tgrifwd gfmjttiw. ~. a *•' ■■ 1 -"-s ——— BEDFORD FA., FRIDAY, JILY 14. 1H65. UNION COUNTY NOMINATIONS. FOR Tim LKGISIAVCBB, Hon. . B. ARMSTRONG. Subject tn desieioiFof the Legislative Conference). !BTItICT ATTORS-EV, J. T. HEAfiT, i;s n ..r BdlO.rtl. associate jci>or. I pt. ADAM WEAVERUXG, Bloody Hn. TBRAsntßft, I apt. SI WOIV nil KKRIHHU . cocxtv si Rti von, DAN IEX BASIS, West I'rovidfßn'. JUUT COMMISSIONER, Wfttli* KIRK. Ml. Ilulr. COMMISSIONER, HENRY Jf. BRI NER. I'iiml.cHancl Volley. poor mnF.c>r='iis. , JOHN S. HETBH'K. a jr.. Wood berry, LEONARD BIT NEK. Syrs.. rnutnlß- A i tor; JAKES A 1.1. IB ON. Napier. CO BON 611. Copt. AMOS KOBlN'imr. Southampton. A PROWT EtUtITIVK The findings and sentences of the Military Cammiisdon in the cases of Harold. Payne, Atzerodt ind Mrs. Surratt. were approved by the President on the sth ittsL. and the • crier was immediately issued for their exe cution to take place on the 7th, which was •rictly enforced by Gen. Hancock. This display of promptness on the part of the ex ecutive meets with the full approltion of the loyal public. He waited for no maudlin, sentimental sympathy to be rai.->ed in behalf of the criminals, but at onoe ordered the stern decrees of justiee to be executed. Short as the time was b 'tween the sentence and the execution an effort was made to ob tain a commutation of Mrs. Surratt's sen tence, by a sentimental appeal to tlte Presi dent's sympathies. But he well under stands that mercy to a few desperate assas sins may bo cruelty to many innocent and peaeeM citizens. There will doubtless be a cry, raised by sympathizers with traitors and assassins, against ao prompt an execu tion of the criminals. I>ut it. will he those only, who at hehrt rejoiced over the assassi nation of the President. Such promptness doubtless causes considerable quaking among a set of worthies whose cases arc not yet dis posed of, most prominent among which stands the petticoat hero, Davis. If the same promptness is displayed in his ease as soon as he is tried and convicted of treasou it will certainly meet with the hearty ap proval of all lovers of law and order. SOMETHING TO BOAST OF. At the breaking out of the war. we pla ced the stars and stripes upon our office be fore any Abolitionist in Bedford thought of showing his colors and it floated there untii wind and weather tore it to atoms. — Bedford Gazette. Now according to our recollection, that flag was put up about the time the famous Buck tails were here, and the circumstances were these: —On account of the treasonable articles appearing in the Gazette at that time the soldiers determined to demolish the Gazette office, editor and all. While in mortal fear for the safety of his precious carcass the editor managed to put up the flag, and through the intercessions of loyal citizens, that traitorous sheet and its craven editor were spared. Now with brazen face and blatant tongue he claim- credit for what (though the only deed be ever performed 1 staring the appearance of loyalty) he did only through fear for his personal safety. We have often heard of making a virtue of necessity; but this is the first instance on record of claiming merit, for a deed perfor med under durance and against one's will. It has come to a pretty tight pass when they claim credit for such performances. Couldn't the Gozett> make more out of the nigger ? NEGRO EQUALITY—PRECEPT vs. PRACTICE. The Copperheads wlo have lately become HO fond of the society of the men who wear Uncle Sain s liven- of blue, are blatant upon the subject of Ne&ro Equality and are un ce aaingin the deprecation of the elevation of the negro. These fellows forget that they undertook less than a year ago to put, these same soldiers, they are now plying with every species of flattery, ou a level with the negro by depriving him of the right of suffrage. Soldiers remember, that the men who love you so now and have such a dread ful terror of negro voting, themselves voted en maxtc to put you down to the level of the negro less than a year ago. When they come to you with their preaching, point them to their practice. COPS BEWAKE. What was once known as the Democratic party in Ohio has been completely split on the state sovereignty and other pro-slavery ideas. The New York Daily Nev* has come out squarely in favor of negro suffrage. What an interesting time there will be vvhen the members of this happy family get each oth er by the ears, about negro suffrage and state sovereignty. Alas! bow are the migh ty fallen! Who could have thought they would come to this so soon ? CAPT, O. W. UOKTON. In noticing the Celebration in last week's paper, we unintentionally omitted to men tion that Capt Horton was one of the Mar shals of the day. We cheerfully make the correction. The Captain has proved himself to be one of our bravest and most patriotic officers, and now at the end of the conflict, we cheerfully welcome him to the peaceful shades of private life. THE New York Daily Neu x, the leading 'Copperhoad paper in the eountry, is out in favor of negro suffrage. Ben. Wood snuffs as he thinks, a chance to get the negro vote for his party. It is not improbable that the Copperhead office seekers in this County will yet oecorne fulsome eulogists of the ne groes to secure their votes. Their promi nent principle is, office first, last and all the time.— Ex. THE Copperhead and murder party are losing a number of their leaders. Four . were hung the other day at Washington. No wonder the honest voters are leaving that party by thousands. They say they cannot stand the ' 'murder party ' any long -1 er.— Ex. THE Globe OFL Works at Pittsburg were destroyed by fire on Monday. Damages $30,000. SPEECH OF WINTER IMVIS. From the Pittsburgh Garotte. At the celebration of the 4th at Chicago, the Hon. Heury Winter Davis war the ora tor of the day, lie discussed the various questions involved in the terrible events of the past four years, Slavery, State Sover eignty. secession, reconstruction, republican governments iu States, and the right of suffrage. He certainly argues the question vigorously and boldly; and we invite special attention to his dosing suggestion. "No .State Government has ever oeen re cognized which ostracised a majority or any great mass of the people. When slavery existed, slaves were merged in the use of the master. But the right of the State to i ostracise a great mass of free negroes has never been recognized. They were a hand ful] everywhere but in Maryland —and there they voted with the whites on the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. If this precedent be set now. it is for the first time to be set. When negroes become free they become a part of the people of the nation; and to ostracise them is to sanction a principle fatal to American free Govern ment Iu South Carolina there are twice as ma ny negroes as whites: in Mississippi there are more negroes than whites; in Alabama, in Louisiana aud in Georgia they are nearly eqaai. They are now in sufficient numbers at the South to control any election. 'They will vote with their masters"—insiduous gentlemen tell us—then at least let their masters be under the necessity of touching their hate to them' to get their votes. [Laughter and applause.) "Theyare not intelligent enough to vote." —another says. They know, fellow-citizens, a grey uniform from a blue one. [Applause. ] They know a Yankee from their masters. [Applause.] They have fought well under Yankee lead ership; may l>e.they can vote as intelligent ly under Yankee leadership. [Continued applause.] They are not spread in eaual masses over the Southern country, but they are congregated in particular districts that border the Atlantic, the Gulf, and the Mis sissippi, and are in immense majorities in fully one-third of the Congressional Districts of the South. They cau break the terrible unity of the Southern vote that plunged us into the rebellion. Men who are not capa ble of understanding considerations like these had better go and whine about negro votes. I have seen about as much of ne groes as any of you, have lived as near them, and suppose I nave as much prejudice to ward them as any of you; but to talk of this after we have had to call them to our aid in putting down this rebelliou is either drivelling tolly or infinite meanness. [Ap plause.] If you did not wish to have the negro hereafter to enjoy the rights of a man. why did you bury him on the battle field? [Applause.] You white men of Illinois, why did you not have the quota of your State increased so that the negro should not be needed? [Applause.] \Ye, of Mary laud, carried emancipation by going to the poor white men in the southern portiou of the State and showed them that the negro could relieve them from military service. They did not stop to discuss his right to po litical privileges then. If he is their and your equal on the battle field, in the service of the country, he is, and should be, at the ■-l!ot-hox, [applause,] and if he is not your equal on the battle-field, then yon have cheat ed the United States, to the injury of the national cause to save yourselves from ser vice. [ Renewed applause. J There is noth ing in President •Johnson's proclamation which assumes to conclude the judgment of the present Congress of the United States or j the recognition of State governments in the rebel States. He may have more confidence in the white people of the South than I hat e—he may have desired to give them a i opportunity of refuting every slander and si- j b-neiug every doubt regarding their loyalty, i lie might have a hope that when they should j bo n)y upon to vote on their constitutions under his proclamation, to be ready to pre sent them to Congress in the form of peti tions. for they would be nothing else, that seeing the signs of the times and what jus tice and humanity require, or rather what the long-headed people of the North will naturally suppose their safety requires, they may incorporate universal suffrage as the basis of their constitutions. I shall rejoice with him if that result shall come about, but lam far from expecting it. 1 will now be lieve until I learn the contrary, that that was his purpose. I will not believe the dec laration of any person who says he is op posed to it. He knows that the only au thority that can recognize State governments at the South is the Congress which admits their Representatives and Senators, that it must judge of the republicanism of their form of Government. I turn to them with some doubt, but with earnest hopes, and I appeal to them to be ready for any emer gency. to he caught by no snare, to yield to no solicitations, not to take any man's dec laration as to the safety of trusting the whole mass of the rebels of the South with the control of the Southern States, but to remember that a revolutionary minority will throw almost insurmountable obstacles in the way of legislation; that the minority of the Southern delegations, joined with inter ested and discontented men from the North may clog and even arrest the wheels of gov ernment on any bill; that they can organize a powerful opposition to the payment of our national debt, and the imposition of taxes, unless we agreed to their demands to re-in state rebel officers, place their wounded on your pension lists, or indemnify slavehol der's for their slaves. I pray these gentle men to look this thing in the eye, and if they have no regard for ' 'justice and human ity," I would say to them "I like you, gen tlemen, am no enthusiast. lam very little of,a philanthropist. I have no supreme love of the intellectual superiority of the ne ! gro oyer the white ; but I know that his vote is important, and if I have not much respect for justice and humanity, 1 have for the 5 20's (laughter and rpplause); I have great respect for the possibility of carrying on its machinery ; and if the constitutions do not give the mass of the negroes the right of voting on equal terms with the loy al white men, not those who can read, where it has been a penitentiary offence to teach one to read for twenty years; that is trifling with grave matters, but to that mass of the negro population whom we subjected to the draft, and at whose hands we sought aid in our hour of weakness; the safety of the na tion requires that no such principles, re quires that no such government shall be rec ognized as republican in form, that no Rep resentative or Senator from such a State shall be admitted to either House, or even complimented with the privileges of the floor." We need the vote of all the colored peo ple, it is numbers not intelligence, that counts at the ballot box,—it is right inten tion and not philosophic judgment, that casts the vote. [Applause, j More glorious -till would it be for Congress to follow the great example we have just had of abolish ing slavery by an amendment of the constitu tion. Let them pass by- their two-thirds majority, in Loth houses of Congress, an amendment of the Constitution securing forever the mass of the people as the Re"- publican Government of the United States, and submit it this very coming whiter, be fore the Legislatures adjourn, for their ratification. [Applause. J And when it shall have received the assent of three fourths of those now recognized as States and represented in Congress instantly pro claim it as a fundamental law of the land, valid and binding as the Constitution itself, under which they will thus have made it apart, of which they sit. which no State caprice, no question of political parties, noth ing in the future, except the triumph of slavery over free institutions, can ever shake or call into question. | Applause. | Then allelic proclamations of that Declara tiou of Indejiendcnce will be executed; this Government will rest on the rights of in dividual liberty and the right of every man to bear a share in the government of the country whose laws he obeys and whose bayo net in the hour of danger he bears. And the personal freedom which the dark chil dreri of the Republic have won by our blood and theirs will not be a vain mockery, ex posed to violation at the caprice of their masters, enthroned iu the Legislature, on the bench and in the Executive Chamber, but secured by the bayonet they hold, and the ballot they east, will be Liberty guarded by Tower. CONDEMNATION OF THE ASSASSINS. Harrold. Payne, Mrs. Surratt and Atzerodt to be Hun£. Mil<1(1, Arnold and O'l.anghlin to be im prisoned for iilc. S|HinKlrr to be imprisoned for six years. WASHINGTON, July 6. In accordance with the findings and sen tences of the Military Commission which the President approved yesterday, David E. Harrold, Lewis Payne, .Mrs. Surratt and and George A. Atzerodtare to be hung to morrow by the. proper military authority. Dr. Mudd, Arnold, and O Laughiin are to be imprisoned for life, and Spangler for six years, all at hard labor, in the Albany Peni tentiary. WASHINGTON, July 0. The following important order has just been issued: WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July 5. 1865. — To Muj. Gen. 11. S. Hancock. U. S. Volunteers, Commanding the Middle Military Division, Washington, D. C. Whereas, By the Military Commission ap pointed in paragraph 4, Special Orders 2s o. 211, dated War Department, Adjutant Gen eral's office, Washington, May 6, 1865, and of which Major General David Hunter, U. S. Volunteers, was President, the following named persons were tried, and. after mature consideration of the evidence adduced in their eases, were found, and sentenced as hereinafter stated, as follows : First. —David E. Harrold. Finding of the specification, guilty, except combining, confederating and conspiring with Edward Spangler, as to which part thereof not guil ty. Of the charge guilty, except the words of the charge, that he combined, confedera ted aud conspired with Edwaru Spangler, as to which pari of the charge not guilty. Sentence. —And the Commission uoes, therefore, sentence him, the said David E. Harrold, to be hanged by the nock until he he dead, at such time and piuce as the Presi dent of the Uaited States fhall direct, two thirds of the Commission concurring there in. Second. —George A. Atzerot. Finding of the specification, guilty, except combining, confederating and conspiring with Edward Spangler, of this not guilty. Of the charge, guilty, except combining, confederating and conspiring with Edward Spangler—of this not guilty. Sentence.—And the Commission does, therefore, sentence him, the said George A. Atzerodt to be hung by the neck until he be dead, at such time and place as the Presi dent of the I'nited States shall direct, two thirds of the members of the Commission concurring therein. Third. —Lewis Payne. Finding of the specification, guilty, except combining, con federating and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty. Ofthecharge, guilty, except combining, confederating and conspiring with Edward Spangler, of this, not guilty. Sentence. —And the Commission does, therefore, sentence him, the said Lewis Payne, to be hung by the neck until he be dead, at sucb_ timo aud place as the Presi dent of the United States shall direct—twu tbirds ofothe Commission concurring there in. Fourth. —Mary K. Sunatt Finding of the specification, guilty, excej>t as to re ceiving, sustaining, harboring and conceal ing Samuel Arnold and Michael O Laughiin, ami except, as to combining, confederating and conspiring with Edward Spangler ; of this not guilty. Of the charge, guilty, ex cept as to combining, confederating and con spiring with Edward Spangler ; of this not guilty. Sentence. —And the Commission does, therefore, sentence her, the said Mary E. Surratt. to be hung by the neck until she be dead, at such time and place as the Presi dent of the United States shall direct; two thirds of the members of the Commission concurring therein. Ami Whereas, The President of the Uni ted States has approved the foregoing sen tences in the following order to wit : EXECUTIVE MANSION. July 5, 1860. The foregoing sentences in the cases of David E. Harrold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, and Mary E. Surratt, arc hereby approved, and it is ordered that the sentences in the cases of David E. Harrold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne and Ma ry E. Surratt lie carried into execution by the proper military authority, under the di rection of the Secretary of War, on the 7th day of July, 1865, betweeu the hours of 10 A. M. and 2 P. 51. of that day. (Sigqed) ANDREW JOHNSON, President THE CONSPIRATORS! THEIR EXECUTION. Appearance of the (ulprits. Meenes at tli<> Scall'old. Prayers of the Clersyinen. Disposition of their Bodies. The f 'rated in Attendant*'. WASHINGTON, July 7.—Ail the condemn ed conspirators sentenced to be hanged to day were executed. On the petition of Ma ry E. Surratt. through her counsel, Messrs. Aiken and Ciampit, Judge Wylie, of the Supreme Court of this District, directed an issue of a writ of habeas corpus to General Hancock, commanding him to produce in court at ten o'clock this morning the body of Mary E. Surratt, with the cause of de tention. The writ was served on General Hancock, at the Metropolitan Hotel, at 8 o'clock this niornimr, by United States Marshal Good ing. lie immediately consulted with the Attorney General and Secretary of War, and at 10: 30 the General had not obeyed the writ. This fact was brought to the notice of the court by her counsel, but the Judge sai<l_ he had not power to enforce the writ. Early to-day guards were placed all around the arsenal grounds, to prevent the intrusion of persons to the scene of action, none being admitted excepting those previ ously supplied with passes by Major Gen. Hancock. The relatives of Mrs. Surratt and Har rold spent several hours with them during the forenoon, and they were also attended by their spiritual advisers as well also Payne and Atzerott. A few minutes after one o'clock the outer prison door was opened, and Mrs. Surratt was supported on her way to the gallows by two military officers. Next followed Atze rott, Harrold and Payne, accompanied by a guard and their respective ministers of the gospel. hront seats were provided for them on the platform in the following order: Mrs. "urratt, Payne, Harrold and Atzerott. The officers entrusted with the execution and the ministers occupied intermediate posi tions. Maj. Gen. Hartranft, who has been from the commencement in charge of the prison era, came forward and read the order of the War Department, already published, appro ving the sentences and ordering the penalty of death to be inflicted. A heavy guard was stationed around the wails surrounding the grounds, while below the soldiers were termed on two sides of a square. Perhaps several hundred civilians were present, anxious spectators of the sol emn scene. One of the priests attended on Mrs. Sur ratt and repeated short prayer, to which Payne, who was seated next to her, attentive ly listened. The minister who had been administering to Payne expressed, in the name of the latter, his sincere thanks to Gen. Ilartranft and the officers and soldiers who have had charge of him for their per sonal kindness. They had not uttered an uukind word nor given an unpleasant look or Sresture. but seemed to compassionate with lim in his misfortunes. The minister then uttered a brief prayer, asking for PaynJ the forgiveness of all his sins, and a passage out of this word into the. joys of heaven. The minister who attended Harrold also returned thanks br the kind treatment of the prisoner, and offered a prayer that God would receive his soid. Harold was affect ed to tears. The minister who attended Atzerott also returned thanks ftr him to General Ilart ranft and other ohcers for kind attentions, and then invoked the morcy of God upon the prisoners. The condemned were then required to rise from their seats, when the chairs were removed. They Vere now all on the drops, their hands were fastened behind them, and their legs bandaged both below and above the knees, and the white caps placed over their heads. Atzerott, while beirg prepared for the ex ecution, exclaimed: Gentlemen, farewell; take care, and gentlemen, now tie fore me. ' One of the clergymen standing near, exclaimed, "Nay we all meet in the other world. As soon as the noose was placed around each neck —Mrs. Purratt's being the last one adjusted—the seltion of the platform on which they had ben standing suddenly fell, and the culprits were hanging several feet from the ground, Mrs. Surratt and Payne scarcely moved a muscle. Arzerott exhib ited some twitching, but Harold showed more nervous sensibility than any of the others. The bodies, after hanging some time after life was extinct, were afterwards given over for burial, coffins, shrouds and everything being ready at hand for the purpose. The arrangements for the execution were par feet. Major General Hancock was present throughout the proceedings. It is said that Payne last night made a statement in behalf of Mrs. Surratt, exono rationg licr from complicity, and that an other pdhson subscribed to an affidavit im peaching: the testimony of an important witness against her. NEW YORK, July 7. —The Pout's Wash ington Correspondent says: Strong efforts were made this morning to induce the Presi dent to reprice Mrs Surratt by her counsel, and the Roman Catholic clergymen, who have acted as spiritual advisors but to no purpose. The President was fi.m in his de cision, and while hearing the argument cour teously refused to alter or modify the wo man's sentence. It is reported Mrs Surratt has written a statement or confession which has been handed to her spiritual advisers. Negro Equality. Governor Brainlctte, of Kentucky, in his late speech, makes the following common sense remarks upon the subject of negro equality: But they are terribly frightened at what they call negro equality. Well, I have no uneasiness on that subject. I don't know hut they may have grounds for it. Thev may have grounds to believe a free negro is njuol to lUuot. and tbpy may bo afraid of it. But I have been among free negroes al! inv life, and never saw anything like this equal ity of which there is so much fear in certain quarters. And I believe the great body of the people have no reason to he frightened on that subject. But if it were true, a they say, that it is the intention of a certain political party to use the second clause to bring about negro equality, it would be impossible for them to do it; such a thing belongs to our social re lations, and society regulates our social rela tions—not law. Society regulates it, and until you can educate your people to lie prepared for a thing of that character, it never can take place by any act of legal pro cess. Law cannot do it, for Jaw cannot es tablish the social relations between free white men even. Men come together as equals because of their social affinities—no law does it but the law of nature. For my self, I believe the white man belongs to the superior race. If he does, he will maintain his social ]>ositioii about the negro; if not, he will lose it, and he can't help it! I am for my own people and my own race, when ever the two come in conflict, and I have no sympathy for that fanatical sentiment which undertakes to depress our own race in order to elevate another race. No such principle as that can ever obtain in this country, so long as the white race continue to go for ward and progress as they have done through past ages. | Applause.] This thing of so cial equality, 1 say, is all nonsense. It is all stuff; thrown out hv the same class of men who were raising the cry of "coercion four years ago. It is simply a mad dog cry, an attempt to a souse the passions of men, and make them rush madly forward, over throwing their judgment and their reason, and leading to their own ruin and the ruin of this country. Confederate Names. The English style of classifying the two belligerents in our civU war as Federal and Confederate, implying that they were both of the same character, has been meekly adopted by many who knew no better. Not so Capt. Hoggs, of the U. S. steamer Con necticut, who recently stopped at the port of St. George, Bermuda. The following is related: She reports that in all but the English islands she was treated with respect and courtesy. On arriving at St. Georges, Ber muda, Feb. 24, the pilot showed Capt Boggs a circular from her Majesty, ordering all rebel or Federal men of war to anchor under the guns of the fort. The Captain, how ever, chose to let go his anchor beyond range of the fort, and next morning a little gun boat caino up and requested Captain Boggs to go down and call on the Governor. On arriving at his mansion he immediately took the captain to task for having disobey ed his orders, and asked if he did not see the circular from the Queen. "Yes, replied Capt. Boggs, "I saw a circular from you. directing that all Federal or Confederate vessels of war should be an chored in a certain spot; but as I am in command of neither of them, f took the liberty to use my own discretion." A look of blank amazement overspread the Governor's face as he asked: "What do you command?" "I have the honor to command a United States tnan-of-war, replied the gallant old sea dog, who so nobly upheld the honor of our flag at New Orleans. He was not at -ill willing to have Englishmen or any for eign nation designate him by a term that would indicate the dissolution of the Union. PASS THIS ROUND. —Many Postmasters arc in the habit of returning papers to pub lishers .when not taken out of the office. This is not wliat is required. The Postoffice regulations required Postmasters to write to publishers not only notifying them that the papers are not taken, but also giving the reason why they are not token. Captured Rebel Archives.- Davis' com* plicity in the assassination.—lndict ments for treason. NEW YORK, July 10. The T!UWM Washington special says : Major Shipman, of the First Wisconsin Cavalry, arrived here last evening from Ma con, having In charge forty boxes of captured archives of the Rebel Government. They consist of a complete record of the proceed ings of the rebel Provisional Congress, held at Montgomery in the spring of 1861. These documents were captured from Howell Cobb, in whose |x>ssession they had been placed for safe keeping. The entire official history of the rebel army of Tennessee, comprising all its record while under command of Bragg, Johnston and Hood, are part of thiß lot. Also some books of the rebel Treasury De partment. captured at Albany, Ga., which Koiut they had reached as a part of Jeff, •avis' train. Among the papers of Jeff. Davis, cap tured by the Government, has been discov ered several documents of vital importance ui determining the guilt and complicity of Jeff. Davis in the conspiracy plot. These documents are of such importance as prob ably to determine the authorities in favor of the trial of Davis bofore a military commis sion upon the charge of assassination. If, however, it shall be determined to try him on a charge of treason, he will be tried in a civil court. The Grand Juiy of the United States Dis trict Court of Baltimore has found indict ments for being engaged in the rebellion, against thirteen prominent Marylanders, in cluding Bradley T. Johnson, and raider Harry Gilmore. GEN. GRANT ON NEGRO SEFFRAUE.— General Grant, both from his position as head of the army and from the prestige he has won, is likely to become as important to our Government for the remainder of his life as the Duke of Wellington was to the British Government in the latter half of his public career. His views, therefore, will always be of interest. In this connection, we give the following from the Chicago Tri bune: ''General Grant in conversation with his friends, says that it is too soon to declare that the loyal blacks in the South shall not be allowed to vote. Aside from the abstract right and the legal problem of what authori ty can confer or withhold the franchise— whether it be Congress or the States—the question may assume the shape of a politi cal necessity. The Government and people may have to choose between keeping a standing army of 100,000 men at an expense of $100,000,000 a year to the tax-payers, to support the white minority in the South against the white Rebel majority, or of enfranchising the blacks and thereby enabling them to support the white loyalists. Gen eral Grant foresees that the suffrage ques tion may take this form." GEN. GRANT'S SHOT "HITS" ROUND THE WORLD. —The London correspondent of the New York Times makes the following statement: The close of the war in America has been a great disaster to Bombay, in the East In dies. It reminds one of the philosophical experiments -of striking an ivory ball, and seeing another fly off from the opposite side. Bombay, on the opposite side of the world, feels the concussion of the sudden cessation of hostilities more than London. Of course, London's turn is coming, for the failure of half the commercial houses in Bombay can not but affect their English correspondence. The rise in cotton, and the immense influx of money to pay for it, had caused such a fever of speculation as the East had never known. All kinds of joint stock companies were formed, and shares which cost £SOO went up to £15,000. The news of General life's surrender sent down the price of cot ton one-half, and exploded all these wonder ful speculations. The Parseesare in mourn ing—their sun is darkened. Gen. Grant little thought that, when his artillery com pelled the evacuation of Richmond, there was a city on the other side ofthe planet on which his batteries rained ruin. NEGRO \ CITING. —President Johnson has given no decided exposition of his intended policy on the subject of negro voting. This is right and proper. The question nas yet to come before him in a shape demanding his action. His opinions, as such, do not affect the relations of States. What he thinks, however, may be inferred from sun dry outgivings. A distinguished Georgia politician was talking with him about re-or ganization and complaining that the tenden cy seemed to be in the direction of negro suffrage. President Johnson turned upon him sharply, and said, "Sir, do you consid er it manly to ask the negro to fight, and not permit him to vote ?" The Georgian gave an equivocal answer, when Mr. John son continued : "Which side was it that got whipped in the war?" "Our side, of course," replied the Georgian. "Then," said the President, "I advise you to observe how many people at the North are in favor of giving the negroes the ballot, and make your conclusions accordingly.'' The South ern 1 nionist had nothing further to offer on that head.— Soiiurset lie raid and Whig. THE PIT-HOLE OIL REGION.—'The OU City Register says: The Pit-Hole excite ment still continues. Towns are springing up in that favored locality, and every one seeking to invest his means in oil lands or leases thereat One day last week, the Uni ted States Petroleum Company sold fifteen leases at auction, and the prices ranged from $4,000 to $7,000 Der lease. Just think of paying a bonus of this amount be sides giving to the company one-half of the oil. But large fortunes are being made there every hour, and the excitement is unabated. No one, so a friend tells us, is allowed to own any of the property in that locality lon ger than fifteen minutes, so that speculation has become legitimate. Mining operations are being busily carried on everywhere, and we think the developments of the present season will prove the most favorable ever before known. We estimate the daily pro duction at about 6,000 barrels. Of this, Pit-Hole produces fully 2,000 barrels per day, or one-third. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—About the 10th of this month the work of laying the groat telegraph between the coast of Ireland and that of Newfoundland will commence. Great care has been taken to ensure success —much greater than was taken in 1858; and moreover, much experience has been gained since that tiipe. The specific gravity of this cable is greatly less than was that of the first cable, so much so, that its own strength would be sufficient to suspend eleven miles of its own length—vertically in water. Yet the cable of 1858 was not a total failure ; for it is not true, as we have seen it stated late ly, that the managers of the former cable de ceived the country in the assertions they made that messages were transmitted through it Such messages were actually sent, whatever may have been the reasons of their discontinuance. The great advance in the science of telegraphy, as well as the precautions employed in the construction and laying down of the new cable, make complete success more probable.— Pittxlairah Gazette. IMMENSE EMIGRATION ACROSS THE PLAINS. —A dispatch received at Gen. Dodge's headquarters, St. Louis, states that the em igration across the plains, this season, far exceeds that of any previous year. During the month of May four thousand wagons passed Fort Kearny, and trains continue to pass that post in large numbers. The emi grants are bound for Idaho, Montana, Salt Lake, California and other places. The In dians had not molested tne emigrants to any noticeable extent, and all the routes are considered safe. Troops are stationed at the various posts, and afford ample protection to the trains. —, —j THE following dialogue on aharn-gbooting took place between a Virginia and a Yankee picket : "1 say. can you fellows shoot?" "Wall, I recon we can some. Down iD Mississippi we knock a buutbee off a thistle bow at 300 yards.'' "Oh, that ain't nothing to the way we shewt up in Vermont. Ibelonged to a reg iment ther with a hundred men in each com pany, and we went out for practice every week. The cap n draws us up in single file and sets a cider barrel rolling down the hill, and each man takes his shot at the bung hole as it t urns up. It is afterwards exam ined, and if there is a shot that didn't go in the bung hole the member who missed it is expelled. I belonged to the company ten years, and there ain't been nobody expelled yet" WE suppose that the Democrats speak with sincerity when they declare that slavery is dead. But in the New Hampsire House of Representatives ninety-six democrats vo ted, the other day, against the amendment of the constitution abolishing slavery.— Considering that the President said to the South Carolinians, in addressing them; that that State must adopt the constitutional amendment, our suspicions are excited that the New Hampshire democracy are not Johnson men. BKRIAH MAGOFFIN, of Kentucky, long one of the extremest opponents of the Gov ernment, has returned to his State and taken the stump in favor of the amendment of the National Constitution for the abolishmentof human slavery. Under the influence of Senator Jas. Guthrie, Gov. Bramlette, ex- Goy. Magoffin, and others, the Kentucky Legislature cannot hesitate long in concur ring in the joint resolution of Congress. NORTHERN EMIGRANTS WANTED IN NORTH CAROLINA.— The Time* Raleigh, North Carolina special says there is a gen eral desire manifested by newspapers, plan ters and every one, except a few insane ul traists, that Northerners should go down and settle permanently in their midst.— They are anxious to get emigration from the North, and have organized themselves for the purpose of generally informing the Northern people of the inducements of the climate, sc. Before long an authorized agent will go to New York for that pur pose. THERE is good authority for contradicting the report that C. J. Faulkner, of Virginia, has been pardoned by the President, who has not yet acted in the case. Therefore, all that has been published is premature. THE Post Office Department is now self supporting. Its profits for the last six months of 1864 were $72,230 60, and for the first six months of this year will be much larger. THE whisky rations in the army have been abolished by order from the \\ ar De- Eartment, upon the recommendation of the ommissary General and Surgeon General. No liquor of any kind will hereafter be issued to solaiers except by the Medical Depart ment. ICHAM G HARRIS, for whose apprehen sion the Legislature of Tennessee authorised the Governor to offer a reward of SS,(XX), is safely retired in that paradise of scoundrels. Imperial Mexico. From this seclusion, near Puebla, he writes to the editor of the Mem phis Bulletin , offering himself as a candi date for Governor. THE Commissioner of Agriculture reports that the present wool crop will be from ninety five to one hundred million pounds. Statistical returns have been received at his department from about half the woollen manufactories in the country, from which he concludes that the wool crop will not suf fice for more than three fifths of the quanti ty required for the year's manufacture. THE London Examiner, after complacent ly asserting that Mr. Adams was for the most nart educated in England, proceeds to say. that "no man can be freer from boast or bounce, flourish or swagger, exaggera tion or shallow enthusiasm than the well in formed and well bred gentleman, who, for tunately for both countries, has during the last four years represented the Republic here." GEN. GRIERSOS. the bold rider and raid er, has arrived at Cairo. His cavalry are at \ ieksburg, just returned front an expedition through portions of Alabama and Mississip pi never before visited by a hostile force. They represent that plenty of cotton is to be found there, and that the coming erop is in splendid condition. THE editor of the Nashville Dispatch has just returned from a visit to East Tennessee. He reports the wheat crop as not looking well. The yield will be small. Of corn there will bi a great abundance. The stores of provisions concealed during the war are being brought into market, and all the ne cessaries of life are as cheap as in Nashville. There will be a fine yield of apples and peaches. THE Emperor of Mexico has issued a man ifesto in regard to popular education. He wishes the Mexicans to be put on a footing with the most favored nations in this respect, and desires that the middle classes ana the poorer people shall have better advantages. He leaves religious education to the priests, declaring that the Government does not wish to interfere with religious matters. THE Stat* Ztitnng of New York, which has the largest circulation of any German paper published in the United States, in its issue of Tuesday last, the 4th of July, takes strong ground in favor of negro suffrage. The editor says "it is a folly and perfidy to demand that men who are free, be excluded from the right of suffrage, inasmuch as the Constitution of the United States does not say a word of color or of race being a reason for denying the right of suffrage. BOUNTY TAX LAWS. —The important 3uestion as to the validity of these laws, was ecided by the Supreme Court of Pennsyl vania, sitting in Philadelphia on Thursday last. The Court have decided this question in the affirmative, thus closing all further controversy. We presume all parties will now go to work to pay up their taxes, and thus finish the efforts made by our loval people to suppress the accursed rebellion now happily overthrown.— Washington Re porter <k Tribune. PASSAGE OF GOLD THROUGH THIS CITY. —The careful reader of the news of the dav will remember the difficulty which occurred a short time since between Governor Brown low and ex-Gov. Isham G. Harris, of Ten nessee, in regard to a large amount of money seined by the former, which was claimed by the latter as the property of the State of Tennessee. The Parson held on to the mo ney despite the decision of the courts to the contrary, went to Washington to correct the authorities, returned home, and shipped the money to the Federal city, and it passed through Harrisburg, on Monday. Ishaiu will have a good time getting his fingers upon any of that million of gold.— liar. Td. ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE. E.tatc of ISRAEL MORRIS, late of Mon roe townthip, decerned. Letters of administration on said estate having been granted by the Register of Bedford County to the subscribers, persons having claims or de mands against the said estate are requested to present them properly authenticated for settlement, and those indebted are notified to make immediate payment. ISRAEL MORRIS,jr., Residing in Monroe twp. JOHN S, MORRIS, Residing in West Providence tp. junelß:* JUSTICES' AMI> CONSTABLES' BLANKS, consisting of Blank Summons, Subpoenas, and Executions, constantly on hand and rot sale at this ufliee. XT. 8. 7-0O IjOAN. THIRD series, |3<h000,000. By authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, the undersigned, the General Subscription Agent for the sale of United State* Securities, offers to the public the third series of Treasury Notes, bearing seven and three.tenth* per cent, interest per aDnuto, known as the 7-30 LOAN. These notes are issued under date of July 15, , 1860, and are payable three yours from that date j in currency; or arc convertible at the option of the j holder into U. S. 5-20 SIX PER CENT. GOLD BEARING BONDS. These bonds are now worth a handsome premi um and are exempt, as are all Government Bonds, from State, County, and Municipal taxation, which adds from one to three per cent, per annum to their value, according to the rate levied up - other property. The interest is payable semi-an nually by coupons attached to each note, which may be cut off and sold to any bunk or bankeT. The Inl ■ rt-xt at 7 per cent, amount* to One cent per day on a 950 note. _ Two cents " " " SIOO " Ten •' " " 8500 " 20 " " SIOOO $1 " " " SSOOO " Notes of all the denominations named will be promptly furnished upon receipt of subscriptions. The Notes of this Third Series are precisely sim ilar in form and privileges to the Seven-Thirties already sold, except that the Government reserve, to itself the option of paying interest in gold coin at 6 per cent., instead of 7 3-10ths in currency. Subscribers will deduct the interest in currency up to July 15th, at the time when they subscribe. The delivery of the notes of this third series of the Seven-thirties will commence on the Ist of June, and will be made promptly and continuous ly after that date. The slight change made in the conditions of this THIRD SERIES affects only the matter of inter est. The payment in gold, if made, will be equiv- alent to the currency interest of the higher rate. The return to specie payments, in the event of which only will the option to pay interest in Gold be availed of, would so reduce and equalize prices that purchases made with six per cent, in gold would be fully equal to those made with seven and three-tenths per cent, in currency. This is the ONLY LOAN IN MARKET now offered by the Government, and its super r advantages make it the Great Popular Loan of the People, Less than $23!!,000,OOP of the loan authored by the last Congress are now in the market. This amount, at the rate at which it is being absorbsi. will all he subscribed for within sixty (lavs, when the notes will undoubtedly com mand a premium, as has uniformly been the case on closing the subscriptions to other Loans. In order that citizens of every tow n and section of the country may be afforded facilities for taking the loan, the National Banks. State Banks, and Private Bankers throughout the country inure generally agreed to receive subscriptions at par. Subscribers will select their awn agents, in wh> m they have confidence, and who only are to be res ponsible for the delivery of the note- for wbi- h they receive orders. JAY qOGKE, SUBSCRIPTION AGlir, PHJLABELPIIU. Si asnßiPTiows WILL BE REAMVEII by the Ist NATIONAL BANK of H(.LIDAYBBI*RG. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of ALTOONA. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of kuNTINGDON. NATIONAL BANK OF CHAM SKRSBUR6. RUPP. SHANNON A CO., Bedford. REED A SCHELL, May 2:9t ACT PROMPTLY AND CERTAINLY NALL CASES OF CONSUMTICN. They immediately increase the *trength am (terp en theeofor of the jxitr blood. They subdie the Chill* and Fever, and diminish the Erptt ra tion. They check th eutght tweat*, alway. in from 'even to fourteen day*. Theappetite is stbnce invigorated, and the patient rapidly gain* _)M ; the cough and the difficult breathing arc sp.ed ily relieved; the sleep becomes calm and refreh ing : the rracuatiou* regular and uniform. A, I, THE GENERAL SYMPTOMS DISAPPEAR WITH A RAPIDITY THAT SEEMS MARVK,- OUS.— J. F. Church ill, THE HYPO PHOSPHITES are an appropriate and SPECIFIC REMEPT for every dieordercharacterised by any one or mose of the following *$R SYMPTOMS Difficult, Imperfect, or too Rapid Breathing; Coldne** of the Extremities; Might or Morning Chill*; Hectic ; H tiefir.g of Fle*h. Enlargtm*' of the gland*, or Spelling* ; Cough ; Inn of Strength; Twiehing of the nervt. m—det; Shooting Pain* through the Shoulder*, Chert, f"" or Limb* ; Partial or Total Lot* of the u*r •■/ th* Limb*; Headache; Giddinc** ; E>, -autre P"l --enet* ; Might Sweat*, Lottof Appctit,. Heart-Bur Opprestion of the Stomach after, or Sinking of Stomach before eating; Weak or Sane Stomad ; Irregnlaritie* of the Bowel*; SH..,r Comph - tion ; Derangement* of the Liner m Kidney* : B'- tarded Growth, or Delayed Dentition, in children; Extreme Senritirenea* to Co'd, dr. ; ** in the several stages of Counumption, in Cam,, h. Atthc- Bronchiti* l)y*pep*in. Scrofula, Men--I ,in, Pat' y*i* (partial or complete,) dee. and ESI' KPi ALL 1 in all Female Ditorder* or Uterine h M gnlariho. such as. Difficult, Painful, Suppre**<r. >'• ",tg, Bi ee*ice. Delayed, Premature or too Frequent Me*- *truotion. WINCHESTER'S UTPOPHOSNIITES are the best remedy known to Medical S icnce, i" every eas where the physician conw uly pre scribes ''tonic*," iniH, whitky,end-liver i', g*<- nine," <f-e. WIXOH ESTER'S FINTMSB PREPARATION OF THE HYPOPHOSPH/TESistbcanh able form of this Remedy, and is approve! b* 'j l ' Medical Profession generally. I r .S E AO " V 111- " MOR AMY REMEDY COMTAIMIMt• >KOh —ln 7 os. Bottles, sl :-ix Ket tle* for $5. In 18 os. Bottles, $2 —Three lor #5. Circulars free Sold by all respectable Pre.e_i.-ts> and at the sole General Depot in the United States, hv J. WINCHESTER, 38 John St- S WASHINGTON HOUSE, No 709 CBESTNTT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. This Hotel is pleasantly situated on the North side of Chestnut St., a few doors above Seventh- Its central locality makes it particularly desira ble to persons visiting the City on business or pleasure. ap2S:3m CIIAS. M. ALLMONP. Manager HI. AN K DEEDS—A splen-lidassortiueut lor ' sale at the "Inquirer Office.' '
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