THB"*BBDJPORD GAZETTE
IS PUBLISHED EVER* FRIDAY HORNING
BY 11. F. MF/I'ERS,
At the following terms, to wit:
$2 00 per annum, if paid within the year.
$2.60 11 11 not P uid withiu thff y ear *
subscription taken tor leas than six mon th
rryNo p'nr discontinued until all aire ragj'S are
naid unless al ttie option of the publisher. It has
heen decided by the United States Courts that the
e'opp . te of a newspaper without the payment of
arrearage , is prima fade evidence ot fraud and as
a criminal oflence.
[tyThe rourts have decided that persons are ac
countable for the subscription price of newspapers
if they take them from the post olfice, whether they
subscribe for them, or not.
Professional (Jarts.
F7M.~KIMM*LL. '• W. LLJOJINJRLIIB.
KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA-
Oyllave lormed a partnership in the practice of
the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doora South
of tne "Mengel House."
JOB MASK. • H - SPANO
' M A I&BPANG.
ATTORNEYS ATL W, BEDFORD, PA.
The undersigned have associated themselves in
the Practice ot the Law, and will attend promptly
to nil business entrusted to their caie in Bedlord
and adjoining counties.
rryOHice on luliana Street, three doors south
of the " Mengel House, ' opposite the residence ol
Moj. Tate.
Bedford, Aug. 1, 1861.
"JOHN CVSSNAT d. F-. SHANNON.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
[jyHave formed a Partnership in the Practice of
the Law. Office nearly opposite the Gazette Office,
where one or the other may at all times be found.
Bedlord, Aug, 1, 1861. ___ _
jOlli* P. REED,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
K e avert fully tenders hie services to the Pnhhe.
ByOffice second door North ot the Mengel
Bouse
Bedfr.d, Aug, 1, 1861.
W M HAT L. JOHN PALMER.
hall&palmeh,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, REDFORD, PA
Qy Will promptly attend to all business entrus
ted to there rare. Office on Julianna Street, (near,
ly opposite the Mengel House.)
Bedterd, Aug. 1, 1861.
A. 11. POFFROTII,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, Pa,
Will hereafter practice regularly in he several
Courts of Bedford counly. Business entrnsted to
his care will be faithfully attended to.
Decemb r 6, 1861.
BAM DEL KETTERMAiI,
BEDFORD, FA.,
(jy Would hereby notify the citizens of dedford
county, that he baa moved ro the Boinugh ol Bed
ford, where he may at all times be found b- persons
wishing to see him, unless absent upor. business
pertain rig to his office.
Bedlord, Aug. 1,1861.
JACOB REKD, J. SCHILL,
HEED AND SfllELl,
BANKERS Ik DEALERS IN EXCHANGE,
BEDFORD, PKNN A.
tjyDRAFTS bought and sold, collections made
and money promptly remitted.
Deposits solicited.
REFRRKNCKS.
Hon. Job Mann, Hon. John Cessna, and John
Mower, Bedford Pa., R. Forward, Somerset, Bunn,
Rsiguel & Co., Phil. J. Watt !s Co., J. W. Cuiley,
& Co., Pittsburg.
GT. CHARLES HOTEL,
CORNER OF WOOD /ND THIRD STREETS
PITTSBURG H, P A
HARRY SHIRLS PROPRIETOR.
April 12 1861.
€• N • BUCK OK,
DJBNTIST.
Will attend punctually and carefully to all opera
tionv entruated to hia care.
NATURAL TRUTH filled, regulated, polished, Ac.,
in the be.-t manner, and AuTivrciAL TRUTH inserted
from one to an entire aett.
Office in the Bank Building, on Juliana street,
Bedford.
CASH TF.RMS will be strictly adhered to.
In addition to recent improvements in the mount
ing of ARTIFICIAL TEKTH on Gold and Silver Plate,
lam now using, at a base for Artificial work,a new
and beautiful article, (Vulcanite or Vulcanized In
dia Rubber) stronger, closer fitting, more comfort
able and more natural than either Cold or Silver,
and 20 per cent, cheaper than silver. Call and see
C.N. HICKOK.
Bedford, January 16, 1863.
riTrsBPRG. PA., Corner Penn and St. Clair Sta.
The largest Comnnercial School of the United
Statea, with a patronage of nearly 3,000 Students,
in five years from 31 States, and the only one which
affords complete and reliable instru tion in all the
following barnches, viz: Mercantile, Manufacturers,
Steam Koai, Railroad and Book-keeping. First
Premium Plain and Ornamental Penmanship; also,
Surveying and Mathematics generally.
$35.00
Pays for aCommercial Course. Students enter ind
review at any time.
QyMiniaters' sons' tuition at half prire.
Fot Catalogue of 86 pages, Specimens of Business
tnd Ornamental Penmanship, and a beautiful Col
lege view of 8 square feet, containing a good vari
ety of writing, lettering and flourishing, inclose 24
■cents in stamps to the Principals.
JF.NKINS & SMITH, Pittsburg, Pa.
Jur.e 19, 1863.
JUWIATA MILLS.
The subscribe i s are now prepared, at their old
stam i, to do Carding and Fulling in the best style.
Th;t tie also manufacturing and keep constantly
on band for sale or trade, CLOTHS, CASSIMERF.S,
CASINF.rra, BLANKETS, FLANNELS, cc. By
ease ind attention to business they hope to merit t
share of the public patronage. Carding will be doni
Tom Mav I.lth to S> ptember 11th, and Fulling (ronr
bpte -nber 11th to IVcember 11 h. Wool and goodi
aill ie taken from and returned to the fol]6win{
placer, viz:
Robert Fyan'a siiore, in Hdford,
AO. James', < Rainsburg,
,1. M. Birn- olUr it Sou's tllooiy Run,
W. Htat-s A Co.,
Tert rt for Csrdi ng and Fulling, strictly cask.
CyTbe highest cub price will be paid for good
eteea tub-washed wool.
J.&B. 8. LVTT.
May 6A IBM—V
VOLUME 39.
\ T EW SERIES.
Select jpoetvn.
From the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS SAL
ARY.
["lt is stnted t lt;it President Lincoln, from
wtlriofic considerations, lias declined to receive
its salary in Greenbacks for a year past."]—
V. Y. Htrald, Aity. 5 > 18G3 -
TO ABRAHAM TIIF. FIRST, (RF.Ct'DIATOR.)
Quoth Yankee Doodle, rifrht away,
I hope you will, without delay,
Tell why you don't receive your pay,
Rail-splitting Aby;
For if it's true, what people say,
You're acting shabby.
From Dixie's land to Northern lake,
tit is a faet, there's no mistake,)
Greenbacks you legal tender make
'Midst all disasters;
Then why do you refuse to take
Your own shinplustcrs ?
Now, Aby, betwixt you and me,
The reason why I cannot sec,
Why you, in common honesty,
Who help to make them,
The first man in the land should be
That will not take them.
You know that we are daily told
That Greenbacks are as good as gold,
But why you should from them withhold
Seems rather funny,
Are you afraid of being sold
With your own money?
Admirer of the nigger race,
Now don't you think it a disgrace
Unto a man in your high place
To turn his coat —
"Repudiate his pretty face
On his own note?
In afler years, when men relate
The acts of Abraham the Great—
Rail-splitter from the Sucker State,
Chief of the Nation—
They'll say lie did initiate
Repudiation. P. P.
Awful Butcheries by Negro Sol
diers.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Re/tubltran
i\cß the following account of one of the most
lorrible outrages ever committed in the country:
"We landed at a place called Compromise,
m Tennessee, near the dividing line between
Kentucky and Tennessee, and heard there from
neighbors of a most horrible murder committed
jn Tuesday, the 4th. Eighteen negro soldiers,
fully armed, having come from camp on Island
No. 10, went to the house of Mr. Frank Beck
ham on the river, immediately where we land
ed this morning, arid murdered him, aged 40
years, his old father, Maj. Benj. Beckham, aged
80, and four children of M. F. Beckham—
Laura, aged 14; Kale aged 10; Caroline,
aged 7 ; and Richard, aged 2 years. They first
caught Mr. F. Beckham and his aged father,
tied them, marched them to the edge of the
bank of the river, shot and stabbed them, and
threw their bodies into the water. They then
threw little Dick into the river ; tied the two
youngest girls together and threw them in : then
ravished the oldest girl, and beat her over the
head with their muskets until she sank down.
The bodies of old Major Beckham and the
youngest child have been recovered.
Many of our passengers and myself went to
the house and snw them. Fortunately two of
the family of children were off at school, and
the mother and one child four years old went
up to Owcnslioro', Ky., with us on our last trip.
All the rest were murdered. Twelve ot the
negroes were caught by our cavalry, and arc
now confined at Island No. 10. Six are j'et
at large. The immediate motive for the deed
was thought to be the fact that Mrs. Beckham
touk up the river with her a negro girl us nurse,
whose mother had run off and was at Island
No. 10. The negroes had before endeavored
to steal the girl away, but Mr. Beckham drove
them off with arms. The above is a correcl
statement of the murder, which I got from tlx
neighbors and Mr. Max Jelmn, who had just
an hour before left Mr. Beckham's house, ant
is now n passenger on the boat.
A Traitorous Wish.
The Harrisburg Telegraph —an ultra Aboli
tion sheet—makes the following infamous dec
laration in its edition of Tuesday week, and re
peats it. twice over, in order to give it greater
emphasis:—
"WE WOULD RATHER SEE LEE AD
VANCE WITH HIS COHORTS INTO THE
HEART OF PENNSYLVANIA THAN
WITNESS THE INAUGURATION OF
WOODWARD AS GOVERNOR OF THE
STATE."
[C?-"JUDGE WOODWARD IS A CITI
ZEN OF UNIMPEACHABLE CHARAC
TER, AN ABLE JURIST, AND A PATRI
OTIC GENTLEMAN." — P/uCa Inquirer, (Re
publican, ) June 18t/i, 1563
This is a good endorsement of the Democratic
ean li late for Governor, coming as it does from
one of the must influential Republican journals
of the Stai" .
fir 'GOVERNOR '.'UK TIN CANNOT SE
CURE THE SUPPORT OF EITHER HIS
OWN PARTY OR HIS OFFICE HOLD
ERS." — Speech of Alexander Cuinuiiitjt be/ore
the ReuublK in State CW.w/wt, Aug. fc, 1863
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1863.
Why Curtin Cannot and Should
Not be Re-elected.
The Pittsburg JJaily Gazette , the Re
publican organ of Western Pennsylvania, |
in an editorial article week before last, says: '
"We have already suggested that, we
would regard the re-nomination of Gover
nor Curtin as a great calamity to the party
and to the country, for the double reason
that we should expose ourselves to the im
minent risk of a defeat, if we did not even
show thereby that we had deserved it, and
that we should render service very doubtful
to either by electing him. Wc now pro
ceed to assign some of the reasons for that
opinion.
It cannot be disputed, we think, that his
administration has proved eminently disas
trous to the party which brought him into
power. That it has been an unfortunate
one for the state the present condition of |
her plundered sinking fund and dilapidated
revenues will abundantly attest. It is not
clear that it has been wholesome for the
country. It is but too clear that it has been i
a damaging one for himself—so damaging
that it is more than doubtful whether the
Union sentiment, strong as it unquestiona
bly is, would ride over the unfavorable o-1
pinion so generally entertained of his integ
rity and wisdom, notwithstanding the more
than charitable reserve of the press, which
has flung a mantle over his faults, and per
haps encouraged his friends and himself to
believe iliat the history of his administra
tion will continue a seaied book or be forgot
ten amid the clangor of arms and the strife
of the battle field.
lie came into office less than three years
ago with a huge majority, and a Legislature
of which nearly three-fourths of both branch
es were, or claimed to be, Republicans. At
the end of one session he had thrown all
that majority away.
Entrusted with the privilege of expend
ing the first appropriation made by the Leg
islature for the common defence, he gave to
his own creatures the power of making con
tracts, as his private agents, in relation with
which they were entirely unfamiliar, to the
great injury of the soldier, who was victim
ised by their unskillfulness or fraud. This
fact was found by a committee appointed
by himself, under the pressure of a public
clamor, which grew out of the treatment ot
the volunteers ivlio had assembled at l lar
ris bury 'Those Uauf> young men who had
responded so generously to the first call of
their country, were in rags, with shoddy
vestments, shoes whose soles were stuffed
with shavings, and blankets almost as thin
and transparent as a window pane. It was
reported and believed that they had been
given over to the tender mercies of a few
heartless speculators who were then hover
ing about the capital. The officers at Camp
Curtin, justly indignant at what they saw
drew up a spirited remonstrance to the Leg
islature, which was presented to the House,
at their instance by one of our own mem
bers. It was suggested to him the propri
ety of an inquiry as to the nature of the
contracts made for supplies, and the names
of the agents, through whom they were
made, and he offered a resolution according
ly. lie wished to know and let the public
know, whether it was true that sundry in
dividuals then loitering around the capital,
who were pointed out by the tongue of m
mor, and known to bo entirely unfit for die
purpose, had been actually commissioned
by the Governor, as his agents , to make
contracts for the soldiers. One of these in
dividuals was a certain Charles 11. Neal, an
active ward politician, and Acting Commis
< sioner of Philadelphia who was understood
1 to be an intimate and confidential friend of
' the Governor. The answer of the Gover
nor ignored the fact of his employment , al
| though the record shows that on :he very
. day preceding or following his message to
t, the House he had endorsed and approved a
i contract for cloihiug made by the identical
t individual with the Erowenfelds of this city,
1 in that special capacity. On this contract
Ncal was afterwards indicted heie, and it
was while that indictment was depending
that the Governor felt it necessary in order
to appease: the public clamor, or divert from
his own head, to raise a committee of his
own appointment to inquire into his own
conduct. That committee proved very un
expectedly a fair one—so fair thit it was
deemed prudent to withhold its repirt from
the Legislature at the next ensuing session
of that body. It found however—dthough
it passed over the Fro wen fold casebccausc
it was depending on the Courts—hat the
soldiers were in rags. With evcrydisposi
tion to deal gently with the Governor, it
| condemned his appointments and tl "mode
i pursued by the government in inking its
i purchases. It declared that Ihe absence of
a strict supervisory power had )een the
cause of much of the mischief iha had be
tailen the State. It remarked, in dbserving
1 upon the character of theGovernork agents,
1 that it could not for a moment be supposed
that thorc were not men in Penisylvania,
whoso service could have been comnandod,
, and who by education and ability were o-
qua! to the occasions that had arisen, and
that the appointment by an executive, from
personal or partizan motives, of incompetent
agents to offices of great responsibilities, is
at all times, a grave dereliction from duty,
never more so than in great public emergen
cies, when the disasters resulting from the
ignorance or incompetence of the agents, for
whose appointment he is responsible, will
inevitably excite suspicions of fraud, and
return home to the Executive in humiliat
ing charges of collusion." And it closed by
observing that "thev also report in general,
as the result of tiicir investigations, that
thev have found instances of ignorance, of
incompetence, of sharp dealing never praise
worthy, and here eminently disgraceful, of
bad appointments, which, although under
the peculiar circumstances of the times to
be expected, are none the less to be con
demned."
i The judicial investigation of the Frowen
feld case having proved a failure, followed
a3 it was by the disappearance of the wit
ness, a new committee was raised at the
' next session of the Legislature by which it j
was found, among other things, thnt the
case as shown by the absconding witness, j
who had afterwards returned, was "a clear
i case of fraudulent complicity between the
1 contractors and Charles M. Neal;" that the
clothing furnished to the soldiers "could
have been afforded at $3.50 less per suit
than was given, and yet have left to the
contractors a profit of sl.sothat "a large
portion of it was entirely unfit for the use
of soldiers, and much of it fell to pieces in
a short time after it was worn by them
i and "that the flight of the Frowenfelds was |
almost conclusive evidence that they, at
least, were conscious of having defrauded
the state." Our readers will judge of the
quality of this committee when tlicy find
them * adding, that while the testimony of
1 Murphy seems to excite a strong suspicion
I against Nc&l, the testimony of Neal himself,
one of the parties implicated, seeins to clear
him from all but "a great want of judgment
in his purchase, and misapprehension as to
his duties," and that "his testimony shows
that he did not consider himself bound to
inquire either into the actual cost of the
goods used or their fitness for the purpose
intended." It is rather surprising that they
d ! not hunt up the Frowenfelds themselves
. who would, no doubt, have
! made a dfear case of it for the defendants.
In convicting them alone they forgot tha f
. the offence charged was one which either in
volved the complicity of the other party, or
1 did not exist at all, and therefore furnished
no occasion for running away. We are in-1
forned, however, that the confidence of the
Governor in Neal has been in no wise sha
ken by the transaction. lie still continues
i to be among his most intimate and cherish
ed friends.
But enough for the present. We shall
return to the general subject which we have
scarcely yet opened."
Gen. Washington's Letter of Instruction
to Military Commanders.
During the Presidency of Washington occur
red the celebrated "Whisky Rebellion." Major
General Daniel Morgan, of Revolutionary
fame, was sent at the head of ail armed force
into the infected district. Some disturbances
having taken place between the citizens and sol
diery, he recieved from the President the fol
lowing letter, which (with an apology for its
treason) we print for the benefit of those whom
it may concern:
Pnn.Au'/v, March 27,1795.
PEAK SIR: The interest which you have ta
ken in the safety of John Mitchell, as express- j
ed in your letter of the 16th January last, would
be an inducement to go as far in relieving him
as public propriety would admit. Hut the At
torney General having made a report, of which
j the inclosed is a copy, I think it advisable to
! postpone the further consideration until the
! trial shall have taken place.
It has afforded me great pleasure to learn
I that the general conduct and character of the
1 army has been temperate -and indulgent, and
j that your attention to the quiet and comfort
1 of the Western inhabitants has been well recciv
!ed by them. Still it may be proper, constantly
1 and strongly, to impress, upon the army that
; they are mere agents of civil power / they have
I no more authority than other citizens; that of
fenses against the laws are to be examined, not
'by a military officer, but by a magistrate; that
| they are not exempt from arrest and indictments
j for a violation of law ; that officers ought to be
i careful not to give orders which may lead their
1 agents into infractions of law ; that no compul
i sion lie used toward the inhabitants in the traf
i fie carrying on between them and the army,
. that disputes be avoided as much as possible,
• and be adjusted ns quickly as may be without
urging them to an pxtremc; and that the whole
country w not considered as within the limits of the
' camp.
I Ido not communicate these things to you
for any other purpose than that you may weigh
them; and, without referring to any instructions
from me, adopt the measures necessary for ac
complishing the foregoing objects.
Your affectionate bumble serv't.,
CEO. WASHINGTON.
f£/"*Wise men arc instructed by reason ; men
|of lose understanding by experience, the most
1 ignorant by acecessity ; and beasts by nature.
WHOLE NUMBER, 3073
VOL 7, NO 5.
From the Fulton Democrat.
Who will Support Curtin, Who
Woodward ?
In the last issue of the Republican the editor
undertook to give a list of those who would sup
port the respective candidates for Governor in
the coming election. His classification was not
near full enough, and we take the liberty of ad
ding to it. Among the supporters of Andy Cur
tin will be found:
Every original disunionist in the State, from
Tliad. Stevens down.
Every one who avows that the Union as it
was cannot be restored.
Everv one who asserts that the war can only
end in the extinction of slavery.
Every one who believes tlieConstitution to be
a "covenant with death and a league with hell."
Every one who sanctions the repeated viola
tions of that sacred instrument.
Every one who believes that Lincoln may vi
olate it at his pleasure.
Every one who justifies the arrest, the impris
onment, and the exile of Democratic editors
and orators for exercising the plainly guaranteed
constitutional sights of free speech.
Every one who believes Lincoln may suspend
the writ of habeas corpus at his pleasure.
Every oue who believes he may do away with
the sacred right of trial by jury.
Every one who believes that the negro race
is superior to the white.
Every one who believes the negro to be the
equal of the white man.
Every one who wants to see him admitted to
social and political equality, and like Judge Ag
new would desire to see the Constitution of
Pennsylvania so amended as to give him a right
to vote.
Every one who believes that the white race
would bo improved by amalgamation with the
black.
Every one who believes that this is a war for
the freedom of the negro.
Every one who believes that it neither am nor
ought to end except in the extinction of slavery.
Every one who endorses the emancipation
policy of the President.
Every one who thinks the nation can only bo
saved by the help of negro soldiers.
Every one, in short, who believes in an anti
slavery Constitution, an anti-slavery liible, an
anti-slavery God, and all the foolish and perni
rious proclamations of Abraham, the faiLhful
father of the contrabands.
Every one who has been engaged in plunder
ing the public treasury, except it may he Simon
Cameron.
Every shoddy contractor.
Every maker of shoes with paper solos.
Every manufacturer who is making a fortune
out of government contracts.
ujupt wUo has both hands up
to the elbows in the public suffers.
Every greedy scoundrel who thinks He will
soon get his paws in.
Every "green-back patriot."
Every man who is making money out of the
war.
Every one who lias made a fortune out of it.
Everyone who expects to make a fortune out
of it.
Every one who holds an office under Lincoln.
Every one who holds an office under Curtin.
Every Provost Marshal, and all in their cm
ploy.
Every tax collector and assessor, and, in short,
the whole gatig of vampires who are futtening
on the blood of the people and tho treasure of
the nation will vote for Andrew G. Curtin.—
But these, long as tho list is. and numerous as
they arc, arc not yet strong enough to carry the
coming election.
There is a much larger class who will vote for
George W. Woodward. Among these will be
found, every man who is loyal to the Constitu
tion ; every one who desires to see the Union
restored; every one who knows his own rights
as a freeman and respects the rights of his fel
low citizens; every true friend of liberty, and
every hater of despotism; every one who de
sires to sec the majesty of the civil law preserv
ed inviolate; every one who believes that this
government was made by white men for white
men ; every one who is in favor of keeping the
negroes in their proper place as an interior and
dependent race; every one who has sense enough
to see how much our liberties are endangered by
the assumptions of arbitrary power by the pres
ent administration; every one who condemns
the negro war policy of the President and his
advisers; in short every conservative thinking
man in the State, together with the honest mas
ses who are suffering from the multiplied woes
this war has brought upon us, and who desire
to see it end speedily, and in a manner honora
ble and just to all parties. These constitute a
vast majority of our population, and they will
speak their sentiments in thunder tones at the
ensuing election. If we have a free vote wo
have no fear but that, the result will bo a glori
ous triumph. Nothing can prevent this but
force or fraud at the polls, and that we do not
think our opponents will dare to attempt.
The Position of Brutus J. Clay not Sat
isfactory to the Abolitionists.
The Abolitionisis do not appear to be satis
fied with this gentleman, just elected to Con
gress from the Ashland District as the successor
of the Hon. J. J. Crittenden. Tho Cleveland
(O.) Lcade r, thus denounces him. It says:
roaiTION OF BRUTUS J. CLAY.
"This gentleman just elected to Congress in
the Seventh Kentucky District (the late Mr.
Crittenden's) is, it seems, one of tho peculiar
Kentucky Uuionists, and, as was his predeces
sor, Mr. Crittenden, is in favor of. tho Union,
but opposed to the Administration and its measures/
Thcso Kentucky Uniouiata are solfstullitiod men.
' "In a letter accepting the nomination, Mr.
Clay said 4 ho was, nd alwaya had been, for
tne preaervation of tho Constitution and the U
nion, and for a vigorous prosecution of tho war
to subdue the robollion, Hnd if olceted would
Bates of 3Uit) irtUta^
One Square, three weekior Issai ...... .91 93
One Square, each additional inertionla*
than three month, 99
3 WONTBS. ( MONTH*. 1 III!
One square • 93 00 $4 00 $6 00
Tiro squares 400 SOO 0
Three squares ...... 500 *7 00 19
i Column 000 000 15 09'
J Column 800 12 oft 20 0
£ Column 12 00 18 00 SO Oft
I One Column 18 00 30 00 SO 00
Administrators' andEiecutors' notices $2.50, Au
ditors' notices $1.50. if under 10 linee. $2.00 if
more than a square and lei, than 20 lines. Kstrays,
$1.25, if but one bead is advertised, 25 cents for
every additional head.
The space occupied by ten line* f this size of
type countsone square. All fractions ofatquare
under fire lines will be measured as a half square
and all over five lines as a toll square. All legal
advertisements will be charged to the person hand
ine them in.
vote for the necccssarj- measures to carry on the
war to the extent of the nation's present resour
ces.' He also declares:
"At the sainc time, I am opposed to the pol
icy of the Administration, as to the abolition
of slavery, and the enlisting of slaves as sold
iers. and whiie in the State Legislature I voted
for the various resolutions which were passed
condemning those measures.
"I ara uot, and have never been, in favor of
emancipation, cither gradual, immediate, or
compensated.
"it may be that Mr. Brutus Clay's position
is an improvement over that of the late John J.
Crittenden's but we arc unable to sec it. These
Kentucky politicians are self-stulntied, self-e
--masculated political eunuchs, whoso aid is a
negative quality, and therefore inutile. They are
in favor of tlie preservation of the Union, but
oppose the most vigorous and important meas
ures of the Administration to save it. Can fol
ly go further V.
The Army and Negroes in Missis
sippi.
The Yicksburg correspondent of the Chicago
Times writes:
The return of the army from Jackson was
the occasion of a remarkable exodus of negroes.
There were few able-bodied young ruen, for
the policy of making soldiers of them bus made
at least nine out of every ten as anxious to keep
out of the way of the Yankees as are many of
their masters. But all the old mon and women,
and young children, in the whole region of coun
try around Jackson—those who have been a
burden upon their masters, and will necessarily
be dependent upon our charity—accompanied
the army, on its return, in large numbers. Ev
ery species of vehicle, and an untold number of
broken down horses and inules. were pressed in
to the service by these contrabands en route for
Vicksburg. Their effects consisted of a won
derful quantity of old ciothing and bedding, and
dilapidated furniture, which they seemed to re
gard as of inestimable value. The transporta
tion, however, pvas not sufficient for all, and
hundreds, carrying as many as possiblo of the
inevitable bundles, trudged along on foot. All
seemed animated by a fear that our roar guard
would overtake, pass, and leave thotu behind,
and such a straining of energies, and hurrying
and bustling, was never before known among
the whole black creation.
Whnt on earth are we to do with the im
mense numbers of tbem coming within our finest
is a problem which the future alone can solve.
One tiling, however, is certain: No matter hqw
worthless or how incapable of self-support, they
cannot be permitted to starve, and wnethcr col
lected in one locality, or so equally distributed
as to give each township in the North its pro
portion .f paupers, tivjy will be supported at
the pubiic expense. Titer' is another thing a
bout this negro question which is even
tain than the other propus,:-**- The minds
all of them are filled with the most extravagant
idens of the North It is to them a country of
ease and plenty and happiness, and say and do
as you will, as soon as the military blockade is
made less stringent, they will swarm upon you
like the locusts of the east. Until I came down
here, I believed that, even if emancipated, the
negroes would remain in the South. I now
know better. Not one in ten will remain here.
They will go North, if they accomplish the dis
tance on foot. They don't fael sate hero, not
even those whose owners are dead, and their
fears impel them to go North. And then, their
extravagant ideas, as bright and glowing, as far
as their own ease and happiness is concerned, as
the warmest imagination of the Arabian Knights
will never permit them to remain in the South
after the road to the North is open.
Despotism in Maryland.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 8, 1863.
To the Editor of the N. Y■ News:
In the runh of mighty event#, we aro apt to
forget where we are drifting to. We have call
ed ourselves a free people, under a free aud be
neficent Government. We have boasted that
we were not oven liable to the despotism of Eu
ropean monarchies, and yet since the commence
ment of this war there has been attempted and
carried into effect, by the Government at Wash
ington and its tools, a despotism the most atro
cious the world has ever seen. This has been
done so silently and so ingoniously that in many
parts of the land it has hardly been observed,
and yet so effectually that where it does show
itself it defies not only opposition but criticism.
There is not a paper, for instance, in -his poor,
oppressed State, that would dare even to pub
lish what I have written on this page. I de
sire, therefore, through your columns, to call
attention to tbo unjustifiable and atrocious out
rages that are daily practiced by Schonck and
bis minions on the people of this city and Stat*.
Week before last a man's barn was burned
down in one of the adjoining counties. The
man whoso barn was burnt happened to have
been the enrolling officer of the district, and
Schenck orders that $3,000 shall be paid by
persons residing within 8 miles, most of whom
if not all, he does not even charge with know
ing anything about how or by whom the bare
was burnt, but he learns from the aforesaid en
rolling officer that they are, in his opinion, not
loyal. Since then, in another county, another
barn, Ixilonging to a loyal man, has been burnt.
Ho lays his claim at S6OO, and Schonck make*
his disloyal neighbor# pay the amount. Them
is not a shadow of evidence that the man did
not hum his own baru. Knowing that he could
fix bis own price, and that his neighbors would
have to pay it, was not the temptation consid
erable 1 But such cases are erery-dsy occurren
ces. But my object In writing is to Bend /®*.
the inclosed slip from Tho Sun, of thie city, of
a few days since. Tho facts are stated in aw
ry renpoct as they occurred. Please call atten
tion to them. Let Oen. Schonck beware. W
mnv tro too far for even this down trodden Me
pje A DEMOCRAT.