BEDFORD GAZETTE. B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR. ~FRfDAY : : AUGUST 21, 1563, DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. STATE TICKET. Fo GOVERNOR, GEORGE W. WOODWARD, OF LUZERNE. FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, WALTER H. LOWRIE, OF ALLEGHENY. COUNTY TICKET. ASSEMBLY, B. F. METERS, Bedford Bor. PROTHONOTARY, O. E. SHANNON. Bedford Bor. SHERIFF, JOHN ALDSTADT, St. Clair. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, SAMUEL DAVIS, Bedford Bor. TREASURER, ,T. B. FARQUIIAR, Bedford Bor. COMMISSIONER, GEORGE IiHOADS, Liberty. AUDITOR, DANIEL BARLEY, M. Woodbem. POOR DIRECTOR, HENRY MOSES, Bedford tp. CORONER, JAMES MAXTINGLY, Londonderry. Grand Democratic Rally! The Democrats of Bedford county, are respect / fully, but earnestly, requested to assemble in MASS MEETING, at the Court House, in Bedford, on MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31st. for the purpose of ratifying the State and County nomina tions. An address will be delivered on the occa sion by HON. GEORGE W. BIDDLE, of Philadelphia. Hop. Chas VV. Cairigan. and Hon, Georqe M. Wharton, of Philadelphia, and Chauncey F. Black, Esq., of York, have likewise been invited, and are expected, to address the meeting. The Berlin Brass Band will also be in attendance. Turn out, Democrats! Rally for your liberty, for law and order, for free dom of speech, of the press and of the ballot-box. JOHN P. REED, Aug. 21. Ch'n. Dem. Co. Com. The Enrolment for the Draft. From a statement published in a late num ber of the Somerset Herald .j- Whig, we learn the singular fact that Bedford county has more men enrolled than either Adams or Somerset, though the former has a population at least ono third greater than our county and the latter is set down in the census of 1860, as exceeding us by about 70. Our enrolment contains sev eral hundred more names than that of either Adams or Somerset, whilst it falls but a few hundred short of that of Franklin, which county contains nearly twice as many inhabi tants as ours. Now, the draft made last fall, put all the counties upon an equality, so far as the present draft is concerned. Since then there has been no volunteering, of any account, for which any county received credit. Ilcnee, there must be something wrong in the enrol ment for this district. When we have 3,300 names enrolled, Adams should have -1,400 and Franklin 6,000. Have the enrolling officers of those two counties failed to do their duty? That is the question and a very important one for all who uro within the clutches of the Con scription. Wc sec, also, that Provost Marshal Eyster has invited persons from the several counties to witness the drawing. Well, we httvo no doubt that tiie drawing will lie entirely fair, hut who knows whether the enrolment was rnado with impartiality and whether the tickets are correctly copied from the enrolment and the numes honestly put in the wheel ? In order to assure the people of fairness the enrolment should not be withheld from inspection and the tickets, when about to be put in the wlieel, should be open to examination. If the enrol ment and the tickets are not right, the draft will be unfair, no matter how honest nnd cor rect the drawing. The Quota of Bedford County. We give below the. quotas of the several dis tricts under the draft about to be made, as fur nished to us by the Deputy Provost Marshal. This tabic includes the. 50 per cent, excess, lied ford Borough, 31? Bedford Township, 03 Broad Top, 59 Colcrain and Snake Spring, 55 Cumberland Valley, 35 East Providence, 25 Harrison, 19 Hopewell, 26 Juniata, 33 Liberty, 36 Londonderry, 20 Middle Wood berry 59 Monroe, 42 Napier, 46 Southampton, 58 South Weudberry, 44 St. Clair, 48 Union, 37 West Providence, 40 Total, 758 Conservatives vs. Destructives. The distinctive features of the two political parties into which the jicoplo of the North are at presentdivided, are Conservatism awl Destruction. The Democratic party, on the one hand, insists upon the conservation of our political institu tions as handed down to us by the fathers of the Republic. "The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is," is the watch-word of the Democracy. On the other hand the Administra tion or Abolition party have made it their fixed and unchangeable purpose to destroy the politi cal fabric erected by the adoption of the Federal Constitution. They hate and loathe the Un ion as it was. They spit upon and trample under foot the sacred instrument in which Washington and his compeers lodged, for eter nal safety, the liberties of the American people. They crush out civil freedom by muzzling the press and casting citizens into prison and trans porting them into exile, without trial by a jury of their peers and without regarding even the forms of law. They make war upon the rights of those willing to submit to the authority of the Government, by emancipating their slaves and confiscating their property in general. Finally, they declare it to be their unalterable determina tion to abolish negro slavery, before they will re ceive the seceded states back into the Union, and to this end they arc willing that ever)- white man, woman and child in the rebel states, shall be destroyed, and that, if necessary to effect this result, "the last man and the last dollar" in the North, shall he sacrificed. Such are the Des tructives and such are their doings and their in tentions. No matter how great the sufferings of the people, their programme of destruction must be carried out to the letter. No matter if every household mourns a slain father, son, or brother, their crusade of devastation must go on. No matter if the country is bankrupted and pauper children cry in vain for bread, the bloody, vengeful and blighting revolution which they have inaugurated, must not be turned back ward. They are seated upon the Juggernaut car of Destruction which is to grind to powder the prostrate South, though to reach its special victim, its wheels must first pass over the dead bodiesof millions of their fellow men. The South is their Carthage and Carthago est deltnda.— How cheering, bright and gladsome, then, is the contrast between the objects of these, mad des tructives and the purposes of the grand con ! servative element of the country—the Democracy I —that glorious old political organization, which j reveres the wisdom of the early years of the ! Republic, which folds to its bosom with undy | ing devotion, the sacred charter of our liberties, ; which asks only that the Union shall bo restor |ed as Washington made it, which desires an j early cessation of bloodshed and an honorable i and lasting peace, and whose warmest, purest ! wish is to savo what remains to us of the splended heritage bequeathed to us by a letter and nobler generation. Between theso parties, Conservative Democracy and Destructive Ab olitionism, the people must choose. The prin : ciples and policy of the former are illustrated iin the history of the country. The results of j the doctrines of the latter, are written in blood i upon almost every hearth-stone in the land. | How then can the decision be doubtful? The Town Council vs. "Wheelbarrow." The last issue of the Bedford Inquirer, con tains an attack upon the Burgess nnd Council, and particularly upon Mr. William Hartley, a member of the Council, in which it endeavors to hold those gentlemen generally and Mr. Hart- Icy especially, responsible for the condition of the water-works, &c. This attack has elicited the subjoined statement, which is signed by eve ry member of the Council, irrespective of party, and which brands the Inquirer man as a delib erate anil wilful falsifier. This ought to bo suf ficient to cause that unscrupulous libeller to de sist from his shameful practises. As to the gentlemen of the Council, they need no defence at our hands. A few years ago, the Borough was §I2OO in debt, nnd now it is clear of all indebtedness, and the tax assessed at pres ent is 2 mills instead of 4, as it was when Iv. N. Hepublicanism ruled the roast. But, read the following plain language used by the Town Council in reply to the Inquirer: STATEMENT. Whereas, the editor of the Bedford Inquirer, ,T. R. Durborrow, in his paper of the 14th inst., stated that Win. Hartley obtained a contract to supply hydrants for the use of Bedford borough, and charges Mr. Hartley with falsehood and de ception, and likewise insinuates malfeasance on tho part of the Burgess and Council in employ ing one of their own number in the purchase or procurement of hydrants, Therefore, wc, the undersigned members of tho Council of Bedford borough, without re spect to party, declare the statement of J. R. Durborrow WILFULLY and MALIGNANT LY FALSE so far as Mr. Hartley is concern ed, and repel with INDIGNATION and CONTEMPT the imputation against us. Mr. Hnriley was ordered to purchase the hy drants, and furnishes them at the Philadelphia price, freight added; and the dolay in getting them was caused by tho fact that for some time the railroad companies would carry no freight, and also from a want of understanding as to kind of hydrants desired, which occasioned some correspondence between Mr. Hartley and the parties from whom the hydrants were purchased. V. STECKMAN, C. Burgess. CrBOUGK REINUND, Ast't Burgess. W. W. Shuck, W. Findlay .Mann, D. l?or der, G. Manlorif, A. J. Sansoin, Wm. Hartley, Cuuncilmn. SiT Democrats, organise ! To work! To work! Call your township clubs together ! I Cold meet ings! Circulate documents! It is ever the duty of Democrats to be active, but it is doubly so now, when life, liberty and property arc invol ved in the issue. Oh, let not an hour go by tnimprowed. We must not only defeat the ene my, but we Aust rout and destroy him I For ward to the charge! SOMKRSETCO.—The Rep.Senatorial Conference brought a number of the Somerset politicians of that ilk to this place on Tuesday, all of thorn "clever" fellows, barrin' their politics. The party consisted of Mnj. Jno: Kr.ablc, Senator Stutzman, Protlumotury Kooutz, C. Meyers, Esq., and Mr. Keller. Whilst glad to see them personally, we cannot help admonishing them that their political mission here is all in vain, as the Democracy will elect the next Senator themselves. 'CF°"Atteiid the Democratic Mass Sleeting on Monday night of Court week. It will be the greatest meeting held in this county for years. Let every Democratic furmcr hitch up his team and bring those who have no conveyance of their own. See the call at our editoral head. IC?" There is nothing new from the seat of war. Charleston still remains in rebel hands. It is-thought Ft. Sumter may be reduced, but even then the taking of Charleston, will not be certain of accomplishment. CarOnrarmy correspondent, "Virginia," gives us an indication of the feeling in the army. He is one of the best and truest men that entered the array from this county. COKRESFOJYUEXCE. For th* Bedford Gazette. "Pizen." MR. EDITOR: The other day I was in the Post-ofiice at St. Clairsville, and while there the following conversation occurred: P. M.—Mi. Trout, hero is a paper for Mr. it to him? G. D. TROUT.—What paper is it? P. M.—The "Bedford Gazette." G. D. T.—Oh! that pizen sheet. I won't touch it! Mr. may come for it himself. Mr. Trout would not take tho "Gazette" to his near neighbor, because it is the organ of the Democratic party of Bedford county, and I lmve heard him electioneer against you, Mr. Editor, by calling you a "Secessionist," &c., because yon nre on the Democratic ticket. Now, this same man Trout, who thinks a Democratic news paper "pizen" and calls a Democratic editor a Secessionist, will want Democrats to vote for him at the coming election. Mind Win, Demo crats, and when ho comes near you, tell him to keep aloof for fear you might be "pizen" to him. WATCHMAN. St. Clair tp., Aug. 18th. SAXTON, I'A., Aug. 15, 18G3. MR. METERS: Abraham Lincoln said in his inaugural address, that the States were then all in tho Union ; he refused to acknowledge them sece ded ; yet he admits a part of Virginia back in to the Union. Why ? To carry out the first grand idea of the administration—the abolition of slavery. A slice off Virginia, with the ne groes made free, would do for a beginning. Wm. H. Seward wrote M. Mercier, the Min ister from France, that the seceded States should all be received back into the Union, intact, just as they were, with their domestic institutions and laws, including slavery, with the Senators that survived, members of the lower house, &e. Now, the Washington Chronicle, speaking ex ca thedra, says, they shall be admitted into the U nion only upon the unconditional surrender of slavery. The Proclamation, tho Confiscation Act, the Territorial Anti-Slavery Act, the abo lition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the speeches of Sumner, Phillips, Thaddeus Ste vens, and the editorials of the administration press everywhere, say the same thing. Now, what docs all this teach? Most certainly that the question of the Union with tho Administra tion is past, and that it is one now of l subjuga tion and extermination, for the purposes of Ab olition. We, here, have been war-men, for we were under tho impression that tho war was waged solely for the restoration of the Union; but who can bo a war man for the purpose of carrying fire and sword to the homes and fami lies of the Southern people, in order that slave ry may be abolished? Not we, not the people, and this we will surely show the Administration this fall. I ask you, on behalf of our people, through your valuable paper, to urge upon your readers this great question: Is the war to con tinue, as it is now, one of Abolitionism, or shall it be changed to one for tho Union, and the pure principles of Democracy? Ijt every one know and understand the stubborn fact, that to save our good old Government, under the good old flag, wo must put the Abolitionists out of pow er every where, at every election, and place men in power who really desire tho Union as it wns and the Constitution as it is—letting slavery a lone, whether, in itself, it be right or wrong— it being none of our business, but the concern alone of the people of the States in which it exists. Your s, truly, CAIiHON. J FAUQUIER CO., Va., Aug. 11, 'O3. FRIEND METERS. : i'lease allow ma a space in the columns of your valuable and true Union paper. We have heard so much about "Copperheads" down here, from the newspapers that visit us, that we are almost inclined to believe that the whole North is one vast den of that poisouous reptile; but, ibhade of Milton! judge of our surprise when we found it was applied to good, Union loving. patriotic and honest Democrats. To listen to the bitter invectives, hurled against them, and the hellish deeds they nre accused of, one would wonder that they were tolerated in this "land of the free and the home of the brave." liut it is not wonderful; for the "U --nion I/Caguers" (heaven save the mark!) are go ing to take care that the "Copperheads" do not bite too hard, we suppose. We have not seen any of that species of snake down here in ''Dix ie," so we suppose they only breed in Northern latitudes, where there is a little "spec" to be made during the coming fall elections. By the term "Copperhead," we are instructed that trai tors and secessionists are meant, and as the good old Democrats are named after ' 'his snakeship," it is but fair to presume that seccssionism is largely in the majority in the "old Keystone State." We wonder, therefore, that she has not "seceded" ere this, but we presume she will se cede from Abolition rule on or about the sec ond Tuesday of October next. We have named our camp, "Camp Starva tion," not that we are actually in that condi tion, but next door to it, and if we get a few more quarter masters and commissariats to bar ter away our rations to the few citizens that are here, because they give exorbitant prices, wc will have to tighten our "stays." One dollar per pound for coliee or sugar, will make those in power stretch their consciences a notch or two, anr