TERMS OF PUBLICATION. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE is published every Fri day morning by MEYERS A MSSOEI, at $2.00 por annum, if paid strictly in advance ; $2.50 if paid within six mouths; $3.00 if not paid withiusix months. All tnhscri ption accounts MUST be nettled anpually. No paper will be sent out of the State unless paid for IJI ADVAXCE. and all such subscriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are paid. AM 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 lines, ten rents por line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. All 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. IjtT 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 - - - 600 000 10 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 *oue 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. All letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MBNOEL, Publishers. Sttto runts at spur. S. L. RUSSELL. J. H. LONGENECKER. Russell & longeneckeii, ATTORNEVS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention ?;iven to collections and the prosecution of claims or Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac OFFICE, on Juliana Street, south of the Court House. aprs,67tf J. MCD. SHARPE. E. F^KIRR. 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, 'OO. J. R. DURBORROW. | JOHN LUTZ. nURBORROW & LUTZ, I / 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. J OHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his services to the pnblic. Office second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford. Aug. 1. 1881. lISPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT 2j LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military -Jlaims, back pay, bounty, Ac., speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Ju!iana street, t vo doors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, 1864, F. M. KIMMELL. | J. W. LINGENFELTER. KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER, 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 11. 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 doors south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate. May 13, 1864. _ B. F. METERS. | J • W. DICKF.RSON. Meyers & dickerson, at- TORNEYS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., office same as formerly occupied by Hon. S. L. Russell, a few doors south of the Court House, 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. HAYS IR VIN E, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bloody Run, Pa. Office in Harris' New Building. marl3°6S BJ. WILLIAMS & SONS, m No. 16 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia LARGEST MANUFACTFRERS OF VENETIAN BLINDS WINDOW SHADES, LJTSELL AT THE LOWEST Blinds Repaired. Store Shades. Trimmings, Fixtures, Plain Shades of all kinds. Curtain Cor nice?, Picture Tassels, Cord Bell Pulls, <fcc. upr24m2 1 FURNITURE AND CABINET 1 ROOMS. THOMAS MERWINE, AT THE OLD STAHL WORK-SHOP, has re-openeil the Furniture and Cabinet business in that part of town, and is prepared to furnish ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE, at remarkably cheap rates. Call and examine his work before purchasing elsewhere. Satisfaction guaranteed. Special attention paid to the manufacture and furnishing of coffins. Terms reasonable. inaylm3 DR. H. FRAESSLEY, PHYSICIAN FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES, and formerly attending Physician in one of the most celebrated hospitals in the world for Chronic Diseases, will make his lirst visit through this county, for the treatment of chronic diseases, and may be consulted at the following places and times, FREE OF CHARGE. If the Doctor cannot tell and explain the na ture of a disease of a Patient after a thorough examination. without mak ing many questions, he considers himself not able to treat the case, lie submits himself to he judged from that standpoint, if the patient is not satisfied it null not cost him anything. Saxton, Saturday, May 16. Woodbury, Monday. May 18. Pattonville, Tuesday, May 19. Enterprise, Wednesday, May 2(1 St. Clairsville, Thursday, May 21. Lewisville, Friday, May 22. Marietta, Saturday, May 23. Pleasantville, Monday. May 25. New Paris, Tuesday, May 26. Schellsburg, Wednesday, May 27. Buena Vista, Thursday, May 28. Dry Ridge, Friday, May 29. Rockville. Saturday, May 30. Bridgeport, Monday, June 1. Pala Alto, Tuesday, June 2. Centreville, Wednesday, June 3. Rainsburg, Thursday, June 4. . Cbatlesvilie, Friday, June 5. Springville, Saturday, June 6. Clearville, Monday. June 8. Cheneysville, Tuesday, June 9. - Elbinsville. Wednesday, June 10. Robisonville, Thursday, June 11. Brush Creek, Friday, June 12. Rayshill. Saturday, June 13. Bloody Run, Monday, June 15. Yellow Creek, Tuesday, June 10- Hopewell, Wednesday, June 17. Riddlesburg, Thursday, June 18. Fairplay, Iriday, June 19. Bedford, (Mengel House) Saturday, June 20. £jp"Dr. H. Fraessley is a regular educated German Physician, having practiced Medicine nearly twenty years in Europe and this country. Call at your principal post-office and get one of Dr. Fraessley's circulars. maylsw4* VITATERSIDE WOOLEN FAC TT TORY 1-30.000 LBS. WOOL WANTED! The undersigned having leased the Large New Woolen Factory, erected recently at Waterside, for a number of years, respectfully informs the old customers of the Factory and the public generally, that they will need at least the above amount of wool. They have on hand a large lot of Cloths, Casimeres, Towels, Sattinetts, Jeans, Blankets, Coverlets, Flannel, Ac., wtich they will exchange lor wool, as has been the custom heretofore. Carpets will be made to order, at all times. Stocking yarn of all kinds always on hand. Our Peddler, W. H. Ralston, will call on all the old customers, and the public generally, in due time, for the pur pose of exchanging goods for wool. The highest market price will be paid for wool in cash. N. B. Wool carding spinning and country Full ing will be done in the best manner and at short notice! JOHN I. NOBLE A BRO., tnay22m3 Waterside, Pa. ®lie tlcbforii (ftnjcttc. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. SlooflancTs Column. you ALL HAVE HEARD OF HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS, AND HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC. Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia. Their introduction into this country from Ger many occurred in 182;. THEY CURED YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS, And will cure you and your children. They are entirely different from * w-themany preparations now in the country cal I—l led Bitters or Tonics. They are no tavern-li-preparation, or any thing like one ; but good, honest, reliable medi cines. They are The greatest known remedies for Liver Complaint, DYSHJCPSIA. Nervous Debility, JAUNDICE, Diseases of the Kidneys, ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN, and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver, stomach, or IMPURITY' OP THE BLOOD. Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fullnes of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food, Full ness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eruc tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach. Swimming of the Head, Hurried or Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the . Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensa I I tions when in a- Lying Posture, Dimness of V-F Vision, Dots or Webs before the sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Defi ciency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back, Chest, Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh, Constant Imagi nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits. All these indicate diseases of the Liver %r Di gestive Organs, combined with impure blood. HOOFLAND S GERMAN BITTERS is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. It is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots, Herbs, and Barks from which these extracts are made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi cinal virtueus aie ex traded from them by a scientific Chemist, i ft These extracts are then forwarded to this country to be used ex pressly for the manufacture of these Bitters. There is no alcoholic substance of any kind used in compounding the Bitters, hence it is the only Bitters that can be used in esses where alcoholic stimulants are not advisable. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit ters, with PURE Santa Cruz Rum, Orange, etc. It is used for the same diseases as the Bitters, incase where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required. You will bear in mind that these remedies are en tirely different from any others advertised for the cure of the diseases named, these being scientific preparations of medicinal cxtracts, while the oth ers are mere decoctions of rum in some form. The TONIC is decidedly one of the most pleasant asd agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. Its taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take it, while its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali ties have caused it to be known as the greatest of all tonics. DEBILITY. •There is no medicine equal to Iloofland's Ger man Bitters or Tonic in cases of Debility-. They impart a tone |q and vigor to the whole system, strengthen -A- the appetite, cause an enjoyment of the food, enable the stomach to di gest it, purify the blood, give a good, sound, healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow from the eye, impart a bloom to the cheeks, and change the patient from a short-breathed, emaci ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced, stout, and vigorous person. Weak and Delicate" Children are made strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In fact, they are Family Medicines. They can be administered with perfect safety to a child three months old, the most delicate female, or a man of ninety. Tiiese remedies are the bent Blood Purifiers ever known and will cure all diseases resulting from bad bload. Keep yjur blood pure; keep your Liver in order; -|- keep your digestive organs in a sound, I healthy condition, by the use of these reine JLJ dies, and no diseases will ever assail you. The best men in the country recommend them. If years of honest reputation go for anything, you,must try these preparations. FROM HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylva nia. PHILADELPHIA, March 16, 1867. I find that li Hoofland's German Bitters" is not an intoxicating beverage, but is a good tonic, use ful in disorders of the digestive organs, and of great benefit in cases of debility and want of ner vous action in the system. Yours Truly, GEO. W. WOODWARD. FROM HON. JAMES TAOMPSON. Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 1866. I consider "Hoofland's German Bitters" a valua ble medicine in case . of attacks of Indiges tion or Dyspepsia. I \ can certify this from uiy experience of it. XX. Yours, with respect, JAMES THOMPSON. FROM REV. JOSEPH 11. KENNARD, D. D., Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia. DR. JACKSON —DEAR SIR :—I have been fre quently requested to connect my name with rec ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but regarding the piactice as out of ray appropriate sphere, I have in all cases declined; but with a clear proof in various instances, and particularly in my own family, of the usefulness of Dr. Hoof land's German Bitters, I depart for once from my usual course, to express my full conviction that for general debility of the system, and es pecially for Liver Com ■y plaint, it is a safe and valuable preparation. In some cases it may fail; bnt usual-i-x ly, I doubt not, it will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the above causes. Yours, very respectfully, J. H. KENNARD, Eigth, below Coates Street. CAUTION.. llooflund's German Remedies are counterfeited. The Genuine have the signature of C. M. JACK SON on the front of the outside wrapper of each bottle, and the name of the article blown in each bottle. All others are counterfeit. Price of the Bitters, $1 per bottle; Or, a half dozen for $-3. Price of the Tonic, $1 50 per bottle ; Or, a half dozen for $7 50. The tonic is put up in quart bottles. Recollect that it is Dr. Hoofland's German Remedies that are so universally used and so highly recommended;and do not allow the Druggist to induce I lyou to take anything else that he may say-L-'is just as good, be cause he makes a larger Thwse Reme dies will be sent by express to any locality upon application to the PRINCIPAL OFFICE, At the German Medicine Store. No. 631 ARCH STREET, Philadelphia. CHAS. M. EVANS, PROPRIETOR. Formerly C. M. JACKSON & Co. These Remedies are for sale by Druggists, Store keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere. Do not forget to examine the article yon buy, in order to get the genuine. may29'6Byl ' u.hc Dnlfottl (6alette. CAM A lUJIOdtAT" BK SAVED? The following 1 , which we cut from | the columns of the Advance (Congrega tionalist), shows a curious drift in re ligion. Here, says the American Churchman , edvidently is a class of questions which never occurred to the ancient casuists. Can a "Democrat" be saved ?—that is the question now rife among our Congregational breth ren. Hitherto they have "converted," in the Church mentioned, none hut | "Republicans." Now, however, they ! have actually got some "Democrats" truely converted, and the question rises, can they be truely converted and still remain wicked "Democrats" It is evidently an important ques tion with the Congregationalists, whatever it he with "the Democrats." The Advance , as will he seen, is not at all clear on this new question. In deed, it is one to puzzle the wisest head. It is very hard to be serious on this subject, without expressing indigna tion at such an utter caricature of a Church as this, that makes a man's re ligion depend on his party politics: DEMOCRATS AND CHURCH MEMBER SHIP. —A brother asked a question which has puzzled others beside him self: "I wish to call attention to a matter that has caused some of us hard study and a considerable trouble of mind. During the progress of our meetings, several men were brought to an ac knowledgment of Christ, and, as faj as man is capable of judging, were truly converted to God, that have always been "Democrats." Some of them take the . . . ~ and others the . . .; some are radicals, others conservatives. Thus far our church has none but Re publicans in it, but we have nothing in our church constitution, by-laws, or Confession of Faith that excludes these persons from uniting with the church, if they give the required evi dence of conversion on axamination. Some of our members, however, claim that a man is not converted who will not acknowledge the equality of man, black or white. On the other side, it is claimed, that from the Word of God, we have nothing that will exclude a man from the church that gives good evidence of conversion, and that we have no right to question a man as to his political opinions when he applies for admission to our church. I wish you would give us an opinion on this matter in the Advance." No iron rule can be laid down, but each case must be judged by itself, in the exercise of charity and good sense. j A regenerate heart does not, alas! al ways at once secure a regenerate head. It does not appear probable that a true convert will very long be edified with reading that consists of a New Testa ment interleaved with the ... If, however, a man's error lie in ignor ance, rather than malignity, if he do not deny human equality as regards a right to kind and just personal treat ment, but only as to political privi leges, about which the best men differ, ; and if he show in other respects the < true Christian spirit, he ought to be ad- J mitted. (!) "SHOOTING DESRTERS."— The Phila delphia Press having undertaken what it calls the purification of the Republi can party, publishes the following as a "Senatorial black list:" Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Ross, Trumbull, Van Winkle and Hender son. Adding, in another place, Judge Chase's name, and demanding that these gentlemen shall be turned out of the Republican party." "We do not want political association with this clique," says the Press. It also demands the expulsion of the —"New York Evening Post , Chicago Tribune , Cincinnati Commercial , Prov idence Journal, Springfield Republican, Bridgeport Standard, Buffalo Advertis er, Buffalo Express, and Hartford Cour antP The Post replies for itself: "The support of men and journals of independent opinions is of great im portance to a political party, and it would perhaps be well for the Republi can party, now entering upon an ar duous canvass, if its leaders would call off their dog." WHEN Ulysses S. Grant was a small boy his father bought him a little hatchet. Ulysses was so delighted that he went about hatchetiiig everything he could find. One fatal day, after things had been going on thus, so, for a week, Ulysses cut down one of his fath er's favorite pear trees. When the old gentleman saw the ruin of his favorite pear tree he went to LT. S. and said : "U. S. who cut down my favorite pear tree?" "I cannot tell a lie father; I cannot tell a lie," said Ulysses, "A. Johnson cut it down with his hatchet." "My dear son," said the old gentleman, spanking him, "I would rather have you tell a thousand lies than to lose so fine a pear tree." IT is said that the increase of cholera in India is owing to the destruction of the crocodiles by Englismen. Those animals used to eat the corpses that were thrown into the Ganges. IKE MA KVEE is convinced that brim stone matches were never made in heav en ; and, says he, it is sad to think, that with few exceptions, matches are all of them tipped with brimstone. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1868. CORRESPONDENCE. DEAR GAZETTE.—Have you heard j from Chicago ? Has the telegraph al ready announced to you that the Bond holders have triumphed? How are the mighty fallen —Greely, Wendell Phillips, Anna Dickerson, Esq., and others noted, yet not so potent, of less er note, yet mighty in "Loil" Con claves- in Union Leagues, in Dorcas So cieties, Patagonian Missions, Borioboo lah Gha and Kansas Aid Associations, all set aside, yea spurned, spurned ig nominiously, and for what? Tell it not in Gath—for the "National Cigar Smoking Humbug," as Anna D., Esq., calls him. For that stolid, drunken creature Grant, whom en dell has de nounced in strains of indignant elo quence from the rostrum and through the columns of the Anti-Slavery Stan dard for months past; and H. S. dam ning with faint praise in the Tribune, yet working like a beaver for Chase or any other man except "'Lyssus." But yesterday their words might stand a l gainst a world, now none so poor as do them reverence. Anna, having strengthened the back-bone of the Late Lamented, could mount the stump, and traitors, Rebs and Copperheads fled from her burning eloquence. Did she denounce one of them as "disloil" the Secretary's little bell jingled, the brave, chivalrous Baker summoned his minions, and soon the unhappy wretch disappeared in some Bastile that darkly yawned for him, and his place was vacant, his name blasted, his substance stolen, his children wander ers and beggars, and the truly "loil" rejoiced at his summary snuffing out. Did things at the Capital drag too slowly, did the back-bone of the L. L. show signs of weakness,' then Boaner ges Phillips would hurl his withering sarcasms, or his more dreadful threats !at all concerned, President, Cabinet, Congress, Courts, all hastened to obey his behests, to hurry forward the schemes in which he condescended to ' avow an interest, and then his God | like wrath appeased, he magestically returned to Boston and the Nation was | tranquilized. Did he from the rostrum, Lin language that was an outrage and ! insult to Americans, hold up the sav age, butchering Negro Chief of St. Do- I niingo as the superior of the great and ! good Washington, all the decency party shouted Yea, and Amen ! To doubt was treasonable, to diffe'r, dan gerous. Now he may roar himself hoarse, he may denounce Grant as a fool, as a drunkard, as one whom the negro-lovers dare not trust, and it has no effect; Loilty, Manhood Suffrage, Recenstruction, even the 40 acres and the mule are lost sight of, the Bond holders have told them they must be. recreant to all former professions, j must follow new prophets an 1 a new I creed, must eat dirt, and they cry I "Kismet." It is fate. "Truth Is stranger than fiction." | "Doubtful things uncertain," every ad | age bearing upon the instability of hu man affairs is more than verified in the action of the Chicago Convention j and the conduct of the Republican par j ty- During the reign of Lincoln, every move of a partizan character, every thing remotely bearing upon politics, was carried with a high hand. Wfaeth |er the Ucase originated in Boston or Washington did not matter, when ; once issued the serfs bowed to and obeyed it. Did any disaffected person question its wisdom and justice, were there not subservient Courts, Military Commissions organized to convict, Secret Spies, Provost Guards, I and local Police, all willing and anx ious to seize upon and punish even be fore trial. What do we now see? What is the I present state of that arrogant, all-gras- j ping party? Sitting in sack cloth and ashes at the feet of Grant, all its migh ty men (and women) cast aside, the polished Wade, the chronic Sheridan, the eloquent Phillips, the philosophic G reely, the chaste Dickinson, all tli rown aside for one who never believed or acted with them, who refused to an swer questions, even when propound ed by a Nigger Delegate from Virgin ia. Who with studied contempt has treated their rallying cries, their Ora tors, Mongrel Conventions, in fact all the usual party accessories. So des perate was their strait that they had to tamely bear it all, even his avowal be fore the Smelling Committee that he had favored Lee and other pestilent Rebels, had interposed between them and punishment, which, when they thought was done by Andrew John son, was treason, was violation of pledges, &c., Ac., but when done by Grant, although overflowing with spite, malice, venom, all the devilish passions that they had nurtured during the war, they dare not complain, but forced in silence to swallow doses that sickened their souls, and added ten fold malignity to every New England insult to Almifihty God, offered in the guise of prayer. Sich is life ! What an affecting thing it must have been, when the news was received in the Grant family that " 'Lyssus was a goin tew be President or sun'thin'." How proudly the form of the venera ble and talented Jesse would dilate, as he in his new character of Correspon dent of the Ledger , announced the news. How the heart of the Intellec tual Aunt would swell with joy as she thought of her future triumphs in the Nation's Capital, where her fame was established "as a great reader of his tory and having insisted on calling the baby Ulysses." With what supreme contempt the whole family would view the hide and leather business, and how roundly they would swear never more to soil their hands with Dubbin or Fish-oil, but keep them ready to thrust into the public Treasury, where 'Lyases had al ready thrust his to the arm-pit. But let us not intrude into the domestic privacy of such refined people—lt should be sacred. RADICAIi I* LATFOKH. The platform adopted by the Chica go Radical Convention is as follows The National Republican party of the United States, assembled in National Convention in the City of Chicago, on the 20th day of May, 18G8, make the following declaration of principles: First. We congratulate the country on the assured success of the reconstruc tion projects of Congress, as evinced by the adoption in a majority of the States lately in rebellion of constitu tions securing equal civil and political rights to all, and regard it as the duty of the government to sustain these in stitutions and to prevent the people of such States from being remitted to a state of anarchy. Second. The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men at the South was demanded by every consid eration of public safety, of gratitude, and of justice, and must be maintain ed ; while the question of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of these States. Third. We denounce all forms of re pudiation as a national crime; and national honor requires the payment of the public indebted ness in the utmost good faith to all creditors at home and abroad, not only according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws under which it was contrac ted. Fourth. It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation should be equali zed, and reduced as rapiply as the na tional faith will permit. Fifth. The national.debt contracted, as it has been for the preservation of the Union for all time to come, should be extended over a fair period for re demption, and it is the duty of Con gress to reduce the rate of interest thereon whenever it can honestly be done. Sixth. That the best policy to demol ish our burden of debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower rates of i nter cst than we now pay, and must contin ue to pay, so long as repudiation, par tial or total, open or covert, is tlirea ; tened or suspected. Seventh. The government of the Un ited States should be administered with the strictest economy, and the corruptions which have been so shame fully nursed and fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for Radical re form. Eighth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession of Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has acted treacherously to the peo ple who elected him and the cause he was pledged to support; has usurped the legislative and judicial func tions; has refused to execute the laws ; has used his high office to induce other officers to ignore and violate the laws ; has employed his executive power to render insecure the prosperity, peace and liberty or life of the citizens ; has abused the prdoning power; has denounced the National Legislature as unconstitutional; has persistently and corruptly resisted, by every measure in his power, every proper attempt at the reconsrtucton of the States lately in rebellion ; has perverted public pat ronage into an engine of wholesale cor ruption and has been justly impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and properly denounced guilty by the vote of thirty-five Senators. Ninth. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European powers that be cause a man is once a subject he is al ways so, must be resisted at every haz ard by the United States as a relic of the feudal times, not authorized by the law of nations, and at war with our na-; tional honor and independence. Nat-: uralized citizens are entitled to be pro tected in all their rights of citizenship as though they were native born, and j no citizen of the United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to arrest; and imprisonment by any foreign pow er for acts done or words spoken in this country. And if so arrested and im prisoned, it is the duty of the govern ment to interfere in his behalf. Tenth. Of all who were faithful in the trials of the late war there were none entitled to more especial honor than the brave soldiers and seamen, whoendured the hardships of campaign and cruise and emperiled their lives in the service of the country. The boun ties and pensions provided by law for these brave defenders of the nation, are obligations never to be forgotten. The widows and orphans of the gal lant dead are the wards of the people, sacred legacy bequeathed to the na- { tion's protecting care. Eleventh. Foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth and development of the resources and the increase of power of ; this nation—the asylum of the oppress ed of all nations—should be fostered I and encouraged by a liberal and just policy. Twelfth. This convention declares its sympathy with all the oppressed people which are struggling for their rights. VOL. 62.—WHOLE No. 5,446. i Till) KEITBI.ICAX ( AMHDATD FOR PRESIDE VT. If a backwoodsman should insist on using an axe to cut his crop of grain, instead of a sickle, because the axe had rendered good service in felling the forest that stood upon the same ground the preceding year, nobody would be apt to think well of his judgment in the selection of a utensil, .As we are not to have a war, there is less fitness in the selection of a general, than of a ! statesman, as a candidate for President. General Grant has been nominated I solely in consequence of his military I reputation. Waiving, for the present, the fundamental objection that the in strument is not adapted to the propos ed use, and that the Presidency, dur ing the next term, will afford no scope for the exertion of military talents, we challenge inquiry into the grounds of General Grant's fame as a soldier. ! We suppose none of his friends will j seriously maintain that he is entitled i to be called a great general merely be , cause he has commanded great armies 1 much less because he had exposed and lost in battle great multitudes of men. His reputation rests upon the fact that all his campaigns have been success- I ful. But success against such adversar ies of Pillow or in the | West is no very signal proof of abili ! ties, unless they commanded greater forces; which they did not. General Lee was a more worthy antagonist; but General Lee was not conquered by fighting him, but by exhausting his resources. He stood on the defensive for nearly a year after Grant assumed : command in the East, although the Confederacy was even then, when Grant crossed the Raipdan, tottering and well-nigh spent by three years' exertion in a strenuous and unequal struggle. It is certainly just to credit ; Grant with the captureof Lee; butthere I is a debit as well as a credit side to the i account. What General Scott called j "the economy of life by means of head j work," will be sought for in vain in j the campaigns of Gen. Grant. His successes have been won by a prodigal I expenditure of his soldiers. In his last and greatest campaign he pitted ! an enormous army against a small one, j and sacrificed twice as many men as Gen. Lee had under his command. It is not justice but adulation, to praise him as if he had conquered an army as large as his own. It is not justice but an affront to humanity to give him as much credit as if he had achieved the same result without such wholesale sacrifices of men. The following is an authentic statement of the respective forces<md losses of Generals Grant and Lee between the Rapidan and the James: Grant on assuming command May 4, 18(54, had of effective men besides the reserve, when he crossed the Rapidan, ! 125,000. Lee at the same date had an effective force of 52,000. Grant's reinforcements up to the bat tle of Cold Harbor, June 3, were 97,- 1 000. Lee's reinforcements, up to the same date, were 18,000. Grant's total force, including rein forcements, were 222,000. Lee's total force, including reinforce ments, was 70,000. i Returns to their respective Govern ments showed that when both armies had reached the James, June 10, the number of Grant's army that had been I put hors du combat was, 117,000. Up to the same date, the number of Lee's men who had been put hors du | combat was, 19, 000. The two armies then met in front of Petersburg. We have been at some pains to as certain and verify these figures, and we vouch for their substantial accur acy. We shall take good care that they do not escape the notice, nor slip the recollection of the country. We cheerfully concede to General Grant the merit of succe s; but it is right that tho country should know the ter rible cost at which that success was purchased. The truest test of military genius is the accomplishment of great results with slender means. Wecan recall no instance (unless Grant bean instance) of a general who estab lished his title to be called great, other wise than by succeeding against great disadvantages—either superior num bers, or consummate abilities in the commanders opposed to him, or form idable physical obstacles. A man does not prove that he possesses a giant's strength by overmastering an invalid or a cripple. A general does not estab lish his title to be considered great by subduing an army one-third as large as his own, and losing five of his own men for every one that he disables of the enemy. We have had some experience be fore of running successful generals as candidates for Presidency ; but their achievements were, in this particular, a great contrast to those of General Grant. General Jackson won his bril liant victory as New Orleans with 7,000 men against a British army of 12,000. General Taylor had but about 0,000 men at Buena Vista, and the Mexi cans twice or thrice that number. Gen eral Scott had 8,500 at Cerro Gordo, the Mexicans 12,000. The splendid victory of Contreras was achieved by Scott with 4,500, against 12,000 Mexi cans. General Scott, in his report to the Secretary of War, speaking of the battles in front of Mexico said, "And I assert upon accumulated and unques tionable evidence, that in not one of these conflicts was this array opposed I by fewer than three-aud-a-lialf times j its numbers—in several of them, by a ! yet greater excess." If it be said that j Grant had disadvantages of ground and position to encounter in advancing through an enemy's country, the same is equally true of Scott, who neverthe leas with greatly inferior numbers ad vanced rapidly from triumph to tri umph, while Grant, ojieratiug with superior numbers against a nearly ex hausted foe, required a whole year to capture Richmond, which finally suc cumbed to exhaustion, rather than to military genius*—A". Y. World. THE FLORIDA ELECTION.— How the Ballot-Boxes were stuffed. —The Balti more Gazette makes the following ex tract from a private letter written by a gentleman living at Madison, Florida, and addressed to a gentleman in that city: MADISON, Florida, May 10, 1808. During three election days of Monday day, Tuesday and Wednesday last, we had exciting times. The Radicals had it all their own way on Monday, but we had it our way on Tuesday and Wednesday, and were certain our can didates had been elected in this county, if only by a small majority ; but we were most awfully swindled in the end. The ballot box was made with a moveable slide, though in appearance all right. After it had been sealed with wax on the lock, over the heads of the nails, over the ticket hole and every other place possible, and each seal stamped with a peculiar seal, it was taken, when the polls were closed, to the honse of one Simon Ivatzenberg, (the candidate for the Senate), the se cret seal removed, a number of the Democratic votes taken out and treble the number o Radical tickets put in their places. We succeeded in finding the man who made the box and he told us the plan was given him by Ivatzenberg What is more singular is that the box at Tallahassa, Leon county, was made in the same way, and while the voting was going on the side accideotly fell out, and of course was instantly nialed up, though it had al ready been stuffed. Other counties were served in the same way. Several affi davits have been sworn to and sent to General Meade concerning this matter, but it is doubtful if any good will re sult therefrom. The Radicals have it all their own way. HUMAN MONSTROSITY.—In Lincoln county, Tennessee, is a well developeil white child of some ten years of age, walking, talking, eating, &c. t in the most approved juvenile manner, with a third arin growing from its back, im mediately between its shoulders. This arm, as it is called, is no flabby, useless excresence, as is common in such freaks of nature, but a healthy, well defined limb, with separate and appropriate bones, joints, muscles, etc., and applied by Its little owner to a number of strange uses. In the centre of a plate of bone permanently uniting the shoul der-blades is the socket or first joint, permitting the limb to be moved free ly in all directions, by means of sever al powerful and strangely complicated muscles. From the socket extends a tri-angular bone—or three small bones combined—perfectly straight, and a bout eight inches in length, termina ting in a short flexible wrist, upon which closely fits the hand. This hand is somewhat in the shape and a bout the size of an ordinary funnel, with four finger-like projections at e qual distances about the rim. The fin gers have claw-like nails, joints, <£-c., and possess the power of opening and closing as in the ordinary hand, their grip, however, being much more pow erful. The palm which seems already hardened by use, recedes into the wrist, leaving a small opening from which constantly oozes a dark mucous discharge entirely devoid of smell. At a word from its mother the child lifted and carried about with its member a small chair, and other unyieldy arti cles ; suspended itself from a walking stick—in fact, went through evolu tions which would put to blush a well t.ained monkey. The limb, being perfect and harmonizing with the en tire body, is nothing more nor less than a designed addition to it by its great author, and this little boy's birth has created a blank in natural history. —Nashville Union. CONG KEG ATIONAL SI NGING.—'W hy is it that in almost all our churches the singing is left to a few, generally to the choir? Why not all sing; there are very few persons to whom God has not given some musical powers, at least enough to join in the hymns sung during Divine services. The masses are not, however, so much to blame as those who lead the singing. There is too little spirit; the tunes are drawled out, every word and syllable length ened and twisted, until the music, which would otherwise be the most inspiring portion of the worship, loses all interest and really becomes tire some, for music loses all its charms when indifferently rendered. Then let there be an improvement; let tho hymns be sung with spirit and ener gy, so that all will feel interested, and join in the worship of God, simply be cause they cannot help it, and are im pelled by some strong inner power. Take the music away from devotional exercises and what have you ? Many persons praise God more sincerely in this way than any other, because there is an irresistible charm about it; the heart fairly overflows with the excess of emotion. Give us good, spirited singing in which all can join, in our churches, and the result will be—fewer vacant pews. A PENITENT on his death-bed recent ly sent one dollar to a man in Swan ton, Vt., to pay for half a pint of bran dy, with sugar stolen twenty years a go. Poverty and poor health were the causes of the theft,
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