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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-08-11
Public Sale

OF T.7LUHBLE RE.4L EST.9TE.
By virtue of az order of the Orphans Court #
Bedford county, the undersigned administrator and
trustee for :he sale of the real estate of John Metz
ger, late of Juniata township, Bedford county de-
ceased, will sell at public outcry, upon the premises
on THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 1865,
all the following described property, to wit:
4 TRACT OF LAND,
situate in Juniata township Bedford county, adjon-
ing lands of John TIedw ell, on the north, Airxan
der Shoemaker, on the northeast, Ellen Snowman,
and Daniel Mefzger, on the east, Emanuel Palmer,
the southeast, Leonard May and John Kerr, on
the south, and Frederick Hildebrandt, on the west
containing
404 ACRES AND "a PERCHES,
about IT'S acres cleared and under ence, with two
story and half BRICK DWELLING HOUSE,
TENANT HOUSE, LARGE BANK BARN, and
STABLE, sufficient for stabling 40 horses, with
other outbuildings thereon erected. The above de-
scrbed property being fine location for hotel,
and being situate within two mil es and half of the
line of the proposed Southern Railroad.
Sale to commence at one O'Clock of said day.
Aug. 4. JOHN ALSlP, Admir-.
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SPrEcnEs.--Mr lIgenfritz aud Mr.. Snigge-
fritz made speeches few nights ago, at the
Washington Hotel. Dir. Loyal Ga-bag -
served his thunder for another occasion.
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Cons --The prospect for { fine crop Of corn
Is excellent We never saw it look better than
il DOES this year In fac. we have not seen
single poor iell Of corn in the country.
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List of Causes
Put dosn for friaE al September Term, 1865,

Put do1n for friat al September Term, 1865,
E4th day.]
Wilson Clark VS. Joseph Slaughter
Matilda WigGeld t Isaac Wigfed
Same Same
Same Same
Mary Ann Bierly IL Samuel Williams
Loretto Smith Same
Stephen G. Wright VIM. P Hazard
Jacob Dunkle '' Michael Ritehey
Theodore hinton 81 Jos. Jas. Moriinors
+. D BeegIe I" Wertz Feather
Benjamin Wigfed {" Isaac Wigfeld 4 others
John Cessna, Esq, John Bulger & others
Bloody Bun School :. { West Providence School
District District
John W. Beeler sc DR.. B. F. Harry
Fisher & Biddle Samuel crismIn
o. f. SHANNON, PFoth'y.
August II.
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404 ACRES AND "a PERCHES,

NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.
All persons are cautioned against hunting, 6sh-
ing, gathering nuts, trespassng in any way upon
my premises, as the law will be rigdiy enforced
against all offenders.
DEWALT HARSHBERGER.
July 2s, 1865.
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BEDFORD GAZETTE.

BrDFoRp, ArGUsr II, 1865.
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NO HARDEE-HOOD

On the part Of the South prevent the success Of
the Union arms. Grant and Sherman's policy, like
npTcmA nnpPtG TT rF2 I'VE
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July y 1868.
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ROBERT DEREMRR.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26
NEGRO LABoRERs COMING NORTH

Efforts are being made by republicans to
get as many negroes north as possible, to
take the place of our citizens of foreign birth.
The object is to reduce wages and force the
white inhabitants to come down to the level
of negro labor. The Toledo (Ohio) CONNER
cidl says:
ga railroad company in Michigan has lately
made application to the treedmen's bureau LOT
four hundred negro laborers to be employed In the
construction of a line of road In that state
They offer to pay such Iaborers S74 cents per day
and board them. The proper officers OF the bureau
are now engaged in collecting the required num-
Der of blacks, and 1t probable that they Will De
dispatched thither during the month";
We found the above in the Chicago Repu6-
dean, where it was published without disap-
prevail.
This is the same old know nothing game
over again, Who does not remember that the
know nothings everywhere discouraged the
employment of our foreign born inhabitants,
male and female and attempted to drive them
from among US. They even claimed that no
foreigner should be permitted to hold real es-
tate said no man oughs TO sell them lands,
and that all our public lands should be kept
for persons of exclusively American blood
and parentage. la that contest the democra-
cy were the true friends and defenders of our
foreign BORN citizens, and crushed out the
know nothing schemes.
Noy, the republicans are again at work to
deprive our foreign born citizens of fair wa
ges by bringing the negroes north to compete
with them.
Any foreign born citizen, the son of a
foreigner, who votes for republican officers,
votes to encourage negro labor to come north
and compete with and degrade his own coun-
trymen.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26

How far the people of the south are willing
to go concerning the negro, and just where
they will stop concerning him, aresseen In
the conclusion of an article in the jackson
Miss Neps commenting on the work OF the
recent Mississippi convention. We quote:
ssAll the laws passed bear equally upon the
whites and blacks. Robbery, arson, rape, and
other dark crimes, are to be punished with death,
matter what the color of the offender. The
right OF property is to be protected, whether the
owner be Caucasian or African. INDECENT pau
pers be provide for, and Migrants punished,
be they of what color they may. There has never
been the least objection made to educating the
negro; the contrary, we want no ignorant
class of frecmen among
F'We nothing but cheering signs in all this,
unless the people OF the north are determined to
infict negro suffrage upon us. If that to become
the test of loyalty, then we are indeed lost. We
have emancipated the negro, we are determined
that he shall be protected in his freedom, receive
full and fair compensation for his labor, be protec
ted in his right OF property, educate his children,
] ii he chooses but make him our equal-never-
never-neyer! That must be done by some enc
my more relentless than the unfortunate people OF
the south have heretofore encountered, either IN
| the field at Washington. subdued people
/ may have no rights; but a proud people, though
vanquished, cannot aid in their own degradation
/ That must be done by others"
There is not q northern state which would
| go farther, concerning the negro, than Miss
issippi has gone, if the same proportion of the
population were negro as in the south, Nei
| ther Massachusetts, nor Vermont would &C
| farther nor so far. Massachusetts and Yer
moat, with their Inhospitable climate, in
which negroes can scarcely exist, may safely
extend the suffrage % their few dozen blacks
but not so the middle, western and southern
states. General Benton, the soldiers candi.
date for governor in Iowa. very happily
states the case in his letter of acceptance OF
the nomination. "To bring the matter di-
rectly home" he says, ''should the $50, OOC
freedmen of Georgia be transferred to lows
in their present condition. would we inves
them with the right of suffrage? | think
hazard nothing in asserting that the mo st
radical friends of the measure would say, no
I Why then force upon other states that which
we would ignore for ourselves ,"
Sure enough, why2
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26

Hon. Thad. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, is
chairman of the committee of ways and means
in the lower house ofscongress. AS such it is
his duty to know all about the public debt and
the resources of the country. In spec CHI
which he recently delivered to his constitu-
ents, in Lancaster, Pa, he said. speaking of
the public debit
at is generally estimated at four billions in my
opinion 1t will go far beyond that figure. There
is no use IN belIttling IT. 1t only deceive the
ignorant, and those only for time. 1t cannot de-
ceive fnanciers. One half of it now bears inter
terest, land that amounts to one hundred and TWEEN
ty millions per annum. The ordinary expences of
carrying on the government, and the sums requir-
ed for the army and navy, will swell our annual
expenditures TO five hundred millions of dollars
The amount derived from internal revenue will
characterization must be double what 1t now 10
to meet expenses. Can our people bear this 1t
will be from generation to generation
We pity the playground Englishman. In reality
we are worse off than he. Our debt is only a tri-
file less and it bears double the rate of interest,"
In the future our burden must be double his. %
It in q little sigulaY that a man of Mr., Sta
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26
NO POWER In THE FEDERAL COY =
ERNMENT TO CONTROL THE
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
In THE STATES.
MEDFoRD, Mass, Oct. S, 1865.

To the president of the United States
My DEAR SIR-I was much impressed with
our conversation oflast Tuesday, that returned
immediately to my rooms and wrote down such of
the points made.as | could remember, and having
pondered them all the way home, am to-day
more than ever, convinced that, if corrected by
you and returned to me for either public or priv
ate use, 1t will 60 Tar to promote a good under
standing between you and our leading men.
1t will also unite the public mind in favor of
your plan, far at least you would carry it out
without modification.
You that do not associate much
with men In political life but rather with those
who, representing the advanced moral sense of the
country, earnestly labor for the good OF our peo-
pie, without hope of or even desire for office or
other immediate reward. The latter class desire
earnestly to understand your plans, and, if posi-
Bile, support your administration.
think the publication of your process of recon-
struct!on, with the reasons for your faith In H.
will commend itselfto their candid judgment, and
as told you, inspire our whole northern people
with confidence In your administration.
The report is meagre and unsatisfactory, but
think II conveys, for the most part, the spirit of
our conversation. Therefore, although the whole
tenor ofyour words led me to believe it was net
intended to be kept private, have RETAINED from
answering the specific inquiries OF ANXIOUS TRENDS,
whom met on my way home, lest might, in
some way, leave a wrong impression on their
Iainds. Truly your friend,
GEoFGE L. STEARNs.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26

vens' intelligence and shrewdness should have
committed the blunder of saying that "our
debt is only a trifle less" than that of Eng
land. 1t is in fact considerably more. Eng
lands debt is less than four thousand mil
lions of dollars, or four billions, Mr.. Stevens
says, while ours, he says, will 60 far beyond
that figure. The picture drawn by this dis
gloomy one. The question is, what is to be
come of the people. Will negro suffrage wipe
out this debt? Have we not had enough of
negro-loving republican politics? The re-
publicans seem to be greatly concerned as to
what shall be done for the negro but we re-
spectfully inquire, what is to become of the
white man?
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PUBLIC NOTICE.

4 L meeting of the city council of the
u city OF Rock Island held Oct. Sd, 1868, IL
was ordered that the city clerk give the notice
CURED by the charter to the owners of premises
interested, that the city council will appoint com
mIssioners TO assess such damages NAV accrue
by the opening and extending Of ST. Clair street,
from bIddIsoR's addition north to the Indian
boundery linei also southery TO the southern
limits OF the city. The said street so extended to
be OF the same width OF the part aiready opened
according To platt on hle my Office
Now, therefore, IN compliance with the re-
quremenis OF second section OF the 9th article
OF the amended charter of the city OF Rock leland
notice IS hereby given TO the several owners OF
premises Interested, that the city council intend
10 appropriate the lands necessary for the extern
sion aud opening of the Aforesaid street rs above
mentioned, and that they will, at the city council
room, on the 9th day o. November next choose
commissioners to ascertain and assess the Gamag-
ss and recOmpence due the owner or owners OF
such lands respectively, and also determine what
persons will be benefited by such improvements
and to assess the damages and expenses thereof
on tae real estate OF persons benefited thereby, IN
proportion as nearly as may be to the benefits re-
suldtIng TO each.
J. r JOHNSTON, City Clerk.
Rock Island, Oct. IS, 1865. dlnd.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26

We learn from one of our Washington CORES
pOndents, whose letter contained in our last
impression, that the government, to avoid tn,
outrageous exactions of the paper-makeTs, is go
ing 20 erect a paper mill of its own. This is al
interesting development. Publishers all over
the country, in order avoid these same exuction:
as to themselves, memoralized congress at the
last session to reduce the duty on foreign paper
Congress refused, the ostensiole plea that
the reduction asked for would break down tn,
paper makers and destroy important branch
of American industry. This was the ostensible
plea, but the fact that the Establishments OF
the paper-makers were, with too many members
Irresistible. Publishers had not the same blan-
diShment in so much pEofusOn. We are curious
TO see how, since this late Washington develop
mcnt, congress will treat the question at the
next session. Will it force publishers to contin-
ne to submit to eXactions which the government
pronOunces abUminaole, and from which it seeks,
for itself, to escape :-Ch'edgo Times
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What Andy johnson thinks OF Rebel
Debts.
WASHINGTON CRY,
"W. w. Holden,
North Carolina

October Is, 1865.
"W. w. Holden, Provisional Governor of
North Carolina
every dollar Of the state debt created to
aid the rebellion against the United States
should be repudiated finally and forever
The great mass of the people should not be
taxed to pay a debt to aid in carrying on
rebellion which they, in fact, if left to them
selves, were opposed to. Let those who have
given their means for the obligations of the
state look to that power they tried to estab-
lish in violation of law, the constitution, and
the will of the people. They must meet their
tate. IL is their misfortune, and cannot be
recognized by the people of any state profess
ing themselves loyal to the government of the
United States, and in the Union. l repeat
that the loyal people of North Carolina should
be exonerated from the payment of every dol
lar of Indebtedness created to aid in carrying
on the rebellion. | trust and hope that the
people of North Carolina will wash their
hands of everything that partakes, in the
slightest degree, OF the rebellion which has
SO recently been crushed by the strong arm of
the government in carrying out the obliga-
ton i'm posed by the constitution If the Union.
"ANDREw JOHNSON,
president of the United States"
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26

The abolition newspaper press is every
where asserting that democratic successes
will be equivalent to a reputation of the
federal debt and an adoption of the "confed-
crate" debt. Il is worthy of remark that
the only newspapers in which the word re-
pudiatOn is used in connection with the ma
tioual debt are abolition newspapers. Not
democratic journal has ever mentioned 1t.
This shows in what direction the idea of re-
pudiation has existence. The only public
speech in which Reputation was ever threat
ened was one delivered by Wendell Phil
lips, au abOlitiouist. This constant harping
by abolition newspapers and abolition ora
tors on the subject of Reputation shows the
character of their thoughts, and indicates
that il Reputation ever be Matched in this
country, 1t will be through the incubation OF
abolitionism.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26
The Albany Argus says:

''The Hon. Montgomery Blair will, IT 10 said,
address the democracy of the state in behalf OF
democratic ticket The democrats will hold two
meetIngs-one At Tammany hall and one IN Coop
Institute, and Mr.. Blair will address one OF
these
He is Disguised with Weed and Seward
conservatism, and is SO well acquainted with
its treachery as TO know that il will join with
the radicals In assailing the president should
it carry the election in New York. He is
Disguised alike with the leaders of the repub-
hcan party and it's principles" Few men
have had better opportunities for becoming
acquainted with the fromer than Mr.. Blair,
and il is evident from his recent assaults up
on Stanton, Seward and Holt, that he regard
ed them with suspicion during most of the
time he was in Mr.. LIncOln's cabinet He
was true to the Union, and they were true to
the interests of the republican party for per-
sonal and selfish purposes. They knew him
and be them. aud there was ''irrepressible
conflict" between them. They drove him
from the cabinet. although Mr.. Lincoln want
ed to retain him, as the letter asking for his
resignation fully attests. Over a l0ng, rough
and dangerous road, he comes back home. -
Through much tribulation and trial. he has
learned that the democratic party is the only
true union party, and that the organization
with which he has lately been connected is
as IRRESPONSIBLE as it is corrupt in other re-
spects. and that among those controlling it
the only men whom he can respect for their
honesty the ones whose fanaticism he
most heartily despises.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26

The men who so little time ago banded about
their charges of djsloyaty and dIsunion with
such offensive selt-assurance, are to-day, for
merely par;izan and personal purposes themsel-
YES the only disunionists in the country. What
Gen. McGowan, at present candidate for con.
gresS from of the districts of South Carolina,
SAYS, l. trne To the letter: This radical fanati-
cal party opposed our leaving the Union, and
now they oppose our returning to it Every
imaginable means is employed by these radicals
TO keep the southern states out of the federal
family. The people of the north desire their
cooperation las soon as possible, in the work OF
carrying the burden of the national debt: ia
this end, it is essential that peace and order be
re-established without delay, that the new and
uEtricd system of labor NAV be set going 10
some productive and enrching purpose. But
the radical faction care nothing about national
taxes and a national debt Their minds are
high above such contemplate matters They
would make voters at once out of negroes with.
out discrimination, even at the expense of all so.
cial order and the constitution itself. IL is OF
more consequence in their statesmaulike ewes
that fanatical notion should be carried out
than that an entire population should be lifted
from the slough of poverty to the high and dry
ground of industry and prosperity. These are
the disuniOnists of TO-DAY, and the only ones
we now have. They claimed to have a warrant
for waging the ground that the south
sought to go out of the Union and now they
would not hesitate to invoke the horrors of even
Il second war, in order to keep the very states
out which they declared should never 60 out at
all And these the lights of the party that
ask the people to perpe:uate their power.-Bos-
ton Post.
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NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS.

NHE UNDERSIGNED have formed a
l. partnership tor the purpose of carrying on
the grocery trade At Wollenhaupt's old stand, On
Orleans street, and will keep a good stock OF
family groceries, provisions, ETC. and sell AWAY,
AT the lowest market rates
fS- Cash and the highest price paid for all
kinds OF country produce.
JACOB W0LLENHAUPT
HENRY SCHNITGER
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26

FARM WAGONS,

Nj NOTWITHSTANDING am building a
~ large number of Pixies Peak Wagons, 1 still
continue the business of making
THE VERY BEST FARM WAGONS.
and woulds say to the farmers OF tAis and sdioip
ing counties that can supply them with any
thing they want IN NV line, of the best QUALITY
and al reasonable rates. B. H. KIMBAII
Rock leland, Jan. 20, dwtf
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26

Co.'s Dyspepsia cure issthe only remedy
ever discovered that will surely and 2erma-
nently cure dyspepsia, indigestion. sick head
ache, and enable dyspeptios to eat hearty
food without fear of distress. 1t can be OBJ
tanned at all our drug stores.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.

HAzLIrr P. o., Sept. 4, 1862
EpIroR ARGUS Sir You will please an
nounce that | will be an independent candidate
for the office of County Treasurer, at the next
election.
sent5dwtd CLINTON G.. TAYLOR.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26
MEMORANDUM OF A CONVERSATION WITH PREsI
DENT JOHNSON.

JUHNcUN.
WAsHINGroN, ID. c., Oct. 3, liz A. NJ.
| have just returned from interview
with President johnson, in which he talked
for an hour on the process of reconstruction
OF rebel states. His manner was as cordial,
and his conversation "a free, as in 1868,
when l met him daily in Nashville.
His countenance is healthy, even more so
than when first knew him,
remarked that the people OF the north
we're anxious that the process of reconstruc-
sion should be thorough, and they wished to
:sapport him in the arduous work, but their
Aes~s were confused by the conflicting re-.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26
FLOUR AND FEED,

AZ E are now manufacturing and are pre-.
w pared TO deliver, on short notice, in sny
part OF the city, the very best quality of wheat
-four, rye -four, rye meal, corn meal, homiu,
bran, sc, all of which warrant
ES- Orders left at K. Koehler's or y b. &
M C. Fnck's grocery stores, At the mill, will
be promptly attended to.
BlDDlSoN & GILMORE.
Rock Island, Dec. &c, 1864 DIFF
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-26
President Johnson
AN AUTHENTIC STATEMENT OF HIS
VIEWS ON NEGRO SUFFRAGE.

HIS POLICY OF RECONSTRUCTION.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-04-01
Lsvis Cszxty u.isa cs=ve,ne.-

Pursgan; to cal of III CusOs C~ut-al
Comnas;se-. the Usisn party n; in Mas
Colvsntion- a CiA4uato, o. the ash GAy
q March. A -. lss5.
T. ". Pirrson Wa elected Chairman and
John Tullis. >-cretary
The object of the meeting was briefly
stated BY Mr.. Irquhart.
On motion Of J. u. Ginger. James rgu
hart was elected delegate TO the Territorial
Convention, TO b. held at Claquato on the
ith day Of April. 1865, for the purpose Of
nominating candidate for Delegate to
Congress.
On motion Of Mr.. Urquhalt. there was a
vote taken to express the choice of the
meeting for Delegate to Congress. which
resulted in the choice of James l.. Wyche.
On motion of. Il. Browning, the dele
gate was instructed to cast the vote Of this
county in the Territorial Convention for
Jas. f. Wyche.
On motiun of Mr.. Browning it was or
dered that the proceedings Of this meeting
be sent to the WASHINGTON STANDARD
and Pacific Tribune for publication.
On motion, Convention adjourned.
7. NJ. PEARSON, Chm.
JOHN TuLL1s, Sec'y.