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DIR. 7. G. REiMRR

ID ESPECTFULLY begs leave to tender his
IL Professional Services to the Citizens OF
Bedford and vicinity.
~ Office in Julianna Street, at the Drug
and Book Store. FEB. II, 1929
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Bazin's fancy Toilet Soaps, Shaving Creams,
sc. just received and for sale at DR.. Harry's
Drug Store.
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March 6, 1857.
NOTICE.

M IICE,
Notice IS hereby given that application will be
made 10 the next Legislature of the State of Penn
sylvania for the passage Of an of Assembly autho
rizing the Incorporation of Bank of Issue with ge-
neral banking and dscounting privileges, under the
general banking laws of this State, 10 be located at
the Borough of Bedford in the county of Bedford and
called 'sThe Bedford County Bank" with capital
of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and with
the privilege Of increasing The same to the sum of
four hundred thousand dollars.
F. L. ANDERSON.
WM. T. DAUGHERTY,
VIM. p. SCHELL,
A. KING,
NICHOLAS LYONS.
SAMUEL L. RUSSELL.
Bedford, Pennsylvania, June &c, ls57.-tJ1
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EVERHART, ASHC0M, 4 co.
Forwarding and Commission Merchants,

HOPEWELL, P.H.
The subscribers doing business under the Firm
of EvERHAR~, AsHcom, s Co., are now prepar-
ed to Store and Ship Flour, Grain, and all kinds
of Merchandise upon reasonable terms
They also keep on hand Plaster, Fish, Salt,
Rock Powder, &C., to which they invite the
attention of Merchants in the country and Far
mers.
The highest cash prices paid for Flour and
Grain that the Eastern Market will afford
JoHN c. EvERHART, GEO. r. BARNDoLLAR,
C. w. AsHcoM, JouN F. Lowry.
Dec. %, 1S56-1v
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Spectacle 3

The subscriber has Just received a splendid
variety Of Gold, Silver Mounted and Steel
Spectaclrs, with the finest Scotch Pebbles, STU
perior in cIeaTness, and designed 10 suit persons
of all ages-warrantpd never Ia FAlL-to
which he invites the attention OF all who are in
need Of the article. He has also Just received
an elegant assortment of JEWELRY-al Of
which he will sell on reasonable trims.
DANIEL BORDER.
Bedford, Nav %. 1857.
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VIM. P. ScHELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW,

VET ILL attend faithfully 10 all legal business
w entrusted to his care IN the Counties Of
BedforJ and Fulton.
Bedford, Nov. /, 1S47.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-01-01

chief, Cologne Water, &c. for sale at DR.. Har-
ry's Drug Store.
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LAW PARTNERSHIP.

JOB MANN. c. n. SPANG.
The undersigned have associated themselves in the
Practice of the Law, and will attend promptly to all
business entrusted 10 their in Bedford and ad-
joining counties.
10 Office on Julianna Street. three doors south of
''Menge House, opposite the residence of Mai. Tate.
JOB MANN.
June 2, 1854. g. H. SPANG.
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One often regrets saying too much, but sell
dom Of saying too little.
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u They at all times prepared to carry all
kinds of Produce TO, and Merchandise, &c, from
and Baltimore, at the shortest notice.
- They will also purchase Flour, Grain, &c, at
market price
COAL, LUMBER, SALT, FISH, GUANO, and
PLASTER hand and for sale low.
June 10, 1858.
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EbP. R. II. Harry

RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional SER
vices TO the citizens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office and residence on Pitt-Street, in the
building formerly occupied by DR.. John HoGus
June 81, 1853.
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D. K. wUSDERLICH. b. F. MEAD
WuRGieR'aECka Il Mead,
furmar0ing s. Commission Alrrtbarts,
cHAMBERSBURG

North Second STREET, opposite the CnmJeriaHd Va
RnLL EnnA Dennk-
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WASHINGTON HOTEL.

March 16, 1855.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
Free Negros in Mississippi.

In the cotton portions of Mississippi the
slaves outnumber the whites ten to one,
and free negroes are regarded as the wors
possible pests. A bill is before the Leg
islature for their expulsion or return to
slavery by sale at public auction. The We
ry christian bill provides that free negroes
or mulattoes found in the State after GER
tain time should be arrested and sold as
slaves at public auction, and the proceeds
of the sale, after deducting the expenses,
are TO be paid into the State Treasury for
the benefit of the State Library! This
is American piracy more cold blooded than
the wort African.
The Democratic Legislature of Ohio
meets soon in extra session, and the hu-
name Senator Kincaid might improve the
efficiency of his Black Bill by changing its
provisions to the Mississippi pattern. The
free colored citizens of Ohio would not on
ly replenish the State Library, but would
finish the State House, if sold in the slave
marts of State that is legislating to re-
vive the African slave trade as we'll enslave
her own free people of every shade and
color save the pure white! What sting
ing disgrace to the very name of Ameri-
can Freedom is such Legislation - Cleve.
Leader.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
The Democratic Party.

The Democratic party, says writer in
the Atlantic Monthly, like the distinguished
ancestor of Jonathan Wild, has been i'm
partially on both sides of every question Of
domestic policy which has arisen since it
came into political existence. 1t has been
pro and con in regard to navy, a nation
al bank, internal improvements, protection,
hard money, and Missouri Compromise
Its leading doctrine was State rights; its
whole course of action, eliminating in the
Dred Scott decision, has been in the direc-
ton of Capitalization. During all these
changes, it has con.rived to have the Con-
stitution always on its side by the simple
application of Swift's axiom: "Orthodoxy
is my doxy; heterodoxy is thy doxy,"
though it has had as many doxies as Cow
ley. Sometimes it has even had two at
once, as in refusing to the iron of Pennsyl-
vania the protection it gave TO the sugar of
Louisiana. Pennsylvania avenged herself
by the fatal gift of Mr.. Buchanan. There
is no exception 10 the amiable impartiality
of the party-it has been always energet-
ically pro slavery.
The Democratic party of Ohio few
years ago pretended to regard slavery as
an evil, and to oppose its extension into
free territory; but now it looks upon its
extension with supreme indifference, and
upholds the Dred Scott decision, which de-
clares in effect that there is no freedom
outside of the free States Wooster Re-
publican.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
Support your Home Paper.

We know of nothing that is more dis
heartening to the publisher of country
newspaper than to be told, as he too often
is, when soliciting subscribers: 81 feel too
poor to take your paper; l take the Trib-
une Tor some other huge foreign weekly
and it only costs me dollar year and
contains twice as much reading as yours
does"-when the receipts of one week of
the office named would be double the year
ly receipts Of his country paper, and when,
if the foreign papers were published seven
ty-fve years, it would not result to as
much benefit to himself and the county in
which he lives, as would a single weeks
edition OF his own county paper. Read
the annexed article and see if the advice
contained in it is not such as will commend
itself to every enlightened mind. "Recol-
lect if a home paper is to be supported.
home influence must do it. Every dollar
sent to Eastern papers is at the expense Of
the local papers. A county acquires prom.
inence through its papers more than in any
other way, and to every one who has coun.
ty interests al stake, his home paper is 6
necessity. Never will such man take 9
paper printed away from home until he is
able to take a second paper. His first pa
per will be his home sheet, and he will sc
identify his own interests with that of bi.
county as 10 consider his subscription q.
much matter Of yearly duty as the pay
msnt of bis taxes"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
Tone CHANGED.

We have the Deseret Neaos of Nov. Sd,
but lis spiciness has departed. 1t has no
more Mormon sermons delivered at the
Bowsry, or Tabernacle, and, judging from
the News, stated preaching is discontinued.
The NeOs now quotes news from the gen.
tile papers in the States, and we imagine
caters somewhat for army circulation. The
News says that in 1859 its editor was ia
miliar with reliable reports as to the gold
at Pike Peak, and that Capt. Stanbury's
party in 1850 found indications of gold
while crossing the eastern slope of the Black
Hills to the head waters of Crow Creek,
tributary to the South Fork ofthe Platte.
The Mews says that since the surveys Of
St. Bregan and the march Of the 9Th In
fantry there is broad and excellent route
from Salt Lake City directly to the gold
diggings, and advises parties to start from
that valley and thus get ahead of Eastern
mining parties.
The News has dose of government pap
in the shape of an advertisement for mail
lettings.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09

ARKANSAS AMUsEMENTs.-Tbe follow
ing from the Greenwood correspondence Of
the Forth Smith Herald is only one of sew.
eral rencontres more exciting than agreea-
BILE described in our late Arkansas ex-
changes.
A very unfortunate affray occurred here
to-day (Oct. 22) between Daniel Mathis
and Alexander Barnes, in which both were
instantly shot. Mathis was shot in the
head and fell dead; Barnes was shot tbro'
the body, the ball passing through the
stomach, and passing out near the back
bone. 1 am not informed of the particu-
lars, but it is stated that Barnes shot at
Mathis with six shooter and missed him j;
that Mathis shot Barnes as above stated,
and while attempting to shoot again re-
ceived a shot from Barnes pistol which
killed him instantly. Barnes died some
two hours after receiving his wound. The
Coroner is now engaged in holding an in
quest over each of them.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
Indiana Legislature..Div

The determination to go into the elec.
tion of U. s. Senators in place of Fitch
aud Bright seems to be settled. A resolu-
ton in the House that il is inexpedient 10
90 into an election this session has been vot-
ed down by vote of so to 40. The Jour-
nal regards the vote as decisive, and set
tling the question as to the election of
Senators sooner or later. A resolution of
similar import has also been voted down
in the Senate by majority,
The State of Indiana since 1852 has
been the land of promise to mis-mated
men and women. The divorce law passed
that year opened the door wide for fat fees
for putting assunder what God hath joined
together, and the courts of that State have
been crowded with divorce cases, very ma
ney from abroad. A score or more of cases
is disposed of at nearly every Court term
in the State, and it is stated that more
than a thousand divorce cases are now
pending in the several counties of Indiana
over seventy in single one.
The extra session will probably amend
the divorce laws materially. Bills have
been introduced in both Houses aiming at
divorce reform, with a certain prospect of
final passage.-Cleve. Leader.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
WhataD DemOcrat Saws.

The Freeman's Journal, of New York
CITY, one of the warmest advocates of Mr..
Buchanan's election to the Presidency, says
in its issue Of this week:
The rebuke of the late election is severe,
but salutary. We are pleased that 1t has
been measured out with moderate hand.
Our only desire has been that the true
principles of the Democratic party should
be vindicated and relieved from the con-
tamination of the spurious and auti-repub-
lican vagaries of the present executive
We have, for some time, ceased utterly to
regard James Buchanan as a Democrat
He is Federalist to bis hearts core. He
has betrayed his high trust, or proved un-
equal to it, and has warred with an insane
bitterness against the party that elevated
him 10 Office. Not only has he endeavored
to rob the party of its dearest principles,
but be has violated the fundamental theo-
ries of the government in striking madly
at the Representatives of the people; and
with his bribes in Kansas prodered to the
and his rewards Of Office be-
slowed upon recreant fayorites he has
made an epoch which will not be soon for
gotten, and ought never to be-"
"An xncouh miscellany of Irish, Dutch
and Germans, comprise the hired work.
men of the North. The majority of these
are Irish, genera of which greatly units
them for the duties they are called upon
to fulfill. They are as lcapricious as only
sons-lacking in principle, impatient of
control, disposed to cholera and whisky, and
in the main unreliable for the purposes of
the house and the feld.''
These are the kind of compliments that
prominent Democrats bestow upon the
Irish and Dutch in the North, on whom
they mainly depend to carry elections
How long will this class of our population
continue to support a Democracy that despi-
,es them Ur5ana CIT. and Gaz.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
Board of Control.

The Board of Control Of the State Bank
of Ohio held their semi-annual session this
week. We learn that no very important
business was transacted, all the Branches
of the system being in healthy condition
and not needing legislation. The only
thing done in which the public have any
interest, was the adoption of a recommen-
dation to the Directors of the Bank of the
Ohio Valley at Cincinnati, TO increase its
capital to $5OO,0OO. This Bank, our rea-
ders will perhaps remember, is a sort of re-
deeming agency, or clearing house, for the
foreign notes received by our Banks, and
is, we are glad to learn, answering the pur-
pose of its creation.-State Journal.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
TDe Bows Review, nm ultra Bucbs

FDe Bows Review, an ultra Buchan-
an sheet, has an article entitled, "Afiican
Slavery adapted TO the North and North
west" from which the following is an ex-
tract:
If the Union be desirable, (and with a
rigid regard of mutual rights by the North
and South, no one will deny its inestima-
Bile value it is earnestly considered that
the most effectual means of giving it per-
petuity will be realized in the opening of
the slave trade, and the intruction of our
peculiar institution into the Western States
and Territories. By this we will construct
a homogeneous system of labor, and thro'
this bond Of sympathy will be ere-established
that community of sentiment, and the old
entente cordial, without which the Consti-
tuition is rope of sand, and the Union a
shallow mockery.
Occasionally we find men in the North
who entertain sentiments similar to the
above. Not long since we listened to a
pro-slavery speech at the court house in
Urbana, in which the speaker predicted
that in less than seven years slave or coolie
labor would be introduced in Ohio! He
would no doubt endorse the following sem
timents of De Bow, in the same article in
the Review:
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09

HOur thanks are due Hon. BENZ. F.
WADE, for bound volume of the Con-
gressional Globe and Appendix for the 1st.
Session of the s5th Congress. The pres
snt is a valuable one.
We shall send the Republican regularly
during the winter to our Representative in
Congress, in order to keep him posted as to
the doings, bereabouts, of the Democracy.
He knows to his sorrow, that some of them
are very "onsartin" about election time, and
until they get an organ of their own estab-
lished here, we have no objections to giving
them hearing occasionally through the
columns of the Republican. We hope Gen
BURNS will show his appreciation of our
kind intention towards him and his party
by sending US lots of "Public Documents
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
THE OLDEST WoRK1Ne MErHon

The OLDEST WORKING METHODIST
PREAcHER.-Daniel Webb, of Providence
Conference, is the oldest effective Metho-
dist preacher in the United States, if not
in the world. The New Bedford Mercury
says:
"This gentleman, so well known in this
city and elsewhere as one of the most re-
markable preachers and worthiest of men,
has been passing few days with his son,
Otis Webb. In 1881 the venerable man
succeeded the Rev. Timothy Merritt in the
Elm street Methodist Episcopal Church of
this city. He labored in that church two
years with great acceptance. Hepreacbed
las Sabbath at the Fourth Street Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, and in the evening
attended conference meeting at the Allen
street vestry. He has been more than six
ty years in the ministry, and is now, we
believe, the Oldest active Methodist preach
er in the United States.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09

ANOTHER SrEP.-Jeff Davis remarked
at jackson, Mississippi that Mr.. Buchanan
far from backing out from his stand with
the South, was about to take another step
in advance. After referring to his course
in Kansas, the removal of Mr.. Stanton, and
other acts, he continued;
"And it gives me pleasure here 70 say
of him, fMr. Buchanan what I am assxr-
ed can now say with confidence, that be
will not shrink hairs breadth from the
the position he has taken, but wM movs
another step in advance, and fall, if fall
be must, manfully upholding these rights"
Mr.. Davis, but few weeks since, had
the pleasure Of an interview with Mr.. Bu-
chanan,and doubtless spoke "by suthority."
The next step is, that slave property in the
Territories must be protected BY Federal
laws. There will probably be stumble
before that step is taken. s
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
Success Of the TehaunleDec
ROmte. .

The great enterprise Of establishing q
short route TO California by the way of
New Orleans and Tehauntepec has made an
suspicious commencement, BY this chan
mel of Communication California is brought
within fifteen days of the Mississippi, and
the arrival of the steamer Quaker City, with
the San Francisco mails, by the way of
Tehuantepec, was marked as great epoch
for New Orleans. Taking advantage of
the excitement produced BY the arrival of
the steamer, the Company opened books
of subscription to the stock, and already a
weekly line of steamers is talked Of. The
probability is that in the course of few
months intelligence will be transmitted
between San Francisco and New Orleans
in twelve days, and by telegraph all over
the States east of the Rocky Mountains
Passengers will also be conveyed between
San Francisco and New Orleans iA twelve
days, only about half the time necessary on
the Panama route. The achievement will
be grand one.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09


ET The Boston Courier has been in.
formed by Republican cotemporary-the
Courier itself tries to be old-line Wbig,
and all sorts of respectable, conservative
and exemplary things-that Senator Sew
erd was not in earnest, but merely humor-
GUS, in portion of his celebrated Roches-
ter speech. The Courier is astonished. It
says:
We supposed that Mr.. John P. Hale
was the funny man of the Republican par
ty-the clown in the Republican ring
We did not imagine that Mr.. Seward was
candidate for the cap and bells which the
former gentleman has worn so long, and
with such advantage 10 the digestion Of
the Senate Chamber.
Strange as it may seem, we have por--
trait of Mr.. Seward hanging up in our Of
flee. It's photograph by Brady, and
said to be an excellet likeness. We have
examined it since reading the editorial in
the Advertiser, to see if we could find
there any indications of mirth and humor,
but there are certainly none there. Itrep-
resents long, meagre countenauce. of the
Casslus stamp, and with an expression de-
cidedly grave, not to say lachrynlose. He
looks like man who had been about to-
collect subscriptions for the Brick Lane
branch Of the Ebenezer Temperance Socie-
ty among set of bard drinkers. A face
that gave less promise of a joke we have
rarely seen.
"Finally," as they say in all the edito-
rails written and printed in and about Bos-
ton-"finally," the Courier does not be-
lieve that Mr.. Seward is joking.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
~A rood looking friend of ours, who

EA good looking friend of ours, who
is on this side of forty, though somewhat
hoary-headed, while absent from the city a
few days; used Prof. Woods Hair Restor-
ative, and on his return called to see his
lady-loye, but was amused to find she did
not recognize him; and Immediately deter
mined to pass for cousin of hlmself' out
was eventually chagrined to find ne was
supplantinp his former self in the affections
of The lady. which caused him to make him.
self known: but the lady still says she
j;kes lbe counterfeit better than the origi-
nal and insists that he continue, (f neces-
sary,) 10 use the Hair Restorative.-&.
Louis Morning Herald.
See Advertisement.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09

~ Our receipts on subscription for the
past week amount to 80 cents, advertising
nothing; job work nothing, blanks 4a cts.
grand total, Sl,23. Our expenses during
the week, besides our own labor, are at
least $500. Figure it up, delinquents,
and let us know how long you think we
can stand up under such prosperity
Celina Standard.
We esuppose our neighbors of the Stan.
dard are in no worse fix than the majority
of their brethren of the country press, as
an exhibit of their weekly receipts and ex.
penditures would show about the same re-
suit.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-09
Railroad Casualties.

Mr.. Murphy was killed by locomotive
in Pittsburg, last week. Mr.. A. P. Wheel
er respectable farmer, was killed on the
track of the Valley road near Delphi, ISd,
Wednesday. He was walking on the track
when struck, and was torn limb from limb.
The Dealer learns that Mr.. Henry Smith,
an employee on the Northern Division of
the G. &. T. Road, had his legs badly
crushed at the Ridgeville station, Friday
night. His recovery is considered doubt
full. Henry Elliott, a brakeman on the
Columbus and Indiana Road was horribly
mangled by falling between the cars at
Urbana on Wednesday. He lived two
hours, though the locomotive and three
cars passed over his thigh and arm, and
the ash pan tore his flesh so as to expose
his lungs and entrails.