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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-26
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONvEN.
TION.

The representatives Of the Democrats
of the several election districts of this
county, assembled at the Court House,
in this place, on Monday last, and
transacted the business entrusted to
them with fidelity to their constituents
and in perfect harmony. The nomi-
nations for county officers are excel
lent, and will be endorsed at the polls
by an overwhelming majority. The
choice of the Convention for Addition
al Law Judge and Member of the Leg
islature, fell upon worthy gentlemen,
who. if nominated and elected, will
fill those offices with credit to
themselves and honor to those by
whose suffrages they will be chosen.
AS to the choice of the Convention for
Congress, our mOdesty forbids us to
sneak. We return our thanks for the
unsolicited honor conferred upon us,
and especially will we always hold in
kindly remembrance the friends who
thought it well to propose and urge
our nomination. Whatever betide,
we shall do "our level best" for the
ticket, believing most sincerely that
the success of the Democracy in the
coming contest, is of far greater impor-
tance than the advancement of any
individual And now we call upon
the Democrats throughout the county
to organize. Form clubs and meet to-
rether i'm council. There never was a
more auspicious time than the present,
for successful work on the part of the
Democracy. See that your voters are
properly registered. See that foreign
born citizens have their naturalization
papers. See that Democratic docu-
ments are distributed among the peo-
pie. Men of the Democracy. In this
life and death struggle between civil
liberty and military despOtism, will
YOU, can you, be lukeWarm, or idle?
Do YOU not see the strides the parry in
power is making, day by day, toward
centralized absOlutism? Do you not
perceive and understand the infamous
purpose of that party in placing the
ballot i'm the hands of 600,000 half saw
age negroes to be driven to the polls
at the point of the bayonet? Heredt-
ter, If Grant should be elected, the bal
dnce 0fpoUe,' IL the government, Is to be
in the hands Of The african! Will you
not strain every nerve, will you not
work day and night, will you not
swear by your altars and your fires, to
avert the awful danger that hangs
like thunder-cloud above your devot-
edcountry? Yes! we hear you answer,
Yes ace icW!
Forward, for the Right!
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NO POLICY

Useless Grant says, in his ''letter Of
acceptance" that he will have "no
policy" sc. He might as we'll have
said that when he becomes master Of
the Ship of State, the good old barque
will have neither rudder nor compass.
A pilot without chart, drifted about
by the shifting winds of popular Opin-
ion, now thrown upon the lee-shOre of
faction, now drawn into the whirlpool
of party, in constant peril from the
floating ice-berg5 Of the North, or the
fierce gales that blow from the South;
such, by his own confession, would be
U. S. Grant at the "helm Of State"
Think of it! A President without a
policy! Shades Of Jefferson and Jack
son, defend us from such an infiictiOn
Ye dead patriots, whose policies are
canonized in the hearts of the people,
look down from your celestial abode
and inspire the popular mind with a
true sense of the public danger in the
elevation of man to the Presidency,
who declares he will have "no policy"
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THE LADY's FRIEND, FOR july
The July number of this "Queen of
the Monthlies" opens with beautiful
engraving Of Abraham and Hagar.
Hagar and young IShmael are admir-
able-while Sarah's face is a study.
The double Fashion Plate of this num-
ber-and the variety of other Fashions
cannot fail to please the ladies. The
Music Is the "LittIe BRIDES Waltz"
the monthly piece Of choice music
is a great inducement to take this mag
azine. The literary matter this month
is excellent. The 'Lady's Friend' is
published by Deacon & Peterson, 319
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, at $3.50
year (which also includes a large steel
engravingJ. "The Lady's Friend" and
"The Saturday Evening Post" $4.OO.
Sample copies, 15 cents.
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REPUTATION.

A great deal is said about repudi-
ating the Federal debt. Some people
are very nervous upon this subject.
Did it ever occur to such people that
600, 900 blacks will vote for members
of Congress, at the next election?- ?
And are those who profess to be in so
great trepidation about the safety of
the "nation's honor" such numb
skulls, that they cannot see that these
6O0,OO0 blacks have not single rusty
nickel at stake in this matter? Nay,
is it not their interest to favor repudi-
alton, in order to relieve themselves
of taxes which they already complain
of as oppressive? If there be danger
of reputation in any quarter, it is in
the Negro rOte. Look out, ye would
be saViOrs Of the nations honor; the
''natiOn's wards are becoming res
tive, and when the Hon. Sam. GumbO
and the Hon. jim Bones get to Con-
gress, there will be a quaking among
the bond-hOlders. The hOe-holders are
coming. 'Rah for Col. and GrantfaX !!
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ricanized states! The Negro who
votes for Grant for President, in Ala
bama, kills the vote of the white man
in Pennsylvania who votes for Grants
opponent. Thus does Negro Suffrage
affect Pennsylvania. The old Key
stone may declare by her G0O,000 white
votes that this or that candidate shall
be the next President; but the 600, 600
blacks of the South, can say: No! not
your choice, but ours, shall be the Oc-
cupant of the Presidential chair. The
balance of power, is, truly, in the
hands of the enfranchised blacks. 1t
was placed there by the present infa-
nous Radical Congress and it is to be
kept there by Gen. Grant, if the people,
by electing him, endorse the Chicago
Platform. This is "the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the
TRUTH
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On the 9th inst, the Montgomery,
Ala, AdrertiSer contained the follow
ing:
1--WE are requested by the soldiers on
duty at this place to state that at the
nigger carpet-bag, and scalawag meet
ing, held at the capitol grounds on Sat
urday night, the soldiers gave three
grOans for Grant, three cheers for Me
Clcllan, and three cheers for andrew
Johnson. They were given by the
soldiers with hearty good will, and
rolled from the capitol to the Artesian
basin. We are also requested by these
soldiers to state that any assertion con-
trary to this is base falsehOOd. The
soldiers say they are white men, and
have no love for carpet-baggers and
scalaWags."
Colonel Shepard, commanding at
Montgomery, on the following day is
sued an order reprimanding the SOL
diers and the editor of the AdreTtiSer,
and saying, at is the duty of soldiers
to abstain from any expression of po-
litical opinions as to persons or par
ties"
Is it there where you are? In 1863
and ga it was quite cOmmendable for
the soldiers to express opinions on po-
litical subjects. Now, as the empire
advances, it is altogether wrong for the
soldier to give his political opinions,
unless they happen to be oil the Radi-
cal side. 1t is quite plain that the
troops on duty in the South have seen
enough of the practical workings OF
Radicalism to disgust them. Before
the campaign closes there will be more
than one demonstration like that at
Montgomery. Patriot.
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Grant Medals.

An exchange says: a gentleman
from Illinois informed Us the other
day that after the Chicago Convention
he inquired of one of the principal
dealers in Grant medals in Chicago
how those tokens were selling. "Well,
SIR" replied the dealer, himself Rad
ical, "either General Grant has no
friends or they are the - coldest set
of friends | ever saw. These medals
don't sell at all. Nobody wants them.
You can't give them away. | thought
| should be unable to supply the de-
mand, but as you see, | have nearly
the whole Of my stock on hand, and
the probabilities are that | shall con-
tinue to have them" Such is Grants
popularity. Has anybody seen Grant
medal, or heard spontaneous cheer
given for him? We pause for reply.
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hear a member OF any society as wit
ness, to let them sit as jurors when
they, with true Yankee arrogance and
bOastfulness, forbade their obsequiOus
tools to deal with merchant, or me-
chanic, who would not join their unholy
crusade. Yes they even went so far
as to denounce those who in death and
sickness practiced the usual neighbor-
ly acts and offices toward those with
whom they had been intimate, but
who honestly doubted the wisdom of
their acts and refused to join them.
The intolerance of the party who
worshipped Abraham Lincoln and
tried to force tn neighbors to do so,
is not without p cedent. In the Ian
guage of the L "that reminds me
ola little story. L tell it because you
know all the parties and because it
bears its own moral.
Rev. is ia leading member of the
Pittsburg Conference, a man of fine
presence, of fair talents and engaging
manner, and it is not at all surprising
that in a short time he became one of
the marked men in the Methodist f..
denomination. Unfortunately for him,
like too many o. the brethren, he be-
came a worshipper of the New England
Baal, and came to regard hatred of the
South as an evidence of Goodness. He
preached the new Gospel, in common
with his brethren, with general accep-
tance. When Lincoln was assassina-
ted, he preached MIN right into Heav-
en-, held him up to his flock as bright
and shining light-thOugh he knew
him to be a scoffer and unbeliever.
On one Of his rounds as Presiding
Elder, he came to the romantic and Sc
questered little village of Somerset, to
hold meeting. The only marked e.
vent was the absence of one who filled
prominent place in the Amen Corner,
usually, as well as in the business COM
munity. Meeting the brother the day
after the meeting, he accosted him in
an affectionately rebuking or IA rebuk-
ingly affec ionate manner" Brother
X! Bro. X! was very sorry to see
you were not at Church yesterday.
How does that cOme?'
"Well, | don't think pll go to church
anymore. guess there's no use in il. D."
"Why, Bro. X, | am very sorry to
hear you talk in that way. What put
such notions in your head"
"Well, you see Bro, last Sunday,
preached that Abraham Lincoln, an
unbeliever and disobeyer of the plain
est commands of scripture, had gone
straight to Paradise. If such as he can
go to Heaven from a theatre, there is
no fear for the rest of us, and we needn't
trouble ourselves about going to meet
ing"
Phancy the Phelinks of Rev.
ADDISON, Pa, June IS, 1868.
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The MhnIesnIe Cheal.

In seven out of the thirty-one dis
tricts in South Corolina which were
said to have given ten thousand ma
jority for the bogus constitution, the
Democratic gain at the late county elec-
tions foots up fourteen thousand.
This singular change has excited much
commentaries variously ascribed to the
ability of whites to control the negro
vote, growth of black conservatism,
and so forth and SO on, all Of which, in
our poor opinion, is SO much bosh.
The secret is that at these county elec-
tiOns Congress had nothing particular
at stake, and the returns were not,
therefore, manipulated to suit. With
carpet bag candidates to act as judges
of election, and servile tools at head
quarters, who would report that two
and two made a hundred if so ordered
from Washington, the very thought of
an election in any of the Southern
States is a farce, and it is our firm be-
lief, for which we have good reason,
there has not been from the beginning
to the end of this reconstruction buSi-
ness one single fair coudt of the ballots.
N. y. Herald.
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A GENERAL COUNCIL of the CathO-
lie Church throughout the world is au-
thOritatively announced to take place at
Rome during the next ensuing winter.
This council, it is stated, will be delib-
erative in its character, and will be the
first General Council Of the Catholic
Church that has been held since the IA
NOUS Council of Trent. The object of
this Grand Council is said to be political
rather than religious. Cardinal Man
ming, in England, asserts that the
Church is to take ground, once for all,
against the infdel and revolutionary
tendencies of the times, and interpose
as bulwark against anarchy and the
dissolution of society.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-26

A ''LOiI, Delegate: He is Recognized
by wisconsin Soldier as Rebel
Guerrilla.
The Stevens Point Pinery relates the
following interesting personal incident
that occurred during the sitting of the
Chicago Convention:
Among the "loiP' delegates to the
late Chicago Convention was a red hot
one from Arkansas, between whom
and Hon. James S. Young, of this city,
recognition took place, as surprising
on one side as it was disagreeable on
the other. Mr.. Young saw and recOQ- :
niZed the ardent "loil' delegate as a
former notable guerilla bushwacker,
whom Mr.. Young had assisted in cap
turing in Arkansas during the war.
The following conversation took place
between them:
Mr.. YOung-You are from Arkansas
| believe.
Delegate (pompously)-Yes, sir, |
am one of the loyal delegates to the
National Republican Convention.
Young-YeS, thought | knew you.
/ saw you during the war.
Delegate alarmed )-Where ?
Young-When l was in the Union
army you were rebel prisoner of war
/ helped to take you.
The hypocritical advocate of "loi''
negro equality stood dumb with
amazement for a moment, and then
broke through the crowd like quar-
ter horse for refuge among his Radical
cOntrereS where the test of loyalty is
lip service and negro equality.
Could a more striking case be pre-
sented? Young passed through long
and honorable service in the Union
army, and is called cOpperhead be-
cause he votes against military rule
and niger su ffrage. While this rebel
bushwacker, who fought us, and now
for the sake Office and spoils, joins the
Radicals and shouts for negro equality
is called not only loyal, but is a dele
gate to the Radical Convention.
TifP Ia humbug
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THE BALANCE OF POWER.

The Chicago Platform, endorsed by
Gen. Grant, declares that Negro Stuff
race must be maintained i'm the South
ern States, and upon this doctrine the
Radicals ask the people to support
Grant for President. Now the States
which have been reconstructed" upon
the Congressional plan, contain up
wards of 100000 Negro voters, more
than enough to giUe the batance Of poorer
in the q0uernnelH, to these unlettered
and semi-barbarOus Africans.
Mr.. Green Goslin, who was born a
Republican" and therefore, thinks
it his duty to vote the Radical ticket,
even though he knows that ticket to
be pledged to the enforcement of Negro
Suffrage upon the South, says, "Oh
1 am opposed to Negro voting, but it
doesn't matter so long a. they vote on
ly in the South
The silly goose! As il the voters
Of Pennsylvania and those of the rest OF
the States, did not all vote together on
the first Tuesday in November, for
President of the United States, and as
fthe COO, 900 Negro votes did not count
as many on that day, as if they were
cast in Pennsylvania, instead of Lou
isana. Alabama and the rest of the AT
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-26

The new'bridge over the Susque-
hanna at Columbia, Pa, is 5,549 feet
long and 20 feet wide, with a railroad
track in the centre.
Chicago has accommodations in
her public schools for 1900 scholars,
and in her private schools for II, 900.
Nearly a hundred acres of willows
are cultivated in Wyoming county, n.
Y. When ready for market they bring
from $l70 to 5000 per acre.
Steamships arriving at New York
this week from Europe report having
passed large numbers of icebergs.
The New Orleans board Of health
report that city perfectly healthy,
there not being a single case Of yellow
fever or cholera.
"A nugget of gold and quartz,
worth twenty thousand dollars, has
been found at Remington Hill, Nevada
county, California.
EXCURSION parties go from San
Francisco to see the great eruption in
the Sandwich Islands.
"A young woman in Indiana has
been arrested for horse stealing.
"A VirginiaA has sold ten acres of
strawberries for 10000.
-38, 900 citizens of Arkansas lost
their lives in the rebellion.
Lightly thousand youths attend
public schools in Philadelphia.
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Phancy the Phelinks of Rev.
ADDISON, Pa, June IS, 1868.
Radicals Who support General Grant.

Radicals Who support General Grant.
TiItOn-He has called Grant a drunk
ard.
Phillips-He has called Grant a
drunkard as "brainless as his saddle"
Sumner-He says Grant is not an
"irreversible guarantee" and "made a
White-Washing report to fOrtify An
drew johnson.
Chase-"Grant is a man of vile
habits and of one idea"
Anna DickinsOn-'I am going to
England to get out of advocating this
bungler."
Mrs. StantOn-"Grant says nothing,
and knows less than nothing"
Wilson-'I will never, SO help me
God, support any but temperance men
for office"
Greeley -"The Presidency requires Il
man of ideas and statesman"
COlfaX-'I declare in advance no
doubtful person shall have my ballot
for President"
Kelley-"I will die in my tracks be-
fore | will subscribe to this white
washing report of this man Grant
who has joined his testimony, and will
join his fate to that public enemy,
"a. JOHNSON.)
Old Thad.-"Never ask me to sup
port a twaddler and trimmer for Of
flee.
Geary-"Drunkards, like pirates, are
public enemies"
Frelinghuysen.-"The nation owes
to its self respect to tolerate imbecility
in politics no longer"
Wade-"Grant knows nothing of
politics. He can talk nothing
but horse"
Yates-"I own | have been drunk
ard will be one no long
er, nor will | longer cast
nv Lot with such men.N
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DEMOREsT's YOUNG AAGERICA.-Of
all the juvenile periodicals, DEMoR-
EsT's YOUNG AMERICA is the only one
that has really made a distinctive
name and place. Its pictures, its
games, its puzzles, render it univer-
sally popular among the little ones,
while its varied and instructive char
acter equally recOmends it to the
attention of parents and teachers. The
series Of French lessons, or the music,
which is a feature, are alone worth
several times the cost of the book.
$1.50 yearly. w. JENNINGS DEMOR-
EST, 473 Broadway, n. y.
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WE find the following announce

WE find the following announce
ments in the New York World of Satur-
day:
1--WE are requested to state for the
information of persons desiring tickets
of admission to the Democratic Nation
al Convention, that applications
should not be made to the hartman
of the Democratic National Committee,
but to the delegates. The tickets have
not yet been prepared; but when ready,
they will be distributed to delegates
from the several States to be bestowed
by them on persons of their acquain-
tance-a method which will give fair
proportion to members of the party
from distant parts of the country. Any
other mode of distribution WOuld be
likely to fill the hall with citizens of
New York to the exclusion of persons
having equal claims.
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THE Inquirer calls the attention of
the Democracy to the fact that Bonner
is training Dexter for a run, and ad-
vises the 4th of July convention to
"trot out" that famous animal. If
Dexter were run against Grant, the
latter would have a sensible animal to
"talk horse" to, much more so than
the mule in whose ears he whispered
as he rode him around the circus ring.
"Trot out' Hiram, the mule and the
monkey, and We'll bring out an "un-
known" that will "distance" the whole
party. We have "slate farm" to
wager on that.
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MCCLELLAN AND HANCOCK.-Gen.
Mcclellan has written letter from
Europe to General Hancock, stating
that he will arrive in this country in
August next, and that he will not let
his naIce he used in connection with
the presidency. He cordially endorses
General H., or any other good man
who may be elected at the July con-
vention in opposition to the radical
nominations, and will take the stump
in their hehalf.- Wash. Erpress.
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GEN. GRANT has already kicked the
economy plank Of the Chicago platform
overheard, by writing letter to the
House Committee on Military Affairs
recommending renewal of the in
crease Of thirty-three and one-third per
cent. in the pay of army officers. The
law allowing this increase expires June
Both. A One-third increase OF eXpen-
ses is pretty good commencement in
the way of ''retrenchment' ard "econ-
omy''-as understood and practiced by
Radicals.
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Campaign Gazette !!
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT,
Civil Liberty and Constitu-
tiOnal Rights!
NO STANDING ARMY!
No FREEDMEN's BUREAU!
NO NEGRO STATES!
White Men Must Rule America !
NO STANDING ARMY!

Light, more light" is the start
ling cry of the honest people cropping
in the darkness of Radicalism. 'Tight.
more light !" shouts the groaning tax
payer, bending under the load which
Radical Congress has heaped upon
him. "Light, more light" is the
pleading cry that comes to us from
those who earnestly seek remedy for
the disease that is tugging at the vi
tails of the nation. look and we shall
see Read and ye shall know! The
BEDFORD GAZETTE, for the Presi-
dental Campaign, will be IA complete
compendium political news, speeches,
documents and every thing that per-
tains to political canvass in the col
umns of a weekly newspaper. 1t will
be published from the first day of June
until the seventh of November, next,
at the following low terms, cash in adj
vance:
One copy, s 10
Ten copies, 600
Twenty copies, 11.G0
Fifty copies, 25.00
Not only should every Democrat
have his county newspaper, during the
coming campaign, but he should like
wise make it a point to furnish his Re-
publican neighbor copy. This is
the plan upon which our opponents
have acted for years, and it is about
time that Democrats do something Of
the same sort. NOW, GO TO WORK
and put yO,0' Democratic newspaper into
the hands Of eue1y Republican achO a0W
read. If you will do this you will
accomplish more good in six months
than you will by any other means in
six years. Democratic politicians,
throughout the county, are enabled, by
the above low terms, to circulate Dem
ocratic newspapers at very small
cost. We appeal to them to see TO get
ting up clubs, and to see to it in time.
No,0 is the time to SOW the seed. Af-
ter little while the heat of passion
and prejudice will beam upon the pub
lie mind in all its intense fierceness,
and then seed-time will have passed.
Friends, let US hear from you!
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"Do not your juries give their YER
dict' in favor of "Barrett's Vegetable
Hair Restorative ," 1t is the univer-
sal verdict of mankind that it is the
best in the market; let all who are be-
coming prematurely old-looking and
bald begin at once the use of this never
failing article. Portland Transcript.
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Ben. Butler is to be appointed a
special committee whose duty it shall
be to strew Stanton's political grave
with flowers. This is the more apprO-
pirate because Butler sought Stanton's
place before Mr.. Lincoln had been dead
tMentY-fOur hours.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-26

SWEET ALIssUM is a pretty little
garden flower; but if you want a Whit
of street elysiltna, you will find the near
est approach to it in the heavenly
odor of PHALoN's new perfume,
"FLOR DE MAYO" Sold by all
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