<Z-> * is PUBLISHED I, VERY FRIDAY MOHNtXG, nv J. R. UlIlBOB&OW MY i<: \ IITZ, ox JULIANA St., opposiiethe Xettsci House BEDFOHD, PENN'A. TEEIK: *2.00 a year if paid strictly in advance. If not paid Hithiii six months *2.30. If not paid within the year 53.00. & g; siwtis ATTORNEYS AT LAW. B. F. MEYEBS J. W. DICKERSOK. MEYERS & DICKERSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PENH'A., Office same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P. Scholl, two doors east of the Gazette office, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. May 11, '66—lyr. J OHN T. KEAGY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PENN'A., Offers to give satisfaction to all who may en trust their legal business to him. W ill collect moneys on evidences of debt, and speedily pro cure bounties and pensions to soldiers, their wid ows or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph aprU:'66-ly. J 11. CESSNA, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHN CESSNA, on Julianna street, in the office formerly occupied by King A Jordan, and recently by Filler <fc Kcagy. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, <tc., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9, 1805. J- M'. SHARES I. r - KKMt SIL AR PE & KERR, A TTOHNE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of lived & .Scholl, Bedford, Pa. war2:tf JOHN PALMER, Attorney at Law. Bedford. Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Office on Julianna st., nearly opposite the Mcngel House.) june 23, 65.1y J. R. JOHN I.UTZ. DURBORROW A LUTZ, .ITTOHJVJE VS *IT WH\ BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. . They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the •Men<*el House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer p fe c £ April 28, 18G5:t RYS P Y M. ALS ! I', r_j ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ing 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. apl L 1564. tt. M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders hi? professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfclter, ESQ. on Juliana street, two doors South of the •'Menglc House." Dee. 9, 1864-tf. KIMMELTJ AND LTXOENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mcngel House. aprt, 1864 —tf. TOHN MOWER, J ATTORNEY AT LAM. BEDFORD, PA. April 1,1864. —tf. DENTISTS. c. jr. O. MISXICU, JR. DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Office in the flank Building. Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per formed and warranted. TERMS CASH. j3nfi'6s-ly. D-ENTISTRY. - _ I. N. BOWSER, RESIDENT DENTIST, WOOD BEERY, Pa., visits Bloody Run three days of each month, commencing with the second Tuesday of the month. Prepared to perform all Dental oper ations with which he may be favored. Terms rcithin the reach of all and strictly cash except by special contract. Work to be sent by mail or oth wise, must be paid for when impressions are taken. augs, '64:tf. PHYSICIANS. WJM. W. JAMISON, M. D., YY Bloody RES, Pa., Respectfully tenders his professional services to tho people of that, place and vicinity. [decSrlyr 1). 11. PEXNBYL, M. P., (iato Surgeon 56th P. V. V.) Bloody Rln, Pa., Offers his professional services as Physician and Puree,on to the citizens of Bloody Run and vicin ity. decl:lyi* DR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford aDd vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Ilofius. April 1. IS64—tf. I 1.. MARBOURH, M. D., ?I . Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofcssional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, •pposite the .Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf. BANKERS. G. IV. Rl PP.., O. E. SHASWHT P. BENRMCT T) rTM\ SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, 3 ii Bedi-oud, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East. West, North and P< uth. and the general business of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly mady. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. apr.lfi,'6l-tf. JEWELER, Ac. A BRALOM GARLICK, At io< L & Watchmaker and Jeweller, Bloody RRX. Pa. Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Ac., promptly re paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted to give satisfaction. He also keeps on hand and for sale WATCH ES, CLOCKS, and JEWELRY. Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. uy4 JOHN UEIMUND, CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER, in the United States Telepraph office. BEDFORD, Pa. Olocks, watches, and all kinds of jewelry promptly repaired. Ail work entrusted to his care warranted to give entire satisfaction. [nov3-lyr j JAXIEL BORDER, A-/ i'ITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OP THE BED yobd hotel, Bebeord, Pa. TciIMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY, SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil- V> at.- r, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ?'! Masses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold tl't'ins, Breast Pins, Finger Kings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order an J thing iu his line not on hand *!>*• 28, 1 G s—zz. jOB WoitK executed CHEAP in Flax and vaxctc l„rf o^ ce . DCRBORROW & LUTZ Editors and Proprietors. JJ. BABY I.OOKI\(> OUT FOB ME. Two little busy hands patting on the window, Two laughing, bright eyes lookingout at me Two rosy-red cheeks dented with a dimple ; Mother-bird is coming ;bby don't you see? Down by the lilac-bush, something white and azure, Saw I in the window, as I passed the tree ; Well I knew the apron aud shoulder-knots of ribbon, All belonged to baby, looking out for me. Talking low and tenderly To myself, as mothers will, Spake I softly, "God in Heaven Keep my darling free from ill. Worldly gain and worldly honors Ask I not from Thee ; Keep from want and sin and sorrow Keep her ever pure aud free." * * * * Two little waxen hands, Folded soft and silently Two little curtained eyes, Looking out no more for me ; Two little snowy cheeks, Dimple-dented nevermore : Two little trodden shoes, That will never touch the floor ; Shoulder-ribbon softly twisted, Apron folded clean and white ; These are left me—and these only Of the childish presence bright. Thus He sent an answer to my earnest pray ing- Thus he keeps my darling free from earth ly stain Thus he folds the pet lamb safe from earthly straying, Hut I miss her sadly by the window pane, Till I look above it : then with purer vision Sad, I weep, no more the lilac-bush to pass, For I see her, angel, pure, and white and sinless, Walking with the harpers, on the sea of glass. Two little snowy wings, Softly flutter to and fro, Two tiny childish hands Beckon still to rne below ; Tw<j tender angel eyes, Watch me ever earnestly, Through the loop-holes of the stars Baby's looking out for ire. THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT COMMENCES ITS SESSION AT NORFOLK. Judge Underwood to llic Crand Jury. The United States District Court met on Tuesday last at Norfolk, Virginia, Judge Underwood presiding. The following gen tlemen were sworn in as Grand Jurors : J. It. Bigelow, Alexandria ; Isaac Snowden, Fairfax; John T. Taylor, Alexandria; J. Gillingham, Fairfax; George C. Harris, R. Hodgkin, L. I>. Harmon, C. W. Nowland, Alexandria ; F. Dacordy, George W. Sin. gleton, John T. Daniels, John 11. Boruru, William G . Webler, C. L. Cole, W. T. Harrison, Norfolk; William N. Tins ley, Jr. William Froy, Burnham Wardell, T. Eud ley, Jr., Burnham Davis, Richmond; C. 11. Whitehurst, Norfolk. After the Grand Jury was sworn in Judge Underwood delivered the following charge : Gentlemen of the Gran A Jury : The absence of the Chief Justice impo ses upon me the duty of submitting to you some con-idcrat ions for your direction. To the last Grand Jury assembled in this city my views in relation to the great. crime of treason against the Government of the Uni ted States were fully presented, and were also so extensively published as not to re quire repetition. But the liability of persons who were then subject to the parole agreed upon by the commanders of the armies which had been contending in daily conflict, was at that time an unadjudicated and embarrassed question. Happily, however, the universal concur rence of judicial and legal authorities with the opinion given by the court on that oc casion, has relieved us of all doubt upon the subject. We are also, from the changed condition of the country, as the smoke of battle is clearing away, more free to act in the ad ministration of civil justice. Except in spe cial eases the writ of habeas corpus is re stored, and the restraints of the parole hav ing been removed by the proclamation of peace, it becomes our duty to proceed in the investigation and punishment of some of the crimes which have been committed against our laws. The omission of the last Grand Jury to find indictments against, those who may be considered the principal crituinalsand great est offenders against the national sovereign ty, who were, in fact, the most prominent in position at the time they deserted their pla ces in the Senate of the United States, and became leaders of the rebellion, has been misunderstood, and the President has in formed the court that be is unwilling to ad vise proceedings against subordinates as Wirtz. while their superiors and more guil ty leaders arc not brought to justice. This court entirely agrees with the President in his often-repeated declarations, that treason is tho greatest of crimes and ought to be signally punished, and that it is cowardly to punish the subordinate and comparatively insignificant, and allow the principals to es cape. Wo also concur in the opinion that the leaders in the late rebellion may be treat ed as traitors or public enemies, as they were undoubtedly both by the laws of na tions. It is due, however, to the late Grand Ju ry tt say that their omission to find indict ments against the greater criminals, when presenting those of inferior position and prominence, was caused by the knowledge that the leaders had been previously indict ed in Washington, and the jury was unwill ing to seeiu vindictive, or to do any act not demanded by the sternest and clearest duty. Since that time the Attorney General has published his opinion that Washington is not the proper place of trial, but that the trial should be in Virginia, where the actu al offenses had been committed. We there fore submit the matter to your considera tion. Much complaint has been made by our fellow-citizen.- of the North of the tardiness of our criminal promotions. We think it A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. better, in imitation of the prreat and pood martyred Lincoln, and in imitation of the Great Ruler of the Universe, whose judg ments and retributions are slow but sure, that we should approach this great question of the punishment of the authors of the terrible and unprovoked rebellion with all possible deliberation, discrimination, cau tion and clemency, so that no unnecessary blood shall be added to the torrents that have already soaked the soil of our devoted State. Those at the North who assail us seem to forget our peculiar circumstances. That education which is almost universal with them is here confined within very narrow limits ; that the masses of with us who cannot read are necessarily depen dent on the educated few for their opinions and conduct, and hense the necessity of greater care and discrimination in ascertain ing guilt and inflicting punishment. It may be said that ignorance is not an excuse lor crime in a free government, but the truth is, Virginia has never had a really free gov ernment, nor could freedom exist for any class where nearly half the people were held in abject slavery. By an irrepealable law of nature, when ever we fasten one endrof the chain upon a fellow-being the other and heavier end is linked around ourselves, corroding our bod ies until the iron enters our very souls." We insist, therefore, that the masses of our people were so profoundly ignorant of the condition of public affairs, and so misled and deceived by the intensely selfish and wicked aristocracy, as not to be morally re sponsible for their participation in the late rebellion, and that it would be adding cruel ty to injustice to hold them so. To convince the most skeptical on this subject, let us look at the condition and his tory of the First congressional district in this State. That district contains more than four times the territory of the rich, prosperous, enlightened, happy, liberty-and equality-loving State of Rhode Island ; once the seat of learning and of boasted Virgin ia hospitality, the birth-place of four presi dents of the United States, embracing the site of the first Fnglish settlement in Amer ica, the city of Jamestown, which, now more fallen than Tyre or Sidon, or Sodom or Go morrah, has not enough of ruins even left for bats to flit or owls to hoot in. In the nineteen counties of that district, there is not now, as its Representative in Congress thirty years ago boasted, a single newspaper published, and so long has the school-master been abroad, that probably more than three fourths of its native grown men and women can neither read nor write. Rhode Island, with its half million acres, has nearly double the population, ten times the wealth, enterprise and education, and contributes to the national treasury more than twenty times the amount of that dis trict, with its more than two millions of fer tile "acres lying on both sides of the Chesa peake bay, and on the great rivers, James, York, Rappahannock and Potomac, haviug the greatest commercial, oyster and fishing capabilities of almost any district in the United States. What a forcible illustration of the truth that justice, equity, industry and virtue, or as the Bible says, "Godliness, is profitable for the life that now is as well as that which is to come. That righteous ness exalteth a'nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." We would not object to the sentiment of the old and ex centric member of Congress fiom the first district if he only referred to those treasonable newspapers which have advocated rebellion, for they have indeed been a curse to us all, bringing fire and sword, desolation and death, not only upon Richmond, but upon every extremity of the State. If we earnestly consider the origin and enquire into the cause of our calamities ; if we ask why have our rivers, like ancient Nile, ran blood ? why have we like the Egyptians been overwhelmed in a Red sea, while we were trying to prevent ourselves from escaping to aland of lieciiom ? why have our first-born been cut .down by tens ot thousands until the voice of mourning and lamentation fills the land as it once did the land of Pharaoh ? why have we suffered so many plagues as once visited the proud and stubborn oppressors of the old Israel ites? we shall find the answers to be be cause in the language of reason and philos ophy, we have made war upon the rights of human nature. Or, in the language of the old Hebrews, because we have oppressed the poor, and because the God of the poor is detennined to write with His own hand His abhorrence of slavery and oppression all over our land in characters so legible that neither we nor our children's children can ever mistake His mind and Will in coming generations. To our shame and disgrace it must be ad mitted that, so far as we are advised, every one of the numerous conflicts of races which have occurred in this State during the past year, has been the wanton and unprovoked work of wicked white mcu upon poor, quiet, unoffending, and in most cases, unarmed and unresisting colored people. Why should we murder, rob, or interrupt tliem, burn their school-houses and churches, insult and at tack the teachers, who in the cause of im provement and elevation and Christian char ity, have come to us from the ever friendly North, in the same spirit t hat brought them in 18.">5 to this devoted city, when the scourge of yellow fever was here in its wrath. Let us not forget that then as now it was to the North and its generous people that we had to look in our want for aid and assistance. Unless a stop is put to such violence and outrage upon the f'reedmen, we can never expect relief from the presence of Northern bayonets, and admission to the rights and privileges of the Federal Union : but we shall become the by-word and scorn of the whole civilized world, We shall be consid ered barbarians, and be justly excluded from the sympathies of all Christian mea. It is your duty, gentlemen of the jury, to see to it that a people who were loyal and true to the nation's flag in the time of trial and danger shall be protected against the perse cution of those who, frcsn from scones of treason and rebellion, are pursuing their vic tims with most infernal hate, for no appa rent reason, except their fidelity and devo tion to the country. We fully appreciate the magnitude and difficulty of the task set before you—the monstrous wrong with which you are called to grapple, like the giant hydra, still lifts somo ol its many heads, which you must strike down, or they will continue to disturb the public tranquility. It would be childish to expect that so great an iniquity could be extirpated in a single year, or even in a sin gle generation. It shoold be remembered that it had invaded every source of public, private, social, and domestic life. Not only did it control the political press and all po litical parties in this State, but, with rare exceptions, it spoke from all our pulpits, perverting the gosj>el of human brother hood into the gospel of human chattelhood, and of the absolute submission of a part to the lust and avarice of the rest of human kind. Our religious teachers had forgotten to preach the wrong of withholding rhe hire BEDFORD, Pa.. FRIDAY, MAY 95, 1866. of labor, tradiDg in the bodies and souls of our fellow-men, of separating husbands and wives, parents and children, and sending them to a returnless distance from each oth er, and from the homes of their living and the graves of their dead ; and had become, with some worthy aud glorious exceptions, panderers and apologists of the lust and vio lence of the master, who, in return for their services, were willing to feed them on the fat of the land. Our legislators, instead of fol lowing the Christian law requiring much where much is given, and proportioning ac countability to the gifts and talents of na ture, had established the reverse enactments, punishing the ignorant and uneducated, whom it was made a crime to enlighten, with death for many offences, which, when committed by the educated and privileged, were satisfied with fine of imprisonment. Our courts of justice had proclaimed the infamous doctrine that dusky men had no rights which white men were bound to res pect ; and into this very temple of law a pious woman had been dragged as a crimi nal for an act which might almost invite an archangel to come down from the mansions of the blest—for teaching the poor children of oppression and of licensed wrong to read the Bible, and the laws made not to govern them, bat to crush out of them every feel ing of humanity. "And worst of all and most to be deplor ed" was the prostitution of our homes, the very heart and seat o. domestic purity, the poisoning of which is >.tal to all moral vi tality and death to pub ic and private happi ness. The subjection of the women of one complexion to the wild fiiry of unbridled licentiousness, and as a consequence deny ing to the women of our own complexion the holy rites of marriage, or making in thousands of cases those rites as much a mockery as a conscious traitor's oath, were proclaimed on every plantation in the bleach ed faces of the children of the slave women, bleached by the blood of the first families, until hardly half our births were of lawful wedlock, and until it would seem that mas culine virtue must be nearly extinct in the proud circles of the chivalric aristocracy of the State. Your duties, under these circumstances, are both difficult and dangerous, for you are called upon to oppose the worst passions of very desperate men, who will make vigorous efforts to verify their often repeated predic tions that freedom would bring ruin and ex termination upon the colored people, and it is possible that some of you may meet with violence for a faithful discharge of your du ties, as one of the last Grand Jury has al-* ready done. But better, a thousand times better, to fall by the hand of the assassin, as Lincoln and Dixon have fallen, or die un der the mockery of pretended fonas of law, as our Saviour did, in the cause of freedom and humanity, than to shrink like cowards from our public trusts, in order- to drag out a few more years of ignoble life before filling unhonored graves. The laws of Congress which will guide your action are instinct with equity, and are ample, if fearlessly administered to check and humble the most defiant, differing es sentially in this respeot from tho lour* of our State Legislature, which, like those of an ancient heathen nation, seem ' 'like cob webs made to catch the weak, but to permit the strong to break through them." Yours is the rough pioneer work of removing the great obstructions of crime and violence from our midst, so that education, intellect ual, moral and religious, education very dif ferent in kind and degree from the past, may come to cure the evils under which we suffer. Where there is so much vice to be re claimed, ignorance to be enlightened and misery tone alleviated, vre may hope the teacher and the missionary will come, and that a culture and refinement will yet be seen approaching that which now blesses Massachusetts and New England, and that the time may be hastening when our people shall i'eel aud act like brethren of the same blood, children of the same Almighty Ben efactor, who permits all alike to range the same earth, breathe the same air, bask in the same sunshine, and dwell under the same celestial canopy, thus teaching our du ty and inviting our imitation. When joining in efforts for mutual aid, we shall forget the terrible past and the gloomy present; the bitter fruits of ages of violence and oppression on our side, and of misery, ignorance and degradation on the other. Since the adjournment of the last Grand Jury, the attention of the court has been particularly called to our disloyal press, by the highest military authority in the country, with a view to the punishment of its treason and excitement of rebellion. While concurring entirely with the Lieu tenant General and the distinguished soldier and accomplished lawyer who commands the department of Virginia, in the proprie ty of abating by military power such papers, during the supremacy of martial law, and recognizing the distinction between liberty and licentiousness, atter mature reflection we doubt the policy of suppressing by the courts, papers treasonable as any even in this State. Aside from an unwillingness to limit the freedom of the press, it is submitted that the cause of good government may gain more by the exposure of treasonable designs through the most disloyal press than it would by punishment and suppression. By restraint tnc disease would not be cured, but would only become concealed and more dan gerous by concealment. The vanity, egotism aud heartlessness of our disloyal editors can, with their limited circulation, do little harm, except to them selves and their friends. Their attacks upon good men only display their own malignity, and greatly endear those they assail to the hearts aud sympathies of the true friends of freedom and the country. It is not intended to urge these views, and they are submitted with great diffidence since they seem to con flict with such eminent patriotism and high authority. Your attention is also called to the laws against counterfeiting and passing the coun terfeit currency of the United States; and also to violations of the revenue and postal laws of the United States, with the hope that you will be troubled with but few cases under them, and after a short session be permitted to return to your homes con-eious of a faithful discharge of your important duties. After the judge concluded the charge, J. Gillingham, foreman of the jury arose, and after making a few remarks explanatory of his calling, "as a tnan of peace and good will to all men," he respectfully requested the judge to excuse him from serving upon the jury, as he felt himself totally incompe tent to handle the tools spoken of in the charge. "He did not. know how to use them." The judge held the request under advisement. A marriage receutly took place in South Carolina, wherein the bridegroom was eighty-eight, the bride fifty-five, and the pastor eighty-five. It was a runaway match the parents of the blushing damsel being averse to it. SHALL ELEVEN DISAFFECTED STATES RULE AFTER FAIL ING TO KLIN THE GOV ERNMENT. Traitors must not be permitted to re-as sume the influence and power they forfeited by going into Rebellion. WASHINGTON, D. CI, May IJ, 1866. The meaning of yesterday's (Thurday's) cordial unanimity in the House of Repre sentatives among the original friends of the country—following fast upon the rejoicings of the Copperheads over what seemed to be irreparable divisions—is to be found in the fact that no patriot and sincere member of the Union Republican party can now con ceal from himself that nothing remains but a resort to radical and uncompromising measures against the authors of the retail ion. "To this complexion have we come at last." Patient investigation, earnest seek ing after moderate remedies, a full hearing of the leading rebels themselves, and even a repetition of a generous willingness to con cede everything that could be asked by the architects of the rebellion, have only served to reorganize their savage revenge and re sentment. Under Andrew Johnson's fatal encouragement, the rebel leaders have de liberately projected what has all the features cf a new rebellion. The thrilling speech of Senator Nye, of Nevada, and the electrical invocation of Mr. Stevens before the vote was taken yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, were inspired by proofs of this conspiracy, so fresh and formidable that, to have refus ed to act upon them, would have been worse than madness; and 1 can easily conceive how the argument of the impassioned Sen ator and the appeal of the veteran states man have quickened and fired the national heart. In a few days, the report of the joint committee wiil pass the Senate of the United States. The whole subject will then go to the people of the country. I have no fear of the result. Charitable, forgiving, and magnanimous as our countrymen are to others, even to the rebels—they owe some thing—do they not owe everything?—to their own murdered martyrs. And as they weigh in the light of these recent events, the insolence and ingratitude with which all their proffers of forgiveness have been re ceived and rejected by the Southern leaders, they would ta cliffs if they did not at once take their stand upon the rights have conquered, and upon the principles they have saved. What is the spectacle now presented in the South, beginning with Maryland and ending with Texas? Th re *is not. between these two extremes, one leader in the late rebellion who is not today the as sailant of the rej smsatives of the people, comprising more than three to one of the present Congress of the. United States. There is not a newspaper in the interests of these men that does not prescribe these statesmen and the masses for whom they sneak and act in language only equalled by that which constituted the slaveholders' abuse immediately proceeding the war. Not when these papers were printed under the shadow of the rebel flag, protected by rebel cannon and prepared and circulated for the purpose of poisoning the Southern mind against the armed battallions under Grant and Sherman, were they more treasonable and cruel than they are now, all sheltered as they are under the pardon of Andrew Johuson, and revelling iu his approving smiles. So insolent and defiant art these men in. the assured immunity from danger, that they are absolutely waiting to be called upon again to taJce arms against those who defeated them on the field of battle. In proof of this assertion you need not summon a single SouthernjUnion witness. It is enough to read the speeches and the articles in the newspapers, and to study the diabolical Etroeitie- of the rebel leaders. In Balti more the rebel organs, suppressed by the military during the war, and revived under promises of loyalty and obedience, are filled with attacks upon Congress and the people of the North, and are demanding the right to govern the State they tried to plunge in to rebelliou. In many of the counties of Mar yland the strong arm of military is frequent ly powerless to prevent returned rebels from murdering the colored people in cold blood, and from firing their school-houses and churches. The condition of things in Vir ginia, so powerfully described by Judge Un derwood in his Tuesday's charge before the Grand Jury now in session at Norfolk, needs no additional words to prove the savage fe rocity of rebel politicians, the Boeotian igno rance of the people, and the brutality of the press. These agencies are more than ever infuriated against the Government of our common fathers. In North Carolina the patriotic Governor Holdcn, sneaking for the white loyalists, deliberately declares iu his paper, the Raleigh Standard , of the sth instant, that "things are getting worse and worse, and there is no room to hope for improvement under the present auspices and futherniore, that "the Northern people, speaking and acting through Congress, will never agree to admit the State while seces sionists are in favor with the Administra tion at Raleigh, and while the true men of the State are under the ban. In South Carolina, coining after, and in overwhelm ing confirmation of the testimony of former military commanders. General Sickles de clares it to be the duty of Congress to insist upou changing the basis of representation, and declares that the military cannot ta re moved for a long period without great dam age to the interests of the Government and the rights of the freedmen. In Georgia, the veteran, Joshua Hill, speaking from a record illustrious for its patriotism and strong in the experience that springs from a thorough knowledge of this people, insists that Andrew Johnson's plan will only restore impenitent traitors to power; while, as to eliuch this invaluable testimony, that sinister plotter, the recent Vice President of the defunct Confederacy, Alexander H. Ste phens, coolly argues that rebellion is not a crime, and that, the end of the war is simply the beginning of a new reign of treason. In Alabama, John Forsyth, the editor of the Mobile Register , who scarce attempts to conceal his contempt for his recent oath, formally nominates Robert. E. Lee, chief of the rebel armies, as"the State* Rights Dem ocratic candidate for the Presidency in 1868" while responsive celebrations are held there in honor of the pirate Semtnes, and in grate ful worship of President Johnson. The fact that for every black man sustained out of the National Treasury, under the frced nien's bureau, there arc five white depend ents, and that the widows and orphans cf the rebel dead arc subsisted by the generos ity of the National Government, has not extinguished in the hearts of these people the prevailing hatred of the hand that nour ishes nud protects them. We hear from Mississippi only through the invectives of the rebel press and the murderers of the colored race. What else need we say of Tennessee save' to repeat the words of Thad deus Stevens on Thursday last : "Let not the friends of secession sing their siren songs of peace and good will until they can stop our ears to the screams and groans of the dying victims at Memphis." From Louisi ana we have no words of loyalty save those spoken through the newspapers conducted VOLUSI 89; NO 21. by colored men. All else is defiance of Con gress, scorn of the North, and ridicule of the flag. Even as I write one of the local judges decides the civil-rights bill to be un constitutional, and insolently repeats the Johnson argument that the present Congress is held in violation of the Constitution. The heroic Alexander J. Hamilton, Provis ional Governor of Texas, protests against the admission of the men who have been chosen by "the people," and declares their rebellious purposes to be more dangerous thau ever. If it is necessary to extend this catalogue, look at Kentucky. The Louis ville Journal, itself among the bitterest as sailants of the radicals, and foremost in de fence of Johnson's policy, only a few days ago used the following startling language : "We assure the people of Kentucky that the peace harmony and safety of the State arc more seriously imperilled now than they have been since the ruthless hordes of Buckner and Bragg were trampling down our soil. The same men whose treachery to the Commonwealth and the nation invol ved the country in civil war five years ago ; the same men who robbed and encouraged the robbing of our banks; the destroying of our railroad bridges, the firing of the dwell ings of our citizens, and sought to establish rebel provisional governments over our peo ple, by wheih to coerce them into the whirl pool of treason, are perfecting a political or ganization in the State for tne purpose of placing her political power exclusively in the hands of men, who, having been whip- 1 ped at their own game of powder and ball, arc now seeking to use the ballot for the achievement of their revengeful and politic al schemes." In Missouri, the treason defeated in bat tle. and chastised at the ballot-box, catches hope and vengeance from a survey of the Southern field ; and, under the lead of Gen eral Blair, the crusade against the test oath is renewed, and a demand for the return of the reconstructed rebels is insisted upon as preliminary to their reascendency in the State. These are the elements against which we must contend in the coming elec tions. If the opposition to the report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction teas con fined only to the Copperheads of the North, it would be beneath contempt. But when these are reinforced by the contrivers of the rebellion and their savage followers, the struggle assumes very different, if not for midable, proportions. The recent rebels and present enemies of the Republic, there fore, occupy the vantage of having another opportunity to tight for the rights which, it was suoposed, they had lost forever. Trait ors who never till recently hoped to have part or lot in the settlement of these great questions, are now, through the agency of Andrew Johnson. Invited to constitute the controlling spirits in his political party. Thus encouraged, they boldly organize against the plan prepared by patriotic states men to secure and preserve the rights of all, North and South, black and white. The loyal clement in the Southern States, white and black, is utterly ignored by the Pres ident and his party. Every part of his pol icy is intended to humiliate them and elevate their oppressors. lie ssKs Rr tha>ntant ad mission only of the authors of the rebellion ; and when he assumes to speak of loyalty he does so with the keen consciousness that he is committing the deadly crime of excluding and therefore punishing the only true ana loyal men in the eleven seceded States. His reliance is almost avowed to be upon the recent traitors alone. In their name the great Union party is to be broken up, and for their behoof the Republic itselfistobe dislocated and destroyed. We can only have peace and restoration on their terms as spoken through his despotic policy. Choose ye ! Shall these terms be accepted by the American people, or those embodied by their representatives in Congress ? That is the question. The congressional plan of reconstruction goes to the people not to humiliate nor to permanently exclude, nor even sufficiently to punish the authors of our country's woes—but to secure what has been saved, to strenghthen what has been repaired, to establish on enduring foundations a truly Democratic Republic. OCCASIONAL. —Philadelphia Press. CHLORIDE OF LIRE AS A DISIN FECTANT. Always, during the prevalence of warm weather disinfecting agents should be lib ally used, but the present season, as a guard against the cholera, which may become prev alent in this country, there wouid seem to be a greater necessity than ever, to make use of every appliance for destroying offen sive odors, and keeping the air about resi dences, workshops, &c., pure and sweet. No better agent for accomplishing this has yet beeu found than Chloride of Lime. It has been found also, to be a most excellent remedy for the destruction of vermin. A gentleman publishes the result of his trial with it for the latter object, in the London Builder, as follows: Some years ago. I read in a French scien tific periodical, that chloride of lime would rid a house of all vermin. I treasured up the information until an opportunity offered for testing its value. I took an old country house, infested with rats, mice and flies. I stuffed every knot and mouse hole with the chloride. L tLvc-tv it uu ilie stone floor of the diary and cellars. I kept saucers of it under the chests or drawers, or some other convenient piece of furniture; iu every nur sery, bed or dressing room. An ornamental glass held i quantity at the foot of each staircase. Cowsheds, stables and pigstys, all had their dose, and the result was glori ous 1 thoroughly louted my enemies; and if the rats, more impudent than all the rest, did make renewed attacks upon the diary, in about ten months, when probably from repeated cleansing and washing all traces of it. the chloride again routed them and left me master of my own premises. Last sea son was a great one for wasps. They could not face the chloride; though in the dining room, in which we had none —as its smell, tome most r freshing and wholesome, is not approved of by all persons—we had a perpetual warfare. And all of comfort for eight pence! Only let housewives beware that they place not the chloride in their china pantries, or in too close proximity to bright steel wares or the result will be that their gilded ehiua will be reduced to plaiu, and their bright, steel fenders to rusty iron, in a short time." L.Little three year old Jennie was play ing very roughly with her kilton, carrying it by the tail. Her mother told her that she would hurt pussy. "Why no, I won't," said she ; "1 m carrying it by the handle!" A would be prophet, down South, lately said, in one his sermons, that "he was sent to redeem the world and ali things." Whereupon a native pulled out a Confeder ate sliiu plaster and asked him to fork over the specie for it. M| A poet, speaking of the moon, said: She laid her cheek upon a cloud, like beauty on a young man's bosom. Oh! RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisements for less than 3 months 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notices i|i one half additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and notiees of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 cts. per line. All legal noti- f nes of every kind, and all Orphans' Conrtand othor Judicial sales, are required bylaw to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cent, per line. Ail Advertising due after first insertion. M A liberal discount mode to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 6 months, lyear 1 One square.. f> 4.50 $ 0,00 1 10,00 Two squares 6.00 9.06 16.00 Three squres 8.00 12.00 20.0# j One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 /5. jaH Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 A TRAGICAL FARCE AND A FARCI CAL TRAGEDY. It is usual to conclude the performance with the farce. After the ' "roaring extrava gant," all look to see the green curtain drop and the actors go, each his sensible, every day way. The Fenians have hit on a differ ent plan. They have given th>ir farce —a right broad one, putting the audience on a wide grin, notwithstanding the tragic ele ments mixed up with the drollery—and now they gravely set about giving as the deepest tragedy on top of it. The curtain rose on the most side splitting opening scenes. The stage was crowded with comedians whose drolleries not Brougham of Florence or Williams could equal. Don Quixote was not more than their peer. The plot, the dialogue and the by play were so funny that we got tired of laughing. At last the whole thing culminated ana brought down the house at Oampo Bello. That we thought had finished it. We straightened our faces and waited for the curtain to fall. It was a relief, for with all the broad fun there bad been mixed a vein of deepest sadness. Brid get the kitchen maid and Teddy the hod carrier had taken all this joke in sober earn est and had fed themselves on the hope they got from it; and had brought their hard earned dimes and quarters, thinking they would help free Ireland while they only paid the actors of the farce. It was a cruel un deceiving the fall of the curtain would bring to them and we were glad it had come be fore matters became any worse. We were mistaken. The play was not played out, Head Centre Stephens, who had heretofore existed only to be talked about, has suddenly appeared upon the boards and announces that now a chauge of programme will ensue. No more farce, but only the grandest of heroic drama is on the bills for the rest of the entertainment , with the Head Centre as the central head ana front. There have been bad goiDgs on among the actors, says the Centre. They haven't been well up in their parts, but he won't have any of them accused until they have been fairly tried and found guilty. Oampo Bello was a failure but you couldn't expect to conquer Srovinces with a company of raw recruits, ust wait till Stephens has, by his peculiar magnetism, gathered the enthusiastic volun teers by hundreds of thousands to his stan dard, then you will see such a marching up the hill—and down again—as will make you stare. There has been a suspicion of corrup tion at Union Square, so Stephens will have no more of Union Squaie, and of course there can be no more corruption. Some think, though this is not in Stephens, bal cony speeches, that Killian can afford to make room for another, and that Union Square has yielded all it can reasonably be expected to. The poorer classes may rest assured now that their money will not be misappropriated. They must have earned considerable since they were last bled, and all that is now expected of them is to come up and deposit in the Stephenes box instead of the Roberts and O'Manony bores. Hav ing done that they may be certain that the money will be used. So it was before, but Stephens will have it now. It is only fair after all to give him the same chance the oth ers had. He may need the chance just as badley. Well, the audience at this new play will be iust as large as before. They may" be a little less enthusiastic but not much. Hope and impulse and hero worship make up a large portion of the Irish character and the thought of seeing "poor Ireland" redeemed will stimulate the gulled Datriots to new sac rifices even in the tace of the late ludicrous failures. Meantime we look with interest for the next developements by the come d'ans. From the manner in which they go about their new play, their tragedy promises to be as funny as their farce was sad.—Pitts burg Post. IIORE CONVERSATION, Children hunger perpetually for ideas, and the most pleasant way of reception is by the voice and ear. not the printed page. The one mode is natural, the other is artificial. Who would not rather listen than read? An audience will listen closely from the begining to the end of an address which not one in twenty of those present would read with the same attention. This is emphatically true of children. They will learn with pleasure from the lips of parents what they deem ; drudgery to study in the book; and even if they have the misfortune to be deprived of the educational advantages which they de sire they cannot fail to grow up intelligent if they enjoy in childhood and youth the privileges of listening daily to the conversa tion of intelligent people. Let parents, then talk well at home. WAKING GRANDMA WITH A KISS.—A sweet little incident is related by a writer. She says I asked a little boy last evening: "Have you called your grandma to tea? ' "Yes. When I went to call her she was asleep, and I didn't know how to waken her 1 did t wish to holler at grandma, nor to shake her; so I kissed her cheek and that woke her very softly. Then I ran into the hall and said pretty loud, grandma, tea is ready. And she never knew what woke her.'' l>o we find anything more sweet, delicate and lovely than this in the annuals of poetry Can conventionally improve upon such politeness, spontaneous in the heart of a six ' years' old boy? YOUTHFUL CONDUCT.— The line of con duct chosen by a young man during the fire years from fifteen to twenty will, iu almost every instance, determine his character for life. As he is then careful or careless, pru dent or improvident, industrious or indo lent, truthful or dissimilating, intelligent or ignorant, temperate or dissolute, so will he be in after years ; and it needs no prophet to calculate his chances in life. A WHITE man in St. Louis ! ecamc enrag ed at a negro, the other day, and was about to strike him with a brickbat, when the col ored man fell back 011 reserved rights. "Look here white man, don't you strike me with dat ar' rock —don't you do it, sar. I'd have you know dat when you strike me you strikes a Bureau f" A PENNSYLVANIA seven-year old was re proved lately lor playing out door with boys —she was "to big forthat now." But with all imaginable innocence, she replied, "Why, grandma, the bigger we grew the better we like 'etu!" * Grandma took time to think. ONE of the editors of a New Orleans pa per soon after beginning to learn the prin ting business went to pay his addresses to a preacher's daughter. The next time be at t-mh i the meeting he was taken down by healing the minister announce as his text My daughter is grievously tormented with a devil.', ______ MUNICIPAL FLAVORS. —The editor of & Chicago newspaper declared in speaking of the filth of thet city lie had two hundred r and twenty seve and distinct smells, with three wards still to hear from.
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