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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
CURTIN on SEYMOUR.

Some two or three weeks since we
published the kilograms that passed be-
tween Secretary Stanton, Governor
Curtin and Gov. Seymour, at the time
the Confederate army, under Gen. Lee
was invading Pennsylvania. 1t viii
be remembered that Lincoln, Stanton
and Curtin all expressed themselves
highly grateful to Gov. Seymour for
the prompt and efficient aid rendered
TO Gov. Curtin in the hour of his ex-
tremity and distress. We are glad to
see that Governor Curtin still adheres
to the good opinion he then formed of
Gov. Seymour, and is manly enough
to avow his admiration of our gallant
candidate. We ask those Radicals
who are accusing Mr.. Seymour of dis
loyalty, to put the following in their
pipes and smoke it:
Said a gentleman to Mr.. Curtin the
other day, as they sat in the reading
room of the Union League club house
in Philadelphia "WelI Governor,
what is your opinion of the Democrat
ic Convention ?n II think" said the
Governor, "that a stronger ticket might
have been selected, such as Hendricks
and Hancock for example, But"
continued the questioner, "what is
your opinion of Governor Seymour ??''
Mr.. Curtin replied ''Well, sir, if l
were asked to mention a man who, in
my estimation, possessed the attributes
of a perfect gentleman, cultivated
scholar, thorough statesman and
sincere Christian, could without hesi-
tation name Horatio Seymour of New
York" "How about Seymour's 10y
alty?n "After the dispatches that l
sent Seymour at the time Of the rebel
raid into Pennsylvania" replied the
Governor, "it would hardly become me
to impugn his loyalty; the. fact is / haze
Rerer doubted il. / understand that
Belmont is having all the dispatches
sent by Stanton and myself printed,
and have no doubt they will be in the
hands of every Democratic stump
speaker through the campaighn. We
had better give up attacking Seymour's
loyalty, for the opposition hold the
trump card in that matter"
Exactly. We do hold the "trump
card in that matter, and we intend to
prove, out of the mouths of their own
witnesses, that all the mean, SANDER
Gus, miserable charges now made by
the Radical Party against Mr.. Sey-
mour, are the basest fabrications that
ever polluted the lips of the most un-
considerable liar out fpandemOnium.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

Interpretations, traders, and Indiana
gents haveagainsucceetiedin provoking
an Indian war on our Western frontier.
Dispatches from Kansas state that the
Indians have mustered in force vari-
ously estimated from GOO to l 800 men,
and have threatened 10 sweep the re
mote settlements. Women and chill
dren are reported as fast coming up to
the denser settlements, for protection.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

A WALKING CARA man in HNvew
York has invented and patented de-
vice for the propulsion of hand vehicles
and vessels. The device is to make
a carriage move forward on its wheels,
turning against the carriage, and not
against the grountl, that being touched
only by a series of feet which come to
the ground and rise from it with the
rotation of the wheels which run on a
sort of endless rails under the cafraige
and attached to it. The contrivance is
believed to be applicable to farm uses
and heavy freight, as we'll as to ordi-
nary passenger carrying, and to be
specially adapted to swampy and bog
gy lands, into which wheels sink readi-
ly; for the feet of this carriage, which
alone touch the ground, can be made
as broad as necessary to avoid sinking.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

Ihaveknocked you down, have bea-
ten you, [ have spit in your throat, l
have picked your pocket, says the
trooly loil man, and now if you beat
me back again rattempt to deprive me
of my hard-earned gains, l viii cry
out revolution, and everybody who
isn't rebel and a traitor and bloody
revoluti0nist and disloyal man and a
repudiationist will fy to my rescue.
Let us have peace and now, my good
friend, for another dig at your purse.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
TAX OFFICE SCENE.

Tax Colleetor-Now, Mr.. Jay Cooke,
we are ready for you, sir. Your 'mon-
eys and credits show $4,000; your
household furniture, office fixtures,
horse and buggy, and some other lit
tie ethings, foot up 1875 more, Total,
$123,O00. Deduct $l2O, 600 held in $50
Government bonds, which are not tax
able, and the balance is $500. Your
State and county tax on this last a.
mount Is S7I.50.
Now, Mr.. Bellows, I have your re-
ceipt ready. Your monies and cred
its" show $3.50; shop fixtures and tools,
$3.50; household furniture, $50; horse
and wagon, $275. Total taxable for
State and county purposes, 3, $50. Tax
SO.
/ Bellows-How is this? jay Cookies
personal property amounts TO Sl23, 3,575
and he pays only S7l.j0 State and
county tax, while l, with less than
$4,000, all told, am asked to pay $, 50
more than he.
Jay Cooke-Ah, my good friend,
you see my Sl20,000 in bonds are not
taxable. In the couEtry's extremity,
with other truly loyal men, came to
the rescue with my greenbacks. 1
loaned my bleeding country, threaten
ed with destruction by rebels and cop
perheads, my moLey, and with that
gratitude which becomes a grateful
people engaged in the interests Of
God and humanity" l am exempt
Thus it should be with a magnanimous
christian people.
Bellows-And 1, in my country's
real extremity, had no greenbacks to
loan, but l shouldered musket, and
gave my body to the cause, a leg of
which l left on the field Of Shiloh, as
you see, but grateful people, engag-
cd in the interests of God and human
ity," have no taX-eXemption for me.
This may be all right, but l don't see
it.
Jay Cooke-But you see, Mr.. Bel
lows, mine was a voluntary act. I
could not have beencompelled to fur
nish the money. You volunteered, it
is true, but you could have been COM
PEELED to go.
Bell0ws-Tes, sir. | did volunteer
when my services were needed, but
your voluntary act was after the act
was done-when you felt sure your in
vestment was safe. The policy that
eXempts your hundreds of thousands
from taxation and taxes my few hun
dreds is founded on villainy, sir. You
loaned your greenbacks worth less
than six cents on the dollar, and are
now claiming dollar for dollar
in gold i'll payment. I risked my life
aud gave limb to the cause, and when
l came home to my family, and
to work for their support, am made
to pay full National, State and county
taxes on my little possessions, while
bonds, purchased with deprecated
greenbacks, are exempt.
This nice little game of "God and
humanity" superfine loyalty and pa
triotic disinterestedness, is downright
robbery, sir, and they who uphold it
are 10 better than thieves, sir. With
our ballots next November, we will
sink any man, or set of men, who
stand up for it, so deep that the sound
of Gabriel's trump will never reach
them. Do you mind that, Mr.. Jay
Cooke" Exit disputants.
Tax Collector, S0llts-It strikes this
individual very forcibly, that it amt
all wind that blows out of that bellows.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
LARGE INCREASE OF THE NATIONAL
DEBT IN JULY.

The official statement of the public
debt has just been published.
1t shows an increase, during the
month of July. of Thirteen Million, THO
Hundred and .ttty-eight Thousand, Fire
Hundred and NHaety-ttree Dollars, and
Nmefy-thTee Cents.
What has become of all the money
raised by taxation?
How has it been squandered
To what purposes has it been ap-
piled?
The debt has constantly increased for
months.
Is that to continue?
Are the people to be taxed as they
now are for all time to come; and
never to see the debt reduced or paid
off?
When will we see economy practicCd
by the Government?
When will some wise financial sys
tenn be adopted?
How long are we to endure the rule
of the set of thieves and public plum
ders who are eXpending all the money
wrung from the toll and sweat of the
masses, and constantly increasing the
debt?
The people are asking themselves
these questions.
There can be but one answer to
them.
Not until the Radicals are turned
out of power will there ever be a
change.
Let the tax-ridden masses remember
that when they go to vote.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

down at thousand millions. Lands
can now be bought in the South at five
dollars an acre, which were before the
war worth fifty dollars per acre.
We have in this country the most
inexorable system Of taxtion in the
world. 1t follows man into every
nook and corner Of his business. Ifhis
wife has made pound of butter, it is
put down on his income list. IF some
old grandmother has plucked the feath
ers from an aged and forlorn goose,
the feathers and the poor old goose
must be taxed to support the govern
ment. These inquisatorial tax-gath-
erers have raked this country from
centre to circumference to find every
particle Of property that can be taxed.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The recent victories in Kentucky,
Oregon, and Montana are having their
effect upon the Radicals, as powerful
a. that upon Belshazzar when he saw
the mysterious writing upon the wall.
Already there is waveringin the ranks.
As they hear further Democratic in
roads upon their ranks they viii break
and scatter in distnay. Their no-poii-
cy reader nnd7 un- -enuntanance among
the intelligence Of the country.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

1t is the solemn duty of every true
lover of his country, to come out now
against the aggressions and usurpa-
tions Of the Radical party. Let no per-
sonal or selfish considerations, no mere
party tie, hold him back. If Grant
shall succeed, the country will beruled
by the sword and by indicative
Radical faction, led by Ben Butler, in
Congress. The Supreme Court will be
crushed, the Constitution utterly de-
stroyed, and the liberties of the people
trampled in the dust.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The Radicals are fast urging the
country to the very verge of a new and
terrible civil war. In thruSt;ng three
States out Of the Union, and in attempt
ing, through the action of carpet-bag
Legislatures, to deprive the people of
two other States of their suffrages for
President, the Radicals have carried
their gigantic usurpation far beyond
the point of forbearance. When the
war, wantonIy provoked by Greely,
Forney and other Jacobin incendiaries,
shall come, they will not be suffered to
lurk in the rear and shout, On to Rich
rnoud
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

In one of Chief-Justice Chasc's let
ters he says: -Four years more the
rule of such men as are now dominat-
ing Congress will leave Us little of NOR
ality and Republicanism worth
preserving" This, we suppose, ans
wers the question, whether Mr.. Chase
will support the Democratic nominees.
And it ought to answer the question as
to whom thousands Of conservative
and fair minded Republicans viii sup
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

In 1861, when the Abolition party
came into power, the public debt was
only seventy millions. That party has
been in power eight years, and the
debt is Ttceaty.fre hundred millions.
During Buchanan's administration The
expenses Of the general government
were about seventy millions annually.
Now, under Republican rule, they are
over ice Hundred millions q yedr'
This is the honest reform party =
Facts are stubborn things.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

In thrusting Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas out of the Union of the
States, and placing them under the
sword of the military, the Radicals are
guilty of revolutionary usurpation.
The act is an outrageous violation of
the Constitution, and will surely be re-
sented by free people. Under our
federal system of government, there is
no place in the Union for subject prov
iuces.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

Why are most good looking ladies
like inveterate topers because they
are dreadfulIy fond of the glass.
Why is an unwelcome visitor like
shady tree because We are glad
when he leaves.
He that has a great nose thinks that
everybody is speaking of it.
Who stumbles twice over the same
stone deserves a broken shin.
He who would stop every mans
mouth must have great deal of meal.
He who defers his charity till he is
is dead is rather liberal of another
mans than his own.
Look within, then look without.
You'll know mankind all around a.
bout,
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The Democrats are showing great
spirit everywhere. The genuine en-
thusiasm of The country is with them.
1t rests with the active workers to
bring it out. Raise the true issues of
the day, and thousands Of our old
friends will leave the Radical crowd.
The Democracy and Constitutional
Government is our motto.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The Tribune adroitly resorts to the
Robinson election case in Pennsylvania
to direct public attention from the stu
pendous frauds in Florida, by which a
bogus Legislature takes away from the
people ofan entire State the right to
vote for President.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

Who are the peace-makers? The
ex-rebel Generals Cheatham and For
rest, who implore for peace, or the
truculent radical Parson BroWnlOw,
who sent an armed negro militia at the
throats Oft the people? The Pittsburg
Ctr0nicaI answered the other day.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The Radicals claim that the carpet
baggers have repealed the disfranchis-
ing laws in Alabama. Yet they require
every voter TO swear that he is in favor
of negro suffrage.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The Radical tariff policy increases
the burthens of the people, diminishcs
the receipts of the treasury, and en-
riches the capitalist, but does not in
crease the wages of labor.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

Our Democratic exchanges are going
into the chicken business again, over
recent victories. Talk of chicken
choIer! 1t hasn't visited Democratic
coops. Even the appearance ola Rad
ical political preacher wouldn't affect
those roosters. They look defiant, and
are doing a wonderful amount of crow
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
Ho0FLAND's GERMAN TONIC

is a combination Of all the ingredients Of the Bit
tcrs, with PURE Santa Cruz Rum, Grange e1G- Il
Is used for the same diseases as the Bters in case
where some pure alcoholic stimulus Is required.
You viii bear in mind that these remedies are en-
tirely different from any Others advertised for the
cure u the diseases named. these being scientific
TreTa-a -7ovs - --- l--zi -s- I-l - -ttf-
ers are mere dec0ctious Of rum in some form. The
TONIC is decidedly one Of the most pleasant and
agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. It's
taste Is exquisite tits pleasure to take it, while
It's life-g giving eLhilarating and medicinal quail
ties have caused ii to be known as the greatest of
an TONES
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The Press shamelessly persists in its
advocacy of the usurpation of the car
pet-bag Legislature of Florida, in
choosing electors for President, IN or
der to defeat the will of the people.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

"Let US have peace" says Gen.
Grant. His wish will be realized next
November, when he will receive his ev-
erlasting quietus, and through the elec-
tion of Seymour the country receive
the peace it so greatly needs.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

4 CONTRAST BETWEEN DEMOCRAT
AND RADICAL RULE.
AIR-SUsANNAI.
Our fathers made government,
And fixed II up all right
The people then were all content,
Their taxes were 50 light;
The Democrats then had the rIle,
The laws they ms5e were just;
They also had another rule
In God VIC put our trust.
Chorus.-Then our taxes
Were SO very light,
We always had the cash on hand
To pay them Of at sight.
While Democratic mtn did rule,
Our income was 50 great
We had a surplus revenue
To give to every State;
The people then were rich and gay,
With plenty were content,
And every patriot djE say,
God bless the government.
Cho.-Then our taxes. &c.
Now Radicals have made debt
More than we can fgUre
And they viii make it bigger yet
In Bureaus for the niger
For now one hzIf Of all we make
With piow, or spade or axes,
Tt'v, go vf.lrs,e--- - IKE
In the way Of taxes
Cho--Now high taxes
are daily growing bigger;
We pay million every week
To feed the idle niger.
But working men Of every class
Have now made up their mind
To give the Radicals pass,
And leave them all behind
Il viii be done now you may bet
The buttons on your coats,
Then we viii pay the nation debt
In Iegal-tender notes
Cho.-Theu car taxes. &c.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
I IST OF CAUSES put down or

IST OF CAUSES put down or
IL eptember-Adj0uTned CouTt-lith day.
col. Dicken vs. Moses Dickens Ex ?.
Nm Rogers vs. Ridilesburg 4 I Co
Paul Mock Ts Josiah Burk
; Fluck et al rs Able Putt
Same vs. JAS B0Bser
Riddlesburg Co VS. Broadtop C 6ICo
Simon Walter, ct al vs Joseph Helsel, ct al
mos kitcney VS. Jacob LiDgenfelter
FredoHn smith. etal vs. Jn0 Lavender, ct al
Jno peterson - Jas HeffEer, ct al
SIMON alter vs Jno Boyer, ct al
o2Phia Hogk- et al vs. Thos Grawden. ct al
Russell, trustee, &c. vs. Elisabeth Beeler et Al
a aEghanr &c vs. N Trout et al
Paul : Nauk Is Josiah c Burk
Michael Rltchey VS. FIack
John Aetzgar admir- John Corley Ct al
John Cessna VS. Jonathan Bowser
Reed Schell IS Aaron " Reed
tTed0hn Smith, etal VI Alex Fletcher
Nm ElEek, Esq. vs. Snively
Hen BTidenthal vs. Rich Hazelett
Wills & Hogue vs. Thomos Johns
Hester Barclay, ct al rs Wa Hoffman
isaac Flckes vsG I Mccormick ct al
Morgart, Com &c. Ys Daul Harsh berger
Isaac i fiekes vs. q I Mccormick, ct al
Harretson VS. Geo Ir0utman
Isaac I GroFe vs. Nm Sumner & Co
Alchl BItchey ys Homer Neiee
y Garretson vs. Philip Little ct al
Mary Ann Hammond VS. Wm k0optz
David Over ysG " Rupp. ataI
Ihts Growden vs. Arch Blair, ct al
same vs Mary WigfeId ct al
Certified Aug II, 1865
augzlm4 0. E. SHANNON, ProCy.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The substitution of the National
Bank currency for the greenbacks of
the Government, costs the people $751;
100000 annually in interest.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

Ger. Grant will be about as success
ful in riding into the White House on
his mule, as Fremont was on his woody
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

from bad blosd- Keep yyur blood pure keep
your Liver in order; Z keep, your digestive
organs in sound, healthy condition. by
the use Of these rene Il dies, and No diseases
will ever assail you. The best men IN the country
recommend them. If years Of honest reputation
60 for anything, you must try these preparations.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

The bondholders have their interests
at stake upon the next election. But
their interests and the peoples are not
the same.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
FROM REV. JOSEPH H. KExYARD, L. D.

FROM REV. JOSEPH II. KENNARD, D. D,
Pastor Of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
DR.. JACKsOS-DEAR SIR Il have been fire.
quently requested to connect my name with rec
concentrations of different kinds Of medicines but
regarding the practice as out Of my appropriate
sphere, / have in all cases declined; but with a
clear proof in various instances, and particularly
in my own family, Of the usefulness Of DR.. Hoof-
lands German Bitters, l depart for once from
my usual course, 10 express my full conviction
that for general debility OF the system, and es-
pecially for Liver Com u = plant, it Is a safe
and valuable prepara ton. In some eases
it may fail but usual ~ ly, 1 doubt not it
will be yeTy beneficial 70 those who suffer from the
above causes. Yours, very respectfully,
}. II kENNARD
Eigth, below Coates Street.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
HooTLASD,s GERMAN BITTERs

is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor II
IS compound OF Fluid Extracts, The Roots,
Herbs and Barks from which these extracts are
made, are gathered in Germany All the medi-
cinaI yirtueus are ex - t-actei from them by
a scientific Chemist These extracts are
then forwarded 20 this ~ country to be used ex-
pressly far the manufacture Of these BiJters.
There is no slc0holic substance Of any kind used
in comp5unding the Bitters hence IL Is the only
Bjtters taat can be used in cBses where alcoholic
stimulauts are not advisable.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
DEBILITY.

There Is no medicine equal TO Hoofand's Ger
man Bitters OF Tonic ~ in cases Of Debility.
They impart a tone and vigor to the whole
system. strengthen Il the appetite, cause an
enjoyment Of the food enable the stomach 10 di-
gesti II, purify the blood, give a good, sound.
healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow unge
from the eye, impart q bloom 70 the cheeks, and
change the patient from a sh0rt-breathed, enact
ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to 8 ful-faced.
stout and vigorous person.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

Cotton is grown in thirteen of the
United States and one Territory
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
SENATOR D0OLTTTLE-S INDICTMENT
OF THE RADICAL PARTY.

In single sentence NIr. DOolittla
has crowded a terrible Indictment of
the Radical party. He is no Democrat,
but Republican Of the Lincoln school.
He went with his party until it struck
wildly for despotism, and then he left
it to its fate. 1t has no stronger antag-
onist. lie says, in the sentence refer
red to:
''I1 violation of the Constitution in
violation of the pledges made and of
ten repeated, from the first battle of
Bull Run to the end of the war; pledg
es to the North to get men and money;
pledges especially made to the Demo-
cracy to get their support in the field
and in the elections pledges made to
the South to induce them to lay down
their arms and to renew their allie
glance; and pledges to foreign pow
ers to prevent intervention-in viola
ton of all these solemn pledges, upon
which we invoked the blessings Of
Almighty God upon our cause, and
by which alone we gained strength
to master the rebellion; in violation
of the natural and inalienable rights
of the civilized men of every State to
govern themselves, and in violation of
the clear provision of the Constitution,
which leaves to each State for itself the
right to regulate suffrage, this party
has by expOst facto laws, difranchised
hundreds of thousands of the most in
teIligent of their citizens, and has for
ced upon ten States and six millions
of our own Anglo-SaXon race the uni
versal and unqualified suffrage of sew
en- hundred thousand ignorant and, in
the main, half-civiIized negroes"
------------~-------1--
Quite a large party of English
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28

Weak and Delicate Children are
inside strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. IN
fact they are Family Medicines They can be
administered with perfect safety 70 a child three
months old, the most delicate female. Or q man Of
ninety.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-28
Geo. W. WOODWARD
FROM non. JAMES TAoMpsoY.

Judge Of the Supreme Conrt Of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, april =, 1866.
| consider Hoohand' 5 German Bitters" a valua-
Die medicine in case Of attacks Of Indiges-
my experience Of it. "A Yours, with respect,
JAMES THOMPSON