TERMS OF PUBLICATION. fun Bf.dford Gazette is published every Fri morning by .Meyers A Mknoel, at $2 00 per sfll um. if paid strictly advance ; $2.50 if paid ~; t ]jin sis months; $3.00 if not paio within six . r.rbs. All subscription account* MUST be ■:*t annually. No paper will be sent out of ,y e State unless paid for in ADVANCE, and all such j (jbscriptiona will invariably be discontinued at : the expiration of the time for which ihey are ptid. til .ADA ERTIi-EMENTS for a less terra than tbree months TEN CENTS per line for each tn ,e-Mcn. Special notices one-half additional All ...iuti ns of Associations; communis tions of sited or individual interest, and notices of mar- j ..sfj and deaths exceeding five line , ten cents ...'ine. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. fl legal Notice* of every kind,and Orphans' at and Judicial Sales, are required by law published in both papers published in this ! ij- All advertising due after first insertion, t liberal discount is made to persons advertising ! - be quarter, half y ear, or year, as follows : 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. ,re square - - • $4 50 .$8 00 $lO 00 ; squares ... gOO 900 18 00 : e squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00! rter column - - HOO 20 00 35 O0 . : column - - - IS 00 25 00 45 1 LAW. BEDFORD, PA Respectfully tenders ■ -rices to the pnblic. S ->- second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford, Aug. I. 1861. joIIX PALMEIL, ATTORNEY AT rf LAW. BEDFORD. PA. Will promptly attend business entrusted to his care. Pincular attention paid to the collection of ■ry claims. Office on Juliana Street, nearly •i'e the Mengel H -use. Bedford. Aug. I. 1861. USPY M. A LSI P. ATTORNEY AT [j LAW. BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and 11 v attend to all business entrusted to his in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military s, b ic-k pay, bounty. Ac., speedily collected. a:ewith Mann A Spang. on Juliana street, Jwrs Sou'h of the Mengel House. Jim, 22. 1> >4. 11. kIVMELL. | J. W. LISGENKELTER. RI MM ELL & LINGEX FKLTER, \ ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD. PA . i! ve formed a partnership in the practice <>t ■: Law Offi :e an -Juliana -treet, two doors South ; the Mengel Rouse." ni H. SPANG, ATTORNEY AT f . LAW, BEDFORD. PA Will promptly at •-nd to collections and all business entrusted to - c t re in Bedford and adjoining counties office on Juliana Street, three doors south ef the Mengel House," opposite the residence of .Mrs. May 13, 1864. r HE VERS. | J. W. DICKEKSOX. \!EYERS & DICKERS! >N, AT )I TORNEYS AT LAW. Bedford. Pa., office as formerly occupied by Hon. \Y I*- Schell, ijors easr of the GAZETTE office, will practice several courts of Bedford county. Pensions, unty and ack ]>ay obtained and the purchase . -ale f real estate attended to. [mayl I, t' , JOHN H. FILLER, Attorney at /<>■■■, •I Bedford, Pa. Office near v opposite the Post f :c [apr.2o.66—ly. t'ltHSicians and dentists. j) H. PENNSYL, M. P., BLOODY 1 . RCN. Pa., M >te surgeon 56th P. V. V.,) ten- ■ :.!rjrotV--i'.tinl services to the people of that ■ ud vicinity. Dec. 22. '65-1 }* _ nr W. JAMISON, M. P., BLOODY , U . BI v. Pa., tenders his professional servi tfce people of that place and vicinity. Office | ■ r west of Richard Langdon's store. Sat. 24, '6s—ly | SR. .!. L. MARBOUBG, Having 1 ' nnauently located, respectfully tenders j ' : ssional services to the citizens of Bedford ■ ; iaity oi Juliana street., east side, nearly opposite i inking House of Reed A Schell. ford. February 12, 1864. * BICKOK. 1 L- - MINSICH. JR., I\EXT I 8 T S , i I BEDFORD, I'A. n the Bank Building. Juliana St. ;''rations pertaining to Surgical or Me ti Dentistry carefully performed, and war- TFRVS —CASH • : rd, January 6, 1865. REED, | J.J. SCHELL, J) KE D AND SO II EL L , II Bankers and ALE ItS IN EXCIIA XGE, BEDFORD. PA., 4FTS bought and sold, collections made and r promptly remitted. its solicited. ill ip O. E. SHANNON V. BENEDICT [D'l'P, SHANNON KER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. ''o-on haml a stork of fine Gold and Sil bes. Spectacles of Brilliant Double Ke also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold '■ Chains, Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best ■f Gold Pen-. He will supply to order '-4 in his line not on band. - !| r. lit VINE, . 1 1 • ANDERSON'S ROW. BEDFORD. PA.. "" :a Bots, Shoes. (Jueensware. and Varie -S > " (, rler'* troin Country Merchants re . '' T S 'ii 'itcd ■ jh 1865, [) R. ANDERSON, • i<*e>( Scrivener and Conveyancer, 7 I , BEDFORD COCXTV. Pt., . 10 writing of Deeds, Mortgages, articles of Agreement, and all business ' rstisac'el by n Scrivener and Conveyan -1 of the public is respectfully -am. ®l)£ fieftforfr (Sta^etU* BY MEYERS & MENGEL. &c. WM. BARTLKV . | 8. 8. METZGER. HARTLEY & METZGER HAVING formed a partnership, on the Ist day of April. 1886. in the HARDWARE and FARM MACHINERY TRADE, now invite rhe pub lic to examine their mammoth stock, whu-h they will sell at low flguref, for cash. |apr.27,'6fi. " I RON AND NAILS, at lowest cash 1 prices, at HARTLEY A METZGER'S. |)AINTs. fresh, durable and beauti • Pure Liberty White Lead : Penn Treaty \V hire Lead; .Mansion White Lead; China Gloss; 1 urpentine: Flaxseed Oil; Copal and Demar Var nish; Brushes of all kinds, for sale cheap, at HARTLEY A METZGAR'S. / < ITATN AND GRASS SCYTHES, \ I Sneds and Harvesting Implements in great variety, and at all i rices. f.r sale at HARTLEY A METZGER S <*"l 00 WASHING MACHINES O'/i and the great anti-Cog-Wheel Wringer, now on exhibition at HARTLEY" A METZGER'S. Call and see this invention before purchasing else where. QPRING TOOTH RAKES, Gam 1 ' Spring Grain Drills, Improved Cider Mills, Eureka Fodder and Straw Cutters, for sale at HARTLEY A METZGER 8. HOUSE KEEPERS wiii find at Hartley A Metiger's Store a great variety of household Hardware : Knives and Forks. SpooDS of elegant quality. Ladles, single or in sets. Shovels and Tongs. Waiters, Tea Bells, Scissors, Meat Saws, Carvers, Paring Knives, Brushes. Waffle Irons. Griddles. Gridirons. Brass. Poreelain and Iron Ket tles. Iron Pots. Tubs. Buekets. Baskets, Brooms, Slaw Cutters. AE.. Ac. Stove Polish. Rotten Stone, and a hundred little ■'kniek knacks' that we can't afford to enumerate. It would be easier to tell what we don't keep than what we do. rpHE CLEAREST, BRIGHTEST, | Best, Safest and Purest, and forthese reasons the Cheapest Coal (hi in Bedford, may always be had at He rtley A Metiger's. Y'ou who have never used any other than the "common truck. " try it, compare it ! and you will always go to Hartley's. Coal Oil Lamps iu brilliant profusion, and great variety, very cheap at Hartley s, also. Wick. Lamp Tops, Ac. Coal Oil Lamps repaired. " / V G!H;ENCASTLI;GRALN CRA e)\ r DLKS. Natural bent fingers will be re ceived by Hartley A Metzger, who are exclu sive agents for Bedford county. Order soon. piVK-KYK REAPERS and M<)\Y i } ERS, with all the new improvements, among whi bis ihe wonderful Dropping invention. Also. a few'"Farmer Mowers ' for sale by Hartley A Mi 'zger. Order -iron as the supply is short for this season. I YARN DOOR ROLLERS, of the y most improved pattern, track and all com dlete. cheaper and better than hinges, for stile at HARTLEY ATE.NT WHEEL GREASE; the J best White-wash. Blacking and Scrub Brush es in town, at Hartley A Metzger's. / f<) TO HARTLEY A METZGER'S ' J to get your money baek. rt' v t T hn\-*- h> t'-ii intJutgftit J ttvety man and woman who nw"' ino hy book account or note to ply me notr. I don't want them to act menu and shy off." Stand up to the counter like men! Pay if you can. If you can't pay, settle so.ne way. I will sue only those who don't want to pav. and quit me because I dun tbem. Let all concerned call at once to settle. Thank ful to a generous public for their patronage, 1 hope they will favor the new firm of Hartley A Metzger. who will do right. apr.27 | Respectfully, WM. HARTLEY CBI). BLVMVRB. | JOHX T. BLVMVER. / 1 K(> RG E BLYM YE R & SON \ J having formed a partnership, on the tith of March, 1866. in the HARDWARE A- HOUSE FUR XISHLXG BUS IS ESS. respectfully invite the public to their new rooms, three doors west of the old stand, where they w ill find an immense stock of the most splendid goods ever brought to Bedford county. These gouds will he sold at the lowest possible prices. Persons desirous of purchasing Bl ILDING HAR.DW ARE will find it to their advantage to give us ucall. WHITE LEAD—We have on hand a large quantity of White Lead, which we have been tor tunate to buy little lower than the market rates. The particular brands to which we would invite attention, arc the Purr Hurl /.' id, hihrrty White' Lend. Show Front! hi White Bead, Washington White Ism/. Washington Zinc White Lead, Sew York White Lend. ALSO — Fernet porcelain Finish; Demur Varnish; Varnishes of all finds. Flaxseed Oil. [pure.) Turpentine and Alcohol. All kinds of IRON and NAILS. No. 1 CHRYSTAL ILLUMINATING COAL OIL. LAMPS in profusion. We would invite persons wanting Saddlery- Hardware. to give us a call, as we have every thing in the Saddlery line, such as Buckles, Rings. Haines an d Webbing Leather of all kinds; also™ a variety of Shoe Findings, consisting of French Calf Skins, Morocco Linings, Bindings, Pegs. etc. Housekeepers will find at Blymyer A Son's store a great variety of household goods. Knives and Fork of the very best quality; Plated Table and Tea Spoons at all prices. Give us a call and we can supply you with Barn Door Rollers, the latest improvements; Nova Scot>a Grindstones, better than any in use; Shovels, Forks and Spades. Grain and Grass Scythes and Snathes; Fishing Tackle; Brushes of all kinds; Demi-Johns; Patent Wheel Grease. Tar and Whale Oil, and an infinite variety of articles. #2IIOOO WANTED—WouId like to get it if our friends would let us have it. Less will do; hut persons having unsettled accounts will close them up to the first of March, to enable us to close our old books. This should be done. uiay4,*66. GEO. BLYMYER A SON. kj i "A< W • YEABt We want TO 1 )' ' agents every where to sell our IMPROVED §2O Sewing Machines. T hree new kinds. L'l.der and upper feed. Warranted five years. — Above salary or largecouimis.-ions paid. TheoNLV machines Sold in the United States for less than S4O. which are fully licensed hy Howe. Wheeler ir Wilson, Grocer Sr Baler. Singer ir Co.. and Buck elder. All other cheap machines are in fringements, and the seller or user are liable to arrest, fine, and imprisonment. Circulars free. Address, or call upon Shaw A Clark. Biddef. rd. Maine, or Chicago, Ills. [Dec. 22, 6;>— ly (.(it w A MONTH! Agents wanted • Y I O I for sir entirely new articles, just out. Add res* O. T. GAKEY'. City Building. Biddeford, Maine. [Dec. 22. '6s— ly I) If 'HARD LEO, Manufacturer of CABINET-WARE, CHAIRS, &C., BEnroRD. PA., The undersigned being engaged in the Cabinet making business, will make to order and keep on hand everything in his line of manufacture. BURBAFS, DRESSING STANDS, PARLOR ASD EXTEN SION TABLES, CHAIRS, BEDSTEADS, WASH STANDS, Ac., AC., will be furhisbed at all prices, and to suit every taste COFFINS will also be made to order, t attention paid to all orders for work. Shop on West Pitt Street, nearly opposite the residence of George Shuck. July 10, 1863 —tf RICHARD LEO. MERCHANTS' SHOW BILLS, printed in superior style, and upon rettfona bio tonus, at THE BEDiWDOAiEii* office. 1 l\r =i!filfonl (tVdYftte. For the Gazette. IMTEI). Suggested by Jean hige/oir's poem, "Divided. "' BY {????] In the bosom of the mountains Rose two sparkling little fountains, YVhere the breeze with wild flow'rs wantons In the blooming month of May. Far apart they were and lonelw, Still they sang but one song only. And the sweetness of their tone lay On the brooks that rolled away. O'er the one. there hung a daisy. From a crag whose height was crazy, In the wind half bright and lazy, Swinging by a single root. But the storm rose in its splendor. And the daisy's root so slender, Broke from its silken ties so tender Down the swollen brook to shoot. O'er the other's brink so mossy. With his brilliant coat so glossy. That the wind gave ne'er a toss he Did not spurn with conscious pride, Leaned a blue-bell, wild and blooming,— All the graceful airs assuming, Of a male bird when he's pluming. Ere he goes to woo his bride. But, the fountain bubbling under, Tore his mossy ties asunder, Sent him down the brook to wander. To a new home on it- brink ; And away he floated sadly While the birds were singing gladly, And the waves were plunging madly. As they gave the earth to drink. And he passed the. dangerous rapid. In the ravine dark and vapid. Where the waves with white o'er lapped. Threw their foam about his crest; And he floated down the valley, Where the flowers with sunlight daily. And the birds meet musically. Ere, at night, they go "to rest. But they've left the brooks forever— An ! 'tis thus all ties we sever. As we reach the mighty river. That flows onward to the main , And we leave regrets behind us; For their memories only bind us To the thoughts that ever blind us. With the tears of Sorrow's pain. And meanwhile, the 'ender daisy, Having passed her dangers easy. Now is lying still and laxy In the current by his side ; And the blue-bell nods his bonnet, Smiles and lisps a tender sonnet. Pledges love and faith Cfsm it; And thus wins her for his bride. Onward now they float together. Through both bright and gloomy weather, By the blooming fields of heather. To an Island's mossy base— Where the birds are singing lightly And the sun is -hilling brightly, And the moon is beaming nightly, With a glory in her lace. Flow, flow on, 0 glorious river! Let thV waters flow forever. And thy many voices never Bring their sadness back to me— Let thy waves, in graceful motion, Flowing onward to the ocean. Bear with them each sad emotion, On their bosom, to the sea. HOW THE SOl.lllt'.ltS ARE HOIMi. We have never believed that the sol diers could be induced to support < iearv. They know that he is indebted to the Philadelphia Inquirer for hfs Military reputation such as it is Th*y know ; that he professed to lie "a life-long Dein f the Territory, f circum stances shall render them more invi ting. Such a population cinnot hut tint! relief from excessive taxation if the Territorial system which devolves the expense of the executive, legisla tive and judicial departments upon the United States, /s for the present continued. They cannot but tind the security of person and property increas ed by their reliance upon the national executive power for the maintenance of law and order against the disturb ance- necessarily incident to all new ly <>rganized com 11 lui/ities. Second. It is not satisfactorily es tablished that a majority of the citi zens of Colorado desire or are prepared for an exchange of a Territorial for a State government. In September, 18(14, under tleauthor itv of Congress, an election was law fully appointed and held for the pur pose of ascertaining the views of the people upon that particular question. Six thousand one hundred and ninety two votes were cast, and of this num ber a majority of three thousand one hundred and fifty-two was given a gainst the proposed change. In Sep -18(V, without any h'galauthor ity, the question wa- again jiro-t-tio-tl to the people of the Territory, with the view of obtaining a reconsidera tion of the result of the election held in compliance with the act of Congress approved March 21. 1864. At this sec ond election five thousand nine hundred and five votes were polled, and a ma jority of one hundred and fifty five was given in favor of State organization. It does not seem to meentirely safe to re ceive this last mentioned result, so ir reguiarly obtained, as suffice .it to out weigh the one which had been legally obtained in the first ele-tion. Regular ity and conformity to law arc essential to the preservation of order and stable government, and should, as far as prac ticable, always he observed in the for mation of new State.-. Third. The admission of Colorado, at this time, a-a State intothe Federal Union, appears to me to be incompati ble with the public interests of the country. While it is desired that Ter ritories sufficiently matured should be organized as States, yet the -no-it ol the Constitution seems to require that there should bean approximation to wardsequa!ity among tin-several States comprising the Union. No State can have more than two Senators in Con gress: tli. largest State ha- a popula tion of four millions, several of the States have a population exec-ding two millions, and many others have;, cop ulation exceeding one million. A population of 127, ('('(> is the ratio of apportionment of representative- a mong the several States. If this hill should become a law, the people of Colorado, thirty thousand in number, would lnive in the House of Represen tatives one member, while New York, with a population of four millions has but thirty-one. Colorado would have in the electoral college three votes, while New York has only thirty three. (.'olorado would have in the Senate two votes, while New York has no more. Inequalities of this character have already occurred, but it is believed that none have happened where the inequal ity was so great. When such inequal ity has been allowed, Congress is sup posed to have permitted itontheground of some high public necessity, and un der circumstances which promised that it would rapidly disappear through the growth and development of the newly j admitted State. Thus, in regard to the several States in what was formerly called the "Northwest Territory," ly ing east of the Mississippi, their rapid advancement in population rendered it certain that States admitted with on ly one or two Representatives in Con gress would in a very short period be entitled to a great increase of represen tation. So when California was ad mitted on the ground of commercial and political exigencies, it was well foreseen that that State was destined rapidly to beeomo a great prosperous mining and commercial community. In tfco case of Colo ratio, I am not a •wure that any natia exigency, ci* ther of a political or commercial na ture, requires a departure from the law of equality, which has been so gen erally adhered to in our history. It information submitted in connec tion with this bill is reliable, Colorado instead of increasing has decreased in population. At an election for mem ber- of a Territorial Legislature held in 1861, 10,580 votes were cast. At the election before mentioned, in 1864, the number of votes cast was 6,192; while at the irregular election held in 186.1, which i- assumed as a basis for legisla tive action at this time, the aggregate of votes was 1,00.). Sincerely anxious for the welfare and prosperity of every Territory and State, as well as for the prosperity and welfare of the whole Union, 1 regret this apparent decline of population in Colorado, but it is mani fest that it i- due to emigration, which is going out from that territory to oili er regions within the United States, which either are in fact or arc believed by the inhabitant- of Colorado to be richer in mineral wealth and agricul tural resources. If, however, Colora do lias not really declined in popula tion, another census of another elec tion under the authority of Congress would place the question beyond doubt, and cause but little delay in the ulti mate admission of the Territory us a State, if de-uv(f by the people. The tenor of these objections furnishes the reply which may be expected to an ar gument in favor of the measure, deri ved from the enabling act which was passed by Congress on the 21st day of March, 1861. Although Congress then supposed that the condition of the Ter ritory was -uch as to warrant its ad mission as a State, the result of two years' experience shows that every rea son which existed for the institution of a Territorial instead of a Slate Govern ment in Colorado, at its first organiza tion, still continues in force. The condition of tiie Union at the present moment is calculated to inspire caution in regard to the admission of new States. Eleven of the old States have lie n for some time, and still re main, tin represented in ; ongress. it is a common interest of ail the State-, as well those represented as those un represented, that the integrity and har mony of the Union should be restored as completely as possible, so that all those who are expected to bear the bur thens of the Federal Government shall be consulted concerning the admission of new States, and tiiat in the mean time no new State shall be prematurely and unnecessarily admitted to a par ticipation in the political power which in. i . ,u.mi Oociinin"iii wields—nut for the b neftt or any Individual State or section, but for the common ,-afety, welfare and happiness of the whole country. A NIR E W .1(411 NSt >N. Washington. 1). May 11, iB6O. So.m K of the New York papers have a dispatch from Washington -rating that the government will lose heavily by the operations of speculators in cut ton at Mi uiphis. Tenne-see. East sum mer £4(K),oot> in government funds were placed in the hands of a certain party, which were used up in' the purchases of cotton. The cotton was sent forth for sale, and before the govern ment realized anything at all from the transaction, the consignees failed and the government lust the whole amount i —principal as well as prospective prof ' ' tS * While the war was going on and : the Disunion Abolitionist- were gath i ering fortunes to themselves out of the ; necessities of the Government, their I cry to the Southern people was—'•You -halt come intothe Union!" Now since I the cessation of war has stopped the ! plunder supplies, their cry has changed to—"Y< usA'oeVcome into the Union!" j Ain't they a nice set of fellows to rule I a freeand inte;!ig"nt people and to make j biws for them? "Del Veto." —One of onr german fellow citizens .-ays the Ehnira tie, got agijated on the President's veto message, theother day, and thus reliev ed himself: "1 dinks der President is right. Pese eight years and potter, liaf i gebt house, and nefer hat a pureau in mine blace yet, and i got along shuns as good as if i hat one. Now dey wants all tie golored beoplestohaf a pureau and dax de poor white beople to pay for him. I stands by der President." It is reported upon good authority, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Times, that thejudiciary committee have come to the conclusion that theevidonee produced before them does not warrant the charge that Jef ferson Davis is guilty of complicity in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. Ax editor declaims against the im modesty of tilting hoops, inasmuch as they ex pose too much of the extremities of the ladies who wear them, and then exclaims:—"NVe grieve ft ir the good old days of Adam and Eve." We don't think that the wardrobe which Adam and Eve started life with would be much of an improvement on tilting hoops. THE President has issued an order di recting the arrest of all officer- of the Freedmen's Bureau interested, direct ly or indirectly, in the cultivation of farms in the Southern States. AN orchardist of New York uses ooarso manure as mulching for fruit trees and hae piumS every year. VOL. 61.—WHOLE No. 5.351. From the Genius of Liberty. JOII\ >V. GEARY A> TIIE SOLDIERS OF THE MEXK AX WAR. ICcnd ! Road ! ! Road ! ! ! John W. Geary, the candidate of the Radical Abolitionists for Governor oft Pennsylvania, was elected Lieutenant' Col. of the 2d Pa. Regiment of volun- j teors in the war with Mexico, upon the organization of that Regiment in the City of Pittsburg. William B.Roberts, of this county, was the Colonel com-| manding and died in the city of Mexi- ; co. After his death, Geary was pro-j nioted to the Colonelcy. Fayette i Volunteers were attached to this Kegi- > ment, and known as Co. H. They dis tinguished themselves for gallant con- | duct and intrepid liravcry in all the ini- I portaut engagements from Vera Cruz ; to the city of Mexico, including the j bloody assaults upon the gates of that city. They continued in service until tin- end of the war, and were honorably j discharged. The -urvivor-, upon their j return home, were received with well earned and highly distinguished hou- j or-by their fellow citizens. Here at the County Seat, they wore honored by j a splendid reception, participated in by * the citizens of the county generally, as j well a- by the ladies, who greeted their I return with all that delicate attention and refined taste peculiar to their sex. At Connellsville, also, they were the i recipients of a handsome ovation, the ' heartfelt tribute of the citizens and la dies of that place and virility. The ! reception at Connellsville took place on .Saturday, July 11th, I*4B. Tiie recep tion speech was made by Dr. James < . Cumiuings, and the response by Ser geant Peter A. Johns. After the deliv ery of the speeches, and partaking an elegant dinner prepared for the cocas- j ion, the returned soldiers met together and unanimously adopted, a preapible and series of reaolotious, whieli show ; up the character of John \Y . Geary in such a light as would render his elec tion as Governor an ever-lasting dis grace to tin* State of Pennsylvania.— 1 These resolutions, it will be seen, were unanimously adopted by true and tried , soldiers, by men who knew Geary well, and by men who did not hesitate to proclaim their estimate of his charac ter, and that too not in tender, dainty sentences, but in well expressed and forcible language. The testimony of these proceedings, gainsadditionai force from the fact that it was uttered at such a tiifte and under such circumstances as to exempt it entirely from any impu tation of political influences. The pro ceeding- were published in the papers ol tills county, by request of the sol 11r-, en the :27th of July, 1848, and here ihey arc. Agtcin we say, read, read,read. The following preamble and Resolu tions were offered by the returned vol unteers, of Company H, 2d Pennsylva nia Regiment, and unanimously adopt ed hv the meeting: Whi.kkas, The discharge and arriv al home of the remaining members of tiie Fayette Volunteers lias again placed r!e u: i t the position of citizens of the i oninioi wealth of Pennsylvania, and enable them ai speak and assert tlieir . rights, they now embrace this occas ion. the first opportunity since their re turn. to express their dee]) and abiding indifination at the conduct of John \V. Geary, since he was elected to the com mand of the 2d Pennsylvania Regi ment, at the City of Mexico. The said John YV. Geary procured Ids election by a mere plurality of votes, by Fcdse hoorl and J>i tej)fion widle he was prom ising to give Company it the privilege of e: cling theirown officers, according to the laws of the State of Pennsylva nia, lie, the said Geary, bargained with other- for votes promising and giving appointments in said company II to men from other companies who might answer his peculiar purposes. The laws of Congress of the 16th of May, 1847, calling for Volunteers for the war with Mexico,*ha- this provision: Section" 1. And he it further enacted, that the said Volunteers so offering their services -hall be accepted by the President, in companies, battalions, squadrons and regiments, whose offi cers shall be appointed in the manner prescribed by law in the several States and territories to which such compa nies, battalion-, squadrons and regi ment shall respectively belong. The said Geary, while lie availed liini self of this law to get himself into a i high office, refused the same right to ! company H, which legally and proper ily belonged to them. Therefore, Resolved, That we, the remaining members of the Fayette County Vol unteers, view the conduct of the said | John NY. Geary towards company H as an outrage upon their just right-, as se cured to them by the laws of Pennsyl- I vania as well as the laws of Congress. The whole course and conduct of the I said Geary being inconsistent icith the I character of a Gentleman or man of hon i or—it was treating us as a set of men ■ who did not know their rights, and who could not appreciate them —it was corrupt and mercenary in all its hear ings, characteristic of a low and grovel in creature, hunting and seeking popu larity for courage and patriotism that he never earned, by bargaining with supple tools and mercenaries, one of whom at least was a notorious black leg. Resolved, That the arrest and trial of Ist Sergeant Jolm A. Cummings, by a Court Martial, for daring to assert his rights and those of his company, was i a base and cowardly eaxrciM cf usurped j aittkorifr/ on the. part of this Arid JEM W. Geary— after he, the said Geary, had surreptitiously suppressed the order of the Adjutant Gen. of this State, (is sued hy direction of Governor Shunk,) directing him to fill all vacancies in the 2nd Regiment of Pa. Volunteers by e leetion—taking advantage of his stolen authority to cover up his worse than base motives , and to injure the haid earned fame of a bra via and gallant offi cer. On motion of Peter A. Johns, it was Resolved , That all the harm we wish Col. Geary, is thai his disgrace moy fol low him through att the lanes and are mm of life, and that he may never die or get old. HOW YAK HE EM TREAT XEGROES. The correspondent of the New York Herald, who is traveling with Gener als Steedman and Fullerton, continues to expose the peculation and oppres sion which characterises the conduct of -uch Northern men as have undertaken to cultivate plantations in the South. He says: In nine cases out often where we have come across a plantation poorly cultivated, the negroes hardly worked and miserably fed, that plantation has been leased for a year or two by a man from Massachusetts. We met with a marked case of this kind on Wadmulaw Island. Driving over a plantation we halted at a store round which a group of forty or fifty squalid negroes were gathered, receiv ing their day's wages. There were no contractson this farm. Thehands were engaged from day to day at fifty cents a "task." The-to; ekeeper was paying them when we came up, and was giv ing them, not money, but tickets for provision.-. lie explained that he oft en had no money wherewith to pay them, so he gave them their earnings in goods. We inquired the prices at which the stores were sold. We found that corn, which sell- in Charleston market at a dollar and thirty cents a bushel, and is worth in Wadinalaw Is iliii d, with transportation added, cer taiuiv less than a dollar and fifty cents, w-as being doled out to them at three ■ lobars a husnel. Twenty-five cents wa.- charged for a package containing twenty-two biscuits, such as might be bought in New York three for a cent, and everything else was in proportion. Should there he anything still due to the negroes, after they had purchased the necessary meal and bacon, there • . .■re heads and cheap jewelry—sure to attract the negro's eye—displayed in the store to absorb the balance of his earnings. Thus, while they were ap parently paid fair wages for their work, more than half their earnings were ev ery day taken back from them in the shape of profit 011 the goods in which they were paid in lieu of money. Gen. Steedman asked who leased the plan tation. He was told Mr. Underwood, of Boston. This Mr. Underwood does not reside 011 theplantation. Itisman aged by hi- storekeeper (also a North erner, with iheassistance of a resident, to whom five hundred dollars a year is paid for hi-advice. The poor creatures employed on the farm gathered round Gen. bteediuau and bitterly complain ed that their day's work barely sufficed to provide for them more than their day's provisions. It was evident that as things are going on, when winter comes they will be left penniless and starving. On Edisto island we came across a similar case, in which another North truer was involved. Some negroes commenced the cultivation of an unoc cupied plantation. In .March last up came a New York Dutchman and told them he had leased the farm, and they must contract with him. They repli ed, reasonably enough, that if he desi red to contract with them he ought to have done so in January, before they had commenced to lay down their crops. The man went away, and the freedmen resumed their work and toiied early and late for their own benefit as they supposed. A day or two since, when they were hoeing their cotton and when any cessation of labor would destroy .fii * heir prospects, up came this same Dutchman, bringing with him six or -even negro soldiers, and compelled the freedmen, at the point 01 the bayonet, to sign a contract to give him one-third of their cotton and pay him an exorbi tant rent for the cabins in which they lived. Thec< ntract signed, the Dutch man went away, leaving them 110 copy of the document, and giving them 110 proof that the plantation had ever been restored to its former owner orthat he had leased it. IT i- reported that a Johnson Repub lican meeting will soon be held in Bos ton. A PATRIOTIC little chap began his prayers the other night with "Now I 1 lay me down to sleep, shouting the 1 battle cry of freedom." TIIE following is a postscript to an ! Irish letter: Pear Mike—lf you don't get this letter at all, write and let us j know it, and I will raise the devil with the Postmaster. PROVOKING— To go to bed early and dream that you have more money tin n i you want, and wake up in the moin i ing and find yourself only an editor. ! Ugh! i THE reported rinderpest at Panama, ; proves to be a disease resulting from 1 the use of gra.-s by the cattle. The dis -1 ease is not contagious. DEATH comes to a good man to re -1 iieve him ; it comes to a bad one to re j lieve society. I A NEW steam wagon for common roads has just been tried at Quinev, 111., the papers say, with fair promise oi success. Ax effort is being made to postpone the trial of Jogbruca Davis &U.