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RAM ARKANSAS DESTROYED,

WASHINGTON, Aug lO-'The following is
from the Petersburg (Va.,) Day Express of
yesterday
RICHMOND. Aug 10.-A despatch from Gen.
Van Dorm, to Secretary Mallory. states that the
Confederate Ram arkansas, Lieut. Stephens
commanding, has been destroyed.
She left Vicksburg on Monday, to cooperate
in the attack on Baton Rouge After passing
Bayou Sara her machinery became deranged,
and, while attempting to adjust it, several of
the enemy's gun-boats attacked her.
After gallant resistance, she was abandon.
ed and blown up. Her officers and men reach.
ed the shore in safety
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Gen. Augur is severely wounded Major
Pelouze, Gen. Banks Adjutant, took command
of hesitating regiment and gallantly led 1t
through calling fire. He received two shots,
and is severely but not dangerously wounded
in the side.
Capt. Williams is missing. Capt. Goodwin
is also missing. Capt. Quincy was taken priso-
ner.' Surgeon Leland was wounded. Lieut..
Oaky was wounded seriously. Lieut.. Austin
and Lieut.. Blcknan, of the First New Jersey
Cavalry were wounded. No other oiIic ers.. in
that Regiment were hurt.
Lieutenant Hopkins, of the Seventh Ohio,
was wounlcd.
Col. Euegles, chief of the staff to General
Pope, had his horse shot under him. Two of
General Pope's bodv.guard were killed.
Col Morgan, of Popes staff, and Major Per-
kins, of Gen. Banks staff both received bull
lets through their hats
The seconl Mass achusetts Regiment was in
the hardest of the fight, and suffered severely
The Fifth Connecticut, Twcnty-sevcnth Indi-
ana and Forty y-sixtli Pennsylvania, were badly
cut up. Lieut.. Ramsey, of General Banks
staff, had his horse shot under him.
Gen. Winder, of the Rebel forces, was woun-
ded. The losses are very heavy on both sides,
and it is supposed that not less than. 2O0O or
5000 were killed and wounded or are missing
on each side. Some prisoners were taken on
both sides.
Jackson and Ewell were both present in the
battle.
Reinforcemcnts to the amount of I8 900 men
reached the rebels last night, at about the same
time that ours arrived.
Skirmishing in front is going on this morn
ing, but the troops on both siles are SO much
exhausted by fatigue and the intense heat that
no serious encounter is expected to take place
to-day.
WASHINGTON, Aug 1O.-Reports were brot
into Culpepper on Friday, of the crossing of
the Rap'lan by the Rebels in force
1t is sail by passenger who came from the
vicinity of Waterloo to-day, that General Banks
column, which was in the advance, was attack.
ed by General Ewell in superior numbers.
The struggle continued all day yesterday,
and may at any time he renewed
The loss is severe on both sides. A number
of our wounded have been brought to Culpep-
per.
No details of the battle have been officially
received. 1t is represented that Generals Prince,
Anger and Geary were wounded
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DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING,


The Democracy of Bedford county, will meet
in MASS CONVENTION, at the Court House,
in Bedford on
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1,
for the purpose of ratifying Democratic nomi.
nations, and reiteratng their oft-repeated pledg-
es to the "Constitution As 1t Is" and the "U-
MON AS 1t Was" to renew their solemn protest
against Abolition and its natural consequence,
Secession, and to vindicate the Democratic par.
ty from the aspersions falsely cast upon it by
Abolition traitors in the North, the enemies Of
the Constitution and the Union.
Rally, Democrats Friends of Constitutional
Liberty, to the rescue! Come from your farms
and your workshops, come from mountain and
valley, come ye who in the dark future of ou1
country, must bear the heat and burden of the
day, and strike one more blow for liberty and
law, for the safety Of your homes, the protec.
ton OF your property, the security of your lives
'Come as the winds come
When forests are rended!
Come as the waves come,
When navies are stranded"
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Drafting.

The War Department has determined to raise
100000 troops in addition to those already In
the field. To accomplish this object, the pre-
liminary steps to draft of the militia have
been arranged, and unless the quota of the State
is filed by the 18th inst, the proposed conscrip-
tion will be certainly carried into effect. There
may be some days of grace allowed, provided
there is a fair prospect Of raising the quota i'm
msdiately by volunteers. OF this lenity, how.
ever, there is no certainty. Our people can
safely conclude that the able-bodicd portion oi
male citizens between the ages of 18 and As
viii be more than decimated, before the new
calls for troops are filled. Every third man, we
think, will be compelled to shoulder mu1et
Is it not reasonable, then, that people who are
in circumstances to leave their homes, should
prefer to volunteer7 We could never find it in
our heart to ask any man to enlist whom We
believed to be pecuniarily AMI relatively in the
eame position as ourself But there are those
who need not sacrifice their earthly all in going
70 war. There are single men and wealtay mer
enough in Bedford county to fill our quota. Lei
these come forward and volunteer, the first, b.
canse they have no familissaerendent upon theiu
daily labor for support, the usher TO chow thei
gratitude to tho Government uuasr which the,
have attained 70 riches apd prosferisy. Is Bed
ford county to'bs disgraeed with drahs Ar
shsrs not enough Of the two classes to which
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HEAR AN ABoLIrIoNIsr!- THE Boston Post saws,
on last Wednesday Wendell Phillips, one of the
notorious abolition leaders, used the following
reasonable language, in that city:
"Ihe Government wants three hundred thou
sand men; we must say to them, you cannot
have man or dollar until you proclaim a
policy That will open the eyes of the Presi-
dent and the Cabinet to the true sentiments of
the North. Fremont has been degraded by the
border States; but let us hope that like Charles
the Second, he may die on his rightful throne" !"
That's the sort of support President Lincoln
and the country gets from Emanciptionistsl
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Order Authorizing Arrests of Persons
Discouraging Rnlistments.
WAR DEPARrMENr,
August 8, 1862. !
ORDERED.

ORDERED:
First-That all United States Marshals and
Superintendents or Chiefs of Police of any
town, city, or district, be and they are hereby
authorized and directed to arrest and imprison
any person or persons who may be engaged by
act, speech or writing, in discouraging voun-
teer enlistments, or in any way giving aid and
comfort to the enemy, or in any other disloyal
practice against the United States.
Second-That an immediate report he made
to Major l.. c. Turner, Judge Advocate, in or
der that such persons may be tried before Mil
itary Commission.
Third-The expenses of such arrests and
Imprisonment will be certified to the Chief Clerk
of the War Department for settlement and pay
ment.
[Signed] E. M. STANTON,
Secretary Of War.
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Meeting of the Democratic County Committee

The Democratic County Committee will meet
at the office of Hon. w. p. Schell, in Bedford
on WEDNESDAY,, The 2Ofh D.dY OF III.
FKSa hanSation Sif iaif affrefaaace is
requested, as business of Importance will be laid
before the Committee.
The following named persons constitute the
COMMITTEES:
j. w. LINGENFELTER, j. p. REED,
NJ. HoLDERBAUM, j. w. CRIsMAN,
S. w. STATLER, p. F. LEHMAN,
Fl. ]. BRUSER, WIN. BoNNEI1,
THos. DoNAHoE, OLIVER HORTON,
JOSEPH EVANS, j. B. FLUKE,
JOHN Holman, p. G.. MoRGART,
SAMUEL DAVIS.
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we have referred, who will come forward to
prevent this disgraceq Come, patriotic young
men! Come, you who can afford to volunteer! !
Yours is the duty to prevent the humiliation
which conscrip plIon must bring upon the patri-
otism of the county, as well as the distress and
want which must follow the drafting of those
upon whose labor and presence at home, alone
depend the subsistence of hundreds and thou
sands in reduced and precarious circumstances.
A dozen volunteers from each election district
in the county, in addition to those already rails
ed, will be more than enough to do away with
the necessity of the draft. Let every township
and borough furnish its quota of ten or dozen
volunteers, let them concentrate at Bedford,
form themselves into companies, elect their Off
GERS, and, if need be, let them be subsisted,
whilst in rendezvous here, at the expense of the
county, and we will guaranty that Bedford
county will not only escape the draft, but will
be honored, in all coming time, for the patriot.
ism and gallantry of her citizen soldiers. Who
will be first to carry our suggestion into effect
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A Terrible Calamity.

The steamer Golden Gate, which left San
Francisco on the 2 LIST of July, for Panama, with
250 passengers and 81 ,Ol4,O for New York,
and $270, 900 for England, was burnt at sea
when six days out, ION the 27th) and one hun
dred and eighty or two hundred lives were lost,
and all the treasure. A large number of the
passengers were from New York.
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stedfOrh asaia Road.

Sealed proposals for the graduation Of one third
of one mile OF this road beginning at the western
termin US of Section No. I2, leading thence to the
Turnpike Road. will br received by tie Directors
up 10 IN, 10th da, of September next. Estimates,
&c of the warK to be done will be on exhibition at
the Office of lhe Company in Bedford.
BY order of the Board,
IOHN p. REED, seey.
Bedford, August 8, 1862
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Attention, Stock SubscriI,ers.

The su u,scrlbeis TO the capital stock of the Bed.
ford Raj Road Company, are hereby notified, that
they can relieve themselves of the penalty of -
cent interest on their subscriptions, BY making
payment Of the princp on or before the 9th day
OF September next; md in case il will b. inconys-
ni"nt 20 pay cash iown, their notes payable in 30,
GO and 90 days will be taken as cash. After that
date suits will be brought against all deinq uents.
By order of the Board,
JOHN r. REED, Treasurer.
ford An
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eSMorton McMichael, leader of the late
Republican party. declared in speech at Lam
caster, a few days ago, that there are but two
parties at present, the Abolition and the Demo.
critic party. The people must choose between
the two.
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a@Thoas two exoclIena Democrats papers,
tho Chambefshnrg 7mes nnd Valley Spir. have
been consolidated under The proprietorship of
Messrs. Keyser, Hamsher& Kennedy. We have
no doubt that the new paper will prove most
able and interesting journal.
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Ne

Contemplating a change(E.
p.clfu y ask all who are IN our busines. wa reg.
accounts upon OIL: books. due Ia, TO nav up. Ar
set' ed hv the goth of August, 1852 1nary, ii not
10 'he proper oh'cer LOT eohrc.ion: be given
A. B. CRAMER ,
August 8, 1862. 1T.
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ABOLITION NNoMINArIoN.-The Abolition Con-
gressional Conference for this district, met at
McIlwain's tavern, in Fulton CO., on the 7th
inst, and on the ninth ballot nominated Ed
ward Mcpherson, the present member, for rec
lection. The usual bargain and sale were made
before the nomination was effected McPher-
son is straight-out Aboltionist, having voted
for the abolition of slavery in the District Of
Columbia and supported all of the radical meas
ures introduced into Congress He is under
the thumb of that grim old apostle of Aboli-
tionism, Thaddeus Stevens, and does his bidding
in every thing If the people want the slaves
of the South let loose on the North, they car
do no better than vote for Ed. MCPHERSON.
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DEArHMC CAPT. RrcE,s Co.-JacobG Fleo,e

DEATH CAPT. RYcEs Co.-JacobG G.. Flegle,
OF Capt Ryce's company, 10th regiment Pa.
Vols, and late of this county, died, few days
ago, at Hilton Head, of typhoid fever. Poor
Flegle was good soldier, and his death will
prove loss to his company, but, alas great
er, sadder loss to that little family in the noun
tain home, which shall never see his face again.
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Measles are p,ostutng the Volunteers Jy hun
d,'eds the hospitals are crowded with them.
Soldiers, be warned in time. HOLLOWAY'S
PILLS are positively infaible in the cure of
this disease ; occasional doses of them will pre-.
serve the healtheven under the greatest expo
sures. Only rs cents per Box. 224
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HIGHLY IMPORTANT.

OfNT |fOW h6 " I" IcfnHftW ~ Uc'eHt &c
E'aaon Of Nltty Day- Writ Of Habsas
Corpus Suspended.
WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-The following highly
important order has just been issued from the
War Department.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CIrY,
August s, 1882.
Order to Prerent the Erusion Of Military Duty
and the Suppression Of Disloyal P'uctices.
First-By direction of the President of the
United States, it is hereby ordered that until
further orders, no citizen liable to be drafted
into the militia shall be allowed to go to q for
eign country, and all Marshas, Deputy Mar.
shas and military officers of the United States
are directed, and all police authorities, especi-
ally at the ports of the United States of the
scahoard and on the frontier are requested to
feet: and they are hereby ahihorz 4 and t;recs. s
ted to arrest and return any person or pers ms
about to depart from the United States in vio.
lltinn OF this order, and to report to Major L.
e. Turner, Judge Advocate, at WASHINGTON
city, for further instructions respecting the nar-
son or persons so arrested a,d detained.
Secondary person liabl. to draft who
shall absent himself from his cou.rv or stat,
before such draft is made, will be d.,osted hT,
any Provost Marshal or other United S,tos nv ~
State officers, wherever he may be found Win
the juris LECTION of the United States, and CO.
veyed to the nearest military post or depot, and
placed on military duty for the term of the
draft an the expense of his own arrest and
CONVEYANCE to su;h POST, shall be deducted
from his pay.
Thi"d--T'he writ of habeas corpus is hereby
suspended in respect to all persons so arrested
anil detained, AMI in respect to all persons ar.
rested for disloval practice.
[Signcd] E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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LosT.-On Friday evening, 9Th inst, be-
tween Patterson's lane, on the HolIidaysburg
turnpike, and Bedford, or between The Holli-
daysburg bridge and Ritchcys mill, Lady's
Morocco Reticule, containing bracelets, ring,
porte-monae, kid gloves, &c.
The finder will be suitably rewarded by lcav-
ing it at this Office.
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JOHN W. FoRNEY-THE RETIRE MENr OF THE
OLD RAr.-Said this migrate at meeting the
other night, ''Retired from political life, have
d,votedsmyself to the nation"
Precious hypocrite When Forney ret ired
from political life, it must have been like the old
rat in the fables ''My dear children" sa id the
old rat to his young ones, ''the infrmites of age
are pressing so heavily upon me. that have de-
ternlined to dedicate the short remainder of my
days to modification and penance in narrow
and lonely hole which I have lately discovered;
but let me not interfere with your enjoyments;
youth is the season for pleasure BE happy,
therefore, and only obey my last injunction
never to come near me in my retreat. God
bless you ALL" Deeply affected, sniveling -au.
dibly, and wiping his paternal eyes with his tail,
the old rat withdrew, and was seen no more for
several days, when his youngest daughter, mov.
ed rather by affection than curiosity, stole to his
cell of modification, which turned out to be
hole made By his owa teeth in an enormous Cheshire
cheese.
The retirement from political life of John w.
Forney!-ha! ha! ha! Office of Clerk of the
Senate-great contract broker-and lobby a.
gent Here is the Cheshire cheese, and the cells
OF modification into which the old rat has retir.
ed to do penance for his many sins. He simply
asks the prayers Of the faithful Let them pref.
dtNetUd,E Journal
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67-CAMr MEETING for Bedford Circuit will COM.
mence (bV) on Frii ". Ssp'-mb.i 5th, IN ground
near Bloody Run Friends fro nrig hboring ap-
poinime are cordially invited to tAnt with u.s. as
wei, as the public generally. 10 particp,ta in the
,xsrcises of worsbiping G,i in Nitnra'. w sane.
tuary. JANIS c CLARKE,
p in c. of BEDFORD CT
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MAJ. FiLLER.-Maj. John Fl. Fiber, of tn
55th Pa yJss-, arrived here, q fs~ days ago
on visit to his family.
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RECRUITING.-Never since the war began has
the raising of volunteer companies been attend.
ed with such signal success as during the past
week. We have heard of whole companies be-
ing enlisted in single day, and one of the COM
Paniss Pan raised in thiIh IhBeF. B Capt Bobbsl over:
are perfectly safe in estimating the number of
volunteers at present enrolled in this county at
between 400 and 500. The following officers
have raised and are engaged in raising compa-
nies: Captain Bobb, company full and gone to
Camp Curtin; Capt S. b. Tate, seventy men 4;
Capt. S. G. Statler, had forty men when last
heard from Capt. Dickerhoof, 40; Capt. May,
80; Lieut.. Hudson, 20 men and gone to Camp
Curtin. In addition to these, Captain Josiah
Baughman, of Bloody Run, is raising a compa-
ny, which we have no doubt will be perfect
success. There is also a Cavalry company be-
ing formed in Morrison's Cove, and we presume
that there are other officers recruiting in
this county of whose operations we have not
heard. From these indications it will be seer
that we can easily raise our quota of the 600,-
900 men without drafting, if the Government
will but give US little more time. Meanwhile
we would warn our citizens not to enlist will,
recruiting officers from other counties. Dur
ing the last ten days Blair and Huntingdon
counties have drawn upon us for at least fifty
men. This is all wrong and must be prevented
in the future.
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New A0pertisements.
$4,000 WANTED.

My books are posted for settlement up TO July 1.
hereby cali upon every person having unsettled
accounts with ma to call at once. do not wish 10
press any one for money, but those who nes .ct or
refuse 10 settle, will most suielv be sued.
WIN. HARTLEY.
August Is, 1862.
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NOTICE.

e,,, nripDy give notice that | have pure based ,bs
'o"""'hs property at Sher,F's sale: -Four miIch
whS' one o' OK mare, and one bay mare; all Of
owner, "a rave In the possession of the lafs
during m9n Blair, in Cumberland Valley towo.h;n
asUre. r'
August l3-3t. JACOB SI,lGER.
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Governor Curtin.

His Excellency, Gov. Curtin, left the Springs
on the 10th inst, for Harrisburg, we are glad
to hear, considerably improved in health. In
the discharge of our duty as a Democratic edi-
tor, we have had occasion to review Gov. Cur
tins political doctrines with some severity, and
we cannot bate one jot or title of what we have
said in this respect; but candor compes us to
admit (and we do so most cheerfully) that the
Governor has done some acts during his admin
istration, for which he deserves and shall have
our appreciation. Had the Governors of other
States possessed half the energy displayed by
Gov. Curtin, and had the Administration at
Washington entertained the proper view of the
magnitude of the rebellion, the fate of our be-
loved country would not now be trembling in
the balance. Had other State Executives re-
sisted the pressure of radical aboitionists, as
we are informed Gov. Curtin has done there
would now be troops of friendly, sympathising
Union men, instead of bands of fierce and infu-
rated guerillas, gathering around our armies in
the South. Comparatively, therefore, Mr.. Cur
tin deserves praise for his energy in the raising
of troops and his conservatism in refusing to be-
come a tool in the hands of the radicals Like
Senator Cowan, our State Executive has drawn
upon his devoted head the execration of the f;,-
natics and fools of the Greely and Beecher school,
and, therefore, it becomes the duty Of conserva-
tives to applaud and encourage him in the course
he is pursuing. Only let him remain firm a.
gainst their Vaccinations and the conservative
people of the State will rally around him and
sustain him in every peril.
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esrThe Democratic State Committee has i'm
posed some important duties upon our county
committee. See proceedings
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Exc 'UrOR'S NOTICE

No,'ce Is h-r-by given that Letters Testamsn,arv
y, '. o"en s,anfed by The Register of Bedford coun.
~, I" The subscriber, on the estate cr n u;, ~,
en- 'a,e of Cumberland Valley township deceased.
.ndt persons indebted to said estate are notGed
10 MAKE Immediate payment, and those having
aims VIII present them duly authenticated for set
. JONATHAN c. DlCKEN,
' 4>'|.-o'dl. Executor.
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
STATE TICKET.


STATE TICKET.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
HON. ISAAC SlENkER,
OF UNION COUNTY.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
COL. JAMES p. BARR,
OF ALLEGBANY COUNTY.
COUNTY TICKET.
ASSEMBLY,
JOHN CESSNA, Bedford Borough.
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
SAMUEL KETTERMAN, Bed. Bor.
DIS. ATTORNEY,
JOHN PALMER, Bedford Bor.
COMMISSIONER,
ANDREW CRISMAN, Napier tp.
POOR DIRECTOR,
SOLOMON RE1GHARD, S. Spring TT
AUDITOR,
JOHN Fl. BARTON, E. Prov. tp.
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1t is suggested that, in this matter, for the good
of all those concerned, that the government il.
self should fix the value Of substitutes, as is the
case in France. There are many other sugges.
tions of similar character entitled to careful
consideration, and it is understood that com.
mittee Of citizens will proceed to Washington in
the course of day or twQto see if the govern.
ment cannot be prevailed Jon to adopt them,
and issue an order accordingly. Some of the
gentlemen composing the committee have been
long resident abroad, and, as they are perfectly
familiar with the drafting machinery there,
they are we'll qualified to speak and advise un.
dcrstandingly on the subject
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Glass Fruit & Tomato Jars
for sale at Haftleys. Trssa are the st an chsap.
est jars made and the same jar that is recommended
by The N-w York Agriculture ist.
nTCall soon and lay in supply before all ara
sold at the sign of the Pad Loc next door Fast Of
Ar Cramer X Cas-
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AUDITOR,
JOHN Fl. BARTON, E. Prov. tp.
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OURr PROCLAMATION.

Bedford, August s, 1862.
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CHEAP, 800 CHEAP

August Is, 1885,
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POOR DIRECTOR,
SOLOMON RE1GHARD, S. Spring tp