THE BEDFORD GAZETTE 13 rUBLISHEI) EVERY FRIDAY MDRNINO BY B. F. EYE SIS. At the following terms, to wits $1 73 per annum, it" paiJ strictly in advance. $2.00 if paid within 6 months ; $2.50 if not paid within 6 months. KF~No subscription taken tor less than six month 9 CF~No 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 oflence. K/~The courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price Of newspapers, if they take them from the post olficp, whether they subscribe for them, or not. Business <£avl>s. JOSEPH W. TATE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will promptly attend to collections and all bnsi- j ness entrusted to his care, in Cedlord and adjoining counties. ... j Cash advanced on judgments, notes, military and j other claims. Has for sale Town lots in Tatesville, and St. Jo seph's, on Bedford Railroad. Faimsand unimnroveJ land, from one acre to 150 acies to suit purchasers. Otiice nearly opposite the "Mengel Hotel" art! Bank of Reed 81 Schell. April 1, IS6-I—ly J R. DURBOREOW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Office one door South of the "Mengel House." Will attend promptly to ail business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Having also been regularly licensed to prosecute j claims against the Government, particular attention ] will be given to the collection of Military claims of ' all kinds ; pensions, back pay, bounty.bounty loans, j• the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors Soutn of the "Mengel House."' G. H. SPANG. ATTORNEY AT L\W. BEDFORD PA. Will promptly attend to collections and ay busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. K7-Office on Juliana Street, three doors =outh of the "Mengel Hous," opposite the residence oi Mrs. Tate. _ May 13, 1561. _ JOII X P • RE E 1) , ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA., Respectfully tenders his services to the Pul.hr. second door North of the .iirngel House. Bedford, Atg, 1, IS6I. JOHN PA LMI2 R , ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA. Will promptly attend to a'l bus ess entrus ted to bis care. Office on Juhanna Street, (near ly opposite the Mengel House.) Bedford, Aug. 1, ISGI. A. 11. rOFFROTII, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, P>. Will hereafter practice regularly in the several Courts of Bedford county. Business entrusted to his care will be faithfully attended to. December 0, 1861. J. L. MARBOUKCx, M. D, Having permanently located, respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. on Julianua street, opposite the Bink, one door north of John Palmer's office. Bedford, February 12, 1861. S A ill I E L KI2T TE U M \ N , BEDFORD, PA., C3*"WottUl hereby notify the citizens of Bedford county, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed ford, where he may at alt limes be found by persons wishing to see him, unless absent upon business pertaining to bis office. Bedford, Aug. 1,1 SOl. JaCOB R.F.FD, J* ScUKf.I., REED ASD SCHELL, BANKERS DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BF.DFCRD, PK v N' A. [tyDRAFTS bought and sold, coiiections ma ie and money promptly remitleii. Deposits solicited. ST. CHARLES HOTEL, CORNER OF WOOD AND TlltßD STREETS riTTsnu E A u. R A HARRY SHIRLS P&oppietor. April 12, ISOI. J. ALSIP & SON, Auctioneers & Commission BEDFORD, PA., Repetful!y solicit consigirments ot Roots and Shoes, Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, .ndall kinds of Merchandise for AUCTION an J PRIY A1 L Sale. RLFERENGF.S. PHU.ADEt.PH:/, [iROFORn, Philip Ford He Co., Hon. Jot; Mann, Boyd & Hough, Hon. W. T. I)a ugherty Arnr.or Young & Bros., ii. J*'. M}ers. January 1, IS3l—tf. WARTRAN & LALEIJIA A, (SUCCESSORS TO MICHAKL WARTY! AN 4- CO ) Tobacco !$ ami Scgat; MANUFACTORY, No. 318 NORTH THIRD STREET, SeconJ door below Wood. PHILADELPHIA. J. W. WART MAN. H. P I "NOF.LM A N March 25. ISO-I VOfrOIK .T<>. NEW SERIES. Select ]JOCI Vll . ALL FOR THE NIGGER. We are taxed on our clothing,our meat and our brraJ. On our carpets arid dishes, our tables and bed, On our tee. and our.coffee, our fuel and iights, And we're taxed so severely we can't sleepo nights. Chorus—And it's all for the nigger, great God can it be, The Lome of the brave, and the land of the free. i We are stamped on our mortgages, checks, notes 1 and bills. On our deeds, on our contracts, and on our last wills ; And the star-spangled banner in mourning doth wave, O'er the wealth of the nation turned into the grave. Chorus—And it's all for the nigger, &c. We are taxed on our offices, our stores and our shops, On our stoves, on our dishes, our brooms and our mops, On our horses and cattle, and i! we should die, We are taxed on the coffins in which we must lie. Chorus—And It's ail for the nigger, &c. We are taxed on a'! good- by kind providence given, We are taxed for the Bible that points us to 1 eaven, And when we ascend to the heavenly gull, They would, if they could, stick a stamp on our soul. Chorus—And it's all for the nigger. Bte. But this is not all, not the money alone, Does the Rail Splitter claim for to build up his throne, It you havu't three bundled your body must tell, And if killed in one month it's all very well. Chorus—And it's all for the nigger, &c. I Now, bovs, will you tell me just what it has cost, ; To elect old Abe Lincoln and all his black host ? j Just five hundred thousand Of our country's best biood Have been slain, and their bodies be under the sod. C torus And it's ai! for the nigger, &c. ! And then there's two thoi sasd mim.u.ns and more, ; lias been stolen and spent in this unholy war, ; And por mn 'hat worked for ten years that are pist, j And have saved up thjee hundred, 'tis stolen at last. Chorus—And it's all for the nigger, See. THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The Suppression of the Hew York World j and Journal of Gnmmfirne —The Editor I of the WorM to the President of the i United States. i To fits .Kicellcuci/, Abraham Lincoln, President of the I'oded Stale*: Sir: "That the King caif do no wrong is i'tic theory of a monarchy. It is the theory of ; a constitutional republic that, itsi-hiei Magis ! Irate may do wrong, in the former l lte minis try is i sponsible for the King's acts- In the hitter the I'resident is responsible for the nets of • his ministers. Our Constitution admits .hat I the I'resident may err in providing for a jiuig , ment upon his doings by tin; people, in regular elections. In providing for his impeachment, j it admits that nc may be guilty of crimes. In a government of laws, and not of men, the most obscure citizen may without indeco . rum address himself to the Chicl Magistrate, when to the Constitution whence you derive i your temporary power and he the guaranty of j his {wroetuai rights, he has constantly paid 'tis unquestioning loyalty, and when to the laws, which your duty is to care for a faithful execu ' tion of, he has rendered entire obedience. It' the matter of his address lie that in his , person, property and rights, the Constitution : has been disregarded and the laws disobeyed :f ■its appeal to thff principles of justice be no | more earnest than the solicitude of i!s regard . for truth, and if the manner of his address be ! no hss temperate than firm, he does not need ! courtly phrases to propitiate an attentive hear : ing from a magistrate who loves his country, her | institutions, and her laws. In the World of last Wednesday morning was published a proclamation, purporting to be sign ed by your Excellency and countersigned by the Secretary of State, appointing a day of fa-ting and prayer, and calling into military service by volunteering and draft four hundred thousand citizens between the ages of eighteen and for ty-live. That proclamation was a forgery, writ ten by a person who, ever since your departure from Springfield for Washington in ISGI, lias enjoyed private as well as public opportunities for learning to counterfeit tho peculiarities of your speech and style, and whose service for years as a city editor of the New 4 oik Time: and upon the New York Tribune acquainted him with the entire newspaper machinery of the city, and enabled him to insert his clever for gery into the regular channels by which we re ceive news, at a time when competent inspec tion of its genuineness was impossible, and sus picion of its authenticity was improbable. Ihe manifold paper resembling in all respects that upon which we nightly receive our agents news, a.el front the Government itself orders, announce ment- anu proclamations, was left with a night clerk about 3 or 4 o'clock in the, morning, after the departure of every responsible eduur, and was at once passed into the hands f tho prin ters, put in type and published.—No newspaper in the country but would have been deceived as we w re! Our misfortune was complete. At an early hour, however, before the business of the cilv had fairly begun, it was discover. \ that we had been imposed upon, an 1 were being made to ap pear the instruments of ardeeeption of the public. There was no delay in vindicating our charac ter. Our whole machinery for spreading news was set in motion instantly to announce that we had been deceived by a forgery—that your Excellency liad issued no proclamation. The sale of papers over our counters was stopped. Our bundles to the Scotia bound for Europe that day wei' /topjs.'d 'i be owners and pursers Freedom of Thought aijd Opinion. BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1864 tiles were stopped. News room bundles and : iiics were stopped, and the agent of the line was t informed that the proclamation was a forgery, s Our printers and pressmen were brought from ' their homes and beds to put in type the story < of our misfortune. Our bulletin boards were placarded with the offer of a reward for the t discovery of the forger; and to the agent of the I Associated Press I sent a telegram reciting all the facts, for him to transmit at once to nearly every daily paper in the North from Maine to California. Thus before the Scotia sailed, be fore your Secretary of State had officially brand ed the forgery, the wings which we had given to Truth had enabled her to outstrip every where the Falsehood we had unwittingly set on foot, and in many places the Truth arrived before t the forger had come to tell hi* tale. For any injury done to ourselves, to the Gov ernment, or to the public, this publicity was ample antidote. It indeed made injury impos sible. But the insult to your excellency was the 1 greater in proportion to the eminence of your station. Early in the afternoon of Wednesday, i therefore I went with Mr. Win. C. Prime, the chief editor of the Journal of Commerce , which ; t had been deceived precisely as we were, to the headquarters of the Department of the East, j < and we laid before the commanding General every clue *lll our possession which could lead to the discovery of the guilty persons. All the ; : facts above recited were telegraphed at once to vou through the Secretary of War by General Dix. X assert, moreover, that I have never known a mind so prejudiced in which acquaint ance with these facts would not enforce She con viction of our utter blamelessness. Here was the absence of an intent to do wrong; here was an antidote for an injury un wittingly assisted, more e nnplete and effectual than the injury itself; here was alacrity in search of the wrong doer, and assistance ran- < dered to your subordinate to discover the author J of the insult done to you. With these facts set fully before you by the \ General commanding this department, you reit erated an order for my arrest and imprisonment; •in Fort Lafayette; for the seizure and occopa- j tion of the World office by a military guard, and tho suppression ofits publications. The Jo 'i tutl a/' (.'omm'crse, its editors and publishers, were included in the same order. I believe, though I cannot state of my own knowledge, that to the commanding General's assertion of our entire titamelessncsS it was tnv- j ing that the order for our arrest ni\d incarccra- | tion was rescinded. But the order for the stip- j prcssion of the World was not rescinded. Hn- j der your orders General Dix sent a strong mil itary force to its publication office and editorial rooms, who ejected their occupants, and for two ' davs and three nights held possession there in- . juring and abstracting some of their contents, ! and permitting no one to cross the threshold. > Not until Sunday morning did this occupation J cense. Not until to-day lias The World been free to speak. But to those who have cars to 1 hear it-' absence has been more eloquent than j its columns could ever be. To characterize these proceedings as unpre cedented, would be to forget the past history of vour Administration ; and to characterize them ; as shocking to every mind, would be to disre gard that principle of human nature from which it arises that men submitting once and again to lawles- encroachments of power, with every interihi-sion, i"V something of the old, free, i keen sense of their true nature and real danger. Charles I was doirTtless advised to, and ap- I plaude.d for, the crimes by which he lost his crown and life. Nor can you do any such out rageous, oppressive, and unjust a thing that it j will not be applauded bv those whose pro peri- i ty and power vou have crca'ed and may des troy. To characterize these proceedings as arbi trary. illegal, atid unci, usiitutiona!. would seem, if such weighty words have not b en emptied of all significance, to befit better art hour at which vou have, not arrived and a place where not public opinion 1 ut the authority of law speaks after impeachment, trial, conviction and j judgment. But, sir. the suppression ot two daily jour-1 n:d< in this metropolis —oucllic organ of itsgreat' j commercial public, the other a r 'agnized ex- 1 ponent of the Democratic principles which are i shared by half. < • m arly half, your fellow cit izens—did shock the public mind, did amaze everv honest and patriotic citizen, did fill with ; indignation and alarm every purr and loyal breast. There were no indignation meetings, there were no riots, there was no official pro test. But do not imagine, sir. that the Gover nor of this State lias forgotten to do Lis duty; , do not imagine that the people of this city or State, or country have ceased to love their lib- ! erties, or do not know how to protect their rights, i jlt would lie fatal to a tyrant to commit that ; I error here and now. A free people can at need J devise means to teach their Chief Magistrate the ' ;-anie lesson. To you, sir, who have by heart the Constitu- ■ tion which you swore to "preserve, protect, and defend," it may s>e an impertinence to cite those natural and chartered rights therein enumern-, ted, among which are these : That the people j shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable seizures, and that. 110 warrant even shall issu#, except, upon probable cause, suppor' :d lay oath, and partic ularly describing the place to be searched and persons or things to be seized; that no persons shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law : yet these arc the most priceless possessions of freemen, and these you took far away from me. Even a captured and guilty criminal who knew that his crime would be proved, and boat the law would assuredly visit upon him condign punishment, might with propriety plead these rights ..hd demand of the Chief Magistrate to throw over him these shields. Assao.ied by the bay one. = of a military commander, h" might , protest and assort his Enlienaole right '0 the orderly processes, the proofs, and the punish- J ment of the law. But has the Saxon tongue ! any terms left for him to use who, being the ; vtrxim of crime, has been inade also the victim I of;lawless power? It is the iheory of the law that after the com-1 mission of any crime, all proceedings taken be- j fore trial shall lie merely preventative but the! proceedings taken against the World were of the oat ure of a summary execution of judgment., Wriuld trial by law have l>een denied, would the law itself have I>een set aside for the bayo net, would a process as summary as a drum head court martial have been resorted to by you in n r peaceful city, far from the boundaries cf military occupation, had the presses which con sistently applaud your course been, as we were, tii" victims of this forger? Had the Tribune and Tunes published the forgery (and the Tribune candidly admits that it might have published it and was prevented only by mere chance) would you, sir, have suppressed the Tribune and Times j as you suppressed The World and Journal oj Cyni'itlrre y You know you would not: If not, why not 1 Is there a different law for opponents and for your supporters ? Can you, whose eyes discern equality under every complexion be blinded by tlie hue of par tisanship ? The World had sustained the Government in its struggle to preserve our imperiled nationali ty. It had helped inspire the martial spirit of the people, and encourage them to the sacrifices they have so nobly made. It had advocated tho-e measures of financial policy which could b st preserve the tone and vigor of the Govern ment "111 the contest. It had deserved well of the republic, and of those who love it. But it also exposed and denounced the cor ruptions attendant upon your Administraion. It had oppose?! a delusive and enervating system j of paper money. It had vindicated the fame j of a patriot general, whom you had removed ; from command 011 the eve of victory. It had | deprecated your re-election. Did you not find j in tb. se facts tho provocations to your wrong j and your persistence in wrong? llad you not J made up your mind against us before tlie tin- : (lerling, your partisan, had concocted Lis plot? ! When you answer these interrogatories, I will j produce the proof of threats made against us by those neare-t you, and assuming to exert your prerogative, before this trick of forgery furnish- j ed you with the specious pretense of an accusa ti"h, # Can it be possible, sir, that for a moment yon i supposed that journals like ours could afford to be guilty of this forgery? Let the unanimous voice of your own press answer. Such a trick would hardly have succeeded in Sangamon coun ty. Illinois. For a party which is about to go 1 before the people, and ask tbein to commit to its hands the administration of affairs, which , has been more generous and forbearing io your errors than you have been just to its guides, permit ran to say that it was less possible to be ! true of any one of them than it was of any ! man high or low who suspected them, i And so the end has proved. -The confessed and guilty forgers were y tir own zealous parti- ] I sans. Joseph Howard, .Jr., who has confessed his crime, was a Republican politician and Loyal Leaguer, of Brooklyn. Consider, sir, at whose feet he was taught his political education, and in whose cause he spent his political breath.— Mr. Howard has been from his very childhood ; an intimate friend of the Republican clergyman. Ilenry Ward Beecher, and a member of his ! church. He has listened year in and year out I to the dropping of the Plymouth sanctuary. — The stump speeches which there follow prayer and precede the benediction lie for years report ed in the journal which is your devoted organ in this city. For years he was the city editor 1 of that journal, the New York Times; for along time lie was the Washington correspondent of the chief Abolition newspaper of the country, the New York Tribune; lie has been a frequent contributor to the columns of the Independent; he journeyed withyou from Springfield to Wash ington ; he represents himself a favored visitor j at the White 1 louse since your residence there, j By a curious felicity the stylus with which ! his amanuensis copied on tissue paper the proc , Dotation and signed j'our name was abstracted j from the editorial rooms of the Tribune. The party principles upon which you were pledged tt Tennessee, and during the summer of 1802, conquered the whole of that region : it is now almost entirely in rebel hands. The same summer desperate battles were fought at Cor inth. luka and Hatciiie, and in every strugtrle victory crowned our arms; but cfery one of these points is in undisputed possession of the enemy. It; the fall of that year. Gen. Grant occupied La Grange, in Tennessee, Ilolly Springs and Oxford in Mississippi, and the crossings of Yoekney River, some twelve miles south of Ox ford while his cavalry were thrown forward nearly to Grenada; the whole of this territory is now abandoned. At the same time our for ces held possession of all the country eastward of the line of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which is also, of course, in undisputed posses sion of the enemy. A year ago this winter and spring our army took possession of the country back of Lake Providence, aiso of nearly nil the region be tween the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, after ward occupied Jackson and Canton, Mississip pi : in the summer we arranged for the perma nent occupation of the territory cast of Vicks burg and between the Big Black and Yazoo rivers; about the same time our troops were pushed westward from Vicksburg into Louisi ana, routing the enemy from the entire vicinity, a distance of from sevent}- to one hundred miles. Every square foot of the territory is now sur rendered. fn short from Cairo to New Orleans, in Ihe Mississippi Valley proper, oiir flag does not float over a single inch of territory out of the range of gunboats 011 the river, and no loy al man is known to live in any portion of the territory mentioned as conquered but now sur rendered. No Union man, it adds, can ride five miles out of Memphis without being killed or captur ed. and the same is true of most stations on the Mississippi. That even as far up as Sbawnee town, it says, one hundred and fifty shots were tired from the Kentucky shore into one of ottr steamers a few days ago. We can add to the News summary the ac counts from Red liver, from which our army has just been driven, and the reports that the occupation of Texas is to be abandoned. So much for the West, llow is it elsewhere?— Florida has returned to the possession of the rebels, as has the greater part of North Caro lina. We have made no impression upon South Carolina; arid tiie siege 01 Charleston is virtu ally abardoned, while that of Mobile lias siot been commenced. Mere force, directed at States and at populations, instead of being wielded at the Confederate armies, has been unavailing for good. Military power must disperse the rebel arm ies in the field, but it cannot subjugate a people like those of the Southern States, or hold in subjection vast ani divided a territory. Hates of Aiwcrtising. One Sqnare, three weeksor tes $1 25 One Square, earh niMitinnal inertion lers than three months 30 3 MOKTIIS. 6 MONTHS. 1 TEAR One square- . ... $3 50 $4 75 1.8 00 Two squares 500 700 10 f "> Three squares 650 000 15 00 | Column 12 00 20 00 35 00 One Column ...... 20 00 35 00 66 00 Ailministrators'tinfiKxecuiors' not ices $2.50, Au ditors' notices $1.50, if under 10 lines. $2.00 if more than a square and less than 20 lines. Ketrsys, $1.25, if but one head is advertised, 25 cents lor every additional head. The spieeoccup.ed by ten lines of this size ot type rountsone square. All fractions ot a square ; under live lineswill be measured as a halt square ■Ti'l all over five lines as a lull square. All legal i advertisements will be charged to the person hand | ing them in. VOL. 7, NO 45 ' tmm WW^ixar--- III* Wlll 111 ■ I ABOLITION HYPOCRISY. Tlie Republicans tried to expel Mr. Ivong from the llouße for saying that lie preferred the uckowledgment of the Independence *of the South to tlic extermination-of the people. This was his whole offence. Yet in the debate tip'-a tlii? proposition, an Abolition member, Mr. (trin ' nell, of lowa, said: "I would rather say n thousand times, let the Country be divided—t Ire South go their way all slave, and the. North all free—rather than to see t lie country once more under Democratic misrule." Tit is is patriotism, but Mr. Dong's remark j was treason, according to Abolition logic ! The 1 shameful hypocrisy and partisan motive of this whole movement, are well illustrated by this. l>nt another littie fact is equally significant iu this direction. The whole Republican force in the House united in declaring Mr. Long's speech to be treasonable and well designed to afford aid and comfort to the enoniv. Yet the leading men among them mbcrihedfor thousands of co)iK" of tin* "trcttiiviable ftwChf' for nrtula tion among their constituents ! If it was treason to utter the speech, was it not equally treason to circulate it t Yet this was done bv the very men who spoke loudest and were most active in support of the movement to expel Mr. Long! Dialogue between Ancient Paul and Mod ern Abolitionists. T—Let as many servants as are under the yoke, count their masters worthy of all honor. A—Horrid! Let them do no such thing but break up tlie relation at once. I*—And they that have believing masters A—ilush .' No slaveholder can lie a Chris tian. T—Servants, bo obedient to them that are your masters. A—Don't you do it. P—l sent back a bond servant who had os? eaped from Thileinon, and told Philemon that he would be more profitable, to him now than ever. A—You did a wicked thing. Had yon been as good as our Abe, you would have proclaim ed all slaves free, and ordered all the military and naval force of tlic Country to back up the slaves in escaping to freedom, even if they had to cut their master's throats to do it. P—From such as you I withdraw myself. A—Good riddance.' SA vises BY JOSH BILLINGS. —That Jno. Prown haz halted a fu days for refreshment. I hat, inoste men had ruther say a smart thing than tew dew a good one. 'lliat, backsliding iz a big thing espeshtla on ice. That, there iz 2 things in this life for which ! we are never fully prepared, and that iz twins. That, yu kant judge a man hi hiz religgun eny more than yn kan judge hiz shurt hi the size ov the collar and ristbands. That, the devil iz always prepared tew see j kompany. That, it iz treating a man like a dog tew cut him opli short in hiz narrative. That, "ignorance iz bliss," ignorance of saw ing wood, for instance. That, inenny will fale tew lie saved simpla bekauze tha haint got enything tew saive. That, the vartues ov woaiait arc awl her own, but her frailties have been taught her. 1 That, dry pastors are the lcst for flocks ; flocks i of sheep i moan. That, men ov genius are like eagles, tha liv on what tha kill, while men ov talents are like crows, tha liv on what haz bin killed for them. That, some peoples are fond ov bragging a bout ancestors, and their grate descent, when in tack their