E BEDFORD GAZETTE BLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY It. F. MEYERS, lowing term®, to wit: 2 i r annum, if" paid strictly in advance. ,2.5' paid within C months; $3.00 if not paid •bin 8 months. übscriptian taken for less than six months piper discontinued until all arrearages are ni, unfi ss at the option of the publisher. It has ■en decided by the United States Courts that the >pp- e e of a newspaper without the payment of rearagc:. is prima facie evidence of fraud and is crimina offence. H7Th< courts nave decided that persons are ae* ountabk for the subscr ption price of newspapersi . f they take them from the post office, whether they übscrib for them, or not. £5 e 1111 $o 11 rw . .HE COMMON SOLDIER. .\obod-. eared when he went to war, But he woman who cried on his shoulder ; Nobov decked him with immortelles— He as only a common soldier. N obc t) packed in a dainty trunk, F ed raiment and officer's fare— A ki ipsack held all the new recruit M eht own, or love, or eat, or wear. Not iy gave him a good-bye fete — ' ith sparkling jest and flovver-crowflcd wine ; 'l .or three friends on the side-walk stood itching for Jones, the fourth in line. .ody cared how the battle went ith the man who fought till the bullet sped cugb the coat undecked with leaf or star, >u a common soldier lelt for dead. • cool rain bathed the fevered wound, rid the kind clouds wept the livelong night; (tying lotion Nature gave, ill help might come with morning b^ht. h help as the knife of the surgeon gives, 'riving the gallant arri from shoulder; other name swells the pension list ne meagre pay of a common soldier. es yonder all day he stands— •riptv sleeve in the soft wind sways, •ids his lonely left hand out arity at the crossing ways. is how, with bitter shame, s his bread and hardly lives; ' iy ekes out the sum J a grateful (?) country gives. cter how he served the guns, iume and sash were over yonder ? .i *.er though he bore the flag, blinding smoke and battle thunder ? -r that a wife and child ' y for that good arm rent ? •r why that random shot • , heir own beloved was sent? hearts, wipeout this stain, ?led cup and sword no more; .it no common soldier blush e loyal blue he wore. * nd loud for victory won • nd leader sfaunchvacd true; get the boys that foogbt— he common soldier too. fiEPI'BLjCIN" SPLIT! -t)' il OF MONTGOMERY BLAIR, rmaster General under Mr, Lin en divered at Hagerstown, Md., Ju iV L . 1865, exposing the alliance be :ree:. Secretary Seward and Louis Na poleon. FEU.' v CITIZENS : I join heartily in thanks the A nighty for the success which it has u'iou? pleased Him to give our efforts in main iiiing he Government of our fathers, and J iiire tV v in the gratitude and affection which veils ! nati m's heart towards all the gallant ;i w! tave been his instruments in this great v.rk. am more especially grateful to the 'die:.- Maryland, some of whom we have net h to grasp by the hand and to welcome !. j'.n- t hey have been our special representa v<- iiose great and ever-memorable fields, un which are so close about us, on which les which have decided our fate and pre ur Government and liberties have been Well may we feel proud of our share great struggles when wo can say, with t: nut on all these trying occasions the men ot ryland have nobly performed their duty, 'f npty sleeves, the shattered limb 2, the pal -1.! es here to-day, show that our blood has '! 1 treely in this cause. And then our ab ones, some of whom still languish in hos ; is. but how many more, whose sufferings are o. -, sleep beneath the sod of those fields al •dy so renowned in the world's history ! IV e il never forget them, and their absence here day speaks yet more eloquently to our hearts the sacrifices our brethren have made fur us ;nt, than the scars and shattered limbs of the mzed veterans who surround us. Terrible iced have been the conflicts through which v have gone. It has lieen a contest in which prowess, courage and talent of men—all "ired by our free institutions—have been upon each other. It has been tl Greek uj Greek" with the most formidable weap ver invented, and hence the world never •-sed such combats, and the European world >oked on with mingled fear and astonish- Never before was there such destru ei j e —so many prolonged aud indeci-i • s fact, which the Count de Monta *. •lore surprises Europe than even n: pe rat ions, surprises no one here, v 1 and know that our soldiers were our citizens, struggling to preserve our institu - and to put down usurpation, and that they •Id have to change their entire natures before could be perverted by any military leader made instruments to destroy that which undertook at such sacrifice to preserve. ~t that our veterans are returning to their ursuc their more congenial pursuits, . successfully resisted the attempt to r Government; having maintained ! T nion as it was, its basis unaltered et, and our federal Constitution un .. e in the amendment which forbids a the Union; whilst it is taken as course here, because we know that • ult would he impossible, must rev jropean opinion as to the :ustabili- VOLUME GO. NEW SERIES. ty of the Federal republican system. In the end, therefore, our own country will not alone he indebted for its freedom to the valor and pa triotism of the noble band we greet here to-day with thanks and blessings. 1 feel how feeble any words are to express the deepfeeiing which not only pervades this asssembly, hut which iives in the hearts and speaks in the eyes of every lover of the human family throughout this world, towards any man who has borne arms in this cause for the love of it. To their unex ampled bravery, to their patient labor, to their endurance of cold and heat, hunger and thirst, to their sufferings from wounds and disease, do we owe it under God's providence, that we have not now, and possibly in perpetuity, a divided and distracted country, and, consequent thereon, the introduction of that accursed European sys tem of mercenary standing armies, in whose presence all liberty vanishes like mist. Long may the survivors of this noble band live toon joy the honors they are entitled to trom the peo ple for their service-, arid that choicest i all pleasure? to siie.'i men—to witness tnc prospr i ity, tranquility and happiness they have - curt d to their countrymen, Terhaps there are some of them, some of the younger sort, who would like also the smites of their lair country-women, and might even prefer to see themselves mirror ed in a pair of soft eyes to obtaiuiug the horn age of all the rest of us. That inay seem to he irrational to some, but I confess tiiat a man must be older than I am to he astonished at the preference, especially when the lasses of W asii ington, our famous highland beauties, are before j hi in. After the display of such irresistible power ; by the American people, wit it our web- .n ■ vn ! disposition to deal justly with an in. W( 1 ought to expect to enjoy a ioiig peace, au ; ' foreign nation would wantonly provoke a con : thct with us, for, however powerful, it cannot hope for any but a disastrous issue; and yet, but for my confidence in the courage and pru dence of I'resident Johnson, I should have seri ous apprehensions of a war with France, grow ing out of the iil-judged course hitherto adop ted by our foreign department in relation to the interference of Fiance in Mexico. No one ac quainted with the subject can have failed to ob serve that this department of our Government has hitherto pursued, and continues to pursue, a course in this matter strangely at variance with j the feelings of our people and with the recog- j nized principles upon which out Government lias uniformly acted. The present ruler of France has exhibted, throughout our late struggle for existence, a most unfriendly spirit, and availed himseit of j our emergencies to invade our sister republic of j Mexico, subvert her Government, and eslab- : li-.li there a military despotism, under the nora- j inal head of an Austrian prince. Would the j crowned heads of Europe submit quietly to i similar intervention on our part to establish the republican system in Hungary, Italy, or any j other European country where revolutionary movements have arisen from time to time ? We know that such an act on our part would com bine every one of them against us as an aggres sor, seeking to overthrow their regal govern ments —the political system of that continent. Is the invasion of Mexico by France, in the in terests of absolutism, any less an act of hostil ty towards the United States and a war on the republicarvsystem of this ? Certainly not. The proposition is too obvious to require argument or authority to support it. This is the gist of the Monroe doctrine, as the inanitesto made to preserve ourselves against this mode of subvert ing our popular institutions has been called, ev er since l'resident Monroe declared his purpose to resist such design when broached by the Ho ly Alliance in 1823. He states the proposition j to which I have alluded in this language : "The political system of the Allied l'ower is essential ly different in this respect from that of Ameri ca. And to the defence of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much bioodand treasure, and matured by the wisdom of tin.ir most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole na tion is devoted. We owe it, therefore, to can dor and to the amicable relations existing be tween the United States and those Powers, to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system-to any por tion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety." Again, in 1824, he said; "It is impossible for the European Governments to interfere in their concerns, (the affairs of our neighbors,) especially in those ailu 1 • f t ; (their systemvi goverum>nt,) whie - a < vital vi i- I on! ••rt' ding üb; in i. the inotite v -f..- i tflig rt 1 •' . ■ ; .. yv i: r. vv r < - ; . i w oi l appear to he iq:i.u iy ,q>j.,io | ble to us." Could language be framed more ! appropriate to portray the designs r>t t lie French Government in their intervention in Mexico, ' and the feelings of our neople in regard to it ? •id *.b : . a r •u.tntir. s c-f the paople. in (!•• ! 1 • race ■;;; in:;:, ndopu-o n <'ee;a: ation <>f j ... : ve- . fc: ri- . bringing j islt ■ r v , . i". •• t i iti" reb- i : els v. t,;ist our contest was at the hieriest. There : i • no blinking ti-? feet; tint the. Erehtb war in j Mexico v. as the L.Tine; or'? contingent N aid of \ the rebellion against free govern.n nt, and the j rebellion has not ended whilst French bayonets j maintain a despotism there. What can lie more humbling to the pride of . our country than to witness its Premier, through our highest functionary abroad, making the degrading declaration that his countrymen be lieve that the Mexican people united and br •'( in the foreign master, while the very allies of ( Fiance in the < in of the attempt turn thfiir backs on it as soon as thcjffal design of oon i quer-t was disclosed by lndeed, lndeed, he himself had the frankness, when fairly "mbark : ed on its expedition, to despise such subterfuges ; and to avow his real purpose to the world, pro claiming th rough the press of Europe that his obiect was "to give the ascendency to the BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1865. ! Latin race" throughout the southern section of onr continent. 'This was an appeal to all of | French or Spanish lineage holding possessions ;in the regions washed by the Gulf of Mexico ;to join hi? standard. It was in the spirit of the de>ign of tlie Holy Alliance, when that ar i biter ol thrones, after settling affairs in Europe, | proposed to reestablish its viooruyships, which j the popular power on this continent had repu- diated. The British Minister, Canning, saw in ; the restoration of European potentates on this ! continent a renewal of colonial bondage and commercial monopoly. The American l'resi dent, Monroe, saw in it a war upon republican commonwealths which inevitably involved our own. Upon these considerations, the Ameri can and ltritish Cabinets concurred that it was wise to confront the design of the Holy Alli ance with the Monroe doctrine. It was this concurrence of the Anglo-Saxon I governments, looking to the preservation of the tiee institutions on which they were founded, tha: am -t"d the steps of the Holy Allies tend ing t" ihe re-establishment of the Latin race with its imperial absolutism in all the Guit re gions. Louis Napoleon renews the attempt, ; making the principal member of the Holy Alii anee his colleague in the undertaking. Will the N >rth of Europe—-will England, especially j—see with indifference this rround marriage of ' France with Austria, meant to give the Bona j parte dynasty the means and men and tiie vast | commercial material of Spanish America to ag i grandize its power in Europe as well as America j and to render it more than it was under the ' first Emperor—the arbiter of botii continents'? I I he present Emperor is ambitious to restore in hi? -.n p. :-s .it ihe reign of f!i<> • great Caesars > .-i ii a ivent? lie a--' m in his his . to!"/ are. e.sseniial to the. progress of the human race. England. it is certain, did not contribute to build up the power of the last of them, nor | as yet does she seem willing to assist the grand schemes of his successor. She would not I countenance his Mexican conquest, nor listen |to his repeated importunities to recognize the 1 States late in rebellion against our Union— States he sought to cut off from our Republic and bring under his wing as consummating his 1 darling project of "the Latin race ascendency" in all regions around the Gulf of Mexico. Eng land will not favor it. She has too deep a j stake in the Anglo-Saxon race and their free. ; institutions. I? it not strange that an American statesman should be found willing to establish the colossal power of France and Austria in our midst— ' ready to curry out, on any opportune ocoa j sion of new sectional discontents, the cherished ; scheme of destroying our Uuion? It is certain ; if the Latin race gains the ascendency aimed ' j at, it must absorb Central America and hold ■ i the isthmus and separate us from our Pacific; 1 States by the ocean r u!e- Already, in advance : I we see France planting colonies of rebel refu- j j zees, under the auspices of a California traitor, j in S mora, to rob iis of our sister republics of the far West; and the French Government has already carried a vote in the legislative body j providing for transporting a new army of 10,- 000 men to effect these objects; and this im mediately followed the concession of our State Department, which was read in the Chambers. ; To take the French side in the Mexican con test in such a crisis as this, its originator a Bonaparte, avowing designs hostile to republi can governments and directly subversive of our rights ap a nation in the region around the Gulf of Mexico, is a daring course in one hold- j ing high station in our Government and look ing to the highest. Does ho expect to mount by appealing to the love of peace and dread of war with France? Docs lie expect to gain the support of the holders of the public debt, who may prefix t ? run up their stock by submission to France, rather than elevate the glory and preserve the free institutions of their country' and of the continent by patriotic sacrifices? Cowardice, it should he remembered, invites oppression, because it falls an easy prey. Cour age averts war. because it makes peace the in terest of an enemy. Our Minister in Paris next gives the assur ance to tin French Emperor and the legislative 1 body. " That we (speaking for our Administra tion) can understand time Mexico that was J'ur a long time ruled In/ a mon'trchw tl govenrmcnt would Idee to return to that form of government, " Migiit not the representative of our country at the French or English court apply the same remark with equal truth to the people of this country as to the people of .Mexico? If the French u surper should conquer us and seta Ilapsburg ■vr a- a:< Viceroy, doubtless some sycophant n'uti i and p over among u J would give niud r-und how the American pso as well the Mexican?, as they were for a I ng time ruled by a monarchical government, would like to return to that form of govern ment! It would he just as true of the first as the last. The in ?ivc to Franc having perform" l ?! its 1 ' , o for ti. • Emperor tlrsru, the State De-' j part incut employs its organ, the New York ; Tones , to subserve the uurposes of the usurper and maker of thrones here, by advocating his cause before the American people. Three col umns and a half of that journal, conducted by Weed and Raymond, well-fed favorites from Uie drippings of the .State and War Offices, are employed in arguing away the Monroe doc trine and asserting the lawfulness and justice of the policy of the invader of Mexico. The ar ticle is ushered in by an editorial of approval, and has the ear mark of its Cabinet origin, by putting in the salvo which makes a feature in our Minister, Mr. Bigelow's communication to j Napoleon's Minister of State, M. Bouher, as read by hirn to the legislative bddy. It has \ the very tone of our Secretary. It has his dip lomatic cue precisely as he gare it to Mr. Bige- j low. "Of course (says the Times in its colon- j ade article) the people of the United States i would prefer to see Mexico flourish under the republican institutions which sealed their inde pendence in 1808. Hot it must be admitted Freedom of Thought and Opinion. I (hat the experience of republicanism in Mexico 1 : ias not been, on the whole, flattering. Had < the case lieen otherwise, the occasion would ) never have arisen for the European interven f tion of 18ol." From this position everything - done by France in regard to Mexico is vindica , ted, and the violation of the Monroe doctrine, sanctioned by so many 1 years of taeit admission, is justified. The article insists that as Juarez 1 did not pay the debts due to the subjects of 1 France, had "no material means of honoring 1 his signature, in which case he represented only an illusory or inadequate Government; or he 1 did not mean to honor it, in which case it was proper to punish. Upon this the European ■ governments broke relations with him and uni ted to obtain redress. Such, in a few words, was the origin ot the Mexican expedition. It had but one object—the recovery of sums due to France, and security for French citizens." Now, this is the ground upon which the over throw of Mexican independence and of the Monroe doctrine is justified. England and Spain, we arc told, united with France to obtain re dress for the grievances coplainod of. I admit it 1 lut did they unite with France in making (he independence of the country and-the liber ties ttf the people a forfeiture because ii Juurez hid HO Duiterinl means of honoring his signature, or did not mean to honor it /" England and Spain, ; en the contrary, renounced the alliance and turned their prows homeward when the}' ascer tained tti French Emperor's design was not to exact payment of a debt or indemnity for in jury to iris subjects, but to overthrow a Repub ! " with i lie liberties of a people.. Neither Eng- I aid nor Spain understood, as the despatch from our State Department authorizes our Minister at Paris to declare to the French Minister of State 'dee understood," that this sudden and bold consummation of an enterprise begun under pretence of obtaining justice, but ending in conquering a nation, was simply the result of respect for the will of that nation. Put the Emperor of the French is not left to in fere the acquiescence of this government from even these pregnant facts, ile has it coupled with a justification in the handwriting of our Minister, under the authority of our Secretary of State. Louis Napoleon's Minister of State, M. liouher. read to tlie French legislative body this extract from an official communication of our Minister. Mr. Pigelow, containing an as- j surance of our submission to the establishment of his Mexican Empire, with a view to disarm opposition to it from the representatives of the j French people and to quiet their discontents. i Mondeur, the Government official paper ; of Fiance, reports Mr. Piglow's words thus: '•We (our Government) do not like of course to see a monarchy established in Mexico; we prefer of course republican institutions; but we respect the wiilof the people; we can under-j ' stand how Mexico, that was for a long time • . i ruled by a monarchical government, would j like to return to that form of government, and j we Would not go to war for the sake of a form of government." I Now, here is not only acquiescence against our inclinations to the conspiracy which seeks [ the surrender of Mexico as the prey of the French and Austrian potentates, but assigns as j i reasons for it falsehoods, which are made to give j it the appearance of a submission to an honest,; democratic principle. While all the world knows that republican institutions were put down in Mexico by French bayonets, neither J the party of Miramoo nor Juarez, at war | j for the Presidency, consenting to surrender | their form of government, our American Minis-! ter is made to say that they were put down by j the people themselves! And yielding submis sion to this flagrant act of war upon the Mexi can Republic, and our own, of which it was j (he offspring, we are told is but respect to the will of the people! Ant thus it is argued that I tSie Mexican people, having consented to re linquish their independence to (lie mandate ofa foreign usurper, the people of the United States j must abandon the time-honored policy of our : fathers, which the public opinion of liberal Ea- ; rope so sanctioned as to compel even the Holy Alliance to respect it. The course of our Foreign Secretary and War Secretary will warrant the French Em-, peror in asserting that the policy he has adopt- j el to engrail French power on the institutions j of this continent, which are cut dowm to make a stock for its support, is approved by our Gov ernment. See how both our State and War j Departments have been subordinate to Napol eon's policy. Our House ot Representatives re-echoed tlie voice of the Convention that nom inated Lincoln and Johnson as candidates, pledg ed, if elected, to the Presidency, to reassert and maintain, even in the midst of the rebellion, the Monroe dx'trine, as a protest against the invas ion of France to overthrow the republican sys- \ tern established as that of our continent, taken from the type of that of the United States. The State Department instantly despatched.a dis claimer to the Emperor of the French through our minister at Paris, containing the assurance that the opinion of the House was not that of the Government, and giving him to understand that the Executive would not co-operate with the House. The War Office confirmed this intimation of the State Department immediately by its action. An order was entered against the exportation of arms, which were essential to enable the Mex icans to defend themselves, while the French were allowed forage and transportation, which were all they wanted. We had an equal right to stop the means of support which were as es ! sential to maintain the Emperor's army in Mex ico as to stop the export of arms, lest they might fill into the hands of the invaded Republicans, | who, thus disarmed, were compelled to submit i to an enemy that came accoutred with the best the armories of Europe could furnish. The Mexicans sought, and might have obtained, but 1 for this order, the arms exported from Europe, and rejected by our army as not equal to the Springfield gun; but our War Secretary, in complaisance to France, played the dog in the WHOLE IYIJIIIBER, 3120 j j manger, and denied the contractors and rner -1 chants the right to re-export what he had refu -1 sed to receive. This interdict was continued to - the last of June, for so late were the refuse I arms purchased by the Mexican agents in San • Francisco withheld, although President Johnson , ordered its removal within one week after his , | accession to power. Nevertheless, the revoca : tion was not communicated to our officers in r that quarter, and hence the Mexican arms were ; seized, and continue to be held even now. Do I propose, then to send our veterans to 1 put it down at once? I do not, I believe it ; will not be necessary, llutitis necessary, to prevent war, that the French Emperor should bo no longer deceived as to the feelings of the American people in regard to his position there. We need not say what we are able to do. lie has seen that wc are able to hold the territory , which our fathers bequeathed to us. We should make it manifest, also, in a becoming manner, that we mean to maintain the Govern- j ment which they framed fur us, ari l the princi ples which they asserted as necessary to pre serve it —asserted too, when they were compara- : tively a feeble power m defianfe of the allied j powers of the whole continent of Europe. Secretary Stanton and Mrs. Surratt, Treatment of Iter Confessor. Wa siiington, Jtily 16.—0n thursday morn- j ing, the 16th inst., the Rev. Father Walter,l pastor of St Patrick's Church, in this city, went to the War Office to ask for a pas-, igno- j rant of the fact that she had already been con- I demr.ed to suffer death on the following day. I lle had never previously visited Mrs. S-, nor 1 did he know her except by reputation. On ap- j plication, he was informed by Gen. Hnrdie, A. A. G. to Secretary Stanton, that he could not i give him a pass without first consulting Mr. i Stanton, who was out at the time. Father Walter returned home, and at 1 o'clock a. m.. ! on tffe same day, received a pass to visit the i prison, signed, by order of the Secretary of J War, Gen. Ilardie, A. A. G. The messenger who brought the pass to Fa ther Walter, being an intelligent Irishman, Fa ther W. entered into conversation with him on i the sid ject of theexecution, firmly asserting his j belief in Mrs. Surratt's innocence. Il half, or perhaps an hour afterward, Gen. Hardie him self called at the residence of Father Walters, i and after r-'ome irrelevant conversation, said: j "Father Walter, you made quite an impression j ! on the mind of my messenger in regard to the j execution of Mrs. Surratt," to which Father! j W. remarked that life was (irmly impressed j with her entire innocence. Gen. Hardie then 1 ' said: "Father Waller, the pass you have will, not admit you to the military prison to-mor- ! row, because it is not signed by the Secretary i jof War. I want you to make mo a promise I to say nothing of Mrs. Surratt's innocence, and I will give you the necessary pass." Father Walter, naturally indignant, immedi ately refused to accede to Gen. ll.'s demand,! : giving him to understand, in the plainest kind ! of language, that 110 officials, civil or military, 1 | could enforce his silence on this jjoint; and re- j marked that he knew under whose authority . ; he (Gen. H.) was acting. Gen. Ilardie—a ' ; converted Catholic, by the Way—then said, • ; patronizingly, that as yet there were no char- j ges lodged against him, Father W , at the War j Department, to which the latter rejoined that 1 Ihe might tell his master Stanton, that he con-; | scientiously believed Mrs. Surratt guiltless; | : that he should proclaim his belief, and that the ; War Department might hang him if it thought ; proper. Gen. Hardie was about to go without giving j Father W. the pass, when the latter said: j "Gen. Ilardie, I cannot suffer Mrs. Surratt to j die without administering the sacrament; 1 say ' ! yes to your proposition; give me the pass." ! Gen. Ilardie then drew from his pocket a pass duly filled and signed by Edwin M. Stanton, admitting him Father W., to the prison until j after the execution. Previous to the removal of Mrs. Surratt 1 from the Carroll to the military Prison, Fa* i ther W. had made application to the War Of fice for a pass to visit her, she. being very ill, | but in every instance bis applications were de j nied, and up to the very day before the execu- I tion Mrs. S was deprived by the Secretary of War of spiritual attendants. — Xew York Tri bune Juhj 1?. i Nkgi to vs. white Men.—The Legislature of Rhode Island has passed resolutions in favor of , allowing negroes to vote in the reorganization of the Southern States. The State of Rhode Island does not permit naturalized foreigners to vote uuless they own a certain amount of property, and when at the last election it was proposed to permit those who had served lion i orably in the army of the United States to vote without the property qualification, the proposi tion was rejected by a large majority of the peo ple. Negroes who hold a sufficient amount of property are permitted to vote in Rhode Island, . but white naturalized foreigners, even though they may be soldiers in the array, are not per mitted to vote unless they have been fortunate enough to acquire some wealth. And yet that State feels called upon to upbraid the President j for riot forcing unlimited negro suffrage upon the Southern States in defiance of their clearly understood rights and in violation of his oath, j e ; Wanted to go South Again.—A Confeder . ate officer who was on his way back to his home in Georgia, was out near the Nashville depot yesterday. He was suddenly surprised at be ing surrounded by five or six negroes who Lad • recognized him and jumped down from their wagons to run and meet him. They were dtiv ing Government teams. He recognized them as his own negroes, who had followed the Fed : eral army off. They begged iiim to take them ; back home with him, and they would be -de , best niggas he eber seed" if lie would. Ar i rangements were made and master and negroes i all left on the train for Georgia together last night — Louisville Dtmocrat. Junt *2O, IB6h Rates of One square, one insertion, $1 00 One square, three insertions, 1 50 One square, each additional insertion 50 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. One square, $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares, 6 00 9 00 16 00 Three squares, 800 12 00 20 00 Half column, 18 00 25 00 40 00 One column, 30 00 45 00 80 00 Administrators and .Executors' notices, $3 00. Auditor's notices, if under 10 lines, $2 50. Sheriff's sales, $1 75 per tract- Table work, double the above rates; figure work 25 per cent, additional. Estrays,Cautionsand Notices toTrespassers, $2 00 for three insertions, if not above 10 lines. Mar riage notices, 50 cents each, payable in advance. Obituaries over five lines in length, and Resolutions of Beneficial Associations, at half advertising rates, payable in advance. Announcements of deaths, gratis. Notices in editorial columns, 15 cents per line. deductions to advertisers of Patent Medicines, or Advertising Agents. VOL. 8, NO 52. The Price of Abolition Whistles, On Monday we made brief mention of the fact that it iiad been stated in the financial col umn of the New York Herald, that instead of three thousand million dollars, at which it has generally been estimated, the National debt is j likely to foot up between four and five thou i saud millions by the time settlements are made with all the government creditors. This puts the debt of the United States on a level with that of Great Britain. But it leaves us vastly worse off than the British, because their debt pays only three per cent- interest, whilst ours pays from six to seven and three-tenths per cent. IVe shall have to pay more than double the a mount of interest annually that is paid by Great 1 Britain, which practically makes our debt dou ble hers. The people of Great Britain are ground down to the earth by the taxation re quired to meet the interest on their debt. How are we to bear a burden twice as heavy as theirs? It cannot be borne. Ten years will not elap-e before our bondholders will have to submit to a reduction of interest, under penalty of submission to something worse. This debt, with its never-ending burden of taxation, is the penalty we have to pay for Ab olitionism. The Abolitionists caused the war. Slavery did not cause it, any more than wheat causes weevil. Under the old Republican and Federal division of parties, there was no war between the North and the South. Under the Whig and Democratic division of later years there was no war. Yet slavery existed all this time. If slavery caused the war, how did it come to pass that peace reigned during all ad ministrations, without respect to party, till an Abolition President was elected ? War came with the success of the Abolition party, and the debt incurred in carrying on the war is what the people have to pay for the Abolition v?histle. Though we have "paid too dear for the whis tle" already, it is not certain that we are done paying for it. Our Abolition administration's surrender of the Monroe doctrine threatens to involve us in war with France. We could scarcely get through that conffict without ad ding five hundred or a thousand million dol lars more to our debt, which would be just so much more for the Abolition whistle—Lan caster Intelligencer. WHY WOMEN "DRESS." The true explanation of the prevailing ex travagance in costume is that women dress for one another. In other words, they dress for eyes which can appreciate the material and estimate the cost of every separate article they have on. It is quite true that many men care as much for, and are as competent to give an opinion on the appearance of their wives, or sisters, or friends, as any number of female acquaintances; but the grounds upon which the two classes of critics will base their several judgments will al ways be distinct, and the conclusions themselves not unfrequently quite opposite. Ask a man and a women to tell you who is the best-dressed girl at a ball, and you will hardly ever find them agreeing in their answer. Go a step further, and compare the costumes which have been selected, and you will discover almost to a certainty that the woman lias sing led out the most expensive dress i* the room, whereas the man has simply asked himself which is the most becoming. The one has sptiered herself to be so impressed by the richness of the material, the elaborateness of the embroider}', tlie costliness of the trimmings, that in the end she has found it simply impossible to leave these things out of the calculation. The other, hap py in his ignorance, has looked only at the gen eral effect, and has probably given the prefer ence to a young lady whose gown has no other merits than those of being scrupulously neat, becomingly cut, and perfectly well made. C3"A cute Yankee, in Kansas, sells liquor in a gun-barrel instead of a glass, that lie may avoid the law, and make it appear beyond dis pute that lie is selling liquor by the barrel. Of course the cute Yankee's customers are liable to go off half cocked. tfSfA tippler who squinted very much, used sometimes to mourn that his eyes did not agree. 'Tts very lucky for you," said a friend, "for if your eyes had been matches your nose would have set them on fire long ago." CsTChief Justice Chase, to the dishonor of the Court of which he is the head, is stumping it among the negroes, and insists that they shall vote. KiTThe aggregate expenses of President Lin coln's funeral at Washington were §25,000. esrlt is no misfortune for a nice young lady to lose her good name, if a nice young gentle man gives her a better. Ctl-A kind word and pleasant voice are gifts easy to give: be liberal with them, they are. worth more than money. CaTWhy is dough like the sun 1 Because when it rises it is light. ©g-Whiskey is the key by which many gain an entrance into our prisons and almshouses. q. Brandy brands the noses of all those who , cannot govern their appetites. Wine causes many to take a winding way ! home. * Punch is the cause of many unfriendly j punches. j Ale causes many ailings; while beer brings I many to the bier. Champaign is the cause of many real pains. Gin slings have "slewed" more than the ! slings of old.