BEDFORD PA M FBinAY,JrXE3e, 1865, UNION COUNTY NOMINATIONS. POE THE LEGISLATURE, Hon. I>. 18. ARMSTHOSfi, Subject to decision of the Legislative Conference. DISTRICT ATTGRXET, 3. T. KEAttT, Esq.,or Bedford. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, AA M WEAVERLISti. Bloody Ron. treasurer, <pl. SIMON DICKER 11 OOF, Bedford. COURTT survetor, OA XI El. SAMS, West Provide nee. JURY CORMUSSIOKKR, WILLIAM KIRK. SL Clair. COMMISSIONER, HEART jr. 881 XER, Cumberland Valley. TOOR DIRECTORS, JOHN 8. HETRICK. Syr., M. Woodberry, LEONARD BITNER, Syr*,. Juniata. AUDITOR, JAMES ALLISON, Napier. COttCfHER. Capt. AMOS ROBIN ET C, Southampton. OUR TICKET. The Convention of the Union party called by the Union County Committee, assembled in this place ort last Tuesday, the 27th inst, and placed in nomination a ticket to be voted for, by the Union men, at the coming October election. The Convention was composed of the best material in the county, and the ticket nominated by them was in strict harmony with the ordor of men who composed the Convention. Never in the history of the Union party has there been presented to the citizens of Bedford county; a ticket so uniformly capable of discharging the duties of the various offices for which they are respectively nominated. The ticket presented by the Union County Con vention is composed of men who are leading business men in their respective localities. The Convention again presented D. B. ARMSTRONG, Esq., for the Legislature, sub ject to the decision of the Legislative Con ference. Mr. Armstrong is an old soldier, who served three years in the Bth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. He served us creditably in the last House of Representatives and it will be no more than an act of justice to return him. JOHN T. KEAGV was nominated for Dis trict Attorney. Mr. Keagy is a young law yer who graduated in the office of His Hon or, Judge King. At the breaking out of the rebellion he entered the service and was severely wounded at Fair Oaks. Capt. ADAM WEAVERLING received the nomination for Associate Judge, and Capt. SIMON DICKERHOOF, for Treasurer. These gentlemen have both seen very severe ser vice and have made for themselves a record which will ever be spoken of with pride by the citizens of this county. DANIEL SAMS, received the nomination for County Surveyor; WILLIAM KIRK, for Jury Commissioner; HENRY J. BKUNER, for County Commissioner; JOHN 8. HET RICK and LEONARD BITTNER, for Poor Di rectors; JAMES ALLISON, for Auditor, and Capt. AMOS ROBINEII, for Coroner. Never were better men presented for the suffrages of the people for offices of the same grade. Six out of the eleven nominations were giv en to men who have proved themselves wor thy on uj<xl.j i.aru iougni neiua, oi toe con fidence of the people. Now, friends, let us go to work manfully and elect them; let us end the reign of Copperheadism in Bedford county. The time has come, when the men who have no more patriotism than to sym pathize with the enemies of our flag should be hurled from every poation of confidence in the country. Friends, go to work, the campaign has commenced. THE POLITICO-RELIGIOUS QUES TION. Under the above caption, the Gazette of the 16th inst contains on its first page two extracts from the New York Observer (Presbyterian) and an answer to them from the Freeman's Journal (Roman Catholic). The latter is an ironical diatribe against Protestants generally and Presbyterians and Methodists particularly, without the least pretension to a discussion of the auestiug. • uui, rnra, use an tnat appears in its columns, are marked by a calm and able discussion of subjects of vital interest to the whole country. The Observer while diseasing the Catholic and negro questions points out what it deems their bearing on the political questions of the day, but with an express denial of being actuated by any spirit of persecution. It is the high privi lege of the press to discuss all questions bearing on our political, social, moral or re ligious condition as a nation and the dangers that may threaten us from any source. It is also the privilege of the people to read and judge for themselves, of the justice and reasonableness of such discussions. For this purpose we print the articles from the Observer in full on our first page this week and propose next week to publish the article from the Freeman's Journal , together with the Popes Encyclical letter, so that our rea ders may be enabled to compare the various articles and understand their true value and import. We ask "for them a careful perusal and an impartial judgment. Much as we deprecate the introduction of sectarianism into the political arena, when our political opponents persist in covertly bringing up and appealing to sectarian prejudices, we feel obliged to set matters in their true light before our readers. ERRATUM. The compositors in the article on "export duties in our last week's issue, makes us to say: "We annually buy millions of dollars worth of manufactured cotton goods from England and pay the bulky and perishable productions of the farm, instead of sending them to foreign markets where the cost of transportation is almost equal to their value." In this shape the sentence is simply un intelligible. It was written, and should have beed printed thus: "We annually buy mil lions of dollars' worth of manufactured cot ton goods from England, and pay for them in gold, to the great detriment of our inter nal commerce and home industry, which we ought to manufacture at home, and thereby, while keeping our gold at home, also create a remunerative home market for the bulky and perishable productions of the farm, in stead of sending them to foreign markets where the cost of transportation is almost equal to their value. THJS ASSASSINATION TRIADS. The following remarks, from the Journal of Commerce, show very dearly where the shoe pinches: "The trial presents a picture which will be by no means honorable to us in history. There is no pretense, tha ■we know of, on the part of the Court or the Judge Advocate, or any one else, that a large mass of the ev idence given has anything to do with the cases of the accused. The civilized world will look with surprise and regret on the strange spectacle presented by this Court or Commission, assuming jurisdiction to try men and women for capital oflenses, where the civil courts are in rail power, and after assuming this juiisdiction proceeding to heap up a mass of testimony designed sole ly to reach the public mind, and utterly without reference to the question of guilt or innocence of my of the prisoners. "We may be pardoned, in view of such a scene, for tittering once more on our record a piea in behalf of due process oi law. It is the grand fortification of life, property and reputation.'" Without discussing the merits of the case it is very much exercised on account of our honor. Now we have not the least fear lor the honor of the country, but if it is the j honor of the rebel leaders and those who sympathise with them, the Journal included, then its fears are indeed well founded. The evidence is entirely too searching for the very acute and sensitive organization of the Journal. It would rather that some mate rial evidence should be passed by than that so much should appear that is, not so much, irrcvelant. to the case, as, damaging to our honor. For our own part we are satisfied that nothing has occurred since the breaking out of the rebellion so well calculated to set the country in its proper light before the world, and to show its leaders and their sympathizers in their true position as a band of felons. If the case of the New York rioters, had been half as thoroughly invest! gated we have no doubt there would have been quite a lusty crying out for our honor, not only by the Journal of Commerce, but also, by quite a number of Journals of like proclivities. Though our honor might have suffered considerably, it would have all been tor the good of the country, just as in the present case. We have no doubt the Daily Neic* also feels like crying oat for our honor just now. Has the Journal had a hand in the $25,000 along with Ben Wood? WHO CAN FORGET ? "The war is over. Former political questions are settled. "Old things have passed away, behold, all things are become new!'' Let the past be forgotten.''— Gazette of June. 23. Ah, yes the ' 'war is over.'' This is an ad mission for the men who denounced, with bitter sarcasm, the men who contended that the rebellion would be crushed by the power of arms. "The South can't be crushed!" was heard on all sides, hut like all prophets of evil they failed, and now they admit the" war is over!" "Former political questions are settled.'' How mild and gentle! How do cile these fellows of '62, '63 and '64 have become. Who does not recollect their sav ageness and the threat that accompanied every breath. Aye, but now cringingly they say, "let the past be forgotten." Fain would they have us forget that they ignored the "stars and stripes" and flaunted the "red white, and red," yea&Dd fainwouldthey XJJ3 lOrgtv •! """J tion on every hand, conspired to aid the rebellion, organized resistance, burned out Union men, encouraged desertion, reviled the Government, inaugurated civil war, propagated treason in its vilest forms and encouraged their sons to join the rebel array. Verily, they would have us forget that fifty thousand men were required to be distribu ted throughout the Northern States to main tain "law and order." We are sorry, but we can't forget so readily. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. THE Richmond papers are cheerful over fact that the attention of Northern capital ists is beginning to be directed to the com pletion of the James river and Kanawha , canal, with the view of continuing it to the Ohio river, upon the plan of the principal canal lines of New York. JEFFERSON DAVIS, it is now understood ! tice Chase presiding. We do not yet learn whether he is to be tried for treason only or for other offenses also.— N. Y. Tribune. "PORTE CRAYON. ' '—lt is understood that Colonel David H. Strother, aid to Governor Pierpont, known to the world of letters and art under the non deplume "Porte Crayon," is about to be appointed by the President to a foreign mission.— Richmond Republic. SURVEYORS are now running the route of ! the Southern Pa. R. R. in Fulton county, i Pa., and at last accounts had reached a iioint just beyond Harrisonville. The Frank lin Repository says the work has been taken hold of in good earnest, and there is every reason to believe that the road will be speed ily put under contract. A MAN in New England, who recently in vested two hundred dollars in one of the in stitutions which distribute articles of jewelry at one dollar each, got watches and jewelry which purported to be worth five hundred and ninety-nine dollars, but on sending his {frizes to the assay office, to be melted, he ound that there was just nine dollars and sixty-two cents worth of gold and silver in the lot. A Southerner was lately arrested at Me ehanicsburg. Pa., charged with robbing a farmer in Cumberland county. He nas made a confession in which he states that an organized band of Southerners, called the W bite Ghosts, is scattered through Penn sylvania, for the purpose of robbing the people. Papers were found on his person giving the names and localities of different individuals in the valley; as well as a list of towns and distances between them from Williamsport to Lancaster. Morse's American Geography has been excluded by authority from the public schools of Upper Canada, because it is ' 'calculated to impress on the youthful mind the idea that tne United States of America is the only country in the world meriting particu lar description, and that other hinds are merely pendicles and appurtenances of that great nation, while the pictorial illustrations t^ie bravery of American troops and the cowardice of tneir opponents. n A mM Elliot, who left Bellefonte, Centre county, and joined John Morgan's guerrpa band lately U the aufiacitv w re . turn to Bellefonte and claim a friendly ac quaintance with the true and loyal men of Centre county. He was summarily refused and driven out of the community, without ceremony, as he deserved to have been. AN EXCITING DEBATE on the Mexican question took place in the French Legisla ture on the Bth inst Jules Favre, the leader of the republican party denounced the Mexican expedition and declared that Max imilian's empire would fall to pieces as soon as the French troops were withdrawn. THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS. Remarkable evidence an to a Neu npa jter.—Jlen. f food's News in at uri ous category.—Twent g-fve thou sand deUar checks in his favor.— Rebel {/old supporting a rebel or gan in New York. — Geo. Wilkes and Abrnm D. Russell verify Ben.'s signature. EXAMINATION OP D. L. EASTWOOD. By Judge Advocate liolt. —Live hi Mon treal, Canada : am Assistant Manager of the Montreal Branch of the Ontario Bank ; am acquainted with Jacob Thompson, for merly Secretary of the Interior of the Uni ted States, and with the accouut. which he kept with the Ontario Bank. The moneys deposited in that bank to his accrued 1 from the negotiation of Bills of Exchange drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury of the so-called Confederate States upon their agents at Liverpool. Q. —State whether or not in the course of the disbursements made by Jacob Thomp son, of the fund placed to his credit, this re quisition was drawn on the bank (exhibit ing to witness a paper given below) ? A. — It WAS ; it is in my handwriting. Q.— Please read it to the court? A.— (Reading the paper:) "MONTREAL, August 10, 1864. Wanted from the Ontario Bank, on New York, in favor of Benjamin Wood, Esq., for $25,000 current funds, SIO,OOO debit ex sls, 000." The paper shows that the requsition was originally drawn in favor of Benjamin Wood, Esq., and that the name of D. L. Eastwood was afterwards substituted. Q. —State tlr; exact condition of that pa per? A. —As it reads now, it is a draft on New York, payable to the order of D. L. Eastwood ; that is myself. Q. —State how that change in the requisi tion occurred ? A. —The name of Benjamin Wood, as it appeared originally, was erased at Mr. Thompson's request, and my name, as an officer of the bank, was substituted. Q. —That is the original paper, is it not ? A. —It is. Q.— Now look at this bill of exchange (another paper was exhibited to the witness,) and state whether it was drawn upon that requisition? A.—lt was. By request of the Judge-Advocate the witness then read the paper to the court. It is dated Montreal, Aug. 1G 1864, and is directed to the Cashier of the City Bank, New-York, and the wording is as follows : "At three days" sight please pay to order of D. L. Eastman, in current Hinds, twenty five thousand dollars, valaue received, and charge the same to the account of this Branch." The indorsement on the bill directs the payment to be made to Hon. Bqjamin Wood or order, signed B. F. Wood. Q. —You state that twenty-five thousand dollars for which this bill was drawn is the same for which that requisition was made by Mr. Thompson in the name of Benjamin Wood. A.—lt was. Q. —Stat j whether or not the bill of ex change you have just read is the original one ? A. —It is. Q. —Where did you obtain it ? A.—l ob tained it in New York, from the cashier of the bank on which it was drawn. Q. —Does it bear the marks of having been paid ? A. —I am not acquainted with the usual marks of cancelling in New York but I understood that it had been paid. The witness stated further that he was not acquainted with the Benjamin Wood refer red to, but he supposed it to be the same who, at the date of that transaction, was a member of the Congress of the United States. Orow Examined by Mr. Aiken —Did not recollect of having cashed any drafts or checks in favor of James Watson Wallace, Richard Montgomery, James B. Merritt or John Wilkes Booth. About the last of Oc tober, Booth purchased a bill on the hank at connected. mentioned before. The Judge-Advocate exhibited the wit ness a list of localities on which dratts had been made on the Ontario Bank, and reques ted him to give the dates ami amounts el the drafts which, as shown by the pajier, had beer, drawn on New York. The witness stated that the following were among the number of drafts drawn : On the 3d of October last, a draft for SIO,OOO in gold ; on the 11th of October, one tor $5, 000 in gold; on Nov. 3, 4 and 8, bills for about $6,000 in United States currency. On the 14th and 21st of March last small drafts were also drawn. EXAMINATION" OF GEORGE WILKES. By Judge- Advocate Uolt— Am acquainted with Benjamin Wood, of New \ ork, and know hi* handwriting. (The indorsement, "B. Wood" on the r>ack of the bill of ex change. as given above, was exhibited to the witness, and the handwriting identified by him as that of Benjamin \\ ood, of New York ) Witness stated further, that at the Congress of the United States, and he be lieved editor and proprietor of the New lork Daily News. EXAMINATION OF MR. ABRAHAM D. RUBSER. Holt —Am acquainted with Benjamin Wood, of the City of New- York, atid know his handwriting." (The in dorsement on the bill of exchange exhibited to the previous witness, was identified by this witness to be the handwriting of Mr \V ood.) At the time of the date of that bill of exchange, dir. Wood was a member of the Congress of the United States, and edi tor and proprietor of the New-York Daily Acini. \\ ltness had been in the habit of receiving letters from Mr. Wood. The Court then took a recess till 2 o'clock Cpon reassembling Judge-Advocate Holt suggested that if the argument of the coun sel for the defence was now commenced in the absence of Col. Tompkins, a member of' the court, who was indisposed, it would have to be read over to him during a subsequent session of the court. He thought there would be no loss of time to the court if an adjournment was taken until Monday. The court accordingly adjourned until Monday at 10 A. M. DECISION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AS TO GOVERNMENT BOUNTIES.— Hon. James Speed, Attorney General, has deci ded that a volunteer, accepted and muster ed into the service under the statute of July 4, 1864, whetherfor a term of one year, or two years, or for three years, if he is mus tered out of the service before the expira tion of the term of service for which he en listed, is entitled only to receive the propor tion of the bonnty allowed him by the stat ute, whether one-third, or two-thirds there of, which had actually accrued before the date of his discharge. If, for instance, he volunteered for two years, and is mustered out before the expiration oft.be first year o2 his service, lie cannot claim either the sec ond or third installment of the bounty of two hundred dollars which would have been payable to him had he continued in the ser vice till the expiration of the two years for which he enlisted. , ,^. c volunteer only who, at the time of his discharge, has completed one-half of the term of service for which he enlisted, is en titled to the second installment of one-third of the amount of bounty given to him by the act, and he is entitled to no more of that bounty. If he is discharged on the next ! day after the expiration of one-half of his term of enlistment, the second installment of the bounty is due and payable to him. pie Government cannot reclaim it if it has been paid nor withhold it if it remain un paid. But the discharge precludes him temn receiving the third installment; that . 'J? due to a volunteer who may have rved the whole term for which he enlisted. I John Minor Botts HIS VIKIM ON THKRESTRICTION OK THE si'K | FKAOK, &C. ' } WASHINGTON, June 17. I hud t'ii pleasure of meeting John Mi nor Botts o-day. lie has changed hut lit tle duringjhe past four years, though he shows raat-i of increased age. Hut his manner iss prompt and pcremtory as ever, and his of public affairs are marked by the said clearness and boldness which always chafccterizcd bis political opinions. He is nofcatisticd with the policy adopted by tiro Govknment in regard to suffrage. He thinksi. unwise to restrict the right of voting by hjjuiring too t4 iu r|k f He wotild h(ve the right of holding office restrict a p-eat deal more than it is, so that ni manphould ever hold office, South or Nam , wio has not always been a thor ough tm.-uuproinising Union man. He thinksf hat Joogress should make a iaw by which tveryJian should be required, as a condiDn of holding any office in the Uni ted Stjtes, Sorth or South, to swear that he hat neve-(foe, written, or mid anything to prepdice or injure the authority oi' the Gowenment of the United States, nor in any my, by act or word, given aid, comfort or eii'ouragement to its enemies. This wouldkeep ill the powers of the Govern ment b the hands of loyal men, and Mr. Botts fiinksit quite as much needed in the Northjm in the South, for he says that the Coppefteads in the North have given more aid tope rebellion than thousands in the Rebel Hates, and are far more dangerous to the iiture peace and welfare of the coun try. to would have every Copperhead, who egjld not take the oath above recited, exelultl from office ; and the same oath, cover % tilt; same ground and couched in the saiie tenua, should be required of every man i every section of the country, as a eondijbn of holding office. In (lis way no man could vote for a dis loyal ftudidate anywhere. But Mr. Botts think that the effect of requiring so strin gent in oath as a condition of voting, will navel tendency to perpetuate the influence of Rpel traders over the masses of the peo ple neighborhoods. They find thciit'lves in the same boat—excluded alike frouuil participation in public a flairs be causepf their past relations to each other ; and tjey will naturally, lie thinks, under thesefcircumstanoes, still cling together, and the liders will thus perpetuate their influ ence td control. But if the masses of the peopf are allowed to vote, while their lea ders ire prevented, by the stringency of the oath fequired, from being candidates for of fice, tie voters will have to look elsewhere for thiir leadersj and thus the connection bet wn them will be broken up. Mr..Botts is very anxious that President Johnsjn should shape his policy so as to de prive hose who have hitherto controlled the political sentiment and action of the South of all future influence and authority, an . he thinks it must be done by sonic such course as he suggests in regard to suffrage. In regard to negro suffrage, Mr. Botts says that, aside from all other reasons against it, it would do more than all other measures combined to perpetuate the authority of the old slaveholders. Whatever may be their present temper, it is certain that sooner or later these men must employ their former slaves as free laborers. He thinks they will as a general thing, do so thsoughout the en tire South. It will be for their interest (and that must in the end control their ac tion) to make friends of the freed sl.ves — and this they will do. As a necessary con sequence, the negroes, dependent upon them for employment, wages and everything they have will be guided oy their advice in voting as, in everything else, and thus the effect of giving them the suffrage would ci to multiply largely the political power 01 their former masters. This, Mr. Botts thinks, would necessarily be the case lor many years, until the nogroes become suffi ciently educated and indftD ident to -think tney ought not to have The suffrage until that time arrives. Mr. Botts has never voted or Liken any political action whatever under the Confed erate < jvePament. When it was formed he denounced it as a crime and predicted its utter and igiominious failure, and he then retired to private life to await the fulfill ment of his predictions. HE has been sub ject to inyasons and raids from both sides, but has invariably fared the worst at the hands of tin Rebels, lie will remain in Washington a few days, and visit New York next inonfi. — Washington Correspondent X. Y. Thfex. Tie Work of Restoration. Oui advices from the South arc of a most coutrsdictory character, and evidently take their omplexicu from the varied points of view hd different personal circumstances of the correspondents. Sonde reports are of the nist gloomy character, representing the ■ pcopl as utterly destituc. yet hitter in their ' 4 towards the government which now gives ticln daily food; bu>.i is the ndroos as lazy and exhibiting a reck ' less 1 irii.se which they mistake for freedom. Otljr statements describe a revival of bu siness the activity of planters in preparing their round for next year's crop, and the succek of efforts for the elevation and inde pendiee of the negroes. It is evident that a coaderable time must elapse before the sociej of the Southern States can berecon strucjd upon a basis of freedom, and per manent and universal prosperity can lie , sprcJ over their desolated domain, but strenbus efforts are being made both by the jrivate philanthopy to hasten this , dcsirs!e future. Tlußebel Governors of Louisiana and Texadiave issued proclamations to the peo ple of heir respective States, the former in a submissive and regretful tone, the latter in a Lrtutory and somewhat belligerent strain! Thiirobabilicies are that the Southern Stateawill all be provided with regular or provisbiial State governments before the nation!! holiday next month. On the 17th inst, IVesident Johnson appointed I'ro visionalG overnors for the States of Texas and Gefgia. and others for Florida, Ala bama aid South Carolina, are to be ap point e<j i in mediately. The iillowing Southern States have elec ted Governors, as follows : (: f KenScky, Thomas E. Bramlette. Maryland, Thomas Swann. Tennjssec. William G. Bro willow. Virghia, Francis A. Pjerpoint Miasdiri, Thomas C. Fletcher. Arkaisas, John Murphy. Louisana. James Madison Wells. Tlie {resident has appointed the follow in" Prorisional Governors: — A orti Carolina, WillirmW. Ifolden. Georjia, James Johnson. Miaateippi, William L. Sharkey. Texai, Andrew J. Hamilton. Provisional Governors as yet to be ap pointed for the following States Alabama, South Carolina, Florida. —iV. Y. Trilmiie. Ricapture of Dick Turner. BALTIMORE, June 20. —The Richmond papers of Monday say that Dick Turner, the keeper of' Libby Prison, under the Reb el rule, was recaptured on Sunday, and is now c< nined in one of the cells of Libby, constructed by the Rebels for the confine ment of Colonel Straight. The South Carolina Delegation. Dr. Mackey, the well-known Charleston Unionist, pronounces the delegation just ar rived from that city to confer with the Pres ident on the subject of the employment of free dm en in South Carolina, composed en tirely of original secessionists and rebels throughout the war. He regards their com ing as an hupndent insult to the United Stetcs. Letter of G. Francis Train to H. C Carey Esq. No. IXB4 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK, May -JO, 1865.—Henry C. Carey, Esq, Phl adHphia.—Bear Mr. Carey'—Looming in the distance I see a great battle to be lought between two armies to the cry of PROTEC TIVE TARIFF AND NO REPUDIATION VS. FREE IKADBAND BANKRUPCV. Older than I, you have been longer in the field; tell me— ought Protectionists not to organize their forces i President Johnson stands on his antecedents that is free trade. Secretary . lot, u.loch yearns for specie payment— that nfree trade. Bennett proposes to pay off trade. The Bryant is an ancient Democrat. Will the leopard change his spots? The Democratic leaders are paying possum. They intend to go to the people on free trade. Now, free trade is repudiation, and places America where, she was before the war, worse than a colony of England—a toady. Mine is a labor of love. My voyage over the world has taught me the power of Amer ica. Her great wealth is in her herself her mines— her manufactures — her agriculture. If free trade prevails—low wages, squalid towns, paper colonies, and a thriftless, slavish population, like England, will mraiyze our enterprise. Vouand Hor ace Greely have been shoulder to shoulder for a quarter of a century, and on this tariff question, have been far ahead of our so called statesmen. J believe he gave way, however, on the paper dutv. One brick al ready pone off the tariff fabric. Yours, like mine, is a labor of love. I have no interest in manufactures —I am not aware that you have. Hence, both speak for country. We must agitate, consolidate, concentrate. As sociation is nature's law —birds go in flocks, animals in herds, fish in schools, Insects in swarms; and when men associate as a Feder al army, treason dies and traitors oerish. Some of the Pennsylvania and New York Iron men have asked me to go to Saratoga (adjourned meeting of iron manufacturers from Chicago) as independent delegate. I want your views—a snort, spicy letter of advice —shooting ahead, and planning cam paign. Three years this fall you were on the stage, with the solid men of Philadel phia, when I advocated the American sys tem at your academy of Music. Three weeks ago in the same place, again I stood by the iron guns, while you were in the chair. Sincerely, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. MR. CAREY'S REPLY. PHILADELPHIA, June 8, 1865.— George Francis Train, Esq., New York—Dear sir:— Yours of the 30th being misdirected, spent several days on the road, and is only now received. There is no real difficulty about the Tariff question, except that which results from the unwillingness of the parties interested to help themselves. For three years I have been urging them to do this, but it is only recently that they have been induced to be gin to talk about doing something. When they will begin to do something, 1 cannot venture to predict Sir months since they held a convention here, and passed some resolutions —very good, but very useless. Three months since they held another at Pittsburgh, at which they adopted a second set of resolutions, and there the matter stopped. They have adopted another set at Chicago: and Sarato ga will now give us the fourth, to be followed by a fifth at Cleveland. If work were to be accomplished by means of big words, they would now be near the attainment of their views. My experience, however, is opposed to this idea, bo fur as I have seen, it requires time, mind, and means, and none of these are they willing give, while their opponents give all of thcm- Bricks cannot be made without straw. Twenty years of my life have been given to the work, and it would requjre more. <h->c cost hie.' L,l d H my means would have been given to it had they not themselves deprived me of the power to free them. My rights have been trampled upon, my property has been depreciated, and my means of living impaired, and all of this has been done by men who have ac cumulated millions by aid of a tariff' for which they have been indebted to me. They have thus compelled me to give to the work of protecting myself against them all the time, mind and means that would so gladly have been given to protecting them against their enemies. The system under which I have suffered still continues, and while it shall do so I have no power to ren der them the aid of wheih they stand in so much need. Hoping that you may have better fortune I remain, with great regard, vours very trulv ' _ C. CAREY. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS IN 1859.—' The Vice-President of the late rebel Confede racy. when a member of Congress, was distin guished above others for what Joshua R. Giddings used to call "plantation manners." Despite hiu professed L, nlon sentiments, he vrasfit to succeed John Randolph in the prac tice of insulting the people of the free states. He always seemed to feel that he owned slaves, and had a right therefore to be abu sive to those who did not This character of the roan is fully exem plified in a speech made by him in the House of Representatives during the session of 1859. The following passage is a sample: "Gentlemen: Vou make a good deal of clamor, but it don't arm as at all. We have got used to that kind of talk. You have threatened before, but you have neve performed. _ \ ou have always caved in, and yon will doit again. are a mouthing, white-livered set. V e don't care for your i ou rail, but we are used to your railing. ( You hiss, but so do adders. We expect it of adders and we expect it of you. You are like the devils that were pitched over the battlements of Heaven into Hell. They set up a howl at their discomfiture, and so will vou. l r ou must submit to the yoke, so don't chafe. "Gentlemen, we have got you in our power, i ou have tried to drive as to the wall, but things are changed. In 1850 you were im perious and grasping, and wanted to take all the territory north of 36 30. Now you will lose all. \ou went awoolling and you have come home fleeced. Don't be so impudent as to complain; you will onlv be slapjied in the face. Don.t resist; you will onlv be lashed into obedience. Your legislatures of New York, of Rhode Island, of Massa chusetts, and your northern divines, our opponents everywhere, are merelv adders, whose vocation it is to hiss; they are simply howliyg devils who shall be sent to hell." —Lie. Poet. MCCLELLAN'S STRATEGY.— The Washing ton correspondent of the Delaware County America it gives this pleasant paragraph: ' have before me the annual reports of the Rebel Secretary of War from the beginning of the rebellion to the close of 1863. In looking it over I was struck by the report of operations at Manassas. You remember how McCMlan dilly-dallied and would not move u{K>n this place until he had enough of men to reach from Washington to that place, and then how he traveled a snail's pace, and only showed a determination to possess it after he found it had been evacua ted. Well Cren'l. Trimble in his report says that he occupied and held that place with four hundred men , till he saw us coming when he evacuated the place. This was the army with wooden cannon that held us at bay till the whole South was organized, and on a military footing. The reports are very full, and appear as impartial as those pub lished by our Secretary of War. The bin ding is indicative of things in Dixie, for it is of coarse Kentucky Jean—leather being too ! scarce to use upon the backs of public docu- j ments. HIGHLY INTERESTING. Fran da on the f/orernment by oblit erating marks on eaneetlerl stamps. Highly important to Volunteer Sol di i-rx. General IHx's i tot to Onna~_ da.—Dismantling field works near If ashinyton.—Rebels Join in;/ the Mcjciean Army. _ NEW YORK, June 23. Ihe Trilmiu n Washington special says: ft is reported that frauds to an alarming extent are being practiced upon the Gov ernment bv an ingenious method of oblitera ting cancelled stamps, and which can be done so completely that the stamp may be used retary of the Treasury by which the marks of cancellation cannot be removed without destroying the face of the stamp, thus af fording perfect security against further frauds. In accordance with instructions, paymas ters will not disburse money to men who have left the volunteer service to go into the regular army; but when deductions from the latter are presented, they will be invali dated by paymasters, and the men returned to service. The Tribune s Montreal correspondent, speaking of the visit of General Dix to Can ada, says General Dix goes to Quebec on a visit to the Governor General of Canada, to inform him that the abuses of the right of asylum, so long practiced bv the Canadian Government in behalf of tne rebel agents, must be reformed. The Herald 'a Washington special says : Hon. C. A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, will conclude his labors in that office in one week from to-day, and take his de parture for Chicago. A military order was promulgated to-day announcing the dismounting of the field works which compose the defences of Washington, North and South of the Potomac. Division Commanders are requested to dispose of all ordnance and ordnance stores, belonging to forts to be dismantled. The Tribune's New Orleans special learns on the authority of a Texan officer, that 5,000 of the late rebel ariny of Texas have gone over the Rio Grande to enter the Mex ican army. They are mostly xuissourians and Texans. They neclared they could not live under the United .States flag, and would even fight with negroes against it A heavy bounty is offered to men to enter the army of Mexico. OFFICIAL WAR GAZETTE Abrogation of the coast blockade. — Surrender of Galveston and the end of the Rebellion. PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT. Whereas, by the proclamations of the President, of the 15th and 27th of Apri}, 1861, a blockade of certain ports of the Uni ted States was set on foot; but whereas, the reasons for that measure have ceased to exist, Now, therefore, be it known that I. An drew Johnson, President of the United States do hereby declare and proclaim the blockade aforesaid to be rescinded as to all the ports aforesaid, including that of Galveston and other ports west of the Mississippi river, which ports will be open to foreign com merce on the Ist of July next, on the terms and conditions set forth in my proclamation of the 22d of May last. It is to be under stood, however, that the blockade thus re scinded was an international measure for the purpose of protecting the sovereign rights of the United States. The greater or less subversion of civil au thority in the region to which it applied, and the impracticability of at once restoring that due efficiency may, for a season, make it ad visable to employ the army and navy of the United States towards carrying the laws in to effect whenever such ernploymcut may be testimony whereof, T have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 23d day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1865, and of the Independence of theUnitedStates of America, the eiehtv-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President : W. RENTER, Acting Secretary of State. SURRENDER OF GALVESTON, ETC DESPATCHES FROM SECRET\RY STANTON AND ADM'L THATCH ER. WASHINGTON, June 23. Manor Gen. Dir., Mew York : The Navy Department has just received au official despatch froui Admiral Thatcher, dated at Galveston, June 8, reporting that on the Ist of this month General Brown, commanding the United States forces, oc cupied and garrisoned Brownsville. On the 2d of June the Rebel Generals Kirby Smith and Magruder met in the har bor of Galveston. General A. J. Smith, representing Major-General Canby, and Gen Kirby Smith then and there signed the terms of surrender previously agreed upon at New Orleans. > On the sth of June full and formal jiosses sion of Galveston was delivered up to the United States forces, and the flag of the Union raised. On the Bth of .June Admiral Thatcher went ashore, and was cordially received by the Rebel naval and military authorities, who requested a part of the United States naval force to remain there for their pro tection. Galveston is before this time strongly gar risoned by the United States land forces sent forward by General Canby. General Sheridan is also probably there in person. ?i i "resident's proclamation raising the blockade will lie immediately issued. E. M. STANTON. Secretary of War. Wreck of the Steamer Golden Rule.— All the passenger* anderetc saved. NEW YORK, May 24. J tie steamer Ocean Queen brings Panama dates to the 16th. The Star and Herald announces the wreck of the steauier Golden Rule, of the line from New York to Nicara gua, on the 30th of May, on Roncondor Reef, thirty-five miles trom the island of Old Providence; she was bound from New York to Greytown, and had 620 passengers for San Francisco, besides a full crew, all of whom wore saved and landed on the island, with sufficient provisions to support them until taken of. It appears that the Golden Rule first ex- Slodea one of her flues, after which she colli ed with a ferry boat, damaging one of her paddle wheels, and detaining her from going to sea till the 22d. At 3:40 A. M. ou the 30th, in a heavy rain, she struck a rock and stuck fast. On the Bth instant, the United States steamers Huntsville an.l State of Georgia sailed from Aspinwall for the wreek. to bring away the passengers. They were brought, to Aspinwall, and forwarded to San Fran cisco by the steamer America. Important Order of Oen. Thomas. Meat and flour issued to the /toor of Atlanta —JPeople of Tennessee in a starving condition. CINCINNATI, June 21. —A Nashville dis patch to the Gazette says : General Thomas has issued an onier allowing all persons sent north of the Uhio river to remain during the war to return, also abolishing the pass svs~ torn over all railroads and rivers in his de partment, ? 'I 8011 - tele graphs the Govern ment that he has issued to the poor at At !frc!f'.vr Unn *j seven days, one hun dred thousand pounds of meat and flour. people in Tennessee, and adjacent coun ties, are in a starving condition, and relidf must be extended to thirty tboucand people. NORTH CAROLINA. hmneme collection of Rebel nudum xtetrex—Seeexxionixtx rush in a Schofield Schofield n* tc,,- . ORK .- June 20- Nowbcra date* u r th* I th mst. have been received. Tie irn nionse supply of Rebel medical stores coi . jected at Charlotte had been received t here it required two weeks to inventory them. Governor HoWen thinks the enrollment of loyal voters can be completed so as to have the State Convention election take place about the middle of August, panion!' Vhey t'ome airreat State. General Sehofield and staff have gone to Raleigh to e tablish his headquarters as commander of the department. New Yokk, June 25. A correspondent of the lb raid writing from North Carolina, says: Many of the planters are very desirous of the settlement in their midst of good Northern farmers, now that the emancipation of the slaves will necessarily change the agricultural sys tem. The negroes in many portions of'the State are again at work on the plantations as industriously as before the acquirement of their freedom. The Wilmington, North Carolina. Ib raid of the 17th. says the removal of restrictions on trade have had a wonderful effect on bringing out cotton, turpentine, rosin, and other products. Large quantities are being brought from outhouses and other hiding places, the last' steamer had a full cargo, and left enough on the wharf to freight ano ther steamer. Large orders for good.- have been sent North, and all branches of busi ness are improving with remarkable rapidity. How GRANT Got INTO THE WAB. —The well-known correspondent of the Boston Journal, who writes under the signature of Burleigh, thus relates the story of Gram s entrance into the United States Ariuy at tlie outset of the Rebellion: — "Four years ago this very month. Mix Grant lived in her quiet home in Galena Her husband was Mr. Grant, the leather dealer, a plain, modest, reliable man. with out much apparent force, who attracted very little attention any way. The war had com menced. The flag had l>een shot away from Sumter, and shot out of a Rebel cannon at Memphis. One morning Mr. Grantcailed on Congressman Washburne, who resides in Galena. He told Mr. W. that lie did not feel right; that he could not sleep nights: that he felt that he was not doing hie duty. Washburne asked him what was the matter. Mr. Grant replied, 'I am doing nothing for my country. I have been educated tV> > nation's expense: but here lam at home doing I don't knovv what tod, lam no politician. I don't seem to be wanted anywhere, yet I feel as if I was lit for something, if f could only find my place. Mr. Washburne invited his neighbor to ac company him to Springfield, where an im portant consultation was to be held at the i request of Governor Yates. On the morn ing of the fourth day, Mr. Grant called at j Mr. Washburne's rootns, and said to him 'Nobody knows me here —there is nothing for me to do —T am going home.' 'Hold on a day or two longer,' said Washbnrne. The "next day an important discussion was held in the council chamber. At Mr. Washburne's request, Mr. Grant was called in He held an interview with the State anthorities for thirty minutes, aud then went out. As the door closed. Governor Yat s cried out. Good God. Washburne. who - this man? I have learned more about troops in these thirty minutes than I ever knew in all my life. All I can do for him now is to put him on my staff. You go home a:id raise a reciment, and I'll commission liim as colonel.' The thinir was Hone. The rest of the story the world knows by heart.'' DEATH OF SIR JOSEPH PAXTON.—Jo seph Paxton. known all over the civilized world as the architect of the London CM tal Palace of 1851 aud the inventor oi' A system of building which has been imitated in numerous large cities, and finds it- no blest culmination in the Sydenham Crystal Palace, has lately died in England, where for some time he has been iu infirm health. He was the son of huiuble parents, ani for many years was a landscape gardener for the Duke of Devonshire, father of the present Duke. Having under his charge the eel■- brated pleasure grounds at Chatsworth. he built there, from iron and glass, a large house intended for the protection of tropi cal plants and trees. It is said that the idea was suggested to him by the structure of a leaf. At this time the International Exhibition scheme was under way, and Pax ton presen ted a plan for the building, which was adop ted. From that time he became f:uiou-. He grew rich, was made a Knight by the Queen, and was elected to the British Par liament. Having risen from the people he always remained their friend and was on the liberal side. He was sixty-one years old at the time of his death.— Pittsburgh Gazette. SUMMARY OF GENERAL NEWS. Mrs. Secretary Seward died on the morn ing of the 22d inst., in the presence of her family and many devoted friends. IT is stated that the Emperor Napoleon has agreed to reinstate Maximilian in all his rights in the event of his return from Mexico. THE subscriptions to the Seven-Tim:, loan on Saturday last amounted to B'-'. I <. 800. The total subscriptions for the week amounted to $15,922,700. George A. Trenholm, who carried on the rag business for Jeff. Davis under the desig nation of "Secretary of the Treasury..' has fallen into the hands of the Union troops. The Union State Convention of Ohio met at Columbus on the 21, inst. Gen I D. Cox was nominated a< the candidate Or Governor, by acclamation. Rear Admiral S. F. Dupont, the thirl naval officer of rank, in our country, dird at the La Piere House in Philadelphia, "n the morning of the 24th inst, The Transport, Kentucky, with 12(X> pa roled rebel troops, struck a snag, on the 9th inst.. twelve miles below Shrevcport, on the Red River. Over two hundred lives were lost. John C. Breckinridge, Capt. J. Wilson, Col. Y\ ood and two rebel soldiers escaped from the. coast of Florida in an open boat and after a perilous voyage of eight days, ; reached Cardenas, on the coftst ofCHib®. (>n the New York and Erie Rail Road on the morning of the 22d inst., a passenger tram was thrown off the track, near the town of Deposit, by a broken rail, result.tat m the injury of twenty seven persons. Ar/KHOTT. one of the assassins on trial ' Washington, has confessed that he was in a conspiracy to capture the President, but <1 nies that he was a party to the conspiracy to murder him. Edward Ruffin, who fired the first mm at Fort Sumter, committed suicide on Satur day the 17th inst., near Danville, Ya.. hv blowing out his brains with a musket. He had been low spirited since the capture of Richmond, and did not wish to live under Yankee rule. The President has issued his proclamation appointing Lewis E. Parsons of Alabama. 1 rovisional Governor of Alabama. It is in the sarne form as the proclamation- previ ously issued lor the appointment of Gover nors for the late Rebel States.
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