BEDFORD PA., FRIDAY, Altri'ST H, 1865.
UNION COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
FOR THK I.EOISI.ATt'fIK,
lion. !>. IS. A tIISTIIOXk.
Subject hi jet is km of the Legislative Conference.
BtSTRICT ATTORNEY,
jr. T. k LAG Y. Bedford.
associate jrnnE,
apt. ADAM WEAVE* LI N. BloOii.V Kn.
TREASURER,
c|1. SI WON" niekEBHOOr, H.-OlorO,
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
DAMKL HAHH , Mffit ProvideiMe.
JI'RT -COMWTStoXEB,
WILLIAM KIKK. *t. 'lr.
COMMISSIONER,
II i:\IIY J. BKI'VKK. Cnmkerbinl Valley.
POOR DIRECTORS,
JOHN N. IIETKH'K. 3yr., M. Woodbcrry,
LEONARD BITXF.It. a yrs.. Jtmlafn.
At DITOR,
JAMES ALLISON, Napier.
CORONER.
I 'apt. AMOS ROBIXETT, Swnttinmpton. j
THEN AND NOW.
In order that our-readers may form an
idea of the different conditions of the coun
try under modern Democratic, and Republi
can rule we call their attention to the follow
ing striking contrast. At the close of Bu
chanan's administration the democratic par
ty had been in power eight years in succes
sion, and the condition of the country then
is thus graphically described by that eminent
political economist Henry C. Carey Esq., of
Philadelphia. "Had it been possible, on
the 4th of March, 1861, to take a bird's-eye
view of the whole Union, the phenomena
presenting themselves for examination
would have been as follows: —
Millions of men and women would have
been seen who were wholly or partially un
employed, because of inability to find pei
sonsable and willing to pay for service.
Hundreds of thousands of workmen,
farmers and shopkeepers would have been
seen holding articles of various kinds for
which no purchasers could be found.
Tons of thousands of country traders
would have been seen poring over their
books seeking, but vainly seeking, to dis
cover in what direction they might look for
obtaining the means with which to discharge
their city debts.
Thousands of city traders would have
been seen endeavoring to discover how they
might obtain the means with which to pay
their notes.
Thousands of mills, factories, furnaces,
and workshops large and small, would have
* been seen standing idle while surrounded
by persons who desired to be employed :
and
Tens of thousands of bank, factory, and
railroad, proprietors would have been seen
despairing of obtaining dividends by means
of which they might be enabled to go to
market.
High above all these would have becu
seen a National Treasury wholly empty, aud
to all appearance little likely ever again to
be filled.
In contrast with the above we give the
same author's description of the condition of
the country at the close of Abraham Lin
coln's Administration, after speaking of the
policy of the late administration, he says :
"The effect of this now exhibits itself in
the facts
"That the development of our mineral
resources has been great beyond all former
example:
That diversification in the pursuits of our
people now exhibits itself in the naturaliza
tion of many of the minor branches of in
dustry in regard to which we had before
been wholly dependent upon Europe:
That the demand for labor has been so
great as to cause large increase of wages:
That the high price of labor has caused
great increase of immigration :
That demand for the farmer's products
has so largely grown as to have almost alto
gether freed him from dependence upon the
uncertain markets of Europe :
That the internal commerce has so largely
grown as to have doubled in its money value
the many hundreds of millions of railraid
stock:
That the prosperity of existing railroads
has caused large increase in the number and
extent of roads:
That here, for the first time in the history
of the world, has been exhibited a commu
nity in which every man who had labor to
sell could sellit if he would, whileevery tnan
who had coal, iron, food or cloth to sell could
find at once a person able and willing to buy
and pay Ibr it :
That for the first time too, in the history
of the world, there has been presented a
community in which nearly all business was
done for cash, and in wliieh debt had scarce
ly an existence:
That as a necessary consequence of this,
there lias been a large and general diminu
tion of the rate of interest:
That farmers laborers, miners, and trad
ers have therefore become more independ
ent of the capitalist, while the country at
large lias become more independent of the
"wealthy capitalists of Europe.
That so great have been the economies of
labor and its products, that while building
more houses and mills, constructing more
roads, erecting more machinery, and living
better than ever before, our people have
been enabled to contribute, in the form of
taxes and loans, no less a sum than three
thousand million dollars to the sqpport of
government.
What a contrast, the result of four short
years and those, years of gigantic warfare
and unexampled expenditure, yet what a
revolution has been made in the condition of
the country ; in that short space of time it
has been raised from bankruptcy and gener
al prostration to a condition of unequalled
prosperity, by the wise policy of the Repub
lican party. When the people tire of their
prosperity and not till then, let them replace
in power the modern and degenerate Democ
racy, whose watchword is "To the victors
belong the spoils," and whose rule has always
heretofore resulted in the destruction of all
our manufactures, the prostration of our na
tional industay, and in placing the best inter
ests of our country at the mercy of foreign
capitalists.
A FEW EXTRACTS FROM THE
RECORD.
We copy the following extracts from the
Gazette and expect to add many more as
we travel down the campaign:
We have insisted that we were drifting
into anarchy ever since the present crazy
\ Iministiation bugun their unparalleled
usurpations of power.— Gazette Jan 2, Ist.,-,
Eil. Lender.
Let the Administration at Washington
dc-sb" ft oar its efforts to enslave the people
of the North. We say this in frank and
honest warning. A lew more arbitrary ar
rests will kindle a flame in Pennsylvania
that rivers of blood will not- queneh.—Oa
zett' Feb. <>■ 1*63. ;
Is the Administration determined to make
\ortl. a Gehenna as it has made the
South a Golgotha? If not let it stay the
usurping hand. — Gazette Feb. 6, 1863.
No man who values his reputation for po
litical integrity, will desire to be considered
a friend of the present National Admitns
tion.— Gazette Feb. 13, 1863.
By whatever name our Government may
be called, it Will in fact, be as absolute as
any on "God's Green Earth. Gazette
Feb. 20, 1863.
The people decimated by the bloody
butchery that has been perpetrated in tue
name of Union and Secession, and oppress
ed by tiaiueicse hardships imposed upon
them "by the dual tyranny of these sectional
despots, are not in sympathy with cither at
the monster* (hat are pi tying upon the vttals
of the nation, — Gazette Apl. 1., 1863.
We wore, when in Philadelphia, a Detno
rratie. badge,—a head of liberty, rut out of a
copper cent. And, now, we give notice, that
tee trill icear whatever ornaments tee plexise,
Gazette May 8, 1863.
B. F. Meyers then addressed the meeting
in defence of the course pursued by the
Democrats in opposing the policy of coerc
ing the disaffected States, quoting from the
writings and speeches of hdmiind Randolph.
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and
other founders of the Republic as well as
from those of Wm. H. Seward and Lyman
Trumbull to show that the coersion of a
State was considered by them as an impossi
bility and without warrant of the Constitu
tion. — Gazette May%, 1863.
The administration or abolition party have
made it their fixed and unchangeable pur
pose to destroy the political fabric erected
bv the adoption of the Federal Constitu
tion. — Gazette. Aug. 21, 1863.
The draft au electioneering scheme.
Therefore let Democrats unite together and
assist each other in paying the comutation
for every drafted Democrat who cannot wil
lingly serve his time,and who is unable him
self to pay for his exemption.— (Gazette
Aug. 28, IPG3.
If the "Copperheads" of this county
should endeavor to impair the efficiency of
the army by offering S3UQ instead of them
selves let them do so. They show a disloyal
spirit, it is true, hut what more could be ex
pected of them? — Fulton Democrat quoted
oy Gazette Sept. 11, 1863.
A number of howling negro-worshippers
in this place have received invitations from
their Magnus Apollo, Abraham Lincoln, to
attend his balls on the Rappahannock and
at Charleston. They will certainly not be so
disloyal as to refuse to go. "Copperheads '
might do that, for nothing else can be ex
pected of them, but loyal men the V. Vs. of
Bedford can never be guilty of such baseness
and treason as to decline Abraham's ticket.
Gazette.
Shy lock, despicable as he was, demanded
only what his creditor had stipulated to give
hirn; but Lincoln not satisfied with ' the
pound of flesh nearest the heart demands
more than is "nominated in the bond" —he
must have the heart, the very soul, itself. -if
Southern institutions and prosjierity.—Ga
zette Dec. 25, 1363.
He (Lincoln jhas issued a proclamation to
the people of the revolted States imposing
upon them an oath which he knows they
cannot and will not take; an oath which, if
taken by them, binds them to yield up their
property, their institutions, nay, their very
liberty itself; and the taking of this oath he
makes the condition of their return to their
allegiance to the federal government. — Ga
zette Dec. 25, 1863.
TIV must say.that laying aside all political
prejudices ire are opposed to the principle of al
lowing men to vote, out of the State on any
pretext whatever. We believe in the doctrines
of our earliest statesmen: that a standing ar
mu is dangerous to a republic. AND I'T ll-
THEII BELIEVE THAT GIVING SOL
DIERS TIIE POWER TO VOTE ONLY
DOUBLES THE DANGER.— Gazette
Jan. 22, 1864.
The army is no longer fighting to "restore
the Union" nor even to set the negro free.
The whole army of the North, including the
army of Gen. Grant, is moved and maneu
vered for the purpose of electing an Aboli
tion President in 18G4. This is the secret
of the recent moves. — Gazette Feb. 26, 18(54.
Justifving Mi RIJER.— The Gazette of
two weeks ago, cooly pointed out Jacob
Grouse as the victim for assassination, and
when the assassination has been consumma
ted it just as readily comes to its justifica
tion. Every line written by its editor on the
subject is an attempt to justify the atrocious
crime. This is truly consistent, and we are
tor once compelled to compliment him upon
standing up to his work. It is so seldom
that he does that wc consider it altogether
an anomaly. But, is it possible that there
lives in our midst a man, wouian or child
that justifies murder? We make due al
lowance for relationship, but we shudder
when we think that it is so ! There are on
ly two cases in which murder is excusable,
when it is the result of accident, or when
life is taken to preserve your own. A thou
sand street fights have occurred in Bedford
county and yet the murder on last Tuesday
a week was the first of the kind. Does any
one suppose that this one would have been
more deadly than usual if Reed's pistol had
been left out of the question ? He that is
armed with deadly weapons can generally
produce death at his pleasure. We do
not desire to prejudice the miudsof the peo
ple agaiust these unfortunate young men,
but when we find men, women and children
justifying murder, no man is safe. All must
be prepared for it To-day you may revel in
pleasure, to-morrow the assassin comes, and
you are carried to the tomb the victim of
outraged law. But what more can we ex
pect from the teachings of such Marafcs?
\\ e call upon all law abiding citizens to re
nounce their connection with such men, and
for the sake of religion and law to enter into
a common compact for the overthrow of such
a horrible state of society as has been
brought about by the leaders of the opposi
tion to the Government
S&" It has been intimated that the fal
lacious report of the Crouse murder which
appeared in the columns of the Age on last
Saturday morning was written by the Dis
trict Attorney of this county; if this be the
case, we hope that he will have at least the
manliness to resign. The man who can jus
tify a homicide and at the same time act as
Prosecuting Attorney forthe Commonwealth
licks the ingredients of which honorable
men are composed.
INrThe savan who does the itemizii lg for
the Pittsburgh Commercial has utade the
grand discovery that the Coroner's ji'try in
the case ofCrouse brought in its verdict in
the ' 'form of a regular indictment." If that
learned gentleman examines Binn's Justice,
page 240, seventh edition, he will find that
the form was not taken front. Dutilaps's Di
gest, as he supposes, hut from a standard
•work gotten up for the instruction of all jus
tices throughout the Suite. We would rec
ommend the same, or at least so much ol it,
to our friend.
SUPPORTERS OF JEFF. DAVIS.
Tlie rebellion linds good friends in Mew
York--Who are they f—C. Godfrey
Guntber, Mayor; Gideon J. Tucker,
Surrogate; Theodore Martine, Peter
V. Cutler, Carlos Butterficid, Robert
M. Livingston and a few small fry—
They are a little nervous about Uavis'
trial—Sworn testimony ot one who
was present at their meeting.
The following is the sworn statement of
Mr' Brown, who was present at the meeting
recently held in Broad-street for the pur
pose of raising funds to meet the expenses
of Jeff, Davis* trial:
State of New Pork-, City ami < 'aunty of
Xetc York, ss.: Robert Grown, of said City
and County of New York, being duly sworn,
deposetb and saith :
On Monday Lite 31st of July, 1865, be
attended a meeting in this city, having re
ceived an invitation in the following terms :
You are invited to meet, with several gen
tlemen, at the offices Noa. 10 and 20 in the
house No. y Broad street, on Monday, the
31st inst... at 4 P. M., to devise means for
the fair and ftill defence of Jefferson Davis
ami his associates, so that whatever happens
justice may be done.
Nk/vv York, July 26, 1865.
The meeting was held at the rooms desig
nated, being those occupied by Carlos But
terficid. There were present at the meet
ing Messrs. Gideon J. Tucker, Surrogate of
this county, Theodore Martine. Peter Y.
Cutler. Glaney and Douglas, among others.
One of them said that Mayor Gunther
would attend if business did not detain him,
and that he was entirely iu union and sym
pathy with the objects of the meeting.
Alter sonic delay, it was remarked that it
would be as well to invite their Southern
friends outside to come in. This was done;
several persons entered, after which the
doors were closed. There were now ten
men present.
The object of the meeting was to raise
funds to meet the expenditures to be incur
red in the defence of Jeff. Davis. The follow
ing committee was appointed for that pur
pose: C. Godfrey Gunther, Mayor of New
Yqrk; Calos Butterfield, Theodore Martine,
Messrs. Douglas and Glaney.
A general conversation followed upon the
signification of the trial of Davis. It was,
they all agreed, the most important trial in
the world's history. Every lover of liberty
in Europe and America had an interest in
it. They were on trial. The celebrated tri
al of Warren Hastings would sink into in
significance compared with that of Jefferson
Davis.
Mr, Gutler declared the Declaration of In
dependence to be the .Magna ('harta of hu
man libertv. and quoted it to prove that the
Southern States had the right to secede.
Another |>erson, one of the New Yorkers
remarked that the State of New York refu
sed to enter the Federal Union except the
right was assured to her to withdraw if she
thought proper. The proceedings and de
bates of the convention were referred to in
confirmation of this statement.
Another of the New Yorkers deelar e
that even in Massachusetts every officer tak
ing tko oatk of offito .wore that ho owd al
legiance to the State paramount to every
other obligation of fealty.
Mr. Robert M. Livingston, of Mobile,
Ala., remarked how few people had ever
read the constitution of the different States.
He had read them, and found in several of
the constitutions of free States the express
ed right to secede.
A running conversation followed this
statement; in which it was said that the ef
fect of the trial of Davis would be a revo
lution of sentiment everywhere in favor of
the South. 11 would be proved on the trial
that the secession cause was right, aud enti
tled to the sympathies of the world. One
of the company, Mr. Cutler, if I remember
rightly, quoted a pin-sage from Burke, to
show that a State cannot lie guilty of trea
son.
Mr. Livingston, now wrought up to a
high pitch of enthusiasm, made the decla
ration: "In twenty-five years the man that
now accuses the South of having committed
treason, will be looked upon as a madman
and a fool. ' He repeated this declaration,
saying that in fifty years the revolution in
popular sentiment would be so great that
such a man would be looked upon as a mad
man or a fool.
One of the New Vorkers denounced the
execution of Mrs. Surratt as a cold, deliber
ate murder. Another declared that she
was convicted upon forged testimony. A
third (Martine) asserted that the court by
I which she was tried had no legal jurisdiction
and that the execution was a deliberate niur
j der.
Mr. Livingston said that he had convers
ed with a number of Englishmen in regard
to this brutal murder. They told him that
it would send a thrill of horror throughout
Europe, and the howl of indignation that
will be sent back would so cower and terrify
the American Government that it will be
afraid to bring Mr. Davis to trial lie be
lieved that the intention was to keep him
lingering in prison till he died, without
bringing him to trial. The friends of Mr.
Davis must keep such an agitation of the
matter stirring that the government would
be forced to put him on trial without,further
delay.
Mr. Cutler said that he had been of opin
ion that the government would bring Davis
to trial before the District Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia. But it had been ascer
tained that a democrat (Judge Wyße) had
been appointed one of the judges; and
hence the government would not dare let
him be tried there. It was probable that
Mr. Chase would hold the court,
The conversation took another turn ; and
"Black Republicanism'' was taken up. The
question of negro suffrage, it was predicted
would divide the "Black Bcpublicans.''
Mr. Livingston said that he had conversed
with a great number of Western soldiers.
He found that their hatred for the "nigger"
was even more intense than that of South
ern men. Ifc would mention a fact that had
come under his own cognizance—within a
short time more than a hundred "niggers"
in Mobile had been murdered in cold blcod
by \\ estern soldiers.
. A ew Worker asked Mi-. Livingston how
xxlciMcinici would be lilcGiy to vote At tlic next
election for Members of Congress.
They will return a solid delegation of
staunch and truebouthern men," he replied
Working himself up into another fury of
enthusiasm, he declared that thirty-five hun
dred noble, lion-hearted Southerners had
kept at bay, for many months, an army of
seventy-five thousand Union troops. Mobile
only capitulated when she was worn out and
exhausted.
Ho then paid a glowing tribute to the no
ble-hearted women of Mobile. "They look
uown, he said, "with scornful contempt
upon a V ankee officer, and suffer no advan
ces from thciu ; taking care, of course, not
to give cause or pretext for arrest. The
feeling is universal that no d-d Yankee
must he allowed a foothold in the South."
These are not my words; I am not a swear
ing man.
As the meeting was about to break up,
Mr. Livingston remarked:
Gentlemen, you will want a great deal of
money. lam oo n\v way to England for the
purpose of raising funds. This great work
must go on. The government must not be
allowed to shirk the trial. 1 can promise
you with confidence that 1 will furnish you
with the. requisite amount.
One of the New Yorkers replied to this
that there would bo MU difficulty in raising
the money in this city.
A further opportunity for private consul
tation was hold, of whiefJMSQ account can he
given.
The Southern men present were all of
them open and avowed Secessionists. The
Northern men at the meeting were in the
most perfect accord of sentiment and sym
pathy with them. There was not the slight
est perceptible shade of difference between
any of them. They were all ultra and une
quivocal Secessionists.
ROBERT BROWN.
Subscribed and sworn before me, this 4th
day of August 1865,
JOHN BITCH tat,
Notory Public, City and County of N. Y.
| STAMP, j
Letting Alone.
A familiar cry is heard from the unor
ganized States. It comes from oratore and
papers which have been heard 'before,
''Just let us alone. That is all we want. As
for the negroes, wo know them Ixjttcr than
anybody else, and we must be permitted to
manage them. '
Except for thescriousncs- of the situation
there would be something exquisitely hu
morous in this grave -gaytjo" 1' is ex
actly what we have heara for the last twenty
years. When it was perfectly evident that
the spirit and policy of slavery were endan
gering the welfare of the country, a firm and
vigorous protest was raised by sagaciovs citi
zens who did not mean to connive, under any
pretense whatever, at the national ruin.
Then came the answering shout from the
party of slavery: "Lot us alone. It. is our
affair. We know the negroes and under
stand how to manage them. Let us alone."
And many honest minds wore deceived by
the appeal.
Then came secession. The men who had
cried so lustily, "Let us alone, " while they
were plotting, cried still more solainnly,
..Lotus alone,,, when they were ready to
consummate the crime. Their armed effort
has been abortive but bloody. It. is neces
sary for them to recur again to arts and in
trigues, and so we hear the same old cry,
..Let us aloue. Jxit us atom?." And who
echo this cry? Those who, in 1860, said
that the Government had no right to main
tain itself by arms. Those who, in 1861,
said that the war was really occasioned by
the loyal States, and that the Government
ought to compromise with treason and con
ciliate rebellion. Those who, in 1862, said
that our erring sisters should be allowed to
depart in peace. Those who. in 1863, stim
ulated a counterrevolution. Those who, in
1864, went to Chicago and declared the war
a failure. Those who, at the end of 1864,
were politically annihilated by the American
people at the polls.
u hat Ls the object of the cry? The over
throw of the Administration and the policy
which directed the war, and the return to
power of that alliance of Southern leaders
and Northern followers which brought on
the war. That alliance, we are told, secur
ed peace to the country. Yes, it secured
poacc at the price of national honor, and by
delaying a struggle which delay embittered
a thousand-fold. It secured peace as a man
secures solvency by paying fifty per cent, a
day for the money he borrows. It secured
peace as lie does who puts liis nose into the
fingers of a bully and obsequiously succumbs
to his kicks. Aid when the peace was bro
ken, who broke it? When war began, who
began it? Who justified those who began
it? Who hoped and worked for their success
Those who now toll us that while they had
the power they kept the peace. Those who,
we know, when they lost the power broke
the peace. They gave the country peace as
a highwayman gives his victim liie, on con
dition of obedience. "Just give us power
again, fellow-citizens," they cry, "and you
will see how we will keep the peace. " Their
fellow-citizens have already seen. Enough
Ls as good as a feast.
The late rebels say that they know the
negroes a great deal better than anybody
else. How have they proved it? By en
slaving them with un pa railed barbarity.
Bv outraging every human right and feel
ing. By so treatiug them that, when the
war came, every one of the people they
"knew so well" instinctively turned against
them, and hailed the enemies of their mas
tors as, for that reason, their own best
friends. A society which is so ignorant of
human nature, of history, of divine justice,
and of the laws of political economv, as to
suppose it can treat half of its members as
brutes, without danger to the general welfare
when its foolish assumption has ended in its
own blood and ruin, might at least affect
modesty of opinion, if it does not feel it.
There was never a class in the world which
know so little of arother as the slaveholding
class at the South knows of the slaves. Its
ignorance has cost us a civil war; but it has
also fortunately apprised us that such igno
rance is a mortal peril.
And what are the late slaveholding class
now doing to show us how perfectly they
understand the negroes? The Southern
States are paralyzed. They can be reiuvigu
rated only by labor. The negroes are the
laboring population. They are native to the
soil and the climate, and they are free.
Common sense indicates the only policy,
fhe inevitable facts of the ease should be
cordially accepted. Liberal wages should
be paid; honest contracts made; just meas
ures adopted to provide education and equal
rights for the most substantial part of the
population. In a word, th< public pros
perity should be secured and public peril
avoided bv the simplest ami most obvious
equity. But, instead of this, farmers are
offering five dollars a month to freemen who,
as slaves, could hire themselves and make
fifteen dollars a month. White people are
gravely enacting that colored people shall
not testify; shall not control their own chil
dren; shall not bear arms; shall not vote;
and are surrounding them with disabilities
for which there would seem to be 1 - no legal
redress. And all the while, the cla.-..- at the
South which has made educating slaves a
crime, protests against the fearful ignorance
of the colored people; and those who have
disgraced labor and degraded the laborer,
and have themselves never lifted a linger to
work, now complain that the negro is a
dreadfully lazy fellow, and will work only
upon compulsion.
In truth, the class which wished to be "let
alone in its asault upon the Union and
Government, unchanged aud unsubdued,
now wishes to be "let alone" to reorganize
itself upon its obsolete, inhuman and dan
gerous prejudices and passions. It hates
the Lnion; it hates free labor and free so
ciety; it believes in its interpretation of the
Constitution and in State sovereignty as
much as ever. The spirit of this class is the
cancer oftbe country. If the country wishes
peace, it will not let it alone. —Jfarpertt
Weekly, July 20.
THE Chicago papers relate a case of fiend
ish cruelty in which an old woman over sev
enty years has been the victim of brutal abuse
at the hands of her son and Jaughtcr-in law.
The facts of the Otee accidentally became
known to a catholic priest, who gave infor
mation to the police. The daughter-in-law
was arrested and fined j\ftmx do!fins.
ONE of the reasons for postponing the
election in North Carolina is that many of
the most wealthy men in the State, and who
would probably be elected to the convention,
are too poor to pay their fare aud other ex
penses. The chances of'an immediate profi
table trade with such a community would
seem to be slim. But men who have not
money may have valuable staples.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
important investigations by a Revenue
Com mission--Frauds in the sale of
alcohol discovered.
The Commission, consisting of Messrs.
David A. Wells, Stephen C'olwell, and S. 8.
11 ayes, appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, under the act of Congress, to ex
amine and report upon the subject of raising
internal revenue, have held many sessions
in this city, and have taken a mass of testi
mony. The attention of the Commission has
so tar, been directed particularly to the man
ufacture and sales of alcoholic liquors, and
to the frauds committed on the revenue by
means of these liquors.
The frauds are found to have been more
extensive than either the Government or the
public have any reason to suspect; but, as
the Commission sits with closed doors, the
details of the frauds cannot be published. It
appears, however, that in reference to spir
its the Internal Revenue law is practically a
dead letter. Whisky is regularly selling in
market at about two dollars and ten cents a
gallon, while the Government tax is two dol
lars ; and whisky on which the tax has been
paid can scarcely be sold at a profit for a less
sum, it is understood, than four dollars a
gallon. It is evident that on little, if any, of
the ordinary spirits on sale has any tax what
ever been paid.
The receipts of the Internal Revenue Col
lectors this year for duties on aleohol will not
probably be more than $5,000,000. The
collections in England are reported at about
$90,000,000. It is estimated that the re
ceipts here, if there were no frauds, would
reach nearly that figure.
The Commission has met with a remarka
ble degree of success in its inquiries, and
much important information it has hitherto
been considered impracticable to obtain has
been secured. Representatives from all
branches of the liquor interest have been
before the Commission, comprising persons
from nearly all parts of the United States.
The very heavy burden incidentally im
posed upon the arts and manufactures,
through the tax put upon the spirits that are
necessarily used for mechanical and other
purposes, will probably induce the commis
sion to recommend for adoption by Congress
a law to permit the sale of prepared spirits
to artists and manufacturers duty free, A
law of this kind is in force in England, and
with a beneficial effect. Wood naptha, or
methylic alcohol, is mixed under inspection
or permission of officers, with the spirits to
he exempt from duty; and thus prepared the
alcohol is so nauseous that it cannot be drank
or used in any quantity whatever in mixtures
intended for drinking, or in drugs and medi
cines ; yet for mechanical purposes it is not
injured.
Other subjects relating to the best sources
of revenue and the most efficient means of
collecting it, will he considered by the Com
mission : and its labors will doubtless prove
of great advantages to the Government in
simplifying and rendering effective our in
ternal revenue system.— New York Post.
The secret ol delay in Reconstruction.
There are a great many things not visible
to mortal eyes, of whose existence, however,
mortals are sensibly convinced. In the same
sense, there are impediments in the way of
reconstruction of the Southern States, which
we cannot see, which we cannot fully esti
mate, so as to arrive at a just estimate of
the force necessary to their removal. One
of the impediments is the hope and purpose
of many of the Southern leaders of the lntfi
rebellion to restore the institution of slavery
—to go even farther than all this, and regain
possession of the slaves which the results of
the war have made free. This spirit per
vades the minds of a majority of the men
who fought beneath the nag of treason —and
what is worse than even the entertainment
of such a hope, the oncouragomont to look
forward to the re-possession of slave prop
erty comes from the very men in the North
who first urged the slave-holders to resist the
national authority, and by a dissolution of
the American Union, seeking the strength
ening of the institution of slavery. North
ern Democratic politicians are ready to enter
into any bargain with the rebels, in order to
effect tin; organization of a great political
party ; and the beaten traitors are willing to
make any allowances to restore them, in the
sight of the people of the world, to their old
prestige. Once in possession of their slave
property, the Southern aristocrats imagine
that all else they ever dreamed of'possessing
would be suddenly restored and possessed.
They could return to the Congress #f the na
tion, and crack their whips once more over
the heads of servile dough-faces. They
could plot and succeed in the control of na
tional administrations, and once more mo
nopolize the patrons of the Government.
Such a prospect is now fascinating the vision
of those who were recently in rebellion, and
they hope to secure the organization of a
great political party whose aim and object
shall be the re-establishment of negro slave
ry in the States where it once existed. In
Virginia, politics are shaped to this end.
The men who lately starved Union prisoners,
who shot down Union soldiers, who warred
for four years on the Government, are band
in_- to organize local governments on the
principle that slavery must be restored, arc
preparing to elect men to Congress, pledged
to devote themselves to the same object, and
are openly proclaiming the purpose of re-es
tablishing slavery on the soil of the Old Do
minion. In all this, of course, the South
will be the sufferer, at it hat been in all it
alliance* with Northern. Democrats. In fact
the Democratic leaders of the North have
been the worst enemies the Southern jieople
ever had—enemies because the slave States
entered into a compact to revolt to leave the
Union, on the bare encouragement that the
N ortheni Democratic leaders would aid them
to success. How did those demagogues ful
fill their compact? Let James Buchanan,
Bill Bigler, Icrnando Wood. Yallandighani,
Voorhees, and others of like ilk answer.
And now the game is the same and the jieo
ple to be dujicd are the same. The Demo
cratic leaders of the North are laboring and
corresponding to cajole the jieojile of the
South with the hope of re-establishing sla
very. As long n.s the hope exists, there will
be mischief and trouble in the Southern
State. Dispel it —let the Southern people
be convinced that slavery can never be re
stored, and every Southern State will soou
he in the Union, well organized and far for
ward in the great work of prosjierity.—llar
ritburg Telegraph.
AN invention is spoken of by the Wash
ington correspondent of the Chicago Times
which promises to work a revolution in the
transportation of hay and cotton. Hereto
fore neither hay or cotton %nild be profita
bly transported on railroads, or in steam
vessels, because of the great bulk of the
hales and the large space which they occu
pied. In transporting cotton and hay by
railroads, or in steam vessels across the
ocean, freight is charged according to the
bulk or space occupied. These machines,
which are cheap enough to be used on every
cotton plantation, and in every neighborhood
of five or six farms, will compress four hun
dred and thirty pounds of cotton into a bale
only forty-two inches long and twelve inches
wide, containing only twelve cubic feet;
while the ordinary bale of cotton, containing
twenty-six cubic feet, weighs only three
hundred and thirty pounds.
MARRYING IN TIIK SOUTH.—A letter from
Newborn, North Carolina says that a con
siderable number of young men whose regi
ments are about being mustered out —such
as the 47th and 48th New York, and 76th
Pennsylvania Zouaves—have made up their
minds to stay in the country. There are too
many eligible openings to he resisted. They
are fast marrying the disconsolate young
ladies and widows, and settling down for
life upon the vacant farms which on every
hand invite their lubour and enterprise
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF OUR
PUBLIC DEBT.
Increase of *300,298,167 since the 31st
01 March—Entire amount of animal
•13®.a,468-Of this. *B4,
.>>£l,B.id is payable iu cM-Tlf pres
ent statement compared with that at
March.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Aug. 2.
The official statement of the public debt,
as appears from the books in the Treasury
Department, on the 31st of Jul/, shows the
amount outstanding to he $2,757,253,275
85. divided thug, viz:
The debt bearing interest in coin is *I. -
108,662,841 80, on which the interest is $64,-
521.837 50.
The debt bearing interest in lawful money
is 81,280,156,545, on which tlic interest is
874.740,630 78.
The dent on which interest has ceased is
$1,527,120
The debt bearing no interest is $357,906,-
960.
The total interest, both in coin and law ful
money, is $139,262,469 2s.
The legal-tender notes in circuktiou are as
follows:
One und two years' 5 per cent, notes. $39,-
954,230.
United States notes, ohl issue $472,603
United States notes, new issue... 432,687,966
Compound interest notes, Act of
March 3, 1863 15,000,000
Compound interest notes, Act of
June 30, 1864......... 197,121,470
Total legal tender in circulation.. 685,236,269
The amount of fractional currency is $25,-
750.000
The uncalled for pay, requisitions and mis
cellaneous items of the War and Navy De
partments amount to $15,736,000.
The amount of coin in the Treasury is
$35,338,000, and of currency $81,402,000.
Total amount in treasury $116,739,632 59.
THE PREVIOUS EXHIBIT OF THE NATIONAL
TREASURY, MAY 31st, 1865.
RECAPITULATION.
Am't Outstanding. Interest.
De't bearing
interest in
coin $1,108,713,811 80 *64,480,488 50
Debt bearing
interest in
lawful mon
ey 1,853,476,371, 04 60,158,884 52
Debt on which
interest has
ceased 786.27*6 09
Debt bearing
no interest... 472,829,270 57
Totals $2,635,205,753 50 #124,638,874 02
LEGAL TENDER NOTES IN CIRCULATION—AMOUNT.
One and two year 5 per cent.
notes $50j806,380
United States notes, old issue.... 472,663
United States notes, new issue.... 482,687,966
Compound interest notes, act of
March 3, 1863 15.000,000
Compound interest notes, act of
June 30, 1864 160,143,620
Total $659,160,569
The foregoing is a correct statement of the
public debt as appears from the books, treas
urer's returns ana requisitions in the depart
ment on the 31st May, 1865.
HUGH McCULLOCH,
Secretary of the Treasury.
ANOTHER STATEMENT.
The Washington Associated Press dispatch
says:
The statement of the public debt, as appears
by the returns and treasury books on the 31st
of Julv, as compared with that made on the
31st of May, two months ago, shows an in
crease of $122,000,000 during the intervening
period, owing, in part to the extraordinary
sums required to pay the arrearages due to the
army, the entire public debt being $2,685,205,-
753._ The amount of legal tender notes now
in circulation is $688,286,269, or an increase
from the 31st of May of $26,075,700.
"Free Trade League."
The most active, and, we beileve, one of
the most dangerous associations in this coun
try, is the Free Trade League, in New York,
of which WM, CULUEN BRYANT is President
It is sending its circulars throughout the
country, and is preparing for an active cam
paign against American interests. One of
the dangerous, ruinous heresies it puts forth
is the following :
'"Free trude will enable us to raise a larg
er revenue with less injury than ley the present
system. 11 e must raise our revenue by direct
taxis, which are mare equitable and more e
conomically eolleeted than indirect taxes, like
custom house duties and excise and license
taxes. These latter interfere with produc
tion and with exchanges of commodities,
while direct taxes impede neither. Is it not
self-evident that the country cannot be ben
efited by artificial obstacles to the produc
tion arid exchange of commodities?"'
To assert that a man will thrive best on
poison would be just as reasonable as the a
bove. We propose not discussion, now, but
to raise the cry of warning. Foreign manu
facturers and eipatalists, eager to supplant
home products in our market, are m the
field.
If they would agree to supply our Treasu
ry with revenue to pay Government expen
ses and the National debt, there would not,
perhaps, be so much to complain of. Hut
the iron, steel, cloths, and other staples we
on produce as well here, if protected a
gainst the cheap labor of Europe, will form
the basis of easy taxation, when free trade
would pay pot a eent into our treasury ; and
though we lose the trade and business, we
will have to stand the taxation just the same.
From three to five hundred millions annual
ly have (o be Collected from somebody, and
of one thing we may be certain: if the man
ufacturing interest does not thrive, give em
ployment to labor and profit to capital, there
will be little left hut the soil whereon to levy
the taxes, ami the soil will hove to airry the
hiinlm tlone. This fact is instructive in
view of the fact that agriculture manifests
a disposition to favor free trade.— Pittsburgh
('bmmercial.
THE CHOPS.—From a large number of
dispatches the Chicago Republican gleans
the following facts as to crops in the North
west: Wheat is not damaged to the extent
that was anticipated, and in many localities
there will be a full average yield. Of oats
the product will be greater than usual.
Corn never gave better promise than it does
at present. Rye and barley arc generally in
good condition. The weather was fair at
most points, on Wednesday, though there
were indications of rain at several places,
ami heavy showers of rain fell at Galena,
Illinois, and Dubuquo and Mount Peasant,
lowa. Harvesting is progressing wit h vigor
THE FRENCH silk manufacturers have snf
fered severely from the American war.
The silk exported to the United States in
1860 from France was 103 millions. In
1863 it fell to 23 millions During this in
terval of three years the exports from France
to the United "States fell from 2">o millions
to 04; and North American produce impor
ted into France for frenck consumption
suffered to the same extent. Instead of
240, millions in 1860, which, owing to the
rise in the price of cotton, reached 363 mil
lions in 1861, it fell in 1863, to 81. This
reduction applies especially to raw cotton.
IT is said that only about one fourth of
the old lawyers of New Orleans have sub
mitted to the requirements of the Govcr
ment by which alone they would be allowed
to resume their practice in the U. S. Courts,
while of those who do practice, every other
one is a stranger whom the chances of war
have thrown into the city. Gen. Banks is
one of this number.
EAM'H. —The list of income
returns, published in Chicago, Illinois,
snows that there are in that city forty-seven
persons whose incomes exceed fifty thousand
dollars, and two hundred whose incomes ex
ceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
Huntingdon a broad top
railroad
On and after Wednesday, June 14, 1865, Put.
senger trains will arrive and depart as follows:
SOUTHWARD TRAINS. NORTHWARD TRAINS.
w Is- ■ "stations k
5 * : r >■ f 5 y * „
X G, := ; AND > 3
p r : * ? j SIDINGS. "* i a
Leaves. Leaves. | Arrives Arrives
610 800 Huntingdon 12 01 620
627 ; 8 1.7 M'Connella town II 41 557
6 34 8 24 Pleasant Grove. 11 37 5 50
6 48 8 38 Marklesburg 11 23 5 36
702 852 Coffee Run ;11 10 922
709 859 Rough A Ready 11 02 ' 515
7 21 9 11 Cove 10 48 5 04
725 | 915 Fisher's Summit 10 45 500
Arrives Arrive- Leaves Leaves
7 40 9 30 Saxton : 10 30 4 45
Leaves. Leaves.; Arrives Arrives
750 940 10 20 435
810 10 00 Riddlcsburg :10 00 415
8 18 ; 10 08 Hopewell 9 52 4 07
830 10 20 Piper's Run ! 940 355
845 10 35 Hamilton V 25 340
857 10 47 Bloody Run...... 913 328
Arrives Arrives ; , Leave?
900 10 50 !Mount Dallas...! 910 325
■snorp's run branch.
Leaves j Arrives"
10 40 Sax ton 9 20 4 30
10 55 iCoaluiout 9 05 4 ]j
11 00 j Crawford 8 55 4 05
Arrives : Leaves.
1100 Dudley 8 50 4 00
I Broad Top City.
OLIVER AY RES, Sup t.
Huntingdon, June 14,1865.:tf
I U.ST RECEIVED
eJ A NEW STOCK OF GOODS AT
OAK HALL,
BLOODY RUN, PA.
J. B. WILLIAMS AND BRO<,
ANNOUNCE tothcir customers and the public
in general, that they arc receiving a large assort
ment of New Goods, such at
DRY GOODS :
MEN'S WEAR, viz:
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES,
SATINBTTB, COTTON A DBS,
SHIRTING FLANNELS.
LADIES' DRESS GOODS,
Black and Fancy Silks,
Shailies, Poplins, Lawns,
Mozambique's, with a large
Assortment of Prints, Ginghams,
Muslins, Checks, Tickings, Ac.
NOTIONS! NOTIONS!
Gloves Hosiery,
Dress Trimmings,
Skirts, Braids, Laces,
Ladies, Misses A Chil'dns Skeletons.
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
COATS, PANTS, AND VESTS,
both Cloth and Cassimere, made in the most ap
proved styles.
BOOTS* SHOES, BALMORALS & GAITERS
For both Ladies' and Gentlemen's Wear,
HATS, CAPS,
BONNETS. FLOWERS,
RUCHES. SHAKERS, Ac.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
STATIONARY,
SCHOOL BOOKS,
WALL AND CURTAIN PAPER
CARPETS,
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS
AND MATTINGS.
GROCERIES,
COFFEE,
SUGARS,
SYRUPS,
MOLASSES,
TEAS,
SPICES,
Ac., Ac., Ac., Ac.
PROVISIONS,
Fish,
HAMS, (plain and sugar-cured.)
SHOULDERS AND SIDES.
QUEKKSWAREj
GLASSWARE,
LAMPS AND FIXTURES,
CLOCKS AND
LOOKING GLASSES,
Woot> EN-WARE;
BUCKETS,
TUBS,
CHURLS,
BROOMS, Ac.
TOBACCO,
A large stock to sell either by Wholesale or Retail.
DRUGS,
PAINTS;
OILS,
DTE.STTFES
A general assortment of the most reliable Paten t
Medicines.
COUNTRY MERCHANTS
supplied with Essences and Oils at CITY PRICES.
THE DRUG DEPARTMENT
is under the supervision of Dr. MANX, one of the
most accomplished Druggists in the country, so
that Physicians and others, can depend uptin get
ting reliable articles
iS.-St.All the above articles will be sold at prices
to suit the circustanees of all.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS;
TER,MS-*Cnsh or Produce, unless by specia
" agreement. No credits longer than Six Months
without interest.
Bloody Run, June 16, 1865-tf
Allegheny
.n.ILE A' FEM.iE.JS SE.n 1.V.1 It V.
J. W. HUGIIES, Principal.
Miss E. M. CRESS WELL, Preceptress.
The Fall Session of this Institution will com
mence August. 9.
Boarding will not exceed $2.50 per week.
Tuition in English $ 5.00
Piano music 10.00
Special attention paid to those who wish to
teach.
For further information address
J. W. HUGHES.
July 21:44 Rainsburg. Pa.
IjIXECUTOR'S NOTlCE—Letters testa
_i uientury on the estate of Mary Berkhimor
, late of St. Clairsville, deceased, having beerr
issued to the subscriber by the Register of Bed
ford county, all persons having claims against the
estate are notified to present the same for settle
ment, and all persons indebted are requested to
make payment immediately.
July 7.-6t JACOB WALTER, Executor.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Jfan/ Snort*, late of East Prnri
dence tp., deceased.
Letters testamentary having been granted to
the subscriber, residing in Broad Top township,
on said estate, all persons knowing themselves in
debted to said estate will make payment without
delay, and those having claims against the same
will present them properly autbenl hated for set
tlement. DAVID V'tJJNG,
June 30.:6t.* Executor.
XTOTIUK TO DROVERS.
IN The HUNTINGDON A BR'tAD TOP
RAILROAD COMPANY is prepared to take
Stock from Mt. Dallas and Bloody Ban and fur
nish cars for the same at all times. A wharf ha*
been built and also a yard for the convenience of
Drovers. By making application to tli- Agent at
Mount Dallas, Stock will come down t!;< same day
in season to take the Ist Stock Expire* over the
Pennsylvania Railroad in the evening.
June 2S.:tf O. AYERS, Sttp't.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTlCE.—Letters of
Administration having been grante 1 by the
Register of Bedford county, to the undersigned,
upon the estate of John Smith, late of Southamp
ton tp., deceased. All persons indebted to the
estate arc requested to make immediate payment,
and those having claims to present them properly
authenticated for settlement.
BENJAMIN MELLOIT,
Aug. 4.-0E Administrator.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of JOHN ESHLKMAN, late of
East Providence tmrnship, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters of Adminis
tration hnve been granted to the undersigned,
residing in East Providence township by
the Register of Bedford county, on the said est te.
All persons indebted to said estate will make im
mediate payment, and those having claims again-1,
the same must present them properly authentica
ted for settlement. SIMON NYCUM.
June 23.:* Adm'r.
WAGONS.
Two new TWO HORSE WAOO ON? for
talc on a liberal credit.
July 21. A. B. CRAMER k CO.