give the new fancy store an early call.
IMPROVEMENTS.—Our tasty friend, Col
ill Loyer, has just given the front of his fine es
tablishment, a new yoat of paint, giving it quite
a bright appearance. Our neighbor across the
way, Mr. Cessna, has also beautified and improv
ed his residence. The Presbyterian "Manse,"
on East Main street, lately erected, and the
new house of Mr. W. Shuck, on West Pitt
street, are fine structures and add very much
to tho beauty of the town. Truly, "we are
a groat and growing people."
0
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. —We had the
pleasure, a few days ago, of making the ac
quaintance of Dr. MeClellan, of Philadelphia,
brother to the great military commander who
now holds so prominent a place in the public
mind. Dr. MeClellan was on a professional vis
it to o'ir place, and made many friends here
during his brief stay. The Dr. is an excellent
physician, being, doubtless, well grounded in
Constitutional remedies, as he is a firm and posi
tive Domocrat.
——o—
OPERATION.—Our readers
will remember that we noticed, some three
months ago, the occurrence of a serious acci
dent to Ho n. W. T. Daugherty, of this place,
by a fall upon the ice. It is to lie regretted
that it has been found necessary to remove the
injured limb. On the 18th inst., the operation
was skillfully performed by Dr. MeClellan, of
Philadelphia, assisted by the attending physi
cians, Drs. Watson and Compiler, of our town.
Wc arc glad to learn that the Judge is doing
well, and that his numerous friends cherish the
hope that lie will speedily recover.
—o —
GEH. REF. CLASSIS. —The Mercersburg
Classis convened in this place on Friday eve
ning of last week. This body is composed of all L
the ministers in the. German Reformed church, in
the counties of Franklin, Bedford and parts of
Huntingdon and Blair, together with a lay dele
gate from each pastoral charge The opening ser
mon was preached by the Rev. Jacob ITassler,
of Martinslmrg, Blair county, after which the
classis organized by electing tho Rev. B. Bails
man, of Chamliershurg, president for tho ensu
ing year. On Snturday morning a number of
standing committees were appointed and the
Classis proceeded to the transaction of its usti-.
al business. Divine service was held frequent
ly during its sessions. On Sabbath the com
munion of the Lord's Supper was celebrated;
the number of communicants being unusually
large. The several pulpits in the town were
also occupied by members of the Classis on the
Sabbath. On Monday morning tho sessions
were resumed; several of the standing commit
tees reported and quite a number of items of
business was transacted. On the evening of
Monday a missionary meeting was held, when
interesting addresses weredelivered by the pres
ident of the Claris and elder William Heyser,
of Chambersbnrg. On Tuesday morning the 1
sessions were again resumed. In the afternoon :
at half past five o'clock, having finished their
business, the Classis adjourned to meet in Mar- .
tinsbnrg, Blair co., in May, 1803.
The meeting was one of much harmony,
none of those unpleasant and unhappy di (Ter
ences occurring which sometimes spring up to
mar the peace of ecclesiastical bodies.
r*RKs. GEN. ASSEMBLY. —The General Assem
bly of the Presbyterian Church, met at Colum
bus, Ohio, on Thursday. 15th just. Rev. Dr.
Bailey, of Steubenville, (>., was chosen Mode
rator.
THE COMING FIGHT AT CORINTH.
From the Nero York World May 15.
The country will learn with profound aston
ishment that the correspondents of newspapers
will not he permitted to telegraph an account of
the coming battle at Corinth after it has taken
place until the report is first revised by a milita
ry censor at Cairo. Mr. Stanton is evidently
determined to doctor the news before it is given
to the country,but why he should want to do so
is a mystery that passes comprehension. If we
arc beaten, the fact, must come out. It cannot
bo concealed. Tf we are victorious, the. soon
er it is known the 1 >etter. There is no ground
for saying that the reports of newspaper cor
respondents will not be correct. They have no
toriously been so in every instance hitherto. If
they have differed from the official reports, so
much the worse has it been for the official reports,
for when the truth regarding past battles has
all come, out, it has been the former, not the lat
ter, which were confirmed. The poor excuse
that these reports might give aid and comfort to
the enemy is too obviously absurd to be for a
moment entertained. What the effect of such
an order as this upon the stock market must ho
is apparent. It is to be presumed tlintJVlr. Stan
ton contemplated that painful contingency before
issuing it. If not, ho has less shrewdness than j
his admirers suspoet him of.
[For the Bedford Ga/tttt.]
„ A Preacher on the Stand.
MR. EDITOR:
1 am one of tlioso who believe in the rule
of conduct laid down in the old latin proverb,
u iV sutor ultra crepidam," ''The shoemaker
should not go beyond his lastor, in pluiner
language, every man ought to mind his own
business and let that of other people alone. And
I consider this precept especially applicable to
preachers of the Gos|>el. Their business is to
preach "Christ and him crucified;" to make
known to men the glad tidings of human re
demption ; to point out the narrow way which
leads to heaven; not to prate of systems of sec
ular Government, nor to go about dabbling in
politics, counseling and encouraging rancorous
disputes, helping to breed violent difi'erences of
opinion, and thus become instrumental in the
eternal destruction of many immortal souls.
I have been led to these general observations
by the recent publication of some extracts from
a letter said to have been written by Rev. >S.
Barnes, formerly pastor of the M. E. Church
of this place. The portions of Mr. Barnes'let
ter which are published, read as follows:
"You eny you are glad that I am still true to
the Republican cause, and better still, to the
Union. Aye—When lam false to my country,
or to those constitutionally appointed to admin
ister its laws, or to a President as sound and
true and honest as Abraham Lincoln and his
eminently just and prudent administration, then
let my right hand forget its cunning and my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Why,
sir, 'The Powers that be arc ordained of God;
whosoever, therefore, resisteth the power, re
sisteth the ordnance of God, and they that re
sist shall receive to themselves damnation.'—
Romans, 1.1, 12.
"Could 1 then be a Christian if I were to re
bel or even sympathise with rebellion, if to rebel
is to ' resist the ordnance of God? Can a Chris
tian innocently resist the ordnance of God, or
in any way countenance or sympathise with it
in others I Why, sir, Loyalty, nay more, Patri
otism, is a part of my religion, taught me in
God's word.
"Moreover, I should betray my commission
as a minister of the Gospel, did I not go further,
and as commanded, 'Put the people in mind to
be subject to principalities and powers, and to
obey magistrates,'—and to do this by example as,
well as by precept.—Tit us 3, 1, and Peter 2, 13.
"As to 'exiiediency,' I know no such word,
either as a Christian or a minister, when God
so unequivocally commands."
I presume that Dir. Barnes did not intend his
letter to be published. If he did, I have mista
ken the, man altogether, as I had supposed him
to he too shrewd to permit his writings to go
into tho hands of the printer without first sub
mitting them for revision to some one who un
derstood orthography and the rudiments of En
glish Grammar. But I suppose the appearance
of my clerical friend in his shabby English,
might be accounted for by tiie over-heated zeal
of the patriotic personage to whom the letter
was written. Or if that personage belongs to
the same class of individuals of which anotiicr
of Dir. Barnes* particular friends and correspon
dents in this place is a distinguished member, the
act of indiscretion which gave publicity.to the
letter, might be traced to the communicative in
fluences generally attributed to five or six glas
ses of lager. But lam not disposed to carp at
the Reverend gentleman's grammatical and or
thographical inaccuracies, though such compar
isons as "a President as sound and true and hon
csf'as Abraham Lincoln, and his eminently just
and prudent Administration," such syntactical
anomalies as, "Can a Christian innocently resist
the ordnance of God, or in any way counte
nance or sympathise with it in others," and such
spelling as "ordnance" for ordinance, are tempt
ing subjects for critical* dissection. I shall pass
theso little fuiilts and proceed to the discussion of
the general object and tendency of the publication
of Mr. Barnes' letter.
1. The design of the person who pave this
letter into the. hands of the printer, was political.
Ilis object was to bolster up the sinking fortunes
of Mr. Lincoln's administration. lie did not
put it in print for the purpose, of converting sin
ners unto righteousness, but to turn members of
the M. E. Church unto Abraham Lincoln. He
did not publish it in order to accomplish any re
ligious end, but to give moral tone to the con
duct of the political party at present in power.
If any one will undertake to invert these alle ;
gations, we should like to bo shown a single line
in the letter calculated to draw men from the
things of this world unto those of a better. The
letter is altogether about politics and even goes
so far as to name the party to which tho writer
adheres. It follows, therefore, likewise, that
Mr. Ilnrnes, in writing the letter, could not have
had any religious purpose in view, and, conse
quently, that he has descended from the dignity
and sanctity of his high calling to draggle his
ministerial robes in the filth of party politics.
Li this respect Mr. Barnes is a cobbler who has
gone "'beyond his last;" and it would have been
much more to his credit as a Christian minister,
and, perhaps, much more for the benefit of the
person to whom his letter was addressed, if he
had written a little more about the Redeemer's
kingdom and a little less about that of Abraham
Lincoln.
2. As to the tendency and effect of Mr.
Barnes' letter, it is easily seen that they will be
unfavorable to the cause of religion. The ex
ample set by the writer will be followed by oth
er ministers, and soon the spiritual interests of
men will be accounted of no greater importance
i than the affairs of parties and political platforms.
Tho st...ly of party doctrines and parly schemes
will divide tho preacher's time with the search
ing of the Holy Scriptures. The political ros
trum will steal away the thought, and attention
due alone to the sacred desk. Then, certain as
the night succeeds the (Jay, will follow the deg
radation of the ministerial office and the intro
duction of bitter feuds into the church, whilst
schism and confusion will end the last, sad chap
ter in the history of this new politico-religious
reformation. Again, such championship of the
corruptions of party as that contained in Mr.
Barnes' letter, is certainly calculated to bring the
Christian minister into disrepute. Mr. Barnes
tells us that Mr. Lincoln's administration is "just
and prudent," ami yet he must have known that
high officials connected with that administration
have defrauded the Government out of millions
of dollars and that after it was proved that they
had thus violated their trust, Mr. Lincoln either
retained them in office, or removed them from
one place of responsibility but to transfer them
to another. Mr. Barnes must have known that
a Republican Congress jiassed a vote of censure
upon Mr. Lincoln's late Secretary of War and
presont Minister to Russia, and that a Republi
can Investigating Committee exposed the ex
travagance and corruption of Mr. Lincoln's
present Secretary of the Navy. When a preach
er of the Gospel can go so far as to become tho
defender of Simon Cameron, aivl lus confreres,
what status can we assign him as a Christian
minister? We leavo the question to be answer
ed by those who love an honest and upright ad
ministration of the Government.
But, if Mr. Barnes' interpretation of the
Scriptural quotations made by him, were cor
rect, what would become of human liberty, of
the Declaration of American Independence, yen,
of the very Administration which ho so greatly
admires? According to his view of St. Paul's
doctrine on the subject of submission to "the
powers that be," the American Revolution was
an enormous and never to be expiated sin, the
fathers of the Republic a horde of rebellious
traitors, and Mr. Lincoln, who now sits in the
chair of Washington, is a representative of ori
ginal treason who shall "receive unto himself
damnation." If Mr. Barnes is correct on this
subject, the serfs of Russia are doomed to sla
very forever, and Ireland is bound to her English
oppressors with chains which the hand of man
(hires not sunder. But the intelligent reader
will at once perceive the loose generalization
with which my reverend friend tries to crown Mr.
Lincoln with a divine right to rule the Ameri
can people. The Apostle does not mean to teach
that we are bound to submit to rulers who gov
ern tyrannically or abuse their regal or official
powers and prerogatives. The exercise of the
right of revolution is not forbidden iti any por
tion of the Old or New Testament. On the
oilier hand, according to the most learned com
mentators, it is tacitly acknowledged, especially
when the ruler violates a compact entered into
by himself and his people. I can do no better
than to add, in conclusion, the remarks of Dr.
Adam Clark, on Romans 13, 12, quoted by Mr.
Barnes, hoping that if what I have written may
prove of no benefit to the reader, at least Dr.
Clark's clear elucidation of Mr. Barnes' quota
tion from Paul, will instruct the people that des
potism finds no shield nor strong tower in the
revealed will of the Almighty.
Frcnn Clark's Commentaries, vol. 4 , p. 150.
"In all nations of the earth, there is what
may he called a constitution, a plan by which a
particular state or country is governed; and this
constitution is less or more calculated to pro
mote the interests of the community. The civil
governor, whether he he elective or hereditary,
agrees to govern according to that constitution.
Thus, wc may consider that there is a compact
and consent between the governor and the governed,
and in such a case, the potentate may be consid
ered as coining to the supreme authority in the
direct way of God's providence; and as civil
government, is of God, who is the Fountain of
law, order and regularity; the civil governor,
who administers the laws of a state according
to the constitution, is the minister of God.
•#*#
Nothing can justify the opposition of the sub
jects to the ruler, but overt attempts, on his part,
to change the constitution, or to rule contrary to
the laics. When the ruler acts thus, he dissolves
the compact between him and his people; lii.s
authority is no longer binding, because illegal:
because lie is acting contrary to the laws of that
constitution, according to which, on being rais
ed to the supreme power, he promised to govern.
This conduct justifies opposition to his govern
ment." ' SINCERITY.
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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
MORRISON'S Covic, May loth, 18'j2.
Mr. Editor :
£)ur local news is somewhat scat
tered, though not to say scarce. It is not our ob
ject in opening a correspondence from this sec
tion of Bedford county, to laud our locality to
the skies, by dragging others into significance, as
Hantlius, the Sclicllsburg correspondent of the
Bedford Inquirer, lias done, by rearing Scliclls
burg on the ruins of St. Claiwtville. Wc oc
cupy a position here, which is
"Never elated while one man's oppressed ;
Never dejected, while another's blessed."
MOONLIGHT, a correspondent of the same pa
per has emitted a few dim rays, (owing their
dimness perhaps to the dense smoke which lately
overhung the place,) from Pnttonsvillc and the
fag ends of Morrison's Cove, in an article con
sisting mostly in a description of frogs, hay
scales, &e., and as the readers of the Inquirer
are scarce, the publication of news from this
vicinity lias not been made general.
The war news here as well as in every other
section of the country has the ascendency at this
time. In the burying ground, near Oberton in
in Middle Woodbury, sleep side by side, the re
mains of three brave soldiers of Captain Bris
bnn's Company. First was brought there the
body of Alexander Croft, who died, as you know,
in Bedford. Next, were sent home the remains
of Philip P. Croft, who fell, whilst bravely de
fending his .country's cause on the bloody field
near Winchester. And lastly, in care of his
brother Daniel, was brought to his father's res
idence, the hotly of George Bowman, who died
at Winchester, of typhoid fever. The inter
ment of the bodies of those deceased soldiers,
was attended by large and respectable crowds of
people.
The funeral services on each occasion were
performed by Rev. Stock, of Woodbury, whose
zeal, as a minister, has won for him many ar
dent friends.
I would have taken thclibertyof stating that
much just credit has been awarded to Mr. Val
entine Stockman, of Bedford, who with driver,
two horses and wagon, conveyed the body of
George Bowman together wit h his brother from
Bedford to Wntcrstrect a distance of eighteen
miles, for the small sum of three dollars, however
much this liberality may detract from the charac
ter of the man, who brought the same corpse
and passenger from Cumberland to Bedford, a.
distance of thirty miles, for which he asked twen
ty dollars and actually took fourteen dollars, all
the money which Daniel Bowman, the soldier in
attendance with tho corpse, had.
SCHOOLS. —So far as the number of scholars
that attend school during tho summer, will jus
tify the employment of a teacher, the schools
are kept in operation. The Misses Yonnklnaro
teaching school in the town of Woodbury, it is
said, with admirable success. Miss Barihelow
has charge of the school on Pleasant Hill, South
of Woodbury and Miss Bishop is teaching a
school in the stone school house near Potter's
mill. Other schools may be in operation in
Middle Woodbury district of which I have not
been informed. We wish these lady teachers
an enjoyment in their present vocation that will
induce them to continue in the cause, Which they
have so earnestly espoused.
In South Woodbury district, there are but two
schools open at present. Mr. Spcacc is teach
ing a flourishing school in Pattonsville, (I hope
MOONLIGHT will forgive us the unintended intru
sion,) and Mr. Williams is doing justice, in "roar
ing the tender thought," in a pleasantsite, near
the village of Enterprise. These gentlemen are
working teachers and I think ali who entrust
i, i children to their care, will be amply romunera
-1 i ted for well placed confidence.
SPRING.
We tire now in a season,
•A. wh*n ah up fro.u t,„l bo* convtrtined th, e.rh
e A kindly thaw unlock*,l it with mild rain : '
.. And hilt the tender blade peeps up to birth
,f And "^V be B reen <d d * liugn with p'rouiiitd
The gentle spring Ims nt last boon hailed in
ethereal mildness. The grain fields in theCovo
present a promising appearance never surpass
" cd in onr receollcetion. The fanners have near
ly all finished planting corn, and if heaven bo
li gracious, wo have no doubt that a largo crop
8 will be the result of the faithful farmer's toil; *
e More at leisure.
". Yours Truly,
J EKULF.
CESTKUVIIXE, May 10, 'O2.
1 Mr. Editor:
1 In looking over the last week's is
-1 sue of the Bedford Inquiret ', my attention was
1 fixed upon a communication headed Cumber
■ land Valley. Oil further examination it prov
ed to lie a fine specimen of juvenile literature,
1 written by one Mr. A. Much of the matter con
" tained in his essay was truly original and of
a highly interesting character. The strongest
a peculiarity in it, however, was the difficulty
" which it presented to all who read it when they
2 attempted to discover what it was about. The
only possible conclusion to be arrived at in this
• regard, is, that it is a medley of agricultural,
J scholastic and casual observations, finely spiced
r and scented with that life-giving essence of
• "Kepubliean" existence, the everlasting nigger.
■ It speaks most glowingly of the use made by
,r our farmers of the past few weeks of favorablo
• weather and the line prospects for an abundant
" harvest. As though it were an uncommon
" thing for farmers to make good use of favorable
2 weather, or for the grain crop to look promising!
From the question of agriculture the writer soars
to the all important topics of schools, school
- houses, County Supcrintendcney and Teachers*
1 Institutes. These several questions he handles
' in an admirable manner, and to some pretty
considerable degree it is our humor to coincide
1 with him, especially in his encomium upon the
Institute which convened here semimonthly dur
ing the past Winter. Well might ho speak of
it. in terms of rapture, for indeed it was a glo
rious invention: ono for which, if there hns not
already been a patent procured, some immedi
ate step should be taken to secure one. On
this particular point, we suppose that the gentle
man speaks from personal observation, for if we
may credit the sayings of Madam Kuinor, ho
was a member of this same magnetic, electrify
ing, wonder accomplishing, one horse Institute.
His ideas of the Co. Supcrintendcney are
very peculiar and 1 should fear that they would
have a very deleterious effect upon the minds of
the public, were, not his arguments unreasonable
and preposterous in the extreme. llow fool-
I hardy and softpated to declaim, as lie does, a
j gainst common sense and the established usago
! of our country and the wisdom of our ablest
| and most scientific men ! What short sighted- .
ness in him to say that the office of Co. Super
intendent is not unfrequcntly made the price of
the political hireling, when it is well known
that polities has nothing to do with tho selec
tion of that officer! He then begins "to show
his feathers;" he can desist no longer; the op
portunity is too tempting; his zeal for wool coun
teracts every nobler impulse of his nature, and
like many others of the same creed, lie is swept
away into the illimitable chaos of nigger phil
anthropy. It is certainly refreshing to see a
man whose highest ambition is to make the ne
gro the political and social equal of the whita
man.
At any rate I would advise Mr. A., that af
ter this when he feels indignant at the mannor
in which the "poor nigger" is treated, ho had
better write about it separate and apart from
other subjects, for, as there are those who can
appreciate one thing and not another, so there
nre those who do not appreciate wool soaked
in soft soap literature.
Yours,
TIMOTHY SWIPES.
We, last week, gave an account of the acci
dental death of Mr. John Houck, of Cumber
land Valley, by the falling of a tree. Tin fol
lowing letter, received since tlio writing of our
notice, gives the particulars of this melancholy
accident.
CENTERviux, May 18, 'C2.
Friend Meyers:
On last Saturday morning, n mnn
by the name of John Houck, living nbout lj
miles from this place, was engaged in peeling
tan bark, and whilst in the act of felling a tree,,
a limb broke off and killed him. He was
at work alone. After the tree fell, a small boy
living with him, having seen (he tree fall and
not seeing Mr. Houck, went up to the tree and'
found Mr. Houck lying on the ground with tho
axe grasped tightly in his hand, and the limb
lying across him. He called up a man who
was plowing near by, and when ho came ho
found the head of the unfortunate man smash
ed and his shoulder very much bruised. ll*
must have been killed instantly. lie was 52
years of age and leaves a wife, but no children.
Yours, A.
TEE UNION FEELING IN VIRGINIA.
The army correspondent of tho New York
Tribune writes as follows:
Diligent inquiry could not establish the exis
tence of more than one Union man in Williams
burg.—And, inasmuch as he lias made one of
our officersagift of a small damask table-spread,
from which Magrudor had drank wine three;
evenings before it is fair to presume that his pro- .
fessions of Unionism are a swindle. This sido
of Williamsburg, upon the lino of our march,
no scrutiny with candles by daytime could pos
sibly discover one Union man or one Union
woman. The article does not exist in this country. •
Tho same correspondent adds:
Here we got the first Philadelphia newspa-.
per which professes to publish accounts from the
ground of the recent battle near Williamsburg.
It is astonishing that even American history can
be written so falsely and so unjustly. The rea
der of the reports of the Philadelphia Inquirer
would certainly sttpposo that Gen. Hancock's
fight on our right was the principal battle. How
easy it is to correct this error. Hancock had •
only between twenty and thirty killed and woun--
dud, and only four regiments engaged. His af
fair was but a skirmish. On tho left, Hohitz
ehnaii was eom|>elled to fight a great battle t
vastly more consequence than Bull Hun, ami bo
won it too. He had seventeen regiment* en
gaged from first to last—twelve ol Hoop**
and five of Kearney's; and his loss in kilhxl.
wounded and missing, was two thotiwvnd wd
f)rtvix.