BEDFORD GAZETTE. ; B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR. FRIDAY: : : : JULY 21, 1565. T j DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN I'ALMER, Bedford Borough. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, W. G. EICHOLTZ, S. Woedbeny. T R P A 81) RF.R GEORGE MARDORFF, Bedford Ber. COUNTY SURVEYOR, P. DON A HOE, Southampton. JURY COMMISSIONER, I. KENSINGER, Liberty. COMMISSIONER, >l. S. RITCIIEY, Snake Spring, roon DIRECTOR, 3 years, D R. ANDERSON, C. Valley. POOR DIRECTOR, 2 years, SAMUEL KECKLEY, St. Clair. AUDITOR, JAMES MATTJNGLY, Londonderry. CORONER, JOHN FILLER, Iv Providence. THE BALL OPENED J - Rally for the White Man's Government!: Gazette for the Campaign! The BEDFORD GAZETTE, in favor of A Restored , l : nion, "Freedom of Thought and Opinion," Free- Speech, Free Press, the Personal Rights of Free meo, Law and Order, Justice to the Soldiers cd" the j Country, Fconomy, Retrenchment and -Reform m ! every department of the Government; in opposition o Executive Usurpation, Federal Centralization, •Negro Suffrage, Negro Legislation, Social ami Po- j titica: Equality of the Races, intermeddling with the Rights of the States, the placing of the i.ee-k above the White Heroes of the War, and all the other heresies of Radical Fanatics, will be pub lished during the Campaign, at the low rate ot Fifty Cents, in Advance. tieud in your names. Every man who takes a-n ' interest in the political affairs of the country, should •hive a newspaper. Let every Democrat constitute himself a committee to obtain subscribers for the Campaign Gazette. The prospects of the Democ racy are Battering, and it only remains for them tc werk to make their triumph overwhelming. The dissemination of political truth, is one of the most eucient nvans for the accomplishment of Demo cratic success. To this end, therefore, let every ! Democrat bend his exertions. The whole people have momentous interests at stake. The issue, fhali ve have a mongrel government and become a mixed race, is being pushed upon us by New F.ng i'Mif'J')flifit' {[Js**lss'tie ami we must triumph. Rally, then, for the White .Man's Gov ernment J The "Black Copperheads." Men who oppose the arbitrary acts of the Administration, the violation of the Consti tution, and, in the language of the Decla ration ot Independence, "the superiority of the military to the civil power," are stigma tized by the Abolitionists, as "copperheads." The "copperheadism" of this class, how ever, is in the interest of a white man's government and the liberty and supremacy ot white men. It makes that Constitution al Freedom, under which the nation has flourished for nearly a century, overshadow every other consideration. It clings to the Constitution and the Laws, as the tirst, kst and best hope of the country. It hates tyranny, usurpation and centralization of power. It loves peace, unity and fraterni ty. It looks with apprehension upon sec tional and fanatical agitation. It glories in the organization of parties upon a national basis. Such is the so-called "copperhead ism" of the Democratic party. But there is another sort ot "copperheads," a class that really and truly deserves the name. It is composed of the men who support the administration in every thing which is in violation of the Constitution and Laws, and condemn and attack the President whenever begets consistently with his oath of office „ anfi within his constitutional sphere. They are the same men who vilified President • Buchanan, when, by force of arms, he put down the rebellion in Utah, who set up the fopeka government in rebellion against the United States authority in Kansas, who re fused to agree to any compromise when civil war impended, who, when the war was ra ging, threatened to withhold troops and sup plies from the government, unless the ne groes were set free, who compelled Con gress to violate its pledge to the nation, that "the war was waged only for the restora tion ot the Union and the supremacy of the Constitution, and , that when these objects were attained, it should cease;" who dra gooned President Lincoln into the policy of Abolition, which, prolonged the war a year and a half; who prevented McClellan from being re-inforced, when, with half the troops that were afterwards furnished (irant, he could have captured Richmond; and who now denounce President Johnson's restora tion policy as "worse than error," as "a cr*ae." The spirit that.moves these men is the same infernal fanaticism which burnt at the stake, the women and children of C! Salem; which roasted alive the Quakers of c( Massachusetts, and drove Roger Williams into exile in lthodelsland; which, in 1812, m lifted up on the shores of Connecticut, the blue lights of treason, to guide British ships t | into United States ports: which during the p] Mexican war, sympathized with the public n enemy and fain would have welcomed our 0 brave soldiers, "with bloody hands to hos- o pitable graves." To-day, as in all the past, b except when in the name of the Union it d could succeed iu advancing its own fell pur- h poses, it is the enemy of the Union. It is the slanderer of the white defenders ©f the e Union. It is the traducer of the glorious dead whose graves from Gettysburg to the I Appomattox, are the sad but imperishable bond of re-union. It tears from the brow e of the sick and suffering: white hero the t . f laurel of victory and twines it witli the wool of the fat and sleek black man whose campaigns begun and ended in forts cap- t tared by the valor and the saerificial blood t of those whom it despoils of their just re- c ward. Yet more than this. It would snatch s from the grasp of the nation, the fruits of i the dearly purchased triumph of the Fed- s eral arms. It declares that, the Union shall 1 1 not be restored, except upon, its own condi- £ done; that no Southern State shall be per- 1 vntted to resume its functions within the N Union, unless the negroes within its limits be given the right of suffrage. Such is j ( J this mischievous, turbulent, disintegrating i I and rebellious spirit. Such is Black Cop- j t ! perheadism. May tlie curse of Cain rest j f J upon it. _ y-The Inquirer skulks out of a direct < I question we put to it, by saying that we ( ' subscribed 810 to a bounty fund for the ' , 138 th P. Y., and never paid it. We are : ! not in the habit of refusing to pay our hon est debts. Could the senior editor of the ! Inquirer say as much, before he made mon- I ] ey out of the blood of the soldiers? We , | have paid every cent of money we sub- j f scribed to carry on the war, which we were i called upon to pay; and, according to our j < : means, we have given more for that pur- ! po3e than any other citizen of this borough. We will enumerate: To the Bounty Fund ' of 1864, we gave $100; To the service we ' gave, a representative recruit, for 3 years, ' i who cost us $750; to the bounty fund of 1865, when we were not subject to draft, \ and in order to help save the necks of such ' . cowards as the editors of the Inquirer, we save S2Ol in 1 RfiS ■ara v- racing m < | all upwards of $1,300. To counterbalance 1 i this, we never made any big fees off the | widows and orphans of soldiers. Now, let j the patriots of the Inquirer, give us a statement of the sums they have given to ' 1 sustain the government. If they cannot show a more solid support of the army than " mere blackguardism of Democrats, they might as well hold their peace. The peo ple are not as great fools as the asses of the Inquirer take them to be. It s a well known lact that every female in this ! j town, of the Copperhead persuasion, who was able, i trotted out her children in "red, white and red," j ! aping after thff Baltimore secesh who visited th# j ] j Spiings.— B dford Inquirer. j What think you of that, ladies of Bed- j I lord! Isn't it a brave fellow that attacks j women ? \ arieose veins and bleared eyes ! ! don't interfere with him in this kind of war- ! ■ A a F e ' &* r ivo ftfonpv pers f" vi i. Jit V? A.J * • a i Buy your Goods at , , the \ REDUCEDP EICE St , Ue ! ALL KLYDS OF GOODS— John | ~ TVT..-I-I I j Another time when you were making your mighty ; { j efforts to prevent the success of the amendment to ' I ] the constitution to allow the soldiers to vote.— lnq. < This Is of ft piece with the balance of 1 the tissue of falsehoods uttered by the Ab- c olition organ. See how easily we shall prove the man who wrote the above, to be ; a falsifier. On the *l6th of March, 1864, j the vote was taken in the Pennsylvania ( House of Representatives, on the proposi- i tion of the amendment to the Constitution ; to give soldiers the right to vote in the army. j On page 414 of the Legislative Record, for 1864, the vote on this amendment is recorded as follows: s YBAS— Messrs. Alexander, fClarion,) Alleman, t j Balsbach, Barger, Barnetf, Beck, Btgtem, Bi'hng • felt, Boileau, Bowman, (Cumb'd.) Bowman, (Lan ! caster,) Brown, Burgwln, Cocbran, (Erie,)Cochran, ) (Philadelphia,) Coleman, DennisfOi., Ellis, Etnier, f ! Foster, Gilbert, Glass. G-aber, Gneinsey, Hakes, i \ Hargnett, Hasletr, flenry, Herron, Hill, Hopkins, | Hoover, Horton, Huton, Jackson, Josephs, Kaiser, ' ' Kellev, Kerns, (Philadelphia,) Rerns, (Schuylkill,) r Kline, Koonce, LPS, Long, MeCiellan. McKee, Mr- Manus, McMurtrie, Mayer, Marsh. Matshall, Mil ler, Missimer, Musselman, MEYERS. Negley, Nel son, Noyes, O'Harra, OlmsteaH, Orwig, Pancoast, Patton, Perching, Potteiger, Price, Quiglpy, Reed. Reiff. Rex, Riddle, Robison, Schofield, Sharpe, Shi mer, Slack, Smith, (Chester,) Smith, (Lincaster,) , Smith,(Philadelphia,)Spangler, Stanberger,Sutphin, Walsh,Watt,Watson,Weaver,Weiser, Wells,Wnite, 1 Wtmley, Windle and Johnson, Speaker—9l. NATS —Messrs. Boyer and Rice—2. * Are you answered, libellers ? 1 Great World Circus," is com ing, as will be seen by reference to our adverti- ( sing columns. The show-goers will please take e notice and comport themselves accordingly, e Get your halves and quarters ready. Deerv's 1 coming. j SSrThe organ of the Fourth-of-July-Splitters alls the citizens of the Western part of the i ounty, who attended the Celebration on Mann's Jill, "Gump's Guerillas." It does this, no < loubt, because George W. Gump, Esq., the | narsbal of the Western delegation, is thefath ;r of the lamented Lieut. John A. Gump, of j lie 138 th P. V., who lost his life in battle, to I save the heads of the despicable sneaks who I iow sneer at the bereaved father. II the mem ory of the dead hero, who sleeps his la,it sleep : sn the banks of the Juniata, be still respected by his comrades of the 138 th, the cowardly lefamers of his sorrowing father can have no friends among them. Never mind, blackguards! You will hear from "Gump's Guerillas" soon enough .1 the same principle which governed Dr. llrown, the elder, of Jefferson College, when he stripped oft* his coat and flogged the sophom ore, saying, as he threw aside his garment, "Lie there, Divinity, till I chastise rascality !" we have for the time being, thrown off the gloves of edi- i torial mildness, in order to tan the hides of a batch of miscreants, ordinarily beneath the no tice of a gentleman, but whose offense to the community became so rank that nothing short; of the roughest rebuke seemed adequate to the abatement of the nuisance. We have done this under protest, feeling that we were dealing with a set of contemptible blackguards, who have no claim even to the scorn of a decent journal: and wc now give notice that, having shown up their villany, cowardice and blackguardism, we will hereafter leave them to wallow in the slough of their own uncleanness, loathed and shunned by all decent men, too low, vile and groveling to be noticed, even in resentment. The Copperheads used to call the soldiers "Lincoln's dogs" and "Lincoln's Pups."—Bed ford Inquirer. No soldier was ever spoken ill of by Demo crats. Men who disgraced their uniforms, by committing robbery and murder, as, for instance the men who shot Frederick. Mock, were justly and not too severely denounced. The Inquirer falsifiers expect to prejudice the soldiers against the Democracy, by such wholesale lying as the above. If the soldiers had no more sense than these black-hearted slanderers give them credit for, the trick might be successful. But, our soldiers are men of intelligence and cannot be imposed upon by sncb chicanery as this. Sol diers ! The Niggerheads think yon ignorant and soft enough to believe every lie they publish. They insult your manhood, your good sense and intelligence, by asking you to believe their false hoods. Show them that you know them and their tricks too we'd to be deceived by them. Soldiers, remember, that the men who love you so now * * * voted en masse to put you down to the level of the negro less than a year ago.— lnquirer. One of the lies which the Black Copperheads e — iiy'tor per mitting soldiers to vote. Pennsylvania gave nearly 100,000 majority. Docs the .Republican party have such majorities when the Democrats vote " en rnasae" against it ? At the breaking out of the war, we hoist ed the Stars and Stripes, before any Abolition ist in Bedford thought of doing so, before any millitary company had left this, or any other place, for the scene of the conflict; at least three months before the Bucktails came here, to whose interference the Inquirer, in wilful and deliberate falshood, attributes the raising of our colors. The Stars and Stripo3 was always, is now, and we hope may ever be, our flag. But we never could see the black stripe which the Abolitionists profess to discover in it. •S"How can any Democratic eoidlor vote for any candidate on the Niggppiead ticket, after the vile, filthy and cowardly abuse heaped upon Democratic soldiers by the Bedford Inquirer. Calling Democratic soldiers "bounty jumpers," "deserters" and "skedaddlers," isn't calculated to make votes for Capt. Dickerhoof. Stick a pin there. ifcrThe trio of awkward beauties that do up the dishwater editorials for the N'iggcrhead or gan, have such an awful attack of negro-pho bia, that whenever they see or hear of water, they imagine there is a nigger in it. This ac counts for that barrel of toater story in their : last issue. O"0ne of the scribblers for the Nigger-head organ, is down on the "she rebels" (as he polite ly styles them) of this place. Is it because one of them, as report has it, lately repulsed bis advances* "MEYERS," "MEYERS," "MEYERS .'"—The Inquirer has Meyers— not "on the brain"—for it hasn't got any—but all over it. Well, pitch in, boys ! \es, pitch in ! (Pitch is your only stock in trade). "Meyers" Las seen sickerdogs than you cured of their madness. I HANKS ! —Our soldier friends will please ac cept our thanks for the liberal patronage they are bestowing upon us, in the way of subscrip tions to the GAZETTE. They gay they want a paper that stands by the white soldier's rights, that they fought to restore the Union, not to degrade themselves to the level of the negro.; that now that the war is over, ibey want ail sectional parties put down and the old national Democratic party restored to power. Even Republican soldiers come and subscribe for the GAZETTE, disgusted witli the blackguardism and falsehoods of the Inquirer. d"Trinity church (Episcopal), New York City, is now estimated to be worth, in ieal j estate, twenty millions of dollars—the richest i ecclesiastical corporation in the world. In ! 1850 it was supposed to be worth nearly three j millions.—Trinity church is maklug tuouey. I Cap Col. Hodson, of tlie Eastern Shore, Md., a member of the Maryland Constitutional Con vention, and Lewis Ritter, Esq., of Baltimore county, Md., are at present staying at the Men gel Mouse. esrHon. Charlies P. Daly, of New York, and Mr. Harris, formerly Minister to Japan, are are now staying at Mr. Chenowelh s Chalybe ate Springs, near this place. l sheet says that the soldiers who were on Mann's Hill, on the 4th of July, were all "Deserters, ] "Skulkers" and "Bounty Jumpers." I will , speak fur the officers and privates of the 55 th |P. V. present at that place and time, and in j their name I fling back this unmitigated lie in to the face of the men who printed it. Editors j of the Bedford Inquirer , you are a set of base, j lying nigger tools, too cowardly to go to war : and too worthless to do any good at home. J According to your paper "copperheads" are bad j this time of the year, but you will find them worse in October. "Better keep in out of the I draft." Yours Truly, J. H. THOMPSON, late of Co. D., 55th P. V. | Mere of tiie "Catsp&w" Game, i The following from the Genius of Liberty, i ! shows how the "Republicans" of Fayette caun i ty, are trying to make "catspaws"- of the re- j turned soldiers, and is very applicable to this ( j locality. ( This new dodge of the old enemies of the ] j Democracy is only intended to apply in certain- Jly Democratic Counties, such as Greene Fay- | ette and Bedford. Somerset, Crawford and i Allegheny counties where the Republicans have I political power, the soldier candidates have, i with one individual exception, been defeated, j and the nominations given to stay-at-home t Republicans. If there were any prospects for j Republican success in this county they would cot so willingly surrender the nominations to t the soldiers. Their own hungry maws would ( gape for the crumbs from the public table, and 1 the soldiers be thrust aside as they have been i in the counties referred to, and as they are from t Federal appointments. t Having remained at home during the war, and urged the boys to the bloody field, where g many a noblo life was sacrificed, and many a j hearth stone desolated, these bloodless wire- t pullers cow attempt to beguile them into at contest where no laurels can be won. s Tbe game is so transparent that nobody will be deceived by it, and we wonder that any sol dier, even a Republican, should lend himself to it. The Democratic party bas regularly and fairly made its nominations and submits them to the people. Democratic soldiers and Democratic citizens will support them, and scout and defeat the old enemy under his new name and in his new shape, as they have done all his predecessors. Certainly no Democratic soldity will help to elect delegates to this Re publican convention, Dor allow himself to be elected. They will show the Republican chess players that they are not to be moved on the political board at will. A Merited Bebuke* A CAUD OF KETLKNEO SOLD/EKS. —The un dersigned, returned soldiers, have seen with re- i gret, that the proposed Festival, to be given to the returi.ed soldiers, on the hourth oi July, at Washington, has assumed an exclusively par tizart character. While we would have rejoic ed at the opportunity of meeting with our com rades in arms, on the approaching anniversary of our Independence, and to have exchanged mutual congratulations on the restoration of peace to our bleeding country, we cannot en dorse by our presence the gross insult offered to our fathers, brothers and friends in civil life, who are identified with the Democratic party, and who are excluded from participating in the proceedings. When we remember the thousands of our Democratic fellow soldiers, whose blood, in common with that of Itepublicans, stained every battle field, from Bull Kun to the surren der of Lee's army, we cannot but express our surprise that a few politicians should attempt to i use us on the occasion of our return to our : homes for partisan purposes, whatever others may do in the premises, we cannot lend our selves to such an unworthy scheme. (Here fol low "the names ot 52 returned veterans). &T We clip the above from the Washington (Pa.) Review. It is a merited rebuke to the fel lows who are trying to make tools of the gallant "boys in blue" with which to get their stay-at home, negro-suffrage politicians into office. The soldiers understand these petty tricksters and will show thern a trick or two when tiie elec tion comes around. A Veteran Speaks! The following is from one of the brave boys of the 55th P. V., which has so nobly done its duty. Negro Suffrage and Abolition slander are at a discount in the 55th : RICHMOND, Va , July 13, 1805. EDITOR OK THE GAZETTE : You will do justice to a soldier by pub- j lishing a few lines. —fn looking over the Bed tord Inquirer I read a history of the greet mar shal of the Copperheads, which the editors says was handed to them by their friend. It speaks of the Captain of the "Bloody l£un Bhieaves" and says that they were famous. "Some went j with one Captain and some with another." Now, as the war is over and ended, and no j more drafts are corning off, the Inquirer's friend can come out of his den and make himself no torious by slandering a Company of men who, not like the Inquirers friend, enlisted at their country's call, and to day a majority of them lie buried in the soil of Virginia. Tt is true the Captain of the Bloody Run Militia, did did not go to war, neither did the Inquirer's fmnd. Their reason for not going, I suppose was best known to themselves. But the mem bers of the company known as the Bloody Run Blues, went in different companies and regi ments. Of five that served in the 55th Pa. Vols., but one is living to take their part. They have done what the Inquirer's friend, or the Inquirer man />., himself, has never done. They went and met the traitors on the field and did their duty there. They did not I lie low, in some obscure spot, until the war was ended and Uncle Sam's lottery machine was ordered to the rear, and then come j out and play their jokes on soldiers that are ; WStteTo J include the company; it doesn't pass, on all oc casions, as smoothly as it might. We have been in tho service, ever since 1861 and we are certain we have heard two or three bullets whistle, but we never heard as much noise as the Just Come-outs make about Negro Suffrage. We enlisted to whip rebels, not to free niggers, but now, as they are free, and on equal footing with the poor white men, we would wish those people who are not satisfied to leave the niggers as they are, wouid pack their duds and go to some state where Cuffy does vote, and not keep up a continued howling about the poor nigger. Gentlemen, you must not think we are "Cop perheads,"' Rebels, or anything of that kind; we are Union Soldiers, and if you don't believe it, come to the 55th Regt. Penn'a Vols., and we can show you ouv names on the Pay Rolls for sis. months pay. .Hoping this may find room in your columns I will close. Yours, Ac.. JAMES HENRY, 55th P. V. VIEWS OP GEN- SICKLES.—On the 4th of July, Major General Dan iel E. Sickles, who served with distinction during the late civil war, made a speech, in which he reiu.arkcd : Those of us, who were in the army, who have met our enemies in the field, can respect them, because we know them to bp brave— [Applause and cheers. "That's so," and cries of "good "] False to their flag ? Yes. Dis loyal to their country ? Yes. Betrayed into those dark crimes by base politicians? Yes.— But brave and generous foes wo have ever found them. We have confronted them in the field. Then let us imitate this bright example and ac cord mercy to those who have been so lately our adversaries, following the example of the lamented Lincoln, and the example still more recently of our General-in-Chief Grant—[ap plause] —who, in his conquest of Virginia and in his defeat of Lee, added yet a brighter chap let to his crown of honor, by proving himself to be a knight of the old days and of the best school in generosity, proffering to the conquered terms which could be promptly met by a gentle man and Christian. If those who have served their country in the field can clncerely look with these sentiments upon those with whom they have been so late ly engaged ui battle, then, I think that the civ ilians throughout the land—especially the poli ticians, who have done so much to get us into this war—can .do so. [Applause.] If they will lay aside something of their radicalism, something of their extravagant pretensions, and after four years imd a-half of discord and a na tion's conflict, permit the return of our erring brethren once more, upon terms of concord and affectionate amity, no more political differences need keep us asunder. The South accepts her fate. She accepts the abolition of slavery.— She accepts future loyalty to She abandons the dogma of separate State sovereign ty and the. right of secession. She acknowl edges and recognizes that this land and this U nion is ours, through all time is and must ever be united. In that faith let us receive the South. Let bygones be 1# gones ; and while we pro nounce the doom of an unforgiven traitor upon him who breaks the peace, let us pass over the errors and even the crimes of those who have paid dearly for the terrible wrongs and suffer ings which they have brought upon their own section of country. [Applause ] For the. Huh ford Gu<-.:: Keminiscences of Fort Crawfoj [An old and liighly esteemed military } lias handed us the following anecdot'- .3 celebrated Martin Scott, who once npi persuaded the 'coon to "come down; CANINE INSTINCT. —The renowned > Scott—the "Coon Killer" —once borro > cloak of Capt McCabe, and not retui . for several days, the Captain entered the ters of Martin, which were vacant, < : - Scott's dog Dash. The cloak was oht o the owner and taken to his quarters, liet Dash kept his eye upon the supposed r.:t and in the afternoon, at Jletreat, when t ' were on parade. Dash slipped out qme" McCabc's quarters, found the cloak an •>, oft with it to his master's room—but as he not told up the article, its length impede , progress sufficientlyato draw the attention of .. officers and men on parade, when Capt. MC j Cabe vvas heard to remark in rather a surl ! tone: "That poor d dog has more sens than his master.—'Order in the ranks'." MARTIN SCOTT was a native of Vermont, r. brave man, hut self-opinionated, and excessive ly ignorant; was killed at the battle of C'lie pultepec, then with the rank of Lieut. Colonel. In dogs, guns and horses, he spent some of his pay; but m all other matters he was penurious in the extreme. He bought his servant, Jack, of his master in Missouri by weight', 86 lbs. at £3 per lb. —This fact may astonish the Saints of the North, but it is nevertheless true as Holy Writ. Reply of Manager Ford to a Meddling Clergyman, To the Editor of the Chronicle, Washington : I read in yesterday's issoe the communica tion of the Rev. Mr. B. H. Nadal, relative to this theatre. Waiving much concerning the profession of the actor that I deeply regretted to see as coining from so able aud brilliant a minister of the gospel, I merely wish to say, that up to July Ist my theatre-was for sale at a stated price, a value placed upon it by real estate men in this city, including W. E. Spaul ding, Esq., owner of G rover's Theatre. Fail ing to sell, my next duty was to occupy and use the building. " My necessities required im mediate action; the necessities of others having claims upon ine were equally urgent, in I ling a large number of dependent people. Ti> rcp erty is mine, and my business is one alii, .est imate and lawful. Coupled with my righ s was the failure to purchase, in itself some evidence that the public were not averse to the continu ance of dramatic performances in the building, it i did not "appreciate the national feeling and the national conscience," am I alone guilty ? The late President was alike mj nd, my pat ron and my benefac tor. I - radically to to do all I could in r: . 1 vorenee for his memory Cheap tip Tasteful to me, and where 1 find but at ;se J 'negin to doubt the sincerity of those who question my motives. Ido not now refer to your reverend i correspondent. I object, however, to an inference which may be justly drawn from your article of the 4lh instant, and his communication. The theatre does not carry "profanity and pollution" with it. Older than the Christian Church; enno bled by the grandest intellect which God in Ilis infinite wisdom vet vouchsafed mankind; patronise J b;, tbe good mm great everywhere, and here by every President from George Wash ington to Abraham Lincoln inclusive, it is wor ; thy oi kinder words than you give, and capa | ble of better results than your reverend corre- I spondent appears willing to acknowledge, even | should it retain its home or house in Tenth Street h or the Church (taught within its sacred por tals some lessons, the result of which, I hope, have become evident in life) I have no words hut of re.-pect and duty; and I can fully appre ciate the Rev. Mr. Nadal'sgood intentions; and I will say I am willing at any time to test the sincerity of those who appear to desire a change 111 the uses of the building. But I must claim the rights belonging to my citizenship—the absolute control of my property, and the per fect right to prosecute my lawful business. I oo not fear in \\ ashington the slightest interfe rence from her citizens. All that I could bear were words ot kindness. I had received but one anonymous note (''a weak invention of the enemy j previous to last Monday night, f have heard of no other threat, and f feel sure that lawless violence will not intrude again in mv building, the Mayor and Superintendent of Police both concur in this opinion. On Mon day evening not the slightest manifestation of ill-feeling was apparent. Citizens and soldiers appeared alike astonished at the order of closing the doors. Consequently, it was too much to say "that such an idea (the opening) could only be agreeable to the enemies of the cause in which Mr. Lincoln fell." Now, on my account, and in behalf of my helpless and unemployed company, I ask of you and of your reverend corespondent, that, if your views cannot be carried out immediately, to advocate the next best thiDg —mv rights, in a legal, lawful, and moral sense. Very respectfully, JOHN T FORD. Ford's Theatre, July 13. THF. BANE AND THE ANTIDOTE. —If we were called on by an Abolition oificial to "take the oath," we should most assuredly do so at once, without the slightest hesitation, if that oath was to support the Constitution of the United States. No matter what beside was thrust in to it—to assassinate a State Constitution ; to abuse the founders of the Government; repu diate the Resolutions of '9B ; to blacken the memory of our "rebel" ancestors ; to stand by the proclamation of-nigger "freedom," or even to teach a nigger school, wo would swallow the vile compound at a gulp. With certain com binations, a man may swallow the deadliest poi sons with satety, and so in this case. An oath solemnly taken to support, the Constitution of the United States neutralizes and renders harm less all the vagaries and villanies of Abolition ism compounded with it.—A'. Y. Daybook. THE ERA OF CRIME. —We never knew a time when there was such lawlessness everywhere- Society seems to be resolving itself in its orig inal elements, and every man is becoming a law unto himself. Murders, riots, outbreaks, drunk enness, rapes, garrotings, robberies, thefts, row dyism, &c., &e. are of daily occurrence. A spirit of hate and vengeance, seems to pervade the land. The teaching of the last four years has educated a generation of cut-throats. Pul pits and piracy are synonymous terms, and there is not even an intermediate stage between dia pers and desperadoiam. What are we coming to?— X. Y. Daybook.