THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY B. F.BEYERS, At the following terms, to wits $1 "5 per annum, if paid strictly in advance. $2.00 if paid within 6 months ; $2.50 If not paid within 6 months. m"No subscription taken tor less than six months tt?-N r o paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publishei. It has been decided by the United States Courts that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and as a criminal oSehce. courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether they subscribe for them, or not. professional €av^3. JOSEPH W. TATE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will promptly attend to collections and all busi ness entrusted to his care, in Bedlord and adjoining counties. Cash advanced on judgments, notes, military and other claims. Has for sale Town lots in Tatesville, and St. Jo seph's, on Bedford Railroad. Faimsand unimproved land, from one acre to 150 acies to suit purchasers. Office nearly opposite the "Mengel Hotel" and Rank of Reed Ik Schell. April 1, 186-1 ly J R. DURBORROW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Office one door South of the "Mengel House." Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. iWford, April 1, 1864. £EPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. *V;"1 - and promptly attend to all business •."listed to his caie in Bedford aod adjoining coun ties. Military claims, back pay, bounty, Ike., speedily collected. Office with Mann & Spang, on J*.iiana etreei, two doors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, '6l. JTALSIP tsojf, Auctioneers & Commission Merchants, BEDFORD, PA.. Respectfully solicit consignments of Boots and Shoes, Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, nndall kinds <f Merchandise for AUCTION and PRIVATE Sale, REFERENCES. FarLAOELPHta. BEDPORO, Fkilip Ford & Co., Hon. Job Mann, Boyd & Hough, Hon. W. T. Daugherty, Armor Young & Bros., B. F. Meyers. January i, 1864—tt. J. L. MAKBOURG-, M. D. Having permanently located, respectfully tenders bis professional services to the eitiiens of Bedford and vicinity. ryg-Office on Julianna street., opposite tka Bank, one door north of John Palmer's office. Bedford, February 12, 1861. u. II- AKERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bedford , PA. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. Military claims speedily collected. Office on Juliana street, apposite fjost-o"re. Bedford, September 11, 18C3. F. M. KIMMSLI.. '• W - LINOEEPELTSR KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD. FA [£/"Have formed a partnership in the practice ot rh e Law. Office on Juliana street, two (iOors South the "Mengel House." Ton MANN. H - SPANG ' Jl A S H & SPANS# ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, FA. The undersigned have associated themselves in the Practice ot the Law, and will attend promptly to all business entrusted to their caie in Bedior and adjoining counties. rrT-Otftre on Juliana Street, three doors south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence oi Maj. Tate. Bedford, Aug. 1, leiRP.IEED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PAm Respectfully tenders his services to the. Puj.se. second door North of the .-lng-. House. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861- _ _ J0 H N P ALMER. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA, K5-Will promptly attend to all business entrus ted to his rare. Office on Juhanna Street, .(near ly opposite the Mengel House.) Bedford, Aug.l, IS6I. 1 8. 40FFB0TB, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, Fa Will hereafter practice regularly in the a e*ral Courts of Bedford county. Business entrnste .c his care will be faithfully attended to. December 6, 1861. _ SiMB EL KETTERMAS, BEDFORD, PA., C3T Would heceby notify the citizens of eounty, that he has moved ro the Borough of .>ed foid, where he may at all times be found b person, •wishing to see fcim, unless absent upon business pertaining to his office. Bedford, Aug. 1,1861. JACOB REED, J -J. ScngLL, REED AND SCHELL, BANKERS fc DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD, PENN'A. bought and sold, collections made anil money promptly remitted. Deposits solicited. ST. CHARLES HOTF.L, CORNER OF WOOD / ND THIRD STREETS PITTSBURGH, PA' HARRY SHIRLS PROPRJETOR. Aprit 12 1861. A. A. BHUMWAY 80 CO., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers vt Roots Shoes, No. 231 Market Street, and 210 Church Alley, PHILADELPHIA March 7, 1863—1y. ESTATE OF MICHAEL HAMMER. Deed. The undersigned appoint-J auditor by the Orphans Coort of Bedford County, to examine and settle tht exceptions to the account of James Allison, Esq. Executor of the last will, &c.,of Michael Hammer dee'd., and to report a distribution of the fund is the hands of said aceounteant, will attend lo the dm ties of his appointment, at his office in Bedford or Saturday, the ilth day of April, A. D. 1961 at ten o'clock A. M. of said day. March 25, ISC4. S I.RUSSELL, Auditor. VOLUME 59. NEW SERIES. BOUNTY LAW. AN ACT Relating to the payment of Bounties to Volunteers. SECTION* 1. Pe it enacted by the Semite and House of Rqnestntatices of the Commonwealth of \ Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is ' .•( ly macted by the authority of the same, i'i .. .'II bomls, warrants, or certificates of in- 1 lebi 'lfieas. issued by the commissioners, or com nissiciiers and controller, of any county, or the jorporute authorities of any eity, ward or bor-; xugb, or school directors, or road commis sioners, or supervisors, of any township of this i .'ommonwealth, for t'xe payment of bounties to persons voluntearing to enter the military or naval service ot the United tSrates, under anp requisition heretofore made by the president of ;lio United .States, be and tiie same are hereby ' legalized, made valid and binding upon such '.ountics, cities, wards, boroughs, and townships ; is if full and legal authority had existed for ,he issuing iir.d making of the same when they vere issued and made; and that in all casts .vhere any special committee, commissioner, xr an individual or individuals, of any county, rity, township, borough or ward, shall have subscribed and paid or become personally liable lor the payment of money, for the purpose of paying bounties to volunteers, under the late jails of the president of the United States, who have been mustered into the United States mil itary service, and credited to such county, city, township, ward, or borough, with the under standing, or agreement, that a law would bo enacted to levy and collect a tax upon such 1 county, city, township, borough, or ward, for Lhe payment of such advancement and liabili ties, all subscriptions, so paid, or money bor rowed as aforesaid, shall be good and valid a gainst such county, city, township, borough, or ward, as if the same had been subscribed or borrowed by the corporate authorities of the sume, under the provisions of this act; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners, super visors, councils, or school directors, as the case may be, to proceed to levy and collect a tax up on such county, city, township, borough, or ward, sufficient to pay the principal of all such claims, with interest thereon until the day of payment, together with the cost ef collection thereof. StcriuN" -• That all payment of bounties to volunteers, entering the service of the United States aforesaid, by the commissioners, or the | commissioners and controller, of any county, or borough, or by the school directors, or rood commissioners, <>r supervisors, of any township of this amnion wealth, and all loans made by said authorises, for the purpose of making such payments, be and the same are hereby le galized and made valid SECTION 3. That the authorities aforesaid are hereby authorized, and required, to execute, and complete, all agreeoieuts, and coat, els, heretofore made by the aforesaid authorities of such counties, cities, wards, boroughs, or town ships, for the payment of bounties, a* aforesaid, or for refunding advancements made for that purpose by any committee, special commission ers, individual, or individuals, on condition that they should be refunded, according to the true intent and meaning of such agreements and con tracts; and for that purpose the said authorities are hereby authorized to borrow money, and issue bonds, warrants, or certificates, in the name of such county, corporations, or town ships, with or without interest coupons attach ed, payable at such time and place us may be agreed upon, and to levy such taxes as may be necessary to meet the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, warrants and certifi cates, as the same shall become due: which tax es and levies shall be assessed, and collected, as otiier county, city, ward, borough, or township, taxes are assessed, levied, and collected: Provi ded, That in all election, or enrolment, districts, not having any constituted authorities, as con templated by this act, competent to levy and collect said tax, the board of election officers of , Mich district shall be authorized to levy, and proceed to have said tax collected in such dis tricts. SECTION 4. That all assessments heretofore wade ot taxes for the purpose of paying boun. ties, as aforesaid, bo and the same are hereby legalized and made valid : Ptovided, That the property of non-commissior.ed officers, and pri vates, in actual service in the United States ar my and navy, from this commonwealth, or who died, or were permanently disabled, in such ser vice, or having been in such service for the space of one year and six months, were honorably discharged therefrom, and the property of wid ows, minor children, and widowed mothers of non-commissioned officers, and privates, who died in such service, shall be exempted from any taxation under the provisions of this act: Pro vided. That the provisions of the first, second, third and fourth sections of this act shall be so understood as to have reference orilv to such n grcements and contracts as have been entered into by the authorities aforesaid, subsequent to the seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. SECTION 5. That all the provisions of the fourteenth section of an act to create a loan, and provide for arming the state, passed the fif teenth day of Way one thousand eight hund red and sixty-one, which authorized the associ ate judges, and county commissioners, of the several counties of tliis commonwealth, to con stitute a board of relief for the families of such volunteers as have been, or shall be, enrolled and mustci'ed into service from their several counties, ar" hereby extended, and applied, to the families of men who have been, or may here after be, drafted or conscripted, and mustered into the service of the United States, and cred ited to the quota of said counties, respectively ; and all arrangements made by the several coun ties of this commonwealth, for the support of ! the families of volunteers, militia, dratted or Freedom of Thought and Opiaiou. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL S, 1864. conscripted men, mustered into the service, and credited, as aforesaid, are hereby legalized and confirmed ; and full and legal authority is here by given said county eomuiissioers to borrow money for the payment of such expenses, and for the extension of such relief to the families of all private soldiers, and non-couuuissioned otficers, who have been mustered in, or may hereafter be mustered into, the service of the United States, and credited as aforesaid, in pur suance of any requisition made, or to be made, by the president of the United States, or by any law of the United States now made, or hereafter to be made, or by the governor of Pennsylva nia, or any law of said commonwealth now made, or hereafter to be made. SUCTION 6. That the commissioners of any and every county in this commonwealth are hereby authorized to borrow such sum, or sums, of money as may be sufficient to pay to each and every 11011-commissioned olticer and private soldier who volunteered from such, county, and entered the military or naval service of the Uni ted Slates, on or after the seventeenth day of October, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun dred and sixty-three j and to each and every non-commissioned ofiicerand private soldier who may hereafter volunteer and enter the service of the United Stales from such county, and be cred ited to the quota thereof, in pursuance of any requisition ui the president of tile I . States, or by any law of the United States now made, or hereafter to be made, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars: Provided however , That in that part of any county where school directors, or road commissioners, or supervisors, of any town ship, or townships, or where the corporate au thorities t' any city, ward, or borough, or auy committee, special commissioners, individual, or individuals, have paid, or have now commenced to raise a fund for the purpose of paying such bounties, it shall be lawful for such school di rectors, or road commissioners, or supervisors, of such township, or townships, or the corpo rate authorities of such city, ward, or borough, to borrow such sun, or sums, of tnoa#y as may be required to pa}' to each volunteer from such district, a sum not exceeding hree hundred dol lars; and it shall oe lawful fdr such authorities j of said townships, cities, wards, or boroughs, to i iiie bonds of said townships, cities, wards, or boroughs, for such sum, or sums, of money, and in such amounts as may be uecef-sary to pay the authorized bounty to each volunteer requir ed u fill the quota or quotas of such township, city, ward, or borough: And provided further, That such townships, cities, wards, and bor have filled their ciuota, or quota" under any call or icquiMiiou liereiuioiw i U uG bv the president ot the United .States, as afore said, without aid from tuc county, city, or bor ough, shall be exempt from any tax levied, or to be levied, by the said county, city, or bor ough, for the payment of bounties, or for the payment of any bonds issued by said county commissioners, city, or borough authorities, for the payment of bounties to volunteers to fill tie quota aforesaid: And provided farther, That LO county, city, ward, township, borough, or otfer district, which shall have agreed, or offered, lo pay, as bounty to each volunteer credited to su:h county, city, ward, township, borough, or otter district, a larger suui than three hundred dollaa, shall be subject to the limitation as to aniotiit prescribed in this act; but any payment mac, or to be. made, or obligation given, or to be pv e-n, or liability incurred, or to be incurred,in pursuance ~f such ofier or agreement, is herby ratified and declared to be lawful and vad: And provided further, That in case the corniis sioners of any county, or the commissioners .nd controller of any county in this commonwetth, snail neglect, or refuse to take the necesiry steps to raise, or complete the raising of leni ties in townships, wards, and boroughs, notav ing raised, or commenced to raise, bountii at tiiv tune of the passage of this act, tlienund in that case, said township, ward, or bongh, by their authorities aforesaid, shall have purer, to proceed and raise bounties as fully and 8 ef fectuality as if done by the county authoties. SECTION 7. That the said county commiion ers, or school directors, road commissions, or supervisors, of any township, or corpora au thorities of any city, ward, or borough, araere by authorized, (for the purpose of carryit out J the provisions of this act.) to borrow nney, and issue bonds, or certificates of indebteiess, no bond, or certificate, to fte less than tbsum of twenty-five dollars, except when the hinty is less than twenty-five dollars, in the nae of such county, township, city, ward, or bough, with, or without, interest coupons attachetpay ab'.e at such times, and in such manner, an ay be agreed upon; and to levy, and assess,! all property, professions, trades and oceujwons, subject to taxation, for state and county fpo ses, and collect such taxes as may be nectary to meet the principal, and interest, of saidmds and certificates, as they shall become duand payable; which taxes shall be collected asun ty, city, ward, and borough, taxes are nc lev ied and collected, including a per capita t, of not more than one dollar, on all taxabmale inhabitants: Provided, That only one ptiapi ta tax :hall !>e levied in any one year: Pided, That in all cases whero any person, or pons, liable to draft, have, for the purpose otiising the sum requisite to pay a bounty to tbolun teers required to fill the quota of anyunty, city, ward, borough, or township, stipued, in writing, to pay a sum greater than tfenount of tax which would be due upon thepessed valuation of their real, or personal prrty, it shall and may be lawful for the eorpte au thorities of such county, city, ward,rough, and township, to collect the amount sabscri bod: Provided, That no bonds, or creates, issfffed under any of the piovisions ofis act, shall be for a longer period than tei(ars: — Provided further, That in all cases wn a bor ough and township have separate firda of school directors, and are embraced jne dis trict, for the purposes of the miiitarwft, the directors of said districts are hereby jiorized to act jointly in carrying into effect tbo provi sions of this act. SECTION 8. That in all cases where the coun ty commissioners of any county, the school di rectors, road commissioners, or supervisors of any township, or the corporate authorities of any city, ward, or borough, have levied a per capita tax upon persons subject to draft, or mil itary duty, the election of said corporate author ities be and the same is hereby legalized and made valid. SECTION 9. That in any case where a part of the bounty, authorized by this act, has been paid by any ward, township, city, or borough, and said ward, township, city, or borough au thorities as aforesaid, shall neglect, or refuse, to pay such part as remains unpaid by the terms of their agreement to pay bounties to volunteers, then the difference between the sum so paid, and the full amount of the bounty promised, (not exceeding, in the whole, the sum of three hundred dollars to each volunteer,) shall be paid said volunteers by tbe county au thorities, in which said ward, townships, cities, or boroughs, are located ; and the county com missioners, in which said ward, townships, cit ies, or boroughs, are located, shall assess, levy and collect a tax on such defaulting ward town ships, cities, or boroughs, as other ward, town ship, city, or borough, taxes are levied and col lected, in such amounts as may be required to pay the balance due the volunteers, as aforesaid, from such, defaulting township, city, or bor ough. SECTION 10. That the money so borrowed by the county commissioners, shall be paid over to the treasurer of the proper county, who shall pay to each non-commissioned officer, or private soldier, who volunteered from, and has been credited to the quota of, such county, and lias been mustered into the service of the United States, or has been honorably discharged there from, the sum of money to which such person shall he entitled, under the provisions of this act, on the warrantor order of the commission ers, drawn on him for that purpose; and said treasurer shall not receive more than one half of one perceutum on any money so paid over to him. SECTION 11. That the money so borrowed by the school directors, or road commissioners, or supervisors of, any township, or the coporate authorities of any city, ward, or borough, shall he paid over to the treasurer of said city, ward, borough, or township, or wuen such officer does not exist, to a person duly appointed by said authorities of said township, city, ward or bo rough, who, upon giving sufficient bond for the '' - " , • his duties, shall proceed to pay to such persons, M the QUO. .cu oy the tenth section of this act, and shall be allowed the same per centage as is allowed to the county treasurer, by the tenth section of this act: Provided., That the compensation al lowed !■- any collector of taxes, under this act, shall not exceed two per centum. SECTION 12. That in case any veteran sol diers, who have reenlisted, and have not been credited to any special locality, shall hereafter be credited, on the present draft, to the locali ty from which they originally volunteered, such veterans shall be paid by the local authorities, whose duty it is to pay bounties, sucli bounty as under the provisions ot' this act, shall be paid to volunteers from said locality. SECTION 13. That if any soldier, or non-com missioned officer, or private who would have been entitled to receive the sail bounty, shall have died before receiving the money, the pro per authorities shall pay the same to such per son, or persons, as by the laws of the United States would be entitled to receive tbe bounty of deceased soldiers. SECTION 14. That all accounts of tho receipts and expenditures of the bounty fund, arising from any taxes that have been assessed, or that may be assessed for tbe purpose as aforesaid, shall be audited in like manner as other county, township, city, borough, or school district, ac counts are audited. SECTION 15. All bonds, warrants, certificates of indebtedness, or loans issued, or to be issued, under the provisions of this act, or of any special act heretofore passed, or hereafter to lie passed, authorizing particular cities, counties, wards, boroughs, or townships, to borrow mon eys and pay bounties to voldnteers, shall be ex empt from all taxation. HENRY C. JOHNSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN IJ.1 J . EENNEY, Speaker of the Senate. AITROVED —The twenty-fifth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. A. G. CURTIN. A PROI'HBCY. —In the course of his recent speech against the policy of the Administration, :\lr. Eden, of Illinois, made a political prophecy which is wortli reproducing. It is tiiis: "Should this Administration be continued in power for another term, the war will go on until the financial schemes of Secretary Chase shall crumble into ruin, when it will of neces sity cease, leaving in its desolating course a di vided country and a ruined people. On the other hand, should the Democracy succeed in the next Presidential election, the Union will be restored under the Constitution in less than six months after its accession to power, as I believe without the necessity of shedding a sin gle drop of blood." SEXSII LE. — A soldi"! - recently returned to neighboring village, after an absence of two years, and found his wife living width another man, to whom she had been married some months, representing to him that she had never been married before, and to those who knew her that her husband was dead. The first and second husbands calmly talked the matter over, and then left tbe false onp to inveigle another husband if she could. Tiiat was decidedly more sensible than shooting at each other with pis tols WHOLE NUMBER, 3103 Speech of the Hon. Thos, H. Seymour. The Hon. Thos. H. Seymour, of Connecti cut, made the following speech at Hartford, on the r.ight of the late election. The report which we copy from the Times. FELLOW-CITIZENS: I congratulate you on this fire gathering of the Democracy of Hart ford. It is dark and dreary without: it is cheei ful within I congratulate you on the victory you have achieved in the town election. It is a vic tory on principles ; and it is destined to bear fruit. It is owing to two causes. It isdue first, to the unity if counsels in your ranks and to yourexcel lent organization, which you will do well to keep up , and it is owing, secondly, to another thing— to a change which is going on in the public mind, and which is here represented by sterling and patriotic men. All the indications are that there is a growing conviction in the minds and hearts of the people of America, that if the country is to be saved, it is to be sated by the Democracy. (Applause.) The people look at the history of your party —they see how the Democracy have earned the country along in peace, to an unexampled height of prosperity and power; and again they desire to commit to their hands the destinies of the American people. [Apia use."] What has brought you here ? It is precisely that spirit which prompt ed your oath as freemen, when you took upon yourselves the sworn obligation support the Constitution. Herein you pledged yourselves |to support the rights of the States, and of in -1 div'duals, and whatever of liberty and free in stil utions came down from the Revolutionary ■ fathers. And that cause is imperiled to day j by the men in power to whom, unfortunately, I are committed the reins of government; and knowing this, on the day of election you went forward and acquitted yourselves like men and patriots. Yes, my friends, it is imperiled by our rulers. This is the first time in the history of this coun try when we have been compelled to speak of those who were elected to !>e the servants of the people as rulers.— But the iron hand that is stretched abroad so oppressively upon the peo ple—the shackles that .re put upon free speech and the press, as well as upon the hands of the citizens —the utter insecurity of the American people, sii ce the great writ of liberty, the hab eas corpus , was struck down, all these things force upon us the melancholy truth that kingly words, and kingl} words alone, can express the act when wo speak of the men in power. f do net propose to go into the origin of the fearful struggle ; neither aru I gcing to ask you to oppose the war. It is in the hands of ni ;n whom w caußot control- 1 <l>ox will live out their political, ti.rip, and it is to be hoped that in the mercy of Clod the country will uot again be subjected to their rule. But 1 ask your attention to tire fact that this struggle is ia the nature of a civil war. 13i-- - guise it as we may, this truth can uot be concealed. It was begun with the declaration that it was simply and only a war, for the Constitution and the Union of oar Fathers. But now we see lead ing Republicans openly declaring that thev are opposed to the Union as it was. They tell us that we never can have the Union again. It is declared unblushingiy to be "an Abolition war." And the course of the Government to ward the seeedud States is clearly destructive to the Union. It is a civil war. It is brother against brother wherever a gun is discharged, or a sword drawn. And the only difference, between it and the civil wars of the Middle Ages is. that it has not yet become general. It is not, as yet, general because of the wonderful forbearance of the American people—who, when the bayonet has been presented to their breasts, have preferred to wait for the power of the ballot; that power which was illustra ted yesterday in so marked a manner in Hart ford. (Applause.) When a corrupt Congress, subservient to the Edict of the President, passed the Conscription act, and became something barbarous. We all know the nature of a civil war a war of carn age, which should be hateful to the American people. And yet we have a "war party" who look upon this with indifference. Bloodshed seems to be popular in our country! I am not speaking ot bloodshed in the shook of battle, but of the indifference of the people to the hor rible nature and reality of things now going on. "Thou shalt not kill," once had a weight of sa cred authority with our countrymen; but the sol ! emn charge now falls on unheeding ears. That awful command against the taking of human life, is disregarded. Look at the many military executions——eruel and unnecessary. Here the speaker alluded to particular cases, in illustration; and also spoke of a party of soldiers who lately took a steamer's load of con scripts, from the East of Virginia, one of whom leaped overboard; and instead of leaving down a boat and picking him up, "they shot hiin like a dog, and let his body drift out to sea for the sharks. It seems not to have occurred to thorn that this wretched conscript may have had a mothbr, who, with breaking heart, in her hum ble cbttage-hoine, might have felt a melancholy consolation in at least having the body of her son restored to her for burial in the village churchyard." Bloodshed, 1 say, is popular! What has be come of the "panting fugitive" of the Anti- Slavery Agitation days ? We hear nothing of him now. He seems to have taken refuge un der the broken arches of the Constitution ; while white men are hunted down. The character of the war has changed.—lf it was for the Union ouce, it is so no longer.— We are plainly told that it is for the conquest of the South. I wish to speak to you not as a politician, but as a friend of our country. — (Applause.) fiiow, let me tell you, gentlemen, (and let rae request, that you remember what I say,) the conquest of the South involves the destruction of liberties of the North and of the West! That is what it involves. A fact or two will prove it. It involves the necessity of military occuna- Rates ot One Square, three weeks or less $1 25 One Square, each additional insertionlet than three months . 30 3 MONTHS. 6 MONTHS. 1 TEAR One square *...... $3 50 $4 75 $8 00 Two squares 508 700 10 00 Three squares 850 900 15 00 4 Column 12 00 20 00 35 00 One Column 20 00 35 00 6^oo Administrators'andKxecutors' notices $2.50, Au tutor* 7 notices $1.50, if under 10 lines, $2.00 if more than a square and less than 20 lines. 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You have got a conscription, which is always con nected with a great military establishment; but says some Republican friend, this is only tem porary; it will pass away with the end of the rebellion, Hnd cease. Never, niv friends, never! If you have conscription now*, ycu will have conscription forever, unless the American peo ple by the ballot, or in some way, forbid it. The repu! lican war programme, unless it is changed, will certainly overthrow all that is sol id and valuable in our institutions. Therefore, I say, the Democr- "y may demand that the Gov ernment shall not carry out such a programme that brings results so disastrous to the American people. We have seen dark 'lays daring the last three years; dark for our country and its hojies. But the tile is beginning to turn. The session of the Legi.-latnre just closed is evidence of this— where free speech in defence of constitutional principles was quietly heard from your able rep resentative, Mr. Faton, in spite of coercion and bayonets. It shows that the people are deter mined, if everything is to be wrecked, that they will at ieast save their liberty out of that wreck, and build something more solid and enduring than they have yet had. (Cheers.) But you fear the bayonet, my friends. You lock to Ohio. You think the soldiers are ail Abolitionized and subservient to the commands of those who aim to establish and perpetuate a despotism. I cannot believe it! They will see that in so doing they are forging chains for tbeir own limbs. They will see the iniquities of the men at Washington. In my mmd there are thousands to-day in the Republican ranks will see this, and are ready to break away from their party connections. W shall have our recruits from them, henceforth. Ah, the men who are in revelry at Washington, while their country men are dying—these men, depend upon it, be gin to have some forethought of the doom that awaits them. If they sue holding high wassail to-night, they may see, as Belshazzar saw, the hand-writing on the wall. They are confront ed with the exclamation, "Thou art the man." They hear their doom in the rustling leaf; in the shaking of the tapestry on the wall. They hear it in the rattle of the passing carriage that goes I#}- the White House or other wbitcd sepulchre. They see the ghost of their murdered country, like Clarence, with "his bright hair dabbled in blood," rising before them. The spirit of Lib erty eomes up to confront them, and they see it with fear and trembling. A down trodden na tion arises be tore them, in all the majesty of its outraged rights, and its incorruptihle heart. (Chet s.) The war between the Aortli and the South has now been waged/or three years. We have called into the servico 1,775,000 soldiers. We have now in the field say 500,000 men. There have been disc' arged on account of wounds, disability and sickness, together with the deser tions. say 375,000. This leaves 900,000 men now do: J and buried. This is a liberal calcu lation in our favor, for if we could reach the exact loss in our army the total of deaths would not fall short of a million of lives. We have stolen and freed from the rebels from 75,000 to 100,000 negroes; admit it to be 100,000. This war, from the beginning, has been a war for the liberation of Southern slaves from their owners in the intent of the instigators, though it has only been publiciy avowed for the last two years. To say nothing of the injury, loss and cruelty to nineteen-twantieths of the poor slaves, to say nothing of the destruction, loss of property, de moralization of our population, the untold mis erics of the wouuded and broken down consti tutions of the discharged soldiers, to say noth ing of all this loss to the body politic, it Las cost the United States in debt, entailed upon future generation, already 3,000,000,000. To sum up the gross amount, we have, in order to lib erate 100,009 slaves, and make them worse off than they were while with their masters, crea ted a debt of $3,000,000,000, and sacrificed the lives of 900,000 of our fellow citizens! Is not this, in the language of the immortal Ben. Franklin, "PAYING DEAK I'OR oua WHISTLE."— Putrioi y- Union. A German statistician has recently shown that the invention of the sewing machine ena bles one woman to make one hundred times as many garments as she could have made a cen tury ago- To which a cynic replies that the av erage gain to mankind Is nothing at all, since one wpman now wears one hundred times as many garments as she would have worn a hun dred years ago. Our first mother was content with a fig leaf which, according to the Talmud, measured about three inches, by six : the fig leaf of a fashionable lady to-day measures about fif teen yards in circumference. Between tbeso extremes a contemporary thinks there must be a mean which would make the sewing machine a really profitable invention. gspAs proof of the fact that girls are useful articles, and that the world could not very well get along without them, a laic writer states it as a fact that if all the girls were driven out of the world, in one generation, the boys would all go out after them. a concert, recently; at the conelusion of the well known song; "There's a Good Time Com ing," a farmer got up and exclaimed : "Mister, you couldn't fix the date, could you." is p"opc*ed in New York to introduce into the churcces "invalid pews" aud "sleeping pewa." Paying Dear for the Whistle.
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