terms op publication. TBE Brdpord GAzerrr. is published every Fri- nmrDiny by MEYERS k MENGP.L. at $2 Ofl per Jum- >f V"" 1 drict/q advance : ?2.50 if ptid j.ijjn six mouths; $3.00 if not pain within six „,ntbs. All subscription accounts MUST be /t l/<d annually. No paper will he sent out of jj, 4 State unless paid for IN ADVANCE, ami all such will invariably be discontinued at ,j,e expiration of the time for which thoy are til ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term than ,-jree months TEN CENTS per line for each In ltrtion. Special notices one-half additional All ns of Associations; comuiunic .tions of ..jted or individual interest, and mitices of mar ges and deaths exceeding five line , ten cents Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. All legal yoticex of every kind, and Orphans' u r t and Judicial Sales, are required hy lam y published in hot/- {sifters published in this All advertising due after first insertion. 4 liberal disc unt is made to persons advertising i,, the quarter, half tear, or year, as follows : 3 months, fi months. I year, j •fine square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 squares ... fi 00 900 lfi 00 p, r ee squares - - - 800 12 00 2u 00 ; jsrtcr column - - 14 00 20 00 • 35 0 £,!!' columtr •- - - 18 00 25 00 45 00 ij a< column - - - - 30 00 45 00 80 00 one square to occupy one inch of space. JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with j#tne*s and dispatch. TUB GAZETTE OFFICE has -'.been refitted with a Power Press and new type. • iid everything in the Printing line can be exccu ,,iiD the most artistic manner and at the lowest ..ss-TRRMS CASH AH letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. -—3 ; at £au\ JOSEPH W.TATE, ATTORNEY J \T LAW. BEDFORD. PA., will promptly I;:MD to collections of bounty, hack pay. Ac., -& all business entrusted to his care in Bedford j ird adjoining counties ■ H advanced on judgments, notes, military other claims. His for sale Town lots in Tatesville. where a P -\ Church is erected, and where a large School J HJ < shall be built. Farms. Land ami Timber \ L-ive, from one acre to 500 acres to suit pur I tbaoirs. Office nearly opposite the "Menge! Hotel and J 3IR,K of Reed A Schell. April 6. 1866—1y j HOD SHARPE. E F. KERR. Oil A REE & KERR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW BEDFORD, PA., will practice in j : ecourtsof Bedford and adjoiningeounjies Of ; eon JULIANA St., opposite the Banking House of Heed A tfichell. | March 2. '66. j p. DIRBORROW. I JOHN LUTZ. I DU RBO RROW ALUT Z , ATTORNEYS AT LAW BEDFORD. PA., I Will attend promptly to all BUSINESS intrusted to! •H ir care Collections made on the shortest no- J They are. also, regularly licensed Claim Agents j arid will give special attention to the prosecution j cfelaims against the Government for Pensions, ! G , K Pay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the! Mengel House," and neariy opposite.the Inquirer \ office. JOHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT ,) LAW. BEDFORD. PA Respectfully tenders; :. services to the public. OS-E second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford. Aug. 1, 1881. JOII X PA LMER, A TT()llN EY AT | LAW, BEDFORD, PA Will promptly attend J :.i ail business entrusted to his care Particular attention paid to the collection of; Military claims, office on Juliana Street, nearly J R'ODTE the Mengel H 'use. B-dtord. Aug 1. 1861. FISBY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT J J LAW, BEDFORD, PA Will faithfully and R -aptlv attend to all business entrusted to his -RE in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military : claims, bick pay. bounty. Ac., speedily collected. ; Office with Mann A Spang, on Ju'iana street, j two doors South of the Mengel House Jan 22. 1884, t X. KIXMELL. | J W. LINGgSFELTEIt. | K IMMKLL A- LIXGEXFKLTER, i ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA... I II formed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office en Jut-ana street, two doors South i of the 'Mengel House." /1 H. SPANG, ATTORNEY AT \I . LAW. BEDFORD- t> \ Will promptly at tend to collections and all bustne-s entrusted to hi care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Office on Juliana Street, three door- south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate May 13. 1884. J F. MEIER- | J. W. DtrKKItSOV. j \ I KYERS A- DICKERSON, AT } [ TORNEYS AT LAW. Bedford. Pa., office! •ntue as formerly occupied by lion. W P. Schell, I two doors east of the Gwkttk office, will practice n the several courts of Bedford county. Pensions, •anty and tack pay obtained and the purchase and sale of real estate attended to. |may lt.'fifi. 11 >IIX 11. FILLER, Aftontetfut Lair, ' Bedford. Pa. Office near y opposite the Post ' ffice itpr.2o.*Bfi. —ly. i'lntoician'. and I) H. PENNSYL, M. D.. HDIOBY | , Box, Pa .I U" surgeon Sttk P \ ,) tcn i-t; his professional services tothc people ot that plaeeand vicinity. I)ec. 22. 'rts-ly* \Y W. JAMISON, M. D., BisOODY 1 t , kin. Pa., tenders his professional servi •B to the people ot that place and vicinity. Office <• door west of Richard Langdon's store. Nov. 24. 'Bs ly hit. J. L. MARROURG, Having permanently located, respectfully .temlers iio professional services to the citizens of Bedford I viciuity. Offi -e on Juliana street, enst side, neariy opjassite ti> Banking House of Keel A Schell. Bedford. February 12. 1864. VHICKOK | J. o. MINMCH. JR., I\KNT I S T 8 , I F BEDFORD. PA. 'ffice in the Bank Building. Juliana St. A ! operations pertaining to Surgical or sle an-al Dentistry carefully performed, and war tinted. Tfums —CASH. Bedford. January 6, 1865. ilanlicrs. JACOB REED. j J. J. SCHELL, I) E E D AND SCH E L L, IV Bankers and DK A 1. E Its IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD. PA.. DRAFTS Houajht and sold, collection# made and E 'UFY promptly remitted. Dtrposifs solicited. 6 w. RL'pp o E. SHANNON F. BENEDICT prpp, SHANNON&('()., RANK IV ERS, Bedforh, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT ELECTIONS made for the East, West. North 1! " UTH, and the genera! business >f Exchange R 'II .is ted. Notes and Accounts Collected and : '"IITANWES promptly made. REAL ESTATE '"SIGHT and sold Oct. 20, 1865. 3ttisrrlUinrous. hAXIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OK THE BED KI BOTE.K, BEDFORD, FA. and deader in jewel ry. SI'ECf ACLKS. AC. ke ~n hand a stock of fine Gold ami Sit . W itches. Spectacles of Brilliant Double Re -, "'i tN-sos. also Scotch Pebble Glasses. GnM ttcb Chains. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best 't oiity of Gold Pen . He will supply to order "D thing in his line uot on hand. 20. \m- UF. IRVINE, • ANDERSON'S ROW, BEDFORD. PA., "tr in B'M.te, Shoes. (Jueensware. ifnd Varie- IjfOrler* trotn Country Merchants re •Pft.".uliy solicited. 2u. 1860. T ) R. AN"DERSOXT Licenwd Scrivener find 1 diiiceyiiiiccr, *i!l '""'"ULtl, BEhFORD COC.N'TV. P< ~ the writing of Deeds. Mortgages; sjaili*. Agreement, and all business ... ra octed by a S-.-riveoer and C •uveynn 'to publio is respectfully S,I)C -ocdtori) Baulk. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. ftarihrarc. kt. WM.HAHTLFA ) 8. S. MKTZGF.R H artley & metzger having formed partnership, on the Ist day of April, lsr.fi, in .he HARDWARE and FARM MACHJAER ) TIRADE. now invite the pub lic to examine their miunmoth stock, which they will sell at low figures, for cash. | apr.27,'6fi. lItGN AND NAILS, at lowest cash 1 price-, at HARTLEY A METZGER'S. I)A I NTS. fresh, durable and beauti -1 ful: Pure Liberty White Lead : Penn Treaty White Lead; Mansion White Lead: China Gloss; l urpentine: Flaxseed Oil; Copal and Pcinar Var nish: Brushes of all kinds, for sale cheap, at HARTLEY A MET'/.GAR'S / < BAIN AND GRASS SCYTHES, \ $ Sneds aii.t Harvesting Implements in great variety, and at all t riees, for sale at HARTLEY A METZGERS (Hi WASHING MACHINES and the great anti-Cog-Wheel Wringer, now on exhibition at HARTLEY A METZGER'S. Call and see this invention before purchasing else where. TOOTH BAKES. Gum ii Spring Grain Drills. Improved Cider Mills, Eureka Fodder and Straw Cutters, for salo at HARTLEY <ft METZGER'S. House keepers win find at Hartley A Metzger's Store a great variety of household Hardware : Knives and Forks. Spoons of elegant quality. Ladles, single or in sets. Shovels and Tor.g-. Waiters. "1 ea Bells. Scissors. Meat Saws, Carvers. Paring Knives. Brushes. Waftle Irons. Griddles. Gridirons, Brass. Porcelain and Iron Ket tle-. Iron Pots. Tubs. Buckets. Baskets. Brooms, Slaw Cutters. Ac ,vc. Stove Polish. Rotten Stone, and a hundred little "knick 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, 1 Best, Safest and Purest, and for these reasons the Cheapi st Coat Oil in Bedford, may always be had at H-.rtley A Metzger's. You 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 in brilliant profusion, and great variety, very cheap at Hartley's, also. Wick, Lamp Tops. Ac. Coal Oil Lamps repaired. " j|i:REENC ASTLI3(iUA 1 X (IRA- H * DLES. Natural bent fingers will be re ceived bv Hnrtley A Metzger, who are exclu sive agents for Bedford county. Order soon 1)C( IK-EYE REAPERS Mid MOW ) ERS. with all the new improvements, among which is tlie wonderful Dropping invention. Also, a few " Furnicr Mowers' for sale by Hartley & Metzger. Order soun as the supply is short for this season. Barn door rollers. of tin most improved pattern, track and all coin dlete, cheaper and better than hinges, for sale at HARTLEY A METZGER'S I\EMI-JOHNS, for Mineral Water, I at HARTLEY A METZGER .- I .WISHING TACKLE—RoiIs. Hooks. Lines, Ac., Ac Shot Gars. Powder. Shot, Caps, Ac., at Hartley A Metzger's. "it BEIIEA GRINDSTONES and • )* ' and Fixtures, at Hartley A Metzgers. IJATENT WHEEL GREASE; the best White-wash, Blacking and Scrub Brush es in town, at Hartley A Metzger's. / (() TO HARTLEYdc METZGER'S \ H to get your money back. GEO. BLVMVEU. | JOHN" F. BLVRYER. / < KDIUiK BLVMYER & SOX \ I having formed a partnership, on the 6th of March. 1866. in the ■ HARDWARE Sr HOUSE FURXISHIXG BUSINESS, respectfully invite the public to their new rooms, three doors west of the old stand, where they will Jjod an immense stock of the most splendid goods ecer brnnghf to Bedford county. These goods will he sold at the lowest possible prices. Persons desirous of purchasing BUILDING HARDW ARE will find it to their advantage to give us acall. WHITE LEAD—We have on hand a large quantity of White Lend, which we have been for tunate in buy a little lower than the market rates. The particular brands tewhich we would invite attention, are the Pa i t Jlit/ l.i ad. Liberty Whit* l^ad. (Sffii/s Eraallta II hit* Ijtil'i, \\~n*hin!Ttoi> Wh'te Lend. Washington Ziar Whit' ljtuil. Xil" Yuri White Lend. ALSO: — Frut eh Purer! ma Finish; D- mar Varnish: I ftra/.thei of ait in ltd < Fin rated Oil, (pure.) T"rprutttie and Aleohol All kinds of IKON" and N AILS No I CHRYBTAL ILLUMINATING COAL OIL. LAMPS in profusion. We would invite persons wanting Saddlery Hardware, to give us a call, a* we have every thing in the Saddlery line, such as Buckles, Kings. H irnes ami Webbing Lealherof all kinds; also a variety o( Shoe Findings, consisting of French Calf Skins. Morocco Linings. Bindings, IVjjf, etc. Housekeepers will find at Blymyor A Boti s store a great variety of household goods. Knive< and Fork of the very best quality; Plnted Table and Tea Spoons at all prices. Give us a call and we can supply you with Barn Poor Hollers, the latest improvements: Xova Soot'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 Gil, and an infinite variety ot articles. 820.00(1 v\ ANTED—WouId like to get it if our friends would let us have it. Less will do; but 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 mayf, 66. GEO. BLVMYER a SON. I "( U i PEB YEAR! We Want • > | •)' M r agents every where to sell our IMPROVED S2OSewing Machines, 'lhrce new kinds, l iuer and upper feed. Warranted five years Above salary or large commissions paid. Theos LV machines s.id in the United States for less than S4O. which are fully limited in/ Howe. Wheeler & I! ihv*, Greyer &■ Bain. Stmgmr A- Co.. mid Burhridrr. AH other cheap machines ate in frill genie at*, and the seller or user are Untile to arrest, fine, and i mprisunmeut. Circulars free. Address, or call upon Shaw A Clark Biddcf rd, Maine, or Chicago, Ills. [Dec. 22. '6o- ly (.i w i A MONTH! Agent* wanted • r t'l * for <l/ entirely arte arlirles , just out. Addrc-s O. 1 . GAKKY. City Building. Biddeford, Haw* ; Dec 22. 6.i—ly 1) iCIiAKD LEI. V Matutjactnrrr of CAmXET-VVAItE, riIAIRS, AC., liKDFuKn. PA.. The undersigned being engaged in the Cabinet making business, will make to order and keep on hand everything in his line of manufacture. RCKEAFB, DRESSING STANDS, PARLOR AND EXTEN SION TABLES, CHAIRS. BEDSTEADS. WASH STANDS. Ac., AC., will be furhished nt all prices, and to suit every taste. COFFIN* will also be made to order. i.Jt Prompt attention paid to all orders for work. *hop on West Pitt Street, nearly opposite the residence of George Shuck- Julv 10. 186J. —tf RICHARD LEO. OYES! o YES! WILLIAM DIBERT, An TIONEKR. The subscriber having taken out license as an auctioneer tenders his services to all bis old friends. Persons desiring an auctioneer will find it advan tageous to give him their patronage. Post office address. BEDFORD. Pa. .Lan If. '66--dm WM DIBERT. rpEKMS for every tleseription of Job I PRINTING CASH! for the reason that for everv article ire use. we mii't pay cash: and (he cash system will enable us to do our work as low as it can be done in the cities \ f A.M.MOTH SALE BILLS, print ifl cd at short notice. Large Bills make large sales We know it to be so. TRY IT! It will much more than pay the extra t rpease of p-int iug. Call at THE GAZETTE JOB OFFICE rpHE lioeal circulation of tlie BEIV FORD GAZETTE islargcrthau that of any other paper ID this -ction ol oountry, sad therefore of arx the greareit inducement's to men to fMartisb in iflf (Mumu 0 he etlctlfOTtl (fccttf. SI.AVF.RV IN THE F.\RI.Y DAYS OF II ASNAI 111 SETTS. I). Appleton A- Co. have published a volume entitled "Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts," by (ieo. 11. Moore, Librarian of the New York Historical Society, and Corresponding 1 Member of the Massachusetts Historic al Society. Contributors to the Hi-sto ry of Slavery in Massachusetts will al ways be acceptable to the American student. The part played by that State in forming public opinion on subjects connected with our recent conflict, gives singular interest to her early connec tion with human bondage. An inves tigation of the manner in which she gradually adopted Abolition views,and became their propagandist, is worthy of the attention of our most philosoph ical writers. Mr. Moore has undertaken that ta-k so far as the early history of Massachu setts is concerned, and gives us the re sult of his labors in a handsome octavo of two hundred and fifty pages. Skil fully arranged and pleasantly written, it will add greatly to his present fame as a historian, and we doubt net will find very numerous readers—in Massa chusetts, many critics. Mr. Everett taught us to believe that Massachusetts was always anti-slavery. He maintained that her opinions on that point had never changed. He af firmed that the South and the North had once coincided in their views, and that whatever modification had taken place, had been in the South, which bad beeomemoreand more pro-slavery because of her growing interest in the production of cotton. But Massachu setts had always been true to his pris tine faith. Mr. Moore's volume has a very dif ferent story to tell. It destroys a very delightful New England delusion. Mas sachusetts has always carried herself with such prudish dignity in the fami ly of States, her younger sisters have hitherto so unhesitatingly aceepted her a-sertionsof her exemplary virtue -and spotless character, that we doubt not thev will enjoy with zest Mr. Moore's disclosures of her doings years ago, and giggle among themselves at the pretty pranks she played when she was a girl. Slavery began in Massachusetts with the enslaving of captured Indians in tiie Pequod war. Through fearof their escape and consequent revenge, many of them were exported to Bermuda, the worthy Puritans finding that traf fic very profitable. Gov. Winthrop mentions, that through the I/ml's great mercy, a number of them had been ta ken, of whom the males were sent to Bermuda, and the females distributed through the Bay towns, to be used as domestic servants. There issomething very amusing in the coolness of these proceedings, ( apt. Stougliton (page 7i, who assisted in the work of exter minating the Pequods, after his arrival in the enemy's country, wrote to the Governorof Massachusetts i Winthrop) as follows: "By this pinnance you shall receive forty-eight or fifty women and* chil dren; concerning which there is one. 1 formerly mentioned, that is the fairest ami largest that I saw among them, to whom 1 have given a coal to clothe her. It is my wish to have her for a servant if it may stand with your good liking, else not. There is a little squaw that •Steward Calacut desireth, to whom he hath given a coat. Lieut. Davenport also desireth one. to wit: a small one, that hath three marks upon her stom ach. Here the good Puritan captain gives a drawing lie had taken of the marks., lie desireth her, if it wi'l stand with your liking. Sosamon, the Indian, desireth a little squaw, which 1 know not." The expatriation of the Indians led to the commencement of the slave trade. A vessel, the Desire,ai IJO ton-, one of the first Guilt in the colony, KBJfi) was used for that purpose. The thing was not 'lone in secret or indi rectly, but by the authorities. Thus we tint I in a letter to the Governor: "Mr. Endicottand myself salute you in the Lord Jesus. We have heard of a division of women and children in the Bay, and would therefore beglad of a share, vjz: a young woman or girl, and a boy if you think good. I write to you for some boys for Bermuda." The Salem slave-ship Drsirr, brought negroes in exchange for Indians, from the West Indes. Downing, in a letter tohis brother-in-law, George Winthrop, 1(145j. writes: "A war with the Narragansetts is very considerable to this population, for i doubt whether it be not sin in us, having power in our hands, to suffer thein to maintain the worship of the Devil, which their powwows often do. Secondly —if, upon ajust war the Lord should deliver them into our hands, we might easily have men, women and children enough to exchange for Moors, which will be more gainful pillage to us than we conceive for 1 do not see how we can thrive until we get a stock of slaves sufficient to do all our busi ness, for our children's children will hardly sec this great continent tilled with people, so that our servants will still desire freedom to plant for them selves, and not stay but for very great wages. And I suppose you know very well how we shall maintain twenty Moors cheaper than one English ser vant. The ships that shall bring Moors may come home laden with salt, which rnav bear most of tbeeharge, if not all of i't." But the colonists were not content with transportation, they tnod their hands at slave breeding. Mr. Moore gives i pagean amusing unsuccessful instance of thiskind in the case of Mr. Maverick's negress. We must refer the t reader who is inquisitive on this infce% 'etrting ttfpieto the Look iUr particulars.! BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, JDNE 15, 1866. By the law of Massachusetts slaves were not permitted to be abrottd after nine o'clock at night: they were pro hibited from improper intercourse or contracting marriage with whites. Their increase having been found un profitable, was looked upon with disfa vor. Jt did not reimburse the inciden tal loss of service. Little negroes "when weaned were given away like puppies." The master might deny baptism to his slaves. They were con tinually advertised in the Boston news papers for sale. ".lust arrived and for -ale. a prime lot of negro boys and girls." It was quite a recommendation if one had had the small-pox; the fact was duly put forth in the advertisement. Boston sometimes did things about which she has had a gooddeal to say in the way of denunciatior of those who more recently have copied her exam ple, by separating negro funilies at the auction block. "A likely woman about nineteen years of age, and a child of about six months, to be sold together or apart." Ah! Boston, Boston!—"or apart"— and the mother is only nineteen years old. These advertisements continued to appear in the newspapers until after the Declaration of Independence. Re monstrance against such atrocith - then began to arise, in view of the fact that the colonists were at that moment con tending with the mother country for ' * their own freedom. The same arguments were used in be half of negro slavery in the seven teenth century that we have been fa miliar with in the middle of the nine teenth. Judge Sewell, writing in 17<:H, enumerates them as the four follow - ing: Firs/. —Blackamoors arc the posteri ty of. (.'ham, and therefore are under tlie curse of slavery. Sevond —The niggeis are brought out of a Pagan country into places where the Gospel i- preached. Third— The Africans have wars with one another, and our ships bring law ful captives taken in those wars. Fourth —Abraham had servants bought with his own money, and born in his house. Thus sustained, the slave trade long continued in Massachusetts. Mr.Moore gives (page (>(> jsl copy of the ilist ruct ions of a mercantile firm to the captain of one of their slave ships, KiNo, directing him to make the best of his way to the coast of Africa, and invest his cargo in slaves. They show him how to proceed in a critical inspection of the negroes before paying for them; and he must do for the preservation of the health of his cargo, since on that the profit- of the voyage will depend. They sagaciously olwrve, ths*t all ti\Ar ri*U* lut the death of the slaves, the underwriters are accountable for. Gf the factors on thecoast hemu-t beware, lest they cheat him, since like the Israelites of old, they do whatever is right in their own eyes. His compensation among other things, is to be four slaves out of every hundre , and four at the plats' <i -aie. They wish to have as particular infor mation ig ran be obtained a- to the prospect of -filingit load of New Eng land rum, and conclude their let.or by committing hint and his -bio to the goodness of the Almighty Di.-poserof all events. The prohibition of the slave trade was at length effected in Ma>-nciiusetts in l7s>S. It was enacted that no citizen of the Commonwealth, or other person residing in the same, shall import, transport, buy or sel! anyof the inhab itants of Africa as slaves or servants for a term of years, on penalty of fifty pounds fir every vessel fitted out or employed in the trade. Aii insurance on such vessels to be void. That there were Massachusetts ships at that time at sea is obvious, for this act expressly exempt- them. Much interest ha- been felt <f late vears to know when and under what circumstances slavery ceased to exist in Massachusetts. The fact that Daniel Webster had not been able it few years before his death to determine t hi- quest ion -ati-factorily, is pretty good evi dence that it was doubtful, in Chief Justice Shaw made an interest ing statement oil this point. How or by what act particularly slavery w its a bolished in Massachusetts, whether by the adoption of the opinion in Somer set's case, as a declaration and modifi cation of the common law, or by the Declaration of Independence,or by the Constitution of 17*0, it is pot very easy to determine, and it is rather a matter of curiosity than utility; it being a greed on all hands, that if not abolish ed before, it was so by the Declaration of Bights. Mr. Moore, in conclusion on this point, remarks: "The reader of these notes cannot fail to notice the strong resemblance in the mode of the extinction of slavery in Massachusetts and that of villenage in England. <>f the latter, Lord Mans field said, ill 1785, that 'vidians in gross may, in point of law, subsist at this day, hut the change of manners and customs has abolished them in point ol fact.' If the parallel may be continued it could tie said \yith equal justice, that slavery having never been formally prohibited by legislation in Massachu setts, continued to subsist in point o. law until the year when the grand Constitution Amendment terminated it forever throughout the limits of the Central States." The reader will find Mr. Moore's j "Note.-." full of lucidly arranged infor ' illation, much of it now published foi the first time, and not a small part de : rived frdm sources of difficult access. Its style is clear,earnest and powerful; the author's industry and ability ad j.nurabfc; Ms book a vivacity add pieturesquene.ss that will secure for it general attention.—A*. I*. Com. Atlver ti ;er. 30C gv ( XKXi'ixTi.i) iti'.nr.l.l.lON. county is the last place in the world where we would expect to find dissatisfaction on the part of Re publicans with the action of the Dis ■union Rump at Washington. Wilinot has there reigned supreme for years, t and the handful of Democrats of that county who earnestly contended for the doctrines of the lathers, were fre quently beaten by a majority of four thousand. We are greatly pleased to see that Truth is asserting its power, even in the benighted county of Bradford. A meeting of member- of the Republican party, favorable to the policy of Presi j dent Johnson, was lately held at To- I vvanda. This meeting derives its im ! portanceas much from the character of | the actors in it, as from the numbers I who attended, and the enthusiasm that ! pervaded it. ' The President was Col. Allen Mc j Kean, a son of Hon. Samuel McKean, ; formerly United States Senator from | Pennsylvania. Col. McKean has been I ait influential member of the Republi i can party from the date of its birth.— j He hits been the Pjothonotary of the ; county, and member of the Legislature, i Among the otner prominent pttrtiei pants in the proceedings, we notice E. W. Smith, Esq., and Hon Henry W. Tracy, who was twice elected to the Legislature of the State, and wa- the late Republican member of Congress from the Bradford district. We clip thefollowing resolution from the V ! 'oeeedings: Ilinohed, That in the opinion of this i meeting neither of the conventions j which have as-cinbled at Harrisburg and )tlaccd in nomination, candidates for Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have succeeded in noni j inating a candidate who-c political rec ! ord. antecedents, and present surround ings will justify the loyal men, who 'approveand sustain the President, in giving either of them at present a hear ty support. Therefore they recommend thecallingofaconvention of the frieml* of the President to put in nomination a candidate for Governor of this Com mon wealth whom they can more cheer fully and consistently support. Jn pursuance of this resolution Sen atorial and Representative delegates were appointed to a convention to nom inate a third candidate for Governor. The meeting also declared that they were "unalterably opposed to com pro . iftiistUft with tmitors by l>?irt*rinvr 'uni ver-al amnesty.' for 'universal stif , frage,'" and appointed a committee to' establish it Johnson paper in Towanda. X'igilitnce committees were also provi j ded for to act in every district of the ! county. We have seen nothing lately more significant than the proceedings of this i meeting. It is in vain for theDisunion i-t- to undertake to convince thinking people ihe: Hie war was fought to keep them in power, and not for the Union. When such a meeting, composed of -uch men. is held in Bradford county, it mean- something. The Union men in the Republican party, find there is no place for them in the Rump led by Stunner and Stevens. They are every j whereon the revolt, and "will fight it ; out on that line," till the present l>i-- itnion leaders at Washington are driv en from power.— Johmiomi IHmocrat. A FIGHT WITH A LIONESS. —In I Wonibwell's menagerie, in Stirling, England, recently, D'Avey, the lion hunter, entered the den with the per forming group of litiiis, when one of the lionesses, turning round upon bint, seized him by the left leg. D'Avey -eived his rifie and brought it down with full force upon the lioness' head, ; breaking the stock of hi- rllle in two and freeing himself from th. grasp of the lioness. At the next performance the lion hunter again entered the den, , when the lion est, immediately fiew at hint a second time. D'Avey wasann ed with a heavy stick; a severe strug gle ensued as to who was to be master, ! the lioness repeated Hying at D'Avey, ! and he meeting her : t each charge and I driving iter back, until she finally set j tied down in a corner completely eow j oil and subdued. i)'A vey cscajied with j no further injury than a slight flesh ! wound and a torn dress. Yorxo Amkrii'a —A lady,teaching her littledui iiter,four yearsold, poin ted to something in the hook, and asked— * "What is that', my dear?" "Why, don't you know?" inquired the child. "Yes," said the mother, "hut I wish to find out if you know." "Well," responded the little miss, "1 do know." "Tell me then, if you please." slid the lady. "Why, 110, insisted the little one, with an arch look ; you know what it is, and there is n > need of saying any thing more about it." An Ex iekimkxt. —"Dennis,darliiit, oeli, Dennis, what is it you're doing?" "Whist, Biddy, I's trying an experi m nt." "Murder! what is it?" "What is it did you say? Why it's giving hot wather to the chickens I a-cD, So thtry'ii Ltoaftbdr laying bailed Jjggj!" VOL. 61—WHOLE No. 5.352. Til IT MIMMIIKS* fOXVEXTIOn. A TrrttiHpareiif ntnl Impudent Swindle. "The .Soldiers 1 Convention," so call ed, held in the Academy of Music on Tuesday was without question the most impudent Abolition swindle ever at tempted by that infamous party. But few soldiers of any merit were in atten dance at it: the great body of it being composed of bummers and loafers some of whom on Tuesday evening display ed their valor in Lager Beer Saloons by abusing the bartenders, and refus ing to settle for their beverages. These fellows, "Who never set n stpiadron in the field. Nr the divisions of a battle know More than spinster," have the inconceivable audacity to speak for the thousands of meritorious soldiers scattered throughout our State. This convention was not only an Abo lition gathering, but it was of the gen nine Radical stripe, as will lieseen by the following resolution which it pass ed almost unanimously: Rt'sofverl, That the loyal majority in Congress deserves our gratitude, that radical evils require radical remedies, and that the nation should take no step backward in its march to the grand destiny that surely await unfaltering, persistent adherents to the cause of e qual freedom. The drawer of this resolution prefaced it with a speech. "He said there was not a word in the resolutions offered by the Committee endorsing Congress.— Soldiers were indebted to the loyal members for support, and it would no't do now to go back on those members for ANDKKW JOHNSON or any other man." But the action of this miserable gath ering in excluding and insulting Dem ocratic veterans who were regularly e- Jocted, was in keeping with their usurp ing partisans in Congress expelling reg ularly elected DemocraticCongressnien. In order to give our readers an idea of the infamy of these Abolition creatures we will direct their attention to the course pursued in regard to the delega- ; tion from ('tint iter land. 'ten. Geary's ; : own county. In pursuance of tin- call j for a County Convention of Soldiers, j the meeting took place, and as we learn ! from the Carlisle Volunteer, ''about one . hundred and fifty from the rural dis- j tricts were in attendance." "It soon i became evident," says the Volunteer, "To the astonished followers of Sum- ( iter and Stevens, who had expected to ; have everything their own way, that out of about one hundred and seventy j delegates present, fully one hundred and fifty of them repudiated the nomi nation <>f John \V. <;siry, and <mthus iastically favored the election of llies tcr Clymer. Five delegates were elect ed to tin Pittsburg Convention, every one of whom is an ardent supporter of Mr. Clymer: and resolutions were st- . dopted denouncing the radical disu nionist.- in Congress, declaring that the 1 Southern States are entitled to immed iate representation, avowing their op position to negro sulirage, and endors ing the policy of Andrew Johnson and the nomination of 1 Hester Clymer. The delegation elected from 'umber land county, came on to the Conven tion, and here is the way they were treated. This is their own statement which wo have in their own hand writ ing: in pur-nailee of a call by Maj. Gen. Uaiiranft. for a soldiers' Convention, the soldiers of Cumberland county met in convention at Carlisle on Monday. ! the 'Jstii of -May, 1SI! to select delegates to represent them at Pittsburgh, on Tuesday the sth of June follow ing. — Ther. were in attendant at this Con vention about one hundred and eighty honorably discharged soldiers, many of whom had been veterans, and who se lected as their delegates Captains A. S. Woodburn, S. C. Wagner. W. P. Fluid, J. A. Graham and Isaac 11. Graham. These delegates in accordance with the wish of their fellow soldiers came to this city, pre- nted their credentials to n'h'it pta/iorti'rj tot)- << Yonct'utioii and w ere ruled out in the following dis graceful manner: "After the temporary organization a committee of one from each Congres sional district was elected on creden- I tials. When the fifteenth district, which embraces Cumberland county was called, instead of reading the com mittee men named by the delegation, the Secretary read the name of Colonel i Speakman, who was neither named or | selected by the delegation. This com- ( ! mittce on credentials was chosen by ! those who seemed to have the wires set, and who were playing upon them j for their own use, or to the interest of a j political faction. When the commit tee reported they gave seats to a self constituted delegation, thus excluding those whom thesoldiers of Cumberland j county had chosen to represent them, i or in other words to those who had been defeated in the Carlisle conven tion, and this for the simple reason that the bonafi<b delegates would, not ' | pledge themselves to support Geary I running upon a Thud. Stevens platform, t This report of the Committee was ae | copted by the convention ; the duly e j lected delegates were deprived of their ' seats, without further inquiry. This, Mr. Editor, is the action of a party which proclaims itself the "soldier's friends." This circumstance fixes one thing beyond cavil, and that is so far as they can hoodwink and gull the sol- II diersthey vociferate loudly in our prais es with laudable zeal, but as soon as the ~ soldier "assume*., the province of thick -1 iag add acting Aft bimdblf, I tefy Im mediately turn him the cold shoulder and treat him* with insult. The Re | pjblicansof this State especially, have ! played this game ever since the break - 1 i .ig out of the reliellion, of sailing in to power and position on .he hard earn ed merits of the soldier, but we think after this last crowning act of treach ery and duplicity to him, that they will be unable even in their degenerate ranks, to find men solosttoevery prin ciple of honor and consistency, as to attempt again the exploded farceof the "Boys in Blue." Lapiuin ISAAC H. GBAIIAM, " A. S. WOODBUKN, " W. P. FLUID, J. A. GKAHAM, " H. C. WAUXKH. UM>KI\U AT THK VHIi SOK OF IT. Some people in tlu* North appear in dined to put the worst face upon ev rything which occurs in the southern dates. Affairs there are bad enough ; die South has always been a frontier and, in which the laws were less re q>octed, and violence more frequent, han tiie more thickly setJed and freer East. Hat it is of no use, but on iy mischievous, to insist that the whole >fthat region is lawless, depraved,and irretrievably given over to violence. — fhe southern states are, by our own .wt, part ofthe Union ; we are determ ined they shall remain so: and as we mean they shall live in the same house witli us. it seems only -ensible and pru dent to try to make the best, instead of iiie worst, of our companions. Those people who see in the Memphis riot, and in every other occurrence of that kind, a proof that the southern people ought not to be represented in c ongress, and that the greater number of them ought to be disfranchised —as though that would make them content ed or peaceable—remind us, in their indiscriminate suspicion and dislike, of an old story told of the people of Corn wall in the hist century. A ship was wrecked upon the Cornish coast, and it happened that the only one ofthe crew saved alive was a monkey. Jocko was taken to a lire, dried, and warmed, and thereupon strictly interrogated as to his nativity, where the ship belong ed. whither she was bound, Ac.. Ac. lie made such answers as he could, which his questioners vainly tried to understand. No one in that region had ever seen a monkey: they took his ehatterings and grimaces to be some foreign lingo; and finally it was de termined to have him regularly exam ined, ami his case decided on by a jury. Jocko was once more rigidly question ed by a magistrate in presence of the jury; he made answer, as before, in a tongue none of the natives understood. Thereupon, tied hand and foot, he was locked up in the jail, while the jury deliberated upon his case. It did not need a Jong time for the twelve wise men to agree upon a verdict; they de clared 'lie is a Frenchman and a Papist —hung him.' And accordingly Jocko was hanged. Lt SUtUILS 11* ilv.it hpm *wl tl.uru O Northern journal or Congressman is in dined to think of and treat the south ern people—or at least a considerable part of thorn—much as the Cornish jury treated poor Jocko. We do not think it the wisest method.—A". YEv ening Pod, 11-'jj, 4 • A!.<>u r Middling."—Old Rev. Mr. R . was one day attending the fu neral of one of the members of his cnureh. when, after praising the many virtues of the deceased, he turned to the bereaved husband and said : "My beloved brother,you have been culled to part with one of the best and ioveliest of wives—" Up jumped the sorrow-stricken hus band, interrupting the tearful minister by sorrow fully saying— "O. no, Brother It., not the best : but abeout middling—abeout middling, Brother R." Evkky woman has a right to be what age she pleases, for if she were to tell her real age no one would believe her. THE best toast of the season, was, we believe, given by a typo, a short time since, viz: "Woman—the edition is large and no man should be without a copy!" 1 K there is a heaven on earth, it is on a >oft couch by your own fireside, with your wife <>n one side, and a smiling baby on the other; a clear conscience a dozen cigars, and a knowledge that you are out of debt, and don't fear the taiior, or sheriff, or th? devil. THE Editor of a country paper in Wisconsin says that he felt called upon to publish Father Lewis' sermon on the "Locality of llell," as it is a question in which nearly all his readers were deeply interested. YOUNG men, live temperately—goto church—attend to your affairs—love all the pretty girls—marry one of them— live like men, and die a christian. "SONNY, does your father take a pa per?" "Yes, sir, two of 'em. One of 'em belongs to Mr. Smith and the other to Mr. Thompson. 1 hook 'em both off the stoop as reg'lar as can be." WHEN they want to Inghtcn a negro down South they tell him the"Freed -1 men's Bureau" is after him, and he will flee faster than if chased by a pack ! of bloodhounds. WHO is it that is in two situations at once? A lover; for when he is beside : his fair one he is beside himself. t lll 1 j THE editor who kissed hissweethcart • saying "please exchange," is believed not to have exceeded the proper "iiber tv of the press." ■ ■ ■ —BM MANKIND should learn temperance from the uiooa—the fuller she the raiaHer oftir Uiiiaid.
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