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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-13
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EARM~ AT ORPHANS, COURT

Hl'<Ahm "A UNI HAND NOOhl
il SALE.-The undersigned, by virtue of an
order Of the Orphans Court of Bedford county,
will sell at public sale, on the premises in Napier
township, Bedford county, on Thursday, the Sd
day of October, next, all that valuable FARM and
IAN-HARD, late the residence of Samuel Hull,
dec d. containing 249 acres of land about l30 acres
being cleared and under cultivation, with about
80 acres thereof meadow, the remainder well tim
bered, and an abundance of pure water, adjoining
lands OF John Williams, George Colvin, and Others
having thereon erected mansion house. tenant
house, tan house and yard, barn, stable and other
outbuildings; also, two apple orchards thereon,
also two fine springs This is very desirable
property, situated two miles North of Schellsbure.
on the road leading to Hullidaysburg, in desra-
BILE neighborhood. The soil is of good quality
and capable of producing fine crops of grain and
hay e. Sale will be opened at the house at 10
o'clock, A. NJ, of said day. IermS-0ne- third the
purchase money to remain in the property during
the lifetime of the widow, the interest payable 10
her annually; one-third payable at confirmation
of sale; balance in 'wO annual payments without
interest - For particulars, see j. P. REED,
Attorney at Law, Bedford, the subscriber in
Schellsburg DUNCAN McVICKER,
sep6w4 Trustee
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-13
DUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE

Il REAL ESTATE.-JoHN ALsIP, Auctioneer-
The undersigned, Executor of the last Win and
Testament of John S. Rtchey, late of Bedford tp.,
deed. will offer at public sale. upon the premises,
in said tp.. on WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9 1867,
the MANSION PLACE OF said deceased, contain
ing ll3 acres, more or less with Three Dwelling
Houses, a Grist Mill, Saw Mill, Distillery Barn,
and other out buildings thereon erected, sit
uated three miles north of Bedford. There is
also good orchard of choice fruit trees upon the
premises The place affords splendid site for Il
Factory, there being excellent water power AL
so, at the time and place, will be offered for
sale a tract of land contaihing 30 acres, adjoining
the above mentioned tract, having good barn and
orchard thereon. These tracts will be sold separ-
ateIy, or together, as the purchaser may de'ire
ALSO, another tract in Bedford tp. adjoining
lands of Fred Koontz, Adam Dbert and others
con" lining abou, 90 acres, timber land. Sale to
commence at 10 O'Clock of said day. Terms made
known on day of sale.
JOSIAH RITCHEY, Exr
sep6w4 of j. :. Ritchey, decd.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-13

EPISCOPAL SERVICES Rev.
Chas. S. Fischer, of st. Johns church,
Philadelphia, will preach at the Court
House, next Sunday morning and eve
ming, and also the following Sabbath.
Rev. Barrow is absent on a vacation.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-13

MERCANTILE LICENSES must
Nh be lifted and paid for by the 5th day OF
August next, or they will be left in the hands of
an officer for collection. GEO. MARDORFF,
iulIqw3 Treasurer.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-13

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BOUNTIES.- un-
/ kDdersgned has the blanks ready and will
attend promptly to the collection of all claims
der the law lately passed for the Equalization OF
Bounties
aug. l7-sf. J. w. DlChERSON.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
Reform. Here and There.

England is all astir with excitement in
favor of reform. Able men are discussing
it, immense meetings are held, politicians
are risking their positions and influence on
the enterprise; the throne itself is trembling
or is supposed to be so, as scores of times
before, although it has never quite toppled
over. All this for the purpose Of securing
to some persons the privilege of voting. The
United Stotes has its reform project OF sim
liar kind going en- with discussions, big meet
ings, party arrangements, speeches, news
papers and all political enginery This is to
secure to the black people, lately slaves, the
privilege of voting Voting seems to be the
8ummum bonum and chief end of life, in
both cases.
OF course we are satisfied-every good
citizen must be soto see disposition pre-
vailing to extend to all people the civil rights
and privilegs that belong to them. But as
voting has an aspect towards the public in
terest, as well as towards private and indi>
vidual rights, some solicitude should be felt
about the qualifications of voters. On this
depends great consequences connected with
the public interests. Blind partisanship
needs no qualifications, and therefore, those
who have only partisan ascendency as their
end, are Indifferent about the intelligence
or moral fitness of voters. If they hold a
ballot between thumb and finger, aud hand
it in at the polls, it is enough. The suffrage,
in the eye of the citizen who regards the
public good, demands more than this-some
understanding of the nature of the Govern
ment; some power of discriminating between
right and wrong in politics.
In England and in this country classes
are aspiring to the right of suffrage which
have net heretofore enjoyed it The lain
meets with opposition in both cases, and in
both has q powerful support. And it would
not be strange if in both-we think we see
it clearly-there should be predominance
Of the partisan over the patriotic motive, in
much that is said on both sides of the ques-
ton. The right of suffrage being granted,
the contest for the control Of the new po~
litical element naturally onsues. This is
the phase now presenting itself in
the Southern States, where those who op-.
posed the grant are quite as keen for taking
advantage of it as those who favored it
Pit. Conf.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
Have the MormonsBrib Congress9

Our last Salt Lake Union Vidette don't
give any signs of having sold out to the Nor
mons 1t charges the Saints with having
bought up leading Congressmen-As Ashley,
chairman of the committee on Territories,
is meant, among others-so as to stave off
any more anti>Mormon legislation, and
quotes the following significant Dragging
from the Mormon paper, the Telegraph, as
some evidence Of it:
at is a common saying that the Roths>
childs, by their purse-strings power, exer>
else no mean influence over the shape and
color of European politics. The Mormon
chiefs are moving in a similar direction. 1t
is common enough to read in the newspapers
of long heads, great executive and finan~
cial ability and we'll secured piles Of the
needful,' as characteristic of the chiefs Of
the Mormon church, while for industry and
application to the arts of peace the Mormons
have eyinced an aptitude that, in fewyears,
must place them in the van in those respects.
We see occasionally, broad hints Of this COR
porate body and that corporate body, this
Legislature and that Legislature, and even
Congress, being particularly sensitive to
money arguments, that cash will carry any
measure through. Now if the Mormons,
like the Jews, have habitaof making to
themselves friends of the unrighteous Nam
mon, the god of this world, it will not be
very difficult for them to control quite a
heap of politics in the new world and would
it not be a very curious thing'if in a few
years the polygamic Jews should control
politics in the Eastern hemisphere and the
polygamic Murmans in the Western %
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
The Southern States and the "Iror
Heel"


In his late speech at Augusta, Georgia,
Ex-Governor Brown put very pointedly the
dilemma in which the petition of Governor
Jenkins and the argument Of Mr.. 0'Conor
leave the Stale of Georgia. II, he says, as
Governor Jenkins and the rest have con-
stantly claimed, Georgia is foreign State
conquered by the Union, what claim has she
to any privilege in the Union except what
may be concededf If, on the other hand,
Georgia is and always has been State in
the Union, all of us who re5elled are guilty
of treason and liable to be hanged, and our
property to be confscated. "We either did
deal with us as a conquered people; or else
we did not secede, and we were rebels and
liable to be dealt with as rebels"
If the loyal people of the country insisted
upon being litei ally logical, and upon treat
ing a great national crisis in the spirit of a
Tombs pettifogger, which is the policy of
the Democratic party, this wsuld be the in
evitable dilemma in which the Southern
States wcutd be plunged. But because the
Government will neither treat the late rebels
exclusively as foreigners nor traitors, but
regards them as citizens who may resume
their national relations upon certain mode>
rate and Just conditions, it is amusingly de-
scribed as " the bloodhound party" and
its.poliey Of restoration, which neither hangs
nor confscates nor exiles nor imprisons, but
merely gives vote to those who never re,
belled, is nothing less than "the iron heel"
The New York World whose political allies
were in the habit, before their rebellion, Of
chaseing with actual blood hounds the loyal
men whom the Government has enfranchiset
and who had pleasing and summary way
Of stamping the iron heel Of the stake, the
halter, or the mob upon American citizens
who asserted the plainest principle of the
Government, is peculiarly glib in the use Of
this kind of rhetoric. 1t is the same excel
lent conservative" sheet that felicitously
called the murderous mob which in the sum
mer Of 1868 hunted an1 massasred the de-
fenceless colored population of New York,
and tried to inaugurate the rebellion in this
city, "the laboring population" Of course
a party which enfranchises instead Of en-
shaving colored Americans is in lis view a
bloodhound party" and the policy which
would protect them fom mayor Monroe's
lambs, who, we suppose. are "the laboring
population" of New Orleans, is the iron
heel. Haper's Heekiy.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
Last Wager of Battle in England.

An English paper says: "There has died
in Birmingham poor old man, one event
of whose history forms an important mark
in the progress of civilization in England,
especially as relating to the old barbarous
mode of settling disputes, and trying causes
by the wager of battle" The deceased,
William Ashford, was the last per- on who
was challenged in an English court to meet
in single combat man whom he had ae-
cused as the murderer Of his sister. On the
26th of May, 1917, beautiful young wo-
man named Mary Ashford, in her Goth year,
went to a dance at Erdingten, without pro-
per protection. She left the festive scene at
a late hour, accompanied by young man
named Abraham Thornton, farmers son
in the neighborhood. They were last seen
talking together at.a stile near the place,
but next morning she was found dead in a
pit of water and there were evidences that
she had been murdered. General suspicion
pointed to Thornton. He was arrested and
tried for murder at Warwick assizes in Au-
gust but, though circumstantial evidence
was against him, che defence, which was an
abb, obtained a verdict Of not guilty"
1.-The feeling of surprise and Indignation
at bis acquittal was 50 intense that new
trial was called for, and an appeal was en-
tered against the verdict by William Ash>
ford, the brother, and next of kin to the
murdered girl. Thornton was again appre-
hended, and sent to London in November,
to be tried before Lord Ellenborough and
the full court Of Queens Bench. Instead
of regular defence by arguments, evidences
and witnesses, Thornton boldly defed all
present modes of jurisdiction, and claimed
his right, according to ancient custom, to
by the wager of battle.' His answer to the
court was Not guilty, and l am ready to
defend the same by my body lie accom-
panied these words by the old act of taking
off his glove and throwing it down upon the
floor of the court. aE
"At this stage of the proceedings Will
lam Ashford, who was in court, actually
came forward, and was about to accept the
challenge by picking up the glove, when he
was kept back by those about him. With
what wonder did the assembly, and indeed
the nation, ask Can prisoner insist ON so
obsolete a mode of trial, in such time of
light as the nineteenth century, But with
greater wonder and regret was the judgment
of the court received; for, after several ad-
journments, it was decided in April 1878,
that the law of England was in favor of the
wager of battle' that the old laws sanctions
ing it had never been repealed end that,
although this mode of trial had become OBJ
solete, it must be allowed. Thornton was
therefore discharged, and, being set at lib.
erty, left England for America, where he
died in obscurity.n
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
DECORATE THE HOMESTEAD.

The mild breath of spring and the music
of the early birds reminds us that the sea-
son approaches for planting, not only vege-
tables and grains necessary for mans sub
sistence, but shrubs, trees and fowers to
feed the eye and nourish the taste.
There is no homestead en- which little
judicious labor will not result in more or
less pleasure hereafter None on which
there is not some nook or corner thatcan be
beauti6ed by a vine, n shrub or n plant of
flowers. Nature will do her part if we per-
form ours, and many barren and insight
ly yard or common may thus become thing
of beauty, adding to the pure joys of home.
Next to wholesome food, home pleasures
are necessary to enliven our spirits, promote
our good health and give zest to rural life.
What can give greater satisfaction to
family Of refined taste than to have the
grounds around the homestead decorated
with the beauties of nature so bountifully
furnished us? The species and varieties of
trees, shrubs, roses, vines, &C., are now so
numerous that choice selection can be
made to suit every cline, soil and OK posure,
and to bloom and fruit all the season. See
them tastefully arranged and gorgeously
dressed with foliage of various colors, and
decked with blooms far transcending the
most costly jewelry in brilliancy, and per
fuming the air with their fragrance. In
windy days they gracefully bow, prance,
and whirl around like sprightly youth in
the dance, and the melody of the breeze
serves them for music. How beautiful the
picture and great the enjoyment to those
who can appreciate them. 1t makes cot
a palace, home paradise the owner
king, and his wife queen it imparts
dignity to the manly graces Of sons, and
lustre to the beauties and virtues of daugh-
ters. The passing way-farer is delighted
with the scene, and sets tdown in his mind
as the abode of the great and good in heart,
and the virtuous and wise in action.
After planting climbing vines to elOthe
the verauda, and few deciduous trees
around the house for shade in summer, all
the other trees, shrubs and roses should be
so arranged over the lawn that all will be
seen at one view. Set the more dwarf near,
er the house, and the taller farther off, and
they viii appear to rise in graceful folds as
they recede from the eye, and the contrast
of size, form and color of the various indi-
viduas will show TO greater advantage, and
| that will give additional graces TO their
| charms.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22

AN INCIDENT OF Fort FIsHER.-A person
who was in Fort Fisher during the bonn,
bardment, tells the following story in an
English magazine: "0h ! the agony Of
despair to see ball and she'll falling harm,
less from those turrets of iron, or rolling
like pellets along the low decks, while the
gallant defenders of Fort Fisher were falling
in sheaves within a fertilization which
would, four years before: have defed the
efforts of any nayy-'a work, as Porter says,
stronger than anything Sebastopol could
boast Of" One day happy shot from the
Fort succeeded in finding its way into weak
spot of a two-terreted monitor, piece Of
iron evidently was turned up, and jammed
the turret. Hurrah one at last disabled,
thought the poor Confederates BY Jovel
see two sailors quietly walk out and set
themselves down, the one holding a chisel,
the other striking with a hammer. They
were cutting away the obstruction and so
secure was the monitor against any vital
injury being inflicted on her, that. although
silenced, she would not retire from her po>
sition. A swarm Of Southern rIfiemen were
thrown out to slay the two bold Federals (;
but no one hit them, end they worked on
calmly until General Whiting generously
interfered, and said Such gallant fellows
deserve to live; cease firing, my lads, at
them" So the iron was cut away.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
Hancock and the Kiowa Indians.


The st. Louis Democrats correspondent
with Hancocks expedition, writing from
Fort Hayes, May Sd, gives long account
of the council held between General Han-
cock and Satanta, principal chief Of the XII
owas, at Fort Larned, on the first. Satan
ta's speech was full of peace, and promises
tc keep his Young men quiet, and to use his
influence with other tribes He said the
Cheyennes and Sioux abandoned their vii
lagos because they were afraid of the troops,
and thought Hancock did wrong to burn
them. lie was opposed to the railroad run
ing through the Arkansas River region, and
charged Col. Leavenworth with selling XII
owa annuity goods for his own benefit.
Col. Leayenworth replied he had kept
back annuities by orders from Washington
General Hammock replied at length. going
over much the same ground as in the former
speech, but laying particular stress on the
point that unless the Indians faithfully per-
formed their treaty obligations, and preserv-
ed peace, they would be severely punished'
lie explained that he burned he Cheyenne
and Sioux-villages because those tribes lied
to him and acted very treacherously. They
began the war by burning stations and kill
ing whites on Smoky Hill route, and would
be punished and similar conduct on the
part Of other Indians would meet with like
results
A gentleman who left Sioux city on the
9th inst, says that nothing was known there
of the reported capture, murder of the crew
and burning of the steamboat Miner.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22

WoNDERs.-Whsn = youg man is a
clerk in store and dresses like prince,
smokes foreign cigars, drinks nice BRAN
dy,' attends theatres, dances and the like,
| wonder fhs doel all on the avails Of
his clerkship!
Whom ayoung lady sits in the psrlor du-
ring tie day, with her lily white fingers
covered with rings, wonder if her moth
or doesn't wash the dishes aud do the work
in the kitchen
When the deacon Of tho ekurok sells
strong butter, recommending it as good
Article, wonder what he relies upon for
salvation.
When lady lases her waist a third
less than nature made it, l wonder if her
pretty figure will not shortsA life dozen
years or more, besides making her miser-
able while she does livel
When young man is dependent upon
his daily tolls for his income and marries
lady who does not know how to make a
loaf of bread or mend garment, | won
der if he is not lacking somewhere, say
toward the top for instance
When man receives periodical or
newspaper weekly, and takes great delight
reading it, and don't pay for it, | wonder
if he has soul or gizzard.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
BUTLER BUTLER COUNTY PENNA WEDNESDAY MAY 49, 1867.

the final resort has decided the constitution
to mean. But it has made the necessary
verbal amendment of the constitution more
difficult. For when, under the conditions of
the Military bill, the States which tried to
secede are once more restored to their func'
tions in the Union, one of which is voting
upon amendments to the constitution they
will necessarily have vote upon any clause
forbidding secession, and prescribing the
penalty of the attempt. = Harpers Weekly.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22


WHAT NExT-A gentleman riding
near the city overlook well dressed man
and invited him to seat in his carriage.
"What," said the gentleman to the
young stranger, "are your blans for the
future?"
lam clerk, " said the gentleman.
" and my hope is to succeed, and to get
into business for myself"
And what next" said the gentleman.
Why, to continue in business, and ac-
cumulate wealth"
"And what next"
sit is the lot Of all to die, and of course
cannot escape"
"And what next" once more inquired
the gentlem N; but the young man had
no answer tomake; he had no purposeihat
reached beyond the present life. How
many young men are in precisely the
same condition What pertains to the
world to come has no place In all their
plaus.--Americaa Messenger.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
Errors IN THE PRINTED BIBLE

ERRORS IN THE PRINTED BIBLE'-A
London paper notices curious mispriut
in one of the editions of the New Testa,
ment printed at Oxsorde whore the word
glad is converted into clad The person
who detected the error recievd the re-
ward OF one guinea which the Oxford
Press offers for such a discovery, it is an
extraordinary iaci that; with this stand,
ing offer of reward, and all the vigil
lance of readers, Sunday School teachers
and scholars, this error Of a single letter is
the only one that has been detected in
upwards Of sixty different editions
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22

SENATOR WILSON. on his trip from Atlanta
to Montgomery, Alabama, addressed several
white audiences, and was severely catechised
about certain customs in the North, but was
able to make suitable replies to all ques-
tions. On Saturday he addressed an audi,
ence Of the usual mixed character, and in
the course of his speech made no reference
whatever to confscation. He was replied
to by prominent lawyer named Clanton,
who urged in argument that the negro did
not owe his freedom to the Republican party
that President Lincoln had promised the re-
bellious South two years after the commence
ment of the war that their slaves would be
undisturbed. After the speeches, General
Swayne called for the sense of the coloret
people as to who were for the Republican
party, and the response was a unanimous
affirmative.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22

The Georgia injunction case, only, was
dismissed by the U. S. Supreme court for
want Of Jurisdiction. The case of Mississ
sippi, as amended making Arkansas party
to the complaint, and covering Gen. ord's s
action with regard to the treasury of the lat
ter State, was to have been argued on Fri
day 18th instant. 1t is hoped BY the cons
plainants that the Arkansas treasury case
viii furnish property clause upon which
the court can base Jurisdiction