Bedford is PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. BY j. R. I) IR BORROW AND JOHN LCTZ, QJ Il.'LI AS.4 St., opposite the Meiigei House BEDFORD, PENN'A. TF.lt *Us: |3,00 a year if paid strictly in advance. If not paid within six months *2.HO. If not paid within the year 03.00. grofessuroal & gStwinass <£afdjs. ATTORNEYS ATMLAW. JOHN PALMES, ' Attorney at Law, Bedford, Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to hit ear*. ■i.%u Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Office on Julianna it., nearly opposite the Mongel House.) june 23, '85.17 T B. CESSNA, J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with Jons CBSSSA, on Pitt st., opposite the Bedford Hotel. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Mili tary Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9,1885. JOHN T. KEAGY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa., Will promptly attend to all legal business entrust ed to hi* care. Will give special attention to claims against the Government. Office on Jallans street, formerly occupied by Hon. A. King. oprll:'6s-*ly. J. R. DL!RBORHOW ...JOBS LUTZ. DUR BORROW A LUTZ, ATTOR.\'E I'S AT WH', BKRPORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their rare. Collections made on the shortest no- ] tice. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents j and will give special attention to the prosecution j ■if claims against tha Government for Pensions,] Bark Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the ; '•Mengel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer 1 office. April 28, 1885:tfi IVSPY M. ALSIP, J VJ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BSDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. apU, 1884.—tf. M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfeller, E#<|., en Juliana street, two doors South of the "Mengle House." Dec. 9, 1864-tf. KIMMELL AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors Bouth of the Mengel House, aprl, 1864 —tf. JOHN MOWER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. April 1,1884.—tf. DENTISTS. ~ C. If. HICKOK j. G. MltfSlCH, JR. DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Office IK the. Bank Building. Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry earefully and faithfully per formed and warranted. TERMS CASH. jan6'Bs-ly. DENTISTRY. I. N. BOWSER, RF.SIDHST DBXTIST, WOOD BERRY. PA., will spend the second Monday, Tues day, and Wednesday, of each month at Hopewell, the remaining three days at Bloody Run. attend ing to the duties of his profession. At all other times he can be found in his office at Woodbury, excepting the last Monday and Tuesday of the same month, which he will spend in Martinshurg, Blair county, Penna. Persons desiring Operations should eall early, as time is limited. All opera ions warranted. Aug. 5,1864,-tf. I'HYSICI.WS. DR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius. April 1, 1864—tt JL. MARBOURG, M. D., . Having permanently located respectfully tender* his pofessional services to the citixens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite tba Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf. HOTELN. BEDFORD HOUSE, AT HOPEWELL, Bunroan COCSTT, PA., BY HARRY DROI.LINGER. Every attention given to make gue*ta comfortable, who *top at this House. Hopewell, July 29, 1864. US. HOTEL. UARRISBURG, PA. CORNER SIXTH AND MARKET STREETS, | OPPOSITS READING B. R. DEPOT. D. H. HUTCHINSON, Proprietor. I j in 6:65. HOTEL. BEDFORD. Pa.. ISAAC F. GROVE, Proprietor. THE subscriber would respectfully announce to hi* friend* in Bedford County, and the public generally that he has leased for a term of years, this large and convenient brick hotel, at the corner of Pitt and Juhnnna Streets, Bedford Pa., known as the WASHINGTON HOTEL, and formerly kept by Win. Dibert. This Houee i* being thoroughly re-Attcd andjre furnished, and is now opened for the reception of guest*. Visitors to the BEDFORD SPRINGS, and perooas attending Court, will find this House a pleasant and quiet temporary home, Every at tention will be paid to the accommodation and comfort of guests. The TABLE will at all times be supplied with the best the markets afford. Charges will be mod erate. Extensive Stabling is attached to this Hotel, and a careful and competent Hostler will be in at tendence. Special attention will be paid to the accommo dation of the farming community. Coaches leave this House Daily, (Sundays ex cepted) at 6i o'clock, A. M. and 2o'clock P. M., to connect with the trains going East, from Mount Dallas Station and Bloody Run. A coach will also leave tri-weckly, (Tuesday, * Thursday and Satur day) for Somerset. The traveling publie will find It decidedly to their advantage to stop with hitn. ISAAC F. GROVE. Bedford, April 7, 1865. RA.\KF,ItS. O. W. HUPP O. E. SHANNON T. BENRMCT RUPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, BHDroitD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. * COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North snd South, and the general business of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. npr.15,'64-tf. JEWELER, Ac. DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WRST or THR ait FORD HOTEL, BEBPORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold IV atch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. pr. 28,1865—xi. JOHN MAJOR, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, HOPI.W.LL, '■P.DTORN COUHTT. Collections and all business pertaining to his office will be attended to prompt. !y. Will also attend to the sale or renting of real < -tate Instruments of writing carefully prepar ed. Also settling np partnerships and other ac -ojun t- Api 61— y. fßedtorii 3JuQUUtr. MKBORROW A LI'TZ Editor* and Proprietors. SOfib OF THE CORN GATHERERS. BT JOB* G. WHITTIRR. Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard? Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured Prom out her lavish horn! Let other lands exulting glean The apple from the pine, The orange from its glossy green, The cluster from the vine. We better love the bardy gift Our rugged vales bestow, To cheer us when the storm shall drift Our harvest fields with snow. Thro' vales of grass, and meads or nowers, Our plows their furrows made, While on the hills the sun and showers Of changeful April played. We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain, Beneath the sun of May, And frightened from our sprouting grain The robber crows away. All thro' the long bright days of June Its leaves grew bright and fair, And waved in hot midsummer noon. Its soft and yellow hair. And now with Autumn's moonlit eyos, Its harvest time has come, We pluck away its frosted leaves, And hear the treasure home. There, richer than the fabled gifts Apollo showered of old, Fair hands the broken grain shall sift, And knead its meal of gold. Let vapid Idlers 101 l in silk, Around the costly board; Give us the bowl of samp and milk, By homespun beauty poured. Then shsioc on all the proud and vain, Whose folly laughs to scorn The blessings of a hardy grain, Our wealth of golden corn. Let earth withhold her goodly root, Let mildew blight the rye, Give to the worm the orchard's fruit, The wheat fields to the fly ; But let the good old crop adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us for His golden corn Send up our thanks to Godl OCTOBER. BT W. GATLORD CLAKX. Solemn, yet beautiful to view, Month of my heart, thou dawnest here, With sere and faded leaves to strew The Summer's melancholy bier; The moaning of thy winds I hear, As tbtt red sunset dies afar, And bars of purple clouds appear, Obscuring every western star. Thou solemn month! I hear thy voice, It tells my soul of other days, When hut to live was to rejoice, When earth was lovely to my gaze. O, visions bright! O, blessed hours; Where are those living raptures now? I ask my spirit's wearied powers, I ask my pale and fevered brow. Ala*! for Time, and Death, and Care, What gloom around my way they fling, Like clouds in Autumn'* gu*ty air, The burial pageant of the Spring. The dreams that each succeeding year, Sceuied bathe d in hues of living pride, At last, like withered leaves, appear, And sleep in darkness, side by aide. •frtitical v ADVICE TO THE TEXANS. The Address of John H. Reagan, late Rebel Postmaster-General—He write* from his prison at Fort Warren words of good advice to his people—His opin ions and recommendations for fature guidance. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, AUSTIN, ) Texas, Sept. 23,186*. j EDITOR GAZETTE : I received, a day or two past, through the War Department, in Washington, the inclo sed manuscript address by Hon. John 11. Reagan to the people of Texas, written from Fort Warren, where he is now confined as a prisoner of state. The address was accom panied with a note from Maj.-Gen. Hooker commanding the Department of the East, requesting that it be forwarded to me, if not in conflict with the policy of the government together with a note requesting its publica tion, if not in contravention of my policy, &c., &c. It affords mo pleasure to comply with the request. It is a manly appeal to the people of Texas, from an old public servant, who is suffering, in his own person, the penalty of the great crime of the South—an appeal to them, not for himself, but for them, many of whom, to my knowledge, are a thousand times more responsible for the late rebellion than himself. It is the inspiration of moral heroism to confront the long cherished errors and preju dices of a people, with the simple weapons of reason and truth. In time past, no man has had a stron ger hold upon the public confidence that the writer of this address. Ho has done noth ing to forfeit that confidence, except to con sent, reluctantly, as I believe, to engage in the mad experiment of secession. lie has seen and deplores the wickedness and folly which brought upon the people their pres ent troubles, and now seeks by his warning voice, issuing from a prison cell, to induce this people to repair, as far as may be, by their future course, the injuries of the past. I respectfully request the publication of the address in your pa|>er, and hope that the Press of the State generally will do the same. If every man in our State, who is and has been engaged in throwing discredit upon the justice ana policy of the government would, with the same honesty of purpose, discuss the pre ent and future interests of the peo ple, its return to its proper and constitution ■ a! position in the Union would be both sure and expeditious. 1 earnestly commend the address to the : honest and thoughtful consideration of the people of Texas. Very respectfully, A. J. HAMILTON. ADDRESS. IN PRISON, FORT WARREN, 1 BOSTON HARBOR, Aug. 11, 1865. J To the. people of Tex"* : ' The condition of the country is Mich as to awaken the anxious solicitude of every citi- A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. zen. Portions of you have honored me with your confidence on many occasions. I have tried to repay that confidence by sin cere efforts for your good, and by faithful service. Though now a prisoner, in solitary confinement, and far from you, without knowing when, if ever, I shall be permitted to mingle with you again, my children and relatives and friends are among you, and my anxiety for their and your welfare, induced me to ask the permission of the government to send you this communication. I have tried to form a correct estimate of the condi tion of affairs, and send you the result of my reflections. The times demand the ex ercises of thought and reason, and the free expression of opinion. I hope mine may be at least suggestive. As our condition forces unwelcome thoughts and action on us, and as, in my judgment, your best interests re quire you to assent to facts and conclusions, conforming to the new order of things, which must be repugnant to your past experience, and to your reason and prejudices, I take the liberty of suggesting to you frankly that line of action which seems to me best calcu lated, in your existing condition, to promote and secure your future welfare. I need not assure you of my sympathy with you, and I think need not doubt your confidence that I would advice you to no course which I did not think best for you. I see that Gen. Hamilton, who has been appointed Provisional Governor by the Pre sident, has entered on his duties. He will have adviced you of the policy of the gov-# ernment, and what will lie expected of you, and will, no doubt, call a convention to reor ganize the State Government, as is being done in other States similarly situated. Your condition as a people is one of nov elty and experiment; involving the necessity of political, social and industrial reconstruc tion, after a thorough and sweeping revolu tion in all these respects; and this nas to be accomplished in opposition to your educa tion. traditional policy and prejudices. I do not propose to discuss either what belongs to the nast, or the policy of what is now required of you, but to accept the present condition of things, as the result of the war, and of inevitable necessity; and from this, as a starting point, to require what policy our people should adopt for the future. You must, in the first place, recognize the necessity of making the most you can out of your present condition, without the hojte of doing all you might desire. This is requir ed both by reason and necessity. The State occupies the condition of a con quered nation. State government and State Sovereignty are in abeyance; and will be so held until you adopt a government and poli cy acceptable to the eonquerers. A refusal to accede to these conditions would only re sult in a prolongation of the time during which you will be deprived of a civil govern ment of your own choice, and continue subject to military rule. And it would do more than this: it would keep questions of the gravest character open for discussion and agitation, and, by degrees, accustom the whole coun try to a sort of military government, and re sult in the establishment of a military des potism, without bringing you any nearer to the attainment of your wishes than you arc at present. In order to secure to yourselves again the blessings of local self-govern meat, and to avoid military rule and the danger of running into military despotism, you must agree: First, To recognize the supreme authority of the Government of the United States within the sphere of its power, and its right to protect itself against disintegration by the secession of the States. And, second, you must recognize the ab olition of slavery, and the right of those who have lecn slaves to privilege and pro tection of the law of the land. From what I can see, this much will be required as the least t hat would be likely to satisfy the government, and secure to you the blessings of civil government, and the admission of your members into the Con gress of the United States. But even this may fail in the statement of these ends, unless pro . i shall be made by the new State Government for conferring the elective franchise on the former slaves. And present appearances indicate that this will be required by Northern public senti ment and by Congress. And our people are in no condition to disregard that opinion or power with safety. But I am persuaded you may satisfy both without further iuju ries to yourselves than has already occurred. If you can do this, and secure to yourselves liberty, the protection of the Constitution and laws of the United States, and the right of local self-government, you will he more fortunate than many other conquered peo ple have been. The Government and the people of the Northern States will, I have no doubt, recognize the necessity of your se curing these blessings, as important to the whole rouutry, as a means or preserving to it constitutional liberty and the present form of republican government. This is a new language to employ in addressing you, and will be as unwelcome to you as it is sorrow ful to me. But it would be more than folly, it would be a great crime, for you. and I and those who may be charged with the duty of reorganizing and restoring the State to the Union, to refuse to recognize the facts of your situation, however disagreeable, and to speak of and deal with them with candor and directness. When the government offers its terms for the restoration of the State to the Union, it demands no other sacrifices than those al ready made, by the result of the war, of re- Bouncing the right of secession, and recog nizing the abolition of slavery, with the ne cessary consequences. These demands being complied with, the civil government- will be organized, the military government with drawn, your members will be admitted to their seats in Congress, and the State will be in the Union on an equality in all respects with the other States; with no further dis abilities, save only such as attach to individ uals. While the government prescribes the conditions of this return it authorizes the people of the State, through representatives of their own choice, to execute them. It seems to be the object of the government, in pursuing this course, to secure what it regards as the fruits of the victory it has won, and at the same time to preserve our form of government and the liabilities of the people. I know that those who look to the past only, with its sacrifices and losses of principles believed to be true, of property possessed, of national independence sought, and of the heroic dead, may say, why talk of liberty now and of equality in the Uni on? The answer is, that having attempted to secure and preserve these bv an appeal to the God of Battles we failed, and they now, so far as relates to our political restor ation, belong to the dead past, where it is the policy of the conquerors to leave them, present and to the future. If it be thought hard to surrender so much, it must, be re membered that such is the fate of war, and we must not forget that by the appeal of arms, whether willingly made or not, we staked not only what the government exacts, but all our rights and property, on the re sult, That we are not required to surren der all is due, not to the laws of war, but BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1865. to the the enlightened and Christian age and country in which we live, to the liber ality of the government, and to the spirit and genius of our institutions. The ques tion as to which party to the contest was right or wrong, or as to whether both were partly right, or wrong in staking all on the late of battle, were discussed before the war commenced, and were decided by each party for itself, and, failing to agree, tliey made their appeal to the dread arbitrament of arms. It was precisely because the two parties could not agree as to the issues be tween them that they went to war, to settle them in that way. Why should we think of reopening the discussion of these questions? What good could come of doing so? Wis dom requires us to accept the decision of battle upon the issues inrolved, and to be thankful that no more hf.s been demanded by the conquerors, and to unite frankly, and as cheerfully as we can, the government in carrying out the {olteJhK* has propound ed. Some of our people seem still to think they can retain their property in slaves, under the authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States. If the question had been originally submitted to the courts of the country, instead of to the trial of battle, this might have been the case. But we are not now permitted to claim the pro tection of the government which we repudi ated and fought against, unless by its con sent. It says to the great mass of our peo ple, you may retain your property, except your slaves. They are now free. And un less you agree to this you can neither get back into the government as citizens, nor into its courts to assert your claim to slaves, or any other property. The only wise and safe course for you to pursue is to accept promptly, unreservedly, and in good faith, the terms and ami policy offered, and to go forward in the work of reorganization and restoration to the Union. This requires your assent to great pecuniary sacrifices, momentous changes in your social and in dustrial system, and a surrender of your opinions and prejudices on most important questions. It is humbling to our self-es teem, humiliating to our pride, and cannot be more unwelcome to you than it is painful to me to feel that duty requires me to give and you to accept this advice. It is not that sort of advice which persons semetimcs give but do not accept for themselves. It is for me and mine as well as for you and yours. To the conferring of the elective franchise on your former slaves I anticipate a stub born and sincere opposition, based upon the ignorance of a great mass of them, and on their total want of information and experi ence in matters of legislation, administra tion, and everything that pertains to the science of government, and upon the pride of race. And this objection may be sus tained by pointing to the examples of Mex ico, and or the Central American and South American States; where, by the enfranchise ment of the Indians and negroes, and all others, without reference to race, or mental or moral fitness for the exercise of these re sponsible rights, they have been deprived of the blessings of peace, order and good gov ernment, and involved in an almost uninter rupted series of war and revolutions, often of the most cruel and barbarous character, for more than half a Century, with no pres ent prospect of an amelioration or improve ment of their condition. But these difficul ties arc not insuperable, if you meet them with patience and reason. I have no doubt you tan adopt a plan which will fully meet the demands of justice and fairness, and satisfy the Northern mind, and the require ments of the government, without endan gering good government and the repose of society. This can be done by: First —Extending the privileges and pro tection of the laws over the negroes as they are over the whites, and allowing them to testify in the courts on the same conditions; j leaving their testimony subject to the rules I relating to its credibility; but not objecting to its admissibility. And in this you will conform with the wise current of modern legislation, aud the tendency of judicial de cisions in all enlightened countries. And, Second—By fixing an intellectual aud moral, and, if thought necessary a prop erty test, for the admission of all persons to the exercise of the elective franchise, with out reference to race or color, which would secure its intelligent exercise. My own view would be: First —That no person now entitled to the privilege of voting should be deprived of it because of any new test. I would recog nize in this the difference between taking away a right heretofore enjoyed, and the conferring of a right not heretofore exer cised. Second —That to authorize the admission of persons hereafter to the exercise of the elective franchise, they should be, first, males; second, twenty-one years of age; third, citizens of the Lnited States; fourth, should have resided in the State one year, and in the district, county or precinct six months next proceeding any election, at which they propose to vote; fifth, should l>c able to read in the English language un derstandingly; sixth, and must have paid taxes for the last year prececding For which such taxes were due and payable, subject to any disqualification for crime, of which the person may have been duly convicted, which may be prescribed by law. The adoption of these measures, in addi tion to those before mentioned, would, in uiy judgment, meet the ends of justice and fairness, secure the re-establishment of the State Government, the admission of her Senators and Representatives in Congress, the suspen.-ion of military rule, and the re storation of civil, constitutional and local self-government. And it would do more. It would secure your protection against oth er great and pending evils; and be, I am persuaded, of the greatest consequence to jour future peace, prosperity and happiness. Firsf—lt would remove all just grounds of antagonism and hostility between the white and black races. Unless this is done endless strife and bitterness of feeling must characterize their relations. And all history and human experience teach us must, soon er or later, result in a war of races. We now know, from sad experience, what war | is, between equals and enlightened people. But of all wars, a social war of races is the most relentless and cruel. The extermi nation, or expulsion from the country, or en slavement of the one or the other being its inevitable end where they arc left to them selves; or the loss of liberty to both races, where they are all subject to the control of a superior power which would be our situa tion. I speak, of course, of the legal rights and status of the two races. Their social relations are matters of taste and choice, and not subject to legislative regulation. Second. —This course would disarm and put an end to inter-State, sectional, political agitation on this subject at least, which has been the special curse of our country for so many years, and which was the cause of the unnumbered woes we have recently exieri enced,and still suffer, by depriving the agita tors of a subject on which to keep up such an agitation and of the means of producing i jealousy, animosity and hatred between the ! different parts of the country, and between the different raoes. And this would do much toward the renewal of the ancient re lations of natioual harmony and fraternal good will between all parte of the country. And this, too, is of the greatest consequence to our future welfare; and especially as our people now know there is no hope of escape from it by appealing to the principles of State sovereignty- and the right of secession. If the State will accept this policy at once, it will attain the great ends heretofore men tioned. and it will save its own people from years of painful strife and agitation on these questions.which would at last, probably after years of contention, be found to be the only means of bringing it to an end even if it lead to nothing worse. How infinitely better it will be for you,for both races,for the present and future, for the whole country, if you will unhesitatingly recognize the unalterable facts as to your condition and the inevitable logic of events; and hasten as it is in your power to do the return of the blessings of civil government and constitutional liberty, ana avoid as tfc Is in your power to do the fearful perils which now lie before you. I know the painful struggle against education and habit and policy and tradition and prej udice which such a course will require you to encounter, and how hard it is for human nature to overcome such difficulties. But my sincere prayer is that God in His good ness and mercy may enable you to exhibit this last crowniDg evidence in the midst of your calamities and sorrows of your great ness, wisdom and goodness as a people. Ido not know how far it may be thought neccessary or wise by the convention and the succeeding legislature to change the general frame of tne State Government; but if you will pardon me, here is a subject in this con naction to which I would call your attention. For many years past it has been my op n ion that we had carried our system of popu lar government to a vicious extreme which developed sad evils and which required cor rection. I refer to the frequency of the oc currence of popular elections to the great number of officers filled by the popular vote and to the shortness of the terms of office. As our laws now stand all offices, executive, legislative, judicial, ministerial, corporate and military I believe with the exception of Secretary of State, the Governor's Private Secretary and the Clerk of the Supreme Court are elected by a popular vote of the people. And with the exception ofthejud ges and Clerks of the Supreme and District Courts and of State Senators for the short term of two years. And the elections are so arranged that a part of these are elected in one year and a part the next or alternate year causing a general popular election every year. To this there is, it seems to me, several se rious objections: 1. It involves the too frequent change of officers and often the loss of skill and expe rience' and these changes produce also un necessary expensive and inconvenient chan ges of business to a great number of people. 2. It involves too much expense and loss of time to the public generally and especially to the large number of candidates with uo compensating benefit. And third: Which is the main and most serious objectiou, annual popular elections keep the country in an almost continual can vass and commotion and produce, and keep op on unnatural and injurious public excite nient., for which there is no necessity and no compensating benefit And for many years before the commencement of our late trouble these might well have produced the impres sion that the carrying on of eanvesses and holding of elections wore the principal busi ness of the country. While the carrying on of the various industrial and professional pursuits, the rearing and education of fami lies, and the support of the government were but incidental matters. The remedy for these things may be easily found and as easily applied with very great benefits to the public and with greatly increased credit of safety to ottr system of free popular selfgovernment. The one I would recommend would be: First. To lengthen all terms of office, which are now two, to four years. Second. To require all general elections, as far as practicable, to take place during the same year, and at the same time. And. Third, To provide: Ist. That the State Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney-Gen eral, and Commissioner of the General Land Office, shall be appointed by the nomination of the Governor, and confirmation of the Senate, as the Secretary of State now is.— 2d. That the Clerks of the District Courts should be appointed by the several Judges, as the Clerk of the Supreme Court is by the Judges of that Court. 3d. That the Coun ty Courts should appoint their Clerks, and and Sheriffs, Coronors, Assessors and Col lectors of Taxes, County Treasurers, County Surveyors, and the Constables for tue vari ous precincts of their counties. 4th. That the Mayor and Alderman, or Couneilmen, of all cities and towns should appoint their Clerks, Marshals, Treasurers and other officers. This would withdraw the appointment of this vast number of ministerial officers from the seiamble, excitement, expense, loss of time, and commotion of popular elections. It would confer the authority for their ap pointment on responsible, intelligent men, who would have been elected to office by the people, and would be responsible to them: and it would secure their appointment on account of their qualifications and fitness for their several duties, rather than for political considerations, or on account of mere per sonal popularity, without reference to these qualities. And it would give great dignity and importance to our county courts, which they never can have to a properextent under our present system. It would at the same time retaiu to the people the election by popular vote of the Governor. Lieutenant-Governor, State Sen ators, and Representatives, Judges of the Supreme and District District At torneys, Chief-Justices, and Commissioners of the County Courts, Justices of the Peace and the Mayor and Aldermen or Councilmen of cities and towns: embracing the Chief Executive officer of the State, and all those who have the power of making laws or of expounding them, or of imposing taxes or other burdens on the people. And, what is of most value, it would ren der the elections so infrequent, aud so far apart, as to suspend all excitement about them for long intervals, and allow the peo ple to pursue their ordinary vocations free from the repeated interruptions and excite ments to which they are subject under our present system; ami it would put an end to the corrupting and debasing state ot politics, which was created, and is being nourished aud strengthened, by the number und fre quency of popular elections. I am persuaded that some such change as this is essential to the public welfare, as to the credit and success of our svstem of gov ernment, to the permanency of our institu tions, and the repose and security of society. And it will be doubly important, now, since such great numbers of people, heretofore slaves and in great ignorance, are now marie freemen, and are to become, in some form, either participants or an element in all our political contests. With these two lines of policy adopted, 1 think, notwithstanding all your recent ..mis- TOLI ME 88; 3fo. 45. fortunes, yoa might look with hope and confluence to the future. The negroes will, it is honed, gradually diffuse themselves among the greatly preponderating numbers of whites in the different States and Terri tories; many of them will probably go to Mexico and other countries in search of so cial equality; and a few or none of their race will be added to their numbers by access!cms front other countries. While the steady and rapid influx of great numbers of white races from other countries will gradually in crease the disproportion in numbers between them and the whitest and so render this new element in society and government innoxious, or at least powerless for evil, if they should be so inclined, But from the general docili ty of their dispositions we may now expect most of them to be orderly, and manv of theui industrious and useful citisens. "But to secure these desirable ends it must not be forgotten that it is an essential prerequisite to confer on them their reasonable and ne- cwsarjt right*; awl to adopt a policy which shall prevent them from becoming an ele ment of political agitation, and strife, and danger. Aid we must bury past animosities with those of our fellow-citizens with whom we have been at war. and cultivate with them feelings of mutual chanty and fraternal good will. And it will be greatly to your advan tage, in many ways wliich I cannot trespass on you to mention now, to hold out induce ments to them, and to emigrants from oth er countries, to come and settle among you, with their labor and skill and capital, to as sist in the diffusion of employments, the in crease of your population, aud the develop ment of your vast resources into new crea tions of wealth and power. Time, and patience, and wisdom, and jus tice. mingled with the holy precepts of the New Testament, are necessary to enable you to secure these great and beneficient ends, that you may, by the means I have indica ted, or others, secure these results, shall have my constant hopes and prayers. Very truly and respectfully, JOHN 11. REGAN. FUN. Oh glorious laughter! Thou man loving spirit that for a time dost take the burden from the weary back; that dost lay salve to the feet bruised and cut by the flints and shards; that takest blood baking melancholy by the nose and makest it grin despite him self; that all the sorrows of the past the doubts of the future confoundest in the joy of the present; that makest man truly nhil osphic conquerer of himself and care! What was talked ol as the golden chain of Jove, was nothing but a succession of laughs, a chromatic scale of merriment reaching from earth to Olympus. It is not true that Pro metheus stole the fire but the laughter of the gods to deify our clay in the abundance of our merriment to make us reasonable creatures. Have you ever considered what man would be destitute of the ennobling fac ulty of laughter? Laughter is to the face of man what synovia, I think anatomists call it j is to his joints; it oils lubricates, and makes j the human countenance divine. Without it ' our facoa would bo rigid hyouu like; the ini quities of our heart with no sweet antidote to work upon them would have made the face of the best among us a husky thing, whh two sullen,hungry, cruel lights at the top — lor forehead would then have gone out of fashion—aud a cavernous hole below the nose. Think of a babe without laugh ter —as it is its first intelligence! The crea ture shows the divinity of itsorgin and end by smiling upon us. Yes smiles are its first talk with the world smiles the first answer that it understands. And the worldly wis dom comes upon the little thing it crows, it chuckles it grins and shakes in its nurse's arms or in waggish humor playing bopecp with the breast it reveals its high destiny, declares to him with ears to hear the heir how of its immortality. Let materialists blaspheme as gingerly and acutely as they will they must find confusion in laughter. Man may take a triumph and stand upon his broad grins for he looks around our world and his innermost soul sweetly tickled with the knowledge tells him that heof all crea tures laughs. Imagine if you can a laugh ing fish. Let man then send a loud ha, ha! througn the universe and be reverently grate fully for the privilege.— Douglas Jerrold. Colonizing the South. It has been made public that Governor Andrews of Massachusetts has declined the Presidency of the Antioch College for the purpose of carrying out a plan in connection with othcrinfluential gentlemen, to introduce free labor into the South and by this means rapidly develope its immense agricultural and mineral resources. The project we un derstand contemplates the establishment of a central office in this city where the owners of lands in the slave States can become ac quainted with Northern purchasers and thus a stream of emigration be organized which will fill certain sections of the South with a population having Northern energy and ideas. Branch offices will also be instituted in all the former slave States. In this way, for instance it is hoped to ' 'reconstruct'' Louisiana, on a basis that will root cut the spirit as well as the practices of slavery, and secure to freediuen their right not only in the courts but also to become land owners. As the project goes, on European immi gration may be introduced to settle particu lar Southern regions. The whole scheme is upon the most enlarged scale and is under the charge of gentlemen abundantly able to meet all the exigencies that can arise in the course of its development. Governor An drew will most likely be the president of the organization and under his able manage ment we should expect the enterprise to prove successful and bo productive of much good to very many of the Southern States. Evangelist. A CHRISTIAN is a man that is living to perfect in himself a better manhood. lie is living not to waste his understanding either by dissipation or by a selfish and perverse use of it but. to enable him to use it for the worthiest purposes. He is living to carry higher and higner in himself the moral sen timents—conscience.benevolence,faith, hope and love. He is living so as to be letter, i There are a great many persons who are liv ing simply for wealth or for honor or for power; but these are not the things that he is living for. He is to become better in every part of his being. The consequence is that he takes the highest rule —that is God's law—to measure his conduct and dis position b y, in all he changes of life. REMEMBRANCES.—The memories of child hood, tlie long, far-away days of boyhood, the mother's love and prayers, the voice of a departed play-fellow, the ancient church J and schoolmaster, in all their green and hal lowed associations, come upon thr !. it in i the autumn time of life, hke the passage of a pleasantly remembered dream, and cast a ray of their own purity and sweetness over it. RATES OF AI > V KItTISINGr. All advertmmnentg for leas than 3 months 10 cents per line for ccb Insertion. Special notiees one half additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 ets. per Jine. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court ard other Judicial sales, are required by law to bo pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cents per line. All Advertising due after first insertion. A literal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 6 months- 1 year. One square $ 4.50 9 fI.OO SIO.OO Two squares 6,118 9.<rtl 16.00 . Three squares 5.60 12.UU bj 20.00 One-fourth column 14.0H 20.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 46.00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 Ot'T AT NIGHT. Fathers and mothers, look out for yotir boys when the shades of evening have gath ered around you 1 Where are they then?— Are they at home, at the pleasant, social fire side, or are they running the streets V Are they gaining a street education? If so, take care; the chances of their ruin are many.— There is scarcely anything more destructive H to their morals than running abroad at night. Under cover of darkness they acquire the education of crime; they learn to be rowdy ish, if not absolutely vicious; they catch up loose talk, they hear sinful thoughts, they see obscene things, they become reckless and riotous. If you would save them from vul garity, save them from ruin, save themr from prison, see to it that night finds them at home. Let parents solemnly ponder this matter, and do all they can to make home I attractive for ALL the children, so attractive that the boys will prefer it to roaming the streets. There is ho place like home in ' more senses than one—certainly no place like |home for boys in the evening.— Arthur* Home Magazine. THE USES OF ADVERSITY. —You wear out your clothes. You are not troubled with visitors. You are exonerated from making calls. Bores do not love you. Tax gatherers hurry past your door. Itinerant bands do not play opposite your windows. You avoid the nuisance of serving on juries No one thinks of presenting you vnth a tes timonial. No tradesman irritates by asking, "Is there any other article to day sir?" Impostors know it is no use to bleed you. You practice temperance. You swal low infinitely less poison than others. Flat terers do not shoot their rubbish into your ears. You are saved many a debt, many a deception many a headache. And lastly, if you nave a true friend in the world you are sure in a very short space of time to know it GOOD AJEVICE.—GirIs, let us tell you a stubborn truth! No young woman ever looks so well, to a sensible young man, as when dressed in a plain, neat, modest attire, without a single ornament about her person. Shea look then as though she possessed worth in herself, and needed no artificial rigging to enhance her value. If a young woman would spend so much time in cultivating her mind, training her temper, and cherishing kindness, meekness, mercy, and other good qualities, as most of them do in extra areas and ornaments, to increase their personal charms, she would at a glance, be known among a thousand —her character would be read in her countenance. That's so! 'TOE SAID THAT AFORE. —Old Father Bushnell, of Vermont; used to say that the best criticism he ever received on his preach ing was from a little boy who sat at his feet, looking up into his face as he was preaching in a crowded house. As he was going on very earnestly, the little fellow spoke out, " You said that afore ." I fancy that an honest critic would find in those sermons an hour long, a good many such sentences said afore in the same discourse, and said afore, on almost every Sabbath day. A word to the wise is sufficient. NOBLE SENTIMENTS. —Condemn no man, says John Wesley, for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind of de gree to the spirit of persecution. If you cannot reason or persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force him into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of alb EDMUND ABOUT writes daintily; "A1 though true hearts never become indifferent to public affairs, we see things which touch us nearest occupying the first place. It is not selfishness; it is optics. Put your hand before your eyes; you can perceive nothing in the chamber. Interpose a little head in a tiny cap between the world and you, you will witness a beautiful phenomenon, which astronomers have not yet studied, tpe total eclipse of the world." Lord M , with no very large por tion of wit or wisdom, had a very axaited opinion of his own powers. When once in a large company, and expatiating about him self, be made the following pointed remark: "When I happen to suva foolish thing, I always burst out a laughingF' "I envy you your happiness, my lord, then," said Charles Townsend, "for you must certainly live the merriest life of any man in Eng land." ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. Captain Winner once received a sharp an swer from a negro which will bear repeat ing. The black man had long been ac quainted with him, generally helping him load his vessel. In the course of a conver sation one day Winner accidentally remark ed that he was a Christian. "l r ou a Christ ian! " said the darkey, in astonishment, Law's a massey I'd never found it out in the world if you hadn't told me!" DIFFICULTIES.—Wait not for your diffi culties to cease; there w no soldier's glory to be won on peaceful fields no sailor's da ring to be shown on sunny seas no trust or friendship to be proved when all goes well. Faith, patience, heroic love,devont courage, gentleness are not to he formed when there are no doubts no pains no irritations, no difficulties. THE GREATEST MAN.—The greatest man ' is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution: who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burden cheerfully; who is the calm est in storms and whose reliance on faith and virtue and on God is the most unfalter ing. Woman's love, like th ■ roe blossoming in the arid deserts, spreais its rays over the barren plain of the human heart , and while all around it is black and desolate, it rises more strengthened from the absence of every other charm. On the doors of a parish church, hot a hundred miles from Peudlo Hill, was recently affixed thp following notice: —"The church wardens "frill hold their ouarterlv meeting every six weeks, instead of halfyearly, as for merly." Iltrtvlong Kve, the first woman, lived, we do not know. It is a curious fact that in sa cred history , the age death and burial of only one woman. Surah, the wife of Abra ham,is distinctly noted. Women's ages ever since, appear not to have been a subject for history or discussion. When Chief Justice Chase was at Key West, he wis served by an old negro, to Iwhnm he promised a carte de-visite. aud handed iiitu a one dollar bill. Ahi" says Sandie, "now I know ygp, uiassa: yop ure 'old greenbacks.' "
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