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Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-01-10
For Tho Inquirer.
Letter from fhe West.
vlxron, Benton CO., Iowa.

VINToH, Benton co.i Iowa
EDlroRs INQUIRER; Being housed mp, By
the severity Of osteru winter, my thoughts
would naturally wander back to old scenes
recolleetions and associations, until the con-
temnlation created a desire to have them re-
newed, when my eye fell on an old No. Of the
Bedford INouIREE, which gave a desire to
have its visits, with which we parted some
time since. renewed, the result Of which is
before YOU in the shape Of a remittance And
while / have my pen in hand will inform
Won where we have ''pitched our tents for
the present If you viii take map Of Iowa
aud look no Town s., Range II, you will find
il to be in the western part Of Benton county,
on one Of the most beautiful and most fertile
prairies the eye wishes TO behold. This
nrairie Is well situated for farming and gra-
zing. But. in common with all large prairies,
Is destitute Of timber, and consequently
fuel is a scarce article. The puiries are a
most delightful place to live in the summer,
but a rather dreary place to pass the winter
There is nothing at present to break the force
Of the storms but this viii be remeded to a
great extent, in the course Of some years,
when the groves aud timber belts already
planted, and still being planted to great
extent, will receive good growth, this, too,
viii make more pleasing landscape than at
present.
mere is more energy and enterprise in this
country than there is in the east. 1t is no
uncommon thing for a village like your Bed
ford to be commenced and built up in eight
or ten years. We still have thousands of
| acres Of the most productive soil, all around
us, waiting for some one to plow and sow it,
when it will present them with such har-
vest as will make glad the heart of man.
There is also room for thousands of mechan-
les and tradesmen TO make and manufacture
the numerous articles of merchandise which
we receive from the east in exchange for our
agricultural products.
While there are numerous openings ior m
dustrious and energetic men, yet 1t would not
be advisable to urge them to come out here;
for there would be great many disappoint-
ments. There are great many persons now
here who are dissatisfied and diseontented at
heart, aud yet they may not be willing to adj
init the fact. Pioneer life is far from being
Paradise. And none should think Of becom-
ing pioneers unless they are able to put up
with its ups and downs.
y Ror.,orp
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corrERHEAp coNsIsTENcY.

While Copperheads, in Pennsylvania and
in fact in every Northern State, are busy in
making hypocritical pretensions of desire
to economic in the public expenditure,
their much prosecuted Southern friends the
chiraliy, are making very significant ex-
hibit of their ideas ofpublic economy. The
MARYLAND rebels have Incorporated into
their new constitution a clause demanding
COMPENSATION for their slaves. In kentue-
kv {where they did not secede because they
could help the rebellion more by quasi ad'
herence to the Union, and where the muir
derers of Union men have not been, and are
not now even arrested for their crimes, the
Senate has passed joint resolution, which
will be passed by the House, if it has not
been already, appointing committee to re-
mort the value Of the slaves and what mea'
suTUS are IT, 7~~~--- -~--sl1nns"f'@N"
from the general government. If the South
is to be compensated for her slaves, and
there is not rebel in the South that does
not demand it, and scarcely a copperhead
nolitician in the North that would not grant
It for the sake of getting into power and
diTiding the spoils, no sum short OF -, 0oo'-
100000 would be thought Of Let every
one, when he reads copperhead lamentations
over Republican extravaganza, remember
that eopperhead success in 1868 means, at
the very least, $4,000, 100000 added to our
national debt to pay red handed rebels for
their slaves, and once more to establish
Southern oligarchy Copperhead cries OF
economy only indicate their longing for pub
lie plunder. Their very last administration
under the imbecile Buchanan, by its profit
gacy and treason, bankrupted the country
at time when we were at peace with all
the world.
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Y4ccHExs GREELEY, the father Of Hon.
Horace Greedy. editor Of the Neto York
Tribune, died al his residence in Erie county
Pennsylvania, ON last Christmas day. He
was native of New Hampshire, followed the
occupation Of a farmer s6 years old at the
time Of his decease, and always sustained
high reputation Of honesty, integrity, and in-
dustFy.
Two handsome monuments are now ia the
course Of erection at Harrisburg. Pennsylya-
MIA; one in honor Of the Pennsylvania sol.
diers Who fellin Mexico, and the other 20
commemorate the yaIor Of those citizens Of
Dauphin county who were slain in the recent
civil conflict. The former is built at the ex-
pense Of the State, the latter by subscription
in the county,
MAJOR CHAMBERS McKIBBoE, who has been
acting as Inspector Geueral, although not on
General Meade staff, applied for permission
to accompany him to his new command, and
General Grant promptly gave his consent.
The Committee on Foreign Rotations have
determined to demand OF Great Britain, the
rolease Of Father Mcmahon, of Indiana, cap
tured in Canada, and convicted as a Fenian
raider
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WHO is RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
NON-COLLECTION OF THE Kew
ENUESS

Congress, during the war, aud since It's
close. has at all times, promptly given the
necessary legislation for providing revenue
for the payment Of government expenses
and the interest on the national debf. Not
Yithstanding this fact, which Is patent TO
everybody, and despite the industry with
which Congress has labored, since ITS re-
assembling, to reduce the government ezpen-
ditures in every department where 1t could
bo done without detriment to the public
welfare, the oopperhead press has constantly
kent up the cry Of Republican extravaganza
with how much justice, is shown by the al
most solid copperhead vote in Congress
-, thrown against the passage Of an act
G. ahoI;sb;np even the smallest items in
tbe wav of expenditure. Again, the de-
Go;encias in revenue are not the fault of the
laws nassed by Congress, but because they
are not executed. Who arc responsible for
fLeir execution? Not Congress, but An
drew johnson and his copperhead appoint
ees, whose sworn duty it is to execute the
law, and whose plain duty it is to collect the
revenues as provided for by law. Why are
the most gross and palpable frauds allowed
to pass unnotced and uninterfered with
from month to month? Why do the liquor
dealers and manufacturers daily and openly
defy the law in the face of public sentiment
and before the very eyes of Andy johnson
and his corrupt and yenal officials? These
frauds upon the revenue are SO notorious
and open that the newspapers daily TEEN
with reports of them, yet with the excep-
ton Of one or two spasmodic attempts no
honest effort has been made to bring the
offenders to justice. If oopperbead papers
were not utterly devoid Of all sense Of
shame, they Werrld. long ago have ceased to
speak Of revenue frauos, when it was as
clear as the light of day that on rr,- corner.
head party, with Andy johnson at its heas
rests all responsibility for the most fragrant
and reckless disregard Of official duty that
has ever disgraced the executive department
OF our government. And this is not all
but together with the utter disregard Of
duty in the enforcement of the plain letter
OF the law, in the collection Of the revenue.
the President and his menials in the cabinet
would go on purchasing ieebergs and vol
canos' without stint and coolly ask Congress
70 loot the bills out Of a Treasury depleted
almost to bankruptcy, by the President s
own criminal neglect Of duty. If Andy
johnson had been impeached as he should
nave been, year ago, and removed from
ofHce, as he richly deserved to be, there
would be no complaint Of deficiency in the
revenue department to day because of Of
n'iai negligence. His cOl,duct in this, as
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in many other things, affords the clearest
evidence Of bis completely with copperheads
and rebels in their efforts to embarrass the
government and free the nation into bank
ruptcy and Reputation. If he had been
half as assiduous in the discharge of his du-
ty, as he has been in his efforts to restore
rebels and copperheads to power and to per-
secute the union men of the South, We
would hear no complaint now Of deficiency
in the national revenue.
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THE INEFFICIENcY or THE Pension
LAWS. The following comments and de-
cisious Of the Secretary of the Interior we
copy from an exchange. We hope Con
gress will 60 to work and relieve the unfor-
tunates who suffer under the injustice of
these decisions;
The Secretary of the Interior has lust
made decision which settles the question
as to whether a distinction exists between
drafted men and volunteers as to the right
OF pension. Ii has been urged by claimants
and attorneys that the previous unsound-
ness of a drafted soldier should constitute
no bar to a pension. The Commissioner of
Tensions, In his decision, which is affirmed
by the Secretary, says: 1t is not within the
province of this Office to make amends, in
my opinion, for any wrong done by the
mastering officer or examining surgeon, in
accepting a man who was physically dis
qualified The law makes no distinction in
regard to persons, between volunteers and
drafted men; and, in my Judgment, this of
flee has no authority to make such distinc-
ton. The Secretary has also decided that
the three years limitation prescribed in the
pension laws applies in the case of minors.
whose application had not been filed within
three years from the date of death or remar-
riage of the mother, and that tie Limitation
begins at the time theright Of pension occurs.
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- y p Lie SALE ov
A VALUABLE nv.

- Y ALB OF
VALUABLE REAL psr,
~ virtue 81 the ias. VIII and Ts,,... T-A II
LAG 1pPlp late of 81. Clair fownsbfs q
y sNuhtyl aeeeased, the subseribcr will M "saIof
he ssie' On the premises, in said teTrt y' " PAL
Saturday, January lltb, 1868. 7" ="
all that TRACT on LAND bei,.
Larm oi sLid deceased, adjoining fs,5s AZ la1siat
t4'1ss' s5' formerly James Mo0re's bsir, y 9sha
4 aa'y anu others, and containing ons ~ I,-o,1a'a
- .Tsn y seven acres about segsptv --laisi
aeIss are cleared and under cyj.;as'.sa asssa
aoVus six acres being meadow. Tbsre A'.'s
INeA'ing houses on the place, with Je-a.a I've
D@ln aha other out buiidiBgs and T.r '., !.
80 ,L az e@eh get Of buildings. There ars ~ ~ q
On the premises two good apple orcba,5. 40
Tons,aefabie n and fair variety Of Che7ry 5.l -
feach. and Plum trees &c, aud i - car
one Of the best fruit farms IN ggH''lsfsi y.
Iy. This land lies on the North West NJ gs1l-
Chestnut Ridge, is well adapted 70 an M a e:
gram, and is very productive. Pour s,J -
acres Of this property is detached from n. aA!
sion place, and viii be sold separately. IT, LA la
In the ground Is hereby reserved s14I
TERMS:
0ne-third Of the purchase uonsv /, b.,s
ist.of April next, when the deed viii =. "a ne
and possession given, and the balance = 'l--s
equal annual payments without interest ;.
secured by Judgments or Mortgage. al ~ -. = ?.
Of the subscriber. The purchaser viii | P"I-
qniFed TO pay 20 per cent. Of the hand ,.'.' q
when the property is struck down. $40 ,-y
Dnence at 10 o'clock An " s'l-
WILLIAM W. CUPPITT. Fv.u.
December 18th, ISG7.-w4 '-t'
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THE Legislature Of Pennsylvania met
on last Tuesday. The members from
this district were in their seats There
were a number of candidates for speaker,
none of which we were prepared to recon-
mend. Politics have made men so vile that
there is scarcely sufficient stuff left to make
an honest politician. Unless we know a
man to be honest in politics, as well as in
the other relations of life, we are not pre-
pared to take his pledges, in favor of Ger
tain measure even if he were to swear until
he were black This is a sad state of affairs,
but it is none of our making, and VIC only
report the solemn truth. The men who are
elected to fill the speakers chairs, will have
much to do in shaping the legislation Of this
session and we would like to see men cleo
ted who can not be induced to construct
committees in the interest of the railroad
monopolies. Since writing the above we
learn by teIegrapn tnat rIUn. +, ". DusIs,
Of Philadelphia, has the caucus nomination
which we consider triumph of the monop
olv, and Gen. Selfridge, Clerk, Of the House.
]. T. Keagy, Esq, of this place was selected
as one of the Transcribing Clerks. In the
Senate Hon. James L. Graham, Of Aleghe-
nv, was elected Speaker and George w.
Hammersly, Clerk.
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~ ARD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, JANUARY i, 1867,
S2,455,S55 SO.


Mutual Insurance Combined with the Security Of
a Capital.
The Girard Life Insurance Company was char
as we'll as most substantial companies in the Uni
ted States. 1t effects insurance for the whole Of
Life upon the nonforfeitable OF ten year plan, or
for any term Of years. It also issues Endowment
Policies.
Premiums may be paid Yearly, Semi annually
or Quarterly
AH the insured for aohole Of Htc, (includine
those on the ten year plan, participate
IN the profits of the e6n3paRV
Those insuring in the Girard may always rest
assured that their best interests viii be protected
All whole of Life Policies Of several years stand
ing, are purchasable by the company, or may be
commuted into policy for a smaller amount,
without any thing more TO pay-therefore the in
sured need not fear loss IN they not able
after several years payments, to keep mp their
policies.
BoRusses or additions to policies are niads every
IRE years, lcithoWt any increase IN tAe preniuFa.
hs profits are absolute. It's premiums sloderate.
rs pririlegss liberal. II has paid many losses,
qad has Reper contested a cluiia
For books and circulars, free Of barge, send to
Or 70 any of its agents
THOMAS RIDGWAY, Pres.
JOHN F. JAMES, Actuary.
0RRIN ROGERS, General Agent
S23 Walnut Street, (up stairs }
J. T. KEAGY, Agent,
marl5ayr Bedford, Pa.
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JOHN BULL has the grandest scare on
hand at present that the credulous old gen
tleman has had on hand since the Chartists,
He appears to be in worse condition than
our Copperheads, who scent 'nigger" in
every wood pile, for he imagines that he
can taste Fenian in every mouthful that
he eats. IF this Fenian business don't soon
stop, there is a probability of the old gen
tleman becoming even more lean than Jona-
than he will shake all tho Aeeh off of his
bones
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National Union Republican COnven-
tiOn.


WASHINGTON, December The Union
Republican Executive Committee, at its
evening session, adopted the following call
The undersigned, constituting the Ma
tional Committee designated by the Conven-
ton held in Baltimore on the 7th of June,
1864, do appoint that National Convention
of the Union Republican party be held at
the city of Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday,
the Goth day of May next, at y o clock NJ,
for the purpose of nominating candidates
for the Offices of President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States Each State of
the United States is authorized to be repre-
sented IN said Convention by the number Of
uelesNtes equal to twice the number Of Sen
at0rs and Representatives to which such
state Is entitled in the National Congress.
We invite the cooperation of all citizens
VINO reJoiee that our great civil war has hap
pIly termlnatAd in the discontinue of rebel
hon; who would hold fast the unity and in
tegrity of the republic, and maintain its mar
amount right to defend to It's utmost ;ts own
existence while imperilled by seorat consni-
racy or armed force; who are in favor af an
economical administration of the public eN
penditures, of the complete extirpation of
the principles and policy of slavery. and of
the speedy reorganization of those States
whose government were destroyed by the
rebellion, and the permanent restoration to
their proper practical relations with the
United States In accordance with the true
principles Of republican government.
MARCUS L. WARD,
Of New Jersey, Chairman.
JOHN u. DEFREEs, Of Indiana, Secretary.
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n,arl5Iyr

TNoR SALE.
IL We take pleasure in Offering to the public the
following tracts Of excellent land for sale at very
reasonable prices. Persons wishing TO buy will
do well TO consult us before purchasing, and those
having lands TO sell will fnd it to their advan-
tage to avail themselves Of our reasonable terms
No. |. Northwest fractional fourth Of the
Northwest one-fourtb of section 8, in township
SO, North Of range 4, Cedar county, Iowa
SO S7-l00 acres, Prairie land Price $3.50
No. IN. L. one-fourth 5, in township SIS.
range IS, in Monona county, Iowa. 100 acres
Prairie land Price 5000
No. S.-N. f. one-fourth Of the N W one
fourth section q, in township IS, North Of range
p, IL Pine county, Minnesota. 80 acres timber
land Price 5000.
No. (. A good farm, situate in Pleasant Valley,
Bedford township, FIVE miles from Bedford, now
in the occupancy of William Il. Nycum, contain
ing 100 acres, more or less, about sixty acres
cleared and under excellent fence, is acres of
bottom meadow, and the balance well timhered,
with a splendid double dwelling house, barn and
other out buildings. A well Of excellent water
near the door; also, good young orchard. This
is excellent opportunity TO procure good farm
Bedford convenient to churches and good
schools. Price $50 per acre.
DURBORRoW & LUTZ,
Real Estate Agents
Feb. l, 1867 Bedford, Pa.
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THERE is probably no other object on
which the copperhead party is so determin-
idly set, as public plunder. To be sure they
are continually crying stop thief for the
purpose Of warding of suspicion but at the
same time their whole attention is fixed up
on and all their energies exerted in the effort
to get control of the public revenues in or
to settle their greed for plunder. An exhi-
bition of their sincerity was made just be-
fore the holiday adjournment of Congress,
when effort was made to curtail certain
unnecessary expenses pertaining to the
perquisites of members of Congress, and
but two oopperheads could be found to vote
in favor of curtailment. Such is the sin
cerity of their professions. While clamoring
for retrenchment in order to make political
capital, they invariably vote solid or nearly
so against every movement looking toward
a curtailment of official prickings.
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Of every description at lowest prices will be found
al his store, including Foos-eap plain and ruled.
Ledger Cap, Letter Cap. Bill Paper, ColnmereiaI
Note, Ladies Note, ENVELOPES Of all kinds
and sizes, Plain and Fancy, Fine White Wove,
etc, etc. STEEL PENS, Pen Holders, States and
Slate Pencils Of al numbers Ink Stands Of the
most Beautiful and Convenient designs and
INKS Of the best quality az the lowest prices
Also a large assortment Of K Z r o ; y Z
NPS, Plain and Fancy Soaps. SMOKING
and CHEWING TOBACC0ES, Cigars, Pen knives.
PEEFUMEBY, etc. a speciality viii be made Of
the &c 7 L r + D EPA R TMENT -
Fiac Large Portraits Of Washington. Linc0la.
johnson and ether distinguished Americans. Fan
ey Pictures, stereascopes and StereoscoPic Views.
Picture Frames, &c, &c, viii be alwavs kent on
hand. Porte Monnaies, Pocket Books, hand
some Porte -Foiioes, etc. Yiolins, Aceorieons
aul other Musical Instruments, Checker Boards.
Chess-Men, etc.
Hoping to meet the patronage Of the public. he
has selected his stock with great care, and is
bound to sell cheap to all who win give him a
call JOHN KEEFFE.
Bedford, Dec. 18th, 1S67.-tf
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SENATOR SUMNER and his wife, it is stated
by the Home Journal, have finally agreed on
a permanent separation. The ground alleged
is ''the eertainty-discoyered only too late
that there exists between the two parties an
lneompahbilty Of temperament and opinion
on certain social questions, which precludes
the possibility of their living happily together
as man and wife,
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The Legislature Of Kentucky having pas
sed resolution instructing Senator Guthrie
eIther to proceed to the capital or resign. he
chartered an extra car and will undertake the
}faTurIney, notwithstanding his feeble condition.
LotL ne 10 said to be suffering from paralysis of
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Fancy the DIsmay.

Which isoaid preUa1 ia thousands ot """se-
holds II it should be suddenly announced
throughout the United States, canadas, the west
Indies and Spanish America that no more hoa-
TETTER's BITTERS would be maDuiaetu ured'
and that heneoforth tho GRAND SPECIFIC FOR
DYSPEPSIA, and preventive Of al nalarious dis
eases wopld be Losr TO THE WORLD The bilious
The feeble, the despondent; the traveller the Toy-
80, s ..Ar. the sedentary students the settler
an the frontier Of civilization; the toer, cooped
mn in crowded city tenemeuts; the eonvalescent,
needing an invigorant; the shivering victim Of
apue. and the nervous Of both sexes everywhere,
would learn, with grief too deep for words, that
the most celebrated corrective, inwgorant and al
teratiye Of the age, had been botted out Of exis
teaeo. ass PREPAR4ToRr ASTrDorE to epidemic
disease, genial stimulant, promoter Of eonsti-
tutional vigor, an appetizer, stomachic and
remedy for nervous debility, no medicinal pre-
paration has ever attained the reputation Of Hos
TETTER's BITTERs. II is the HOUSEHOLD
TONIC Of the AMERICAN PEOPLE-has been
50 for twenty years and in all human probability
viii be SO for centuries to come. The nagnates Of
Science recognize its merits; and that it is en-
phaticoally the medicine of the masses is proved
BY its vast and ever increasing sales. 1mo.
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= IHE friends of Stanton declare that the
Senate Committee will report 10 ss,a .1"' In ie
and that there viii not be ReppbTcon vote
against his reinstatement. II is further as.
serted that General Grant will then RESIGN
Immediately, his pro tempore place assuming
taat the law iorbids him from pursuing any
other course. '
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VALUABLE TRACTS OF
L A Nd FOR SALE.
July l9tf

The subscribers offer at private sale ,b, r,,,,.
ing valuable tracts Of land. viz:
No. l. The undivided half Of a tract Of mi
containing 227 acres, situate on the sous4.s
side Of the Broad Top Mountai., lying par7 d
Bedford and partly in Fulton county, and d.
joining lands of Samuel Danner James B-..
hurst and wishart's heirs. TWO VEINS sF
COAL, one 81 feet, the other 81 feet IN depth ls.
been discovered on this tract.
No,2. A tract of2so acres near the above, d.
joining the same lands, and supposed to contain
the same veins Of coal.
No. 2. A tract of 4oo acres, within two and.
half miles Of the above tracts, lying on the ya,4
side of the Hsrbor across the mountain, well tn.
bered with oak and pine.
May 3,-tf. DURBORROW &LUTL