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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-12-02

The New York Democrat sums up
the results of the October and Noven-
ber elections, in order to show that the
Democrats have gained substantial
victory. The exhibit comes in this
shape Among the States Grant car
ried i'm 1868 were Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Iowa. Illinois, and California. These
gave him an aggregate majority of
2S5, 5,2i7. Among the States chat went
for Seymour were New York, New
Jersey, and Maryland. These gave an
aggregate Democratic majority of A.
Sl1-ieaving total majority for Grant
in the eleven States mentioned of 240-
$50. Those same eleven States have
voted within the last two months,
for candidates of greater or less in1-
portance, but always upon questions of
party. One of the eight States that
went for Grant last fall, this fall goes
Democratic, leaving only7, which have
given aggregated Radical majorities of
$500, against go, ,247 last year. New
York, New Jersey, Maryland, and
California have this fall gone Demo
cratic, and given aggregated majorities
of $4,000, against 44,8ll last year.
This, instead of leaving Radical ma
jority in eleven States of 240, ,436, gives
the Democracy II majority of $500.
Within one wear the Radical majority
has decreased 209, ,747, while the Dem
oeratic majorities have increased 81
I 1SQas
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Ex-Con federate officers show their
good sense by devoting themselves to
peaceable enterprises, having a tenden-
cy to reconstruct and rehabilitate the
South. Generals Lee and Lilly, with
Admiral Maury, are associated as pro-
fessors in Washington College, Lexing-
ton, Virginia, Kirby Smith is at the
head of a college in Kentucky; Stew
art, of Tennessee, after the war return
ed to his old prefessorship of mathe-
MATES aud engineering in Cumber-
berIand University at Lebanon, Tenn;
Joseph Il. Johnston viii probably ac-
cept the presidency of the University
of Nashville; Forrest is building rail-
road from Selma to Memphis with
prodigious energy; Beauregard has
charge of railroad in Louisiana; Ma
hone has charge of the Virginia and
Tennessee road; Hood is pushing the
business of the Life Association OF A
merica in the South; Fa9in has an in
surance agency in Little Rock. Few
indeed Of the prominent military lead
ers of the South are idle.
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GIBSON, of the Gsnius Of Liberty,
whose name stinks in the nostrils of
the Democracy of Fayette county, as
the very skunk-weed of corruption,
dares not deny that he declared, in
Philadelphia, last fall, that Packers
vote in that county, would depend al
together or how much money was
given him by the State Committee for
the purchas7 of his independent can
didate for Prothonotary. He fights
very shy on that subject, and beats an
inglorieus retreat under cover ofa scat
tering fire, aimed, however, little too
low to hurt any one who does not live
in the same depths of political infaIny
in which the miserable creature of the
Genius perpetually grovels. Dropping
& he metaphor, let the reader under
5 tand that this Gibson interrogatively
char ges us with having been willing
defeat Packer" if not paid our
price," ard with having been "luke-
warm in the Senatorial contest be-
tween Findlay and Scull," &C., &C.
Our jealous, unremitting and unseltish
labor in behalf of Mr.. Packer, Mr.
Findlay and the whole Democratic
ticket, from the beginning of the cam
paign to the close, of which no active
Democrat in Southern Pennsylvania
is ignorant, is our vindication. Let
this cowardly blackguard, whose con-
genial business is TO libel those whose
fair fame his corrupt nature prevents
him from enulating, ask the Demo-
Gratis of this Senatorial district wheth-
er we were lukewarm in the struggle
between Findlay and Seull. Let him
ask his neighbqr, the editor Of the
Somerset Democrat, or Mr. Findlay,
or any other prominent Democrat of
the district, if he would have himself
written down contemplate slanderer.
As for our stewardship rs Deputy
Chairman of the State Committee, we
are ready to render our account. The
Committee can have Ii at any time.
Can Gibson say as much for the mon
ey furnished him for the purchase of
that independent candidate for Pro-
thonotary?n But we have already said
more on this subject than the nature
of il warrants. Let the vain coward of
the Genus eject his shiny Words
They are quite innocuens.
stRuSt. sWos4. cool, hlrs=hess and, Gssson,
Live safest in shame tsf.s
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The Republican State Convention at
Richmond adopted an address to Con-
gress, setting forth that the election in
Virginia was Confederate triumph,
achieved by intimidation and fraud,
and asking Congress to order a new E.
lection, with the Constitution submit
ted as whole Including the test oath
and disfranehising clauses, and send a
military force sufficient to protect Re
publlcans in their rights, &c. A num-
Der of dissenting members withdrew
from the Convention, and have issued
call for National Union Republi-
can meeting to-day.
Albert D. Richardson, an attache
and formerly war correspondent of the
New York Tribute, was the other dag
shot, and 1t is supposed seriously
wounded, in the Office of that news
paper, by Daniel Mcfarland, a lawyer.
The cause of the difficulty was, 1t is
presumed, an alleged intimacy of Rich
ardson with McFarland's wife.
The triennial session of the Reform
ed Churches of the United States, met
at Philadelphia ON Wednesday even
ing, and organized There are present
1888 delegates from 81 classes, besides
many advisory members and visitors.
The Credit Mobilier case has been de-
cided by the Court of Common Pleas of
Dauphin county, in favor Of the Com
monwealth, but to The extent of $407, :
1889; the amount claimed was over
seven and half millions.
The proposed new Constitution of
Porto Rico, among other things, pro-
vides complete religious liberty, the
right of suffrage to all who read and
write, except slaves, and proclaims
that slaves can have no rights. and can
only acquire them by emancipation.
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NEW METHOD OF COLLECTING
THE TAX ON DISTILLED SPIR-
ITS.

Hon. Leonard Myers, of Pennsylva-
MIA, intends early in the next session
of Congress to introduce a bill chang
ing the present system of collecting
tax on distilled spirits and levying it
entirely upon the capacity of the dis
tillery. He was first to present the
plan several years ago, when on the
Darling Investigation Committee, and
still insists that the gross demoraliza-
tion of the present system shows some
such change in the law is needed. He
contends not only that it will increase
the revenues from this source, but will
remove the temptations to fraud pre-
sented by the law as it now stands;
abolish the regulations of the Depart
ment on the subject, do away with
stamps and meters, and reduce the
force now employed to carry out the
law. Mr.. Myers will urge these views
upon Congress, believing that there
will be general approval of the princi-
Piles embodied in his BILL
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1t is reported that the seizure of the
Spanish gunboats by the United States
authorities will throw four hundred
men out of employment at the Della
meter Works, New York.
An offer has been received by the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, from parties in England, to take
sS,O00,000 of that Company's bonds.
No action has yet been taken on the
proposition.
Mike MoCoole has challenged Tom
Allen publicly to test his willing
ness TO fight,
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THE ''OId Guard" for December is
on our table. This sterling monthly is
always a welcome visitor to our sane
tum. Mr.. &C. Burr, who has edited
the "Old Guard'' for seven years, retires
and is succeeded by DIR. Thomas Dunn
English. We are sorry to part with
the old editor, though we hail the ad-
vent of the new. We have spent many
pleasant hours with Mr.. Burr, at his
editors table, which was always well
furnished with substantials, and still
better stocked with condiments, not
lack ing the real Attic salt. But we
shall look for excellent entertainment
at the board of ''Ben Bolt" Forward,
the Old Guard
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MISSISSIPPI Bloody
Work-FIre Hen Killed.-At a recent
meeting at the Crystal Springs, Rad
ical teolored mani interfered in a
quarrel between two whites, and drew
a pistol on one of them, a Conserva-
tive. Meeting him at Dry Grove, the
gentleman, Mr. Wells, on whom the
pistol was drawn, inflicted punishment
on his assailant with a whip. That
night Saturday body of forty or
fifty armed Radicals (negroesl organ
lied a mob and visited several houses
in the neighborhood searching for
Wells, and telling the females of the
families that if they didn't reveal his
whereabouts they would cut their
Threats and burn the houses over their
dead bodies. In their marauding eX-
pedition, we are informed, they visit
ed the house of an old peaceable citi-
zen of the community, Mr.. Collin, ag-
ed 20 years, breaking his skull. His
son retaliated by shooting the murder
er, and was himself killed or badly
wounded. Thenext day Sunday the
mob continued its depredations, and a.
mong other outrages, sacked two stores
at Dry Grove. In the meantime the
alarm had been given, and the white
men of the neighborhood collected for
defence, and started to arrest the pro-
ceedings of the marauders. They were
ambushed by the Radicals and fired
into. One Of the number was killed
and two wounded. They killed two of
the rioters, and the others took TO the
woods. OariOn.
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rHE FrrEENrH AMENDMENT.


The scheme by which the leaders Of
the. Radical party hope TO rob the peo-
pie of their right to settle the suffrage
question in their own way, is now PEN
dulous between life and death. The
most skilful political doctors are uneer-
tain whether it will live or die. The
late ofthe Fifteenth Amendment hangs
trembling in the balance.
The Union, as at present composed,
consists of thirty-seven States. Twenty
eight of these must ratify the Amend
ment before it can become part of the
Constitution. So long as ten of them
withhold their assent, the Constitution
remains unamended. The following
named States hayeratitied, viz: Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
sets. Connecticut, New York, Penn
sylvania, Virginia, North Carolina,
south Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Il
linois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Missouri, Kansas, Nevada and West
Virginia-20.
But Virginia ratified under duress,
that is TO say, Congress compelled her
Legislature to give its assent to the A.
mendment, under the threatened pen
alty of exclusion from the Union until
such assent would be given. No law
yer who has ever read half dozen pa
ges of Blackstone, will regard this rat
ification as valid. But the Congression-
al tricksters will. And Missouri rati-
fed bat part, of the Amendment,
which fact would render the action of
the legislature of that State in the
premises, utterly nugatory in the eyes
of decent and honest men. Congress,
however, will, doubtless, regard it as
regular and legal.
The States which have rejected the
Amendment, ara New Jersey, Della
ware, Ohio, Kentucky .Georgiaand Ten
nessee-G. OF the States which are yet
to act on it, California, Oregon and Ma
ryIand will certainly reject it. The
Sew York legislature, at its coming
session, will repeal Tits resolution of rat
ification and reject the Amendment.
Rhode Island is in doubt. Minnesota
acts on the festbla le'lte principle. Ohio,
we are assured, will stand firm in OPP
position to the Amendment, the sin
dependent Members and Senators
from Hamilton county having deter
mined TO act with the democrats on
that issue. Indiana will elect a Demo-
cratic legislature next year and reject
the Amendment. But if Ohio stands
firm and New York repeals, the dragon
will have been slain without the aid o.
Indiana. Should Texas, or Mississip-
pi. follow the example of Tennessee
Ohio may also be dispensed with. The
outlook for the conspirators who In
vented this hideous contrivance for thf
overthrow OF popular rights, Is an!
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-12-02

FIRST CLASS SENSATION,
Warrant for Ben. Butler Beauty after
the BeaSt--The spoon Question To
be Investigated.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Judge Jones,
of the Superior Court of New York.
ordered the arrest of B. f. Butler, for
stealing silver ware and table furniture
to the amount of $4,000, from Mrs.
ROwena Florence, nieceofGen. Twiggs,
in the year of 1862, at New Orleans.
NEW YORK, Nov. THE order OF
arrest issued by Judge Jones. of the
Superior Court, against General b. F.
Butler, at the suit of Mrs. Florence,
of New Orleans, charges him with
feloniously appropriating three jewel
ed gold gifted swords formerly the
property of Gen. Twiggs and worth
$35, 900, and box of silver ware val
ued at $1,000. The bail was fixed at
Sl5. 900.
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laper for any city publication.

A Washington correspondents says,
barefaeed thievery is now called "de-
linquency'' by the Court journals.
"Inadequacy offunds'' to meet the de-
mands of the Government, is the mild
way of referring to an absconded de-
faulter. The official journal gives
a case, in which it says "inadequa-
cy" has just been discovered "upon
the settlement of the accounts of an
Acting Assistant Paymaster. 1t was
found that his account is $26, 600 short,
and that he has absconded. His bonds
are for $1,000" Net profit, $2l 900
And so the money goes. Taxpayers,
blessed innocents, imagine that they
are being bled to pay off the public
debt, and government pensioners, poor
deluded cripples who vote the Radical
ticket through goodand through evil re-
port, wait for their money. Radical
Paymasters go into ''inadequacy," and
more taxes must be wrung from the
people to make up the deficiency.
How delightful to be ehumbugged
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A Democratic member of the Ala
bama legislature has been denied a
seat in that body because he held a
county Office before the war! His
Radical opponent, who was beaten q.
bout one thousand votes, has been Civ
en- the seat. And such is the s'free-
dom" of which we people boast SC
loudly.
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THE Philadelphia Herald says that
the funded debt of that city will be
increased a million and half this
seNr. the Radicals have had an over
whelming majority in the city coun-
ellis for ten years past. Comment is
unnecessary.
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In the Southern States thousands Of
white American citizens are still un-
der the ban of disfranehisement. In
sthe language of an eloquent divine,
a'If this be the American Eagle, give
US an owl -
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Also a choice selection of
NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS IN THE
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To CoNsUMPTIVES.- Advertis-
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by very simple remedy, after having suffered
several years with severe lung affection, and that
dread disease, Consumption, is anxious to make
known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure
To ali who desire it, he will send copy of the
prescription used free o charged with the diree
tons for preparing and using the same, which
they will hnd sure cure for Consumption, Asth-
ma. Bronchitis, etc. The object Of the advertiser
in sending the Prescription is 10 benefit the af-
iieted, and spread information which be conceiVes
to be invaluable; and he hopes every sufferer will
try his remedy, as it will cost them nothing, and
may prove blessing
Parties wishing the prescription, will please Id
dress REV EDWARD A WILSON.
Williamsburg, Kings County, New York.
mayT4yI
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Owing to the good reputaton and popularity of
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Providence, r. l., had wedding in
high life yesterday, in the marriage of
Howard Jaffray, of New York, and
Miss Emma Harris, the beautiful and
accomplished daughter of Stephen
Harris, Esq, wealthy manufacturer
of that city.
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ESTRAY NOTICE.-Came to the
IL premises of the undersigned, in Snake
Spring tp., on or about the 10th of October last
White Sow. with both ears cropped, about two
years old The owner is requested to come for
ward, prove property. pay charges, and take her
away, otherwise she viii be dealt with according
TO law. JOSEPH MoRTIMoRE
novISw3
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STRA Y STEER. to the prem
~ ises Of the subscriber in JGaiats township,
sometime in September last, brindled Steer,
one year old. past, Supposed TO be out of a drove
The owner Is requested TO come forward proye
property, pay charges and take him away.
novlSW3F ANDREW DIEHI.
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ERRORS OF YoUTH.-A gentleman
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Premature Decay, and all the effects of youthful
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directions for making the simple remedy by which
he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by the
advertiser sexperience, esn do so by addressing,
in perfect confidence, JOHN B. OGDEN.
No. - Cedar street, New York
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MONEY OR NOTE.-All persons
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brick, or r Benedict For lumber, must close their
accounts by the 10th of December or suit will be
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THE HARRISBURG PATRIoT.-We
call attention to the prospectus of the
Harrisburg Daily and Weskly Patriot
published in another column. The
Patriot is the only Democratic paper
printed at the State Capitsi Its daily
issue contains the latest and fullest tel
egraphic reports and reaches this place
and the towns between Harrisburg and
Johnstown. on the PeEaa. R. r.. and
its branches, from ten to twenty
four hours earlier than the Philadel-
phia dailies. The Weekly Patriot is
large double sheet containing up
wards of forty columns of reading mat
ter, the latest and fullest market re-
ports, tales, sketches, poetry and ed
itorial articles on current topics. We
will furnish the Weekly Patriot and
the GAZETTE for $3.50 per annum.-
TO those who wish to subscribe for a
paper outside of the county, we rec
ommend the PATRIOT. Meanwhile,
we would not be understood as recon-
mending the abandonment of the home
paper for any city publication.
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$1,000 AND ALL EXPENSES PAID!-
See Advertisement Of AMERICAN SHUrrLg SEWING
MACHINE, in our advertising eolu INNS nOv6yI
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Our terms will be cash unless otherwise agreed
upon by the parties and st most only short
credit viii be given.
We desire all persons having unsettled account
with Geo Blymyer, Geo Blymyer Il Son and B
NJ Blymyer & Co, to call and settle on or be
fore the lst of October, after that time the
Bookswill be lett with Il NICODEMUS for set
Element B. NJ. BLYMYER & Co
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ITO MY MANY FRIENDS AND
CUSTOMERS take this method Of
thanking my friends for the patronage they have
extended to me in the past, and would recon-
mend that they extend the same 10 my successor,
W c Garyood who has taken charge Of the
REGULATOR establishment. II. E. IRVINE.