si inscription tkhms, ,t f . The XnvCißßn u published every Friday uv>m ing at the following rate® : O.FB YEAR, (in advance,)...., sAOO " (il not paid within six t00?.)... 2. U " (if not paid within the ye*:,}... ?:;.()() All paliers outside of the county discontinued without notice, at the expiration of the t'uue for which the subscription has been paid. Singiecopicsof the paporfuiaiithod.tn wrappers, at five cents each. I'otnmunieationa on subjects of looal or general interest are respectfully solicited. To ensure .At tention, favors of this kind must invariably be accontpaniod by the name of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertain lag to business of the office should be addressed to DUKBORHOW A LUTZ, Baoroiui, PA. grafrjssicaaJ & jSusiafSS Cards. ATT© HIT mI S AT L A AV. I OHH T. KBAGY, .1 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 'X-i*, Office opposite Heed A Sehell's Bank, fiiuascl given in English and German. [p!26] l r IMMKU, AND LINUENFULTER, |V ATTORNEYS AT LAW, bkdfoho, rs. lluvc formed a partnership in the practice of the Law office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mcngcl House. [April 1, 1864-tf \ T . A. POINTS, IVJL ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders bis profcsaioaal services to iho public. Office with J. W. Lingeufeiter, K-.t , on Juliana street. prom, tly in ado. [D0c.9,'64-tf. I 1 AYES IRVINE, ATTOttHBT AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi er intrusted to his care- Office aritbU. It-Spang, - p,on Juliana street, throe doors south of the Men gel House. May 24:1/ llisl'Y M. AUS IP, ill ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bkdfoku, Pa., Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all bugi no entrusted to his i-urc in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military olaims, i'ensionß, back pay, lionnty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street. 2 dooraaouth ! the Men gel House. apll, ISM.—tf. B. F. ME VERS J. W. DJCKBRSOS \ 1 E.YERS 4 DICKKRSON, 31 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, lianroup. Pens'*., Office nearly opposite the Mongol House, will pi si tiee in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pen-ions, Li untie- and L.iclr pay obtained and the ourchase of Real Estate attended to. [mayll ,'66-ly I B. CESSNA, p) . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with John Cessna, on the sqnsrr near the Presbyterian Church. All business entrusted to his cere will receive faithful and prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensnone, do., speedily collected. [June 9,1865. JJ B. STUCKEY, A ! rOKNEY ANI) COUNSELLOR AT LAW, an l REAL EfTATE AGENT, Office on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, ■' KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI. \Y i p-.L-flce in tbo adjoining Counties of 3:1.- sour; and Kansas. July s. B( --BU- J- H. LONGENErKER I > i S.- ELL A LONGENECKEK, J V Attorneys & Ct>csßßi.l.oßS at Law, Bedford, Ph.. H ; attend promptly and faithfully to all busi cntruated to their care. Special attention ■net' collections and the prosecution of claims t r Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ao. ■ .--office on Juliana .-trcot, south of the Court House. Aprils:lyr. MB. SHAIIP* • • tRRR CVllAltl'E A KERR. £5 A TTOHXE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice ir. the Courts uf Bedford aud ad joining c unties. All burl-ess entrusted to their van- will receive careful and prompt attention. Pciimons, Bounty, Back Pay. Ac-, speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Itcod A Schell, Bedford, Fa. mar-:tf J. It. DliKB LUTX. I VURBORROW A LUTZ, [ J ATTORNEY'S AT L AW, Bkbforp, Pa., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no 'l'hey arc, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back l'av, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the Men -el House" and nearly opposite the [nqvirer April 2S, 1865:t. PHYSICIAN*. tUJt. W. JAMISON, M. D., \ 1 Beoodt Run, P*., Ht -pectfully tenders his professional serv ices to tlii I eople uf that place and vicinity. [decS:lyr I Alt. H. F. HARRY, ' ' Uc.-pcctfully tender- his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and rcfidence on Pitt Street, in th building formerly occupiedhv Br. J. 11. Ilofins. [Ap 11,64. J L. MARBOURG, M. I>., pj . Having poruiancntly located respectfully tenders hi.- pofessional services to the citizens 01 Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, ■pposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A l'al oivr's office. April 1, 1864—tf. OK. S. G. STATLEK. near Schellsbnrg, and Br. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumber tend ■ unty, having associated themselves ir. the prac tice oi Medicine, respectfully offer their p'vfe'- i -nal services to the citizens of Schellsburg and vicinity. Br. Clarke's office and residence same as formerly occupied by J. White, E?o., dee'd. S. G. STATLER, Schellsbnrg, April 12:1 y. J. J. CLARKE. HOTELS. WASHINGTON lIOTKL. This Urge and commodious house, having boon rc taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooais are large, well ventilated, and comfrtablj" furnished. The table will always be supplied with the best the ir arket can afiord. The riar is stocked with sbc choicest liquors. In short, it is my purp<>. o to keep a. FILLST-CLASS IIOTFL. Thanking the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit a renewal of (heir patronage. X. D. Hacks will run constantly between tho Hotel and the Springs. uayl7,'67:ly "" WM. DIBKKT, Prop'r. MORRISON HOUSE, HUNTINGDON, PA. I have purchased and entirely renovated the large stone and brick building opposite the Penc sy-vHnia Kail road Depot, and have now opened it f r the accommodation of trie travelling public. The Carpets, Furniture, lleds and Bedding are all e: rircly lcw and first class, and I aiu safe in say ing that T can offer accommodation! not excelled in Central Pennsylvania. I refer to my patrons who have f -mierly kn-jwn rue while in charge of the Broad Top City Hotel and Jackson House. xnay2s:tf JOSEPH MOKKIBON. imccaxivEoiik I > UPP A SHANNON, BANKERS, I V. Bedford, Pa. LANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. ( lection* made for the East, Wnl, Nortb and -■ uth, and the general business of Exchange Iran-acted. Notes and AShonnte Collected aud Itei;. iliaii.e.- promptly made. REAL Eb'i.-.IK I i■ *h: and sold. fcbi'2 j tANIIvL iBORDER, I ' I'itt street, two doorb WRST op the betv i vim Hotel, Beet-irh, PA. WATCHMAKER ANB DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He Veep- on hand a ste~k of fine Gold and 8U - r Watches, Spectacles of Erilliant Double Refin ' 1 Glaa-es, al-o Scotch Pebble Glacc?. Gold Wa'i-h Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best ility ■■:" Gold Pens. He will supply to order y thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2B,'6s. OYESI 0 YES!—The undersigned has taken >ut au--tion license, and tenders his service* all who have sales or auctions to cry. Give dm a calf. Post Office address, Spring Meadows, lford c uoty, I'cDß'a. April HENRY U. MOCK. DrKBORKOW A LI'TZ Editors and Proprietors. Iftotnj. WOUXDSD. Let me lie down, Just he-re in the shade of this eannon-tohn tree — Here low oti the trampled grass, where I may seo The surge of the combat, where I may hear The glad cry of victory ! cheer upon cheer— Let me lie down. Oh, it was grand ! Like the tempest we charged, in the triumph to share; The tempest —its fury and thunder were there, On, on, o'er entrenchment*, o'er living aud dead. With the foe under foot and our (lag over head — Oh, it was grand ! Weary and faint, Prone to the soldier's couch ah, how can I rest With this shot shattered head and sabre-" pierced breast ? Comrades, at roll call, when I shall be sought. Say I iought till 1 fell, and fell where I fought, Wounded and faint. Oh. that last charge ! Right through the dread hell-iire of schrapnel and shell. Through without faltering, clear through with a yell, Right in their midst, in tho turmoil and gloom, I.ike heroes wo dashed ut tho mandate of doom. Ob, that last charge I It was duty ! Some things aro worthless, and some others so good That nations who buy them pay only iu blood, For Freedom aud Union each man owes bis part, And here I pny nty share all warm from my heart. It is duty ! Dying at last 1 My mother, dear mother, with meek, tcarfi.i eye. Farewell ! ac.d God bless you, for ever and ayo ! Oh that 1 now iay on your pillowing breast To breathe my last sigh on the bosom first prest 1 Dying at laßt! 1 am no saint, But boys, say a prayer. There's one that be gins "Our Father," and then says "Forgive us otir sins." Don't forget that part: say that strongly; and then I'll try to repeat it, and you'll say Amen. Ah, I'm no saint! Hark I there's a shout ! Raise me up, comrades; we Lave conquered, I know ! Up on toy feet, with my face to the foe: Ah, there tlies the flag, with its star spangles bright— The promise of glory, the symbol of Right! Well may they shout! I'm mustered out! 0 God of our fathers ! our freedom prolong And tread down rebellion, oppression, anf wrong ! 0 land of earth's hope 1 on thy blood-red dened sod 1 die for the Naffon, the Union and God I'm mustered out ! T'olitiial. THE MAJORITY AND THE CONSTI TUTION. A correspondent, whose letter we prin elsewhere, expresses in a few words what i: the difficulty of thousands of honest mindi with regard to this dispute between Mr Johnson and Congress—of men, too, wh< do not approve of Mr. Johnson's course but who, nevertheless, cannot pcrsuadt themselves that he and the Supreme Cour have not each as good a right to intcrpre the Constitution —that is, defiue the limit: of their own powers —as Congress has. I is, however, quite plain to the eommoncs intelligence that whatever a written con.-ti tution can do, there is one thing it cannot and that is, prevent these co-ordinatt branches of a government from coming int collision wben each attempts to define it own powers. That these collisions bavi not occurred ofteuer, or rather have no proved of much moment hitherto, eithe here or iu England, is dtiesimply to the fac that in ordinary times the subjects on vvnic! co-ordinate departments differ, and the end they have in view, are not of portance to tempt any one department int< going to extremes. One is almost sure t< give up before negotiation is exhausted Therefore the arrangement- made by a writ ten constitution for preserving the Ualanoi of power may ordinarily work well. _ It this country they have worked well. Unti the Dred S o:t dee"-ion, although the pow era claimed for the Fupremo Court undo the Constitution had excited jealous an< avowed intention not to lie bound by its dc cisions. But the Dred Scott decisiot . touched a point which the majority felt P be vital, and at-once the authority of tbi Court as an interpreter was repudiated b: the majority. So, also, the issues raised ii this reconstruction process are felt by tie majority to be vital, that is, to go to tho ver; foundations of the national existence, and therefore," the slightest attempt of th Court to control the action of Congres would certainly be repudiated, and the Cour knows it aDd wisely abstains from meddling If the Supreme Court had the jiower o interpreting tho (' nstittttion ltider al "circumstance- and in all cases, the judge would govern the country as a ,-mali oligar I chy, and reform would be hopeless insid half a ccn>ury. You may n-sert that thr j have this power as much us you please, am the majority in quiet times may act as i they Vud it; but the minute troublou- time t- me, and the majority is -ati-iied that if i obey the judges the ends for which th judges exist will he defeated, it will ndt obe A LOCAL AND (IKNERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE; AND MORALS. To argue that this ought not to he so, is idle; you might as well argue that hu man nature ought to be changed. Perhaps it ought, but governments are made for men as they are and not as they ought to l>c. and the wit of man is not etjuul to the task of devising a written constitution which shell be obeyed under all circumstances. Noth ing would secure this result but some occult I power that would cause anybody who viola ted it instantly to drop down dead. In two thirds of what is written on tho win city of "fundamental law," including lite lone dis quisitions of Mr. (jr. T. Curtis iu the World, there is a false bottom to the thinking. The reasoning is based on the assumption that the Constitution is tho ultimate fact ol our system of government. This is a delu sion. The ultimate fact of this, as of all Governments, is human nature; and until ■ human nature is totally changed, the major ity of a great and free country will not al low one mm calling himself an executive, or nine men calling themselves a court, to interpret the fundamental law when, in the opinion of the majority, their interpreta tion would be dangerous to the public safety. But this, says "Freedom," means a gov ernment of "mere majority, and leaves my breath dependent on their will." He is right. This is exactly what it means. We do live under a Government of the majori ty. Tho Constitution is an instrument by which the majority binds itself to refrain from certain acts, hut it never gives up its right, in the last re.-ort, of explaining the sense in which it took tho pledge, or, in other words of taking the President or any body else whom it finds running about and doing mischief, while professintr to take "tho Constitution for his guide," and put ting him under lock aud key, if it believes his hermeneutics dangerous to tho State. The idea that there is something very hor rible iu Itcing dependent on the majority of a Christian State for liberty and security, which "Freedom" seetns to entertain, is the product of that species of fetish worship of which the Constitution has long been the object. Tho Constitution, unless it he a tiiiisman, cannot have any more force than the majority gives it. If the majority de sires to rob and cut throats, there is no vir lucintbe parchment to stop it. If it al lows Andrew Johnson and the Supreme Court to define their own powers, it is sim ply because it does not consider it worth while to interfere with them. This fact has always been so well under stood by the highest class of minds, that in constitutional countries the skill of great statesmen has nearly always been shown in avoiding reliance on the constitution, in per stnding the majority into doing or not doing 1 * certain things without falling back on naked legal rights, As soon as a King, President, or Minister says, in exciting times, that he will fail back on the constitution or charter, and act on his own con.-truction of it, he shows himself as much a fool and is as sure to be destroyed, as a .'ingle man who should point his rifle at a regiment. The end and use of statemanship is to avoid bringing things to this pa-s. The minute the states ! man appeals to force against the majority, tbo majority measures its owu strength against him, and sweeps hint aside. This is just what Andrew Johnson seems disposed to do. He says his interpretation of the Constitution is the right one; Con gress says its inter)iretation is the right one. Admitting one to be as likely to be richt a tho other, who is to decide between them? The Supreme Court is simply, when the destiny of a nation is at stake, nine elderly men. Suppose they throw themselves on Mr. Johnson's side, the_ result would bo that ten elderly men would be of his way i of thinking instead of one, because C'ou- I gress does not regard the Court as any more competent intellectually to decido such questions as are raised in the reconstruction problem than Congress is itself. If the Court were more competent than Congress to decide such questions, it ought to govern the country completely, and tho election and meeting of the Legislature is a ue-loss ex pense. so that in the last resort the dispute can only be ended by the majority using its : superiority of force to decide —and this it is sure to do. This may be an unfortunate state of things, but nobody is to blame for i it—neither theframers of the Constitution, , ; nor those who live under it. In every free ' State the maintenance of liberty and jus tice—no matter what the written forms may ' be—depends in the last resort on the char acter ol" the majority ef the people. ''Free dom" would be sure of his liberty in Phila delphia if the Constitution were abolished to-morrow; he would not be sure of bis head 'or his purse if he lived in Mexico, though ! every man in the country wore the Consti ; tution in a locket around his neck as an ara t I uiet.— New York Notion. ' ; FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED. i j The experience of the last six years I should have taught us that even in the Uni i ted States there is no security against civil t trouble. A more appalling introduction to t it notation ever had. Yet to the very mo * mcnt of the actual blow it Was considered impossible. The republic was charmed. t Other countries had suffered, but we were . exceptional. Wars were over, and however lou-1 the threat of violence it would pass as ■ an idle word. The method of tho Southern , madness was not heeded. The plainest s declarations were regarded as political' gag. ; The most evident preparations were unseen t or unminded. It was said that Senator r Seward would rise in his place, and, iu the t midst ot the most eourtcous hut crushing i anti-slavery -peech, turn to Senator Butler, who sat behind him, and hold out his thumb and finger lor a piueh of snuff. The Caro > iina Senator, averting his head, would cx , i tend his box to his colleague from New.York, I who still could not see any thine in the - ' Southern speeches but party rhetoric. It j j war- a game (hey played in the capitol. It , j wa- Mipposed that th y would vow .-.-cession 1 1 ati i utauniou until after election, and then . I nobody would be so sound and earnest a r 1 Union man as Senator Seward's excellent I friend from Georgia, Senator Toombs. It ; is only a cry of wolf ! wolf ! said comforta i hie puDlic opinion. But one day the wolf > came. j Is it worth while to return to that ghastly self-deception of .-ix and eight years ago ? i Ls it any more foolish to believe that the > President will push the present extremity j to an armed solution, if he cut, than it was t to believe that the see .-.-ionists would take _> arms at the first favorable moment ? An * drew Johnson is at bay. lie is conscious of i tho contemptuous condemnation of his country, and ot the doom to which history f will consign hint, lie i< ignoraut, passion ! ate, and headstrong. He is surrounded by , j the demagogues —by Fcrnaudo Wood, . Jeremiah Black, and men in sympathy with B them. Ho is the constitutional (Jontman do,-hi Chief uf the National forces, and ho | i.as told us hotv he interprets the Constitu )' I tion. After a long aud exasperated Strug s gle with Congress, in which it was supposed t that he had been M> bound by the la\V6 as to 3 be powerless, if not to have aoquioseed in ,- the inevitable, he suddenly assumes the de- BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. SEPT. 37. 1867. fensive, defies the unquestionable public opinion of the country, auarrols, under po lite phrases, with GoneraUGrant, and knows : that within ninety day^Congress will assem ble and will probably impeach him. Has ' he done all this tor the swkc of being im peached? Ila- he done it with the intention of placidly yielding when he is impeached, and going humbly out of office ? Or does he ui mi, if possible, to provoke an armed crisis ? Wo learn, upon good authority, that there are ton "thousand men in Maryland called millitia, armed and under the com mand of rebel officers. Not long before Mr. Stanton was suspended a requisition came from the Governor of Maryland to the \\ ar Department for batteries, which the Secre tary refused. For what purpose is such a body of men so armed and so officered ?• We do not mention this to excite a foolish alarm, but an alarm which is not_foolish. It may be an untrue story, but it is rrot iu the least improbable that the President in tends some action hostile to Congress. It may be in the guise of resistance to the : process and results of impeachment. It may be in pursuance of a plan to issue an amnesty and to assemble a new Congress. The wildness of the plan and its futility do i not make it improballe. If the President knew the feeling of the country he might pause. But he does not know it. He can not know it. Lie is surrounded and led by men who misrepresent it; and to General Grant the true friend of the country in the Cabinet, he docs not listen. The times are grave. No man should deeeive himself or "deride," with the New York Tribune, the imminence of trouble. To be forearmed against danger we must bo forewarned. We need not, indeed, imagine that we are already Mexieanized; but we ought certainly to reflect that in a revolu tionary period, when the country still trem bles with civil war, and peaceful order is not yet restored, a desperate, ignorant, and ob stinate Chief Magistrate may plunge us into very serious difficulty.— Harper's Weekly. COPPERHEAD LOGIC. Our enemies persistently clamor about the magnitude of the national debt, as a proof of Republican incapacity to govern, and therefore argue that we ought to sus tain copperhead candidates for office. But will they pay off the debt or repudiate it? If they propose to pay it off in what way can they do so without increasing the al ready enormous taxation? Yet these same copperhead's keep up the same_ clamor about the taxation as being a vast incubus. Ilow can they reduce both the debt and the 1 taxes? They already have the whol na tional administration in their hands, inclu ding the President and Secretary of the Treasury. We ean give them no more pow er to reduce either debt or taxes. If they had a majority in both houses of CoDgress, they could not reduce expenses without em barrassing their own administration, unless they were to stop all payment of bounties and pensions to soldiers. Still they appeal to the soldiers as being their especial friends, and represent the Republicans as their ene mies. Would tbey pay neveo and half millions ot dollars for Ala.-kaand fivemillions for Samaua, or would they repudiate these engagements which are not Republican, but made by Seward and Johnson ? They magnify the burden of the debt and endeavor to render it odious to the people, at the same time that they pretend to accept the lessons of the civil wat aud the splendid results achieved it. If the war and its re sults are to be considered thus as beyond question, why dispute the debt without which it could not have been carried on ? If they do not desire to repudiate that debt, why seek to render it odious? If they so ardently wish to reduce tho debt, why in crease its load of interest by funding greenbacks bearing no interest in securities that pay six per cent, in gold? If as a mat ter of economy they are opDOeed to paying bounties to the soldiers, why go on paying out million- for more territory? If they are so well satisfied with the greenbacks, why reiterate all the old stale cries about an ex cessive aud worthless currency? If they prefer a guaranteed bank currency, why seek to undermine the credit of the national banks? If they are in lavor of a reduction of taxation, why oppose the abolition of the onerous taxes on domestic iudustry ? They have constantly represented that there ex isted so great and pressing a need for rev enue as to leave no room for a lowering of taxes, and yet they keep up a clamor at tho same time against this very taxation as un just. They seek to make the Union soldiers re gard t bem as their friends, while they con tinually depreciate their glorious deeds, and award more credit to the rebel troops than to our own. They pretend to abhor the as sassination of President Lincoln while they lament the execution of his a;0. When at that time it was very clear that the , Democratic leaders at th-> South and in Cab inet intended to plunge the country into war some of the Republican journal- in the country called attention to the significant signs of the times, as portending trouble, and asserted that under _ all circumstances the laws must be maintained. The Demo cratic papers declared that such a strain was incendiary, and that the Republicans were stirring up civil war. As we said last week the public apathy and incredulity were remarkable, and the country blindly lurched into war. If the circumstances which were known to some had been made public, it the tocsin of the press had loudly rung the alarm, the war might not indeed have been avoided; but we should have been somewhat prepared for the struggle. At the present time, as we also stated last week, there is reason for grave 1 apprehension of trouble, and the country j (night constantly to bear it in moid. No i body ean seriously doubt that the President j would resort to an armed settlement with j Congress, if he dared. It is mainly a ques j tion of his courage. Suppose the President, I having issued a general amnesty, should de- Clare martial law in the District of Colombia and for as large an area around it as might suit his purpose. He would then be practic ally Dictator, and General Grant would be officially his military Lieutenant.. This would be illegal, it would be revolu- j tionary, it would he preposterous. I 'n- ■ doubtedly; but it is none the less possible ! und probable. Tho President is not a per son who can be fusted, aud when that is said all is said. He knows that Congres will meet on the lllst of November. Ho is very sure that thero will he a vigorous effort for his impeachment. He is pretty sure that the effect will succeed, and he probably has very little doubt of the result. Now he also believes, for he has told us very of ten, that Congress as at present constituted is a usurping body. He acknowledges its authority, indeed, "but that acknowledgment would not interfere with his action, for he is wholly inconsistent and illogical, and he is doaporate. Ha Id Hats that the lata rebel States a>e entitled to representation; and it follows, in the Presidential mind, that a Congress which forcibly expels a part of the States is not a body competent to impeach, and not a body, therefore, whose action is to he respected. Is there any thing in the career or charter of the President which make it unlikely that he would attempt to resist or disperse Con gress, or do something to make tnublo be fore it assembles? Common-sense, indeed, rejects such a course as stupid folly. But is that a reason for supposing that it would not be adopted by the President? It is tolerably evident to most sensible men that a great eause, a great faith, and skillful lead ers are necessary to a great and successful revolution; and that there is no cause, no inspiration, no leadership, in Andrew Johnson and his "policy." If be has any reliance, it must he upon the Demo cratic party. Is that party likely to sup port him in a cmp de'etntf No, for they are very careful to disown the President anil the President's performances. But although a great revolution requires a great cause, a serious and bloody trouble may arise from a very small one. In insisting, as we do, upon the possibil ity and probability of Presidential violence, we wish to persuade our readers that it is their duty to be awake and alert, aud that no peace i 3 to be expected while Mr. John son is President. It was universally sup posed and asserted that Congress had_ bound him so closely that he could do no mischief. Does the event prove it? Is he not to day in a position to do as much mischief, more mischief than ever? And is there any doubt that his doing it will depend solely upon his courage ? He is undoubted ly urged by evil counsellors, as Governor Seymour of New York wa- in lM"i. The Governor, upon reflection, did not dircctly rcsist the National Government. It was a very wise course, and it is useless now _to speculate upon the reasons that ruled him. If the President is as wise as the Governor we shall be very glad. If he is not, we shall not be surprised.— Uarptrs Weekly. CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY. Governor F.ngliJi telegraphs to Governor Haight that his election "will gladden the friends of Constitutional liberty the country through." Governor llaight telegraphs back that "California has echoed the voice of Connecticut, * *_ * We have but followed where you led in the sacred cause of Constitutional liberty." What do these gentlemen mean by Constitutional liberty? They certainly mean something different from that liberty affirmed in tho glorious preamble to our father's, Declaration of American Independence, when they pro claimed that " all in- i are created equai," and "endowed by their Creator with inali enable rights to iife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Cv. stituth-nal liberty is something radically different from universal liberty, its chlmpions themselves being judges. It is not that sort of liberty which Governor English advanced when, amid the despairing shrieks and howls oftho devotees of "Constitutional liberty," he voted to abolish and prohibit slavery throughout this broad Republic. No, it is something very different from that, as the two accidental Governors—one chosen such by a lavish ex j penditurc of his own and other millionaires' money, and the other slipping in through a : deplorable feud which distracted the Union party and kept twenty thousand of its vo ters from the polls— very well know. John C. Calhoun was, for twenty years, the leading champion of "Constitutional liberty." Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan were his timid and cautious disciples. The asser ted right of every slaveholder to plant sla very wherever he-might choo.-e, in defiance of whatever looal or general repugnance, was a direct deduction from this doctrine of "Constitutional liberty. ' Abraham Lin coln touched the core of it when, in his can va-- with Douglass, ho defined squatter sovereignty thus;- —"If A chooses to make Bhis slave, C shall not iuterfere." God be thanked that this swindling mockery dis guised as "constitutional liberty is not the liberty for which our fathers fought, nor that which their lineal sons are determined and destined to achieve I —A etc York Tri bune. THE ISSUE. —Was the war right ? This is the whole issue before us, stripped of all incidental and outside matter. It it was, we do not want and will not liuve its effects aud consequences construed away. This is now the objective point towards which the Democrats arc tending under the lead of Judge Black, and to this end they are at tempting to fill our courts with lawyers of the strict or CalhoUn construction school. Woodward tried to construe away the draft. Sharswood attempted to construe away our national currency. Black boldly decided that the nation bad no power to defend its own iife. So it goes. Step by step they undermine all that we have cen living and fighting for since 1770, aud if let alone, in a short time world have us repudiating every i lea or semblance of nationality. These men, too, are conscientious in their heresy. Calhoun could not have been more so. and therein is the great danger. If we believe that our war was right, that our soldiers died in a good eause, and that our bayonets gleamed through Georgia constitutionally, then we must avoid, yea, spurn all men who conscientiously believe the war to have been wrong, and pronounce it, when they woulu excuse it, an error and mistake. _ There is no half way ground on this question. Tou must vote for Williams and a constitutional j war, or Sbarswood and an unconstitutional war. — Philadelphia Press. IT is announced that the President means to rest awhile. This signifies that he in tends to wait until after the Pennsylvania and New York elections, and then, if the republicans shall he defeated he will defy or perhaps disperse Congress Do the republi cans perceive the magnitude and gravity of the issue ? Will they see to it that the elections so result as not to give the Presi dent a popular endorsement? — Pittsburgh Gazette. YOLUMEIO; NO. 3S. PHARAOH HARDENING.— Mr. Johnson keeps steadily on in his insane efforts to resist tue wui of the nation. It now looks as though he wished lo make a martyr of him self, in order to got up another revolution, and get himself into notice. He stands about the best chance to get hanged of any j Uebcl in or out of the country, we judge, if we read his character correctly, and sec what is just ahead of us. That he will fa:! of becoming a martyr; that he will fail of resuscitating'the dead Democratic party: that he will he foiled by the good genius who presides now over our country's con science, and not he able to get up a revolu tion; that the firm but silent man whohas got ten into Stanton's place knows his man, aud has him as tight as he had his friends Lee and Davis once upon a time; that he will make that public exhibition of bis folly be foro all the narions so as to eclipse his inau gural spree, and that other stagger round the circle of last summer, we have no doubt. Pray God to harden Pharaoh's heart yet more, and the whole work will bo done.. The instrument ol' God is blindly doing His will, and all that is left undone to complete ly radicalize this nation will, or we arc no prophets, shortly he revealed. God is in this man, bad as he is, just as he was in Ju das, in Davis, and in the chosen men who do the will of Satan on earth. Thank God for the madness of Mr. Johnson' May he get no better very fast. —A' Y. Church Union. ML'SKETOES—W IIAT THEY AKE A.MJ HOW TIIEY LIVE. It is unscientific to say that musketoes bite, for they have no teeth ; and they have no need of teeth to seize upon or prepare their food, for thejr are dainty, and take food only in the liquid form —spoon vituals. They are a chivalrie race, and attack their enemies with a sort of sword or lance; no doubt they consider biting and gouging quite vulgar. The lance of the mnsketo is a very beautiful aud perfect piece of work; it is smoother than burnished steel, and its point is so fine and i>erfect that the most power ful microscope does not discover a flaw in it. As the most delicate cambric needle is to a crowbar, so is the musketoe's lance to the best Damascus blade. The lance is worn in a scabbard or sheath, which in every res pect is worthy of it: it is often ornamented with plumes. Man carries his sword at Lis side, and the on his head. The latter arrangement has manifest and won derfel advantages—the weapon is always en garth , and docs not impede locomotion by getting entangled with the legs. The lance and its sheath being on the head and being somewhat flexible, is often called a proboscis. This view of the case is strengthened by the fact that the scabbard is a suction pipe through which the mu.-keto drinks its food. As Moses struck the rock with his staff, so the musketo with a thrust of his lance pierces the fountain, and the i neefar, gushing into the scabbard, finds its way to the more sensitive and vital parts. The musketo might be classed among our domestic aniiuales may we not say among the household pets? They are the almost oonstant companions of man in'town and country, during the holliday season of the summer. No home without the musketo. What affection! How ihey stick to us, clo ser than brothers! They often come a great way—hundreds of miles —to be with us. Most of those which greet us in this city have left their distant homes in Jersey and have made the perilous journey across a wide river. They also love their own society aud travel in companies which sometimes comprise millions of individuals—in swarms which obscure the sun. But the common place detractors say that musketoes are bred in unwholesome swamps, and that it is only the wind which bears them, as it does feathers and malaria, wherever it listeth. Let us inquire about the earliest begin ning of the musketo; let us take him in the egg. The mother musketo has notions of naval architecture, and out of the eggs 6he lays she constructs a well-modeled boat, with elevated prow and stern and well pro- j portioned midship. For the boat she lem- , ploys 250 to 350 eggs, building it up piece- j meal, somewhat alter the manner of men, binding together the individual eggs by means of a powerful water-proof cement, into a substantial and complete structure. Unfortunately we are unable to give a recipe for the water-proof cement; there are many who would like to have it. The boat is built on the water, and when completed she is confidently abandoned to the mercy of the wind and the wave. Thanks to that water proof cement, she can neither be broken, wetted, or sunk; she is safer _ than if she were copper bottomed. The little craft, it must be remembered, is freighted with life —each of its 250 or 350 little state rooms has its tenant. After a few days cruising the occupants of the shells come forth, and the ship is destroyed. But those little creatures are surely not musketoes! They appear more like fish or serpents, or little dragons. On closer examination they prove to be what every one knows under the name of "wigglers;" they are the larvae of the musketo. They wiggle about in the well known way for a week or two, and after changing their skins two or three times, they assume quite a new form and movement, j They are now what the boys call "tumblers,' and are the pvpee of the musketo. In about a week, if the weather, etc., be j favorable, something of the form of the musketo may be seen through the transpa rent skin of the tumbler. Shortly the prisoner escapes from his confinement as a full fledged and hold musketo, and soars away in search of food and pleasure.— Scientific American THE Iloc EGOS. —The following from the Calcutta Englishman, gives a full account of the enormous fossil eggs—if eggs they be —found in the Island ofMadagascar The Mauritan mentions: on the authority "of a Bourbon journal , that a singular dis covery has been made iu Madagascar. Fos sil eggs of an enormous size have been found in the bed of a torrent. The shells are an eighth of an inch thick, and the circumfer ence of the egg itself is 2 feet 9 inches lengthways, and 2 feet 2 inches round the middle. One which has been opened con tains about two gallons ! What was to have come out of these eggs ? Bird or crocodile t The natives seem to be well ac quainted with them, and say that ancient tradition is uniform as to the former exis tence of a bird large enough to carry an ox. This is only a little smaller than the roc of oriental fable, which waited patiently till he saw the elephant and rhinoceros fighting, and then carried off both at one stoop. Some fossil hones were found in the same place as the eggs; but the Bourbon editor says that he will leave it to the pupils o! the great Cuvier to decide to what animal they j belong. If they 'should prove to be the ; bones of a bird of size corresponding to the . j egg, the discovery will indeed be an extra ' ordinary one. HATES OP ADVERTISING. All advertisement* for less than 3 months 10 cent* per line lor e&ch insertion. Special notices onchalf additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communication* of a limited or individual interete and notices of marriage* and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 cts. per line. Ail legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required bylaw to bo pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cents per line. AH Advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 9 months. 1 year One square $ 4.J0 $ 6.00 SIO.OO T wo squares.. 6,00 9.00 16.00 Throe squics 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth c01umn....,. 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column... *.. 18.00 25.00 45.00 Oar, column 30.00 45.00 80.00 THE GREASE TREE.-- 11l China there grows a tree known as the Grease Tree. It is said that large forests of this vegetable lubricant are to be found there, and they form the source of a considerable local traffic. This tree not very lone ago was imported into India, and it is said the experiment of • cultivating it there has proved quite suc ecs.-ful. In the I'unjaub and northwestern provinces generally it grows as rapidly and as vigorously as in its native soil, and there arc already thousands of trees on the gov ernment plantations, yielding tons of seed, admirably adapted to a variety of commer cial purposes, lloctor Jameson, chemist in the Tunjaub, has prepared hundred weights of grease from this particular tree, and has forwarded on trial a portion of it to the Punjaub railway, to have its qualities tested in a practical manner as lubricating mate rial tor those parts of the machinery con stantly exposed to friotion. The grease thus obtained forms an excellent tallow, burning with a clear, brilliant, and what is iuficitely more to the purpose, a white light, and at the samo time emitting not a trace of any unpleasant odor, or of the ordinary disagreeable accompaniments of combustion —smoke. WHAT ARE YOU LIVING FOR? —A pas tor walking out recently, met a little girl be lotK'ing.io bis flock. As they walked on to gether, he spoke to her of her studies, and wa > pleased to find her manifesting an inter est amounting almost to enthusiasm in the cultivation of her mind: "But why, hi!ie,'' asked the pastor, "are you so anxious to succeed in your studies ? What do you moan to do with your educa tion after you gel it?" "Oh sir." said the girl, "I want to learn that I may do some good in the world. I don't wantto tell the Lord in the day of judg ment that I have lived so long in the world ithout having done any good in it." Noble purpose ! Who of our young friends are studying and living to so good an end? Who of us are making an every day • impress for good on the hearts and eyes of those among whom we move? THE BIRD or THE TOLLING BELL.— Among the highest woods and deepest glens of Brazil a sound is sometimes heard, so siugulur that the noise seems quite unnatur al; it is like the distent and solemn tolling of a church bell, struck at intervals. This ex traordinary noise proceeds from the arawan da. The bird sits on the top of the highest trees in the deepest forests, and though constantly heard in the most desert places, it is very rarely seen. It is impossible to conceive any thing of more solitary character than the profound silence of the woods, bro ken only by the metalic and almost super natural sound of this invisible bird, coming from the air, and seeming to follow where ever you go. The "arawanda" is white with a circle of red around its eyes: its size is about that of a small pigeon. EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE.— It way give ; oUiC idea of the extent of the Uni verse to know the length of time required for iight, which travels 192,t)00 miles a min ute, to come from different celestial objects to this earth. From the moon, it cames in one and a quarter seconds; from the sun, in eight minutes; from Jnpcter, in fifty-two minutes; Uranus, in two hours; from a star of the first magnitude, three or twelve years; from a star of the fifth magnitude, sixty-six years; from a star of the twelfth magnitude, four thousand years. Light whieh left a star of the twelfth magnitude when the Israelites left Egypt has not yet reached the earth. Our entire solar system itseil travels at the rate of thirty-five thou sand miles an hour among the fixed stars. — ; Home and Foreign Record. WAR. —Give me the money that has been spent in war, and I will purchase overy foot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every man, woman and child in an attire of which kings and queens would be proud. I will build a school nouse on everv hill side, and in every valley over the whole earth; 1 will build an acadeufy in every town, and endow it; a college in every State, and fill it with able professors; I will crown every hill with a place of worship, consecrated to the pro mulgation of the Gospel of peace; I will support in every pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should an swer to the chime on another round the earth's wide circumference; and the voice of prayer, and the song of praise, should as cend like a universal holocaust to Heaven. —Rufus Stevens. LITTLE NEGLECTS. —By neglecting to lock the stable door the horse was stolen, by leaving a lot of old rubbish in the farm yard, one colt broke his leg and another got a nail in his foot; in neglecting to spend half an hour in battering upon the, sheep fold, a pair of twin lambs froze to death. By care lessly tying the hull, the ox was gored and died; by neglecting to kill the ticks on the sheep, and lice on the cattle, the sheep bo bame poor, shed all their wool, gave no milk, the lambs died, and a fine stock of cattle, in high condition when they came to stall, lost all their flesh before spring, some helped up by the tail and survived, while others were snaked off by _ the neek, a short retributive justice to their owners, always attached in some way to human transgres sions. A SECRET WORTH KNOWING. —An able writer gives utterance to the following valu able secret: '"The looking forward to enjoy ment don't pay. For what I know of it. I would as soon chase butterflies for a living orbottle moonshine for a cloudy night. The only way to be happy is to take the drops of happiness as God gives them to us every day of our lives. The boy must learn to be happy while be is learning his trade: the merchant while be is making.his fortune. If he fails to learn this art, he will be sure to miss his enjoyment when he gains what he has sighed for." A WILLING DEBTOR.— Sir Walter Scott, on one occasion, was desirous of rewarding the wit and importunity of an Irish beggar by the present of a sixpence, but found that h< had not so small a coin in bis purse. "Here, my good fellow said the Laronct, "here is a shilling; but mind you owe mo sixpence." "God bless your honor," ex claimed Fat, "may your honor live till I pay you!" The author of Ivanhoc was highly tickled at the native reply. "MART, do you remember the text this morning?" "No. papa, I can never remem ber the text, I've such a bad memory." "Ma ry," said her mother, "did you notice Sarah Brown?" "Oh! yes: what a fright! She had on her last year's bonnet, done up, a pea green silk, a black lace mantilla, brown gait ers, imitation Honiton collar, a lava bracelet, Iher old ear-drops, and such a fan 1 Oh, my 1 oh, my!" "Well, my dear, your memory is improving."