sei)forb Inquirer.
BKDFOKD, PA., FRIDAY, Al'til'ST 30,1WW.
UNION STATIC NOMINATION.
FOR SITREME JUDGE,
HKNKY W. WlLUttitt,
OF ALLEGHENY COVSTT.
UNION COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
JOHN T. RICHARDS, Fulton A oiiiHy,
JOHN WKI.I.EK. Somrnrl County.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
M. A. POINTS. Bedford Borough.
TREASrREH,
JOHN H. JORDAN. Bedford Borough.
jritY COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM KI UK. Jit. Clair.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM MARSS, Hopewell.
DIRECTOR OF rOOR,
ADAM ILERY, Middle Wood berry.
A! DITOR,
JOHN S. SWART/., Snake Spriti*.
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J I DOL SH ARSWOOD ON LEGAL
THNE>O.
Extract from Hi* Opinion lit the Cnse of
Uorie vs. Trott.
"Oa the whole, then, I am of opinion that the
provision of the act of Congress of February 2ath.
ts2, declaring the notes issuct in pursuance of
that act to he lawful money, and a legal tender,
IS CNCOKSTITtTTIOSAL.
"This renders it unnecessary that I should con
sider the other question which has been made, as
to the effect of the special agreement to pay in
lawful silver money of the United States lam
in favor of entering judgment tor the plaintiff,
but as a majority of tho court are of a different
opinion, judgment for the defendant."— Copied
from the I'kiladttpkio Aye of 23d of February,
)564, where the opinion is published in full.
It may also be found in the Legal Intelligencer
of March 18,1884, page 92.
In the same copy of the Age is a carefully pre
pared eulogy of the judge and this opinion, i
which is the following:
"Judge SHARSWOOD reasons upon and decides
the case as if he were some lofty spirit sitting far
above and out of the contentions and strifes of
the world."
AVill not the holders of greenbacks and Govern
ment bonds consider the judge as quite too eleva
ted and ethcrial for such earthly honors as a scut
on the Supreme Bench ?
iiii i i i
MHO ABB THE FRIENDS OF THE
SOUTH?
All parties agree that the one thing most
needful for the speedy restoration of the
Southern States to prosperity is the per
manent restoration of law and order, and
assurance of security to persons and proper
ty. This will not only at once induce the
Southern people themselves to enter once
more actively into business, knowing that
they, both black and white, will be secure
in the enjoyment of the fruits of their la
bors, but also once more turn the tide of
foreign immigration and Northern enter
prise into the depopulated South, wherever
the natural advantages of soil and elimate,
or the artificial combinations of trade and
travel present eligible openings for business
enterprise and caudal. Twice previously,
when th work of reconstruction was fairly
begun, with pronrisc'of full and speedy suc
cess, Andy Johnson has seen fit to cast an
apple of discord into the arena and frus
trate the hopes of all good and true men,
by deranging the machinery of reconstruc
tion just as it was getting into successful
operation. While he thus proved himself
a constant mar-plot, in the work of recon
struction, each time making additional leg
islation necessary, his followers, the unre
pentant rebels of the South and their sym
pathisers of the North, were unceasingly
abusing and reviling Congress for not
promptly adopting some definite policy of
reconstruction. Each time measures were
adopted for overcoming the difficulties, by
them purposely thrown in the way, they
assiduously set themselves to work to place
new obstructions in the way to prevent the
work of reconstruction from being carried
forward, at the same time heaping obloquy
on the .Republican party in Congress, be
cause it had not succeeded in doing, what
they were exerting all their power to pre
vent. Now when, after long and careful
deliberation, Congress had completed and
put in operation all the necessary machine
ry for a successful and speedy restoration of
the South, wc find Johnson and his follow
ers as assiduous and unscrupulous as ever
in their efforts to prevent the execution of
the laws. The removal of Stanton and
Sheridan has once more brought the work
of reconstruction to a stand still, delaying
indefinitely the restoration of that peace,
order and security, which the Southern
people so much need. Yet these same vile
hypocrites are continually vaunting them
selves as the true friends of the South. No
greater calamity, short of war itself, could
have befallen the Southern people, than
the professed friendship of these hypocriti
col demagogues. In war or peace they
know no higher ambition than party ascen
dency. To this, every tie of friendship,
every instinct of patriotism, every consider
ation of honor, every dictate of conscience
or morality, has been and still is idolatrous
ly and remorselessly sacrificed. Fomcntcrs
of trouble and discord, before the rebellion
and since, have aver been and are still,
the worst enemies to the peace and prosper
ity of both North and South. The true
friends of the South to-day are the support
ers of the Congressional plan of reconstruc
tion. Under it, if Johnson and his satel
lites will only cease to obstruct, law and
order, peace and security will be speedily
restored to every foot of the lately rebel
lious States, and with such restoration, and
the assurance of permanent security, capi
tal and labor will pour in a continuous and
ever increasing stream into every Southern
State—the newspaper and the Bible* will
soon be found in every household, and the
school house and church adorn every hill
top—morality and intelligence will take
the place of ignorance and its concomitants
ol crime the natural offspring of intelli
gence and liberty, her broad savannas will
teem with the products of a varied industry
-by every rippling stream will be. heard
the busy hum of spindles and the clatter of
looms—forges and furnaces will fill her val
leys, transferring her now valueless mines
into sources of untold wealth—then will the
sans of commerce onco more crowd her ports,
and the plash of steamboats enliven her
now deserted rivers, ail Waring to other
lands the jwoducts of her variod industry,
while in the hounds of our wide domain
will be found no more contented, happy and
prosperous j>cop!e.
REMOVAI. OK iHEKIBAN
The political guillotine ot Andy Johnson
continues to be wielded with an untiring
and reckless malignancy. The cool, grim,
sternness of Stanton, lor a while staggered
the resolution of the would-be tyrant of the
white house. With his suspension accom
plished, the chief obstacle in the way of
Sheridan's removal was overcome, and on
the l~th inst. Andy Johnson issued his
order removing the gallant Sheridan from
the command of the sth military district.
The brave and dashing Sheridan, the hero of
Winchester, the idol of the army and of the
people, after being eudorscd by a Congress
of the people as a brave soldier conscien
tiously discharging his duty, and faithfully,
promptly, and energetically carrying into
execution the laws of the land, is removed
and disgraced by the miserable inebriate
and demagogue, who by accident happens
to occupy the white-house. Aud for what?
For any crime or misconduct? No. For
any failure in the discharge of duty? No.
Not a fault is alleged nor a cause assigned.
Sheridan's fault is in believing that the
men whom he conquerrcd at Winchester
were enemies of his country, and that not
to them, but to loyal men the government
of the States lately in rebellion should he
entrusted; in believing that traitors aud
rebels should not he pardoned and received
into favor until they have repented of their
crimes. For such reasons, and because it
was asked by the men who led rebel armies
and planned the massacres of New Orleans
and Memphis, the brave and loyal .Sheridan
is disgraced by that miserable conniver at
treason and tool of traitors, Andrew John
son. His removal adds another to the list
of humiliating acts of (be existing adminis
tration, whose very mention brings the
blush of shame to the cheek of every true
soldier and loyal American citizen- They
alone rejoice, who exulted over the defeat
of the national arms at Hull Hun Chicka
mauga, and every other defeat that brought
disgrace to our arms and sorrow to the
hearts of our people. The men whose
whole sympathy was wrth the rebellion,
whose faces brightened with smiles and
whose eyes sparkled with delight at the
report of reverses to the Union arms, now
throw up their hands in eestacy and shout
aloud for joy, for this is once again a mo
mentary rebei triumph. Hut their joy is
transient; their time is short. A loyal Con
gress and a loyal people will not long brook
the gross iaault. If wc divine aright, ere
the last November sun shall set Stanton
will be restored and Sbeiidan avenged. Our
recreant President will yet he made to real
ize that his, is only delegated power
cannot be abused with impunity—that ours
is a government of the people and not a
despotism—that his resistance may ob
struct and delay, hut cannot prevent the
work of reconstruction from being done in
accordance with the views of the loyal pco
pl"
THE Gazette of last week is sorely exer
cised that we should publish the fact that
Judge Sharswood delivered a dissenting
opinion in the case of Horie v. Trott in
which he pronounced the licgal Tender Act
unconstitutional. It labors unnecessarily to
show that the question to be decided was
whether a debt contracted to be paid in gold
or silvcF could he paid in paper money.
True enough that was the question and the
only question, hut Sharswood was not eon
tent to give an opinion on it, hut went out
side of the case to stab his country in the
hour of her peril, by delivering an uncalled
for opinion, from the bench, that the Jxigal
Tender Act was unconstitutional. We
hope the Gazette will fulfill its promise to
print the opinion in full so that as many of
its readers as have the patience to wade
through it, and they will be few, may see
the lameness of its defence, as well as how a
learned Judge deliberately stepped beyond
his duties and prostituted hisofficial position
to aid a wicked rebellion and, if possible,
strike a death blow to his country in the
hour of her greatest peril.
THE Gazette in endeavoring to answer
our question as to its preference of rebels
and descrtersover loyal negro soldiers, makes
it the occasion for lugging in the names of
about a dozen mon (we suppose all it could
find) of the Republican party and parading
them as deserters. Of these we know,
personally, and the Gaz/dtc ought to know
that at least four were not deserters. Wc fur
ther know that ona, at least, laid down his
life in the service of his country, yet the
Gazette has the effrontery to insult the gal
lant soldier's friends and relatives by holding
him up as a deserter. For real deserters
we have no sympathy, but there is no ex
cuse for publishing to the world such sland
erous libel upon the memory of a bravo inl
dter. Would not the Gazette better confine
itself to the two or three hundred real Cop
perhead deserters, with whom it is much
better acquainted than attempt to point out
the few, vary few, republicans, and get them
confounded with and slander good and true
soldiers ?
'J HE Gazette , with all its zealous labor to
shield its Candidate, Sharswood, from the in
evitable consequences of his opinion declar
ing Legal Tenders unconstitutional, by
squarely denying it, has fully undorscd the
opinion itself as witness the following.
"Wc have an inflated currency, deprecia
ted in value and yet money ia as scarce now
as when gold and silver were in fashion. So
much for the unconstitutional act of Con
gress making greenbacks a legal tender."—
Gazette. Aug. 28, 1867.
TV here did you get the unconstitutional
idea? Sharswood'sopinion, eh? Yours too?
\ ct you would persuade your readers that
he never delivered such an opinion? And
both in the same issue ! ! ! Slightly mixed,
eh?
No VERY pleasant position is that occu
pied by General Grant in the Cabinet. He
is there by an order of the President and
is expected to be obedient to every order,
having no other alternative than to earry
out the will of the Chief Kxecutivc. Ho
may remonstrate against measure*, but that
is the end of his privilege; he c;u suggest,
hut must obey.
THE illnessof Gen. Thomas, so as to disa
ble him for service for some time, seeius
likely to postpone, for a time, the removal
of Sheridan unless a new appointment is
made, which is not improbable as the Presi
dent will doubtless be willing to avail him
self of any reasonable excuse, for appoint
ing some one more likely than Thomas to do
the bidding of himself and kindred rebels.
Since the above was put in typo General
Hancock has been assigned to the Depart
ment of the Gulf, with permission to modi
fy any orders issued by Sheridan, while the
latter is ordered to report at onco to the
JleadQuarters of the Diqiartnient of Mis
souri.
WE call the attention of all our readers
to the frank and outspoken letter of Gen.
Grant to the President, which we print in
another column. It will do much to relieve
his acceptance of the Secretaryship ail inter
im of its equivocal character and place him
in such a position before the country, as the
Commander-in-chief of our armies ahould
occupy. Notwithstanding the plain and
pointed expression of his opinion by Gen.
Grant, the President has not soon proper to
heed it, but persists in Sheridan's removal.
If the President had only common sense
enough to listen to the advice of such men
as 'lrani h.0t...1 of resorting to stteh tlem
ogoguesas Jerry Black for counsel it would
be much better for himself aud the country.
RUMORS of further cabinet changes are
still rife, but all apparently want reliable
foundation. The latest rumor represents
the inevitable "Jerry" as likely to lie ap
pointed to, or at least willing to nceept, the
Secretaryship of the Interior Department.
SIIA It SWOt) IJ VS. JACKSON.
In his famous proclamation against the
South CarolinaNuliificrs iu December, 1832,
General Jackson said:
"1 consider, then, the power to annul a
law of the United States, assumed by one
State, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE
OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY
KY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UN
AUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT
WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS
FOUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT
OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED."
This was in 1832. Many yet living re
member how the country rocked with ex
citement and trembled with alarm at the
audacious pretensions and the treasonable
measures of John C. Calhoun and his fob
lowers, and they remember how all parties
exulted when Jackson crushed that incipient
treason under bis heel. Democrats and
Whigs clasped hands and united their voi
ces in support of the brave old man and his
proclamation.
But there was, even in Pennsylvania,
small band of politicians who drew their in
spiration, not from Jefferson or Jack-on. but
from John C. Calhoun, and of this small
band was Judge 8 liars wood, now a candi
date for the Supreme Judgeship. After
nullification was crushed he remained tho
-ame, and in an oration delivered in April,
1834, he re-affirmed the cardinal doctrine of
nullification, secession and rebellion in the
following emphatic terms:
"We come back to our starting place and
fin-ling nothing i„ k i'on-iitution estab
lishing any final judge of the enumerated
powers, prohibitions, and reserved right-,
it must rest upon the admitted principles of
general, law, in eases of compart trite-,:,
parties having no common superior. EACH
STATE HAS THE RKIHTTO JUDGE FOR ITSELF
OF THE COMPACT, AND TO CHOOSE FOR IT
SELF THEMOST PROPER AND EFFICIENT REM
EDIES,"
Is it sane at a time like this to entrust
supreme judicial powers to a man who en
tertains such opinions as these? We grant
that he may hold them honestly and sin
cerely; but the more honestly and sincerely
they are entertained tho more dangerous
they are. Jack-on was honest and sincere
in his opposition to such views, aud his
honesty, more thau anything else, gave him
power to put those down who attempted in
1832 to carry them into practice; and had
Jackson been where Buchanan was in ISOO
we should have had no rebellion.— Fitttftnrgh
Gazette.
WIIO ARE DESERTERS?
Congress, at the late session, passed this
important bill, which lias become a law,
having been approved on the loth of July
last:
B< it < uacted, Ac., That no soldier or
sailor shall be taken or held to be a deserter
from the army or navy who faith fully -erved
according to his enlistment until the J'Jth
day of April, 1805, and who without proper
authority or leave first obtained, did quit
his command, or refuse to serve after said
date, but nothing herein contained.--hall ope
rate as a remission of any forfeiture incurred
by any such soldier or sailor of his pay,
bounty or pension, or other allowances, but
this act shall be construed solely as a removal
of any disability such soldier or sailor may
have incurred by the loss of his citizenship
in consequence of his desertion.
Where parties marked "deserters," can
prove that they left the army under circum
stances described in this act, they will be
hereafter entitled to the elective franchise.
Getty sbrugh Star.
To BE NOTED. —Parties who have in
vested in Government bonds, as well a- all
persons who are holding cither national bank
notes or greenbacks, would do well to keep
an eye on the doctrines advaueed by the
Democratic party. In Ohio Vallandigbam
and Pendleton are openly advocating what
amounts to simple repudiation. In this
State the Democrats arc endeavoring to put
a man on the Supreme bench who has al
ready decided that greenbacks are not law
ful money. Businessmen, and all who val
uc their own interests above the triumph of
desperate and abandoiicd demagogues,
should make a note of these facts. Ilanis
| hurgh Telegraph.
THE patriotic members of an cx-school
board of New Orleans, who were removed
by General Sheridan for their trifling of
fense of discharging teachers who were so
indiscreet as to allow their schools to sing
patriotic songs, or display miniature flags of
the Union, have resolved to apply to a Dis
trict Court for a writ of injunction to restrain
the district commander from proceeding
to eject them from office. Theirs is one ofthc
hardships to which the innocent and down
trodden citizens of that neighborhood have
been subjected by Sheridan, and it remains
to be seen whether they will receive proper
redress for their injuries by re instatewout.
We hope not.— Exchange,
REGISTRATION has bcca completed in
Louisiana under the management of Gener
al Sheridan, and Texas was next to be re
constructed had that Commander not been
removed: He believes that by the first of
next January the State of Louisiana will be
ready to present its Constitution to Con
gross.
WHEN GOV. CVRTIN had served the first
six months of his first term, the Copper
heads professed to be very indignant at re
ports manufactured by themselves, that ho
was drunk half bis time. Befoic Governor
Geary has been a year in office, the same
men complain that he is too temperate, and
gives too much countenance to the temper
ance cause. llow are the Copperheads to
bo suited in men?— Jlarrisburg Telegraph.
REMOVAL O! WW. SHERIDAN.
Correspondence Between the I'resiilunt
and General Grant.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON TO HEN. (IRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D.
C., August 17, 18G7. Dear Sir:—Before
you issue instructions to carry into effect the
enclosed order, 1 would be pleased to hear
any suggestions you may uocin necessary
respecting the assignment to which the or
der refers.
Truly yours. ANDREW JOUNSON.
G/n. U- S. Grant. So*olrjr of Wor a J
interim.
TIIF. ORDER OF REMOVAL.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D.
C., August 17, 1867. George
11. Thomas is hereby assigned to the com
mand of the fifth Military District, created
by the act of Crngress passed on the second
day of March, IBti7.
Major-General P. H. Sheridan is hereby
assigned to the command of the Department
of the Missouri.
Major-General Winfield 8. Hancock is
hereby assigned to tho command of tho De
partment of the Cumberland.
The Secretary of War ad interim will
give the necessary instructions to carry this
order into effect. ANDREW JOHNSON.
GEN. GRANT TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
HEAD QUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNI
TED STATES, WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug.
17, ls(')7. —His Kxeellcney Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States—Sir:—l am
in receipt of your order of this date, direct
ing the assignment of General G. 11. Thom
as to the command of the Fifth Military
District. Gen. Sheridan to the Department
of the Missouri, anil Gen. Hancock to the
Department of the Cumberland: also your
note of this date (enclosing those instruc
tions) saying, "Before you issue instruc
tions to carry into effect the enclosed order,
1 would be pleased to hear any suggestions
you may deem necessary respecting the as
signments to which the order refers."
1 am pleased to avail myself of this invi
tation to urge, earnestly urge—urge in the
name of a patriotic people who have sacri
ficedjhundreds of thousands of loyal lives,
and thousands of millions of treasure to
preserve the integrity and union of this
country—that this order be not in-istcd on.
It is unmi-takubly the expressed wish of the
country that Gen. Sheridan should not lie
removed from his present command. This
is a republic where the will of the people is
a law of the land. I bee that their voice
may be heard.
General Sheridan has performed his civil
duties faithfully and intelligently. Ilis re
moval will only lie regarded as an effort to
defeat the law- of Congress. It will be in
terpreted by the unreconstructed clement
in the Sooth—those who did all they could
to break up this Government ras n.l
now wish to l" only clement consulted
as to tl.) method of restoring order—as a
triumph. It will embolden them to renew
ed opposition to the will of the loyal mas
believing that they have the Lxecutivc
with them.
The services • f General Thomas in bat
tling for the Union entitle him to some con
sideration. He has repeatedly entered his
protest against being assigned to cither of
the five Military districts, and
to being assigned to relieve Gen. Sheridan.
General Hancock ought not to be removed
from where he is. His department is a
complicated one, which will take a new
commander some time to become acquainted
with. There are military reasons, and,
above all, patriotic reasons why this order
should not be insisted on.
1 beg to refer to a letter, marked private,
which 1 wrote to the President when first
j consulted on the subject of the change in
; the War Department. It Wars upon the
I subject of this removal, and L had hoped
1 would have prevented it.
I have the honor to be, with great respect,
j your obedient servant,
U. S. GRANT,
I General United States Army and Secretary
of War ad interim.
FROM WASHINGTON.
I Tin Order removing Gen. Sheridan snspeii
' d,d Genera! Thomas sick—Charges
I Against the Frcedman's Bureau Officials
(Jen. Sickle* to he removal <fv, dr.
WASHINGTON, Aug 28,1807,—The Presi
dent en Saturday, on the recommendation
of General Grant, suspended the execution
of Order No. 77, assigning Gen. Thomas to
the command of the Fifth District, in lieu of
Gen. Sheridan. The reason lor this action
on the part of the Executive, is on account
of the ill health of Gen. Thomas, who is now
undergoing medical treatment at one of the
springs in West Virginia. In view of this
fact it was deemed highly improper to order
him to New Orleans, where the yellow
fever is raging in an epidemic form. An
Administration evening paper says it is not
definitely known whether Gen. Sheridan
will tie permitted to remain gd interim , or
whether some other officer will be assigned
to the command. It is rumored that Gen.
Hancock will be selected for the position.
A long series of charges against the offi
cials of the FreeJmcn's Bureau will be pre
sented to the President during this week.
They apply especially to the subordinates,
and not to the head of the Bureau. There
is no change, however, in the Presidents'
determination to remove Gen. Howard.
The order relieving General Sickles from
the command of the North Carolina Military
District will probably be issued during the
present week. As things now look, General
L'anby will be appointed in his place.
Representative E. B. Washburn, of Illi
nois Has arrived at Washington direct from
Europe, considerably improved MI health.
He is the guest of' General Grant.
Preparations are in progress under the
direction of the Soldiers, and Sailors, Union
of Washington, to give General Sheridan
an ovation on his arrival in Washington.
A NEW YORK letter, dated the 21st, has
the following, concerning the prospect of
trade: "Trade in most departments is be
ginning to look up. The arrivals of country
merchants at the city hotels are increasing.
True, the purchases thus far arc not to very
large amounts but the indications are that,
towards September, most of the leading
houses will have as much as<bey can do.
The prices of most descriptions of dry goods
are steady. The jobbers during the few
days past have been busy laying in their fall
supplies. The hardware firms report
favorably front the correspondents at the
West; but from the South, they say, the ad
vices are quite as discouraging as they were
last season. The carpet and boot and shoe
houses are moderately active, and prices are t
firm.'' I
THE INDIAN W Alt.
Severe Fight with the Savages on Jii /nMi
can ltiver. Our Troop* Repulsed.—
More Fighting Expected.
ST. Lot W, August 25. —A dispatch from
Fort Hayes, Kansas, Aug. 23, says a cour
icr had just arrived from ( apt. Ames with
dispatches to Captain Corbin, to the effect
that Ames had had a severe battle with 800
Indians, under "Satanie," on the Republi
can river. The Indian village was two
miles long, and Ames charged twice through
their wigwams. The savages fought des
perately.
Three of our men were killed and twenty
five were wounded, and thirty horses were
lost. The Indians lost severely, but! finally
repuLsod our troops, and our dead were
left on the field. There was an immense
amount of stolen stock in the Indian village.
The savages surrounded our troops, and the
fight lasted three days. Two of our men
killed belonged to the Kansas! Cavalry, and
one to the 12th Regulars. Captain Ames
had only 125 men. Some Kansas Cavalry,
under Major Moore, leave for the Indian
village to day, and a severe battle is antici
pated.
FOREIGN.
Mun Territory for the United State* — An
Offer Accepted for Sarnmui SS,fJUO,-
000 for a Portion of llayti Tin Lund
Fad of the New Cat>lr.
Havana, \ng •>*>— President (,'abral,
of Dominica, has sent a messenger to Wash
ington with instructions to accept the offer
of the United States for the purchase of
Samana, in the Island of Hayti, for $/>,000,-
000.
Delay is feared in completing the Cuban
cable from Key West to I'unta Rosa, Flor
ida, because a portion of the latter cable
was used between Cuba arid Key West, and
Engineer Webb will await a telegraphic au
thorization from England before proceeding
to lay the remainder.
llow "INDIAN OUTRAGES" ARE SOME
TIMES MANUFACTURED.—An Omahacorres
porrdent of the Chicago Repultlicu.il writes
concerning the recent attack on a train of
the Union Pacific Railway, as follows:
"The way the thing looks now, it docs not
appear that the redskins did thi- business,
but the white -kins did. The scalping was
certainly not done by an Indian —so men
who understand the business say. A red
skin would not be apt to leave the scalp be
hind—he would rather lose his own —that
of itself is a little evidence; but what makes
it almost sure is the fact that the scalp of
the man who is still living, and in a fair way
to recover, by the way —is not taken in the
Indian style. An Indian is never known to
take the whole top of the head for the scalp
but merely a couple of inches from the
crown of the head; and besides they gener
ally take it off neatly, while this was done
in a very bungling manner. Some persons
—and I must say that 1 am one of the num
her—think there were no Indians coucerned;
but Omaha and all these western towns are
bound to have an Indian war if possible;
and their constant cry is extermination.
Now, this late attack serves first rate to
bring Eastern people to their side of the
question, provided tlicy keep under a few of
the facts, ."several trains on Eastern and
Southern railways have been thrown from
the track before now, the cars robbed and
sometimes destroyed. This has been done
within two years. There being no Indians
to blame, it wa-> at once charged rightly to
thieves, rowdies and highway robbers; ami
it is very natural to suppose that the same
class of beings will do the same kiud of work
here, if that class is here to do it. And it
is riot denied, but readily admitted; that
towns such as Julesburg, and others not so
far away, are more than half peopled by
roughs. Another thing, eveiy time there
is a rumor of au Indian attack anywhere, it
is telegraphed East a.a fat; but when a few
hours later, it proves to 1 z entirely untrue,
the telegraph docs not carry the correction.
THE EXTRAORDINARY WEATHER.—Me
teorological records, it is said, show that
there has not been so wet a summer within
the experience of the present generation.
About 130 years ago, we are told, there was
something of the kiud, but as nobody is
living now to give us the particulars, we are
obliged to be content with the simple state
ment of the meteorological fact. Perhaps
one of the severest of all the many rain
storms with which we have been visited
almost daily during the season, was that
which swept over all this part of the coun
try last night and this morning. We fear
the bad effect it must have had in the agri
cultural districts.
Another remarkable peculiarity is the
fact that the same condition of things is re.
ported on the other side of the Atlantic.
While it was raining in New York yester
day, cable dispatches inform us it was also
raining in London, and, for that marter,
throughout all England.
_ Other current phenomena are recorded.
For instance, during the storm yesterday
many persons at Albany observed in the
morning masses of gelatinous matter con
taining minute granules of a reddish aud
grey color. Microscopic investigations have
revealed the cause of these dust storms and
rains to be, cither portions of various min
erals or shells of infusoria, or insects carried
into the atmosphere bv the winds. Infu
sorial shells and aquatic plants of especial
localities have been identified after having
crossed the ocean and been deposited in dust
storms, thus tracing aerial currents. They
origiuatc in the tropical regions. One nat
uralist considers them as floating as a height
of fourteen thousand feet from the earth,
carried by the wind, and deposited from the
clouds as much rain, and usually with rain.
11 is unusual for them to fall so far away
from the tropics as this; but as we said, this,
in all its aspects, is nothing, if not an "un
usual" season.— N. ). Evening Express.
TIIE Loudon Standard, refcrriug to the
late trial of an American 15-ineh gun against
English armor plates, says:—"The effects of
these shot are alike importaut to every
country in Europe, for there is not an iron
clad ship afloat thai would be likely to come
off seathlcss from their penetration. The
Warrior and La Gloire classes would cer
tainly be cleanly nenetratcd. The Belicro
phon and Lord Warden are the only OB"S
that would stand anv chance of resisting,
but it is questionable whether they, too
would not succumb. The Hercules ought
to keep these missiles out, but she is not yet
afloat."
CALIFORNIA capitalists are taking much
interest in a proposed railroad from Marys
ville, in their State, to Portland, Oregon.
The land grant given by Congress, of twelve
thousand eight hundred acres a mile, is ex
tremely liberal, while the route is feasible,
not difficult, and through a rich agricultural
country. The California corporator have
begun a survey of their end of the line,
which runs for its entire distance through
the Sacramento valley, over an unbroken
plain. The valley is one of the most fertile
regions of the State, the first forty-two
miles being an almost unbroken succession
of harvest fields.
A NEW Orleans letter says the first hale
of the new cotton crop is coming into the
different markets now. and the speculation as
to the extent of the yield is very animated.
The prospects in all the States, except our
own, are fair for a crop that will exceed that
of the season now drawing to a close. Not
withstanding the cry of worms and bad weath
er, this will be the result, and many nre pre
dicting a three million hale crop, which is
probably as much above the mark as the an
nual croakers arc below it.
(IKNKHAL HEMS ITEMS.
JERBMIAU DAY, ex-President of Yale Col
lege, died 'l'hurduy night, uged ninetyfour.
IT is reported that the Czar, who is now in
Crimea, is quite ill.
Host. JAS. 11. CAMHEU., late Minister to
Sweden, has arrived home.
JAMKS Pt CHAJTAN" returned from Cape May
to l.aucaster yesterday, in feeble health.
JOHN BITTTI.V, the oldest ship builder iu
Philadelphia, died iu that city yesterday.
(its'. GRANT is rigid IN his ideas of econ
omy, and allows no man in employment
which he controls who does not earn his pay.
THE new Canal around Ues Moines Itapidg,
on the Mississippi, is to he two hundred and
tifly feet wide.
THE MitinessoU farmers talk of forming
associations to keep wheat up to $1 50 per
bushel.
IT is understood the assets of the Unadiil*
Hank will pay about thirty per cent of its lia
bilities.
IT is understood that all the members of the
Cabinet arc willing to resign if the President
so requests.
A letter from Lancaster says the illness of-
Thaddeus Stevens is not so serious as repre
seuted.
THE Turkish Minister has been introduced
to the President by Secretary Seward. He
presented bis credentials and was formally
received.
IT HAS HM .N HM IOKU in the United States
District Conn of New York that a married
woman may be declared baukrupl under the
involuntary clause of the bankrupt act.
THE Soldiers and Sailors of Philadelphia
have spoken out bravely in condemnation of
the suspension by the President of Secretary
Stanton.
THE Michigan Constitutional Convention
has decided to submit separately to the peo
ple an absolute prohibition of the sale of
liquor.
SEWARD Las been notified by the A 'atiouat
liiteUigcurer that he must leave the Cabinet,
and when the )>oor old man is put out in the
cold, he will learn how many warm friends he
has lost.
WAST of rain is alleged as a cause likely to
prevent more than a half a crop of corn and
potatoes in Ohio. Too much rain in parts of
Pennsylvania, it is predicted, will result in a
similar failure.
ONE man boasts in Indiana that he gets a
new wife and a new divorce every quarter.
Of the kind ot wives that he gets under such
a system of things a man would want a new
one at least as often as that.
THERE arc said to be, by the Clarion Dem
ocrat, over three thousand men in Clarion
county who do not take a newspaper. The
fact showing such ignorance explains the
persistent Democratic majorities in that re
gion.
PROF. J. C. WATSON - , of Ann Arbor. Mich
igan. announces the discovery of a new plan
et, hitherto unknown, which was first seen
by biin on the J-'th. It is situated in right
ascension 1 degree and 40 minutes south,
and is working west and south.
A CAM. is published for a Convention in
Wilmington en the 4ih of Septum her, for the
purpose of sending delegates to the llorder
State Convention, which meets in Baltimore
on the l'Jih, to demand Congress to guaran
tee the citizens ot all Stales equal rights and
a republican form of government.
AN amusing iucident occurred in Albany
recently. While a gang of telegraph men
were stringing wire from a reel in a wagon,
the horse being driven along slowly, a coun
tryman lushed up to the driver, and in the
innocence of his heart informed him that he
was losing his load, that his wire was scatter
ed all along the road behind him.
A correspondent of a Democratic paper,
who says he ha- juM been iu prison with two
of QuantreW s men. contradicts the report
that the famous guerrilla is in Mexico, aud
asserts that Quantrell was mortally wounded
in a fight in Kentucky, in the fall of W-f.
captured and imprisoned in Louisville, and
died there under an assumed name.
THE political contest in California is very
bitter and exciting as the election draws near.
Efforts are making to concentrate the Union
ists of San Francisco on the Legislative tick
et. The independent party continue their
opposition to Gorham, but support the gener
al ticket, and urge the election of Congress
men, Legislators, and the ratification of the
constitutional amendment.
PEUSOKB having correspondence with Cal
ifornia should mark on their letters or news
papers the words " ria Panama." and con
tinue to do so until the Indian hostilities over
the Plains are suppressed. According to the
regulations of the Post Office Department, all
letters not marked ''via Panama" are sent
by the overland route, and the Indian out
rages render their safe transmission doubtful.
A correspondent of the Boston Wateh
man says: "The day that 1 arrived in Liver
pool I was saluted while taking a stroll
through the city, by a newsboy who shouted
out to me. "Paper, sir; latest news from
America, sir: suicide of Andy Johnson, sir.'
Had it not been that I could not conscien
tiously reward dishonesty, I should have liked
to give the youngster something for making
so good a guess at my politics."'
THE prospect of the French wine crop is
not good. The inclemency of the weather
has caused a spread of the disease known as
the oidium, whose attack could not be ward
ed off by the use of sulphur, owing to the
heavy continuance *f showers of rain and
hail and high winds. It is now thought that
only one-half or t wo-thirds of the quantity of
grapes gathered in 18W will be obtainable in
181'n, and even this small proportion will be
lessened if the weather does not improve.
J USIBEIL
HO,OOO feet OAK, WIBTK ami YELLOW
PINE LUMBER >n hand an<l fur >alcbv
J. 15. WILLIAMS i Vo..
junel-Ldmos. Itloady Run, Pi.
j DOLLARS REWARD!
The place to buy goods and SAVE yourtißEEN
BACKS, is at the ti It EAT BARHAIN STORE of
U. It. Jk >V. OSi'Elt,
Who will sell from this date until the 2"th of
September next, prior to cloring to extend and
otherwise repair thcirStore room.) their E.ViIRE
STOCK at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Many gooods at and helow COST.
Bedford, Aug.
|J O OSIER
DRILLS,
AND '
KEYSTONE CLOVER HCLLERS,
FOR SALE.
These Drills are a fir.l r/.f-- article, warranted
equal if not superior to any others. The hoes
can be set xigzag if de.-ircd for rough ground.
Sows all kinds of grain and grass seeds. PiticK
800, and irurrnnted. The Clover Duller is a
very superior article: hulls and cleans front 25 to
■tO bushels per dav. Pntcr. 805, and trnrroaferf.
PETER 11. SHIRKS.
Bedford, Aug. 22. 1807.
rjlHlS ]S TO GIVE NOTICE that on Um i Ith
_l of August, A. D. 1567, a Warrant in Bank
ruptey was issued against the estate of William
Spidle of Bloody Bun, in the county of Bedford,
aud State of Pennsylvania, who has been adjudg
ed a Bankrupt on his own petition; that the pay
ment of any debts and delivery of any property
belonging to such Bankrupt, to him or for his use,
aud the transfer of any property l.y him arc tor
bidden by Law; that a meeting of the Croditors
of the said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to
choose one or more As-igns of his estate, wiil be
held at u Court of Bankruptcy, to be holdeu at the
office of Johu Cessna, Esq., in Bedford, Bedford
County. State of Pennsylvania, before HASTINGS
UEHR, Register, on the 17tb day of September,
A. I). 1867, at 11 o'clock a. in.
THOS. A. ROW GEY,
aug2.l:lt. L". S. Marshal.
( lOURT PROCLAM ATf< )N".
To the Coroner, the Justice* ofthe Pru ti
Countable* in the different Townekiu*
County of Bedford, O recti ny:
Know VK that in pursuance* of a j,rcc, ? u, „ ,
'lircwted, under the hand and the *:al ,♦ t ll .
ALEXANDER KING, indent of the *"'i
Courtj? of Common IMeaa in the Sixteenth Di-tr ~
coorixting of the counties of Franklin, Ful'< r ,'
r. dford and Somerset, and by tirtne of hi* r
•d' the Court of Oyer and T'-riaioer and Oeneral
Jail Delivery for the trial of capital and other f
lenders therein and in the General Court of Q oar
ter Sex-ion* of th' Pete*; and W*. <j. u,. if
OLTZ and GKORGE W. GCMI', Esq*., Ju'lgtg of ti lf
-aiiic Court, in the *aiue County of Bedford, y u
and each of you are hereby required to be L
appear in your proper perron*, with your Ke*;orj
Recognizance*, Examination*, and other rcri,<'
brancejf, before the Judgcz afor ex aid, at Jitdf, Pt
at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General .J ,
Delivery and Gem-rrfl Quarter Seteion. of
l'eace therein to be holdeu for the county of B. .
ford, aforetaid, on the
Firet Monday of Sept. {briny th'ld day
at ID o'clock in the forenoon of that th> •. , .
then to do those things to which your several o fr..
oes pertain.
Given uutlerniy hand at Bedford, on the 9th '
August in the year of our Lord, I*l7.
Ronirr STECKMAN, sha.
/ HAND J IRORS drawn for September Tcro.
\j[ l*t Monday, 2nd day, A. D. 1>67.
Bedford To true, kip: David Wolf, Fan
Samuel Carney, John Knox.
Brand Top: Jesse Wright
Bloody linn: Samuel D. William*.
Col era in: Geo. W Ces.-na, Laac Free), fobu.
Shafer.
Cumber land Valley: J&oie* McFcrrio.
Londonderry : Martin L. Miller, Jonathan
Fcightncr.
Monroe: SaiiKi' 1 Snivel}*.
Xnpir, : Geo. \V. Bowwr.
SeheUibnrg: William C. Snively, I'cicr !>*•)t.
St. Clair: John Arnick, James L. Morton, J*
K. Over.
Southampton : Kwanuei John. >n, Hezckuh
Nor the raft, Levi Clin germ an.
I 'niou: Adam Briggle.
Woodbt.rry Middle: Char led Martin, Cyi
Over.
Drawn and certified at Bedford, tbi* 2n 1 lav
April, A. i>. 1867.
ISAAC KENSINGBR,
WILLIAM KIKK,
Attest: Jury C*tnui -doner.-.
Jvo.-G. Fisax n, Clerk. aug'J
PETIT JURORS drawn for same Term
Bedford Borouyh: Samuel Vondtr. inith, G
D. Shuck,
Bedford Totcnahip: John I). lieltzell, ' cott \\
Hughes.
Couldale: Dafi'l MeNatly.
Cumber/and Volley: John Dickeb, W ilium
Boor, of J., Thomas Elliott, of S.
Ifopeteefl: Joseph Gate*, Jr.
HorrtM'm: Jackxon Kerr.
Juniata; Valcutiuc V. Werts, W. 11. Knipi
Ja"b Corlcy.
Londonderry: Levi Carpenter, Samue' W
helm.
Liberty: Jacob Kenringcr, Geo. K'ad<
Monroe: John Lay ton, Levin Weitner
Xapi'.r: Levi Otto, John Rock, John W.
Bowcn.
Provide*,; Ea*t : George MeGraw, Th : e
Grove, Stephen Wink.
Pr . id'n ; H".; I). 1 vid Spark
St. CLtir: Israel Davb, Jaeob 11. Wright, Val
entine Fiekes.
Southampton; John Mow, Nieb'la- W;tD<-
Denton Stephens, Abel Johnson. William Che M-V
I 'nion: Martin I ruler.
Woadber ry Middle: Philip S. Croft, John £
Hetrick, Daniel Price, of I).
Drawn an i certified at Bedford, thi- 2- d dai
of April, A. D. 1*67.
ISAAC KKNSINGER,
WILLIAM KIKK,
Attest; Jury Coininiaeioni r
Js> G FISHER, Clerk. augV
SHERIFF'S SALES.
By virtue ot sundry writ* vf vendition \\
bv to uc directed, there will be .■■old. it tin < > r
House, in the Borough of Bedford, -n A1 !:
DAY, AUGUST the J Ist, A.D. 1567, at ID
A. M., the following real estate, viz:
One lot of ground in the Borough of Coaldalc
fronting on Fulton street It) feet, and runni
back 120 feet, with a 2-1 story plank house,
basement and back building attached, a-1
lots rf William Green on the cut and a 2" f
a'ley in the w e<t, riiuate in the Borough <f ' ai
dale, Bed) >rd county.
Seized and taken in execution as the pr<, r'v
oi .fame- Bricktr and John Drbew, partner-, r
ding a? Bricker A Drhcw, with notice to Pair;
Dihew and all other tcrre tcnanL".
A ' > : one lot of ground in Woedbvrry, frontiu.
<n Main street 66 and IPS feet deep, with
t.wo sGrj frame hou*e with kitchen aitachcd, a
on- frame -tabic and smoke house and other u:
buildings thereon, adjoining lots of William M
Pier son on the north, and Jacob Hoover on t
South, and situate in the town of Woodhcrry
Bedford county.
Seized and taken in execution a- the pro; :?>
•f Samuel J. Ca-tner.
Alse, one tract of land containing If"
more, or less, about 50 acre? cleared and uii-tt:
fence: having thereon n two *tory log h u-c. -'J
b'e and other out-buildings, and a good apple or
chard: adjoining lands of Samuel Staley, W illi.nt
Ltsinger, John 11. Barton and others: situate ir
Kast Providence township, Bedford county.
Seized and taken in execution as the property
of Samuel Peck and Kosanna Peck.
Also, one lot, or part of a lot of ground in tl*
Borough "f Bedford, being No. 149 in the gener,
plan of the Borough, now occupied by defends!: 1
or tcrre tennant, with a large two story brick
house and other buildings thereon erected: :
lot being 25 feet more or less) in front on Tin
street aud extending back 240 feet to a 2'" •
allev, adjoining lot of Job Mann ou the Wc.-tat:
Hiram Lentx and wife on the East.
Seized ana taken in execution as the propertj
of Mrs. Sophia D. Gibson.
ROBERT STECKM AN, Sheriff
Sheriff'? Office, Bedford, Aug. sth, 1567.
JJST >F CAUSES put down for trial at Sej
J tcmbcr Term, 1857, (2d day.)
John Cessna. vs. Thos- I*l Murray ct. al.
Thro. Weil .t Co. et. al. vs. Saml Merne.
W. S. Kntrikcn is. Kensiugor A Kluck.
Mary Ann Yarncll vs. Wm Marshall.
Wm Finn-toncot al vs. Jas.Fink et al
Ann E. Burk vs. Jno. Weyandt.
John Kemp \s. Kiddles burg Coal and Iron C .
Eavid lie idler v>. 11. A B. T. Kail Koad Co.
Robert Adam- et al vs Francis Hay man et al
Hiddlesburg C. A I. Co. vs. Broadtop C. A. I
Marg't A. Blackburn vs. Geo. Blackburn.
Geo. W. Meyers VS. Mich'l Feather ct al.
Jno. 11. Karns vs. David Kite hey et al.
Jeremiah Knoufl' vs. Jno. 11. Wcrtz et al.
Thos. R. Evans vs. Shafcr A Adams.
John Black ct al vs. Catharine Triekcr.
Samuel Crlcsman et al vs. Jno. Ake's adm'r.
Thos. Ritchey vs Jacob Lingenfetter et al.
Certified August 5, IKfW.
aug.9 O. K. SHANNON. Prot
Colgate's Aromatic Vegetable Soap
A -upcrir Toilet Soap, prepared fi"'u '•
fined Vegetable Oils, in combination with
f-lyeeriue, and especially designed for th .i-f
of Ladies and for the Nursery. Its perfuc.f
is exquisite, and its washing properties unriv.iifi I
For sklc by all druggist#. may2l: ly
JgORDKNTOWN FKMALK COLLIWK
BORDENTOWN, X. J.
An institution for the careful and thorough in
struction of Young Ladies in all the branches of •
complete education. Board and tuition in tin
Preparatory and Collegiate departments, 82tts per
year. H'twAiw, Ancient and Mintern Lanyunyt -.
and ornamental branches, extra. Winter Si un
opens September 19th. For Catalogues, n l ire-•
Rev. JOHN H. ERAK KLKY, A. M
augl 6:4t President.
jDUY CHEAP ANI>" SELL CHEAT,
I.- the VAIVH word ot'W. H. A W. OS I I K.
They hove JII.T reooived a assortment ot la
dies' BOOTS and SHOES which they arc sclltn-
VERY CHEAP.
Bedford. AUR. J:(.:ltn.
A FOXEY SAVED:
ILL Intending to adopt the CASH SYSTEM
October I, !-t>7. aud desirous of reducing "R
stock as low as possible before MAKING Fall pur
chases, we will offer luanv great bargains B-r
CASH! A. B. CKAMKK A CO.
Aug. s, ISTIR.
\TOTIOK :
L\ THE CASH SYSTEM IN KASIIION '
The undersigned takes this method of rc,TC.-t
ing all pers,>ns indebted to him to call and settle
their accounts. On and after OCTOBER 1, L SRT ' •
he will -ell goods FOR CASH and APPRO\ ED
PRODI CE ONLY, having been convineed
experience, that the CASIi -Y stent is the best foi
his customers its well AS himself.
A. L. DEFI9AVHU