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Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-07-26
CHANGES OF 1887.

DR.. Robert NJ. Patterson, who was the
director of the mint from 1885 to 1851,
under whose direction. the present admir-
ably improved machinery of the mint
was introduced, and who thereby develop
ed their capacity from coinage Of So
600 900 to sea, 100000 per unnum, drew
UP new code of mint laws, which was
enacted by Congress in January, 1887,
by which the previous complicated legis-
iation was all superseded, and on which
the mint has been substantially admins
tered. In the frstplace, the French is
yaluo or 6noness of 80 for both gold
and silver was adopted, that Is to say,
one part of alloy IN a whole of ten parts.
Since its adoption by US from the French
this decimal standard Of fncness- has
been adopted also by several other nations
for their standard thus some important
steps have already been taken towards a
most desirable end Which is yet to be re
allied in the future, universal currency
for commerce. IF the money Of the
leading commercial nations only con
tanned the same quantity of allow, and
especially if the coins could be brought
into decimal or other easy numerical re-
lation to each other, as a French frame
the American dollar, and the Englisl
sovereign already are, this money would
he a sort Of universal money, capable o
paying the balances of commerce any
where, without the present trouble anC
expense of melting up and re-coinage.-
This change in the standard of finances
necessitated change in the weight o
the silver coins, if the established rela
ton of l to 10 was to be maintained =
Accordingly the weight of the silver dol
lar was reduced from 416 grains to Il:
1-2 and the lesser silver pieces in pro
portion. The weight Of the dollar ha
remained at that figure ever since. bu
the smaller silver coins have been, as VI
shall see, still further reduced in weigh
and the refusal of the dollar piece to cir
culate has been another good illustration
for ten or more years of the universe
law that the cheaper money drives GU
the dearer. ---- sgr-. .--ar.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-07-26

Does cheese belong to animate OF
inanimate nature?
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
LTBELS PROVED.

Time sets all things even. The un-
paralleIled mendacity of the Bedford
Laq,tirer in regard to the Grouse hOmi-
eide, hasat last atitting rebuke,
nay, has been branded By SlcOJ7a jury
of the best men Ia the county, as libel
G0,ts fdtsebOOd. Time after time that
sheet published in gIaring letters, this
charge: "The Bedford Gazette murder
ed jacob Grouse - Time after time
this base lie was made the ground of
an appeal to the credulOus, against the
GAZETTE and the Democratic party.
Now, people can see how they were
duped. II lcas proceed on the trial Of
j. p. Reed, Jr., By eierell lritaesSes, and
the jury 50 decided, that Grouse VAS
NOT MURDERED ATALL, hit aras
shot aCIsiLst in the act Of trying to Kill Reed
lcith q stone. 1t was proved by these
eleven witnesses that Grouse attacked
Reed and injured him severely whilst
he was retreating from Grouse. The
writers for the Inquire, knew this all
the while, yet they persisted in saying
that Grouse was shot because he was a
sort of prOvOst-marshal, the BEDFORD
GAZETTE having declared that any per-
son accepting that office ''cOuld not live
a peaceful life, nor die an honorable
DEATH" Now, eleven witnesses haY-
ing sworn in open court, that Grouse
attacked Reed tand therefore courted
DEATH and jury under solemn oath
having found that Grouse was not
murdered, tneither because he was pro-
vOst-Inarshal, nor because of the lam
guage of the GAZETTE applied to pro-
vOst-marshals generally but was killed
by Mr.. Reed, in self-defence, therefore,
the Bedford Inquirer has been virtual
ly convictedof libel in saying "that the
BEDFORD GAZETTE murdered Jacob
Grouse" Yet, more. The Inquirer
published an account Of the killing of
Grouse, which clearly conveyed the idea
that John p. Reed, Jr., was guilty of
murder. 1t declared repeatedly that
Grouse was shot because he was pro-
vost-marshal, thus attributing malice
to Reed, and plainly charging him with
murder in the first degree. 1t assailed
young Reeds character in the most
shameful manner and demanded that
he should be chained in his prison cell,
like any common felon. But now all
this malignity on its part, so long ap-
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01

II MIGHT HAVE BEEN-BUT WAS
N'T.-A shoddy exchange gives the fol-
lowing figures of the vote Of 1864 and
1868. Lincoln, 296 ,3S9; Hartranft, 237, :
Sl6-Shoddy loss, 5S,573. Mcclellan,
276,3OS; Davis, 2l5, ,292-DemOcratic
loss, 81 ,0l6. Assuming these figures to
be correct, they show that about sirty
Thousand Democrats, who voted in 1864,
neglected to vote in 1860. l. this not
too bad? After gallantly keeping up
our organization during four years of
the most trying and villainouS persecu-
tiOn and misrepresentation ever endu-
red by any party, and after bravely
combating the pampered and gorged
hordes of Shoddy at every previous
poll, thus to be beaten by our own in
action and apathy, when the field was
clear and victory within our grasp, is
little less than ignominiOus. just think
what "A different state of affairs would
have been presented, had every Demo
crat performed his duty and east his
vote as in 1864. Forty thousand, at least
W01ad hdre6eea or mqj0rHy! We can't
dwell upon this mOrtifying theme--Pd-
triGf 4, Onion.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01

parent to unbiased minds, is laid open
to the sight of all. Eleven witnesses
have sworn that the Inquirer LIED,
and the verdict of twelve jurors. under
oath, brands it GUILTY OF LIBEL
upon John p. Reed, Jr. Such is the
character of that sheet, proved in a
court of justice. Can people be any
longer misled by its statements? Can
its readers afford to risk their own rep
utation for truth, by repeating what
they see in its columns? Are its polit-
icaI friends to be shamed in the future,
as they now are, by its falsehOods? If
YES. then it does not matter in this
country how great liar one may be,
provided he belongs to the Abolition
,,ar+v
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01

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o,. Iea.ad tho residence owned by the
celebrated naten+ medicine man Nlor-
fat in 1ztb street New York, for the
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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01

DOG FoRNEG Poor Dog F0rney
has great dread of Mr.. Buchanan's
Book, now i'll the hands of the publish
ers. 1t seems to the poor dog as though
his food of slander and lies would not
be able to prevail against the pure and
mcorrupted sage of Wheatland. There
is no man living who can deny that Mr..
Buchanan is pure, honest and truthful.
Who could say that the miserable turn
coat Forney is either? Every man
knows that left the Democraticparty,
and went over among the Disunionists
of the Seward, Chase and Greeley
school for plunder and nothing else. Let
the poor eur whine! Buchanan's viz
tues will shine long after he and many
another equally miserable dog has had
his day -NOl9hlmt6eri0nd De8t0crd.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01

THE Franklin RepGito,y, of this week,
has an article on thesubiect of the Reed
case, in which it sa,s that "Mr. Reed
was confessedly disloyal, "and that he
had no sympathy with the government
which guaranteed him all his civil, re-
ligious and politicalrights, but, on the
contrary, ,notoriouslSs Ssympathizedwith
its murderous foes" Was this proved
upon the trial Of Mr., Reed? Was there
any effort made by the prosecution to
introduce testim0nygo such effect? Not
a bit of it. Did Mr.. Reed ever confess
himself "disloyal?' If so, has it been
proved when and where he became
"confessedlyn 50? 10, neveri How,
then, does the Repository come to have
so certain knowledge concerning Mr..
Reeds "disloyalty" OF course, that
journal will respond Mr.. Reed fled to
Canadau' Granting, for the sake Of ar
gument, that he did, the Repository
ought to be aware Us it seems to have
pried into Mr.. Reeds private affairs 50
carefully and diligently that he went
to Canada long befde the Consumption
act was passed, tint when he left his
home he did so in the open light Of day,
announcing to ali his acquaintance that
he intended to study law in an office in
Toronto and tmt, therefore, he did not
fee to avoid meeting rebel bayonets, Il
To the immortal hero of "Rutherford's
Lane" 1t is true that after n residence
of some years in Canada, Mr. Reed was
drafted under the ConScription act. He
obeyed the law to its very letter, by
paying commutation, just as did Col.
Mcclure when that worthy received an
invitation tofght for hiscountry. Why,
then, should the Repository thus assail
Mr.. Reed? Had it not better, to use a
homely adage, "sweep before its own
door," For wherein is the difference
between one who goes to Canada, TO
keep out Of harms way, and a period
ical ''skedaddler," who scents the battle
afar off, and leaving his friends and
neighbors in the lurch, runs just far
enough away "to save his own bacon"'
Butwecannot believe that Col. Mcclure
is the author of the article in question.
1t is beneath the standard of a gentle
man. Yet, be the author who hemay,
let him not concern himself a. to the
conscience of Mr.. Reed. \ creature
whose heart is filled with such maligni-
ty rs is exhibited in that article, will
have enough to do to smother III his
own breast, ''the worm that dieth not
and the fire that is not quenched." Let
him remember that ''each Of Us carries
his own hide to Market y and if his is
not as thick rs tfat Of the rhinoceros,
he will feel the force of this Injunction.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
ANOTHER REprnLIcAN VICTORY
Bring ont rhe looo-poumder,!

What was the matter with our neigh
Dor of the negro organ last week? Why
didn't he parade the picture of that
wonderful specimen Of spontaneous
combustion, the 1000-pounder cannon?
Why didn't he come out in large job
type, in flaring capitals? Didn'thcknow
that there had been another great Black
Republican victory? that his ideals OF
perfect men, the negroes Of jamaica,
100000 strong, had risen up against
the whites, some l0,000in number, and
massacreda great many Of them" Ifso,
why didn't he rejoice?
1t is likely that he postponed his re-
joicing until this week, hoping, that
more of the good news would come in.
II so, he will be wofully disappointed.
For 10, the tidings come that the rebell-
ion of the 300, 900 brave, intelligent, hui
name darkies Of Jamaica has been sum-
mariIy and ANONYMOUSLY suppressed
by few hundreds Of white men, and
theonce negro-worshipping British Off
cials are hanging the niggers AT the rate
of over ,000 in Il single parish!
Alas! for rthenegr0 organ, and alas. ioi
its idol, for the nigger mas acted upon
the "idea" which the abolition pres,
and speakers have foryears endeaNored
to pound into his thick head, viz: the
determination of thewhite race, andthe
experiment has ended in miserable
izzle. Wherewas negro chivalry, when
whites were massacred by three hun,
dred times their own number?
Let the jamaica insuwection teach
the Abolitionists the lesson they must
learn ere long, viz: that the negro is in
feriOr to the white man in everything
but that which is purely animal, and
that he is not to be trusted either a. Z
citizen or asoldier.-I'0ttsCWe Standard
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
Continuation of Indian Depreda.ions


Correspondence of the Chieago Times
Fort LARAMIE, Dacotah Territory.
Nov. G.-For 100 miles on each side Of
Fort Sedgwick iJuIesburgl there have
been fatal encounters, almost every
day, between Indians and travellers.
Last week a band Of delegates to Cen
eraI Sanborn's peace convention, on the
Republican. attacked train near Al
kali station, ham-strnng the oxen.
chained them and two men to the WAC
0ne, and burned the whole outfit. 4
few days previous another party attack
ed government train short distance
above SedgWick, and after fierce fight
of four hours, fell back, leaving six
teen Of their dead behind \ vegeta-
bic train en- route from Camp Collins to
this place, was captured Il few days ago
so that We shall probably have a scar
city in the market the coming winter.
At present potatoes sell for 35 cent, Il
pound; cabbage, 3 50a head green
apples, 81 pound, and everything else
in that line III like proportion.
But the boldest move ON the part Of
the Indians took place day before yes
tcrlay, when a band OF five attacked
a government train, camped only half
a mile from and in plain sight of the
fort, and attempted to stampede the
stock, but receiving a warm reception
from two soldiers, who We're hunting
in the vicinity, they took to their heels
after shooting six or seven head of cat
tie.
Theirsuddendash was Il piece ofmcre
bravado. They were mounted on the
best horses their tribe afforded, and had
fresh ones following them; on these
| they would dash through a rocky can
on or over Il porous prairie, where ii
was difficult for US to follow, even
when dismounted and leading our hor-
| seS.
| The Indians were so much broken uphy
Gen. Corners campaign that they fail
ed to provide for the winter, and now
/ they are crossing the Platte on their
way down to the Republican, where
/ the buffalo are plenty through thewin-
ter season. This movement account,
| for the preseGf hostilities on the Platte
/ road.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
Tl,e Beaford TriaI.--AequIttsi OF John
Reed Er

The telegraph announces the fact tha;
John p. Reed, Jr.. Of Bedford, was ac-
quilted OnSaturday OF the chargeOf hay
inc murdered one Grouse. The plea ypt
up i'm his behalf was that the SHOOTING
was done inself defence, and from wha,
we know Of the case, we have no doubt
ii was completely made out. The case
il one of those unf0rtunateo ones spriDo-
ing out Of political anilnosities. .-Thr
man who was killed had made several
assaults upon John 2. Reed, Jr., ana
upon his younger brother, Il weak and
defenceles> youth At the time the
shooting occurred, Grouse made an ~.
sault upon John p Reed, Jr, struck
him with 4 stone; knocking him down
and was advancing with hanotherstonrin in
his hand, when Reed drewa pistol, sho,
him, and killed him almost instantly
The jury have pronounced the act JUS
tifiablp, as done in self defence. We
hope the time will soon come when past
p0liticalanimositieS will have been for
gotten. tits said that Grouse was urged
on to his acts fyiolence by outside par
( ties in Bedford. If this be so. they
I We're the most ulpabie.-LuHcdac5. h.
/ tpHigeJctr.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
CAN YOU DO 1T?
party.

We ask the blood-hounds in human
shape who have been hunting down
John p. Reed, Jr., who among them
can show as good character before a
Jury as hedid? Can Mr.. Cessna? Can
any of the men who cOunseled Grouse
to pursue, insult, and attack the Reeds?
John p. Reed never stirred up strife
among his neighbors; neverindulgedin
drunken braWls; never associated with
roWdies; nor did he ever, according to
common report, furnish a railrood pass
to reputed str7mpet and trarel acith her
to PhHadelphio. Let his prosecutors
produce such testimony to their char
acter, as the following, if they can,
I'VE quote from the report of the trial !:
The following gentlemen were then sworn and
testified that the character of defendant John P.
Reed, Jr for peace, good order and propriety,
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01

p. FRAZER SMITH, Esq, Of West
Chester, was of counsel for the Com
monweaIth III the Grouse homicide
case, having been retained as such by
Mr.. Cessna, who, it seems, assumed the
management of the case on the part Of
the prosecution. We know Mr.. Smith
well, having had the good (or ILL for
tune to serve some five months with
him in the Legislature. Although a
political opponent, we generally found
him courteous i'll his opposition and
gentleman in every respect. We are
only sorry that he should have per-
mitted the demagogue Cessna to lug
him into this case for the purpose Of
shielding himself from the Odium Of
a defeat which he knew to be ineyita-
BILE. Mr.. Smith is too good a lawyer
to have risked his reputation as cats
paw in the hands of John Cessna. Ac-
cording to the statement of the latter
he hadinvited abOuta dozen Of lawyers
to take the position Mr.. Smith was pre-
vailed upon to assume, before he adj
dressed himself to that gentleman.
Among that number was Thaddeus
Stevens, who declined because he pre-
ferred foreman within the line of pro-
fessiOnal honor and to follow the good
old rule of the true barrister, nerer to
take blOOd-mOHey. We doubt not that
Mr.. Smith was deceived in regard to
the nature Of the case, for Cessna had
his own tale about it, and boasted on
the cars that the attorneys for the de-
fence did not comprehend it. But
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to bring
Mr. Smith into the case, we are bound
to say that in the trial and during his
stay in our midst, he deported himself,
in all respects, like gentleman.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01

THE Franklin Repository talked very
gIibly of the m,rde' of Jacob Grouse,
some time ago, commenting with un-
necessary severity upon the course of
John p. Reed, jr. Will that paper do
justice to Mr.. Reed by informing its
readers that eleren witnesses acore in
open Court that Grouse attacked Reed,
acjtiiSt the Gatter tcaS retreuti4g from him,
striking him Reed ,ciH a darge stone,
and being about to strike linn again lcith
another stone tcltea Reed fred? also, that
the jury decided that there was neither
mtGder nor nGrSldughter Of Jacob
Grouse? The Repository might likewise
do Justice to the christian virtues of its
friend Cessna, by saying that the coun-
sci for Mr.. Reed offered to prove (but
were prevented by the ruling of the
Court that Grouse declared that John
Cessna had assured him that he could
kin the Reeds with impunity.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
az BrRrH AT THE WHITE House

" a BIRTH AT THE WHITE House"
The following occursin Col. M'Clure's
"HOur with the President" :"
''Soon the door opened and geateel
lady emerged from the Presidents
room with large official envelope
clutched nervously in her hand, and Il
beliigaity Of c0Ialteid1,ce that toh more
Dldi1112J than u,0Fols that another citizen
had been born again to the Republic"
The Greensburg Democrat prints the
above and adds that ''the incident is re-
markable, not only because ofthe queer
uses to which the White House appears
to have been devoted, but the extraor-
dinary recuperative powers of the lady
in question:
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
Terrible Steamboat Disaster on the Mis-
sisSippi---0ne Hundred Lives Lost.

MEMPHIS, Nov. PA Collision 0c-
Cured last night between the Niagara
and Post Boy, on the Mississippi, seven
miles above Helena. The Niagara sunk
in twenty feet of water. One hundred
deck passengers, mostly dischargednc-
gro soldiers, were drowned. Thecabin
passengers and crew We're all saved.
The Niagara was valuedat $3.50, Goa, and
was uninsured. Two hundred and ff-
ty tons Of freight on the Post Boy was
uniniured.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
OF THE SPINE CURED.
Hartford, Conn, Nov. IT, Is6

Hartford, Conn, Nov IL, 1901
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Dispatch twelve dozen Allcock's Porous Plasfers
Our daily experience confirms their very superior
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machinery, had both his legs broken spine severe
ly injured, and for nearly year entirely help
less. This man found relief very soon by the aP-
pleation of plaster to his spine. lie was soon
enabled to work and now he labors as well as ever.
lie would cheerfully pay IS for single plaster Il
they could not be had at lower rate. l am sur
prised that surgeons do not make of these per-
orated plasters to the exclusion of all others, as
their fexbility and adhesveness are greatly in ad-
vance of all other plasters with which am ac-
quainted while the pertorations peculiar to them
rendered them greatly superior to ali others Tor OF
dnary surgical uses. Knowing the PlaSters To DC
so useful, have no seruples that my sentiments
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Sold by all Dealers i'll Medicines. I0ct. 2O-lm
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01

ALL HAIL MINNESOTA! The Demo-
crats have either carried this State, or
come so near carrying it, that there is
no fun in it for the Abolitionists. At
last accounts the Abolition candidate
for Governor led his Democratic COM
petitor only 2G5 votes! The "negro suf-
frage" amendment was defeated by Il
large majority. Last year Lincoln ear
ried this State by about 10000. Well
done, Minnesota!