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<c. A P ril •' 18,;4 " :
ESPY M- ALSIP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. ;
Will faithfully and promptly attend ioall business .
entrusted to his caie in Bedford and adjoining coun
ties. Military claims, back pay, bounty, &c.,
speedily collected.
Office with Mann & Spang, on ultana street, two
doors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, "CI.
U . H AKEIt S ,
ATTORMEY AT LAW, Bedford, Pa.
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
his care. Military claims speedily collected.
Office on Juliana street, opposite the post-oince.
Bedford, 11, ISC3.
F. M. KIMXtLL. '• VV. LINf.ENKEI.TKK
KUHMELL & LIfIJGENFELTSR,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PEDFORD, PA
tormed a partnership in the practice <>•
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
t<i administer the Government Lave been the
daily meat and drink of this forger. He has
denounced as faithfully as yon the party by
whose defeat you rose to power. lie lias been
the noisy champion of an exclusive loyalty ; he
lias preached in club houses and at street cor
ners those politics which stigmatise constitution
' al opposition to the Administration as <!is!oyul
jty to the Government. The stock brokers who
were his confederates will U: found to be of the
same kidney. They all advocated a paper nio
! ney legal tender; they have all countenanced
the paper inflation ; they have all been heedless
' of the misery to poor men which such inflations
breed ; they have all rejoiced at the speculations
thus fostered, and by speculation they had ho
ped to thrive.
For twenty-four hours something was par
doned to your presumed natural trepidation,
since our Itlavnclcssness having been alleged tA
YOU by those here whom it was your duty to
believe, it seemed only prudent to await your
recovery.
For the next twenty-four hours, from moment
to moment, it was expected that you would h s
ten to confess and repair your mistake. But
the mistake thus prolonged grew to tho propor
tions of a crime; and till the discovery of the
forger stripped it* mask off and disclosed its in
spiring cau of the act, it grew monstrous hour
ly in men's eyes.
YYe were t alient that the immeasurable infa
my of the act might swell to its full proportions
and stand complete.
By the recall of your arbitrary order, you
have not mule reparation for the wrong you
have done. The violation A the Constitution
WHOLE NUMBER, 100 l
stands recorded, and unless adequately atoned
becomes a fatal precedent. For the purpose of
gratifying an ignoble partisan resentment you
have struck down the rights of the press, you
have violated personal liberty, Subjected prop
erty to unjust seizure, ostentatiously placed force
above law, setting a dangerous example to those
who love force more than tiiey respect law : and
thus, by attempting to crush the organs of free
discussion, have made free elections impossible,
and broken down till the safeguards of repre
sentative government.
It is yon that in this transaction stand accu
sed before the people. It is you who are con
spicuously guilty. It is upon you that history,
when recording these events, will affix the crime
of a disregard of your duty, oblivion of your
oath, and a pitiable subserviency to party prej
udice and person.al ambition, when the country
demanded in the presidenttal otiice elev ate;! char
acter, devotion to duty, and entire self-abnega
tion.
But you are not to be left to the judgment of
history alone. Thank God, the Constitution is
not yet wholly abrogated, the people are soon
to pass upon your claims to re-election, and the
right of impeachment yet remains to their rep
resentatives. The people and their representa
tives have the light to speak when the pen is
struck from the hands of a freeman by tiie bay
onet; when the Buslile once broken down on
the other side of the Atlantic by the reverbera
tion of our Revolution, is re-constructed here.
In stormy times like these, ainid dangers with
which an unsuppresscd rebellion environs us,
Lis would have been a rash hand which had
hastily set in motion for another purpose titan
the suppression of rebellion, the machinery cf
justice: who had invoked against the disloyalty
of rulers the retribution and redresses of the law.
The danger of such a conflict of laws is so far
passed, that even the President could not plead
national safety as an excuse for refusing to do
justice or submit to judgment.
Yet no citizen who regards his duties should
ever hesitate at the last to oppose lawless deeds
with legal remedies. The law may break down.
It will then disclose to a watchful people the
point of greatest danger. Courts may fail;
judges may be intimidated by threats or bribed
by the allurements of power, and those who have
sworn to execute the laws inay shrink from the
fulfilment of their oaths. A craven Congress
may sit silent and idly watch the perishing lib
erties of the people whom they represent, but
thi< cannot deter him who, in defending his rights
is determined to do his whole duty, and to who
it is competent at last to commit the issue to
that Power, omnipotent and inscrutable, who
presides in events and sways the destinies of na
tions and the hearts of men.
MANTON MARBLE.
New York, May 23, I SGI.
THE FUTILITY OF CONQUEST
To illustrate the futility of mere force, in the
conquest of a people, the Milwaukie Aw, in a
recent issue pointed to the condition of the Mis
sissippi Valley. It 3 array of facts is striking:
Two years ago we drove tlie rebels out of the
entire country surrounding Paducab. That sec
tion is now all occupied by the rebel Gen. For
rest. Immediately after Gen. Grant advanced
into We>t 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.
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VOL. 7, NO 45
' tmm WW^ix<K-g^r--srw>ar--- 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 <jrute descent iz ji-t what's the mat
| icr ov tliern.
That, a woman kant keep a sekret nor let
cneybodv else keep one.
'1 hat, "a little laming iz a dangerous thing,"
this iz as tru az it iz common.
i hat, it iz better tew faiFin a noble enterprise
than to suckseed in a mean one.
That, a grate menny folks hav bin eddikated
oph from their feet.
That, luv in woman's hnrte iz a good deal
like a bird in a cage, open the door and the
bird will fly oat and never wants tew cum back
again,
I hat, Sekretary Chase iz evidently failing,
the time ov Liz laste heat being 10-40!
" Wendell Phillips, in one of his recent
speeches, made the assertion that "the whole
debt of the country —national, State, count)-,
I and town obligations—would, if the war do-"
j sed the next day, amount to half the property
of the nation.
litis been stated that Major White, the
Pennsylvania Slate Senator, had escaped from
the Libby with Col. Strciglit. Tins appears to
have been a misapprehension of facts. He is
now in the Salisbury Confederate States Peni?
teniiary.
[□"" Captain Ilolden, of the rebel army, lias
invented "sneezers," —shells filled with a de
lectable chemical compound, which produces
sneezing, coughing, and nausea. The rebels
propose to use these if Grant gets too near
Richmond.
&S-A Machine for sewing boots is*in use in
a factory in Massachusetts. It is a new inven
tion, and is said to be successful, sewing a boot
complete in thirty seconds.
CSTA new linlmoral shoe factory at Hartford
is so arranged that a shoe goes through thirteen
different hands, and comes out complete in ten
minutes.
—-—. —♦-
General Puller has lately enforced the rights
of colored travelers to sit at the fust table on
steamers plying not ween Dutriinore and Fortress
Monroe