BEDFORD GAZETTE, j
9. F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
FRIDAY it:: AUGUST IS, IbCS.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
DISTRICT ATTORSKV,
JOHN I'ALMER, Bedford Borough. j
ASSOCIATE JUDOS,
W. G. EICHOLTZ, S. Woodbeiry.
TREASIBKB,
GEORGE MAUDORFF, Bedford Bor.
COUNTY SURVETOR,
P DONA HOE, Southampton.
JUBY COMMISSIONER.
1 KENSIXGER, Liberty.
COMIBISSrOSBS,
M. s. Rl 'CUEY, Snake Spring.
rooß DIRECTOR, 3 years,
D. K. ANDERSON, C. Valley.
poor, DIBKCTOR, 2 years.
SAMUEL BERKLEY, St. Clair.
auditor,
JAMES MATTINGLY, Londonderry.
CORONVR,
JOHN FILLER, E. Providence.
Democratic Prospects.
The signs of the times indicate the col
lapse of the Abolition party, and the return
of the Democracy to power in the State and
Federal Governments. To be sure, this
inav not happen suddenly; it will coine to
pass gradually, but surely. The causes
which will inevitably produce this result,
are now at work, and neither moneyed cor
ruption, nor military despotism, car. stay
them for a moment. The Kentucky and
Tennessee elections prove this; for, while
in both these states the tnos f shameless */r
--anny was practised rpon the people, by the
vartv in power at Washington, while polls
were closed, candidates imprisoned and law
ful voters driven from the election, by the
military, they still gave overwhelming ma
jorities against the Abolitionists. In the re
mainder of the Southern States, the radi
cals have even smaller chances of success,
all the provisional governors being sound,
conservative men. As for the North, the
Republican-Abolition party is split into fac
tions on the various issues of _ ll,r *
in favor of Negro Suffrage; whilst in Ohio,
its candidate for Governor, Gen. Cox, op
poses this pet scheme of the radicals, and
declares that the races must be kept sepa
rate. Then, there is William Cullen Bry
ant, of Now York, who, with a large num
ber of co-workers, has just started a Free
Trade movement, which is very nauseous
to the stomachs of the brethren in Pennsyl
vania. Again, Horace Greely, Gerrit Smith,
and other light 3 among the radical#, are in
favor of clemency to Jeff. Davis ami the
other leading rebels, whilst Stanton, Sew
ard & Co., are clamorous for the dungeon
and the gibbet. These are elements of dis
solution which cannot be eliminated from
the composition of tlie Abolition organiza
tion and which must effeet its downfall.
On the other hand, the Democratic organi
zation is compact and united. The eternal
truths upon which it rests are unshaken by
the storms of civil war, and the people see
how safe and strong are these pillars of our
Republican system. The masses, the con
servative, patriotic, thinking masses, will
rally to the banner of this grand old party,
determined, through its restoration to pow
er, to retrieve their lost liberty-, and, if pos
sible, to re-make our country what it was
before Abolitionism came into power. Dem
ocrats should, therefore, go to work with
renewed zeal, to further the dissemination
and inculcation of Democratic principle.
"B ye not weary in well-doing," for yc la
bt for the ages of the future.
"Let or, tben, be up and doing:,
With a heart tor any fate;
Still achieving, •till puriuing,
Jkearr. to labor and to wait."
CTlhe inquirer has an article to show
tnat the postal service pays more revenue '
to the Government now than heretofore. !
I
That is very easily explained. In termer j
one cent jtamjj paid for the trans
mission of a single newspaper, now it takes
i ea>; thus doubling the revenue on this one '
item. The raters of postage have been in
creased in other particulars Who pays
tins mcre.:-3c ? Who but the people? Verily,
it is easy to increase the revenue when yon 1
double the taxes!
C2-We publish a speech of President
Johnson's new Governor of South Carolina,
B. F. Perry, on the first page. Perry es
teems Lee as next to Washington. Does
the Bedford Inquirer approve of this speech,
and if not, does it endorse Johnson in keep
ing Perry in otSce? Let us hare an answer,
and no dodging
A Portrait of an Abolition Candidate.
Tbe Picture Drawn by an Abolition Editor.
la the Bedford Inquirer, of July 21, we find
the following:
"When the war waged, when the nation
staggered and the bloody banner of the rebel
lion threatened to overran the land, we entrea
ted that parties should be ignored ar.d Demo
crats and Republicans join hands, forget party,
and unite in the common defense of a common
cniye How were we met? With scorn and
contempt and a tierce and resolute determina
tion (not by the Democrats —uot by the peonle)
by the few wicked men who for the time ware
leading the party, to adhere to party, to reject
all compromise and to denounce and read out
of the party, any man who for one moment was
willing to receive overtures."
Wo implore the reader not to think that we
quote the nbove extract in order to draw atten
j lion to its diction, or it 3 grammatical construc
tion. There is not enough malice in our com.
1 position for that. We do not mean to refer to
the style of the picture, for, though it be a
i wretched daub.it is, notwithstanding, an excel-
I lent likeness—of the present Abolition can
' didate for County Commissioner. It is the
j fidelity of the portrait that we desire to bnng
to notice.
When the Abolitionists were trying to get
up a fusion party to sustain their leaders in ev
j cry thing they did, they tailed what they styl
ed a " Union meeting," and quite a number of
I good Democrats, confiding in the assurances of
the projectors of the meeting, that it was not
j a political movement, but gotten up merely to
"strengthen the hands of the government,' joined
m the call for that meeting. Among these were
such men 3 Hon.. Job Mann, Gen. Geo. W.
; Bowman, 11. Nicoderaus, Esq., Valentine Steek
tnan (the now much abused Burgess) Capt. T.
H. Lyons, Dr. C. N. Hickok, John H. Hush,
Col. John Hafer, O. 11. Spang. Esq , (late or
ator at Mann's Hill) and others. A lurge num
ber of Democrats, however, were opposed to
j this movement and a call for a Democratic meet-
I ing, nutneron-ly signed, was published in the
! GAZETTE of August 30, 18G1. The two meet
ings were to be held ou Monday and Tuesday
evenings of Court week, September, 1861.
Now. mark ye I, this was after the war had
' "wag'd" some five mouths and after the disas
trous battle of Bull Kuu. According to the
1 Inquirer's way of looking at thing*, this was
tho time when patriots should have abandoned
party and rallied around the standard of Lin
coln (who never was a party man and always
appointed his political opponents to office !) To
| accomplish this, it says, it 'entreated' the Dem
! ocrais, but the naughty fellows turned a deaf
j ear to its entreaties. • No, not the Democrats—
"the wicked men who for the time were lead
ing the party:" [£' i passant, we would beg the
Inquirer not to be quite so hard on that pure
' patriot. John Cessna, "for the time was
; reading trie party, and wnu AO LIT V.V VICEDSII
to the Legislature by the men who wouldn't
fuse with the Abolitionists.] The call for the
. Democratic meeting, spoken of above, contain-
| ed this language: "Whilst we are Union men
'to the core, we fearlessly as6crt that the true
Union men of this country are those who are
; oppoed to the policy of the 'Republican' party,
which i* now waging a war for the confiscation
i of negro slaves in the Slave States, and is tramp
i ling under foot the Constitution, which is the
| only bond of Union." In hearty concurrence
with this call, a large number of tbc Democrats
•of Cumberland Valley township, signed and
published iu the GAZETTE of August 30, 1801,
a paper which we here reproduce in full, signa
tures and all. Nearly all the names appended
to this call, are tho.se of good and faithful Dem
' ucrata, men who are yet true to their old faith,
. whose fidelity no blandishment could weaken,
no personal feeling soften, no threat, nor terror,
shake in the smallest degree. All honor to
these true men ; as for the Inquirer's candidate
for Commissioner, whose name is also attached
to this Democratic call, bare nothing to
say, except to refer to his picture drawn by his
present admirer, and labelled as "one of the
wicked men who for the time ware leading the
party." The Cumberland Valley boys spoke
ixs fellows *.
We, the Democrats of Cumbetland Valley, behev
j ing most heartily that now is the time for every
i good and loyal Democrat to vigorously aid in pre
serving the thorough organization of the old Demo
j cratic party, and that the present imminent peril of
this once prosperous, happy and united country, now
' pleadingly admonishes alike the patriot and the phi
lanthropist to strenuously assist in retaining oar
deai and blood-bougnt liberties, do most joyously
j concur with our brother Democrats in the town and
| vicinity of Bedford in a ea'l for a Democratic meet
. ing on Monday evening of Court, and byway of
( more tangibly showing that we are still Democrats,
I true and loyal, we hereby unite with other Demo
i crats in a call for the meeting above referred to.
I Jacob Snider, John Cessna,
Levi Hardrnao. William Mason,
Jacob B. Anderson. Martin S. Bortr,
Henry A. Zembower, S. Whip,
William Faster, Henry W. Viekroy,
Jesse Diehl, James Drenning,
William Barkett, v /, B. Cessna,
Francis M. Hafer, Levi Devore,
| Thomas Fitker, James Haney.
I Petei S. Thompson, Lorenzo D. Cessna,
1 Thoc. B. Cessna, Wm. Hrrsming,
Jno. H. C MeCletisn, John C. Yickroy,
| John B. Whip, Jacob Weitz, Sr.,
Henry W. Hamming, Adam .Miller,
I John Gillam, Joseph Growdon,
George Whip, Washington HiU,
Frederick htiger, James Growdon,
Francis M. Cessna, Henry Bronet,
Wm. H. Miller, >obc Houek,
Jacob J. W. Hyscag, Georga Miller.
Joseph May, Francis Elliott,
H. J. BRUNER, Henry Wertz (of N.)
James W. Zembcwer, John Jr.,
Hmry Wrtz, Jeremiah Miljer,
Jonathan Hendncfeson, Jacob Miller,
Georgf Bennett, John Miller,
J. B. B Cessna, * Jacob Miller, Jr.,
James Cessna, George Rice,
T. Wertz, Jacob Miller (of H.)
Thomas Donatio*?, Campbell Miller,
John Mock, Henry Miller,
David F. .May, Washington Miller,
George Shsfer, Edwari Riee,
George Growdon. Jobn Cruse,
William Macguio, Samuel Valentine,
Wu. B. Htftt, Robert Elliott,
William Hock Jonah A. Z-mbower.
John May, Jeremiah Leisure,
M. A. Latin, Daniel R. Anderson,
Won. Cessna, William Nottingham,
Francis M. Boor, John McMullen,
Jacob S. Cessna, John W. Wertt,
James D. Hudson, Patrick Donahoe,
James Elder <BS years of Robert Derecner,
age,) George Sllger,
William Elder, 1 hornas Hemming,
Jacob Bruner, Richard Hemming.
THE ANDERSONVILLE SUFFERERS.
Wiio is Responsible for their
Long Imprisonment.
A Republican Witness on the
Stand.
THE GRAVE-DIGGER OF THE SOUTH
ERN PRISONS.
Mr. J. 11. Browne, a correspondent of the
N. Y. Tribune, who was taken prisoner by the
rebels and incarcerated at Andersonviile, has
written a letter to the Tribune of Friday lust,
in which he tells some plain truths about one
Edwin M. Stanton. It seems that a certain
C. A: Daua, formerly assistant .Secretary of
VVur, has been trying to white-wash Stanton's
criminal delay in exc hanging prisoners, and has
drawn out Mr. Browne, who thus shows up
the guilt of the War Secretary. [A returned
veteran at our elbow requests us to ask the
Bedford Inquirer to publish Mr. Browne's let
ter, and says if that paper cannot do this, it
ought never again pretend to any friendship
for the soldier.] Mr. Browne's better is as fol
lows :
! ''Mr. Dtwia does not undertake to meet the
j me in and only important question beyond the
| general and incidental declaration that not one"
jof all the prisoners in the South could make
I Stanton responsible for the tortures he suffered
|in the South. This is simply not true, as all
, who had any acquaintance with the admints
( tration of affairs at Washington during two
j years previous to the close of the war must, I
| should think, have been aware,
i "Mr. Richardson and mvself spent nearly a
i week in the National Capital after our escape,
endeavoring to do all that was possible for the
j release of the brave men in the hands of the
i enemy; and everyone we met there 1 old the
same story, that the Secretary of War was the
obstacle in the way of the resumption of the
' exchange.
"Moreover, General Butler in his speech at
! Lowell, Mass., stated positively that he had
; been ordered by Mr. Stanton to put forward
, the negro question to complicate and prevent
the exchange. Colonel A. li. Straight, of In
dianapolis, Ind., a fellow prisoner with us in the
j Libby, told Mr. Richardson after our return to
! freedom, that, in an interview between the See
-1 retary and himself, the former declared to him
j that the Government could not nffoid to ex
change alle-bodied men for Skeletons. Other
i officers and civilians, whose names I cannot now
! remember, have assured me that he had used
• to them the same language in effect; and there
jis no doubt whatever that that was his policy
and determination until the clamors of the peo
. pie compelled him to retire from his barbarous
| v our, me exchange
j did take place, not the slightest alteration had
1 occurred in the question, and thatoa-r prisoners
1 might as well have been released 12 or 18
! mouths befo-c as at the resumption of the car
tel, which would have saved to the Republic at
| least 12,000 or 15,000 heroic lives. That they
were not saved is due alone to Mr Edwin M.
| Stanton's peculiar policy, and dogged obstinacy;
and, as I have remarked before, he is unques
tionably the digger of the unnamed graves that
crowd the vicinity of every Southern prison
| with historic and never-to be forgotten hor
rors.
I "I regret the revival of this painful subject,
but the gratuitous etfort of Mr. Dana to relieve
I the Secretary of War from a responsibility he
j seems willing to bear, and which merely as a
question of policy, independent of all consid-
I erations of humanity, must he regarded as of
great weight, has compelled me to vindicate my
j self from the charge of making grave statements
i without the consideration.
"Once for nil, let me declare that I have
I never found fault with any one because! I was
| detained in prison, for I am well aware that
] that was a matter in which no one but myself,
| and possibly a few personal friends, could feel
| any interest; that my sole motive for impeach
ing the Secretary of War was that the people
| of the loyal North might know to whom they
I were indebted for the cold-blooded and needless
! sacrifice of their fathers and brothers, their hus
bands and eons.
"JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE."
New York, August 8, 1865.
We have frequently published Gen. Butler's
remarks at Lowell, last winter, on this subject,
j and it will do no harm to rehearse them again.
He stated that in August, 1864, Mr. Ould, the
rebel Commissioner, finding negotiations were
! broken off, and that no excbages were made,
I wrote to General Hitchcock, the Commissioner
at Washington, that the rebels were ready to
exchange, man for man, all the prisoners held
by them as Butler had proposed in December
j Butler, under instructions from the War De
partment, wrote Mr. Ould a letter, taunting
him with abandoning his ground, and conceding
the exchange of men employed as soldiers, on
an equality with whites. Butler in his Low
ell speech, confessed (we quote his language)
| that "these questions were argued obtrusively
; with Ould, not for the purpose of fwthtr
! ing an exchange of prisoners, but for the pur
pose of preventing and stopping the exchange,
and furnUhing a ground on which tw could
fairly stand.
Cpmment can add no foroe to these facts, or
make plainer tbe guilt of Stanton When will
the tyrant receive ku deserts 1
ft* The Impraer lied about Lieut. Eicboitz
' running against Judge Noble for Assessor. The
records in the Court House prove it to be a li
ar. Does tbe Inquirer persist in this false*
hood and in its determination by misrepresen
tation to injure a brave and worthy soldier ?
The people want to know.
Which wing of the Union (?) party does
the Inquirer belong to, the Town negro-suffrage
wing, or the Ohio Cox-black-andwhite-separa
tion wing ? Are you for Cox, or for the lowa
man ? Come, now. none of yoar modesty 1
Some Tople want to know
Still They Come!
Another Soldier Gives His Opinion!
The Boys in Blue ,
To their race are true I
The following letter is from a returned aol
dier whose sufferings for the cause in winch he
enlisted entitle him to at least a respectful hear
ing. We will let hioi tell his own stoijf.
EAST PHOVIDENOK TP , 1
Bedford Co., Pa,, Aug. 12, 1855. J
EDITOU BEDFORD GAZETTE; —<
I do not feel like intruding myself upon you,
or your readers, but I find thai unlcss-l use the
medium of the press, I can accomplish but lit
tle toward bringiug about what is ray heart's
lirst desire, and for which my comrades and
myself took up arm? in the war just ended, the
restoration of our country to peace and perfect
union. I know that my opinions are not enti
tled to any greater respect than those of other
citizens, but, if three years* service in the army,
! during which I was in twenty one battles,
wounded three different times (once in the ab
domen so that my bowels gushed out, and I
was given up for dead) and twice captured and
thrown iuto Anderson\ille prison—it these
things constitute a claim to a patient consider
tion of what I intend here to present, then 1
j feel that lam not intruding. I u;n maimed for
i life, by a shot from a sharp-shooter's rifle, and
: feel that 1 can no longer fight for my country,
j with sword and musket, and, therefore, I hope
! to be excused if I undertake to do it with the
! Peu
j The war is over —oh ! how glad the thought!
I The war is over. The people in arms against
• the government have thrown down their weap
ons and are a.-king f>r pardon of iheir otfienee.
They huye failed iri cffoi-ts to set up an
independent government, and now they want
ai'aia to live with us in peace and harmony. —
They are willing to return to the Union and
to give up the idea of Secession forever. Now,
this is what I always thought the army of the
Union was fighting for, and this being accom
plished, why should the people of the South be
I treated like slaves, refused the rights of citizens
and robbed of their property as weii as of their
political rights f Is it right that we should now
try to keep them out of the Union, because they
don't believe that their negroes are intelligent e
nough to vote f VVe lought to j dire them bark
into the Union, and now after wo have whipped
them hack, some men here in the North refuse
'to receive them uniess they confess that they
are no better than the negroes who were lately
their slaves. lam convinced that such a course
will operate against the return of friendly feel
ing between the people of the North and the
! South. If persisted in, it will so embitter the
j Southern people that their late rebellion will.
!in time be repeated, just as the rebellions in
Poland and Ireland, countries more effectually
■ conquered than the South, have lem repeated.
| VVe have had enough of civil dis-ensiou,enough
i of civil war, springing from the negro question.
.For God's and our country's sake, let us have
ino more of it. For my own part. lam satis
fled that the negro race is utterly unfit for self
j government. I have seen enough of it to con
! vincc me on this score. Resides, I don't believe
; the Creator intended the white and black races
to intermingle, for political equality must end
Jin social equahtv, which in— ■ urn age
f r.i <<r wood If God had intend
i ed this, why did He create the races separate
and distinct from each other a id why di 1 He not
jat once produce tlio copper color which the e
i qualization of the taces must inevitably bring
forth? Rut, I think I know, why some people
! want to keep the Southern states out of the IJ-
I nion, till the white people there will agree to
| give the negroes the right to vote. If is because,
they ear that they unit lose politic <1 power, if
the negro-s cm't vote Jo> them. Now, is the
country to be turned over to the ignorance and
degradation of four millions of thriftless, unin
telligent, vagabond negroes, iust in order to keep
up a political party ? For shame, no ! Never,
Never! Rut there are some men who will do
anything for political purposes, and these men
are wore enemies of their country than rebels
in arms. For instance when I, was lying on my
back in Hospital at Clarysville, M i., suffering
from a wound which was suppose 1 to he fatal,
one of the officers of the Hospital came round
to my cot and asked me whether I desired to
vote. I said I did, and would like to vote the
McCle.Han ticket. The officer said I could not
do that, and handed me a paper to sign, which
I did under constraint. The officer placed
this paper and a Republican ticket in an enve
lope and directed it to my father, authorizing
him to vote the ticket for me. A man who would
take such an advantage of a soldier supposed
to he on his death-bed, is capable of doing any
thing that is evil and dishonorable. Now, it
becomes us soldiers to rebuke the tnen that thus
imposed upon us while we were in their power.
Thank God! we are free men, now, and can
vote our sentiments once more. We must get
back to the good old rule under which we pros
pered so long. We must get back to the con
servative doctrines of Ciay and We lister, of
Cass and Folk and Fillmore. Radicalism and
fanaticism on the negro question, North and
South, once brought civil war upon us, and they
will do it again, if persisted in. I have written
this much, because, first, I desire the good of
my country; secondly, because it has been her
alded abroad by some persons that lam an Ab
olitionist. I also wish thus publicly to notify
the publishers of the Bedford Inquirer that I
desire them to stop sending their paper to my
address, as I never subscribed for it, and don't
care about receiving a paper that calls returned
veterans, crippled in battle, "deserters" and j
"bounty jumpers." Yours truly,
LEWIS RITCHEY,
late of Co. I), 54th F. V. V.
We call attention to the advertisement of the
Duplex Elliptic or double Spring Skirt. Though
3 recent invention, it has become very popular,
and in rapidly obtaining the preference over oth
er kinds in use. The rods in it ara oomposed
each of two (feilcate and well-tempered 6teel
springs, which are ingeniously braided together
edge to edge, the lower rods heavier, and hav
ing a double covering This peculiarity of con
struction makes this skirt very strong and du
rable, acd also so exceedingly flexible that it
readily adapts itself to the form of the wearer,
and allows of any amount of doubling and
crushing without injury to its shape. These
skirts are unquestionably the lightest, most de
sirable, comfortable and economical ever made.
These are advantages which ladies, who have
experienced the discomfort and inconvenience
of aingle springs, will duly appreciate
The Kentucky Elections.
Military Outrages — The Election of Jhiminis
tration Candidates Secured by Military In
terference —T/ieir Scuts to he Contested s,'c ,
[Special dispatch to the Chicago Times.]
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug 8.
Green C!av Smith is re-elect"'! by seven liun- 1
dred majority. MoKee and Ransom are elect- j
ed. Them? are Republicans. Shanklin, Dem
ocrat, beats General Fry in the Lexington dis
trict; in the other four districts the Democratic
candidates are elected.
There were never such outrages committed
on the face ol the earth as the action of the
military at the polls on Monday. Ine election
of every republican by these vilianous practices
is to be contested, and initiatory steps have
been taken. It can be proved on oath that
names of Democratic voters were placed on a
list and given to the military, who refused to
let any man come to the polls whose name was
,on these lists. A Democrat desiring to vote
l requested to see the judges and be sworn, and
i then, alter making a full statement it he was
j refused he would retire. The military replied
| that they stood bet ween the voter and the judges,
I and ordered them to leave. A large number
| insisted upon their rights and were arrested,
and arc now lying in a military prison. Again,
I Democratic judges and clerks appointed by the
j county courts were dragged out of the room
I where the votes were taken by the military and
! ordered to leave, and Republicans | laced in
their stead. Two men named McFadden and
Graciani at Cold springs, in Campbell county
; offered to vote, bnt were stopped by the milita
! ry, taken to a tree, and their thumbs tied up to
limbs until evening and then released. These
[ nieti hud served full terms in the federal service,
but were Democrats. In Newport, Sheriff
' Dayman was ordered from the polls, where he.
• wus stationed in the perfonnaafv of Ins duty,
I own I<l give you one hundred similar instances,
I the names of all being obtained ttl sworn stale
i ments. All that was required to bring into
i use tlie. military power was to describe a man
j and hunt him out, and he went under sure.
' In the Lexington district, and indeed all over
tho state, this infamous conduct took piace. In
I some of the precincts to such a high hand was
j this carried that the judges closed the polls.
All these %utrages were known to Smith and
other a bohlion candidates, and were encouraged
by them.
There is much excitement and indignation
; at the result, but all is not over yet.
KENTUCKY.
DeYnocratic Triumph.
15,000 Maj. for the Democratic Ticket.
De.<q>ite all the terrors of the bayonet ar.d
the direct and shameless employment of ttm
military, the radicals in Kentucky have suffered
an overwhelming defeat. Mr. Garrard, the
only state officer running, will have a maj >rity
of about 15,000; both branches of the Legis
lature are largely conservative, while out of the
nine members of Congress, five or six will be
opposed to the radicals.
The Democratic Stftte Committee, prior to
the election, issued an address urging their par
ty friends to vote for the candidates who are
opposed to the constitutional amendment aisol
ishing slavery, not so much tor the purp H- O.'
preserving slave labor in K itfoeky. -is -vi.fi a
view to defeat one of the measures -it' the law
less party, whose design is to enleebie and de
grade the States that have a i irge negro popu
lation, to place the whole of the latter under
control of the Free 1 men's Bureau, and to com
pel their admission as voters. Kentucky, we
a:e satisfied, will in its own goo i time, adopt
s-'ine measure of gradual emancipation. The
condition of lhe Ireedmen liberated by the
President's proclarnati >n, in other Southern
States, proved an effective argument against im
mediate abolition.— Pittsburg Post.
The Kentucky Election.
Loi.TsvTLi.lc, Aug. 10—i'he Congressional
delegation from this State to the next C-tngress,
according to present appearances, will stand
six democrats to three republicans.
The constitutional amendment abolishing sla
very is lost.
The vote generally throughout the State was
far from the average of its strength, yet the dem
ocracy were largely successful.
The Peace Footing.
"Keeping military poasession of a country is
a costly business, under the most favorable
circumstances, but when the recources of a
country are dried up by civil war and by bad
government for years, the pecuniary trouble be
comes still more enormous."
The Phildelphia Ledger , a newspaper claim
ing to be of the "most straightest sect," gives
this as a deliberate opinion. In some of the
departments of that paper finance is the ticket,
but the foregoing has not attracted the cypher
ing propensities of the person who writes its
essays on stocks, loans, bonds and the etceteras.
Wc are not financiers, but we do know that the
people do not (generally, at least,} know that
we have an army, all arms, of nearly 300,0iJ0
tnen, distributed nearly as loliows. The fig
utes are not official, but may bo depeuded up.
on as substantially correct:
Virginia 16,000 Fort Monroe *2,000
N. Carolina 16.000 Maryland 6,000
S. Carolina 25,000 Pennsylvania 2,500
Florida 5,000 j New York 3,500
Louisiana B,ono j New England 6,300
Arkansas 2,000 j Ohio 2.500
Missouri 12,000 Illinois 2 500
Mississippi 10,000 Indiana 2500
Tennessee 15,000 Northwest 21500
Kentucky 20.000 Indian Army 16,000
Alabama 10,000 California 1,100
l'exas 89,°00 Brig. Generals 600
Total troops 266,600
These, at the rata of 51, 250 per man
—-a low estimate—annually, cost,
eay $334,000,000
Annual interest on National Debt 140,000,000
Yearly Expenses $474,000,000
Revenue from all sources 350,000,000
Annual deficit $124,000,000
National Debt $2,757,259,274
To which add the civil expenses of the Gov
ernment.
Truly the Ledger has compressed a great
truth in its utterance—-UTT MTJO cares*'!!— Pat.
fy Union.
tKrlt is not worth while to contradict the
statements put forth by the Inquirer concern
ing Democratic nominations, i; ccuYn't teU
the truth, il it tried, and t. GETS- ir.-c
A Soldier's Opinion.
The editor of the Fremont (O.) is
a returned soldier. He uses up the stay-m
home Abolitionists of Ohio, in the following
trenchant style, which is quite applicable to
of the blaekies in this neighborhood :
A poor deluded cuss who edit" T l .: Cade
viile Union says that we arc a "contemptible
hound!" What for? Because we intend j 0
strike hard and heavy againet Brigidi i fi n _
die Cox ! It seems as if Abolition editor-' - till
think they "command here," and that to t -.e.ry
Democratic soldier who comes home in tiiu.uph
trotn the wars, all they have to say to j,
—"Come here, you pretty little 'soldier in ae>
how kind you were to fight and let rnc -t ;j al
home and call your Democratic t.-.t. , i
brothers d d Copperhead-, tr- -
cessionist.s and butternuts, nnd endeav
I them hung ! Come, now, 'brave bos m
i come up and vote for Cox, Obcrliu, r.iggeranj
1 all That's played out, ar:d hound or no
hound, Mr. C'trckvdle Union, and ail others, we
any to you that your contemptible hypocrisy is
understood. For lour long years y,, u havr i,^ r ,
howling your patriotism—you h.v> rn ) ~j
canted, but who ever heard of \ --a „
j front! There was the place to tank > 1
i tensions good. You never done it, ui
: era battle was won by Democrats an .it I,h'..
i licans in the field, you would gather
1 nera and with windy gusty tell wL •. . .-a
—then go in, might and main, 1. j;
sinner, preacher or layman, and damn the L ,a.
ocrats! You all know that this is true, as
well as you al! know that you are set or mis
erable cowards, and The CirclevilU Union .unn
will outrank you all.
We know Cox too well to endorse e
side we are a Democrat end have . i< .:
| supporting anything hut Democratic ; • i-?
jWe know that Cox is in fSvor of N 0.-
j I'rage and yet is too cowardly to isswt r a .-
! dier's letter end acknowledge it V- e k ; .*
: that Cox as a General WHS a t -r'- c ■
' not a reai coward, a remarkable t.re - ma- j a
the vicinity of gunpowder—it didn't agrei wiih
| li-.s nerves ' Ask the dead men at Cross Laiws,
S who sent I'yler th-re with a handful of r.i—..
beyond support, against five thojs:.:,.! rel-iv,
t and could they speak they woo. 1 :u. y.ro t4.lt
| Cox did it L-cause "he wanted to see whether
' Tyler was a coward or not!" VVhat H iiara
i less experts.' tit' M'ho was the laggard at Sea
rev® The soldiers who were there will tell
you! We know i.-e once left the gun- \ is,
Cel. Hayes, to g# >ut of a perilou ,n
"the best war they could," and trie) jf
jno thanks to Cox; we know that h. r .. j.j
lof Humphery Marshall; wo ki.o
battle of South Mountain, where tie r--
who were under Cox in West VirgCu
1 such a glorious record, when n
marched 1;'? men or. their hand . ■ cu
a charge up a hill and routed the t. .0
Bullets flew thick and fust am tig t:.- c ;
West Virginia, but v. - do not rev-ih- * f,at Ox
, was hit—gunpow Cr smoke hn g heavy there.
No officer iu tho anny, :t was the scoun
drel Hunter, wa less beloved by tin? m n n un
der him than Cox. X fanatic in politics, an
aristocrat in feeling, without mi I'.nr" !w pl
edge, he strutted about like apoae-rk rrj.f
fall spread of tail in the sunshine,
T. e Government Kegro Boardi. \fer.; .
A Newport iVo correspofl(inl * v . I
tirnorc Gaeeft* says
"The blacks seem to have entire pn
: of Hampton and vicinity. In the immediate
j neighborhood there are some fifteen thousand,
to the most of whom the Government is issu
ing rations, the issue increasing daily, us the
i negroes come down the Peninsula and locate
' hereabout. There are said to be iu the three
counties of Elizabeth Citv, York and Warwick,
j forty thousand blacks, but few of them lavs
! any visible means of money-getting, alth - igh
they seem to be well supplied with greenbacks
: Many people feel great uneasiness, fearing sr
insurrection among them. Around Hampton
such a tiling is hardly to be feared, for a snf
! ficient military force from Fortress Monroe could
jhe on the spot at half an hour. Indeed, things
j are in a very unsettled state hereabouts, and
1 from appearances promise to remain so for
j some time."
The Government negro boarding-house i.
! getting to be immense. It bids fair soon to t ike
in all the negroes of the South. Al! that is nec
essary to get board and lodging from the Gov
ernment is to have a black face. The expend
comes out of the white men of the North
i 1865-6.
j THE GREAT INVENTION OF THE AGE IN
HOOP SKIRTS.
' J. W. BRADLF.Y'S New Patent DUPLEX ELLIP
TIC (or double, SPRING SKIRT.
THIS invention consists of DCFLKX (or twe) EL
LIPTIC PVRE hsriNPO STEEL SPRINGS, ingeniously
BRAIDED TIGHTLY aild FIRMLY together KDOE 11>
making the TOUGHEST, most FLRXIBLE, EL/STIC and
DURABLE SPRING ever used. They seldom VSSD ?r
BREAK, like the Single Springs, and co.njet,.: t!y
preseive their perfect and beautiful shapa ."nor,
twice as long as any single spring skirt tsvt
has or can be made.
The wonderful flexibii'ty end great ccmfoi s"-
plea-ure to any lady wearing the DnpUx Ei'.tp'w
Skirt will be experienced particularly in all er
ed assembling. Operas, Carriages, Railroad Cats 1
Church Pews, Arm Chairs, for piomec-ide and hoa' e
dress, a the eknt can he folded n-nat.- in use loot
cupy a smil! place as easily and conveniently *'•
silk or muslin dress.
A lady having enjoyed the r ! easuro, comfort in?
great convenience or wearing the Duplex £!iip ri< "
btvel Spring Skirt for a tingle day will nevei *fter
warils willingly dispense with their use. ForCL
liren, viis.sei and Young Ladies they ars ruper ! crt
alt others.
The Hoops are covered with £p'y double
thread and will wear twice as iong a.- tit - 1 f '
yarn covering which i u?ed on all siog'-- •''eel
skirts. The thrra bc'.totn rods ac evefjiSi'C '
also double steel, and twice :r double covers
prevent tbc covering froir. '.veaping eff tr tej*
when dragging down stairr, stone steps, &c .
which they are constantly subset to wheo B U?
All are made of the new and elegant cerd6d tap<
and are the best quality in ♦ very part, giving to the
wearer the moat graceful and perfect ahape possible
and are unqueatjonably foe ligotrst, nrost deir*Ble
comfortable and economical i.feirt evvr made-
WESTS' BRADLEY JkCAREF, PROPRI£-'?k>
■of the Invention, and SOL E MAN CF ACTL' h -
j 97 CHAMBERS, and ~0 Sr SI RE\DL STR£*-->
; New Yoik.
For ale in a!i first ehss tor<\- 11 thia c.- . t'"-
thr ugbout the Unite-i S'atc.-. and Canada, b s ."
de Cuba, Mexico, South America am t;.c W
dies. quire for the DUPLE..- Elliptic (01
j ble) Spitng Skirt. A.
August 18. ISBs—d;Tl
A D&aiNJS FRA TOR'S"NOTICE-
Letters of adcnioistration upon ' estate M
I liam J. Brant, late of Cumberland Valley tow- 'h'Pj
! decenjod, having been granted to the pnl'ji ri'f| '■
p-rsona trdebted to said estate *ro required to ® > " f '
lmraodiate payment, aad those barini claims •"*'
pcesaot thtuj properly autheotlcated for e!tlse-> f -
JAMES c Atwr
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