The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-05-30
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el~Io please everybydy-Alind your own bu-
siness
sg-He who sets one great truth ahoat in the
world serves his generation.
e5-Why is an apple-tree like crooked wall?
Because it isn't plumb.
ez-Satan is a subtle individual, but the army
trader is a sutler.
| e2-A parents forgiveness of daughter when
her heart is broken, is pardon after execution.
e9-When is an Irish girl most disposed to take
compassion ON her lover? When her heart goes
pitty-pat.
| es-Self-defense is the clearest of all laws ;
| and for this reason-the lawyers didn't make
it.
CT Our gunboats are managed with judg-
ment, because they always go into battle with
the head on.
ezy- The rebels may not have begun to dig
their last ditch, but they have got into the pre-
liminary scrape.
G. A great many tents accompany our ar
my, so that our soldiers will be able to canvas
the whole country.
60 General Candy has driven the rebels ont
as can be expected.
esHowell Cobb has published letter in which
he thrice says ~ ween." He is old enough to
do so, one would think. e5
e5-Wc make sad mistakes, but there is good
ness hived, like wild honey in strange hooks and
corners of the world.
n5-An eminent physician has discovered that
the nightmare, in nine cases out of ten, is pro-
duced by owing a bill for newspaper.
eS- The Mayor of Louisville has issued an
order to confne all the dogs. Wouldn't 1t be
as safe to administer the oath and let them go?
es5- General Pope's transports quietly remark
ed to the rebels, at Island No 10, in passing a.
round the canal, ''Sirs, we are going bayou"
eg- Beauregard wants to change the plan of
the rebels by bringing them to the scratch, but
we expect it will prove to be the sold scratch"
es The frequent use of their legs, by the
rebels latterly, shows as we have said before,
that they arc reduced to the tslowest extremi-
ties"
EsF' The worst men in this country are the
editors of the New York city dailies. We
judge so from what each one says of all the
rest. S1f
CT The rebels threatened not to leave an ear
of corn or blade Of grass, for our armies. We
may expect, then, as we advance, to find them
crop-eared.
esg" The radicals are very much alarmed at
the meeting of the conservatives at Washing
ton. They needn't be scared. They will only,
be saved from themselves. .fF
a.. Straw bail has been considered significant;
but we think the rebels, in pledging their cot.
ton where it could not be Of value, have super
seded it with cotton bale.
es- We wish Sumner would get a pass from
Halleck and Beauregard to 60 to Mississippi and
emancipate the slaves. There is no doubt both
would willingly grant it.
esy- The Republicans are devoting themselves
greatly to reading lately. Blair, Browning,
Diven and several other prominent raembers
have been recently read out of their party
esyCommodore Foote is a very religious man.,
as is well known. Some one says thai the reb~
els, who are feeling his bombs, must think he
belongs to the ''hard-shell Baptists."
a. The rogues at Washington are bitter on
he investigating committee, denouncing 1t in
terms.
sNo rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion Of the law"
gyFAIR HIr.--The editress of the LADIES'
PeDositoy says ''the nation wants a man;' and
he Milford Journal asks if that lady has not
COMPOUNDED her own personal want with that
IF the nation. ."-Erchange.
eyLove is compound of honey and gall
mixed in various proportions for customers.
ss'Congress has postponed the consideration
If the bankrupt law until December. II was
ound not to hase q ''aigger" IN It.
ezTThe Southern Confederacy may now be
bounded rs follows: On the North by McClel-
IN and Hallock, on the East by Burnside and
Hunter, on the South by Fort Pickens and the
Sulf Squadron, andon the West by Com. Foote,
len. Butler, Com. Faragut and Capt. Porter.
e5-Lovejoy, the AboEtionist has introduced
bill to make liberty national and slavery sec
ional The truth is that the object of Lovejoy
! Co., is to make the negro national and the
yhite man sectional They expect to come in
themselves as honorary members of the Africans
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