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


GRANT GATHERING.-J0hn Cessna
on the Rampage. admirers of mo
Policy" held confab in the court
house on last Saturday evening. NO
. doubt the local scribbler for the IN
ouirer whose weekly dissertations of
s home affairs are models of Uerdciy,
will treat his readers to a glowing de-
scriptfon of the "mon5ter" gathering.
1t was a monster - Another such
would crush us. It beats the great
s'sea serpent,n and if we are compelled
to witness one more like it, we can't
possibly survive, and some one else
will have to write locals for the GA
ZETTE. John Cessna's shrill, steam
whistle voice is yet beating on cur
ear-drums. "Oh! for a lodge" DC.
But to relate The first speaker treat
ed his hearers to a strong cup Of Hor-
ace Greeley's Pennsylvania Coffee"
which, owing to the suspicion that it
was not made OF pure Java, was not
relished by them. Not being Shugart
and without a particle of cream, it was
insipid. and unpalatable. 1t was poor
Coffey to say the most of it. This bitter
cup was followed by a short eXh0rta-
ton by Mcfarland After these sew
eral dishes had been served up, then
came the desert. This was handed, or
rather thrown, around by the ubiqui-
tOus Johnny, the man Of great political
acrobaticnotorit Hewentin "heayy"
and sIashed about like Taurus in a
Chinaman's porcelain establishment.
He trampled everything to pieces be-
fore him and kicked at everything be-
hind. John isa demolisher, and can
s1uelch more soldiers who want office,
than any other man in this Congress
sional district. His abuse and slander
OF the Democratic party, which he left
some time ago for the party's good,
8 will not procure many votes for him
for Congress from that quarter. Curses,
like chickens, will come home TO roOst,
and ere long Cessna will learn that the
public denunciatiOn Of men, who have
made him what he is, will recoil on
him with damaging effect. The great
public heart is not callous and devoid
of principle like his own, and the SOON
er he is taught this, the sooner will the
race Of demagogues like he be run out.
DIDN'T SPEAK.-COl. Francis Jor-
q dan was announced to speak at the Rad
ical meeting on Saturday evening and
was in town on that day, but for some
reason or other did not do so. Mr.. Jor-
dan madea speech in Harrisburg a short
time ago, i'll which he declared une-
quivOcally in favor of negro Suffrage.
{ Was John Cessna afraid to have anOth-
er denunciation Of the ''pOOr white
trash, the ''cOwardly mud-siIls" of the
North, who are afraid to give the ne
gro the ballot, as Tom Marshall eX-
pressed it? DIR. Marshall's dose of
manhood" pills are not thoroughly di-
gcsted yet, and another dose from Jor-
dan might have lain too heavily on
the Radical stomachs. This may ac-
count for the milk in the cocOanut.
THE first speaker was no less Il
character than the notorious rebel Gen
: eFaI Thomas NIcKaig Of Cumberland" 5"
. Inquirer.
That is too near home for your read
ers 10 believe such a canurd. Mckaig
never was in the rebel service. 1t is
as big a falshood as the fellow uttered
the other day when he insisted that
Lutz had been a brave soldier and had
an honorable discharge from the Union
army. Lutz never was in the service,
but managed to "cra1C.fsh2 out. 4
little limping, when drafts took place,
did the business. lord Lord how
this world is given to lyingw