l scbforb Inquirer. BKDKOKI), I*A., FRIDAY, Al tifST 2S, 1861. UNION STATE NOMINATION. FOR SL'PREML JUDGE, IT ICN KT W. yriLUAXS, OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. UNION COUNTY NOMINATIONS. FOB ASSEMBLY, JOHN T. RHHARRS. Fulton oimlj. JOHN WELI.EH, SMMTMI < ouilly. OISTBICT ATTORNEY, M. A. POINTS, Bedford Boron*h. TREASURER, JOHN R. JORDAN. Bedfordlßorongb. JURY COMMISSIONER, W ILLIAM KIHli. St. Clnir. COUNTY COMMISSIONER, WILLIAM KIRNS, Hopewell. DIRECTOR OF POOR, A HAM ILEKV, Middle Wood berry. AUDITOR, JOHN N. SWARTZ, Siuke Nprtll*. H M i I! JIIIGF SHASSWOOiI ON LEGAL TEXDEBB. Exlrnrl front Ills Opinion in fhtfilM of Borie v. Trolt. "On the whole, then, I am of opinion that the provision of the act of Congress of February 25th, 1862, declaring the notes issued in pursuance of that act to he lawful money, on d a legal tender, 18 CNCOKSTITUTIOSAL. "This renders it unnecessary that I should con . ider the other question wliieh has been uiadc, as to the effect of the special agreement to pay in lawful silver money of the United States lam in favor of entering judgment for the plaint iff, but as a majority of the court are of a different opinion, judgment for the defendant." — Copied from the Philadelphia Age of 23d of February, 188-1, whero the opinion is published in full. It may also he found in the Legal Intelligencer of March 18, 1564, page 92. In the same copy of the Age is a carefully pre pared eulogy of the judge and this opinion, i whieh is the following: "Judge SHARSWOOD reasons upon and decides the ease as if he were some lofty spirit sitting far above and out of the contentions and strifes of the world." Will not the holders of greenbacks and Govern ment bonds consider the judge as quite too eleva ted andetherial for such earthly honors as a seat on the Supreme Bench ? llji i i i EDWIN M. STANTON. The Bolford Gazette has an article on Secretary Stanton, in which it styles him a "low, contemptible, despicable, crawl ing, dirt-eating wretch." The Gazette man ought to know, no doubt does know, all about wretches of that kind —knows them as well as he knows himself. Two years ago at the Bedford Springs, within two miles of the place where this miserable secession sympathiser talked and wrote in aid of traitors, and now snarls and snaps at union men whose shoe-latchet he is not worthy to unloose, we heard a distin guished Democrat, s jurist of whom Penn sylvania is justly proud, the Hon. Robert G. Grier of the U. S Supreme Court, say of Edwin M. Stanton, that the country owed him an immense debt of gratitude, that through him more than through any one man the great rebellion met its doom, that Stanton's, self poise, and self-reliance were wonderful, that in the Fall of 1800 or early in 1861 when Floyd and Cobb and Thomp son were in Buchanan's Cabinet, and trai tors at hoait, were controlling and shaping events in aid of secession, and Buchanan lacked nerve to turn them out of office, and the other members of the Cabinet were afraid to say to him you must turn them out or we will go out. Mr. Stanton then prac ticing law at Washington City, and having a very lucrative practice, with not less than $25,000 a year, at the solicitation of Judge Nelson and Judge Grier and others, gave up business and went with the Cabinet for the purpose of "belling the cat," that is, of say ing to Mr. Buchanan you must turn those men out of your Cabinet, or wc, the rest of your Cabinet, will resign, and that through the instrumentality of Mr. Stanton those traitors were ousted from Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. We give the remarks of the Judge from memory, but arc sure we have the ideas and to a great extent the language. It was a most marked and emphatic culoguim, the testimony of one great man to the character and services of another. No doubt Mr. Stanton is a bitterly hated man. Many northern traitors hate him. They look upon him as the chief architect of the failure of their cause. And all who were secession sympathisers in the North hate him. These men who have, in the midst ofus, talked treason, and went as near as they could to acting treason, who were willing to wound the nations life, but yet afraid to strike, and who were made to dry up and pretend they were loyal citizens through fear of Mr. Stanton, hate him with a cordial hatred. And they are glad now to have at length a chance to spit out their pent of venom. But when the true history of the Rebel lion comes to be written, when these bitter partisan feelings which now warp mens judgments die out, when this generation has given place to a generation capable ot look ing at tho events of this terrible slavehol ders war in their true light the name of Ed win M. Stanton will stand high enrolled on the list of Fame as a true patriot, who took his full share ol responsibility, and at great personal hazard and self sacrifice stood by the nation unflinchingly in the hour of its extrcmest peril. AN effort is being made to impose upon the Copperheads of this county,by selling them a "Youth's or People's History of the War'' from a Democratic standpoint. It is a catch-penny concern; gotten up to make money without any regard for truth or de cency. If the Copperheads want a history, let them buy Pollard's "Lost-Cause," which, though rebel, has the reputation of being candid, and giving facts from a stand point that many of our Copperheads, for a want of courage, were deprived from appre ciating daring the war. THE rain storm that visited us so oppor tunely on Thursday and Friday oflast week? scams to have extended over an unusually large section of the Country. Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia were deluged, and extensive floods occurred in many pla ces. TUE SALEM JOI lOAI, FUKGKKV Two weeks ago we called attention to a forgery, then being extensively copied into the Copperhead papers of the State, con taining a scurrilous attack upon the I'enn sylvanians, accredited to the Salem (Mass.) .Journal. There is no such paper as the Saletn Journal in existence. Ihe forgery is said to have originated with the Patriot and Union, a disreputable Copperhead sheet of the Gazette stripe, published at Ilarrisburg. Last week, after the forget y had been discovered and branded broad cast throughout the State, the Gazette copies the infamous slander as originally published, and wilfully gives currency to it, knowing that it watt a forgery. What is to be said of the journalist who thus wilfully and ma liciously publishes to the world matter that he knows to he false. There is no apology for this sort of moral perjury. A journalist, whatever his party proclivities, should have respect enough for the persons who read his journal, not to wilfully mislead them and make them his dupes and the laughing stock of those who read reliable journals. This is the common fate of the readers of the Gazette. There is not a loud mouthed Copperhead in the county but has been laughed out of countenance upon his citing some huge fabrication which he had swal lowed from the Gazette, and yet the editor of that paper will prostitute its columns week after week to such base uses. The following amende honorable, taken irom the Pittsburg Post, of August l oth, the leading Democratic paper of Western Pennsylvania, sounds like honorable journalism: "IT appears from respectable soar res that the story in relation to the great income ol ChieFJnstice CHASF., acquired since the war and through the influtnee of his position as Secretary of the Treasury, and the 6tory reflecting upon the State of Pennsylvania and credited to the Salem Journal , were mere in ventions. The Democracy have so much that is true to charge upon the pa'ty in power that it is not worth while to be diverted in the pur suit of trifles." IT IS TIME TO HAVE A CHANGE. There can be no question in the minds of right thinking men who do not deceive themselves by reason of party zeal, that it would be well for the interests of the public, if the County Commissioners and Poor Di rectors, and Auditors, were not composed entirely of men of the same political party. If one member of caeh of these Boards was of the opposition party, they would be more watchful and active, and there would be less likelihood of leaks great or small. Just think of it, if by reason of oversight and errors in the accounts of the P.oor House EIGHT OR TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS call leak out in spite of all the efforts of three Demo cratic Directors, and three Democratic Auditors,and a Democratic PoorllouseClerk, who also acted as Clerk to the Auditors (a thing that ought never to be) how much may have leaked out in the County ac counts? Is it not time that there should be some change? For eleven years they have been running the trains, would it not be well to switch off and try a new set of engineers? At least a few Republican brakesmen would not do any harm. They might stop the concern somewhat when it is running out very fast. The people have this matter in their own hands. Why should they be so harnassed to the party car, and so under the whip of party leaders, who want to hold offices that they cannot vote as 'they choose? Are they bound to always vote the printed ticket with the getting up ot which they have so little to do? The Board of Commissioners, Auditors and Directors are now all Democrats. We call upon the honest masses to rise above party this Fall, and vote for the good of the Public for the Republican nominees. It is time to have a change. CAUiOC THINGS by THEIR BIGHT NAMES. The Gazette is terribly mortified at our calling the Copperhead triumph in Ken tucky by its right name. It says: "We ask the attention of the Democrats of Bedford county, to the peculiarity of the lan guage employed by the Bedford Inquirer, in announcing a Democratic victory. Accord ing to that sheet Democrats are rebels. Stick a pin there, boys ! " We copy the above literally as we find it. For the purpose of showing the sort of vic tory the Gazette shouts over, and which it claims as DEMOCRATIC, we extract the fol lowing from the N. P. Herald previous to the election: "The other day a Democratic candidate charged his opponent, a former contractor, perhaps, with having sold to the United States Government horses that were to be used against the rebellion. Here was a bomb shell: and it is evident that the case would Lave been against the furnisher of horses if this story had gone abroad without contradic tion. But the maligned candidate was equal to the occasion. The charge enabled him to put himself right before the voters of his dis trict, and his defence will furnish future his tory with the best extant specimen of real Kentucky loyalty. Tie admitted that he had had a contract to furnish the United States with horses, and that he had the animals cal led for; but he further showed by fact and dates that he had so managed the delivery of the horses, "had so arranged the place and time as to secure their capture by -fohn Mor gan, who was then on a raid in Kentucky." Of course the "man who not only helped the Confederacy, but made Uncle Sam pay for it " is elected. He is, according to the Gazette, a good Democrat. Another instance and we will leave the question as to whether rebel or Democratic. victory is correct with the Gazette. A ocr tain Dr. Scott, of Centerville, Kentucky, was a candidate at the late election. A few days prior he issued the following card: "As I am informed, through reliable sour ces, that it is reported in this community, that 1 was with the Federal army during the war, 1 wish to pin the lie to it by making public denial through your paper; for I was not as sociated with that army in any capacity during the war, and defy any one to prove the con trary. lam only anxious to deny the reports because I know that they were promulgated by some maliciously disposed person or per sons with a view of prejudicing the public against me." A man could have no better record in Kentucky than to have served in the rebel army. What is the difference then between a Democrat and rebel. It is all the same— there is no use making any fuss about it. THE Commissioner of the General Land Office has returns showing the disposition of 25,796 acres of public lands during July last, at Bayfield, Wisconsin. ADJUTANT UENEKAL RUSSELL. Our friend and former townsman, Gen. A. L. Itussell, arrived in town a fcw"davs ago, and purposes spending some time with his friends in this place. His frank and ge nial manner, and fine social qualities make him a general favorite with all who have the good fortune to make his acquaintance. His term as Adjutant General will expire in October, when be will retire from the du ties of that office with the good wishos of every soldier and soldier's friend in the state. His untiring zeal during the dark hours of rebellion, in organizing and for warding soldiers to the various armies, will make an important part of Pennsylvania record of that trying time, and his unwear ied exertions in providing for the wants of the private soldier, earing for him in sick ness and trouble, and promptly righting his wrongs, when robbed or cheated by bounty brokers or dishonest officials, will long keep his memory green in the hearts of thou sands of our brave soldiers. As an instance of his promptness in this respect, we clip the following from one of, our exchanges whose editor we believe was an eyewitness to part if not all of the action, as was one of the editors of this paper : Gen. Russell has been an able and faithful officer. All through the war he was in de f'atigable in the discharge of his duties, al ways proving the soldier's friend, and a ter ror to bounty brokers and every species of land sharks who preyed upon the soldier. To no one in public position do the soldiers owe a deeper debt of gratitude, for unwearied labors in their behalf. And whilst the true soldier always found a friend in him, the bounty broker and speculator found in him their boldest and most uncompromising oppo nent. We shall never forget the raid Gen. Russell once made on a band of villians, who had located on Market street, in the city of Harrisburg, during the darkest days of the war. A young soldier, who had been swin dled by the sharpers, informed Gen. Russell of the fact. It aroused the indignation of his heart, and though they numbered four armed and desperate men, yet single-handed and alone he confronted them in their den, and such was the power of his stern rebuke and his commanding presence, thai they quailed like guilty cowards, as they were, disgorged their ill-gotten gains and precipi tately fled from the city. The soldier boy re covered his money, and at least one set of scoundrels were driven from the field. We give this merely as a specimen of his constant watchfulness and jealous care over the soldier and his interests. There was in Gcu. Russell's course no noisy profession, no glittering abstractions, but practical, eon slant and quiet efforts, to advance the sol dier's welfare. We prize his report for 1860 for its fulness, its faithfulness, and for the proud record it hoars to the chivalry of the Keystone State. It is a book tliat for all time, will be acknowl edged record, an official standard, authori tively declaring the patriotism, the bravery, the sufferings: aud the triumphs, the power and the crowning g'ory of Pennsylvania in the war for the Union. The Progress ol Education Among the Freedmen. It Ls cheering to note the progress which education is making among the colored peo ple of the South. For, no matter how much may be accomplished in the removal of po litical disabilities from this class of our citi zens, the great work of their permanent elevation must be mainly achieved through their education. And it is one oi the most hopeful faets connected with the freedmen, that they are so anxious to learn, and are willing to make sacrifices to obtain schools. Thus we find by the report of the Superin tendent of Education in South Carolina, that the colored people have contributed during the past year over $17,000 towards their public schools; and this, too, in addi, tion to paying their taxes for the support of public schools in such cities as Charleston. The old idea that was so strongly fostered by the supporters of slavery, that the negro was incapable of education, his mind, if he had any, being of an inferior sort, is rapidly being dissipated by the facts that develop themselves in the schools of the freedmen. It is found that he takes kindly to all the rudiments of knowledge usually taught in the schools of this country. The progress, too, of enlightenment among the adults is most cheering. Mr. Touilinson estimates that in South Caroliu a there are at least 25 ,000 colored men and women who can read a newspaper with a lair understanding of its contents, who two years ago did not know tho alphabet. It is thus that, through the instrumentality of the schools, the blessings of education arc being diffused throughout the whole mass of the colored population. This work of Southern education, not only of the blacks, but of the whites as well, is one of tho most important and promising that now engages the attention of the Ame rican public. It ought to command even more attention than it receives. Had the masses of the Southern people been as well educated as those of the North, or had they even been tolerably educated, tho lletallion would have been an impossibility. But while the institution of slavery remained, any such thing as a system of general popu lar education was not to be thought of. The The overthrow of that institution has opened the door for the educational as well as the political reconstruction of the South. The work should be prosecuted with a vigor and perseverence commensurate with its impor tance. — I'hiladepkia Telegraph. It seems as ifthe Methodist church this year is but little better than a house of prostitu tion. Not a day but we see notices of these clerical indiscretions, principally among MethodigU and Baptists. Since ministers be gan preaching politics their churches arc little else than hiding places for lecherous old dea cons, treacherous sisters and smirking minis ters who, if hell be paved with skulls of in fants, act as if they had large contracts for that kind of work! Brethren of the Rod and Morality party — Let its pray. The above is from a late issue of that na tional mouth-piece of the Democracy—the La Crosse Democrat —a paper leaving a larger circulation among the "unwashed" than any Other published in the country. There are thousands of Methodists and Bap tists who are Democrats. Can they endorse a paper that thus insults them—that thus hurls its ribaldry alike at God and man? Yet their party sustains this paper and shower subscriptions upon the editor because of just such indecent blasphemy.— Exchange THE Copperheads arc terribly down on foreigners. Formerly their leaders in this county were only down on those from the "Auld Country," but now they not only op pose those from Europe, it is presumed, but natives of neighboring States. Foreigners and natives of other States please take no tice! Irish and fegrocs. Many persons have ben puzzled to know why Democratic papce of a certain clas B should be always harpng on the negro. In slavery or freedom it makes no difference, the negro is their coistant theme. The problem is worked outin Tennessee. The Memphis Avalanche, jdvocatiug the turn ing off of colored laborers who at the late election may have vttcd the Republican ticket and urging the employment of Irish laborers in their stead assign as a weighty reason for the exchange that the Irish can be depended on to vote the Democratic ticket, as their employers may desire. This sort of "sptaking out" was justly offensive to tlie Irish of Memphis, at least so far as to bring out an indignant rejoinder from one of them, nho says: "It is simply saying that though the high toned Southeri gentleman finds it im possible to buy the joul of the poor, miser able, degraded, lonj-heelcd and thick-head ed Cuffy at the same time ho purchases the labor of his body, yet the bargain can be easily consummated when the negotiation is concluded with Patrick. In other words, the Irishman is held up as a man who will agree to vote where he works, aud carry his ballot in his wheelbarrow. It will take some time to eatcb even gudgeons, when the hook is so bare; and I think it would require many such immigration documents as that of the Avthtnche to draw :ffi immi gration from the rimcrald Isle to the clas sic shore of Tennessee. Rut all the difference is that the South ern paper speaks the thing out plainly, which the Northern ones, of the like class, carefully cherish without the pluck to name it. If the great body of Irishmen in the North were as sensible as the writer of the above, their oountryman in Tennessee, thoy would not relish being treated by these demagogues as mere political cattle, whose votes arc sure for the Democratic ticket when their employers desiie it, or who have no political knowledge, aspirations or prin ciples except opposition to the nagur. The perpetual harping on the negro is fully ac counted for by tbe low estimate the leaders have of the Irish. Some Northern Irish man should take the pen, like the one in Memphis, and show that they arc not slacts of the Democratic party, and that they are not to be bought and held to that party by perpetualanti-negrotalk.— Pittsburgh Com mercial. PERSONAL REPRESENTATION.—-Now that the Democracy find-itself in the minority, it has assumed the disinterested, and desires to see the system of representation of mi norities adopted. We are to have the plan of Mill or Field, or same other philosopher, for thereby the Democratic delegation in the lower House would be largely increased. This philanthropy is, however, of recent date. It is not quite consistent with the spirit that animated that party in the days of J. <j. Adams, and which led them to deny even the right of petition to a powerless minority. The sudden conversion of the once omnipotent majority into the opposi tion is the cause for this assumption of a desire to reform It reminds us of tho rhyme about the gentleman in black who was sick and a stint would be, but when he got well not much of a saint was he.—Pitts burgh Commercial. THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.—The campaign in Ohio for Governor is becoming quite spirited. Large meetings are held by both parties, and the old Ohio fashion of bauds of music in attcndar.ce is kept up. General Hayes is making tilling speeches qver the State, and will doubtless be elected by a handsome majority We formerly knew him well, and can testify that the Republi can party of the State did itself honor in nominating him. He never was a mere politician. He was a sound lawyer and a man of capital integrity. Oh, that such men were always candidates fur office. Pol ities would then be purified in earnest. — Pittsburgh Chronicle. FUO.M WASHINGTON. Removal of Cm. Sheridan Judge Holt's Case. —Rumored Cabinet Change*. Geir Poj't Jjett'r to General Grant.—Affairs in Georgia and Alabama. WASHINGTON, August 19. —Gen. Grant is preparing an official order relieving Sher. idan, who is to command the Department of Missouri. Thomas takes Sheridan's place, and Hancock is relieved from Mis souri Department and given Thomas' po sition. Gen. Grant is still opposing Sheridan's removal, but it is known that in the event of its taking place, he would rather Thom as had the positien than any other. Thom-- as is a strong republican, hut not as incisive in his acts as Sheridan is. The President tret contemplated putting General Hancock in Sheridan's place; but he said it would look too much like a parti san act, Hancock being a Democrat, llenee the substitution of Thomas. It appears to be an error that the Oabi net has decided to sustain the President in relieving Judge Holt from his head as chief of the Bureau of Military Justice. As Judge Holt is an army officer and liable to be ordered anywhere in the regular army, his transfer by Executive order is not nec essarily a subject for Cabinet consultation. Pending the issuance of this order, J udgc Holt has been granted a leave oi absence which be intends not to avail himself of. It is stated in a Washington paper, on information derived from an official source, that in spite of tlio reiterated stories, there is no truth in further cabinet resignations or suspensions, at least the President knows nothing of them, and the gentlemen named as intending to resign deny the rumors, which, after all, originate with the clique who are getting up dissensions to get Secre tary Seward and McCulloch out. General Pope has written a lengthy letter to Gen. Grant, complaining of the speech of B. H. Hill, of Georgia, and declaring that no reconstruction is possible so long as such influence is prevalent, was laid before the President to day, and otherwise made public. It creates a decided sensation, and considerable interest is manifest as to what action the Government will take in the premises. In General Pope's opinion no reconstruction can be satisfactory, or at all reliable in its future results, if these men are permitted to discuss openly, according to their nature, the issues presented. It is better the country should know the truth on this subject now than run the risk of learning hereafter that an irreparable mis take had been made in the plan and cxccu tion of the reconstruction acts, lfe need scarcely repeat that reconstruction must be in the spirit of the acts of Congres, and to bo permanent must be tlie acts of the jieo ple themselves, after the fullest and freest discussion. Congress lias done wi-ely in enabling them to make this fight by disfran chising the leading iebcis, and at least ma king it impossible for them to vote or hold office. It would have been still better to en force their permanent absence from the country. The personal influence they might bring to bear if they were candidates is thus greatly weakened, and they are forced to discuss issues, and not appeal to personal feeling in their favor. The General gives hi> views at length, concluding as follows: 1 am confident that reconstruct ion will be satisfactorily accomplished in this District, in spite of the open and active opposition of disloyal reactionists. 1 can safely say that Alabama will give 10,(HW majority of the white votes for reconstruction. I think it may be said with almost ccntainty that Georgia will give a white majority in the same direction. Not less than three fourths of the colored vote in each of these States will he cast for reconstruction. The same remarks are substantially true of Florada. If I have so earnestly invited your atten tion to the danger of opposite results, it has only been to furnish data to meet cases —to justify the course 1 have thought it judicious "to pursue. All the facts that I can hear upon these questions I shall con tinue to report as they come to my knowl edge. It is, however, my duty to state that, in my judgment, the condition of affairs in the Southern States, even should recon struction be satisfactorily accomplished, will of necessity be a reproduction, in a more or loss modified degree, of what now exists in Tennessee, unless some measures are adopt ed to free the country of tbe turbulent and disloyal leaders of the reactionary party. While these persons remain in the country to exercise the baneful influence they un doubtedly possess, there can be no peace. 1 believe that in Florida and Alabama the danger from this cause is less than in Geor gia, but in all these States theie is so much danger of the disorder and violence which marks the daily history of Tennessee that it would seem wise to adopt what mea-urcs are practicable to remove from the Stales in process of reconstruction the cause which now endangers the loyal government inTcnn essee. Ido not venture to suggest the rem edy for evils that may be developed. Such matters merit, and no dout will, command patient examination and careful action, and having laid before you facts, and my general views on them, I consider my duty per formed. Your obedient servant. JOHN POPE. HON. HENRY BARNARD, the chief of the new National Department of Education, delivered an address at Boston a few days ago explanatory of the work of his depart ment. The power given to it is very small. The law docs not recognize any intention on the part of the Government to create a sys tem of national education ; nothing of the kind was contemplated. So far as the Com missioner is called upon to administer the law, his aim will be to carry out literally its provisions, to collect and disseminate infor mation, so as to show the condition and progress of education in the State.- and Ter ritories, so as to aid the people of the Uni ted States in establishing school systems. To show what he had already begun to do in the way of work, he mentioned that lie had received applications for information from gentlemen in the Constitutional Con ventions now being held in New York. Michigan and Maryland. He hail received an application from Texas for information, so that they may act in the light of the ex perience of the old States, so as to enable themto establish their Univcrsity on the right ground. He had received from the State of Georgia a request to frame a code of in struction for that State. He had received a letter from West Virginia asking for the best plan for school houses for rural districts. He had received an invitation from Tennes see to be present at a Convention at Knox ville, which is intended to take up the sub ject of education for the State. He had re ceived a request from Nevada for documents by which they can organize a normal school for that State, so that they may know what is done on that subject in the Atlantic States. — New York Times. The Sunken Lake. The Sentinel , published at Jacksonville, Oregon, of the 12th ult., says: "Several of our citizens returned last week from a visit to the great sunken lake, situated in Cas cade mountains, about seventy five miles north-east from Jacksonville. This lake rivals the famous valley of Sinbad the Sail or. It is thought to average 2,{MX> feet down to the water all around. The walls an almost perpendicular, running down in to the water, and leaving no beach. The depth of the water is unknown, and its sur face is smooth and unruffled, and italics so far below the suiface of the mountain that the air currents do not affect it. Its length is estimated at twelve miles, and its breadth at ten. No living man ever has, and prob ably ever will, lie able to reach the water's edge. It lies silent, still and mysterious in the bosom of the "everlasting hills" like a huge well, eooped out by the hands of the giant genii of the mountain, in unknown ages gone by, and around it the primeval forests watch and ward arc keening. The visiting party fired a rifle several times into the water at an angle of forty five degrees, and were able to note several seconds of time, from the report of the gun until the ball struck the water. Such seems incredi ble, hut is vouched for by some of our most reliable citizens. The lake is certainly a most remarkable curiosity. .V crtuors fact about the Hurratt jury has just come to light. It is stated by one of them that front the first moment they were locked up together between the ad journments each day, they were divided in their sentiments about the prisoner, eight favoring him and four condemning. While the nrgunients of the defense were going on these eight continually sneered at Judge Picrpont and Attorney Harrington iu their rooms, and when they were locked up to find a verdict, they balloted, the result being eight votes for acquittal and four for convic tion. Each side tried to convince the other hut without success to either. Then one of the jurors made three propositions, and asked that a vote he taken on them sep arately. These were, first, that Lincoln was assassinated; second, that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy; and third, that Surratt was in that eon-piracy. I pon j the first two propositions the vote was u naniuious, but upon the latter the eight favoring acquittal refused under any circum stances to vote. These same men, however, tried to induce the four to pledge their word | that nothing which took place in the jury room should be divulged, especially the votes, The other four, however, would not agree to this. To have worn the Federal uniform in the late war makes a man so unpopular in Ken tuekey that, whenever is is possible, we ob serve the "accused" are hastening to deny it by the public cards. Union inen and ex- Federal soldiers are leaving Kentucky daily by hundreds, while their places are more than filled by disfranchised rebels from other States that were in rebellion. A LETTER from the city of Mexico says the appointment of M. Otterbourg as Uuited States Minister is an unlucky one: and it is more than intimated that the Mexican Gov ernment declines to regard his papers suffi cient to cause him to he recognized. lie is said to have several schemes of speculation on baud, and altogether he is represented to be quite unfit to represent our country where we rave the slightest interest at stake. GENEHAL SEWS ITEMS. THE President lias invited General Hanks to an interview, and rumor say* that be will be appointed Secretary of War. Gov. BROWN TXIW telegraphs that he likes the franchise law in Tennessee better than ever, and will not favor its repeal. JT'IMJE HOI.T, Mr. Riddle, Judge Pelt and Mr. Pryor all deny the existence of the nflida vits of Mr. Patterson, Anser and others, re cently published relative to the Conover par don case. A Fenian scare is becoming prevalent again in Montreal. The Brotherhood it is appre hended, propose a raid during the coming elections as a diversion in favor ol the licvlin parly. THK Quaker City with the American excur sionists, has just arrived at Naples, where it was learned, with great dissatisfaction, that the vessel had to be placed under quarantine. A Galveston dispatch reports yellow fever raging terribly in that (dace. Twenty deaths Occurred on the 12th; thirty one on the Pith; twenty nine on the 31th, and over one thou sand cases are reported iu town on the 15th. IN a Cabiui . session it was decided to re lcive Judge Ilolt and transfer him. The pressure for the removal of .Secretaries Seward and McCuiioch ; s increasing. Ihe case of Gen. Sheridan was not alluded to in the Cabi net. THK office of the Treasurer of Hamilton county, Ohio, is computed by the Cincinuatti Commercial, to be worth for the term of two years the snug sum of seventy thousand dol lars. It is worth running for. Anvn KK from Vera cruz announce the ar rival of Santa Anna at that port, on board of the Mexican brig Juarez. He was to remain on board of '.be vessel, subject to further or ders from the supreme government. An or der for his trial has been issued. THE last phase of the base ball mania has occurred at Utica, where the Board of Edu cation have challenged the Common Council to (Jay a match. The latter have accepted, and the old boys will have it out in a few days. GENERAL GRANT will shortly order the mus ter out of a number of officers in the volun teer service unemployed or getting double pay. General Howard comes under the lat ter class. He is getting a salary as Superin tendent of the Freedman's Bureau and Ma jor General of Volunteers. THE Czar has given orders for carrying an nually to the budget of the kingdom of Pol and a credit of from 50,000 to 100,000 roub les, for the construction of orthodox Russian churches, in the country. In consequence of this decision, one is to be built this yerr at I.ubin, and more iu other places. THK Michigan Constitutional Convention has adopted a provision for the new constitu tion that no mechanical trade shall be taught to convicts in the State prison, except the "manufacture of those articles of which the chief consumption is imported from other States." BETWEEN three hundred and fifty and four hundred men have been discharged f| -om the Springfield Armory. Over eight hundred are still employed. As soon as the remainder of fifty thousand rifles are altered to breech loaders. the force at the armory will be re duced to a peace footing. This will take about three months. REV. \V. B. WATKISS, A. M., pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington. Pa., has been invited to deliver the annual address before the Philomathean Literary Societies of Waynesbcrg College, September 10, IStIT. Mr. Wat,;ins is one of the most popular lecturers in the denomination. THE Pittsburgh Annual Conference of the Methodist Church will meet in Uniontown, Fayette county, on Wednesday, September 4. It promises to be a session of unusual inter est from the fact that the uew discipline will govern all its proceedings. THE New York Tribute Association has decided to erect a new edifice at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars It is to he built upon the site of the present building and will compare favorably with the Herald and Timet establishments. This undertaking has for years been in contemplation. Ait. of the details of the transfer of the re cently purchased Russian territory to the United States are completed. (Jen. Rousseau the special commissioner, had a long final in terview with the president and leaves at once for Alaska, ("apt. W. S. Dodge, of Illinois, was appointed as special revenue agent to accompany Gen. Rousseau to look alter the revenue interest iu that territory. TIIE English Reform bill has received the assent of the Queen, and is now the law of the land, i hus the masses of the English people see themselves, for the first time in the history ot their couulry, endowed with the right of suffrage, and admitted to a great share in Parliamentary Government. The result of the next election w ill be looked for ward to with intense interest. THE number of emigrants that arrived at New York from European ports from January Ist. ISG7, to August 7th, was 154,290. Dur ing the same period of INtiG the total number of arrivals was 155,799. Nearly lib,ooo of the emigrants of 18?,7 have come iu steam vessels, and thus far Ireland and Germany send about equal numbers, and, together, make up more than nine tenths of the whole. THE New York Times concludes an article on the President and impending removals as follows. The n - rit or demerit of Mr. John son's action will not be affected by any modi fication of the manner of executing an obnox ious proceeding. Suspension or rejection, the result will be the same. The President will, by adopting either, convict himself of hostility to legislation reflecting the settled views and purposes of the Northern people. "The reasons of this suspension" with which Congress is to be furnished will amount to this and this only. ANOTHER REFORM IN RUSSIA. —The Czar abolished a strange custom. The cure of souls in Russia lias for centuries been heredi tary. The son of a priest becomes a priest or it he has ouly daughters, the eldest con veys the parish to her husband. Ol course the priest is as little of a pastor as is well possible, but he is much linked with the peas antry, and the government, to improve the character and diminish the popularity of the priesthood, have abolished its hereditary character. Henceforth the best candidate is to be appointed, which, as nobody ever takes the office voluntarily, is a satisfactory reform. THE Indianapolis Herald says: There is a man residing in Noblesville, named Moreau, who is 91 years old. He is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, members of the Masonic fraternity, having joined that organization in 1800. He was one of the assistants of Rob ert Fulton in building his first steamboat, and was on board of her first or trial trip. The old man is never so happy as when, with chalk or pencil, he is laying off diagrams, and explaining the machinery and Tessel lie help ed to construct on that occasion. The scenes and incidents of three score and ten years ago, particularly of the war of ISI2, areas fresh in his mind as though they hud happen ed ouly yesterday, while the occurrences of last week are dim, if not entirely forgotten. PEACHES IN SOUTHERN ILLlNOlS.—Ac counts from Southern Illinois represent the peach crop to be enormous in that section. It is no uncommon thing to ship from sixteen to twenty thousand boxes a day over the Illi nois Central, besides what find their way to St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Cairo. For all this vast yield, the capability of Southern Illiuci-to yield fruit is but just begun to be made known. In fact, but a tithe of the frnitlands of Illinois are under cultivation, and the fruit business, as enor mous as it may appear, is yet but in its infan cy. Ten years hence and the business will be more than ten times as large as at present. From this it will readily be seen that South ern Illinois is really the important fruit-grow ing region of the State, and when fully de veloped will successfully compete with any other part of the Uuiou iu that line. THE receipts of internal revenue for the v- ek were 53,204,910. 1 he Hcrabl says Jeff. Davis recently gaifl in a conversation, that Tennessee will proba bly inaugurate a war of the races, and he be lieved i here was no other course open for the whites oth'-f than to discharge the radical blacks from their employment! As to the. proposition that it would be well to put a few negroes in office for the pur pone of creating a reaction of feeling against them,, he said that it might do as a matter of spita, but would be a bad precedent. THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT still refuses to deliver uptlie body of Maximilian to Austria. What object they have in retaining the corpse is hard to determine, save it be to set at defi ance the powers or the relatives of the dead Emperor on the European continent. THE RAIN STORMS iu England still continue and the crop prospects so brilliant and prom ising and are now very gloomy- as great dam age has lieen done and the end is not yet. ( lOUKT PROCLAMATION. To the Coroner, the Jnetieee of the Penee, not! Countable* in the different Tottmekip* in the County of Hertford, Greeting: KNOW VK that iu pursuance of a precept ♦ me directed, under the hand and the seal of the Hen ALEXANDER KING, President of the several Courts of Common Pleas iu the Sixteenth Dittpet, consisting of the counties of Franklin, Fulton. Bedford and Somerset, and by virtue of his ofli- # of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery for the trial of capital and other of fender# therein and in the Genera! Court of Quar ter Sessions of the Peace; and Ws. (i. ERH OI.T/, and GxoiiifS W. GI'MV, Esq#., Judge# of the eamc Court, in the fame County of Bedford, you and each of you arc hereby required to be and appear in your proper persons, with your ltecords, Recognizances, Examinations, and other remem brances, before the Judges afore-aid. at Bedford, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and General Quarter' Sessions of the Peace therein to be holdeu for the county of Bed ford. aforesaid, on the Firel Monday of Sept. (being the 2d day,) at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, th re and then to do those thing# to which your several offi ces pertain. Given under my hand at Bedford, on the oth of Augo.-t in the year of our Lord. 1867. aug'J ROBERT STECKMAN, Shff. / t RAND JITIORS drawn for September Term, VA Ist Monday, 2nd day, A. D. ISO". Hertford Totenahip: David Wolf, Foreman; Samuel Carney, John Knox. Broad Top: Jesse Wright Bloody Hun: "Sainue! D. Williams. Coierain: Geo. W. Cessna, Isaac Freet, Tobiar Shafcr. Cumberland Valley: Jauic* McFerrin. Londonderry: Martin L. Miller, Jonathan Fcightncr. Monroe: Samuel Snivcly. Napier: Geo. W. Bowser. SeielMmrg: William C. Snivcly, Peter Dewak. St. Clair: John Amick, James L. Norton, Ja. E. Over. Southampton : Emanuel Johnson, llezrkiah Northcraft, Levi Clingcruian. Union: Adam Briggle. Woodherry Middle: Charles Martin, Cvru Over. Drawn and certified at Bedford, this 2nd day ot April, A. D. 1867. ISAAC KENSINGER, WILLIAM KIRK, Attest: Jury Commissioners. Jxo. G. FISHER, Clerk. aug'J PETIT JURORS drawn for same Term: Bedford Borough: Samuel Vundcrsmith, Geo. D. Shuck, Bedford Tutenahip: John D. lleltzeli, Scott W. Hughes. Conldale: Dan'l McNaily. Cumberland Valley: John Dicken, William Boor, of J., Thomas Elliott, of S. HopeareU; Joseph Gates, Jr. Jlarria'jn: Jackson Kerr. Juniata: Valentine V. Wertz, W. 11. Knipple, Jacob Corlcy. Londonderry: Levi Carpenter, Samuel Wil helin. Liberty: Jacob ixensiager, Geo. Koadcs. Monroe: John Layton, Levin Weiincr. Napier: Levi Otto, John Rock, John W. Bowcn. /*roritlence Eaet: George McGraw, Thomas Grove, Stephen Wink. Providence IF..- David Sparks. St. Clair: Israel Davis, Jacob 11. Wright, Val entino Fiekes. Southampton: John Mors, Nicholas Walter, Denton Stephens. Abel Johnson, William Cheney. ft,ion: Martin Imlcr. H'oodbeiry Middle: Philip S. Croft, John S. Hetrick, Daniel Price, of D. Drawn an l certified at Bedford, this 23d day of April, A. D. 1?67. ISAAC KENSINGER, WILLIAM KIRK, Attest: Jury Commissioners. Jso G F'ts HER, Clerk. aug'J QFUERIFF'S SALES. O By virtue ol sundry writs of venditioni expo nas to me directed, there will be sold, at the Court House, in the Borough ot Bedford, on SATUR DAY. AUGUST the 31st, A.D. 1867, at 10 o'clock A. M., the following real estate, viz: Oue lot of giounil in the Borough of Coaldaie, fronting on F'ulton street 40 feet, and running back 120 feet, with a 21 story plank house, with basemen: and ba k building attached, adjoining lots of Wii!i am Green on the east and a 20 foot alley on the west, situate in the Borough of Coal dale, Bedford county. Seized and taken in execution as the property of James Briekcr and John Drhew, partners, tra ding as Brisker A Drhew, with notice to Patrick Dihew and all other terrc tenants. Ais-, one lot of ground iu Wocdtwrry, treating on Main street 66 feet, and 198 feet deep, with a two s'orv frame house with kitchen attached, and one frame stable aud smoke house and other out bnildings thereon, adjoining lots of William M. Picrson on the north, and Jacob Hoover on the South, and situate in the town of Woodbcrrv, Bedford county. Seized and taken in execution as the property of Samuel J. Cnslucr. Also, one tract of land containing 10U acres more or less, about at) acres cleared and under fence: he ing thereon a two story log house, sta ble and other out buildings, and a good apple or chard: adjoining iands of Samuel Stalcy, William Li-ingcr, John 11. Barton and others; situate iu East Providence township, Bedford county. Seized and taken iu execution as the property of Samuel Peck and Rosanna Peek. Also, one lot, or part of a lot of ground in the Borough of Bedford, being No. 14'.' in the general plan of the Borough, now occupied by defendant or terrc teunant, with a large two story brick house and other buildings thereon erected; said lot being 2j feet ! more or less; in front on Pitt street aud extending back 240 feet to a 20 foot alley, adjoining lot of Job M enu on the West and Hir.itn Leutz and wile on tbc East. Seized ana taken in execution as the property of Mrs. Sophia D. Gibson. ROBERT STECKMAN, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Bedford, Aug. Sth, J867. J IST OF CAUSES put down for trial at Buf- J tember Term, 1557, (2d day.) John Cessna, Ksq., VB. Thof H Murray et. aL Theo. Weil A Co. et. al. vs. Saiut .Sterne. W. S. Entriken vs. Kensinger A Fluck. Mary Ann Yarnoll vs. Win Marshall. Win Firinstoueet al vs. Jas. Fink ct al Ann E. Burk vs. Jno. Wevandt. John Kemp vs. Riddlesburg Coal and Iron Co. David lleidler v#. 11. k B. T. Kail Road Co. Robert Adams ct al vs Francis ll*viunn et al. Riddle-burg C. l I. Co. vs. Broadtop C. A I. Co. Mmrg'tA. Blackburn vs. Qco. Ill; ckburn. Geo. W. Meyers vs. Mich'l Feather ct al. Jno. !1 Earns vs. David Ititchoy ct al. Jeremiah Knouff vs. Jno. H. Werta et al. Th<s. K. Evans vs. Shafer A Adams. John Bls*k ct al vs. Catharine Tricker. Samuel Crissmar et al vs. Jno. Ake'a adm'r. Thos. llitchey v.- Jacob Lingenfelter et al. Certified August 5, 1867. aug.o O. K. SHANNON, Prot. Colgate's Aromatic Vegetable Soap. A superior Toilet Soap, prepared from re fined Vegetable Oils, in combination with Glycerine, and especially designed for the u-e of Ladies and for the Nnesery. Its perfume is exquisite, and its washing properties unrivalled. For sale by all druggists. inay2l:ly QO MMUTATION OF RATIONS! The Widow, Children or P(rents cf each soldier who died in a rchol prison, or who was released and died without Commutation for Rations, are entitled to THIRTY CENTS for errry day irh prisoner tea. held by the rebeU. Apply to DI RBORUOW A LUTZ, July 12;ti' Claim Agents.
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