BEDFORD GAZETTE.
B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
KRIDAY, i i j : i i : AUGUST 15, 1862.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS^
STATE TICKET.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
HON. ISA AO SLENKER,
or UNION COUNTY.
. SURVEYOR GENERAL,
COL. JAMES P. BARR,
OP ALLKGHANY COUNTY.
COUNTY TICKET.
A9SEMBT.Y,
JOHN CESSNA, Bid ford Borough.
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
SAMUEL KETTEBMAN, Bed. Bor.
DI9. ATTORNEY,
JOHN PALMER, Bedford Bor.
COMMISSIONER,
ANDREW CRISMAN, Napier tp.
POOR DIRECTOR,
SOLOMON REIGHARD, S. Spring tp.
AUDITOR,
JOHN H. BARTON, E. Prov. tp.
"DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING.
The Democracy of Bedford county, will meet
in MASS CONVENTION, at-the Court House,
, in Bedford, on
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1,
for the purpose of ratifying Democratic nomi
nations, and re-itcrating their oft-repeated pledg
es to the "Constitution As It Is," and the "U
--nion As It Was," to renew their solemn protest
against Abolition and its natural consequence,
Secession, and to vindicate the Democratic par
ty from the aspersions falsely cast upon it by
Abolition traitors in the North, the enemies of
the Constitution and the Union.
Rally, Democrats! Friends of Constitutional
Liberty, to the rescue! Come from your farms
and your workshops, come from mountain and
valley, come ye who in the dark future of our
country, must bear the heat and burden of the
# day, and strike ono more blow for liberty and
law, for the safety of your homes, the protec
tion of your property, the security of your lives!
"Come as the winds come
When forests are rended!
Come as the waves come,
When navies are stranded!"
Meeting of the Democratic County Committee.
The Democratic County Committee will meet
at the office of Hon. W. P. Schell, in Bedford,
on WEDNESDAY, the 20 Ih DAY OF AU-
' A'IUIT Hftgffdiinse is
requested, as business of importance will be laid
before the Committee.
The following named persons constitute the
Committee:
J. W. LINGENFELTER, J. P. REF.D,
M. HOLDERBACM, J. W. CRISMAN,
15. W. STATI.ER, P. F. LEHMAN,
H. J. BRDVER, WM. BONNELL,
THOS. DONAHOE, OLIVER HORTON,
JOSEPH EVANS, J. B. FLUKE,
JOUN HOHMAN, P. G. MORGART,
SAMUEL DAVIS.
Advance Terms, &o.
GUT subscribers should remember that if they
want to get their paper at the advance rate of
1 .50 per annum, they must pay now or with-1
in three months from the present data. Pay
ing at the end of six months, or just before the
year is up, is not paying in adcance. The com
ing court will afford a good opportunity for ad
vance paying subscribers to send in their mon
ey. We would also ask those who are in ar
rears to call and settle. Of course we do not
refer to regular paying subscribers. We mean
those who owe us for two, three or more years.
We must pay our debts and find it impossible to
do 60 without money. Friends, let not our ap
peal be in" vain!
Drafting,
The War Department has determined to raise
600,000 troops in addition to those already In
the field. To accomplish this object, the pre
liminary steps to a draft of the militia have
been arranged, and unless the quota of the State
is filled by the 15th inst., the proposed conscrip
. tion will be certainly carried into effect. There
may be some days of grace allowed, provided
ihero is a fair prospect of raising the quota im
mediately by volunteers. Of this lenity, how
ever, there is no certainty. Our peoplo can
safely conclude that the able-bodied portion of
male citizens between the ages of 18 and 45
will be more than decimated, before the new
calls for troops are filled. Every third man, we
think, will be compelled to shoulder a
Is it not reasonable, ttien, that people whp are
in circumstances to leave their homes, should
prefer to volunteer! We could never find it in
our heart to ask any man to enlist, whom we
believed to be pecuniarily an-1 relatively in the
same position as oureelf. But thore are those
■who need not sacrifice their earthly all in going
to war. There are dingle men and wealthy men
enough in Bedford county to fill our quota. Let
these come forward and volunteer, the first*
cause they have no families dependent upon their
daily labor for support, the other to show their
gratitude to tho Government wh> whieh they
have attained to richer, apd prosperity. J e Bed
ford eoqpty tu be disgraced with a draft! Are
dhon not enough of two classes to which
we have referred, who will come forward to
prevent this disgrace? Come, patriotic young
men! Come, you who can afford to volunteer!
Yours is the duty to prevent the humiliation
which conserTpßm must bring upon the patri
otism of the county, as well as the distress and
want which must follow the drafting of those
upon whose labor and presence at home, .alone
depend the subsistence of hundreds and thou
sands in reduced and precarious circumstances.
A dozen volunteers from each election district
in the county, in addition to those already rais
ed, will be more than enough to do away with
the necessity of the draft. Let every township
and borough furnish its quota of ten or a dozen
volunteers, them concentrate at Bedford,
form themselves into companies, elect their offi
cers, and, if need be, let them be subsisted,
whilst in rendezvous here, at the expense of the
county, and we will guaranty that Bedford
county will not only escape the draft, but will
be honored, in all coming time, for the patriot
ism and gallantry of her citizen soldiers. Who
will be first to carry our suggestion into effect?
Governor Curtp.
His Excellency, Gov. Curtin, left the Springs
on the 10th inst., for Ilarrisburg, we arc glad
to hear, considerably improved in health. In
the discharge of our duty as a Democratic edi
tor, we have had occasion to review Gov. Cur
tin's political doctrines with Some severity, and
we cannot bate one jot or tittle of what we have
said in this respect; but candor compels us to
admit (and we do so most cheerfully) that the
Governor has done some acts during his admin
istration, for which he deserves and shall have
our approbation. Had the Governors of other
States possesse 1 half the energy displayed by
Gov. Curtin, and had the Administration at
Washingtbn entertained the proper view of the
magnitude of the rebellion, the fate of our be
loved country would not now be trembling in
the balance. Had other State Executives re
sisted the pressure of radioal abolitionists, as
we are informed Gov. Curtin has done, there
would now be troops of friendly, sympathising
Union men, instead of bands of fierce and infu
riated guerillas, gathering around our armies in
the South. Comparatively, therefore, Mr. Cur
tin deserves praise, for his energy in the raising
of troops and his conservatism in refusing to be
come a tool in the hands of the radicals. Like
Senator Cowan, oiy State Executive lias drawn
upon his devoted head the execration of the fa
natics and fools of the Greely and Beeclier school,
and, therefore, it becomes the duty of conserva
tives to applaud and encourage him in the course
he is pursuing. Only let him remain firm a
painst their machinations and tile conservative
people of the State will rally around him and
sustain him in every peril.
RECRUITING. —Never since the war began has
the raising of volunteer companies been attend
ed with sucli signal success as during the past
week. We have heard of whole companies be
ing enlisted in a single day, and one of the com-
Ps" i ?nJ'liß?Aifti/fe' < Kifmßcr. < c !\r>t. Bobb's) oypi*
are perfectly safe in estimating the number of
volunteers at present enrolled in this county at
between 400 and 500. The following officers
have raised and are engaged in raising compa
nies : Captain Bobb, company full and gone to
Camp Curtin; Cnpt. S. B. Tate, seventy men;
Capt. S. G. Statler, had forty men when last
heard from; CApt. Dickerhoof, 40; Capt. May,
30; Lieut. Hudson, 20 men and gone to Camp
Curtin. In addition to these, Captain Josinh
Baughman, of Bloody Bun, is raising a compa
ny, which we have no doubt will be a perfect
success. There is' also a Cavalry company be
ing formed in Morrison's Cove, and we presume
that there are other officers recruiting in
this county of whoso operations we have not
heard. From these indications it will be seen
that we can easily raise our quota of the GOO,-
000 men without drafting, if the Government
will but give us a little more time. Meanwhile
we would warn our citizens not to enlist with
recruiting officers from other counties. Dur
ing the last ten days Blair and Huntingdon
counties have drawh upon us for at least fifty
men. This is all wrong and must be prevented
in the future.
AnounoNNoMiNATiON.—The Abolition Con
gressional Conference for this district, met at
Mcllwoin's tavern, in Fulton co., on the 7th
inst., and on the ninth ballot nominated Ed
ward MePherson, the present member, for re-e
--lection. The usual bargain and sale were made
before the nomination was effected. MePher
son is a straight-out Abolitionist, having voted
for the of slavery in the District of
Columbia and supported all of the radical meas
ures introduced into Congress. He is under
the thumb of that grim old apostle of Aboli
tionism, Thnddeus Stevens, and does his bidding
in every thing. If the people want the slaves
of the South let loose on the North, they can
do no better than vote for Ed. MePherson.
LOST. —On Friday cvenjpg, Bth inst., be
tween Patterson's lnne, on the Hollidaysburg
turnpike, and Bedford, or between fLo Holli
daysburg bridge and Kitcßcy's mill, a lady's
Morocco Reticule, containing bracelets, ring,
porte-monae, kid gloves, &c.
The finder will bo suitably rewarded by leav
ing it at this office.
MAJ. FILLER —Maj. John 11. Filler, of the
55th Po. Vdfc, arrived here, a fw ddfsago,
on a virit to his family.
OThooa two exoelleni Democratic papers,
tho Chambers burg Tinil l and Valley Spirit, have
been consolidated under the proprietorship of
Messrs. Keyser, HamsherJb Kennedy. * We have
no doubt that tho new paper will prove a most
able and interesting journal.
DEATH IN C APT. RTCE'S CO.—Jacob G. Flegle,
of Cnpt. Ryce's company, 76th regiment Pa.
Vols., and late of this county, died, a few days
ago, at Hilton Head, of typhoid fever. Poor
Flegle was a good soldier, and his death will
prove n loss to his company, but, alas! a great
er, sadder loss to that little family in the moun
tain homo, which shall never see his face again.
McMiclmel, a lender of the late
Republican party, declared in a speech at Lan
caster, a few days ago, that there are but two
parties at present, the Abolition and the Demo
crtic party. The people must choose between
the two.
(SPThe Democratic State Committee has im
posed some important duties upon our county
committee. See proceedings.
Discouraging Enlistments.
If there are anv persons in this Stnte disposed
so far to sympathize with rebellion as to dis
courage enlistments, wc desire to call their at
tention to an act of the Legislature of 1861,
which, among other things, provides that "if
any person or persons belonging to or residing
within tliisfttatc shall endeavor to persuade a
ny person or persons from entering the service
of this State or the United States, or from joining
any volunteer company or association of this State,
about being mustered into sen-ice, or shall use threats
or persuasion, or offer any bribe, or hohl out any
hope of reward, with like intent to induce any
person or persons to abandon said sen-ice, or with
draw from any volunteer company or association
already organized under the laws of this Com
monwealth for that purpose, every person so
offending, and being lcsrally convicted thereof,
shall be sentenced to undergo solitary imprison
ment in the penitentiary, at hard labor, for a term
not exceeding ten years, arid be fined in a sum not
exceeding fire thousand dollars, or both, at the dis
cr-etion of the court."
Organization of the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee.
PHILADELPHIA, July 29, 18G2.
At a meeting of the State Central Committee,
held at the Merchants' Hotel, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, July 29th, 1892, a permanent or
ganization was effected by the Hon. Francis
W. Hughes, of Schuylkill county, Chairman of
said Committee, calling the Committee to order.
George de B. Kcim, Esq., of Selmvlkill
county, and Col. Robert Crane, of Clinton
county, were ejected Secretaries of said Com
mittee.
The following resolutions were adopted :
Ttesolwl , That the Chairman of this Com
mittee adopt such means as tie may be able to
command to effect an organization of the Dem
ocratic parly in the several counties of this
State, through the several county committees, by
the organization of a central club for each coun
ty at the county town or chief town in such
county in the several school districts of said
county, which shall communicate with the cen
tral club, and such club shall communicate with
this committee, and through which thiscommit
tee shall afford such assistance in the propaga
tion of the principles of our party as it shall
have the power to do.
Resolved, That the Chairman call upon the
loyal men of Pennsylvania, through the Demo
cratic Standing Committees of the several coun
ties, to meet in the sevoraLcttiwii- oe designEF
fstanding Committees respectively,
on the 17th of September next, to celebrate
that flay us the anniversary of the day of the
adoption of the Constitution of the United
States.
Arrivals at Bedford Springs.
The following named persors have arrived at
Bedford Springs, since July 30:
J. H. Williams, Dr. Badenheimer, N.York;
J. Q. Adams, Huntingdon co ; S. T. Jones, jr.,
11. MeCormnek. Harrishurg; D. P. Holloway
and lady, Miss Fuller, C. Nagle & lady, Wash
ington, D. C.; Wm. Jcnnison & lady, Miss M.
E. Jcnnison, 11. Smith & wife, S. B. Chandler,
W. A. Morris & wife, G. N. Binder, ,J. P. O'-
Neill, P. Archer, jr., Dr. B. R, James, William
Thompson, 11. M. Lee, M. Vanelgript, W. D.
Bell, Philadelphia; C. McKnight, wife, child &
maid, 15. G. Wolfe, C. A. Barney, G. 11. White,
A. H. Childs, Pittsburg; I). Wilmot,Townnda;
E. Griffith, Miss Wetherall, Mr. & Mrs A. Pat
terson, J. A. Osborne, Miss N. Kennedy, Miss
I. Hughes, Dr. 11. Hughes, J. K. Roberts, J.
C. Oldham, Maryland; H H• Searight, Cincin
nati; C. Nicholson & wife, Mrs. J. M. (solds
borough, J. Cortes & wife, Dr. J. C. Parker &
wife, Thos. McKcnsie, wife & children, W. B.
Canfield, J. M. McLaughlin, W. Wilhclm, W.
J. McClellan, Miss McClellan, Miss .ones, J.
D. Sullivan, R. B. Clarke, Baltimore; G. W.
Oldhatn, Delaware; Miss IJ awe, Allegheny city;
R. Adams, jr.. 111.; Mr. & Mrs. Thrasher, Mrs.
Thrushcr, J. J. Magill, Miss L. Jones, Miss M.
Jones. MissL. Jones, Cumberland; Josiah Her
ring, I. E. Kurtz, Reading; W. C. Magill, Mis
souri; Anna C rouse, Penn.; J as. Con.'ly. Han
cock, Md.; Dr. F. P. Philips, Cambridge, Mil.
E- F. Shoenhergcr, Wm. Smith, Geo. P. Way,
Mrs. F. D. Way, Miss Way, Fred. Heyer, C.
Wilkers, Mrs. C. Magargo, Miss E. Magarge,
Ed- Manic & lady, W. Coffin & lady, Miss A.
E. Coffin, Miss F. A. Coffin, J. I). Harbert, E.
W. Bailey, 11. Henderson, J. 11. Brown, Mr.
& Mrs. N. B. Brown, Mrs. V. O'B. Taliaferro,
S. C. Bunting, jr., Wm. Warner, Benj. Patton,
J. H. Catherwood, 11. Connelly, Philadelphia;
Jno. H Robinson, D. F. Leech, Jas D. Robin
son, Mrs. Clara Childs, Wm. Preston, Pittsb'g.;
Rovcrdv Johnson, jr., A. Mclaughlin & lady,
W. F. Giles, W. A. Fisher, John T. Brown &
lady, J. K. MoCulloh, IV. Woodville, Jnd. H.
Fowler, T. W. Berry, W. W. Spance, G. B.
Hoffman, W. H. Hoffman, J. J. Fisher, Miss
A. E. Fisher, Dr. J. Fisher, Baltimore, Md.;
Miss Taylor, Mrs. Raich & daughter, Jos. 11.
Bradley, jr., Mrs. H. B. Saunders, G. W. Em
erson, B. F. Gerry, W. J. Libloy, Washington
City; VV. S. Cox, Georgetown, D. C.; W.Grin
nell, Scotland; 'Hios. Devccinan, Cumberland,
Md.; H. C. Jenkins, M. B1 Jenkins, Boonton,
N. J ; J. IV. Breathed, St James, Md.; Robt.
Bridges St lady, H. C. Hughes, Maryland; Rev.
0. A. Maison & wife, J. IV. Maury and lady,
Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. Spcrry, Mrs. Hoy, Cu
mberland, Md.; Alex. NeiH, sr., Alex. Neill, jr.,
Haacrstown, MJ.; H. S. Butler, wife anl two
children, Wilkesharrc; T. IV. Hall, Ilarford*
Md.; E. M. Mealv ron. Hagcrstown: Miss
K;d, IT. 'kimpbcll & wife. St. Louis, Mo.; "it.
11. Hall, Indinnapolis; J. E Annan. Cincinna
ti; W. L. Berry, C. S. Fitzhugh, Mil.; John
i MeKee, Miss M. A. McKeo, Lewistown; Miss
I N. It. Fitzhugh, New York City.
[ A Terrible Calamity.
f The stepmer Golden Gate, which left Snn
Francisco on the 21st of July, for Panama, with
| 250 passengers and $1,014,00,) for New York,
nnd $270,000 for England, was burnt at sea
when six days out, (on the 27th) and one hun
dred nnd eighty or two hundred lives were lost,
and all the treasure. A large number of the
passengers were from New York.
HEAR AM ABOLITIONIST !-The Boston Post says,
on last Wednesday Wendell Phillips, one of the
notorious abolition leaders, used the following
treasonable language, in that city :
"The Government wants three hundred thou
sand men ; we must say to them, 'You cannot
have a man or a dollar until you proclaim a
policy.' That will open the eyes of the Presi
dent and the Cabinet to the true sentiments of
the North. Fremont has been degraded by the
border States; but let us hope that like Charles
the Second, he may die on his rightful throne."
That's the sort of support President Lincoln
and the country gets from Emunciptionists!
RAM ARKANSAS DESTROYED.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—The following is
from the Petersburg (Va.,) Daily Rrpvess of
yesterday:—
RICHMOND. Aug 10.—A despatch from Gen.
Van Dorn, to Secretary Mallory. states that the
Confederate Ram Arkansas, Lieut. Stephens
commanding, has been destroyed.
She left Vioksburg on Monday, to co-operate
lin the attack on Baton Rouge After passing
Bayou Sara her machinery became deranged,
and, while attempting to adjust it, several of
the enemy's gun-boats attacked her.
After a gnllant resistance, she was abandon
ed nnd blown up. Her officers and men reach
ed the shore in safety.
BATTLE BETWEEN GEN. BANKS
AND STONEWALL JACKSON.
Gen. Geary Loses an Arm.
A SEVERE BATTLE.
NEW YORK, August 10.—The following de
spatch has been received by the Tribune:—
HEAD-QUARTERS, C MILES BELOW CULPEPPER, )
August 10, 1862. j
A battle was fought yesterday betwtecn Gen.
I Banks and Stonewall Jackson.
Gen. Bayard of General McDowell's corps,
with his cavalry brigade, had been engaged be
fore in the extreme advance, near the fiapidan
river, in skirmishing nnd maneuvering, taking
some prisoners, and ending with a slight loss,
baffling the efforts of a lurge force to surround
und cut him off.
Yesterday morning he was engaged for some
hours before Gen. Ranks came up, and with
four regiments of cavalry, the First Pennsylva
nia, First Main and First Rhode Island, delay
ed and embarrassed the enemy's advance.
The Rebels, under Jackson and Ewell, had
crossed the Rapidan, in force, and their ad
vance guard, 15,000 strong, was attacked by
Gen. Banks, yesterday afternoon, about six
miles south of Culpepper Court House.
The fight was almost wholly with artillery
at first but the infantry became engaged about
six o'clock, and a determined and bloody con
test followed.
Gen. Banks' right wing under General Wil
liams, suffered severely.
_ The Rebel position was in the woods, while
to cross an open" grWUnh. ■' *'
It was not till obout G o'clock that it became
evident that the reliels were attacking us in
force. Previous to that there had been rather
desu'tory cannonading.
The whole Rebel force suddenly attacked us
in overwhelming numbers at all points. Near
ly all their regiments had full ranks. *
At Ik o'clock General Pope arrived on the
field from Culpepper accompanied by General
McDowell, with a part of McDowell's Corps.
The battle was then substantially over, Gen.
Banks holding the ground that he had occupied
at the beginning.
After the arrival of General Pope there was
an artillery contest, continuing at intervals till
nearly twelve o'clock. The night was unusu
ally clear, and the moon full.
The. Rebels planted a battery against Mc-
Dowell's centre, where Gens. Pope and Banks
were, bringing both of them under fire. The
Generals and their staff were so near the Rebel
lines, bcingactually in front of their own lines
that a sudden charge of the Rebel cavalry was
made from the woods, a quarter of a mile off,
apparently with a view to capture them.
The attempt was repelled by a vigorous fire
from McDowell's troops, and the Generals and
their staffs left the field under a cross-fire from
the Rebels and their own troops.
The fire of the Rebel batteries was after
wards silenced.
General Pope, on arriving, sent fresh troops
to the front to take the place of General Banks'
exhausted columns.
The enemy did not renew the attack, except
by artillery.
Our troops were under arms, and in position
all night.
General Banks was on the field throughout
the notion, and constantly under fire. His
handling of his troops, and personal gallantry,
is highly praised by his officers.
The bravery and good conduct of the troops
were conspicuous during a large part of the
fight. When overpowered by numbers, some
of the regiments retreated in disorder.
Col. lvnipe, of the Forty-sixth Pennsylva
nia, is dangerously wounded.
Lieutenant Colonel Selfridga was severely
wounded.
Major Mathers had his arm amputated.
Adjutant Boyd was severely wounded, (all
of the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania.)
Col. Donnelly, of the Twenty-eighth New
York was fatally wounded: Lieut. Col. Brown
had his arm amputated; Major Cook was killed
—both are of the Twenty-eighth New York.
Col. Chapman, of tho Fifth Connecticut,
was wounded and taken prisoner.
Lieut. Col. Stono, of tho satno regiment,
was killed.
Major Blake, of the same regiment, was
wounded and taken prisoner.
Major Savage, of the Twentieth Massachu
setts, is probably killed. He was left on the
field in a dying condition. Capt. Abbot, of
the same. Regiment, was killed.
| 'General Banks rather severely hurt hv
/in accident. A ravalry trooper ran against
him, and ho was struck heavily in the side.
Nevertheless, he remained on the field, and is
on duty this morning with his command.
I Gen. Geary was wounded and has had an
'arm amputated.
Gen. Augur is severely wounded. Major
Pelouze, Gen. Banks' Adjutant, took command
of a hesitating regiment and gallantly led it
I through a galling tit 0. received two shots,
and is severely but not dangerously wounded
I in the side.
Capt. Williams is missing. Capt. Goodwin
is also missing. Capt. Q lincy was taken priso
ner.- .Surgeon Leland was wounded. Litut.
Oakly was wounded seriously. Lieut. Austin
and Lieut. Bucktnan, of the First New Jersey
Cavalry were wounded. No other in
that Regiment were hurt.
Lieutenant Hopkins, of tho Seventh Ohio,
was wottn led.
Col., lr'rpgh 8, chief of the stuff to General
Pope, had his horse shot under liiin. Two of
General Pope's body-guard were killed.
Col Morgan, of Pope's staff, arid Major Per
kins, of Gen. Banks' staff, both received bul
lets through their hats'.
The seeon 1 Massachusetts Regiment was in
the hardest of the fight, and suffered severely.
The Fifth Connecticut, Twenty-seventh Indi
ana and Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, were badly
cut up. Lieut. Ramsey, of General Banks'
staff, bad bis horse shot under him.
Gen. Winder, of the Rebel forces, was woun
ded. The losses are very heavy on both sides,
and it is supposed that not less than. 2<)')() or
3000 were killed and wounded or are missing
on each sido. Some prisoners were taken on
both sides.
Jackson and Ewell were both present in the
battle.
Reinforcements to the amount of 18,000 men
reached the rebels last night K at about the same
time that ours arrived.
Skirmishing in front is going on this morn
ing, but the troops on both sides are so much
exhausted by fatigue and tho intense heat that
no serious encounter is expected to take place
to-day.
WASHINGTON, Ausr. 10.—Reports were hro't
into Culpepper on Friday, of tho crossing of
the Rapidan by the Rebels in force.
It is sai 1 by a passenger who cams from the
vicinity of Wnterloo to-day, that General Banks'
column, which was in the advance, was attack
ed by General Ewell in superior numbers.
The struggle continued all day yesterday,
and may at any time lie renewed.
The loss is severe on both sides. A number
of our wounded have been brought to Culpep
per.
No details of the battle have been officially
received. It is represented that Generals Prince,
Auger and Geary were wounded
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
Order from I'ie Win• Department to prevent t'/e
E-a ii<m nf .Wittry Duty—Writ of lldbias
Corpus Suspended.
WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—The following highly
important order has just been issued from the
War Deportment :
WAK DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, )
August 8, 185*2. I
Ordfr to Prennt the Erosion of Military Duty
and the Suppression of Disloyal Practices.
First—By direction of the President of the
United States, it is hereby ordered that, until
further orders, no citizen liable to be drafted
into the militia shall be allowed to go to a for
eign country, and all Marshals, Deputy Mar
shals and military officers of the United States
are directed, and all police authorities, especi
ally at the ports of the United States of the
scabbard and on the frontier, are requested to
feet: "a rid "they ore hereby j"ffirec
ted to arrest and return any prrvon or pers ins
about to depart from the United States in viu
-1 ition of thi* or ler, ( , n Ito report to Major L.
(i Turner, Judge A* V ocatc, at Washington
city, for further instruct, ns respecting the "per
son or persons so arrested s.,q detained.
Second—Any person liable to draft w]lo
shall absent himself from his con.. r y or
before, such draft is made, will he a.,„ g | e( j \
any Provost Marshal or other United S., tos ( j r
State officers, wherever he may lie found
the jurisdiction of the United States, and eo.
veved to the nearest military post or depot, and
placed on military {July for the term of the
draft, an 1 the expense of his own arrest ami
cnnvevinco to audi post, shall he deducted
from his pay.
Thi-d—The writ of habeas corpus is hereby
suspend 'd in respect to all persons so arrested
an 1 detain*-*!, an l in respect to all persons ar
rested for disloval practice.
[Signed] E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Order Authorizing Arrests of Persons
Discouraging Enlistments.
IVAit DEPARTMENT, )
August 8, 1882. j
ORPRRF.D :
First—That all United States Marshals and
Superintendents or Chiefs of Police of any
town, city, or district, be and they are hereby
authorized and directed to arrest and imprison
any person or persons who may be engaged by
act, speech or writing, in discouraging volun
teer enlistments, or in any way giving aid and
comfort to the enemy, or in any other disloyal
practice against the United States.
Second—That an immediate report be made
to Major L- C. Turner, Judge Advocate, in or
der that such persons may be tried before a Mil
itary Commission.
Third—The expenses of such arrests and
imprisonment will be certified to the Chief Clerk
of the War Department for settlement nnd pay
ment,
[Signed] E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
The Draft and Heads of Families.
The New York correspondent of the Phila
delphia Ledger, referring to tho proposed draft
of the militia, remarks:
Reference must be had to tho circumstances
of the parties upon whom tho lot m;iy fall, as
in Franco and other Euronutn countries; else
wo shall lie but rushing from one evil into ano
ther. For an example, it would not l>e wise to
tako away tho head of a family, if the family
arc to be left without the means of support. In
that ease we should have our almshouses filled
up in a week, and all our public charities taxed
beyond our abilities to endure.
If does not follow from this that sni 1 head of'
a family should be exempt. Ho owes tho State
service just as much as other people, and the
service, if it can lie discharged personally, must
be discharged by proxy—or, as it is commonly
called, by a "substitute." , Now, "substitutes,"
no doubt, will be abund int enough, lint the rates
nt which they will value their services, as like
as not, will be at a figure quite beyond the abil
ity of any hut tho wealthy to command thorn.
It is suggested that, in this matter, for the good
of all those concerned, that the government it
self should fix the value of substitutes, us is the
ease in France. There are many other sogges.
tions of a similar character entitled to careful
consideration, nnd it is understood flint a com
mittee of citizens will proceed to Washington in'
the course of a day or see if the govern
ment cannot be to adopt them,
and issue tin order accordingly. Some of the
gentlemen composing the committee have been
long resident abroad, and, as they arc perfectly
familiar with the "drafting" machinery there,
they arc well qualified, to speak arid advise un
derstandingly 011 the subject.
JOHN W. FORNEY — THE RETIREMENT OF rag
Ot.i) RAT.-— Said this ingrnte at a meeting the
other night, "Retired front political life, I have
d.wotediinyself to the nation."
Precious hypocrite! When Forney retired
from political life, it must have been like the old
rat in the fable: "My dear children," said the
old rat to his young ones, "the infirmities of age
are pressing so heavily upon me. that I have de
termined to dedicate the short remainder of my
days to mortification and penance in a narrow
and lonely hole which I have lately discovered;
but let 111 c not interfere with your enjoyments;
youth is the season for pleasure. Be happy,
therefore, and only oliey my last injunction—
never to come near me in my retreat. God
bless you all." Deeply affected, sniveling •au
dibly, nnd wiping bis paternal eyes with his tail,
the old rat withdrew, and was seen no more for
several days, when his youngest daughter, mov
ed rather by affection than curiosity, stolo to his
cell of mortification, which turned out to be a
bale made by his own teeth in an enormous Cheshire
cheese.
The retirement from political life of John W.
Forney!—ha! ha! ha! Office of Clerk of the
Senate—great contract broker—and lobby a
gent. Here is the Cheshire cheese, and the cells
of mortification into which tiieold rat has retir
ed to do penance for his many sins. lie simply
asks the prayers of the faithful. Let them prey.
Journal.
Measles are prostrating the Volunteers by hun
dreds, the hospitals are crowded with them.
Soldiers, be warned in time. IIOLLOWAY'S
PILLS are positively infallible in the cure of
this disease ; occasional doses of them will pre- '
servo the health.even under the greatest expo
sures. Only 25 cents per Box. 224
MEETING for Bcdlm-ft Circuit will com
mence (It V) on Fri ty. S*p'*mb-; s'h, on ground '
near Bloody Ituo. F-i-nts fro 11 neighboring ap.-
pointmiuit, ire on-'liallv invited to f-nt with us. aa
we| a- th public generully, tn pArticipile j n the
-1 *errises of worshiping (} > I in N itnre' nvn eanc-'
tuary. JAM t S C CLARKE.
P. in C. of B-dlord C't.
&e ut ftbvertisement s.
SIO,OOO U AXTED7"
My book- ar pnred for seillemeiit up to duly 1.
1 hereby cab upon every person having unsettled
accnmils with me to call at once. Ido not wish to
pre.,., any one for money, but tho e who negl.-ct or'
rW'u-e to settle, will most suielv be sued.
WM. HAKTLET.
August 15, 1802.
CllfilP, 800 CHE4P
filaw B'ruil & Toinnlo Jars
for sale at Hartley'*. Tnw are fhe b at an t ch<*ap*
t et jara made, and the same jar that is recommended
, by h* N*w York Agncultui st.
| QT'Call soon and lay in a -uppty before all are
sold, at the ♦sign of the P-td Lock, next door Fast of
A fl- Cramer Ac (Li's.
EXB U TOR'S NOTirR. ~~
Nnt,c* „ hereby , hat L „ tterj TMtllm . nfarr
tv to th? by ,h " R - ai,t " r "f B-rtlbrd conn.
>, to the subscriber, on th estate of David Dick.
Z :\: of C b-rU.,,1 Valley p dece,,.d
to m!J PPr ~°" S !." eUt, * ,J "id M'itc ere notifled
to make immediate payment, end those bavin*
tleinentT PreSC "' ,he ' n l ' Uly au " le,,, t<- , teu for set.
a ... JONATHAN C. DICKEV.
_A t u" 15, 1862. Ctdt. _ Executor.
NOTICE.
I hereby g,ve notice that 1 have purchased the
M V o^h P |Tr ,ya,Sh '' r,,r ' J Ko*r milch
' I hI I I , fe ' a '" l orifl lotymare; all of
owner,' hl| l l-e in the possession of the Ufa
during mjpn Hluir, in Cumberland Valley town.hiu
aure. r '
August 1.1—3t. JACOB SI.IGER.
Contemplatin* a chai ge'pE.
p-cifu ly asK all who are in oiry business we res.
accounts upon on: boons, due |Ji t 0 p.,.- u ~
sett ed I'V the 20'h of August, 1862,5„,, r y i j,- not
to the pioper officer lor collection. * be given
A. B. CRAMER s
Augusl 8, 18C2 It.
(tcdloiMl IS.'iil (Court.
Scaled proposals for the graduation of one third
of one mile ot this load, beginning git the western
terminus of Section No. 12, leading thence to 'be
Tin opine Road, will be received by th Directors
up to Ihi 10th da* of September next. Estimates,
Ike., of the worn to be done will he on exhibition at
tile office of the Company in Bedford.
By older of the Board,
IOHN P. REED, Sec y.
Redford, Angus! 8, 1862. £
W, iltki,
Attention, Slncli Kiil)kcriber.
The su i.cribeis to the capital stock of the Bed
ford Red Road Company, are h-rebv notified, that
they can relieve themselves of the penal'y of 13
pr cent, interest on their subscriptions, by mailing
payment of the princip I on or b fore the 10th day
ol September next j md in case it will bs inconve
nient to pay cash lown, their notes payable in 30,
CO ami 90 days will be tanen a cash. After that
date suits will be brought ugainst all ileiinqntntj.
Bv order of the Board,
JOHN P. REED, Treasurer.
Bedford, August 8, 1802,
I OURT PROCLAMATION.
To th' Cornnor, th Jutttero of tho Pta*>, o i l Con--
atahlss in th' difftrtnl Towinkipt in tin County
of Bedford, Grming.
KNOW YE rbst in pursuance of a precept to roe
directed, under the hand and aeal ol the Halt.
JAMiS N lI_L, President of the several Courts
of Common Pleas in the Sixteenth District, eon
aiMiug of the counties of Frankin. Folton,
and Somerset, and by virtue of hia office of tbo'
Cotir of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail de
livery for the trial of capital and other offenders
therein and in the Ganeial Court of Q ilftcr S-ss
ions of the l>,>are • and Join* TAYI.OK and Jaxes
BCKNS, Jr. Esq-., Judges ol tne same Couit
in the same tbiunty of Beiiford, Yon aud each of
you are hereby required to he and appear in your
piopp, p-nons with yntir Records, R-rogrfiaaaces,
Examinations an I other rememb'uncos belore tha
Judges aforesaid. at B-d r o t. at a'' >urt of Over aud
i 'I •■imiiier and G-u-rul Jiil Delivery and General
j Quar'er ,Sesin-a of tne Peace therein In be hol'lea
fur the roiimy of Besllo d, aforesaid on the first
j Monday of September, (being the Ist, day.) at 10
j o'clook in the forenoon of that day, th - e ant then
j to slo those things to which your several offices ap
p-r'am.
j Gl VEN under my hand a' Redfo d, on thefitb of
I August, in the year of our Lord. IS 12.
JOHN J. CESSNA,
j Sheriff's Offipe. Redfotd, I .S lionJT.
1 August 8, 1862. I