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BY 11. r. pi'KRK,
At the following term*, to wit:
$2 00 per annum, if paid within the year.
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paid, unless at the oplion of the publishei. It has
bean decided by the United States Courts that the
stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of
arrearage*, is prima facie evidence of fraud and aa
4 criminal oftence.
(jyThe courts h*v derided that perrons are ac
■oountable for the subscription price of newspapers,
if thejr take them from the post office, whether they
subscribe for them, or not.
professional (Eariis.
F.M . KIMMSLL. I. W. LiNOK.-SVrt.TEK.
KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
03TlIave formed a partnership in the practice of
dhe Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South
of tbe "Meugel House."
Joa Mass. G. U. Stano.
ma sis& s p a \(.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
The undersigned have associated themselves in
•tbe Practice of the Law, and will attend promptly ,
to nil business entrusted to their caie in Bedford j
and adjoining counties. •
on Juliana Street, three doors south
ef the "Mengel House,''opposite tb residence oI
Maj. Tate.
Bedford, Aug. 1, lOl.
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ATTORNF.YS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
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•where one or the other may at all times be found. ]
Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861.
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Kerjiertfutly tenders his services te the Public.
HyOffice second door North of the Menge)
Bouse
Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA
Will promptly attend to all business entrus
ted lo there care. Office on Jutianua Street, (near.
Jy opposite the Mengel House.)
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A. H. COFFROTII,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, Pa.
Will hereafter practice regularly in he several
Courts of Bedford county.- Business eutrnsted to
bis care will be faithfully attended to.
December 6,1861.
SAM IE L RETTER M A N ,
BEDFORD, PA.,
ay Would hereby notify the citizens of Bedford
county, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed
ford, where he may at all times be found b' persons
wishing to see him, unless absent upot. business
pertaining to his office.
Bedford, Aug. 1,1801.
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A Co., Pittsburg.
gT. CHARLES HOTF.L,
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April 13 1961.
C. I*. II I ( it O K .
DENTIST.
Will attend punctually and ruefully to ill opera
tiont entrueted to his care.
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in the best manner,end AM'rciAL TSSTU inserted
from one to n entire sett.
Office in the Bsnlc Building, on Juliana street,
Bedford.
CASH TERMS will be strictly adhered to.
In eddi'ion to recent improvements in the mount
ing of AnTiricut. Tasta on Gold and Silver Piute,
I see now using, as a bust for Artificial work.anew
and beantiful article, (Vuleamt* or Vulcanized In
dia Rubber) atronger, closer fitting, mora comfort
able and more natural than either Gold or Silver,
and 30 per cent, cheaper than silver. Call and see
C. N. HICKOK.
Bedford, January 19, 1893.
TO~OONSUMPTIVEB
The advartiasr having bran lratored to health in
a few weeks, by a very simple remedy, after bav
iog suffered several yeart with a severe lung aflee
tioo, and that dread disease, Consumption—is anx
ious to make kaown to bis fellow-sufferers the
moans of core.
To all who daaira it, he will send a copy of the
prescription used (free of charge,) with the direc
tions for preparing and uair.g the same, which they
will find a SURE CURE for CONSUMPTION,
J STUM J, BRONO HTTIS, fcc. Tb only object
of the adva.tiaar in sending the Prescription is to
benaftt tha afflicted, and spread information wbicb
be conceives to be invaluable, and hopes every
sufferer will try bis remedy, as it will cost tb
nothing, and may prove a blessing.
Rav. EDWARD A. WILSON,
ogiSA-tm Williamsburg!), Kings Co., N. Y.
EXECUTORS' NOTICE.
Whereas letters testamentary toibe estate of An
thony Zimmers, late of Bedford township, Bedford
county, dee'd, have beeu granted to the subscribers,
all persons indebted to said estate are requested to
make immediate payment, and those having claims
against the same will present tbem duly authenti
cated for settlement.
GEORGE K. ZIMMERS, Bedford tp.,
J.W.LINGoNFELTER, Beuford bor.
May 33, I&C3—6ts.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Letters testamentary on the estate of Nancy T."
Black, late of Bloody Run borongh, deceased, have
been granted to the subscriber, residing in said
borough; all persons indebted to said estate are re
located to make immediate payment, and those
having claims against tha same will present them
duly authenticated for settlement.
SAMUEL BENDER, tz'r.
Msy 33, 1863- fits
Ueirfn rft %mt.tie.
VOLUME SH.
NEW SERIES.
Sflttl fJoclcii.
From tbe Evening Journal.
LINES
ADDRESSED to the clergy
BY 1. 1. L.
Ye Pulpit men profess to preach,
The Gospel of our God ,
Know ye, yourselves have brought on us
The vengeance of bis rod.
Repent and preach what you ahould teach;
Then God will hear and blest;
Make this your rule, be no clique's tool,
Bu". Gospel truth impress.
To war and fight in bloody atrife
1s not tbe Chi ietian's part;
Then ever make tbe goldan rule
The counsel of your heart.
Let this commandment be your guide.
Thy neighbor love as self;
From proud ambition keep atar,
Ycur thoughts keep free from pelf
And when you in Convention meet
To settle Church affair.
Be sure and keep the Devil out
Before you kneel in pray'r.
One other rule 1 piay observe,
Keep free from btate affairs,
Except when you are called upoa
To offer up peace prayers.
0 I may these rules engraven he
On each and every heart,
May love unite your heaitt aright
And you the truth impart.
Philadelphia, May, 1863.
THE EMPIRE STATE.
The People of New York Speak Out For
Free Speech, Free Press and Per
sonal Rights.
IMMENSE DEMONSTRATIONS.
On Saturday evening week, a very large
meeting was held at Albany, the capitol of the
Stutu of New York, to denounce the arbitrary
arrest of Mr. Vallandigham.—The resolutions
adopted point to the devotion shown by the
Democrats during two years of civil war, and
express a determination to devote their ener
gies to the cause of the Union ; denounce the
assumption of military power in the arrest of
Mr. Vallaudighatn; assert the right of free
discussion. They say that in the election of
Mr. Seymour the people coudemned the system
of arbitrary urrests, and call upon the Presi
dent to restore Mr. Vullttndigham to liberty.
Tbey diroct a copy of tho resolutions to be sent
to the l'resident, with the assurance of the de
sire of tho meeting to support the government
m every constitutional and lawful measure to
suppress the rebellion.
Gov. Seymour was invited to bo ono of the
speakers at the mooting, but could not attend,
and therefore seut the following manly letter.:
EXECUTIVE DEUAHTMENT, May 16.
I cannot nttond tho meeting at tbo Capitol
this evening, but I wish to state my opinion in
regard to tho arrant of Mr. Vallundigham. It
is an act which baa brought dishonor upon our
country. It is full of danger to our persons
and our homes. It bears upon its front a con
scious violation of law and justice. Acting up
on the evidence of detailed informers, shrinking
from tho light of day, in the darkness of night,
armed men violated the house of an American
citizen and furtively bore liirn away to milita
ry trial, conducted without those safeguards
known to the proceedings of our judicial tribu
nals. The transaction involved a series of of
fenses against our most sacred rights. It inter
fered with tho freedom of speech; it molested
our rights to be secure in our homes against un
reasonable searches and seizures; it pronounced
sentence without trial, save one which was a
mockery, which insulted as well as wronged.
Tho perpetrators uow seek to impose punish
ment, not for an offense against law, but fo.r
the disregard of the principles of civil liberty.
If this is approved by the govern
ment, and sustained by the people, it is not
merely a step toward revolution—it is revolu
tion; it will not only lead to military despotism
—it establishes military despotism. In this as
pect it must bo accepted, or in this aspect re
jected If it is upheld, our liberties are over
thrown, the safety of our property, will here
after depend upon the arbitrary will of such
military rulers as may bo placed oer us, while
constitutional guarantees will be broken dowu.
Even now the Governors and courts of some
of the great Western States have Bunk into in
significance before the despotic powers claimed
and exercised by military men who bavo been
sent into their borders. It is a fearful thing tfi
increase the danger which now overhangs us
by treating the law, the judiciary, and the State
authorities with contempt. The people of this
country now wait the deepest anxiety the de
cisions of the administration upon these acts.
Having given it a generous support in the con
duct ol tho war, we pause to see what kind of
government it is for which we arc asked to pour
out our blood and our treasure. The action
of the administration will determine in tho
tninds of more than ono half of the people of
tho loyal States whether this war is waged, to
put down rebellion at the South or destroy tree
institutions at the North. We look for its de
cision with the most solemn solicitude.
■(Signed) HORATIO .SEYMOUR.
Tlxe people of the whole Uniou wi.l thank
Gov. Seymour for this noble ptar.cl in behalf of
civil liberty. They will rejoice to witness in
his utterances on so grave u question, the evi
dences that our institutions have, in him, an el
oquent and able advocate. We trust and pray
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD.PA.,FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1863.
that the Washington Government may not con
summate this act of madness and of folly,by its
official approval.
Conscription Regulations to be
Strictly Observed.
From the Phila. Sunday Dispatch, (Abolition.)
The provost marshals have nearly all been
selected, and Colonel Fry, the l'rovost Marshal
General, has prepared and issued the "regula
tions for the govern incut of the Bureau of tho
Provost Marshal General," as approved by the
President, who orders "that they be strictly ob
served." There ore one hundred and and thir
ty-one separate regulations of the array, and
full directions for filling up the thirty-nine prin
ted forms of blank returns, &c.
NO DKMOCRATS TO MIX THE OIFIOES.
F.ach provost marshal has jurisdiction over a
Congressional district. Ho may appoint two
deputies, or more, if necessary, at salaries of
not more Lhasloo per month each; four spe
cial officers for detecting and arresting spies or
deserters, at from $lO to SOS per month each,
depending on their usefulness; enrolling officers,
at not cxcoeding $3 per diem for the time actu
ally employed; and special guards for deserters,
at not more than $ I per diem, besides their ac
tual expenses. All these appointments are to
be made subject to the approval of tue Provcwt
Marshal General here, who will unquestionably
be guided btj the Representative in Congress from
the district, if a republican—'/ not > prominent
politicians.
GENTLEMEN TO BE STRIPPED NAKED OItPAVTHREE
HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Those who neither wish to "fight or pay,"
but hope to avoid being drafted by obtaining a
medical certificate from their family physician,
will find themselves mistaken. —All those who
plead exemption on account of bodily infirmi
ties or disease must go before the regular au
thorities, and the regulations prescribe that men
are to be "examined, stnpjied, in the day tune,
in the presence of the Ixnird of enrollment, and
in n room well lighted and sufficiently large for
tho drafted man to walk about and cxerciso his
limbs, which he must be required to do brisk
ly."
Now many a man will fork over his S3OO
rather than l>e thus trotted about naked before
four or five other men, who will sit in judgment
oil him as the famed Council of Ten of the
Sons of Malta used to examine the candidates
for initiation into that respectable order. A
list of fifty-five diseases and infirmities is pub
lished as "those which disqualify for military
service," and for which only drafted men arc to
be rejected as physically or mentally unfit for
service.
What is the Object.
Democrats in this community—yon old men
who havo contributed liberally oi' their wealth
for the support of the Government in its hour
of trial—who have been untiring in their efforts
to induce men to enlist in the army—who have
shown their patriotism and love of country by
sending their own sons to the buttle Held, are
now denounced as Copperheads, rebel sympa
thizers and traitors. Who are the authors of
these denunciations—and what is the object?
Did they emanate from the more respectable
portion of the .Republican party, whose sons
uud relatives are in tho buttle tiehl assisting to
light tho battles of the country, we might he at
a loss to know the design. Hut when we tind
that such epithets arc generally made use of and
applied by men who have neither contributed
men or money for the suppression of the rebel
lion—many of them being young, able bodied
men, who remain at their peaceful hoanes, their
real object is presented in a form which cannot
be easily misunderstood. These mon are not
friends of their country—neither aro they la
boring for tho purpose of bringing the rebellion
to 9 close and restoring pence throughout the
land. Tlicy have a different object in view.—
They despiso the Union—would spit 011 the
Constitution, aud aro laboring unceasingly for
the downfull or overthrow of both. Knowing
the evil inclinations of their own licurts, they
are fearful that they may lie suspected by others
—hence, they stigmatize loyal men as traitors
for the double purpose of throwing suspicion off
their own shoulders, and creating strife and dis
cord at borne, which they hope will eventually
culminate in bloodshed and thus rosult in the
accomplishment ot all their hellish A ■signs.
Reader, we entreat you if you love your
country—if you wish not to sew both. North and
South drenched in the blood of your fellow men,
trust not the man who can see Copperheads and
traitors in all sections of the country. Such
men are, not laboring for unity of sentiment in
the North—they wish to produce strife and dis
cord, aud if possible, bring about war through
out the land, if there are disloyal men in our
midst, why uot arraign them before the proper
tribunal, test the charges preferred against them,
and it' found guilty, let them "atone to tho of
fended law!" The man, who, on a fair trial,
may be found guilty of treason to his country,
will find no word of sympathy from us. But,
on the contrary, we will insist that the severest
punishment which the law will admit of shall
be inflicted upon him. We protest, however,
against self-constituted judges deciding as to the
loyalty of any man or set of men, and denoun
cing those as traitors who aro more loyal than
themselves. Even if we had traitors ■in our
midst, such a course would not tend to make u
ny improvement on their loyalty, or remove
them from among us. It is not. we repeat, the
object of those who engage in such denuncia
tions to produce unity of sentiment among the
northern masses—they are sowing the seeds of
discord and hope to reap the reward of blood.
Carlisle Democrat.
fcr'l ho rank and fashion may be all very fine
in times ol peace, but rank_ and file must have
precedence of them in time of war.
Vallandigham and Creeley.
The Enmity Poet is of opinion that Mr.Val
landigliam cannot appeal to history for his vin
dication. It cites his votes in Congress to prove
that he has opposed the war from tine start, uud
argues therefrom that he will figure in our fu
ture records as little less infamous than Bene
dict Arnold. Unfortunately for the Post's argu
ment it proves too much. Mere opposition to
n war has never yet rendered a man infamous;
(f it had, Mr. Bryant, Minister Corwin the
president himself, and all ibe leaders of tbe
Whig party, could not be deemed honorable or j
patriotic men, liecause they opposed the Mexi- j
ran war with unexampled partisan bitterness. t
Mr. Vallandigham's position is the same as that;
held by Col. Seymour, of Connecticut, lie de- 1
siros a restoration of the Union as much as any |
| man in the country but he does not think it pos-;
I sible to do it by wnr. lie believes tbe blood 1
shed and money spent is in vain, and that peace !
alone can bring about reunion. In this position !
! we believe he is mistaken, but if the South should j
gain its independence, arid all our efforts in the j
field come to naught, history will certainly give
I him credit for more sagacity than all the oilier :
living loaders of public opinion at the North.
' It should be remembered that Mr. Vallandi- j
ghain has on no occasion advocated the right of;
secession. He has repeatedly denied that any '
such legal right existed. Now, if he is infa
mous, who has always consistently opposed dis
union, and who differs from the rest of us only
as to tbe methods by which the North & South
can be brought together, what are we to say of
leading members of the Republican party who
have openly advocated the right of secession*
Take, for instance, the following from the edi
torials of Mr. Horace Greeley, of the N. York
Tribune:
the Tribune of Nov. 9, 1860.
If the cotton States shall become satisfied tlmt
they can do better out of the Uuion than in it,
we insist on the letting them go in peace. The
right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but
it exists nevertheless. * * * We mu3t ever
resist the right of any State to remain in the
Union and nullify or defy the laws thereof. To
withdraw from the Union isquite another matter.
Whenever u considerable section of our Union
shall deliberately resolve to go out we shall re
sist all coercive measures designed to keep it in.
We hope never to live in a republic whereof one
section is pinned to nnothcr by bayonets.
From the Tribune, Nor. 26, 1860.
If the cotton States unitedly and earnestly
wish to withdraw peaceably from the Union,
we think they should and would bo allowed to
do so. Any attempt to compel them by force
to remain would be contrary to the principles
enunciated in the immortal Declaration of In
dependence, contrary to the fundamental ideas
bn'which human liberty Is based.
From the Tribune. Dec. 17, 1860.
If it (the Declaration of Independence) justi
fied the secession from the British empire of
three, millions of colonists in 177G, we do not
see why it would not justify the secession of live
millions of Southrons from the Union in 1861.
From the Tribune, Feb. 23, IStiO.
Whenever it shall he clear that the great body
of the Southern people have become conclusively
alienated front the Union, and anxious to es
cape from it, we will do our best to forward
their views.
If Vallundigham, the Unionist, is to be com
pared to Benedict Arnold, will the Post be good
enough to let us know whom Greeley, the seces
sionist and disunionist, is to be compared to?—
K. Y. World.
Optimism of Seward.
Blackwood is very amusing on Mr. Seward.
1 wicked writer strings together the lollowing
extracts from his dispatches:
On February 19, 18(12, lie writes to Mr. Ad
ams: '*l was just about instructing you how to
answer the querulous complaints in Parliament j
vhieh you have anticipated, the chief of which ;
tho assumed incompetency of government to '
suppress the insurrection. But it very shrewd 1
observer, a loyal and, at present, exiled Virgin- j
ian, fell in at the moment and expressed to me
the opinion that the end of the war is in sight; I
that there will be a short and rapid series of sue- j
cesses over a disheartened conspiracy, and then j
all will be over."
"March 15: The financial and moral, as well
as the physical elements of the insurrection seem
to be rapidly approaching exhaustion."
"On the 25 th of March it seems impossible
to the sanguine Secretary that the organization
of the iusurgents can be longer maintained."
On the 15th of April he tells Mr. Dayton:
"A tew days will probably complete the open
ing of the Mississippi river, and restore to the
country that national outlet of the great gran
ary of America which disunion in its madness
has temporarily attempted to obstruct, in viola
tion not more of political luws than of tho or
dinances of nature."
"22d April: We have reason to expect Sa
vannah to conic into our possession within the
uext be.a days."
"sth May: We shall have peace and union
in a ve;ry few months, let France and Great
Britain, do what thoy may."
On the 10th of May lie wrote: "Less than a
year will witness tho dissolution of all the ar
mies j the iron-clad navy will rest idly in our
ports; taxes will immediately decrease; and
new tkatcs will bo coming into the Confederacy,
bringing rich contributions to the relief and
corafoirt of mankind."
"On June 2d: The war in the Mississippi
Valley may be deemed virtually ended."
On. the 10th of June he says: "The reduc
tion of Vicksburg, the possession of Chatanooga
and the capture of Richmond would close the
civil war with complete success. All these three
enteirpriscs are going forward. The two former
will, we think, be effected within the next ten
days."
< Add to this Seward's memorable "ninety days"
peuco prophecy, and Greeley's promise of nine
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VOL. 6, NO 44.
hundred thousand emancipated recruits, and
Gov. Andrew's unrealized black army project,
and Hooker's promised annihilation of Lee, and
we shall see how often "Hope has told a flat
ten nj; tale."
Have We a Central Despotism ?
MU. SEWARD TO I.ORD LTOSS.
tl My lord, I can touch a bell on my light hand
and order the arrest of a citizen m Ohio. /
can touch the bell again and order the imprison
ment of a citizen in New York; and no power
on earth but that of the President can release
them. Can the Queen of England in her do
minions, do as mnchT'
The above dispatch has boon denied by the'.
Administration organs, and the editor of the
Lancaster Express being offended at its use by
Hon. Geo. Sanderson, in a speech before the
Philadelphia Central Democratic Club, wrote to ,
the State Department for information as to the |
truth. He reeeix ed, in reply, a copy of the vo- ,
luminous correspondence of the Hon. Willinm I
Henry, containing all his lachrymose epistolary !
nonsense, addressed to our different ministers a
broad, the burthen of which is a continual
complaint against England and France for gran
ting the Southern States "belligerent rights,"
accompanied by a note from one Geo. E. Ba
ker, saying that llio whole eorrespondencc is
sent that be may satisfy himself of the fact,
that the language is not to be found in the Hon.
Secretary's correspondence. Upon the receipt
of this left handed denial, in perfect keeping
with the miserable trickery of Seward ever
since he entered public life, and exhibited to the 1
utter disgust of all Europe, since his advent to
his present position of Minister of Slate, the |
editor of this Abolition paper called upon Mr.
Sanderson for a denial of the ' 'base charge." — i
How contemptible Mr. Seward, and Mr. Baker
and the Abolition Express must now feel, on
learning that the language is contained in an
official dispatch of Lord Lyons to Earl Kussell,
detailing a conversation with Mr. Scwurd, da
tod November 14, 1861, published in the
Parliamentary Blue Book, and copied into j
the New York Times, (Sewurd organ), of March
Ist, 1866.
The S3OO Exemption Clause.
There is u conflict at Washington respecting
the interpretation of the S3OO clause in the Na
tional Enrollment Act. The Secrctarv of War
has announced that hp hnd concluded to con
strue the clause to be permissive and not man
datory upon him. and should ignore it. On the
other hand Mr. Whiting, Solicitor of the War
Department, deems the act mandatory upon the
Secrctarvi and it is not improbable, in view of
its exceeding importance, that the question may
yet be referred to the Attorney General. Pos
sibly, either in lieu of such reference or in ad
dition to it. the several memlwrs of the Cabinet
may be called upon to lay their opinions in wri
ting before the President.
It is understood that the views of the Attor
ney General are diametrically opposed to those
entertained by the Secretary of War, and that
he holds that tlio law obliges the Secretary to
tix a sum, by the payment of which, to prop
erly appointed persons, tho drafted man may
dischajge himself. The eventual determination
of the Government, under these circumstances,
is, of course, a raattor of uncertainty.
The Sentence Upon Vallandighain.
The New York Sun says: "If this sentence
is carried out, it will be in defiance of the opin
ions of the great mass of American people.—
No government in Europe would dare to resist
so strong an expression of public sentiment, as
the proceedings ngainst Mr Vallandighain have
thus far elicited. We caunot believe that the
President and the administration can be so crim
inally indifferent to the signs of the times.—
The Union can survive the assaults of all the
armed ami disarmed Valhindigliams of the South
and North, but it cannot long exist without free
speech and trial by jury.''
"Nobody Hurt."
An exchange collects the following data: —
It is estimated that from the commencement of
the war 53,87+ Federals have lieen killed, 117,-
029 wounded, 74,218 made prisoners, nnd 250,-
000 died from disease and wounds; that 50,893
Confederates have been killed, 119,015 wound
ed, 52,109 made prisoners, and 250,000 died
from disease and wounds.
This of course does not include the loss in
any ot the late battles, the last massacre at
Fredericksburg or the recent fights on the Mis
sissippi. What says Chandler to the "blood
letting" so far?
Power of Gentleness.
No had man is ever brought to repentance by
angry words—by bitter, scornful reproaches.—
He fortifies himself against reproof, and hurls
back foul charges in the face of his accuser.—
Yet guilty and hardened as lie seems, he has a
heart iu bis bosom, and may be melted to tears
by a gentle voice. Whoso therefore, can re
strain bis disposition to blame aud find fault,
and can bring himself down to u fallen brother,
will soon find n way to better feelings within.
Pity and patience are the two keys that unlock
the human liourt. They who havo lieen the
most successful laborers among the poor and
v icious are the most forbearing. Said tho cel
ebrated St. Vincent de Paul, "If it has pleased
Heaven to employ the most miserable of men
'or the conversion of some souls, they havo
themselves confessed that it was by the patience
and sympathy which lie had for them. Even
the couvicts, among whom I havo lived, can ho
gained in no other way. When I have kissed
their chains, and showed compassion for their
distress, aud keen sensibility tor their disgrace,
t/icii have they listened to me, nnd placed them
aelvw in tip way of salvation."
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A Frightened Contraband.
A letter received from an Army codrespon
! dent on the Kappohannock relates the following
! camp incident :
J An amusing incident occurred in camp a night
jor two since. A portly young contraband, from
i Charleston, S. C., who escaped from his rebel
' master at Antietam, and was for awhile quor
j tered subsequently in Washington, was engaged
by one of our junior staff officers, as his body
i servant, and brought down here to his quarters
to attend him. It chanced that the officer had
served his country gallantly at Shurpsburg,
where he lost a leg, below the knee, the absence
of which had been made up by an artificial
limb, which the captain wore with so easy a
grace that few persons who met him suspected
I his misfortune—his sable attendant being among
the blissful ignoraut as to tbc existence of the
fact.
! The captniH had been "out to dine," and re
turned in excited spirits to bis tent. Upon re
tiring, he called his darkey scrvunt to assist him
in pulling off his riding boots.
'•Now, Jimmy, look sharp," said the captain.
"I'm a little—ic—flimsy, t'night. Look sharp,
an'—ic—pull steady."
"Ise allcrs keertul, cap'n," says Jimmy,
drawing oil one long wet boot, with considera
uble difficulty, and standing it aside.
"Now mind youreve—Jim! The other—ic
—is a little tight," and black Jimmy chuckled
and showed his shining ivory, as he reflected,
perhaps, that bis muster was quite as "tight" as
lie deemed his boots to be.
"Easy, now—that's it. l'ull awuy!" con
tinued the captain good-naturedly, and enjoying
the prospective joke, while ho loosened the
straps about his waist which held his eork leg
up— -HOW you've got it! Yip—there you are!
Oh, lord, oh, lord! oh, lord/" screamed the
captain, as contraband, cork-leg, riding-boot,
and ligatures tumbled across the tent, in a heap,
and the one legged officer fell back on his pal
let, convulsed with spasmodic laughter. At
this moment the door opened, and a lieutenant
entered.
"G'wav fum me—g'way fum me—lcm me
be! Lemme be! I ain't done nuflin," yelled
the contraband, lustily, and rustling to tbe door,
really supposing that he had pulled hus master's leg
clean of. "Lemme go! I didn't do nutfin—
g,way! g'way. And Jimmy put for the woods
in bis desperation, since which he hasn't been
seen or hoard trout, though his captain has dil
igently sought for hiin far and near. Jimmy
was a good servant, but we never before were
treated to a sight of a thoroughly frightened
contraband. There is little doubt the darkey is
ruuning vet.— Boston Transcript.
Yankee Bathing.
Kendall, of the New Orlenns Picayune, re
lates the following which occurred in his pres
ence some time ago, at Baden Baden, in Ger
many:
At this junction we were joined by an Eng
lish party, when the subject matter brought
under discussion was bathing.
"I take a cold sponge, bathe every morning
when at home," said John Bull.
">So do I," retorted the Yankee.
"Winter and Summer," continued the Eng
lishman.
"My system exactly," responded the Tankee.
"Is your weather and water coldt" queried
John Bull.
"Right chilly," continued Brother Jonathan.
"How coldt" inquired John 1
"So cold that the water all freezes as I'pour
it down my back, and rattles upon the floor in
the shape of hail!" responded the Yankee, with
the sumo cunning twinkle of the eye. "Were
| you in the next room to me in America," he
continued, "and could hear ine as I am taking
my sponge bntli of a cold winter's morning you
would think I was pouring dried beans down
my back."
The Englishman shrugged his shoulders as
with u chill, and marveled.
THE "CHCCKLEHKADS!" —A correspondent
i suggests that those who call Democrats Copper
heads are very properly entitled to the sobriquet
of "Chuckleheads," from their blunders and
imbecility in the prosecution of the war. The
Copperhead may bo a very venomous animal,
but the Chucklchead, by his ignorance and pre
tension, would sacrifice an army, a country and
a Government, rather than give up a theory
which time and experience had demonstrated
to be false and ruinous.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
COOL. —By a steamboat explosion on a Wes
tern river a passenger was thrown unhurt into
the water, aud at once busily struck out for tho
shore blowing like a porpoise the while He
reached the bank almost exhausted, and was
caught by a bystander and drawn out pant
ing.
Well, old fellow, said his friond, you had a
hard time, eh?
i Yes. Yes, pre-pretty hard, oonSiderin.
Wasn't doinit for myself, though; was a wor
kin' for one of them insurance companies, in
New York. Got apolicy on my life nnd I want
to save them. I didn't care.
t3-A jeweler tells us a good story about the
wife of a shoddy gentleman—suddenly raised
from poverty to affluenoe—who was spending a
good deal of moaey for ornaments in the jewel*
rv line. The jeweler had sold the women a
diamond ring of great value, but obeerving, as
she tri id to force it over a remarkably red and
knotty finger, that the ring was a trifle to'km all
lie said she liad better take a larger one. "No
matter," replied tbc complacent parvenu, with
amusing naiiete, "this will do—l don't expect
my hands will be so largo after a little while."
1 3*Abolition tracts—Contracts.
Abolition sense—License.
Abolition joy—Love/qy.
A bard lot for Republicans—Ballot.
The Republicans wish to suspend the Con
stitution for fear it will suspend theth-