THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS rUBLtSHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY D. F. MEYERS, At the following terms, to wit: $1 .AO per Buniim, CASH, in advance. $2 00 < •• if paid within the year. S2.AO " " if not paid within the year. K?~No subscription taken lor less than six months. fryNn paper disiontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. It has been decided by the United States Courts that the stoppige of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima /sera evidence of fraud and as a criminal offence. courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, If they take them fiom the post office, whether they subscribe for them, or not. Select soet rn. DE COUNTERBAN'. Go 'way, you common black man I I'se cutting quite a figgcr. Dont you see I'se a counterban'? Go 'way you common nigger! Oh ! who wouldn't be a counterban', And fill de lofty station ; Be de envy ob de white folks, De pillar ob de nation. Go 'way, you vulgar white man; I keens no common 'ciety. I'se so bci'y delusive— Go 'way, you cbery day variety. Oil! who wouldn't lie a counterban', And fill de lofty station ; Be de envy ob be white folks, " De gemmftn ob de nation. I hab do freedom ob de cities ; I'se de guest ob all de nation; 'Cause I'se so mighty popular VV id dem, dey call de bobalition. Oh ! who wouldn't be a counterban', And fill do lofty station ; Be de envy ob de white folks, De pole-star ob de nation. I dine wid all do hifalutin'; I partake ob de collation, Wid all de foreign functionaries, And am bully ob de creation. Oh ! who wouldn't be a counterban', And fill de lofty station ; Be de envy ob de white folks, De pet lamb ob de nation. t attend at all de levees, What* de common folks are slighted; Win ir counterbans', and Senators, Dey only am invited. Oh! who wouldn't be a counterban', And fill de lofty station; Be de envy ob de white folks, De mainstay ob de nation. I'se do cynoshure ob all dar eyes,— De Congress, and de Presidential; Golly! I feel as dough I'd bust, I'se so full ob de consequential. Oh! who wouldn't be a counterban', And till de lofty station ; Be de em y ob de white folks, De loadstone ob de nation. Dey's gwine to send me to do Kussias To represent the peoples ; I'll tell 'em all about do ho cake, Do blue-tail fly, de tr'owsers and de steeples. Oh! who wouldn't be a counterban', And fill de lofty station : Be de envy ob de white folks, And represent de nation. Dey's gwine to send mo up to Congress, To bring ole inassa in do traces; Dey want's to clewate white man, By do 'malgamation ob de races. Oh! who wouldn't be a counterban", And fill do lofty station ; Bo de envy ob do white folks, And de leber ob de nation. Secretary Seward and the Emancipation Question. The Siiml'ti/ Morning Chronicle, and its twin brother the Philadelphia Press, asserted that Mr. Secretary Seward wus the earliest and most persisting advocate of the universal emancipa tion of the slaves of the United States, as one of the features in the prosecution of the war for the Union. Either Colonel Forney is greatly mistaken or the letter of the latter to Mr Day ton, dated April 20, 18ti2, and contained in uu executive document, No. 3, accompanying the annual message of the President. Mr. Sew arl says, in urging that the existing revolution is without a cause, or even pretext: — The condition of slavery in the several States will remain just the same, whether it succeed Or fall. There is not even a pretext for the complaint that the disaffected States are to he Conquered by the United States if the revolu tion fail for the rights'of the States, and the Condition of every human being in them, will remain subject to exactly the same laws and forms of administration, whether the revolution shall succeed or whether it shall fail. In the one cage the States would be federally connect ed with the new confederacy; in the other, they would, as now, he members of the United Stutcs. But their constitutions and laws, customs, hab its and institutions,in either case, will remain the same. It is hardly necessary to add to (this incontcstible statement the further fact, that the new President, as well as the citizens through whose suffrages he has come into the. adminis tration, has always repudiated all designs what ever and wherever imputed to hira and them, rtf disturbing the system of slavery as it is ex isting under the constitution and laws. The •case, however, would not be fully presented i( I were to omit to say that any such effort on his part would he unconstitutional, and all his actions in that direction would be prevented by ithe judicial authority, even though they were assented to by Congress and the people. This record is official, and although the Pres ident has seen proper to assume a different po sition from that assigned to him by his Secreta ry of State, thene lias been as yet no evidence that the Secretary of State has changed his views upon the subject. At any rate, it is hardly possible that'he should have put forth a State-paper of .this character while, he was rec ognized as the earliest and most active advocate of tlie doctrine which, in this extract, lie so clearly and unequivocally repudiates. The call for postage stamps at the New York post office, amounts to about SIO,OOO a day. Brfcfu rft VOLUME 58. NEW SERIES. The Mineral Resources of Pennsylvania. From the time of the first settlement of our State by the European races its popu lation has exhibited an unusual development of physical vigor and energy. The Swedes, who first began the work of colonization, were a hardy and robust people; next came the English Quakers, whose leading char acteristics were industry, rigid morality and a love of useful labor; and soon after fol lowed tiie Germans, nn honest, persevering, and athletic race, who for a long period had almost exclusive possession of larger por tions of our commonwealth. We have always been regarded as a sol- 1 id, substantial people; and the* physical character of the State has proved to bo in remarkable unison with the nature of those who have chosen it for their dwelling place. Its leading attraction at first was the rich soil which so bountifully remunerated the husbandman for his toil; but at a more re cent period it has been discovered that un told riches lie buried in the bowels of the earth, and almost every year is bringing to light new sources of wealth, not dreamed of by our early ancestors. Coal and iron in inexhaustible quantities reward the indus try of those who engage in those depart ments of labor in which these articles are mainly used. The anthracite in eastern Pennsylvania, is peculiar to the region in which it is found, and the bituminous coal of the western part of the State is unsur passed by the carbonaceous product of any part of the world. Iron ore and limestone pervade vast portions of the State; and three such products as iron, coal, and lime, would, of themselves, be sufficient, under favorable circumstances, to afford employ ment, wealth and prosperity to a vast-pop ulation of industrious people; but within a jfew years it has been found that in certain | localities the earth contains immense quan j fitics of oil, which is furnished so cheaply | I that it has come into extensive use in our ■ j own country, and is already an important, | article of commerce. In addition to all this, ; we find by an announcement, that, in bo- ; ring for oil, it has been discovered that sub terranean streams of water exist, so strong ly impregnated with salt a3 to crystalizc upon reaching the air, and thai the salt is of superior quality. What more may be produced hereafter it is not easy to tell, but; if there should be no more of the great sub- 1 stanlials which constitute the material ele- I ments upon which the comfort and happi- j ness of a civilized people are based, we have great reason to rejoice and be thankful fori the blessings which a bountiful Providence has bestowed upon us. There is probably no part of the earth's j surface, of equal extent, within which a : people may live with so little to depend up- j ion from other countries. What other na- j j tion possesses at once an agricultural soil of j unsurpassed richness and variety, a climate | the most agreeable and salubrious and which | produces the most desirable articles of food, | and materials for clothing, shelter, &c., and ! inexhaustible quantifies of coal, iron, lime, oil and salt? Surely if any State in this Unioil might presume to call itself an em pire, it is our substantial old Keystone. It is probable that we may never find mines of gold, silver or diamonds in Pennsylvania, but we have minerals ot tar more real worth, and as yet our ground lias b"cn but slight ly explored. In addition to the articles ot which we have spoken, we know that there j exists, to some extent, lead, zinc and nickel, ; and future explorations may develop many | things of which wc little dream at this time. | A few years ago while traveling over the i Bloomingsdale and Lackawanna railroad, as j we were passing through (lie valley of Wy- j oming, and looking over its magnificent sec- \ ncry, a friend remarked that he did not won der that the red men of the forest fought desperately for such a home. Pennsylvania has many Scenes which might elicit a similar remark; and if any- j thing like the same feeling of patriotism j which inspired the savage warriors, while struggling for their native grounds, now glows in the bosoms of the more enlighten ed people who possess this favored land they will not continue to live in "lazy ease" while rebellious invaders arc approaching our bor ders. If ever a people had a country worth fighting for, or dying in defense of, surely Pennsylvania should feel that they have such a laud, and knowing its worth, they should adopt corresponding means to pro- Icet it from invasion. THE TAX OK CONGRESSMEN. —A hand some sum will be realized lo the government from the tax upon the salaries of members of the House of Representatives. Each member is*taxed £0 a month, or $72 per year. The. speaker will be taxed $144. — The next House will consist of 197 mem bers and 7 delegates —-in all 204. The ag gregate amount realized will be $14,520 a year. The yearly amount of revenue de rived from taxation of employees now in the House will be $7,432,930, which will be augmented during the session by taxation upon salaries of additional employees. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1862. The Press on the President's Proclama tion. (From the Pittsburg Pout.) The President has at length yielded to the Radicals in their demands for a proclamation; the last card in the Abolition game has been played, and the country will see it, like all their experiments, a total and ridiculous failure. All we regret is, that the President had not nine months since given the Radicals all they demand ed. Had ho done so, their programme would six mouths ago have been proven a failure, and the country would now be prepared to follow diil'erent counsels. (From the. Xcw York World.) President Lincoln in his address to the bor der States Congressmen warned them that the pressure upon him to issue an emancipation proclamation Was so great that lie feared he might yet be compelled to yield. Ilis distrust of his own resisting power has since been fully justified. Indeed this yielding to pressure is Air. Lincoln's fatal weakness. lie yielded to pressure in urging General Scott to fight the first battle of Bull Run; be yielded to pressure in giving Colonel Miles another command, when lie should have been shot; he yielded to pres sure in disconcerting Gen. McClellan's plans last spring, |,y ordering a premature advance, at the West; ho yielded to pressure in so med dling witji the peninsular campaign as to cause it to miscarry. No man ever yet administered successfully the affairs of a great notion without a back bone incapable of "yielding to pressure." This extraordinary proclamation will bring no advantages-to the negro race at nil propor tionate to the obstructions it throws in the way of reunion. It is certain that the Union will never he restored till this ill advised action of the Government is reversed. It converts every inhabitant of the South into a zealot whoso all is embarked in the success of the rebellion.— The idea that they will succumb to threats, that they will vote on compulsion, that they will feel terror, or misgiving, or anything but increased indignation at such a proclamation, shows small knowledge cither of human nature or of the temper of the Southern mind. Such a procla mation can not possibly be enforced, and its on ly effect will bo to strengthen the determination of the rebels to fight to tile very last. They are shut up to a lane which has no turning.— When the military power of the rebels is bro ken, we have laid before ourselves a still harder task to perform. At the very crisis of the con tost of arms the President has reinforced them as elreetually as it' lie had doubled their squadrons iti the field. IV© mnjr letu n from our enemies. They will rejoice. Their leaders will inakf? of this proclamation their chief st moral weapon. It is powerless in our hands for good; in theirs it will be potent for evil. Our only salvation now is in the ballot-box. To that it yet re mains possible for the people to resort. Titere the battle lost to-Jay may bo won to-morrow. (From the Louisville Journal•) The following paragraphs are taken from the Louisville Journal , edited by George D. Pron tioc, one of the most influential and consistent of the Union men of Kentucky: Wc shall not stop now to discuss the charac ter and tendency of this measure. Both arc manifest. The one is as unwarantable as the other is mischievous. The measure is wholly unauthorized and wholly pernicious. Though it cannot be executed in fact, and though its ex ecution probably will never be seriously attempt ed, its moral influence will be decided and pure ly hurtful. So far as its own purpose is con cerned, it is mere brutum fulmen , but it will prove only too effectual for the purposes of the enemy. It is a gigantic usurpation, unrelieved by the promise of a solitary advantage howev er minute and faint, but, on the contrary, ag gravated by the menace of great and unmixed evil. Kentucky cannot and will not acquiesce ill this measure. Never! As little will she al low it to chill her devotion to the cause thus cruelly imperiled anew. The Government our fathers framed is one thing, and a thing above price; Abraham Lincoln, the temporary occu pant o the executive chair, is another thing, and a thing of comparatively little worth. —■ The one is nn individual, the sands of whose official existence arc. running K?st, and who, when his official existence shall end, will be no more or less than any other individual. The other is a grand political structure, in which is contained the treasures and the energies of civ ilization, and upon whose lofty and shining dome, seen from the shores of all climes, centre the eager hopes of mankind. The President Ims fixed the first of next Jan uary as the time for his proclamation to go in to effect, Before that time the North will be called upon to elect members of Congress. We believe that the proclamation will strike the loyal people in the North in general with a mazemcnt and abhorrence. We know it. We appeal to them to manifest their righteous de testation by returning to Congress none but the avowed and zealous adversaries of this measure. Ixt the revocation of the proclamation be made the overshadowing issue, und let the voice of the people at the polls, followed by the voice of their representatives in Congress, be hoard in such tones of remonstrance and of condemna tion that the President, aroused to a sense of his tremendous error, shall not hesitate to with draw his measure The vital interests of the country demand that the proclamation should he revoked, the sooner the better, and, until it is revoked, every man should unite in vigorous ly working for its revocation. If the President by any means is pressed away from the Consti tution and his own pledges, tic must be pressed back again and held there by the strong arm of the people. (From the Chiciyo Tunes.) The President has at last weakly yielded to the '-pressure" upon him about which be lias so bitterly complained, and issued his procla mation of negro emancipation! It Is not a month since he announced his pur pose to "save the Union in the shortest way un der the Constitution." He now announces his purpose to save it by overriding tbeConstitution. For he has no constitutional power to issue this proclamation of emancipation—none what ever. The Constitution forbids it by its spirit from beginning to end. And the President has no authority not derived from the Constitution —none whatever. lie Is himself the creature of the Constitution. Nobody need argue with us that he has the power under the military law. Military law "does not destroy the fundamental civil law.— In war, as in peace, the Constitution is "the su preme law of the land." The Government, then, by the act of the President, is in rebellion, and the war is reduced to a contest for subjugation. It has assumed the character that Abolitionism has designed from the outset it should assume. When the war shall bo finished, whether the South shall be subjugated or not, the character of the Gov ernment will have to be determined, if indeed the military power shall not have already de 4 tcrniined It. The President has himself furnished some of the most unanswerable arguments against the expediency of such a proclamation, and this even so late as at the interview the other day with the committee of religious fanatics from this city. He has all the while maintained that until the rebel armies should be dispersed, such a proclamation would he hrutum fulmen —harm- less thunder. If he was right in this, what x.tlier ground can the present proclamation be made to stand upon except that it is an act oT prospective vengeance. (From the " Wheeling Press," a Union paper of <i Border Slave, State.) We regret to know that one more blazing faggot has been cast into the fiery furnace of national discord, and that by the last hands that shbiitd have b'cn engaged in such an act. The President of the United States has so far yielded to that accursed "pressure" of which he once lugubriously complained, as to have be come no longer master of bis own actions.— He 1 ins at length cotne to such a pass as to be sure, sooner or later, to obey the behests of the insane fanatics he has encouraged around him, and to close all his circuitous meanderings by a final engulfiucnt in thfe bottomless pit of unre deemable Abolition. We shall not any longer speak of the Presi dent's conservatism, or waste any hopes for a satisfactory solution of our tangled affaire in pppnlinr "honesty" so often ascribed lo him, nor in any other of liis personal qualities, good, bad or indifferent. To all intents and purposes ot our future history, he has definitely surren dered to the most ultra men of the ultra North ern faction, and turned his back upon every tie that bound him to constitutionality and moder ation. He lias taken his last leap, and hence forward in all matters of public policy will be regarded as but a finger of Grcely, an executive instrument of Sumner and Lovejoy. To the rebels flagrantly in arms; to the hos tile people of the South, and to those in the loyal Stales who sympathize with the Southern defection, the proclamation will come with heal ing on its wings, it will command their un mixed gratification, and will be counted by them ns not only forming a set-off to their recent disasters tn the field, but as adding at least a hundred thousand men to the side of their sink ing cause. • • It is not within our power to express the hundredth part of the thoughts that crowd for utterance, but wo will say in terms as compre hensive as now occur to Us, that the proclama tion on which wc thus hastily and briefly com ment, sounds more liko the knell of Freedom and the wail of the departing Angel of Peace, than any that has been promulgated in the world since the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Autuffiiii Slimmer is over, unil the fruits are to be path 4 erod, for the winter is coining 011 apace. With what mad speed, with what slow and heavy footfall, tiine brushes or drags along, as one or another of us views it. To one, looking back to May, it seems but last week; to another, the spring time is far away in the remote pastj so £;r that the odor of its flowers comes not down on any wind, and the memory of its breezes is absolutely dead in the hot and sultry atmos phere of the war summer. We are none of us very much disposed to look back over t he events of this summer, and the less disposed to do so now that we gnter the autumn with the roar of cannon, the terrible solemnities of what may lie the great battle of the Union. Never did American autumn, proverbial for its glories, find America in such a state as this. The sun sliines on the broad country with all the ripeninz warmth of our September suns, the winds blow softly over hill and valley, the morn ing sky is hazy, and the evening sunsets are red and golden, the moon looks out of the blue a bovc us with the same old, silver radiance, and yet we look on all with new eyes, with chang ed hearts. We are not, as a people, what we were. We have learned new and terrible les sons. Wo have seen that though national growth may begin in winter, and progress through spring to summer richness, and almost autumnal ripeness, yet the very day of its full grown strength may be the day of its most fear ful trial, when the tempest will threaten to tear it up and dash it to pieces. We have watched our own hopes growing up and gathering beau ty and strength, to see them blighted. We have learned what it is to send our best and bravest out to die for their country, the very period when we fondly believed that their country was far beyond the need of any such sacrifice. We arc not, as we were two years ago, in heart, in thought, in anything but hope. Hut the autumn WHOLE NOIRE It, 3027 brings with it always the best of reason for hope. It is the season of gathering in, and though we have sometimes despaired, though the heat and the drought have been terrible, though the in sidious toes of our trees and vines have attack ed them in strength, 'though the very heavens have been black above us, we have in former years filled our store houses, and rested on the reward of our labors. "Never despair" is the autumn lesson, which we must learu now. All our sacrifices of this year, all the treasure we have planted, all the young life we have strewed broadcast over the fields of the country, must have resurrection, and must return us a hun dred fold in the time that is to come. Let us take strength, and, trusting to God, look for ward. —"i Journal of Commerce. IBM! C (1R R ESPOXIIENCE. CASIP, NEAR SUFFOLK, Va., Oct. 11, 'G2. IJcdr Mother: Being off" duty to-day, lying in camp, I thought I would drop you a word or two. The weather is very warm here now. The sun comes down the short truck. It is too hot through the day to sit down and enjoy a good meal after you have foraged for it 4 or 5 miles outside of the picket lines. There are plenty of sweet potatoes and ap ples in this country, but we have to go a great distance to find them, as the soldiers have got them all gathered that were near at hand. I had a good mess of apple dumplings yesterday, but no milk on them. That can't be got. I am a pretty good cook, and generally get a share of what the country produces. The great Kouth i ern Planters, as these people are called up North hy some of our big folks, or "would-be's" that never saw a Southern plantation, appear very common. Their dress is not very noticeable, neither for elegance nor costliness. I have look - led at both the country and town folks. Those that live in town don't seem to mind the war. You can see them march through the streets with as careless a tread, as if they trod on land that had belonged ancestors since the days of Adam and Eve. I have talked with some men here, that have taken the oath, and appear to be gentlemen.— They seem to think if the proper means had been taken, by both sides, the name of war would never have been breathed in our councils. I told them I thought not. That both sections were in for war, and war it is, just what they wanted. But if the persons that make war, had to fight the battles, wc would have a very peaceable country. This was once a land of beauty and plenty, before war and violence laid it waste. IV4 have had a pretty brisk time of it' since we have been here. There is a large rebel force up at a place called Franklin, on the. opposite bank of the Blackwuter, some 20 miles from bore. Our reg iment marched up there the second week after wo landed here, but found no force on this side, and the consequence was, we exchanged a few shots across the river with them, and turned a round and marched the 20 miles back with no body hurt. Last week we received orders to have rations on hand for a two or three days' scout, against morning. Morning came and the orders were to fall in, every man that was able to carry a gun. That the rebels had crossed tlio Blaekwater, and were coming down on us in great force. We fell in with our little sixty rounds of blue pills, and away we went, tow ards Blaekwater, to meet the boys. But we did not have to go over 15 miles before we fell in with their pickets, drove .them in, and found it to be a true bill that they were coming. We had a 6mall engagement, and drove the enemy back. Two of our boys lay rigid in death's cold embrace, and several were wounded in that day's reconnoitring. But there was none hurt in our regiment. The suddenness of a soldier being rushed, unenred for, to the presence of his God, creates 110 alarm. For he is like a stran ger in a strange land, and no one seems to care, only so it is not he. You may simply hear the remark, that such a one is dead or killed out of such a company or regiment. A soldier be comes so that he doesn't care about any one but himself. He becomes used to all the scenes as they are unfolded from the panorama of war. A soldier killed in battle Is buried sometimes; sometimes he is not. It is owing to circum stances. If killed where his companions have an opportunity to bury him, ho is just rolled up in his blanket, his garments saturated with blood, and put into his last resting place. But every one knows, death is omnipresent, in war or out of it. He enters and departs and no man knows when he shall knock at the door of his heart. Bat a man in the army never feels the bitterness of the cup he might have to swallow. So you may sec that there is not much sorrow in the parting of a soldier, for we are drilling on the threshold of two worlds. We have this town well fortified since we came here. We expect to be nttaeked every day and night. If they try to take this town from us, they will meet with a warm reception. I received your letter wanting to know if I had got tho box you sent mc. I have never re ceived yet or heard from it. Tgot Boor's letter with the express receipt on it. You said you heard I was sick, I was very sick about that time, I had something like tho swamp fever and diarrhoea, a disease that is prev alent in this country, but I am better now. Over has been sick for throe or four days, I was afraid he would die. He has got pretty well again. Three of our men diod last week at Point Lookout hospital, an old man by the name of Cook, from Pittsburg, and Henry Otto, from our County, ho was William Showman's son in-law. Showman, himself, died in a New York hospital some time ago. I saw the death of Major Tate in the paper, I could hardly believe it. We have not been paid oil" yet for this time. I expect we will have to wait four months again, like vfe did the lust time. Yours affectionately, JOHN B. HELM. | Hates of 2tt>t)trtisitig One Square, three weeaaor lee.. . . ... 41 00 On Square, each additional insertion lata than three month* 2<f 3 MONTHS. 6 MONTHS. J tIU One square • $2 00 $3 00 $3 00 Two squares ...... . 300 300 900 Three squares .' 400 700 12 00 t Column 300 900 13 00 \ Column 300 12 00 20 Otf 4 Column ....... 12 00 18 00 3b 00 One Column ..... i 18 00 30 00 30 06 The spsbe occupied by ten lines of this size of type counts one square. All fractions of • square under five tines will be measured as a half square t and all over five lines as a full square. All legs! dvertisements will he charged to the peftou hand ing them in. Transient advertisements should be paid for in advance. VOL. 6. NO. 12 CAMP CO 11., 53th P. V. 1 Beaufort, S. C. Oct. 3, 1862. J | B. F. MEYERS : Dear Friend:—l take this opportunity to let you know how the Bedford boys are get ting along. We would all like to see old Bed ford once more. We are now at Beaufort, a very fine little town, directly North of Hilton Head, and ut a distance of 15 miles from that . place Our camp is half a mile from Beaufort city, directly West of the city. The city is an old looking place and chuck full of contrabands. It takes about 130 men each day to guard these contrabands. We have two or three Union Stores in this place. I must reccommend South Carolina: We get dp in the morningandgo uptothe doctor's shop. "Well, John, what's the trouble 1" "Doctor, 1 have had the diarrhoea for 4 Weeks." "Well, Student, give him a dose and put him off duly." Another eriters. "Well, Tom, what's the matter with you ?" "Oh, Doctor, I have had ihe chills for 2 hours." "Student, give hitn a dose of Quinine and return liirn to his quarters." En ter No. 3. "Pat, vrhat's do rrfatter wid yesi" "Oeh, and sliure, doctor, I've had chills and fever for 2 weeks." Quinine again. Quinine is well adapted to the climate of South Caro lina. Our rpgiiricnt hits captured three rebels some two miles from camp. When they Were cap* tured thoy were fine looking young men. They were dressed in citizen's clothing and that was of the poorest kind, something which we call "hard times," drab color. Our farmer boys would not be caught wearing the like ; such was the uniform the had on. Tbey had old slouch hats on which Northerners Would not be caught wearing at any time. I judge they were about 18 years old, each having two re volvers. They had been 4 days on the Island, without any thing to cat. We have a great deal of picket duty to do here, We have some 3or 4 different points to gard. We have been some twenty days on picket on Ladie's Island. When we cante from picket, to our quarters, there were some fifteen of our company not fit for duty. We are all getting tired of guarding contra bands. The boys of the soth are all getting anxious for a fight. We want this unholy re bellion crushed out. We have been in the army 1 year, the sev enth of this month. I think we have been long enough in this sandy Southern country; the day* are warm and the nights very cool. A soldier's life is one of the hardest that cat! be lived. I don't care how good a man's con* stitution is, let him soldier one year and he is not the man that be was when he entered the army- Our Major has returned to our Regiment, in good health. All the boys think welt of the Major. Ho is a true union man. I wish our county could turn out some more men like him. Our Regiment wis quite "lost" when he had gone to Bedford to see his friends. When he returned there was some, cheering among our men. He is always ready to meet the enemy. Respectfully Yours, ISAAC N. BROAD. Acts cf the Last Congress. Not copied from the Record, but put down according to our recollection, and warranted correct in the main. Do you want another like it? If you do, vote the abolition ticket. If you do not, vote the Democratic ticket. 1. An act in relation to niggers. 2. An act to emancipate niggers. 3. An act to prohibit what-dye call it in tha Territories. 4. An act to abolish what-dye-call-it in the District of Columbia. 5. An act concerning niggers. 6. An act to confiscate niggers. 7. An act to emancipate the wives and babies of contrabands. 8. An act to emancipate niggers who fight for the Confederacy. 9. An net to make 'em fight for the Union. 10. An act to make freed niggers love work. 11. An act to educate said niggers. 12. An act to make paper worth more than gold. 13. An act to make a little more paper worth more thnn a good deal more gold. 14. An net to free somebody's niggers. 15. An act in relation to said niggers. IG. An act to make white folks squeal, Oth erwise known as the Tax Bill. 17. An net authorizing the President to draft white folks. 18. Art act authorizing the President to arm negroes. 19. An act to give us a little more paper. 20. An act concerning niggers. 2hr An act to make omnibus tickets n legal tender. 22. An net to compensate Congressmen for using their influence in obtaining contracts. 23. An act authorizing tho issue of more om nibus tickets. 24. An act declaring white men almost as good as niggers, if they behave themselves.— (Laid on the table.) 25. An net to repeal the clause of the Con stitution relating to the admission of new States. 20. An act to-repeal tlie rest of the Consti tution. 27. Resolutions pledging the Government to pay for emancipated niggers. 28. An act authorizing the President to pay for said niggere. (Went under.) 29 An act to confiscate things. 30. Resolutions explaining that some other things are not meant. 31. An act in relation to niggers. 32. An act to make niggers white. 33. An act to make 'cm a little whiter. _ 31. An act to make them a good deal whiter. 35. An act in relation to contrabands. 36. An net concerning niggers. 37. Resolutions of ndjournmout.
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