TERMS OF PUBLICATION. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE is published every Fri day morning by MEYERS A Mnnar.v, at $2.00 per annum, if paid stnrtly in advance. ; $2.50 if paid within aix months; $3.00 if not paid within six onths. All subscription accounts AIUST be settled annually. No paper will be sent out of the State unless paid for is ADVANCE, and all such subscriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are paid. All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term than three months TEN CENTS per line for each In sertion. Special notices one-half additional Ail resolutions of Associations; communications of limited or individual interest, and notices of mar riages and deaths exceeding five lines, ten cents per line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. All legal Notices of every kind, and Orphans' 1 Court and Judicial Sales, are required by law to be published in both papers published in this place. All advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount is made to persons advertising by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows: 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. ♦One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares ... 600 900 16 00 Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Half column - - - IS 00 25 00 45 00 One column - - - - 30 00 45 00 80 00 ♦One square to occupy one inch of space. JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with neatness and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has \ just been refitted with a Power Press and new type, and everything in the Printing line can be execu ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates —TERMS CASH. Lir All letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. j drtt-ftootte, etc. OASH lU'YFKS, TAKE NOTICE! SAVE YOUR GREENBACKS! NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS, just received. At J. M. SHOEMAKER'S Store, AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES! Having just returned from the East, wo are now opening a large stock of Fall and Winter Goods, which have been BOUGHT FOR CASH, at nett cash prices, and will be SOLD CHEAP. This be ing the only full stock of goods brought to Bedford this season, persons will be able to suit themselves better, in style, quality and price, than at any other store in Bedford The following comprise a few of our prices, viz : Calicoes, at 10,12, 11, 1-j, 10 and the best at 18 cents. Muslins at 10, 12, 14, 10, 10, 18, and and the best at 22 cents. All Wool Flannels from 40ets. up. French Merinoes, all wool Delaines, Coburgs, Ac. SHAWLS —Ladies', children's and misses' shawls, latest styles ; ladies' cloaking cloth. MEN'S WEAR—Cloths, cassimeres, satinetts, jeans, Ae. BOOTS AND SHOES—In this line we have a very extensive assortment for ladies, misses, chil dren, and men's and boys' boots and shoes, all sizes and prices, to suit all. HATS—A large assortment of men's and boys' hats. CLOTHING—Men's and boys' coats, pants and vests, all sizes and prices SHIRTS, Ac.—Men's woolen and muslin shirts; Shakspeare, Lockwood and muslin-lined paper collars; cotton chain (single and double, white and colored). GROCERIES—Coffee, sugar, syrups, green and black teas, spices of all kinds, dye-stuffs, Ac. LEATHER—SoIe leather, French and city calf skins, upper leather, linings, Ac. We will sell goods on the same terms that we have been for the last three months—cash, or note with interest from date. No bad debts con tracted and no extra charges to good paying cus tomers to make up losses of slow and never paying customers. Cash buyers always get the best bar gains, and their accounts are always settled up. J. M. SHOEMAKER, Bedford, 5ep.27,'67. No. 1 Anderson's Row. 10 per cent, saved in buying your goods for cash, at J. M. SHOEMAKER'S cash and produce store, No. 1 Anderson's Row. sep27 BARGAINS! The undersigned havo opened a very full supply of FALL AND WINTER GOODS. Our stock is complete and is not surpassed in EXTENT, QUALITY AND CHEAPNESS. The old system of "TRUSTING FOREVER" having exploded, we are determined to SELL GOODS UPON TIIE SHORTEST PROFIT FOR CASH OR PRODUCE. L3P To prompt paying customers we will extend ' a credit of four mouths, but we wish it expressly ' understood, after the period named, account will be I due and interest will accrue thereon. BUYERS FOR CASH may depend upon GETTING BARGAINS. n0v1,'67 A. B. CRAMER A CO. j MEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!! The undersigned has just received from the East a large and varied stock of New Goods, which are now open for examination, at MILL-TOWN, two miles West of Bedford, comprising everything usually found in a first-class country store, consisting, in part, of i )ry-Goods, Delaines, Calicoes, Muslins, Cassi titers, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Notions, &c., &e. All of which will be sold at the most reasonable prices. £3?* Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con tinuance of the public patronage. Call and examine our goods. may24,'67. G. \ EAGER XT EW ARRIVAL.—Just received at M C. FETTERLY'S FANCY STORE, Straw Hats and Bonnets, Straw Ornaments, Rib bons Flowers, Millinery Goods, Embroideries, Handkerchiefs, Bead-trimmings, Buttons. Hosiery and Gloves, White Goods. Parasols and Sun-Um brellas, Balmorals and Hoop Skirts, Fancy Goods and Notions, Ladies' and Children's Shoes. Our assortment contains all that is new and desirable. Thankful for former liberal patronage we hope to be able to merit a continuance from all our cus tomers. Please call and see our new stock. may3l A RARE CHANCE IS OFFERED ALL PERSONS To display their Goods; Tt sell their Goods: To gather information; To make known their wants; Ac., Ac. Ac. Ac., Ac., Ac., Ac., Ac., by advei-iiragin the columns of THE GAZETTE. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. &c. SILORIOU S N E W S! ! FOR THE PEOPLE! | TELL IT! EVERYBODY TELL IT! j COTTON NO LONGER KING ! G. R. OSTER & CO. Are now receiving at their NEW STORE a largo and carefully selected stock of new and CHEAP Dry Goods, Furs, Clothing. Carpetings, Oil cloths, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Wall papers, Willow-ware, Queens-ware, Oils, Tobaccos, Segars, Ac., together with an extensive assortment of Fresh Groceries, which for extent and CHEAPNESS is unrivaled in Central Pennsylvania, all of which they offer wholesale or retail at prices that defy competition. Piles of calico prints and muslin from 6i cents up to sublime quality. They invite all to call, see Tor themselves and be convinced. TERMS .—POSITIVELY CASH on DELIVERY, un less otherwise specified. Beoford, Pa.. Dec.13,'67m3. Qttmtji at £au\ S. L. RUSSELL. J. H. LONGENECKKR. RUSSELL & LONGENECKER, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness" entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay. Bounty, Pensions, Ac OFFICE, on Juliana Street, south of the Court House. aprs,'67tf J. MCD. SHARPE. E. F. KERR. OHARPE & KERR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA., will practice in tlie courts of Bedford and adjoining counties Of fice on Juliana St., opposite the Banking House of Reed A Schell. [March 2, '66. J. R. DURBORROW. | JOHN LCTZ. DURRORRO W & L UTZ. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the "Mengel House," and nearly opposite the Inquirer office. JOHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his services to the pnblic. Office second door North of the Mengel nouse. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861. ESPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military 'laiuis, back pay, bounty, Ac., speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, t vo doors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, 1864, F M KIMM ELL. I J- w. LINGENFELTER. XT" IMM ELL & LINGENFELTER, IV ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA., Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South of the "Mengel House," W H. SPANG, ATTORNEY AT \J, LAW BEDFORD. PA Will promptly at tend to collections and all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Office on Juliana Street, three doors south of the ."Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate. May 13, 1864. B. F. MEYERS. | J. W. DICKRRSON. MEYERS & DICKERSON, AT TORNEYS AT LAW. Bedford, l'a.. office same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P. Schell, two doors east of the GAZETTE office, will practice in the several courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounty and back pay obtained and the purchase and sale of real estate attended to. | may 11,'66. HAYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly aitcnd to all business entrusted to his care. Office with G. H Spang, Esq., on Julianna Street, two doors South of the Mengel House. [raay24,67. Jcntistnt. D. N.HICKOK, | J. 0. MINXICH. JR., DENTI S T s , BEDFORD, PA. Office In the Bank Building, Juliana St. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry carefully performed. and war ranted. Tooth Powders and mouth Washes, ex cellent articles, always on hand. TFRMS—CASH. Bedford. January 6,1865. JQE NTISTRY! Dr. 11. VIRGIL PORTER, (late of New York city,) DENTIST, Would respectfully inform his numerous friends and patrons, that he is still 7JV BLOODY RUN, where he may be found at all times prepared to insert those BEAUTIFUL ARTIFICIAL TEETH, at the low price of from TE.V to EIGH TEEN DOLLARS per set. TEETH EXTRACTED, without pain. LgT 1 Temporary sets inserted if desired. All operations warranted. (jf Special attention is invited to Dr. Porter's scientific method of preserving decayed and aching teeth. H. VIRGIL PORTER. jan3,'6Btf Notices, k(. rpO BUILDERS.—The undersigned |_ Building Committee for the Reformed Church near Simon Harclerode's, in Colerain tp., will receive proposals for the construction of the Church building, until Saturday, January 25,' ISOS, the contract to be awarded to tho lowest and best bidder For plan and specifications, address the undersigned, at Bedford, Pa. II P. DIEIIL. JONATHAN BOWSER, jan3w4 JOSHUA DIEHL, Build. Com. C 1 ACTION TO TIIE PUBLIC.—No /tice is hereby given, that the License granted w . J. Mullin, Pa., for tho use of Rubber as a base for artificial teeth, has been revoked. All persons nre hereby cautioned against employing said W. J. Mullin in the above-named branch of Dentistry, as by so doing they render themselves equally liable to prosecution for infringement. Any information of Rubber work done by him will be promptly prose cuted. JOSIAII BACON, Treas. Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co. Boston. Dec .13.'67.m2| $Uu f 90,000 FRANCS!! >) HERRING'S PATENT CHAMPION SAFES. AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDALS AT World's Futr, ----- London, World's Fair, - - - - New York, Exposition Universelle, - Paris, AND WINNER OF THE WAGES OF Til 111 TY THO USA ND FR A NCS .' .' ($6,000 IN GOLD,) . At the recent International contest, in the Paris Exhibition. The public are invited to call and examine the report of the Jury on the merits of the great con test and see the official award to the Herring's Patent over all others. HERRING, FARRELL A SHERMAN, 251 Broadway, Cor■ Murray St., NEW YORK. FARRELL, HERRING A CO., PHILADELPHIA. HERRING A CO., Chicago. • HERRING, FARRELL A SHERMAN. NEW ORLEANS. J AMES VICK, IMPORTER AND GROWER OP FLOWER & VEGETABLE SEEDS ROCHESTER, N. Y. VTCK'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF See/Is and Floral Guide for 1363, Is now published and ready to send out. It makes a work of ab >ut ONE HUNDRED LARGE PAGES, con taining full descriptions of the Choicest Flowers iy Vegetables Grown, with plain directions for Sowing Seed, Culture, Ac. It is beautifully illustrated, with more than ONE HUNDRED FINE WOOD ENGRAVINGS of Flowers and Vegetables, and a Beautiful Colored Plate of Flowers. Well printed, on the finest paper, and one of the most beautiful as well as the most instructive works of the kind published. Lj^ J Sent to all who apply, by mail, post-paid, for Ten Cents, which is not half the cost. Ad dress JAMES VICK, Rochester, X. Y. jygADAM FOY'S 3*l CORSET SKIRT SUPPORTER Combines in one garment a PF,R FECT FITTING CORSET, and the most desirable Skirt Supporter ever offered the public. It places the weight of the skirts upon the shoulders instead of the hips; it improves the form without tight lacing; gives < ase and elegance; is approved and recommended by physicians. Sold at ladies' goods stores generally, and at wholesale by D. B. SAUNDERS A Co., 96 Sum mer St., Boston, and 22 Walker St., New York. Also, by HENRY C. MOORE, 429 Market Street, Philadelphia, and STELLMANN, IIINRICHS A CO., 21 Hanover St., Baltimore, Md. novl. N 1 ° IT IS THE BEST CHANCE EVER OFFERED TO AGENTS! One or two days' time will secure a good Sewing Machine, Watch, SUA Dress, Re volver. or some other article of equal value, Free of Co*t Agents wanted everywhere, male and female, for the best One Dollar Pawnbroker's Sale in the eountry. Send for circular. S. C. THOMPSON A CO., 31 Exchange Street, Boston, Mass. 170R 1868. FOR 1868. THOSE WHO WISH TO TAKE A " GOGD RELIGIOUS PAPER For the New Year should subscribe for The Advance. Live, Earnest and Spiritual. Just the paper for home and Sunday. $2.50 a year. Splendid Pre miums for those who get up Clubs. Specimen copies sent free. Address THE ADVANCE COMPANY, 25 Lombard Block, Chicago. DELACOVE INSTITUTE.—Eng lish and French Boarding School for Young Ladies. Accomplished Educators, healthful loca tion, delightful river.side residence, and home like comfort, are the chief attractions of this new and beautiful Institution. Thirty handsome chambers limit the number of boarders to sixty. Second term commences Feb. Ist, 1868. For Prospectus address the Principal, Miss KACHELLE G. HUNT, Bevelry, N. J. WK SELL FOR ONE DOLLAR, YJ GOLD and Silver Watches, Sewing Ma chines, Silver Tea Setts, Silk Dress Patterns, Car petings, Domestic Goods, Ac., Ac. CIRCULARS SENT FREE, giving full particulars of our great One Dollar Sale. Splendid inducements offered to Agents sending us clubs. Address, LABONTE A BABITT, No. 83 Sudbury Street, Boston. Tyro MORE NEED of People in the Y i country paying three or four profits on the goods they have to buy. The methods introduced by the Dollar Sale principle, as offered by GIL MAN A CO., 119 Hanover St., Boston, Mass., en ables consumers to obtain goods at wholesale pri ces. with almost unlimited allowing of exchange, and valuable presents thrown in. Send for a Cir cular, or send Ten cents for d-escriptive slip. Great inducements for persons to act as Agents. BRA DSTREET IMPROVED Rubber Moulding and Weather Strips. The best, cheapest and only perfect Weather Strips in the market. Excludes snow, rain, cold air and dust. Priees reduced to agents. The sale is beyond anything ever offered. Send for an agent's circular. J. R. BRADSTREET A CO., 87 Nassau St., N. Y.,57 Washington st., Boston. CIUT THIS OUT and send it to / SMITH A COWLEY, Pittsburgh, Pa„ for their large Quarto Circular of the IRON CITY COL LEGE. containing specimens of Cowley's Premium Pen manship. Elegant Views of College Building, Halls, City of Pittsburgh. Ac., Ac. I7V3UND. —A new method of copy _ ing Letters, without either Press or Water, thereby saving time, labor and expense. Ask for "Penn Let'er Book." For circulars, address P. GARRETT A CO., 702 Chestnut St., Philadel phia. Agents wanted rjMIE RURAL GENTLEMAN, a | Monthly Journal, published at Baltimore, Md. SI a year, in advance. Specimens 10 cents Advertisements solicited. Agents wanted. Ad dress as above. \\T ANTED.—Salesmen to travel and J J sell goods by sample. Good Wages and steady employment. Address, with stamp, LAX PHEAR A PERKY, 197 Superior St., Cleveland, Ohio. ANI) FAItMERS' _ SONS wanted to engage in a business, during the Fall and Winter, paying from $1.50 to S2OO per month. Address ZIEGLER, McCURDY A CO., No. 614 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. YY7"ANTED.—Ladies or Gentlemen ▼ V to sell the Gem Scissors Sharpener, Button Hole Cutter and Ripper combined. Sample sent by mail for 40cts. Address Mrs. ANNA SMITH, 33 Parkman-st., Cleveland, 0. mERMS for every description of Job 1 PRINTING CASH ! for the reason that for every article we use, we must pay cash; and the cash system will enable us to do our work as low as it can be done in the cities. IIVERY VARIETY AND STYLE OF JOB PRINTING neatly executed at low lates at THE BEHFORH GAZETTE office. Call and reave yeur orders HORATIO J. MEANS, Licensed Auctioneer, tenders his services to all per sons haviug sales, or vendues. Give him a call. Residence. Blnck Valley, Monroe tp., six miles South of Bloody Bun. novßm3 ORDERS from a distance for any kind of JOB PRINTING promptly attended to. Send to THE GAZETTE JOB OFFICE. Bed ford, Pa. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1868. 4hr ffrifeU OVaßi'tr. GREAT SPEECH OF HON. J. S BLACK. Andrew Jackson vs. Modern Radical ism. At the Democratic banquet given at the Metropolitan Hotel, in Washing ton, on the eighth of January, the following toast was proposed: "The memory of Andrew Jackson: A great general: a greater statesman and mag istrate." To this Judge Black respon ded as follows: There is no day in the year, except | the 4th of July, that ought to be kept |so sacred as,the Bth of January. [Ap jplause.] And, except the Father of his Country, there is 110 name known ! among men that is entitled to a higher j reverence than that-of Andrew Jack | son. [Applause.] I put Washington first because the place which he occu pies in history, as the foremost man of jail this world, has never been disputed. | [Applause.] It was always admitted ; that he stood alone, without a peer a ! mong mortals. Competition gave way j before the acknowledged greatness of his character, and rivalry itself coneed ed the palm to his pre-eminent virtue. I know not how it may be with oth ers. but his is a name which I never was able to pronounce without emo tions of respect and reverence whien I have 110 form of words to express. But the reputation of Jackson has not been so fortunate. His life was one long battle with tin* enemies of constitutional freedom. [Applause.] They assailed him with every species of slander, and even at this day the foul birds that streamed around him in his lifetime, and others hatched in the same bad nest, light whenever they can upon his tombstone to defile his tomb with their droppings. [Loud applause.] OneW the most in jurious of these aspersions is that by which the radical party have attempt ed to make him authority for their own attempts to trample upon liberty and law.—[Great applause]. If that be true; if he is authority for them; if he has set the example for their miscon duct; if they are traveling upon a path which has one impress of his footstep, then he is wholly and utterly unworthy of the honor which the American peo ple all through the country are bestow ing upon him at this moment.—[Ap plause.] Then I give him up. He is their man : he is not ours. If General JacKsorrever cna tiy tning in his life which can justify the mur der, kidnapping and robbery of inno cent men and women ; if he ever used military force for the purpose of en slaving any State, north or south, [ap plause ;] if he ever used one atom of his powerful influence for the purpose of subjugating his fellow-citizens, or any portion of them, to the domina tion of a negro government, [cries of "good" and applause;] if there be one single act of his whole life that can be cited as an example for the coarse, cru el and corrupt despotism which the radicals have organized wherever and j whenever they could, then he don't belong to our communion. [Applause.] In that case he is only fit to be set up in that heathen pagoda which despot ism has established among us, as one of the divinities to be worshipped lie side such generals as Pope and Baker, [loud applause, | and others of that class, where the worshippers lay it down as part of their creed that the constitu tion i.-> "a league with hell and a cove nant with death;" where the high priests that minister at the altar have qualified themselves for holy orders by j being hired delators and perjured wit-' nesses, and where an act of worhsip which they offer consists in false affi- j davits against the honor and rights of innocent people. I am not here to pronounce any eulo- j gy or to make any defense of General Jackson, but I do wish to refer to one passage in his life upon which the slander to which I have referred is based, if it be based upon anything, j When General Jacksou undertook the j defense of the city of New Orleans, in the fall of 1811, he assumed a responsi-j bility such as had rarely been taken by ■ anybody in the world, and such as very few men except himself would have taken under such circumstances. The British army was 14,000 strong, composed of veterans, ably commanded, thoroughly trained, and fresh from the victorious battle-fields of the Spanish Peninsula. They had never known what it was to be defeated. No hostile army of equal strength had ever before landed in one body upon the Ameri can shores. To meet them General Jackson had half the number of raw levies, hastily collected from the plough and the workshop, not organized; all of them imperfectly equipped, and some of them—a considerable number of them—not armed at all. With these fearful odds against him, he was required to hold possession of an unwalled and unfortified town, sit-J uate upon an open plain, accessible up on every side, and with absolutely no defenses, natural or artificial, except what were to be erected upon the spur of the occasion, and he had not the as sistance of one experienced officer or engineer to aid him in putting up his field works or mounting his guns. This desperate game was to be played for a stake of the most stupendous magnitude. The possession of the whole valley of the Mississippi depend ed upon it; and if the city had been taken by assault, we shudder, even at this distance of time, to think what must have been its fate. The very troops that were then marching to the attack had committed the most atrocio us cruelties only a few months before, at Badajos and St. Sebastian ; and here a gain they were to be rewarded with beauty and booty. The defense seemed like a forlorn hope, without a particle of confidence in its success—no one had, except what was inspired by the cour age, genious, and energy of their great commander. But lie was a host in himself. They wisely determined that they would i throw the whole responsibility upon him —that they would put their fateen i tirely in his hands, and they did so. ' Members of the Legislature, officers of the city corporation and judges of the j courts came and laid their powers at his feet, and voluntarily agreed that they would surrenderand suspend their official functions until the danger was over. The whole population, with one voice, besought him that he would make the city a part of his camp, and take the absolute command upon him self of every human being within its limits. He did this at the universal request. He had a right to do it. It was proper that he should do it, for this simple and plain reason, that the city ica.l in a date of actual siege. It was no fiction. His act bore no kind of resemblance to the wanton outrage of declaring martial law, which is no law at all, for the mere purpose of trampling down the law of the laud at a place where there are no military operations going on. [Great applause.] Jackson executed the authority thus bestowed upon him, not only moder ately but benignly. He gathered the people around him, and protected their rights to the whole extent that he was able to do so, consistently with their own good and proper defense of the place, as tenderly as a father would care for his children. But he didn't allow himself to be trifled with. And that brings me to the only fact in his whole life that has ever been criticised with reference to this point. A gen tleman named Louallier, who had been a member of the Legislature, became, in the course of time, discontented. He was one of General Jackson's soldiers— that is, he had put himself under his command as much as any volunteer in his army. But he became restive, and after a while he published an address, and printed and circulated it over the city, in which he counseled disobedi ence to the General's orders- That was simply mutiny, and the punishment of mutiny was death. But General Jack son only confined him, declaring at the time his intention to release him the very moment that he could do so with safety. Then came Judge Hall, another of his voluntary subordinates. He under took to interfere with the discipline of General Jackson's camp, by issuing a habeas corpus for the body of the muti neer. The General, in order to save all trouble, sent the judge four miles up the river, with directions that he should remain outside of his picket lines until it should be known that the enemy had retired from the coast. — When the great battle had been won, when the invader had been driven a way, when the city was saved with all ■ its beauty and its booty, then Judge I Hall returned; and so soon as he got! back he commenced a prosecution a- j gainst General Jackson for—what do you think? Contempt of court! The General thought that was very absurd.! Nevertheless, although he had a vie- 1 torious army at his back ; although he was surrounded by a population that! adored him as their great deliverer, lie bowed his head to the lawful authorities of the country, as lowly as the hum blest man in the nation. [Great ap plause. J He not only submitted to the , legal process which was issued against j him, but he gave to the judge the as surance that the same arm which had defended the city against a foreign ; invader, would stand between him and I the danger of a popular outbreak. — j [Applause.] He appeared before the! court and made a defense which was' worthy of his character as a lawyer, j and perfectly consistent with his high renown as a statesman and a patriot, j He pleaded that he was not, and could I not, be guilty of any contempt of court, bbcause that court had of its own ac cord relinquished its authority during the siege, and had notified him of the fact. He said that even if his act was illegal, he had committed, not a con tempt of court, but a personal tres pass against the judge, and to this he was willing to respond in a personal action before a court of competent juris diction and an impartial jury. But he insisted that his adversary had no right to sit in judgment upon his own case. This defense was overruled by the judge, and it was overruled in such manifest defiance of reason and and justice that the judge would have been torn into pieces if General Jack son had not redeemed his promise to protect him. But he did. When the the judge faltered f >r fear of the indig nation of the crowd with which he was surrounded, the general rose in the court and said, "Go on a.id per form what you think your duty."— [Applause.] "I have fought for the liberties of this nation, and I will not permit the civil institutions of the country to be dishonored." [Applause.] The judge fined him a thousand dol lars, and then his friends flocked a round him to pay the fine for him; but he declined all such offers. "No," ' said he, "I will not evade the decis- VOL. 62.—WHOLE No. 5,427. 1 ion of a lawful tribunal." [Applause.] "I will pay this fine myself. It be comes me to suffer whatever has been inflicted, rightfully or wrongfully. | And now," said he, "I am square with I the law, even as Judge Hall has expon- I ded it." I Now, if Genral Jackson had syste matized robbery and murder by means of military commissions, [applause, and cried of 'Good ;'] if, instead of us ing his army to fight the common enemy, he had scattered his soldiers over the country, hundreds of miles away from his post, to kidnap his po litical opponents for expressing their honest convictions ; if he had ordered an upright and conscientious judge to be dragged from the bench by ruffians, beaten upon the head with the butt ends of their pistols, and carried away to prison, because he had administered justice according to law; and if, finally, he had established a military despot ism upon the ruins of a free govern ment, then I admit that he would have been fair authority, and they might have quoted him as an example of their misdeeds. But in truth and in fact, General Jackson was one of the ablest and best defenders of the con stitution and the laws that the United States ever had. Their never lived a man within the limits of this country who would go further to defend them, or more cheerfully shed his blood to save them from violation. [Applause.] There are some persons here, 1 think, who not only know the character of General Jackson, but who have been intimately acquainted with him. I ask of such what they suppose General Jackson would have thought of our "Bureau of Military Justice" if such a bloody machine as that had been set up in his time. [Great applause and laughter.J Ido not know; I can only conjecture; 1 think he would have shattered it intoa thousand atoms with one blow of his ponderous hand, [ap plause;] and the first impulse of his noble and generous nature would have been to take that lawless crew by the throat and pitch them into the Pato mac. [Applause.] I do not say he would have done it any more then our honored chief magistrate would. [Tremendous applause and three cheers for the President.] Let me tell you the reason why I think he would not have done it. He was a perfectly law abiding num. He would have waited his time. He would have curbed his fiery temper; he would have chasten ed down, (na ho always did.) in a prop er way, his impetuous passions. But, sooner or later, he would have done what will be done yet. [Great ap plause.] He would have made those miscreants feel the majesty of legal justice. The Spaniards have a proverb that the mill of God grinds slowly, but it grinds dreadfully fine. [Laughter.]— And now, don't you think the people of this country are about to let the wa ter on ? [Great laughter.] I said that I had no eulogy or de fense to make of General Jackson ; but I do say now, in conclusion, that if the people of this country will appreci ate his character truly, and remember well the lessons that his acts and his precepts have furnished them, they will have such a government as that which he described in his protest to the Senate—not a despotism surround ed by the pride, pomp and circum stance of military show, but a quiet government, which will protect their liberties and their rights—a govern ment distributing its blessings like the dews of Heaven, unseen and un felt, save in the beauty and freshness they contribute to produce. As long as we keep our eyes upon his history, as the pole star by which we are to be guided, we will be wise ; and whenev er we quit it we will be otherwise.— [Great applause.] CONJUGAL FRIENDSHIP.—TiII a man has experienced the affection of an amiable, intelligent, unsophisticated woman, he knows not half the charm iof life; nor, till he has enjoyed the friends/iip of such a one, does he tru ly know what friendship H. For men's friendships for one another are always more or less shaped by busi ness feeling ; whereas woman's for men are generosity itself. Happy the man who has a woman for a friend ; thrice happy, who has her in his wife. A man's wife may be everything that is sweet and beautiful, but still she is not his wife in the highest and truest sense, till he can call her, from his heart, his friend. And to be this, is women's tri umph. For the glory of her iife lies not in the admiration of her lover, but in the solid confidence of her husband ; in his reliance on her intelligence and truth, for his esteem in her piety and virtues. Not that she can be made his friend without effort of her own. She gained the position by constant cultiva tion of what she perceives her husband most to value and admire amid the things which her own innate sense of purity and propriety commends as worthy of their mutual regard. A line in one of Moore's songs reads thus: "Our couch shall be roses bespang led with dew." To which a sensible | girl replied: "T'would give me the | rheumatiz and so it would you." A greenhorn sat a long time, very ■ attentive, musing upon a cane-bottom chair. At length he said: "I wonder what fellow took the trouble to find ! al theinar holes, and put straws around ! 'em." HIGH LIVING AND ITS CONSEOVEN*'