BEDFORD GAZETTE. B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR. FRIDAY s i ; i JUNE 16, 1565. -a— J-M-.ja. _ _ Democratic County Convention. The Democrats of Bedford county are here by requested to meet in their respective election districts, on SATURDAY, the 17tb DAY OF JUNE, NJtiXT, for the purpose of electing del egates to the Democratic County Convention, to be held in Bedford, on Monday, tbeldth day of June, next, at 2 o'clock, P. M., which body wiil plaee in nomination a County Ticket to be supported by the party at the ensuing general election.— Under tho rules, each district is entitled to two delegates. The Democrats of tho severe! dis tricts are also particularly'requested to choose Vigilance Committees for tbo-coming year and to return their names to the Chairman of the .Countv Committee. O. E. SHANNON, Cb'n. Dem. Co. Committee. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION At the last formal meeting of the Democrat ic State Central Committee, it was resolved that the State Convention should be called to meet at Harrisburg ou Wednesday, the 21st day of June* inst. But having since learned from a majority of the Committee, and been advised by many other leading Democrats of the.Srate, that a postponement to a later day, would, on many accounts be acceptable, and is generally desired—l hereby give notice that the next Dem ocratic State Convection of Pennsylvania, will convene at the Hall of the House of Kepresen tatives, in the city of Harrisburg, onTHL'KS DAY, the 24th day of August next, at one "o'clock, P. M. C. L. WAiiD, Towanda, June 1, ISfid. Chairman. To the Democracy of Bedford County. I heteby withdrew my name as a candidate i'or the office of Associate Judge, owing to unforeseen circumstances, and part'culariy as there is a candi date for Commissioner in tbe same townsL.p v.hose claims are strong. June 10, 1865. GEO. S'IIOL'SE, JR. f ' " --a . far ABSENT, —The editor is agtin absent, which will aceount for the lack of oar usual variety. Fourth. Of July I Meeting of The Town Council! GRAND CELEBRATION! FREE DIWER! At a meeting of the Town Council, on the 6th inst., the following resolutions were unan imously sgJo^Jed; Whereat, It has been the custom ever since the Declaration of Independence, to celebrate the anniversary of its adoption ou the fourth day of July; and, whereas, recent events in the history of our country seem to C..11 for a more special demonstration on the coming anniversa ry—therefore, be it resolved, 1 That the Burgess and Council cf the Bor ough of Bedford <io recommend that the com ing anniversary of our Independence be cele brated by the citizens in an appropriate and be coming manner. 2 That the Chief Burgess be and he is here by authorized to invite some proper person to read the Declaration of Independence and pro cure an orator for the occasion. 3 That the Chief Burgess be and he is here by authorized to confer with and appoint a committee of citizens to make the necessary " arrangements. In answer to the patriotic sentiments of the above resolutions, let the people come from hill and dale in the majesty of their strength and on the glory of the occasion. Gentlemen of talent and ability have given their consent to address the people and the committees have made ample provision for a full and free entertainment. Excellent music has been provided for the occasion and every hope is entertained that we will have the spirit of '7C intensified and made more glorious than ever. The people will mass at the Court House at 0* o'clock, A. M., and move in procession to Hon. Job Mann's bill opposite the town. I'he New Plank. The Republican convention of Allegheny county, which met the other day, declared em phatically in favor of negro BufTrage. A milk and-water resolution was also pa33cd upoa President Johnson, but the biggest kind of a puff was awarded to Secretary Stanton. The latter individual now constitutes the only link between radicalism and power.—Should he be lost, by resignation or ticket-of-leave, radical ism and negro suffrage would be sent peremp torily to "the bub,'' from whence to report, like Banks and Butler, only when called for. There is evidently great fear existing among the radicals—especially the office-holders and -contractors—lest they lie Tylerized in Presi dent Johnson. His repudiation of the negro suffrage abomination and his declaration in favor of State sovereignty, added to the Dem ocratic endorsement and commendation of his reconstruction policy in North Carolina, have bo infuriated the radical clement that they can find no other relief than ia declaring for negro suffrage in opposition to his policy and views aud throwing Stanton in hiß face as their champion on that plank. How far the Stan ton whip is to be applied, and how effective jt bmiv prove, is yet to be determined. It is4rwhy amusing to uOMr I he Ucoblinga ! and twistiugg of the radicals.Their resolu-1 tions present the appearance of a very badly j arranged sandwich—first, a huge slice of olea ginous StantoD, upon which rests a big hunk of unctuous negro; upon the top of that sticks a thick slice of ''colored suffrage," and the whole topped off with a vary thin spread of Andy Johnson. We have very great doubts, whether this radical n.ess will ' set" well upon the popular stomach. As the time has gone by when it could have been washed down with copious draughts of official patronage, it will have to stand, like one of Monsieur Blot's culi nary mixtures, upon its own peculiar merits. But that radicalism shall prove as successful as Monsieur, in humbugging the people with its cunning mixture, we def'not, by any means, believe. Patriot $ Union. Notes of Third Series of 7-3Qs now ready, Thedemand for the Second Series of the 7- 30 Notes was so great that the Treasury De partment was unable to print them with suffi ! cient rapidity to fill the orders. It will be re ! membered that a hundred millions were sub | scribed and paid for in a single week. The [.printing presses nave finally surnionnted the ; difficulty, and on Wednesday, .Tune 7th, the de , liveries of the Third Series commenced, and | will be coutinucd with the same promptness thsU marked the supply of the notes of the first and second series. It has been this interrup tion of delivery at the time of subscription which has given an appearance of .i tailing off in the popular taking of the loan, —the great body of small lakers being unwilling to pay their money unless they receive their notes right iu hand, to carry them home. Tt is ex pected that after this week the daily subscrip tions to the Seven-Thirties will run up into mill on°, as they will undoubtedly be stimula ted by rhe opening of the farmer's wool mar kef East and W<est. It is not at all likely that the Government wiil ever again offer so desira bie a security as those notes, and about two hundred millions only remain to be taken. ith the close of the war the national ex penses will be vastly reduced, and investors must look for a sharp reduction in the rate of interest as soon as the present loans become due and can be paid off. There is no reason why the I ri>te<l States credit to? money should ever again fall beiuw its < refit for courage. The came spiiil that preserved the geographical in tegrity of the country will place its pecuniary integrity on a par with that of tLe most favor ed nations—and that will represent a rate of interest under rather than over four per cent. THE FREED NEGROES. Jfore about the Condition of the Negro— Fifteen Found Dead in One Pile—Star vation—Begging—Anything but work. [From the Atlantic Intelligencer, June l.j In th<- local department of tbe Macon Tele graph of Tuesday last we notice the fvituwrog item : On Sunday information tvas received by Col. \\ bito, Provost-marshal, that a large nuioler of dead bodies were in ti.e fiver, just below the city. A detail was dispatched to the place for tne purpose A taking them out of the water and burying them. The squad found no less than fifteen bodies of negro men within the space of a few hundred yards. They were lodg ed in drift-wood and along the banks of the river. No marks of violence were reported as having been four.d upon them. The bodies were buried on the banks of the river where they were found. Nothing whatever is as yet known as to how they cauoe to their death. Commenting upon the foregoing, that paper says of the "sufferings which the unfortunates {the negroes) who flocked to Macon since the army reached" that city, that "all the time they have been suffering terribly in every conceivable shape, and we have information that many hun dreds have died from starvation and diserse— the aggregate reuoning a total that seems almost incredulous." This is indeed horrible.' Thus far it has not been the case—we mean death by starvation or disease—in this vicinity, though how soon wc may be forced to make a similar record we know not. At present the indications are that we shall pass, for with all the humane efforts of the military authorities at this point, the sound ad vice given to the negroes who have abandoned their homes to voluntarily return to them and resume work on the abandoned farms, there to be fed and cared for, the unhappy creatures— men, women and children—still flock to and re main in our city, some of them, it is true, beg ging for work, to earn their bread, but most of them begging for bread and not for work; some seeking for new homes, and out few returning to their oid ones, i'he humane and wholesome counsel given to most of them by the authorities here, we trust, will soon have a good effect; if not, the scenes reported by our Macon cotem porary as having been witnessed in and near that city will be re-enacted here; and thus, too soon, the negro wiil reali*e that his idea of lib erty —the privilege of living in idleness and be ing fed by the labor of others—is like unto *'Hhe baseless fabric of a vision that he must work, or endure the miser} of starvation. TITE NEGROES IN SOCHI CAROLINA Parties just arrived from Charleston, with the intention, they say, of not returning to that city, for many years at leat, give the gloomiest account of the state of affairs in that region. In their estimation the Palmetto State is threa tened with a social revolution which nothing but the permanent establishment of a strong force in several localities of the interior can pre vent. They represent the negro as perfectly unmanageable, full of pretension and insolence, unwilling to work, and addicted to all the vices which idleness engenders. In the rice district?-, where the black population is to the white as four to one, threats have been preferred by th? former against the latter which have induced many planters to leave their property and come North, from whence they intend to sail for Eu rope. I have speken to half a dozen, who have all held the same languago and manifested the same apprehensions. Their fears, it is to be hoped, are but the result of a frightened imagi nation. It is irapowible, however, to deny that they are in earnest and really anticipated the evils which they few EDITORIAL MELANGE. &*Growing—the com and things. ®2"Crowing—some folks still "in the woods." —a good many of our subscri ber's bills. &arDitto—the radicals' opinions of Johnson's administration. ©fMrs. Sigourney, the poetess, died last Saturday at Hartford, 'Connecticut. CirTlia Liberals in Mexico have captured Pacambaro, with its garrison and artillery 1 gS-Reliable information from Macon and points north of that, represents that the whole of Georgia is in a starving condition. 63" President Johnson has moved his residence to the White House, of which he has riovd full possession. CS"R. H. Gillette, Esq., of New Lebanon, Columbia county, N. Y., has been employed as counsel for Jefferson Davis, along with Charles O'Connor. esrThe people of Ilarrisburg, irrespective of party, have made arrangements to celebrate the Fourth of July. That shows the proper spirit. <Brlt is said that the indictment of Jefferson Davis was drawn up without consulting the President or any leading official. <| C3~Thc persons who have been on trial at Westminster, Maryland, for the murder of Mr. Shaw, editor of the Zentintl, in that place, were acquitted on Tuesday. 63"President Johnson has refused sion for a colored pic-nic lo be held in the grounds adjacent to the Executive Mansion. The locality is to be kept free from such as semblages. Right. C3"New Goods. Our neighbor, J. M. Shoe- j maker has just received a splendid assortment ! of new goods which he offers on the most flat- j tering terms for—"cash or produce." , 6sT'"Cheap Corner.*' Our "Mutual" friend, J. B. Farqnhar, has just returned from the east j with n fine lot of Dry Goods, &c. Farqulur's ' goods are well "iled" and of coarse, are. rapid- j !y slipping out of his hands—into customer's. < Call and see. GsTSee the last great reduction in Hartley's price of Mowers. Only a few left at that price. Nearly every day we see farmers hauling home < Hartley's Mowers. Order soon if yon want | one. £2"The County Convention meets on Mon day, 19th irrt. Ccndldafes for the following office* wiil then be nominated: District Attor ney, Associate Judge, Treasurer, Commissioner, 2 Poor Directors, County Surveyor, Jury Com missioner and Auditor. A list of candidates for the different offices will lie found in our ad- , vertising columns. &~Our enterprising friend, T. R. Geftys, has just returned from Philadelphia, bringing with him the most splendid assortment of Photo graph material e\ er oG'ered for sale in lied- J county, and, really, we can sse no reason why any person should wish to iiavp pictures put up in the cities when they can be executed by Mr. Gettys as well as the best of city operators, and far better than the majority, lie hap a large and beautiful lot of gilt and rosewood frames and albums and frame mouldings of va rious kinds, and with his improved cameras lie can beautifully fill them with life-like pictures in the finest style of the art. Me also has for sale a large number of excellent portraits of President Lincoln, of all sizes, together with interesting \iews of localities rendered famous |by the war. Cull and sec them and you can ; not fail to be pleased by your visit. Surrender of Rebel Forces in Texas-Ar rival of Commissioners from General Magruder. NEW YORK, June B.—New Orleans advices to the 31st ult. are received. Col. Ashbcl Smith and W. P. Bellinger, commissioners sent by General Magruder to settle the terms for the surrender of the Rebel forces in Texas, had ar rived. When they were sent, Magruder knew nothing of Kirby Smith's surrender. They state that they represent fully the civil authorities al so. General Canby told them that he could not recognize the civil authorities, but would grant the commission an interview. They say they represent the people of Texas, and will return to the Union without the least reservation.— That they do not desire to set up any barriers between themselves and any other States, east, west or north, and they nrelauxious to return to it, as it is, without a claim upon the past and accept "the situation," pure and simple. Negro Outrages—Organized Crime in Gcergia. [From (he Alaeon Telegraph, Mag la.J A series of outrages were committed in Tal bot county, a few days since, which have stir dom been equalled for atrocity. We find the par ticulars in the Sumter IFpullican of Saturday. On the night of the 20th ultimo, William A1 ridge, formerly of Atlanta, who belonged to the Sixth Georgia regiment headed a company of negroes, consisting of forty-seven, went to the residence of a number of citizens of the county, and demanded their gold and silver.— I licy burned the gin-house and twenty-eight bales of cotton, the property of Mrs. Gorman, a widow lady; the gin-house and twenty five bales of cotton of Major .Samuel Baldwin; tlie gin-bouse and sixty bales of cotton of Hiram Knowlton; together with <t large quantity of wheat, peas, &c. Besides this plundering and burning, several of the negroes committed the most atrocious outrages upon the persons of a number of la dies. They threatened to return the next night and destroy everything th|could lay their bands upon ; they, however; were prevented from carrying out their diabolical schemes by Captain McKinnev, who, with a company of citizens, went in pursuit of them. Alridge and several negroes were arrested at Tazwcll; the others escaped, and, it is thought, went to Ma con. Alridge and four negroes were shot, the three who committed the rape burned, and one bung. The negroes belonged to Major Samuel Baldwin, William Searcy, Hiram Knowlton, and James Little, NEGRO SUFFRAGE. The great political batiiu y( the time, and upon which will hinge the ultimate defeat of the Republican party is yet to he fought, the issue being that of negro suffrage. In accor dance with its traditions, in keeping with the record of its great leaders, and in consonance %ith the teachings of experience, the Demo cratic party will oppose in every sense the re mission of the negro to either soeir l *r political equality with the white man. While willing that the r.egro shall enjoy the largest personal liberty consistent with his capacity to realize ijs benefits, and ready to grant him the p.vi lege of earning his own way by wiiaiever em ployment he may obtain, the Democratic party cannot ignore the fact that he is, by the un changeable antagonism of race, and by his in feriority of intellect, debarred froin that fuil citizenship which would give Lin a share in the Government of the country. - The people of this country will never permit the occupation of any of the offices within their gift by negroes, nor will they suffer ii.os" who *>re thus thrust from political consideration to have a voice in the selection of their rulers. Equality to the negro is a gtand theory, but the practical operation of the equality system is a failure. Those who are now working so zealously to insult tlie reason and intelligence of the people by lifting the negro to a level wLh the white race, c.e as little for the welfare of the African as they have in limes gone by for peace and amity between the North and South. Their motive is a selfish one. founded in error, and adhered to not from principle, but that to the last they may sow the seeds of discord, from which shall spring new disputes and new fratricidal conflict. Out of t v, ese disputes and hitter conflicts the Republicans Lope to gain a longer lease of power, and gorge t lie ni sei ves with plunder. Political supremacy ia the real object of this endeavor to thrust negro suffrage upon the nation. Without the negro vote in the Southern States, and in two or three of the great Northern Common wealths, the Republican party cannot hope to win another election. Without the negro vote they foresee that their doom as a party is pronounced. In this Commonwealth, .the uegro vote would give the party in power the absolute and perpetual control of its destinies. And the while man would scon have the satisfaction of living under negro laws, of beholding the administration of the laws in the hands of the grinning, thick lipped. splayfooted ap.s he so long had spurned as his inferior in all the attributes of civiliza tion or manhood. With the privileges of the elective franchise, Sambo will scOTcely be content. His dved-in the wool special pleaders, a few years ago, only asked for "freedom forthe down-trodden slave." By a continual and persistent agitation ol the question, and lugging the negro into the social circle, into every political issue that arose, into Congress, into the pulpit, and everywhere wher ever it was possible to intrude him. they suc- ceeded in fomenting a civil war, ami with the blood of thousands of their brethren washed out slavery from the land, and laid waste the fairest portion of our country. Tins should have satisfied the party. They only asked that the negro rhouid be free. In blootl and carnage their nrayer v, "s grunted. There they should have reoicd. TLa end for which Garrison and Wendell Phiiiips had struggled; the consummation so devo.uiy wished for bv tha 11,1 miscegenation and free love, was attained unu their mission finished. Finished ? Not at all. Only begun. By sophistry and specious plead ing, by all the rascally trmks and devices tf the pot-house politician, and all the stale platitudes pf the boisterous Boanerges of Brooklyn, the blathering Beceher, they worked their way into power, and Ph'v, by the same mv.au?, they hope to keep it. Negro suffrage is their new hobby. Freedom to the slave is only the half-way housemin the path of Republican glory. The miserable ig norant slaves of the South, sunk deeper : n the degradation of their race oy tbeir lately ac quired freedom, must vote. God forbid that the world should ever witness tb -• 1 :c:aclu of white men in the Sua lit or in the North pass ively submitting to the domination of beings but little superior in physical or intellectual status to baboons. All created things are of use. But because they bare their use in their allotted sphere of existence, it does not follow that we should take them out of it. Let the negro fade out. IsH him take ms freedom in his breeches pocket and in company with his Abolition friends goto that land \ncre, be neath the welcome shade of the niaago, he can lazily sleep himself back into his norma! con ditxon of barbarism. As a freeman, in compe tition with the white race, he becomes an ob ject of contempt, and his degradation is confir med. Only us a bondman can he ever hope to keep the respect of the white r nce, for as a bondman he is forced to earn his way by labor. The Republican party are trying their ut most to force President Johnson to commit biru -_!f In this issue, and in doing it to drag biir. into the slough and mire through which they have been wading. We wonder if they re member Andrew Johnson's record! We won der if in their zeal to force nc-gro suffrage upon the people they remember that Andrew John son, a life-long Democrat of the uMra States Rights school, dare not ignore the Democratic faith in which he bus been reared. Nor dare he, as a Southern man, fcrgct that people to whom, more than all, he owes his advancement. For the especial benefit of the Republicans who may be blessed with accommodating mem ories, let us examine the record of their Presi dent. On ttic 21st of Way, 1863, he voted in favor of certain resolutions, in the llnitedStates Senate, declaring, "the States free and indepen dent sovereignties." He voted in favor of a resolution declaring that "interference with slavery in the Slates is a breach of faith." He voted in favor of the resolution which declared "that the Union rests on the equality of the States." He voted in favor of the resolution declaring that "Congress has no power over slavery in the territories." He voted in favor of the resolution declaring that "new States shall be admitted with or without slavery, as the people may decide." He voted in favor of the resolution declaring "the provisions of the Constitution in relation to the rendition of slaves must be carried out." On the sth of Fcbuary, 1851, Mr. Johnson delivered a speech, in which he said he was "opposed to war en the South—that the General Govern ment has no right to coerce a state—that the Abolitionists are disunionists—secessionists are nullifies." On the 12th of December, 1859, he delivered a speech, in which be declared that "negroes are not included in the Declaration of Independence." In a speech delivered at the Fair Ground, in Springfield, Ohio, in 1861, he expressed a wish for "a rope large enough ! to hang the Abolitionists of the North and the | i Ev-ce&iioi.ists of the South at one r wing." A few days since, President Johnson, in re-! ply to a delegation which called upon him, with j the almighty Human Freedom strategy under ; ; their arms, very explicitly gave them to uodcr ' stand timtin his opinion the question of negro j sffTw might be left to the decision ot the loy-, al white populaiiou cf ttie States interested. ! The new Constitution of Tennessee, formed un-j | der his auspices, and in the adoption of which . !he held and exercised the right of a _iri>*eti ot : the State, not only excludes negroes from the j right of suffrage, but from testifying in c;iurt 'of just ice. | It cannot be made a question to be decided j ! other than by each State, unless the Const it u- j 1 lion is ignored. It has suffered, this talked-into- i ' perduff'i Constitution, enough already at the! j hands of the vandals who play (lie lick-spittle J ! to Stanton, and fawn and cringe around the i ■■ war office, for th<> sake of the dropping* of; - greenbacks and official comfort he vouchsafes : 1 them. Confer the elective franchise upon the ! negroes, and there will be another revolution, j jit will not be a war of brethren —it will not be j ' a rebellion, but it will be (lie uiost terrible o! J 1 all— a war of races. Wherever the Caucasian ; ! plants his standard, he will not brook the pre*- j j ence of tiie African, or any inferior race, uc- J ; manding or assuming an equality, either social ! or political. * Wherever the Anglo Saxon, the ' j descendant of the hardy Norman, tire phiegma- • | tic Teuton, or the impulsive Gaff, builds up a ! ! nation, the African must yield to his inexorable i destiny of independence or be swept away, ihe j negro it not progressive. Were he capable of! | assuming the rights of tilizcn.-hip in full, which j ! the Republican 13rase>-band party arc sc anx ! ious to thrust upon hint, he would have proved it, in the past thirty or forty years of unlimited freedom he has enjoyed in our Northern cities ■ We find tlx 1 free negro of the North, m all the : attributes of morality and of civilization, iu a worse condition than the enslaved negroes of ; the South. We find him lazy, shiftless, thrift less, and content if he can steal or earn enough to keep him in victuals, tobacco, ami money to invest in purchase of numbers in policy. As > to clothing he isn't particular. Mentally there is and cauotbe any improvement in the Afri- j . can race. it behooves the Democratic party te baitie down this miserable policy of negro equality j which the Republicans are trying to foist upon us. With the Democracy rests the fate of 1 the country, its peace, prosperity, and great-, ness in all lime to come. A year or two more will bring the triumph of the Democracy and the restoration of the entire people of : lie South t to their Constitutional rights and the Repub lican party tyiil live only as a part of the his tory of the darkest anu bloodiest period of our existence as a nation—a page in that history : which they themselves would willingly eradi-; cate. Upon negro suffrage the party in power Lave placed the issue, and the result will be their destruction. With their downfall, disap pears the question, and with their .dissolution us a party will come into notice questions of far more moment to the nadon, to be discussed j and decided by a new party, winch, rallying snider the banner of Democracy, will never more know defeat. We cannot too tro"g!y uiy upon the Democratic party of tbi* S.ate the necessity of u tborougn reorganization in every county, so that in the coining t ontc-t, upon' tins ff -Lie. <>l ni-gre suifrage, such a victory shall be gained as will wipe Irom existence these j worse than traitors to the interests and w£ll I being of tlx? nation, these worse than negroes— the beings who compose the parly, now advoca ting the rights of a rr.ee whom one of our great est constitutional lawyers decided to have no right? widen white men are bound to respect.— Sum toy -Mercury. Destructive Fire at Nashville. NAJ!IV:I.;.E, June o. —At about two o'clock, J this afternoon, the extensive building used for ' quartermaster and commissary stores, at (he j corner of Summer and Ilroact streets, known as j Taylor's depot, was discovered to be on tire I The dames are supposed to have been caused by j sparks from a locomotive. Aoout half of the building was destroyed. The other half, com- j prising the commissary stores, was saved. The loss is estimated at between four and five i millions. Several dwellings near the scene of; conflagration were destroyed, with their con-1 teats. So great was the heat, that all approaches j to the scene were imppossible. Two or three 1 employees are supposed to have perished in the j flames- LATER. The destruction of property at the great fire ■ to-day, it is believed, will cause a loss of between J eight and ten millions of dollars. Within its walls were stored sufficient to supply HH army of 80,000 men for two years. '1 lie quantity ot rope alone consumed was valued at one million dollars. The building was the largest of the kind in the country, being 800 feet front by 200 feet deep. Fortunately ilio buildings were separated by a fire wall, and the largest part of the front was, by this precaution, saved from destruction. Various rumors, are afloat as to tiie cause of the fire, some maintaining that it was the work of an incendiary, and others of accident. A Court of Inquiry wiil investigate the matter. — The combustion was so rapid, that the building was one sheet oi flame before the lire department could work on it. Disastrous Fire" and Einlosion at Chatta nooga. CINCINNATI, June 10. —The Gazette's Chatta nooga dispatch says that the oiJnatice building had exploded setting fire to and consuming the warehouse filled with Government stores. The loss to the Government is $150,000. Be tween ten and fifteen persons were killed and wounded. The explosion was caused by sparks from a locomotive. A Disastrous Fire at Augusta. The freight depot of the Augusta and Savan nah Railroad was burned last evening. The flames ware discovered about half-past 8 o'clock, and notwithstanding the great exertions of the firemen, their progress could not be stayed until the building was totally destroyed. A por'icn ' of the wall next the street fell down. The building at tins c..d of iLe depot, occupied as offices, was only partially burned. During the fffe two sbelis exploded. TL;3, together with the rumor that there was a I large number of this kind of ammunition in the j building, caused a scattering for awhile. \ The loss occasioned by the fire is about $75,- i 000, although it would tako more thar. that a-: mount to repair damages at the present time. I The fire was evidoiyjy the work of an incen- ' diary. 1 The Trial of Jefferson Davis, From the Washington Star. Notwithstanding the published statements that Davis has arrived here or is on his wav iV is quite certain that such reports ae pren' m . tuto. It is not contemplated to bring him to this city until the conspiracy trials are over which will probably be in a week. The Gov ernment authorities, cr at least most of the cab inet, are favorable to delivering him to Ihe civil ; authorities that he may be tried on the indict- 1 merit for treason found by the grand jury of our j Criminal Court of the term about to be conch . •led, and it is probable that at the June term which begins on Monday, 19th inst., the-nse I wili be one of the first caller!. The indicting ! was found on the 2Cth ult., and on the 3lat of 1 May the cleik of our court (K. J. Meigs, Ear.) il j received a letter dated May 20th uoin IL j| ! Gillette, Esq., formerly of this city, but ci'Netv j Lebanon, Columbia county. New York, statins w | that he had been retained by some of the irienda '■ of the accuse! as counsel. Air. Gillette is vvcil ! known in this city, having practiced some years i before the Court of Claims.—With the ''-idinc* 11 |of the indictments against Davis and llrecken- ll ! ridge the grand jury for the March term closed ; their labors and were discharged. The jud"eg off the Supreme Court of the District of Co ; ltrmbia who preside in the Circuit and Criminal Coui ts arc Hon. D. K. Carter, Chief Justice. ' formerly of Ohio; Hon. A. B. Olin, formerly *ff New York, Hon. G. P. Fisher, formerly of f§ LV-Uv are. and Hon. Andrew Wyhe, formerly of Virginia, associate Justices; and his prob- I able on this trial the tour judges will sit. understood that Mr. James O. Clepbane, the 9 official reporter of the Court, ha 3 retained at his assistants Air. F. 11. Lord, reporter of ffe | War Committee, and official reporter of the House of Uepresentath os, ana Mr. F. H. Smith, renor.'er of ifie Committees of the [l House of Representative?, in order that the f u j. leL-t and most accurate report may b mzE of this very import an.' trial. The place where he is to be confined lias not yet been made public, although it has been Utated that he would either occuny a cell :ri the peiiiteutiary buiiding or in the Old Capitol. Possit however, he will be put on the fooling of onTinary Criminals, and confined in the connty jail. Getting Sick of It. A number of Republican journals are calling for tiie restoration of civil law. They begin feel very sick now of the disgusting record !tft by military Commissions and courts-martial. While the frenzied drunkenness of fanatic pas sion was upon that portion of tiie pre-?, 4,taili tary law" was well enough, but they can't stand the reaction. The New York Tribune 3a_vs : "We joyfully hear and believe that the I'res ident will shortly issue a proclamation resto ring the privilege of haUi* .orpus and offer ing A very genera' clearance of the military prisons. The country is swiftly r-turning .o the ways of peace, order, thrift a.id l- -.v-gij.--d. cd liberty, ..et s ho, tnat the approaching Fourth of July will c aii ir *. war liberated, cd me -ivil aw bearing unrivalled awny.*' Tiie Fhiladclphia LeSgtr, a: o, has me .al lowing t say: "Notwithstanding the toadyLm of some if the press in trying, .<i convince the public tL, military is much better than civ". Jaw, the senss ;ff nr.lit a.ff. justice in !'w Gover.anent urger il rapidly towards the restoration of civil rule.-. ' \ What was adopted as a necessity in time of war, is now, in peace, very properly regarded as a dangerous anomaly in good government and to be removed as speedily as possible oat of the way of the regular action of our courts of law. 'G ho country is talking of a general com memoration of the restoration of the Union on the next anniversary of American independence, j The highest and noblest commemoration will be the entire restoration of civil rule, and the end ;of military interference with civil IHW. The I babe a? corpus, the right of bail in bailable of- t fences, prosecution on oath before a civil mag isfrato, public trial by jury, art iii° ffFffoHU ce* of freedom and foundations of - pu> lirar. government. Withou' thes- Vs restor i .ion of the Union is nut a restoration of the * | ; ;epublic."— Pat. <s• Union. Opinion of Siephsn A. Douglas. In the discussions before the people of Illi nois just previous la ins last election to t;ie L : . S. Senate, Judge Douglas said : "I hold thai a Negro isjiot, and never ought to be -a citizen of die United States I hold that this Government was made upon a write basis by white men for the benefit of white men ami their posterity forever, and should D ad -1 ministered by white men and none others. I do net 'oelieve that the Almighty made the Ne gro capable of seH government. "Now T say to you. my fellow-citizens, that my opinion, the signers of the Declaration of Independence had no reference to the Negro whatever when they declared all men created c qual. They desired to express by that phrase, | white men of European birth. European de- S'-ent, rod had no reference to the Negro, the savage Indians or otuer inferior or degraded ra ces. At that time everyone of the thirteen colonies was a slave-holding colony, and every signer of the Declaration represented a :iave~ holding constituency, and we kn r w that no or.e of them emancipated his slaves, much less of fered citizenship to them when they ffgned the Declaration." -JIARIIIIEI3- M'CLEERY—HULL.—At the residence of the bride's father, on the Gth inst., by Rev. 15 H. Hunt, Air. Henry M Cleery and Miss Cath arine L)., second daughter of John W. Hull Esq., ail of Napier township. -iiIKD- . '.T*JLYASAABAGBJ— ERITZ.—On the sth inst., in Juniata town ship, Mrs. Matilda Fritz, in the 35th year of her age. LE ADER. —At Berrien Springs, Michigan, on the 22nd day of May, 1865, Maj. Hexwr LEADER, aged 76 years and 0 month- For many years he had been u devoted Christian, and d.ed rejoicing in iho triumphs of a living faith. important Nou'ca. TO TAX COLLECTORS. All Trtx Collectors for 1894 and previr." ' are hereby requested o mdke imme 'iate ..ettlem- *' of their dap! ; ciites. The Jotnm.ssionsr* fci'-g ci reeled me to )>u executions agsi:.-.r ui! Cci'..-*- torf. above spssified, whose duplicates remsiu u" ; ieKlad by the 4'b.duv of Septambar next. . 15. F. KEBfl. bltt'y to Pcaiusaf*. ' tS-i.
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