BKDFOKD, PA., FBIBAT, MARCH M >*<*
STATE TICKET.
AUDITOR GENERAL:
GEN. JOHN F. HARTRANFT,
OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
SURVEYOR GENERAL T
Ccl. JACOB H. CAMPBELL,
OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
OIK CANDIDATES.
The Republican party in Pennsylvania
liave been so thoroughly satisfied with the
conduct of their public servants filling the
offices of Auditor General and Surveyor
General that they have been unanimously
renominated. These gallant soldiers have
shown themselves not only willing but able
to acquit themselves as creditably in the
civil as in the military service. The highest
compliment is paid them by tlic state at
large when even the opposition have no
word of complaint, and in their own party,
without rivals and without any efforts ol
their own they have been renominated with
out a dissenting voice. .Such honors arc
seldom vouchsafed to the most popular of
pubUc officers. With Grant, llartranft
and Campbell the Old Keystone will roll
up an overwhelming majority for the I nion
next Fall.
SfRICTIiY A POLITICAL PAPER.
This heading could have been placed at
the head of the Bedford Gazette at the ac
cession of the present editor of that journal
to the tripod, ten or a dozen years ago, and
its readers would not have had occasion
to complain of any infringement upon its
standing motto above a score of times in all
that period. This is almost marvelous, and
yet we doubt whether it could be successful
ly contradicted. Of course, we have no
reference to "selected matter;" now and
then, an article has found its way to the out
side, or may be the inside, when political
matter was not to bo bad, that was not
strictly political, but it was only on such
occasions. We allude particularly to the
editorial matter which has appeared in its
columns. There has been an abundance of
this class of matter, very well written, too,
but never a thought, from the first day of
January to the last day of December, that
did not express a denunciation of Republi
cans or laudation of the Democrats, or an
allusion to one or the other.
Are country newspapers intended for no
other purpose than to cry up one party and
cry down another? Are they intended for
no other purpose than to advocate the
filling of thankless little offices with its par
tizans? Are they mere party machines, sup
ported for party purposes, without any re
gard for tho ten thousand other interests of
the community in which they are published?
The Gazette, judging from its course, would
answer the first two questions negatively,
and the iUcJ WE uua It ..tula,
no doubt, add further, if it were disposed
to be honest, "That the chief end of a Dem
ocratic leader should be, and really is, to
get into office, and that it is the duty of
those who cannot get in to support those
who can!" The Gazette is published for no
other obiect judging from its editorial.-.
And, now, we desire to ask the Democrat
ic tax-payers what advantage this course of
conduct, on the part of a journal which
should be the exponent of all the varied in
terests of (be county, has been to them?
The generality of men, we are willing to ad
mit, act from selfish motives. What ad
vantage have you derived from the course
of your county paper? From the thousands
of political articles which have appeared in
its columns for teD years, what advantage
have you experienced? Answer the ques
tion honestly. How many of you, to take
the best possible view of it, have been elect
ed to offices worth your taxes? Can you
point to a score of your number who have?
No, Messrs. Democratic tax-payers, you
cannot. The truth of it is that good offices
seldom come your way; if there is a fellow in
the county who is too lazy to work, and has
shrewdness enough to be a politician, he
must be supported by the party, and your
editor calls out lustily, week after week, for
you to do so, and charges you with being a
renegade if you do not, and you arc whipt
in and must waste your time and money to
elect him. Ain't this true? And after he
is elected what good does ho do you? If
you want him to do you the least favor im
aginable, he will ask pay, and if you offer
him thanks merely, he will tell you quite
bluntly that he cannot live on thanks? Ain't
this a fact? We do not complain that it is
so; we believe that all men should be paid
for their labor, and well paid, but we would
like to know who pays you for your eflorts
to secure the triumph of the Democratic
ticket? Are you paid by promises of future
reward? If you are, be once and forever
undeceived. Don't you know that the po
sitions which are not taken up by the crafty
leaders are given to the weak-kneed Repub
licans to buy them up? You may have
served the party for fifty years faithfully,
but leave one of this peculiar gentry turn up,
and he must be cared for; they know your
vote to be safe, and by flattering the weak
kneed gentleman they make sure of his vote
and that, perhaps, of some of his friends,
and mark it, there is always one of this
class to be bought up. The Republicans
have done the same thing before now, but
we despise the policy. Firstly, because it is
injustice to those who have kept up (he or
ganization for years, and secondly, because
men bought up in this way are mere wcath
cr-cocks.
If these views are correct, and we are led
to believe that they are in ninety-nine cases
out of every hundred, then the course of
the Gazette has been absolutely of no advan
tage to you, but on the other bend, a down
right loss. Let us suppose that it had, dur
ing all this time, consistently advocated an
improved system of Agriculture in addition
to its politics, would it not have had a very
beneficial effect upon the industrial prosper
ity of the county? Supposo it had advoca
ted the location of iron manufactories in the
county as earnestly as it has advocated poli
tiaa, doss any one doubt that wc would have
a larger number of these establishments lo
cated here with our facilities? Again, had
it paid as much attentiou to the building of
a railroad through the county, as it has to
the election of Democrats, from tho highest
position down to township clerk, would our
people not to day be enjoying all the
advantages which such improvements would
bring? Certainly, there cannot be a doubt
in regard to it. While the Gazette has been
scrambling for a oonst able ship or an au
ditorship, all the great interests; which would
have tuade every acre of land worth twice
or thriee the money that it now is, have
been left to He dormant, and instead of vou
making money, yon have been spending both
money and time to uo advantage. Answer,
arn't it so?
We believe that it is the duty of the
country press to leave no means unspared to
develop the peculiar section of country in
which it is located, and that a paper devoted
to politics alone is an injury instead of a
benefit.
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out NEW KAII. KOAD PROJECT.
Now, that what we always predicted has
been proven by their own deeds to lie
true, viz that the C'onnellsville and South
ern Pennsylvania Railroad Company were
only occupying the ground, and did not in
tend to make the road, it behooves the peo
ple of Bedford County to go to work and
do something for themselves if they wish
ever to have a rail road. Let every man
subscribe toward our new project all that he
is able. We say every man because pve
mean it. It will pay every man to give
something toward an enterprise of this
kind for it is intended to and will benefit
every man, if it succeeds. Let not the man
who owns only a house and lot refuse to give
for it wiil benefit him as tunch in propor
tion as his richer neighbor. Let not the
rich man with his hundreds of acres of land
or his houses and lots refuse because sonn
one has not given as much as he ought.
Nor let him reitlsc in the hope that his
neighbors will do the work and ho will reap
the benefit without contributing bis share to
ward the accomplishment of the work. This
last miserable, short-sighted policy has de
feated more than one enterprise undertaken
by our people for the public benefit. Let
the people mark every man of this kind
and especially the rich. Lot him who re
fuses to contribute his just share to this en
terprisc be a marked man, let him be shun
ned in business as one unworthy of" the pat
ronage of the public, if possible, let public
sentiment drive him from the community as
one whose wealth and presence is a curse
instead of a blessing in any community.
liet every one put his shoulder to the wheel
and strive manfully to do his share and
there will be no difficulty in speedily carry
ing our project through. Don't wait to be
shown how soon you will get your money
back in dividends. When people build rail
roads at liome the first object is to promote
the welfare of the community and not to
reap large dividends. Men give to such
enterprises as they give to building church
es, for the good of their fellownien as well
as themselves. There is scarcely a laboring
man in the county who would not make a
good investment of fifty dullar.s by giving it
ivrtaitX utiv i rtttrvMCT, vtroogTlUC'
should never get back a penny, except as
lie gets it iu the- increase of business and
wages and the increased prosperity of all
around hiui. There is not a man in the
vicinity of Bedford or within ten miles of
the projected line, who would not make a
good investment by giving ten per cent of
the value of his property to insure a rail
road to Bedford, for his property would,
as scon as the road were completed, be in
creased from fifteen to twenty per cent in
value. Every one knows this, then why
should we any longer lag. We have waited
for others to help us long enough, lot u
now try what virtue there is in helping our
selves. Don't wait to be coaxed and cajoled,
go to work like men, give like men, and you
will succeed as you deserve. Bo stingy,
wait for your neighbor to do the work and
build the road that you may reap the advan
tage and you will fail miserably and shame
fully, and neither deserve nor receive syui
pathy from .the outside world. There is
much truth in the old adage that "Heaven
helps those who help themselves."
THE TINNED ABANDONED.
A year or two ago, our readers will re
member, the Southern Pennsylvania and
Connellsville Railroad Company, a most
formidable paper corporation, commenced
work upon the tunnel between this point
and Mf. Daila.-, tho terminus of tho Hunt
ingdon and Broad Top Mountain and Bed
ford Railroads, with one iaan and a wheel
barrow, which occupation, though with a
slightly increased force, was kept up until
Friday, theGth inst., when tho corporation,
that was to be, having been completely
licked in the Courts and in the Legislature,
moodily picked up its "kit" and "travail,
cd." The gay engineers who have frequent
ed our town, off and on, uinoo tho 10th of
November, A. D. lst',4, about the same
time received notice that their services were
no longer necessary to keep up appearances,
and they, too, packed their carpet sacks,
some of them very reluctantly, bid their
fair'friends good-bye. with heavy hearts, and
one after another, departed. Yes, all have
gone, gave the chief, who glides about our
streets as silently and reticently as in the
days when all prophesied the early comple
tion of the railroad, but in a few days he
too will leave, and then the last relic of the
great Southern Pennsylvania and Connells
ville railroad will have departed, and as
representatives of it we hope never more to
return. Of course, as individuals, wc will
always be pleased to see them.
Thus the great humbug has exploded,
and Philadelphia, through the Pennsylvania
Central railroad, is responsible for our un
developed condition. We intend to remem
ber tbis in the future.
The bill incorporrting the Rcdford and
Bridgeport railroad company has passed the
House of Representatives finally, but has
not yet been acted upon by the Senate.
A letter from Hon. John Cessna, front llar
risburg, received OD Saturday last, says that
I ho hopes to sec the bill pass the Senate bc
! fore he returns to tbis place. Wc expect
Philadelphia to exert her iuflucnce upon the
Senate, a majority of which body appears to
| be owned by the Central railroad company,
to defeat our bill. Wc arc prepared for
such a contingency. -Already quite an
an amount of stock has been pledged co
wards constructing this road, ami if wo can
interpret the determination of our citizens,
it is that this road must 'be completed from
Bedford to Bridgeport; and then aod-bye
Philadelphia, we will bo iu n condition to
repay you for your meanness and - '.libitrices.
Wc see tliHt tho Central is bestirring it
self in favor of a railroad from Johnstown to
Somerset. If the citizens of Somerset are
dupes enough to go into a scheme of this
kind for the benefit of the monopoly, which
has kept theout of a railroad for twenty
years, they are greater foofg than we have
heretofore been \villiug Co charge theni with
being.
lIEKE AND THERE*.
The consistency of Copperhead profess
ions is characteristically displayed in the
following extracts from leading Copperhead
authorities. A bid lor 'tin- votes of 1 "nion
Soldiers appears in the fi iflowiug resolution
of the late Copperhead Convention at
Ilarrisburg:
Unsolved, that wc recognize with emotions
of the deepest gratitude the efforts of the gal
lant volunteer soldiers v. ho vo freely took up
arms to protect the flag and preserve th >
Union, and we denounce AS unjust to them
the efforts of the Radicals to prevent a res
toration of the I nion until negro supremacy;
is established in eertuin Glares and negro
equality made the rule in all.
To catch a different class of voters the
Old Guard speaks as follows:
If the country is ever restored to freedom
again, it must be on the Constitution which
was overthrown by the w:ar. There is 110
other path back to liberty, except this one,
that leads straight to the obi Constitution.
And there is no belter.way of keeping alive a
love of the principles of the Constitution than
to cherish with fondest a flection the memory
of those brave and noble rash of the South
who fell in resisting the negro war upon that
Constitution.
Those two would be quite sufficient to
show tie- consistency and honesty of Cop
perhead professions, hot to show Copper
head love for the 1 niou Soldiers, whose
votes are so Coolly 1-i 1 fos in the resolution
of the Ilarrisburg ( oovcntioo, we quote
the left banded Compliment paid them by
theNuwYotk World, the leading Copp.-.
head paper of the Country. In its issue of
the 7th inst it speaks us follows:
The radical party brought about the recent
war; that war aboiished slave-y, but it fas
tened on the couutiy an evil i'ully as great, I
for it is not too much to say tbat two thirds j
of its survivors came out of that war with in- ;
temperance fixed upon them; the necessitie
of the climate where the war was waged, the
excitement of the contest, the recklessness
before and after battle, having engendered
habits that did not die with the occasion.
President Ben Wade will not be likely to
issue an emancipation proclamation to these
slaves.
Thus in one section of the country they
arc lull of gratitude to 1 nion Soldiers, in 1
another their fondest affections are reserv ed
for rebel; who died fighting to subvert our
free government, or defaming the brave
soldiers of the I'nion as drunkards and
slaves. The party organ that denounces
two-thirds of the soldiers ol the Union a. J
drunkards evinces a cowardly malignancy !
that fully justifies the use of the tcvm '
Copperhead in its fullest significance. Such i
epithets from the leading party organ iudi- ■■
t.' the true spirit of the party, which U
really ho-tito to the cause, as well a- the
soldiers, of the Union, and all such resolu
tions as the one in the Ilarrisburg platform
are only designed to catch and deceive tli -
unwary.
BeriFonn, March 20. —At the election to
day the Democrats carried this borougli by
sixty-live majority a gain of forty one over
last fall.
The above dispatch scut by the Copper
heads from this place cn last Friday even
ing i* a part of their uniform system to \
herald the election ola school director or
town clerk. The truth is tbat there was i
only one candidate on their ticket that j
received sixty five majority and lie was com
plimented by a number of Republicans who
knew tbat their was no chance of electing j
the Republican ticket. The election went
off without a contest. Why did they not
telegraph that the Republicans had carried
Bedford township, with a gain of one hnn- ;
dred, because they elected one of their can
didates?
BEATING BEDFORD. —We republish the j
following dispatch for thepurpose of remind j
ing our people that "onco upon a time" .
such a dispatch was sent from this place ■
BF.IIKORD, Pa., Feb. 2b. —Them is a great I
excitement at this plaee about the impeach- ;
nient, and several companies arc being j
rapidly organized to support the President.
Captain X. H. Lyons has already 3D men
on bis list and at least three companies can
he ready in -IS hours.
The following counter-part was not sent
from Bedford nor has itcverbcen published
by the friends of the President in this sec
tion:
Noß.it TEXIS, February 20. lfitle.
//is Excellency Andy Joanaing, President 11
the United States-.
DEER SOB: If yer wants enny help to
carry out yeur messurs aginstCongriwe kin
srnd ; C r fou. bumlit-J houMI men from
this part uv Texis at a minit's warnin.
We hung forty thousand yankis in here du
ring the war, aud we kin dn as much for you
now, sein you've taken our side.
Respectfully, etc., .Jolts SNAI-I-SR,
Chairman nv Committee uv Vigilance.
p. S.—This'll beet Bedford all holler:
won't it, Andy ?
MAJOR BURNSIDB, of Illinois, a soldier
during the late war, from the Hon. K. B.
Washburne's district, was nominated to the
Senate for Second Auditor of the Treasury,
in place-of E. B. French. Major Burn-i,lt
is a near relative of General Burnside, Gov
ernor of Rhode Island.
We arc sorry to hear that the Hon. E. B.
French is to retire from the 2nd Auditor:
office as in a course of four or live years
practice in his Department we liavo found
hiutoneof the most gentlemanly and ac
coniniodatingly officers that it has ever been
our fortune to meet.
MB. MANN, of Potter county, has intro
duced into the House of Representatives at
Ilarrisburg a joint resolution submitting
the question of holding a Convention to re
vise the Constitution to tho people at the
election to be held next October.
This is about right. We hojie that Mr
Mann will have the MANN linc-.-s to vote
for his own proposition. The cowardice of
the Pennsylvania Legislature is a disgrace
to the great Commonwealth.
NEW HAXIIUIBE.
The New Hampshire election shows at
leant that there is not a universal and irre
sistible reaction. I t shows that the people
will not allow their dissatisfaction with sonic
measures of pubii? policy, and with certain
aspects of the situation of the country, to
betray them into acurrend* i of power into
the hands of the political allies of the re
hellion. It would have teen a subject ol
very serious apprehension it the Democrat
ic parly, under tiie championship -d'such
persona as Henry Clay Dean, Monte .niery
Blair, Cbauncey C. Burr, an■ 1*! >. \Y. Yuor
licos, had succeeded in New ll,imp-hire.
For certainly it should be enough for every
man who sincerely loves liberty, and who
believes in intelligence a;.d a high sense of
national honor as its foundations, that every
man who is hostile to the Government and
the Cuion; every worshipper of "the lost
cause;" overy cucmy of free schools; every
inciter of hatred of race; every rebel leader
who is unchanged in heart and lurking in
foreign lands; every man who rejoiced over
Hull I lun and scowled when Richmond lell,
would have rejoiced if the Democratic party
hast carried New Hampshire.
The satisfaction with the actual re-ult,
with the decided and triumphant succi - s of
the Republican rarty after one of the most
earnest and determined of political contests,
is precisely of tlui same kind with the satis
faction octwsioa-il by the fall of Donclson
and Yicksburg, With the re-election of Lin
coln, and with die surrender at Appomat
tox. It shows that the purpose of the
people is inflexitle; that while the great is
sues of the war tre unsettled they will w.,ik
through the patty organizations of the war,
and will defer n w parties until new ques
tions arise. Thodefeats of tlm autumn un
doubtedly ccumltited (q the New Hamp
shire victory. Idhaa become vid it that
if the people givawfty to jmpatienc, , if they
refuse to Siista ia the lie publican party be*
cause of dislike of certain niori and meas
ures, if they dpo-e to make the parti in
power responsible lor all the disagreeable
things that follow a civil war and
which no party could po- ibiy avoid, tl ■ y
must see cbc Copperhead party come into
power. What Gat party i the people have
not failed "to seig for the -;e of last
year, the fond faith of the Denim acy" that
the great reacßos vould tin old
Southern policy of which they ueie the
tools into power, has emboldened that party
to throw away its masks and n veal its char
acter and purpose.
The country has consequently ,-n.n that
the leaders who were most, notoriou-ly Cop
perhead have become most conspicuous.
Pendleton and Yaiiandigham stump Ohio,
and Yaiiandigham contests a -eat in the
Senate of the United States, which i aiven
to another ic-s noted hut not less bit t- r par
tisan. Pendleton, a frank m ees.donist and
repudiator, is enthusiastically nominated
for the Presidency by many State Democrat
ic Conventions, and delegates arc instructed
to \ j to for him at the National Cons'- ution.
Even Seymour, who has not openly advoca
ted repudiation, formally withdrew from
the field, with how much sincerity may lie
inferred from hi* previous career, lias -
Tj.ee,...-. Air- " -
Navy, who seatw.cil the navy in order to
help the rehelliou,.cheered by the apparent
reaction, makes bifnself heard from the na
tional contempt trite which he has fallen, to
prophesy a Dciuccrallc victory in Nw.
Hampshire and cl-ewhcre which "will un i■<
all the damnable legislation of Congress,'
and place the South "where she can govern
herself without the yrannii 1 interposition
of a miserable rumpof a Congress." Jesse
I>. Bright, who was xpelicd from the Sen
ate at the beginning if the war for sending
an inventor of fire-anus to "His Excellency,
Jefferson Davie, Pre.-: dent of the Confeder
ation of States," and who now dec Jar s that
lie was opposed to thb war from fh- he .'in
ning to the end, and never intend "to vote
[ for paying a dollar of the principal of the
debt," is made President of the J) ioperat
ic Ceuvention of Kentucky, and is noroina
,ed as a Democratic Presidential elector.
Meanwhile the Democratic papers and
speakers deride more bitterly than ever the
word "loyal," which is simply th d crip
ti m of a man wholly true to the I nion
during ihe war; and. -are of the reaction,
the party sends into New Hampshire ,-peak
ers who talk out too plainly, and who do
not even try to ounces] their fierce hatred ol
! the freedmen and of the l uiori oldier-.
The country has 3t en that the iHm natie
party proposes to enter upon politic ,! cam
paign of I My- with a |latfon, of t puiia
tioo, of negro hate, of m.-t..ration ol' t
Southern ritates to the ex dssivi political
control of those who art hostile to the Gov
ernment, and with all the cruet injustice
and increasing perilous agitation that are
implied in the cry of "white man govern
ment;" in one word witli the determination
to plunge the country a* far as possible
hack into the comttiou which produced a
terrible war, and tr. do this by every kind
of appeal to the meanest of human pn-.-ioos
and motive .
To this attention t-1 the iKu.oc, -tie j ar
ty, now plainly perceived, the p -ult of the
New Hampshire eUttion is the fir-t em
phatic response. Tic victory has be< n
greatly help.. 1 by the a.-s ciatiou of the
name of General Grant with the tucecs-lul
party. That name is th assurance of firm- !
ness, moderation, and • agaeity. The victo j
ry was achieved under fhe leader-hip of one j
of Grant's soldiers, << neral Harrinian, and |
was contested upon national, and not upon ;
local issues. The ret-nb of the elections In
some of the East. rn cities, as fr instance
in Portland, have been claimed as Demo
cratic triumphs. They were, however, de
cided upon local qu bons: that in Portland,
for example, was a temperance division.
The great multitude of temperance men in
Maine and in the country agree, politically,
with the Republican party. But the Re
publican candidate for mayor of Portland
was very warmly oppos, d to prohibitory
legislation, and upon the ground many of
the Republican.-', who were decided temper
ance -men, voted against hiw. So in ihc
Massachusetts Legislature the Prohibition
ists unite with the Democrats to defeat a
license law. The city elections in the Htate
of New York also are necessarily affected by
local considerations, and an not safely he
regarded as political indications. But in
New Hampshire the question was really
national. General Ilarriman was the rep
jesentative of General Grant and the U<
publican policy, and Mr. Sinclair was tin
representative of the Copjierhead reaction.
We are devoutly grateful that the head ol
that old snake haabeen again Liui&cd, am
Moeerely trust that in Nova tuber it will lx
ground under the heel of an intelligent and
liberty-loving people.—y/nrjoV Waklt/.
AT the late Republican Convention,
which assembled in Philadelphia on tin
JOth inst.. a Pre ideutinl Elector was cborct
for the lGth Congressional district, ofwhou
we never heard before in our experience,
Who is he? What it his name? Who had
hint selected? Was there no one in the dis
. trict of whom the people had heard before'
Ho may be a very g'jod man but wc wouh:
like to know it.
THB HEWS.
TUESDAY, March 17, —Judging
from the extracts from the Wushingtor
correspondence of the press the President
and his friend; are not so sanguine of hit
acquittal now a- they were at. the opening oi
the trial. His counsel are engaged it
preparing affidavits from diff ;ren sources t<
be presented when the ease comes up again,
declaring that it will be impossible to obtain
the'nuct-sary evidence to proceed without
further delay, and hope to make good their
failure in their last effort to postpone it.
The Reconstruction Commit toe lm-agreed
to report an amendment to the bill tor the
admission of Alabama requiring the Legis-
Itture of that State, within thirty days after
the passage of the act of Congress, to consent
to the conditions of Congress concerning
impartial suffrage.
General Hancock has been ordered from
New Orleans" to Washington by the
President, There is considerable tpopula
tion as to the President's object in ibis
move. The order was not sent thiough Gen.
Thomas, but through the usual military
channels.
WEDNESDAY; March is, |si;S, —The
| .! jard of Managers of Impeachment were in
etc lon on Tuesday, completing arrange
ments, on their ; art. for the coming trial.
So further exaniriation of .wiineat-cs is to be
had, and the committee tee I confident that
it v. ill not be necessary to withdraw any one
of the articles. Mr. Stan he ry, Judge Black,
Mr. Evarts and Mr. Curtis, counsel for the
Pr id< nt. w< re the M bite House prepar
ing the President's : deuce against the in:
peachnmnt chare: -
The President explains Lis summons of
General Ha nee k to Washington by a desire
to converse with him in relate n to his re
quest- in be rtc.dsed from command in
Louisiana-ami Texas. In the meantime he
ha nppointr i Mr. John Haneock, of
Philadelphia—a brother of the General—
(l dice-tor of Internal Revenue at New Oi
lcans.
A pood dvai of the apprehension about
troubles in Tenm ssee have ct me from the
operations of a secret organization of the
State known as the "Kuklux Klan.'' The
object of the ' Klan" is to work on the fears
I of toe superstitious negroes aud ignorant
j whites.
I The of lion. Thadueus Stevens
j i hotter at thi- time than it bus been since
' the ( -mrßi nefctnfnl oi the session.
The Constitutional Conventions of North
and South Carolina have completed their
labors and adj.-urned.
Tm I -PAY, March id i-- 'S —In llio Ut.i
--t 1 States Senate Mr. Trumbull, from the
Judieiaiy Committee, r pt-r'e.lan amend
' !,- t t to "the lf..t:s i ill r- ieviog lion. Mr.
ti. ..I .m .-tK-r urrs-u.-:• - it. . rrurn Tcrt
tie -ee, from all p luicai.disabilities inetir
ted by participation in the rebellion. The
bill permits Mr. Butler, instead of the oath
): crioed by the act of July-id, RO2, t->
■■ ta'te a modified oath, the formed which is
' given.
Hit-re arc no new developments in re
gard to the impeachment trial. The House
j Managers are deliberating on the law points
which are expected to be raised in the ca-e.
| It is und- rstoood that the Managers are in
formed of the tactics that are to be resorted
t by Mr. Johnson'.- legal advisers. It is
hinted that the President will a-k for fifteen
days j'u, ther extension of time. This the
Managers will oppose. The President's
counsel hold long daily consultations with
hint. Mr. StanD ry profe. sesto have re
ceived some iateiiigende or sonic assurances
that indicate ht-po for the President's < ••
cape from convictii-n; but p<r coiitm, the
occupant-, oi the White House are making
arrangement- for an arly return to Tennes
see, whiic the families of ccitaiu Cabinet
Ministers are making similar arrangements.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
are quite divided on the question of approv
ing the bill appropriating money for the
ALo-ka purchase. The matter has been
laid over in the committee until the first
To silav in May next.
Th N v Jer.-.y Kepul iican State Con
vests -, ii adopted resolutions. _ nominating
(1 . Grant for the Presidency, and en
dm ! r imp aliment a '.he Constitutional
v y I remove a President who violates the
Constitution.
The Michigan Republican Convention
adopted rt Muttons in favor of General
ilrani for President and Hon. S. buyler
< Ifax for V iet. I'n sidont.
(iev.-ra! Reynolds yesterday issued an
odtr announcing his assumption of command
of th Fifth Military Hi.-trict, in the place
l G .nt "til Hancock.
C nor;;I Lorenzo Thomas is urged by
sou.r f hi> friends to return to the Presi
d hi- c-.imnus.Mon as Secretary of War.
ail in f'-i-im.
FRIDAY March 30. 18*>iS. —The Managers
of Impeachment yesterday had Hon. Hora
tio King, who vas Postmaster General
under Buchanan, before them. He did not
disclose anything of impottauee, although
the Managers were led to suppose that be
knew of some of the President s unlawful
proceedings.— It is rumored that Mr. John
son has telegraphed to Mr. Sweat, of Illi
nois to a.-istin his.defenoe.
The Democrats and Johnson men who
ht en foiled in their efforts to corrupt mem-
It r.s i t the Senate, and to get an expression
t! tq-iir- n Irt m them against impeachment,
have ergaged ioTlie discreditable work oi'
tryiug to iuflttcnee Mr. Chase. They appeal
incapable of Mt in# that (his is a j>or coni-
I limetit to the Chief Justice, and no nno
entertains deeper contempt HT. their man
tfu ivs titan Mr. Ci-aso himself. The
friends and organs of th President are all
shouting it concert for Mr. Chase as the
Democratio uuim ein the mst Presiden
tial en sign. To givu the report an air of
pr Ufi dity, they say that a People'a Con
vention -ball be called, and that Mr. Chase
shall be- nominated without a platform if be
will act on the trial- of Mr. Johnson in a
manner acceptable to them.
A few Radical Southerners now in
Washington, who dislike General Grant,
held a tncetinc on Monday evening, and
after some talk decided in favor ot Mr.
Wade for the next President and Senator
Wilson lor I ice President. Some of thctu
subsequently called on Messrs. Wade and
Wilson. They say that they received thcin
very cordially, but gave them no encour
agement, and that Senator Wilson said that,
*o far as he was concerned, fie stood where
tiie Republican party of the State of
Massachusetts had placed him —on the
platform with Genera! Grant-
The Republican State Convention of
Vermont uiot at Rutland on_ Wednesday,
and passed resolutions sustaining the course
of Centres* in regard to impeachment, and
endorsing General Grant for the Presidency.
HATLRDAV, March 21, 1868.—The Board
of Impeachment Managers to day examined
one witness, whose testimony is not con-
M'dercd important. The metuhera of the
Board spend a large part of each day and
night in studying the law authorities, acts
and precedents in any way bearing on the
CBM-, so that there tuay bono uuneces<ary
delay in answering any objections or points
which the counsel for the defence may rise.
The story that the President intend* to re
sign is tmtlioriiativeiy denied. He intends
to fight to the bitter end, and wiii do all in
bis power to make the struggle as long as
po.-.sille. 11.; holds daily interviews with
his counsel," and to day was in consultation
with Messrs. S'anbery, Black, Curtis and
livarts several hours. It is generally un
derstood that his counsel are satisfied that
they cannot i resi nt a very strong cose, arid
that privately they despair of an acquittal.
Mr. Job ' son is deeply chagrined at the
equanimity with which the country and his
friends, especially the Northern Copper
heads and the Southern Rebels, take his
impeachment: His Excellency was under
the imprcs-iou that his trial would lead to
something like a revolution —perhaps disar
range the finances, plunge everything into
disorder and stop the work of legislation.
He is mortified at learning that the world
can get along without him and that instead
of annoying the country lie has only called
down troubl- and ridicule upon himsejf.
11:8 counsel are; daily engaged in consulta
tion with hint in preparing his defence to
the articles of impeachment. One of his
Washington organs on yesterday stated that
"the answer is very Jtrotig, and one Mr.
Johnson cart re.-t upon <• nfidorilly for a ver
dict from the people, even if the f-'enate
should vote for conviction.' He is also re
ported ;■, being considerably annoyed at
Jerry Black's talking so freely outside of
the hopelessness of his case, and denies that
he ever entertained the idea of resigning,
but will see tbe tiial through to the cud.
The House Managers have daily sessions,
and arc preparing arguments in advance to
meet all objectmus that may po.-sibly be ur
ged by the President's counsel, so that
there shall be u > de uy on their account.
\ ariomi points are assigned to each one, and
everyll ing so far works entirely harmo
niously in the committee.
The Washington Star of yesterday denies
that Senator Wc-Je Las received a single
letter tolic>'.-.ng aj<; ttittuetil* in anticipation
of Ins toon occupying 'be Presidential chair.
It also says that lie his never intimated any
one, not even his personal friends, nor has
he ov.-n comidcred the subject, of who
should form his Cabinet if impeachment
proves successful.
Jeff. Davis' tri.d is to be still further
postponed fiout the 4th of May. This
change is said to be necessary from the fact
that the now term of the court commences
on that date, and tbe time intervening be
tween that date aud that recently fixed
the 14th of March—L- not considered suf
ficient in which to try the case.
The inhabitants of iSt. Thomas. Mr.
ft- ward .< latest purchase, are complaining
of much -offering there, and have appealed
for aid.
i lie resignation of Cussius M. Clay, of
Kentucky, a- Minister to Russia, has been
accepted.
Die H -ton Toivdlu- says: The New
Hampshire D< in- :mt-. failing to defeat the
Ri publicans, have pone to work trying to
whip each other, ami are having the fiercest
quarrel of the season."
Monhav, March 23, I Hi',--. —The impeach
ment trial was i timed before the United
Ft-tis Fcnate at etc o'ekek to-day, and
utile the I're i ic.-u's counsel succeed in
starting some new point net anticipated by
the Mintage! • on the ; art of the House, it is
beii ved that thi .v n :il be prepared to file
their replication''e-ni.irrow, and to demand
that the trial prx dat once. It is well
understood that the I'resident designs
making another application for delay, and
that affidavits wii! be made avowing that
they are not ready for trial, etc. The im
pression is that the Senate will order the
trial to commence on Monday nest, the 30th
instant. It is said that the President will
attend in person during the trial. His
presence will occasion some odd reminis
ce tices of hts appearance there on the 4th ot
March, i><'.*>, when, according to the New
York II ci/A/. good Democratic authority,
he "disgraced the fie ir of the .Senate with
the spewing* of a drunken boor.'
Adjutant General Thomas attended a
Cabinet meeting on Friday, but the sensa
tional story that he had issued an order as
Secretary of War is contradicted by the
Adjutant G.ueral himself, who moreover
aver.- that he has "not thought of issuing an
order until this matter is settled." Now
that the first heat of the battle is past, the
Gcneal'S discretion - - ins to be resuming
its due proportion to his valor.
Admiral Farragut has arrived at Rome,
and received "'a very gracious reception"
from the Pope. The Admiral is suffering
from a serious ab-t-s. which will de-rain him
in Rome for some weeks.
The House of Representatives devoted
Saturday to general speech-making, the
only matter of interest. being an explanation
by Mr. Wilson, of lowa, of his agency iu in
troducing the amendment taking away from
the I nited States Supreme Court jurisdic
tion in certain cases. Mr. Wilson denied
that the amendment was introduced by any
preconcerted scheme, and administered a
: ;d humored lecture to the Democrats for
'heir inattention to business and dullness.
In answer to quoftions, he stated that the
object of his amendment was to take away
from the Court the ;■ vcr to decide such
cases as that of McArdle, and that such
would be its effect if it became a law before
decision of the Court had been, anuouuecd.
GENERAL NEWS I TEMS.
It is stated that a London pictorial news
paper has sent an artist to the United States
to sketch the impeachment trial.
Southern papers are losing their interest in
politics. The Charleston Marmry has a lead
irig editorial on "Spring." This is a hopeful
sign.
As the Democracy cannot win State elec
tions, they are regaling tketnselves by re
joicing over the achievement of an occasion
al township victory.
JtncK E. Stkvins, formerly a justice of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, was killed at
Augusta, Cm., by the accidental discharge
of a gun in the hands of his son.
Thk latest uews ft mil the Abyssinian ex
pedition is eoi sidered favorable by the English.
Napier and his army were twenty miles north
of Antalo. oil the 2-iih ult.
JcttiiY Bi-ack. is despondent over the Presi
dent's prospects, thiuking he has but a poor
chance for acquittal. Jerry evidently wants
him to resign.
With reference <> the whiskey frauds, a
New Turk paper says that 20,000 to 30,000
gallons ol wisky are manufactured in that city
every day, and sold under the very eyes of
the revenue officers for a dollar a gallon.
Tin: health of Hon. Thaddeus Steavens is
said to he much improved, and to be now in a
better condition than at any time since the
commencement of the present session of
Congress.
AsiiUKw Joiiy.-on is vcrv anxious to have
Republican lawyers defend him in the triai
of imp. aehment. ilud he taken more Republi
can counsel more mid less Democratic whis
key he would uut require Republican defence
Ut.v. J.tvcs I.yxi-ii, the well known colored
preacher, has challenged any gentleman in ,
Mississippi to canvass the State with him and
disco.'- universal suffrage. He says: "lly
color alone should be no objection to an ac
ceptance of this challenge, inasmuch as it
will lake no part in the 'ask. I will only use
my heart, my brains and my tongue."
! TH#: New York| Herald, recomends. .
forlorn hope, that the Copperhead, nominate
Admiral Tarragut for President. Of c, .
the gallant old salt wouldn't for a moment
submit to the disgrace of being place.} ~
such a ticket. 00
Tin House Committee on Foreign AfTain,
htill lias under consideration the matters
volved in the purchase of Alaska, and th
rumor is renewed that the final action w ;ii
be adverse to the required appropriation.
J: r <\ Positively denied by the friends of
Chief Justice Chase that he has or will Wnse ,
I" the use of his name by the Democrat, in
connection with the Presidency, and it i. a : #o
denied by leading Democrats that there it aft.
probability of their giving Mr. Chase any
political favor.
GOT. Gesnv has appointed Benjamin S
Jkntly, of \V ilh&msport, Judge of tl u
new judicial district of Lycoming Co jL
hasaisoappointed 1). Watson Rowe j
f hambersborg, Franklin county, an adui
tional Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial iii."
ttict. 18 '
[T Wii.i. be noticed that while Senator Wade
scrupulously refrains from vating. Senator
Patterson, the son-in-law 0 f the a ( , w ,i
votes every time, '['ho virtuous indignation
designed for the interested parties who take
part in the trial can there find a proper ob
ject on which to vent itself.
THK Republicans of Chicago have leased
Crosby s famous Opera House, in that cit,
as the place ofrneeting for the National Con
vention. fbe delegates will be amply
commodate/! on the stage, while the ra
auditorium will give spectators an admirable
apportuuity to see and hear tbe preceding
lOK Executive Committee of the Pcnna
State Agricultural Society met at Ilarrisburg
last Wcdnsday. ar.d fixed npon the 29th and
SOth of September and Ist and 2d of October,
as tbe time for holding tbe next State Fa r,
Propositions from Erie, Pitsburgb, PotLsvil
Harrisbcrg and Xorristown; wcrj laid before
tbe commiitee.
Ho:.'. JOHN- P. Glass, Speaker of tbe la-t
House of Representatives of this State, died
at his hone in Pittsburg on Sunday las'. Mr.
Glass was well known throughout the Stale
as a gentleman of high attainments and un
blemished character, and his death will be
widely and deeply regretted.
Tin; latest corrected returns from New
Hampshire make the majority for Harriman
2,580. The House of Representatives will
probably show 138 Democrats. The latest
details of returns embrace 228 town--, and
give Harritnan 33,712: Sinclair, 37,1 V;.
flarrimaii'a majority, 3,557.
Mr. SHKIIMSX, of the United Slates Seru .
has brought in a bill by which it is declared
that the state of Alabama has adopted a i
publican constitution, and that her represen
tatives are entitled to seats in Congre-s. It
is a wise and timely measure.
THE bounty bill question seetn in a fair
way to be brought up again, if Congress can
be induced to give it attention. The House
Military Comittee have tbe matter under con
sideration, and propose eight and one-tb:rd
dollars per mouth for time in tbe service,
Slate and national bounties already paid to be
deducted, and tbe new bounty to be in land
instead of money.
JOEXSTOWX has just heen visited by one ol
the greatest floods in its history. On Sunday
night last, about midnight, theiceinthe Con
emaugh just above town suddenly gave way,
and. failing to find au outlet, was forced nut
of tbe ordinary channel upon that portion ol
John.-: cwn and Cotiemaugh boroughs lying
along the left bankof the stream. The stree:-
on the "Island'' in Conemaugb and '*Goo:e
Island" in Johnstown were inundated and
piled np with large cakes of ice within fifteen
minutes after the break-up. Tbe bouse of
John Heverline was completely overturned by
the current, and that of Patrick Clarke was
knocked f ront its foundations —both famiik
scarcely escaping with their lives. Sever ~
stables and outbuildings and most of the fen
ces were prostrated.
THE "Kuklux Klan," as our readers are
aware, is a society in Tennessee, whose pur
poses just now excite tnnch apprehension in
some quartet*. One Tennessee paper asserts
that the "Kuklux" frolics are no m re
dangerous than were those of tbe faino- s
Knights of Malta some years ago. Another,
however, contains an "official order' of she
"Klan." running thus:—"K: K: K:—Wolfe
Hole, Bloody Month, Fair Moon. First
Hours.—General Order No. 1 — Shrouded
Brothers of Memphis. Ah'eison Mo. E2: In
hoe signo t— 12. The Great Past Grand Giant
commands you. The dark and dismal hour
draws nigh. SOME LIVE TO DAY—TO
MORROW DIE. THE Baixr RED a.vp rns
BIGHT AUK OIBS! To day, the 11th of th •
mortal month of March, you wilt begin to scat
ter the clouds ofthe grave. By order of Great
Gnxxn CYCI.OPS, G. C. T. ' Some people will
regard the above "order'" as nonsense, while
others will see a great deal in it.
QKLI.KRS .t F"I.\Vt:U..
IO WHOLESALE
CONFECTIONERS AND FRUITERS,
X. Ifll NORTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
Order.* promptly attended to. febSluid
OHEAP PAINTING.
ONE THIItD A lt>n lbs. of PECORA <Vs col
/ ored Paints, (costinc will
THE COST ■ Paint asmuch a^?sUlbs. of Lead
\ aod wear h nger. For j articu
OF LEAD. J !r adlress S. BOW EX. Se--
marlSm" 150 IV. 4th Street, Phil's.
SIOOO™^
.Tost received it. THE NEW IMPERIAL BA K
GAIN STORK, a handsome assortment ot"
NE W SPR IN G GOO DS '
A? goods art now advancing dally and no doul ;
will be much higher, we thir.k
FAMILIES CANNOT BUY TO SOON.
feb.2Sm2 O. R. OSTER A CO.
EDITOR'S NOTICE.
BF.IFORI> COUNTY, SS:
At a Court of Quarter Sessions held a? Bedford
in and for the County of Bedford, on the 1 Oth
day of Feb'y. A. D. IS6S, the recommendation ot
the Directors of the Poor and of the House of Em
ployment of said county, was read and filed set
ting forth. "That the building now occupied HS
the Poor House of said county, is totally insuffi
cicnt for the sheltering and protection of tbe poor.
That a new poor house should be erected as pro
vided by the Act of Assembly, approved the 17th
April, 1565. That the present poor house prop
erty is not desirable for the purposes fox which it
is now used, and recommending that said proper
ty be sold, and, that, in lieu of it. a farm of from
sewnty-five to ene hundred acres of good land
be purchased, upon which the poor house above
recommended shall be erected/* Ac.
Whereupon the C-burt referred tbe same to tbe
i Grand Jury, who, on the 12th day of Fob'y, A.P.
ISfiM, made the following return and endorsement
upon said recommendation: ''This reeemnicnda
tica approved by the Grand Jury, except that in
the opinion 'f the Grand lury, the form to bo pur
chased should not contain less than one hundred
and twenty-five acres."
Now. March 7. If"8, the Court appoint \V a.
M. Hall. Esq.. Auditor to take testimony, tind
facts and make report Ac.
Witness my hind ar.d official soul at Bedford
the same day. O. K. SHANNON, Clerk [i..*.
Pursuant to the above appointment I will meet
in the Grand Jury Room on THURSDAY,
lfiih day of April pros., all parties who may dc
sire to be heard. The investigation will embrace:
Ist. An examination of the receipts and oxpeu
diture* of the present property with a view to de
termine whether it. is profitable or the reverse.
2nd. Proposals for the purchase of the entire
property; atso for the Mill and Miller's housosep
arately.
3rd. Offers of suitable farms, stating the price,
number of acres, locality, with a full description.
4th. 1 invite plans with estimate of cost of A
suitable building, with all the modern improve
ments, for the sheltering and maintaining one
hundred poor persons—said building to be erected
on the present or at any other locality propose a
No plan to be paid for unless ultimately adapted
by the County Commissioners.
Sealed proposals to purchase or to sell may be
sent to me or to J. W. DICKERSON, Attorney
for Bedford county, at any time before the day of
meeting. WILLIAM MACLAY HALL,
wxar2o:3t Auditor