I THE BEDFORD GAZETTE rs nffiLisncD EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY B. F. SIEYEIW. | j\t the following terms, to wit: $1 75 per annum, if paid strictly in advance. $2.00 if paid within 0 months ; $2.50 if n ct paid j within 6 months. subscription taken tor less than six months ; [T7"Xo paper discontinued until all arrearages are j paiX unless at the option of the publisher It has j been decided by the United States Courts that the j stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is yrima facie evidence of fraud and as a criminal offence. [ETThe courts nave decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether tiiej subsci ibe for them, or not. liusincss Cartis. JOSEPH W. TATE, ATTORNEY AT LA W, BE UFO It D, PA. Will promptlv attend to collections and all busi ness entrusted io his care, in Bedford and adjoining "cashadvanced on judgments, notes, military and other claims. . ; Has for sale Town lots in Tatesville, and St. Jo- , senh's, on Bedforu Railroad Farms and unimproved land, from one acre to 150 scies to suit purchasers. ; Office nearly oppo-ite the "Mengel Hotel and | E ink of Reed & Schell. April 1,1864— 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 ana adjoining counties. Having also been regularly licensed to prosecute claims against the Government, particular attention I all be given to the collection of Military claims ot all kinds; pensions, back pay, bounty, bounty loans, 1 1 April 1, 1804. H c. 1 ESPY M ALSIP, ATTORNEY JT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his cate in Bedford ami adjoining coun ties. Military claims, back pay, bounty, Rc., speedily collected. Office with Mann & Spang, on Juliana street, two foors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, 04. u . II . AKERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, Pa. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to bis care. Military claims speedily collected. Office on Juliana street, opposite the post-oince. Bedford, September 11, 1803. F. M. Kimmill. L w - Lwsmfklter KIMIfIELL & LUSG-ENFELTERi ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD. PA ;X7""Have tormed a partnership in the practice oi the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South of the "Mengel House." * G- E. SPANG. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will promptly attend to collections and all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford ant! adjoining counties. . on tuhana Street, three doors south of -he "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate. " n > IS(iU JOHN P . RE E 1), ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, FA., Respectfully tenders las services to the. Public. second door North oi the Mengel House. Bedford, Aig, 1, 1861. JOII N PALIM ER , ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. (Vy-Will promptly attend to all business entrus ted to his care. Office on Julianna Street, (near ly opposite the Mengel House.) Bedierd, Aug. 1, IS6I. A. H. COFFBOTH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, Pa. Will hereafter practice regularly m the several j Courts of Bedford county. Business entrusted to ( his care will be faithfully attended to. December 6, IS6I. F. C. DOYLE, M. D., Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Bloody Run and vicinity. Office next door to the hotel of John C. Black. [June 10, 1864. J. L. MARBOTJRGr. M. D. Having permanently located, respectfully tenders .lis professional ervi-cs to the citizens of Bedford .and vicinity. Ef?°Office on Julianna street, opposite the Bank, one door north of John Palmer's office. Bedford, February 12, 1864. SA3I ll E L KET TE R M AK , BEDFORD, PA., Coereby notify the citizens of Bedford county, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed ford, where he may at all times be found by persons wishing to see him, unless absent upon business pertaining to his office. Bedford, Aug. 1,1861. Jacob Reed, J- J* Schell, REED AND SCHELL, BANKERS & DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD, PENN'A XF*DRAFTS bought and sold, collections made and money promptly remitted. Deposits solicited. J. ALSIP & SON, Auctioneers & Commission Merchants, BEDFORD, PA., Respectfully solicit consignments of Boots and Shoes, Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, *nd *ll kinds of Merchandise for AUCTION an-' PKIV A"1 K Sale-. REFERENCES. Philadblfh:/, Bedford, Philip Ford & Co., Hon. Job Mann, Boyd k Hough, Hon. W. T. Daugherty Armor Young & Bros., B. if*. Meyers. January 1, 1864—tt. AVAKTTIAY A EYGELUAY. (Successors TO MICHAEL WARTMAN ir CO.) Tobiicca sauf{5 a uf{ and Sfpv MANUFACTORY, No. 313 NORTH THIRD STREET, Second door below Wood, PHILADELPHIA. R *-WARTM4N. H. P. F.NGELMAIY. 2.', 1 SGT. VOEIiiH I] .1!?. NEW SERIES. An English View of Men and Things in America. Correspondence of the Ijondon Times. NEW YOKK. May 13.—Shouts of "victory" resound in the streets from the voices of the newsboys. The word "victory," in large type, stands at the head of the flaring columns of the second, third, fourth, fifth auil tenth editions of the news-papers; and in still larger letters, that be who runs may read, at the corners of streets, where the bulletins of battles are exhib ited to the crowd; but victory nevertheless is not achieved, and seems as distant as ever.— Hitherto the march of Grant —though, if it be ultimately successful, it will be considered her oic—is the advance of a piece of mechanism. — lie sees no obstacle, and goes blindly and ruth- | lessly on. lie trusts to nothing but superior numbers and hard fighting. The lives of his men are of no value. Il< throws them away by thousands to gain half a mile of jungle. He has pushed on for five h agues, and paid about 8,000 lives for each . At every step. he lights at a disadvantage, on the ground of the enemy's choosing. But he fights. His men are picked off by unerring sharpshooters from behind every tree, but his order is still to push forward. His j Generals fall as if they were of no more account than private soldiers. I pto Tuesday evening, j the seventh day of the conflict, he had lost 13 | of them in killed, wounded, and prisoners, and j at least 45,000 men. This loss is admitted by ! friends and admirers, while others are inclined ; to add fifteen thousand to that enormous esti- j mate. But still lie holds his way undaunted, | seeing nothing, caring for nothing, but Rich- j mond, which, if he ever reach upon the terms | cf these seven days, lie will reach without so j much as a body guard—a solitary prisoner.— The havce committed on his ranks L sickening to reflect upon. Uae New York regiment, the pride of the city, which long since marched down Bro ulway amid flaunting banners, wav- I in" kerchief'!', loud huzzas, and the music of drum and life, suffered so terribly that out of its full complement but four officers and fifteen men were left after half a day's fighting. Whole brigades have lost their officers and two-thirds of their rank and rile, and, having none to lead them, have been incorporated with other bri gades, only less cruelly decimated than them selves in having a brigadier left to recognize their shattered remnants. AJKI all this time the des perate struggle has only be m waged on the out skirts of the Confederate works, and in such positions as General Lee would perfer to see an enemy in whom he wished to annihilate. But it is all one to General Grant. With the sublimity of genius, or of madness (the fortune of war mnst determine which) he lias declared i to Mr. Stanton, who lias communicated the | news to the public, "That he will go to Rich- j mond bv that line, if it takes him all the sum- j mer to do it." Impulsive, and easily led, as j the people are, and apt to be astonished at notli- j iwr, they are astonished at this audacity. They i do not know how to account for it on any other | supposition than that Grant is the greatest as j well as most daring Generals whom the world ever saw, and are content to wait a little longer for the results before they change their opinion. But the voice of wailing and lamentation is heard in foo many thousand of households in this and all the cities of the North to permit unqualified approbation of a system of war so costly as this, or to silence the buzz of adverse criticism. If Grant's army, instead of a throbbing, think ing mass of human begins, were but an aggiom eratior of steel and iron—a monsfer steam en gine cunningly put together for the purposes of destruction, its driver could not more deliberate ly urge it forward in its pitiless career. 1 'eople begin to ask themselves what will happen, if, after all, the machine shall be dashed to pieces by the obstruction that it will have to butt a gainst if it continue to advance. They ask in vain. No one can answer, or no one will, ex cept by a shrug of the shoulders and a look of resignation. Amid all the terrible excitement of the war news it is easy to perceive there is an under current of deep feeling. The people are not so vainglorious as formerly. They are not so cer tain of victory as they have been on previous occasions, and the brilliant strategy of Ix?e and the unconquerable heroism of the Southern army extort admiration on every side. The fact is that the North, even in this day of extremity, is proud of the noble qualities exhibited by the Southern army and people, and feels, possibly not for the first time, a misgiving that the war was a mistake, and that if it were possible for the North and South to shake hands, and to be to each other as once they were, it would be a I glorious privilege and a blessing to both of them. Never before did the l'eace party speak cut so boldly, and so many agree with them. Even Mr. Wendell Philips, as blatant a war trumpe ter as the land ever produced, iuclines his heart to better impulses. No living American orator is so eloqent as this gentleman. He is as direct as Mr. Bright, as calm as Mr. Cobder, as per suasive as Mr. Gladstone, as elegant as Lord Carlile, and when occasion demands can be as fiery as Lord Derby. His language is the purest English, without ! the slightest taint of the Yankee idiom or accent, or the least approach to American slang. He never "speaks to Buncombe," or indulges in the rhodomontade which his countrymen call "spread eagleism." His satire outs like the polished razor, and draws blood with the scarcely per j ceptiblo touch that shows the thorough master lof the .instrument. If lie seldom condescends j to be passionate, and loses in this respect some j of the power which he might otherwise wield J over a miscellaneous multitude, he makes amends ! for the defect, if it be one, by a wealth of illus i tration and a cogency of argument that show I the full mind and the trained intellect, and com i pd admiration, if they do not carry convi lion. He has, as is well known, been among the most rabid of the supporters of the war, though he I has never been much of a friend to theGovcrn i nient by whose agencies it lias been conducted. Freedom If Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1864. In the days when the Democrats governed the ! country, and when the idea of a disruption of the Union was scouted alike by the Northern and the Southern leaders of that long dominant 1 party, he did not hesitate to proclaim that sep- j aration was preferable to the continuance of slavery. Long after the outbreak of the war he confessed that for nineteen years lie had been ; a disuniouist and a Secessionist. His sole gov erning idea has been the scandal, the wrong, tiie horror, the iniquity of slavery, for the des truction of which he would cheerfully have sac- j rifioed the integrity of the Republic, and con sented to split the country into a heptarchy. Yet as soon as his party came into power, ! he—so cool, so steadfast, and so liberal—was carried away by the madness of his countrymen, clamored for the restoration of the Union, which he had denounced and despised as rotten and unnatuial, and spoke and acted as if the pres ervation of tlie freedom of the North were worth a thought. Events, however, have wrought a change in his mind.—The preacher of war has suddenly become the apostle of peace. ; The philanthropy in which he was nurtured has reasserted its power to govern his conscience. ' He lias gone back to his first love ; he has re- i incmbered, it will not do to say he has discov ered, that the liberty of the white man is worth something, not only to the white man himself, but to the cause of civilivation.—He has recan- ' ted his errors and has become as nearly a states man as Festus was a Christian. In a speech delivered on Tuesday last at the Church of the ' l'uritans, on occasion of the 31st anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he a- i vowed opinions which place him in the same , rank with Mr. Yallandigham, Mr. Fernando , Wood, Benjamin Wood, Mr. Long and Mr. I Harris, and every other man in the country who lieiieves that the war can neither restore the Union nor preserve lilterty, and in full sym- i pathy with the impartial public opinion of Eng- : land and France, and of all Europe, which saw from tiie first what he only sees in this day of awful conflict. He mournfully confessed that the youngest American would not live to see a restoration of the Republic of bis forefathers; that if peace came, of which he saw no pros- i pect, what ever Grant might do, 800,000 men would be thrown upon the community, unfitted i for the ordinary avocations of life, and there lore a standing menace and danger to the pub- ; lie liberty ; that for half a century no one but j a soldier would have a chance of the Presiden cy ; that the right arm of every man in the j country, and of every male child that was here- ■ after to be born into it, was a and would be mort gaged to pay the interest on the debt. Mr. Phillips confessed his sharne and humili ation at the thought that twenty millions of; white people in the North had gone down on their knees and implored the assistance of black 1 men and slaves for the work of conquering half the number of white men in the South. It might be thought that Mr. Philips, entertaining j sucir sentiments as these, is ivady to do now ; what Messrs. Lincoln, Seward, Greeley, liver- j ett, and others, were ready to do in 1800—let the South depart, without further hindrance, ! recognize its independence, and advise his coun trymen to do the same. But no word to that j effect is to be found in his remarkable speech. He compared North and South to an eagle and a fish chained to each other. The eagle couid not live in the water; nor the. tish in the air: and one of the two had to die in order that the other might live. But why, it might he asked,, should either die? Cannot each return to its own element bv the severance of the chain that connects them I Mr. Philips meant as much, but seems to have lacked the courage to say so. But, having gone so far, lie will some day or other be obliged to go further. It is well that he should feel shame and humiliation. It will be better that he feel repentance. He, the inciter of men's passions; he, the trumpeter of discord; he, the preacher of a philanthropy | of which the means are blood and misery, and a carnage of horror to which history offers few parallels, though the end, far off, may once have seemed to his mind to justify tlicm all, owes it not only to his conscience, but to the multitudes of men whom his teachings have j goaded into war, to declare his error, and to lend his fluent tongue and his clear brain to that | blessed cause of peace which in this evil hour needs every voice to pray for it, and, most of all, ! tiie voices of those to whom God has given the power to sway the convictions of others. Mr. Philips may affect to think even now that it were better that the whole Southern people should be exterminated than that slavery should ! not be destroyed or the Union not re-establish- ■ eil: but such merciless logic cannot really gov ern hi- conduct, if sanity be left to him. His speech was for peace, as far as it went; and, coming from a man of bis character, it was a sign of the times. Reason has long been silent in the councils of the North. It is of good ' augury that its voice begins to be heard above 1 the din even of this awful week, and that the men of thought are learning to taks counsel of their conscience, instead of thoir passions, and daring once again to tell the people unpalatable truths. The Government as a Farmer. What can't our Goverment do? In addition to the great work of putting down the rebell ion and setting four millions of captives tree bv the subjugation of six millions, it manages to accomplish a vast amount of other work more or less important and gigantic. For instance, what a large amount of energy it takes to suc cessfully carry on a bayonet election. And how much vigilance, determination and work it requires to arrest and punish the Fremont ar.d Democratic copperheads who seem to have a disposition to insist on the one term principle with reference to the Presidential office. How berc lean the labors, too, in the regenerative und reconstructive work of cutting off slices of old States to make new ones of in order that the Baltimore Convention, may not be de flcient in so much of a truly loyal element as 1 will secure the renomination of the honest old j Railsplitter. And yet, after all these labors, it finds time to set up a farm and cultivate a cab ftoage garden. As an evidence of this last men tioned good work, we venture to clip a few ex tracts from that very essence of loyalty—the 1 N. Y. Tribune: "The Government farms on the South side j of the Potomac, iu connection with Froedman's Village, under the general direction of Col. Elias M. Greene, embrace five separate confis cated Virginia farms (wiithin 7 miles of the riv er) as follows: Arlington (lately Gen. Lee's es- i tate,) upon which Freed man's Village is situ • ated; Camp Todd (lately W. B. Hunter's farm;) I Camp Rucker (Maj. Nutt's) near Fall's Church, t Camp Wadsworth (the Means and Cook [da ces,) between Langley and Lewinsvilie ; and Camp Collins (Slade's old place) just above Fort Marcy. In all of these places there are about 1,500 acres of arable land, including 150 acres of meadow. The farms are cultiva ted by freedmen. This year the crops are to be as follows: 200 acres Winter wheat; look ing well and sowed in grass; 200 acres corn, ! I 100 acres oats, .50 acres potatoes, 50 acres j cabbage, 25 acres turnips. 25 acres buckwheat, j 10 acres melons. 8 acres tomatoes, and large quantities of all kinds ol garden vegetables for I ihe use of the contrabands and for the Wash ington and Georgetown markets. The number of able-boded hands employed s on tho farm is about one hundred. The num ber of men, women and children on the farms, including Freed man's Village, is about two I i thousand. Able-bodied men are paid for work- ! ing on the farms from eight to ten dollars per I month, and are furnished rations and quarters, j Ten dollars per month, rations and,quarters ! is pretty good—in fact it is but three dollars j under the price paid to white tnen for leaving their families at home and laying down their . ) limbs or dead bodies on the battle field. In ad- , dition to these comforts, care is taken to antic- i ipate any real or supposed wants that inay oc- j cur. Says the Tribune, again: "The contrabands, on their arrival at camp, j are immediately putin a cleanly condition, and j { provided with comfortable clothing, rations,! ! and the best quarters that can be assigned j ; them." j How nice is all this! What a blessing if a j ; one-hundredth part of our city poor could en- j I joy some of these worldly delights. Hut the i journalist is not done yet —he says: j "The superintendent selects the most intelli- j | gent of the young men and women, and details j them to duty in the workshops transferring a- j ble-bocfied field hands to the farms, sending ibe ' j children to school, the sick to the hospital, and ; the aged and infirm to the home provided for j ' them." And after all these essentials to this garden \ I of Eden have been attended to, further matters j j of interest of a statistical and genealogical na-! ; ture receive attention. For instance : j "A book is kept in which the names of each | contraband arriving and departing at the Camp I I is registered, with age, sex, condition in life, \ 1 and former place of residence, the condition of j 1 each person on arrival, and the places to which j ! those who leave tiie village or farms intend to ] go, and the date of their departure; also, trie ; | disease, age, Ac., of those who die." All that is wanted, probably, to this is a j short biographical sketch of each individual, I done up in gold for the centre-tables of New | i England. But the above is not all, as will be j seen by the following paragraph : "The educational and religious interests ofj the village are under tiie supervision of the A inerican Tract Society. All the children under : 15 are required to attend school during the j Winter months. Besides the day schools for! ; children the Superintendent has established an ; j evening school for the benefit of the laborers on ; i the farms and in the mechanical shops. Boys 1 over 1G and girls over 14 are not allowed to attend the day schools while their services are required in the laboring department. All the ■ children under 14 and old enough to be benefit- ! ed by school instructions, are required to at- j j tend." What an elisium is this springing up upon ' the lands of Goth and Vandal—otherwise reb els—wherein every want is supplied and every taste gratified—even to the preparation for en ! tering upon the possession of an incorruptible crown. And, after all these joys, mercy pre sides in judgment and softens the buffeting hand of punishment—in case the elect should ever ; have a contraband thought or do an unlawful > ! act. We read : "Punishments are of three grades. In slight | offences it is siniplv a reproof from the officer in charge of the delinquent; in case of idleness or disposition to shrink from labor, uncleanli ness. Ac., deprivation of part of rations, Ac., in greater offences, such as disobedience of or- 1 j ders. drunkenness, theft, Ac., deprivation of j 1 privileges, imprisonment in guard-house, Ac." j Before leaving this subject, we cannot help congratulating the Government upon its sue- j j ces.-ful establishment as an independent plan- j : ter—the more so, because it lias surmounted ' I the difficult task of "jumping claims" and get j ting a clear title for them. Many more cab i bage gardens and corn patches may come of j this and many rails be necessary to fence them in. How fortunate, then, that we have at the ' 1 head of affairs one who knows so well the pro cess of splitting them. 'There is but one tiling that we think could be improved, and that is , the establishment of a little more white labor j that the colored "children of the Government" ! may not lie subjected to even the slight labor i and exposure now required ofthem. With this j exception the system seems admirable. How i bad it will make the poor emaciated needle wo- j ■ ; men of the eastern cities feel who make fifty feet of stitches for five cents, and are dying by inches j in consequence of the starvation pricespaid for I doing Government work. How bad it will make the poor soldier's wid • ow an.: orphan children feel, too, who have j i 1 been waiting more than a year for the stipend WHOLE IVUIVBER, 1033 VOL. 7, NO 47. of pension due for the precious life-blood pour ed out upon the battle field that these planta tions might be turned into a paradise for ne groes. But this is nothing to the Government, we know. Corporations have no souls, and, probably Governments have not either. What's the difference anyhow; this world is only a short abiding place—a pilgrimage of woe—-and, no doubt, the sooner the poor whites are push ed off the sphere the nearer shall appear the golden colored milleniuru. Who knows ? THE STATE MILITIA LAW. In view of the faot that the militia of Penn sylvania will probably be called out in the course of a few weeks, we publish, for the benefit of our readers, an outline of the militia law pass ed by the last Legislature, which takes up some thirty-three pages printed matter. The bill bears date March 150, 1804, and provides First, that every able-bodied white male citizen, resi dent in the State, of the age of twenty one and under the age of forty-five years, shall he en rolled in the militia, with the usual exemptions of idiots, lunatics, paupers, &c. Second, assessors shall annually, and at the same time they are engaged in taking the as sessment or valuation of real and personal prop erty, record all names of those liable to duty, anil place a certified copy in the office of the county commissioners of each county in the State, and such record shall be deemed a suffi cient notification to all persons whose names are thus recorded that they have been enrolled in the militia.— When the roll is completed, as sessors shall put up in public places notices sim ilar to the United States enrollment. Section third provides severe penalties for any assessor, clerk or commissioner, who shall refuse or neglect to perform any of the duties provided. SECTION 4 The enrolled militia shall be subject to no active duty, except in case of war, invasion, the prevention of invasion, the sup- 1 prcssion of riots, and to aid the civil authori- i tics in executing the laws of the Common wealth, in which case the Commander-in-Chief shall order out, for actual service, by draft or otherwise as man}' of the militia as necessity demands. SECTION G Every soldier ordered out for active duty by the proper authorities, who has not some able-bodied substitute, shall serve, or pay the sum of seventy-five dollars within twenty-four hours from such time. Exemp tions are similar to those provided by the Uni ted States service, giving members of the Leg islature exemption while on duty, and fifteen days before and after the time of their actual term. Section fen provides that the city of Phila delphia shall be divided into four brigades; and the city of Pittsburg into one brigade, and the rest of the counties into a brigade each, where they have the minimum number. A number of sections are devoted to the ar rangement of the various counties of ilie State into military divisions, etc. The volunteer and enrolled militia are to he organized into twenty divisions, the 17th divis ion comprising Westmoreland, Fayette, Wash ington and (ireene; the It'Ch, Bedford, Som erset, Cambria, Blair and Fulton. Section sixty-four provides for armories for i companies. SECTION GGth. When a commander orders | his company fei" military duty or for election ; I of officers, -' c shall order one or more non- | i commissioned officers or privates to notify the ) men beUnging to the company tc appear at j I such f*nie and place; if he fails to do so, lie ! i shall forfeit not less than twenty dollars nor nxire than one hundred dollars. Section sixty-seven provides for time of no tice at least four days previous to call—ten days for election, and when the company is paraded, the commanding officer shall verbally notify the men to appear at a future day not exceeding thirty days from time of such parade, which verbal notice shall lie sufficient warning. Section seventy to section 81 provides for discipline, training, inspection and camp duty. Section eighty-two to ninety-one provides for calling out the militia in ease of war, invasion, insurrection, tumult, or riots. May order out divisions, regiments, battalions or companies or may order to be detached, parts of companies thereof, or any number of men to be drafted therefrom. Sectiou ninety-third provides for compensa tion, giving pay and rations same as United States Government. Section ninety-seven provides that proceed- ! ings and courts martial and courts of inquiry j shall he conducted in all respects as provided for in the army of the United States, and pun ishments as in like cases in said army. Provi ded that the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. Section ninety- eight provides that all penal ties, not exceeding one hundred dollars, by sum mary conviction before any alderman of a city, shall be without exception or appeal. ONE TRUTH FROM CONGRESS. —A motion be ins presented the other day in the House of Rep resentatives that that body should meet daily at the hour of eleven instead of twelve o'clock, it was rejected on the ground that they had too much time already. God knows that is true: If ever a country was cursed with too much legislation, it is ours, and if ever wild, fanati cal and crazy legislators had control of the af fairs of a Republic, it is now in these United States. One truth at least we got from Con gress, and that is, that we have too much of it. FREK SPEECH is the corner stone of free gov ernment. Prevent free speech and the dark wa ters of despotism soon settle down upon the peo ple. The first care of tyranny is to suppress freedom of speech and freedom of the press. A lady recently issued cards for a supper par ty, and had "No Butter" priuted on them. Hates of Slboeriising. One Square, three weektorless. .... .". .$123 OneSqf'Mre j each additional insertion less motttbs 30 I XPJW>. 6 MOXTHS. 1 TEAR One square* . ... $3.00 $4 75 SBOO Two squares ....... 500 700 10 Three squares 650 000 14 00 i Column 12 00 20 00 35 00 One Column 20 00 35 00* 65 00 Administrators'andExeeutors' noticess2.so, Au ditors' notices $1.50, if under 10 lines. $2.00 if more than a square and less than 20 lines. Ketrays, $1.25, if but one head is advertised, 25 cents for every additional head. The spaceoccupied by ten lines of this size or type rountsoue square. All fractions of a square under five lineswill be measured as a half square and al 1 over five lines as a full square. All legal advertisements will be charged to the person hand ing them in. Distrust of the Administration—- Why Is It? Why is it that Grant shows such distrust of Washington ? Why does the administration per sistently deceive the people ? Why do the peo ple withhold nil confidence from our rulers ? The truth is we have no government. The members of the Cabinet do not speak to each other. Chase and Seward are open and malig nant enemies. The revelation of the corruption and profligacy in the custom house and Treas ury Department are made at the instigation of Seward. Chase commenced the warfare by procuring from the Kepublicans of the Senate a vote of want of confidence in Seward ! The Postmaster General, Blair, openly denounces the Secretaiy of the Treasury as "a villain."— Welles and Stanton ridicule and thwart each other. The spiteful Halleck meddles with all plans only to disarrange them. The Senate j hates the Cabinet and the House sets itself up in opposition to the Senate. Doth are torn by factions and intrigues; and all departments of this warring Government are undermined by corroding corruption. The war is three years old, and we have not yet a tax system, a financesystem, or a conscript system. The tax is inadequate, and each week changes: the financial system, if it is ever per fected, is to begin only next January > a d the conscript system levies money and not men. Our ablest Generals are dismissed at the very moment they arc most wanted. But a few days ago, Gens. Keyes and Franklin, two of our best commanders, were ordered out of the ser vice by President Lincoln: and the demagogue Tribune was permitted to boast that 4 'the army was purged of McClellanism." The gratification of personal hate and politi cal jealousy and the sordid pursuit of gain are the sentiments which rule at Washington. We | have no other government. Soon the people will demand one! The ques tion that is soon to come up is not whether some miserable ambition of place and greed of gain is to be gratified, or whether a feeble cabal that sacrifices the country to its selfiishness is to be perpetuated, but whether we are to have a government such as will truly represent a great people in this great crisis.— Albany Argus. From the . few York Brother Jonathan, 1543. War? War is a beautiful game—that's a fact. Chop me off that fellow's head. Ay, aye, sir—chop off his head, it is sir. Capital! you may make ' it a round dozen —and take a title for your i pains i or say five hundred—with a cartload of legs and arms that belong to nobody—and be come a generalissimo, with a swab for each shoulder. Done'—tliere are fifteen hundred ' heads, at your service: and a stop!—you are ambitious, I see. There's marshal's baton, adrift in the tog; chargers tumbling about, and . "bursting their bloody girths;" banners flying i aud trumpets blowing—hurrah !—set two or ! three villages afire—cut me the throats of say ten or fifteen thousand men, women and chil -1 dren, and—heigh—presto! the marshal's baton is yours! Pa!— Well, Bobby! What, son! Pa! little Tompop has just ben a lookin'over the fence— what shall you do to him, pa ? What would you have me do, Bobby? Shoot him, pa! And his father and mother they've both ben n mak iu' mouths at you, pa, through the window.— Well—what must I do to them ? Set their hou -e afire 1S ii ri i "em to ashes, pa! And if any body should take their part, Bobby— what then? Blow 'cm up! blow 'em sky high, pa—knock 'em in the head—cut their throats—and hurrah! And why; Bobby—why would you have me do this! Why should Igo to knockingmy next door neighbors on the head? What harm have they done me ? Why, pa! what a question! an't you the commander-in-chief?" THF. BIGHT soirr OK BEUGION. —Some ono whose head is usually "level," has written out his religion as follows. It will do to read and think about.: We want a religion that goes into the fam ily, and keeps the husband from being spiteful when the dinner is late; keep 3 the wife from being fretful when the husband tracks the new ly washed floor with his muddy boots and makes the husband mindful of the scraper and door mat; amuses the children as well as instructs them; wins as well as governs them ; projects the honeymoon into the harvest moon, and makes the happy hours like the Eastern fig-tree, bear ing m its bosom at once the beauty of tnc ten der blossom and the glory of the ripened fruit; We want c. religion that liears not only on the sinfulness of sin but on the rascality of lying and stealing; a religion that banishes all small measures from the counters, smail baskets from the stalls, pebbles from the cotton bags, clay from paper, sand from sugar, chickory from cof fee, beet-root from vinegar, alum from bread, lard from butter, strychnine from wine, and water from milk cups. The religion thai is to advance the world will not put all big strawberries at the top and all the bad ones at the botton. It will not offer more baskets of foreign wines than the vineyards ever produced bottles. The religion that is to sanctify the world pays its debts. It does not consider forty cents re lurned for one hundred given, is according to gospel, though it is according to la- . It looks on a man who has failed in trade and who continues to live in luxury, as a thief. It looks on a man who promises to pay fifty dollars on demand with interest, and who neglects to pay it on demand, with or without interest, as a liar. THE USURPATIONS OK CONGRESS. —Senator Hale of New Hampshire, in speaking upon the effort by Congress to annihilate State Banks, said tho object would be more easily understood if if were put in this form And be it ftiriJter enacted, That all those instruments heretofore known as state consti tutions be and they are hereby abolished.
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