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Jan. 20, IS65-3t
EXECuToRS, NorIcE


~ Letters testamentary having been granted by the Re-
gster of Bedford County to the understand Exto.
the last will and testament of John Weise late of St
Clair Township, deceased, notice hereby given to ali
persons indebted to the estate of said deceased to
immediate payment and those having claims win nresant
them properly authenticated for settlement
JOHN WETSFL
Jan. 8, lS65-6t. JOHN FICKES
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INCREASED Pay move has already been
made to increase the pay of members Of the Legis-
lature a bin has been introduced providing that
the annual compensation be 1900 and mileage
Tt IS very likely that the salary viii be raised at
this session. In olden times the pay Of member
Of the Legislature was three dollars per day.
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9ew Aapertisemeuta.

OFFICE HUNTINGDON & BROAD TOP MOUNTAIN
~ r. r. CO. Philadelphia, Jan. I6, 1864
The annual meeting Of tbe tockholders of this Company
viii be held their Office No. 25S South Sd Street Phia
on Tuesday the 9TH day of February, 1865 o'clock
A. NJ. when Election will be held for President and
Twelve Directors for the ensuing year.
]. P. AERTSEN,
Jan. zu-5t Secretary.
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The Richmond papers complain bitterly Of the
decay of public spirit in the South. and argne
that if those in authority would exhibit little
more manliness, common sense and pluck, there
would yet be some hopes for the Confederaey.
This looks to us hhe sprrenderipg at nc distant
day.
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NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.
IN hereby caution all persons not to hunt fish de-
stroymber OF tespass property any way what
ever as we will prosecute any person that dsregards this
notice LEVI SMITH, Monroe Tp.,
j. H. SPARKS, E. Providence Tp.
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NJ Office TO COLLECTORS
The Collectors for the year 1854 are hereby notified
% appear at the Commissioners Office in Bedford on
M 2sh 1883 for the purpose Of settling the
pa Tax with which they stand charged for said vea
VoectoTs VIII please early in the day as poshi
BY order Of the Commissioners = pOssiO'e
Inn On ,e9s.a. JOHN @. FIsHER,
- - 1865 1865 CIork.
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Dec.I0,,e4-st.
DMINIsTRAToR,s NorIcE

A DMINISTRAToR'S NOTICE.
Whereas letters of administration have been granted
she on the estate of Joseph o. Blackburn
late OF Napier Township deceased persons knowing them
selves indebted to said estate viii make Immediate nav
nen and those having claims will present them for settle
menI EDMUND S. BLACKBURN
pee'io, O4-ot Administrator
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ExEcUToRs' NOTICE.

EXECUTORS NOTICE.
~ Letters testamenary to the estate of William Mock
a Union townshp deceased, having been granted BY
the Register of Bedford County to the undersigned ali
persons having claims against said estate will present
them for settlement, and those knowing themselves in
deoted Wlh be required to make immediate payment.
SAMUEL MOCK 4
SAMUEL A. MOCK
Dec'loo4- Executors
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Jan. 20, 1865.

7 IST OF GRAND JURORS
II Drawn for February Term, I'd Monday 18th day,
Hugh Wilson, foreman, Jacob Fletcher VIM. AndcrsoH
David shafer, John Calhoun. Samuel Elliott Jas Taylor
solomon Ego Jacob Boor, Jacob Hiliegass of P jobs
johnson, stephen Winner, Peter Keagy. Geo Hartman
VIM Fisher, John Barkman, Daniel r. Anderson, Adam
Pote, Henry Mills, Rudolph Hoover Michrel L. Putt
Nm Cuppett Geo. Beegle, Baltzer Fletcher.
LIST OF PETIT JuRoRs DRAWN FOR SANE rERx-SanL
Shaier' Mm. Z. Wisegarver, John W. Scott John pla
James 0'Neal, Lewis N. Fyan George Mock Peter Bar
ton, Amos Collins, VIM. Foster, John Berkhimer Johl
Homan, Thomas Donahoe Josiah Elder, George Pots
Mnllin, VIM. Smith, Jacob Bowser. Geo KniseIy job,
Wilhelm, jr., John Kemp, David Sans, Abner Slcti
Westly Perdew, Isaac Kensinger Lewis Anderson Sn-
Logue, John MILESTONE Philip S. Croft Charles 0rsl
Samuel Jay, jr, Duncan McVicker, W. W. Sparks Hirss
Shank, Adam Shafer.
Drawn and certified at the Commissioners once lb
22d day of November, A. D., 1865
JOHN G. FISHER
jan ~. 1902 Clerk
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TT s. TAXES. -
u. Notice is hereby given, that the rs,rr,. .e :.
Special Income Tax for the various divisions of Rs
County Will DC opened for examination at the oics ~
.ne assessors IN those divisions from the l7tb
Tor the same viii be received by the Assessor ~
AZ MS once IN gettysburg the 3Oth of January inst
r.. q. HARPER
C4o..vsh Assessor 10th Distrist Pa
0e'tysourg' Jan H. 1862 (jan.2O2t)
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NOTICE.
IN All those indebted to the subscriber for subscrn
ton, advertising and job work. for the Bedford Tnopr
and also for the Patriot notified that the books I
notes in the hands of H. Ncodemus ESQ., FOR coec.
tion. Look out and save costs. SH'
Jan 20, 1855 - o' en-
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Ladies' and Children's Hats
The latest styles at CHARLES oAKF0RD q SONS
Continental HptgI Phihdelphia
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VS.. Common piaas az padCord County.
William Strealy. Debt $I649
~ an ana now, August 20, 1864 on motion of Joseph T.
- paToorrow Esq the Court grant Rule on the Plant
~ NOW cause why the Defendant should make ~
judgement to No. 1875 August term. 1861 Sarah >
judgement
Noyeaoer 20 1864, alias Rule awarded to be served
ta.nanlei Reed by publication in one newspaper
three weeks preceding next term.
Witness my hand ard official seal the SAB
LIS. day
Prothonotary
jan, % 'S5-5e
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Jan. 20. 1s65.

TAVERN LICENSES.
Notice is hereby given that the following named PEI
sons have taken out petitions for Tavern License m
that said petitions will be persented at the next Court
Quarter Sessions, to be held at Bedford in and for @
County of edford on the Cd Monday 1atb dav of Fe
ruary, next, for allowance or rejection
Patrick Drhew, Coaldale, Broadtop township.
Aaron Reed, Middle Woodbury..
Isaac Grove, Bloody Run, West Providence tp
:, James a ! b. Prince, saxton, Liberty tp.
> r. Bottomfeld, Bloody Run, West Providence tp.
Wm Deatrick, Clearvine, Monroe IN.
George Weimer,
Certified January ID, 1855.
John Z. Weaveriing, Bloody Run West Providenc, T.
o. Z. SHANNON
n. ria-k
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THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.


The spirit of slavery-for that spirit was
by no means confined to the slaveholding
States-wrote the word '',ohite' in the con-
stitutien of Pennsylvania, excluding an en-
tire class of her citizens from the ballot box
"a class, all of whom were natives of the
country, and a large proportion of them
worthy, intelligent, honest men-while for
eigners, however ignorant, vicious and de-
based, utter strangers to the genius and
spirit of our institutions, and incapable of
understanding them even if they had tried,
were, after short delay, admitted to all
the privileges Of citizenship. We were GO
ing to say latter short probation, y but
there was no probation about it. The
question was not "Are you fit to be a citi-
zen ?" but, How long have you been in the
country"
We say nothing against our laws of natu-
ralization. Many good citizens have come
in through that door, and we do not wish
to see it shut but we desire to unbar an
other door in our State, and restore to those
of our citizens who, although not white,
have proved themselves to be loyal, patri-
otic and brave, privileges which they once
enjoyed, but of which they were unjustly
deprived by the Conventional Convention
of 1886. At that time well-dressed gentle
men and scholars united with coarse and
brutal mobs to sustain slavery, and at that
time it was agreed by the common consent
of all these classes, representatives of the
pulpit, the forum, the top-room and the
brothel, that abolitionists should not talk,
and that negroes should not vote.
But now, since abolitionists have regained
the right to talk as much as they please and
where they please since William Lloyd
Garrison has walked the streets of Charles
ton, and made speeches there, and since
black men wear the livery of the nation,
and battle valiantly in It's defence, we say
that in all fairness We must let them vote.
When the right was taken away from them
in Pennsylvania, the advocates Of the meas
ure contended that it was erpedient; but
even this miserable plea cannot be urged
now. Let the word white" therefore, be
expunged from our State Constitution, and
let it drift down among the cast-off barbar-
isns and follies of by-gone era, along with
that infamous judicial dictum, thata coIored
man has no rights which a white man is
bound to respect
We do not say that the word LOYAL ought
to be inserted in its stead in Pennsylvania !;
but there are plenty Of States, in the con-
stitutions of which it ought to be inserted !;
it would be good word in all the border
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A fight ensued, both parties exhibiting
the greatest determination. Fifteen min
utes elapsed before the mistake was discov-
cred
The firing in this skirmish was the FIRST
warning that Davis received.
The captors report that he hastily put on
one of his wife dresses and started for The
woods, closely followed by our men, who at
first thought him woman, but seeing his
boots while he was running they suspected
his sex at once.
The race was short one, and the Rebel
President was soon brought to bay. He
brandished bowie-k knife and showed signs
of battle, but yielded promptly to the per-
suasions of Colt S reyolyeTs, without com
pelling the men to fire.
He expressed great indignation at the en-
ergy with which he was pursued, saying that
he had believed our Government more mag
unanimous than to hunt down women and
children
Mrs. Davis remarked to Col Harden after
the excitement was over that the men had
better not provoke the President, or = he
might hurt some of 'em.
Reagan behaves himself with dignity and
resignation
The party, evidently, were making for the
coast.
J. H. WILSON,
Breyet Major General.
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States, while in those which composed the
late confederacy it is indispensable. This, Of
course, would admit all the colored men to
the baIlot-box, but it would exclude many
white. This, it seems to us, is the dictate
of reason, prudence and common sense ;
while to exclude an entire class, merely be-
cause they have not as white skins as the
rest of us, can be referred to nothing but to
blind and slavish prejudice. Let us imag-
Inc that two men are pefore us-one has
fought and bled in the service of his coun-
try but his skin is black; the Others soul
is black with treason, and hands red with
the blood of his murdered countrymen but
his skin in white which shall vote ~ PITS
b,tr0h Gazette.
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THE CAPTURE OF JEFF. DAVIS


The capture ofJeff Davis has been the
principal excitement of the week. Full de-
tails will be found in this paper. With this
capture ends the last remnant of the rebel
government. For four long years this ma
ton has contended for this consummation,
with singleness of purpose which has won
for us the admiration of our enemies. And
to-day we have the proud satisfaction of
seeing upon our banners, In letters of living
light, the triumph of our sacred cause.
Heaven be praisedl The valiant men and
true, who have braved death for their eoun-
try's salvation viii soon return to the peace
ayocations of life and all viii go on again
as merry as a marriage bell. How cheer
ing the thought. Oh America:
"There is no other land like thee,
No dearer shore,
Thou art the shSlter of the free,
The home, the port of liberty,
Thou hast been, and shall ever be
Till time is DER.
Ere forget to think upon
Ny land, shall mother curse the SON
She bore"
The capture Of this noted character, whose
name viii be handed down to future genera
tons as the most horrid migrate that ever
attempted parricide, viii blast the hopes Of
every traitor throughout the world. And
we are happy to say that the ridiculous ca
per cut by this fallen culprit at the time of
his capture, is fit finale TO theslaye-holders
rebellion. The details viii be read by his
many adherents with modification and shame
and they viii curse, with bitter oaths, the
day they followed the lead of this man. We
have heard men assert over and over again
that the rebel President, like Hannibal,
would administer his own potion, or die sell
ling his Life asdearly as possible. But alas,
JEFF is only human, and his friends bad
prophets. He viii arrivein Washington in
few days, it is hoped, and he viii be placed
ON trial for Treason or for being accessory to
the assassination of President Lincoln. 1t
is quite probable that there is rope in store
for him. 1t should be a strong one, and
our hope is that be win find the end of it.
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Kentucky.

Hon. Henry Wilson in his speech before
the American Anh-SIaverE Society in New
York on Wednesday, said:
| have received letter from an eminent
and distinguished military man in Ken
lucky. He says that slavery surrendered in
Kentucky on the 23d of April. They have
enlisted in that State under the law giving
freedom to the black man who viii enlist in
the service of the United States, about 25,.
600 men. This officer says he has given to
wives and children more than 500 free pa
pers In a dau The Governor has called his
Legislature together on the 18th, and / have
no doubt they will adopt the constitutional
amendment. This amendment / regard to-
day as an achieved fact. 1t viii be adopt
ed slavery viii perish. Let us see to it,
let us see to it that the thing itself perishes
forever.
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TRIAL OF THE CoNsPIRAToRs.- The
Court for the trial Of the Washington as
sassination conspirators convened ON We'd
nesday. The prisoners arraigned are Har-
old, Atzerot, Payne, Arnold, Mclaughlin,
Mudd, and Mrs. Suratt. Each of the pris-
oners designated counsel but none appeared
except the gentleman named by DR.. Mudd.
The prisoners respectfully plead not guilty.
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SURRENDER OF DICK TAYLOR.

CINCINNATI, May II. "A special despatch
To the Cincinnati Gdzette, dated Cairo 9th
says The following despatch has been
received at Headquarters, Memphis, from
General Candy, via SenatoIia on the 9th.
HID. QRs. MILITARY DRY. OF WEST
MISSISSIPPI, CHRONICLE, May 4, 1865.
Lieutenant General Taylor has this day
surrendered to me with the forces under his
command on substantially the same terms
accepted by General Lee.
(Signed. Il. r.. S. CANDY.
General Washburne has also received a
dispatch Of the same import from General
Candy, dated Mobile, May 5th.
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THE FArE OF THE DEMocRArc PARrr.

The FATE OF The DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Some of our Democratic cotemporaries
take in i'll part our g0od-natured allusions to
the sad figure now presented by the Chicago
platform. They call it ungenerous to twlt
the party about that, when it is now so
Justify shouting glory for the national
triumph. Well, we are sorry. We did not
think they were so sensitive Henceforth
we will try to remember that even the
smallest pleasantly upon that subject is a
great cruelty, and there shall be no more oft.
Yet our friends must not imagine that the
American people are going to forget that
action of the Democratic party at Chicago
They may be, andWe trust they viii be chari-
table toward their fellow w-citizensindividual
ly, who were so discouraged and demoral-
lied In the dark period of the war. Forti-
tude in adversely is not within every man S
power. 1t depends largely upon man s
natural temperament, and upon his previous
cultivation of the great moral element, faith
A person, last August, might have conceived
the war "a failure, and have favored
negotiations with the Richmond Govern
ment, without any positively bad motive
1t might come from weakness, and not at all
from wickedness. But though individual
Democrats may be judged ever so literally,
the Democratic party itself cannot be.
Party organizations are judged by their acts
solely, and never get the benefit Of charity.
Striving for the rule of the country, their
title to that trust is always strictly scanned;
and if wrong, they are repudiated. The
Chicago platform stands, before all the
world, as the authentic, deliberate exposi-
ton Of the sentiments and policies of the
Democratic party in the last and most trying
year of the war. 1t so distinct and explic-
it that all attempt to mystify or evade It's
true meaning is vain Every man in the
country knows that it condemned the war as
a failure, and that it demanded that
immediate efforts be made for the cessa-
ton of hostilities In that regard the
Democratic party is irreversibly doomed
The people, in the very thick of the war,
punished that act by the most whitening
rebuke known TO our political history The
fate they will hereafter visit upon the party
will be as much more severe as the false
hood of its assumptions and the fatal conse-
quences of its policy is more distinctly
revealed by the actual result of the war
No expiation will be accepted short ofutter
destruction. The sooner that individual
Democrats recognize this, and prepare
themselves for some other political organi-
zation, the better for their own credit and
for the good ofthe country.-N y. times.
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The WAY TO SPIKE THE ABOLITION
GUN!-The New York Herald never leads,
but only follows public opinion upon all
questlonsrelating to slavery and the negro.
1t came out for the Anti-Slavery Pro-
hibitory Amendment to the Constitution
just as soon as 1t became clear that ii would
be carried; and now it is out fat-footed for
Negro Suftrage-a pretty sure sign that the
measure will soon be adopted We quote
from the Herald of Tuesday:
But there is another matter upon which
president johnson seems to he heSitating,
and where he need not hesitate at all We
refer to the question ofnegro suffrage. The
exclusion Of free negroes from the right of
suffrage is necessity of negro slavery hut
where slavery does not exist there is nc such
necessity. Give the emancipated ne groes
OF the rebel States, then, in the recon struc-
ton of those States, the right to vote along
with the whites. There need be no fear
that this concession win lead to negro social
equality Negroes vote in New York. and
yet IN New York there is no approach 10
negro social equality Society viii take care
OF itself In this matter as it does In ever7-
thing else affecting its peace and HARMONY
On the other hand, the concession of negro
suffrage In the reconstruction of the inEur-
gent States, will effectually spike the last
gun of Northern Abolitionists. and win
expel or neutrahze the fre-eating political
clements of the South for all time to come
Indeed, nothing halfso effective could be
employed as negro suffrage to weed out the
lntractable secessionists from the Southern
States. Put them to that test of loyalty,
and there will be no necessity for notices to
quit or oaths of allegiance; but, best of all,
the political agitation Of the negro question.
IN N every shape and form, win be ended,
North and South. y
This mode ''of spiking the guns of the
Abodtionists" will afford them the highest
satisfaction, and we viii guarantee that il
will prove efectual Let the Adminis-
tration try it
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j. r.. BURBoRRow ..IofJN T,TT-rZ
DURGO@@0W s. AURza
BEDFORD, Pa,
u. 8. ARMY CLAIM AGENCY
FOR THE coLLEcTIos OF
BOUNTY, BACK PAY, PENSIONS,
and other Ulaims against the Government.


BOUNTY AND BACK PAY.
To enable those who may have claims upon the
United States for moneys due deceased officers and
soldiers on account OF military services rendered
while in the regular or volunteer service, we pub
lish the following order ofpayment:
FIRsT.-If the deceased was Married. payment
will be made: lst, to the widow; Cd, if no widow.
TO his child or children (if minors, to guardian
SECOND.--ff he died unmarried: Ist To the
father; 3D. if the father is dead, to the mother 3d
if both parents are dead, to the brothers and SIS
ters, collectively; lastly, to the heirs general ITO
be distributed IN accordance with the laws of the
State in which the deceasd had his domiciIe.l
In the number entitled to Bounty may be added
the pre- rata bouny due soldiers discharged for
wounds received in aetuel battle.
PENSIONS.
Under the Act of Congress, approved July l4th,
1907, pensions granted to the following classes
of persons:
lst Invalids disabled since March 4th. 1861. in
tne military and naval service of the United States
in the line of duty.
ID Widows of officers, soldiers, or seamen, dy-
ing oi wounds received or Of disease contracted in
the military or naval service as above
I'd. Children under sixteen years of age, Of such
deceased persons, if their be no widow surviving.
or from the time ofthe widows second marriage.
4th. Mothers (who have no husband living of
otleers soldiers, seamen, deceased as aforesaid
provided tho latter have left neither widow nor
children under sixteen years OF age; and nroyfdea
also, that the mother was dependent, wholly or in
part, upon the deceased for support.
5Sh. Sisters under sixteen years OF age Of such
deceased persons, dependent ON the latter. wholly
or IN part for suppprt provided there are right
fni claimants of either Of the last preceding
classes.
Special attention given to CLAIMS FOR Loss
OF HORSES. - : = :
g4@ Applications by mail attended to as if
made n, IN person. zs-No charge made until the
Ciaim Is adjnsted.-EsN Information given free of
onarse- April Is, ls65;tf
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THE KNIGHTS or THE GOLDEN CIR-
Gle BROUGHT TO GRIEF. President John
SON has signed the death warrant Of Bowles,
Mulligan and Hersey, leaders Of the knights
of the golden circle. They were tried at
Indianapolis, and convicted of reasonable
conspiracy. They are to be executed on the
18th inst.
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THE ONE-YEAR MEN.-A Washington
telegram to the New York Tribune states
that an order from the War Department
was read on Monday to the troops stationed
at Fairfax, announcing that the names Of
all one-year men were to be reported within
ten days, to be returned to their State Cap
itals and mustered out of service The or
der is supposed to be general.
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J. Fl. WILSON,
Brevet Maior-Gen.
MACON, Ga, May l3-9:8 80 a. m

MACON, GA, May 1880 a. IN.
Hon. E. n Stanton Sec. of Var:
Lieut. Col Hardee, commanding the lst
Wisconsin has just arrived from Irwins-
vile. BE struck the trail of Davis at Dub
lin, Laurens county, on the evening of the
7th, and followed him closely night and day
through the pine wilderness of Alligator
Greek and Green Swamp, via Cumberland
vile, to Irwinsville
At Conference.-The, Col Harden met Col.
Pritchard with $50 picked men and horses
of the 4th Michigan.
Harden followed the trail directly south,
while Pritchard, having fresher horses,
pushed down the Ocmulgee toward Hope
well, and thence by House Creek to hwins-
vile, arriving there at midnight Of the 9th
jeff Davis had not arrived.
From citizen Pritchard learned that his
party were encamped two miles out of the
town. He made dispositions of his men,
and surrounded the camp before day.
Harden had camped, at p. m within
two miles, as he afterwards learned, from
Davis
The trail being too indistinct to follow, he
pushed on at ga. m, and had gone but little
more than one mile when his advance was
fred upon by men Of the 4th Michigan.