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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.