fMfstd <|nquim. lEDFORD FA*, FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 1865. UNION STATE TICKET. TOR AIDIVOR GENERAL, fen. JOHN F. IIABTRASFT, Montgomery. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, 01. JACOB M. CAMPBELL, ol Cambria. UNION COUNTY NOMINATIONS. FOR THE LEGISLATURE, Won. 1. B. ARMSTRONG, of Batfowl <-. ien. MOSES ROSS, ol S©ner**l ro. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, J. T. KF.AUY, Esq.. of Bel fowl. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, apt. AO AM HtAVKKLISiL, Bloody Ron. TREASURER, apt. SIMON IUCKEBHOOF, Bedford. COUNTY SURVEYOR, DANIEL SAMS, West Providence. JURY COMMISSIONER, WILLIAM KIRK, St. Flair. COMMISSIONER, IF.SRY J. BRI'NEB. Counberland Volley. POOR DIRECTORS, Oil N S. HF.TRIVK, 3yr., M. Wood berry, .EON ARB BITNER, 2 yrs.. Juniata. AUDITOR, JAMES ALLISON, Napier. CORONER. ! 'apt. AMOS ROBINETT. Southampton. CHE BEDFORD COUNTY DEBT OF ei6,000. The Gazette's Logical Explanation ! Two weeks ago we published a statement I if the indebtedness of Bedford county to he State of Pennsylvania alone. When we . lid so we felt confident that the party in . lower would be compelled to offer some ex • ilanation. What that explanation would or jf ould be, we were not able then to devise. rhe last Gazette , however, with its usual f lerspicuity, comes fully up to our confident .•xpectations. The principal feature in the lodge is that the debt was created by the Republicans in 1853, 1854, and in 1855. This we deny, the Republican party was never in power in this count} - since the or . of the party. But we do not de sire to quibble, suppose they were, and had ailed to lay the requisite amount of State ax. as is alleged, which we are not prepared o admit, does that justify the Coramission rs in allowing a debt to accummulate hrough a period of ten years approxima ing $16,000? This seems-to us to have iieen the most astounding piece ofmanage | nent of which we have ever heard. Ac ording to the Gazette, $5,160.26 are allow :d to grow in ten years at "6 per cent." to ho enormous sum of $ 15,400! How strange t is that since 1862 it has doubled itself, hen it was SB,OOO, now it is in the neigh- Kirhood of $16,000. Try again, this won't 10, Mr. Meyers. f The statement in regard to Mr. Over's |! laying out $3,000 of the state funds is as ff dle as the winds. Suppose the Commis si ioners did loan $3,000 to meet the demands H>f the State, do they pretend to say they : lorrowed that amount of monoy fix"" State? No, of course not. We have only T'harged them with the amount of the in debtedness to the State, not what they owe Do individuals. His cry alout crisis and r var arc all fudge, trumped up to blind j he people. Every man of property in [ Bedford county knows that real estate has almost doubled itself in value within the j ast ten years. A sufficient tax to pay this " debt could have been laid and collected at I *ny time. This debt of nearly $16,000, one | lalf of which has been incurred since 1862, | s now upon us, the opposition party has | oecn in power for the last ten years, they I aavc kept it concealed lest it would terrify i lonest tax payers, and can any one ques- T ion where the responsibility rests? i Now, a word in regard to ourselves. The "Gazette charges the senior editor of this ; oaper with being a defaulter, because his , lame stands in the unsettled column as the jjjbolleetor of Middle Woodberry township for 'he year 1862. This is one of the usual re ports of the amiable gentleman who controls (fits columns. Every charge made by this paper against the Copperhead organization |;S met by a vile personal assault upon the fiditors of this paper. Heretofore we have paid very little attention to these, to say the feast, unmanly attacks, nor do we purpose (tow to give them more than a passing and a final notice. That gentleman, we are free I:o say, is welcome to all the capital that he Jban make for his party by assaults upon our ipcrsonal relations in life. We were appoint k yd collector for Middle Woodberry township WOT the year 1862; we received the duplicate ibout the 15th of March of that year, and §m tho Ist of April of the same year, as one lalf the people of Bedford county know, ,|md no one better than the editor of the Ga zette, we took charge of this paper. When 1 4ce left Woodberry tee passed the duplicate to ■>ur bail, Thomas Johnston, who has collected nid paid over all that has been collected. And as far as Mr. Johnston is concerned, he AS able to pay his debts, and we think, bny hc editor of the Gazette a half score of times, at even his own valuation, with the era of ibc Commissioners' office thrown in. This j ast purchase might be made in good faith, As it ought to be, and let bim be presented to Barnum without delay, as a degenerate lipecimen of the cur-ish species. TFe do J lot owe Bedford county this day ONE CENT, BUT, ON THE CONTRARY, BEDFORD COUNTY IS INDEBTED TO US. [his silly attempt to divert the attention of .he people from the enormous indebtedness >f Bedford county, is too puerile to be toler ited for a moment. Tax-payers what do you .hink of it? HARD UP FOR CANDIDATES. The correspondent of the New York Times rriting from Chicago says : "Politics are getting somewhat mixed in ome of the Western States. In lowa, the )emocrats, despairing of success on their listinctivc principles and organization, have irevailed upon a few soldiers to get up a icket for State officers, composed almost ex lusively of Republicans. This the Demo ratic Convention indorsed and adopted, on he ground that it is opposed to universal qffrage. 1 Gov. Smyth of New Hampshire has invited ne Governors of all other New England tates, with their respective suites, to be (resent as his guests at the New England HOW THEY DUD IT. The first and second resolutions of the Democratic platform read thus : Resolved , That tfe, the Democracy of Pennsylvania, are now, as we always have been, faithful to the T nion of the States, opposing the secession of the South with all our influence and having no sympathy or as sociation whatever with that party in the North which plotted against the Union and pronounced the Constitution ' a_ covenant with death, and an agreement with hell. Second. That if the counsels of the Demo cratic party had prevailed, the Union would have been "saved m all its integrity and hon or, without the slaughter, debt and disgrace of a civil war. But when the formation of sectional parties in the North and in the South, and the advent of one of these par ties into the seats of power made war a fact which we could not counteract, we sustained the Federal authorities in good faith, asking nothing at their hands except a decent re gard for our legal rights and some show of common honesty in the management of our financial affairs, but in both these particulars we were disappointed and betrayed. The linking together of falsehoods in these resolutions, is a fair exhibition of the skill in duplicity of one who occupied a place in the cabinet of Buchanan alongside of Toucey, Cobb. Thompson and other rebels. If the people wish to know how the Democratic party have been faithful to the Union—how tlicj ui>(iu3cil acwooluii, turn lUej sustained the Federal authorities and what party in the North plotted against the Union let them read the following extracts from the record of the Democratic party and its lea ders. James Buchanan in his message of Dec. 3, 1860 in speaking of the "personal liber ty" bills of some of the Northern States; in case they were not repealed, says: "In that event, the injured States, after having first used all peaceful and constitu tional means to abtain redress, would be jus tified in revolutionary resistance to the Gov ernment of the Union.' "The question fairly stated is : Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the right to coerce a State into submission, which is attempting to withdraw, or has actually withdrawn from the Colifederacy ? If ans wered in the affirmative, it must be upon the principle that power has been conferred up on Congress" to declare or to make war upon a State. After much serious reflection, I have arrived at the conclusion that no such power has been delegated to Congress or to any other department of the Federal Gov ernment Without descending to particulars, it may safely be asserted that the power to make war against a State is at variance with the whole spirit of the Con stitution _ Congress possesses many means of preserving it (the T nion) by conciliation, but the sword was not placed in their hands to preserve it by force. ' There is the rocord of a Democratic Pres ident, how does it accord with the resolu tions ? Next hear a Democratic Ex-Presi dent, Franklin Pierce, in a letter to Jeff. Davis, dated Jan. 6, 1860, hethus promises aid and comfort to secession : "Without discussing the question of right —of abstract power to secede —I have never believed that actual disruption of the Union can occur without blood : and if through the madness of Northern Abolitionists, that dire calamity must come ; the fighting will not be along Mason and Dixon's line merely. It will be within our own borders, in our own streets, between the two classes of citizens to wnom X Have reft:iiv4. Ti,uov Jvf, I—.. and scout constitutional obligations will, if ever we reach the arbitrament of arms, find occupation enough at home. ' This idea of a counter revolution in the North in aid of the rebellion was entertained until after the last Presidential election. The following extract from the Mentor and published in tho Gazette as late as July 1, 1864, shows that even in our own communi ty the horrible idea was entertaiued. and a party hostile to the Union were indirectly exhorted to be prepared to murder their neighbors in our own streets, read it and ponder: "Let tyrants beware, should be the watch word from Maine to California in the Dem ocratic camps. But it should not rest in mere declaration. Actual preparation for active resistance should be promptly and thoroughly made. Resolutions will not do ; newspaper fuiminations will not do : but complete organization, embracing every State and ramifying every townshin will be effective. This organization should be po litical, not military, but so organized that a military form could be speedily be evoked if need should require." And in the same spirit the following ap pears in the call for a Democratic mass meet ing for August 29th and published August 12th 1864, signed O. E. Shannon: "It is important to open the campaign in the right spirit, to not only assert the rights that God and the Constitution have given us, but determine to maintain them; and in this connection let the pimps of the present administration in this community and else where know that their acts of outrage on law and order, in illegal arrests, unlawful seizure of property, intimidating threats, d-c., shall not be done with safety to them selves nor their property Judge Woodward, the Democratic candi date for Governor in 1863, in a speech in In dependence square, Dec. 13, 1860, said: "We must arouse ourselves and re-assert the rights of the slaveholder and add such guarantees to our constitution as will protect nis property from the spoliation of religious bigotry and persecution or else we must give up our Constitution and Union We hear it said, Let South Carolina go out of the Union pcacebly. I say, let her go peaceably if she go at all, but why should South Carolina be driven out of the Union by an irrepressible conflict about slavery?" Clement L Vallandigham, of whom Dem ocrats were wont to sing so lustily, introdu ced into Congress and proposed a constitu tional amendment to legalize secession, as follows: * "Article XIIL Section 1. The United States are divided into four sections, as fol lows : The States of Maine, New Hampshire, \ ermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York. New Jersey and 1 ennsylvania, * shall constitute one section to be known as the North The States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. Minnesota, l o wa and Kansas, * * shall constitute another sec tion, to be known as the West. The States of Oregon and California * * shall constitute another section to be known as the Pacific. The States of Delaware, Maryland, Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi ana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, * * shall constitute an other section to be known as the South. Article XTV. No State shall secede without the consent of the Legislature of all the States of the section to which the State proposing to secede belongs. The President shall have power to adjust with seceding Statesi all questions arising by reason of their secession : but the terms of adjustment shall be submitted to Congress for their approval before the same shall be valid." This infamous proposition to pave the way for and make secession lawful was de fended as latte as Jan. 1*63, in the House of Representatives, by Geo. H. Pendleton, the Chfeago candidate for Vice President. And yet this party calling themselves Democrats are continually crying out for the Constitu tion as it is, telling us how they opposed se cession, stood by the Union, the Constitu tion and the laws. But this is not all. Geo. H. Pendleton, on the 18th of Jan. 1861, in the House ct Representatives, said: "If your differences are so great that you cannot or will not compromise them, tlien, gentlemen, let the seceding States depart in peace ' let them establish their government and empire, and work out their destiny ac cording to the wisdom which God has given them.' This e pecch was made in opposition to a bill for calling out the militia, and all the Democratic members, except four, endorsed the above expressions of Pendleton's by vo ting with him against the bill. William B. Reed, of Philadelphia, a prominent Democrat, in his "vindication, published in August, 1862, says : "If the choice be between a continuance of the war, with its attendant sufferings and demoralization, certain miseries and uncer tain results, and a recognition of the South ern Confederacy, I am in favor of bko ognition, of course making the Abolition party responsible lor this dread necessity. Edward Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, in a speech at a Democratic celebration in New York, April 13, 1865, said: ''l yield to no man in sympathy for the people of the South—a gallant people strug gling nobly for their liberty against as sordid and vile a tyranny as ever proposed the deg radation of our race. Nay, I go further, and with Jefferson, Madison, and Living ston, I fully embrace the doctrine of seces sion as an American doctrine, without the element of which American institutions can not permanently live." Thus, in the beginning, the Democracy invited secession, and, to the end it encour aged rebellion with sympathy and prospects of ultimate success. And yet the same par ty with the brazen effrontery of those har dened in crime, attempts to palm off such glaring falsehoods upon the people as those contained in the first two resolutions of their platform. These extracts are not a tithe of what may be produced to prove from their own mouths the falsehoods set forth in their platform. They are now before the tribu nal of the people and will be judged by what they have said and done and not by what they falsely profess. COPPERHEAD LOGIC. The Copperheads argue that because a por tion of the Republican party is in favor of allowing the blacks to vote, therefore the policy of the party is negro suffrage. The Circleville Union, thus beautifully turns their own logic against them: — 1. Jeff. Davis is a leading Democrat, wh° rebelled against the Government, therefore, the Democratic party is in favor of the re bellion and all the crimes committed by him as President of the Southern Confederacy. 2. All the Generals in the Rebel Army are Democrats; therefore, the Democratic party endorses their warfare against the Union. J. WIIKCS IMIUIU, r ajiro, /ktnivH uO Harold, were Democrats; therefore, the Democratic party approves the assassina tion of President Lincoln and the attempted assassination of the Scwards. 4. Dr. Blackburn, Jake Thompson, Bev erly Tucker, and others, all Democrats, at tempted to introduce the small pox and yel low fever in the Northern cities; conspired to poison the Croton Water Works; organi zed the St Albans raid; caused Bennett to fire the city of New York, advised and counselled Booth and Payne to murder the President, therefore, the Democratic party is in favor of all these atrocities. 5. All of the Rebels, South, are Demo crats; therefoi o, the Democratic party arc all Rebels. GF.N. MORGAN. —Gen. Cox, the Union candidate for Governor of Ohio having said a few days ago that the Democratic candi date for the same office resigned his commis sion in the Union army in order to stump the State for VallaHdigham, the Chicago Republican suggests that although General Cox ought to be good authority on such questions, he may be mistaken about this matter, as he was serving in the East at the time Gen. Morgan became most conspicu ous in the West. It says that the impres* sion has been that Morgan resigned because he was believed to have disgraced himself in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou; but that it makes no difference which statement is correct as it cannot be thought any worse to be a coward in battle than to advocate the election of a copperhead and traitor like Vallandigham.— Pittsburgh Commercial. A PAIR OF KNOW NOTHINGS - —The cop perhead Legislative conference for this dis trict, met at Bedford some days since, and placed in nomination Geo. A. Smith of Mc- Connellsburg and A. J. Colburn, of Somer set, as their candidates. As both these gen tlemen were members of that "secret oath bonnd-band of midnight assassins" (we quote from the Somerset Democrat) called "Know Nothings," it must vex the Dea con's pious soul, to have to swallow them. It wil be an edifying spectacle to see our german, and catholic insh democrats vote for this pair of candidates. Doubtless both of them voted against the constitutional amendment permitting soldiers to vote, and yet the soldiers will be expected, line the german and irish voters to "go it blind" be cause this pair of pills are sugar-coated with the phrase' 'democracy.''— Somerset Herald and Whig. PARTY QUESTIONS.—The Maine demo crats have nominated for Governor of that State a gentleman who has once before re ceived the rather unsubstantial honor of their suffrages. Last year, finding it awk ward to decide either in favor of peace or of war, they put forward Mr. Howard, as a candidate who could be trusted not to com mit them in favor of cither. And when they bring him forward this year, wc believe it is with a lively sense that another question has come up, on which there is as little of unanimity in the party as there was last year on the question whether it would be better to fight for the national existence or to abandon it.— Boston Advertiser. THE Canadian debt exceeds seventy-five million dollars, upwards of three-fourths of which has been incurred during the past the years. - —4j[u.—u-.ma "THE. TIMES *re auspicious for the Democ racy, "'Said a speaker at the late Ram bo House bear-baiting. They have a look that way—especially in Ohio, tn thai State last year they were beaten fifty-four thousand votes. This year the times are so ''auspicious" for them that they have nominated two tickets for State officers, Aleck Long being the candidate for Governor on one, and General Morgan on the other. Looks bad for the Union men, doesn't it ?— Norristoirn Herald. THE REAL PAUPERS IN THE SOUTH. — Those who imagine that the negro is univer sally lazy, and the white man universally busy, that pride takes the place of labor, and labor is little more than slavery, should read the reports that conic front all parts of the South. We find in Knoxville that of 350 persons who applied for Government relief, 357 where white and two black. And yet this is a community where the black man prepondeiatcs! THE Copperhead papers profess to be afraid that the "Abolitionists" are going to lead the whites into the arms of amalgama tion. Don't be alarmed. The "Abolition ists' ' are not traveling the old JJemocratie I Udll. hi Ml f/€. A Coppeihcad paper says "the Dc mocracs aro united and harmonious. Of course they are—what is left of them. Their cheif object now is to restore the rebels to power, and they "rally round that flag" with amazing unanimity. A Correct View. The Richmond Republic of Tuesday says: "With faithful intentions towards the United States Government, there are some who seem to think of the past oontest as one between the North and the South, and look upon themselves as conquered by the North —a view of the subject which keeps alive a rankling wound of sectional bitterness and prevents that cordial resumption of old rela tions which all admit to be desirable. It seems to us that this is a false view of the parties to the struggle, and that if we would recognize the real parties to it, we should be able to discharge our duties as citizens of the United States, not alone with cold fideli but the old sentiment of ardent loyalty, he two parties to the struggle were a ma jority of the Southern States on one side, and the United Stetes Government, inclu ding all the Northern and Southern States on the other. South Carolina, having led off in the practical assertion of the State rights doctrine of the South, and compelled other Southern States to take sides either for or against her, the debate of arms was opened between the Federal and State Governments and the sovereignty of the former has been vindicated by the sword, as the Federal school of politicians had always believed it was by the Constitution. The south ha* been vanquished, not by the North, not by a section, but by the Government of the United States. That Government was the Government of our fathers. It teas the work of our own hand*. We have not been defeated by an enemy or by a jealous rival, but by a life-long friend. Even during the war it was it Southern-born man, and the descendant of a Virgiuia ances try, who was President of the United States, and at this moment it is a Southero-born man and a Southern citizen who is the head of that Government which claims our su preme allegiance. Away, then, with all sec tional ammoiuiics it mine United States Government, not a section, which seeks to rally us to the flag of our fathers and we should return again to our old home, where the memorials of our grea test and our best are alone found, and per mit the patriotic blood we inherit from them to warm our veins andanimate our hearts. That such will be the result, that Virginia will become again a bright and glowing star in the American firmament, we have no more doubt than of our existence. But it will facilitate this result if people will cease to think of the war as a trial of strength be tween two sections, and bear in mind that it is a government, founded by themselves, ad ministered for their benefit, controlled for their own men. which after a struggle into which we were dragged by a single Southern State, now claims that we shall return to our old place, not in name only, but in hearty fidelity to the authority of the United States. The Population of New York. Some of the journals of New York are dis cussing the census returns, which do not sustain the claim that the total oopulation amounts to one million or thereaoouts. The Tribune insists that the returns made for 1860 by Marshal Kvnders's deputies, who were paid by the head, and made the total population 813,669, were enormously two large, and that the boast that the city has a million inhabitants, is a trick for securing a larger political representation. The figures of the Tribune are as follows: "'Our city was divided by the Secretary of State into 4:19 Enumerators, Districts, whereof final returns have already been re ceived from 370. These show an aggregate population of a fraction over six hundred thousand (601,021). Should the remain der average the same as these, the popula tion of our city will be 71.3,117. "It is highly probable, however, that the districts last to be returned, or the returns from which have been sent back for correc tion, will prove considerably more populous than the others, though the aid of the polic ial invoked to form the districts equal in population as nearly as might be. But as suming that the 69 districts yet to be return ed will average twice as many inhabitants as the 370 already returned, the total popula tion of our city will be 825, 213. We doubt that it will be found much to exceed eight hundred thousand." The World , on the other hand, denounces the present census as fraudulant in that it is certain to give far less than the aggregate population, with a view of reducing the city representation in the Legislature, and mak ing New York a second rate city of the Union. The enumerators, it says, were se lected for their politics, and it is very well understood that no one could be appointed unless his party record was a good one. Th e TTorM charges also that a aystematic attempt to swindle the democratic districts of th e State is making by the enumerators. Thcs c representations, however, appear to origi nate in partisan feeling, and are not, so far as is known, sustained by the facts. FROM SAM DOMINGO. News of the Cabral Resolution confirm ed—The Dominicans in full Possession of their Territory— Reorganization of the Republic. Later advices from San Domingo to the Bth inst., confirm the previous news of the appointment of CABRAJ, as Protector. Gen. GANDARA has left the island, and the Dominicans arc now sole masters of their territory. They are engaged in reorganizing the government. A national convention will meet at an early date to form a permanent constitution. A new journal, called El Monitor , has been started at San Domingo City. The Spanish occupation is now really as well as nominally at an end. The Democrats of New Jersey have nomi nated Gen- Runyon for Governor. The election of members of Congress, Legislature, State and county officers, will be held in Mississippi on the 2d of October. UENEBAL NEWS. The Government sales of horses, mules, and other concomitants of the transportation service, have been stopped, swing to the ex tensive demonstrations of the hostile Indians of the Western plains. Petroleum is fifty per cent more powerful than the best coal, as steam fuel, and can be burned with perfect ease, and without the slightest danger. There has been founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, an institution for the "safe accom modation and reformation of females in a re spectable position in society addicted to habits of drunkenness." Harris, the keeper of the bloodhounds at Andersonville, has been arrested. Houses are scarce in Richmond, and, as a consequence, rents are high. In a church-yard at Hoosic Falls, N. Y., is a rude board which marks the grave of Nat. Shipman, the original of Fennimore Cooper's "Deerslayer," in the well known novel of that name, and of Hawkeye, in "The last of the Mohicans." Thirteen brothers and sisters—the oldest not 20 years of age—now lie side by side in a graveyard in Maryland all of whom died of diptheria. Eight of them deceased within four weeks. Maiij iVeedmen in Nuith Omulina reftise to enter into contracts for labor, because they believe that farms will be given them by the United States Government. The Commis sioner has informed them that Government owns no land, and can give away none. THE foreign immigration to the United States, for the six months ending with June, comprised nearly 75,000 persons, of whom 42. 000 are males. Twenty-five thousand animals have been sold by Government during the present month. The entire proceeds amount to over $4,000,- 000. In a speech at Baltimore, Mr. Blair made a fierce attack upon Seward and Stanton. At a fire in a pyrotechnic establishment in New-York, one young woman was burned to a crisp. The Internal Revenue collections in New- York for the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June last, was between twenty-seven and twenty-eight millions of dollars. Gov. Brough, of Ohio, died at Cleveland on the 29th. The potato crop this season will be one of the largest crops ever grown in this country. The 258 th anniversary of the landing of the first English colony on the New England coast was observed in Maine with appropri - ate exercises. The boiler of well "No. fi4," at Pithole, Oil City, exploded, killing the engineer, and burning the tank and oil at well "Num ber 65." Extensive smuggling operations on the Canada border have been discovered. Silks, sugars, drugs, and other importations on which there is a high rate of duties, have lately come into the country, evading all du ty, iu large quantities. New York drinks about 40,000,000 gallons of water per day. The quantity of whiskey it consumes is beyond computation. John L. Sherman, a brother of therijhne ml for in Ohio. The chances that a newly-born infant, in England, will live for the space of twelve months, are 851 to 149. Of 400 guests at one of the principal ho tels in Washington, 232 were Southerners, nearly all of whom were applicants for Ex ecutive clemency. A hail storm in Wisconsin has just de stroyed thirty thousand dollars worth of crops. Hailstones were seen which meas ured six or eight inches in circumference. A girl in Hoboken, N. J., has died from the effects of frequent doses of phosphorus paste administered by herself for the pur pose of destroying her life, in consequenee of disappointed love. A woman in Pittsburg. Pa., has been for some time engaged in secretly and systemat ically poisoning persons who visited her, without any apparent motive. Three of her \ictiuis have died, and a fourth is not expected to live. lleturning soldiers are going west at the rate of two or three hundred a month, to take up lands under the new Homestead Law. The recent National Teachers' Association at Harrisburg took measures to have a World's Convention called. A fine steamer of over 1,000 tons armed with twelve guns of the heaviest calibre, has been completed in New-York for the Ty coon of Japan, to be followed by two oth ers. To avoid identity of persons, the ladies of Newport wear masks in the water made of thin, white cotton cloth, fitting tightly to the face, with places cut out for the mouth and eyes. The disguise is perfeet. The gamblers at Saratoga complain that the place is this Summer frequented by middle-class people, who come to drink the water and not to spend money. The statistics of the Quartermaster's De partment in the army show that each indi vidual consumes 21 pounds of dry food dai ly, J vegtable and 1 animal, making an an nual consumption of about 800 pounds. Of fluids,he swallows 1,500 pounds. The New-York Hotel begins to resume its old features. It is crowded with Secession ists of all grades, military, religious and po litical. President Johnson announces that paro led Rebels who desire to leave the country will be furnished passports on condition that they shall not return without the Pres ident's permission. Alleged tremendous frauds among army paymasters are now being brought to light, which cast all other defalcations completely in the shade. Up to the 15th July there were 5,820 pen sioners on the rolls for the State of New York alone, 1,700 of whom arc drawing full pensions. The receipts from internal revenue since July 1, amounts to over $48,500,000. The President will probably order the re lease of Alexander H. Stephens. An order has been issued mustering out of the service 7 Major-Generals, 35 Brevet Major Generals, and 43 Brigadier Generals. The Democratic State Convention of Ohio nominated Gen. George W. Morgan for Governor, and William Lang for Lieuten ant-Governor. A plot to liberate the criminals confined in the Illinois State Prison, at Joliet, has been discovered and frustrated. A stage coach was attacked near Gibson Ferry, Montana Territory, by robbers, who killed four passengers, wounded three others, and stole $60,00() in gold dust. In Ohio there is a snake 34 feet long, which milks cows, devours rabbits and other small animals, and has stopped several railroad trains, the engineers imagining it to be a tree laying across the track. The late Treasury defalcations will be less serious than was supposed. Of the $1,200,- 000 reported stolen, about $700,000 were se cured by conveyance, beside which the Gov ernment holds available bonds to the amount of $250,000. A fire occurred in a car crammed with bag gage belonging to families who had been so journing at Ivong Branch. But a solitary trunk was saved. Entire wardrobes, dia monds and other valuable jewelry were lost. In New York, a cat sprang upon a police man and caught him by the leg above the knee with his teeth. The officer's injuries were so sezere that he was removed to the New York Hospital for treatment. FOREIGN. St. Domingo has got rid of its Spanish in vaders, but has again become involved in do mestic difficulties. The progress of the rebellion in Hayti is decidedly favorable to the revolutionists. Atrocities by the rebels continue, and white persons are threatened with death if they ap pear on the streets. Two ships of the Russian iron-clad squad ron were wrecked on their way to Stockholm. The Russian Czar has gone to Moscow, to present the Czarowitch to the Senate and the people. Apprehensions of the approach of the chol era are increasing in England. The epidemic has reached Marseilles, France. Prince Francis, Duke of Cadiz, father of the present King, died recently, aged 71 years. He was a brother of Ferdinand VII., and consequently uncle of Queen Isabella 11. The Suez Canal was opened on the 17th inst., and a vessel laden with coal passed from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. The French festivities at Cherbourg contin ued until the 18th, when the French and English squadrons left for Brest. All passed off well, although the brilliancy of the earlier proceedings were marred by stormy weather. Petroleum has been discovered in Cuba, and a company to proceed with boring opera tions has been formed in Havana. A submarine cable is to be laid from the town of Porto Rico, Cuba, to the United States. United States Generals on the Rio Grande and certain dignitaries of the Maximillian Government have been hobnobing and toast ing each other in true convivial style. Responsible parties have contracted to car ry the mails between Brazil and the United States for the next ten years. It is thought that if the Captain General ship of Cuba is changed, the African slave trade will commence again with renewed vigor. Another prize fightforthe championship of England is arranged to come off on the Ist of November, between Jem Mace and Joe Worm aid. Prince Napoleon has been requested by the Emperor to abridge his visit to England. The reason is alleged to be fear that, the Prince's Ajaecio speech (in which he so strongly eulogized American institutions) 1 should be made the subject of a political dem onstration in his favor. Rumor gays that the Emperor Napoleon is considering a scheme for annexing Belgium to France after King Leopold's death, and for giving the Danubian principalities to Austria, the territories in Northern Germany to Prusia, and Venetia to Italy. The shop girls of Paris request their em ployers to relieve them from Sunday duty. Maximillian intends to have 100,000 Reb els in his service within a year, to keep watch on Sheridan along the Rio Grande. Saunders now goes armed by permission of the authorities at Montreal, and wears a belt in which arc slung his revolvers and a bowie knife, while in his side pockets he carries his small revolvers. About a dozen deserters from the United States Navy have been engaged in piratical operations on the coast of Honduras, hav ing murdered the crew of a small schooner, and, setting sail in it. captured several other vessels. The Canadian customs for six months amount to forty-four and a half million dol lars, of which nineteen and a half million were from the United States. The Rebel nest in Montreal is becoming fuller every day. Tucker, Sanders, H. S. Foote and others are there, and Jeff. Da vis's family is quietly living at a hotel. An Imperial victory has occurred near Peubla, Mexico, and salutes of rejoicing were fired by the forts and the French and Austrian vessels in the harbor of Vera Cruz. The cholera is making sure and steady progress in France. A backwoodsman, seven feet four inches in hight, recently entered the city of Neg poor, Siam, where he caused the most in tense excitement among the populace who believed him to be Beelzebub himself. The King of Portugal has invented a pro ! jeetile which promises to excel everything hitherto attempted. Prince Napoleon has been spending large sums at the Dublin Exhioition. The pa l>ers praise him extravagantly, because he is extravagant, no doubt. Shanghae (China) papers are advocating the thorough cleansing of the city, anticipa ting the advent of the Russian plague. The Japanese Government have ceded land for a coal depot for the projected Cali fornia and China Steamship Company. Ten young girls were recently burned to death during a church festival in Russia, by the felling of a lighted taper on their mus lin dresses. The employers of miners in the iron and coal districts of Wales have become alarm ed at the reduction of laborers by the tide of emigration to America. Rebel sympathizers in London are getting up a statue of Stonewall Jackson, but do not know where the Government will allow it to be placed. FROM FLORIDA. The feeling of the People—Slavery con sidered dead—People trying to forget the war. NEW YORK, August 20.—The Tribtmj'a letter from Jacksonville, Florida, says the inhabitants are much bewildered at the situ ation in which they found themselves. In the work of political regeneration many arc progressing hopefully. .State sovereignty i abandoned. Secession and nullification are called "political humbugs." Calhoun was an idiot, j Oligarchists are enemies of man kind. \ ankees are not to be trespassed up on, They want no more rebellion. Can whip 1* ranee aud England together. Slav ery, by the name at least is gone. They speak of "those niggers who were their slaves. Occasionally they call the re'oellion by that name, and speak of the United States Government as "our government." There is reason to expect that wise states manship, firm military rule, patience, time and proper instruction will rebuild the Southern States, and make their latter glory exceed their former. Considering the be wildering agitation the people of Florida have suffered, they have home themselves quietly, submissively and well. They have been anxious to know the will of the Gov ernment that they might do it. They have been above the spitefulness and malicious ness which have disgraced the Virginians. We hear of no plots or combinations to em barrass, or outwit those in command. Good faith, frankness and honesty have characte rized their conduct Many are often per plexed, and don't know what to do. but in all emergencies, the profoundesl i gard is shown to the United States. As to future resistance, I am persuaded it is not thought of, but before the military force can be safely withdrawn and the for tunes of Florida committed to civil power, there is much to be accomplished. The pre judice of many slaveholders against the em ployment of freedmen must be rooted out. They seem to see in slavery nothing but per sonal taste and pleasure, political and social prosperity, and in its absence, poverty, lone liness. weakness, disgrace and ruin. Already projects and plans are under discussion for restoring the substance of slavery, though another name may have to be given to the creature in its new garb. One plan is to place, by authority, prices upon labor, without the consent of the labor er. Another, to give the employer authori ty to use the whip sis of old, and to catch runaways wherever found ; and another is for planters to enter into a solemn agree ment and firmly hind themselves to employ no hands but their own ex-slaves, and thus compel the freedmen to stay at their old homes, and labor on such term - as their for mer masters may prescribe. This desire to keep the negroes in their former condition does not proceed from wilful wickedness, hut from education and the organized struct ure of Southern life. The work of recon struction must not be hurried. Our only safety is in moving slow. Now that slavery is abolished, time should be given the South ern people to become clothed in their right minds and to study the spirit of our Consti tutions. so as to make of the great sister hood of States, a homogenous nation, for the purpose of creating sound public opin ion. As soon as the hot season is over in telligent parties, composed of native Florid ians, army officers and State officials, inclu ding the Governor, will visit different por tions of the State and address the people upon the new and great questions whihare before them General Foster will leave nothing undone which is calculate*! to solvethe difficulties in hand. It is hoped that Gov. Marvin will be in no haste to inaugurate a State govern ment, but give the moral elements time to make impression upon the masses. If he proceeds no faster in organizing than the people do in getting ready to adopt a wise policy, his path will be smooth and pleasant, and his success certain. There is at present considerable sickness at the capital, mostly of billions and ague character. The eauame period the interest on the public debt was reduced one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars by the redemption of outstanding certificates of in debtedness. the amount of suspended requi sitions now being only $2, lin.ootl. The specie in the Treasury vaults on the 31st was $45,435,771 14, showing an increase over last month of over ten millions. The a niount of currency on hand, however, has decreased from $8,141,744 85 in July to $4,278,283 9l|. The circulation of fraction al currency was increased $694.710. The Tribune's Washington special says: There is every indication that a large num ber of portions of Europe, are engcrlv look ing forward to future residence in the Vnited beates, and are using every means to ascer tain the price and location of the immense tracts of land which are now lyim; unculti vated in the South. Mr. Jas. Black, of the Agricultural Bureau, hut formerly of Scot land, is daily receiving letters from that country inquiring what inducements are of fered to foreign emigrants. Mr. B. in an swer to these inquiries, lias written a letter to the Glasgow Herald . setting forth the superior advantages of Virginia to emigrants, which has met with a substantial reception in the shapd of £IO,OOO placed at his dispo sal for investment by a wealthy citizen of Glasgow. Since the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, emigration to this city has been steadily on the increase, and accommodations in the way of dwelling hou ses are at present altogether insufficient. Building lots are being laid out for ten or fif teen miles out of the city, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by those who intend ma king Washington their future home. An additional roll of honor is to be publish ed, embracing the dead of Andersonville.