BEDFORD GAZETTE.
B. F. MEV6RB, SOITOR.
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FJUSAV 't (HTOBKK, 28, 1864,
What They Promised.
THE FRIVNDS ov Gov. CURTIS PROMISED THE PBO
FLB THAT IF THEY WOULD UE-ELKC.T 11I.U, THK WAR
WOULD BSD IS 30 PAVS AND THERE WOULD BE NO MORE
DRAFTING . HOLD THEM TO TUKIR PROMISES.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
GEORCE B. McCLELLAN,
OF NEW JERSEF.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GEORGE H. PENDLETON,
OF OHIO.
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PKESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
ELECTOR* AT LARUE,
ROBERT L. JOHNSON, of Cambria,
RICHARD VAL'X, oi Philadelphia.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
1 Wns. Lough)in, i 13 Paul Leidy,
2 F. R. Helmbobl, ! 14 Robert Sweinford,
3 Edward P. Dunn, j!3 John Ah!,
4 T. McCullongh, ;!6 George A. Smith,
3 Edward Tv Hess, 17 Thaddeus Banks,
8 Philip S. Gerhard, j! 18 H. Montgomery,
7 George P. I.epler, !9 John M. Irvine,
lit Michael Seltzer, 20 J. M. Thompson,
9 Patrick McAvoy, •2l Kasseias Brown ,
10 T. H. Walker, 22 Jame3 P. Barr,
11 O. S. Dimmick, ;23 Wm. J. Koontz,
J2 A. B. Dunning, 2t W. Montgomery.
REMEMBER THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION COMES ON THK Til
DAY OF NOVEMBER:!!
DEMOCRATICMEETINGS.
Rally, Once Again!
A MASS MEETING of the Democrats of
the western end of Bedford county, will be
held at NEW BALTIMORE, on TUESDAY,
Nov. 1, at 1 o'clock P. M.
The Democrats of St. Clair, Union, and ad
joining tps., will assemble in MASS MEETING
at ST. CLAIKSVJLLE. on Saturday, Oct.
29th, at 1 o'clock, P. M.
The Democrats of Cumberland Valley will
assemble at CKXTKKVILLE, on Wednesday, ;
Nov. 2d, at 1 o'clock, P. M.
The Democrats of Southampton will meet I
at ADAMS' MILL, on FRIDAY, Nov. 4, and
at Cavender's Store on the evening of the
mnte day.
The Democrats of Londonderry and the ad- 1
jacent districts in Maryland, will meet at PA- j
LO ALTO, on Thursday, Nov. 3d. at 1 o'clock |
P. M,
The Democrats of South nnd Middle Wood- j
berry and adjoining townships will meet at j
WATERSIDE, on Saturday, Nov 5, at 1 I
o'clock, P. M.
Soldiers At The Polls.
(>f course the Abolition tricksters will have ;
arrangements made to have soldiers stationed 1
at the several polls of this county. This will ;
be done, as it was at the last election, with the
pretence of watching for non-reporting con- '
'cripts. We say nothing against the employ
ment of soldiers in the arrest of deserters, but
it'does seem to us thut their work might be ac- •
• cwnplisued without trampling under foot the
law 3 of Pennsylvania, which forbid the pres
ence of armed troops at the places whereat elec
tions are being held. Our noble sheriff, by his
timely proclamation, maintained, in some de
gree, the sanctity of the law at tho late eloc- i
tion. As long as our chief peace offieer does
bis duty, as Sheriff Aldsta !t did in that in- ]
stance, the people need have no fear for their'
)ii>ertie> But tlie violation of the law, by the
procurement of armed guards for tho polls, cm t
the part of the Abolition leaders in this place, ;
led to the murder of an innocent and peaceable
citizen. W hat the repetition of this election- j
eering trick may result in, we are not prepared :
to sav ; but we now declare, in advance, that
•i. ,
if the polls are to be watched by armed men, :
contrary to the laws of this state and in viola- '
tion of the Constitution of the United states,
* which guarantees to the people the FREEDOM
OF ELECTIONS, the responsibility for the j
consequences will rest upon those who set the
Luv and the Constitution ;.t defiance.
Democrats of Bedford Borough,
•Now is the time to work for the cause. Nome i
of rcnir number have been dragged away, since .
the last election, by the conscription officers,
ami you must make up for their absence by
talking to your neighbors and getting some of
those who havo heretofore voted against the
Democracy, to vote for Little Mac Your par
ty majority of 28 can be held and increased, if
every man but does what he can to make a
uother vote. We would advise you to keep an
eye on the "detectives," assistant provost marsh
als, and vermin of that sort. We hear that
some of them are trying to buy votes, by prom
ising to get people out of the draft. Wat
them, and if you discover them in this !ot.
bnshies?, prosecute them at once.
State Senate.
The Democrats have elected eight of the
eleven Senators chosen at the late election.—
The new Senators are Messrs. Christy, Wal
ters, Walls, Clymer, Donovan, Randall, James
and Schall, Democrats; and Messrs Bigham,
*Lowrv nnd Rover, Abolitionists Tbi* is a
splendid triumph.
jThe Fraud* *£^ u Soldiers!
paralleled Outrages!
I i/emooratie Soldiers Disfranchised!
Letters Opened and Tickets Abstracted!
i DEMOCRATS PREVENTED FROM VOTING !
| Illegal and Fraudulent Returns !
Shall These Wrong* Bo ltiyhled ?
The most glaring and outrageous frauds ever
perpetrated under the sun, have been practi
sed upon the soldiers voting in the army, by
their abolition officers and the uuderlingsof the
; administration. We hear frprn every quarter,
from the most reliable sources, that Democrat
ic soldiers were prevented, by force , from voting,
that minors and negroes were allowed to vote
and that fraudulent returns have been made.
The prothoaotary of this county, for instance,
has received one return which shows that forty
six votes were polled and of these forty six,
twenty nine voted the Democratic ticket. Hut
the Abolition candidate for Congress is set
i down us having received fifty five votes, just
! nine imfi /h ucre polled altogether / Other rc
! turns embrace the votes of soldiers from live
! different counties, all counted together, render
; ing it impossible to tell how the lieu ford coun
!ty men among them voted. Hut what is still
I more outrageous and enough to make every
i freeman's blood boil with indignation, is the
j statement of Democratic soldiers, iterated and
1 re-iterated, that they were cot permitted to
vote. WILLIAM SLEEK, of Napier tp.,
writes home that when he was about to cast
his ballot, he was told that he could not vote
the Democratic ticket at thai poll. He is in
one of the hospitals at Washington city.
J \S. > A VVGLE of the same tp.,also writes that
j he was not allowed to vote the Democratic
j ticket. JOSEPH RIIOADS. of Bedford tp.,
• writes to the same effect. All these men had
their tax receipts and other pajiers properly
prepared, as we personally know. We have
also :-ceu letters from soldiers to parties in this
| place, stating that letters sent to them which
spoke of having tickets enclosed, reached them
minus the tickets. Tin;? the Democratic sol
diers have been disfranchised and thus is the
will of the people of Pennsylvania overborne !
Is there no remedy for this ? The law provides
a very uncertain and expensive one—the con
testing of the election. But every one knows
that in such contests, the s;nne party which
used fraud in the fir * place, generally uses it
again with the same success. What, then, are
the outraged people to do ? Our answer is,
Roll up such a majority in November as neither
fraud nor force can overcome, but if overcome by,
such means, then to right themselves AT ALU
HAZARDS!
As confirmatory of what vo have said ulvAa
in regard to the army frauds, wo clip the fal
lowing from the Bellefonte Watchman ;
CAMP DISTRIBUTION, Va., Oct. 1.1
ME. ALEXANDRE ESQ.—I received yours of
the Ith in st. ar.d was glad to hear such favora
ble news from "Old Centre." I have seeft no
report of the election of the county yet, but I
feel confident that the whole Democratic ticket
is elected by a handsome majority. There were
three votes for Centre county in my company,
and they all went the whole county ticket; one
of the number thut never voted that ticket be
fore. There will be more votes cast at the No
vember election than there was at this one.
A poll was opened in camp and I will give you
a slight idea ho.v it was carried on. There
are men here from all parts of the State, It
is to be remembered that the drafted men and
substitutes are always kept under guard, and
when the polls opened the Pennsylvania men
were ordered to fall in and go to vote. One
squad, in command of a sergeant was marched
to the place of voting, when the Colonel com
manding the camp, came and spoke to the men
and told then: that he wanted every man to
have his just dues, that the election was to be
carried on in a fair way, and that there was no
fraud or illegal voting to be permitted.—When
they were asked what ticket tlicy were going
to vote, nine of ihe number said the Democrat
ic ticket. The Colonel then ordered the Ser
geant to take those men to their quarters, that
they could not come any of their d—d cop
perhead games over lum. These nine Demo
crats were thus deprived the right of voting.
If you, or any one else, doubts the reality
of it I shall he plain enough to give you their
names, and their respective places of residence.
Joseph Rhoads. Bedford, Bedford Co;
Archibald Snyder, Peach Bottom, York Co;
James Thompson, John town, Cambria Co;
Joseph Senger, do do do;
John Robinson, Gating Furnace, Olair Co;
Richard Cuverty, Philadelphia;
Peter B. Shard, do lOlii Ward :
Peter Mim. East Erb, Lancaster Co;
John Hawley, VVlUiamsport, Lycoming Co.
1 ours, very respectfully,
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Co. F. 14th Reg't, P. K. V.'c.
Congressmen Elected.
Ihe following is a list of the Congressmen
for this State, elected by the homo vote;
DEMOCRATS. ABOLITIONISTS.
S. J. Randall, Leonard Myers,
Henry P. Ross, W. D. Keliey,
B. M. Boyer, C. O'Neill,
Philip Johnson, J. M. Broomall,
Meyer Strouse, Thaddeus Stephens,
S. E. Anoona, George F- Miller,
Charles Donison, j G. W. Schofield.
Thaddeus Wright, C. V. Culver,
R. L. Johnston, J. K. Moorhead,
A. 11. Coffrotb, The?. Williams,
John L. Dawson, G. V. Lawrence,
A. J. Glossbrenner, Ulysses M ercur.
In the present Congress the delegation stand
9 Democrats, 1 renegade, 2 republicans elected
on Democratic tickets, but acting with the ad
ministration, and 12 Abolitionists; showing a
gain, on the home vote, of three Democrats
Mercur, Culver, Miller and Schofield, abolition
ists. barely escaped defeat.
How They Wriggle!
The Tlarrisburg Te/egrapt.', edited by the
Hefsian Bergnt-r, Lincoln's postmaster at the
State capital, is dumbfounded by the larec
gain in Bedford county. The fel
low actually had an idea that the people of this
county, could be bought and sold as cheap as
himself, and that because some of the smaii
politicians of Bedford borough,* had gone over
to Lincoln, therefore, the county would cer
tainly, also, turn a somersault into the] em
brace of Abolitionism, lie confidently expect
ed that a great proportion of the 15,000 votes,
which one of our renegades was to take over
to Lincoln in this State, would be made up of
the honest yeomanry of Bedford county, jlis
chagrin at the result, is about as bitter a; that
of the parties here upon whom he built his
hopes, and hence he wriggles and twists and
squirms in his efforts to linda reason for the
disaster to his friends in this county. One day
he says that it was owing to the proclamation
of our Sheriff, commanding the peace at the
polls and calling upon the peace-officers to en
force the laws; the next he attributes it to the
fact that our County Treasurer gave receipts
for taxes paid to him for soldiers in the army,
so that those soldiers might not be disfranchis
ed ; in doing which, both Sheriff and Treasurer
were only executing their sworn duties. Why,
the chairman of the Abolition jj county Com
mittee, brought a list of three hundred names
of soldiers to the Treasurer, for which he de
manded and obtained tax receipts. The Hes
sian must try again if he would find out the
true rea.-o: r the awful thrashing his friends
got in tbl- nty at the late election. But he
had better wait till after the Bth of November,
when he will have more of the same sort of
work to do and he can then make a single job
of all the necessary apologies for the downfall
of Abolitionism in Bedford county.
Turn Out In Your Might.
Remember the election comes on Tuesday,
the Bth of November. every man be at
his post. Don't wait to be sent for. Every
tiiaa is equally interested with his neighbor,
in bringing about a change of administratis.
Let the Democrats of every school district ap
point a place of meeting on election day ; let
a committee be appointed to ascertain whether
all arc present and when every man answers
to his name, then let them march forward to
the polls. Lists of voters should also bo made
and a committee man should stand at the win
dow and check off the name of those voting,
and those not at the polls by two o'clock in the
afternoon, should at once be sent jbr. Now,
then, Rally for M'Clellan, boys, a
£ain, shouting the death-knell of traitors l\
Arson Pillage and Murder.
Look down the desolate valley of Shenandoah 1
Behold its beautiful towns, its pleasant farm
houses, its wclt-fillod barns, it* generous mills,
feeding the flames of Lincoln's policy of des
truction. Look again to far off Florida and
see the lovely city of Jacksonville, a prey to the
fires of Lincoln's plan of desolation. Look
once more to Mississippi and Louisiana and find
there the ashes of the onco flourishing town 3 of
Jackson and Alexandria leveled to the earth
by the Insensate fury of the American Nero.
Then turn your eye northward and tlote from
the Kansas line to Chambersburg, the smould
ering ruins of towns and hamlets, destroyed,
in retaliation, by the raiders of Jeff. Davis.
You shudder as you contemplate the scene. Your
heart sickens within you as you think of the
horrors surrounding you on every side. Arson,
pillage and murder are at your very door. Your
dwellings are to be burned over your heads, your
valuables pillaged and yourself and family, if
escaping the vengeance of the rebels, shot down
in cold blood, as was poor Frederick Mock, and
ad for the sake of keeping the Illinois buffoon
telling his smutty j k.s in the White House !
Oil, miserable, deluded people! how long will
you be the instruments ot your own ruin." It
there be a thunderbolt in heaven, whose flash
were vivid enough to reveal but for a moment,
the hideous horror of the policy which you, who
intend to vote "for Lincoln, sustain, may it Full
at your feet and wake you to a realization of
your danger. Can you vote for more burning,
more pillage, more slaughter? Oh, think of
the shrieking women, the erying children, the
widows and orphan?, the houseless and homeless
the bedless and breadless, turned out to die in
the storms of winter, by the policy which you
endorse by voting for Lincoln ! In the sacred
name of humanity, we implore you to pause
and ponder before you permit yourselves to be
governed by prejudice, or former party affilia
tions, in the discharge of your duties as voters.
A Handsome Gain,
The Dcmocra' • candidates for the legislature
in this district, • a just 1000 over the vote of
last year, the aboition majority then being 798
whilst the Democratic majority naw is 202.
This is truly astonding. Over army frauds and
all, the gain will he at least 700. Last year
Mr. Meyers' majority in this county was just
250 ; this year it is GC6, a gain of 41G. A
few more personal attacks from renegade slan
derers. would have given him 1000 majority.
Not True,
We are informed that the Abolitionists are
circulating a story in the army, to the effect
that Gen. McClellan *fts opposed to granting
soldiers the right to vote. This is false—ut
terly false—and was invented merely to make
votes for Lincoln.
The 184 th.
We have been shown a letter from a private
in tiie 184 th I'. V r ., which states that the regi
ment gave 107 Democratic mnjoritj'. The
company in this regiment, from this place, gavo
a Democratic majority. Of course, no return
ot this vote has been received bv the 1 Tot ho ri
ot afv
Nail Them.
SV c are informed that the abolition judge
and inspector of election for Lnion township,
refused to take the votes of some seven drafted
men who desired to vote at that poll, at the
lute election; also, that refused to re
civ the proxies of several soldiers. They
ekould bo prosecuted and if they repeat such,
an outrage upon the rights of freemen, they
must and will be made to suffer the penalty of
the law.
Now, "Work!
Pennsylvania is ours, but we must not re
main idle. Fraud, and force in the army must
be overcome, by an increase of our majority at
home. Five additional votes in each district,
will be sufficient to place our majority in the
State, beyond the reach of all the dirty work
fliat can be done by our opponents. But most
districts can do better than this. Let us make
the mnj ority for McClellan so overwhelming
that abolitionism will never again be heard of
in the Keystone state. Work, Work, Work !
Astoniiding ;Frau d s.
Wo heve often heard of election frauds, but
those perpetrated by the Abolitionists on the
eleventh inst., exceed eveiything in that line
we ever imagined. It has como to light that
at least 10,000 illegal votes were cast in Indi
ana, whole regiment? of troops from other states
voting at the various polls along the railroads
over which they passed. A German soldier
from Pittsburg, named STUMPF, ha 3 made
oa tb to the effect that some 2000 soldiers, from
other states, himself among the number, were
taken out of the cars at Indianapolis and mark-,
ed to the polls to vote the Abolition ticket, |
which they did, receiving thereafter a treat of J
lager beer. The vote of Indianapolis proves j
this to be true, as itjis larger than that of the
whole county was in 1852. Is there ao rsme
dy for this ? We shall see.
Let Them Count Us Out, If They Dare.
The Democrats elect their candidates and the
Abolition ballot-box stufl'ers and array agents
"count them out." We will settle this matter
e.fter the Presidential election. Let them "count
U3 out," if they dare. As sure as heaven bends
above us, if Lincoln is re-elected by fraud, there
will bo a day of reckoning. Never mind ! The
Democratic National Convention has not aOjour"
ned saw die.
GOOD NEWS!'
Still They Come!
'lhe Bradford Argus, the old orgtfn of the
opposition in that benighted Abolition region,
controlled by David Wilmot, Ims just taken
down the names of Lincoln and Johnson, and
ffioisted those of McClellan and Pendleton.—
hnidford county used to give 4,000 Abolition
majority. At the late election, it gave but
2,70\ The influence of the Argus will re
duce it little or nothing. We givo below
the editors reasons for abandoning Lincoln,
and supporting McClellan :
"Do not the times demand a change in the
policy of the Government ? We believe they
do, und being of that opinion we have taken
down the name of Abraham Lincoln, and put
that of Hen. George B. McClellan in its stead
us our candidate for the Presidency. In doin< T
this we may give oilense to some of the old
readers of the Argus. As the Argus was the
organ ot the old Whig party, we have to -ay
to its old patrons, that in making this change
we b;t place the Argus along by the side of
the . .rait men of that party who have coma
.! to the present time—men who have for
years stood aloof from party politics, but who
now come out and declare for McClellan a- the
only hope of the country."
The Last Hair.
The Abortionists are hanging by the last
hair. Greeley's Tribune g.. j s up Pennsylvania
on tlie popular vote, and rays the Democrats
have carried the Slate. Hereabouts the Abo
litionists comfort themselves with the success
of their frauds in the array. They clirg to
the army vote like grim death, because this is
the last hair to which they can hang, lint
they are sorely disappointed t the small ma
jority they have received in the army. Before
the election they claimed that it would be 30.-
000; now they admit that t. will not be over
10,009. We do not beli .v that it is 5,000,
though until after the presidential election they
will keep the figures up as high w possible.—
But wait-t ill you hear from "Litiio Alac" in
the army. Where the Demo, atic county
tickets received one vote, he will get thousands.
V\ ait till the Bth of November.
The Tv/o Men
On the eighth ©f November the people
of the United States will decide whether the
present unhappy state of the country shall
continue or be forever terminated Those
who vote for Lincoln, , ote for more blood,
more widows and orphans, more public debt,
more taxation, more high prices, in short
for more of the policy which, all must ad
mit, is destroying the people and ruining
the country. On the other hand, those who
vote for General McClellan, vote for a
CHANGE OF POLICY, for the restora
tion of an honorable peace, for the re-estab
lishment of the Union, and for a return to
the olden happiness and prosperity. Which
will you choose ? Oh, remember that your
own life and the lives of those dearest to
you on earth, are involved in this question!
\\ ill you not help to rescue the people, to
save your own property, nay, your very ex
istence, from the remorseless tiends that arc
now dragging the nation to perdition ? Will
you vote for a Christian gentleman, an ed
ucated statesman, a patriotic general, a
gainst whose character, as a citizen, not one
word can be said, even by his most malig
nant enemies; or will you put your neck
into the noos once inorc, by voting for the
smutty Illinois buffoon, who has neither pri
vate character nor public virtue enough to
shield him from the contempt of any respec
table man tbat ever made his acquaintance?
Pennsylvania O. K.
Crow, Chapman, Crow !
Nor mind how rnuchihe Black it-sblow!
; The latest official reports of the Congrcs
jsion.i! vote of the State, foot up about 2.000
j majority for the Democrats. We give table
of the returns below. '1 he majority on the
j county ticket.-, is much larger, running up to
. auout B,coo .' which will net be overcome even
by the bauds in the army returns.
Detn Key) l)cm
mag i>njj aiitu
5. dams, ti 1 't 78
j • Allegheny, 0188 1317
j* Armstrong, 00 430
| "Beaver, 745 253
•Bedford, 070 yog
I •Berks, 0706 81
; "Blair, .... 505 594
j Bradford, .... 2088 1100
| 'Backs, 953 423
j * Butler, .... 42 232
| Cambria, 1070 .... 234
j Camefott, . ~ ; 09 33
I "Carbon, 512 .... ....
j * Center, 962 Cl 6
| * Chester, •••■ 2049 111
Clarion, J 100 .... 3 20
'Clearfield, J2G2 .... 310
•Clinton, 070 .... 3GG
•Columbia, 1375 ....
•Crawford, .... 1147 758
•Cumberland, 548 ....
•Dauphin, .... 684 506
•Delaware, .... 1233 435
*Elk, 437 .... 51
•Erie, 2054 995
•Fayette, 814 100
•Forrest, .... 13 20
•Franitlin, 60 .... 226
Fulton, 290 .... ....
•(ireene, 1434 .... 100
•Huntingdon .... 517 574
•Indiana, .... 1602 444
Jefferson, 244 .... 390
•Juniata, 836 .... 115
Lancaster, .... 4046' 1848
'Lawrence .... 1546 328
Lebanon, .... 716 289
•U-high, 2047 217
"Luzerne, 2045 , ... ....
Lycoming, 992 .... 535
* MoKean, 10 .... 115
Mercer, .... 169 300
•Mitiiin, 1 - 82
•Monroe, 1572
■{•Montgomery, 1131 .. t . 130
tMontour, 473 .... 138
"{"Northampton, 2997 .... ....
F.Northumberland, 857 .... ....
j Perry, 79 .... lil
f Philadelphia, .... 7341 ....
Pike, • 744 .... ....
f Pater, .... 312 679
fSchuylkill, 1750 .... ....
t Snyder, .... 188 239
"{•Somerset, .... 771 555
"{"Sullivan, 320 .... 62
Susquehanna, .... 861 398
Tioga, .... 2169 718
fUnion, . . 460 14
"{"Venango, .... 217 69
f Warren, .... 000 2SS
Washington, .... 157 199
t Wayne, 983 .... 41
f Westmoreland, 147! .... 384
f Wyoming, 2Q6 .... t gS
York, " 2865 308
Tola! • 40,773 38,749 19,443
38,749
Dcm. Ma]. 2,024
* t Official returns.
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More Help!
"War Democrats," Read!
__
HON. W A. SHANNON, an adherent of,
and lately an office-holder under the present ad
ministration, lias just resigned his position as
Assistant U. S. Treasurer, and come out for
McClellan, Head his letter to the Secretary of
the Treasury.
UNITED STATES TREASURY, J
NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 1564. I
DEAR Slß:—Being desirous of entering (fit
canvass in active supported General McClellan
for the Presidency of the United States end
deeming ray present relations with the Admin
istration incompatible therewith, I tender you
my resignation as an officer in your depart
ment.
I wish here to state that 1 have been a War
Democrat from the commencement of our un
happy contest, and despairing of the desire as
well as tfie ability of Mr. Lincoln to carrv the
country through the present crisis, with our lib
erties unimpaired, 1 have determined to sacri
fice official position to aid in an humble way
in bringing about a change of rulers.
WM. A. SII ANN ON.
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Hold. Meeting?
Let the McClellan men of ever)" town
ship hold meetings and canvass their dis
tricts. Don't wait for Bedford borough to
send you speakers. It is impossible for the
town speakers to visit every part of the
county again. Put your own shoulder- to
the wheel, and push on the column
*
The Mainland Election.
The Abolitionists Defeated. 1
The State 0. K. for ' 'Little'!Mac*'
Glorious little Maryland ! She has at last
proclaimed herself fiee ! Although thirty thou
sand of her voters were disfranchised by a hor
rible teat-oath, the McClelian young guard rah
iiv-d and overthrew the Massachusetts
ism which baa threatened her liberties. The
following are the kic*t returns of the vote on
the new abolition constitution:
Fw- Agaimi.
; Allegany, 870
; Anne Arundel .... " j Q79
Baltimore county, 132
' Baltimore city, 7,720
! Calvert. .... *570
! Gnroline, 4y
I Carroll, IQ3
| Cecil (a tie) ....
Charles, .... g Cs
Dorchester, .... 1 m
I' rcderick, g<jg
Harford, ... " r '£
Howard, . '
K° at / • • • • 937
Montgomery. 94^
Prince George's .... 1 14,4
Queen Anne's
St. Mary's, ..'J.*
■■■■ 1,60!
.ashington, 1,456
Worceste-, .... JJSO
Total H,22'J 13,223
11,229
Majority agai: Const'n on Home vote. 1,904
Soldiers' vote, majority for. . . . 1)559
Majority against. . . . .
How Goes the Battle?
The States which have recently voted, show
the following result:
hoi: AioCi.KLi.AX. Fort Lixcor.x.
Pennsylvania, 21 Ohio, •{
Mary lan , 7 Indiana, jg
Delaware, 3
Connecticut 6
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Figures will! rot He. Abolitionists
boas: as much as they please, things look a lit
tle ugly for A'oral; urn the First.
Connelbvilie ad Southern Pennsylvania
■ j Company Organized.
In pursuance of putuc notice the Commis
sioners m the act for the incorporation of the
Conn.:lls v illo and Southern Pen 11. Railway cotn
pany, met <.t the Washington Hotel ia Bedford,
hriday, Oct. 14, 18G-4 to open books for sub
scriptions to the capital stock and to adopt
-ueh other measures us might be necessary to
ecntorm to tao requirements of the charter.
Hon 8. 1,, iiusscil was called to the chair, af
ter which the books were opened and subscrip
tions for one hundred and two thousand two
hundred shares, amounting to five millions, one
hundred and ten thousand dollar?, were enter
ed by
S. 1,. Kijsscll, Rupp, Shannon & Co.
Alex. King, W. r.
Jolin Cessna, Alex. Stutzman,
'J; A ; v * right, John D. Roddy,
. householder, D. Weyand,
Geo. A . (. ass, J. Bacon & others,
ami ive dollars paid in upon each and every
share, thus inaugurating most successfully one
of the grandest Railway enterprises of the age.
The charter is a most liberal one. Under its pow
er, Ihe southern tier cf counties of Pennsylva
nia, will be provided with the railway so long
needed u> develop the great mineral, agricul
tural, lumber nod other sources of wealth in
those counties : and it will furnish, also anoth
er magnificent highway between the Ohio Val
ley and the Atlantic seaboard.
The proceedings w ere most harmonious and
va i'ow led that our great railway will be made
and not be suffered to slumber for over twenty
years, as was the case while the power to con
struct remained with the old fogies of the Pitts
burg and Conne.'teville comply, which was
controlled during its unhappy and useless exis
tence by corporate interests of another state
that appeared to haic but little real interest
iu developing the resources of Pennsylvania,
but rather to delay and retard the completion
oi a road that ought to have been finished years
since.
A certificate duly authenticated by the com
missioners, was forwarded to the Governor, to
obtain the letters patent and the stockholders
will be called to meet in the city of Philadel
phia early in November (of which due notice
will be. published) for the purpose of electing a
President and Directors. A competent corps
of Lngineers will then bo plained upon the
route to make all the necessary surveys and
location. Our citizens and property holders
should give every aid and facility possible to
t!.: parties in chaige of this great enterprise-
DEATH OF A BRAVE SOLDIEK. —It is with
icelings of profound regret that we record the
death of Litut. JOHN A. GUMP, 138 th P. V
Ho was mortally wounded in the battle of the
19th inst., near Strasburg, while gallantly fight
ing the rebels. Lieut. Gump was a brave and
,true soldier and his untimely death is mourned
by many friends. Green b" the turf above
him!
CirThe Somerset Herald is iuformed that
what wc mean by ''fraud and force in the ar
my," is licit the fuir and free vole of the sol
diers, but tho heating and forcing of the bravo
defenders of. ti:z eld flag, iutj voting the Abo
lition ticket by Lincoln's hirelings, such as
Revenue Collectors and stipendiaries of that
ilk VmhtA*
Comfortable.
The whole Democratic county ticket has
been elected over army frauds mid all,.by up.
wards of 000 majority. Quite comfortable, .