BEDFORD GAZETTE. B. P. MEYERS, EDITOR. t'RIQAY, :' ; : : JUNK 0, 1809 DELEGATE ELECTIONS. The Democratic voters of (ho several election districts of Bedford county, and others who in tend to act with them in pood faith hereafter, are hereby requested to meet on SATUKDA V, 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 notieoof such time and place of meeting) for the purpose of elect ing two persons as delegates to the Democratic .County Convention winch is to assemble at the Court House in Bedford, on TUESDAY, 21th .TUNE, NEXT, at 2 o'clock, P. M., to put in nomination a County ticket to be voted for'at the ensuing election, appoint conferees to meet . conferees from the remaining counties of this Congressional District to nominate a candidate for Congress, and attend to such other matters as may bo proper to lie transacted for the bene fit of the party. It is also particularly request ed that active and earnest Democrats lie elected Vigilance Committees for the ensuing year and that their names be carefully reported to the President of the Convention. By order of the Dem. Co. Com., JOHN S. SCHEIE, Chairman. Democratic State Convention. In accordance with a resolution of the Demo cratic State Exccutivo Committee, TIIE DEMO CRACY OF PENNSYLVANIA will meet in STATE CONVENTION, at IIARRISBUEG, on FRI DAY, the 4th day of July, 18f>2, at 10 o'clock, A. M., to nominate candidates for AUDITOR GENERAL and SURVEYOR GENERAL, and to n dopt such measures as may lie deemed necessa ry for tho welfare of the Democratic party and the country. WILLIAM 11. WELSH, Chairman of the Democratic State Ex. Com. tilTOwing to the absence of the editor, no letters or communications appear in this issue. This will also account for the lack of editorial. Emancipation and its Consequences. It seems that contrabands in large num bers are flocking to the army for protection. The recent army order proliibiting the re turn of these fugitives even to loyal masters, •*converts the army into a nursery for loogc negroes. They must be fed and protected until such time when they can make their way northward, and distribute thtmselvcs over the face of Northern society. They llflVP nn intnnf Jrm - CLuifli but turn their faces towards the abolition land of promise. As the army advances Southward, and un der the emancipation policy, lets loose a con tinuous and constantly augmenting stream of contrabands to flow into the Northern States, the-question arises, what are we to do with them ? Some of the Western States have adopted harsh measures to relieve them selves from their share of the burden. In diana has a law prohibiting the emigration of negroes into that State. Illinois is about to put a similar prohibition into her Consti tution. Ohio and Pennsylvania, in their exposed border positions, must necessarily liecome the paradise of contrabands. The advance guard of the approaching host is al ready upon ns. They will swarm into the State like tljgplocusts of tjjgvptf. getting in to our kneading troughs and consuming our substance. We cannot but pity them in their destitute condition, while pity for the poor creatures is minglod with indignation towards the authors of their and our troubles. What ctm we do with them? They m-e not needed among us. *Free black labor is opposed to free white labor. White citizens do not want their labor to be brought, into competition with that of negroes. It is un just and degrading to white freemen. Cer tain mock-philanthropists of the Abolition stripe have undertaken to provide the con trabands thrown upon the city of Philadel phia with employment, and have offered their services to fanners of the neighboring counties at the low price of twenty-live conts per day. I>rpon this small pittance negroes can manage to subsist, hut white men can , not—and every negro that works at this price, necessarily displaces a white man. This is only a forctasttfof what is to come. The evil is daily growing in magnitude.— policy of emancipation which the Abo- Imomsts have forced upon the Government is at direct war with the interests of the Northern people, and a fatal blow at free white labor.. It adds immeasurably to the public burdens. It increases taxation, strikes at the dignity of labor, interferes with pri vate.rights, and throws upon the charities of the Northern States a degraded and ser vile population. These are some of the pen alties the Northern people must pay for en trusting Abolitionists with potver, and pla cing them in posh ions where they arc ena bled rfo work out their radical and destruc tive theories. "* Congress appropriated a million of dollars for the emancipation of 3,000 slaves in tlic District of Columbia, and one hundred thou sand for their colonization. If the sanio policy is pursued with regard to the four millions of slaves in the Southern States, the total cost to the Government would ex ceed thirteen hundred millions of dollars. But as the Abolitionists arc opposed to a general system of colonization, and in favor of the army letting loose as it advances in to the rebel territory, these negroes, instead of being deported abroad, would remain in the country—not as free laborers upon the plantation of their laic masters, as recent events show, but as a burden upon such Northern States as tolerate their presence. After their liberation tliey would and could not remain in States where they would J>o liable to re-enslavement after the restoration of the Union. The question, what shall we do with the large surplus negro population which the Abolitionists arc easting upon the country? is a serious one for every man in Pennsyl vania who pays taxes or earns wages. Strict justice to white nnd black requires that they should he billeted upon the Abolitionists; but we know enough of abolition philanthro py to know that they will contribute the least, and consider their part of the tvflWt finished in securing to the slave the boJßif idle and thriftless freedom. The evil must work out its own cure—how, we cannot tell. But this we do know, that if this war had been conducted with an eye single to the suppression of rebellion and the restoration of the Union, and had those in power turn ed a deaf car to the Abolitionists we should not sow be threatened with a negro invasion, and the prospect of a speedy restoration of the old glorious Union would be much more immediate than it is.— Patriot cb Union. The Union Army Before Richmond. Despatches have been received at the War Department from Gen. MeClellan, giving tho details of engagements on Saturday, Sunday and Monday last. The rebels attacked his left wing in great force on Saturday at one o'clock. After a severe engagement, tliey were defeated. They^renewed the attack on Sunday morning, and were driven in all directions at the point of the bayonet. On Monday morning they made one more effort to rally their men, hut failed and retreated to Richmond. Our loss was three thousand killed and wounded. Gen. MeClellan says the loss of the enemy was tremendous. The fighting continued for about 29 hours, and he says ever)' one feels sanguine that the rebel Capital will fall as soon as oar troops advance to the engagement. Jefferson Davis nnd Gov. Letcher were both in the fight. Further re ports aro hourly expected. The Valley of Virginia. v The Telegraph informs us that nearly nil (he ground lost by the defeat of Gfen. Banks has been regained. Portions of the armies of Banks, Fremont nnd McDowell have re-eaptnred Front Royal, Strasburg nnd Woodstock. Banks is in possession of Williumsport and Martinsbnrg, and litis taken some tliree hundred prisoners in the direction of Charlestown. The rebels nrc encamped about three miles from Woodstock. Tt is thought that Jacksou and his army may be surrounded! ISAAC IVENSTNCF.K, Esq., of this county, will he a candidate, for nomination before tho Dem ocratic {statu Convention, on the 4th of July next, for the office of Surveyor General, lie has always borne the character of an honest and upright citizen and a sound Democrat. His nomination would give groat satisfaction to his many friends in this county. SißnruAi. OPERATION. —Dr. Wm. Watson, jr., of this place, assisted by Dr. A. C.Vaughan, of Kainsburg, performed n most difficult opera tion upon the soil of Mr. John Mc.Fcrran, of Cumberland Valley township. Amputation of his right leg was rendered necessary in conse quence of a had fracture of tho limb. It is useless to add tlmt the patient is doing well, since lie is in the hands of such a skillful surgeon as the young Doctor. DEATII OF B. F. LKADKK.—AVO loam from (lie Hanover Spectator, that Mr. 11. F. LF.ADEK died on tlin 14 th of 1\ I ay, ISG2, at Berrien Springs, Michigan, aged about 27 years. lie was born and raised in Bedford, and leaves many friends and associates in this community who ate grieved to hear of his early death. He learned the printing business in this office, and always enjoyed the confidence of the entire com munity. Ho wm a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for several years before his death. By his death at so early a period of life, society has lost an ornament, and the communi ty in which he lived a prominent and useful member. cak with plowing praise of his Karsaparilla—the benefi cial ctfccts and truly remarkable cures that linvo been realized from its use.—[N. York Sunday Times.] From the Patriot ij- Union. Constitutional Loyalty against Constitu tional Disloyalty. One of Hie most remarkable evidences of the infidelity of a great portion of the people of this country to the principles that underlie the fab ric of our Government, is to be found in the fact that the address issued by certain Demo cratic. members of Congress, a majority of whom were supporters of Mr. Douglass, is violently assailed as disloyal because it enunciates the immortal axioms which no party ten years ago would have ventured to gainsay The subscribers to these great truths are de nounced as disloyal secession sympathizers by men who have drifted so far away from the true principles of Government that they are startled nt the contrast presented lietween the immutable principles of the founders of our re publican insitutions and their present practices, which savor so much of despotism that resort to despotic power and the terrors of denuncia tion are necessary to stifle those ndomnitious of conscience that disturb the quiot of even the most resolute evil-doers. It is an unhealthy sign when those who de part farthest from the principles of the Consti tution arc dubbed patriots, while those who cling closest to those principles arc execrated as disloyalists. There is but one sure and in fallible standard of loyalty in this country, and the standard is the Constitution and the Union created by the Constitution. The man who refuses to render unconditional allegiance to the principles of our Government, the funda mental ideas upon which it rests, cannot claim to be a loyal citizen, no matter how great may be his reverence for the individuals who, for the time being, are entrusted with the adminis tration of the Government, or how ready he may be to concur in every unlawful act that they may esteem necessary for the invigoration of the Government. Our institutions arc not in their nature progressive. They were writ ten in black and white more than hH" B - c - ...v it.,, oaiuu now that they were at. the time of their origin. They are no more progressive than the principles of the Christian religion, which were known as fully to the man who reads the llihlc in the fifteenth century as they are to the man who reads the Bible in the nineteenth century. While we have progressed in national power, in the arts and seienees, and everything that has contribu ted to make thirteen feeble colonies, with a population of three millions, a great and pow erful nation with a population of thirty millions, the fundamental, underlying bas'.R of our struc ture of Government has remained as it was written, unchanged and unchangeable, except by the methods which it prescribes. This lieing the ease, the Constitution of the United States being our imperative rule of ac tion, us it was the rule of our ancestors, we can look to no other infallible source for our guid ance, and have no other standard of loyalty than the Constitution. Measuring men and political organizations by this standard, it is not a matter of doubt which party is best en-, titled to the appellation of loyal—which that of disloyal. The men who signed and the men who endorse the Democratic address, adhere to principles which, wo have said, would have passed unchanged ten, yes five years ago.—The men who denounce the address as a disloyal document, have departed from old principles and arrogantly esteem all others disloyal who refuse to tread in their footsteps and follow fast in their progress towards despotism or anarchy. Now, among the unquestionable constitution al right of every State in this Union is that of ordering and regulating its own domestic concerns so far as tlicy are compatible with the power vested in the Federal Government. From the beginning the laws and institutions of the several States lmvc differed widely, but har moniously. Massachusetts has never felt ag grieved because Louisiana administers justice upon the principles of civil law; nor Ims Penn sylvania given a thought to the fact that Mas sachusetts punish the crime of arson with death or that. Michigan punishes murder with impris onment. Massachusetts and New York confer the elective franchise upon property-qualified negroes; Pennsylvania confines tlio elective fran chise to whites; Indiana prohibits negroes and mulatoes from crossing her borders, and Illi nois is iibont to incorporate the same principle in her Constitution. The laws of property, of husband, or wife, prescribing punishments for criminals, &c., arc as various as the several States. No two agree in every particular; and yet these local peculiarities have never caused contention and strife between tlic.se States, be cause I hey stir no deep seated p;vssion, or prej udice or principle in the human heart. Men care little for theso differences and recognize them as the necessary peculiarities of our in stitutions. But. the inslitution of slavery is different. It does excite hatred and prejudice, and for that very reason it becomes a tost of the willingness of the people to adhere, to the principles of the Constitution in the face of what they esteem a great wrong sanctioned and protected by the Constitution. The Abolitionists who would not think it within the power of Congress to n bolish the civil law in Louisiana, arc persuaded by the force of resentment that it is entirely competent for Congress to abolish slavery in Louisiana, and every other State in which it now exists. Now it is not because we have nny affection for slavery perse that we oppo9c such interference upon tho part of Congress, but because at this time that institution is try ing the depth and tho strength of the reverence of the slavery-haters for the principles of the Constitution. The most implacable resentment is aroused against one peculiar institution of the Southern States which cannot bo gratified i without violating tho Constitution. That in-j stitution, therefore, at this time stands as a test trying the strength of the principle that each State shall regulato hnd control its own domes tic concerns to its own liking; and if regard for the Constitution gains the victory over hu man resentment, our Government will have achieved a triumph against the most potent feeling arraigned for its destruction. But let unrestrained passion usurp the place of law, let the clear lottur of the Constitution lie vio lated, and let Congress undertake to re-model the institutions of the Southern States to con form with Northern sentiment, and the flood gates are open wide. The States arc iu> long er free to regulate their own affairs, and the same power that commands Louisiana to free the negro may command Pennsylvania to con fer upon him the right of suffrage. From the Army Beforo Corinth. PREPARATIONS OF THE TWO ARMIES. A letter in the Cincinnati Gcrcette, dated he fore Corinth, May 19, says, from the commo tion visible among the rebels, it was generally suspected that they were about to attack Ilal leck. now WE ARE "STARVING BEAEREGARD OUT." Nothing could be more absurd than the talk about starving them out at Corinth. With two railroads at command, they are not likely to starve so long as the Confederacy contains "hog and hominy," and we may as well get over the foolish idea that the supply of those Son thorn staples is just exhausted. People who talk of starving this rebel army seem to imagine that wc have cut it off from sources of supply. On the contrary, the Mobile and Ohio road, direct ly to the rear, is not only in good working order, but apparently beyond our reach. We might cut them ott* from Memphis by an advance of Ohio Sherman on the right; but till we entirely surround them—till wc get beyond the point of fearing immediate attack—and change the whole present policy of operations, they will have, by means of the road to Mobile, full ac cess to the gulf and seaboard States. When the whole Confederacy, therefore, is starved out, we will, under the present system, succeed in star ving them out of Corinth. The process might prove tedious. ABOUT CAPTURING THE ARMY. • The probability of capturing their whole ar my, or "bagging them," as the phrase is, seems equally remote while they have a railroad to run away on. As matters stand now, they might take oft twenty regiments per day, without our even discovering what they wero about. When we cut them off from Memphis, they still have their road to Mobile entirely safe so long as they protect their rear. Suppose we should fight a great buttle to-morrow, and should win a victo ry, unless we should get inside their works at, once and possess ourselves of the railroad, they could at once cominenco running off their troops, and by only taking the trains twenty or thirty inilea and then returning for fresh loads, they could in a day reach a point with the mass of their army, to which we could not come up for a wecK. NO NEED OF APPREHENSIONS. That Beauregard has been receiving exceed ingly heavy reinforcements is*very probable. The prisoners and deserters all say so, spies bring in the same story, and our eai-s tell us that the rail road is incessantly occupied—and in what more probably fhau in the transportation of fresh troops? Tills conscript law is understood to be in full force, and with power to impress every body into his ranks till he gets as many as he wants, there is little doubt that Beauregard will have a big army. But lieyond a certain limit these conscripts can be only indifferently armed, if armed at all. Un willing combatants—as indignant at those who have forced them into the ranks as against the enemy—and utterly undisciplined, it is doubtful whether it is not really the better for us the more, they have of them. If they attack us I ennnot see how wo can fail to repulse them. Somebody must blunder lieyond all precedent to produce such a catastro phe. If they do not attack us, judging from all appearances, there is little likelihood of a spee dy battle. All Gen. Uallcck's movements thus far point to slow advances, the construction of earthwork defences, and general siege operations, except in the one essential point of investing the place before, the siege begins. Besides, he seems to be waiting for operations elsewhere, before venturing upon anything decisive here. There is little occasion, therefore, for the feverish anx iety with which so many mothers nnd sisters watch the reports from Corinth. Weeks may yet elapse before their loved ones enter the dread combat, or the combat may turn out to be a very small affair after all. Good News from the Crescent City. New Orleans, under the vigorous administra tion of General Butler, is exhibiting some signs of ret urning good sense. News to the 18th, less than three weeks after the occupation, shows a gratifying advance in the affair of the Crescent city. Jacob Barker, 0110 ol' the most influen tial residents and largest capitalists of the city, is talking of "an appeal to the ballot-box." No thing can lie more wholesome than the state of mind impels a citizen of a ltebel eity to talk a boiit voting instead of trusting to the Secession soldiery "to win a satisfactory peace." There is also a "Union candidate for Recorder in one of the Districts, announced, nnd Victor Wilts is willing to run for Mayor, irrespective of par ty. This looks like progress, and let us hope that, the Union men of the far south, nfter thus declaring themselves, will not be abandoned like the unfortunates of the Valley of Vir ginia. General Butler is gradually coming down, with sharp but judicious severity, upon the Hc ecsh mob and malcontents generally. Womon who so far abuse the privileges of their sex as to wantonly insult officers and soldiers in the streets, are to be sent to the calaboose. This is the punishment inflicted upon all disorderly wo men in New Orleans, nnd is probably what is ment by the order which cxcitwl so much indig nation in the bre:ist of frothy Beauregard. The | Crescent and Pee newspapers lmvc been sup pressed for exciting the mob to burn cotton, and the Delta has been taken into the custody of the United States authorities for a similar but less aggravated oflence. Six dishonorable ras cals, who were engaged in recruting a Kobel company, in violation of the parole extended to them at Fort Jackson, were sentenced to bo shot; Confederate notes were to be refused cir culation after ttie 27th j and Jeff l)avia' semi weekly fast days were abolished. lland in hand with those stringent measures the blessings of peace and security were being extended. A post master had been appointed ; Adams' Express had opened an office; cotton was arriving from Plnqucmino; provisions were coming in from the interior; ships were arriving from Philadelphia and New York; order was fully restored; and thus, under the shelter of the flag of the most benign Government on earth, the long afflicted people of Now Orleans were being restored to the safety, prosperity and peace which have been for more than a year to tally exiled from their soil. Philadelphia Inquirer Confiscation. The House of Representatives on Monday last passed by a vote of yeas 82, nays 08, a bill providing for the confiscation of the real and personal property of all persons hereafter enga ged in the civil or military service of the so-call ed Confederate States, proceedings against such property to be instituted in the name of the U nited Stateij in any District Court. The bill provides solely for proceedings against property, and does not seem to contemplate the conviction of the person owning the property of treason, as a necessary preliminary to the forfeiture of his estate. All the Democrats and Union men, in cluding nine Republicans, voted against the meas ure. It was carried in a House overwhelming ly Republican by a majority of only fourteen votes, and must take its place alongside of oth er measures of this Congress calculated, if not directly intended, to aggravate the hostility of the Southern States. On the same day tho House defeated (yeas 7-1 nays 78) the bill declaring the slaves of all persons in rebellion "free and forever discharged from sneh servitude, anything in the laws of tho United States or of any State to the con trary notwithstanding." This sweeping scheme of emancipation was a little too strong a dose to swallow. Some of tho Republican 111 embers be came frightened at tho prospect of a negro in vasion of the Northern States. But the large vote in tho affirmative admonished us that there is no security so long as this Congress remain in session.— Patiiot is flight. This morning he destroyed an immense amount of public and pri vate property —' tores, provisions, wagons, tents etc., and for miles out of town the roads nr filled with arms, haversacks, thrown awuy by his flying troops. A large number of prisoners have been cap*- lured, estimated by General Pope at 2,000. General Beauregard evidently distrusts In- 1 army, or lie would have defended so strong a • position. His troops are generally much dis couraged and demoralized. In nil tlieir engage ment's for tho last few days their resistance lias been weak. 11. W. HALLUCU, Maj. Gen. Commanding. DEATH OF SENATOR M 1 UTON. Hnntinydon, Pa-, June l l. The Hon. S. S. Wharton. Senator of this District, died suddenly at his residence thi? morning.