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subjects to obedience was a solee;sm in terms.
as we'll as an outrage on the principles of pub
lie law.
| Tha war made upon the Confederate States
/ was, therefore, wholly one of aggression. On
our side it has been strictly defensive. Born
! freemea, and the descendants of gallant an
cestry we had no option but to stand up in de-
fence Of our invaded firesides, of cur 6esecratad
affairs, Of our violated liberties and birthright,
and OF the prescriptive Institutions which guard
and protect them We have not intertered. nor
do We wish, in any manner whatever, TO inter-
feEe with the internal peace and prosperity of
The States arrayed in hostility against us, or
with the freest development of their destinies in
any form of action or line Of policy they may
think proper to adopt for themselves. All we
ask, IS alike Immunity for ourselves, and to be
left in the undistrrbed enjoyment of those ina
henabie rights of 'tlife liberty, and the pursuit
Of happiness which our common ancestors de-
clared to be the eq ual heritage of all The parties
to the social compact.
Let them forbear aggressions upon US, and
the war is 4. an end. If there be question
which require adjustment by negotiation, W..
have ever been willing and are still willing tu
enter into communication with our adgersarie@
IN spirit of peace, of equity, and manly frank
ness. Strong in the persuasion of the iustic.
Of cur cause, in the gallant devotion of our
citizen soldiers, and Of the whole body of our
people, and above ell in the gracious protection
OF Heaven, we are not afraid to avow a SINGER.
desire Tor peace, on terms consistent with OF.
honor and the permanent security of our rights
and an earnest aspiration TO see the world ono
more restored 10 the benefcent pursuits Of N
dustry and OF mutual intercourse and exchange
50 essential to its well being, and which have
been 80 grsyely interrupted by tie existence o.
this unnatural war in America.
but IT our adversaries, or those whom thev
have placed in authority, deaf to the voice 81:
reason and justice, steeled against the dictates
OF both prudence and humanity by the presump
tuous and delusive confidence in their own mum
bers, or those of their black and foreign merce-
mares, shall be determined upon an indefinit,
proongatlon of the contest, upon them be this
of decision so ruinons to them
selves, and SO injurious to the interests and re-
pose of mankind.
For ourselves, we have no fear for the resul:
Ihe widest pictures ever drawn of disordered
imagination comes short of the extravaganza
which could dream of the conquest Of eight
millions OF people, resolved with one mind tn
die freeuen rather than to live slaves" and fore.
IN WHICH THIS " ar uccII SrsUG tgyJGr
and by the mad avowals of its patrons and sup
porters, of the than Egyptian bondage
that awaits them in the event Of their subiuga-
sion
With these declarations of our dispositions
our principles, and our purposes, we commit ou-
cause to the enlightened Judgment of the world
TO the sober reflection of our adversaries then
selves, and to the solemn and righteous arbitr.
ment Of Heaven.
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IOld Abe fought magnifcently and de-
perately in the trenches of Washington. la. .
week. So his lickspittles say, although it Il
not yet known whether he really at the tinla
was aboard n gun-boat in the Potomac, or
Philadelphia or Harrisburg. Nevertheless, h
fenciful exploits would supply the subject ma
,sr for q splendid epic poem. Who will gra.
at Immortality by writing it? One of his p
sitions is said to have been thus when the re! :
els had left Sleeves and pants rolled up, lla
and boots lost, a big black bottle near by i
hind stone. the right eye blinked and afa +.
Abe Linco. 4 contraband guarding the .'B
Black" and a proxy volunteer reading ii,
original emancipation proclamation to the rel.
els ten miles Off, make up the back ground
the picture. When the eight" was over Or
Abe called for a i'negro song" after which Il
Government" was made Major General
the spot by tie President. The contrabane
was allowed 10 keep the bottle-its contents
having disappeared, as a relic of the slime
that tried men'sp-pantaloons The tsproxy
threatened to follow up the rebels and slaughtcr
them, but was dissuaded, and appointed to hun
Abes hat and boots, TO do which he received
a commission of Brigadier General. L.Banas
AdpertSer
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Business Caros.
JOSEPH w. TATE,

ATTORNEY AT Law, BEDFORD, PA.
Will promptly attend to collections and all busi-
ness entrusted 10 his care, in Bedford and adjonn
counties.
Cash advanced on judgments, notes, military and
other claims.
Has for sale Town lots in Tatesville, and ST. Jo-
,eph's, on Bedford Railroad Farms aud unimproyeI
land, from one acre to $50 acres TO suit purchasers.
Office nearly opposite the 'sMengel Hotel'' and
Bank of Reed Schell.
April /, lS64-ly
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How 10 GET RID or CATERPiLLARs.-Jh
following, which we clip from the Toronto Lead
er, may Ue of interest to our thousands Of ag-
ricultural friends throughout the country:
Those of our readers who either have frui.
trees in their gardens, or who cultivate large or
chards, will Tearn with much qualification that
a certain instrumentality of destruction TO cat
erpillars has been discovered That coal oi
will cause instant death 10 these pests has been
proved beyond all doubt. On Saturday lest a
letter was received at the Leader Office, for pub
lication, from one of our subscribers. an extern
sive farmer in the township of Clerk, county of
Durham, stating the fact that, as last resort,
TO endeayor to destroy the eaterpillars, he cx-
| perimented with coal Oil Complete success at
tended the experiment. A'bruslfof stiff feath-
ers was made, and portions of the trees smear
ed with the oil, in addition to plaeing small
| quantity on the nests Instant death ensued
The proprietor of the Leader at once tested the
oil on his trees at Glengrove Farm, Young street,
| where the caterpiharsshad collected in thousands
doing fearful damage, In a couple of hours
oae quart of it had cleared the orchard COM
pletely Of caterpllars The dead lay around
IN all directions The effect Of the Gil on the
pests seemed miraculous there was no long
delay to undergo, for one touch of the deadly
substance to the nests spread desolation in all
directions. This is certainly a cheap remedy,
as well as a sure ono, and all our subscribers
ltroubled with caterpillars should adopt it.,
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C-No paper dist stontinued until all aIreaTages are
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eountable for the subscription price of newspapers
i they take them from the post Office, whether they
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NORMAL SCHOOL.
]. ". DICKERSON, Principal.
II. W. FISHER, .4ssisfGnt Principal

The County Normal School will begin in BEDFORD
on Monday, August sth. Arrangements nave peen zen
possible advantages, Boarding s2.25 per week
Teachers will be charged tuition fee barely enough
10 dafray necessary expenses. Others will be charg-
ed from S6 90 to Sc Oo according to ssdies pursued
Jnne ~, lse4-4t.
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]. n DuRRoRRoW.

ATTORNEY At Law, BEDFORD, Pa.
Office one door South of the "Mengel House,
Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to his
care in Bedford ana adjoining counties.
Having also been regularly licensed to prosecute
claims against the Government particular attention
will be given to the collection of Military claims OF
all kinds pensions, back pay bounty. bounty loans,
&c. april /, 1864.
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Balance,


by the census Of 1860 the free States NUM-
bered I, ,92l, 900 souls. Delaware, Maryland,
Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia num-
bered 2,539,000, OF whom say two millions are
in sympathy with the North, 10 put rs ''loyaf'
a construction on matters as possible. Add 10
these figures about one million free blacks ana
''regenerated" slaves and the total population
amounts to.twenty-one millions (2l ,00G, ,000)
Il is thus evident that one out OF every eiev-
on Of the population has been drawn into the
armies. According to this estimate two-iiths
of the maic population between the ages OF Is
and As have been called out. Under tie draft
of July, 1868, the proportion in establishing
quotas was one in three, and is seven hundred
thousand men have been secured since thsn, the
above estimate IS by no means wide OF the ac-
tual figure. Almost one-half the male popnia-
ton between these ages has been already drawn.
No allowance has been made for those who orc
disabled physically unfit, &c. The last drafts
show how large number there are OF this class.
According 10 tlis view considerably more than
cne-haf the available fighting population of she
North has beer called out.
The figures above give one milton ninc h19,dred
and ten thousand 1aios hundred and Srty-0ae men,
who have entered the military service, without
counting the one dG}tdF66 Ia& t1Ceaty IaouSdhtI
blacks officially announced as wearing the nni-
form Of the nation, and the hundred days mill
tia, to the number Of fifty or sixty thousand,
who went irto service from the Western States.
IF these were added the number would be swell
cd to more than two millions of men; but com
petent authorities compute that there remain,
after deducting for re-enlisted mon, losses by
battle, disease, &c, only about seven or eight
hundred thousand men. The Age newspaper
estimates the number at 660,000. Even these
numbers are very great, and arc thought by
many persons to be sufficiently large, under good
generals and prudential plans, to be sufficient
| for the purpose OF getting the better of the en-
emy in arms.
Ii is impossible to tell how or where the five
| hundred thousand now called for are TO come
| from. It is true that Massachusetts, and Others
of the New England States may be up to tim'
with their quotas, having already posted thei
AGENTS off to the insurrectionary States to en-
list negroes under the new enrolment act; Du
it will come hard upon such States as our own
which has not yet laid its State pride at the fee
of the farm servants, cooks and BARRIERS of Jet
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ESpY NJ. AkSIP.

ATTORNEY At Law, BEDFORD, PA.
Will faithfully and promptly attend TO all business
entrusted TO his in Bedford and adi onng
ties. Military claims. back pay, bounty, &c,
speedily collected.
Office with Mann & Spang. on Juliana street, two
doors South of the Menge House. Jan. p, '64.
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VOL. 7, NO 81.

that had our army never exceeded five hundred
thousand men. our military progress would have
been al least equal, while our finances would
have undergone no perceptible derangement.-
World
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G.. 81. GPANG

ATTORNEY AT Law, BEDFORD, PA.
will promptly attend 10 collections and all busi-
ness entrusted TO his in Bedford and adjoining
counties.
Of the sMengel House," opposite the residence Of
Mrs. Tate. May u, 1861.
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T. N. MARnoURct, NJ. D,

Z Il 4 u J. ; . . n o. I
Tenders his profe ssonal services TO the people Of
that place and vicinity. Office Immediately oPpo-
site the store of John Z. Colvin, in the room for
mery occupied by J. Henry Schell.
July !, 1861.
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u. H. AKERS.

ATTORNEY 1T LIT, Bedford, Pa.
Wall promptly attend to all business entrusted to
his care. Military claims speedily collected.
UZOfice on JuIianna street, opposite the Bank,
one door north of John Palmer's ofhee.
Bedford, September Il. 1868.
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A. II, C0FFROTH,

ATTOR NEY At Law. somsrsst, Pr.
Will hereafter practice regularly IN the several
Courts OF Redford county. Business entrusted to
his care will be faithfully attended to-
December S, 1861.
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=. c. DOYLE, M. ..

Tenders his professional services TO tbs citizens OF
ri cody Run and vicinity Office next door to the
no tel Of John c. Black. June 10, 1854
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JOHN PALM n

ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
p-Wir promptly attend 10 al business entrus-
ted to his care. Office on JuiIanua Street, (neaF-
Iy opposite the Mengel House.)
Bedford, Aug. /, 1861,
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Holm p. REED,

ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa,
Respect faIky tenders hts ssrUicss 10 tks Pubic.
D~Ohice second door North of the Menge
House.
bedford, svggl 1851.
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6AMOEL KETTERMAN,

J
E-Would hereby notify the cltIzens OF oedIoIo
county. that he has moved TO the Borough of Bed
ford where he may at all times be found oy persons
wishing to see him, unless absent upon business
pertaining to his office.
Bedford, Aug. 1851.
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DAVID DRFTPkUGE,

GUNS M 1T II, BEDFoED, PA,
Workshop same as formerly occupied by John
Border, deceased. Rifles and other guns made 10 or
der, in the best style and reasonable terms spe-
cia attention will be given TO the repairing OF ire
arms. July |, I664-ly.
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MAR.ROTRG. NJ.

y A@' 4AA~AA - = L.
Having permanently located, respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of Bedford
and vicinity.
Office on West Pitt street, south side, nearly oq
posite the Union Hotel.
Bedford, February l2, 1861,
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"GIVE. GIVE. GIVE!"

The last call of President Lincoln for five
hundred thousand men, naturally provokes in
quiry as 10 the number of ineu previously call
ed to arms. The following table viii show the
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5AcoB REED, JsJ' ocAAl
REED AND SCHELL,

BANKERS X DEALERS in EXCHANGE,
BEDFORD, PENN'A.
r%DRAFTS bought and sold, collections maoe
and money promptly Temitted.
Deposits solicited.
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Anythings.

Anythings.
rs it wrong to cheat lawyer? mot
wrong, but impossible r.. Ladies are
sometimes taken for female mllers. We
heard young bach say the other day on
passing whits woman, "shc forgot to wipe
her face after stirring up the -four barrelr'
....Onions rubbed on the hair will give it
. strong growth. -. Emma Webb is the
Democratic female oratress opposed to Miss
Anna Dickinson. Better for both if they
had cradles to rock. "A little girl wanted
her father to cut open penny to get sight
Of the four farthinss Of which it was CON-
posed. Gov. Stone proposes to vindicate
the civil authority Of Iowa in cases where
soldiers and civilians nisunde rstand each
other. Gov. Stone had better be cicn.
Gerrit Smith says "the man who damns the
Constitution may do it from motives of
patriotism. .Gcrrit is a black Smith.
Mrs. Darlington has "two buckles on her
lungs. The old lady fears their tongues
will irritate her pandemonium. "a man
tainted at the burial Cf his third wife: he
-soon revived" "Woman's sphere" is
.crinoline-her hemisphere bonnet-her
ambition beautiful carpet--her world the
house she is Empress Other subjects all
she treats well. Cultivate good humor If
you would have good health. %. Uncle Toby
said to the fly, "Go poor devil there is room
in the world for thee and me-" The
wine cup browns more than the ocean. -.
The City Marshall of Des Moines recently
gave country man an unmerciful thrashing.
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Road NTeefinN.

Road Meeting.
On Thursday evening (to-morrow) there
will be a Meeting Of the Farmers, Mer-
chants, Produce dealers and all others in.
terested, at Mozart Hall, McGregor, to
make arrangements for the construction of
a good wagon-road and sidewalk to North
McGregor. Geo. L. Bass and others have
given us statistics relative to road taxes and
various other matters pertaining to this
work, it's Importance, &C., but We are so
over.run, at this hour, with demands on
our time and space that it is impossible to
say more than this:
W- Everybody in both towns and in
their vicinities should lend strong hand
to this enterprise.
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PRAYING FOR "BRAlNs"-A Washington
correspondent Of the Buffalo Courier, gives
the following incident:
Talking about politics reminds inc OF
an incident that occurred last week, and
ought to be duly recorded in the chronicles
Of the limos. The Chaplain Of the Senate
in opening the proceedings Of the day, used
uerbatim the following emphatic and well
advised language: "Give unto the senator's
of the United States and to our rulers,
brains, BRAINS, BRAINS, O God" His
voice was earnestly strained the first time
he said brains" but he managed to increase
its power and volume every time he spoke
the word.
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Farm for Sale.

TINHE undersigned offers for sale Of the most dc.
l. sirable tracts of land in Allamakee county. The
farm consists Of $50 acres lying Bunker Hill, on
o. 80 acres are improved aud the remainder the
best body OF timber in North Iowa. Two sugar Or
chards it, and springs located rs to ad-
nit OF the division OF the tract into two farms On
the premises is Good frame House, easily altered to
suit the wishes of the purchaser The farm only
miles trem the eastern terminus of the McGregor
Western Railway, and but miles from the MissiS-
sippi back.water Yellow River. Near the premises
Ia the superor wxterpower OF Yellow River until
other machinery WAS burned down Terms !: Part in
hand, balance time, we'll secured. For further
particulars apply to the undersigned the premises
or to A. 2. Richardson, II rs Office
8SSw3 PETER O'MALLEY,
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FIRM For S.ALE !

VINiIE undersigned will dispose of first-c 49,
/ Farm OF LAO Acres, under good cultiva- AI.::i
ton, in Delaware county, New Jerk; Dwell kSssl
ing Houses Of ample dimensions, bearing Orchard
Of 100 Apple Trees, also about 1000 not of bearing
age with Cherries, COoseberries, Currarts, &c, in
abundance, fences in good repair the Farm IL well
watered, large stream we.stocked with trout run
ming through it; main dwelling has water feet from
OF ugar Maple. The Kingston 4 Delhi Tuinpike
pa sos through on which mails pass daily way;
miles to Kingston Plankroad, half mile to village of
Grifins Corners containing Postofce stores, Hotels,
&c; FIGURING and Saw mills within 2 miles, also
Church and Schools. 81 For further information
address or apply to }. Il. CORLEIT,
e. -. ..- 90. Farmersburg, Iowa.
81 Will exchange for Iowa land. 3S5tf
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the MOST siMsLs, the Nosr CORRECT IN rRtxcIpls<
and the MOST THOROUGHLY PRACTICAL MACHINE
ever put into the harvest field.
The Agents OF q Certain sod fogy machine (Which
by the way wa. very good one for the age which
rns t,ies d. @Trress .s,vsnspyhe,
selt-raker,) whose sun of prosperity Is feared IL
now on the wane with zeal worthy OF better eau.
have expended vast amoint Of wind-work and
written voluminous and labo-ed pamphlets, NOT Tor
the purpose Of bringing before the pubic the NER-
ITS Of their OWN machine, but for the very quos.
tionable one Of DESERVING OyRS. Others, acting
as agents for a machine, between which and our own
there exists similarity, Eve take pleasure how
ever in saying only in NAME, bat wnich, unlike the
machine above allnded to, MEYER HAD ANY
PRESTIGE) with degree of assurance equaled
only by their npudence in this matter, fill whole
column in pubic newspaper, ''cautionng the publ
''c that attempts have been made to sell another
sand inferior machine on the strength of their rep"
'utation, with much else of o like character.
Now all this talk is supremly ridiculous, especially
to those who cognizan of the that the agents
Of the John Il. Nanny machine have had left over
their hands every ea large number of them which
could not be sold, aud which have been regularly
shipped back, at the close OF the to Rockford,
their place OF manufacture, to be re-pantef,
shed, .vamped and shipped back here again anoth-
season to be sold Us NEW AND IMPROVED MA
CHIMES" while the demand for the JOHN ii. MAN
NY MACHINE has been every yoar largely in excess
OF the supply a. also that the
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COMMERCIALS
TINES OFFICE. Tues day, April Sd p. III.

TINES OFFICE. Tuesday. April 5-3 Pm
The Market Prices be learned by careful i'll
speeton of the report Of Benton Bros Il Co The
roads have been SO muddy that nobody has dared to
haul a load of grain to town. Our friend Thomas
Bridges, Esq, of the City scales is too spirited to
make req rt of produce when light receipts are the
order.
The weather was lowry, rainy, misty bat to-day
Tuesday) the sun came out and gave goodly token
OF fair tomorrow The War Eagle came up on
Saturday morning and went as lar as La Crosse and
returned, leaving McGregor Monday noon for below.
The Milwaukee went down from Prairie du Chen On
Saturday last.
Gold is about l66 in New York. Prices Of grain in
Milwa ukee and Chicago without material change
Iighwnes firm at 95. Beef cattle Ga small drov e
owned by Teabout) sold at McGregor, on Tuesday, at
SIS, 90 per hundred gross.
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PLEASANT PICTURE-The Albany States
man. a leading Republican paper, has the
following In reference ~ the PROMINENT
men Of its own party:
"a pack of sharks, hungry, villainous
and incorrisble, have fastened upon the
public treasury, and have depleted it at the
rate of millions monthly the patronage
of the Federal Govrnment has been be-
slowed upon those with whom the electors,
if allowed an exercise Of choice, would alb
solutely have refreshed all deaings-un,il
high places of trust are held by known
and convicted cormorants, and men drive
fast horses, and live in free stone houses
purchase with United States greenbacks,
who ought to be pegging shoes in States
PRISONS"
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NOTICE is hereby given that the copartnership
heretofore existing under the firm of Jas Wiley
| 4 Co. is this day di, solved by mutual consent.
McGregor, March Is, 1864. JAMES niLEY,
W. II. ABBOTT
The business is to he carried at the old stand b.
James Wiley who pays all the accounts Of the firm
aud secures all accounes due.
3SSs3 JAMES WILEY
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buy II Home.
.V'O TxCE.

I'VE the undersigned, having cloed out our bnsi-
ness preparation. 20 going to California, respect
fully ask all those who are indebted to US TO come
forward immediately aud pay up and those Who have
Claims against Us to present them for payment.
3oI H. d. CAWELTI.
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Vavious southern publications have beer
suppressed in ST. Louis, by order Of Pro
vost Marshal Sanderson.