TSB BEDFORD GAZETTE || PCM.I4BED EVERY FRIDAY W'IRNINa BY 81. F. tihtkrs, it tb* following terms, to win $1.50 pgr annum, CASH, in advance. gj.OO " " if P a '<f within the year. £2.50 " " if "of peiti within the year. subscription taken tor less than six months. fX7~So paper discontinued until all arrearage* are paid, unless at the option of the publisher, st bl j been decided by the United Stutps Courts that the stoppage of a newspaper without tlie payment 0 1 arrearages, is prima faeit evidence ot fraud and as a criminal offence. courts huve decided that persons are ac eauntable for the subscription price of newspa pers, if thej take them from thepost office, wheth er they subscribe for them, or not. Select poetry. A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. What was lie doing, the groat god Pan, Down in tho reeds bv the river f Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragon-fly oa the river. lie tore out a reod, the great god Pan, From the deep cool bed of the river; The limpid water turbidly run, And the broken lilies a dying lay, And the drngon-fiy had fled away, Ere ho brought it out of tho river. High on the shore sat the great god Pan, While turbidly flowed the river; And hacked and hewed as a great god can, With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed, Till there was not a sign of a leaf indeed, To prove it fresh from the river. He cut it short, did the great god Pan, (How tall it stood in the river!) Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man, • Steadily from the outside ring, And notched the poor dry empty thing In holes, as he sat by the river. "This is the way," laughed the great god Pan, (Laughed while he sat by the river,) "The only way, since gods began To make sweet music, they could succeed." Then, dropping his mouth to a hole in the reed, lie blew in power by the river. Sweet, tweet, sweet, O, Pan! Piercing sweet by the river! Blinding sweet, O great god Pan! The fuu on the hill forgot to die, And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly Came back to dream on the river. Yet half a beast is the great god Pan, To laugh as he sits by the river, Making a poet oat of a man; The true gods sigh for tho cost and pain— For the reed which grows nevermore again As a reed with the reeds in the river. Arns- liuots.Miw V""— ——■ ——— - . &1) t drl) oo Imas tc r 21 bro aD. EDITED BY SIMON SYNTAX, ESQ. Cy-Teie'i" B a,llJ friend* of education lire fully requested to &pn i communications to the above cue of "Bedford Gazt tte." THE WAR AND THE SCHOOLS. The effects of the present war are especially disastrous to our public schools. During the past few years of educational reform the great want of our system lias been, in a measure, supplied—to wit: a more experienced and skill ful corps of teachers. It is true, much remain ed to be done in this respect; but the ranks of the profession were gradually filling up with a llcr and better tcachors, and the future was he ginning to look brighter. The war litis chang ed all this. Our ranks are thinned out by en listments. Thousands of our best teachers arc how in the army, and more are going daily. The draft will, of course, take quite a number. Teachers, always scarce, will he much scarcer thi3 fall—how much scarcer will be shown when the schools open. If the schools are to he open as usual, they must, to a great extent, he taught by beginners. Experienced teachers, in sufficient numbers, are not in the county, nor in the State. Many who have hitherto been pupils must become touchers. An opening is now afforded for young teachers, such as has not been known before and will not soon lie again. Those who intend to avail them selves of this favorable opportunity should at once begin to prepare for (lie examinations and lor their duties in the schoolroom. Much may be done before the schools open. Fellow Teach ers, be up and living. "Mental" seems to be at a discount these war tlrnoe. We haru't solved all the hard questions. Don't let our new supply of "piece fractious" •fst io idleness. CS*A seven TEAtt ocu Bor lately made use °f profane language. On being reproved by his parents, and directed to neb Grid's forgive ness, ho retired to his room, and was heard to •ay, "0 God, I am very sorry I t-mdihat naugh ty word, and won't say so any more; but please hurry and make me grow up to bit a man, and then I can swear as much as I want to, like pa, °nd nobody will notice what I say." MORALITY VS PLUMS.—A Western paper HAS 'ho following atrocious advertisement: —"To n^ —A house in Melville avenue, located im ®ediate)y alongside of a fine plum orchard, from which an abundant supply of tho most delicious fruit may ltc stolen during tho season. , nt low and the greater part of it taken in Plums." speaking of his stay cut a hotel, observed: "I called for a bottle of wine that my /milord might live. 1 abstained from drinking m®* I might live, too." IOLUJIE 58. \ T EW SERIES. Letter from Major Jack Downing. To the Editors of the Cawcashin: Wul, here I am back agin to Washing ton. I didn't expect to cum on before fall, at any rate, but 1 got a letter from Lineon, tcllen me he couldn't do without me, no how. He sed that the bars were all down since, an that the cattle, an horses, an hogs, an sheep, an mules, were all muddled together in one lot. I see, at once, pickle Liu con WU3 in, an so I dctannined to push off for Washington once more, an see cf 1 couldn't help him out. It \va3 oncominon hot wether, an it pulled down purty hard on a constitushin which has had to go thru a bout eighty sich summers. Howsoever, no one ought to stand about hot wether in the sarvice of his country, even cf he don't git a salary, or have a confruck, or some bro ther or son where lie kin make a pile. I never had a cent for all I've done an wouldn't, take it. I think, of there is eny human critter on artli who is meaner than another, it is one who plunders the people, all the while purjpnding to be a patriot. Wen I arriv, scs I, "Kernel, what's the matter?" Ses he, "Major, did you ever hear of the story of a man who caught the panther by the tail?" Ses I, "yes, Kernel, I have."— "Will," says he, "I'm that man. I've got the biggest he panther by the tail that you ever heerd tell of. Ef I was splittin rails I'd know jist what to do." "Why," ses I, "Kernel, what could you do then ?" "Wnl," ses he, "jist put his tail in the crack of the log, knock out the wedge an run. But you see, Major, I ain't splittin rails now, an, therefore, that plan won't work." "No," se3 I, "Kernel, you ain't splittin rails, but I'm nfeerd you're splittin somethin else."- Ses he, "what?" Scs I, "THE UNION!" "Now Majer," ses the Kernel, "you don't think I want to split the Union, do you?" "No," ses I, "I don't know as you're raley tryin to split it, but then you've been sich a splitter all your life, that perhaps you're doin it onbeknowin to yourself. You see, Kernel,as longa.s you stick to (hemAboliiioii ists, jist so long the Union will not only stay split, but the split will grow wider. They are the wedge and you are the mallet. You jist knock the wedge out, an the Union will cum together, jist like shut tin up a jack nife. K-hl t'vt w°r cf the Status have got an mstitushtn winch they consid er rong, an they're dotanuiiied to uproot it. In tryin to do that, they'll split everything all to smash, an by the time they git thru, it will look as ef lightnin had struck this country from Maine to Texas, in spots not more than six inches apart." "Will," scs the Kernel, se3 lie, "M-ijer, that brings up a great moral qucslshin, as the nigger seel when he was stealin chickens, an we hain't got time to discuss it now.— You see, Major, I seut for you to know what I had beiter do about McOlellan. I "•it all sorts of contradictory stories from his armv, an I'm puzzled most to detli to know what to do." "Wal," scs I, "Kernel, there is nothin like goin in the field yourself, an examine for yourself ct you want to know ]LOW things stand." "Wal," scs lie, "that's jiit. what I've ben thinkin of, an as you arc a inilingfary man, 1 waufed you to go with me." 1 tolled htm "1 had no objecshin to goin, an that of 1 had a fair chance 1 tho't 1 could tell about how things looked. So, we got reddy, and the Kernel asked old Blair's son Frank and Sccetary Stantiu's chief dark, to go along with us. We went down the Potomac, and jist called at Fort MonroAV, an then went up tly: Jecms Itiver to 1 lan isin Landin. Goin up the river we kept a sharp look out for the rcbiis who line the banks an shoot at our holes. 1 told tnc Kernel that he must he inily keerful an not git hit, as the way stocks would tumble in Wall street would be a caushin. So I tuk him down stairs when we cum to the dan gerous place. There iheyhad the bote lined with bales of hay. Ses lie, "Major, which wav does the shootin cum from?" "Wal," ses I, "Kernel, there's no tellin, hut,' ses I, "you'd better git behind that hale, for it sa big one, an hcAi's another on t'other side, so 1 guess you'll be safe." While lie was scttin there,'ses he, "Major, I ain't afocrd a hooter, hut you see I didn't want them scceshcrs to Lrag aboul killin me." "No,' ses I, "Kernel, that wouldn't do cny how." .list then 'hang' went sunithin like a shot. The Kernel jumped about ten teoi rhe across the bote, an hit Frank Blair Willi his left boot rite where lie.ought not to. l'rauk thought he'd bin struck with a cannon ball, an tumbled over, lcavin I lie scat ot honor uppermost. Stantin's chief dark aeicu as cf hc'tl bin eat in pokcbcrries, an had an awful gripin in the bowels. It seems one ot the bales of hay had bin lipped over when the Kernel give his big jump, and hit the chap rite in his bread basket. We were all purty badly scart, for I tell you it makes a teller niity narvus when he's in an inemics country, an may be hit eny moment with a cannon hall or a Minny bullet. Shootin will do very well as long as somebody chc is shot at, but when it cuius to yourself, it makes you feel weak in the jints, an sutn times it brings on the dye-area. When we cum to find out, however, Ave larncd Ave had * Freedom of Thought apd Opinion. \ BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1862. a scare for nothin. The pilot, in tumin one j of the short bends in the river, had jerked ' on his chains too hard, an snapped one of them lite in two. This noise is what sound-; cd down in the cabin like a shot. When we got to the landin, (Jincral Me- j Clellan had bosses ready for all of us to ride. : Linkin choose a black one an got on. Hes I, 'Kernel, is black your favorite color?' Ses he, 'Majer, no joking now. This is a serious matter.' So I got on a white one. I can't ride quite so handy as I did thirty or forty years ago, yet it's not every nag that could throw me now. Linkin's stirrups were too short for his logs, tho' they were let out jist as long as iliey could be. It kinked him up a good deal, an before we got thru revicwin the troops, ses he, Majer, I can't stand this here my jints. I am goin to remedy it; an so he jist turned one leg over the boss's neck an rid sideways the rest of the time. The sogers cheered him as we went along, an seemed mity glad to see him. In one place, lie got up on a breastwork an made a short speech to 'em. lie wound up by tellin 'em that he had Ma jor Jack Downing, G literal Jackson s old friend, with him. When he sed that, the cheers were dubblcd, an I paid my respects to the compliment by lak.it oil my hat an makin jist about the ncctest bow that ever j was. After we had seen all the troops an made all the inquiries wo wanted to, we cum a way. The seeeshers didn't t rubble us cum in down the river, an we were soon once more sailin up the Potomac. Coniin up the river the day was warm, au we all fell iust rate that McClcllan was as well otf as he was; lite Kernel said he felt like as it he would like to have a swiin. All hands a grccd it would be a capital chance, an so Linkin, an Blair, an Stantin's chief dark, undressed lor a splurge in the water. The Kernel axed me to go in tu, but 1 felled him that as hot as it was, my rumatiz wouldn't allow it. When ihcy got about reddy, ses I, Kernel, look out an don't go where the water's tu deep, for ct you git tired out or have the cramp, you may not git to the bote agin. He sed there warn t any danger—that he had swum in the Maa sasippy river nigh about all over when ho PotSft ~ they went. Lin con' could out swim the hull party, an Blair an the other feller with hini seemed like suip fish alongside a sturgeon. 1 tho t probably Lincon might overdo himself, or git the cramp or sumtlr.n, so I jis' went to my va-1 lese v an tuk out my patent gutty peteliy life presarvcr. I ment to have it reddy it cny tiiing happened. Wal, 1 hadn't morc'n got to the .side of the bole, when I seed the Kernel floundcrin an splashin, au blowin as ef ho was stranglin. Blair an t'other feller were tryin to help him, but it was the blind leadifl the blind, an secli another muss in the water vou never did see. 1 saw that it was time for my lifc-prcsarver. So I jest bio wed it up an hollered to Lincon to catch hold of it, an (old Blair an t'oilier feller to let him alone, that that would save him. When Lincon got hold ot it he jest raised himself rite up, an seemed as happy as a boy with a noo hat. He floated rite along towards the bote, an soon cum aboard. Ses he, Major. I owe you-a debt of ctarual grat itude. You've saved my life. Ses ho, Ma jer, this life-presarver of yourtfis the great est article ever invented. When I git dress ed I want to examine it. So, party soon, he cum in, an ses lie, let's have a peep at it. So I showed it to him. The first thing he saw on one side of it was the following words:— The Constitution as it is and the Union as it was. Ses he, Major, what have you got that motto on a life-presarvcr for? Wal, 50.3 I, Kernel, I put that there because of the similarity between the two things. Now, that presarvcr saved your life, didn't it?— Yes, ses lie, Major, it did. Wal, the sentiment in those words is the lije-presaroer of the country. You can't eny more save the country without stickin to them than you could have saved your life without holdinon to the life-presarver. You must stick to the Constitushin as it is and r.oi as Sumner an Greeley wane it. The Kernel begun to look wild when he see how , 1 Lad him, an so see in my advantage, I went 1 on. Ses 1, Kernel, the trutli is, you are iist now in a awiinniin with Greeley, an Sumner, an Wilson, an Lovejoy, an Tliad. Stevens, an it's no wonder iho country is like you wasjist now, stranglin, an gaspin, an jist reddy to sink. You must git out of sccii company, an the only way to do it is to lay hold of the Const itushin as it is, an ef you do that, you'll save the country jist as easy as I saved you with that life-presar ver. Ses he, Major, hold up, you're drivin your boss rite into my stable, an you don't give mc a chance to say whoa. Ses I, Ker nel, go ahead, an of you can refute what I have sed, I would like to see you. Ses lie, Majer, do you know why a man's face is like the cend of an old fashioned house? Ses I, no Kernel, can't say I do. Wal, ses he, because it's his gabble eend. Wal, ses 1, that may he a good joke, but after all. Kernel, it don't answer my arguments. But I couldn't git another word on politics out of the Kernel that day. He seemed to keep up more of a thinkin than I'd ever seen him before. We all got home to the White house safe that nite, an, on the hull, the trip had not only bin pleasant, but prof itable, for it will lead to some great change in a few days. Yours, till deth, MAJER JACK DOWNING. EXTRACTS"FROM THE CONSTITU TION. Which, are especially Applicable to the Times. TdSason against the United States shall con sist onl) is levy ing war against them, or in adhe ring to their enemies, giving them aid and com fort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the sum: overt acl, or on coniession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, hut no attainder of trea son shall work corruption of blood, or forfei ture except during the life of the jierson attainted. No person held to service or labor in one State, unber the laws thereof escaping into a nother, shall in consequence of any law or reg ulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall U? delivered up on claim of: the party to whom such service or labor may bo due. New States may be ndmitted by the Con gress into this Union : but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, without the consent of the Legislature of the States concerned as welt as of the Congress. I This Constitution , and the laws of the Uni | ted States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and ail tho treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the Uni ted States, shall be the supreme law of the land. The Senators and Representatives before men tioned, and members of the several State Leg islatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United Slates and of tho several States, shall bo bound by outli or affirmation to support this Constitution. Congress shall make no law respecting an es tablishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the jiecdom of speech, or of the nress ; or the right of the people paceobly to assemb'e, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. the right of the people to be secure in their houses, papers, and effects, against 'jle^iid' it<tt, end .to warren' skill iisuefhf up on p o'jable Cause, supported by oath or affir mation, and pnrl-cfforty describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Nu person shall ba hold to answer for a cap ital, or otherwise infamous, crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the lan lor naval for ces, or in the Militia, when in ar.tV il service in time of war or public danger : nor shall any | person subject for the same otfenoe to be twice I put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case, to be a witness J against himself, nor be dep'ived of life., liberty lor propeify, without due process of laic, nor | shall private property be taken for public use, ! without just compensation. In ali criminal prosecutions, the accused shall I enjoy the iight lo a speedy und public tiinl, •by on impartial jmy of the Slate und district I wlter/in the crime shall linue been Cummi/led, which district shall have been previously ascer j hnncd bif liw, and lo be informed ot the. n dure ■and cause of the accusation; to be confronted \ with the witnesses against him; to 4"t'•cornpul i sory process /or obtaining witnesses in Ins fa vor, and to have the assistance of Counsel for his defence. The enumeration in the Constitution, of cer tain lights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage otilers retained by the people. The powers not delegated to the Cnited States hy the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the i States are reserved to the States respectively or i to the [icople. [From the Ilavvisbnrg Patriot <} Union.] "UP GUARDS! AND AT THEM." l'uslion the Democratic column —everywhere push it on! The Abolitionists and their Lhack Republican allies, the guerillas and bushwack crs, are rallying their forces for a fierce contest, more than ordinarily so—for besides their usual war cries, the welkin rings with fierce threats of something beyond moral force to subjugate the untpiuiling Democracy. Like bloodhounds, with the scent of blood in ther nostrils, they hang with fierce baying on our track, invoking Government prisoners and fraudulent drafting to their aid, and inciting their fanatical masses, by brutal appeals, to mob violence. They do not stop even at this*, but go to the extreme length of advising uiilitafy organizations, to keep us down by the bullet and the bayonet. Affecting to doubt the loyally of the Democra cy, they do not hesitate to appeal to the most arbitrary measures to dismay them and crip ple their elforts. They deny to us the peaceable exercise of rights guaranteed by the Constitu tion ; they have suspended the habeas corpus in loyal States where the administration of tho civil law has not beeen interrupted; and not suti.-Ii *d with this near approach to despotism, they reccotnmended to their partisans to take tho law into their own hands, and by the inflic tion of summary punishment, by the rope, tho faggot and the knife, to dispose of those who refuse to acknowledge the Bonn hiess of their political principles or thp morality of their ac tions. They have organized secret societies, bound by the most infamous oaths, with pass words and signs, to enable tlic.ni to carry out their designs, which contemplate not only the overthrow of the Democratic party but the sub version of tho Constitution and the Union, WHOLE NUMBER, 3030 which they propose to reconstruct upon ucw bases by violent and revolutionary means. Such, follow Democrats, is the army of po litical Thugs and mercenary Hessians against whom we have to contend. To shrink from the contest now, when the best interests of our country are at slake, —when firmness and fidel ity to the Constitution are demanded of us— would be sheer poltroonery, disgraceful to the party. We must meet them—upon whatever ground they choose, with w hatcver arms they select, the ballot, bludgeon, or the knife—we must meet them. The suggestion of force, of tuieult, of riot, of Moodrited, is theirs, notour*. We propose the ballot alone wherewith to con quer them—but we shrink from no other ordeal; the choice of weapons we leave to them-vrith the determination to defeat them, no matter what the arms they use. Down with the Thugs! Down with Meroenariees! Down with the Hes sions! Up, Guards ! and at them 1" [From the Xcwurk (X. J. )Journal.~\ "The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church." As the Christian Church became powerful through the groans and blood of her persecuted disciples and blessed martys, who esteemed it a privilege to suffer and die in defence of their faith, so the Democracy in this bloody age, may regard the political persecutions which they are called upon to suffer in defence of constitution al principles and free government as the surest evidence of the justice of their cause. A right eous cansewas never advanced by fraud, persecu ti >u or injustice—a fact too well established by the history of the world to be denied in this day of universal knowledge. Our rulers seem to imagine that their case will form an excep tion to all others, their mission being so just and sacred in its character that no tyranny, il legal restraint or exceptional practices, can re tard their objects or render themselves liable to the penalty of violating the natural and moral laws. To preserve and restore our Constitu tional G-oVerninnt is truly a glorious and patri otic mission ; hot our rulers might its well at tempt to elevate the on rang out-ing to the level of the human race by a proclamation as to u nite the people by foiico of arms or preserve the Constitution bv contjnual violation of its fun damental principles. , Those who preserve the spirit of tho Union ua>l the Constitution in their hearts during this critical! period of the nation's history, and are willing to suffer abuse, obloquy, persecution, and even imprisonment rather than disown their may well remember that truth and justice are eternal. Their tri- sighted or weim-hearted who will Iww TlTore the storm of fanaticism, and falsely accuse thpir own hearts, deny the laws of nature and curse the Goo who has implanted in them the spirit of manhood. What ka3 been Proven. The evouts of the p;ist year prove with oth er facts, the following: That the election of the Republican candi dates, in November, 18(10, was the direst ca lamity which could have befallen the nation. That the Democracy was right in their pre dictions that the triumph of sectionalism would create civil war. That the Republican party is the natural en emy of a free press and free speech. That the Republican Congress Ls incapable of legislating for the interest of the people: That a Republican Cabinet is the most cor rupt of any which has ever assembled in Wash ington. That the Constitution may be suspended by a Republican ITesidont; with the approval of his party constituents. That the greater the thief, the greater his re ward at the hands of u Republican President. That the army could not have been success fully led except by Democratic Generals. That the Republicans desire the subjugation of the Slave holding States, and not the resto ration of the Union. That the party in power would substitute ne gro labor for white labor, wherever the oppor tunity is favorable for so doing. That the public Treasury is not safe in the hands of the present administration. , That New England manufacturers rule the pahty in power. That so long as the Republican party contin ue in power, the people must be enormously taxed, and the laboring population must, bear the bulk of the burden. Nogro Equality. A few toys sime ft couple of young men were working in the harvest field for a llepub licnn living about two or three miles west of town, and, when (allied in to dinner, were put to the table to eat with a negro, when the young gentlemen politely informed the said Republican that they would wait until the sable individual was done, whereupon they were informed that if they "did not like to eat with a negro they could go home—that the negro was juntas good as they were." The young men started to leave, but the negro-eqimlity-individual, fearing his crops might sufl'er, laid thom return, when the negro was compelled to wait until they had fin ished their meal. That was the last day those young men worked for that man. [Democratic Herald, (Franklin, Ind.) THE -MILITARY Si'iitiT. —As a little four-year old hoy was being put to bed, his mother said to him: "Kiss mamma good-night, Johnny." He at first refused, and then inquired : "Do Lieutenants kiss their mammas?" "Why do you ask that, my dear?" inquired the astonished maternal parent. "Cause I'm Lieutenant of our company, and Joe Walsh is cup-tain !" Doing assured that it was not beneath his official duty to "kiss inamma good-night," lie thus saluted her and was put to bed. Rates of fttoertising > One Square, three ween or tear .tl M One Square, eaeh additional inaertion leaa than three moothe tf 3 MONTHS. 0 MONTHS. J tilt One square • 92 00 S3 00 S3 0® Two squares ....... 300 300 900 Three squares ...... 400 7 .00 12 00 i Column jOO 900 13 OS 1 Column ........ SOO 19 00 SO 00 I Column 19 00 18 00 30 00 One Column 18 00 30 00 30 00 The spice occupied by ten lines of this aiie of type counts one square. All fractions of a aquara r ' under five lines will be measured as a half square ; and all over five lines as a full aquSTe. All legal advertisements will be charged to the person band* ng them in. VOL. 6. NO. 5. A PROMISE FULFILLED. On the 23d day of February, 1861, tha New York Tribune published the following edi torially : "Whenever it shall be clear that the great body of the Southern people have become con clusively alienated from the Union, and anxious to escape from it, we shall do our best to for ward their views." hor months past the Tribune lias been doing its "best to forward the views" of the rebels. Iho reliels have no brigade in their service so valuable to them as the New York Tribune and its Abolition echoes. -t-Utica, New York, Ober ver. Eesponsibility for the War, The Dayton (Ohio) Empire charges the Re publicans with bringing on the war by refusing to support the Crittenden Compromise. It- speaks of the war and inquires:—Who is responsible for this terrible calamity? What men and what party are stained with the blood of a murdered country V It answers: The RKPI'BLICAN PARTT, its leaders and its representatives, AIIE RESPONSIBLE. They DE FEATED the Crittenden Compromise, The blood is upon their bands; the 'damned spot' will not out. Like the marks upbn Cain, it remains to show honest men now, and the unborn mill ions of the future the destroyers and murderers of their country." Tyrants are Cowards, Invariably the tyrant is a coward. He must have guards around his person, and spies every where. In this respect parties do not differ from individuals. Wlienever we find a political organization aiming at the accomplishment of unholy designs—the spread of pernicious priu | ciples, infidelity or treason to the constituted I Government, for instance—we discover in all their actions the most unmistakable evidences of cowardice. Such is the present condition oftha Abolition and Republican parties. Engaged in the most devilish plots for the suppression of civil liberty, planning a new form of Govern ment to correspond in principles with their im practical, funatiral views, by which the rights of the white man are to be curtailed and the rights of the negro enlarged, their cowardly hearts shrink from an avowal of their true object, and they endeavor to shield themselves from public indignation by loud protestations of patriotism and charges of disloyalty against their political opponents. They are scared at the enormity of the crime they contemplate, and their patrols ere 1 a ghost in every wmwtone. Thev have become the most arrant cowards, terrified with the fool ish conceit that the Democrats are countermi ning against them, and will, oneday, blow th.un' to a place where they are not yet quite prepa red to go. Poor devils! Crime carries with it its own punishment.— Patriot and Union, Robbiug a Bride of her Bed, The St. JJOIIH Democrat lias the followingi At Layer's boarding house, in this city ; an un usual merry wedding came off", on Thursday night, nnd tlie dance was prolonged till one o'- clock in the morning. The bride and groom then repaired to their apartment, but— honbile vis in —bed and bedding had been sacrilegiously stolen from the nuptial chamber! Some vin dictive wretch had gained felonious ingress at the rear, and effected a robbery unparalleled in the history of matrimony. It is conjectured that so fell vengeance could only have beeu de vised nnd executed by some lover of the bride.. Lives there a man with soul so dead l Who never to himself hath said, The scamp who stole that bridal bed Deserves to live and die unwed, With maidens old to punch his head. DANCING TIIF.IR RAGS OFF. —Two unsophisti cated country lasses visited Niblo's imNew York during the ballet season. When the shorti-kir-- tod, gossamer-clad nymphs made their appear ance on the stage, they became restless and fid gctty. "Oh, Annie!" exclaimed one sotto voce. "Well, Marv?" "It ain't nice— I don't like it." "Ilush." "I don't enre, it ain't nice, and J won der Aunt brought us to such a place." "Hush, Mary, the folks will laugh at you " After*one or two flings and a pirouette, the blushing Miss said : "Oh, Annie, let's go—it ain't nice, and I don't feel comfortable." "Dohush, Mary," re plied the sister, whose own face was scarlet, though it wore an air of determination, "it's the first time I ever was at a theatre, and I sup pose it will lie the last, so lam just <j< •n.g to st-tg il out, if they dance every rag of thai buki!" Surgeon —What's the matter with you 1 Would be-I'jx&npt —Weak hack, sir—very weak baok. S. —Weak knees, you mean, IF.—Yes, sir, weak knees—very weak kiieee, can't march. ft. —yes, I'll give you a certificate—(writes:) "Upon honor I hereby certify that the bearer, who shrinks from defending his country. Hope he will be put in the front ranks where ho can't ruu away. IF.—(Handing the surgeon a quarter,) thank yon, sir. I knew I was entitled to a certificate. This rebellion, so wicked and monstrous, must bo put down. It has done my heart good to see the energy of the President in ordoring a draft. 4 . [He reads the certificate and faints.] — Hart ford 2Vmw. ___________ You may givo the people a mercenary Senate $ you may give them a venal House of Assem- I bly; you tuny give them a truckling Congress : and a tyrannical prince—but give me au unfet j tercd Press, and 1 will defy you to encrouoh a hair's breadth upon their liberties—
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