THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORMNO BY B. T. MEYERS, At the following terms, to wit: 2 00 per annum, if paid strictly in advance. $2.. 50 if paid within 6 months; $3.00 if not paid within 6 months. U7"No subscription taken for less than six months paper discontinued until all arrearages are j,i Jnless at the option of the publisher. It has bn decided by the United States Courts that tbe stc ppgge of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and is a criminal offence. courts have decided that persons are ac* countable for the subscription price of newspapers, i; they take them from the post office, whether they nhscribe for them, or not. THE MONMOUTH REBELLION IN 1635. The student of English history will vividly remember Ahe bloody brutality with which the : suppression of this rebellion was followed up | by the relentless monarch who had attained a j success of which he showed himself so unwor- j jby. The celebrated Jeffreys. then Chief Jus- j tire of the Court of King's Bench, was sent to hold what has ever since been known as "the bloody assizes" in the counties which had been the principal seat of rebellion. The transac tions which occurred and the moral features of the chief monster and actor therein have been photographed Gr our benefit by the glowing pen of Macauley. They furnish a lesson and a warning to all those who would imitate his atrocities. Among the victims of his ferocious cruelty, was a poor widow, named Alice Lisle, whoso fate will serve to illustrate the temper and wor kings of unbridled power at the time. It will not lie without its interest now. She was a woman of respectable connections and of a most kind and benevolent disposition. She had given shelter and sustenance to two persons who had taken some part in the rebell ion, though she solemnly denied having any knowledge of their criminality at the time. "It was no easy matter," says the historian, "in such a case to obtain a verdict for the crown. The witnesses prevaricated. The jury, consist ing of the principal gentlemen of Hampshire, shrank from the thought of sending a fellow ereaturc to the stake for conduct which seemed deserving rather of praise than of blame. Jef freys was beside himself with fury. This was the first case of treason on the circuit, and there seemed a strong probability that his prey would escape him." To prevent this he gave loose reio to his di abolical nature. He called into requisition, all the influences of his position, and all the terror of his unlimited power. The proprieties of the occasion were wholly disregarded. The rules of law and the duties of his high office were alike openly violated. Witnesses were brow- 1 beaten into unintended statements; jurors were \ terrified into acquiescence in what they utterly j disapproved. The defects of the testimony i were supplied by the fury of the judge. The woman was known to be a Presbyterian. ' "I tell you," said the judge on the trial, "there J is not one of these lying, snivelling, canting j Presbyterians but in one way or another had j a hand in the rebellion. Presbytery has all manner of villany in it. * * Show me a Presbyterian and I will show you a lying knave." The historian proceeds to state : "He summed up in the same style, declaimed j during an hour against whigs and dissenters, j and reminded the jury that the prisoner's hus band had borne a part in the death of Charles j the First —a fact which was not proven by any j testimony and which, if it had been proven, would have been utterly irrelevant to the is sue. The jury retired, and remained long in consultation. The judge grew impatient. He could not conceive, he said, how, in so plain a case, they could ever have left the box. lie sent a messenger to tell them that if they did not instantly return he would adjourn the court and lock them up all night. Thus put to tor ture, they came, but came to say that they doubted whether the charge had been made out. Jeffreys expostulated with them vehemently, and, after another consultation, they gave a re luctant verdict of Guilty. "On the following morning sentence was pronounced. Jeffreys gave directions that Alice Lisle should be burned alive that very after noon. The excess of barbarity moved the pity and indignation even of that class whi eh was most devoted to the crown. The clergy of Winchester Cathedral remonstrated with the Chief Justice, who. brutal as he was, was not mad enough to risk a quarrel on such a subject with ab<dy so much respected by the tory party. He consented to put off the execution five days. During that time the friends of the prisoner besought James to show her mercy. Ladies of high rank interceded for her. Fever sham, whose recent victory had increased his favor at court, and who, it is said, had been bribed to take tbe compassionate side, spoke in her favor. Clarendon, the king's brother-in law, pleaded her cause. But all was in vain. The utmost that could be obtained was that! iiar sentence should be commuted from burn ing to beheading. She was put to death on a scaffold in the market place of Winchester, and underwent her fate with serene courage." Fortunately we live in a different age and country, where atrocities of this character are unknown—where the law is supreme, and where the rights of every citizen are in theory under the protection of express guaranties of a written constitution. Still it may prove inter esting and not wholly unprofitable to cast a glance at the condition of thing 3 in Great Brit ain near two hundrecf years ago, with a view of realizing the establishment of well-regulated popular liberty between that day and this. How horrible and revolting does such tyranny appear, even for the lapse of centuries. The number of "rebels" whom Jeffreys hang ed while on this circuit was three hundred and twenty. Some historians place it at more than double that figure. He boasted that he had hanged more traitors than all his predecessors rince the conquest. Certain it is that the num ber executed in one county and in one month greatly exceeded that of all the political offen ders who have been executed in the island of Great Britain since the revolution of 1688. But cruelty never secures safety. The slum bers of retributive justice, though seemingly xiund, are rarely of long continuance. In less than four years from the exhibition of these atrocities, their brutal perpertutor was made to exj-erience all the horror lie had ever inspired in the most timid, heigh'ened by the superadded poignancy of conscious guilt. In the disguise of a fugitive, begrimed with dust and ashes, VOLUME 61. NEW SERIES. he was dragged from his loathsome concealment; • arid pursued by thousands who were only pre vented, by two regiments of militia, from the execution of summary vengeance which would have been eminently just, however unlawful, and who could not be prevented from brandish ing their bludgeons and bellowing their curses. The guilty wretch, after being made to taste more than the undying bitterness of death, was at length lodged in the tower, where he ended his life in unspeakable ignominy and horror, a warning to all his imitators in acts of brutal tyranny. And what was the fate of that cold and mer ciless monarch, who if he had not instigated these atrocities, had permitted them to be perjte trated undisturbed and who expected to reap the benefits resulting from their influence ? A little more than three years after the judicial murders which he bad not prevented and had therefore countenanced, and which he supposed were to strike such terror into disloyalty that j treason would never again disturb the quiet of his reign, found him a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth for life. The very cruelties which he supposed would bring peace, precipitated his overthrow, incul cating the great lesson which power has been so loth to learn, that the attachments of the j people resulting from benefits conferred is the j only unfailing support of any government, and that the dread which is produced by sanguinary j cruelty is a power which crumbles beneath its own weight. History is philosophy teaching by example. LOUISIANA. Governor Wells on the Right of Suffrage to the Negroes. The New Orleans papers publish a correspon dence between T. J. Durant, president, Antho ny Fernandez, vice-president, and others of the "Central Executive Committee of the Frier,(ls of Universal Suffrage," and Gov. Wells. The former gentlemen say: We ask that before you shall order any gen eral State election, or for members of Congress, you shall cause a complete registration to be made, in every parish of the State, of all loy al citizens, without distinction of race or ort- ! gin, who have resided twelve months in Loui- ' siania. This will introduce to the ballot-box the loy- ! al element of the black race hitherto disfran- 1 chised, but who have acquired by emancipation ' the title of citizens, and who have earned by j their devotion to the country, and possess by ' natural justice, the right to participate in gov- 1 ernment. Such an act, sir, will make you forever loved j and respected in Louisiana and throughout our ; country. It will insure the tranquility of the : State; it will establish the logical consequence j of emancipation ; it will put an end to the pow- ] er of that aristocracy which organized the re- j hellion and still ambitiously aims at the power ; of the government; it will neutralize and over- i power the rebel elements which cannot be sue- j cessfully excluded from the polls; it will speed j our State on a new and unknown career of j wealth and honor. We respectfully ask a reply in writing to this j communication, and that you will be pleased to name an early day on which to give it. Gov. Wells replied as follows, under date of July 10: In answer to your address, so dictatorial and I presumptive, T would say that the elective fran chise is defined by law, and its exercise must be j in accordance therewith. I do not believe that the constitution and civ il government of Louisiana has been overthrown by the rebellion, and the creation of a new gov ernment is not within my province, if I admit ted the necessity. I do profess, and do hold, however, contrary to your confidently-expressed opinion, by the form of election which took place in February, 1864, and in no respect act "independent of the formal organic law," as you affect to bolieve. It is true the exceptional condition of our political affairs compels recourse to military au- j thority to supplement, momentarily, the defi ciencies of the law, when my powers, as de- j manded by statute, are unequal to the emergen- j cy. This resource, however, I have sparingly invoked, and only against persons in office whose j shameless abuse of their places, or venal eon- i duct, compelled it. Neither have I, as you erroneously assert, transcended the requirements of law in defining "the qualifications of those who may be admit ted to the registration as voters in New Or | loans." All persons legally entitled to vote, and none others, can register. So too, do you mis state the fact when you say 'hat "I permitted a different rule in the coun In both in- : stances my conduct is controlled by the law.- No registry that I am aware of has ever exis ted in any State of the Union in rural districts. None certainly ever has in Louisiana. I see no reason now for any departure from the usual course ; and if I did Ido not claim any compe tence tp flirect it to be done. When you a<!k, therefore, that I shall, "be fore any general State election, order a complete registration in every parish of the State of all loyal citizers, without distinction of race or o rigin," for the reasons already advanced, I De cline to comply. In coming to this conclusion I have no other difficulty than is presented by yoqr confident predictions of the evils that must follow a non compliance with your demands. Political proph esying, however, has long ceased to alarm man kindf I recollect political prophesies made by the chief signers of this address within the past twenty years, which have been so falsified by j events that the apprehensions their present ones 1 might otherwise inspire are blunted or dissipa ted completely. Both in the Native American ! and Know Nothing eras their vaticinations were as boldly made that the na.uralization of for , eigners would as certainly destroy the nation, 1 as they now are, unless the negro, ignorant, in- Freedcm of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1865. experienced, and incapable as he is admitted to be, is endowed with the elective franchise. Arc these gentlemen less fallible to-day than at the time referred to ? Even within the last four years some of the more conspicuous members of the "Central Executive Committee of the Friends of Universal Suffrage" lent their pow erful assistance to transfer the political power of the State from the parishes containing a large white population to the few white owners of large property in others. This was called the total population basis of representation. I do not call in question, gentlemen, the sin cerity of any of you. I take it for granted you are perfectly sincere in your love of our emancipated people, and conscientiously believe the latter are entitled to the elective franchise: but you cannot be surprised if I cannot come to votir conclusions so speedily as you have done, recollecting, as I do, the eloquent letter of your president, Mr. J. T. Durant, who so late as 1862, in a memorable letter to President Lin coln, protested against the taking of slaves from their owners and the iniquities of the blockade of the porta of the States in rebellion. Where gentlemen, who claim to represent an organization so sonorous in name as the "Central Executive Committee of the Friends of Uni versal Suffrage" have exhibited so much versa tility of opinion in so short a time, and have prophesied so often in defiance of the logic of history and experience, they cannot be aston ished if I should cling to the laws and the con stitution as my guides rather than to their pre ! dictions, however confidently and egotistically I pronounced the latter may be. I cannot cither accept, however anxious to do so I might be, your conclusion that the en i dowmentof the negro with the franchise would | strengthen the Uuiou cause of the national gov ernment. I dissent in toto from that conclusion. On the contrary, lam fully persuaded, from my knowledge of the negro character, that nine i out of ten of the late entire slave population would support their former masters, personally or politically, oi any way, in preference to all strangers ; and I regard all as strangers in this connectiou who did not stand in this domestic relation toward them. Nay more, I believe in my heart that within twelve months from the time the negro would obtain tbe suffrage, neith er the unfaltering southern Union man nor the Union man whose loya.'y dates from his obtain ment of Federal ofGcc, could live otherwise than on sufferance in the Sidles where the priv ilege was given, if the individuals lately in re bellion were disposed to countenance such pro ceedings. In kindly and good feeling for tho African I yield to none, even among the oldest or newest of his friends; and while no man, North or South, is more willing to accept the situation as produced by the war, both as respects him and all other issues determined by the conflict, I neither dcent it wise or expedient to clothe him with the suffrage, nor can I see aught but dangers and difficulties in the agitation and dis cussion of such topics. The emancipated slave has much to learn. He has obtained rights, and they are universally, frankly recognized ; he has duties to discharge which it is incum bent upon us all to instruct him to appreciate and perform. Should it please Providence to fit him intellectually for an equal place in tho body politic with the white citizens of the republic, at a period much sooner than is now anticipa ted, I have no doubt all will rejoice. Moan while, it is obligatory upon all to obey the laws and submit without repining to the popular ar bitrament on this and all other subjects. I have full faith in the national administra tion. The distinguished patriot now discharg ing the onerous duties of the President of the republic has enunciated his policy of reconstruc tion ; that policy has my cordial approval, and no means at my disposal, by which I can right fully strengthen and sustain his administration, will be left unemployed to that end. On the other hand, my duty, as Governor of the State, I is faithfully to execute the laws, and this, with j the help of God and the generous co-operation j of my fellow-citizens, I hope to do satisfactori | ly, impartially, and justly. Ido not intend un i der any circumstances, to substitute my own ! will for the written law, nor to arrogate to my ; self powers unusual or improper to be exer j cised by an elective officer in a republican gov j crnment. I remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, J. MADISON WELLS. Governor of Louisiana. THRILLING SKETCH. Alexander Dumas is furnishing sensation items from Russia. Here is one of the last: We left the room with a turnkey behind us, and walked on till we found ourselves opposite the prison. The jailor opened if, went in, and lighted a lantern. We went down ten steps, passed a row of dungeons, then down ten more, but did not stop. We went down five more and then stopped at one marked No. 11. He gave a silent signal; it seemed in this abode of the dead as if he had lost the power of speech. There was at this time a frost of at least twen ty degrees outside.—At the depth where we found ourself, it was mingled with a damp which penetrated to the bone; my marrow was frozen, and yet I wiped the perspiration from my brow. The door opened, we went down six damp and slippery steps and found ourselves in a dungeon of six square feet. I fancied by the light of the lantern that I saw a human form moving in it: Rise and dress yourself." I had a curiosity to know to whom this or der was addressed. 'Turn on the light," said I to the jailor. I then saw a thin and pallid old man rise up. lie had evidently been immured in this dun geon in the same clothes he had on wlten arres ted, but they had falien off by piece-meal, and ' he was only dressed in a ragged pelisse. Through the rags his naked, bony, shivering body could he seen. Perhaps this body had been covered with splendid garments; perhaps the ribbons of the most noble orders had once crossed his pan ting chest. At present he was only a living skeleton, that had lost rank, dignity, even name, j and was called No. 11. lie rose, and wrap ped himself in the fragments of his ragged pe- i liisc, without uttering a complaint; his body • was bowed down, conquered by prison damp, ' time, it might be hunger.—llis eye was haugh-, ty, almost menacing. "it is good," said the Governor. "Come." j He was the first to go out. The prisoner threw a parting glance on his cell, his Btone be.nch, his water jug, and rotten * straw, lie uttered a sigh, yet it was impossi-1 ble that he could regret anything of this. He followed the Governor and passed before me. I shall never forget the glance he turned up on me in passing, and the reproach that was concentrated in it. "So young," it seemed to say, "and already obeying tyranny." 1 turned away; that glance had pierced my heart like a dagger. He passed the door of the dungeon. How long was it since he entered it ? Perhaps he did not know himself. He must have ceased for a long time counting days and nights. On reaching the Governor's door we found two sledges waiting. The prisoner was ordered into the one that brought us, and we followed him, the Governor by his side, 1 in front. The other sledge was occupied by four soldiers. Where were we going? I knew not. What were we going to do ? I was equally ignorant. 1 bad only to see—the action itself did not con cern nie. We started. Through my position the old man's knees wore between mine. I felt them tremble, i'he Governor was wrapped in his furs. I was but toned up in my military frock, ar.d yet the cold reached us. The prisoner was almost naked i but the Governor had offered him no coverings. For a moment I thought of taking off my coat and offering it to him- The Governor guessed i my intention. "It is not worth while," lie said. Soon we reached the Neva again, and our j sledge took the direction of Cronsiadt. The wind came off the Baltic and blew furiously; the -fleet cut our faces. Though our eyes had j become accustomed to the darkness we could not, ten vor'l* At last we slopped in the midst of a furious storm. We must have been about a league aud a half from St. Petersburg. The Gover nor got off the sledge ar.d w-jr.t up to the other, j The soldiers had already got off. holding the tool they had been ordered to bring. "Cut a hole in the ice," the Governor said j to them. I could not refrain a cry of terror. I be <ran to apprehend. C "Ah!" the eld man uttered, with an accent resembling the laugh of a skeleton, "then the Empress does still remember me ?" Of what Empress was he talking ? Three had passed away in succession—-Annq, Eliza beth and Catharine. It was evident he still j believed he was living under one of them, and he did not know even the name of the man who ordered his death. What was the obscurity of the night compa red with that of the tomb? The four soldiers then set to work. They 1 broke the ice with their hammers, cut it with their axes, and raised tho blocks with the lever. ' All at once they started back; the ice was bro ken; the water was rising. "Come down," the Governor said to the old man. The order was useless, for he had al ready done so. Kneeling on the ice he was j praying fervently. The Governor gave an order in a low tone to the soldiers, then he came back to my side: j fo* I bad not left the sledge. In a minute the i prisoner rose. The four soldiers rushed upon him. I turned my eyes away, but though I did not see, I heard the noise of a body hurled in to the abyss. In spite of myself, I turned a round. The old man had disappeared. I for got that I had no right to give orders, but shouted to the driver, "Away ! away !" "Stop!" cried the Governor. The sledge which had already moved forward, stopped a-' gain. "All is not finished," the Governor said to ; me in French. "What have wc to do ?" I asked. "Wait!" he replied. Wo waited half an hour. "The ice has set," said one of the soldiers. I "Art thou sure ?" j He struck the spot where the hole had so i lately yawned; the water had become solid a- | gain. "We can go," said the Governor. The horses started at a full gallop, and in less than ten minutes we reached the fortress. man ever did a purposed injury to an other, without doing a greater to himself. ear-There lies in all wrong, a germ of retri bution, that will punish the wrong-uoer sooner or later. e-But four revolutionary pensioners are liv- I ing ; Lemuel Look, born in Connecticut, Sep- I tember 10, 17o5; Samuel Downing, born in New York, November 21, 1761; James Bar ham, birth-place unknown, May, 1764 ; 4Vm. Hutchings, born in Maine, 1764. TTMF.. —A great many of us are constantly complaining and growling about the shortness of time, and yet have a great deal more than we know how to dispose of; for tho time that ■ is given us is eith°r spent in doing nothing at I all, in doing nothing worthy of estimation, or t in doing what we should not do. WHOLE NUMBER, 3121 Philip A. Kline. We gather from his correspondence the fol lowing facts relative to the arrest, trial anil imprisonment and death ol the excellent young man whose name heads this article. He was a resident of Mantour county, in a District in which several supplementary drafts had been made, and from which tli3 drafted men generally fled. He having a wile and two young children dependent upon him, remained at his business, and at last the fatal wheel turned his name to the light. He was a christian and entertained conscien tious scruples against fighting, lie was draf ted in the place of men who had kept out of "tiie way and never reported, and he believed that those first drafted should be first sought. They were permitted to escape but he was ar rested. He put in his plea at Troy, but was answered that he was ,l uo Quaker ," and the plea treated contemptuously. He was sent to Camp Cortin and after re maining there some time was finally brought before a general court martial, and then came the Trial of Philip A. Kline, GENERAL OKDEHB | No. 56. \ Headquarters Dept Penn'a. 1 Philadelphia, IV, May 10th, 65. j Before a General Court Martial convened at Harrisburg, Pa. Feb. 23d, 1865, pursuant to special orders No. 44 dated February 22d, 1865, Headquarter? Dep't. Pa. Philadelphia, and of which Captain N. II Rendlett, 16th Regt. \. li. C. is president were arraigned andtried--9th Philip Kline drafted man on the following charge and specification, charge desertion. Specification —In this that the said Philip Kline, was 011 the Bth day of Dec 1865, draf ted into the military service of the United States from the 81 h sub district 13th district Pa., for one year according to due form of law, duly notified to report on the 16th day of Dec. 1864, but failed to report, was arrested on the 29th of June, 1865. examined by the Board of Enrollment, found lit for duty and held to ser vice, to which charge and specification the ac cused Philip Kline, drafted man plead guilty- Finding, the Court after mature deliberation on the evidence adduced finds the accused Philip Kline, drafted man, as follows, of the specifica tion, —guilty of the charge. SENTENCE, Anil the court does therefore sentence him, the sai l Philip Kline, drafted man, to be con fined at hard tabor, at such place as the com manding General may direct, for the period of one year, with the loss of all pay and allow ences now due or may become due during such time and then serve one year m the Uni ted Sta* -> army. The proceedings, findings and sent- nee are approved, the prisoner will be sent under proper guard to Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia, Pa. The commanding officer at Fort Mifflin is charged with the execution of this sentence. I>y command of Maj. Gen. Cadwallader, OFFICIAL, (Signed) Albert Harper, A. A. General. On the 17th of June writing to his Father under date at "'tort Mifiiin;'' he says: If they wont release me, I can bear it to the end, for if 1 am to suffer because I don't believe in shedding blood I will bear it. I would rather take this penalty than to do in opposition to my feelings on the subject ot war. Every one should act for himself and let others do the same. I judge it© man, but God is the one to Judge. I did not report when asked, but I think to be really guilty of desertion in the sense of the word I am not, for I never ran off, or hid from an arrest, nor resisted in any way. lam more and more convinced that war is wicked, since I am about military scenes. O, that peopio would learn war no more, but learn to love one another. A week later ar.d he writes as follows: FOUT MIFFLIN, 1 June 25th, 1805. ) Dear Father, I take the opportunity to let you know that lam very poorly. I caoit hard ly speak, I am in the hospital and want to know if you have done anything for me to try to get mo out, and 1 would like to have some of you to come down to see me, for lam very low. I can't stand it much longer, if 1 don't get better soop; but, I hope that these few lines will find you all well. I want you to do something for me as soon as you cau for I can't stand it much longer in this place. P. A. KLINE. And then comes the mournful intelligence of his decease. FORT MIFFLIN, ) July-Ith, 1865, J Mr. Samuel Kline, Dear Sir:—l write you a few lines to let you know that your son Philip A. Kline is dead. He died this evening about half past seven o'clock with the Diarrhea. I think he is in a better world than this. He prayed till the last for himself and family. ABU AH HESS. It was after the war was over—the rebellion ended, peace returning, this man was tried,' convicted, sentenced and punished to the death. ; He died in peace.—But his blood cries from the ground. His orphaned children, his wid owed wife, the bereaved family, they mourn and weep; but they rely upon an Almighty Helper and Deliverer, for "Vengeance is mine and I will repay, s&ith the Lord." _ THE NEGROES SOUTH. —The radical Gov. Coney, of Maine, in a letter, has the following to say about the Southern blacks: "Among them the marital and parental re lations, as a legal condition, have been utterly ignored, and the race condemned to the level of brutes, presenting a spectacle of abhorrent in decency which, had it been the only reproach of the institution of slavery, was enough to call down upon it the execration of mankind." Granting that this may be a good argument against slavery, is it not an equally potent one against entrusting the ballotbox to the keeping of such degraded beings* Rates of SUroertising. One square, one insertion, $1 00 One square, three insertions, 1 •*") One square, each additional insertion 50 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. One square, $4 50 $0 00 $lO 00 Two squares, 6 00 9 90 16 0O Three equares, 8 00 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. 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The Congress men of the city profess the right to control the Federal appointments, and urge Morton Mc- Michael for Collector, Win. A. Kern for Post master, A. B. Slonaker for Surveyor, James Pollock, for director of tlio Mint, and Charles Gibbon for District Attorney. The Kadical slate is headed by Thos. Webster as Collector, John Gilbert Brown of the Press, for Post master, E. M. Davis, for Surveyor, George I. Ritchie for District Attorney, and J. Barclay Harding for Director of the Mint. The Cam eron-Forney slate would gladly retain Thomas for Collector, and Walborn ps Postmaster. Cameron wants B. Brewster as District Attor ney, while Forney wants Dan'l Dougherty, the eloquent young Irish orator, for that office, and Brown for Postmaster. Col. Fitzgerald was urged by leading merchants for the Collec torship, but has withdrawn positively in favor of Thomas, and is mentioned as the Union nominee for Governor. M'Clure and Curtin have scattered their preferences over the slates, and are more anxious about the comiug elec tion for Senator in place of Cowan, and the Governor also. The friends of Forney hold him in reseve for the Senate. Judge Kelly is in high favor with the Radicals as candidate for Senator, while Forney will be supported by the War Democrats and Douglas men. Cur tin, it is reported, will go abroad, and M'Clure run as his candidate for Governor. Pennsyl vania is hard to understand in a political way, and never more mixed up than now." Aye, that's it —"hard to understand," and "never more mixed up than now." There is where the shoddy ' 'party of grand moral ideas" is now, as seen by its national organ. Mixed —mixed—mixed; and, the Tribune might have added, lost—lost —lost; for that is the finality to which the mixture is fast drifting.— Patriot (j- Union. SriCKiNG TO ONE'S RIGHTS. —OId stories very often have a forcible application, to present times. The following anecdote we met with lately in an exchange : "How is it John, that you bring the wagon home in such a condition ?" T broke it driving over a stump.* * W here V 'Back in the woods, half a mile or there abouts.' 'But why did you run against the stump ?' Couldn't you see how to drive straight?' 'I did drive straight, and that is the very reason that I drove over it. The stump was directly in the middle of the road.' 'Why, then, did you not go round it.' 'Because, sir, the stump had no right in the middle of the road, and 1 had a right in it.' 'True, John, the stump ought not to be in the road, but I wonder that you were so foolish as not to consider that it was there, and that it was stronger than your wagon.' 'Why, father, do you think that I am al ways going to yield my rights v ? No t. I—l am determined to stick up to them come what will.' 'But what is the use, John, of standing up to rights, when you get greater wrong by so doing 7 'I shall stand up for them at all hazards. 'Well, John, all 1 have to say is this—- hereafter you must furnish your own wagon.' PICTURE OF THE RED SEA. —Hogarth WAS once applied to by a certain nobleman, to paint on his staircase, a representation cf the des truction of Pharoah's host in the Red Sea. In attempting to tlx upon the price, Hogarth be came acquainted with the miserly conduct of his patron,| who was unwilling to give more than half the real value of the picture. At last, out of patience, he agreed to his terms. In two or three days the picture was ready. The nobleman, surprised at such expedition, immediately called to examine it, and found the space painted all over red. 'Zounds!' said the purchaser, 'what have you here? I ordered a scene of the Red Sea.' 'The Red Sea you have,' said the painter. 'But where are the Israelites ? 'They have all gone over.' 'And where are the Egyptians? 'They are all drowned.' The miser's confusion could only be equaled by the haste with which he paid the bill. The biter was bitten. PAT AND HIS PIG. —A rollicking Hibernian of the light division in the Peninsula, was trudging along the road with a pig tied to a string behind him, when, as bad luck would have it, he was overtaken by Gen Canford.— The salutation, as may be supposed, was not the most cordial. "Where did you steal that pig, you plunder ing rascal ?" "What pig, Gineral ?" exclaimed Paddy turn i ing around with the most innocent surprise. "Why, that pig you have behind you, you villain." "Well, thin, I protest, Gineral,'' rejoined Paddy, nothing abashed, and turning round to bis four-footed companion, as if he had never seen him before, "it is a scandalous shame to thiuk how riddy folks are to take a honist boy's character. Some bla'guard wantin' to get me into trouble, has tied that baste to me cartouch box." The general smiled and rode on. ©?-"\Vhat a fine head your boy has,"' said an admiring friend. "Yes," said the fondfath er; "he's a chip of the old block; ain't you I sonny?" "I guess so, daddy, 'cause teacher said I yesterday I was a young blockhead
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