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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

Unrivaled in neatness and dura-
-bility-The Boots, Shoes and Gait
ers, to be found at the popular es-
tablishment of BAILEY & RIDENoUR.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

E If you want Boots that are
Boots, call On JOHN DAGEs.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

~ Largest Stocks, Greatest Va
riety, Latest Styles, Best Quality,
Lowest Prices, at JOHN DAGEs'
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

The following ia regard to wharfage
regulations at Ironton may be of inter-
est to our city fathers. We copy from
the Register: e.,
The ordinance regulating the collee-
ton of Wharfage, in this city, was pass
ed September "a, 1866. 1t provides
that every steamboat which lands at
the wharf, shall pay so fee to the city
for each separate landing it makes. A
barge, tiatboat or canal boat, shall pay
81. Every thousand feet of lumber
drawn on the landing shall pay 194c,
and every thousand shingles Sc, aud
every raft of logs csc perlog. Boats
lying over must pay half the wharfage
fee, for each day they are at the wharf.
Regular packets from Ironton to Pom
eroy, Portsmouth and intermediate
points, may compound with the Coun-
ell by paying quarterly or semi annu-
ally, in advance, such sums as the
City Council may determine.
Under the provision of the ordinance
for compounding, the Crossley's wharf
age has been reduced to SO 90 per
week for six landings, and the Victor
No. 3, the same amount, for three land
ingS. These are the only packets with
which the Council has made special ar
rangements, and, in fact, the only
boats that make Ironton a terminus
All the other packets pay so 90 for
each landing, excepting the Victor No.
4, which pays 50 90 per day, making
two landings. The amount of wharf
age collectable every week from regu-
lar packets is S66 90. This gives the
city revenue of So, 800 year. The
amount is, of course, considerably in
creased by transient boats, barges,
RATS, &c.
P. S.--Since the above was written
the Council has amended the ordinance,
extending the provision for, compound
ing to short line packets making regu-
lar landings at Ironton.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05
ew Can't. A. M. HA1IIpxy.s of this

H Capt. A. NJ. HALLIDAY, of this
city, has his new boat nearly ready
for business. 1t is being finished at
Cincinnati, and is named the Jennie
Howell She is intended for the Red
River trade. The Gazette speaks of
her as follows: hss n ese raa
,Her. diniensiohs are ssiollows: Hall,
l46 feet long; beam, 35l feet; hold,
81 feet. Her wheel is 18 feet in di-
ameter, with Is buckets "a feet long.
She has three double-fued boilers 2s
feet long and 38 inches in diameter;
two engines of Al feet stroke, with i6
inch cylinders. Her cabin is about
l30 feet long, and has "a commodious
staterooms. Width of cabin 10 feet.
Space between decks IL feet. Ceiling
of cabin II feet high. She has texas
40 feet long and ? r. feet wide, contain
ing 10 rooms for officers and crew.
Pilot house Ike feet square. Pilots
wheel 9 feet in diameter. The Jennie
Howell, as she lays in the river to-day,
draws IA inches forward and Is inches
aft. When ready for business she will
draw 16 inches forward and 90 inches
aft. She will be able to carry 600
tuns freight, and can stow 1900 bales
cotton. As she is built for Red river,
her hull is very stanch. Floor timbers
81 by inches; bottom J inches for
ward and 81 aft. The entire boat was
built under the sup erintendence of Mr..
John P Shearer, of this city. The
hull was built at .Millersport, by Mr..
Shearer: machinery, boilers and CHM
neys, by C. T. Dumont, Cincinnati.
1t is the calculation of Capt. Halliday
to run the Jennie Howell to Pomerov,
if the river gets low, until fall, when he
will load her for New Orleans and Red
river. She is admirably adapted for
the Red river trade, and will ply as
regular packet between Shreveport
and New Orleans during the cotton
season.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

~ Is General Rosecrans a citizen
of Ohio? The Cincinnati Commercial
insists that be is citizen of California,
upon the evidence ofa citizen of the
Golden State. When win we hear from
the General on this, and many other,
vexed questions? We beseech him to
hurry home and unbosom himself for
our Democratic brethren are getting
uneasy.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

No appointments for this section of
the State have yet been announced by
the State Central Committee.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

An eclipse of the sun always be-
gins at sunrise, and ends at sunset;
i. e., at the point on the earth where
the shadow of the moon first touches
the earth, it is there sunrise; and
where the shadow leaves the earth,
it is there sunset. The moons shad-
ow seldom continues on the earth
more than five hours; and for any
given place, the eclipse can not last
so lone.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

E When our troops entered Chat
tanooga, the Protestant churches were
empty of their political rebel congrega-
tons and preachers.-Ohio Stdtesman.
The nomination of Rosecrans is
working wonders among our Demo-
cratic brethren. ~Rebel conersgatiols
and preachels@ is good. IS nes
quite SO charitable as "our erring
Southern brethren" Go on brothers;
you are doing well.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

F Lieutenant Governor Lee will
speak at Bryan, August "a; Ottokee,
August 95; Paulding, August %;
Wooster, September 81; Steubenville,
September 90; and Cambridge, Octo-
Der g. e....
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05
SOMETHING ELSE.

TheplanctJupiter has four moons,
and in year there are more than
eight hundred eclipses, counting all
kinds. The planet Uranus also has
four moons. Several eclipses hap
pen there within u few months, and
then follows an interval of more than
forty years, when there are no
eclinses at all
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05

T Ladies are invited to examine
the Bootees and Caters at DAGEs.'
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-05
A. f. LASLEY.
GaIlipoIis, Ohio.

May 81, ls69.-3m.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
sOLnIERs, CLAIMS.


The Radical party, ever since the
close of the war, have made the loudest
professions of friendship for ''the SOL
dier." They have fiattered him with
soft words and promises of Office, and
| with Satanic impudence they have
I tempted him with all the nagnificence
and glory of worldly possessions to
fall down and worship them. They
wanted the soldiers vote, and they
did not seruple to try all the tempter's
arts in order to accomplish their pur-
pose. But what is the upshot? Ex-
| cept when they needed soldier to car
ry them through q doubtful election,
/ as in the case OF Grant last year and in
that Of Geary in 1866, they have given
''the boys in bluen the cold shoulder.
Since the election of Grant, hundreds
of soldiers, many of them disabled for
life, have been discarded by them and
the places they asked given to mousing
politicians who never saw battle.
The soldiers were good fellows enough
when their votes were wanted, but
when they asked to be. remembered in
the distribution of the offices, they
were kicked aside like worn out
shoe.
The Bedford Inquirer, last week, in
an article recommending Capt, G. S.
Mullin for the Senatorial nomination,
used the following language:
''KEe claim to be the soldiers friends,
let soldiers claims be recognized and
great strength will be added to our
ticket, and we will at the same time
send man to the Senate of whom the
district will have cause to be proud"
But the soldiers claims were not
recognized" Stutzman, who spent
the years of the war in snug and Sc
cure retirement in the shades of Som
erset, who has already served four
years as Senator and grown fat on the
spoils of his party. was preferred to the
soldier candidate by the radical poll
ticians of the district. AS in the case
of the one-legged soldier, Capt. Stuck
ey, last year, the men who control Rad
ical nominations, kept the word of
promise to the ear to break it to the
hope, and Capt. Mullins "claims"
were overlooked.
Talk about Radical love for the sol
dier! Faugh! 1t almost makes ones
gorge rise at the disgusting pretence.
A few paltry dollars of politicians
money go farther with the men who
peddle out the offices in the Radical
party, than all the empty sleeves and
legless pantaloons that are worn in the
Union. Let them say no more, for
shame's sake, about their friendship
for the soldier
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02

OF those States, The radical leaders in
Congress, the radical Governor Geary
and the radical State Legislature, con-
spire together to deprive the people Of
Pennsylvania of all power over this
question of suffrage which, they have
solemnly declared sbelcngs to the peo-
pler' But as if to glory in their infa-
my, the radical politicians assembled in
State Convention in Philadelphia on
the 23d of June last, re-norninated
John w. Geary for Governor and
placed him ON platform containing
the following endorsement of his and
their attempted fraud:
ResolUed, That we wholly approve
the principles and policy of the admin
istration Of General Grant, and we
heartily endorse every sentiment con-
tanned in his inaugural address, and
especially do 3ce hereby ratify and dp-
pFoce the tate dBiejadbleqt 10 The t01isti-
tuition Of The United SittteS proposed 6g
Congress L7a0lca fts the Effteeifh ADaeJld-
naeRt. ~ a4
Such is the insult offered to the men
who were betrayed by the trainers of
the Chicago Platform. Deliberately
cheated by their leaders, they are now
asked to endorse. and sustain by their
votes the fraud perpetrated upon them.
JOHN w. GEARY and the RADI-
CAL NOMINEES FOR THE LEGIS-
LATURE are the representatives of
this Fifteenth Amendment swindle;
their broken pledges confront them like
accusing spirits; their efforts to stifie
the voice of the people rise up in judg-
ment against them, their very bold
ness in asking the people whom they
have deceived to sustain them, con-
demns them as lost to every sense of
deeeney or honor. LET US VOTE
DOWN THESE UNBLUsHING
PLEDGE-BREAKERS!
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
TrE STATE rAx uUmnuG.


The Bedford county organ of the
"pasters and folders" says that "a
democratic administration in Bed
''ford county has been levying and col
"Iecting a tax on land for two or
''three years after the tax upon real es-
''tate has been abolished all over the
Estate by a Republican administra-
ation." If the Inquirer did not take
its readers for pack Of fools it would
not dare to insult them with such a
statement. No State Tar ON real
estate has been levied or collected
for several years, but the state officials
at Harrisburg annually demand large
sums from the county, which they as
sess in spite of the repeal of the state
tax on real estate. In 1868, they de-
manded 3, ,7l6, IS and thisyear 50, ,504.90!
These sums are paid out of the county
tar which under the law is laid ON
real estate as well as on other proper
ty. Let any one who doubts this, go
to the Commissioners office and ascer-
tain the fact for himself. The truth
about this matter is, that the Radicals
in order to deceive the people, repeal
ed the direct tax on real estate, and
now use the money in the Sinking
Fund (which was created by a Demo
cratic administration for the extin-
guishment of the State Debt to pay
the expenses of the State Government,
and as those funds do not suffice,
they compel the several counties to
pay the deficit out of their own treas
uries. And this is the way they hum
bug the people. The State Govern
ment now costs double what it for
merly did; the state taxes annually
collected from the people amount to t,co
millions of dollars more than they did
under the last Democratic admins
tration the sinking Fund is robbed in
order to pay the expense of the Radical
officials at Harrisburg; and the county
commissioners of the several counties
without previous notice as to what a.
mount will be required of them, are
forced TO pay such sums, out of the
county funds, as those officials demand
of them. Verify it is high time that
the thieves and plunderers in the Off
ces at the State Capital be driven out of
power! Another three years of John
W. Geary will sink the Sinking Fund
and swamp the State.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
STUTZMAN AGAIN!

The Radical Senatorial Conference for
this district, met at the Washington
Hotel, in this place, on Thursday last,
and on Saturday night, Hon. Alex.
Stutzman, ofSomerset, was declared the
nominee. The conference had a stormy
as well as a lengthy session, and
when Fulton Joined hands with SOM
erset and nominated Stutzman, the
three Bedford conferees refused to en-
dorse the nomination and withdrew.
1t il charged that money was used to
influence the Fulton conferees. Not
being sin the ring" we cannot voueh
for the truth of this charge, but it is
made by some of the most reliable
men of the Radical party who were on
the ground and who watched the ma
neuvres of the wire-pullers. AS for
ourselves, we preferred the nomina-
ton of Mr.. StGtzman for two reasons:
First, he is not a strong candidate;
secondly, he has frequently voted a.
gainst his party in the Senate, and, if
reelected, viii DO so again under sim
liar circumstances. The candidates
before the conference were Capt. G.. s.
MulIin, of Bedford, J. B. Cessna, Esq,
of Fulton, and the nominee, Mr.. Stutz-
man.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02


When the democrats went out of
power in 1860, the State debt was S37,-
S49,12 y. Now it is $50, ,286, ,946 13; !;
or only about four and a half millions
of dollars less than in 1860. During
the last eight years t.centy-eight millions
Of dollars have flowed into the State
Treasury, which, under the Sinking
Fund act passed by the democratic leg
islature of 1858, ought to have been al
piled to the payment ofState debt. Be
sides this sum, which ought to have gone
intothe Sinking Fund, ,seUe,ateea millions
of taxes nave been gathered into the
Treasury, making the revenues of the
State during the last eight years, up
wards Of .fcrty,fre millions Of doilarsi
With this immense amount of treas
ure, radical management of the State
finances has. succeeded liz paying off
bat the trifiing sum of four and half
millions of the State Debt! What has
been done with the remaining forty
millions!
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
THE INTEREST ON THEsrATE DEBT

During the years of democratic rule
in Pennsylvania, says the Patriot, the
Commonwealth paid 4, a and per
cent. interest on its loans. These rates
were maintained until 1867, when, on
the recommendation Of Gov. Geary
and State Treasurer Kemble. a new
loan was negotiated to replace the old,
and this new loan was made at 6 per
cent. interest. Now, there was no
necessity for this movement; none in
the world except that of the pockets of
the State Treasurer and other radical
officials. The old loans could have
been continued, without any difficulty,
at the old rates of interest. But the
placing of the new loan offered an op-
portunity 10 plunder the treasury, and
that was enough to recommend it to
those in power. 1t would enable the
State Treasurer to keep on hand a
large monthly balance, which he could
loan out to his favorites, to the meal
culable advantage of himself and his
friends. Some of the interest on this
heavy balance would be needed as
corruption fund to elect United States
Senators and State Treasurers, and to
re-elect Gov. Geary. Hence the scheme
was put through; tsoe'atg-three millions
were borrowed at six per cent, and at
a cost of placing the loan of $50, 900.
We now have the effect of this adj
mirable stroke of radical financiering.
In 1867 the Commonwealth paid $94,-
063 more interest than in 1866, and in
1868 it paid Sl72, ,554 more than in 1866.
Here is shown a loss to the people, by
the operation of this new radical loan,
of $685. ,618 in two years! A vote for
Geary and the radical candidates for
the legislature, is vote to endorse
and encourage such frauds upon the
people.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
THE GREAT SWINDLE.
How the People are Cheated.
REPFHEICAYS AND DEMOCRATS A
LIKE THE VICTIMS.
Names of the Betrayer~.


A solemn and formal promise was
made by the Radical leaders, in the
Chicago Platform oflast year, to their
followers and the people of the United
States. 1t was a pledge that in all the
loyal States, the question Of Suffrage
should remain under the control Of the
of the people. We quote from the
Platform, word for word, as follows;
"The guaranty by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men at the south
was demanded by every consideration
of public safety, of gratitude and of
justice, and must be maintained; fekiJe
the question Of Suffrage IN al the tOyaI
lSitttes property belongs 10 the pe0pte Of
those sStdtes.o
On the faith of this solemn avowal,
majority of the people of the United
States voted for Sen. Grant, and on.
this formal assurance the Radicals We're
permitted toretain the ascendancy in
Congress and the Stale Legislatures.
Thousands and thousands voted for.
Grant and the Radical candidates for
Congress and the Legislature, who
would not have touched them if they
had not been persuaded by this delib-
crate promise in the Chicago Platform
that the Suffrage question would be al
lowed to remain in the hands of the
people. Mark. now, how the conf
ding voters were betrayed!
No sooner had Congress assembled,
after the Presidential election, than
the Radical leaders rushed through
that body the measure known as the
Fifteenth amendment, and sent it in
hot haste to the legislatures then in
session, with a view TO its immediate
ratification This indecent hurry was
intended to steal march on the peo-
pie, and if possible, to flank them, by
making the Amendment a part of the
Constitution by consent of three
fourths of the Legislatures, before the
people could vote on 1t, or elect new
Legislatures with the Amendment an
issue. GOV. JOHN w. GEARY
was an actor in this shameful intrigue,
and on the very day on which
he received the Amendment from the
hands of Congress, he sent it to the
Legislature with the following mess
age recommending its prompt ratifca-
ton:
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
TOWNSHIP TICKETS.

BY the Act of last winter, Spring E.
leetions have been abolished, and town
ship officers will be elected on tbe day
of the General Election, the second
Tuesday of October. The Democrats
of the several townships and boroughs
of the county, should see to it that the
best possible tickets are nominated for
these offices, Township tickets should
be printed. If they are written, they
will, when voted with,the State, Judi
cial, District and County Tickets, make
the ballot very bulky. Nominate ear
ly and have your tickets printed in
ff.s1n f-l = t+s rs .i4 - sss--
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
- -
TO COUNTY CANDIDATES

The Democratic County Committee
will meet at the Court House, in this
place, on next Tuesday, Sept. z, at II
o'clock, p. M. Candidates on the Leg
fslative and County Ticket are reques-.
ted to meet with the Committee. Bus
iness relative to the organization of the
party will be laid before the meeting.
Every member should make it a point
TO be present. t M
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
EXAMINE TIE REGISTRY.

Go to the Election House and exam
inc the list of voters. See that every
Democrats name in your district is on
it. If any are omitted, go to the As
SCISSOR and have him write them on his
book in your presence.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02

SHERIFF'S SALE.-By virtue of
- Sundry writs of Etcrt FacAa and Fenk En-
p0aHS to me directed, there will be exposed to
public sale, at the Court House, in the Borough
of Bedford, on SATURDAY the 4th day of Sep
tember, A D., 1869, ut 10 o'clock, A. NJ ), the fol.
lowing described Real Estate, to wit
One Tract of land containing 2S acres, more or
less 40 acres cleared and under fence, with one
story and half log house, double log barn and
plank washheuse thereon erected with an apple
orchard thereon, adjoining lands of Abran Ever
sole, Eliza Miller, Benjamin Voter and Abram
Rice, situate in South Woodbury. township Bed
ford county, and taken in execution as the prep
erty of Henry S Earnest
Also, one tract of land, containing 3 acres,
ore or less, all cleared and under fence, with
a two tory slog house weatherboarei frame
bank barn thereon erected, with good apple
orchard thereon, adjoining lands of jacob Ritter,
Daniel Tetwileri also, enc Tract of land, contain
ing 80 acres more or less % acres cleared and
under fence, adjoining lands Of Jacob Ritter,
Daniel Tetwiler, Christian l. Hoffman and
Martha r. Duncan heirs, situate in Middle
Woodbury. township, Bedford county, and taken
in execution rs the property of John B. Ferry
Also, one lot of ground fronting on Main Street,
S21 feet and running back 10 an alley 1921 feet,
with two story log house weatherboarded, with
one and half story rough cast kitchen attached
and frame stable thereon erected, adjoining lots
of g. W. Shearer on the North, an alley on the
East, Benjamin kegg the South, situate IN
Rainsburg Borough, and taken in execution as
the property of A. J. Penneil.
ROB II STECKMAN, Shift.
Sheri1s Office Bedford, Pa, augl2w4.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
gaEggggggg 9
GEARY,s PLATE0RaI.

RssofUsd That we wholly approve the princi-
piles and policy of the administration of General
Grant and we heartily endorse every sentiment
contained in his inaugural address a5tG esgsczaf-
IN to hers5g ratlfy and appr0rs the late amend
aSleHt 10 tie Constitution ef The Unttea States
proposed Bg Congress, k7o1rH 0s the FttteeHfh
ArasHd1asat -Radieat PiatforBs adopted at
PAtladeiptia. June q, l569.-Ses Bedford IN
qaeirsr ofJuiy2.
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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02
Mass Meeting of the Democracy
of Bedford County
RATIFICATION OF THE NOMINATION.
OF PACKER AND PERSHING. -'

OF PASh Eh AMI RERSEEENNs
All who are in favor of wrestling our
good old commonwealth from the
hands of a Radical Ring" of corrup-
tionists, are requested to attend the
ra tiffcation meeting to be held at the
COURTHOUSE, in Bedford, on MON
DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8,
1869.
All who are in favor of Retrench-
ment and Reform in our National and
State governments are requested to
come.
Let the PEOPLE rally in their might
and prepare for the great victory over
fanatieism and corruption in Pennsyl-
vania.
Able speakers have been invited to
address the meeting.
EDWAR +. KERR,
Ch Dem. Co. Com.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-02

DEAFNESS, BLINDNESS, and Ca
FARRH treated with the utmost success by j.
IsAAcs, M D., and professor of Diseases Of tie
Eye and EARN The Medical College of Psna-
syiuanta. IL gears expsrienes, formerly Of
Leyden, HOlland), No. se5 Arch Street fhila.
Testimonials can be sean al hiss office, The medi-
cal faculty are invited to accompany their pa
tients, as he has no secrets in his practice Arti-
feial eyes inserted without pain. No charge for
examination sg al july3, '68y1