BEITORD GAZETTE.
B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
FRIDAY * : SEPT KM BF.R 25, 1863.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEOBGE W. WOODWARD,
OF LUZERNE.
FOB JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
WALTEE H. LOWEIE,
OF ALLEGHENY.
STATE SENATOR,
WILLIAM J, BAER,
OF SOMERSET.
REPRESENT ATI VF,
BENJ. F. MEYEES,
BEDFORD BOROUGH.
32r ~ COUNTY TICKET.
PROTTIONOTARY,
0. E. SHANNON, Bedford Bor.
SHERIFF,
JOHN Ar DSTADT, St. Clair.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
SAMUEL DAVIS, Bedford Bor.
TREASURER,
J. B. FARQUHAR, Bedford Bor.
COMMISSIONER,
GEORGE KIIOADS, Liberty.
AUDITOR,
DANIEL BARLEY, M. Woodberry.
POOR DIRECTOR,
IIENRY MOSES, Bedford tp.
CORONER,
JAMES MATTINGLY, Londonderry.
Election, Tuesday, October 13.
AH, - "•
Democratic Meetings.
Meeting! of the Democracy and all others wl.o are
willing to unite with them for the purpose of main
taining the Constitution as it is sad restoring the
Union as it was, will be held at the following pla
cet and limes:
WATER STREF.T, Saturday, Sept. 26th, at 2 o
clork, P. M.
FLETCHER'S STORE, Monroe tp., Monday,
Sept. 2Rth, at 2 o'clock, P. M.
SLEEK'S SCHOOL-HOUSE, near New Paria,
Tuesday, Sept. 29th. at' 2 o'clock, P. M-
St. (. LAIRSVILLE, Tuesday, Sept. 29th, in the
•yening.
D. A. T. BLACK'S. E. Providence tp., Wednes
day, Sept. 30th, at 2 oclock, P. M.
BLOODY RUN, Wednesday, evening, Sept. 30th.
BITENA VISTA. Thursday evtning, Oct. Ist.
PLEASANTVII.LE, Fiiday, Oct. 2J, at 2 o'clock
P. M.
WF.YANT'S, Union tp., Friday evening, Oct. 2d.
BCHELLLSBURU, Saturday, October 3d, at 2
•'clock. P. M.
WOODBKRRY, Monday, Oct. sth, at 2 o'clock,
P. M.
FLITCHVILLB, Monday evening, Oct. sth.
HARTLEY'S SCHOOL-HOUSE, Snake Spring
tp., Tuesday evening. Oct. oth.
DEFIBAUGH'S SCHOOL-HOUSE, Cumberland
Valley tp., Tuesday evenine, Oct. 6th.
HANEY'S SCHOO'.HOUSE, Cumberland Valley
township. Wednesday evening, Oct. 7th.
GEORGE W. FOWF.LL'S, it Harri on township
Thursday, Oct. Bth. at 2 o'clock, P. M.
BOWSER'S MILL, Colerain township, Friday
•veiling, Oc. 9th.
Able speakers will be present at and address these
meetings.
\Z2T VALENTIN K HAY, E?q., editor nf theSom-!
♦net Democrat, and CHARLES A. (rAITHER, late!
of the Army of the Potomac, will be present at and
address a number of these meetings.
If any places have been omitted, where, in the
judgment of our fiiends, meetings should be held,
they will be added to the above list, in case the
speakers can be supplied and the undersigned is in
formed in time to give notice.
JOHN P. REED,
Ch'n. Dem. Co. Com.
The Habeas Corpus Again Suspended.
The President has issued n proclamation
eospending the writ of habeas corpus in all
eases where, by the nuthority of the President,
military, navnl and civil officers of tlio United
States, or any of them, hold persons under their
command or in their custody, cither as prisoners
of war, spies, or aiders or abettors of the enemy,
or officers, soldiers or seamen enrolled, drafted,
mustered or enlisted in tho land or naval forces
of the United States, or deserters therefrom, or
otherwise amenable to military law, &c. The
authority of all civil courts in these cases is thus
set aside, and military rule placed above it: and
the proclamation of tho President is declared to
lie continued in force throughout the duration
of the wnr. or until Mr. Lincoln shall see fit to
revoke it.
S.iys the Fulton Democrat: —This proclama
tion seems to us to be intended especially to he
made applicable to the eases of such men as may
imagine themselves to ho wronged by the opera
tion of the draft. It is in all respects violative
of the Constitution, and an outrage on the estab
lished rights of the people.
Soldiers,
Remember that Judga WOODWARD, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, has two sons in
tho Army of the Potomac, whilst Curtin has
none. Remember that Judge Woodward's in
terposition in your favor, in his well-known deei
ion, saves your property from execution whilst in
the service. Remember that it was upon the
motion of the "Republican" candidate for Sher
iff of Philadelphia that Judge Woodward was
compelled to decide that soldiers can voto only
when at their proper places of voting within the
State; nnd that Judge READ, the only "Re
publican"'on the bench, co-incideJ with Judge
Woodward in this opinion. Remember that
Judge Woodward is for the Union, without an
IF or a BUT, whilst Curtin, is for a new Union,
IF negro slavery be left out of it. Remember
these things and vote accordingly
DemocraticlMeetings.
The campaign was opened by a spirited and
enthusiastic meeting at Barley's School-House
in Bedford township, on Thursday, Sept. 17th.
ISAAC D. EARNEST was called to the chair,
Daniel Fetter, Jonathan Reighard, Zachariah
Koontz and Daniel Hcltzell were chosen Vice
| Presidents, and Isaac E. Reighard and Charles
D. Koontz, Secretaries. Speeches were made
by E. F. Kerr, M. A. Points and B. F. Mey
ers. Mhe meeting adjourned with three cheers
for the Union, the Constitution and the Demo
cratic Ticket.
UNION TOWNSHIP.
The Democracy of Union township met, pur
suant to previous notice, at the hotel of Thos.
C. Reighard, on Saturday last, and were orga
nized by the appointment of MICH AEL SHAF
FER, as President; Martin Divcly, Samuel
Beard, Henry VVertz, David Dickey, Michael
Divcly and Samuel Croyle, as Vice Presidents,
and George Walter and George Moses as Sec
retaries. About 100 voters were in attendance.
Hon. Wm. P. Schell and Col. Joseph W. Tate
delivered able and eloquent addresses, which
were listened to with marked attention and re
ceived with the most enthusiastic applause.
BROAD TOP.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the De
mocracy and other conservative men who intend
to vote for Woodward and the Democratic tick
et, was held at Fairplay, on Friday last. The
meeting was organized by jlie appointment of
EDWARD PEARSON, Esq., as President,
and Thomas VV. Morton, Esq., Dr. Asa Duvall,
John Dell and Jesse Wright, ns Vice Presidents,
and M. A. Hunter and John Shook, Secretaries.
The meeting was addressed by M. A. Points,
E. F. Kerr and B. F. Meyers. The crowd
present was large and full of enthusiasm.—
Broad Top is awnko and the laboring men of
that township are determined to stand by De
mocracy and free white labor ns against Aboli
tionism and the importation of negroes—The
dinner gotten up on this occasion, by Mr. John
Shook, was truly excellent.
LIBERTY.
Glorious little Liberty poured out en masse
to the Democratic meeting at Stonerstown, on
Friday evening last. That true old Democrat
ic veteran, JOHN A. WHITE, was appointed
President; David Steel, Daniel Weaver, Sara'l
Berkstresser and Danied Cyphers, were appoint
; ed Vice Presidents, and J as. Kcnsingcr, Jacob
' o
Stoler and Geo. Tricker, Secretaries. Speeches
were made by M. A. Points, Edward F. Kerr
and B. F. Meyers. The meeting adjourned with
three rousing cheers for the Union, the Consti
tution, Woodward ami the Democratic Ticket.
After the meeting, some refreshments were set
out by the kind hostess of the Broad Top Ho
tel, a house that wo can recommend to all who
may visit Stonerstown.
SOUTHAMPTON.
The invincible Democrats of old Southamp
ton, met at Chcnevsville, on Saturday last, for
the purpose of taking counsel together, to fur
ther the great cause of Democracy and lie-U
--nion. DAVID HOWSAIiE acted as Presi
dent; Michael Mills, Philip Mors, Esq., David
Poland, Adam Fetter, Asa Howsnre, David
liiec and Thomas Donahoe as Vice Presidents,
and David Fetter, Ilez. O'Neal and John Po
land as Secretaries. The meeting was then ad
dressed by M. A. Points, B. F. Meyeas and E.
F. Kerr, Esq'rs. The attendance was large,
about 100 voters being present and many hav
ing gone home, owing to the lateness of the hour
at which the speakers arrived. The Bedford
Democratic Glee Club were also in attendance,
and sang several spirited songs. Southampton
will surpass herself at the coming election.
COLERAIN.
On Monday evening, the 21st inst., the De
mocracy of Colerain township, assembled in the
Seminary building at Rainsburg, and organized
by the appointment of WM. RESSLER, as
President, S. H. Feather, W. P. Morgart and
Wm. Cessna, sr., as Vice Presidents, nnd Jacob
Kegg, Benj. Morgart and Geo. W. Deal as Sec
retaries. The meeting was then addressed by
Charles A. Gaither, Esq., of Somerset, 15. F.
Meyers, of Bedford, and Z. Wcrtz, of Colerain
township. After a song by the Bedford Dem
ocratic Glee Club, tho meeting ndjourncd with
three cheers for tho as it was, the Con
stitution as it is, and the Democratic party to
uphold nnd sustain both. This meeting was
large and very spirited.
CUMBERLAND VALLEY.
The true and firm Democracy of Cumberland
Valley, met at the Schoolliouse, in Ccntrcville,
on Tuesday last, and on motion of James Cess
na, Esq., organized by tho oppointmcnt of
WM. MASON as President, A. Zembower,
Samuel Whip, Josinh Smith, Jacob Miller, Ja
cob Ostor and J. C. Morgart as Vice Presidents,
and T. Wcrtz, D. 11. Anderson nnd James
Ilardinger, as Secretaries. The meeting was
then addressed by B. F. Meyers and 11. Winter.
Tho turn-out at this meeting was much better
than had boen expected, on account of t he busy
time among tho farmers, whilst tho feeling was
quite enthusiastic. Cumberland Valley will be
truo to her past history nnd those who expect
any thing else, will lie sadly disappointed. Af
ter a few stirring songs by the Bedford Demo
cratic Glee Club, the meeting adjourned, with
three cheers for the Union as it was, tho Con
stitution as it is, and the Democratic party to
sustain and uphotd both.
Sees Snakes I
Wheelbarrow has a bad attack of mania. Ho
sees snakes every day of his life and can't help
talking about them in his paper. Poor, crazy
fool! He imagines every man he sees to be a
Copperhead/
Rally to the Polls!
Democrats and conservatives! Friends of
the Union as Washington and his compeers
made it! Advocates of an early, honorable
and lasting peace on the basis of a restored
Union! Rally to the polls on the second
Tuesday of October, next, and strike once
more for your principles, for Constitutional
Liberty, for Free Speech, Free Press, and
all the other dear and cherished rights of
American citizens. Turn out in your m lght!
Let not a single vote remain unpolled!—
NOW is the accepted time! NOW is the
hour of our country's salvation from fanat
icism, Abolitionism and Despotism! Up,
men of Bedford county, and let your clari
on voice ring out among the hills of the old
Keystone, the imperishable sentiment of
Webster, "LIBERTY and UNION, Now
and Forever, One and Inseparable!"
Prothonotary.
There is not a man who knows the qual
ifications of the two candidates for Prothon
otary, who can or will say that Mr. Shan
non, the Democratic nominee, is not far
more competent to discharge the duties of
that office, than his Abolition apponent, A.
B. Bunn. Let every man who wants a
good Prothonotary vote for O. E. Shannon.
Remember
That GEORGE W. HOUSEHOLDER,
GIDEON D. TROUT, A. B. BUNN, N.
C. EVANS, JOHN G. MINNICH, WM.
GEPHART and the remainder of the can-'
didatcs on the Abolition county ticket, will
vote for DAN IEL AG NEW, for Supreme
Judge, the man who in the Convention that
framed the Constitution, voted in favor of
putting negroes 011 political equality with
the whites, by giving them (the negroe.q
the right to vote. There is not one of these
Abolition candidates that will daie to deny
publicly, that he will vote for Negro Equal
ity Agnew. Let them do so, if ihey don't
want to be considered in the same boat with
Agnew himself.
Bear in Mind
That two years ago the leading Abolitionists
in this place would not support GEO. W.
HOUSEHOLDER, because, tlicy alleged,
lie was unfit to represent Bedford county in
the lower House of the Legislative. The
very men who now go around the county
speaking for him, voted against Itim then,
although he was their regular nominee.—
I low can these men support him How for the
Senate, a higher position than thai for which
they helped to defeat him, then? Messrs. j
King, Over, Hughes and others vill grati- I
fya large number of curious "Repibiicana"'
by answering immediately. i
Gideon D. Trout
Was a candidate for County Commissioner
a few years ago, and received a Waterloo
defeat, being the lowest man on his ticket.
The people did not then consider him qual
ified for the office of Commissioner, but this
persistent office-seeker again asks the peo
ple for their votes, and this time for a high
er and more important office, that of Rep
resentative in the State Legislature. If
Gideon is defeated several times more, he
will be a candidate for President of the U.
States. Well, he is about as good an Ab
olitionist, and, for all we know, as good a
rail-splitter, as ancient Abe himself, and no
doubt would make a worthy successor to
that grand old inventor of had jokes, and,
therefore, the people intend to beat Mr.
Trout, this fall, just in order to enable him
to he a candidate for the Presidency
Nathan C. Evans
The Abolition candidate for Sheriff, now
pretends to be a great friend to th* negro,
for the purpose of enlisting the sympathy
of the humane and soft-hearted. His same
Evans SOLD a poor old Slave wkom he
had inherited by marriage, and put the mon
ey into his pocket. We would like :o know
how our friend Ben. Walker and a few oth
ers of that ilk, in St. Clair townslip, can
vote for Mr. Evans, for by doing jo they
support a man who, according to Ihtir doc
trine, has dealt in human flesh. Come,
now, gentlemen, be consistent for o.ice.
All the way 41!
The Abolitionists have succeeded in get
ting all the way forty-one soldiers out of
the 1500 men sent by Bedford county to
the war, to declare themselves against the
Democracy and in favor of Curtin. This
demonstration is jicrfectly awful! They had
better try again. Don't make your "Address"
quite so long, next time, Mr. Wheelbarrow,
and havo a few more names to it, —that is,
if you can.
Daniel Agnew.
Let it be remembered that DANIEL AG
NEW, the Abolition nominee for Supreme Judge,
voted and spoke in the Convention which fram
ed our State Constitution, in favor of giving
NEGROES THE RIGHT TO VOTE! Wo
call upon the editor of the Bedford Inquirer to
let the people of his party know this important
fact, so that they may understand for whom
they are voting on the second Tuesday of Octo
ber next.
A Shameless Falsehood!
The Inquirer man says that we "drag
ged Henry J. Bruncr before the country,"
read him out of the Democratic party, &c.,
&c. We did no such thing. We never
mentioned his name in our paper until just
now, but Mr. Bruncr dragged himself be
fore the public, through communications to
the Bedford Inquirer and kicked, himself
out of the Democratic party by consorting
with Abolitionists, and declaring that he was
willing that the President should have a
million of money and a hundred thousand
men to free the negroes.
fcj-Mr. Nicholas Sleek desires us to state
that he never thought of being Deputy Sher
iff under Capt. Aldstadt, as stated in the
Inquirer of a few weeks ago, and that he
would not accept the position if tendered
hnu, if for no other reason than that he has
no doubt that an editor who apologizes for
horse-thievc3, as Durborrow does, will3ome
day cr other find lodgings in the Sheriff's
house, and Mr. Sleek would feel himself dis
graced were he compelled to remain under
the same roof with him.
Are You Assessed?
Every Democrat should immediately see that
his name is upon the assessment list of his town
ship or election district.
Neglect of this important matter may deprive
him of his vote 011 the day of the election.
See that your own name is on the list, and
then sec that every Democrat in your township
is properly assessed. Don't be satisfied with
telling the Assessor to put your name down, but
go to the book and see that it is certainly done.
Only Two Parties Now.
There are but two political parties in tho
North at present. The one is the great Demo
cratic Party, under whose auspices our country
was brought to its former condition cf great
ness and prosperity. The other is the Abolition
Party under whose blighting rule the Union
has been dissolved, civil liberty trampled under
foot, the nation torn asunder by intestine war,
and ruin and disgrace brought upon the whole
country. ANDREW G. CURTIN is the
representative of this party, whilst GEO.
W. WOODWARD is the standard-bearer of
the Democracy. Let honest men cltoose HON
ESTLY and as TRUE PATRIOTS should, be
tween tho two.
The Pittsburg Papers
VS.
Andrew G. Curtin.
Refore tho renomination of Curtin, there
was not a single paper published in the city of
Pittsburg which did not denounce hiin as unfit
to bo re-elected and some of them even went
so far as to say that his reelection would bo im
possible. The Gazette anil Dispatch, tho two
leading "Republican" papers in that city, pub
lished article after article, showing up the in
consistency, incompetency and DISHONESTY
of the Governor. These articles we have
been re-producing in this paper for the last
threo weeks, and the Abolition organ in thia
place has not had one word of denial or expla
nation in regard to them. Hence, the people
of this county, have the UNCONTRADICT
ED EVIDENCE, ol the leading journals of
Curtin's own party in Western Pennsylvania, to
the effect that lie is CORRUPT, DISHON
EST, INCOMPETENT and ought not to bo
elected. How can a man, thus branded by his
own party, receive the vote of any HONEST
man T
Par Mobile Fratrum.
The immortal club-carrier who enrolled Bed
ford township, and his Lieutenant, a young
sprig of the law, who gets sick whenever a draft
is to be made, were caught in the act of appealing
to a Democrat, a few duys ago, to vote against
the Democratic ticket, because the Democratic
party burned barns! Shame! Shame! Ye poor,
miserable devils! Is tins your argument for Abo
litionism? IF it is, you had better make Dur
borrow quit defending the horsethieves whom
your party set upon the farmers of this count} - ,
before you talk any more about burning barns.
C. A. GAITIIER, ESQ. —This young gentleman,
a discharged soldier of the glorious Tenth Re
serves, has been speaking for the Democracy,
during the last week in Huntingdon and Bed
ford counties. Mr. Gaithcr is an ardent Dem
ocrat, and n young man of great promise. lie
was wounded in both ankles in ono of the sev
en day's battles before Richmond, and was dis
charged on account of the severity of his inju
ries. Ho is a brother to the lamented O. H.
Gaither, late of the Bedford Bar.
A VALUABLE ACQUISITION. —During tho last
week we had the pleasure of listening to several
very able and forcible addresses by Mr. M. A.
Points, of Bedford township, who is at present
a student at Dickinson College. Mr. Points, un
til lately, was connected with the "Republican"
party, having voted for Curtin and Lincoln in
iB6O. But as a "Republican" he had not bar
gained for Abolition and tho other heresies of
the present Administration, and therefore wn9
compelled to loavc that pnrty and come out for
Woodward and Lowrio and tho Democratic par
ty-
£j-Hon. Richard Brodhend, died at his homo
in Easton, a few days ago. Tho doccased at
one time represented this State in the U. S. Sen
ate and held various othor positions of honor.
KFThe meeting at Wyant's in Union town
ship, has been changed from 7 o'clock in the
evening to 2 in tho afternoon.
GRAND MASS CONVENTION
OF THE
PSiifWl
OF
Bedford & Somerset Counties.
A Mass Convention of the Democrats of
the Western end of Bedford and the East
ern part of Somerset county, will be held at
FYAN'S STORE,
in Juniata township, Bedford county, on
THURSDAY, OCTOBER Ist.
The citizens of St. Clair, Napier, Juni
ata, Harrison and Londonderry townships,
and Schcllshurg Borough, Bedford county,
and Allegheny, Northampton, Shade and
neighboring townships, in Somerset county,
are invited to attend. Speeches will be
made bv
Hon. A. H. CofFroth,
Hen. Win, J. Baor,
and others, of Somerset,
and G. H. SPANG, Esq.,
B. F. MEYERS,
JOHN PALMER, Esq.,
and others from Bedford.
The BERLIN* BRASS BAND will be present
and enliven the occasion with excellent mu
sic. Let every township in the vicinity
send a delegation.
'•Rutty for Democracy,
Ratty once again,
Gather from the hillside,
Anil gather from the plaint"
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING
AT
BLOODY RTJM.
The Democrats of East :inrl West Provi
dence, Monroe, Snake Spring, Liberty, Broad
Top and Hopewell, are invito 1 to a3semblo in
Mass Meeting at Bloody ltun, on WEDNES
DAY EVENING, Sept. 30th.
HON. W.J. BAER, of Somerset, R. MIL
TON SI'EER, Esq., of Huntingdon, nnd others
will address the meeting. Rally, Democrats,
for your country and your cause!
Tha Shin-bone Party.
The enemies of the Democracy in Cumber
land Valley, hearing that a meeting of the friends
of the Constitution and the Union was to be
held at the school-house, in Centrevillo, on Tues
day last, and being anxious in some manner to
display the platform of the "more reading and
! intelligent" Abolitionists in that section, went
j to work and nailed two boards on the shin-bones
1 of an old cow, and placed their platform thus
constructed in the school-house. The inscrip
tion on their platform, was written out by the
j special correspondent of the Bedford Inquirer,
who will illuminate the dark columns of that
j paper by the fires of his peculiar genius, in this
J week's issue. We give this inscription verbatim
ct literatim etpunctuatim. It is as follows:
The King Davis Vallandigham. Woodward
& Myers. Copperhead and high Treason plat-
I form
Dedicated Sept the 22. 1803 To those
Copperheads, for their able services to the Cop
perhead party, such as rebely in the South New
york riots and the barn burners of st clair town
ship this platlorui is presented to the Copper
head leaders of Bedford Co, as a token of hon
or and respect to them for there usefull Services
as a substitute for the rotten broken down plat
form of this party
Eyeopener j High Treason
4" j Bushwhacker
Fly Trap j. Guerilla
Corresponding | Copperhead
Secretaries J Committee
The Abolitionists in Cumberland Valley, Lav
ing framed their own platform, and placed it on
three old slun-bones, we shall hereafter speak of
that wing of the Abolition party in this county,
as the "Shin-bone Party," and in order to give
them a fair start in the world, we have had our
poet laureate dedicate to them the following
song:
The Shin-bone Party.
Alß:— Old Dan Tucker.
Old Dan Tucker was a mighty fine man.
But Shoddy Curtin beats him a span;
Old Daniel came too late for his victuals
And Shoddy can't stir all his party kettles.
Get out of the way with your Shin-hone party,
Qet out of the way with your Shin-bone party,
Get out of the way with vour Shin-bone party,
We are Democrats, true and hearty.
Cow-hones will do for the modern Cow-boys,
lint Woodward's the man for the Little Berks
plough-boys,
Curtin may stand on the cow-hone platform.
But the Union never can take that form.
Get out of the way, &c.
Rattle your skeletons, jingle your bones,
Ye who laugh at the widow's groans,
And smile at the orphan's cry for bread
To a fathor on the battle-field dead.
Get out of the way, &o.
Save your shin-bones and boil thom brown,
Yon want some soap to rub yourselves down;
i Corruption oozes from all your pores,
And to honest men you're bad eye-sores.
Get out of the way, &e.
Shoulder Shin-hones! that's the order!
Curtin tells you to march to the borderl
With your cow-bones crush the rebels,
And givo no quarter to the devils!
Get out of the way, &c.
WOODWARD IS A CTTL
ZEN OF UNIMPEACHABLE CHAR AC
TER, AN ABLE JURIST AND A PATRI
OTIC GENTLEMAN."— Phifa. Inquirer, [Re
publican,) June 1 8th, 1863.
This is a good endorsement of the Democrat
ic candidate for Governor, coming as it does
from one of the most influential Republican
| journals of the State.
For tbe Bedford Gozettj.
A Short Dissertation on Vanity.
Tiiinking thai it were well if G- VV. H., oar
candidate for Senator, knew what very many
influential men of his party think of his selfish
vanity, a man, not ditlering with him puttfeid
ly, would submit a lesson to the
zette, for his perusal, so that George W. llotnlv
holder may not henceforth rely too much Updßt'
the forbearance of his friends, or indulge to<
much in the hope that his political opponent*
cannot
"In the strength of their illusion
Drag him on to his confusion."
The lesson can be learned from the following
words.
Your vanity is very often spoken of without at*
tempts to flatter.
A UNION MAN'.
Bedford co., Pa., Sept. 22.
Soldiers and Citizens, Read!
A Veteran Soldier on Ourtin I
The following letter, written by as brave •
soldier, as ever charged bayonets, has been hand
ed us fur publication by a citizen of this place>
CAMP NKAK WARREN-TON, VA., I
Sept. 14th, 186 J. J
DEAR FRIEND :
You wiil excuse me for my long delay
in writing to you. I promised you, when 1 was
in Pennsylvania on a furlough, that I would
write "to you in.mediately, but circumstances al
ter cases here in a great many points. I had
commenced last April, to write you a letter,
no sooner had I taken the pen in my hand, than
the order was given to proeecd across the Itap
paliannock. 1 herefore, I had to lay my pen
aside and cross that, uncultivated river (as lean
call it notlung else). We have crossed that riv
er in succession, 3 times, and each time we had
to leave with a loss of thousands of men, al
ways through bad generalship. For from my
experience of the contenders hero, I have nev
er seen a man capable of taking command of
tire army, only Gen. McClelhm. He is the on
ly man that could make anything oft the rebel*
and until such time as be takes eommaud again,
there will be but very little done with the array-
I wish that every man in the North would turn,
out to a man, and have him reinstated back a
gain. Until that is dune the army of the Po
tomac will never conquer the rebels. He was a
general and an engineer, but being a Democrat,
the radicals in Washington would have him re
moved. They knew perfectly well that lie would
be the conqueror. Nothing would do for them
but have him out. They went to work and
gave Burnside command. What did he dot-
Nothing, but got 2ft or 30 thousand tnerr killed.
But then lie is not to be blamed. He told tha
President, and also the radicals in Washington,
that he was not capable of taking command of
the Array of the Potomac. He said MeUlellnn
was the only man qualified to do it. Of count*
that would not be heard. Then they went to
work and superseded Burnside by Hooker.—
NV hat did he do? A confounded sight wors*
than Banks, when Jackson chased him, thesani*
as a pack ol hounds would chase a fox, ncroa*
the Potomac. Loe chased him across the Rap
j pahanuock, and he having at the same time over
100,000 men. If lie had been a General, at
that time, be might have Virginia cleared to
day ot the rebels, lie had men and means to
do it; botli he and Burnside more so than ever
McClellun hatj. But if they had the men and.
means, they did not know how to apply them
in their proper place. That is what is general
ship, having every man in his proper place.
' Hooker, at tho battle of Chnncellorsville, got
| the half of his men killed, and the other half
I not engaged at all. lie did not know where to
i put them. We will all see what Meade doe*
: now. There is another great battle raging at
| present. It commenced this morning at 4A.
M., but the result of it, I can't tell you iU pres
ent. We are not engaged yet, but we expoot
hourly to be called on. I will let you know all
the particulars as soon as it is over.
Dear friend, you will let me know whether
Curtiu is going to run again. I want you, if
lie is, to have him beaten if it is possible. I
think it is nearly time, now, for him to leave,
and give some other man a chance. lie and
his friends have made as much now as they want
Have a Democrat in this time, if you possibly
can. I say have tho Black Republicans com
pletely out. I think they would be out if Lin
coln's term had expired. It will be seon bora,
and then I say good bye to tbe blacks. I, ex
pect you are as good a Democrat now as over.
1 know I am. You will send mo a Bedford pa
per as soon as you can. 1 have not seen on*
since I came out hero. You will give my beat
respects to all inquiring friends and neighbors.
I remain yours truly,
JEREMIAH BROWN.
Battery F, sth U. S. Artillery, Array of lb*
Potomac, Washington, D. C.
THE LATEST NEWS.
Rosecians' Army Repulsed.
His Forces Fall Back to Chattanooga*
liragg Heavily Rein foroed from Charleetem, Vir
ginia and Motile.
Louisville, September 21, 12 45 A. M —-Our
army under General liosecrans lias been badly
beaten and compelled to retreat to Chattanooga
by Bragg, with heavy reinforcements from Lea,
Beauregard and Joe. Johnston.
The military occupation of the telegraph linaa
will prevent the transmission of the particular#
to-night.
Important from Eosecrans' Army.
Reports from the South—Johnston Said to
Hove Reinforced Brags;—Rosecrane being
Driven Back.
MEM PUIS, Sept. 15.—A largo infantry fore#
from Joh nston's army is reported marching up the
Tuscumbia valley to reinforce Bragg. Roddy's
command has gone to Decatur for some purpose.
Refugees bring reports circulating in the
South to the effect that, after two day* fighting
in which Bragg was defeated and driven bock,
I he received largo reinforcements from Johnston,
! which turned the tide of battle, and that he
| was now driving Rosecrans.
All of Johnston's oavalry aro reported t>
have joined Bragg, with, the design of destroy*
ing Kosecrans' communications.
The War in Georgia*
Reported Reverse near Lafayette—Capture of
Confederate Freight Trains.
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—A special dispatch
from Cincinnati to the I'ribune, to-day, state#
that passengers from Store neon, Alabama, i*