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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

THE n tCESSITY OFTHE TIMELY DIS
TRIBUTION OF POLITICAL INFORMA-
TIoN.-We recommend the following,
from the Cincinnati Enquirer, to the
serious consideration of the Democracy
of Bedford county:
"The New York Tribune, in COM
menting on the result of the recent
elections, makes the following sugges-
tiOns:
Flooding the country with print
ed matter, on the eve of an cleo
tion, is a desperate resort, better than
nothing, that is all. No reliance can
be placed on it; little good ordinalily
comes oft. But begin now, and syste-
matically insure that every man that
has vote shall have newspaper, ifhe
will take it, and all is safe
"That is very true. If it is desirable
that the people be indoctrinated with
correct political sentiments, they should
be furnished with the arguments long
in advance of the election, in order that
they can thoroughly turn them in their
minds, and study them while working
at their benches, or on their farms, or
other places of occupation. Now is the
time to commence the distribution of
information, in printed form, prepar-
atOry to the next Presidential election.
No election since the foundation of the
Government, can compare in import
ance to the one we are about entering
upon, and never before were the people
so imperatively called upon to inform
themselves as to the issues upon which
the contest must be decided. We have
gratifying evidence that the people,
Democrats and Republicans, are aWak-
ening to the importance ofthis matter.
Since the election we have received up
ward of three thousand new subscrib-
ers, daily and weekly, one-third of
whom, we are written, are Republicans.
The sign is an auspicious one, and we
hope it will continue to be manifested
for months 10 come. Every person who
can afford it, should take two political
papers, one of either side. If he can
not afford to take two, he should by all
means strain a point to take one, and
that one should be of his own political
faith. Immense interests hang upon
the event of the Presidential election of
1868, and every citizen should be pre-
pared to meet the responsibility cast
upon him as voter. The newspaper
is the cheapest instructor he can find"
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

The PLAN of the Washington Libra
ry Company of Philadelphia, for the
endowment of the Riverside Institute
for soldiers and Sailors Orphans, is one
that has been laid out in strict accor-
dance with the terms of the charter as
granted for this purpose by the Legis-
lature of Pennsylvania. This charter of
the Washington Library Company,
legalizes the very acts that its MEM
bers are now performing for this noble
object. The plana as most of our readers
are aware, consists in selling stock at 81
per share, each share being accompani-
ed by a handsome fine steel-plate en-
craving, worth fifty per cent more
than is actually paid for the stock
Besides this, every share of stock Sc
cures one present in the great distribu
ton of presents to shareholders. Of
these presents the aggregate value is
$500, 900, one of them being worth the
enormous sum of $40, 900, another $780,
900, another $4,000, and one worth
$1,000, and two worth $1,000 each, sew
eral worth 81 900 each, and so on. This
is simply the plan in brief as adopted
and presented to the public. Every
shareholder will obtain some presentin
the great distribution, besides the beau
tiful engraving at the time of purchase,
and each one has an equal chance of
getting a small fortune.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

THE "best abused" individual, just
now, is General Apathy. Andrew
johnson is nowhere, compared with
him. Doubtless, the lazy, doing fell
low is grievously in fault, but, after
all, he is not so much to blame for the
collapse of the Radical party, as the
people themselves. Take Ohio, for
instance. The largest vote ever polled
In the State, was cast at the late cleo
ton. Last year the vote of the State
was 469,9OS, this year it is 4S4, ,227,
showing an increase of 14.319. The
Democratic vote increased q, ,O16, whilst
the Radical vote decreased Il, ,697. prov
ing that there was an actual change
from the latter to the former of, at
least, the last named number of voters.
This is the result of reaction, not of
apathy.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

THE original order of Gen. Schofield,
in regard to the holding of the election
in Richmond and other large cities
in Virginia, named two days upon
which the voting was to be done. On
closing the polls on the second day, it
was discovered that there was a white
majority of about 500. AS such a re-
suit was not "on the bills" the polls
were re-opened, and another day and
night were given Hunnicutt to drum
up his blacks, and the voting of negroes
was kept up all that day and night, un-
til the white vote was overcome. Great
God! what mockery of the elective
franchise, is an "election" like that!
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

DEMOREST'S ILLUSTRATED MONTH
LY.-The current number of this fav Or
ite periodical is very good one. In
addition to its usual illustrations, inclu-
ding its colored fashion plate, there are
three large plates devoted to fashions,
and another feature of special interest
to ladies, viz: full-siZe pattern of
Winter cloak. The special departments
are not neglected, and there is the usu-
al variety of excellent reading matter,
stories, poems, etc. This is the best and
most useful ofthe parlor magazines, and
no family can afford to do without it..
Subscription price, So 3yearly, with val
liable premium. Address, w. JEN-
NINGS DEMOREST, 473 Broadway,
New York.
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danger of this state of things to their
own race, and prominent man among
them, SolOn Johnson, of Rlchmond,
issued card on the eve of the election
in which he warns the colored men
that thepolitical slavery to which they
are reduced by designing Leaders, is
worse slavery than it was before, be-
cause it is of the mind thatthey ought
to avoid lines being drawn between
the white and colored people; that the
government was made for the good of
all, white and black, and that If they
persist in supporting the extremists of
that State, their friends at the North,
who will tpermitt them tovote among
them, will not permit them to vote at
the South. The colored men of Mary
land, who have enjoyed greater oppor-
tunities of education and elevation than
their racein more Southern States, can
not fail to recognize, with all intelli-
gent men elsewhere, the force of the
exhibition which has been made in Vir-
ginia, and the utter futility of such
disgusting procedures to the advance
ment of their race. Anything so ridi-
culOus and monstrous cannot stand
the evil must in time cure itself.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01
THE ERECONSTRUCTION FARCE IN VIR-
GINA.

Last week an election was held in
that part of Military Reconstruction
District No. 1, comprised in what re-
mains fthe grand old Commonwealth
of Virginia. If anything were wanting
to prove the diabolical character of the
despotism erected by the RecOnstruc-
tion Acts, this "election" would amply
supply the deficiency. The scenes en-
acted at Richmond, Lynchburg, Pc
tersburg and elsewhere, whilst the vot
ing was going on, beggar description.
Violence, riot and bloodshed, were the
order of the day. Arrests by the pO-
lice, and rescues by mobs of blacks,
were alternate incidents around the
polls and throughout the streets and
squares of the principal cities. If a
disorderly negro was put under arrest
by the police, riot Immediately en-
sued, and then came the cavalry squad
ron, charging with sabre drawn, to
disperse the infuriated crowd. Ifa ne
gro attempted to vote the conservative
ticket, he was assailed by the blacks of
the League" pelted with stones, and
beaten with clubs, until death, or a cav
airy charge, closed the scene. And
thus the farce, tinged with streaks of
the blOOdiest tragedy, was played to its
end. The curtain fell upon the pros
trate form of Liberty, the assassin
Hunnicut standing defantly upon the
stage, brandishing his bloody dagger in
triumph, amid the discordant yelIs of
pandemonium of negro furies. Vir-
ginia was Africanized and the only
possible end of Congressional Recon-
struction was accomplished.
But we reeoiI from further contem-
plation of the subject. If the recital of
facts which are patent to the eyes of
all, could add any force to the self-evi-
dent arguments against the revolu-
tionary and pernicious measures of
Congress, we would not shrink from
giving them in full detail. 1t is, how
ever, unnecessary to dwell upon the
disgusting theme. The sensible, sober
thoughted people of the North, have
already seen enough of the Congress
ional plan," to convince them of its
monstrous character, as well as of its
utter futility. The glaring fact, that
the government of each and every one
of the excluded States, is turned over
to herd of ignorant and brutal blacks,
to the exclusion of nine-tenths of the
whites, has settled the question against
Congress, and no matter how "elec-
tions" held at the point of the bayonet,
may result, Reconstruction" is as
dead as julius Cesar. Requiescat in
pace.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01
THE RADICAL FRAUD IN FORT della
WARE!
Startling Disclosure!
The Way in which it was Done and Who
Did it!

The following important telegram
has been received by William L. Hirst,
Esq, of this city, from General Town
send, in reference to the Fort Delaware
election fraud. The document speaks
for itself, and, at present, needs nocom-
ment:
WAR DEPARTMENT, October 10, 1867.
Hm. l.. HirSt, Esq, 211 South Sixth
street, PbiL0deIDhi0:
In reply to your letter of October II,
received yesterday, General Grant di-
reefs me to send you the following copy
of telegram just received from the COM
manding officer at Fort Delaware:
FORT DELAWARE, Oct. II, 1867.
General Il. ID. I0WRsend, assistant
AdjWdnt General:
was in Philadelphia when the cleo
who was in command, reports that a
citizen presented himself here with
commission from Governor Geary, un-
der the seal of Pennsylvania, appoint
ing him to take the votes of PennSyl-
Vania soldiers at this post. Colonel
Howard told him that he was under the
impression that such an election was
not legal. But as the man had a COM
mission from Governor Geary, h, allow
ed him to take the votes. add, on my
own authority, that have ascertained
that large proportion of the men vot-
ing had no vote in the State under any
circumstances. 1t is said only thirty
three (33) votes were pOlled, while over
a hundred (l00) were returned. No Of
ficers were concerned one way or the
other in this election.
(Signed) G. III. MORGAN,
Major Fourth Artillery,
Brevet Brigadier-G Commanding.
+. ID. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

JUDGE WOODWARD has been elected
to Congress from the Luzerne and Sus-
quehanna district, by majority Of ur-
wards of 900. He was elected to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Hon. Charles Dennison. Judge
Woodward was in Europe at the time
of his nomination and election, and
knew nothing ofthe action of his friends
in making him a candidate. His pres
ence in Congress will produce a rat
Ting among the dry bones of Radical
ism.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

The NURSERY, for November, has
been received. 1t is an excellent num-
Der, replete with most interesting mat
ter Just suited for the younger children.
If parents would make their children
happy, and do them good, they would
let them have monthly visit from The
Nursery. Price $3.50 a year. Address
John S. Shorey, Is Washington Street,
Boston. Mass.
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.jull9m;
NOR SALE OR TRADE.

IL 2 lots in the city of Omaha, Nebraska.
tracts, of 100 acres each, within three miles Of
a depot on the Union Pacific Railroad, back OF
Omaha
l tract of bottom land, timbered and praire two
miles from Omaha city.
0ne-third of 1000 acres in Fulton county, Pa,
including valuable ore, mineral and timber lands,
Fort Lttleton.
Over 900 acres of valuable ore, coal and tim
Der lands in West Virginia.
Also-32O acres of land in Woodbury. CO., Iowa
ALS0-Twenty-fve one acre lots, adjoining the
borough of Bedford, with limestone rock for kiln
or quarry, on the upper end of each.
ALS0-A lot of ground (about one acre. at vii
low Tree, in Snake Spring township, on Cham bers.
burg and Bedford Turnpike, three miles East OF
Bedford, with frame dwelling house, cooper-shop,
stable, &c thereon erected
O. E. SHANNON,
iun91 '67y1 Bedford, Pa.
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CANCER, SCRoFULA, &C., CURED
f3yT- Persons afflicted with Cancer, Scrofula, Tu-
mors Eruptions, &C., are CURED by the use of DR..
GREENE'S ELECTRO INDICATED BATHS and
Indian Vegetable remedies which cleanse the blood
of all Humors, Mercury, Lead &c, and restore
health to invaIids afflicted with every variety of
disease. A book describing Cancer, Scrofula, HUI
mors and other diseases, with their proper means
of cure. may ue obtained free at the Medical Insti
tute, or by mail. Address DIR. r. GREENE, l6
Temple place. Boston, Mass.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

THE Inquirer seems to favor legisla-
tion legalizing the running of street
cars on Sunday, in Philadelphia. Tut !!
tut that is not in accordance with
''great moral ideas !" Take care, boys,
lest you be "read out Of the party"
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NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
Elisha Brady, a Radical ward ]

ed between three and four o'clock on
the morning of the 22d ult., by John
Bowers, whilst the former was in the
act of cutting the halyards ola hickory
pole erected by the Democrats. This
was too great a punishment for the
offence, we think, but Ben Butler did
not think so when he hung Mumford
at New Orleans for hauling down the
the flag. Nor did Gen. Slocum Tor
Stanton) when he said: "If any man
hauls down the American flag, shoot
him on the spot"
The full official vote of Ohio is in.
1t shows that she largest vote ever cast
in the State was polled at the late cleo
ton. 1t foots up 484,277, which ex-
ceeds any previous vote by 5000. The
republicans polled 242,6O5 for Hayes,
and the democrats 240, ,022 for Thurman.
Of sixteen congressional districts car
ried by the republicans last fall, seven
now go democratic. The heaviest re-
publican loss in any one district is 1000.
Mrs. Hoffman, the woman who was
stabbed in church at Canton, Ohio, on
Sunday, the 18th ult., by divorced
husband, died on Saturday last. Hoff-
man hung himself in his cell on Sunday
night. He had tried to kill himself by
humping his head against a wall, but
failing in this, made a rope from his
bed-clothing and hung himself to the
wall of his cell.
For some time past, a company of
Outlawed freedmen, numbering about
dozen, have been squatted on Gen.
Hampton's lands, within five or six
miles of Charleston, S. c., known as
the "Old Furnace Tract" These
freedmen, armed with guns and other
warlike weapons, have on several oc-
casions stopped travellers and demand
ed their money or their life.
1t is related that in Virginia City,
Nevada, poor widow, examining an
old vest of her deceased husband, found
dirty paper in the pocket, which, on
examination, proved to be the deed OF
three feet of a valuable mining claim.
The secretary of the company inform
ed her that it was genuine, and that
81, 800 in dividends was due on it. She
took the money, sold the dirty paper
for S14, 900, and went to her home and
friends in the East.
Virginia has nine and a half mil
lions acres of improved and eleven and
and a-quarter millions acres of unim-
proved lands. Plenty of room for i'm
provement still.
st. Louis has the largest skating
rink in this country. One thousand
skaters can perform their eVolutiOns at
one time upon it, and four thousand
spectators sit and look on.
Mexican and Texan cattle are i'm
ported into Virginia to restore the
farms. The Virginia farmers say they
are inferior to the native breed, being
Culelly leSo anu llOli0'
james Herring, for twenty-seven
years Secretary of the Grand Lodge
of Masons of New York, died lately in
Paris.
-Aplan for system of storm signals
to be used on the Cape Hatteras light
house, is under consideration.
of the one hundred delegates elec
ted to the Alabama reconstruction con.
vention, sixteen are negroes and but
two conservatives.
"A reporter in the Office of the Bath
(Maine) Times, ran nine miles in one
hour and two minutes, the other day.
There is an immense immigration
of Mormons to Salt Lake just now
Many of them are Danes.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

ELECTIONS will be held in New
York, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, Wis
consin, and Minnesota, on Tuesday
next. The Democrats are hopeful of
carrying a majority of them.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01
SALE OF VALUABLE

Il REAL ESTATE.-By virtue of an Order of
the Orphans Court of Bedford county, the under
signed, administrator of the estate of Henry
MILESTONE, late of Monroe township, in said
county deceased, will offer for sale by public out
cry upon the premises on Saturday the 9th day
of November, next, all the following described
two tracts of land, situated in the township afore-
said, to wit:
No. |. Being the MANSION TRACT, adjoining
lands of widow Means heirs, A J. Steckman,
tract No 2, hereafter described, containing about
1856 acres and rs perches, or less, and having
thereon erected good two and a half story LOG
DWELLING HOUSE, double Log Barn with Sheds
good granary, &c, attached, and other out build
ings thereon erected About 100 acres of this
land is cleared, is under fence and in good state
of cultivation, acres of which is good meadow.
There is also good apple orchard and two never
failing springs of water upon the premises, with
running pumps at the door.
No, 2 Is tract of Timber land, adjoining the
above, containing % acres, and is well covered
with Oak, Pine and other valuable Timber.
These lands are situated in pleasant neigh
borhood about miles south of the Rail Road Sta
ton at Bloody Run, and convenient to schools and
churches. Titles Indispensable Aso there will
be sold at the same time and place, hay by the
ton and corn and oats by the bushe. Sale to com
mence at ii o'clock, A. NJ, of said day, when
terms will be made known by
octl8w4 LEWIS HOWSARE, Admir-.
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WANTED AGENTs.-(male or fe-
male)-Can clear $50 per week at their own
home, in a light and honorable business. Any
person having a few hours daily to spend will find
this good paying business. Address, sending
two stamps for full particulars, E. E. Lockwood,
Detroit Michigan. oet25w2*
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

ANoLD WOMAN picking up bits of pa
per, twine and other sweepings about
the streets, is a good illustration of the
genius of patience, perseverance and
hope in the pursuit of gain. 1t never
makes fame, e,butitsometimes makes mo-
ney. The old madams are not always
the wretches they look.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-01

To CONsUMPTIvEs.--T Rev. Ed
WARD A. WILSON will send free of charge) to all
who desire it, the prescription with the directions
for making and using the simple remedy by which
he was cured of lung affection and that dread
disease Consumption. His only object is to bene-
fit the afflicted and he hopes every sufferer will
try this prescription it will cost them nothing,
and may prove blessing. Please address Rev,
EDWARD A WILSON, No. l65 South Second
Street. Williamsburgh New York. sep13m8
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jun21,'67y
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE

The undersigned offers for sale the follow
ing valuable bodies of land
THREE CHOICE TRACTS OF LAND,
containing I6O acres each, situated the Illinois
Central Railroad, in Champaign county, State of
Illinois, s miles from the city of Urbana, and one
mile from Rentual Station said Railroad Two
of the tracts adjoin and one of them has never
failing pond of water upon it The city of Urbana
contains about 1000 inhabitants Champaign Is
the greatest wheat growing county in lilinols.
AIso-ORe-f fourth of a tract Of land, situated
in Broad Top township, Bedford county, contain,
ing about As acres with all the coal veins OF Broad
Top running through it.
ALso-Three Lots IN tie torn Of Coatmont,
Huntingdon county DD.,,pp
Jan 26, '66-f r. u hHA4nHn'
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.ALUABLEBROAD TOP COAL

LANDS FOR SALE.
Estate of John n. Lane late of the city of Lancas
ter, deceased.
Pursuant to an alias order of the Orphans court
of Bedford county, Penn'a, the Administrators of
the estate of said deceased will sell peremptOrly,
on THURSDAY, the 3lst day of OCTOBER, 1867,
at IL o'clock M. at the Court House. in the town
of Bedford Pennsylvania, Seven Tracts of Coal
Land containing upwards of
FIFTEEN HUNDRED ACRES,
situated in Broad Top township Bedford county.
Six of the Tracts are situated cUutig guous San
dy Rum which empties into the Raystown branch
of the Juniata, near above Hopewell on the Hun
tingdon and Broad Top Railroad branch of
which road has been graded up said run to or near
said land These six tracts all good coal lands
and form of the best coal estates in the Broad
Top coal field, and can be mined on Sandy Run
and Six Mile Run. They can be mined together,
or each of the tracts be mined separately, ad-
vantageously.
The remaining tract is situated several miles
from the above tracts, near the head of Sandy
Run is good coal tract and set with excellent
timber.
Persons desiring to purchase are referred to Mr..
Roberts Mr.. Fulton, Engineers and Biologists,
who have examined the lands.
A map of the lands can be seen or had by apply
ing to the undersigned
ANY further information desired before the sale
can be had by addressing the Administrators, at
Lancaster, Pa, or the Hon. Samuel l.. Russell, at
Bedford, Pa.
TERMS-One- third of the purchase money on
the day of the confirmation of the sale by the
Court, one-third in one year, and one-thlrd IN
two years thereafter with interest.
w. CARPENTER,
H. B. SWARR,
Administrators de bonis of John N. Lane,
decd Lancaster, Pa, Sept 70, 1867
oct4W4
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ITO CAPITALISTS have for sale,
on easy terms, over 200, 900 acres of farming,
timber and mineral lands situate in Bedford, Cen
tre, Clearfeld, Fulton, Huntingdon, Somerset,
Westmoreand and other counties, in PennsylYa-
MA which will be sold in tracts ranging from 100
to 10 ,00J acres.
FARMS-Several fine limestone farms rear Bed
ford.
FARMING LANDS-Wth limestone and red
slate soils.
TANNERIES-and fine sites for same, with
large tracts of rock-oak timber,
FURNACES AND FORCES, and sites for same,
with large tracts of timber and iron ore lands.
WATER PRIVILEGES, on never failing
streams
IRON ORES-Bog, Specular, Fossil and Hema-
tite-FossiI vein from to feet thick, Hematite
bed from 10 to 40 feet thick.
COAL AND C0LLIERIES-Collierie in full
operation, with houses shops, schutes, tracks, &c,
undevelOped coal lands with a seam 20 feet thick.
Also, gas, camel and anthracite coal lands.
TIMBER-Large tracts covered with white and
yellow pine, spruce and hemlock; red, white and
rock oak; chestnut, walnut locust, cherry, poplar,
&c. Also, Steam Saw Mills.
FIRE CLAY, of superior quality, for making
fire brick.
SANDSTONE, of pure quality, for making
glass, &c.
ALSO, farms, and farming timber and mineral
lands, in all Western, Southern and Pacific States
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland.
WILLIAM P. SCHELL,
iull 9m3 ATTORNEY at Law Bedford Pa,
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CLIP BILLS, PROGRAMMES
- POSTERS, and all kinds of PLAIN AND
FANCY JOB PRINTING, done with neatness
and despatch, 1.-THE GAZETTE Office.