" *H3 BEDfORD GAZETTE u nauMCu ivikt mur mosmnci BY B. F. HI-VERS, 1 A( tto rlUwi( termi, t wit > $t ft f*r tHH, if paid within the year. ft.M " if not paid witbiu the year. O*N tukorription taken tor tea* thaa sis mon the pufer diuontinued until all sii-sii rages are tid, uoleseat the option of the publisher. It has to decided by the United St >tes Courts that the eteppt(o of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima /arts evidence 01 fraud and aa • Criminal odenre. courts save decided that persons are ac oaasntable for the subscription price of If they take them from the post office, whether they sohsrrtbe for them, or not. THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR AND OTHER MATTERS. tiutai find Sarcastio Letter of Emerson Etheridge. Tk* South*™ Ckrk of the Republican XJ. S. Houtt of Repretentative*. Washington, D. C., May 18, 1868. o*ntl*m*H--l have just received your letter of the 7th inst., inviting me, in behalf of the Wash ington Union Club of Memphis, to join in a yublic celebration of the aniversary of the sur render of that city to the Federal arms. You also apeak kindly of my past efforts to induce the people of West Tennessee to consent cheer fully to "the restoration of the national author ity throughout the South." If I believed that by meeting you on the oc casion referred to, I could be of service to a •ingle honest, law-abiding citizen, or truly re pentant rebel, or that I could contribute to the toast extent in ending the war and restoring the blessings of peace under the Constitution, I would certainly attend; but I have no such faith in myself, and therefore I shall not go. In your letter you express the opinion that by a "direct personal appeal," I might "encour age the loyal or reclaim the disloyal." I con- Ins my astonishment at such n statement, and I can attribute this opinion of yours to nothing buta failure or your part to comprehend the masterly policy of our great and good President, and the wise statesmen who aid him in shaping and directing the civil policy of the Govern ment. When you have fully studied and un derstood the graud purposes of our most God (caring and law-abiding President; when you ars mora familiar with the profound military strategy which, as "Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States," be is Bow displaying; and whert you further reinem bar the astonishing success we have had in re claiming our "misguided countrymen," and in conquering our wayward sisters," I shall be a sensed if you continue to believe it necessary to '-encourage the loyal" ou "reclaim thedinloyal." Why encourage the loyal ? Is it possible they seed encouragement in Memphis when, for near ly a year, you have been inside the Federal lines; when every night tattoo is substituted for "Hush, my baby, don't you cry," and at reveille "Hail Columbia" arouses the people to a consciousness of the great security which is afforded to the property of the loyal people in Memphis, and all tho country round (hat (po litical) Jordan. How can you or I "encourage the loyal,*' when our matchless President, the tots Congress, bis sag* counsellors and hi* peer less military subordinates hae already done and promised all which wisdom can suggest, which our sacred constitution authorizes, and which the christian religion tolerates or ap proves t There remains nothing for ub to do, unless it be to obey our incomparable President in all bis wise measures to conquer a glorious peace. True we have among us croakers and cop perheads—silly, brainless mon—who are so un wise and unpatriotic as to question the wisdom of our indefatigable President. If you have a ny such in Memphis, you should at once do- Bounce them as in sympathy wi h h' tebels; you should send them to their friends "down South" or to the Dry Tortugas, which is understood by many to be a place where evorybody is tortur ed with a thirst for rifle whisky, and not a drop can he obtained. No good Union man will somplain of the conduct of the wise men who direct our public affairs. They should be taught to remember that tcandulum mugnatum was forma ly a high crime—it is a most hein ous offence now—and nothing saves such cop per colored wretches hut the Christian charily of our most pious President. At your proposed meeting you should so ar range matters as to secure a list of all who fail to attend or omit to render a suitable apology, and you should adopt resolutions of the most "loyal" kind. Allow me to suggest that the committee on resolutions be selected from con tractors and officeholders. I particularly sug gest one Cooper, who has recently been appoint ed assessor for the large, rich and populous district of West Tennessee. Ho was originally from New York. True, he was never in West Tennessee until sent from thiscity on his official errand; but he no doubt knows by intuition the true value of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, Ac., of a people he never knew and a country in which he never lived. But he is so loyal—so much so that I doubt not he is bet ter fitted for the office than any one of the na tive born sons, brothers or fathers of the thou sands of soldiers who, before the 22d of last September, West Tennessoe had furnished to 4be Federal army. Let the committee imitate the "Loyal Leagues" of Baltimore, and resolve that you not only approve all the present wise and patriotic administration has done, but thnt yen will sustain and uphold it in everything it may hereafter do. Let the committee make an elaborate report, •eeompanied with resolutions denouncing all who find fault with our most excellent President. For instance:—The last Congress (in July, 18t> ) passad a law to confiscate the property of certain rebels. That Congress though a very wise body, did not possess as much aggregated wis dom aa our great and good President. In proof of this we need but refer to the fact that tho Congress aforeeaid provided that, undor this law, trial should precede conviction and forfeit wre,jand that guilt should be proven, and not pre sumed- Worse still; it offered an amnesty to repentant rebels; it mercifully gave them sixty days in which to accept it; and provided, fur ther, that our most noble President might sus pend for a period the operation of this law as our armies advanced southward, so as to afford all aa opportunity to accept pardon. Worso still ; this law actually applied to no one but Sfiß tubals. And it is astonishing that it ap- j VOLIIffIE 39. NEW SERIES. plied to them everywhere, North as well as South—in Springfield, Illinois, as well as Springfield, Tennessee. But, worse still, it did not affect the rights or property of Union men, women and children, or lunatics, in any section of the country. That Congress, strange as it may seem, did not preceive that the way to end the rebellion and restore affectionate relations between the sections was to place the Union men, women, children and the insane upon a perfect footing of equality with the vilest traitors in the land. That Congress believed that the crime of refu sing obedience to the usurpation of Davis <fe Co. in Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina and elsewhere, amid the terrors of a military des potism, did not merit the same or worse punish ment than that they had denounced against ti tled and official traitors. That congress spared the women and children; it also shielded from harm the Union men who still adhered to the national symbol of protection. What weak ness! But Congress has adjourned. Wl at was to be done? Thank Heaven, our sagacious President was found equal to the occasion. You will preceive that on the Ist of January last, under this a >-called Confiscation law, the slaves of every rebel in the United States who had not accepted the amnesty therein provided were tie jure free. But how were we to end this rebellion if the Union men, women and children in the so-called Confederate States were left in undisturbed posswltn of all their legal and Constitutional rights? If this policy were adopt ed the rebels might become angry with these "monuments of federal mercy." Rnd in that e vent the spared "monuments of federal merer," n izht c'iug more < 1 >s.ly to the fislera! flag. This division among the people might cause a still more unhappy state of affairs in Dixie; our friends there might lyive to hear addition al indignities. As before remarked, our merci ful and considerate President was found equal to the crisis. In a long conversation with some inspired apostles from the saintlv city of Chica go—a place where On Urd Hiking and other world by amusements are unknown, the President candidly confessed that he was endeavoring (he di 1 not state the means') to ascertain the will of the Lord upjn this difficult question; that so soon as he learned the divine pleasure he ver ily would do the will of the Master who sent bim. The revelation came doubtless "by due courso of mail." Judging from "that which i* written." it a mounted to this; that in a portion of Virginia and Louisiana, in Delaware, in Maryland, in Tennessee and Missouri, it was lawful for trai tors who had accepted the amnesty provided by the Confiscation law and all other persons to hold slaves; but that in the tidewater regions of Virginia, and in that part of Louisiana which had not been consecrated to slavery bv the Military occupation of (rensnl Bitter, as also in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, it should no longer be lawful for the Union men, women and children to hold our African fellow-citizens to service or labor. And yet there are those of the "copperhead persuasion'* who profess not to see the wisdom of this great master stroke of our most noble and exalted President. Sirs, di 1 if not immediately divide the South and unit" the North ? Werenot our camps forth with crowded with countless myriads of bold and ardent recrnits? Have not "our American brethren of African descent" crowded by thou sands into our ranks, inspiring our soldiers with tho songs of enfranchised Dinahs and mewling and pugkingSatnhof and have not our arms been victorious everywhere since the dawn of the negro millennium of 1863T I know that men like General M. Bray man, who eamrr.ands in your vicinity (at Bolivar, Tennessee.) are guilty of absurdities of speech which afford ths enemies of our sagacious Pres ident excuses for complaint and criticism. For instance, in the 14th of last March that officer, then in command at Bolivar, wrote as follews in regard to the proclamation of freedom with which our illustrious and far seeing l'resi lent greeted the advent of the new year: "The loy al man is equally helpless with the disloyal; in fact more so; for the rebel takes his slaves South or hires them in the army in which he himself serves, while the slaves of loyal men flee to our camps beyond reclamation. Under this process the rebel holds his slaves by carrying them into a State in which they are declared free, while the law abiding citizen loses his by retaining them in a State where it is lawful to hold them. As it is now, the loyalty and good conduct of these men avail them nothing." In speaking of the elevating effects of this system upon our armies end the negroes, Gen. Brayman shocks our sensibilities by the use of such language as this;—" Their expense to the government is enormous. It requires soldiers to guard thpm. They sicken and die in crowd ed and filthy corrals. They become debased and demoralized. They debase and demoralize the army." Now, among the resolutions you will adopt at the Memphis meeting there should bj- all means be one censuring Gun. Brayman for the use of language so insulting to "our fellow citizens of African descent," and so justly calculated to in cense the slaveholders in Tennessee, who have so stubbornly refused to join the rebels. Why, sirs, this license of speech must be suppressed. What right have men who do not support the present wise and efficient adminis tration to criticiso its policy or the consequences of it. Within thelat few days I have heard persons in this city—in this capital, which bears I the sacred name of Washington, and which, for the present, is tho home of our illustrious Chief Magistrate—draw seemingly inviduous distinc tions between the fate of Jesse D. Bright, of In diana, and that of John M Kotts, of Virginia. How my blood "boiled with pious indignation" when, a few days ago, I heard a certain indi vidual, of the straitest sect of copperheads, dis coursing thus:—"Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, was expelled from the Senate of tbe United Frßtdom of Thong BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1863. States, last year, charged with treasonable tises. He then owned a farm and negroes in Kentucky, and still owns them. He accepted the amnesty, provided in the so-called confisca tion law, which passed Congress last July. He is now preparing to accompany his family on a trip of pleasure to Europe, leaving his large properties in Indiana, and his slaves in Kentuck y under the protection of the law. John M. Bolts is just out of Ltbby, or some other Con federate prison, where he was incarcerated for his devotion to the Union and his undying hos tility to the so-called Southern Confederacy.— Ten days ago his slaves were enticed within the lines of our armies in Virginia. Mr. Bolts de manded that they be surrendered or returned, and received for answer direct from Washing ton, that he hud no light to them: that our wise and law-abiding President had set them free. | I confess thnt when I heard this long and complaining rigmarole, I wns indignant at this person's stupidity. He could not see the wis dom of this wise policy of our most noble Ex i ecutive. He wns almost as incorrigible us Jas. L. Petigrti, of South Carolina, who, when lie read the grand proclamation of the most illus trious successor of Washington, took the oath of allegian'e to the Confederate government, and offered his private fortune to the rebels to aid thcin in making war upon the armies of the sublimest man of modern times; of Nelson, of Tennessee, who, with sons in rebel captivity, pub lished an appeal to the people of that State to take up arms against our freedom-loving Pres ident; of Houston, Henry and others, who im mediately went over to the rebel cause. Away with all such men. A good Union man loves his country per te. He cares nothing for liber ty or property, fame or fortune, consideration or contracts, office or opinion. The true test is simply this: who is I lie greatest, wisest and best of mankind ? Who is the first nutural milita ry genius of the world ! Who doetli all things wisely and well ? Who should be elected Pres ident as long as lie will accept the office? If to all these inquiries the respondent answers with i a firm, unfaltering voice, Abraham Lincoln, ' Esq.. he may ha set down as n good Union man, fit to join a "Loyal League," receive a contract, accept a commission or office, and to vote. But, if like Crittenden, of Kentucky, he is ever talking about the Constitution and such worn i ont themes, he ought not to be trusted for a | moment. A Union man must have abundance of faith •—faith in the saving graco of our exalted Pres ident—faith that bo will yet provo the political Moses to lead our armies across the Rappahan nock—faith that under his leadership, could he be induced to take the field, tho mighty hosts of Rebcldom would flee from Maryo s Hid und drown themselves, like "possessed" swine in the adjacent stream. How is recruiting now in West Tennessee? Last summer only a few thousand enlisted in our ranks; but very few, I believe, in Memphis. You were so amply protected within the lines that you quite forgot, I fuar, the sorrows of those who had not yet had an opportunity of greeting the flag which brings such certain se curity to loyal men, women and children; such inevitable protection to property, including such trifling articles as negroes and cotton bales.— Hurry up the volunteers. Give the lie to those who intimate that Tenncssceans will not go in to the Gulf States to tight for their brethren of African descent. True, most of our citizens have sons, daughters, sisters, fathers and broth ers there; but they ought never to have settled so fur South. Besides, when you have secured freedom to our African fellow-citizens South of us, you may possibly have the honor of taking pari in carrying the same boon to a similar class in Tennessee and Kentucky. 1 doubt not our noble President will, in due time, udopt suitubio means to ascertain the will of tlie laird in his behalf. Indeed, it seems to have been made known already to some of the lesser lights. Last week a grand convention of the loyal women of America assembled in the city of New York. Each delegate has con ceived (not a baby) an idea; and, under the in spiration of the great occasion, tliey have com manded our magnificent President to proclaim ' freedom throughout all the ends of the earth. I doubt not, at the proper time, he will so pro claim; and the twenty thousand troops which his Excellency Governor Andrew Johnson was recently authorized to recruit in Tennessee (you have no doubt enlisted), will soon be ready fur the good work of giving practical freedom to our enslaved fellow countrymen, male and fe male, of African descent. When that time conies Memphis will be a lovely city. Its walks and promenades will be illuminated by the smiling faces und brilliant eyes ot the graceful aud accomplished sons and daughters of Lincoln and Lilterty, of Darkness und Dahomey. True, our Stute Constitution and laws, like those of Illinois and other loyal States, will not permit free negroes to conic within our State, nor enfranchised slaves to re main there; hut from military necessity, or, as a high official expresses it, "from the ex veces eitate ret of the thing," they will, no doubt, Ix permitted to remain. The plan recently adop ted in South Carolina of selling there the lamb of rebels might be adopted, and thereby Mem phis might soon become "a variegated city."— Our whito and colored brethren and sister? might thus furnish an example of that "free dom and fraternity" which so many unhappy Northern spinsters sincerely regard as the only means of compromising the present unfortunate distinctions of color. You should by all means pass a resolution in favor of giving such rebel farms and town lots as are not needed for our colored brethren to our Christian friends in the North who desire to live among their colored friends, particularly to that numerous and respectable clnss who think that both races will lie improved by a cross of tho Anglo-Saxon upon the "When k this cruel war is over," how our Fsalm-siagUJg t find Opinion. Rjrethren from the Churi h of the Puritans would IpSJoy a Confederate farm upon Big Black, the Mfiefi river, the Arkansas or Ponchartrain! When Rlie rebels are disarmed, how meek and lowly, Docile and penitent they will be while beholding tur Northern brothers occupying their mansions, Mid illustrating the beauties of General Bunks' ibprentice system! With what impunity Gen eral Butler would ride from his plantation on Aoon lake to his ranche ou Deer creek! Then be made manifest the absurdity of those copperhead croakers who foolishly insist that, while military power can put down a rebellion, moral power uione can eradicate its consequen ces wud keep it down! It is true, they cite the example of Vendee; which, in area, is only about one-fortieth part of France. There, we admit, the peasantry be lieved their religion was endangered, and histo ry records that they defeated six or seven of the b. st appointed armies which the Freuch re public, in iliat warlike age, could hurl aguinst him. It is also true that afterwards, when Carnot was made Minister of War. he quieted the people by assuring them they should he un disturbed in their religious faith. These mis chievous fault tinders, to give further force to their insidious assaults upon our worthy Presi dent, point also to Poland, in which the fires of rebelliun are aver burning, but they forget that the Gear of all the Uussias is in ail respects inferior to our model President, and is wholly ignorant of the true means of quieting u disaf fected people. It never occurred to the afore said Czar that, to squelch a rebellion effectual ly, the cause must he removed. Had he stud ied tie history of rebellions in this country, he would have discovered that we always ascer tained the cause, the evil, the sin, which gave a pretext to the insurgents. Fur example:—During the administration of General Washington a portion of the people of Pennsylvania got up a rebellion about whiskey. It was crushed out by "coercionbut the sa gacious statesmen of that duy determined to Strike at tho cause. The result is that the people of that noble Commonwealth have ever since eschewed whis key and turned their attention to contracts.— Nothing is now known iu that State of whis key, aud though Buchanan used to recite 6ome traditionary stories of "old rye" to the juuiur members of his Cabinet, it is well known that the sight of a bottle of pure Monongahela was aa repulsive to his nature as ice water to a mad dug- (subsequently, while Geueral Jackson was President, the people of South Caroliua revolt ed against taxation, been use some demagogues called it high tariff, and asserted that the mon ster "stole money from tlicir unconscious pock ets." The rebellion, however, was subjugated bj the military power at the Government, and the cause—taxation—of courae abolished. No tax-gatherers have been known since iu South Carolina. At a later day, during the adminis tration of John Tyler, of the firm of "Tippe canoe und Tyler too,'* some unwashed Demo crats in lihodu Island fermented a grand insur rection against the sovereignty of that large and populous State. The anny and navy of the United States, by a hearty co-operation with the "loyalists" of that day, soon overthrew the iusurgents. Their provisional Governor, Thus. W. Dorr, was eaptured, denied the rights of a "belliger ent," and sent to the penitentiary. The Dem ocratic party —the cause—was abolished, as all subsequent elections have shown, throughout the United States, since which no speck of re bellion has been known within the vast limits of that loyal State. The rebellion of Utah, which occurred during the reign of that old public functionary, is too recent to be forgotten. The cause is doubtless fresh in the tuunl ot every aged maiden lady in the loyal States. Tho re publican instincts of our people would not tol erate a monopoly in Heaven's "last, best gift to man." General Albert Sidney Johnston was sent to Utah with instructions to conquer Jhe conjugal spirit of Brigham. The Mormon war ended gloriously to our arms. The cause was removed. Harems are now unknown among the Latter Duy Saints, and Brigham, like some lone bird without a mate, "retusea to be com forted.'' In Europe, protracted and sanguinary civil wars have often resulted from ditterences of opinion in regard to the true r mode of con struing the Bible, and especially concerning the operations of the Holy Ghost. They have tail ed to abolish the one or deny the other. The result is that few countries in Europo maintain the quiet which usually "prevails" along the Kuppaliannock. It should not be overlooked that our people were very ignorant or they would never have been deceived by tho treasonable enemies, North and South, of our noble President. It was false ly charged that he and his party friends did not ■lei-iie to suppress the rebellion without first sub verting tho lights of the^htutes —treeing all the slaves und elevating tliein to political equality with the whites. Our people being, of course, very ignorant, believed all these false, scanda lous and malicious statements, und among the resolutions you will udopt at your meeting, there should be one thanking his Excellency, our most approved President, for the effectual means ho has adopted to give strength and moral power lo the Union men and women of the South; while at the same time he has shown how wick edly false and libelous were the allegations of Hiuthern traitors and Northern copperheads that he intended to use the army und navy to abolish -lavery. The Union men of the South will ever grate-1 fully cherish the name and memory of one who, | by a scrupulous regard of his official aud other I pledges, and his manly adherence to the Chica- ! jo platform, has vindicated tho truth of ail the ( pledges which frotu timo to time we made in his Hshulf; and the traitors and copperheads who I bus falsely charged our groat and good Presi lent with designing to subvert the institutions I jf the Southern States, must henceforth hide their faceo is shame- i WHOLE NUMBER, 3061 VOL. 6, NO 45. You should by no means fail to adopt with wild acclamation, mingled with a few "Bully Hallelujahs," a resolution severely denunciatory of those who criticise our military operations, or show impatience at the tardy movements ol our armies in South Carolina and Virginia. Such criticism gives the rebels "aid and comfort," and, though it may not be felony without bene* fit of the clergy, is nevertheless what Mr. l'olk stigmatized as "moral treason"—a crime which our noble President and other Whigs were com pelled to "dry up" during the war with Mexico. Our present military discord is but "harmo ny when understood." We are abundantly a hie to beat the rebels whenever we try. At present we have them completely surrounded — crowded into a small circumference of not more than six thousand miles. Our armies are guard ing the outposts of this contracted line, and everywhere daring the pusillanimous butternuts to "pierce the centre," and the rugged wretches "take the dare." We have forces at Galveston, New Orleans, Pensacola, Hilton Head, New hern. Mutlolk—(all is quiet on the Blackwater) —Fortress Monroe, on the Itappabannock, at Baltimore, along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Kniiruad, in Western Virginia, in Ken tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Fort Smith and at Vicksburg, in the very heart of Kebeldom.— How loug can the rebellion exist when thus cir cumscribed T In addition to all this, Adjutant General Thomas, a native of "My Maryland," and who, last year, was charged by the malig nant tongue of slander with being a secessionist and a traitor—following where such noble men as Butler, Brady, Dickinson and other old friends of Breckenridge dare to lead—is now in the Southweßt organizing the loyal blacks, who, it is understood, are impatient to be led against the barbarous hordes of Lee and Beauregard. Northern philosophers, women and divines, who regard the African as the best normal represen tative of the human race, and those who have seen the sturdy mustitf quail before the perfume of the skunk, do not believe the delicate nerves of the rebels will be able to withstand a bayo net charge from these American soldiers of Af rican descent, if made when the state of the thermometer indicates cutaneous activity and corresponding perspiration. Time, however, will soon settle this disputed question. You should further denounce all who com plain of the Army of the Potomac. It has been in no sense a failure. It has achieved more than any army in ancient or modern times has accomplished under similar or equal difficulties- Its bravery is unquestioned, and injustice is done its Generals. True, McCieltan, under the in fluence of Northern copperheads, aided by such Itcpublican fogies as Tburiow Weed, and back ed by the stupid graduates of West Point, was fast becoming a favorite with the army and the people, and it was gritvely hinted by some of his bolder adherents that be might be used by the copperhead fraternity to auppiant our unri valed President in lblii. Besides, Gen. McClellan had commanded the Army of the Potomac long enough. "Rotation in otlice" is a sound political axiom. He was, therefore, retired, although still a favorite with the brave men he so long commanded. Gen. Burnside's career baa been an eminently brilliant one, and the saiue may be said of Gen. Hooker, who, I presume, will soon retire upon the lau rels he has so nobly won. But in all this there is strategy. It is the re sult of that superior genius and wisdom of our President, who, as "Commander-in-Chief," moves interiors upon the military chessboard with a skill which excites the udiniration of all who are truly loyal to the administration. No harm can result from all this. Wo have an a bundunce of leaders ready and willing at a mo ment's notice to lead the Army oi the Potomac to the rebel capital. We have in reserve But ler, Phelps, Busteed, and Lane, to say nothing of Col. d'Utassy, who, like Mahomet's cotlin, is still suspended between the heavens and the earth. I look in vain among the names attach ed to your letter for one which recalls a familiar face. Ido not now remember that I ever had the honor ot a personal acquaintance with any one of you, although in former times I knew many of the leading citizens of Memphis, among whom are not a few who are still ardently in favor of a restoration of the Constitution. 1 regret to find none of them associated with you in the proposed demonstration. But 1 will in dulge no complaints. Wherever our armies have secured a perma nent lodgment in the South, as at Hilton Head, New Orleans, Newbern, Nashville and Memphis, the Northern friends of our most excellent Pres ident have supplied us abundantly with most dis interested men and women, whose loyal tongues are heard in melodious tones wherever we "hold, occupy and possess" a cotton or contraband set tlement in the Confederate wilderness. Look at Hilton Head, where the tender maiden anil tougher matron of the North mingle upon sis terly terms with the Palmetto African ladies of South Carolina. A bountiful issue of tracts and catechisms will no doubt soon bo followed by an improved issue of contrabands—not so white as the pure Anglo, nor so black as the normal African. In a few years they will Walk in beauty like the night Of cloudleaa climea end atarry akiea, And all tbat'a beat of dark and bright Meat in tfeeir aapect and tbair eyea. In North Carolina, Charles Henry Foster, Esq., originally from Maine, and a warm polit ical friend of itreckenrnJge, has organized a tree labor association, and Governor Stanley has gone back to California in disgust- In Nashville wc have a regularly organized abolition society. Its organ is the same as that of the Stato and Fed eral Governments, and the editor, though im ported from abroad, is doing moro to sustain the glorious administration of President Lincoln than any native born citizen of the State can do or is willing to do. This Abolition society and this Abolition newspaper, although conduct ed withiu the fortifications of this city, is do- *at of 3U>mtUlna. Oee Oqaasv, three NkiN lm 41U/ Om *!*■, earb itftiml inertias lata thu three Mtli t aarm. * aoitu. I (hi One square • $3 eo 94 00 MOO The square* 400 900 000 Three iqaarat 900 700 It 00 {Column 900 000 19 00 Column 000 It 00 to #C 4 Column tt 00 19 00 30 00. One Column 10 00 00 00 90 00' Administrators'•mdßseeeter*' netireaft.9o, Ao uitor*' notice* 91.90. if —Oat 10 line*. 9t 00 if more than a aqu ire and leaa than to Hue*. Katray*, r 1.95, if but one head ia adeertiaad, 99 cant* Mr eeery additional head. The *p ce occupied by tan line* af tbl* attest type count*one square. All fraitioosofa square under five line* will be measured aa a half *o nN > and all over tee line* ae a toll square. All legal advertise meet* will be charged to the penoa hand inr them in. , inz, no doubt, veiy much to induce the pwpio of Middle Tennessee to cease all further oppo sition to the wise, gentle and constitutional rule of our distinguished Chief Magistrate. In Memphis the harvest is a tempting one. With cotton at a dollar per pound and likely contrabands "lying about loose," our enterprise' ing Northern friends, who love the Union and wish it preserved under the guaranties of the Constitution, may make "a good thing of it." Already I hear of several who have farms in Kansas, lowa, Illinois, Indiana and other "loy al" states, which are now well tilled by ncgroea who once belonged to the Union men of the South. Facts like these wilt tend greatly to the restoration of peace and harmony, and materi ally aid in removing the prejudices which the people of the insurrectionary States have enter tained against their Northern kindred. They now know that the war ia not to be so conduct ed as to deprive them unnecessarily of any por tion of their property; and they now have pos itive proof that Southern Secessionists and North ern Copperheads, who charged that the war was to be finally waged against the South as a sec tion, instead of the rebels and tbeir allies, woro guilty of falsehood. Furthermore, there it a large party at the North who have persistently refused to regard the African as the best repre sentative of the human race. This influx of negroes will do much to dung* their opinions, sod by the Mine means Southern manners and customs will become gradually in troduced North of the Ohio and Potomac, ren dering our people more homogeneous than id former times. Thus we will again become a united and loving people. The lion and the lamb—the contractor and the contraband—will lie down together, and then the millennium will have come. Excuse the haste with which I write, and accept assurance of my highest re gard. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, EH. ETHXRIDOX. To J. M. Toraeny, G. D. Johnson and oth ers, Memphis, Tennessee. •>A leading officer in one of the courts was charged with never jgoing to bed sober. Of course he indignantly dented the soft impeach ment ; and he gave the particulars of a partic ular night in proof. We quote his own words: 'Pretty soon after 1 got into my bed, my wife said: 'Why husband, what is the matter with yon t Yon act so strangely.* 'There's nothiftg the matter with me,' Mid I; 'nothing at all.' 'l'm sure there is,' (he said; you dont act natural at all. Shell I get up aiod get eeaee thing fur youl* 'And the got up, lighted the candle, and came ' to the bed side to look at me, shading the iighs with her hand. [ 'I knew there wan something strange a boot you,' said she. 'Why you are sober!' 'Now, this is a fact, and my wife will swear to it. So don't you dander me any more, by saying I bavn't been to bed sober in six months, 'cause 1 have.' Such a testimony was considered reliable, and the man now enjoys his new.found reputation. XV"You can do anything if you only have patience," said an old uncle, who had made a fortune, to a nephew who had nearly spent one: ''Water can be carried in a sieve, if you can only wait." "How long?" asked the petulant spendthrift, who was impatient for the old man's obituary. "Till it freezes!" was the uncle's cool reply. CrA. soldier dying of a lung disease in one of the Washington hospitals, had a blister ap plied between his shoulders by the surgeon. The poor fellow looked waggishly at the doctor, and grimly asked if a man had to have a stamp put upon him before he could be allowed to die? XVQuilp and his wife had a bit of contention the other day. "I own you have more brillian cy than I," said the woman, "but I hava the better judgment." ''Yes," aaid Quilp, "our choice of marriage* show that." Quilp was informed that ha was a brute. VA lawyer once jeeringly asked a Quaker if he could tell the difference between also and likeunst. "O, yes," said the Quaker, "Srskine is a great lawyer; his talents are admired by almost eve ry one. You are a lawyer also but not like tews.' XVA Milwaukie paper says that when a Wis consin girl is kissed, she looks surprised and says, "How could you do it?"' to which tha swain replies, "It will give me much pleasure to show you," and proceeds to give her a du plicate. MT An author of a love story in describing his heroine, aaya: •'lnnocence dwells in the dark cluaters of bar hair." A waggish editor suggests that a fine tooth comb would bring it out. RgPCBMCAMS OfPOSKD TO AIUHTKA>Y A RK9TS. —Every Republican paper, in the city of New York opposes the arrest of Mr. Vallandi gham, except the Timet. This speaks volumes. arThe letters thnt spell debt are the initials of the sentence, "Dun Every Body Twice;" and the letters that spell credit are the initials of the sentence, "Call Regularly Eveiy Day— I'll Trust." _____ crPat Doolan, at Inkerman, bowed his head to a cannon ball which whiased past, sic inches above his bareakin. 'Faith,' says P*L 'One never loses anything by politeness.' SiTA viper's tongue is said to be six inches long;, aeoolding woman's has no end
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