THE BEDFORD GAZETTE 13 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MOBMNO BY B. F. HRI lIBS, At the following terms, to wit: %i 00 pei annum, if paid wiltun the year. $2.!50 " " if not paid within the year. Oytfo subscription taken lor less than six months. QT-No paper discontinued until all arreornges are paid, unless at the option of the publishes. It has heen decided by the United States Courts that the •'.oppige of a newspaper without the payment ol arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and as a criminal oflence. courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether they snbscribe for them, or not. professional Curtis F.M. K1.MM11.1.. >• W. I.INGENIEI.TER KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. 07"Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South of the "Mengel House." JOB MANS. H. Si-ANH. MANN & SPANG. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. The undersigned have associated themselves in Ihe Practice ot the Law, and will attend promptly to alt business entrusted to their caie in Bedlord and adjoining counties. on Juliana Street, three doors south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Maj. Tate. Bedford, Aug. 1, 1801. JOHN CESSNA. O. E. SHANNON. CESSNA & SDANNON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., formed a Partnership in the Practice ot the Law. Office nearly opposite the Gazette Office, where one or the other may at all times be found. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861. JOHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Respectfully tenders his services to the Public. second door North o! the Mengel House. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861. W. M. HALL. JOHN PALMER. II ALL & PALMER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA CT'Will promptly attend to all business entrus ted to there care. Office on Julianna Street, (near. I y opposite the Mengel House.) Bedford, Aug. 1, 1861. A. 11. COFFROTU, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, SOMERSET, PA., Will hereafter practice regularly in he several Courts of Bedford county. Business entrnsted to his care will be faithfully attended to. December 6, 1861. DR. B. F. HARRY, BEDFORD, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr- John Hpfiu*. Bedford. Aug. 1, 1861. JOHN BORDER, GUNSMITH, BEDFORD, PA. Shop at the east end of town, one doo west of the residence of Major Washabaugh. CyAUgunsof my own manulacture warranted. Bedford, Aug. 1, 1861. 8A M HEL K ETTERM A\, BEDFORD, PA., hereby notify the citizens of dedford county, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed fold, where he may at all times be found b 1 - persons wishing to see him, unless absent upoi. business pertaining to his office. Bedford, Aug. 1,186 1. JACOB REED, J. J. SCUKLL, REED AND SCIIELL, BANKF.RS C DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD, PENN'A. 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Simon Syntax, Esq.— Sir:' In the solution of the wineglass problem, the word conical was inadvertently o mittcd; and your position that "mathematical problems should be worded with mathematical accuracy," is correct. Having made these acknowledgements, we will proceed to consider your article somewhat in detail. You say, "admitting the shape to be conical, there is still another unwarrantable assumption 111 the solution given by Magnet and by others." "They assume that the sphere must lie entirely within the glass." Assumption' indeed! is a self evident truth an assumption? If so, then, the axiom that, "Like powers of equal quantities are equal," is also an assumption. But why is it an assumption to say that, the sphere must be within the glass, or that that fact is self-evident ? The former cannot lie told— the latter need not be used, for the problem does say plainly say, "when dropped therein." Will you deny, sir, that the words within and therein, as here used, are synonymous! If you do, then quarrel with the lexicographers, and pile no more " unwarrantable " objections to the conditions of the question; nor " loosely and bunglingly" state them. Passing over one or two unimportant points in your article, I come to your conclusion as follows—"To make their solution complete the following theorem must be demonstrated." "The solidity of the largest sphere that can be cut from any cone is greater than the solidi ty of any segment of a larger sphere that can bo cut from the same cone." This is simply nonsense, "loosely and bungb lingly" expressed. There is no such theorem— there can be no such theorem —a theorem is a settled truth, and when the largest sphere con tained in a cone, has been cut from it, there re mains no i.AitOER sphere to be taken from it.— Your so called theorem, therefore, is a mathe matical impossibility, aud not a settled truth. Again—"we do not say whether this theorem is true or not, but we do say that Magnet as sumes it to bo true." Your pardon, sir, we no suoh thing—we arc not -n the habit of assuming that to bc true, which evi dently untrue. But finally, we do "assume" that, you are unable to prove the solution to be inaccurate, and, safely resting under that assumption, we bid vou a friendly good bye. MAGNET. Wc need hardly tell our readers that Magnet's, remarks printed above, arc as loose and bungling as the wording of his problem. lie omits the word conical in the solution "inadvertently." The word conical should have been in the prob lem, and being intentionally omitted there, it was very properly omitted in the solution. Hut Magnet says he omitted it in the solution, inad vertenth/, thus showing that he escaped a very foolish blunder by his own carelessness. "Dropped therein," as used in the problem, means simply, dropped in the glass —no more, no less —and the expression "dropped therein" or "dropped in the glass" will not warrant the assumption that the sphere must be entirely within the glass. A larger sphere—say 4 iuch es in diameter —can bo "dropped in the glass," although, only a segment of it will be below the plane of the top of the glass; and this would be as fully in accordance with the lan guage of the problem, as the meaning that "Magnet" supposes. Moreover, if the solidity of this segment be greater than the solidity of the sphere found by Magnet, his resnlt is not, in our opinion, the true one. Bur Magnet says, "When the largest sphere contained in any cone has been cut from it, there remains no largerjphe re to be taken. We hardly know whether to smile at the gravity with which lie states this self-evident truth, or to resent the imputation it contains of our pro found ignorance. Of course "there remains no larger sphere to be taken ;" but a segment of a lar ger sphere may bo taken, nevertheless. This we said, and in language, too, that we presume no one but Magnet will for a moment misun derstand or misconstrue. ' For the Bedford Gazette. PROBLEM. A pole 75 feet in height, stands on the side of a hill; at what height from the ground must it bo cut off, that the top may fall on a point 20 feet down tho hill from the foot of the pole; while a horizontal line drawn from the foot of the pole, and intersecting the part cut off, shall be 15 feet. The end of the pole, where it is to be cut off, resting, of course, on the upright part. The "Gazette" will be furnished one ycarfrce of cost, to any person giving a correct solution of the problem, which shall be purely anthmct teal and analytical. MAGNET. COALMONT, March 14, 1863. C3"A liberal and patriotic citizen who has Ircen drafted has purchased a gun which he says is very sure to go off—on another man's shoul ders. tvTo see if a girl is amiable—step on her dress in a ball room I 2lrmti tfomsponiwue. SOMEWHERE IN VIRGINIA, } MARCH 14th, IBC3 ) FRIEND METERS : Perhaps a few lines from one who would while away an hour of idle time,may not come amiss. For tho past month or /wo, we have been tarrying in this portion of the Old Do minion. picketing, scouring, patrolling, skirmish ing and waiting for rebel raids into our lines. Winter with its cold chilling winds, bleak snows and dreary nights is about to depart for a while. Spring with its March winds and April showers has dawned, and soon summer with its green fields and bright foliage will be coming on - pace ; and still we find ourselves on the tent c field, the war still progressing, and no prosper yet of its termination. Long ere this we ; d thought to see peace spread its broad pinions o'er our land, and the soldiers again engaged in the peaceful pursuits of civilized life. Instead of til ling the soil of the Keystone State, as we were wont to do in days gone by, we are wearing tooth picks, and " Colin Patent" by our sides, or carrying the froutturg rifle in our hands. Some times we find ourselves mounted on a cavalry horse, or astride of one of Uncle Sam's mules shooting at our fellow men and in return being shot at or sleeping in the mud " "~o'v almost knee deep, some of the mostc' .a perhaps [ dreaming the while of the luxo*; colored bride. When we come to sur.i "> ' '.e cause for all these proceedings, we a?; . "ned that it is for the sake of Africa's tu-rk-hueu sons. If curses would serve as winding sheets for the originators of it, there would be no lack oi ma terial, as the soldiers would not be (diary of their powers with the. anathematizing loom. Weary of this protracted war, you may hear many curses, not loud but deep, against con scription and emancipation bills. But hoping that there is a gOod day coming and not far distant, all should be content and willing to Serve their country in her hour of need. Sun nier hours, chccry greetings from loved ones left behind and the welcome kiss from ruby lips may yet be awaiting, many if not all, who are now playing "soger bog." The dull routine of picket duty here is now and then relieved by a rebel raid into Oecaquan, a skirmish, the de predations of bushwackers, or Stewart's caval ry and the capturing of our pickets, now and then. To day some of our pickets were taken while on post. A force is now gone out to rout and punish the depredators. Another raid may be attempted soon. Despite their standing in ■and up to their knees, for some time, our lior : ses are ii> oonultiOfl. Cavalry horses are never troubled witii au overplus of forage. Government allows them sis pounds of oats, six pounds of corn and fourteen pounds of hay per diem. Owing to difficulties in transporta tion or want of it altogether, they are after de prived of a portion or all of this allowance. Being awhile in cavalry will convince the most skeptical that the horse has more powers of en durance than is generally supposed. We have j known them to be under the saddle almost con stantly night and day, for near or altogether a fortnight, and receive no forage. The majori ty of army horses are too young and conse quently unable to endure the rough treatment they sometimes receive. We expect to move soon, and cheerily will we again welcome the bugle sound of "boots and saddle," heralding to us the march and stranger scenes. Being some what of a stranger to you and your readers perhaps I ajn trespassing too far on your time and patience We wish the "Gazette" success in upholding the democratie principles it advo cates. Wishing the good citizens of your town a pleasant summer, I remain, Yours, &e., BEDFORD INJUSTICE. We have been handed a letter from a private of one of the regiments of the ''Pennsylvania Reserves," dated Camp near Fairfax Court House, Feb. 16th, which shows very clearly what the Government cares for "patriots" after they become unfit for service, because terribly reduced in number from following the gyrations and wild-goose chases into which they are led by the asses yclept Generals, placed over them as leaders. Wo will let him tell his ou'n story. He says:— "Since I wrote last, we have been withdrawn from the army before Fredericksburg, and trans ferred to our present position (near Fairfax Court House.) We thought we were to remain about Washington 'or Alexandria to rest, and to recruit our broken ranks. At least such was the order when we left to come hero. But in stead of tlmt they brought us to Alexandria and encamped us on a barren hill, outside the city, for several days in the cold and rain, and then sent us out in a worse place than the one we left at Fredericksburg, and even wanted us to do more duty than was done at that place. This the regiment has refused to do, and we are now all under arrest for refusing to go on sevon day's picket duty. We have been shamefully treated, and wc believe it is the fault of our Brigadier General. I really believe, but Ido not know, that it was the intention of the de partment at Washington that wc should do du ty about there." I ssrA Western editor, on hearing it remarked that persons in a drowning condition suddenly recollected all the transactions of their lives, wished that a fow of his delinquent subscribers would take to hathing in dceo water. THE GROUND rioG. —The ground hog Ims this year again vindicated his character as a weather prophet. On the particular dny set apart for his prognostications of the weather, his hogship stuck out his nose, saw the sun shi ning, and retired for another long snooze. Since then there have been many at tempts to commence j spring. The blue birds and robbins have at tempted to take possession in the name of the coming spring.b'lt had a cold time of it WHOLE NUMBER, 30410 VOL, 6 NO 35. On Old Men and Young Men. Invent*u pwnitentiae campus. "Youth is llie field for the seeds of repentance." Lend Jktcon. There are some people in the church (not the Lay portion only thereof) who have got it into their heads, that none but very young men are fit to be bishops and rulers 111 conducting its af fairs, contrary to the fashion of the good "olden times." Likewise the stately beardless boys and inexperienced youth, now-a-days, will on ly suit the country for its highest posts of hon or and usefulness. Our masters and electors, at the head of affairs, are unwittingly, in their ex travagant desire for young rulers, prelates and potf ntates, realizing the designs of a mysterious p rc videnee, as they are disclosed, by prophetic OJV. '.is • ' 'And I will give children to be their prin ces it ltd babes shall rule over them " —Josiah, chap ter 111. Who is Francis Joseph of Austria?—who is the Bourbon coward and tyrant of Naples, as he is called? Are they not young men? And ( who is (as he is styled) the liberator and hero of Italy! before whom they are trembling or flying?—is it not the veteran warrior, Garibal di? Who was the late President of the Uni ted .States—who was the secretary of State— who was the late commander-in-Chief of our ar mies? Who is the present Chief Justice of the United States—who is the present British Pre mier—who rules over an empire 011 which the sun never sets—who was Pellissier? Are all these young men—the conquerors in the Crimean war ? "A man that is young in years" says n great author ''may lie old in honors, if* he has lost no ttrfk; hut this happeneth rarely." "ThcWis a yontli in thoughts as well as in ayes," says Bacon. Many young men in office once put into place and power are "old J'ogies" all their life-time. Many old men arc for progress and abhor old fogies, young or old. To the ad mirers of youth and boys for dignities in Church or State we recommend the following facts which have appeared in a sensible article of a late pa per: Rev. Dr. Haird, referring in a recent letter to a biographical sketch of the late Robert Walsh, prepared in Paris, by Mr. Joraard, says:—"l have said that Mr. Jomard must now be an old man, but perhaps I ought to take that back— for men in France und Europe generally are not as old at eighty as we are nt sixty. Humboldt at four score was not beyond his prime, and Lord Palmerston at three score aud fifteen scarce ly begins to think of being old. We live too fast in this country." >Vc* do livo ratlior fuf:: In this country, but many of us live long, too. We believe that our average of longevity is as high as that of any Other country; while individual instances can be found that are truly remarkable. We continually hear about Humboldt, Palmerston and Lord Lyndhurst, but we are apt to forget that their parallelseun not be unfrequently found among us. Boston daily sees the venerable Quincy in the enjoyment of all his faculties, at the age of 87 ; and Massachusetts is proud ot the rulings and decisions of her Chief Justice, now (if we may be allowed the expression) high up in the seventies. At the Yale commence ment, the other day, none failed to remark the form of Professor Silliman, still upright and ac -1 tive under the burden of 80 years; aud in our report of the Fort Point Celebration in Maine, last week, we gave an account of a grand meet ing presided over by a hale old man of 91. Of our literary men, Irving has just finished ! the life of Washington, at the age ot 70, Pauld ing is 80, and Richard ll*. Dana is 72. The list of thin department, and in those of the pro fessions, might be greatly extended. But let us turn to public life, which, perhaps, makes ihe greatest draft upon all powers of the system.— Ex President Van iiureii, who has gone through the whole mill, is well and hearty at the age ol 77. We have known in the Presidential chair i a tuan of 70, who boasts that lie is healthier than his Cabinet, of which, however, the lead ing member, in the Department ot State, is 77. The actual Commander-iu-Chlef of our armies is 73; and yet if it were called into battle, no man would be thought worthy to take his place. Our Chief Justice is 82; but he works like u clerk, and one of his lute decisions, we fear, is to be impressed upon the whole future of our national history. But we need recite no fui ther instances of aged men actively employed in this country. We have done enough to show that Dr. Bnird's remark does not ndmitof two hasty acceptance. Let us not discredit oursel ves 100 readily. Perhaps we live in general, quite as lung as we ought to, considering our multiplied violations of physiological laws, but die vital fibre in this country is amazingly tough. —Boston Journal. Are the prelates and rulers who have been elected when they were young , willing to re sign, when they become old; if they are, then it is fairplny, elect the young , if they will resign wlion they become old, necording to the stand ard of our juveniles. Then all is right, "What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander " as a great politician has said. Let the incumbents who have got into office political or prolatical on the plea of their youth, resign, when they reach 50 or 00 years and they will prove their sincerity. QL'A-IRE. DIRTY.—A wise father once endeavored to tench his son the nature of an inference.— "Thus, for example," said he, "when wo read that the deluge covered the whole earth the in ference is that the inhabitants thereof were all drowned. Now Naamnn, the Syrian, was com manded to wash seven times in the Jordan— what inference would we draw from that ?" "That he must have been very dirty!" was the precocious one's answer. Harney, of New York, receives SBO,OOO per year, liesides stealings. Hates if 2ttu)vtiiing. One Square, three weeks or lets $1 25 One Square, each additional insertion leas than three months • 25 ■I MONTH*. 0 MOStIIS. ) TEAR One square ■ $3 UO $l 00 $0 00 Two squares 4 00 5 00 9 €0 Three squares 5 00 1 00 12 00 { Column 0 00 9 00 15 CO $ Column HOO 12 00 20 ft o i Column 12 00 18 00 30 t fir One Column 18 00 30 00 50 00 Administrators' and Executors' notices $2.50, Au ditors' notices $1.50, if under 10 lines, $2.00 if more than a square and less than 20 lines. Kelrays, $1.35, if but one head is advertised, 25 rents for every additional head. The space occupied by ten lines of this size ot type counts one square. All fractiona of a square under five lines will be measured as a half square : and all over five lines as a lull square. All legal advertisements will be charged to the person hand p>g then* in. HABEAS CORPUS. In order to show what great principles of hu man freedom have been assassinated by the pas sage ofThad. Stevens'indemnifying bill, we have only to say that it virtually authorizes the Pres ident to strike down the writ of habeas corpus. The importance of this writ may lie gathered i from the following opinions of men learned in' the lnw. CHIEF JUSTICE BLACKSTONE SAYS: "Next to personal security." snysMr. Justice Blackstone," the law of England regards, as sorts and preserves the personal liberty of indi viduals. This personal liberty consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation or moving one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclinations may direct, without impris onment or restraint, unless by due course oS law. "By the Petition of Bight, 3 Car. Ist. it is enacted that no person shall be imprisoned or detained without cause shown, to whifch lie may make answer according to law. By Car. Ist, ch. 10, if any person be restrained of his liberty by order or decree of of any illegal court or by the command of the King's Majesty in per son, or by warrant of the council he shall, up on demand of his counsel, have a writ of habeas cwpus to bring his body before the Court of King's Bench or Common Pleas, who shall de termine whether the onusc of his commitment be just, and hereupon to do as to justice shall appertain. "To bereave a man of life or by violence to' confiscate b>s estate without accusation or trial would be so gross and notorious an act of des potism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom, but con finement of the person by secretly hurrying hint to jail where his sufferings are unknown or for gotten is a less public, a less striking and there fore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary gov ernment.— And yet sometimes, when the State is in real danger, even this may be a necessary measure. Hut the happiness of the Constitu tion is that it is not left to the Executive pow er to dcterminne when the danger of the State is so great as to render this measure expedient; f >r it is the Parliament only, or legislative pow j cr that, whenever it sees proper, can authorize the Crown, by suspending the habeas corpus bat for a shortand limited time, to imprison suspected persons without giving any reason for so doing." —Commentaries on the Laics of England, Vol. 1, pp. 135—13 G. WHAT CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL SAYS. So our own Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Bollmnn, A Crouch, 1(10, says > —"lf at any time the public safety should require the suspession of the power vested in this act, (the power to grant writs of habeas corpus) in the Courts of the U. S.. it is for the Legislature to decide. —Until the Legislative will be expressed, this Court can oidy see its duty, and must obey the laws." This was in a case of treason. WIIAT JUDGE STOIIY SAYS. So Judge Story, in his Commentaries on the Constitution, see. 1336 says: "It would seem as the power is granted to Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in case of rebellion or invasion, that tho right to judge whether the exigency had arisen must exclusively belong to that body." So in 3 807, when great alarm existed as to Burr's conspiracy, a hill was brought before the Senate in secret session to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. When brought into the House of Representatives, that body refused to consid er it in secret session, and by a vote oi 131 to 10 rejected the bill on its first reading. On that occasion Mr. Dana, of Connecticut, used the following language; "This bill authorizes the arrest of persons not merely by the President or other high officers, hut by anv person acting under him. 1 imagine this to be.wholly with out precedent. If treason was marching to force us from our seats, 1 would not agree thus to destroy the fundamental principles of the Constitution, or commit such an act either <>L despotism or pqsilauimity." WHAT JUDGE CURTIS SAYS. Judge Curtis says: "Whence then do those edicts of the President spring? They spring from the assumed power to extend martial law over the whole U. S.; a power for the exercise of which there is no warrant whatever in the Constitution; a power which no people could confer upon an*,executive officer and remain a free people. For it would make him al sjlute master of their lives, their liberties, and their property. * * * Let us beware" how we borrow weapons from the armory of arbitrary power. They cannot bo wielded by the hands of n free people. Their blows will finally fall upon themselves. Distracted coun cils, divided strength are tho very earliest effects of an attempt to use them. What lies heyond no patriot is now willing to look upon." C3rAn amusing incident transpired a few even ings since, at Manchester, New Hampshire, in the Huntingdon Street Baptist Church, on the occasion of the magic lantern exhibition. The scene of the children of Israel crossing tho Red Sea was exhibited, and the small children wero asked if they could tell what it represented. One little fellow immediately sung out, "Burnsidc crossing the Rappahannock!" Ir IS STATED that Gen. Fremont is to return "to active service in the same capacity as before." —lf he must return at all, l'ronfiob wishes it might he with greater capacity. (T'Thc Village Ilecord , a Black Republican paper, Bays "The golden opportunity lor put ting down the rebellion is past." That's so: but there Beems to lie a greenback opportunity It ft. — Jelfcrsoniuu.
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