The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-09-12


suming the quota to require every third man,
Bedford Borough has furnished II men over
and above her quota, Bloody Run 10, Hope
well IL, Schellsburg G, Broad Top S, E. Prov
idcnce s. making Bedford Borough the Banner
District. Besides, our borough has four persons
in the regular service and two in the Maryland
Home Brigade, who are not counted in the a.
bove. Cumberland Valley, Harrison, Juniata,
Londonderry and Southampton each have
considerable number in the Maryland Home
Brigade for which they will receive no credit.
We are sorry for this, and if our advice, given
through these columns, had been taken instead
of that of certain humbug recruiting officers,
who took their men to this Maryland Home
Brigade, the people of the lower end of the
county would not now have to suffer the extra
draught which must be made upon them.
[Since writing the above, we find in the Phil
adelphia Inquirer, the quota of our county for
the first, or regular, draft, set down officially at
1877, leaving just 483 men to be raised by the
draft on the 18th inst. There is also proba-
blity of second, or special draft, to fill up the
old regiments in which case our county will be
required to furnish $40 more, and the quota of
Bedford Borough for this draft would be 6.
BEDFORD RAILRoAD.-We are glad to
learn from the officers of the Bedford Railroad
Company, that the grading of this road will be
finished to Bloody Run by about the Goth inst.
On Wednesday last an additional quarter of a
mile at the Western end of the road, was let,
and by the first of next month, it is thought,
the track will be laid and the road ready for
travel and the carrying of freight. This will,
indeed, be ga consummaton most devoutly to
be wished" But, then, the road will still be
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fixed at Bedford it will be incomplete. Let us,
81 miles, which we can certainly and easily do,
if we possess the least modicum of enterprise
and energy. Let every stock subscriber pay at
once, and instead of halting and grumbling and
objecting, let the people who are or ought to be
interested in the completion of the road, act in
harmony with the board of Directors and give
them all the assistance in their power The
people of the western part of the county are
particularly interested in the completion of the
road, though not more SO than those living in
the immediate neighborhood of our town. 1t
requires no soothsaycr to foretell the advantages
which the extension of the road to this place
will confer upon them. The substantial bene-
fits which must accrue to them in that event.
arc patent to every man Of common sense
Shall our appeal, then, be in vain? Shall there
still be opposition to the railroad? We hope not,
but we shall see
"SwEARING OUT."-We hear that
number of persons have already avaied them
selves of the Constitutional privilege of clear
ing themselves of the draft by making oath that
they are conscientously opposed to bearing arms.
Now, we don't object to this when taken advan-
tage of by persons who opposed the war from
the beginning and who tried to avert it whilst
it was possible to do so, but we consider it suf-
ficient to heap eternal infamy upon that class
of men who when warned against the proba-
bility of civil war, Knocked and scotfed at those
who uttered the warning, saying, ''et it come
and who, since it has broken out, have shown
no conscientious scruples to urge their neighbors
and friends to take up arms. These cowardly
hypocrites deserve the contempt and execration
of every honest patriot.
KILLED.-Capt. James Hinchman, of
Co. A, Tenth Pa Reserves, was killed whilst
gallantly leading his company, on Saturday,
30th ult., during the battle near Bull Run. We
knew Capt. Hinchman well, and bestow this
last tribute to his memory with many recol-
lections, of his truth as friend, his usefulness
as citizen and his sincerity as a christian.
Poor fellow! May his life not have been sacri-
feed in vain and may kind and benefcent
Providence guard and protect his widowed
wife and orphan children.
STRANGE CoINCIDENCE.-Our readers
will remember that Adjutant o. II. Gather,
who was mortally wounded at Gaines Mills,
was shot in the right breast. His successor,
Adjutant Phelps, was also shot in the right
breast the wound supposed to be mortal) dur
ing one of the late battles near Bull Rum This
seems rather a strange coincidence.