BMorb Jnprtr.
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY JISK 8, ISM.
UNION REPt BLH AS STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
MAJ. GEN. JOHN W, GEARY,
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
THE DESERTER LAM SIGNED BY
THE GOVERNOR.
It is authoritatively announced that Gov.
Curtin has signed the bill disfranchising
Deserters, and that it is now a law of the
land. The Supreme Court adjourned
without delivering an opinion, but no
one doubts the affirmation of the law.
How are yon. Skedaddlers?
RADICALISM.
The term radical as applied to modern
politics may be used to designate an advo
cate of extreme measures of whatever
kind, whether in favor of or in opposition
to reform. The word radical is derived
from the Latin radix < a root, and is proper
ly used to designate measures or principles,
that go to the root of the matter in ques
tion, that is, go back to original and funda
mental principles. In this, its true sense it
may be properly applied to the advocates of
any reform, who base their measures upon
the great original and fundamental princi
ples of right, justice and humanity as indi
cated in the teachings of nature, or set
forth in the inspired pages of Holy Writ.
Thiß is the true and legitimate use of the
term radical, hut common usage within a
few years has largely increased its scope,
so that it is now used as a cry of persecu
tion against every progressive idea, innova
tion or change in any department of life.
AD who propose, in the interest of progres
sive ideas, to introduce new or revive old
principles, that have been lost sight of, in
the political arena, to make a new applica
tion of mechanical forces in the physical
sciences, to discover and demonstrate the
existence of hitherto unknown laws in
nature, to advocate reform and progress in
the intellectual world or to inculcate the
legitimate development of the great moral
truths laid down by the Savior of mankind,
for the guidance and continued elevation
of the human race toward the standard of
perfection in all good, are now vociferously
denounced as radicals and the measures
they advocate as radicalism, alike by the
designing demagogue and the ignorant rab
ble. The term radicalism as thus applied
is the natural outgrowth in a new and dan
gerous form of the innate wickedness of the
human heart. Its moving power and actu
ating spirit are the same that eighteen hun
dred years ago persecuted the great Apos
tle of peace and good will to man, and has
continued to persecute his followers and the
promulgators of his doctrines to the present
time, and will do so to the end. It sailed
him a plotter against the jieace and security
of the Roman Empire, and his followers tur
bulent and dangerous citizens, and it reit
erates the same epithets for a similar pur
pose to-day ; yet to him and his followers,
under various opprobrious appellations, ever
striving in the onward and upward course,
does the world owe all of progress it has
over made, all of good it has ever known.
Thus struggling not for themselves, but
blessing their revilers and laboring for their
good, noble men, imitating their great pro
totype, all the way down through the inarch
of ages have ennobled and made honorable
each epithet heaped upon them in scorn.
Each was intended to crush out the spirit of
progress and suppress the aspirations of the
human soul, but the unquenchable fire still
burns and its enemies know it to-day as Rad
icalism. It is the same ennobling spirit still
--the same that actuated Copernicus when
coming forth from the dungeons of the In
quisition he stamped his foot upon the
earth and muttered "still it moves"—the
same, that actuated Luther when in defence
of his firm convictions of right and truth he
determined to go to the Diet at Worms
thongh devils were as plenty there as tiles
upon the house roofs—the same that actua
ted a Huss, a Howard, a Knox, a Whitfield
or a Wesley in their various fields of reform.
It was the same spirit that led the
people of England to persevere until
they wrung from reluctant rulers one
guarantee of liberty after another until
they became the freest, best and most
prosperous nation of the old world—the
same, that ied our Revolutionary fathers of
glorious memory to resist the oppression of
unequal laws under British rule—the same
that actuated our brave soldiers to willingly
lay down their lives for the preservation of
our free institutions, the embodiment of the
great, progressive idea of universal liberty
and the greatest attainable good for all men
—the same that led good men and noble
women to go forth from luxurious homes
and endore the privations of camp and field
while engaged in binding up the wounds of
the maimed, cheering the hearts of the sick
and desponding, and minis ering to the last
wants and wishes of the dying—the same
that now leads so many to go among the
enfranchised and labor to raise them from
the depths of ignorance and degradation to
which long years of cruel "bondage have
reduced them. All have been actuated by
the same high aims, founded upon the great
principles of truth and justice, viz. love for
their fellow-men, and a desire to promote
the moral, intellectual, spiritual and tempo
ral welfare of the human race. In all her
progress the enemies of truth have resisted
her in every shape and form and heaped
upon her all opprobrious epithets, but she
has ever triumphed. Her latest enemies
call her Radicalism, but it checks not ber
progress nor turns her aside from her great
purpose; at the end of nearly two thousand
years of bittei, unrelenting persecution her
disciples, like Copernicus, may walk forth
upon the earth and declare of truth tri
umphantly "still it moves," as each new
enemy o'ercome gives testimony that—
•'Truth crush'd to earth shall rise again,
The eternal yeari of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And die* among hie worshippers."
Gen. John A, Logan, of Illinois, has re
cently declared in favor of the course of
Congiess and against the President. He
will stump Pennsylvania for Gep, Geary-
ARE THEY RECONSTRUCTED*
All parties now accept the amendment
abolishing slavery throughout the L nited
States as right and just; with it the bitter
est Copperhead no longer finds fault. This
being the case, no one will deny that the
recently rebellious States should be obliged
to comply with the requirements of that
amendment before being restored to their
former rights and privileges among the
State*. This is the object designed to be
accomplished by the Civil Rights Bill re
cently passed by Congress over the veto of
the President. The necessity for the pas
sage and enforcement of such a law is pain
fully evident from the following epitome,
given by the New York Evening Pott , of
the report of the President, made by request
of Congress, as to the provisions in refer
ents 1 to the freednien, contained in the con
stitutions and laws of the Southern States:
'• The states of North Carolina, South_ Car
olina. Florida, Georgia, Alabama. Mississip
pi and Texas are included in the report fur
nished by the Secretary of State.
It will be seen that in South Carolina and
Florida flogging is still a legalized punish
ment for the blacks; and in the former State
the law is so worked that unless a colored
titan, fined for a slight, breach of law, hap
pens to have money in his pocket at the mo
ment of conviction to pay the tine, he will be.
if the magistrate chooses, disgraced by flog
ging. Let the reader imagine what would
happen if our legislature should pass a law
declaring that if an offender, fined to the
amount of five dollars, "does not immediate
ly pay the fine he shall suffer corporeal pun
ishment." The first attempt to enforce such
a law would create a riot: and the public voice
would acquit of all blame those who should
to the utmost extent resist such an iniqui
tous and disgraceful enactment. And sup
pose, instead of being of general application,
the law should condemn only one class of
men, say the shipwrights, or stevedores, or
the journeymen carpenters?
In South Carolina and Florida the freed
uien are forbidden to wear or keep arms. In
South Carolina they are forbidden to work at
trades, or to engage in business, unless spe
cially licensed. In Florida it is made a penal
offence to teach the freedmeu or their chil
dren, except a license has first been obtained.
In Mississippi all freedmen who are not en
gaged in labor by the year are compelled to
take out a license.
lu South Carolina and Mississippi "any
person" may arrest a freedman whom he sup
poses to have committed an offence, or to
have "deserted" from a plantation; and in
Mississippi the law directs that such "alleg
ed deserter" shall, while his case is pending,
be sent to his "alleged employer's planta
tion!" In South Carolina it is enacted that
the laborer shall be called "servant," and the
employer "master."
There are other particulars in which sever
al of the States make unjust and injurious
distinctions between man and man."
Our readers will recollect that these are
not old statutes, enacted during the exis
tence of slavery, but, .new laws, recently
passed with special reference to the freed
men, and are attempts in direct defiance of
the constitution as amended, to perpetuate
in a new and more odious form the old insti
tution of slavery. It will be remembered
that the same legislative bodies that enacted
these iniquitous laws, also elected the Sena
tors and Congressmen, whom, under the
workings of "My Policy" the President and
the whole copperhead party are now trying
to force into Congress. For this purpose,
of upholding Southern rebels in their defi
ance of the constitution and laws of the
land, all the patronage of the government
in Pennsylvania has been put in the hands
of Senator Cowan to be used for securing
the election of the Copperhead candidate
for Governor, Hiester Clymer. All true
Union men, as well as the gallant soldiers,
will make a note of this, as a fact to be re
membered when they go to the polls in
October.
A COUP D'ETAT RECOMMENDED
to THE PRESIDENT.
The Washington Union , in its issue of
May 3d, closes an article on congressional
action in the following words :
"These men had better beware. They
are not a legal Congress, but an unconstitu
tional body of rumpers. The country feels
that the one great error of the President
was in his ever recognizing thera at all, in
their self-imposed rump condition. They
had no claim for recognition as an official
body, from any honest man, or any other
branch of the government. We doubt
whether the Supreme Conrt will oyer affiim
any of their statutes to he valid. This
thing of congressional fanaticism and trea
son ought to De done away with. The Amer
ican Congress now is the fax simile of that
romp Parliament which stank in the nostrils
of a' good men, and which Cromwell kicked
out of doors and served them just right.
A little Cromwellian pluck is the thing just
needed now, and there are twenty-two hun
dred thousand democrats in the North who
would back that kind of pluck with aj good
deal of relish just now. The issue smould
be joined at once."
What brave words to come from those
who fled to the tnountsfihs in mortal fear of
the elraft, a little more than a year ago !
How valiautly they talk and write in time
of peace. Though cowards at heart, their
hearts are none the less wicked and traitor
ous. The men who apologised for and sym
pathised with rebels, are as willing now as
ever to aid and to abet treason. They have
been the slaves of party and the tools of
traitors and are willing now in order to ele
vate their party to power, to inaugurate a
new rebellion. Though in the event of war
the boasted twenty-two hundred thousand
Northern democrats, would as before, rapidly
vanish to the mountain fastnesses and the
Canadian border. But let the lovers of
peace take warning, that these ignoble cow
ards though reluctant to fight, are never
theless quite willing to stir up strife and
encourage dissension. With this hope they
are now upholding the President in resisting
the will of the people as expressed through
their representatives. And in language
such as above quoted are counselling him to
assume the role of a military dictator and
drive the representatives of the people from
the Halls of Congress, so as to enable rebels
and traitors to make their own terms of
reconstruction. Let every voter remember
that these advisors of the President are
ardent friends and supporters of Heister
Clymer.
Ot'R consul at Liverpool writes, under
date of May 18th: "Some two weeks ago I
advised you of the shipment from this port
to New York of some five thousand bushels
of wheat. I now have to inform the De
partment of State that the City of Cork,
which sails to-morrow, takes as freight four
hundred and ninety-eight casks of French
wheat fiour, valued at one thousand and
forty six pounds sterling. I think this is
the first instance of the shipment of French
flour from this port for the United States,
and probably the first tiino flour has evor
been shipped as merchandize from Eurou#
to America. ' •'* ' ur
DEATH OF LIEUT. GET. SCOTT.
It becomes our sad duty to record the
Death of this veteran soldier which occur
red at West Point, on the 26th ult. Gen.
Scott was within a few days of 80 years of
age and had been 54 years a soldier, having
entered the army in 1808. From the war
of 1812 to the breaking out of the war wit h
Mexico in fs46 he held a prominent rank
as one of our wisest and ablest military men.
From the close of bis brilliant campiign in
Mexico to the breaking out of the rebellion
in 1861 he stood acknowledged as the great
est military genius of his age. At the
breaking out of the rebellion the difficult and
dangerous task, of foiling the designs of
traitors, keeping order in the national capi
tal and providing for the safe inauguration
of President Lincoln, devolved upon him
and was successfully accomplished, but his
advanced age precluded his taking part in
the subsequent struggle. He lived to sec
the rebellion put down and the glorious
stars and stripes, under whose folds he had
so often led to victory, once; mora floating
in triumph over every Foot of the national
domain ; then full of honors and of year:
he was called to his reward. In hint the
world ioses v great and good man and the
nation mourns a brave soldier and a true
patriot.
SHALL WEI FORGET f
No we will not, we cannot forget. Though
Andrew Johnson has forgotten these brave
words the friends of the Union still remem
ber aud adhere to thein :
"Every era teaches its lesson. The times
we live in are not without instruction. The
American people must he taught —if they do
not already feel —that treason is a crime,
and must he punished; that the government
will not always bear with its enemies; that
it is strong, not only to protect, but to pun
ish.''
"Let it be engraven on every heart that
treason is a crime, and traitors shall suffer
its penalty."
"I know men love to have their names
spoken of in connection with acts of mercy;
and how easy it is to yield to this impulse.
But we must not forget that what may be
mercy to the individual is cruelty to the
State."— Andrew Johnson.
It was upon such a platform and because
of such professions that he was made Vice
President by the party through whose in
strumentality the country was saved, and
whose leaders he now reviles. Won by the
fulsome adulations of red-handed rebels, he
would fain ignore bis former deeds and in
companionship of traitors, forget the glori
ous record of the past. He may forget it,
but it will remain in the record of history if
only to show how weak a man may speak
brave and noble words, and from what a
height of noble patriotism Andrew John
son has fallen to his present degradation.
How oft we blush for Arnold's shame, but
Arnold fell in dark days through sore temp
tation ; to Johnson justly belongs the deeper
disgrace of betraying his country's cause,
when after unparallelled sacrifices of her
sons, she bad secured complete and triumph
ant victory.
DANGEROUS FRIENDS.
The Richmond Examiner recently sup
pressed by General Giant for its outspoken
and treasonable attempts to stir up new
strife and make war afresh on the Union,
speaking for itself and it; rebellious follow
ers, thus eulogises the President for his
persistent efforts to force rebels once more
into power :
"We have one friend, well tried and faith
ful, and we should buckle him to us with
hooks of steel. The legislature and the
Judiciary are against us, bent on our destruc
tion, but. thank God, the Executive, good,
wise and brave, is for us. He exerts himself
to the utmost of his power in our behalf.
He commiserates our condition, he recogni
ses our rights, and he devotes all his ener
gies to our protection. "
It is an old and safe rule to judge a man
by his company. When wc find a man. be
he high or low, consorting with, not only
unrepentant, but defiant rebels and eulo
gised by them as their best friend, we need
not hesitate with whom to class him. What
ever the President's past record aud profes
sions his present acts and associations, in the
judgment of all honorable men, inevitably
stamp him a traitor to the party and prin
ciples through whose instrumentality he was
elevated to power.
f®"We give in to-day's paper the veto
of President Johnson returning the bill for
he admission of Colorado as a State, with
his objections. Stripped of all verbiage his
objections to the admission of Colorado may
be summed up as follows :
1. It would be a Union State.
2. It would have three votes for the next
Presidency.
3. It woujd not vote for Johnson.
4. No more Union States can be admit
ted until the eleven rebel States have rebel
representatives in Congress to decide upon
the expediency of tbeir admission.
5. In the extension of political power
under this government, rebels must have the
the preference until they attain the control
of our political affairs, after which the ques
tion of the extension of political power to
loyal men will be considered.
The President does not use just the lan
guage we employ to express his reasons for
the veto ; but as he doubtless desires to be
properly understood, we have divested his
arguments of incoherencies and give them
in naked English.- Chamlterxbwg Reposito
ry-
No MORE OF THAT.—"Hangman Foote"
suggests the following ticket for 1868 : For
President, Ulysses S. Grant; for Vice Pres
ident, Robert E. Lee. Not any of Lee !
Hereafter there will be more care taken in
the nomination of Vice Presidents, for the
Unionists take into consideration the fact,
the bullet of Booth removed Abraham Lin
coln, and put in his place Andrew Johnson.
Hereafter we shall have to secure the life of
our nominees for the Presidency, by placing
on the ticket, for Vice President, a better
man, instead of, as heretofore, heading it
with a Lincoln, and ending it with a John
son. The Ticket tapered too much.—Aor
ris;town Herald.
GSOEGB WIEKES, the fearless editor of
the Spirit of the Times is in Washington,
more than ever determined in sun port of
Congress. His prophecy as ta McCleHan
will show that he cannot be far wrong in de
claring that Johnson's policy will be swept
like a whirlwind before the, anger of the
masses.
THE FENIAN WAR!
Invasion of Canada.
CAPTURE OF FORT ERIE.
Defeat of the British at Ridgway.
The Fenian movement in which the pub
lic had almost ceased to feel any interest has
suddenly honied iuto importance again.
On the night of Thursday, May tie 51st,
several regiments of Fenians under cover of
the night by means of tugs and canal boats,
having succeeded in eluding the vigilance
of the United States authorities as well as the
Canadian spies, departed from Buffalo, New
York, effected a landing on the Canadian
shore and captured Fort Erie early on Fri
day morning June Ist. They were reported
some 3,000 strong and immediately marched
into the interior, destroying telegraphic
communication bridges, <fcc. On the morn
ing of the 2d inst. tbey met a force of Ca
nadian volunteers at Ridge way, on the lake
shore ten miles west of Fort Eric, where a
brisk fight ensued resulting in the defeat of
the Canadians with a few killed and wound
cd on each snde. The Canadians appear to
have been subsequently reinforced when the
Fenians retreated, after a few slight skirm
ishes, to Fort Erie and embarking upon a
schooner, tried to re-cross to Buffalo and
were captured by the United States gunboat
Michigan and now lie in the harbor at
Buffalo awaiting orders from Washington
as to what shall be done with theui. There
is great excitement all along the Border and
demonstrations arc expected at other joints,
as the whole Fenian force seems to be mov
ing on Canada. The United States author
ities are making e/ery effoit to prevent
armed expeditions leaving the American
side and preserve the neutrality laws.
Under the direction of Gen. Grant, Gen.
Meade lias issued the following order to
Gen. Barry who is in command ot the Uni
ted States forces at Buffalo, New York :
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF )
TIIE ATLANTIC, BUFFALO, JUNE 3. (
Brevet Major Generiti Barry:
General orders will be sent you from head
quarters of the department of the East, as
signing you to the command of the district
of Ontario, extending fiom Eric, Penna., t.
Oswego, New York, both places included,
headquarters at Buffalo.
In advance of the orders and accompany
ing instructions, I direct you to use the force
at your command to preserve the neutrality
by preventing the crossing of armed bodies,
by cutting off reinforcements or supplies, by
seizing all arras, munitions, etc., whieli you
have reason to believe are destined to be
used unlawfully: in tine, taking all measures
precautionary and otherwise, to prevent vio
lation of law.
For this purpose you will move the forces
under your command t > such point- as are
threatened, and you will employ Vessels,
tugs, etc., such as can be procured, for
watching the river and lake shore, and tak
ing ali such measures as in your judgment the
emergency requires. Very respectfully,
GEORGE G. MEAD*,
Major General Commanding.
FROM EUROPE.
The Continental Troubles.
The London Post of May 22d contains a
Paris telegram stating that it is definitely
arranged that the representatives of France,
England and Russia on one side, and of
Austria. Prussia and Italy on the other, will
assemble at the Foreign Ministry in Paris,
under the Presidency of M. Druyn do 1' H uys,
for formally opening the Conference to solve
pacifically the pending questions between
Austria and Italy.
It is reported at Paris that Lord Cowley,
the British Ambassador at Paris, will short
ly proceed to \ ienna.
The London lb mid says the Conference
can do nothing more than adjourn the war,
unless one or the other of the combatants
become exhausted under" the burden of
preparations.
The official Dresden Journal, of May 21st
says the Congress has agreed to try all pow
ers, and would meet on the 25th.
According to some authorities Austria has
evinced a disinclination to join the Confer
ence, and it was asserted that should she
persist she would be represented pro tern,
Dy England and France. There is, however
no indication of any relaxation in the mili
tary preparations by the several powers, and
there was an almost universal feeling that a
pacific solution was popular. Prussia has
issued a decree that in the event of war
merchant ships belonging to the enemy will
not be liable to capture on the high seas by
her war vessels, but this measure is only to
apply in case of reciprocity from the enemy.
An intrenched camp is to be constructed
near Vienna, as a point of concentration for
the Austrian army. The Austrian com
mandant at Venice has issued a notification
warning the inhabitants again-t attempting
to induce enlistments in the Itallian volun
teer corps; also against inciting to desertion
These oflenses will be dealt with by martial
law. It was cont mi, by asserted that Aus
tria had refused to uiscuss any proposition
for tile cession of Vcnctia.
A Berlin telegram says it has been decid
ed that until the 14th of June an army corps
will be concentrated at each of flic following
places: —Wctzlar, Erfurt. Frankfort, and
between Keisse and Glizitz. In order to
prove that Prussia accepts the Congress, the
departure of the Prince Royal and Prince
Fredrick Charles for the army has been
postponed. The formation of the Italian
volunteers into regiments was commenced
on the 21st of May.
A Vienna despatch sys_ the alliance be
tween Prussia and Italy binds each to sup
port the other, in case of an attack by
tria, the treaty to continue till the end of
the year. The statement that an Austrian
patrol had crossed the Prussian frontier is
denied by the Austrian commander.
The South.
On Saturday a free dinner to the negroes
came off, near Columbus, Ga. A large
number were in attendance. They were
addressed by ex-Provisional Governor John
son. lie compared them to the descendants
of Joseph in Egypt. They had been redu
ced to slavery, and after many years were
made free. The ancestors of the negro sold
him; they were put to trial and kept so;
since then have greatly increased in number
and intelligence; after two Jjundred years of
probation, the negroes, by the fullness of
time and the providence of God. through
the instrumentality of men, have gainel
their freedom, which wiil remain to them
and their descendants forever. He advised
them to be industrious, frugal and honest,
and to be careful about making contracts,
and reduce them to writing, if possible and
abide by them. He had seen rapid advan
ces made to a higher civilization during the
past year. They should be charitaole, care
for the aged, and build churches and school
houses. They should obey all the laws, and
not take redress upon thrmselves. The civil
courts were open to them. He advised them
to respect all the legal authorities, and try
!to bring to light alt crime. The Govern
; uient has declared their freedom, and will
maintain it. Their rights would be protcc
| ted.. He Imped slavery would be soon re
\ moved from Brazil and other countries, and
the world would then unite for the civiliza
i tion of Africa. Two negroes spoke after
' Governor Johnson had finished.
t.ENERAL STEADMAN ANI> THE
PR EE OMAN'S BUREAU.
General Whittlesey, who is Superinten
dent, in North Carolina, of the Freedman's
Bureau, has written a reply to the charges
of misconduct made in the report of Gener
als Steedman and Fullerton, in which he cer
tainly shows that these examining officers
made imprudent haste with their work* and
were in several instances more zealous to fix
blame upon officers of the Bureau than dis
creet and patient in their investigations.
General Whittlesey sums Up his reply thus:
"'They made neither a thorough, nor an
impartial investigation.' They visited only
six of the forty one districts and sub districts
and sub-districts under the charge of this
bureau. They made no inquiries respecting
its finances or the government property in
its possession. They say nothing about
more than $2,000,000 worth of abandoned
lands which were held for a season and re
stored to their owners.
"They make no mention of more than
ten thousand cases of 'difficulty between
frecdmen or freed men and whites' that have
been adjusted. They give no credit to the
officers who have found employment for
many thousands ot destitute refugees and
homes for many hundreds of orphans, and
medical attendance and comforts for more
than 20,000 persons. They say nothing of
the protection and assistance afforded in or
ganizing and maintaining 121 schools, with
152 teachers and 10,600 scholars.
"The real worii of the Bureau, which has
taxed the energy and the patience of all con
nected with it to the utmost, they pass by
unnoticed, and direct their entire efforts to
the discovery offaults—and after all of their
fancied discoveries, they make no distinct
and open charges, but content themselves
with insinuations and conjectures which
seem intended to defame officers whose rec
ord has hitherto been honorable, and who
in no respect are inferior to the Commission
ers hut in rank.
In several particulars the charges made
by General Steedman are flatly contradicted
For instsnce. he reported, as a gross outrage
practised by the Bureau officers, that they
put negroes in chain gangs, byway of pun
ishment. General Whittlesey replies:
"It is greatly to the credit of the freed
men that in but very few instances has it
been necessary to make arrests for violation
of contracts. The only place, so far as I
have been informed, where a 'chain gang'
has been organized, is Salisbury, in the tves
tern district, which is described in the 're
port' as 'a bright exception.' There at the
time of their visit, Generals Steedman and
Fullerton might have seen such a 'gang' at
work upon the streets. Colonel Cilley ass
ures rue that he told General Steedman that
he had such an organization and that Gen
erol Steedman expressed his entire appro
val.
"In this connection I will quote a sen
tence from the conversation of the commis
sioners with freedmcn at Wilmington,
nhonographically reported by >lr. M. L.
Williston: Stecdman—lt has been named
that some of the Bureau officers have been
interested in plantations, and have compell
ed black men to labor for them. I have
been told that if colored men would not
work for theui they forced them into chain
gangs and set them to work in the streets.
[Cries of' Not so," 'No. no,' from all parts
of the house.] Nixson—'l have never
heard of one instance of the kind.'
' The concluding remarks of the 'report'
under the heads of 'Evils of the System,
and "Arbitrary Power of the Bureau' con
tain conjectures rather than facts. It is not
charged but hinted, that the assistant-com
missioner made 'the most stringent labor
regulations,' and has attempted to 'secure a
low rate of wages, to the great detriment of
freedmen.'
' Were this true, it would be difficult to
see how such action would bring them into
'couipetion with citizens wfco are employing !
freedmen.' But the facts are directly the
reverse of these hints. Though importun
ed by citizens to make labor regulations and
to fix the rate of wages, I have steadily re
fused to issue any orders on that subject be
yond the requirements that freedmen should
be taught everywhere the nature and obliga
tions ot contracts. The rate of wages, it
has been constantly affirmed, must be gov
erned by the law of supply and demand. In
some parts of the State labor is worth more
than in other sections. No rule or order
would be just to all sections alike.
It is proper and necessary that the opera
tions of the Freedmeu's Bureau should be
frequently and rigorously investigated ; it is
necessarily, from its constitution, a depart
ment. extremely liable to abuses. The sub
ordinates and agents have in many cases ar
bitrary power; they have to be greatly
trusted ; it is right that their work should
be strictly examined. But as this is true,
it is the more necessary and important that
the examiners should be careful, painstaking,
exact.
It is unendurable that officers occu
pying such positions of trust and responsi
bility should be wrongly accused of miscon
duct or corruption. We hope the future
reports of Generals Stecdman and Fullerton
will be more carefully made; but we are
sure they will receive little attention or con
fidence from the public hereafter unless they
are supported by evidence. The President
would do well to recall these two agents and
send out in their places more careful men.—
JPccnin a Past.
A TOWNSHIP OF ISLANDS. — The town
ship of "Put-in-Bay," Ottawa county. Ohio
is wholly made up of delightful and fertile
gems of Lake Erie, comprising five islands.
The hief of the group contains fourteen
hundred acres, ami lias a resident popula
tion of five hundred. The smaller islands
are proportionally important. They have
horses, cattle, carriages, manufactured arti
cles, goods and stocks, etc., valued at $130,-
054, 25, and the agricultural products
include wheat, rye, barley, corn, sorghum,
etc. The culture of the grape and the man
ufacture of wine is the staple of this group
of islands. The vineyard contains four
hundred and twenty two and one-fourth
acres, which produced last year one million
one hundred and seventeen thousand eight
hundred and one pound of grapes, and
thirty-three thousand eight hundred
and five gallons of wine. Kelly's Island
lies just outside of this group, and last
year produced one million eight hundred
and sixty-five thousand four hundred and
eleven pounds choice grapes, and eighty
thousand four hundred and ninety-six gal
lons of wine, making the product of the
grape two millions, nine hundred and eigh
ty-three thousand, six hundred and twelve
pounds of grapes, [equal to fifteen hundred
ions,] and one hundred and fourteen thou
sand. three hundred and one gallons of wine.
The Put-in-Bay islands are sixteen miles
from Sandusky, or directly in the midst of
Luke Erie, and are fast becoming a favorite
resort for health and pleasure. Kelly s
Island is ten miles front the same city, and
Johnson's Island, famed as a rebel prison,
is about three miles from the same point.
The fishing in the vicinity of these Islands
i reported as being very superior.
MR. -JOHNSON'S own State totally repu
diates his unfortunate policy. Here is what
the Nashville (Tennessee) Press & Times
says:
"Thecontest between the President and
the neople is virtually settled; the latter
are destined to be the victors. The North
ern States, with over 25,000,000 of people,
will go in a solid column against the pro
gramme dictated to them from the Execu
tive Mansion. We rejoice for the sake of
the South, who has so bright and glorious a
career before her, under the humane and
enlightened control of peace republicanism.
It is for her interest, as regards immigration
capital, manufactures, education and gener
al prosperity, that the policy of the Presi
dent shuuld be signally defeated,"
ONE OF THE PARDONED SPEAKS
He Rejoices at Lincoln's Assassina
tion—The Democratic Party Endorsed
and Defended.
CRESTLINE. OHIO, May 29.
An ovation was yesterday given to L. P.
Milligan, the Knight of the Golden Circle,
who, with Bowles and Horsey, was tried in
Indianapolis, eighteen months ago, and con
victed of treason. Milligan was sentenced
to death, but President Johnsou commuted
his punishment to imprisonment for life. A
few weeks ago he was released from further
punishment. His friends and neighbors of
Wells county, Indiana, tcndcied htm a for
mal reception, and after taking time to pre
pare an elaborate oration, the affair came off
yesterday at Bluffton, the county seat.
A welcome address was delivered by Dr.
Brown, his law partner, to which he respon
ded in a written speech of an hour's length.
It was in large part an uninteresting and
historical and philosophical disquisition of
the theory and practice of human govern
ment ; hut he reserved space enough in
which to manifest his Copperhead malignity
against all who have anything to do in ore
serving the Government and preventing nim
in his effort to overturn it.
He attributed to New England puritanism
the origin of all the evils of the land, and
described the Yankee soldiers as the merce
nary, unprincipled, thieving instruments
that executed its designs. He characterized
them as foreign soldiers, quartered upon the
people of Indiana and other States.
The power of the majority was more vast
than that of a single monarch, for no one
man could possess, in a high degree, all hu
man vices—not even a Lincoln, a Brough or
Morton. Among the greatest sinners
against God's righteous will were these
individuals, and though he was not prone to
believe in special providences, their fate was
otherwise unaccountable. One had been
summoned to the bar of retributive justice
with his sins unrepented of. Another, cov
ered all over with the mildew of debauchery
and wrapped in exhalations from which buz
zards would turn their offended noses, car
ried to the grave the impress of infamy,
while there yet remains one of the Godless
trio; but the plague is on its westward
inarch ; his limbs are smote with the blood
of crime, and tremble under their load of
corruption. Still he prayed that the Gov
ernor might live long enough to realize in
this world, rather than in tne next, that God
is just.
Thus the reckless old man raved against
the men who saved his neck from the halter
(bat was its due. He renewed his adhesion
to the Democratic party, and exhorted Ills
hearers, in the precise language he had used
on a former occasion, to maintain the organ
ization of the party, though cowardly men
may have shrunk from the boldness of its
truth, and attempted to corrupt its ritual
and interpolate its constitution.
THE SOUTH.
31 ajor Gilbretb, sent by Gen. Howard to
investigate the Memphis riots, has made a
partial report on the subject He says:
The civil authorities have not taken the
slightest notice of these terrible riots, and
-cem to regard them as simply a skirmish
between the police and the negroes. It was
certainly a very one sided skirmish, as from
the testimony no resistance was made by the
negroes after the first night. The citizens
have been advised to hold a meeting and de
nounce the conduct of the mob, but still
they either neglect or refuse to do so. The
papers of .Memphis are at the root of the
whole matter. They have incited riot and
murder for months, and this is only a legiti
mate result of their inflammatory and incen
diary articles: and these poor whites, be
tween whom and the negroes a feud has al
ways existed, have seen but their tools.
The Norfolk Day Book renews its com.
plaints of the robberies, thefts and indecen
cies committed there, and speaks of the dis
graceful conduct of many boys and young
men, members of respectable families, who
forgetful of the decencies of life, and what
they owe to their own position, to their fami
lies and society, are constantly guilty of out
rages and almost crimes, which, originating
from the source they do, make us blush for
very shame at the necessity of recording
them.
A band of outlaws went to the house of a
man named Gunter, in Overton eouuty, Ten
nessee, one day last week, and on some frivo
lous pretext took him into the woods, strip
ped and were unmercifully whipping him.
I lis daughter seized a hatchet, rushed to the
-pot. ami succeeded with heroic bravery in
killing two of the ruffians and wounding oth
ers. She and her father have since been
driven from the county.
POLY(JAMISTB REFUSED NATURALIZA
TION. —The Union Vedette , the loyal paper
published at Salt Lake City, contains a
decision made on the 2#th of April, by
.Judge Drake, of the United States District
Court in Utah, denying the right of the
Probate Courts of the territory to issue nat
uralization papers, an I determining that all
naturalization certificates issued by such
courts were merely void, and conferred no
rights of citizenship whatsoever. Applica
tion being then made to the District Court
itself, the judge firmly refused to grant a
certificate to any man who was living in
polygamy, on the ground that it was contra
ry to the act of Congress, and that any man
who persistently refused to obey the laws of
the I nited States was in no wav entitled to
citizenship, or any ot the benefits accruing
therefrom.
The British steamship Union arrived at
N. York on Tuesday the 29th ult from Liver
pool, with fifteen eases of cholera on board.
She reports that thirty three persons had
died on the passage, most of them from that
disease. There were over four hundred well
passengers. These were transferred to the
Saratoga, and the sick passengers, some of
whom were very low. are on the hospital
ship Falcon. The Virginia's passengers,
who had been sick on that vessel, were
nearly all convalescent, and were removed.
This cholera will be treated as that was
which came by the Virginia. The efforts
of (he commissioners of qua -antine at Wash
ington and elsewhere for assistance have
failed. The Peruvian has also arrived with
twenty eight cases of cholera. Thirty five
of the passengers died from the disease du
ring the voyage.
A PENNSYLVANIA:* WANTED.—George
Wilson, supposed to be a resident of Penn
sylvania, was enlisted by Captain William
Kenny, of Company B. Bth Ohio Infantry,
in June, 1861. Just before the battle of
Gettysburg he gave the Captain a check for
S6O. During that memorable engagement
Wilson was killed. The Captain is now liv
ing in Cleveland, Ohio, has the check and
says there is souie back pay and bounty due
the soldier. Wilson once informed a com
rade, while on picket guard, that he was
born in Pennsylvania: that he had lieen ab
sent from home over six years, and that his
parents did not know anj-think relative to
his whereabouts. Captain Kenny is desi
rous of sending the check to his friends, if
they can be found.
THE establishment of the fact that oil
wells could lie worked in Venango county,
was owing to the enterprise of Col. E. L.
Drake, who spent all his means in showing
the way by which hundreds of men subse
quently became rich. During the hey day
of petroleum prosperity it was talked of giv
ing him a valuable reward by subscription,
but nothing was done. It is now proposed
to petition Congress for an appropriation to
Col. I >rake, as one was made twenty years
ago for the heirs of Robert Fulton. It is a
disgrace to those who made fortunes by the
Mile of lands and wells at enormous prices in
i the oil regions, that Cel. Drake remains
1 poor. Cleveland Herald.
CONORESS having decided that Captain
Fox shall retain high Departmental rank on
his mission to St. Petersburg, there will bc
be such a display of United States men of
war in Cronstadt Harbor as has never before
been witnessed in European waters. The
iron clad Monitor Miantonomah, the Colora
do, the Ticonderoga, the Canandaigua, the
Kcarsarge, the Chattanooga, the Shamrock,
mounting one hundred and twenty heavy
guns, and manned by picked crews, will form
a squadron well fitted to display the stars
and stripes. These vessels have all been fit
ted out witli great care and ate supplied
with the most approved patterns of boat
howitzers, anchors and other appliances for
which our navy has so deservedly high a re
putation. *
THE CONSCRIPTION IN EUROPE. -A Paris
letter writer says: "Between the Bospho
rus and the Baltic a grand conscription is
proceeding; there is not a landed proprietor
a simple shopkeeper, a stolid mechanic, a
wind beaten mariner, anywhere, who is not
moved to terror or enthusiasm. Now, if
ever, the great adjustment of differences in
Europe is about to be instituted. The im
mediate parties to the outbreak are Italy
and Prussia against Austria, but when these
great opposites clash together, there will be
these minor quarrels to be satisfied."
THERE was a Johnson fneeting at the
Academy of Music, Philadelphia, last Sat
urday evening, which was well attended by
Copperheads and curious Republicans—but
the Johnson men were very scarce, so much
so that no officers were named for the meet
ing. Jos. R. FJanuigan, of the 'side door'
Daily News , engineered the affair, called the
meeting to order and read the resolutions.
The speech-makers of the evening were
Cowan, of Pennsylvania, and Duohttle, of
Wisconsin—two recreant Senators who have
been censured and asked to resign by the
Legislatures of their respective States for
treachery to the Union party.— Reading
Journal.
THE famous life size equestrian i>ortrait
of General Scott ordered by the Common
wealth of Virginia in 1857. which they re
fused to accept when the Genera! declined
to become a traitor for tbem, is clothed now
at his decease with additional interest. It
was painted by Edward Troye, a native of
California, an artist of considerable note.
The Genera] sat for the picture at West
Point, and selected Chapultepee for the
scene. It is the largest equestrian portrait
ever produced in this country, and is now iu
the Capitol at Washington.
At the request of General Howard, with
the exception of the Departments of Texas
and Arkansas the commissioner-hip of the
Freedmen's Bureau, has been placed in
charge of the several District Military Com
mandants. General Grant has shown his
confidence in General Howard's former
Assistant Commissioners, by giving them
the entire military charger
No MORE TROOPS FOR MEXlCO.—Sccre
trry Seward received dispatcher- by the last
mail from Minister Motly, containing full
assurances ot the government at Vienna
that no more Austrian troops will be sent to
Mexico.
A portion of the old Harrisburg bridge
was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning.
The loss was about SOO,OOO, besides a total
interruption of vehicle travel with the Cum
berland Valley. The railroad bridge, a short
distance below, narrowly escaped.
Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat.
REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTESTIOX AS!) SWUI
BK CHECKER. If ALLOWED TO COSTISL'E.
rrltntlon of the I.mifjs. a PcriiMmnt.'
Throat AflVrllon. or >u liirnrable
Lung Disease
IS OFTEX THE RESULT.
BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES
having a direct influence to the parts, give im
mediate relief.
FOR BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, CATARRH,.
CONSUMPTION & THROAT DISEASES,
Troches arc used with always good success.
SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
will find Track ft useful in clearing the voice when
taken before Singing or Speaking, and relieving
the throat after an unusual exertion of the vocal
organs. The Troches are recommended and pre
scribed by Physicians, and have had testimonials
from eminent men throughout the country. Be
ing an article of true merit, and having proved
their efficacy by a test of many years, each year
find them in new localities in various parts of the
world and the Trochee are universally pronoun
ted Wtter than other articles.
Obtain only *'BROWX'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES,"
and do not take any of tho Worthies* Imitation*
that may be offered.
Sold everywhere in the United States, and
Foriign countries, at 35 cents per box.
Nov. 10, 1865.
GEORGE BL.TMVER JOHN F. BLYMTER
Having formed a partnership, on the 6th day of
March, 1866, in the
HARD WARE,
AND
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
respectfully invite the public to their new rooms
three doors West of the old stand, where they will
fiud an immense stock of the most splendid goods
ever brought to Bedford county. These goods
will be sold at the lowest possible prices, most
of them at very reduced rates.
Persons desirous of purchasing
BOLDING HARDWARE
will find it to their advantage to give us a call.
We have on hand a large quantity of
WHITE LEAD
Which wc have been fortunate to buy a little low
er than the market rate. The particular brands
to which we would invite attention ara the
Pure Buck Lead,
Liberty White Lead,
Snow Franklin White Lead,
Washington White Lead,
Washington Zinc White Lead,
New York White Lead.
Also,
French Porcelain Finish,Demar Varnish,
and Varnishes of all kinds,
FLAX SEED OIL (PURE.)
TURPENTINE and ALCOHOL,
All kinds of
IRON AND NAILS.
Mo. 1 Crystal Illuminating Coal Oii,
antl Lamps in Profusion.
We would invite persons wanting Saddlery
Hardware to give us a call, as we have everything
in the Saddlery line, such as Buckets, Kings,
Horns and Webbing Leather of all kinds. Also
a variety of Shoe Findings, consisting of French
Calf Skins; Morocco Linings, Binding, Pegs, etc.
HOUSEKEEPERS will find at Blyinyer -and
Son's Store a great variety of Household Goods,
Knives and Forks, of the very best quality: Plated
Table and Tea Spoons at all prices.
f,Give us a call, and wc can supply rouwi'H
am Door Rollers, the latest improvement. No
va Scotia Grindstones, better than any in use-
Shovels, Forks ar.d Spades.
GRAIN AND GRASS SCYTHES and
SNATHES,
Fishing Taekel, Brushes of all kinds, Demi-johr s,
Patent Wheel Grease. Tar and Whale Oil, and
an infinite variety of other articles.
$20,00(1 WANTED.
We would like to get it if our friends would let
us have it; less will do, but persons having UIR
settled accounts will close them up to the Ist ef
March, to enable us to close our old Books. This
should be done.
may I:tf GEO. BLYMYEK A SON.
WHO? WHO? WHO?
OUR NEXT GOVERNOR.
We have a correct and striking photograph of
the next Governor ol Pennsylvania, which we
will send by mail for 25 cents. If wc mittake the
man, the money will be refunded immediately af
ter election next October. Is.it Geary or Clymer.
Write and soc. Address
BARTLEtiON A CO.,
may4:2m. 611 Chestnut street, Phila.