BSBFORB PA., FRIDAY, OCT. 13, 1X65.
VICTORY!!
BEING OUT THE 816 GUN I
Republican Majority in the State
from 15,000 to 20,000!
BEDFORD COUNTY ALMOST
REDEEMED I
Republican gain 500 on the
vote 0f"62!
COPPERHEAD MAJORITY ONLY 138!
ISO Skedaddlera allowed to cote!
toppfrheails stnff Hie ballel-boxes!
Wholesale rascality practiced by them!
The tricks of last fall in a new shape!
The |[nin In Brdford comity end the
victory In the State glory enongh
for otic dny I
The election on last Tuesday one of
the most animated that has ever been held
in this county. The expiring agonies of
Copperheadism was even terrible to behold.
And never in the history of the county did
these men, or any other men, resort to such
diabolical rascality as was practiced on this
day of election. In Bedford borough and
township, their creatures composed a major
ity of the boards, and a nod, or a wink, or
a simple request to accept or reject the vote
of any one, by Meyers or Shannon, was all
sufficient. Precedents adopted by these
worthies, heretofore, when it was to their !
advantage to establish their,, were ignored, !
men who were as much citizens as they, 1
were rejected and tnen voted who never had j
a residence. But to crown the infamy of i
this base party, led by base leaders, the bal
lot-boxes were stuffed by some of its agents 1
in both borough and township. The same
hand that stuffed the one stuffed the other, j
No Republican was allowed to enter the j
room occupied by the respective boards du- j
ring the day, while wc noticed quite a num j
her of those in the interest of that party, ,
were allowed to move in and out at pleasure.
With all this studied and designed rascality,
the Republican party succeeded in reducing
their majority on the vote of 1862, the basis
agreed upon by the Chairman of the res
pective State Central Committees. 500 and
upwards, leaving them the trifling majority
of 138, to be reduced by a slight army vote,
to overcome. While not less than 160 ske
daddlers and Bounty Jumpers were allowed
to vote. Had these doubly illegal votes been
rejected, we would have elected every man
on the Republican ticket, without being un
der the necessity of applying to the Courts
which, we will now be compelled to do, to get
justice and teach those political charlatans
that the laws of the country cannot be vio
lated with impunity. Soldiers who have
passed through every ordeal of fire and
sword to preserve their country, will not be
ruled out of their rights and privileges by
the men who forfeited their claims to citi
zenship. The following are the reported
majorities of the different districts as com
pared with the vote for Auditor General in
1862:
1862. 1865.
S 23 Oi SS! 21 ©i HI d a
3 s I Si § 5 |j !i |.
5 ? 8 K\ § J 51 m ! -
2 : ■ S' "1 £.< 2- i
H : : E b "r- o. s
S 3 s : • li : g • : I s
l_ IJj I i ! |
Bedford bor 100 79 21' 4 ,17
Bedford tp 215 81 1241 m | is'
Bloody Run bor. 15 42 27 48 22
Broad Top 33 79 ;46 92i 46*
Colersin 113 81 32' 74 43
Cumb. Valley.... 178 10 108! 104 ! 64
Harrison.... ! 84 42 42 4 46
Hopewell ' 48 81 33 62 29
Juniata. i 169 42 127 125 " 2
Liberty ! S9l 55 24 28 6
Londonderry 88 ! 45 43 14 29
Monroe 104 123 18 49 30
Napier 170 110 60 50 16
Prov. East 45 107 02 123 01
Prov. West 30 79 48 79 30
St. Clair 177 188 9 33 24
Schellsburg bor.. j45 22 24 Jj, ' j
Snake Spring....| 63 34 39 27 !12
Southampton ....176, 36 140 124> 14
Union j 125 140 15 : 28* 13i
Woodberry M.... 130 140 10 ,83 73)
Woodberry 5..... . 116 93 23 1 24 47 [
It will be seen by reference to this table
that there was a very heavy vote polled, the
heaviest ever polled in the county. The
Republican gains are pretty uniform on the
vote of 1864 throughout, save in St. Clair,
where we experienced a dead loss. This we
cannot account for; the canvass of the town
ship shows us a return of 231 Republicans
and 202 Copperheads, making an aggregate
ef 43S votes while only 415 were voted.
The official vote may explain. We should
have had 25 majority allowing them to vote
their deserters. Middle Woodberry is the
banner township, she gives us 83 majority, a
gain of 73, bntshe could just as easily have
given us 100 majority, and if properly can
vassed, and the whole vote out, she can give
us a majority of 125. All did well. Look
at the delightful figures of Bloody Run,
Broad Top, Hopewell, Monroe, the Provi
dences, Union, the Wood berries and Cum
berland Valley ! Where all did so well how
can we discriminate. One more turn of
the wheel and Bedford county will have
buried the last vestige of Copperbeadism.
\
THE TOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA IN
1862 AND 1865.
The following table shows the vote in
Pennsylvania in 1862, where the contest was j
between Thomas E. Cochran (Republican)
and Isaac Blanker (Democrat) for the pom- '
. tion of Auditor General, and the reported
• majorities of Tuesday as far as heard from :
Amtitor Genl. Auditor Gen'l.
1862. 1865.
3 ® Ig-| I
COUNTIES: g ? IJj
*n* i •
Adama 2,555' 2,966 /v+ \
Allegheny....! 12,323) 7,895:
Armstrong...} 2,2501 2,476 3^3*®"
r Beaver.-..*... 2,268, 1,7*4
Bedford | 1,679 2,326,;' ''JZ •/3&^7 e *
Berks ' 4,5501 10,464 !
Blair 2,485 1,894 j 7^-4,
Bradford 5,824' 1,761 Jrra-in
Bucks 5,8551 6,662 \}7'
Butler 2,770 2,615 .
Cambria 1,535 2,734^*
Cameron 196 i 136! —-- ;
Carbon 997 1,097
Centre 2,687:) f $ f
Chester i 7,224 , 4,870 ; 2JW\ . >
Clarion ' 1,396 2,335 j - 7J O
Clearfield 1,815 2.167!' 7% '
Clinton 1,1571 1,544' I 2? 3
Columbia 1,382 ! 2,952 1-™
Crawford 1 5,006 3,6B9.rst*>' .- ,
Cumberland..; 2,671; 3,515;; i V-d-J
Dauphin 4,150 3,276) 1^66
Delaware-... 2,772' 1,46111 1 i
'Elk i 275! 58* .11
Erie i 4,256 2,713'1 a
Fayette ' 2,709, 3,639 \S 3f
Franklin I 3,157) 3,140
F'ulton | 726; 1,009; ' , 200
Forest j 82j 69|1, , '■■
Greene j 949 2,869 j f!'4t£
Huntingdon..] 2,466, 1,823 WS&BQ
Indiana 1 3,896; 1,596j!-'■*- /uj*'
Jefferson.—. 1,412 1,483**
Juniata ! 1,094! 1,548 f j 2-50
Lancaster—; 11,471, 6,532 : £~,
Lawrence 2,561 1,053 /
Lebanon 3,045 2.213] '/'{/
Lehigh 2,806 4,750 ,/o!> >
Luzerne 5,768. 8,389 j J'2-f
Lycoming ' 2,608; 3.521 , 250'
McKean 784] 628 --
Mercer 3,421 3,049 % 6*l
Mifflin 1,468 1,370 ! Iff .
Monroe i 45(. ; 2,118 j V
Montgomery 5,118 6,765 j
Montour I 765! 1,239 . ,
Northampton 1,969 4,460 • •' t 7
Northumb'd. 2,085 ] 3,068 ) -
Perrv j 1,917,' 1,959 200
Philadelphia 36,124! 33.323 #4CW N.
Pike 135] 767 /
Potter 1,103 : 326 "
Schuylkill—' 5.481, 7,075; r'Y
Snyder 1,592 1,263,1™:;;*
Somerset. 2,475 1,415 I.**
Sullivan * 279 608 ■
Susquehanna 3,945 2,749
Tioga 2,792' 806; f
Union ; l,oßoi 1,155] i 470!
Venango j 2,565] .2,497 : 5)1
Warren 1,868! 1,213 j. .}
Washington.. 3,734 4,163 ,
Wayne 1,819 2,7601} ;
Westmorel'di 3,693 5,040 i; I,(KW
Wyoming : 1,154 1,345) j, i —~T"
York : 4,310 7,896
Total 1215,6161219,140
LATEST.
Just before going to press we received the
following dispatch:
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12, 1865.
Hon. John Cessna:
Returns come in very slowly, but indicate
a very large Union majority in the State.
Laudon, White, Ridgeway and M'Conanghy
are elected to the Senate. Gain of several
members in the house. Mann's majority
9.000.
GEO. W. HAMMEKSLY.
The latest news from Ohio indicates the
election of Cox for Governor by 25,000.
YE "LITTLE BERKS."
Cumberland Valley has done nobly. From
few voters in 1862, we have risen to acrenty,
and to-day we have the proud satisfaction of
recording the enormous gain of sixty-four
votes in this hitherto boasted stronghold of
the ancient "ift'm-ocracy." The principles
of the Union party are firmly rooted in the
people of Cumberland Valley. Thanks to
our gallant boys in blue.
MIDDLE WOODBERRY.
' Middle Woodberry has covered herself
I with glory. We knew she bad latent
strength, and it only required an effort to
exhibit her mighty prowess at the ballot
box. Whilst she had thundered defeat and
consternation into the retreating squadrons
of copperheadisna, she can poll fifty more
Union votes next fall. Gird on your armor,
and be ye ready for the next conflict!
BALLOT-BOX STUFFING.
The Copperheads stuffed the ballot-boxes
in Bedford Borough and township giving
them thirteen more ballots than they had
voters. We expect the Gazette to make an
effort to palm this dastardly trick off on the
Republicans. The Cops only allowed their
friends the run of the board, this accounts
for the ready manner in which the trick was
accomplished. These are the fellows who
cry fraud! fraud! and stuff the ballot-boxes
EAST PROVIDENCE.
All honor to the Union men of East Prov
idence, who have so nobly sustained the un
tarnished fame of their township. East
Providence may, like Maine, well adopt the
motto, "Dirigo," I lead the way; her star
never sets.
!SL.Our Woodberry friends will be aston
ished to hear that they imported votes from
Blair county. We suppose East Provi
dence colonized from Fulton. It is too bad
that these districts have in-crR-red the dis
pleasure of the Copperheads.
■QuHow are you, Negro Suffrage? The
Gazette said before the election that by vo
ting the Republican ticket our Republican
friends would endorse Negro Suffrage. Do
you think they did? How are you Negro
Suffrage?
J®°"The editor of the Bedford Gazette re
tired. early on Tuesday evening and was very
much annoyed by the Republican boys in
the street Can any body tell us the reason
why?
flags were displayed by our
Copperhead friends on the day of election,
hut since then they have gallantly hauled
down their colors! Wonder whether they
were stolen?
B@"Very amusing—to hear the Copper
heads condoling with each other over their
losses in this county. They cuR-tail the reas
ons very philosophically.
WSf "We will have 600 majority or burst
the boiler 1" B. F. Meyers.
Hof frii you, 600?
EDITORS TABLE.
The Atlantic Monthly for October makes j
its appearance promptly, it contains fewer
and longer articles than usual. The Needle
and Garden by Mr. Morris is concluded in
this number. The other articles are, Saints
Who Hare Had Bodies, by G. Reynolds;
No Time Like the Old Time, by Oliver
Wendell Holmes; Coupon Bonds, 11, by J.
T. Trowbridge, The Author of "Saul,' by
Bayard Taylor; John Jordan, by Edmund
Kirke; Noel, by Henry W. Longfellow;
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, II by
! D. A. Wasson; I>r. Johns,; IX, by Donald
G. Mitchell; Down the River, by Harriet
E. Prescott and Abraham Lincoln, a poem
of several pages, by H. H. Brownell.
Harper's Magazine for October is unusu
ally interesting. It also contains forty-two
illustrative of original papers.
Its contents are "Down in the Cinnabar
Mines;""Vil to the Isle of the Puritans."
—"White Wings"—"Sherman's great
of my Scholars" —"In the
SCeefagtf'—' 'Oolie'' —"Leaving Naples''—
"Jefferson Davis"—"My Burglar"—"On
Shore"—"Armadale" —The raising of
the Frigates"—"Fighting Joe Hooker" —
"Our Mutual Friend"—"A Battle Relic"
—"Give them work"—"Record of Current
..Events" —"Easy Chair" and "Editor's
' tow"
45 HOME MAGAZINE" for Octo
ber domes to us freighted with its usual va
riety of useful, interesting and instructive
reading for the fireside and family. The
embellishments are beautiful and gotten up
- in an artistic manner. It contains a rich
fund of literary matter and is deserving of a
liberal patronage.
"Oca YOUNG EOLKS" for October con
tains Grandfather's Chestnut Tree. Gipsy
Children's Song, How the Indian Corn
Grows, The Cruise of the Leopold, Half
hours with Father Brighthopes, Dog Carios,
Afloat in the Forest, Winning his way,
Aunt Esther's Stories, Hush-a-by, and
Round the Evening Lamp. Every family
should take our Yonng folks. It is pub
lished by Ticknor & Fields, Boston, Mass.
"THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW" for Sep
tember is on our table, and contains seven
articles under the folkwing heads: I, Ex
amination of Sir Wm. Hamilton's Philoso
phy by Mill. 2, Burlesque Poetry. 3, Car
lyle's History of Frederick the Great.
4, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodic Bart.
5, Mr. Russell on Salmon. 6. Sensation
Novelists: Miss Braddon. 7, Frost and
Fire.
"THE HORTICULTURIST' ' for October is
on our table with its usual amount of inter
esting and instructive matter on various
■subjects pertaining to its peculiar spltere.
THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY for October
is full of interesting articles on Horticultu
ral subjects and will be read with delight by
every one interested in the culture of flow
ers and fruits.
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST for this
Month is crowded with seasonable and in
structive articles. It is without a rival as
an agricultural journal and should be in the
hands of every one who has any ground
toeultivato either for pleasure or profit. It
is published by Orange Judd, 41 Park Row,
New York City. Send and get a specimen
copy.
W"Who stole "Andy .Johnson and the
Democratic ticket?" Andy apjiesrs to have
l>een too much for the Copperheads to carry.
They will have to try some other dodge.
like the-breaking up of a hard
winter —the Jogr-niatical chap of the Cop
perhead Committee.
long and seedy—the visage of
the Copperheads.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, October 9.
The whole number of postal routes con
tracted for in the Southern States thus far
is 84. The whole Tiumber of post offices re
opened 807. leaving over 7000 yet to be
opened. The growing demand for postal
facilities is proved by the fact that one post
office was opened in the month of March.
15 in April, 8 in May, 37 in June, 76 in July
220 in August, and 450 in September. The
difficulty in owning more lies not in the De
partment, but in the inability to find men
who can take the requisite oath.
During the first quarter of 1865 the total
expenses of the Post Office Department
were £3,648,869 47. Of this amount £832.
435 33 was Ipaid as compensation to post
masters, £126,001 26 to letter-carriers, and
£1,781 708 24 for transporting the mails.
The receipts for the quarter were .-*? 837,931
51, showing a net profit of £189,062 04.
North Carolina.—Slavery Forever Pro
hibited in the State.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.
The following dispatch was received by
the President last night:
RALEIGH, N. C. Oct. 7—The convention
has just passsed unanimously the following
ordinance: "That slavery or involuntary
servitude other than for crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted, shall
be and is hereby forever prohibited within
the State.
The convention will in all probability, ig
nore the rebel State; debt.
The convention has also passed an ordi
nance providing for the election of Gover
nor, members of the Legislature, and seven
members of Congress, on the 6th of No
vember.
The Legislature is to meet on the 19th of
November. W. W. HOLDEN,
Provisional Govornor.
Robberies and Garroting.—Vigilance
Committee Formed.
PITHOLE, Pa., October 7.
Highway robberies in this region are be
coming of almost daily occurrence. The
scene of operations is on the roads leading
to Titusville or Shaeffer, and the parties are
so numerous and bold that it is not safe to
travel these roads alone. Yesterday Mr.
Bothford, of Jamestown, N. Y., while on
his way to Shaeffer, was waylaid and robbed
of SISOO and a gold watch. He was left for
dead, but is still alive, though not expected
to recover. Garroting is of almost nightly
occurrence here, making it unsafe to be out.
Those doing business here are now organi
zing themselves into a vigilance committee
for their own protection, and if any of the
parties are caught lynch law will take its
course, and no mercy will be shown.
Repentant Rebel* in Town—Reopening
of the Maryland Club House, Etc.
BALTIMORE, October 9. —The Rebel Gen
erals Joe Johnston and Ewell are still in
Baltimore and an unusually large number of
southernersi are here awaiting pardon.
.}f® Dera 'Bancock a P° rt ion of his staff
will be at Gettysburg to morrow to view the
battlegrounds where Hancock fought so no
bly.
The old Maryland Club House, which wits
closed by General Schenk two years ago for
disloyalty, is about being reopened under
modified circumstances.
ALABAMA.
We hope that our readers faithfully read
aud ponder the report* of the proceedings of
the various conventions in the late rebel
States. The country is fast approaching
one of the most critical trials it has experi
enced. The President and Congress will
each express their views upon the question
of reorganization. Should they agree we
shall all rejoice. Should they differ, it is of
the utmost importance that public opinion
should be so instructed in the facts as to be
firm and intelligent in its denian Is
If the spirit of the conmition appears to
be truly healthy, if that they ac
cept all the results of tn# "war honestly and
frankly, the difficulties of the situation will
lie wonderfully relieve!. But if their action
is seen to have Ixien merely compulsory' and
1 reluctant, and it is clear that their faith is
still hostile to the spirit and letter of the
Government, the day of real peace will be
frievously postponed. Of course no sensi
le man expects the conventions to say that
the rebellion was a inonstrouikcrime. But
honorable men may fairly be expected to act
honorably. They will not shirk nor evade.
If they think the States sovreigu they will
say so. And such men will not bo surpri
sed that a nation which has just successfully
asserted its supreme sovreignty declines to
endanger its victory. •
The action of the Alabama Convention
was more reasonable than WM justly antici
pated from Its first proceedings. It unani
mously resolved that the act of secession
wap.,wholly unauthorized and is null and
YAM, but. by a vole of 5S to 34, .roftjsed to
call itMnconstitutjpl. Slavery was ,abol
ished with dissenting voB& out
of 92, and provision was ordered to bfffnade
by the Legislature for the protection of the
v<dsfed population. By a vote of -Of) to 19
the rt&ei State and Confederate debts were
absolutely repudiated. * "The Convention
resolved that the while population only
should be the basis of representation: aud,
by a vote of 61 to 25, decided to submit the
amendments to a popular vote.
Such action is good asAras it goes. But
the issues arc so important that it iiKist be
strictly scrutinized. A Srare which seven
months ago was in open and desperate re
bellion against the ( nion upon cortgin de
clared grounds now asks be admitted to a
full ana equal share in the legislation f the
Union upon the conditions thus stated:-: Let
us look closely at tlioir character.
The Alabama Convention by declaring the
act of secession null ami void admits that
the Convention of 1860 had no authority to
pass such an act; butby refusing to condemn
it as unconstitutional it adheres to the .State
right of secession, does not deny that
another Convention might lawfully authorize
secession. This was the very gtonnd of the
rebellion; and the Convention refuses to re
linquish it.
Slavery is abolished and prohibited by the
act of the Convention. But unquestionably
it acted under a certain consciousness of
constraint, and it is perfectly competent, for
another Convention to re establish slavery.
If the intention were finally to end slavery,
why not have removed it from State control
by recommending the adoption of the eman
cipatiou amendment to tho Constitution of
the United States? This would have left no
room for suspicion or apprehension.
The Alabama Convention also declared all
political power to be inherent in the people,
and that all free governments are founded
in their UHthority and established lor their
benefit; and then proceeded to base the
Government upon a minority or a snial! ma
jority of the people leaving all the right ,of
the rest in person, property, residence, legal
testimony, and marriage, to the absolute
will of a class of the citizens.
Thus Alabama, by her Convention offers
to return to her equal power in the Union
upon condition that the United States will
concede the constitutional right of secession
and the political outlawry of half the popu
lation of the State, Tint half being entirely
composed of the people whom no threat nor
falsehood could seduce from their unswerv
ing fidelity to the Union during the darkest
hour of the war.
Do the gentlemen of the Convention really
suppose that the people of the United States
victorious in thus tremendous war, will now
acknowledge the constitutionality of secess
ion and consent to perpetuate that coneentra
tion of political power in a class, which were
the mainsprings of the rebellion? Like a
shrewd trader Alabama begins with her
lowest offer. But she is surely too shrewd
to suppose that it will he considered satis
factory.—Harper 1 s Weekly
SOUTH CAROLINA.
TIIK South Carolina Convention has also
agreed upon its offer and adjourned. As
we showed last week, the key-note for its
deliberations, struck by the Provisional
Coventor Perry, was the Dred Scott decis
ion.
The Convention repealed tho ordinance of
secession by a vote of 105 to 3. It declared
by 08 to 8 that as slavery had been abolished
by the action of the United States authorities
it should never l>e re-established in the State
and directed a commission to submit a code
to the legislature for the protection of the
colored population. It popularized some of
the former purely aristocratic provisions of
the Constitution; resolved that the white
population only should be the basis of rep
resentation; and appointed a committee to
go to Washington and intercede for Jeffer
son Davis, Mr. Magrath, and Mr. Trenholui.
So far as apperrs it did not repudiate the
rebel debt nor provide for a popular ratifi
cation of its action.
The South Carolina Convention, by merely
repealing the act of secession, neither denies
the right of secession nor the authority of
the Convention of 1860. It simply declares
that it is now expedient to reconsider and
reverse a legitimate action. It repeals the
ordinance as a legislature repeals a law which
it was perfectly competent to pass. It will
not however be forgotten that the act of
nullificatiou in 1833 was "repealed;" but the
repeal did not prevent the ordinance of se
cession in 1860. It Was not meant to do so.
South Carolina then reserved her right to
nullify as she now reserves her right to se
cede. In the present Convention Air. Ham
mond, son of the late Senator offered the
opportunity of renouncing the ground upon
which the rebellion was justified by propos
ing a series of resolutions, one of which ex
pressly acknowledged that "sovereignty, a
unit, absolute and indivisible, which in all
nations must exist somewhere, resides in the
American people, and its authorized repre
sentatives, within the limits of the organic
law the Constitution—is the Federal Gov
ernment. ' The resolution went to the com
mittee and did not return.
Like the Alabama Convention, that of
South Carolina declared all political power
to be inherent in the people and then based
the Government upon, a minority of the
population. The spirit of the Convention
may be inferred from the speeches and Mes
sage of Gov. Perry and the remarks made
by the leading members, as well as by its au
thentic acts. Even that part of the popula
tion which is declared to he vested with po
litical power is not allowed to pronounce
upon the proposed Constitution.
Is this an "acceptance of the results of the
war?" Is there any evidence here that
South Carolina, formally or informally, ver
bally or infcrentially, renounces the theory
which has distracted this country' for more
than a generation and finally culminated in
terrible civil war? Does she take the least
pledge not to renew the attempt; and how
ever futile the supposition of a renewal may
now seem, is it not for that reason all the
more important that at this time all shadow
of legal pretense for secession shall be utterly
removed? Shall not the people of the Uni
ted States —and not a certain class in South
Carolina —who are now to decide this ques
tion decide plainly and indisputai ly and for
ever, that while the right of revolution for
hopeless oppression can never be renounced
the right ot secession and State sovereignty
are fictions too monstrous and perilous to be
openly or covertly tolerated for an instant?
It is not an unkind humiliation of those
who have been baffled in the most strenuous
effort to destroy the Government under the
plea of a reserved Constitutional right, to
require that they shall at least solemuly re
nounce that plea before they are admitted
to an equal share in the Government. It is
not an unwise nor unconstitutional exercise
of power to refuse to recognize as republican
a political system which puts evry political
aud personal right of a majority of the popu
lation at the mercy of a contemptuons mi
nority. It is not ungenerous to insist that
the condition of the return of the bitterest
enemies of the Union to a voice in its govern
ment shall not be the proscription and op
pression of its most faithful friends.
Nor is there any question of authority in
the case. Either South Carolina as a State
of the Union has the right to refuse to make
any change whatever in her Constitution,
and to claim the recognition of her Senators
and Rcpsesentatives in Congress exactly as
those of New York are recognized, or the
1 fitted States have the right to insist upon
such conditions of her return as good sense
and experience mav suggest. South Caro
lina, by the assembling and action of her
Convention under the authority of the Uni
ted States, has already yielded her claim.
She acknowledges the authority of the Uni
ted States to dictate the terms of her return
Let the United States not mistake weakness
for generosity, nor expect a harvest of palms
if tnev allow dragon's teeth to be sown.
Harper '* WreMy.
IMPORTANT FROM MISSISSIPPI.
A Great Cotton Frnud--The Government
Cheated of Hall a .Million--Gen. Slo
c(tin Responsible.
Correspondence of the Chicago Republican.
VICKSRCTLG, Miss., Sept. 24,1865.
I have obtained a copy of an official docu
ment revealing a gigantic fraud upon the
Government, m which Major General Slo
cuni was a prominent actor, —whether as a
tool of cunning scoundrels or as a partici
pant in their guilty but enormous profits, I
will not undertake to positively determine.
The facts are as follows :
When General Grant came here in Janu
ary, 1863, and, encamping at Milliken's
Bend, began to assemble the immortal army
with which he afterwards captured Vicks
burg. the reliel citizens of Madison parish,
Louisiana, in which Milliken's Bend is situ
ated. generally fled. Among the most ex
treme and violent of these people was one
Joseph Noland, a oottqp planter. Just be
fore his flight, Noland complied with the
orders of the rebel authorities by setting
fire to his cotton, of which he had a consid
erable qunntity. Most of it was burned up,
and Noland left in the belief that it had en
tirely perished in the fire. It is said, how
ever, that a small quantity escajied destruc
tion ; how much I nave not been able to as
certain. but from the best information I can
gather the amount was about forty bales.
When, in March and in April following,
(Jen. Grant was fitting up his steamboats to
run past the batteries of Yicksburg, be sent
about the country and gathered in all the
abandoned cotton that could be found, to be
used for bulwarks for the protection of boil
ers and engines against the enemy's fire.
There is no evidence, and none has ever
been adduced, to prove that Noland's aban
doned and unburnt cotton was taken for this
puiqxise, but probably it was. At anv rate,
however, it was abandoned property, belong
ing to an enemy of the United States, who
tried to destroy it to prevent its falling into
our hands, and was clearly subject to the
uses ol the United States forces, without
any right whatever, on the part of the fugi
tive rebel who owned it to ask for payment.
Lo process of time, after Vicksburg had
fallen, Nolaodcame hick to his plantation.
It had then become the fashion to present
claims for cotton lost during active hostili
ties. and some six months after Noland's re
turn ho was induced by one Delano to make
out an allegation that Grant had seized and
used MX hundred bales of his cotton, with
the demand that that number of bales should
U: returned to him out of captured eotton
tbeu lying in the quartermaster's store
house in \ icksburg. fhis claim was pre
sented to Major General Sloeum, who was
then commanding at Vicksburg, by whom
it was treated at first with the indifference
it merited as an impudent attempt to defraud
the Government for the benefit of a rebel,
whose treason could not be denied or even
doubted.
Hereupon Noland and his friends gave up
the attempt and were looking to other means
of making money ; hut there was then at
Yieksburg a shrewd and unserupulousNoi th
orn speculator; named W. S. Grant, who
conceived the idea of achieving what No
land had failed to accomplish. He first bar
gained with Noland to buy the claim lor
about one-fifths or one sixth of its nominal
value, agreeing to pay him for it nearly a
thousand dollars when he had got the cotton.
Then he went to General Slocum, and used
such effective argument, that within two
day* that officer delivered to him six huu
dred bales of cotton from a store house,
which for some purpose had been taken out
of the hands of the previous regular quar
termaster, and put in charge of one Lieut.
Steiner, an officer of the Ist Maryland cav
alry. who was not a quartermaster, but only
acting as such. Not being a bonded officer,
of course Steiner was responsible in a some
what less degree for property of the sort
that might be in his hands. He might also
lie expected to be more pliable than a tried
and experienced quartermaster who thor
oughly understood his duties and his rights.
These six hundred bales Steiner surrendered
to Grant upon Slocum's order, as an equiv
alent for that which Noland preteuded to
have lost, and this cotton was immediately
shipped to New Orleans and sold. But so
extraordinary an interest did Gen. Slocum
take in the success of the negotiation that
he actually sent a confidential staff officer
with the cotton, saith Grant, to New Or
leans. and this officer did not return until the
property was disposed of, and the money
for it realized. What sum if produced I
cannot say; but my recollection is that at
that time cotton was worth in New Orleans
$ 1 35 per pound. The 600 bales contained
fully 300,000 pounds, and the whole ought
to have netted something over $400,000.
Gen. Washburn afterward came hete as
Slocum successor, and learning by accident
that Noland, whose former history as a reb
el he perfectly understood, had received a
large quantity of cotton from Gen. Slocum,
lie caused the matter to be investigated by a j
military commission.
Destructive fire in the oil regions.--Four
thousand barrels of oil destroyed.
PITHOLE, PA., October ( J. —The most de
structive. conflagration that ever took place
in the oil regions occurred this morning about
1 o'clock, which fortunately terminated with
out loss of life. The tanks of the largest
flowing well in Pithole, known as the Grant
Well, containing 4<XK) barrels of oil, caught
fire, spreading destruction in all directions.
Thirteen derricks and engine- houses on
the following leases were destroyed:—Nos.
16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 on Holm
den Farm, and leases Nos. 2, 4, 5, Marcy
Farm covering a square of five aores. The
total loss will reacn $150,000. All of the
oil belonged to the owners of the land inter
est and United States Petroleum Company
of New York. The tanks, buildings, and
property, belonging to the owners of the
w orking interest in the well were insured for
$29,000 in the Associated Company of New
York.
A Roman Catholic priest in Ireland, on
the day of the nomination for the county of
Westmeath, called upon the mob to give
"three cheers for the Fenians."
STARTLING DEVELOPMENT.
A Confederate Stall Officer present as
Delegate iu the Chicago Conveuiiuu
He Votes for McClellan and the "Tail
ore" Tlntlorm—The Camp Douglas
Conspiracy.
Dr. Lunford B. Hunt, of Buffalo. New
York, late Medical Director of the cavalry
forces of the Military Division of the Gulf,
furnishes the Buffalo Express the following
statement:
About June Ist, of this year, I was sta
tioned at Selnia, Ala. One morning 1 re
ceived a visit, from Col. Cunningham, 12. S.
A., late Chief of Staff for Gen John Mor
gan. of Ohio raid notoriety. The conversa
tion turning upon horse flesh, Cob C. .-aid
that in the summer of 18b4 he was ordered
from Chicago, 111., to Richmond, Va., and
not daring to take the cars, he made the en
tire distance from Chicago ton point in Vir
ginia, where be could take the cars for Rich
mond, at the rate of fifty miles a day. Nat
urally this drew out inquiries as to what he,
a Confederate Colonel, was doing in Chica
go in the summer of 18f>4.
Col. Cunningham said that he was a dele
gate to the Chicago Democratic National
Convention from a district in Southern Illi
nois (his residence is in Tennessee), and
that he had the honor of voting for the
nomination of McClellan. His real errand
there, however, was to release the Confeder
ate prisoners at Camp Douglas. He had
300 picked men under his command concen
trated at Chicago. Upon these he could re
ly, and he also had the* promise of 3.000
Copperheads to assist him. He said that
he found the "Copperhead to be only water
snakes. They took to the tall grass." At
any rate he got no aid from them, and he
said "because they were the d —dest cow
ards on the footstool."
Col. Cunningham further said that with
his reliable 3000 men he could at some loss,
have taken Camp Douglas the evening be
fore the Convention met, that he would have
done so il everybody else had been as plucky
as Alexander Long, of (>hio, that Long was
"game,' but that A'allandigham was a
thorough-going cow ard, and his lack of mor
al courage defeated the whole enterprise.
Col. Cunningham is now, I believe, at
Nashville, Tennesseee. Should this meet
his eye, he will recognize tlic author, and I
am personally accountable to him for the
above as a correct version of a conversation
which had several witnesses. He will not
dispute it, and I only need to call attention
to the facts it exhibits.
1. It show.- that at least one Confederate
officer of high rank was a delegate to the
Chicago Democratic Convention and a sup
porter of MeClellan.
:1. That the authors of the Chicago plat
form of 1864, and some of the leaders of
that Convention were cognizant of and p<ir
tfcijis criniiitu in an attempt to release sonic
IU,O<Hi rebel prisoners and turn them loose
in the streets of Chicago to commence the
work of rapine and bloodshed.
.MISCHIEF BREEDERS.
We met the other afternoon a Texan, who
has recently travelled through the south
western states. He asserts that the New
\ ork democratic journals are doing immense
mischief in those states and in the whole
Southwest, by their language and conduct.
"I found in Mississippi as in my own state,"
he said, '"that many planters, who would
have gone on with their business, and made
contracts with the blacks for their labor,
have been induced to stop all efforts at re
viving industry,by the language of the. A'etcx,
i Worltf. Ahtrain Jitan Record and other jour
nals of like character. They construe the
language of these journals to mean that there
is a large party at the North ready to sup
port the ex-slaveholders in any measures
which they may choose to adopt in relatiou
to the negroes. They are persuaded that
they need not make contracts with their
blacks, for that this uortherti party will help
them to establish some rfrurpulsory labor
system. Therefore they refuse to begin
work; they prefer to let their fields lie im
planted—they will wait, they say, for what
is going to turn up.
These same men," said our informant,
"were ready to accept the best terms they
could get four or five months ago. They
would have pledged themselves to ratify the
Constitutional Amendment at once, by every
legislature—hut now they learn from the
A etc* and other northern democrat ic journals
that the democratic party is not in favor of
the amendment that it has prevented its
ratification in New Jersey and elsewhere,
and continues to do so; and they understand
from this that the democratic party is ready
to assist the southern planters in Congress
in establishing a system of serfdom, or ap
prenticeship, for the fre •dmen. The belief
that they are thus secure of the assistance of
a pro-slavery party in the North makes them
careless of the present," he continued.
''They look to the future; they will begin
no new enterprises until this matter is settled
and the revival of industry over a large re
gion is checked by these hopes, which the
conduct of the democratic-party journals has
awakened."
We find in the Mississippi correspondence
of the Herald a report to the same effect:
'"lt is true that no one, with very rare excep
tions, is foolhardy enough to dream of the
old form of slavery ever being reinstated;
but there are hopes entertained by a large
class—a majority,in fact-of the people that a
system of warranteeism' will be inaugurated
by the next Congress. By warranteeism.they
mean an enactment of Congress which shall
permit the states to make such laws as will
compel the negroes to work for stipulated
wages and stated lengths of time. The ad
vocates of this warrantee system will be elec
ted to Congress, and I believe that Governor
Sharkey, whowiil most undouptedly be one
of the senators, will also favor it; for any
man who would announce his enmity to it
would stand no chance of election."
Thus the settlement of our difficulties is
put oft, the reorganization of southern indus
try delayed, strife and ill-feeling kept up by
the conduct and language of the democratic
organs. Evening J'oxt.
How TO OBTAIN THE BODIES OF DE
CEASED SOLDIERS. —The following informa
tion relative to the procurement of the bod
ies of deceased soldiers buried in govern
ment cemeteries, will undoubtedly prove of
great benefit to the thousands liereaved by
the war. Any person desiring to obtain the
body of a deceased friend or relative, must
be prepared to make an affidavit before a
justice of the peace or a notary public, to
the effect that he is duly authorized to re
ceive said body and at the same time state
the company and regiment to which he for
merly belonged. All applications should be
made at the office of James 31. Moore, As
sistant Quartermaster, where a record is kept
of a large proportion of those who have fal
len during the war. their company, regiment,
and-rank, together with their conjugal con
dition, residence of widow or relative, cause
of death, and exact locality of their graves.
The affidavit must be left at Capt. Moore's
office, Washington, where he will receive an
order for exhuming the bodv. The Govern
ment makes no charge for furnishing all in
formation relative to the interment of de
ceased soldiers, but after it has granted the
necessary permission to exhume their bodies,
relinquishes all care and supervision, and
the corpse must he taken from the cemetorv
by private conveyance, and be prepared for
shipment to its destination by the same
means. It is essential that a body be so
Prepared as to prevent an unpleasant odor,
which can be done by means of disinfecting
powder, or by scaling it in a metalic or air
tight deodorizing ease.
Louis Napoleon will invite emigration to
Mexico bv offering the fullest civil and politi
cal franchise, including religious suffrage,
and all the blessings confbrreu upon and se
cured to Americans.
-Mr. Lincoln** plßi-f)merl sultrae..
the condition oi ui ve*sal aaincsty.
Tlic Southern A'lriHvitr of Sept
gives the following .(notation from a fctt, r
written by President Lincoln to Gen. Wad.
worth:
"You desire to know, in the event of our
complete success in the held, the same bri DL ,
followed by a loyal and cheerful submission
on the |>art of the South, it a universal am
nesty should not be aceoniponied with un'i
vcrsal suffrage. Now, since you know i„v
private inclinations as to what terms should
be granted to the South in the contingency
1 will here add that if our success should
thus Ixi realised followed by such desired re
sults, I cannot see, if a universal amnesty is
granted, how, under the circumstances. J
can avoid exacting in return universal guff,
rage, or at least suffrage on the basis of'i n .
tcliigonec and militant service. How to bet
tcr the con Jit ion of the colored race ha>: lonir
been a study which has attracted my serious
and careful atteutiou. lieuce, I think lam
clear and decided as to what course I shall
pursue in the premises; regarding it a relig
l.'Us duty, as the nation is the guardian of
these people who have so heroically vindi
cated their miohood on the battle-field
where, In assisting to save the life of the lie
public, they have demonstrated fin blood)
their right to the ballot, which is hut the
humane protection of the flag they have >o
fearlessly defended."
I'ITTSIit'KUH AM) CONNELLSVILLE RAIL
ROAD
During the present month work will be
recommenced on the Pittsburgh and Councils
villc railroad and vigorously prosecuted. It
is confidently expected that by the first of
January an opening will have been made
through the Sand Patch tunnel, and no effort
will be spared on the part of the company, it
is stated, to bring about an early compleiion
of the road. The prospects of the conij<ariy
at present are represented to be very bright
and with the material aid which has lieen
and is still being provided them they intend
to push the work rapidly to completion.
Pittsburgh Commercial.
from Cairo and Memphis.
CAIRO, 111., Oct. 8. —It is understood
that the commission to try Emerson Kt bridge
will adjourn for several day.- Hnd efforts are
being made to change the place of trial to
Memphis.
The Mississippi Central Railroad will be
in running order in a few days when passen
gers can reach New Orleans from Memphis
in forty hours.
'J he steamer Fnistoiu was sunk in tlm
Yazoo river on the L'Tth ult. The freight
was saved in a damaged condition. No live.-
were lost,
In the Memphis Cotton Market prices
have advanced twocents. Over 7x Dik-sol
cotton passed here during yesterday and to
day.
From Europe.
HALIFAX, October 9. —The Koyal Mail
steamship China arrived at this jmrt this
morning. Iler advices are to the Ist in
stant. ffnui Liverpool via Quecnstown. The
rate of discount has been advanced to 4}
j>er cent, by the Bank of England.
A numl>er of Fenian prisoners were
brought Itefore the police magistrates at
Dublin on Saturday. The Government
counsel stated that large sums of money had
been received by some of the prisoners front
America.
He said a letter was intercepted in that
day's mail containing a large draft for one
of them. Some of the correspondence seiz
ed shows that the designs of the Fenians
were of a most sanguinary character, being
the extermination and assas-ination of the
nobility on the breaking out of the revolu
tion.
DEPORT OF THE AGRICLLTIUAL COMMIS
SIONER. — The Agricultural Commis-ioner
has i> -ueuhis report for the month just clos
ed. It relates chiefly to farm stock. In the
summary he states that the average amounts
consumed in Britain and Ireland is about
56,000.000 bushels more than produced.
The deficit of this year will then make it
about one third greater, or 72.000,(MX) bush
els. The immense corn crop of this country
now grown will enable us to ship largely
of wheat to foreign countries, although the
wheat crop has been impaired fully as much
as reported in the last monthly statement,
and the quality of the crop is not good in
many States. The amount of old wheat
will not be a great as anticipated. The
buckwheat and potato crops may be greater
but the danger of rot is too imminent to
base any calculations on the latter crops.
GOVERNOR ANDREW IN A NEW ENTER
PRISE. —The Washington - Republican learns
that "Governor Andrew of Massachusetts
is to be the head of a powerful Southern Em
igration Aid Society, organised somewhat
upon the plan of the company which defeat
ed the iniquitousintentions-of the oligarchy
and brought good out of evil, by making
Kan.-a- a free State in spite of the Nebraska
bill and its authors. Thoroughly imbued
with New England pluck, spirit, and energy
his influence, and that of the giotious old
Commonwealth of which he is eminently a
representative man, will, by this means, he
made a power in the land which will tell
with immeasurable force in the work of re
generation upon which the American people
are now entering. And for Governor An
drew we know no more important duty to
which he could be called."
The internal revenua receipts in the la-t
ninety-six days, Sundays included, amoun
ted to the sum of one hundred millions,
nine hundied and thirty-five thousand, three
hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety
four cent.-, being greatly in excess of what
was expected by any one conversant with
the business of the Internal Revenue De
partment. ' The receipts for the month of
September were $37.939,415 82. To-dav's
receipts are $1,882,453 94.
The Mississippi Election.
CAIRO, 111., October 8. —The Jackson
(Miss.) Dixjniich. of the sth >\ :—"Gen
eral Humphreys' majority foi <!>•>, i n or will
probably l>e HMMXi votes. G. L. Potter the
anti-negro testimony candidate I Judge of
the Court of Appeals in Jackson di-trict. is
elected by 3<XX) majority."
Large fire in Philadelphia.-- Pour thou
sand barrels of Coil Oil tinned.
PHILADELPHIA. O- T. 8.
The T . S. bonded warehouse on Dickon
son street wharf, containing 4(XX> bhls. coal
oil, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. The
loss is insured about fifty per cent.,
mostly in New York and New England
companies.
In Hayti the Rebels still holdout at Cape
Haytien but have gained no further success.
Astray Japanese, a member of the Ty
coon's staff, has arrived in this country, and
will make a tour of observation through our
Republic.
Fenianism has caused the English Govern
ment to station two men of war and a num
ber of gunboats off Bantry Bay and an ad
joining station on the Irish Coast.
flfiTThe new 5 20 bonds will be issued in
denominations of SI,OOO, SSOO, and SIUO only.
EST"The number of prize clnims settled at
the Fourth Auditor's Office in September
last war 1866; the amount disbursed by the
same office #286,430,95.