BEDFORD GAZETTE.. B.F. MEYERS, EDITOR. FRIDAY i • ; ; MAY 3, 1833. r • av jii *■ t>* ■"* ; Huntingdon & Broad Top Rail Road. DEPARTURE OF TRAIN*. Mail train, northward, leaves Mt. Dallas station t 3.40 p. tti., arrives at Huntingdon at 6.58 p. m. Accommodation, northward, leaves Mt. Dallas at 5.33 a. m., arrives at Huntingdon at 1'd.35 p. nr.. Mail train, southward, leaves Huntingdon, at 8 a. en., arrives at ..It. Dallas at 11-40 s. m. Accommodation, southward, leavei Huntingdon at 4 p. tn., arrives at Mt. Dallas at 7.10 p. m. A line of coaches from Bedford, cor.i.ec's with the trains at Mt. Dallas, leaving Bedford at 8 a. rr>. and 1 p. m. Partisan Sitteriieos.. X politire! meeting was heicS at the Court ' Hours, en Tuesday evening last, the proceed ing* of which wera characterized by unusual nartizan hatred and rancor - A e are iuforroeit -thrt at this meeting Mr. John Cessna eclipsed all his former efforts at abuse of lii 3 ol 1 pc.i.i eal friends. He is said to have raved and squeal ed and bellowed, tiil one outside of the Court House would have imagined that Van Am fcurgh's Menagerie had arrived and that some ,£ the ferocious animals were about making a meal off a couple of pigs and oxen thrown alive -into their cage. Of course it was mere irvfym falmeii, "all sound and fury signifying nothing.' But the animus of the man, the infernal spirit which tnove9 biro to stir up the bitter waters o f politics, deserves some notice at our hac Is. lor the sake of those with whom Mr. Cessna is connected by the ties .if famiiy, whose feeim r r wo respect and whose fidelity to principle cas passed untouched through the tires of civil war, we had determined to pars Lira over, without further notice of his apostacy. Bot be permits no occasion to pass, without striking his uas tard blows al the Marty which nursed him into political life and to whose, kind favor he owe every thing he has in the world. If, then, war he will have and nothing else cia satisfy him, he shall have it, and that to the knife and the knife to the hilt. If he is determined to revive tho partizan bitterness of the past two years, and which has subsided to so great a degree, be it so, but upon him be the responsibility for the consequences, bun call t/emocrats ..i- A J H " la,"!- y- ,-•■>" T> but if he be told in return that he is ft misera ble ingrite, stabbing his old mother Democracy in tbe back, that, bo is a poor, low, despicable hypocrite whose tricks aTe known to those at whose crib he once fed, that he is a base cow ard and dares nit attempt to vindicate him self against the charge, publicly made last fall, that he tried to bribe one of the Demo cratic conferees in the conference which nomi nated W. J. Ba:r. Esq., for State Senator, let him cot do as he did once before, whine like a whipped dog, about being "abused" by thoso whom Lc ha- assaulted without provocation. Tbe spirit in which the next campaign in this county, is to bo conducted, will depend very much upon the manner in which our political opponents treat the conduct of Mr. Cessna. If they choose to endorse his violence and to adopt bis personalities, very well. If they repudiate him and manifest an : mention to fight ue honor ably and decently, well again. We are ready to deliver 1., tie v. n any field on v. Li '. they may choose to meet us. But lei. the people of the county understand, that if the coming cam paign is to involve partizan bitterness, as well as personal acrimony, Jobu Cessna is tbe man who threw the first stone. He may thank bis flare if he is the ore to throw tho last. Another Compromise. Tko army of Gen. Johnston has surrendered to Gen. Sherman, upon the same terms 6- those granted to tbe army under Gen. Lee, viz: the officers to retain their side-arms and horses, and, with the rank twru file, to be undisturbed by ih. Xrederal authorities so long ne they euimrii to ihe laws of tbe United States. Tics is n com yrorniif tn.'.i rtbtle in arms, nnd procre ouly what history teach**, thain all great national disputes, the arbitrament-of waris not, cf itscif, siifficiect to deci-ie, but that diplomacy and ne gotiation Biust finally conclude what sword and cannon began. Tbe Jacobin party which but lately cried out no vehemently against all com promise and against any concession to "rebels la arms," are ct host compelled to eat their own words and to acknowledge that the policy which they denounced had eventually to be resorted to for the settlement of the war. Nay they hud even to submit to an armistice agreed upon between Generals Sherman and Johnston. — Now, it will bo remembered that the Democrat ic pLiu was first an aiTiiislics and then negotiation. Gen. Sherman acted upon this plau, and though the Jacobin hatere of tho Uniou were greatly chagrined and incensed at his course, it resulted in disarming all the rebel forces from tho Roan oke to the CLntuhocchie. This is a glorious consummation. Pcaoe seems t last about to uawn upon our w&r-bhckenedaud desolate land. May itsesurie sunshine quickly bum upon us sod warm into renewed and ÜBdecaying iife, the fruterus! love which cr.ce bound the people of all sections oi our country in u union -f xrparakeiled grsatosrt f-ud gl>ry. EDITORIAL MfcLANGt. CrComing—the Circus. —tbe last few nights. the rampage—Republican candidates ' for Associate Judge. wCourt was iu session dat ing the present week. The attendance was Tory small t&rTiie corner stone of the Presbyterian Church, near St. Clairsville, will be laid ou next Sabbath, May 7th. yOmiuoU3—Andrew Johnson, when in Con gress, offered a resolution declaring that "rota tion in office should be practised upon by ali ad [ ministrations, regardless of their party names." carlt is proposed to raise a half million dol i lars for the family of the late President. Seme i widows and orphans have been made by this i war, that need assistance more than Mrs. Lin ; coin and her children. I ®rPoor Brigham Young is a widower. One | cf Lis wives died on the 22d of last month. We hope Brighaui is not inconsolable. CS~A wicked wag says that young ladies are excellent w.arry-r.era in court-ship! The awful reprobate 1 Ho ought to be pounded to death i with pin-cushions. | \is, not surpassed by the noted upheavals of West Vir-, ginia. finish the picture us one of the grandest, wildest and most picturesque in all nature. Wc ; wonder that long ago s< me lover of the sublime in nature, did not select this spot as a summer resort, for surely all that is wanted to make it celebrated, is the buildings. But alas ! for this thought, the oleaginous indications along the moss covered banks of this beautiful stream, seem to tell that its pure waters will soon be come foul, the sweet mountain air will soon be, filled with the sickening smell of Petroleum, and the delightful odor of the wild flowers lost amid the fum°s and gases of dirty oil wells. > Already, at the mouth of this stream, a well is ' being bored, and an oil vein has been struck, and trom this nnrl the faef thif o n , ner.th the notice of a gentleman and he ned | not expect me to reply t: any more of his it-1 pertinence. For the information of his rca-j cis and the citizens of the county, I would sv j that the books and payers of the Poor Hour ! are open for inspection at any time. T- 11. GETTYS. Frightful DldUofcr on the Mississippi Hivr. The Most Terrible Steamboat Accidet on Becord. (,-500 LIVES LOST! Returning Soldiers Meeting a 1 Tor} ill Death in Sight of then Homes. A PECULIARLY PAINFUL CALAMITY, I —— The steamer Sultana, it appears, left Ne j Orleans on the 21st, and took on board 2,o'i j paroled national prisoners, at Vieksburg, on tl I 24tli. who had been recently released from tl j prison at Cnhaba, Ala. When seven miles . hove Memphis, <>n the morning of the 27th, si blew tip. Rending at once more than half of h< human freight into eternity, and leaving the r maittder scalded, maimed, or struggling vain, in the perilous eddies of the current. Of mo: than twenty-one hundred persons on board, tl last accounts represent that five hundred La been saved, and these in a precarious conditio! It is doubtful if so pitiable, so tragical, or so fi tal no accident ever befei a single vessel. 1 render the circumstances more painful, this va; sacrifice wa of men who had undergone lit privations of camp, the ordeal of battle, .itjj the horrors of the southern prisons, who we* just permitted to taste the sweetr of liberty and Lear tire tidings of a victorious peace-) dearer to them than to others —when with} i two or three days of their long lost homes. H < mutth ruin auu wreck of life and hopes it lis j seldom been permitted the negligence or igat 1 rasye of one person to accomplish- i IMPORTANT ORDER. Curtailment of the Army! A Foreshadowing of Peace! The following important order ha* been issued by the War Department ; ADJUTANT-GEN'S. OFFICE, ) WASHINGTON, D. G\, April 28. J Ordered. First —That the chiefs of the re spective bureaus of this department proceed im mediately !o reduce the expenses of their re spective departments to what is absolutely ne cessary in view of an immediate reduction of the forces in the field and in garrison, and the speedy termination of liastslltie3: and that they severally make out statements of the reductions they deem practicable. Second—That the Quartermaster-Gen. dis charge all ocean transports not required to bring home troops in remote departments. All river and inland transportation will be discharged, ex cept that required for the necessary supplies to troops in the field. Purchase of horses, mules, wagons, and other Land transportation will be stopped: also purchases of forage, except what is required for immediate consumption. All purchases for railroad construction and trans portation will also be stopped. Third-—That the Commissary Gen. of Subsis tence discontinue the purchase of supplies in his department, except of such as may with what is on hand, be required for forces in the field to the Ist of June next. Fourth —That the Chief of Ordnance :top ail purchases of arms and ammunition and mater ials therefor, and reduce the manufacture of arms and ordnance stores in the government arsenals as rapidly as can be done without injuring the service. Fifth —That the Chief of Engineers stop v/nrk on all ficli fortifications and other works, except those for which specific appropriations have been made by Congress for completion, or that may be required for the proper protection of works in progress. Sixth —That .til soldiers in the hospitals, who require no further medical treatment, be honor ably discharged from service with immediate payment. Ail officers and enlisted men, who have been prisoners of war and are now on fur lough or on parole camps, and all recruits in undczvous, except those of the regular army, will I'kew i.e be honorably discharged. Officers, whose duty it is under the regulations of the service to make out rolls and other final papers connected with tho discharge and payment of soldiers, arc directed to make them out without delay, so that this order may he carried into ef fect immediately. Seventh —The Adjutant-Gen. of the army will cause immediate returns lobe made by nil commanders in the field, garrisons, detachments, and posts of their respective forces, with a view to their immediate reduction. Eighth—The Quartermasters, Subsistence, Engineer, and Provost Marshal-Gen's. Depart ments will reduce the number of clerks and em ployes to that absolutely required for closing the business of their respective departments, and will without delay report to the Secretary of War the number required of each class or grade. Tho SiirorAon-fiiiyojsil ..vj 1 LnfU l ke-SUlliblr„rfidW'3 bureau. ■ <* ISinth—The chiefs of the respective bureaus will immediately cause proper returns to he made out of the public property in their charge, and statements of the. property in each that may be sold upon advertisement and publication, with out prejudice to the service. Tenth—The commissary* of prisoners will have rolls made out of the name, residence, time and place of capture, and occupation of all pris oners of war who will take the oath of alle giance to the 17. States, to the end that sue'.: as are disposed to become good and Icyai citizens of the I T . Slates, and who are proper objects of executive clemency, may be released upon the terms that the President shall deem fit and con sistent with public safety. By order of the Sec'y of War. (Official). W. A. Nrcnoi.B, Assistant Adjutant-Gen. T. W. VINCENT, A. A. G. Eighty Thousand Bales of Cotton Burn ed in Montgomery—Details of the E vacuation. [From the Columbus ( Ga.) Times,] j A large number of refugees have arrived in Columbus from Montgomery. Gen. Forrest, when last beard from, was twelve miles from Selnia. It was thought he would cross the river and pursue the Yankees. The Yankee force is composed entirely of cavalry and mounted in fantry, with some artiiiery. Among the refugees who arrived in Columbia are Governor Watts and other officers of the state government of Alabama. They ure deeply chagrined at the capture of their capital by six thousand Yan kees, but feel conscious that they did ail in their j power to prevent it. 'i he governor has proceed- j ed to Eufaula. A dispatch from Talladega, j dated April 7, states that a division of Yan- j koes from Elyton are at Monte valla •, a portion ! of them arc also at Shelby Springs. Stouts ' report a body of the enemy at Ashvilie, taking i stock, &c. j It is stated that there were about eighty thou | sand bales of cotton in Montgomery in the ware houses. This was burned on Tuesday evening. There was a large quantity of cotton scattered through the streets; whether this was burned also is not known. If it was, a large part of the city must also have suffered a similar fate from its close proximity to combustible mater ial. That portion of the city in the neighborhood of the different warehouses must have suffered, and it is hardly post-ible that the buildings adjacent could pass unscathed. The latest telegraphic dispatch from Montgomery was sent from that place at 5:30 on Tuesday evening. Montgom ery was evacuated in great coufusion. Liquor was used freely. AH commissary storeß were distributed to the people. It is feared that much private property has been detroyed. The Great State of Alabama Conquered by Six or Eight Thousand Yankees. {From the Columbus Times.) Thus is the great State of Alabama abandon ?d to tbo mere} of six or eight thousand Yan r kees, who have it in their power to desolate, the [ whole of the territory unopposed. It is certain ly the most disgraceful incident of the war. Al abama, will now reap the fruits of the policy of her legislature in refusing the governor the power which he asked, of organizing her able bodied population at home and compelling tbm io figii t la defer®* of iho Capture and Death of Booth. WASHINGTON, April 27.—The Star says: To Col. L. C. Baker, Special Detective of the War Department, and his admirably trained detec tive force, and to the New York Cavalry, the active participators in the seizures, the country owes a debt of gratitude for this timely service. ll seems that a detachment of the 10th New York Cavalry, numbering about twenty five men, which was dispatched from this city on Monday, under the direction of Col L C. Ba ker, Special Detective of the War Departtmeni, in command of Lieut. Dougherty, accompanied by some of Col. Baker's officers, captured and killed Booth, and captured Harold, one of his accomplices, alive. The cavalry, after leaving here, landed at Belle Plain in the night, and immediately start ed out in pursuit of Booth and Harold, having previously learned from a colored man that they had crossed the river into Virginia, at Swan Point, ill a small canoe hired by Booth from a man for three hundred dudars. Proceeding on towards Bowling Green, some three miles from Port Royal, Lieut. Dougher.y, who was in command of the cavalry, discover ed that Booth and Harold were secreted in a large barn owned by a man named Garrett, and were well armed. The cavalry then surrounded the barn and summoned Booth and his accoii plice to surren der. Harold was inclined at first to accede to the request, but Booth accused him of coward ice, and both peremptorily refused to surrender and made preparations to defend themselves. In order to take the conspirators alive the barn was fired, and the flames gelling too hot for Harold, he approached the door of the barn an 1 .-'.gnitiod his willingness to he taken prisoner. The door was then opened suff ciently t<> a:h>w Harold to put his arm through that lie might ! be handcuffed, and as the officer was about pla cing the irons upon Harold's wrists, Ihothji''td upon the party from the barn , which WHS return ed by Sergeant Boston Corbctt, of the IGtli N. York Cavalry, the ball striking Booth in the neck, from the effects of which he died in about four hours. Booth, before breathing his last, was asked it be had any tiling to say, when he replied, "Tell my mother that I died lor my country. Harold and the body of Booth were brought into Belle Plain, at eight o'clock last night, and reached the Navy Yard here at one o'clock tins morning, on board of the steamer John S. Ides, Captain Henry Wilson. \ The statement heretofore published that Booth ' ha Committee JOHN ALSIP. ) (From the Dincasttr Intelligencer.) The War Clergy. The regret and the indignation of Democrats i at the brutal and cowardly assassination of the late President, was profound and sincere. If i there was rejoicing anywhere in this land, ft was, not among Democrats, but among the fex . V N.ITAM ATP T • 1- —^ i offended by a wise and decent show t)f rncuer j ation. These were the men who rejoiced, if | any such there were anywhere—thf.se, asd the ; fanatical war clergy, who, ever rea Jy with car.t --i ing phrases and quotations of H;.Jy VVritbwist [ed out of all recognizable shape.,, professed to i see tise hand of God in the most fiendish ana uiabolical murder whirii has ever blackened tbo pages of history. It" this was the work of God, ; will some of these canting and hypocritical ex j pounders of modern Puritanical religious be i lief be good enough to tell us what we should * expect the works of the devil to be like? Nay, 1 .if this were the work of God, was net the ae ! sr.ssin a sacred minister of deity, rather than a j fiendish criminal ? Will the bloodthirsty revef i end gentleman, to whose defense the editor of the Express comes so promptly, be good enough to enlighten us on this point ? If this doctrin# be true, and God directed the doing of the in fernal deed, will the editor of the Express, who, we believe, professes great piety, be good enough to inform us how either the ISTEMJGEXCER. or | any other human agency, can be held responsible in the slighest degree for the act. Is there not a thousand fold greater condemnation of the late Pr esident in the blasphemous supposition that Go 1 himself designed and decreed his death by the assassin's hand than can possibly b found in a.ny thing ever uttered by any news paper, either in the North or the South! We do not believe any such doctrine. It is alike absurd and criminal; but it is of a pieae with much of the religious teachings of oar J day. '•fc ' rth groans beneath religion's iron age, | Our priests dare bah ble / a God o! peace, Even whilst their tapds are red with harcas blood ; Murdering the while, unrooting every germ. Of truth exterminating, .spoiling all, Making the earth a siaugt, ter-hoose, They howl hideous praises to a Ornaon God f Such men are they who teac.h us that ths God Of nature and benevolence ha\ given A special sanction to the trade of blood. They could laugh to hear the bitter cry Of millions butchered in sweet eonfidenca And unsuspecting peace, even when the boi3 Of safety, fast cor.firmed by wordy oaths, bworn in His dreadful cauoe, ring through tas land, Whilst innocent babs writhsd on tb