BEDFORD GAZETTE.
B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
FRIDAY s i ; i JUNE 16, 1565.
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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*.
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