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DCRBORROW. | JOHN LUTZ. '\UHR<> RR o W A- I> 1* TZ , f ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD. PA . i I in*-: <1 (Mojnp ly to till busin *-s intruded to rc ie. Collec.iotid luado on the shorit-?? do- i T >;v are. also, r*ul irly lictnaed Claim Agent* , 1 will :.ive hj- ci.it ;i Mention to the f>rcsecuti*i \ iins the <> ♦v*riunen' for Pensions. * Pay. P uotv. Bounty Lands, ic. onJuti o • street, one door South of tin j ■\{ II >use, TI and nearly tpo.site the I*tqmr*r \ JOHN P. REED. ATTORNEY AT ! *> LAW. BEDFORD. PA Respei-tfnlly tenders .. • services in the public, bffi-i-si-cuml door North of the Mengel House. B L i 1. An." 1. IWI. TORN PALMER, ATTORNEY A'i tj LAW'. BEDFORD. PA. Will promptly attend ; busiuos entrusted to his care. P Ucular attention paid to the collection of ' iry claims. Office on Juliana Street, nearly i -i n the Alengol 11 use. Batfoid. Aug. I. IsJL OSPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT | 1j LAW, BEDFORD. PA. Will fiithfully and i n ly attend to at! business entrus.ed to his , in Bedford an 1 adj lining counties Military j <: hot*. In k p.iy, bounty. Ac., apee-lily collected, j O.li >■ wi h M run & Suing. i'ii Juliana street, j t onus siuh of ite Mcnget House. ■ ?. 11, KIMMF.LL. i J, W. LI.NOEXPELTKR. j E ;- IMMKLL A LINGEX'FHLTEIi, j IV ATTOItXEVS AT LAW. BEDFORD. PA . U ve t>rui* t u partnership iu the pmctice ot the L iw. Oth e (iu J uli mu s.treet, two doors6outh j Of the '.Mongol House," / 1 4 [. QPAXG, ATTORNEY All \J, LAW. BEDFORD, PA. Will promptly at !••• din col lee i in- nd ali busine*s entrusted to i I - c re in Bedford and .adjoining counties. 'See on Jul! ma S' re.-t. ihrcc doors south of tin j age! li >use," o; lint residence of Mrs. ; . J.vo. Il Filikx J. T Kuei. ; M LiahK i KEAGY have formed a : £ p.ir ncr.' .ip in th pr iciceof the law At* :in p'id in Pensions, Bounties and Claims: ag io-' the Government. ' . i' on Juliana street, formerly occupied by II i. A King March 31, 63. -i'iitiiininii and ) li. PKNXSYL, M. i>., BLOODV , Lin. P i.. ;1 te surgi on 56 hP. \ \ .) teu ton; n.nl Services to tile people of thai . Hi i vicinity. Dec. 22. 65—ly* ' * w. JAMISON, M. D., blood* I t 0 EON. P.'... lenders his professional servi ■ . 'i' .• p.-opli of thai place and vicinity. Office ■ a it;, i.i Rich.aiii Eangdnii s store. • TYil. J. In MAIIBOtJRG, Having i / n ruianentlv located, respectfully tenders , r I -ioual services to the citizens of Bedford ■ ■ i vUnity. ■ ■ .Juliana street, east side, nearly opposite .linking 11 iusc of Reed A tsohell. Bedford. February 1861. niCKOK, | J. a. MIVNICII, JU., ; \ 1. X T I S TS , * I f BEDFORD. PA •in the Bank Building. JulianuSr. A i perations pertaining 10 Surgical or Me d Deuiisiry carefully performed, and war- T FiiMS —CASH, ilford. January 6,1,*6h. fanners:. 111 r! i, | J.J. ICWUiIi, i > .. E l) AN D SC H K 1. 1., il JS i ulrrs ami i ale n s i x exciia xg e , BEDFORD. PA., DRAFT* bought n:nl soi l, collections inado and ■ promptly remittc I. h : .-it- -lUaiied. M EI!>! O E. SHANNON ... . BBN EDICT ; >' I'i', SU VXXOX A-CO., BAXK dt EES, BEDI'OHII, PA. LINK (IF DLSOOI XT AXD DEPOSIT. L' fI I.N A nvniii fur the East, \\ i.s*. N'orth ■ * ah. iiiul the geucril business "f Exchange t Notes and Accounts C'lllccU'd iil.d - prouipilv made. HEAL ("aght and sold. " Oct. 20, 1865. pisreUatteou*. f \ IXIEL R f >RDER, 1 ' Pi T STREET. TWO DfyOhS WEST OF THE BED ' •' >rEL. BEDFORD. PA. ACiIMAKER AXD DEALER IN JEWEL RV. SI'ECfAOLEs, AC. J '-.r,, ()1 | hand a sto kof fine Gol 1 anil Sil ,v '-li . rip ct o-les of Brilliant Double Ke ' oi— aisi ri otch Pcbb'e Glasses. Gold ■ ' lies. R.-eist Pins, Finger Rings, best I Gild Pen . He will supply to order " c in his line not on hand. _ih- 2t. lriftj -1.1 F. IRVINE, ' 1 . ANDERSON'S ROW, BEDFORD. PA.. "tinß.es, Shoes. Vueensware. and Vnrie . i,- )rlei trnm Country Merchants re fui y i ,!i ited. 21. 183j, II VViD DEFIBAUGH, Gunseiith, k ' 'l l rd, p, Shop same a* formerly iceu '•> J 'hn Border, de -'e wed. II i ing resumed he is no-.r nrepired to fill all orders for new '' 'he shore-1 dotise. Repairing done to or -roe pitrotiage of the public i respectfully Oct. 21). '65 jXi'vl! PHILADELPHIA A II up' L WALL PAPERS. jj -LL A Bit RKE. Maouf icturers of Papei M i'f ' "" Window Shades, corner Fourth A I,!'. 1 streets. Phil nl Ipbia. Always in store, t ' J Linen und Oil Shades. tl alette. BY MEYERS & MENC-EL. alie |jftl!or(l ;!V,i-.cttc. [From the Patriot Si Union.] THE "BUCKSHOT- WAR. ThmUieiiK Stevens. Thirty Tears Ago. and Sen. \ It is known to our readers that Thad deus Stevens is the recognized leader of the Republican party in the Iloa-e of Representatives of the "Rump" Con gress. But, in view of the length ol' time which lias elapsed, it may not be so generally known that this same man was the acknowledged leader of anoth er "Rump" House many year- ago; and, tiierefore, we propose to refresh their memories by a brief recital of a few of the most prominent incidents connected with the last named memo rable body. We desire to do this with a view of Showing that his whole pub lic life has been characterized by a total disregard of the popular will, as well as of individual rights. His first public act, which gave him any notoriety, was the inqumdorial committee he had "organized in the House of Representatives at the State Capital in of which he was chair man. The oi ject of this inquisition was to extort from men connected with the institution of Masonry, an exposition of their principles, including the si*> t"i;kts of the order, which it was alleg ed they had SWORN to preserve inviolate. To this end many of the most promi nent statesmen of the Commonwealth were dragged before this Star Chamber and held in "durance vile" for weeks, and compelh d-to every indignity that malice could invent. Had they been the. vertex! criminals, they could not have been subjected to greater igno miny. Among those who were thu *out raged may be mentioned the lamented Cov entors Wolf and Shank, and the ]lon. George M. Dallas— nor did even the sa cred desk (scape the per- cution of this fanatical anti-mason. The Rev. 3lr. .Sprolls, an eminent divine of the Pres iyterian church, wa- dragged by an of ficer of tit" II >use before the "modi rn Jnggernaut," as heappi >priatelystyled the Committee, and put under the tor ture, with a view of compelling him to livulge underoath what he knew about .iiis ancient and n -;?( • able institution. Gut he, following the example of the listinguisiied state-men we have nam ed, spurned the miserable tyrant, who would thus have him violate his honor. These men were only released from t e re.-x by the united votes of the Demo cratic members, with a few of the op position. Thus ended this diabo' ■>>' (tnti-nitis'tnic Steven.*' iaaitixi' - on. We next find this man, Thaddeits Stevens, in l-ds, at the head of a wick ed conspiracy to overthrow civil gov ernment in our peaceful old Common wealth, by ignoring the clearly exprc-s --ed will of the people at the ballot-box; and but for the indomitable courage of the Democratic members of the Legis lature. the hellish plot would have cceded. and "the election treated as though it had never been held." There were two Senators and eight members of the House, who iiad been fairly elected by a majority of some -ev en or eight thousand, whom this "bold, had man" attempted to exclude from their seats, and .-uI:i> ute in their stead a sot of men, who, ir wis notoriously known, had been r. jected by tie people .y an overwhelming majority. Tib oelngan important chapter in the his tory of the man whose acts we are crit ieising, our readers will bear with us if we go a little more into detail. At the period last referred to, ISIS, the county of Philadelphia elected two Senators and eight mem er- nf the House, separately from the city, and thecounty was divided into seventeen election districts, ten of which were Democratic and seven opposition. When the return judges met it was ascertained that the Democratic ticket wa- elected, whereupon the seven op position return judges teeeded, and set u > a little convention of their own; that is, they made out a certificate, set ting forth that the Whig members had received the number of votes set oppo site their names in the districts repre sented by these seven judges, excluding altogether the ten districts represented by the Democratic judges, which com prised much the largest proportion of the votes of the county. This minority patter was forwarded to Herri-burg, as was also the certificate signed by them ajorUy, and at the meet ing of the Legislature the former was the only one presented in either House bv the.Secretary of the Com monwealth. To attempt a detailed statement of all that occurred during that memorable struggle between those wliodeterndne 1 :tt every hazard, to maintain the invio lability of the ballot-box, and those who wickedlyassailed it, would require more time and space than we can now appropriate. But, suffice it to say that, upon the motion of Mr. Stevens, the opposition members of the House went through the/omof electing a Speaker, and before the Clerk of the House had i called over the names of the members, to ascertain who was present, the tellers appointed by Mr. Stevens announced that Thos. S. Cunningham was duly • elected Speaker. >;one, of course, but the opposition members participated in thi> revolu tionary movement, and they number* <1 but fifty-one, inditing the eight spuri ousmen from Philadelphia,whoseclaiin | to seats was based mlely on a paper sign | ed by seven out of seventeen return Judges, and which did not even the common forms of an election return, which carried upon its face the most unmistakable impress of fraud. Whilethis "Rump" House was going ! through the mockery of electing other ; officers, appointing committees, Ac., the Democratic members having an swered to their names, proceeded to the election of William Hopkins. Thus i was presented the extraordinary spec tacle of hrtt Speakers occupying the chair at the same time; no, not exactly the chair, for Mr. Hopkins occupied it, : while Cunningham Mood on the plat-j form on his right. On the night of the day on which j those proceedings occurred, quite an i exciting scene occurred in the Senate.; In this body the same attempt was i made, and for a time was successful, of i forcing into seats two men as Senators ; who had been rejected by the people, j and while Mr. Brown, one of the duly ; elected Senators, was making an effort ; to be heard in vindication of the ma-j jvsty of the ballot-box, some indigna tion was exhibited on the part of those pn .nt whose rights had been trampled upon, and Stevens A Co., finding them-! selves foiled in their treoxon, and fear ing that a righteous retribution migh! la v.-ited upon them, like trembling traitors, made good their escape out at a back window of the Senate chamfer. This "Ilump" House met for some | days in a room at Wilson's Hotel, and afterward- in the supreme court room, i and the regular House met in the Hall of the House. it is due to three of the members of the "Cunningham House" to say that they never met with that body, after the first day, but havingdiscoveredthe infamy of the conspiracy, like honest men went into the "Hopkins House," a- it was called, in contradistinction from the "Cunningham House," and took the oath of office. This left the "Runipers" with but forty-eight mem hers, including the eight xpurioax men from Philadelphia, who had been, as has been shown, rejected by a decided majority of the people. Those three | won—Messrs. Butler and Sturdevant, i Luzerne county, and Montelius, of Un ion county. The latter iestificd before the committee of invi -ligation that tie told Mr. Stevens that hi- conscience would not permit him to sanction these "corrupt proceedings." "Conscience,• indeed, said Mr. Steven-, "throw con-1 - -it-nee to the devil, and stand by your party." The two House-stood as fol-j lows: HOPKINS HOUSE. Regular Democrats without dispute 48 With Philadelphia di.souted 56 CUNNINGHAM TWt SE. Regular Anti-Ma 01:?. without dispute, 43 j With Philadelphia disputed. 51 To aid in t!ii> infamoiK xchemc of sub verting the government, Stevens indu ced Governor Ritner, who, though per haps honest, wa- it very weak man, to call out the military, and some twelve or fourteen hundred volunteers, with ; all the pi#np of war, with "buck xhof and bud" were quartered at Harris-j burg for weeks, at an expense to the j people of perhap- a hundred thousand | dollars, for the purpo-( of intimida ting the Democracy. But it failed, law and order were maintained, and the integrity of the - u!iot-box preserv ed, very much to the discomfort of the conspirators. is it any wonder tin n, that a man wi:h mch antecedents should now be! found at tin head of a. band of con spirator- against the life of the nation, setting at naught the unanimous pro test of the white population of the . District of Columbia, as well a- those of the .Southern State-? THK IKESII>KVr.K OitAX OA Htl'.STHi txvm.ic. The National President ! Johnson'- personal organ, thus speaks of the Democratie nominee for Govern- ; or: We have already published the reso lutions ol" the Democratic State Con vention of Pennsylvania, and we now append thespeeeh of its nominee, Hon., Ilk-ter Clymer, of lierks county. The resolutions and the speeeh of Mr. Clv mer meet present issues precisely and ' alone, and they are all that could be de sired by such Republicans as support President Johnson's policy, by the Con-! scrvatives and oid Whig-, and by the large class of people who have never been politicians by trade, and who are ; sustaining the President for the express purpose of restoring harmony among men, and with that the business pros-j perity of the country. We-ee no rea son why such as these in Pennsylvania i should not support Mr. Clymer, of . whom the New York Tribune itself j thus speaks: Wedo not often find a chance to praise i the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, j but we never leave one unimproved; j and we are now enabled to gratify our ' natural inclination with a good con- j science. Their nomination of Hiester j Clymer for Governor Is one that it was ! eminently lit that they should make, j For, in the first place, he is a good citi-; /.en, of very fair abilities, and reputable ! character. Next, ho lives in Berks county, which ha- go lerolly given large | Democratic majorities, and has repeat ' edly tried to have a Governor, but lias ; not succeeded; and it i- Hut just to give her another chance. Then, he was a Whig of other days; and it is hut fair that the party which has furnished to ; the present Democracy of Pennsylva nia so large a share of its brains should occasionally have the post of honor; and it shows a proper 1 iberality in the '•birthright members" to record it. BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 30. 1866 HOT. ROBERT J- WALKER. This distinguished politician -ent an eloquent letter to themeetingin Wash- i ington on the tHd of February. Mr. Walker is an old and sagacious states man, and his opinions are entitled to respectful consideration. He has been a member of both branches of Con gress, and was Secretary of the Trcas- j ury during the administration of Col. j Polk. At the commencement of the I civil war, Walker was sent to Europe by Mr. Lincoln as apolitical and finan- ; cial agent, and on his return liecontri j buled a series of articles to the press in ; favor of emancipation in Maryland, for commercial, agricultural and finan- ; cial reasons. A letter from so loyal a 5 person should be read by all honest j Republicans. Letter from Hon. Robert J. Walker. Philadelphia, ) j February 1860. \ \ To the Editorx of the In'dlTgencer : Detained from the great Union mee ting by circumstances beyond my con trol, 1 must address it telegraphically-, j and not as I did after the fall of Sumter ! President Johnson's veto opens the i new campaign in favor of the Union. It arrests the overthrow of the States ; ahd the concentration of all power in | one consolidated military despoti-m. It prevents the expulsion of eleven | States from the Union, and the erec tion of eleven Irelands within itslim- j it-, to be controlled and oppressed by j military power. It prevents the quar tering of a large standing army and hosts of officials in the South, with an ; enormous increase of our debt, to be followed surely by oppressive taxation, j or dishonoring and disgraceful repudi-1 ation. It prevents the defeat of the plans of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the funding and reduction of the public debt, and a safe and gradual re turn of specie payments. Repudiation is disgrace and ruin, and the probabie J extinction of republican institution-1 throughout the world. The result of large standing armies and oppressive taxation, caused by the policy of the j President's opponents, would produce an earthquake convulsion. It would ' quadruple the excise and income tax, blight every field, becalm every ves-: sel, break every bank and railroad, and ruin every factory in the country. It t dissolves the Union, destroys the Con stitution, and erects a military despot- ! ism on its ruins. It would postpone, porhapsindefinitely, the transfer of the command of the commerce and ex-1 changes of the world from Europe to America. European de-pots would exult, whilst th© fried- at' fret-loir, in j the old world, and especially in Ireland and Germany, would weep tears of blood. Johnson i- walking in the footsteps ; of Jackson and Lincoln,and re-echoing their sentiments, "The Union shall be | preserved." The prolonged govern- ' ment of eleven States as conquered | provinces, enforcing taxation without 1 representation, would permanently al ienate the South from the North. It' might drive them to madness anddes-, pair, and renew the civil war when our credit and resources were exhausted, j We have emancipated, through a great constitutional amendment, carried only j by Johnson's policy, four millions of negroes. Let us not attempt to,enslave eight millions of our erring white; brethren of the South: they will all; welcome death before such a fate as j this. [ have fought all my life against i -ecc--ion and disunion in the South,! and 1 renew the contest against it in j the North. Congress has noconstitu-J tional power to dissolve the Union;! and to condemn eleven States to terri-; tonal pupilage, is a dissolution of the Union. I cannot act with Northerner Southern di-unionists. Johnson's pol icy alone can practically restore the i Union. It has already crushed the heresy of >ecess jon at the South, and it alone lias secured a constitutional majority for abolition of slavery. If the heresy of; seces.-ion is crushed at the South, and; emancipation secured, the crowning i glory rests upon the le ad of Andrew Johnson. Slavery and secession, our j only discordant elements, being thus extirpated, the Johnson policy will go on conquering and to conquer—not by the sword, but by wisdom and magna- j nimity. It will subdue at the South ! their pas-ions and prejudices. It will touch their hearts and conquer their af-i feet ions. We shall hear no more of, exceptional and individual acts of in- 1 subordination, for we shall have a Un ion of interest and affection—a Union | of States with States, and not with con- ! qtiered provinces. We shall have the Union and representation of all the States, as ordained by the Constitution. We shall have a cordial, fraternal, an ever'expanding and perpetual Union. Men of the South," from Virginia to Texas, close up the ranks, and fight j harder to pet into the Union than you j ever did to pet out of it. You fought 1 us under the secession flag with unsur-: passed co u rageand endurance to getout of the Union. Come, now,our erring, j but still touch loved brethren of the | South, and re-assemble with us again j at the political family altar at Wash-; ington ; come with loyal hearts, under; the flag of our sires, and to the music • of the Union, and we will give you a J cordial welcome. Come,and the recor ding angel will blot out in reconciling tears, the memory of hu man follies and frailties. The people 011 whom John son has always relied are with him, and will welcome back a 11 loyal Union ists to seats in both Housi's of Congress. (n:\Eßll, GEARY. He Borrow* a >le*.*tse. The person whom the anti-Johnson Republicans of Pennsylvania nomina ted the other day for Governor was for merly the Territorial Governor of Kan sas. His name is John W. Geary.— Doubtless he can write his own name; perhaps he can spell it correctly; but it is certain he cannot write his own mes sages. ' When he was in Kansas, he stole them. Were he to be elected Gov ernor of Pennsylvania, of which hap pily there issntall probability, he would have to steal them again. Pennsylva nia really deserves a Governor capable of writing his own messages. The com mon school system of that State ought not to culminate in such gubernatorial imbecility. We print below in parallel columns extracts from Governor Geary's inau gural address of 1857, and the inaugural address of (Governor Henry J. Gardner, delivered to the Massachusetts Legisla ture two vears before, in 1855: EXTRACT FROM GOVER-i EXTRACT FROM COVER- i NOR HEXRV J. CARD- NOR JOHN' V\. GEARY'S j SBR'S INAI'GCRAL All- IXACGCRAL ADDRESS, j DRESS DELIVERED TO DELIVERED TO THE THE LEGISLATI'RE OF TERRITORIAL LEGISLA- ] KASSACIiI'SETTS, JAN.I TI RE OF KANSAS, JAN. 9, 1855. 12, 1857. Gctlrmeii of tite Sen- Gentlemen of the Terri ate and House of Rep- torial legislature of reseiitatives: Kansas: Tbat gracious Being in The all-wise and be wbose bands are alike nefieent Being who con- ! the destinies of individ- tro's alike ihe destinies uals and of nations, has of individualsand of un permitted us to assemble tions, has permitted you this day intrusted with tocnnvene this day. char gra.e responsibilities'gcd with grave responsi aud duties. * * biiities. * # * ****!**#♦ 1 know no safer index in For ofii ial action. I official action than a con- know no better rule than seieniious conviction of a conscientious cnnvic duty, none more fluctua- tionof duty, none more ! ting than the attempt to variable than the vain ' satisfy ten pornry cap-attempt to conciliate j rice. Prii.cip'es are en- temporary prejudice.— i uurin jr. and it disregard- Principles and justi-e ed, -ooncr or later the are eternal; and if tam verdictof condemnation nered with, sooner or la will be recorded against ter the sure and indig those who are t ilse to nan' verdict of popular tbeir requirements. Let condemnation against us then be true to our those who are untrue to country and our duty their .endings will be : Lei the success of prin- tendered. Let us not be ciplc, not of party, be,false to our country, our ourdesite—the benefit of duty, and our cor.stitu- . the State, not of a fte- euts. The triumph of t tion, our aim.— M-i.ua- truth and principle, not ckusetts Sruati l>oru- of partisan and se fish Matt *\o. '4, for 1855. object's, should be our : steady purpose—the gen- i eral welfare, and not the interest of a few, our sole 'aim— Kansas Jonrii'il of Councils for 1857, j prge 21. There i much more of ihe same sort j of bare-Saeed literary thieving. Per haps robbery would be the litter term, for the theft is accompanied with vio lence. Geary not only stole the Mas sachusetts Governor's appropriate sen tiuients and correct English, but twists thetn into Geary grammar and dreary twn-e —not (jUlte destroytngtheidentity ! of the passage, however. Geary begins bis theft by paying two j compliments to the Deity in place of tiie one which he steals. "Gracious 15e ing" becomes "the all-wise and benefi cent Being." With this change we find no fault, for it may signify that the man who now soiicits Pennsylvania's suffrages has the germs of a conscience in him, and, like the Hottentot and the ! Thug, whose religions are also of a very j rudimentary sort, thought it possible j 'iu the act of sin to propitiate its re warder by ampler ascriptions to his j awful name. But the next disfigure ment which Geary practices upon this stolen property is villainous. Gover- j nor Gardner's Yankees were permitted i to "assemble," "intrusted" with grave ; responsibilities. Geary must needs! "convene" his legislators "charged." i And so iie goes on, buttering his stolen i substantives with superlative adjec-j tives, in the hope that the loaf will 1 e j swallowed ere it is known to bestolin. "Principles are enduring," was the ■ 'phrase at the Hub; but Geary strains over the sentence and finally proclaims ! that"principlesandjusticeareeternal." i We will not quarrel with Geary over ; this transmogrification, though it is a rule of truth well as of rhetoric not : to stretch the language beyond the; breadth of the fact. Justice probably j is eternal, but Geary must see that in i the present instance it has been only ! nine years in coming around; and as j for principles, which, he says, are eter nal too, it is quite enough for him to prove that the stock which lie had in j Kansas in the winter of '57 will last | him to the fall of 'fid, to satisfy honest Penusyivanians whom to cast their! votes l'or. — New York World. WHAT IT.WSVI.VAVIA I'AVSTO SI P POST TIIE -V Eli HO BIIKEAT. General Howard, who has charge of the Negro Bureau, asks for an appro priation of $11,50'),000 for the coming year to support that institution. The expenses of the whole government did not cost much, if any, more than this before the war of P i-. What amount do our readers suppose that Pennsylva nia pays to clothe, feed, and educate negroes? We will tell you. In 180") this State paid a little more than one eighth of the entire internal revenue t of the country, and will pay about the ! same proportion for lsijd. This gives Pennsylvania's share of expenses of ! the Negro Bureau, about $1,500,000. What think you, tax-payers of Penn j sylvania, of paying a million and a half of dollars annually to support negroes? : How long are you willing to be thus i taxed? Rememberthat Geary is a Bu- I reau man.— DoyleMown Democrat. A Government to be free, must bead ministered by FKEE MEN ; not by fanat ics, knaves, or madmen, but by men di vested of every narrow party prejudice. IF you want your hens to more than pay their keeping, feed them well, and keep broken oyster shells and bones al- VOL. 61.™ WHOLE No. 5.341. AMOS KEXDALI.. Below will be found a letter from Mr. KENDALL, in answer to an invitation to attend the great political meeting in Washington City on the birth-day of | the father of his country. Mr. KEN DALL was the personal and political friend of the Hero of New Orleans; opposed nullification in 1832, and was equally opposed to secession and rebel lion in 1860 and 1861. The veteran pol itician. who once supported ANDREW JACKSON HOW sustains ANDREW JOHN SON: KENDALL GREEN, Feb. 21,1866. HON. CHARLES MASON: DEAR SIR: Your note of the 19th in stant came to hand yesterday. While the state of my health will not allow me to participate in the contemplated proceedings of to-morrow, 1 heartily approve of their object. I see no pros pect of the permanent restoration o: peace and prosperity to our country, or even of the preservation of our fed eral system of government otherwise tiian by a firm support of the President. It is sad to see how like a Hock of un thinkingsheep a majority of the House of Representatives follow a leader whose avowed political principle is to " throw coiiscioiee to the devil." Every member Of Congress is sworn to support the ■ on-iitution; that Constitution entitles every State in the Union to representa tion in Congress, yet at the dictation of one had man a majority of the House of Representatives vote that eleven States hall have no Representatives in Congress. Thus conscience and Consti tution are botli "thrown to the devil." States cannot be rebels. Tltcy have no "necks to be hanged." Persons only can be rebels, and the laws provide lot their punishment. But the revolutionists in Congress, not content with punishing persons for i( - hellion,undertake topunish States, thu confounding the innocent with the guilty. Members of the House of Rep resentatives do not represent States, but do represent the people in well-defined districts. Loyal districts have sent loy al members and have claimed their right to representation. Why should they not be received? Ought loyal men i ia one district to be punished because other districts have been dis oyal 01 have elected disloyal Representatives'; If disloyalty be the real ground of ex elusion, why not admit the (oyal and exclude only the disloyal? The truth is. the idea of rebel Slato is a tiction, invented by factionists to prevent all representation from tin Sooth, loyal or disloyal, lest per preserve it! In this struggle for po- I litieal power, no principle is too absurd to be adopted. We may well bid an eternal adieu to our Federal Republic, unless the President be sustained and these unscrupulous revolutionists de prived of tlu-power to do mischief.— ; When I began, I intended to write only a few lines; but the alarming state of the country presenting itself more and more vividly as I wrote, has led me on from paragraph to paragraph and from page to page. Yours, truly, AMOS KENDALL. CAN YL SWALLOW IT? We believe there are a good many well meaning men in this State, who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket under the honest impression that they were voting to maintain and sup port the Union—They had no idea that they were voting to place the negro on an equality with themselves. If they were called upon to-morrow to vote on the question of negro sutfrage they would vote against it. These men are deceived and cheat< d. It can no longer be denied that the Republican party is a negro equality party! It is the de termination of the leaders that Sambo shall vote, that lie shall sit in the jury box ancl hold office and enjoy all the privileges of the white race! White men, let us make ready to meet them at the vital point, and reward them for their treachery and their infamy when the next election comes! —News from Montana says the Black - feet Indians are retaliating for some of their tribe who were kiiied by whites uist fall. The Governor has called out live hundred volunteers, to rendezvous at Fort Benton. —A destructive fire occurred at Buf falo on Friday evening, destroying the New York Central Raiiroad depot. The loss is estimated at over a miiiion dol- Til E PIXYSYIVAJiIA KKSOI.ITIOAS A* SEES HKSTEKA SPtt -lA4I.ES. The Republican Convention of Penn- - sylvania has so boldly thrown down the gauntlet at the feet of the PHsi dent; it has so defiantly breasted his policy, "stemming it with heart of con troversy," that the Radicals as well as the Democratic press, in all parts of the country, are fain to acknowledge that Stevens, Forney