the fgrdfotti §iu}nim
IS PTBLISHED
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
BY
J. R. HI R BORROW AM) JOB* IATZ,
os
JULIANA St., oppoSlffcthe Mangel House
BEDFORD, PENN'A
TERMS:
f'LOO a year if paid strictly in advance.
It not paid within six months 13.50.
If not paid within the year 83.00.
Jjrotostopai & 3Susiofsg (Saris.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
B. R. METERS t. W. DICKERSOR.
MEYERS A DICKERSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BEDFORD, PERN'A.,
( ffice same at formerly occupied by Hon. W. P.
rchell, two doors east of the Gaeette office, will
craeticc in the several Courts of Bedford county,
i chsiahs, bounHfc# Fndback pay obtained and the
purchase of Real Estate attended to.
May 11, '6B—lyr.
J OHN T. KEAGY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PEES' A.,
Offers to give satisfaction to all who may en
trust their legal business to him. Will collect
money, on evidences of debt, and speedily pro
cure bounties and pensions to soldiers, their wid
-w or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph
oifice. aprll:*M-ly.
JB. CESSNA,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with JOHS CESSNA, on Julianna street, in
the office formerly occupied by King A Jordan,
and recently by" Filler A Keagy. All business
entrusted to his care will receive faithful and
prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac.,
Speedily tollfccted.
Bedford, June 9,186-5.
J' M'D. SHABPE a- F. KBKB
SHARPE A KERR,
A TTORSE YS-A T-LA 11*.
Will practice in tbe Courts of Bedford and ad
joining counties. All business entrusted to their
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 Reed A Schell, Bedford, P r - mar2:ti
TOHK PALMER,
Attorney at Law, Bedford. Pa,.
Win promptly attend to ail business entrusted to
his care.
Particular attention paid to the oollection
of Military claims. Office on Julianna 3t., nearly
opposite the Mengcl House.) j line 23, 's.ly
J. F. DIRBORROW JOHN LUTE.
DLR BORROW A LTTZ.
./ TTO K.VA' I*.V .1 T L.l B*.
BEBFOBD, PA.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their carfc. Collections made on the shortest no
tice
They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents
and will give special attention to the prosecution
f claims against the Government for Pensions.
Back Pay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
M*ne*l House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer
office: April 28, 1865a
IT SPY M. ALSIP,
Li ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
ness entrusted to his carc in Bedford and adjoin
ing counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
•ay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Slanti A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south
of the Mengel House. p!l, 1864.—tf.
\ f . A. POINTS,
->1 ATTORNEY AT LAW, BBPFORD, PA.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
to the public. Office with J- W. Lingenf'elter,
Esq., en Juliana street, two doors South of the
"Mengle House." Dee. 9, 1864-tf.
TT IMMELL AND LIN< lENFKLTER,
LV ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA.
Uave formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South
of the Mengel House,
aprl, 1864 —tf.
TOHN MOWER.
RJ ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PA.
April 1,1864.—if.
DEYTINTH.
C. ■. • HISSICII, JR.
DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA.
Office I'II (he Bank Building, Juliana Street.
All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me
chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per
fofmed and warranted. TERM.* CASH.
Tooth Powders and Mouth Wash, excellent ar
ticles, always on hand.
jan6'6s-ly. _
DENTISTRY.
I. N. BOWSER, RESIDENT DESTIST, Y> OOD
BBRRT, Pa., visit J 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
within the rear* 'if all and strictly each except by
epeeial contract. Work to be sent by mail or oth
wiae, must be paid for when impressions are taken.
augd, '64:tf.
TI7M. W. JAMISON, M. D.,
\Y BLOODT RUS, PA.,
Respectfully tenders his professional services to
the people of that place and vicinity. [decß:lyr
DR. R. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building
formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius.
April 1,1864—tf. _
| L. MARBOURG, M. D.,
•J . Having permanently located respectfully
tenders his pofessional services to the citizens
of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street,
opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal
mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf.
RA.\Him
E. W. SRPP O. E. SHAS3O3 .N.P. BEXWUCT
RUPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS,
BEDFORD, PA.
BASK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
COLLECTIONS made for the East. West, North
and Stuth, and the general business of Exchange,
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and
Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought and sold. apr.15,'64-tf.
JEWELER, Ac.
ABSALOM OARLICK,
Clock Ac Watchmaker and Jeweller,
BLOODY RVX, 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 WA TCM
ES, CLOCKS, and JEWELRY.
Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. rav4
J OHN REIMLND,
CLOCK AND WATCH MAKER,
in the United States Telepranh Office,
BEDFORD, PA.
Clocks, watches, and all kinds of jewelry
promptly repaired. Ail work entrusted to his care
warranted to give entire satisfaction. [nov3-lyr
DANIEL BORDER,
PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OP THE BED
FORD HOTEL, BEBPORD, PA.
TCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES, AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in his line not on band,
apr. 28, 1864— ss.
DW. CROUSE
WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST,
On Fenn street a few doors west ef the Court
House, North side, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared
tosell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All
orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything
tn his line will do well to give him a call.
Bedford, Oct. 2<, 65.
DI'KBORKOW A LITZ Editors and Proprietors.
sSotittt.
NO
HASTE NOT ! REST NOT J
FRO* THE GERMAN OF GOETHE.
Without baste ! without rest!
Bind the motto to thy hrcast :
Bear it with thee as a spell :
Storm and sunshine guide it well j
Heed not flowers that round thee .bloom,
Bear it onward to the toiub
llaste not! let no thoughtless deed,
Mar for aye the spirit's speed.;
Ponder well and know the right.
Onward then with all thy might ;
Haste not! years can ne'er atone,
For one reckless aetn done.
Best not! life is sweeping bv,
Ge and dare before you die;
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time
Glorious 'tis to live for aye
When these forms have pass'd away.
ifaste not! rest not! calmly wait .*
Meekly bear the storm of fate!
Duty be thy polar guide—
Do the right whate'er betide '■
Haste not! rest not conflicts past,
God shall crown thy work at last.
UNION STATE CENTRAL COMMIT
TEE.
Address to lire People of Pennsylvania.
The Union State Central Committee had
a large meeting Monday afternoon, at their
rooms, No. 1105 Chestnut street. Reports
from the different counties were received,
and all were of the most gratifying charac
ter. The following address was ordered to
be published:
COMMUTES ROOMS, j
No. 1105 Chestnut street, >
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3, 1-65. j
jtelloic-Citizen* • —Tbe superficial observer
might suppose, after the fearful struggles,
sacrifices and sufferings of the last five years
that we could safely relax our efforts and
watchfulness, and, returning to our individ
ual affairs, permit the machinery of govern
ment to run itself. An intelligent and pa
triotic survey of the situation, however, will
not warrant any such conclu.-fon. hut will
impress us more than ever with the truth
and wisdom of the adage, "Eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty." Six years ago the
people lawfully elected Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States. The mi
nority, enemies of our government and
country, refused to submit to their defeat at
the polls, and, for the first time in our histo
ry, appealed from the ballot-l*x to the
sword. They defiantly threw off all the ob
ligations of constitutions and laws, rushed
madly into civil war, and fought with malig
nity and desperation for four long bloody
years in the wicked attempt to overthrow
and utterly destroy the government handed
down by our fathers. This they did under
the pretext that a State had a constitutional
right to secede from the Union. The same
thing had been attempted in South Carolina
in 1832 ; but under the vigorous administra
tion of President Jackson, the effort signally
failed, and the doctrine on which it was bas
ed was repudiated. But in 1856, when the
Democratic party at Cincinnati nominated
James Buchanan for President, they reviv
ed the old State rights dogma of secession,
by re adopting the Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions of 1798 and 1799. as a part of
their platform. And at the Charleston Con
vention, in 1860, although the party there
split into two parts, the one nominating
Douglas and the other Breckinridge for
President, both factions re adopted the same
resolutions, which do not hold the relations
of the States to the United States as con
stituting a government in the ordinary and
proper sense of the term, but declared to be
merely a compact among parties having no
common judge; each party ha 1 - an equal
right to judge for itself, as well of infractions
as of the mode and measure of redress.
Under this free Democratic charter for
rebellion, the election of Abraham Lincoln
was claimed by the rebel States as an "in
fraction 'of the 'compact,' and they chose
secession and civil war as the "mode, and
the destruction of the Union and of the
Government as''the measure of redress.'
Hence, when the war broke upon us in all
its fury, we found the Demoetatic party par
alyzed. It was suddenly brought face to
face with the practical application of its own
political creed, by its own political friends.
Ilence. too. the sad demoralization and want
of loyalty and patriotism shown by that
party during the whole war. Those of them
who preferred their country to their party
and platform abandoned both platform and
party, and under the flag of their country
manfully rallied to put down the rebellion,
while the leaders and the mass of the party
did otherwise.
They had so repeatedly proclaimed the
right of secession they believed it, and were
everywhere found justifying or executing
the rebellioD, denounced every means used
to suppress it; predicting the war a failure,
and endeavoring to make good their predic
tions. and bodily denying there was any pow
er in the government to "coerce a State.
The Democratic party thus acquired a repu
utation for connivance at tren on and disloy
alty to the country which justly consigned it
to continuous and overwhelming defeats,
until at the close of the war it had not a
Governor or a Legislature in a single loyal
State, except little Delaware and the legis
lature of Kentucky. And since the Phila
delphia Convention it seems to have fallen
upon the expedient of other noted criminals,
and resolved to sally forth under u new
name.
Mot until April, 18(35, were the rebels fi
nally overcome, and then only by the rtower
of our armies, which they could no longer
withstand. There was no voluntary surren
der, but their arms were stricken from their
bloody hands. The great conspiracy against
freedom had failed, and the armies and peo
ple of eleven revolted States' were at the
mercy of the conquerers, professing a wil
lingness to accept any terms the victors
might impose. C'oagress had then recently
adjourned, and. under the law. would not
assemble until the following December un
less convened by the President in rxtra ses
sion. The occasion seemed to he one of suf
ficient novelty and importance to require a
meeting of Congress, but the Prc-tdent
judged differently. He proclaimed that
these States had been deprried of all civil
fovernment." and the Supreme Court of
'nited Suites declared the whole population
thereof to be "alien enemies."
The President proceeded, by proclama
tions, by appointment of provisional gov
ernors and otlieT means, to create govern
ments for these rebellious States, and upon
the annual meeting of Congress made re-
A LOCAL AND GENERAL DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS.
port ofwhat had teen done, and recommen
ded the admission ol Representative*. Con
gress claimed to have jurisdiction over the
whole subject and proceeded ro inquire
whether or not governments had been es
tablished, and whether, under all the cir
cumstance?, _ it tvoukl be proper to restore
those rebellious people and States to their
former relations and rights in the Union,
without first imposing some terms upon
them as security for the future?
The great question i- not wether the States
themselves shall be restored, but whether
they shall have representation in Congress
with or without terms. Our political adver
saries—Democrats, rebels and their sym
pathizers, North and fcoutb —say without
terms and conditions, and forthwith Congress
by the almost unanimous rote of all the
members who sustained the war, has pro
posed sundry amendments to the Constitu
tion of the United States, to be submitted
to the State Legislatures for ratification; and
it will be the duty of the Legislature we are
about to elect to approve or disapprove of
these fundamental changes in the national
constitution These amendments are the
terms fixed by Congress on which the States
lately in rebellion and their people can re
sume their practical relations to the national
Union. These terms may be briefly stated
as follows:
1. That all persons born or naturalised in
the United States shall be citizens thereof;
and that ail citizens shall have equal protec
tion in the enjoyment of life, liberty and
property.
2. That representation shall be apportion
ed among Die hftates according to numbers,
but that classes disfranchised without cause
shall not be counted in fixing the basis of
Federal representation.
3. That all who are guilty of treason and
peijury shall be ineligible to office, unless
the disability be remnveJ by a two thirds
vote of Congress.
4. That the validity of the national obliga
tions incurred in the war shall not be ques
tioned. and all rebel debts and claims for
slaves shall be void.
The States of Tennessee, Conner-tieut and
New Hampshire, by the action of their sev
eral legislatures, have already ratified these
amendments by very large majorities. Our
friends in Congress and out of Congress are
united in the conviction that these term?
are pre-eminently magnanimous, wise and
just: that they are the legitimate fruits of
the war, and essential to our peace and
security for the future. Ry the storms of
civil war some of the land marks made by
our fathers were taken away, and some of
the ancient foundation? laid by them were
moved. Let us wisely readjust them, so
that our temple of liberty may stand npon
the broader and firmer foundation of univer
sal liberty and impartial Justice.
in March, 18tV>, the Union party assem
bled in convention to nominate a candidate
for Governor. It reaffirmed its patriotic
principles as proclaimed and fought for du
ring the right and duty of Congress to pre
scribe the terms of reconstruction. On this
plat form Major General John W. Geary was
nominated tor Governor by a unnanimous
vote, and -übsequently his nomination was
enthusiastically endorsed by a large and
intelligent Convention of the .Soldiers and
bailors of the State. He is no obscure
personage, but of the representative men of
these eventful times As a civilian he has
filled with ability and distinction many im
portant public positions, requiring intelli
gence, discretion and the highest order of
integrity and administrative ability. He
has been a farmer, a teacher a civil engineer
a lawyer and a manufacturer. He has serv
ed the people as postmaster and Mayor, of a
city, as Judge of a court, and as Governor
of a territory. As a volunteer soldier, he is
the pride of his comrades, and an honor to
his State.
Ho went out from home to the Mexican
war as a captain, and came back with hon
ors as the colonel of his rcim nt. He en
tered the service in the law.- rebellion as a
colonel and fought it all the way through;
having been promoted to the exalted rank
of major general 'for fitness to command
and,promptness to execute.' This valiant
and faithful soldier wa- present at and par
ticipated in sixty battles, and was four times
wounded in action, but never once defeated.
He made the entire circuit of the rebel con
federacy. aud fought its authors and defen
ders from every State that acknowledged
their usurped authority. He has given to
his country his firstborn son. killed in battle
he has perilled his lite arid shed his bleed
for the Hag and cause of our country, and
he bears upon his person the honorable scars
from many a well fought field. Such is the
candidate presented for the suffrages of the
loyal and patriotic voters of Pennsylvania.
As a competitor the Democratic party has
presented the Hon. 11 tester Clymer. He, 1
too, is a representative man: but it is of his
party, rather than of his eountrr. His plat
form and his campaign thus far may be sum- J
marily comprehended in the phrase: "Up.
with the rebel, and down with the negro."
He is a lawyer by profession, and it is bclicv-'
cd he never held any office except that of
State Senator. His public record, therefore
is a short one. and consists entirely of his
votes and .speeches during his Senatorial
career. Hut what term covers the entire
jit riod when tneeonntry was torn hy dis
tracting and bloody civil war and when the
State was lavishly contributing hca blood
and treasure, for her own defense and that
of the national government. In this
tremendous struggle where did Heister Cly
mer stand? And what did he do? lie has
made his record, and let it answer.
In 1861, he voted against the hi!! for the
arming of the State, and after the news of
the attack on Fort Sumter had fired the
hearts of our people, and thousands were
rallying to the defence of our insulted flag,
Mr. Clymer caused to be entered upon the
journals of the Senate.his solemn protest
against the bill for arming the State.
In 1862, when reverses had overtaken our
armies, and onr credit was strained to the
utmost to keep men in the field. Mr. Clymer
voted against the joint resolution providing
for the collection of the taxes levied hy the
United States.
In 1863. Mr. Clymer voted against the
bill to enable our soldiers an ! sailors to vote
when absent in the service.
In 1864, he dodged the vote oh the pro
posed constitutional amendment allowing
soldiers in the field the right to vote, and
after said amendment had passed he voted
against the bill to carry it into effect.
He voted agaiust the bill to define and
punish offenses of a treasonable character,
and against the bill to legalize the payment
of bounties to volunteers.
In February, 1*64. in a speech in the Sen
ate referring to the recent defeat fof Vallan
aighara in Ohio, and cfWoodward in Penn
sylvania, Mr. Clymer said' "I say now
and believe that it was the gr ate-t calami
ty that has yet befallen thi- country that
those two men were not elected."
Such is nn outline of the inglorious record
of Heister Clymer, and by it, he declared on
a recent occasion, he is determined to stand.
His whole public career and all his official
acts and public declarations of opinion hare
been uiiilox inly consistent. His record may
BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 180 0.
be searched in vain for a vote w sentiment
evincing true loyalty to the flag or cause of
the country, or which was not at the time
in harmony with the prevailing political
sentiment at Richmond and Charleston.
Upon the records and candidates we most
confidently appeal to the patriotic voters of
the Keystone State for a most emphatic
verdict in favor of the right.
Sundry dispatches captured from the ene
my disclose his mode of organization and
plan of campaign. The chairman of their
State Central committee, as a sort of head
centre, appoints a reliable subordinate in
every election district in the State, and
these, from the debris of the late ''Knights
of the Golden Circle,'" and such other mate
rials as can be had, are required to organ
ize 'mystic circles,'' or Democratic clubs,
which are to register the voters, collect
money Ibr the party, distribute documents
and. do various other things to insure the
full party vote. These are semi-military
organizations, and the members are admit
ted by initiation, at which the candidate
"lpaces his right hand on his left breast."
andentersinto most solemn pledges to "'vote
against all men who are willing to give the ne
gro either political or social equality in this
State, or in any other State, District or Ter
ritory of this country." Their watchwords
are "Klepce," "Obedience," "Vigilance."
It is a pity the great light of these msgnan
imous patriots should be longer "concealed
under a bushel, and that they tan find
nothing more important to do in this great
crisis of our conontrv's fate. But fore
warned should be fore armed. Guard well
against these insidious appeals to the preju
dices of our people, and attempts to
mislead them by such means. Be not
deceived by the stale clamor about negro
equality and negro suffrage. These favorite
hobbies were supposed to have been ridden
to death at our last election, when, as now,
they were declared by these same men to be
the great issue of the contest. They are
now raised up and brought upon the track
again mounted by the same riders, and
destined to the same ignoble end. The Con
stitution of Pennsylvania permits only white
men to vot. By its terms it can be amend
ed only once in every five years, and having
been amended in 1?64, allowing the soldiers
the right to vote, it cannot, in conformity
with its own provision, be amended again
mi tit lßfiy. It is hoped, therefore, our
Democratic friends will restrain themselves,
and not press negro suffrage upon us before
authorized by the Constitution of the State.
Complete your township and county or
ganizations without delay ; revive at once
everywhere the Dengues and Associations
which proved of such vast service during
the war ; let every friend feel that he has
something to do in this good work, and pro
ceed forthwith to do it with all his might.
Exclude side issues and suppress all local
quarrels and personal aspirations, and labor
only for the public good. See to it that all
assessments arc made in due time. Be not
discouraged by the boasting and clamor of
our adversaries ; they have been inglorious
ly defeated in every contest for years, and
cannot prevail against us. N'othingbut our
base betrayal by the President and the hope
of office could have galvanized them into
sufficient vitality to make another fight
against the victorious hosts of freedom. The
physical conflict, for the time at least, is end
ed," but the moral conflict between loyalty
and disloyalty continues, and the grave
question is, whether the one or the other
shall rule the State and the nation. We
urge harmony, energy, systematic, associa
ted and individual labor, and a renewal of
the fires of patriotism. The loyal and
patriotic people of the State have nobly
sustained us and the cause of the country,
under the heavy pressure and discourage
ment? of drafts, bereavements, taxation and
carnage, and when nothing but an abiding
faith in the justice of God could enable us
to see the end. Surely there Kin he no
faltering now, when the goal is almost
reached, and when one more united rally for
our principles and our flag will enable
us to sec ure the ripe fruits of the laic dread
ful conflict, and to gamer them safely for
ourselves and our children.
We stand over the ruins of a gigantic
rebellion, the most formidable enemy repub
lican institutions ever encountered. We
stand by the graves of three hundred thou
sand of our noblest men. who counted their
lives well spent when offered freely
for liberty and Enion. In the presence of
their speechless but eloquent dust ; in the
presence of doubtful ana sneeringlenemies of
free government at home and abroad ; in
the presence of oppressed millions, who,
from beneath crashing despotism, watched
our flag with tears hopes and prayers : be
fore the rapidly, coming millions of the
future : before a God of justice, and in the
name of all that makes faithfulness to Him
and honor among men, wc stand pledged to
secure and maintain forever the principles
for which our brothers died.
By order of the Committee.
F. R. JORDAN, Chairman.
THE TWO POLICIES.
Those who clamor for the success of the
President's policy, go no further in their
discussions than the theory of the matter,
' and indeed they go no further than the the
ory of the Congressional policy', whenever
they had occasion to contrast the two. Their
manner of contrasting the two policies is
somewhat thus: By the President's plan it
is sought to perfect the union of the States
by the immediate re-admissioD of the Sena
tors and members from the revolted States,
while by the plan of Congress it is proposed
1 to keep the insurrectionary States out of the
I Union for an indefinite period. Nothing in
fact is so far from the truth.
So far as the President's policy is concern
| ed. the rebellious States might just as well
have been represented in Congress during
the whole period of the war. It would have
| been fully as reasonable to suppose that the
people of those States would have assisted
us in our efforts to put down the rebellion,
as it is now to say that they will sincerely
help us to gather the fruits of our victory
and put a final end to the war and the ques
tions that produced it. It is true that the
President has imperiously demanded and
obtained repudiation of the rebel debt. Put
j can he or any of his upholders say that such
a repudiation is a final settlement of the
question? By no means. That act was se
cured by coercion and threats of force, and
it has already been suggested, and may cue
day become a living question, tlnvt such leg
islation is absolutely void and should not be
respected. But whether such suggestion
should ever be acted on or not, the matter is
placed in the State Constitution where it
may be changed at any moment almost, lo
| deed North Carolina has just rejected the
; constitution containing this guarantee.
(jrant for a moment that the President s
policy prevails. The revolted States are
admitted to representation in Congress, in
larger number than before, as a reward for
; their rebellion, or in the language of aßich
; mond paper, as the "best fruits of the vic
tory. '' All Federal control over the local
! affaire of the South will be removed. Where
then will exist the right or the power to
prevent the people of those States from an
nulling their repudiation of the rebel debt
and their clauses abolishing slavery?
W here will exist the power to prevent them,
with their largely increased representation,
from uniting with the Copperheads in Con
gress to place the rebel debt in the same sit
uation with our loyal debt, and procure the
paynieut or repudiation of both? What
would there be to prevent the same union of
power to repeal the Congressional acts for
the protection of the freedmen. and. virtually
re-enslave them? All these and more could
and certaiuly would be done should the
President succeed in his revolutionary ideas.
But in the event of the sucuess of the
Congressional policy, which we see no reason
to doubt, an effectual barrier will be placed
in the way of the rebels and their Northern
friends. Although we have seen a great,
display of vindictive abuse of this policy,
we have yet to see the first argument against
it. Indeed, it embraces nothing that the
fate rebels have not promised—nothing but
what they have avowed a willingness to do.
If there be any sincerity in their promises,
why do they not yield a cheerful acquies
cnce in this policy? But thev arc not sin
cere. They do not want their pledges
where they will not have the power to break
them. It" they incorporate them in the Na
tional Constitution they are fully aware that
their power over them is lost, and the war
and its fruits secured against them forever.
—PitUburyh Commercial.
A CONSERVATIVE PRAYER.
Appointed to be used by the faithful up
on all important occasions, and recommend
ed as the established form of* pi aver in the
Conservative church during the present
campaign.
lord we beseech thee, if thou art not a
Radical, to save our country, if Thou canst
do it constitutionally ; and without enfran
chising the ' negroes.' or giving Congress
any of the glory ! But O, Lord, if Thou
art a ' bloody Radical" and had any hand
in freeing the Egyptian slaves, and drown
ing their oppressors in the Red Sea, thou
art n it our Lord, for, be it known uuto thee
that we wish to establish a new party, .and
will also set up a new Lord, rather than
submit to the dictum of any one who set all
the Egyptian "niggers" (? free, and killed
their masters just because they were Demo
crats or rebels as the Radicals call them.
O, Lord, if thou art a Radical, and in.
favor of "negro equality," yon will please
make it known through the Wke> tiny R<y
ivter, unto us, that w<J mar. at our nxet
meeting at New Creek, appoint a new Lord,
and take immediate action in regard to a
New Heaven, for we have resolved not to
serve a Radical God. who favored the Un
ion armies during the war. neither we will
occupy the same heaven with "Radicals and ;
niggers."
We pray Thee to inform us if Thou art in j
favor of the Constitutional Amendment or
the Registration act of the Bogus West Vir- ,
ginia Radical legislature that we may 1
consider that matter at ouv next meeting,
and then and there determine whether it
would not be prudent to east Thee aside, and
appoint in thy place our worthy brother and
martyr, Booth, who has gone before us, to
prepare a place for us, that where he is we
may be also.
We wish thee to understand distinctly
and emphatically that we will not have any
god to rule over us who is not in favor of
thrusting a sharp "thorn" into the flesh of
every Radical in the Union, and does not
fully endorse the Johnson convention to be
hela at Philadelphia, without dodging.
O, Lord, we desire a pure party who have
no more regard for "niggers" than for
brutes, for we don't belive that "niggers!'
have any souls, no how, and if they had, a
"nigger s" soul is not worth saving so long
as the "Conservatives" are entitled to the
front seats, for distinguished services in
favor of the glorious, but unfortunately
miserably whipped confederacy.
0, Lord, we pray thee to protect the
"Conservative" party and grant that Andy
Johnson may furnish all with offices that wc
may obtain our "bread and butter' at the
expense of the "dear people," whom we
delight to gull into our support, and grant
by all means in thy power that rebels may be
permitted to vote, or our cause is lost, and
wo will be totally defeated this fall and
totally deprived of the privilege of putting
d)wn the Radicals who thwart us in all our
well laid plans to reconstruct the State upon
rebel principles.
Finally. 0. God, if there is a god, do fry
and put the Radicals down, and save our
new party from everything like niggers and
abolitionists.
These favors wc demand at thv hands for
the success and benefit of the Johnson—Da
vis.—Bell,—Douglass—Breckenridge,-Val- ;
landigham.—-Secesb, —Conservative, —Re- j
constructed, Loeofoco. Sovereign State
Rights. Unconditionally Union with the !
Rebel Democratic, Johnson, Philadelphia i
Convention Party.
Yours Respectfully
Amen.
Please sing the hymn commencing as fol
lows :
"Great God, and are we yet alive,
And do we rebel ?
Tis Thine amazing mercy shown
That we are out of ITell."
Wert Yiryinia Patriot.
THK St. Louis Democrat of the 13th., is
informed that in the neighborhood of Lex
ington. Ky., immediately after the election
had settled the question of rebel supremacy,
six Union soldiers were taken out by rebels ,
and whipped with hickory rods. Others
were compelled to fly from the State at once
to save their lives. The rebels openly boast
e#tbat they would make the State too hot
to hold any Union men. The Democrat's
informant, a General in the Union army,
had remained in the State in spite of many
threats until the election came off, but im
mediately afterwards such a spirit was mani
fested by the rebels that he felt it would be
folly to remain any longer. He learned of
the whipping of the soldiers from reliable
persons, with details of place and name,
lie believes that within two months the
greater part of the State will be unsafe for
any Union man and that roultitudesof them
must leave the State to save their lives. In
Louisville, before the election, the Caurier
stated that it should publish the names of
merchants who voted the Union ticket, so
that the}* might be proscribed and ruined in
business. In the greater part of the State
this proscription has begun already, and a
known Union man cau engage in no kind of
business with success, and is proscribed in
society. It was only with fear aud trembling
that a man could own that he had worn the
blqe uniform in many places, and though
the reign of terror which is threatened and
■ may be expected has as yet begun only in
' some localities. Union men all over the
State are preparing to move to more eonge
| niai lands.
— m mm m
CHICAGO thinks she Is. old enough and
' smart enough to have street cars run all
night, and the subject is being discuesed.
TOLCXE 39; X 0 4!.
NOTHING FOR THE SOLDIER.
The great Clymer party of Berks county
has just completed the nominations of the
county. One soldier presented his name as
a candidate for office hut he was thrust asidi
without a friend to urge his claims. This is
just what we expected. There is net a
lie publican county in the State where the
claims of our gallant soldiers have been
ignored, but why should a "Boy in Blue"
apply to Hcister Clymer for assistance ?
Did not Clymer himself and the county
of Berks poll a large majority against the
law allowing the soldier to vote ?
Did not Clvymer vote against the law
supporting the family of the soldier at
home, while he was fighting in the field ?
Did not Clymer vote against the bill
allowing the soldier four dollars per month
additional pay ?
Did not Clymer vote against a resolution
tendering thanks to the gallant soldiers who
defended his home and property, whilst he
was at home sympathizing with Southern
rebels ?
Our soldier friend, Col. Hannian, ought
to have known and considered these facts
before presenting his name for Senator. If
he comes up this way we can convince him
in live minutes that if he had worn a rebel
uniform and fougbt for '"Jeff. Davis" he
might have succeeded. Let him take up
his residence in a Republican county ana
his services will be duly rewarded. — Hnr
risburgh Telegraph.
GENERAL LOGAN.
The nomination of General Logan for
member of Congress at large was a most
judicious and praiseworthy act. It was a
deserved compliment to General Logan
himself, who had not sought the office. It
was a tribute of gratitude to the volunteer
army which went forth from Illinois to save
the republic. It was an acknowledgement,
of the most graceful sort, to that portion
of the State where General Logan resides,
for the splended manner in which it gave
its adheaon to Republican principles two
y>iars ago. It is no longer possible for the
Johnson party to tamper with the soldiers
of Illinois. They follow the same banner
in peace that they followed in war. The
Republican party sustained them in the field
and now nominates one of their bravest and
most trusted fellows for the first place on
the State ticket, and another gallant and
true soldier for the second, while the nomi
nee for the thhd place has publicly declared
the pleasure he would feel in resigning his
own position to one of the heroes of the
late war. Here is a Soldier's Ticket, which
the soldiers themselves could not improve,
if they should call the roll of every regi
ment that went to the field from Illinois.—
Chicago Tribune.
WHILE Andrew Johnson is decapitating
every office-holder who will not betray his
principles, his Southern organs are inciting
rebel mobs to hang Union men. The Mem
i phis Acalanche, not satisfied with the bru
tal massacre of the freedmen it provoked
last spring, advises that radicals should be
the victims of the next uprising. It savs :
"If again we are called upon to defend
ourselves and our rights from such invasion
as the Radicals are striving to bring upon us
through the social and political equalitx of
the negro, let us not forget, in the moment
of our passion, that the negro is not the
chief worker in this .scheme of villainy. He
is but the tool, the dupe. the catspaw to the
wily, vicious, cunning monkey. Next time
let us catch the monkey, and when caught
let us read him a lesson of "personal liber
ty. such as he little dreams of when selling
his books and pictures to the deluded ne
gro. and teaching him the road to "equali
ty." We repeat it—John Brown's are
among us still. They are teaching the
negroes the hate which animates the devil.
If they should succeed in inciting another
riot between the whites and blacks of the
South, it will be a sacred duty we owe to
humanity to let the negroes pass unhurt.
bnt hang their radical, fanatical leaders as
high os Hitman was hung before the Jewish
king's gate. That is our retribution. Spare
the poor negro, but dedicate to an infamv of
immortality the damnable scruff which
moves in our midst but to perpetuate discord,
hate, bloodshed anddeatn."
Nasby at Philadelphia.
Petroleum V. Nasby went to the Philadel
phia Convention. Here is his own account
of the way he got into the wigwam, and
what came of it:
T w*s a delegate to Philadelphia: I
wasn't elected nor nothin.' and hedn't enny
credentials, but the door uv the wigwam I
passed nevertheless. The doorkeeper was
a old Pimokrat, and my breath helped me,
my nose, which reely blossoms like the lob
ster, wus uv yoose, Dut I spect my hevin a
gray coat on with a stand up collar, with a
brass star onto it, wu= wot finished the bis
nis. The Suihern delegates fought shy uv
me, but the Northern ones, bless their souls
the minit they saw the star on the collar uv
my grate coat, couldn't do enuff forme.
They addressed me as Kernel and Gineral.
and sed "this wus truly auumneritid honor,"
and paid my drinks, and I succeeded in bor
rowin a hundred and twenty dollars uv em
the first day. I might hev doubled it, but
the fellows wus tuk in so easy that no finan
cierin wus required and it reely wus no
amoosement.
NEW ENGLAND'S INFLUENCE.— The NET?
York Commercial concludes an article head
ed "New England in Transition" as follows:
""There is not a Legislature in the
Western or pacific Sta'es. and soon, per
haps. there will be none in the South, in
which New Englanders do not give the tone
upon subjects of morality, education and
trade. They may be too domineering too
straight laced, and too set in their views, and
be altogether somewhat difficult to get aloDg
with, on the easy tenure common to indis
criminate humanity ; but they are good to
build up States, and nations, found univer
sities, on the enduring basis of justice and
truth. While we may regret that we may
never again know the New England of the
past, we rejoice in the knowledge that what
ever is true and vital in the principles and
characteristics of its inhabitants is destined
to an undying existence upon a larger and
grander sphere.
IgkJJn the 13th or 14th of November j
next rays Professor Newton, of Yale College, !
a prodigious flght of meteors, the most ini- I
posing of its kind, will make its appearance. 1
probable for the last time in this century.
Only thirteen of these meteoric showers are
recorded between the years 903 and 1833.
That of the latter year was a sublime spec
tacle. A rag compotes that no less than two
hundred and forty thousand meteors were
visible above the horizon of Boston on the
! morning of the 13th of November, 1833.
This display was seen all over North
America. A similar display was seen by
Humboldt at Cumana. South America, in
1799.
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• Asbetos. — A correspondent of an Au
stralian paper, the Orange Guardian , writes
as follows : "Some 22 years rgo I recogni
zed asbetos, or amicanthus rock, in this dis
trict, and since then I have from time to
time exposed portions of the stone to atmos
pheric influence and the result has always
oeen a perfect change of the stone into asbe
tos, or into a substance closely resembling
the finest staple of wool, only something
stronger, and, if possible, whiter in appear
ance. I have sometimes obtained it six
inches in length, have combed it out and
have found it soft and pliant as any silk.
This substance as you no doubt are aware,
is inconsumable by fire. The stone may be
brought into the state of asbetos in a very
short time. I have been employed sinking
a well of late, and some days I got as much
oF this mineral as would make a suit of
clothes. I can show the stone here in all ita
stages, from the stone itself to the asbetos
state
Should asbetos ever come into general
use, it will, in some measure, no aoubt,
from its incombustible nature, supercede the
evils of Crinoline. Besides this great
advantage it will also set aside the vexations
expense and use of soap and water, for all a
lady will have to to when she unrobes her -
self will be to pitch her articles of appearel
into a glowing fire, and when they have
become as white as a snow flake she may
resume them at her pleasure. Perhaps you
may deem some of the foregoing rather
extravagant ; but nevertheless, I really
believe that by proper appliances the ami
canthus may yet become a source of reve
nue, and I therefore recommend the thing
to your attention.
Governor Morton's warning to
young men. — You are just starting in life
with the world all before you, when and
how to choose. Beware how you connect
your fortunes with a decayed and dishonored
party, indehlJy stained icith treason, and
upon whose tombstone the historian will
write: ''False to liberty, false to its country,
and false to the age in which it lived.' Ths
Democratic party has committed a crime for
which history has no pardon, and the mem
ories of men no foTgetfulnesa; whose colors
grow darker from age to age and for which
the execrations of mankind become more
bitter, from generation to generation.
J@rGen. Forrest, the author of the mas
sacre at Fort Pillow, properly presided over
the meeting held at Memphis, to ratify the
Philadelphia Convention. Fort Pillow,
Memphis New Orleans— all manifestations
of the same ferocity in furtherance of the
same cause. It is not wonderful the perpe
trators of these horrible barbarities are
delighted with the President's Polio? ;for it
accords them the immunity for their crimes
which will lead them on to fresh exploits of
the same infamous character — Pittsburgh
Gazette.
MAXIMILIAN AND THE (.ABLE.— The
Emperor Maximilian's European dispatch
Tuesday last, for the Atlantic cable, to his
wife in France, cost fifteen thousand three
hundred and sixty-four dollars in gold, and
was nearly seven hundred words in cypher.
It is still thought that Maximilian has a
little pocket money left, to be sending dis
patches about thus lavishly.
THE New York Tribune's Rocky Moun
tain correspondent writes from Central City
that the coal beds discovered in that region
are of scarcelv less consequence than the
precious metal. Along the eastern base of
the range, brown coal of good quality has
been found for a distance of three hundred
miles, and the indications continue through
Montana. In one locality, at a debth of
twenty-five feet, a vertical stratum was found
fourteen feet in breadth.
The Johnson State Committee has assessed
every national office holder from petty pout
masters up five per cent of their stdaries and
perquisites for political purposes: but there
are few who will respond to the call. The
notorious character of the members of the
committee —nearly all of them being mere
political mendicants and Micawbers, the
chances are that very little of the money
would ever get beyond the pockets of the
committee.
THE great poiut of Andrew Johnson s
"my policy" is embraced in the following
sentence from his speech tolhe rebel John
son committee from the Philadelphia Con
vention:
"We have seen, hanging upon tne verge
of the government as it wore, a body called
or whien assumes to be the Congress of the
United States, but in fact a Congress of'only
part of the States.
A NEW YORK correspondent of the Chi
cago Post says: Within a day or two I have
learned, from a source which I believe enti
tled to the fullest credence, that since the
adjournment of the Philadelphia Conven
tion certain parties in this city are buying, or
offering to buy, prospective claims against
the Government for the slaves emancipated
by the good President's proclamation. Evi
dently, they expect to make a good thing ol
it.
TERSELY Prr. —Through all disguises,
and over all forms, the great issue before
the American people is. shall the Union be
governed by the men who have preserved
it, or by those who attempted to destroy it?
Shall we entrust our highest and most pre
cious interests to our friends, or to our
enemies? — Providence Journal.
10uThe celestials having determined to
find out something about the great Repub
lic of the West, of which they have heard so
much, have sent an Envoy to visit us This
is no less a personage than Mandarin Pinta
gin, a native of China, high in authority in
that country, and who will, doubtless, be
received with all due honors here.
Gen. L. H. Rosseau, it is .said, will not
return to Louisville. He is done for as a
politician in Kentucky. He thought ho
was working with Andy Johnson, but the
Kentucky Democracy will stoop to touch no
man who fought in the Union army.
A CONVENTION of the National bankers
of the Northwest will be held in Chicago on
the 12th of September next. In many res
pects this will be one of the most important
commercial meetings ever held in the West.
REV. DR. IRENAK S PRIME writes to cbe
New York that the American
Chanel at Paris, presided over by the ROY.
I Dr. Eldridge, late of Detroit, is in a flour
i ishing condition.
TnK Reading Journal says; Clymorcom
plained in hia speech lasi Tuesday, that the
Democrats had no offices, no contracts,—
nothing to steal for the last six years. He
evidently means, if they get the power, to
make up tor lost time so far as stealing is
concerned.