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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09

A WORKING MANS OPINION
While the Radicals of Detroit were
firing a salute in ratification of the
nomination of General Grant, work
ingman was heard to exclaim:
''Fire your guns you can't fool me
any longer. voted your ticket until
it takes three dollars to buy what |
used to get for seventy-fve cents; and
now it is about time for a change"
There are thousands of workingm en-
in every State who feel just so. They
have voted the Radical ticket for the
last time. They want "a change" }"
and they are bound to have it. No
amount of claptrap about Grants mill
tary record can bind them to the fact
that he is the mean dumb tool of the
most desperate men in the Radical
party. The workingmen won't touch
him.-DigeSt.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09

How CAN we trust the Radicals with
a longer lease of power? They have in
creased the debt, since Isl August, 1868,
to 10Th September, 1868, one month
and nineteen days, FOURTEEN MIL
LION EIGHT HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND,
FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY-TWO
CENTS. How can you trust party
that run up a debt as rapidly as this.
How long would it take at this rate to
bankrupt the nation, and make repudi-
alton a necessity?
Recollect we own now nearly fourth
of the valuation of all the taxable prop
erty in the United States.
Think of this, farmers. bondholders
and workingmen of theeountry. How
long can we stand such an increase of
debt
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM.

Seymour and the regulation of the
suffrage by the people. of the States
Grant and Congressional enforcement
of negro suffrage. Which will you
have?
Seymour and the abolition of the In
ternal Revenue swindle; Grant and
WashbIrne's swarms Of officeholders.
Seymour and civil liberty Grant and
despOtism.
Seymour and restoration Grant and
destruction.
Seymour and white supremacy +;
Grant and negro domination in ten
States of the Union.
Seymour and economy; Grant and
Washburne's hands in the Treasury.
Seymour and the abolition of the
Freedmen's bureau; Grant and the
maintenance of four millions of blacks
at the expense of the North.
Make your choice!
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09

Though the bonds provide for the
payment of the principal in lawful
money, which greenbacks are declared
to be by JdcOdia lalc, the Jacobin Con-
gressional majority has attempted, at
the legislation and in the interests of
the b0ndhoders to perpetrate a mon
strous fraud upon the people, and rob
them of six hundred millions of dollars
more than the present amount of the
debt, by taking up the outstanding le-
gal tender bonds, and issuing in lieu
of them bonds expressly payable in
gold, which it would take six hundred
millions more of legal tenders to pay
than to pay the bonds as they now
stand.
No1o strike the balance betgeea money
and life!
What is paid for the poor mans life,
which he was obliged, by the FEEDER
al conscription, to sacrifice in the war =?
Look around among the widows and
orphans of those whose lives were thus
inundated upon the alter of abolition
fanaticism, and, in their destitute and
suffering condition, behold the eviden-
ces of liberality and justice of the Gov
ernment towards those from whom it
tore their bread and providers.
How does it treat the bondholders
1t pays him twelve to fifteen per
cent. interest on the money which he
condeScended TO lend, during the time
the loan remains outstanding, and
when it shall come to pay the princi-
pal Of the loan, the Jacobin party in
sists that it shall pay him two dollars
in gold for every dollar that he origi-
nally lent.
But more than this.
The bondholder is exempted from
taxation on his bonds, and the soldier
who came out of the war alive, and the
widow and children of those who were
slain, in common with all others of the
working classes to which they belong,
are taxed to pay these bonds, and al
most the entire burden of taxation for
the payment of the bonds falls upon
them.
Then II comes TO this!
The WOrkingmen gave their lives!
The w0rkingmen pay the taxes
The Workingmen pay the bonds
The bondhClder gave nothing!
The bondholders pay no taxes!
The bondholders pay nothing!
The soldier who received his pay
and bounty, had to take them in green
backs lent by the bondholder upon the
bonds which he now claims shall be
paid in gold. The Jacobins would now
tax this same soldier, and make him
pay back what he thus received for his
services.
.SlU lc0rSe!
They would make him pay it in
gold, to be handed over to the bond
holder forthe greenbacksh he loanedto the
government to pay this soldier for risk
ing his health, his limbs, his life.
Thus the pittance which the govern
ment paid the soldier is taken back
from him in taxes-aye, double the
amount--to pay the bondholder twice
the sum he lent.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
HooFLAND's GERMAN TONIC

is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit
ters, with PURE Santa Cruz Rum Grange, etc. Tt
is used for the diseases the Bitters, in
where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required.
You will bear in mind that these remedies en-
tirely different from any others advertised for the
cure Of the diseases named, these being scientific
preparations Of medicinal extracts while the 9TH
ers are mere decoctiOns 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
its tegiving, exhilarating, and medicinal quail
ties have caused it to be known the greatest Of
all tonics.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
6lrftion Proclamation.

his duty, shah block up or attempt to block up
the window or avenue to any window where the
same NAV be holden or shall riotously disturb the
And the Judges Of the respective districts afore-
said are required TO meet at Bedford, on the Fri
day next following the holding Of said election,
then and there to perform those things required
of them By law
Given under my hand, at my Office in Bedford,
this Ist day Of Sept, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and
in the ninety third Of the Independence Of the
United States
ROBERT STECKMAN, Sheriff.
Sheriff. Office Bedford,
Sept 4 1868
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09

Ifa negro thief happens to be caught
in Southern hen-roost, and is pun
ished, or threatened, or even required
to evacuate the premises without the
desiderated chickens on his shoulder,
all the white and black Radicals cry
aloud "Insurrection and revolution are
threatened Forty thousand Ku-
Kluxes are upon us j! Universal mas
sacre is imminent Call out the mill
tia and the whole regular army OF the
country! Sound all the trumpetS ana
beat all the drums in the land, and
make all other possible noises"
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
DEBILITY

There is no medicine equal to Hoohand's Ger
Fh5y Pe mSsi or Tonic Sas '5 PSS @B6s
system, strengthen Il the appetite, cause an
enjoyment of the food enable the stomach to di-
gest it, purify the blood, give good, sound,
healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge
from the eye, impart a bloom to the checks, and
change the patient from a short-breathed, enact
ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a ful-faced,
stout and vigorous person.
Weak and Delicate Children are
made strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In
fact, they Family Medicines. They can be
administered with perfect safety to child three
months old, the most delicate female, or a man of
ninety
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09

A Radical editor, referring to the ac-
counts of the punishment of Meade's
prisoners by the "Sweat-bOX," asks
what a sweat-box is. He will know
before long. We shall put the whole
Radical party in onein f'ovember, and
keep it sweating ill not drop of fluid
is left in its body, and its bones rattle
with every motion it makes.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09

TEN thousand dollars were squander-
ed by the Radicals on the impeach-
ment trial-a movement intended to
put despotic power in the hands of
such men as Butler, Ashley, and their
associates. This is the way taxes are
increased.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09

NUIs s4u8Te 20 UIUuPy VIS ElVI V1 spH05
JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with
neatness and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has
just been reftted with Power Press and new type,
and everything in the Printing line can be exeeu-
ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest
rates.-TERMS CASH.
Lg@ All letters should be addressd to
MEYERS & MENGEL,
Publishers.
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TERMS OF PUBLICATION.

TAG BEDFoRD GAZETTE is published every Fri
day morning by MEYERS MESeEL, at 81 90 per
annum, if paid strictly an aavance 81. so if paid
within six months; $500 if not paid within six
months. All subscription accounts MUST be
settled annually. No paper viii be sent out of
the State unless paid for IL ADVANCE, and all such
inscriptions will invariably be discontinued at
the expiration of the time for which they are
aid.
All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term than
three months TEN CENTS per line for each in
sertion. Special notices one-hslf additional All
resolutions Of Associations; communications of
limited or individual interest, and notices of
riages and deaths exceeding FIVE lines ten cents
per line Editorial notices fifteen cents per line.
All legal Notices Of eUery kad and OrphG,ss'
Court and Judicial Sales, are required 5y la,c
be Published IN both papers pa5iisAed "a this
place.
E-sgs All advertising due after first insertion.
liberal discount is made to persons advertising
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
FROM REV. JOSEPH H. 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 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 from
my usual course, to express my full conviction
that for general debility of the system, and es
PoGSay 1sydo for Liver Gom a ad it Is sss
il may fail but usual L ' ly, l doubt not, it
will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the
above causes. Yours, very respectfully,
J. ii. KENNARD,
Eigth, below Coates Street.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
Blood Purifiers

ever known and will cure all diseases resulting
from bad blosd. Keep your blood pure; keep
your Liver in order, keep your digestive
organs in sound, healthy condition by
the use Of these rene II dies, and no diseases
will ever assaiI you. The best men in the country
recommend them. IF years of honest reputation
go for anything you must try these preparations
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
H0oFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS

is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. 1t
is compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots,
Herbs, and Barks from which these extracts are
made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi-
einal virtueus are ex - t=acted from them by
a scientific Chemist. These extracts are
then forwarded to this ~ country to be used ex-
pressly for the manufacture Of these Bitters.
THERE'S no alcoholic substance of any kind used
in compounding the Bitters hence it is the only
Bitters that can be used in cBses where alcoholic
stimulants are not advisable.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
EO. W. WOODWARD.
FROM HON. JAMES Thompson.

Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
PHLADELPHIA, April %, 1866.
I consider "Hoofand' German Bitters'' a valua-
BILE medicine in case of attacks of Tndiges-
my experience of it. N Yours, with respect,
JAMES THOMPSON.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
FROM HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD,

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of PennsyIya-
MIA
PHILADELPHIA March IG, 1867
1 find that ''Hoofaud's German Bitters" is not
an intoxicating beverage, bat is good tonic use
full in disorders of the digestive organs, and Of
great benefit in cases of debility and want Of ner
vous action in the system.
Yours Truly,
GEO Vn0DW
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09


Price of the Bitters, 81 per bottle !;
Or, a half dozen for s..
Price of the Tonic, 81 30 per bottle !;
Or, half dozen for 81 30.
The tonic is put up in quart bottles.
Recoleet that it is DR.. Hollands German
Remedies that SO universally used and so
fSay basys o do Sas 4S ass h
else that he may say1Jis just as good. be-,
cause he makes larger profit omit. Those Rene
dies viii be sent by express to any locality upon
application to the
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
AT the German Medicine Store.
No. 63l ARCH STR EET, Ph.ladelphia.
CHAS. M. EVANS,
PROPRIETOR.
Formerly C. NJ. JACKSON 4 Co.
These Remedies for sale by Druggists, Store
keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-09
CAUTION.

Hooaand's German Remedies are counterfeited
The Genuine have the signature of G. NJ. JACK
son on the front Of the outside wrapper of each
bottle, and the name Of the article blown in each
bottle. All others are counterfeit.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-26

The LOYAL LEAGUE. rumor is
current on the streets this morning,
that Wimbush (colored Senator) has
written to the officers of the Union
League, advising them to disband,
and that at meeting held last night,
the organization was dissolved. We
place but little faith in the rumor,
though as it is barely possible that
some glimmering of good sense may
have at last entered their benighted
pates, we give currency to the report,
and hope that it may be true.
These secret, midnight oath
bound organizations, are as unneees-
sary as they are dangerous. They
are perpetual source of irritation,
and will necessarily give rise to
counter-o organizations, and thus en-
danger the public peace. So far as
they are merely political organiza-
tions, they are improper and dan
gerous, and incompatible with any
healthy political action in well-or-
dered State, rs they are subversive of
all individual independence. So far
as they are designed to be a quasi
military organization, they are un-
necessary, because the rights of the
colored people are secured and pro-
tected by the laws, and there is no.
disposition to molest them in the
exercise of those rights. There is no
reason, then, for their existence,
unless their design be to present
solid phalanx of opposition and
offence to the white people of the
country; and if this be really the OBJ
ject of their existence, then they had
better dissolve at once, for the whites
are prepared to resist any aggression;
and, if it is attempted, they will be
swept like Autumn leaves before the
wind.
1t may be that the leaders Of the
radical party have come to their
senses. We would be glad if it were
true, for it would be harbinger of
peace-but folly and treachery have
taught us to be cautious, and it is
not unnatural that we should suspect
them of hidden motives even wien
they appear to do right. ss,s ,
LYorkeiRe EaQui,er.
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fIghting the BATTLES Of both peace
and war. We have had many sigugfl

lighting the BATTLES Of both peace
and war. We have had many signgl
instances in history, that even 9 free
people may lose, their liberties by
suirendefipg themsel9es to the pas
sion for aggressive war and foreign
defamation Perhaps orr own shis.
tory is not destitute OF admonitory
lessons on this point, But civil liber-
ty is q plant of slow growth, which
must be nourished by other dews
than those Of bloody strife. and shell
tered, as for as may be, from the out
break of destructive elements, If it
would diattain a full and stable develop
ment. In England this has been !ac-
oomplished, in general, by peaceful
processes, and under the influence of
that progress of civilization which has
improved the physical comforts of all
classes, and softened and refined, in
stead of hardening and depressing,
the public mind and conscience, as is
almost the uniform result of war.
The Baltimore Sun intimates that
those, who, crave the excitement Of
beholding at o safe distance stirring
military events in Europe, may pos.
sibly be gratified, but is unable to
agree with those who anticipate from
them any advance in free principles,
or the general interests of humanity.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-26

Half dozen convicts made their
escape from the State Prison, at
Sing Sing, New York, on Sunday, by
seizing small sloop just as she was
approaching to discharge load of
busting powder, and securing the
two deck hands in the hold of the
vessel. While a portion of the party
put the sloop about, and headed her
for the opposite shore of the river,
the Others pinioned the guard and
held him in front Of them, thus
shielding themselves from, the fire OF
the guard on the wherf. They
reached the opposite shore and dis
appeared.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-26
is restoration ever to be effected, if
not by bringing back to. the Union

is restoration ever to be effected, if
not by bringing back to. the Union
the interests and affections which
have been alienated from it? S,ATid is
that done by, military, satraps. and
fFfeedmen's Bureaus, and nosnadic.
carpet -bagger each and ali stan ding
insults to the spirit and Intelligence
of "a brave people, or by the frank
ayo5al of q readiness to live together
again unde the equitable rule of. the
supreme law, as in the happy and
prosperouspast?
Reconstruction, being ,confessedly
fsoutside of the Constitution" after
the basis of the. proposed fourteenth
amendment was abandoned, by what
authority is it attempted to bring
the South under its changeable
terms? We went to war solely to
preserve the Constitution, and we can
establish permanent peace only as we
seek to perpetuate it. AS for COM
pelling the Southern States to accept
law to which they have never been
asked to yield their assent, it is an
outrage on every conception of
Union, an insult to the idea of
equality among the States, and an
assumption that will not stand the
test of Republicanism. But that is
what Reconstruction is, separate and
aside from the Constitution, and
every whisper Of disturbing it is de-
nounced as rebellious, threat of re-
volt, disloyal, and to be condemned
ut the polls. Where is the party that
can hope to stand before the Ameri-
can people on an issue between the
Constitution and measure like this
"outside of the Constitution" Can
there be any rebellion except against
that supreme law? Can any be dis
loyal bnt to that? Is there any dis
obedience before that which the peo-
pie will be prompt to condemn? Well
said the Chief Justice, that cit was
time that all good men combined to
put down the Jacobins, who seek the
ruin of our Government" When
they pnt their reconstruction laws
before the Constitution, sneering at
the latter, but declaring it to be i'm
pious to disturb the former, they
make an issue which is unmistakable;
and upon it they will get the last
verdict they will ever ask from the
American people.-Boston Post.
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COLUMBIA.
Saturday, Morning, Sept. q. 1853.

lA Eurofesl, War.

8ASEurOpeSn ~aTs Stf -
That afgreat deal Of the war talk
which forms the usual staple of for
eign correspondence is purely sensa-
tional, ought to bewell known by this
time by intelligent readers. The
correspondents of the English, as
well as American newspapers, at the
principal capitals of Europe, are
never lacking in their efforts for
effect, even ifis is hadat the expense
of accuracy. There seems to be.
however, at present, general uneasi-
ness in the most intelligent European
circles respecting the relations of
France and Prussia, which permitted.
may be followed by a general Euro
pean war. M. Guizot, the distin-
guished historian and statesman, in q
late essay on the state of Europe,
remarks that while he has no doubt
of the desire of Napoleon for peace, q
reduction of the army is the only
effective pledge of peace. This would
seem to be hitting the nail on the
head. 1t is the putting and keeping
the French army up to war point,
that renders the public distrustful of
the protestations of Napoleon thatihe
seeks only peace. A reduction OF, the
army would produce a conviction of
his sincerity that words never cam,
There are also rnmors Of negotiations
between Ftapce and Spain, looking
to IN alliance of the two countries,
the object of which, on the part of
France, is said to be to release its
army of occupation at Rome, thereby
rendering them more available for
active operations elsewhere, by the
substitution of $1,000 Spanish troops,
in consideration of which the EN-
peror would guarantee the Spanish
throne against domestic revolution
and foreign interference. Whether
such an alliance would not be likely
to alierate Italy, which is scarcely in
q mcod to submit to Spanish inter-
vention, and thereby diminish in
stead of strengthen the support which
it is desirable for France to obtain
outside her limits, is o matter which
the Emperor of the French is pro-
badly as capable Of intelligently con-
sidering, as those journalists who
have volunteered to give him their
advice on the subject. He has been
feeling his way hitherto with great
caution, and is represented to be
rather behind than ahead of the pub
lie sentiment of France in the dis
position to. decide by arms whether
that country is to be superseded by
Prussia in the military leadership Of
Europe. 1t is needless to say that a
general European war would be, for
the present, at least, great injury to
the industrial interests of Europe,
ana TO the interests OF commerce
generally. What might arise out OF
it, what alterations in the map of
Europe, what change in dynasties, or
in the forms Of Government, is a
matter Of speculation, which it is
difficult, with the lights of expert
ence, to reconcile with the hopes
which some seem to entertain, that
the social and political condition of
the masses of sooiety y will be improv-
ed and elevated by the ordeal. It
has not yet been the result that sud
den and sanguinary commissions in
Europe have permanently enhanced
the position and influence of the
"bone and muscle"sof nations, who
are looked to as the main reliance in
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-26

The monotony of the late long, and,
dull season has been broken, by the
arrival of o large lot of new. dry
goods at r. G. Shiver's, which, on
account of their beauty and cheap
ness, are drawing crowds of buyers. .
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-26

Three negroes have been arrested
and lodged in the Jail at Charlotte,
N. O., on the charge of burning the
residence of DIR. w. A. Presley, of
Steel Greek, several weeks ago.
Positive proof is said to be in the
possession Of Dr. Presley, of the
guilt of the parties.