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POETRY.
Porta namtur, mm fit. "Uncle Toby"
; has outdone himself, in the following
lines, and has fully exemplified the
truth of the Latin maxim which we
have just quoted, " The jsiet is born, not
made." U. T's poetry seems to have
tcinys, instead of feet; but we presume
that is lieeause he wrote upon the sub
ject of birds. Voita!
The Great Fug'f.
BY I NCLE To BY . Author of " Flt • Keystone Kail
Road.''
1 nele Toby feels sad and very wesry.
At bis home so lone and dreary,
In the shadow of the mountain.
Ui.cle Toby hath heard it said.
That great men , Stevens, Sumner and Wade.
At Washington, the Metropolis of this nation.
Are evolving (he greatest wonder of creation
By ••reorganizing," depressing and elevating.
(Whilst orators arc their praises ••blating
Do more than men. ere before have done;
They blend all grades and colors into one.
The wonder is a mighty Iron raze.
In which little birds, and big birds.
Black birds, and while birds.
Yellow birds, and red birds,
And birds of every hue and feather.
Meet and mate and dwell
On equal social terms together
Uncle Toby thinks it only fair,
That all^ birds should bask in the sunbeams.
Warble in the groves, nestle in the woodlands,
And fly through the air
But robins should with robins dwell,
Black-birds with black-birds their music swell.
The eagles in eyries find repose,
Wrens in their little homes be free from foes.
Ducks in the ponds swim and flutter,
Blink at the sun and search in the gutter ;
Wild geese seek the western lakes,
And hatch their young in the marsbv brakes.
Then, fly to distant southern streams,
H here sunlight plays with milder beams.
Untamed turkeys, in their mountain home.
In flocks contented roam ;
Barn-yard fowls, when the sun goes down.
Are at their roosting places fouud.
Fowls and birds of every hue and feather.
In separate bands flock together.
But to imprison birds and fowls
01 every species in one great rage,
Would put dame nature in a rage,
Though great men say it would be very nice
To put wingless birds in this grand paradise
Had -'Uncle Toby" wings with the flock he would
not stay,
But spread his wings and proudly soar away.
Editor, you may print what Uncle has said.
For the benefit of Stevens, Sumner and Wade,
While they form their plans and do their work,
At the "National" and the "Fountain,"
Uncle Toby will watch them
From the shadow of the mountain.
OIK LOCAL HISTORY.
IlighwH) lliilibcriic wnngfully Httrihu-
Oal to fimilh'H Kltu-k BO.VM: heller ol"
Ml ess rw. Frnzer ami WixMlsiohot. I'enn;
I,rd Onnmore claims Month Western
nsvl Tll nin as a part of Virginia:
Murder of I.ogan's family: The war re
sulting: therefrom averted from Feun-
Hylvania [by the wise conduct of the
Governor.
After the exploit of Smith's Black
Boys in capturing Fort Bedford, nu
merous highway robberies were com
mitted in the county, and as every foot
pad blackened his face, all these depre
dations w ere, of course, blamed upon
Smith's band and the latter finally :
hu.* /*•-■*• " * */s 4
en lies to the {>eace and welfare of the j
community. It turnedout, afterwards,
however, that Smith's men had noth- j
ing to do with any of these robberies i (
and that a few daring and crafty seoun-!
drels had perpetrated all the mischief j
that was done. Their operations, how
ever, were of so serious a character,
that the citizens did not feel themselves
able to check them and the matter was
finally laid before the provincial author
ities. We find a letter under date of i
January 20.177J, from John Frnzer and j
George Woods, two of the most promi- j
nent men in Bedford, at that time, to ,
Governor I'enn, which will serve to il- j
lustrate the condition of things in this j
regard, at the time the letter was writ- j
ten : "MAY IT PLEASE YOLK HONOR:—
The many robberies that have been
committed in the eastern parts of this
county oblige us to trouble you with
this letter. There are a number of peo
ple, who, we suspect, now reside at, or
near, Sidelong Hill, that have l>een
guilty of several highway robberies, .
and have taken from different people,
travelling on the public road between
this place and Carlisle, considerable
sums of money; in particular, a certain
James McCashlan, of this place, hath
made oath before us, that he has been
robbed of twenty pounds and a silver
watch. We have already done our en
deavor to apprehend the robbers, but
have not succeeded, as there can be no
positive proof made who they are, on
account of their blacking them
selves, which renders it impossible
for any person robbed to discover
or know who are the perpetrators. We,
therefore, pray your honor would take
this matter intoeonsideration, and grant
us such relief as to your honor may seem
most reasonable for the safety of the
public in general, and in particular for
the inhabitants of this county."
The affidavit of McCashlan referred
to in the letter of Frnzer and Woods,
set forth, among other things, that the
affiant had reason to suspect that "a cer
tain John Gibson and William Paxton,"
had hands in the robbery. Gibson and
Paxton both belonged to Smith's Black
Boys, but it appeared, upon investiga
tion, that McCashlan suspected them
wrongfully, they having had nothing j
to do with it.
In 1774, Lord Dunmore, Governor of
Virginia, underl!bok to establish a claim
on the part of that province, to the
south-western portion of Pennsylvania,
and by his encouragement many per
sons were induced to settle upon lands
in that part of the province, on war
rants granted by Virginia. Among
these Virginia settlers was the noted
Cresap, who murdered, in a most bar
barous manner, the family of the chief,
Logan. The brutal crime of Cresap
gave ri.se to a bloody Indian war, which
threatened to involve Pennsylvania,
but the foresight and firmness of its
Governor saved the province from the
impending danger. By his order the
agent of Virginia, who had taken pos
session of Fort Pitt, was put under ar
rest and the intruders were summarily
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1866.
I expelled. This satisfied Logan and his
| followers, that Pennsylvania had noth
ing in common with the spirit of ag-
I gression that had dealt so wantonly
| with the unhappy chief. Bedford eoun
| ty, therefore, escaped a scourge which,
; perhaps, would have been more terri
ble than even that which desolated her
fair valleys in the days of the murder
j ousShinghas; and the inhabitants were
not again seriously molested by the In
dians, until after the breaking out of
the war for independence.
< o\<;|{|:SN INAI GI HATING A RF.VO
-1.1 TION—A WAR OF RACES IN
FKOSPF.IT.
No person can contemplate the action
of Congress without forebodings for the
future. Tliis is to us the darkest hour
in the history of the country. It is
true that we have crushed an extensive
and powerful rebellion. The disputed
question in regard to the interpretation
of the constitution has been appealed
to the arbitrament of arms, and set
tled. It has been disposed of finally
and forever by the removal of the cause
of disagreement, in the total abolition
of slavery. In this decision the people
in the revolted sections have acquiesced,
and now come back, asking from the
government the privilege of enjoying
all the blessings of a restored Union
ami the exercise of their legitimate
rights under it. At this point they are
met by Congress, which defiantly re
fuses them admittance; thus, in effect,
saying that those States which could
not secede by passing ordinances of se
cession, which could not sever their
connection with the Union by the sword
and bayonet, are nevertheless out by
the will of Congress. Thus the nation,
which has been convulsed by war, and
is now longing for peace and reunion,
is kept under agitation by a fanatical
and revolutionary Congress. Nor is
this all. The daily records of the pro
ceedings of that body are filled with
inflammable torches, which being ap
plied to the body politic, are kindling
the fire* of another revolution more ex
tensive, fierce and relentless than that
from which we have just emerged.—
The Jacobins in Congress are doing their
utmost to bring about a war of races— i
the worst of all wars. Instead of pur- !
suing a course of pacification they are
trying to stir up strife, and are sowing
the seeds which sooner or later, if they
continue, will deluge the streets of our
Northern cities and the plains of the
South with rivers of blood. They will j
be scenes of bloodshed to which the in
surrections in St. Domingo and Jamai- j
ya. with all R" ! -"haiters of horror ,
furnisn no coiuy.,..
The enemies of this country in Eu
rope were constantly predicting during
our late war that it made no difference
whether the North succeeded on the
battlefield or not; the Union was de
stroyed and the country could never
le united again. The South, they de
clared, might he whipped, hut they
would never renew their allegiance to
the Union. We have already seen how
false and erroneous has been this pre
diction. Even those who were the
loudest in proclaiming it have long since
admitted their error. But instead of
this evil threatening us we have one
still more formidable, pregnant with
the most dire results. Towards this
weare drifting with an alarming veloc
ity. The war for the preservation of
the Union has ended. The Chief Mag-
istrateof the nation inaugurated a pol- j
icy under which the country was rapid
ly changing from a warlike attitude to :
that of pegce. < )ur gallant soldiers are 1
rapidly returning to their homes and
resuming their plaeesaround the family ,
fireside. J ust at this stage Congress as
sembles, and at once arrays itself a- ■
gainst this course of events. Not only
is the revolutionary faction which con- j
trols that body laboring to arrest this j
march of peace, but they are plunging j
us into inextricable difficulties. Before j
the blood of our soldiers who fell in hat
tie is cold, or the grass is green upon
their graves, the Jacobins are endeav
oring to force a war of races upon the
country, and carry desolation to the I
very heart of our populous cities and
thriving villages. Herewestand, una
tiou burdened by an enormous debt,
with the tax gatherer at eajh elbow;
our commerce, which was nearly driv
en from the sea, again trying to resume
its place; one section of the country
paralyzed by the stern events of war,
yet struggling to arise, Phoenix-like,
from the allies, and yet Congress actu
ally refusing to render assistance, and
insisting upon adding fuel to the flame |
and holding the country down with t
its fanatical grip—all for the purpose of j
retaining party supremacy. This is j
the picture which is now presented to
our view. This is the feast which is
now being prepared for us by those
whom the people supposed were their
| representatives in the National Legis
■ lature. Sad as it is, painful as it may
be to look upon, it is, nevertheless, a
i solemn and living reality.
This revolutionary faction, underthe
| lead of their Dantons, Marats and
liobespierres in Washington, are insti
gating measures and passing laws, up
on the pretext of protecting the blacks,
that must eventually lead us to a direct
conflict between the Anglo-Saxon and
African races in this country. Thus,
while pretending to be the friend of
the negro, Ihey are in reality his ene
my, and hastening the day of reaction
which will sweep him from our land.
The blacks, in their joy over their free
dom and their rejoicing over their pro-
I posed political rights, little dream of
i the volcano which is beneath them, or
the fires of destruction which their pre
tended friends are kindling around
I them. A great noise is made by the
i fanatics in Congress alwut distinction
| of color; but the very steps which they
i are taking is increasing that prejudice
: and adding to that feeling which nature
has planted in the breast of every man.
; There is a point beyond which thepeo
| pie will not be passive lookers-on. To
that point we are rapidly being pushed
by the modern Jacobins. The people
of the North realized but little of the
hardships of the recent war. We saw
I the tax gatherer approaching our doors;
we saw the wives and daughters of
those gallant soldiers who fell in battle
; put on the weeds of mourning; we
saw the maimed and crippled brought
| back from the front; but beyond this
it was but a dream. It came and pass
ed away like a storm in the winter,
leaving here and there a mark indicat
ing that something unusual had trans
pired. The people in many sections of
the South, however, saw more of its
solemn realities. Families were brok
en up and homes destroyed, all of which
was but the legitimate penalty of re
bellion and attempts to destroy thegov
ernment. But even this hardship and
suffering is small, in comparison to
that which will follow the conflict that
< Congress is forcing upon us. The fa
natics of that body are leading us, step
by step, into a bloody contest that will
extend to every section of the country.
Its evil results, its hardships and devas
tation, will not be confined to one sec
tion, but extend overall localities,east
and west, north and south. A war of
races opens wide the door for rapine
and murder. It affects the highest and
the lowest. We have but to refer to
the horrible scenes that transpired in
St. Domingo at the close of the last
century and those of Jamaica but a few
months since to realize its horrors and
dangers. During our late war all could
count upon the enjoyment of life. No
person was in danger of the bullet un
less he was in front when the contend
ing armies stood face to face. But let
a war of races be once fully inaugura
ted—and at the present rate it will come
sooner than we expect—and the assas
sin is at the door of every citizen, at his
side when he walks the street, and he
knows not when he leaves his home in
the morning whether those whom he
holds dear will be alive when lie returns
at night. The contest will be the most
fierce in the South; for there the races
are more evenly balanced. But it is
idle to suppose that we shall escape its
dreadful results here. We write thus
We see the fires burniKgand Congress
engaged in fanning the flames and in
creasing the danger. It is impossible
to look dispassionately upon their work
without seeing the dreadful calamity
that will visit us unless measures are
taken to arrest its progress. We saw
enough in the riots in tiiis city, we have
heard enough of the deeds along the
valley of the Mississippi, to warn us
of the danger ahead. Seeing the whole
country standing as it seems to us on
the verge of a precipice, we raise our
voice of warning, in the hope that even
Congress may pause in the storm and
see where it is drifting. The conserva
tive portion of that body have the
strength and power to arrest the evil
if they only have the courage. Will
they not take hold like men and assist
the President in resisting the fanatical
tide, and thus earn for themselves the
plaudits of their countrymen?— A.)'.
II orld.
IK> SSVLVAJfIA ISTEBESTS.
The burly Senator from Allegheny,
whose strength, unlike that of Samson,
lies entirely in his boots, has given a
vicious kick at the interests of Pennsyl
vania, by introducing resolutions in
structing the railroad committee of the
Senate to pursue a line of policy which
would result in diverting to New York
and Baltimore a large portion of the
trade that now finds its way to Phila
delphia. Although our political opin
ions are in harmony with the great ma
jority of the citizens of the city of New
York, and in opposition to the majority
in Philadelphia, yet as Pennsylvania™;
we can have no sympathy with any
blow which may l>e aimed at the pros
perity of our own commercial metrop
olis. It is not by assisting to build up
one great rival a hundred miles east of
Philadelphia, and another a hundred
miles south of her, that we can best
promote the interestsof Pennsylvania.
Eighteen or twenty years ago there
seemed to l>e great danger that Penn
! sylvania would soon dwindle from her
j rank as the second Sate in the Union,
Ito that of the third or fourth. Ohioap
peared to be overtaking her rapidly,
and even far-distant Illinois was loom
ing up with alarminf distinctness. The
construction of the Pennsylvania Hail
Road changed all tiis, by opening an
artery through whits the trade of the
west has poured e\er since n an un
ceasing flood into i'hiladelj ma, The
increase of population fti that city and
i in the coal region connected with it,
and along the line o: the Pennsylvania
Rail Road and its bunches, alone has
saved this State fnm falling behind
Ohio.
The resolutions of Senator Big
ham are designed to encourage "the
construction of a tirough line on the
route indicated in tie contract between
the Atlantic and (Jnat Western and the
Reading Railroad companies," and also
"the extension o the Connellsville
Railroad eastward in the direction of
Baltimore and Washington." Both
of these projects a in the main emi
nently anti-Pennsylvanian, though un
doubtedly calculated to benefit those |
sections of the State through which
the road mentioned would run.
The Connellsville Railroad ought to
lie finished, hut not so as to carry its
| traffic to cities outside of this State. It
should be extended eastward .through
Somerset, Bedford and Fulton counties
down to Chambersburg, where, con
necting with the Cumberland Valley
Railroad, it would pourthe trade of the
southwestern quarter of the State
through Harrisburg and Lancaster to
Philadelphia, instead of running it off I
to Baltimore and Washington as con
templated by Mr. Bigham. The coo-!
struction of the Southern Pennsylva- !
nia Railroad would accomplish the ob
ject we have in view, and there is good
reason to believe that this road will be
made without unreasonable delay, if j
the present Legislature throws no ob-!
staele in its way.
The Atlantic and Great Western < 'om
pany is a foreign concern altogether.
Its capital comes from England and its
traffic is intended to go to New York.
Sir Morton Peto and other English
capitalists with handles to their names,
by which they are lifted above ordina
ry mortals, have furnished the money;
the shrewd and enterprising business
men of New York city have laid the
plan, and we in Pennsylvania are ex
pected to furnish all the stupidity nec
essary to enable this combination of
English capitalists and New York mer
chants to drain our Shite from one end
of it to the other.
The through route which this compa
ny proposes to open is not needed. The
ground is very well occupied by the
•Philadelphia and Erie Railroad and its
branches and connections. But these
carry their trade to Philadelphia and
set it down at tide water on the soil of
' our own State, and hence they do not
subserve the purposes of those who
wish to make Pennsylvania tributary
to New York. We can lend our sup-
I port to no scheme that threatens to
! cripple the trade and commerce of our
| own citits/ The interests of Philadel-
I phiaandof Pennsylvania are insepara
| bly connected. Hand in hand they
i walk together, and whoever putsastum
! bling block in the way of the one, puts
t it also in the way of the other.—lxin
i faster Intelligencer.
i:\KKAI, KOINSEAI.
General Rousseau, a gallant Kentuck
ian who helped to tight down the re- j
hellion, and at its close was elected to
Congress, made a speech in the House
ly conservative grounds. He "(TecTarecl
that the Freedmen's Bureau bill under
consideration was an outrage on the
Constitution, and disgraceful to the A
merican Congress, and maintained that
under its operations thejudge and jury j
could be swept away in Kentucky, and
elsewhere, at the mere caprice of an of
ficer. He insisted on the admission of
loyal Southern men to Congress, and
denounced those who advocated the
State suicide doctrine as no better than
the original Southern secessionists. He
looked upon theactionof extreme men
in the House as intended to prevent a
restoration of the Union, as well as to
prevent the blessings of peace as the
results of the war. He called upon the
House to remain true to the pledge of
the resolutions of 1861, that the war
was for the Union. To maintain the
government, and suppress the rebellion
were what hg and his command had
fought for. In conclusion, he said that
an attempt was being made in the House
to dissolve the Union, that the Repub
lican party might survive.— Lancaster
Intelligencer.
DEATH OF A FREE GOVERXMEST.
It is a melancholy spectacle to behold
a free government die. The world it
is true, is filled with the evidences of
decay. All nature speaks the voice of
dissolution, and the highway of histo
ry and of life is strewn with the wrecks
which time, the great despoiler, has
made. But hope of the future, bright
visions of reviving glory are no where
denied to the heart of man, save as he
gazes upon the downfall of legal liber
ty. He listens sorrowfully to the au
tumn winds as they sigh through dis
mantled forests, but he knows that
their breath will be soft and vernal in
the spring, and that the dead flowers
and the withered foliage will blossom
and bloom again. He sees the sky o-
vercast with the angry frown of the
tempest, hut he knows that the sun
will reappear, and the stars, the embla
zonry of (tod, cannot perish. Man
himself, this strange connecting link
between dust and deity, totters wearily
onward under the weight of years and
pain toward the gaping tomb, but how
briefly his mind lingers around that
dismal spot. It is filled with tears and
grief, and the wiUow and the cypress
gather around it with their loving, but
mournful embrace. And is this all?
Not so. If a man die shall he not live
again ? Beyond the grave, in the dis
tant Aiden, hope provides an elysium
of the soul where the mortal assumes
immortality and life becomes an endless
splendor.
But where, sir, in all the dreary re
gions of the past, filled with convul
sions, wars and crimes, ran you yoint
your finger to the tomb of a free Com
monwealth on which the angel of res
urrection has ever descended or from
whose mouth the stone of despotism
has ever been rolled away?— Where, in
what age and in what clime, have the
ruins of constitutional freedom renew
ed their youth and regained their lost
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estate ? By whose strong grip has the
dead corpse of a Republic once fallen
ever been raised ? The merciful Master
who walked upon the waters and bade
the winds be still, left no ordained apos
tles with power to wrench apart the
jaws of national death and release the
victims of despotism. The wail of the
heart-broken over the dead, is not so
sad to me as the realization of this fact.
But all history, with a loud, unbroken
voice, proclaims it. and the evidence
of what the past has been is conclusive
to my mind of what the future will lie.
Wherever in the domain of human
conduct a people once possessed of lib
erty, with all power in theirown hands,
have surrendered these great gifts ol
God at the command of the usurper,
they have never afterwards proven
themselves worthy to regain the for
feited treasure.— D. W. Voorhees.
From the Detroit Tribune, Jan. 30.
TIIK TKIt'IIIYA IV DETROIT—THE
DAXU KS OF EATING POKIi.
One case of the epidemic called Trich
ina, which has recently excited so much
alarm in Berlin, Prussia, has appeared
in this city and proved fatal. The vic
tim was a young lady, a German, who
was taken ill sometime since, and call
ed Dr. Herman Keifer to attend her.
Dr. Keifer was at first unable to tell!
the precise nature of the disease, but
finally became convinced that it was
of the same nature as the Trichina,
which has been known for some years,
in Germany, and which arises from the
eating of diseased pork. The Trichina
Spiralis is a small microscopic worm or
animalcule, which was first observed by
the distinguished anatomist, Richard
Owen, in 1835, and is found in the mus
cles and intestines of various animals,
especially pigs and rabbits in such e
normous quantities that in asingle ounce
of pork, 100,(00 of these animalcuhe
have been found. By partaking of the
meat infected by them they are trans
ferred to the human body, causing in
tense suffering, followed in many eases
by a painful death. Dr. Keifer did his
utmost to relieve the intense sufferings
of his patient, but his efforts to save
her life were unavailing, and she died
about a week ago. After her death a
post mortem examination was held,
which has resulted in proving beyond
a doubt that the disease was Trichina.
A small portion of flesh, about the size
of a pin-head, was examined through
the miccrosope, and found to contain
large numbers of animalculse, wound
round and imbedded in the fibres of the
muscle, exactly similar in appearance
tfe&r Tssmi^bi
that has ever been known in this coun
try. Dr. Keifer states that these ani
maleuke are not destroyed by smoking
or, as a general thing, by frying pork,
hut hard and long boiling is necessary
to effectually destroy them.
MOKE MCiGERINH!
Passage of llio "Civil Rights" liill by the
Rump Mcut.
The Rump Senate on the 2d inst.,
passed the "Civil Rights" bill, which
undertakes to nullify all State laics in re
lation to citizenship, and to make negroes
equal to the whites in civil and political
rights IN ALL THE STATES OF THE U
NIOX. The following are the main fea
tures of the bill:
SEC. 1. That all persons born in the
United States not subject to any foreign
power, excluding Indians not taxed,
are hereby declared to be citizens of
the United States, without any distinc
tion of color, and there shall be no dis
crimination in civil rights or immuni
ties among the inhabitants of any State
or Territory of the United States, on
account of race, color or previous con
dition of slavery; hut the inhabitants
of every race and color, without regard
to any previous condition of slavery or
involuntary servitude, except as a pun
ishment for crime, whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall
have the same right to make and en
force, contract, to sell, be parties and
give evidence to, inherit, purchase,
lease, sell, hold and convey real ana
personal property, and to full and equal
benefit of all laws and proceedings for
the security of persons and property,
and shall be subject to like punishment,
pains and penalties, and to none other,
any law, statute, ordinance, regulation
or custom to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
Section 2. That any persons who, un
der color of any law, statute, ordinance,
regulation or custom, shall subject or
cause to be subjected any inhabitant of
any State or Territory, to the depriva
tion of any right, secured or protected
by this act, or to different punishment,
pains, or penalties on account of such
person having at any time been held in
a condition of slavery or involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for
crime, whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, or by reason of his col
or or race, than is prescribed for the
punishment of white persons, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction shall be punished by tine
not exceeding one thousand dollars, or
imprisonment not exceeding one year,
or both, in the discretion of the court.
The remaining sections define the
judicial proceedings to be taken under
the bill.
The following is the vote upon this
outrageous revolutionary act:
YEAS.— Messrs: Anthony, Brown,
Chandler, Clark, Conness, Cragin, Dix
on, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes,
Henderson, Howard, Howe, Kirkwood,
Lane, of Ind., Lane, of Kansas, Mor
gan, Morrill, Nye, Poland, Poraeroy,
Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart,
Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Willey,
Williams, Wilson and Yates—33.
NAYS— Messrs. Buekalew, Cowan,
Davis, Guthrie, Hendricks, M'Dougall,
Nesmith, Norton, Riddle, Saulsbury,
Stockton and Van Winkle—l 2.
As heretofore, in all the negro meas
ures of the Disunionists, the Democra
cy are found voting solidly for the White
Race, and for the Union and its perpe
tuity. We are glad to see Mr. Cowan
(the true Republican) voting with the
White Man's party. Mr. Johnson, of
Maryland, by proxy, reported his oppo
sition to the bill.
We have no time nor space for com
ment now, and merely say to the Peo
ple—Will you tolerate such Rump leg
islation and rush our country into a
Centralized Despotism? Now is the
time to speak and act! Speak and art at
once !
CALIFORNIA ITKIOSI TIES.
The two objects of natural scenery in
California most worthy of mention are
the big trees and the Yo Semite Valley.
The route to the latter place took us
through Mariposa county, past the Fre
mont Mariposa mines, where we re
mained a day, and to the immediate vi
cinity of the grove of big trees known
as the Mariposa Grove, but which in
reality are situated in Fresno county.
These trees are not on a plain, in a grove
by themselves, but upon a high moun
tain, scattered about in the midst of a
vast forest, approachable only on horse
back. Some of these rise to a height of
nearly or quite three hundred and fifty
feet, and have a diameter of over thirty;
with trunks so broad that down one of
them which lies prostrate five women
can walk abreast; with such vitality
that the burning out of chambers in
them of sufficient size for a tea party,
with two or three side rooms for flirta
tions, will not destroy them; and they
are so numerous that after going about
among them till the eye was weary with
trying to measure these monsters of
vegetation, many remained, some of
which seemed larger than any before.
In the Yo Semite Valley, at one place
an almost perpendicular wall of rock
rises for thirty-seven hundred feet; at
another a mountain rises a mile high
directly out of the valley, and its rocky
dome lias never been ascended by man.
Here lies the Mirror Lake, reflecting
the mountain beyond so perfectly that
when the scene is reproduced in a pho
tograph, showing both mountain and
reflection, you cannot distinguish the
one from the other; there is the famous
Yo Semite Fall, with its single plunge
of sixteen hundred feet; a short distance
below is the Bridal Veil Fall, now de
scending unbroken its nine hundred
feet, and now blown entirely from sight
by a breath of wind; while further up
the valley, at a point inaccessible ex
cept by two miles of scrambling on foot,
is the Nevada Fall, surpassing all wa
ter falls in beauty, with its descent of
seven hundred feet. In some places the
purple wild flowers conceal the green
grass beneath, and the strawberry flow
; 8 grows M a si*c
! me. The trees rise, perfect
and alive to the top, two hundred and
fifty feet; and the air is so dry that wo
men and children may sleep in a tent,
and men under the open sky, and in
comfort, by the side of a clear, sweet,
calm and bright stream.
FREE FARM* FOR NEGROES!
I'asmjtf of ihf "I'ri'nlmfn'a Bureau - * Bill
by tile Utuip House.
The Ruinp House on the 6th instant
passed the Senate "Freedmen's Bureau"
bill, with a few modifications, by a vote
of ayes 136; nays 33: — The Republican
members from this State, as usual, voting
against the wishes of their white constitu
ency and for mere wholesale plundering
of the public treasury.
The modifications extend the provi
sions of the bill to freedmen in all parts
of the United States; provide, in case
lands granted to negroes under Sher
man's field order shall be given up, that
other lands shall be set apart for them;
and that suitable buildings for asylums
and schools shall be erected on such
1. ids as may be thus selected.
The following is the vote on the bill:
YEAS —Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson,
Ashley (Nevada), Ashley (Ohio), Baker, Baldwin,
Banks, Barker, Baiter. Beaman, Benjamin, Bid
well, Bingham, Blaine, Blow, Boutwell, Brandagee
Bromwell, Broomall, Bundy, Clarke (Ohio). Clarke
(Kansas), Cobb, Conkling;, Cook, Cultom, Darling,
Davis, Dawes, Dumont, Defrees, Delano, Deming,
Dixon, Donelly, Driggs. Eekley, Eggleston. Eliot,
Famsworth, Farquhar. Ferry, Garfield, Grinnell,
tiriswold. Hale, Harding, (111.) Hart, Hayes, Hen
derson, Higby, Hill, Holmes, Hooper, Hotchkiss,
Hubbard (Iowa), Hubbard (W. Va ), Hubbard, (N.
Y.j Hubbard (Conn ) Hubbe'.l (Ohio), James Hum
phreys. Ingersoll, Jenckes. Julian. Kasson, Kelley,
Kelso, Kctcham, Kuykendall. Laflin, Latham,Law
rence (Pa.), Lawrence (0.), Loan, Longyear.Lynch,
Marston. Marvin, McClurg, Molndoe.McKee, Mc-
Kucr, Mercur, Miller (Pa ), Morrill,
Morris, Moulton, Myers, Newell, O'Neill. Orth,
Paine, Patterson, Perham. Phelps, Pike, Plants,
Pomeroy, Price, Randall (Ky.) Raymond, Bice
(Mass.), Rice (Maine). Koliins, Sawyer, Schenck,
Schofield, Sbellabarger, Sloan, Smith, Spau'ding,
Starr, Stevens, Stillwe'l, Thayer, Francis Thomas,
John L. Thomas, Jr., Trowbridge, Upson, Van Aer
nam, Van Horn (N. Y ), Van Horn (Mo ), Ward,
Warner, Wasbburne (111 ), Washburn (Mass.),Wet
ker, Wentwortb, Whaley, Williams, Wilson (Iowa),
Wilson (Pa ), Windom aud Woodbridge—Lit)
NAVS —Messrs Buyer. Brooks, Chandler, Daw
son, Elbridge, Finck, Glossbrenuer, Grider, Hard
ing (Ky.), Harris, Hogan, Hubbeli (N. Y.), James
M. Humphreys, Kerr, l.eblond, Marsha.l, MoCul
lough, Niblack, N icbolson, Noell, Randall (Pa.),
Ritter, Rogers, Ross, Rousseau, Shanklin Strouse,
Sitgreaves, Taber, Taylor, Thornton, Trimble and
Wright—33.
A SINGULAR PETRIFACTION.— The
editor of the Mt. Carmel (111.) Demo
crat hasseenasingularspecimenof pet
rification, found in Oregon:
"About five inches of the body of a
snake in perfect shape, retaining every
color of the living serpent, though
much more beautiful, since in the trans
formation it partakes more at least in
appearance of ivory than any other
substance. The gentleman who found
it informed us that it was lying on a
rock in such a natural position that he
thought it alive, until he discovered
his mistake only when he struck it,
thinking to kill it, when it broke in
several pieces. Every part was perfect;
the eyes were clear, like glass; and the
teeth were quite perceptible. We nev
er would have believed that nature
was such a wonderful artist, if our eyee
had not convinced us."