The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-07-25

thcy ouShb hot, anu We nave iio uOuDt, VIII no.
receive any harsh treatment at the hands Of
white people
REoRUITING.-- Thousands
are rushing to the standard of the Government
and Bedford county doing nothing. Shame
shame! it will be burning and lasting shame
upon us if we do not Immediately come to the
rescue. Who is willing to raise Company
Who is willing to enlist for one year to crush
the waning rebellion! Let the answer be, every
able-bodied man. Come, sons of Bedford coun.
ty, your brothers in arms require your assist.
ance. Every one of you who can, come to the
rescue.-[ Bedford Inquirer.
Some people want to know why the editor O
the Inquirer himself cannot respond to his patr
otto call? Why is not Mr. Durbowow ''willin9
to raise company?" Why is he not "willine
to enlist for one year to crush the waning rebel
lion?" He cannot answer these questions, by
asking us whether we are willing to go if hi
goes, because, according to his editorial procla
nation of last week, we are an ''anti-war man,
and, as we are bound to believe so veracious
sheet as the Inquirer, we, of course, could no
think of trusting so dangerous man as oursel
in the ranks of the Union army. We might
send runaway slaves back to their masters ant
do other reasonable acts of like character
No, no, MIR. Durborrow! Since you have given
us so clear an insight into our own heart, we
can never promise to s.go for SOLDIER" not even
in the remote contingency of your own enlist.
ing Ask your editorial predecessor. He might
accompany you. He has nothing else to do
Besides he isn't an "anti-war man." But the
question is, will you go?
PUBLIC MEETNG.-We publish in this
issue n call for a meeting to be heldat the Court
House, on Saturday evening, next, ''for the
purpose of adopting measures to aid in obtain.
ing volunteers for the army of the Union, in
answer to the late call of the President of the
United States" We hope that this meeting
will be largely attended and that the ssmany
citizens" who signed this call, collectively, will be
present to append their names to the roll Of
volunteers, individually. 1t is a singular fact
that there are always men (able-bodied mem
who seem to think that their eloquence ought
to induce their fellow citizens to volunteer.
whilst at the same time their patriotic rhetoric
does not seem to have the least effect upon their
own precious selves. In view of this strange
phenomenon in the recruiting.service, we would
suggest that people who are thus peculiarly gif-
ted be called npen 6 A ST nQt III aEsly in gettipe
field Of paur,c. Tne word has been long enough,
$50, Boysw 1t is time that those who see the
duty of others should have some faint glimpse
of their own, and say, ''Come, Boys!' The
President of the United States and the Cover
nor OF Pennsylvania tell us that 800, 900 more
men are needed. Will the loyal people be back
ward in volunteering their services2 We mean
the loyal people par ercellence-those who are
designated by the late exclusively loyal State
Convention of the Republican Peoples pMty,
by whom all opposed to that party are branded
disloyal? Come, now, we viper-tongued sander.
ers, if you are better patriots than your neigh
bors whom you revile, let us have the proof in
your response to your county's call. You set
yourselves up as the loyal portion of the COM
munity, the Union people of the country, as dis
tinguished from others who disagree with your
political views, but who avow themselves as pa
triotic, in every sense of the term, as yourselves
Ypnr rIaip, IN, Ali, =.
you do more for your country than those from
whom you desire to be distinguished. Prove
your superior devotion to the Union, now, or
forever after hold your peace! Meanwhile,
we do not wish our friends who disagree in pol
itics with the class of patriots to whom we
have just paid our respects, to imagine that
they owe no duty to their country Let us act
conscientiously, honestly, manfully, with the
spirit of American citizens, and let every one
be prompted in his conduct by that true love of
country, desire for the welfare of the people,
whence emanate no false impulses, no sordid
aspirations, no selfish intrigues, no hopes nor
expectations save for the veal of this once hap
py, but now distressed and distracted nation.
LARGE SNAKE.-Mr. Warner Hnrkens.
of Colerain township, killed black snake, a
few days ago, on the mountain Immediately east
of the Springs, which Ghe snake, not the noun
tain) measured nine feet in length when des-
patched by said Hoerkens. Prompted by Gu
riosity to see SO large serpent, we, in company
with some friends, assembled the mountain and
found his snakeship perfectly defunet, and con-
sderably shrunken, owing, doubtless, to the Pc
culiar influences Of the atmosphere in that ele-
waited region.