THE BEDFORD GAZETTE 18 PCBt.liHClr EVERY FRIDAT MORMNO BY B. r. MEYERS, At the following terms, to witi $2 00 per annum, if paid strictly ir> advance. $2.50 if paid within 6 months j $3.00 if not paid withia € months. CSTs'o subscription taken for less than si* months KF"No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publishei. It has been decided by "he United States Courts that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and as a criminal offence. CCTTbe courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, If they take tbm from fhe post office, whether they subscribe for them, or not. Select J) o£ t r ii. NOW AND THEN. Aik— "The Kingdom Coming." Time was we had a nation, And a staunch Democracy ; Our fame was wide throughout creation, And a proud young people, we; Cut things have changed—the comet's risen With a different tale to tell, And no man now is safe Irom prison At a touch ol Seward's bell! Aias! for liberty, Alas! for Uncic Sam ; We've lived to ree the kingdom coming In the days of Abraham ! Time was we bad our free discussion With the press, the tongue, the pen, Nor t ad we lened to ape the Ru siari With ir spis and dungeons, then, Put r.ow, unle-s one sir.g9 the praises C u.-; Lincoln-Stanton crew, f. • awns as quick as Hazes, •*' * ■ poo. I s iosi 'o view! Th c's m more liberty— f . are all sham— kingdom coming, :t> ays ot Abraham! Xti uaya gone past those days more palmy Than another lend e'er saw— Our statesmen needed rot au army la the place ot civil law; Each man his ballot ca9t unfearing, Aui thought it strange to find A blue-coat conscript guard appearing With a loaded gun behind ! Is this your liberty ? Poor sacrificial lamb ! Bow down and bless the kingdom coming Iu the days of Abraham ! We love the War, and all are burning For the cause we ho;J so dear, Ihe canscript-w heels are kept a-turning In the counti) far and near, Our taxes and our debt are bigger Than we are likely soon to pay; But Abr'arn want- to free the nigger, And we let him have his wsy. Our chance for liberty Is hardly worth a dram, , But there's a nigger kingdom coming, , And the king is Abraham ! ~ ——————— , Military Resources of the South. 1 "Druid," the Edit imore correspondout r.r f iho V v* -~-r cuiiiAc acquaintance with trie state of affairs . in the South, and has made many predictions 1 since the war began which have happened, some liow or another, to lie better fulfilled than those of Secretary Seward. The following is his es timate of the available military resources of the tfouth at the present time: j'llKatiXT EFFECTIVE STRENGTH OF THE SOCTHEIIN I ARMIES. The armies of the South now in the field are composed of the following bodies of troops: | Longstreet's corps, A. K. llills's corps, and the troops recently under Beauregard, ho.ding the lines defending Richmond and Petersburg, 45,- ' 000 infantry. 10,000 cavalry, and 300 guns, in all 61,000 troops; Early's corps in the val ley, 15,000 men , total of Lee's army proper, 76,000 men. Bre-kirtridge's force in South western Virginia, 10,000 men; militia at Lynchburg, s'ooo men ; Wilmington and Wel don, S,ooomen : total under General Lee's im mediate orders, 102,000 men. Troops under Beauregard and Hood, in the in Arkansas ami Missouri, under Sterling Price. 20,000 men ; at Charleston and Savannah, 15- 000 men; in Texas and Louisiana. 15,000 men: Mobile, 12,0)0 men, total, 112.000 men. Grand total of troips ot the Confeder acy in the field, 215,000 troops. AVAILABLE MILITARY STRENGTH OE THE FOl'TiL The above is the present actual strength of the confederate armies, but it is by no means the extent of the available military power ol the South. The South has had in arms, since the "beginning of the war, eight hundred and fi r ty thousand men (including the above two hun dred and fourteen thousand, and fifty or sixty thousand more, who are now prisoners in our hands, and five hundred and seventy-six thous and men who have been killed and disabled during the progress of the wnr.) if the tables in my letter of September 15 are correct, and their accuracy has never been disputed, the South still has, there'"' re. a reserve of nin • hundred and fifty thvua:. white men oi - ■ ••• military avre xfi experience ®f toyr i •• -- . therefore shows that the South] .. hie t . keep on foot armies equal i :x t itiose now i:i the fieid for four] at i ast. 1 nese facts will !*• brought c>" derate congress at an early day, r.ue and detailed shape, as ar- J.J. ; the proposed measure of arm ing tue as soldiers. "Caesar," said a planter to a negro, "climb up that tree and thin out the branches." The negro showed no disposition to comply, and on being pressed for a reason, answered: "Well, look heah, massa, if I go up dar an' fall down an' broke my neck, dat'll bo a thousand dollars nut of your pocket. Now, why don't' yc j hire an Irishman to go up, and den if he falls and k'lls himself, dat won't be no loss to nobody.'' ifT-The woiamen employed or. : lie tunnel un der Lake Michigan, al Chicago, receuilj- found tuispstak&ble evidence of oil. Instead of wa ter, the Chicegoians lid fair to obtain itiflxtna ble material for city use. Cat*A mar. who covers himself with costly ap parel, and negiucts hia mind, is like one who illuminates the outside of his house, and sits within the dark; *- J -— ppp nil 111 VOLIME GO. NEW SERIES. THE HAUNTED HOUSE It was near the close of a sultry day in Au gust that I drew up my tired horse before th door of the Black Bear—where cutertainment was to be obtained for man and beast as the la boriously creaking sign voluntarily informed the pas3er-by. Having seen Pluto well cared for and in a clean stall, I sauntered into the bar-room, and having nothing betier to do, sat down to listen to the conversation of the half dozen lounger there congregated. I looked over the books on the table, bat thov were all dry essays on agriculture and cookery, and I let them pass. I was young then—just tw.inty-three—and was traveling solely to pass away the time of iny summer vacation (I was then a member of thcT Law School,) and ifotn the love of adventure. 4s yet, however, very little in the way of adventure bad befallen me. Life had gone on rather monotonously ; and I had strayed away here inlo the backwoods of Maine in the vain hope that I might tind something strikingly uU t ol the usual way. Evidently, my entrance had interrupted the conversation of the gentlemen; for there fol lowed a pause broken at last by a tall military looking man in rough coat and top boots. "lire was a daughter, wasn't there, land lord ?" he ask id. "les," replied that individual so shortly that I scrutinized him more closely than I had done before. 'J he scrutiny threw little light on his character. His physiognomy was perfectly un readable. He might, or m'ight not, be a bad man. He was short, thick-set, with a red face, bushy eyebrows, and a coldly-ghtteriug sieel blue eye "\\ ell, it was a startling affair for this one horse place," continued lie of the top boots, re moving his cigar. --It happened four years ago, you say, arid the daughter has not been heard of since? Strange!" ''Yes, it will be four years come next Christ mas," said a white-haired old man who Lad not spoken before. "A terrible night, sir; freezintr cold, and the snow falling so thick that it would have biaided you. And that night old Roger Hampton and his wife were murdered; and from that day to this no human eye, so far as we know lias ever looked on Margaret Hampton. "What do you think became of her, Gran ger?" asked one of the urea addressing the old man. "I? think? I know not what to think. It was currently reported that she dealt the death wounds, and then fled to save herself from sus picion : but I behf-ve nothing"of tho kind. I * •"**% a,q *1 Jl I IT ' • una of that enfifuc lovely, m afvaD rae 4 *igfcfs in heaven." "Of what were you speak c, gentlemen, if j I may inquire?" 1 asked dra ing up to the ta- ' hie where they were sitting. The circle courteously widened to admit me; people always like to tell what they know, if properly requested to do so. "We were talking over a tragedy that occur red near here, some four years ago, in an old mansion known as 'Hampton's Death,'" replied he of the top boots. "Mr. Hampton and his wife were murdered: and their only daughter, Margaret, a girl of eighteen, or thereabouts, has never been seen since." "indeed," I said, "but. that is very singular ! Who resides at 'Hampton's Death' now ?" "Bless you, young man," cried the landlord, "you couldn't hire any body to enter the doors on a sunshiny day; and as for living there why the place is haunted; and one foolhardy voung man who went there to pass the night, on a wager, lost his reason before morning.— lie's been wandering ever since, but no one knows what he saw there." "Humph! and so the place is a ruin?" "Getting to be, sir. You can just see it from the window there." He pointed out, and I saw at the distance of half a mile, perhaps, the chimney of a large house, clearly defined a;, ain't the red sunset sky. "Did Mr. Hampton posses- any property ?" I .asked. "If was generally supposed that lie Lad a large sum of gold about him," said the landlord, "but nothing was proved after the murder.— There was some thousands of dollars worth of real estate." "And who was the heir of that?" "My wife, sir," said the landlord. "She was the next kin after Margaret—the niece of I\§r. Hampton. But the old house and its immedi ate grounds are a dead weight on our hands ; we could not give them away.' I made a few more inquiries and then the conversation turned to other topics; and soon afterwards supper was announced. At the sup per table I saw ihe landlady—a tall, handsome woman In the prime of life, and an arrogance particularly insufferable in one by duty bound to be respectfully entertaining. I was shown to ray room soon after supper : an airy apartmont directly over the bar-room. My curiosity was aroused. The story I had heard about "Hampton's Death" was romantic enough to excite the in terest of almost any young man of three and twenty, and perhaps I had a full share of ro mance in my composition. I threw up the west window and looked out. The evening was beautiful- I here was a slight breeze blowing und the pale moon had ]ust risen The gray old front ia "Hampton Death" was ! di-.'uetly visible, looming gloomily from a mass t; ever f ->-e *ns. It'waa a singular feature in that backwoods landscape, buiii in an uld though not inelegant style of arehiteel ure I fell to speculating about it. The man who had plan j nod that building was superior to his neighbors. I He hud both taste ind love of the beautiful. | There was a pleasing- harmony between the i stone gabk s of the house and the dark, pine 1 forest stretching away for miles behind it. But I this distant view did not satisfy me. 1 wanted i tp see the inside, to tread the long closed chaoa- BEDFORD, FA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1864. Bert, and stun* perhaps in the very spot where !on that boisterous Christmas night, two souis j had been <-o suddenly launched into Eternity. But I did ..ot tare to let those below know oi suy foolhardi.it js, as the landlord would prob ably term it. 1 would "ait till they were all ir bed. I sat there listening to the melancholy voice of t'.e whip-poor-will, avay off in the copse-wood ihe stillness growing around me, and even the light breeze folding its wings and sinking to sleep in the have. . All was quiet; the house was wrapped in sluEuoer I examined my pistols, put ou fresh caps, and then softly iet myself down to the ground by means of the strong tendrils of a grape-vitlc thai, had climbed up to my window, it was only a little walk to the old ruin—not more than half u mile acro&s the fields, to the —lapidated stone once that separate J thegrounds truui 'he adjacent 10/s. I sprang over into the lonesome garden, now choked with rank weeds and grass, and stood in th shadow of the pile of buildings. Very massive and gloomy it looked, with its weather stained walls and high, narrow win dows gleaming in the moonlight. The quaint I gables and carved dcriuar winder shed a black I -hade over Ihe front; the path to the halt dour j was obstruct.- i with wild \ ines and brambles, ' and a thorn bush had grown up upon the very j threshold. j Every thing about the pLce was dead and si lent as the tomb. No wonder people said it. was haunted, with that old tale of crime and death hanging around it. I Hied the door, but it was fast. So were the windows. I went around to the back part, but ail was closely secured. I pried off a cor- I nice with my knife, after some difficulty, and by that means removed a window -ash, leaving 1 the apcrtur free. Looking in, I saw a large . apartment, evidently the kitchen. Everything had been left just where it was before the earse bad fallen; the tin pans still gleamed on the dresser j and the kettle grip eat 01 , t i ie deserted hearth. I sprang in and passed to tlm interior of the building, a dark corriJor. to what must have ■ been a parlor. Part of the furniture still re mained : the green carpet was gray with du-t, and the chairs and solas had put oil the sack cloth of mould and moth. A bat flapped against ihe window as I enter ed, escaping through a broken pane ; and soine w here not tar fh-'aat I heard the riiriit scream of the night-uawk. A distant tfoor -slammed f to in the draught of air I had admitted, strikr I ing with startling uutinotnos? on the dead aft of that unhappy placid- But l v..— VnvJ't- I ened; it was ali vfirv uovej,.aJuJ,'VdVi^!.'. * " snould have something to tell my grand children. From thence I passed through two smaller rooms to a large hall, in the middle of which rose a broad staircase. 1 fits I ascended, the ' long unused stairs creaking wierdly beneath my Head, as if astonished at their unwonted burden. A door at the head of the landing Stood slight ly ajar. I pushed it open an.l entered a long, narrow chamber, dimly lit up by the moonlight struggling through the dusky glass. One glance showed me that "this was the ghostly chamber." There were dark red stains on the counter pane of the bed, and near the centre of the floor j the d 'e carpet was discolored with what once L. sen a pool of blood. Here, then, the defld wa3 committed. If these silent walls could speak, what a tale ot violence they might reveal! While I stood there think ing how once the death-shrieks of that old man , and his wife had resounded through the room, wondering where the guilty murderer wn< hid ing—wondering what tragic fate had overtaken the fair Margaret, J heard the taint sound of a human footstep. Convinced that 1 was not mistaken, I listened intently. It wa6 repeated. No; there was nt*mistake. I looked at my pistols once more, to make' sure that all was right. It 1 were to meet flesh ! and blood, those trusty weapons might prove my best friend, if only gliosis, I might save my self the trouble of trusting to gunpowder. There was a door on the opposite side of the chamber leading through several rooms to a t second hall, smaller than the first, and from this hall another ilight of ft aim ascended, lead ing probably to the attics. I hurried through, I rnd paused at the foot of these stairs. 1 could , hear evory step distinctly now; it seemed al most over my head —soft, light and hurried, ' pacing back and forth. I even thought 1 could distinguish the slight rustling of garments; anda6l stood breathless, a low moan stole to my ear—so thrillingly low that I felt the rojy blood around my heart sink and grow cold. "Clinton Eerie! are you a coward?" I said to myself, and the bare insinuation was e nough to send me forward. I went up the stairs, two at a bound, but. was stopped by a strong oaken door. I tried to break it down, but it resisted all my efforts. I went to oe of the chambers below and wrenched ofl the great post ot a mahogany bedstead, nnd returning, used this as a sort of battering ram. No mere weoden door could long withstand ouch an at tack as T made oh that one, and ere long I had the satisfaction of seeing it fall inwards. I leaped over the ruins into the apartment tluis opened before me, but it was bare and unfur nished. Not a thing, animate or inanimate, to disturb the ghostly devastation. I glanced quickly over the wnlls in search of some secret passage, and in the further corner I perceived a slide, fastened with massive holts on tne -mtside. 1 drew lack '-be bars, n.rd ' paused for a moment before I sought to pene ■ trate the mysteries that door concealed. Mj 1 heart boat so loud that I could hear but J | laid my hand thereon and found.it boat cain: ! and strong. A vague, nameless something thrilled through my soul as I stood there. It seemed to me a; if I were about to epter on a new and swectc existence. 'lTie hand of Destiny itself wa upon me Freedom of Thought and Opinion. 1 opened ac door slowly and stood on the i threshold, w'hat did I seo ? The moon was shining brightly into the chamber, tl iding every remote corner with its ■ silvery brilliancy. I could distinguish every thing with the greatest minuteness. In the centre of tihe roo.u stood a slight spec tral form in its slendernese, with a face white as marble, masses of black hair flowing down over lier sable garments. —The shadowy hands j were locked together; the great, mild, dark eyes were fixed upon iny face with an expression of I torrur and wonder. I advanced to the side of the phantom form. Whether it was ghost or liviag woma I f new not; but I was resolved to take no . .p back wards. The sweetest, saddest voice I ever beard, ad : dressed inc. e ! " Vho are you ? Why are yon here ? 9" { fWby lam here depends upon eircumstan - 3: ces." I paused, for I was uncertain whether I was 5 speaking to the flesh or the spirit. "Oshe cried, springing toward mt J and t taking my hand in both of hers so soft and - • warm, "only say that you have corns to take I ■j me away from here! Only release me and 1 1 ] will be your slave forever!" ' : The suspicion that had all along been form ing itself in my mind, broke out in the abrupt 1 question : ] "Are you Margaret Hampton 1" i j "Years ago I was called so." j "Good God! and where have you been since !; that Christmas night!" "Here, always—Oh, sir, if you knew the half I have suffered, you would take ma a : I replied by taking her in my arms and 'uear j ing her down over the stniis to life and free j dou once more. It was the happiest moment of my existence when I stood with her on tbs green sward in front of Hampton's Death, with the silver rain of the obstructed moonlight fall ing over us. She shivered at tho touch of the night air. How very lung it had been since she had felt free, fresh air. 1 took off my coat and but ... 1 it around her, placing her in the shadow a tall fir tree, that she might have the sup p j t of its rugged trunk. You will not be afraid to stay here while I : get my horse!"' I asked. "Where is it ?" "At Carl Janscn'g hotel. 1 1 thought 6he shuddered at the name—my suspicions were fast taking a tangible form. "Yes, I will stay- —but, oh! you will not de- Y'ltimfi ot it:" i exciaimvu, niw the fields to the hostlery. I was young and en thusiastic then. My plan was all formed. Fln to was strong and willing, he could carry us i both easily, and I got on his back, feeling for the noble fellow an affection as strong as that 'of a man for his brother. He needed no ur ging; he seemed wild to get away from the vi cinity of the Black Bear ; and it was hardly five minutes before I had Margaret Hauipton up before rne. Willi one hand I guided the horse, and the other arm held the slight form to !my side —I was afraid I should lose her if 1 1 did not hold fast. Half an hour"? brisk gallop brought us to the little village of Lowridge, and soon after I had the landlord of the Globe House out of bed and very much at my service. I took Margaret into the parlor, and made her tell me her story in as few words as pos sible. The landlord was a magistrate, and took down her statement. Two hours after ward I was on my way to the Black Be a,, with four constables and a warrant for the arrest of Carl Jansen on the chatge of murder. Wo entered the tavern without ceremony, aud took the guilty wretch in bed by the side ! of his equally guilty wife. He was lodged in the county jail, and the next afternoon a judicial examination took place. ( Margaret's testimony was amply sufficient to , I convict him, and he was taken to the place of t his confinement to await his trial at a higher | ! court. . ! I Three days after wards he was found dead in his cell. He had died from the effects of poi ' son brought him by his wife: and the same I day she too was seized with a fatal illness that in five hours ended her life. Justice was ue ' frauded of its dues. Jansen left a written confession in full. He j entered upon all the horrible details with fiend ! ish minuteness ; ar.d long and eloquently on the skill with which lie avoided detection. It was as I had expected. Mrs. Jansen being the next ho*- after Mar garet to the Hampton wealth the wretched couple had formed the plan of murdering the whoh family, "in order to secure the property. • A night when all the servants were away at a Christmas festival was ' selected, and the deed was done ; only Jansen could not find it in hiß : heart to sacrifice Margaret. There was a ten .! der spot in the villain's nature after all.—Long [ ! ago, in his early manhood, he had loved n wo ; i man of whose face Margaret's was the coun i! terpart. This woman had died in her young . innocence, in her lover's arms, and for the sake ' ef that tender memory, the girl, who resembled ' her was spared. But she had been kept a f' close prisoner ; every one helieved her dead, and r so she was, to all intents and purposes Jan s sen had carried her food at stated intervals; d and encouraged the prevailing belief that the old house was haunted, to the best of his a j ility. The yor.ng man who had gone to pass I the night bad been frightened by sonpe diabol u ical contrivance of Jansea's ; aud I only esca ped a similar fato by keeping my intentions of h going there a secret. is I took Margaret at onec to my mother iu ;r Boston, aud then, as the associations of her ear jr ly home were so painful to her, I sold out the 1 property; and placed the proceeds to her credit WHOLE NUMBER, 3086 When I placed the certificate of styck into her hands, I said: "There, Margaret, the eld life is buried. Now you can begin the new." She did aot reply, but sat there in the mel low sunshine, her beautiful face troilhled, her beautiful eyes, cast down. "You are an heiress, Miss Hampton; you will go into society and be a great belle." "No," she said softly ; "I do not wish to be a belle, Clinton:" "YY hat Would you bo, if you could, Mar garet f" Hhe lifted her sweat face to mine. I caught her to ray breast, and held her prisoner there. "Would you be my wife, Margaret ?" And she answered, "Yes." So she was—so she is now. ar.d bas been these many happy years; God bless her! And every day my heart is fail of eloqueut grati tude to an inscrutable Providence, for finding me, iu a fit of romantic curiosity; to spend a night at "Hampton Death." THE NEGP.O AND THE WHITE MAN. Senator Richardson of Illinois, in a speech at Peoria, drew this fcfe picture of the differ ence between the negreand fhe white man un der Abolition rule: Now my friends, at all points we are feed ing negroes and supporting fhem You ask then who supports them and the answer is, "liic United States." Ask then who furnish es them bouses to Jive in, and they answer, "iho Lniled .States." Ask them who pays the doctor when the .are sick, and they reply, "Fhe United Slates." Put the question to tliern who sends t..eir children tc school, and supports teachers for their education and the answer is, "The United States." My friend Ross, who is running fur Congress in the ad joining district, informs me that he once inquir ed with regard to their progress in the schools and was informer! that they did not learn very fast, but they sang elegantly! and it might have been added that they danced well! [Laugh ter.] And in many places they will tell you that they are the relatives of soldiers in the army. B it ask if the white people arc so supporeu and the answer is ;hat they are white and ca. take '-are of themselves. [Laughter.] Thi: wholesale support of negroes is notorious. VVi have in the army of the United States less thai 80,000 men of the colored race; hut we an to-day supporting 760,000 of those who elai:: to bo their relatives. The relatives of th" col ored troops are very numerous. In the las two years all the proclamations of Mr. Liu coir last se-sion, and Lincoln approved it. giving tlx colored widows advantages over the white wi_ ows in the matter of pensions. A white wo man at the time of application for pension niu? produce a marriage certificate: but a negrc woman's affidavit is amply sufficient. A whiti woman who is the widow of a soldier nav make oath that she was legally married, bul hat it is impossible to procure a marriage cer ilk-ate. She may have been married in th< Joutb, and now shut out from all means of pro •tiring the required proof. Without it she can Iraw no pension. In the case of a white woman the marriage ;ertificate is indispensably necessary. But let i negro woman who is the widow of a colored soldier apply for a pension and make oath that she was married to him, and her pension is •eady for her without tlie certificate. But this a not all. In the State of Illinois we did not illow a negro or an Indian to testify upon the itaud in court in laror or against a white m;-.n. So it was in other States. The hist Congress, owever, passed a law making the negro a com petent witness and allowing him to testify. So no, we did not permit a man to testify in court tvho was an atheist and did not believe in the •xistence of a God. If a man came in court is a witness and was asked, '-Do you believe n the existence of a God?" and he should re >i, "no," the answer of tho law was, turn Lira jut: he has no right to be a witness here. But if von ask a negro the question now, the at torney stands up and savs. "you have no right to question him in regard to that; the law of Congress has made him a competent witness nd beyond it you cannot go." When they first employed the negro in the irmy as a soldier, they said his service were not as valuable as the white man's and his par was fixed at a less figure—l think at tea dollars per month. But at the last session of Congress \ law was passed making hiapay eqmtl to that of a white soldier and dating that pay back to the period of enlistment. While I have served in the Senate of the U nited States and in the House of Keprestnta tives. when men were arrested in my -on State of Illinois and incarcerated in bast ilea, I en deavored to induce these bodies to have a com mittee of investigation appmned upon their ca ses; but they said no, and refused me. And vet if a negro was incarcerated in the Wa h ington jail, committees of investigation were immediately appointed to know why the negro had been plaoed there. They have rail cars in the streets of Wash ington, horse cars, I believe they call them, and some are l ibeled "for colored peoplu." Those are the cars for the negroes. But one day a nc r*ro jumped aboard upon one side of a white man's car, and the conductor very promptly jumped him oti ths other side. And imme diately resolution after resolution was introduc ed in' Congress to know why that negro was put off the cars. [Laughter]. Bat I was never able to get a resolution pass ed listing why a white man was incarcerated in i Government bastile. A senator happening to remark that it was but a few days previous to that lie was put off the cars, Mr. Sumner re plied that it was of no consequence; tbat tt was of less importance that the whole Senate if tho United States should be put off the cars Ratta of On* qtf.re, three vreek.or less. ...... ,$i M One Square, each additional insertion Jest than thjee menttii . # M On, H 3 KOSTBS. 6 MONTHS ■ 1 UIS tWiiSLY * *' • 9310 $4 75 fC - 00 Three qu*" &00 700 : i Column . 50 000 .5 oj One Column . 15 00 30 00 35 00 .... • ao 00 35 00 oc> 00 Aflmmntratorj'aniiKaeeutf,. , . r , Kr . , tutors' notices SI.OO, if £?,% more than a square and less than ao i, '"* * v . ° if <1.35, if but one bead is advertised, "5 , !l , r8 ? 11 ' ever;- additional head. ' oU for Ihe space occupied bj-ten tinea of t uia ti ze 01 .ype eountsone square. Alt fractions of a sqo&r* uhaerfive l;nrs will be measured as a half square and a. lover five lines as a lull square. Ail legal advertisements will be charged to the person Ltnd i-ig taem in. VOl. 8, NO. 18 r lian Hint a single negro should he so treated [Laughter.] Why in the clays of my ambition f when T looked upon a Clay, a Webster, n Wright und ft Calhoun ; VTlien 1 read the debates and saw questions of national Import discussed with . ability exceeding the legislative couueiis of / any nation —even that of the Koman Senate U j self—l did tbink that if ever I reached if, I j should amount to something; but when I found j that the whole Senate amounted to Jess than f the putting of one negro off from a street car. I confess that my ideas of it were far less ex alted than they were before. [Long continued applause.] THE COMING DRAFT. Tha Washington correspondent of the Detroit Free Press writes as follows, under date of Oct. 20th: I It is generally conceded that the next session '°f Congress will, on the recommendation of the War Department, materially amend the ex isting conscription law by striking out the pro vision allowing drafted men to furnish substi tutes. It will he remembered that fiiU wa,s at tempted at the last session of Congress, and approved by the Military Committees of both t.' Senate and House. It was adopted in the Senate, hu failed in the House only ou account of the app caching elections. It wag, however, strongly urged by Schenck and other leading Abolitionists, and on a test vote received tho support of fifty members—all of the Ad:r.inif f rati on party, including Beaman, Briggs, .Long year and Kellogg, of Michigan. It was open ly avowed then by leading Abolitionists, that it the election this fall should result in their favor, they would not hesitate at tho next ses sion to vote in favor of abolishing the substi tute clause of the present law. This ia un doubtedly the intention. It was thoroughly understood before the adjournment of the last session. The Provost Marshal General, it is said, will renew his recommendation for the ab olition of tho dense, and that it will bo ap proved by the War Department, and in all probability will become a law beforo the first of January next. How soon thereafter a call tor several hundred thousand men (principals) will bo made your readers can judge. •It is also contemplated, I understand, to strike out tha* provision in tho act of July last requiring the President to give fifty days* no tice before a draft can be made, BO that tho conscription machine can be put in operation at any ti.no without any notice whatever to the people, who may then consider themselves under sentence of death, to be executed at the pleasure of lb doubt in "the world that OJI. SIASO FIRM. —The New Hampshire Patriot is nut among those who believe that the work, of Democrats ended with the closing ot the polls on the 8?h of November. The doty of ever.- Democrat —well says the Patriot —is as plain to day in defeat, as it was before the e lection. That u_;y is to sla ui firmly bv their priaciples, their patriotic ronv.-tions, their . honored orgar.izat : on.—From the manly and steadfast performance of their duty they will not be swerved either by the threats or tho per suasions of their political enemies. Time will prove the policy as w ill as the Justice of this course. The policy of the Administration "is jnat as obnoxious to them as heretofore, and it? inevitable tendency ju-t as fatal to the welfare of the country and the rights and interests of its citizens. It is just as important to them, and to the country, that this policy should l abandoned ; ana for that end it is still the duty and interest alike for us all to labor. The ver dict of the ballot-box can be reversed in due time ; the delusions under which thousands of honest voters have acted will be removed by the tide of events, and the course of the No mocracy will yet be vindicated by the sober sec ond thought of a suffering and outraged people When this time come?, it is the Democratic yartv that will be required to save from utter ruin whatever is to be saved of personal or na tional value. That old party lias ever proved true to its mission, and it must and will not now despair of the Republic. Its organization must be preserved, its camp fires must be kept burning, its sentinels must stand watchful at their posts, and its gallant array must still pre sent a bold and defiant face to the enemy. No other course is consistent with honor patriotism or self-interest; and this course we trust the 83,000 Democrats of New Hampshire will un falteringly pursue. 3-110 who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely, that an occasion is offered for doing a gi aat deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things. Drops make the ocean, aud the great est woiks are done by little®. If wc could do mu"h good in the world, we must be willing to do good in little things. cy-Wink at small injuries rather than avenge them. If, to destroy a singto beo, yoii ttnfcw down the hive, instead of one euaaay you make a thousand. Gar An editor says ho has seen the contrivance lawyers use when they •'warm up with the üb ject." He says it was a glass concern, and held about a pint. HafThe issue of all the Ivondon daily,paper* together, amount to 248,000 sheets daily; of all the weeklies thgetber, 2,263,000 weekly The issues of the monthlies are still larger. (fcT"Yoa seetn to walk more efect'-than usual, my friend." "Yee, I have been lately Straight ened by circumstances.'* wThe cigar and Ike cup are rery intimate acquaintances.
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