TERMS OF PUBLICATION. TBR BEDFORD GAZETTE is published EVERY Fri 4Y morning by MEYKRS A MEWGF.L, at $2.00 per annum, if paid strictly in advance ; $2.50 if paid within six months; $3.00 if not paid within six onths. All subscription accounts MUST be settled annually. No paper will be sent out of the State unless paid for I.T 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 All resolutions of Associations; communications of limited or individual interest, and notices of mar riages and deaths exceeding five line?, ten cents per line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. Alt legal Notices of every kind, and Orphans' Court and Judicial Sales, are'required by law to be published in both papers published in this place. LB" 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. I year. *One square - - - $4 50 $ 6 ()0 $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 - - - 18 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. IdF All letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, , Publishers. sry-(sooa.si, ftr. pi ASH BUYERS, 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, we are now openings 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, 14, 15, 16 and the best at 18 cents. Muslins at 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, and and the best at 22 cents. All Wool Flannels from 40 cts. 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—CofTee, sugar, syrups, green and black teas, spices of all kinds, dye-stuffs, Ac. LEATHER —Sole 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 hare 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 TUE SHORTEST PROFIT FOR CASH OR PRODUCE. To prompt paying customers we will extend a credit of four months, but we wish it expressly understood, after the period named, account will be due and interest will accrue thereon. BUYERS FOR CASH may depend upon GETTING BARGAINS. novl,'B7 A. B. CRAMER A CO. VTEW 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 Dry-Goods, Delaines, Calicoes, Muslins, Cassimers, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Notions, Ac., Ac. All of which will be sold at the most reasonable prices. ty Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con tinuance ot the public patronage. | jjp Call and examine our goods. may24,'67. G. YEAGER NEW 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, 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 sew 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 isplay their Goods; Tt sail their Goods: To gather information; To make known their wants; Ac., Ac. Ac. Ao., Ac., Ac., Ac., Ac., by ATLRAPRIIINGIN the columns of TBR GAZETTE. BY MEYERS & MEN6EL. f \ L O R lOCS N E w S! FOR THE PEOPLE! TELL IT ! EVERYBODY TELL IT! COTTON NO LONGER KING! G. R. OSTER A CO. Are now receiving at their Nl.4\ STORE a large and carefully selected stock of new and CHEAP Dry Goods, Furs, Clothing, Carpeting?, 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 6f cents up to sublime quality. They invite all to call, see for themselves and be convinced. TERMS .—POSITIVELY CASH on DELIVERY, un less otherwise specified. Beoford, Pa., Dec.13,'67m3. SUtorunis at <&m. S. L. RUSSELL. J. H. LONGENECKER. 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. apro,'67tf j. Men. snARPE. E. r. KERR. SHARPE A KERR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA., will practice in the 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 LUTZ. HURBOR 11 O W & LUTZ, J J ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no- I( 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 public. Office second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861. ESPY M. AISIP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military •laims, 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 KIMMELL. I J- W • LINGENFELTER. JR 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," G1 H. SPANG, ATTORNEY AT r. 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 doers south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate. May 13, 1864. B7F\ MEYERS. | J• W. DICKERSON. MEYERS & DICKERSON, AT TORNEYS AT LAW. Bedford, Pa., 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. |mayll,'66. HAYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. Office with G. H Spang, Esq., on Julianna Street, two doors South of the Mengel House. [may24,67. 3. S.HICKOK, | J. G. MINNICH. JR., Dentists, 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. rv ENTISTRY! Dr. 11. VIRGIL PORTER, (late of New York city.) DENTIST, Would respectfully inform his numerous friends and patrons, that he is still IN BLOODY RUN, where he may be found at all times prepared to insert those BEAUTIFUL ARTIFICIAL TEETH, at the low price of from TEN to EIGH TEEN DOLLARS per set. TEETH EXTRACTED, without pain. Temporary sets inserted if desired. All operations warranted. Special attention is invited to Dr. Porter's scientific method of preserving decayed and aching teeth. H. VIRGIL PORTER. jan3,'6Stf * OMETH ING YOU NEED.—CIeaV tPs Wonderful Liniment.. —lt is efficacious and cheap. If you have a cut, old sore, frost bite, tetter or any ailment requiring outward applica tion, you should use it. If your horses or cattle have cuts, kicks, sprains, grease, scratches, or old sores, you should use it, for you can get nothing better, either for yourself, or your horses and cat tie. You can procure it of Store Keepers and ! dealers in patent medicines throughout the coun ty. Manufactured only by JAS. CLEAVER j Hopewell, Pa. novBm3 I _ I VERY STABLES, j in rear of 'he "Mengel House," BEDFORD, PA., MENGEL A BURNS, Proprietors. The undersigned would inform their friends, and the public generally, that they are prepared I to furnish HORSES AND BUGGIES, Carnages, | Sporting Wagons, or anything in the Livery line i of business, in good style and at moderate charg es. Terms : CASH, unless by special agreement. janlo'6Btf MENGEL A BURNS. ORDERS from a distance for any kind of JOB PRINTING promptly attended I to. Send to THE GAZETTE JOB OFFICE. Bed ' ford, Pa. Jnj-ftoodjs;, &c. ANOTHER VETO ON HIGH PRICES! YOU CAN SA YE MONEY by buying your GOODS of MILLER A BOWSER, Mann's Corner, ... BEDFORD, Pa. They are now opening a choice variety of NEW AND DESIRABLE FALL AND WINTER GOODS. Dry-Goods, Ready-Made Clothing, Fancy Goods, Notions, Cotton Yarn, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Queensware, Wooden ware, Tobacco and Cigars, Brooms, Baskets, Ac., Ac., Ac. LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PRICES . CALICO, at 8, 10, 12, 15, 16. GINGHAM, at 124, 15, 18, 20. MUSLIN, at 10, 12, 14, 15,18, 20. Cassimeres, Cloths, Satinetts and Ladies' Sacking, at very low prices. &2T Ladies', Gents' and Misses' Shoes, Sandals and Over-Shoes, in great variety. JteaT- Men's, Boys' and Youths' Boots. jBfcg Q ' Best Coffee, Tea, Sugar and Syr up in the market. Prices low Feed, Flour, Ac., for sale at all times. gtsr* We invite all to call and see our goods and compare prices before buying elsewhere. Our motto is, Short Proffits. JGEAT TERMS —Cash, Note or Produce. 0ct25,'67 __ INTER IS COMTNG! PREPARE FOR COLD WEATHER ! The undersigned hast just received from the Eastern Cities, a large and varied stock of WINTER CLOTHING, which he will sell very CHEAP FOR CASH or COUNTRY PRODUCE. All wool pants and vests as low as $3.00 to $12.00 ; overcoats, from $3.00 to $30.00; cloths, cassimeres, cassinetts, Ac., of the best quality, and at the lowest prices; under-cloth ing. such as under-shirts and drawers, at $l.OO each ; also, flannel shirts, at $1.75. He has also on hand a large assortment of DRY-GOODS, such as ladies' dress goods, consisting of all wool delaines; calicoes, at 10, 12, 15 and 16 cents per yard; muslins, at 10, 12,11 and 20; also NOTIONS in great variety; queensware, groceries, hoop skirts, cotton-chain, tobacco and cigars, Ao., Ac. And a good supply of gum coats and blankets al ways on hand. Gum blankets at $l-75. Thankful for past favors, he would solicit the continued patronage of the public, feeling confi dent that he can please all who purchase at his store. Remember the place, the li old Colonnade," southeast corner of Richard and Pitt streets. Bed ord, Pa. ISAAC LIPPEL. novlm3 jyUEW FIRM! NEW FIRM! GOOD GOODS ARE DOWN! SCHELLSBURG AHEAD! NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! just received and will be sold AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Call at BLACK A MARBOURG'S, in Sehellsburg, IF YOU WANT CUEAP GOODS of any kind ! We have no big stock of old goods at big prices. Our stock is nearly all fresh and new. Look at some of our prices : MUSLINS, from 10 to 17 cents. CALICOS, from 8 to 15 cents. CLOTHS and CASSIMERES at reduced prices. DRESS GOODS, all kinds, cheaper than before the war. ALL WOOLEN GOODS 25 per cent, cheaper than any that have been sold this season. Gloves, Hosiery, etc., etc., etc., very low. Groceries, Queensware, Wooden Ware Ac., Ac., at the lowest market prices. If you want Good Bargains and Good Goods, call at BLACK A MARBOURG'S. Sehellsburg, Dec. 6m3 BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1868. lit? Okgfttr. l .MTKI) ST A'J KS SI I-RF.115 . COI BT. 'ns' of Col. W. H. 51-Cardle—-IrKiiments of JIMIKP Itlack it ml Senator Trumbull. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.— 1n the Su preme Court of the United States, in the case of McCardle, this morning, af ter the transaction of some other busi ness, Mr. Black, the counsel of McCar dle, called the attention of the Court to his motion in this case to fix an early day for the argument. He said that Senator Trumbull, who had some ob jections, had been waiting to make them, and he (Mr. Black) desired to hear them. Mr. Trumbull said he knew no reason why 1 e cause should be advanced, and anearly day assigned for the hearing of it. fibe relator had been brought before a military coin mission for trial; but th % habeas corpus had suspended the proceeding, and lie was now out on hail. No harm could come to him or any one by letting the cause stand without a decision for a year or two. Mr. Trumbull took up the written reasons filed with the mo tion and answered them severally. He said this was not, properly speaking, a criminal case; it was a habeas corpus. The other two reasons, instead of being grounds to sustain the motion, were strong against it. They allege that the United States are interested in the question, and that it concerns the rights and liberties of every American citizen. This shows that it is a politi cal case, and the Court should not vol untarily take upon itself responsibili ties of that kind. Mr. Trumbull did not expect or desire the Court to shrink from its duty, but he believed that it should not go aside from its regular course to seek occasions for deciding questions like this. Judge Black replied. He denied that this was a political case. It was purely judicial. "It has come," said he, "in the form of a legal appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Mississippi, and it comes here with technical regularity. I represent no body but my client, and ask for the vindication of no rights except his." The Attorney-General makes no oppo sition. If Mr. Trumbull comes in to take up the case for a political party, I submit that he is out of his proper place, for the Senator should know that in the courts of the country we practice law, not politics. A glance at the record will show you that the re lator was accused (if a criminal offense, arrested without anyjudicial warrant, held for a long time in close custody, and then brought before what they may call a Military Commission, or ganized to couvict him. He could not forsee his doom, for if they could try him they could hang him. His friends got a writ of habeas corpus. He was brought before the Circuit Court, and was remanded, but the Judge, mani festly in doubt, facilitated the appeal in away which showed his own desire to have it decided by the court of last re.-ort. Yet you are told that this is not a criminal case. Mr. Trumbull—l did not .say so; I said the habeas corpus was not a crim inal proceeding. Mr. Black—Certainly it is not, but the nature of the case does not depend on the form of the writ, neither is a writ of error a criminal proceeding, but a writ of error like habeas corpus may bring a criminal cause into this Court. Judge Black continued, we ask that you hear the case now. It is not at the foot of the list. By the statute law of the land, by the immemorial custom of the Court, and by your own written rules made so lately as last year, it stands at the head of the dock et, and claims your immediate atten- j tion. Asa criminal case, the act ofj Congress says that you shall hear it in | preference to others that are pending, j but the preference always was conced ed to such cases. No criminal cause was ever allowed to be staved off or put by on the ground that civil causes, whether older or later, should be heard first. Such had been the universal practice of this Court for more than , three-quarters of a century. It is the j practice everywhere else. In all the! Courts. State and Federal, the rule is to give criminal cases the preference. Your administration of criminal jus tice cannot afford to wait. If the ac cused party is guilty, and the proceed ing against him is legal, the highest interests of society require that he should be punished without delay. If he is lawlessly prosecuted by a tribun al that has no jurisdiction, or if he is 1 suffering from the false judgment of a I Court which has authority to try him, he must be immediately relieved. Re lief postponed is not relief at all. In no case can any court permit the sword of public vengeance to be doubtfully suspended over the head of a citizen for an indefinite time. But there is another reason which would induce you to take this case up immediately even if it were at the foot of the docket. In the exercise of your great power, you do not merely decide cases, you lay down rules for the conduct of others who may find themselves in like con dition. You never give a naked judg ment. You accompany it with the reasons, so that all men may know I how far they are within the principles ; you sanction. You are the great teach ers of the people in regard to those things which concern their temporal salvation, and in proportion as you per form that duty, well or ill, in that pro portion are you fit or unfit for the high places which you fill. Here is a subject on which your lessons are most especially needed. This is not the only Military Commission that has been set up. In all that large re gion of country from the Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico Military Commis sions have become so much the fashion that they have almost entirely superse ded courts and juries. They inflict all manner of punishments. Three men are now held by them under sentence of death, and hundreds are languishing under their orders in various kinds of | imprisonment. Every officer who is or may be engaged in carrying out: these proceedings is deeply interested in knowing, as soon as possible, how \ the law regards him. From the Presi dent and the General of the army I down to the lowest Jack Ketch in their | service, it is to the last degree impor- j taut that they should know when they | hang a man whether their act is justi- j liable homicide or felonious murder. If they are engaged in the performance of a lawful duty it will surely be an infinite relief to be assured of it by a decision of this Court. The people ought to know it, too, so that they may learn to submit quietly to evils which cannot be cured. Then if they do not j enjoy the blessings of liberty they will at least have the repose of despotism, j which is perhaps the next best thing. But if it should be finally held that these commissions are all wrong and void, it is horrid cruelty not to say so at once. Would my learned brother, j for any mere political consideration, encourage public officers to rush on in headlong ignorance at the risk of be ing branded as criminals in the future. ! If you decide hereafter that their acts: are no protection to them against the charges of kidnapping, robbery, and murder, how will they feel toward those who prevented a decision in time to save them from those crimes? If j the blood be suffered to accumulate up on ther heads for two or three years' more, there will not be rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash them white again. This question, no doubt seems a very clear one to Mr. Trumbull, and he can doubtless make it as clear to the Court as it is to him. We suppose it at least possible that he may be mis taken. We know that the Constitu tion makes a court and jury the exclu sive judges of guilt or innocence in ev ery criminal case, and we know, also that the Constitution was in full force about one year ago, for this court then said so in very plain and unmistakable luiioruiicre. But Mr. TruroHuU.~i<u er jurists suppose themselves to have discovered an act of Congress passed since the decision referred to by which the Constitution is repealed, or, at least, they have learned that the American people have in some way lost the right of trial by jury. Now the presumption is a strong one to be seen that Mr. Trumbull is right and I am wrong. If he comes with his act of Congress, and I oppose him with the Constitution, and the principles of public liberty, the odds will be against me. Still, he can not say that the point is absolutely free from doubt, when he remembers that the Attorney General, who stands offi cially at the head of the profession, and deserves to stand there, is against him toto ecelo. —The question cannot be clear in his favor, when the conviction of a lawyer like Mr. Stanbery is clear the other way. If it be doubtful, and that is all I ask you now to concede, it is inhuman to leave it unsettled when the case is before you in which all doubts can be resolved. I repeat that this is a judicial question merely. I f by the suggestion that it is connected with politics, it is meant to say that you may be assailed and slandered for your decision by partizans, I admit it freely. That may be true in this case as it has been in many others, I can not promise you exemption from a fate which the best men in the world have suffered when they performed their public duties honestly. That is the rough brake that virtue must go through. But if the statute laws, the rules and constant practice of this Court are not to be violated, the cause before you will be heard without more delay than what may be necessary for its proper preparation. Judge Sharkey spoke briefly on the same side, enforcing what had been said by his colleague, and stating the condition of things in Mississippi as an additional reason for an early decision. Mr. Hughes thought there was no reason in the circumstances of the case itself for taking it up soon, and the Court ought not to consider the extran eous facts which had been mentioned. ! The speech of Judge Black and th pro ! found sensation manifested were in I themselves enough to show that the subject was one which could not be handled without producingexcitement. At all events, he hoped that full time would be allowed for counsel to consid er their argument. It ought not to be i hurried. In thecourseof the debate, Mr. At torney General Stanbery defined his position. He said that a case had been laid before the President in which a military comission had sentenced a per -1 son to death. The question had been propounded to him by the President whether the condemnation and sen tence were legal. He had, in accor dance with his convictions, answered I that they were illegal and void, and had advised the President not to ap prove them. This being his opinion, he could not, of course, take the other side of the question. Therefore he had declined to argue it here. He had left VOL. 62.—WHOLE No. 5,428. if to be argued by those who believe in the doctrine. He had given notice to Gen. Grant, in consequence of which other counsel had been employed. TIIE STRI'(iI,E THROUGH WHICH WE ARE PAMim The two most violent political con vulsions of modern times furnish con tinual types of comparison with the fearful struggle through which this nation is passing. In the English and in the French revolution every act of violence was done professedly in the name of public rights and for the ad vancement of human liberty. All things were claimed to be done in the name of the people and on behalf of the people, and for a time the darkest acts of tyranny and violence were made to wear the semblance of popular right. When arbitrary power is exert ed by a king or a despot, the world at once discerns the personal motive, and is not deceived. When it is exerted by the so-called representatives of the people, the motive of immediate self- j aggrandizement is not so readily dis- J covered, and hence the people are du- i ped longer and will bear more. Charles j lost his head for acts which were j mild compared with the usurpations j of Parliament, and to no tyrant, ancient j or modern, can be imputed crimes to be named with the bloody deeds of the representatives of France. No con stitutional chief magistrate could with impunity perpetrate the outrages; which we are daily witnessing at the! hands of the miscalled representatives j of the American nation. In the case of the English revolution, successive j aggressions upon the constitution were | made under color of restriction upon the unjust prorogations of the king.— In America the constitution is hourly j assaulted under a claim that the exer cise of this heretofore acknowledged power of the President is dangerous to liberty. In the case of England, the Parliament misused its power by per petuating its sessions when it had ceas ed to reflect the will of the nation.— The Thirty-ninth Congress, so soon as a majority of its members had been elected, in advance of their flagitious usurpations, decreed that the Fortieth should meet by anticipation nine months before its regular period of assembling, thus virtually, practical ly making its one session continuous for four years. The revolutionary Parliament of England earned the name of Hump and the present trun cated American assemblage deseves no LiHov litlo. Sustained by the power of Parlia ment, Cromwell hectored the judges of England and threatened them with imprisonment if they dared to issue the writ of habeas corpus. The tools of the American Congress have, in like manner, trampled upon the privileges of freemen. Theexecutiveand judicial authority was brought to the feet of the legislative, and thenceforth the will of Parliament was the only pow er in Great Britain. So in France, the first efforts of revolutionary power were used to break down the checks of the national organization in the Na tional Assembly by reducing the three orders into one. The judiciary never had an independent existence under the monarchy, and therefore the next stride, the overthrow and decapitation of Louis, on the 21st of January, 17G3, left the convention the cruel and atro cious tyrants of France. In both countries the stages of the process were substantially the same, and the results identical. The overthrow of law and the extinguishment of right were con ducted in the name of liberty, and ap parently on behalf of the people, until liberty had become only a remem brance, and the people were the slaves of a body of wild and bloody fanatics.— The thoughtful man who considered the general features of those two great movements will be struck with the identity of the governing principle in those national tragedies with that which is operating the darkening fu ture on our own country. The differ ent orders in the National Assembly of America have not been abrogated, but the establishment of the joint com mittee of fifteen on reconstruction, actuated all the while by the potent machinery of a congressional caucus, has tended to the same practical issue. The Executive has been stripped, one by one, of his just privileges; perpetual war has been made upon his constitu tional authority, and although he has once escaped impeachment, it is by no means certain that the effort to dis place him will not be renewed. The last assault upon the guardians of the constitution, the Supreme Court of the j United States, by the bill which pass ed the House of Representatives on Monday last, has no specific parallel in France, because there the judicial was but an incident to the kingly power, while under our form of gov ernment it is an independent, co-or dinate department. It is a body to which tyranny and oppression, practi cal and direct, upon the body of the people cannot be imputed. All its traditions are on the side of freedom, and hence it is expedient to undermine . its power rather than attempt its over throw. It now stands the last barrier J between the revolutionists of America and their absolute will. Remove that, and there no longer remains any great er obstacle to their purposes than stood I in the way of the French convention after the 21st of January, 1793, for the j check of the presidential veto if over j thrown by two-thirds majority of a 1 truncated Congress, and if the voice of the Supreme Court is silenced, there no longer remains a lawful voice to re mind us of the sanctions of a broken constitution and a disrupted Union.-- Of the immediate object to be accom plished, the instant prize to be secured by the overthrow of the court, of the pressing necessity to do their work speedily, and of the hollowness of the device by which it is to be effected, we may have some further words to say. —Baft. Sun. SHOCKING OUTRAGE BY NEGROES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. —About eleven o'clock on Friday night, five negroes came to the store of Mr. M. A. Muld row, in Darlington district, and rap ping up the clerk, Mr. It. Sugs, asked admittance. Mr. Sugs enquired who they were, and receiving the response that they were friends come to trade with him, opened the door of thestore. Four negroes, armed with double-bar reled shot guns, entered, and placing their weapons in the corner of the room, commenced examining goods, remarking that they were in the em ploy of the railroad, had just been paid off, and desired to make purchases to the extent of ten dollars each. About fifty dollars worth of goods were selec ted, when one of the number asked Mr. Sugs if he could change a treasury note of the denomination of one hundred dollars. The wife of Mr. Sugs, who was in an adjoining room, heard the remark, and her suspicious being ex cited by it, she went out of the back door to the house of a gentleman nam ed Wyndham, and requested him to come to the store and in caseany troub le should occur to render Mr. Sugs what assistance he could. Mr. Wynd ham complied taking a gun with him, and as he reached the store he heard the report of a shot. lie threw open the door and was immediately fired upon five times by the negroes. He returned thefire, when they rushed up on him and seized his gun, and a scuf fle ensued, during which he managed to effect his escape, and, repairing to Mr. Muldrow's house, reported the condition of affairs. As soon as the latter could dress and arm himself, he ran to the store, accompanied by Mr. Wyndham. There all was quiet, and entering they found the shelves of the store completely stripped, the mon ey desk robbed, and the clerk, Mr. Sugs, lying dead on the floor, a load of buck-shot having passed through his head. From this melancholly scene Messrs. Muldrow and Wyndham went to the house of the latter, where they found Mr. Wyndham's father-in-law had been dangerously shot twice in the head, and his wife in three differ ent places on the person by the same party of negroes.— Charleston Courier. THE ENORMOUS WHEAT CROP OF CALIFORNIA.— A correspondent of tho Chicago Tribune says: Count Califor nia in your next estimates as the first wheat growing State in the Union. The California wheat crop of 1867 did not fall much short of 20,000 bushels, if, indeed, it did not exceed that a mount, and, as it realized fully $2.50 in gold per bushel, it follows that we are to-day $50,000,000 better off for it. Add to that the value of four million gallons of wineand brandy, and an al most incalculable fruit crop, and you have some idea of the money realized by the farmers of California this year. According to the report of the asses sor Los Angelos country last year pro duced 1,000,000 gallons of wine and 100,000 of brandy; and this year 180,- 000 bushels of corn, 150,000 of barley, and 13,000 of wheat. The annual crop of oranges is worth $527,000;0f walnuts, $102,000, and of lemons, $85,000. The average value of production per acre cultivated is given at $127. The Los Angelos News says : "By the passage of a law abolishing the fence system, and the building of arailroad from this city to some point on the bay of San Pedro, the present figures will be more than quadrupled." And Los Angolcs is but a third-rate county in population and comparative development of her recources. The figures, it must be re membered,are to be understood as coin, not greenbacks. Stimulated by this great success, our farmers are taking hold with renewed energy, since this present rainy season has set in, and it is now certain in 1868 we shall have 1 ,((00,000 acres in wheat alone. Give the average of thirty bushels per acre —the estimate is a low one for Califor nia—and we shall have 30,000,000 bush els of wheat. This beats Wisconsin, and places California in the front rank of wheat-producing States. Our corn crop is of small account, and the barley and oats crops will, perhaps, be less than in 1807, but the aggregate, you can see, will be enormous. And yet California is but in her teens, not half nor quarter developed. What a future she has before her! With all her drawbacks—and they are many —she is the the State to live in after all. BREECHES of trust—pants got on tick. TAIILE of interest—the dinner table. A BAD housekeeper—Miss Manage ment. A WINGLESS flight—flyin'into a pas sion. IF you want to rise in the world, go up in a balloon. To obtain a fat office—become a soap boiler. To keep shade trees green the year round—paint 'em. WHERE to find comfort—in the dictionary. THE lovers' favorite day—Weddin's day. BEFORE you have your nose pulled grease it. A GOOD dryin' day for washer-wo men— (S'/m-day. A GOOD day to gun without dogs— I Setter- day.
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