be expected to continue for a long time after period as rapidly as before, because our territory ,jv>U not JjdVd become full. Ido not o%tnte Uiis. iuconsidcratol}'- At the same ratio df ihoreßßo which we have maintained on an averago from our first National census, in 1790, until tlsat of 1850, we should in 1900 have a population of 103,208,415 and why may we not continue that ratio far beyond that period! Our abundant room, our broad National Homc ttead, is our ample resource. Were onr territory as limited as are the Brit ish Isles, very certainly our population could not expand as stated. Instend of receiving the foreign born, as now, we should be compelled to send part of the native born away. But such is not our condition. Wo have '2,963,000 square miles. Europe has 3,800,000 with a population averaging 73 J persons to the square mile. Why may not our country at some time average as many! Is it less fertile? Ilns it Xiorc waste surface by mountains, rivers, Uf.cs deserts or other cause? Is it inferior to Eu rope in any natural advantage ? If then we are at some time to be as prosperous as Europe, how soon? As to when this may bo we can judge by the past and the present. As to when it will be, if ever, depends much on whether we maintain the Union. Several of our States arc above the average of Europe 73 Jto the square mile. Massachu setts has 157, Rhode Island 133, Connecticut 99, New York and New Jersey each 80. Also, the two other great States of Pennsylvania and Ohio are not far below, the former having 03 and the latter 59. The States already above the European average, except New York, havo increased in as rapid a ratio since passing that point as ever before, while no one of them is •qnai to some other parts of our country in natural capacity for sustaining a dense popula tion. Taking the nation in the aggregate, and wa find the population and ratio ot increase for the several decennial periods to be as follows.' 1790—3929,827. 1800—5,301,987; 31.02 per cent of increase. 1810—-5,239,814; 36.15 per cent, ratio of in crease 1820—9,633,131 ; 33 31 per cent. " " 4830—12,866,020 33.49 " " " 1849—17,01)9,458; 32.67 " " " 1859—23,191,876; 35.87 " " " 1860-31,443,799; 35.59 " " " Tliis shows an average decennial increase ot 81 69 per cent in population through tlio sev enty ycaas from our first to our hist census yet taken. It is seen that the ratio of increase at one of the seven periods is either 2 per oenl below, or 2 per cent, above the average, thus showing how inflexiblo and consequently how reliable the law of increase in "ir ease is Assuming tl> A will cotiUuue, it gives the following results: 1870, 42,323,372; 1880,56,966,216 ; 1890, 76,677,872; 1900,103,208,415; 1910,138,- 818,526; 1920, 480,984,335; 1930, 251,688,- 914. These figures show that our coantry may he M populous as Europe. Now, at some point between 1829 and 1830, say about 1825, our territory nt IS if parsons to the square mile be ing of the capacity to contain 217,180,000, and we will reach this too, if wo do not our selves, relinquish the chances by the folly and evils of disunion, or by long and exhausting wars, springing from the only great element of nation al discord among us. While it cannot bo iotc secn exactly how much one huge example of se cession, breeding lesserones, i nde_fini tsl)j, Jftppy IKlti jlilillli would shorten the war, perpetuate ' iwoe* ; - u - increase ot population and proportionately the wealth of the country.— With these wo ought to pay all the emancipa tion would cost, together with our other debts, easier titan we should pay our other debt with out it. If wc had allowed our old National debt to run at G per cent, per annum simple interest from the end of our revolutionary struggle un til to-day without paying nnythiug on either principle or interest, each man of us would owe less upon that debt now than eucli man owed then. This is because our increase of man through the whole period has been greater than six per cent., has run faster tluie the interest upon the debt. Thus time alone relieves the debtor so long as its populating increases faster than the uupail interest accumulates upon its debt. This fact would be no excuse for delaying the payment of what is justly duo, but it shows the great importance of time in this connection The great advantage of the policy by which we shall not have to pay until wc number one hundred millions what wo would have to pay now when wc number but thirty-one millions. To a word, it shows that a dollar will bo much harder to pay for the war, than will bo a dol lar for emancipation on the proposal plan.— And then the latter will cost no blood, no pre cious life. It will be a saving of both. As to the second article, I think it would be impracticable to return to bondage the class of persons therein contemplated. Some of them, doubtless in the property sense, belong to loy al owners, and hence provision is made in this article for compensating such. The third article retatos to the future of the frood, people. It does not oblige, but merely authorizes Congress to aid in colonizing such as may consent. This ought not to be regard ed as objectionable, on the oue hand or on the other, inasmuch as it comes to nothing unless by the mutual consent of the people so de ported, and the American voters, through their representatives in congress. I cannot make it better kuown thau it alrea dy is that I strongly favor colonizattoo, and yet liyisli to say there is an objection urged n gainsl free colored persons remaining in the country, which is largely imaginary, if not sometimes malicious. It is insisted that their presence would injure and displace -white la- Dor and white laborers. If there ever could a proper timo for catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through timo and •in eternity. Is it true that the colored people can (fisplaco any more white labor by being free by remaining slaves? If they stay i k !!? ) 1 " 8 th °y ,eave them °pen to white teboftrt Logically there is neither more nor leas or it. Emancipation even without depor tation woiitd probably enhance the wages of white labor and very surely would not reduce •1 1 • customary amount of labor would have to be performed. ~ Tht \ r weir oat do mora than woafditeIlt' 1 lt ' *** M,y < wobb| y for 7il d ®, l,,v . • inrraaieil part to w*UaUSor.r. t brin,in f thaw | 4 „ i#u £ ' ,O d-m.nrb .ml eoo.eouently nb.nein* tke wa.r. of -tpartatkoo avp to a limited asum, #. banting wagaa to white labor ia mathematically cartain. tabor ia like any other commodity in the market; increaae the Seioand f<* it and you increase the price of it. Reduce the supply of black labor bv coloniaing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely o mueff you increase the demand for wage* of white labor. But it ia dreaded that the fteed people will swarm forth and cover the whole land. Will liberation make them any more numeroua 7 Kqually diatribu ted among the states of the whole country, and there would be but one colored to aeven Whites. Could one in any way greatly disturb the seven? There aie many communities now having moie than one free colored person to seven whites and this without any apparent evil from it. The Dis trict of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Delaware are all in this condition. The District has more than one free coloted to six whites, and yet in ita frequent petitions to Congress I believe it has never presented the presence of free colored pel sons a3 oue ol its grievances. But why should emancipation South send the freed people North ? Temple ot any color seldom run unless there be something to run from. Here tofore, enslaved people, to some extent, have fled North from bondage, and now, perhaps, from both bondage and destitution, but if gradual emancipa tion and deportation be adopted, they will have neither to flee from. Their old masters will give them wages at least until new hands can be procured, and the freed men hi turn, will gladly give their labor for wages till new homes can be prooured for them in congenial climates, and with people ol their own blood and race. This proposition can be trusted on the mutu al interests involved, and, inetny event, cannot the North decide for itself whether to receive them 7 Again, as practice proves more than theory, in any case, has there been any irruption ot colored people Northward because of the abolishment of slavery in the District last spring! What I have said of the proportion ol free colo-ed persons to the whites, in the District, is liom the census of 1860, having no reference to the persons cai'.ed contra band*" or those made Dy the act of Congress abol ishing slavery heie. The plan consisting of these articles is recom mended, not but that a restoration of the national authority would be accepted without its adoption; nor will the war nor proceedings under the procla mation of Sepr. 22, 1862, be stayed because of the recommendation of this plan. Its timely adoption, 1 doubt not, would bring restoration, and thereby stay both. And, notwithstanding this plan, the recommenda tion that Congress provides by law for compensa ting any State which mav adopt emancipation be fore this plan shall have been u:ted upon is hereby earnestly renewed. Such would be only an advance part of the plan, and the same arguments apply to both. This plan is recommended as means, not in exclusion of, but additional te ail others for re storing and preserving tbc national authority throughout the Union- l'he subject is preseuted exclusively in its economical aspect. The plan ould, I am confident, secure peace more speedily and maintain it mora permanently tbsn can be done by iorce alone, while the entire cost, considering amounts of payment, would be easier paid than will' be the additional cost of the war, it we rely solely upon force. It is most likely that it would cost no blood at all. The plan is proposed as permanent constitutional law. It cannot become such without the concur rence of, first, two-thirds of Congress, and after wards, three-fourths of the States. The requisite three-fourths of the States wilt necessarily include seven of the slave states. Their concurrence, if obtained, will give assurance of tLeir severally a dopting emancipation at no very distant day upon tho new constitntionaltcrms. This assurance would end the struggle now, and save the Union forever. 1 do not forget the gravity which should :h3rac terize a paper addressed to the Congress of the na tion by the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Nor do I forget that some of you are my seniors; nor that many of you have more experience ttan 1 in the conduct of public affairs, yeti trust that in view of the great responsibility reflKlg upon me, you will perceive no want of respect to yourselves in any undue earnestness I may seem to display. Is it doubted that the plan I propose, if adopted, would shorten the war, and thus lessen its expen diture of money and ot blood. (• it doubted tbat it would <eatore (he national authority and national prosperity, and perpetuate hnth indefinitely.!— 10 ■ umteu and earnest appeal liom us 7 Can we, can they, by any oiher means, an cer tainly or so speedily assure these vita 1 objects 7 We , can succeed only by concert. It is not "can any of us imagine better?" but "can we all do better?" it is no object, whatsoever is possible j s'ill the question recurs, "can we all do better ?" The dogmas of the quiet.past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we most rise high with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we •ball seve the country. Frl/au CiliiKtis.— We cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered, in spite of ourselves. No personal sienificance or insignificance can spare one or an other of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down to honor or dishonor—to the la test generation. We say "We are for the Union." The world will not forget that Wo say this. We know how to save this Union. The world knows we know how to save it. We—even we here—hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the s'aves we assure free dom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve—we shall nnhly save or mean ly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed—this cannot fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. KJ-Among tho officers who distinguished thorn selves for their gallantry, at the battle of Poco tuligo, was our young friend, Capt T. 11. I,y ons, of this place. During the action, one o his men (John Coffea) was Wounded, and h was attempting to carry liim off, when a rift ball struck the coat sleeve of the captain ant entered tho body of the wounded man. Tin Captain succeeded, however, in bringing of Coffee, and passed through the conflict unsciv thod. Hio N. Y. Trtbune recently started tho sto ry that some of the Southern leaders had made mi informal proposition to leading Democrats in fhe North, tooomo back into tho Union. We might have had some hope tlmtthis story would turn out to be correct, had it first appeared in any other print than the Tribune. But the fact that it made its debut in that sink of falsehood, was sufficient to deter all sensible people from jelieving it, and branded it at onco as a ccinctnl, ivhich tho Tribune itself now admits it to have >een. ®-John Van Burcn announced in the course of a recent speech in New York city, that if any man who had caused tho arbitrary arrest ind imprisonment of any citizen of New York lnred set foot upon the soil of that State, he would he arrested and tried for this outrage up >n the liberty of the citizen. WMr. Michael Doner, of Napier tp., was run over, one day last week, by his team, and very seriously injured. The wheels passed over fiis breast, crushing it sadly. The cause of tho iccidont, was, wa lielieve, his horse* taking 'right and becomiag. uumanngoabl*. BEDFORD GAZETTE. B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR. FRIDAY, iiit DECEMBER 18, 1862. Tho President's Message. Barnum's "What Is It?" is said to be a great curiosity, but we doubt whether it is not ex ceeded in oddity and general ridiculousness by the second annual Message of His Excellency, President Lincoln. Of all the conglomeration of blunders, political, literary and logical, we havo ever attempted to analyse, this Messago is, beyond all doubt, the capstone. It is a stratification of the loose sand of special plead ing and the hot lava of fanaticism, cemented to gether by the soft clay of an uncultivated, and ill-balanced mental organism. I. The President opens by a very mild note of complaint against the action of foreign powers in recognizing the rebel confederacy as belliger ents. This would all be very well, hud not the President himself recognized the rebels as bel ligernnts, by arranging with them a cartel for the exchange of prisoners and doing many othor acts ol' a similar nature. 11. The organization of banking associations under a general act of Congress, is recommend ed. We doubt the constitutionality of this proposition. Congress has power to coin mon ey (that is specie) but not to establish banking associations; and it is quite clear that it is a right reserved to the States to charter hanks and to regulate the issuance of paper curren cy. Mr. Lincoln, either ignorant or regardless of State rights, under the Constitution, propo ses, by an act of Congress, to sweep away state banks and establish upon their ruins United Statc3 banks. If our astute President will take the trouble to consult Chancellor Kent, on this subject, he will find that he (the Presi dent) recommends Congress to go beyond its Con stitutional latitude. 111. The President tells us that the balance in the Treasury 011 the first day of July last, was $13,043,546,81. This is a specious state ment, intended to make credulous people be lieve that there was an actual balance in the Treasury on July 1, 1862. Now, the real state of the case is this: During the last year, according to the Message itself, the Government borrowed $529,692,460,50, to which must be added the former loans amounting to several hundred millions, and °t Ung bQTJ — l/ „ ero the realtors of the^Fe^nge' 'auu 04G.81 to $95,096,922 09, and subtract their sum from about $800,000,000, they will find that instead of an actual balance remaining in the Treasury on the first of July, the Govern ment then owed nearly $700,000,000, for bor rowed money alone, and that there was not a copper in the Treasury wherewith to meet the intcrcst. Put the President's own figures make our financial affairs bad enough. Just think of the expense of carrying on the Government for the last year, amounting to $174,744,778. 16! Nearly a million and a lialf for every day of our lives! Truly we pay enough to be governed better. IV. Indian a (fairs. The President abstains, with great caution, from giving any opinion as to the cause of the Indian outbreaks in Minnes sota, Ho has not one word to say about the infamous conduct of his agents in endeavoring to palm otr "greenbacks" upon the Indians, in stead of paying them in specie, as they are requi red to do, by the terms of the treaties with the aborigines. \ , ct Magna Part. Tho Negro. The proc* • Inanition of the 22d of September, declaring • the freedom of all the negroes in the seceded f States on the first of January next, aud propo i sing to buy the freedom of all other negro slaves > in the Union, is adhered to, and, in addition, a I plan for gradual emancipation, which is to be ! worked out by the year 1900, is submitted. ' Now, if the President has the power, as ho as sumes to have, to abolish slavery by proclama tion and armed invasion, wo do not sec the ne cessity for this proposed gradual emancipation. If. as Mr. Lincoln informed us on the 22d of September, all tho slaves in the states in rebell ion by the first of January, 1803, will be free on that day, by virtue of his proclamation, what use is there in proposing to Congress this tedi ous process of giving them freedom? BesiJes, if tho Abolishment of slavery alone enn restore tho Union, (which no sensible man ever believ ed) are we to lemain till 1900, (37 years) in the torture and agony of partial disunion ? And just here is tho point at which Mr. Lincoln stul tifies himself. Says he, "The proposed eman cipation would shorten the war," &c. Does the President desire to have us understand that tho war can, in any event, continue till 1900? If not, then, how can his proposed emancipa tion schemo, which is not to be fully tested till J 1900, "shorten tho war?" Wc arc also told that I fleeing the slaves would not prove injurious to | white labor, because, forsooth, they "aroalrca- j dy in the land!" But, Mr. Lincoln knows, or I i ougnt to know, that freed negroes are thriftless i creatures, working just enough to reduce tho I 1 wages of labor and becoming dependants upon j the wbetaoco of the white man. As to their i not overrunning the North, let the people along the Pennsylvania border testify. But we cannot pursue this subject much far tier. It is, to us, a disgusting theme. Nay, it ia enough to make any white man's blood b>il, to think that the President of the United Siates would devote ono half of his entire Mes sage to the consideration of a fanatical and worse than fool-hardy project to ameliorate the condition of negroes, when the white people of Union aro crying to him to be delivored from a ten times more dreadful curse than that of negro slavory, the curse of civil war, which the agitation of the negro questi on will inevi tably only aggravate and embitter, lias Abra ham Lincoln no heart, as well as no head ? Or why is it that he can hear the moan of the sol dier's widow, the cry of his orphan child and be unmoved to say even one word for their com fort, whilst, obedient to the dictates of section al animosity and party spite, he forces upon the porplc his own political schemes and partisan chicanery? Citizens and soldiers! ye are white men! Search the message and find a word in it, if you can, calculated for your benefit! You wdl see, as we do, that the whole bent of the Resident's inind is to carry out his Abolition projects—no matter at what expense—no mat te. - if the white race and the black suffer mu tual injury. lie must and will have, if possi ble, the negroes free, though <>, Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plaint, Dju'iling the native horror of the war, And making death mora grim." WHAT IT MKANS. —Pcoplo have sometimes wondered why Democratic journals placed a rooster at the head of their papers as an em blem of victory. Parson Brow 11 low fully ex plains the matter as follows: "As the erowing of the cock followed the. betrayal of Christ by Peter, so again the cock crows after the Democrats have attempted to brtray the Government and placo it in the pow er of its enemies." We find the above precious morceau gracing tie columns of a late number of the Blair County Whig. Abolition editors must be "hard :>" for something to say about the recent Dem ieratic victories when they are compelled to jpek up the crude witticisms of a blasphemous ?negade who was kicked out of the Southern oi federacy because he was too mean to bo tbleiatcd even there. But, Parson Brownlow has become a pet with die Abolitionists, notwithstanding the fact that lie aserts that he still holds, as hq did several pears ago, in public debate, that slavery is a di vine institution and must not be interfered with. Tlie inly reason we can see for their great love toward this clerical blackguard, is the fact that hisnaturnl and uncontrollable propensity for lyiig seems to be congenial to their habits and tascs. Why even in the above quoted para graph, preacher as he is, he falsifies Holy Writ. Pefer did not betray the Saviour, as Brownlow sa'S, but denied that he knew hint. In this res- neit Abraham Lincoln is another Peter. Al stand by bis master iVrtt/wtjlidl that lie would last, when the hour of trial camo, he denied and 'snored tii„ k —nter, and it was only then that the cocks crew. Cvt* I here is no war news of importance. The army 13 still in statu quo before Fredericks burg.—Congress has as yet done nothing of im portance. Our Congressional summary, crowd ed out by the Message this week, will bo re sumed in our next. n.amo of the unfortunate man, who, with his wife and two children recently perished in a prairc fire, 111 Kansas, was Josiah Keller nian, and not Joseph, as erroneously printed in our account of last week. *rWc soe it stated that Gen. McClcllan is about to prepare a history of his campaigns. If this he so, wo shall look for an expose of the malice and devilislmess of tho Abolition lead cm that will o ien tho eyes of some people. 3-We are indebted to Lieut. John Cole, for merly of this count)-, for late copies of the Richmond Enquirer and Richmond Dispatch. Lieut. Cole informs us that he was for nvo Months a prisoner in Richmond, hat is wrong with the reservoir, water pipes, hydrants, "or any other man," that the inhabitants of Pitt street must suffer for want of water? (tF*l here nre no less than 370 sick and woun ded soldiers in tho hospital at Cumberland, Md. For the Gaeclte. A Eeconnoigsance, The second "Wood Regiment," commanded by Col. lltighurd , whose Head Quarters were recently established at the Poor Mouse, made its sudden uppcarunce in our town the other day, anil for a time, took up its quartersin the wood ynrd of ltev. Mr. Tingling, and at his house quartered a number of turkeys and other ar ticles of subsistence well known to the corps U' arnieo. As they brought their own supplies, however, on their well loaded wagons, it was no one's business what they brought, or didn't leave. On one occasion the Col. suggested tho propriety of backing in one of tho wagons to relieve Quarter Muster Lutz's plate of the skeletons thereon, but tho turkey bones were buried under the wood-pile and that branch of ! the service was dispensed with. Some fear of intervention was at one time entertained from the presence of England on the occasion! (Hil ly I moan). Rut I must quit joking and get in Finiest, for Isaac was there, too, and assisted the Quartermaster about the wood-pilo consid erably. Your correspondent left about this time, but returned in due course, having been notified by some of the Vivuiulieres that the of ficers intended to have a priivto dinner party. Well, I came back and inquired for the private > party and when shown the sumptuous board provided by tho hospitable (not hospital) ladies who belonged to tho regiment, camoto the very natural conclusion that if private, Uncle Sam'n ! or some other public- pocket was paying for the roast. But here were the otllcors, Colonel to Corporal Beiglmrd (Sol.), Stueky, Lutz (the quartermaster aforesaid) .Smonse, Bowser, Sha fer, Boegle, Fetter, Hnishbarger, Croyle, Ling, Koons, Hill, Mower (Mad Anthony Wayne) Jloivser and—you might say they wero all haw sers'. I observed no privities , and for this rea son again thought there was nothing very pri vate about it. I shall not, lot - rf while, forget the good Dntch cheese that came fro tithe 'Dutch Corner,' nor the buttor out of the Valley Spring houses, nor the pies that didn't shell all off when you wanted to bite the crust. But I must con clude this account of my reconnoissance, clo sing my observations with the wish that if over "Stonewall" gets out in the Corner among those spring houses, he may l)e at once captured and sent to the Poor House by the veteran Colonel of that gallant regiment. A SCOUT. BSjrWhilst on a visit to our old home, (Bed ford, Pa.,)we were shown through tho extensive establishment of George Biy mi ro & Son, one of the largest and best Hardware Stores in the State. It is really a credit to "ye. ancient Bor ough," and we hope that the enterprise of the proprietors will meet with liberal encourage ment from the people. It was about the only evidence of improvement that we noticed in the place, and it was of so decided a nature, that we thought it worthy of honorable mention.— Indiana Democrat. From the Miner''s Journal. FROM TIIE SOTU ltuo., P. V., Cor.. WHITE. Account of the Action in South Carolina on the 22d of October. CAMP 55TH UKO., P. V. ) Beaufort, S. C., Oct. '24 th, 1832. ( EDITOHS MISER'S JOURNAL : Probably ere this reaches you you will have heard of an ad vance made in this department to cut off com munication between Charleston and Savannah at I'ocotaligo bridge, and of the retreat of our forces on account of having no means of con veying ammunition in sufficient quantities to our troops, and of their subsequent return to this place without having accomplished their objuet. The expedition started from this place and Hilton Head oil the afternoon of the 21st. Ou the 22d our forces landed and advanced about live miles when the first fighting commenced.— Twice were tho rebels driven from their posi ions. At the third position our ammunition gave out, and our forces were obliged to retire, which they did in remarkably good order. Our artillery captured one wagon of the rebels' am munition, and fired tho ammunition at them as long as it lasted. The fighting continued from about 12 o'clock until dusk of the evening.— They returned last night, 23d inst. The for ces engaged from Beaufort were portions of tho 55th and 47th Pcnna., CJtli Connecticut, 4th New Hampshire, the Ist Massachusetts Caval ry and Rhode Island battery, under command of Brigadier General Brannan. The entire loss of our forces will amount to about 300 in killed and wounded, though it it may fall as low as 200, but certainly uot more than three hundred. The 47th Pennsylvania were, the severest suf ferers ns their loss out of 600 engaged, will a mount to about 120 in killed and wounded.— Tlicy pushed forward with the impetuosity of The loss of the 551h Penna. Vols., is 29 in killed, wounded and missing. Four were kill ed, and one missing, also wounded. Too much praise cannot be extended to Dr. Merritt, of Philadelphia, surgeon of the ootli yegimct, for his untiring and unceasing care in leistering to the aid and comfort of the poor unfi)rt. naert whose doom it was to lw wounded. Iho Dot.v, r j 3 spoken of in th% high est terms by all who saw l.vn on that day, tor 1113 coolness and unmistakable skill, and his iv. ness for the important position which he has the honor to hold. j I also take pleasure in staling that Dr. J. B. I Brandt, Llewellyn, Schuylkill County, former ly a Captain iiuheSOth Regiment, Col. Christ, but now assistant surgeon of the 55th, ligurod quite conspicuously in earing for the wounded Major oohn 11. Filler wus as cool as a cucum ber. lie was constantly cracking jokes, ami when the balls came a little close he was heard to say, "Ah! rather close that lime." At one time, when the shells were coming rather too thick for comfort, the order was given to lie down. Dr. Urandt, and the hospital Steward Joseph VV. Hughs, (who, by the way, was for merly a l'ottsvillian,) followed suit. Soon a Kbell came in quite close proximity to where they weru lying, literally covering our two he roos with sand. The Dr. struck two or three somersnujts. The steward says, to use his own language, lie thought "it is all over with you : Brandt." One poor fellow had his whole low* ,cr jaw with a portion of the upper carried a way, leaving only his noso and eyes remaining, exposing his wind pipe to view, and strange to say, he was quite sensible and was still living this morning. Among t lie casualties arc Col. Chatfield, of the 6th Conn., wounded; two Captains of the 47th Dentin., since dead from their wounds; two Captains, one of them Captuin Wayne, killed, and Captain Hamilton, seriously wound ed, of tho 47th Donna. Iho 55th did nobly. Having attracted the attention of the General commanding, he rode, up and inquired who they were. When told, lie said, "You are the boys to keep it up. Go in." The 47th and 55th Pennsylvania fought side by side during the whole engagement. It is said that in point of numbers engaged it is one ot the hardest contested fights on record during this rebellion. -OIED— — ———— ■■■imimnii .miwiimi m,, mnai GROVE.—On tho 27th ult., in St Clair tp., after a brief illness, Miss Emma Jane Grove, aged 18 years, 3 months, and 21 days. Sister, thou wast mild and lovely, Gentle as the summer breeze, Pleasant as the air of evening When it floats among the trees. Peaceful be thy silent sluinlier, Peaceful in the grave so low; Thou no more, wilt join our number, Ihott no more our songs shall know. WATERS-—On the first of December, in Milligan's Cove, of diplhorin, Sophia Waters aged about 10 years. Dearest sister, thou bast left us, Here thy loss we deeply feel; Rut tis God that hath bereft us, lie can "all our sorrows heal. —.HARRIED - PllK.SSb.Ij—MOCK.—Near St. Nov. 80th, lit tfce ev N. E. Gilds, Mr Abra ham Preasol to Miss Rebecca Mock, both of U nion tp. , . - 2C fw 2i) d c tils tn\t nt •/ Public Sale OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. The subscribers will sell at the late residence of Jacob Burr dollar, Esq., dec'd, at Bloody Run, on Thursday, the 1 8th December, inst., three large work horses, one two year old colt, milch cows and young cattle, six fat hogs, horw gears, wagons, ploughs and harrows, one cart, two buggies, one wind mill, one straw cutter, one grain drill, grain in the ground, hay by the' lon, also, whoat, rye and corn by the bushel, two clocks, tables and chairs, one cook Stove, two ten [date and one coal stove; bedsteads and bedding, bureaus, cupboards, carpeting and household furniture too numerous to insert. Also, a lot of lumber and chestnut rails. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock on stud day, and continue till all is sold, when duo attend ance will be given and terms made known b> J. M. BARNDQLLAB, J. B. WILLIAMS, Bloody Run, Dec. 12. Executors- _ Public Sale. There will be sold at public sale, in ths bor ough of Bedford, on Saturday. 27th December iust., all the following Keal Estate: ONE TRACT OF LAJVD, containing 70 ncrcs, more or less, with oae good tenant house, one log stable and other out buildings thereon erected. Also, a good apple orchard of choice fruit thereon, nnd a spring of never-failing water; situated in Coleraiti township, Bedford county. Title indisputable. Possession given on the first of April next. Terms to be made known on day of sale. EVELINA C. HAKKLF.ROAD. WILLIAM B. HARTZEL Dee. 12, 1862.—3t. KSriIAYS. Came tresspassing upon the premises of the | subscriber residing in St Clair tp., on or about j the first of November last, one yellow dui I calf and one white calf, with rod head, both of I them one year old last spring, and having no J ear marks. The owner is requested to coma i forward, prove property, pay cliarges and tuk* them away, or they will be disposed of accor ding to law. MATILDA MARSHALL. Doc. 12th—3ts., EXECUTORS NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that Letters Testa mentary have been granted by the Register of ! Bedford County to the subscribers o:t the last j Will and Testament of Jacob Bannloliar, lata |of Bloody Run, Be Iford County, dee'd. All | persons indebted to said estate arc required to ! make immediate payment, aud those having j claims thereon arc notified to present them in i due form for settlement. J. M. BARNDOLLAB, J. B. WILLIAM-?, Dee : l2,lßG2.—4ts. Executors. NOTICE OF INQUISITION. Whereas, Levi Harilinger, guardian of Daniel end George Hnuk, heirs at taw of Daniel Hook, late of Valleytownship, Bedford county, tie - said Daniel Houk, taTTly dTe"d hife! o ','* ' •*' ,h * his hens at taw : MlU ' '••", One daughter, named Mary, int.rm.rri.d with Amos Gross, residing in Allegany county Mary land. and the children of his son, George lloulr de w'n i V\i ■'* intermarried with Daniel I Wollord, Oliver P. H. Honk, D.sniel Hoult and Geo. i ? k > ,h f " ,ree kr being minors ; said chitdrsn i in Cumherlur.d Valley township, afore said, the children ct Sureli, now deceased, who waa ; intermarried with John B. llsrdinger. via : ! Ihf'fu'T residing Monroe county, in the ( state of Michigan, S aab, intermarried witbGeorg* . bite, residing in Cumberland, Md., Daniel H. Har- I lutely residing in Logan county, in the stat* Hirari"°u'' .'' UW >n ar ' ny ,h ' Suited Stats., towiKhi ?' nger -'. ,n Cumberland Valley iece sed ? °' esa,t, .> children of Elizabeth, now er, viz Da'- 7m John Harding, state of Ot L S °' V ta,el >" residicg in tba and Geo. -e W Ha.'r 6 ot ,he S, "'e i • nrtu. i j . * ami* the chihlffi) of Di usil- Brnshear.^vds! Da" W,lhZ<lo ' aiding in A^'anyZafyTCZT"™% army of the United Srate.,'7.&" Z e W residing in said eour.tyof Allegw/a, .iryLnd& M ,he '""'y of the United Sut.,' Bra shears aid William Brusheare, whoe m i". residing m Saul Allegany county, Maryland, and' that raid rnlestute died seized in his demesne as of fee, of, m and to the following leal estate, via- a house and luf ol ground in the town of Rarnshurw in said county of Bedford ; also, a tract ol land to Ike tswaship.ol Gurr.benland Valley, end county, adjoining lands of the heir, of Andrew Rica dee'd George M ion and" others,, containing about tm. hundred and forty seres, and praying the Coart to afor'safd lnque,t ,on> * k,! Ptition ef t-hepremi.ee Notice is, therefore, hereby given, thftt in pursu ance of u writ of partition or valuation to me direos nn\h* ' ,0 h°'d an inquisition or vatoatioo rv ?i!k """•• °". Vl °day. 'he sth day of faoua Sherit, . s Ofßce, ?g£Sg+ *■* TAKE NOTICE. l l.u books of Wijfiam Spklel, from the Ifltb of August, 1301, to tho 24 til .September, 1862 are assigned to J. M. Shoemaker & Co., and are in my hands for collection. Persons who have accounts on said books, will call at or oihce without delay and make settlement, there by saving costs. H, NICQDEMUS. J>c. 12, 1862. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. ' I.etter9 testamentary on I he estate of Jacob Kautf. man, late of St. Clair township, deceased, hsvinx been granted to the under,igned. ell persons indebt ed to raid estate are hereby notified to make imme diate p.yment, and those havingclaim, will present them properly authenticated for settlement. n u a .co HR NRY KAUFFMAN, _Do c ember 5, :BG2._6f Executor. EXECUTOR'S "NOTICE. • Letter, testamentary on the estate of Charlea Hnyrosn, late of Londonderry township, deceased. g 'n n,ed tJ lb9 persona n lebted to said estate are hereby ncdifiwl to make immediate payment, and those having claims will present them dulv authenticated fur settlement JAMES MATTINGLY, - 5, 18G3._6t. Executor. STRAY SfEER. fame trespassing on the premise, of the subscriber residing in Onion township, about the third day of November, a brindled muley steer, with a while rate and a notch under the left ear, supposed to be about or.e year old lasc >p,lug. The owner is reqnestet to prove pioperty and take l.iui away or he will bo disposed of according to law. - , XJ?PH CKOTLE Ikecember , l#e„
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