The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-10-21
"A BARREN WASTE. +"


town OF Chanborsburg by his atrocious con
duet in tie TalIey of Virginia. Ia remoyinG
him from that department, it was supposed that
tir. Lincoln meant to put stop TO his mode CT
making war or the euamg, ard the people of
the border eoulties of lsf.s.s5 .ania breathed
! freer and deeper. They III 1o surprised and
alaFa.ed to learn that the rebels have been fur
nishea with fresh excuses for the commission OF
/ outragcs. by no less distinguished parsonage
than tie lieutenant General of the United
States Army The following is from a letter
from the Valley Of Virginia to the New York
Herald
On Thursday, September %, Gen. Clusters
and Merr;tts divisions were sent mp the Valley
TO destroy, according to the following order:
Heaagaartsrs 6sc-Do all the damage YOU
can TO the railroad and crops. Carry off stock
Of all dissertations and negroes, so as to preveut
further planting. II the war is 10 last another
year. LET the Shenandoah Valley remain bar
rem waste. q, .. Grant
tits further given out that Sen. Grant haa
ordered the above TO be SO completely carried
out that q crow, 4ying over tho Valley, viii
have TO carry its own ratons.
All ihe day Of the 29th both Custer and
Merritt were engaged II destroying the crops,
mills and all pronarfT OF use 70 tie rebel army.
The scene presented on this OCCASION was indeed
a very saidening, bot still very necessary one.
In the course of the day we destroyed enough
wheat 10 subss; fhe whole rebel army for
year 10 come, besides collecting fifteen Lundred
head Of cattle ard about three thousand sheep.
o. FRIDAY, the 30th the destruction and cot-s
lection operations we're Continued. When tie
rebel Generals Stuart and Uamp'on made their
famous cavalry raid through Frankln and Ad-.
ans counties. in the fall of 1862, they did not
destroy or inilre slag,e building, with the ex-
cep,ioa OF TIC railroad lopo. and Stops, AID
warehouse con,aaiag Government GrHs and
au.;ll milton They passed b. scores of mills
filed with -four and grain, and hundreds Of tho
largest barns in the Stale, cran'mBd with the
rich AMI recently gathered hsryests Of that
highly productive region, and yet never appE--
ed 4 match to a single one of them.
The next year Lee came with his whole ar
nay into the Cumberland Valley. They spread
ali over Franklin, Cumberland, York and Ad-
ANS counties, and visited every mill and nearly
every barn in all Of them and yet, when they
Chanbersburg, learning that threats had been
made 10 destroy the extensive mills located
near the hear: Of tho town, some or the ot1-
GERS, without being requested to do 80 by The
owner of the mills or by any cther OF thecit-
izens. sent q guard with strict orders to per-
mt no damage 10 be done 10 them. Gor were
ttey damaged in the slightest degree
When the rebels came again, they came IN
wrath. to ayengc Hunters cntrages III tbs val
lev. and the centennial anniversary of the fair
and 1iourishing town of Chanlbcrsburg was cell
ebrated in way that will never be forgotten
by the witnesses Of the scene.
The man who thinks itimpossibie for the reb-
els to come into Pennsylvania again, must be
Influenced by his hopes of the future rather
than by his experience of the past. Bat II
ought 10 be remembered that the tide OF yicto-
nv has on several occasions set quite as strong-@
ly in our favor a5 it has for the last month or
two. only 10 he turned against US by the skill
and enterprise Of The enemy or by the bung-
ling of our Administration Ii is therefore by
no means impossible, ana indeed it is not atall
improbable that before the close OF this uEfor-
tunate war. the rebel army may again tread the
soil Of Pennsylvania. This IS almost certain
to be the case in the event Of Mr. Lincoln'a re-
election. He offers them nothing but ruin ssd
degradation as the reward of their submission,
and IL ne is again elected, they will carry on the
war with redouhed energy.
And kolo viii they carr If On if i!ssc1er va.
rying fortunes shoul1 enabietcem to come here
ae;,inl Tins is qasS, ii.s5, tie peqple Of Lar
caSis comfy Sho4!d ponder seriously. Lee II be
comes again, may not confnc his operations to
the Cumberland Valley and ITS immediate neigh
borhoad. Having twice failed te accomplish
his leading objects by giving battle in that re-
eon he will be very apt to try new field next
time.
Where you'd he find richer spoil than IN
Lancaster, the garden of America? And If
he should come with determination to ayenge
the work Of destruction which appears to be 60
ing on in tie valley of Virginia by order of
Gen. Grant, with tbs sanction of President
Lincoln, and most probably by his express d.
rcciion, where else would he find 50 many mills
and welI-fllcd barns to destroy, or such fertile
fields to convert into 'fa barren waste :"
Republican farmers Of Lancaster county,
YOU are standing over volcano which yoGr
votes on Tuesday next may throw into action,
anu which l0ay swallow up and consume ali
that your industry has acquired. Ii you give
a majority in this count / heavy enough TO car
| ry the State for I.incpln,. and thus give the
sanction Of your approval 10 the savage war
fare he isnow wagin5 IN tbs valley OF Virginia,
you will have yourselves TO blame if the torch
Of the rebel shall oha day set your mills and
your barns IN. a biaze.-r Lancaster lateltgeacr
eTTho iaboring man who votes for Lincoln,
we care not 60 what party he maysbeicng, 'siR
erepent of ii in sackcioth and ashes, IL hs lives
to the end Of another Presidential term. fous
years of his rule ought to satisfy any uaa OF
sense.
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