BEDFORD GAZETTE- B. F. MEYERS. EDITOR. FRIDAY. • • DECEMBERS, .864. Bedford County. The day is fast approaching when Bedford county will take rank among the wealthiest and most populous districts in the State. Her mountains of iron, too long trodden only by the hoof of the wild deer, her limestone hills too long untouched by the pick and spade, her valleys, rich in fertility,, too long waste and un cultivated, cannot always remain in their pri meval condition of wildness and unfruitfulness. Slowly but surely the hand of improvement has wrought its work among these everlasting hills, until now it is about to develop, in all their richness, the hidden resources of our mountain land. AlreaJy we have furnaces which are supplied by ore brought from nearly the centre of the county, and these will soon justify the erection of iron works and rolling mills, for which we have some excellent sites. Our enterprising citizens are also turning their attention to the products of the forest and our timbered districts now are made to yield mil lions of staves, straps and other commodities of a similar character. The medicinal waters with which nature has so bountifully filled our hills, are n!so a source of wealth. The Bedford Mineral Springs are known all over the country, and resorted to by invalids from every section of the Union. All that is lacking to render profitable the building of immense hotels at Bedford Springs, is im provement in the facilities for travel to and from the place. There is a fair prospect that this will soon be accomplished, in the construe- ; tion of the Connelisvillc and Southern I'enn-j svlvania Railroad, which will connect ust by . I rail, with Pittsburg and Philadelphia. But the agricultural interest of our county, is of greater .value than ail its oilier sources of | wealth. We have traveled, and for soma time ! resided, in the Western states, and we are quite ■ sure that nowhere, in any of them, is the wheat crop so certain as in Bedford county. It is true tnai uw. y.noitv fended by but 150 men. His march from Ai lanta has been a decided military success; bi we doubt whether it will do much toward brinj ing the rebels to submission. The people < Georgia were heretofore divided into partie? viz: Reconstruction and Independent Confede aey men. Since Shcrmao's gigantic raid, thej can be found but few of the former. Gen. Thomas has gained a dec ided viettv over Hood at Nashville. Thomas Lad gatbe ed together all the troops in tho West, indu ing those in Missouri, amounting to upwards f 50,000 men, and with this vest army attack! Hood, who had but about 30,000. After 1- vero fighting, in which Thomas lost about . : 000 men, ail told, Hood was driven from Is position. Hood's army is still, ho vvever 11 Tennessee. There is nothing new from Grant. Another draft, for tho deficiency, has bn ordered. CSrJoiin Steel, the "Oil Prince,'" is not dea, as was reported, nor was he ever kicked bja horso as was libellously printed concernig bum Important to tho Public The Correction of the Enrollment. s We publish below a circular of the Baud , of Enrollment, urging the correction of the rds • and prescribing the manner in which the cr rection is to bo made. This circular conta"a3 . in the main, the ideas advanced in a recent el. - itorial in the Gazette. We commend this jc i tion to the people and hope they will not te glect to profit by it. The correction of the National Earollraiat ' is of the first importance. Where it is exces sive, quotas are increased and unjust burdens \ imposed. The 'Board of Enrollment desres 3 the co-operation of all citizens—those who are , not liable to draft as well a3 those who an— in an effort to secure its reduction to the proper standard. HOW' THIS SHOULD BE DONE. In a matter of this kind, organization is ' what is wanted to insure success. Every Town or Township should at once constitute a few of ' pa citizens a Committee to attend to its inter ests. That Committee should be required to see to prepJ. ra^on evidence with a view of striking from thd tho names of men i i the service, those that ha" e remove d from the Dis trict permanently ana in ,f ood faith, and those that arc deceased, as well as ; 'd hng the names of persons coming into the DislnoV *° re side, such as have arrived at 20 years of a "d any that may have escaped enrollment Lerc'*°" fore. DECEASED PERSONS. - m the jhmh&A two citizens stating the time of death as nearly as possible. PERSON'S IN MIIJTAKY SERVICE. Committees will please confine their atten tion to such as have entered the service other wise than through this office. Drafted men in service, substitutes and volunteers enlisted here are taken from the enrollment as a mutter of course. Ibe B .ard w ill strike oil the names of enrolled person* alleged to be in the service up : on the sworn statement of two citizens, giving the company and regiment ia which the put ties may l<: serving, the date and place of mut ter, and such other facts as may suggest them selves. A specification of at least the regiment and the time oi muster. nearly as can be ascertained, is essential. PERSONS REMOVED. All persons who have removed permanently and in good faith from the District, or from oue Town or Township in the District to another, will be stricken oft ori the application of two citizens whose sworn statement of the time and manner of removal, together with the present residence of the party, if known, should be filed. TWO YEAR'S SERVICE. 1 hose that have served two years in the pros- j ent war are entitled to be stricken off The ! discharge of such with ail oath of identitiy is sufficient. here the discharge is inaccessible for any good reason, affidavits making out clear ly the tact of service for that period of time will be received. The organization and dates of muster in and out should not be omitted. OVER OR I N HER AGE. Persons who claim to be stricken off on ac count of being over 45 or under 29 years of ago, must bring their own affidavit, stating the | day ol their birth. Vfhera the parents are liv ing, their affidavit js also required. In c-e the parents are d :.id, the affidavit of the ap plicant must state tiiis fact, and then the a!n --; davit of any two reputable citizens, elating that | they know the man and believe his statement to I be true, will be received. In support of the foregoing evidence, any record evidence, pub lic or private, that may be in existence, must be produced• \\ here there is no record evidence, the affi lavit.s should set forth the fact of its non existence. A I.J ENS. 1 hese must file an affidavit setting forth the date and place of birth ; 'the port at which they were landed, as well as the time ; their several piaces of residence since in this country, with the length of time at each ; and that they have never filed a declaration of intention to become citizens, nor have voted or attempted to vole at any election in any State. In addition, the affidavit of two respcctablo citizens, not them selves aliens, must bo furnished, who certify that they know the upplbant to be a man entitled to credit, and believe his stateinent to bo true. PHYSICAL DISABIIJTT. 'I he Board is allowed to sti'ike off, for mani fest perament physical disability. It is impossible :to make this term nj r plainer. The infirmities for which the Board are permitted to strike off, must be both manifest and permanent. Those desiring to be stricken off under this head should come in person. The Surgeon must see the trou ble complained of before reporting an opinion to the Board. PERSONA I. AITF.ARANCE. Those claiming exemption for two yeai-s' ser vice, over or under age, alienage and physical ; disability should appear in person. But a cur- ' ; sory examination will ba given the last class. J, 'I hose that do not feel themselves permanently 1 and manifestly disabled should not appear. As regards aliens and persons claiming exemption on age, personal attendance is requisite. When ever it is practicable for a party claiming ex emption lor any eause to appear, he should come. An application in his absence, without reasonable excuse for non-attendance, is con strued against him. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS A copy of the enrollment may oftentimes facilitate and curtail the work of Committees. This will be furnished the Townships in the re moter Counties on application. Only Commit tees, not individuals, need apply. This office has not the help to furnish more than a single copy to a Township. 80 soon as the present draft is completed the Board of Enrollment, or a part of it. will visit the several County Seats oi the District for the purpose of correcting the lists. Due public notice of the time of visiting ea-h County will be given. The citizcus are urged to hold them selves in readiness to attend. Persons of unsuitable age, those afflicted with permanent ailments, those that have seen two years' service, aliens and ail others who can at tend should he urged to do so. This is a faith ful effort on the part of the Board of Enroll ment to obtain accurate lists, and should bt nit with u correspondent spirit by citiz ins. Committees need not wait until the Board visits the Counties, but can visit the Board here at once if they see proper. Where it is desired to havo a person enrolled who has escaped enrollment, moved into the Township, or become 20 years of age, appli cation in writing should bo made by one or mote citizens. Theatateinent submitted by them should give the full name, age, occupation and place of birth of tho man to be enrolled, as well as the place of re-ider.ee of the informant. The appropriate government stamps must be affixed to ai! affidavits. The Board is instructed to say that'if the opportunity now offered to correct enrollments is neglected, no attention will in future bo giv en to complaints about excessive quotas. GEO. EYSTER, Capt. A Prov. Mar. JOHN CULI\ Commissioner, WM. C. LANE, Surgeon. HEAD QUARTERS, PROVOST MARSHAL, ) Sixteenth District, Pennsylvania, > Ckambersbarg, Dec. 13, 1864. ) Elootioii Opinion Of The Attorney General. j In the lGth Judicial district, composed of j the counties of Kraukiin, Bedford, Somerset | and Fulton, nine out of the twenty-two leiurn judges of Bedford county refused to sign the | return of the district, because of informality in ! a portion of the army vote. —The remaining ; thirteen signed the return. The district return 'judges refused to accept the return so made by i the thirteen return judges of Bedford county, | and have stated in their return that Francis M Kimmcll, (the Democratic candidate forjudge,) j having received the highest number of votes, is i duly elected. Gov. Curtin thereupon desired i the opinion of Attorney General Meredith up ■on the subject. Gen. Meredith declares that 'he Governor shall pay no attention to the u*e- Hra *'° a l ' ie d '* triCt judges, but shall take all !ib e- ui*' iS f ran ' sailttei l f'>" them—those signed - —- j them, (from L*--' crd . as aforesaid,)— i and by counting a: i.* v ' , Vl)l ' es c ''' l > d iterutinc which candidate has the nLi uoer, and to j commission bun re ~ turn says he, '•show3 that Alex'aC •" r 1 V !i " a majority of the votes in the district >JT Tf *~ j ideutjudge, and is duly elected to that oltfu®' I and, in tny opinion, the Governor is bouna to j grant hiin a commission accordingly." ' To say the least, the opinion is a singular oue to come from an Attorney General.—The law requires the return judges of the counties and their clerks, to make out their r< turn and sign it. They alone are to be the judges oi the legality of the poll in their several election districts, and the return can not be legal unless signed by ail of them.—The district judges of the 16th district made up their returns from ail the counties except Bedford, (from which they found the returns illegal, because signed I by only thirteen return judges.) signed und transmitted it to the Secretary of State, as re quired by law, annexing a copy of the reject ed return unsigned and not included in their count. The Governor is requested, by his At torned Geuerai, to accept as of equal validity J with their signed return, the unendorsed major ity return from Bedford county, and to declare legal that which has been declared illegal—as they by law were empowered to do—by nine | of the return judges of tiio district.—ln other ! words Gov. Ourtin is advised to take the place j of both the county and district return judges, j count the votes himself, determine who has the j majority, regardless of every gross informality, ; fraud, &.C., and to regulate his commission to j suit such u mode of procedure. If this course j is to be pursued hereafter, there can be but i j littie use tor return judge# at all, or any other ] of the usual safeguards to elections.— Patriot J (J- Union. j The Treasury Report. The Secretary of the Treasury gives an ac count of his stewardship, and at the same time a brief history of the financial legislation of Congress, and the policy aa i operations of the Treasury Dopartment, since the beginning of j - the war. For the convenience of our readers j ' wa condense below the principal items of the i somewhat crudo tables which are presented in j tho report. ! i The national debt amounted on the let of July, 18C4, to g1,740 r 690,189 49. The interest on the national debt for the current year amounts to $91,810,215 19 From taxation and ether sources, the reve nue of the current year is estimated at $419,- 512,389. Of this amount, customs yield $70,261,091; internal revenue, $249,562,859 ; miscellaneous sources, $24,020,171. The interest payable ia coin r.ow exceeds fifty six millions per annum. The daily expenditure is calculated at two and a quarter millions. The daily receipts amount at present to near ly a million and a half, and if Congress la 3's certain additional taxes, they can bo brought up to two millions per day. 'lhcre must be borrowed during the year $■>20,727,507. Fifty millions of this sum, however, the Secrerary thinks can bo raised by additional taxes, to be laid by the present Con gress. Deduct this, and also §88,353,320 of the public debt to be redeemed during the year, and it results that the national debt will bo in creased during the year ending June 26, 1865, by §482,575,188. The English Press en the Presidential Elect:on—What is Thought of Lin coln's Triumph ever McClellan. [From the London Nor- i- ] Mr. Lincoln haa been, u.< cverhedy foresaw he would be, ileeted President, 'flidj question which concerns us now is not s-u much lr V be ; cutrie to this second ftuvaiion as what in flu mire than elevation is likely to have on our own re- j lulious with the United States. On this p nut : we see no reason for alarm ; nay, it may prob ably he that we are' safer in the bands of ?!r. Lincoln than we should be in those of auy one : vlrC. As vctjards foreign States, • hurselvrs in | particular, we may reasonably believe ti .it be , lias sown his v.ild oats; ho has gone Jiirough 1 ike course of delving and insulting l.nglan I, which is the traditional way of obtaining tie iho JiLU vote and we may not uiWe.-.sonab'y. ! Lope thai be is unlikely to repeat the expevi j luent. Ever since he found himself firmly cs j tablished in bis office, and the first effervesc; net |of national feeling had begun to sub-ide, vve i have had no great reason to complain of the I conduct of Mr. Lincoln toward England. His ! tone has been less exacting, his language has I been less offensive; and, duo allowaueo being , made for the immense difficulties of bis ti.ua i tiou, we could have putted with Mr. Lincoln, ! had such been ibe pleasure of the American i people, without any vc -tige of ill will or ffi fotl ! ing. He has done as regards the country what the necessities of the situation demanded from hiui, and ho has done no more. A new Pres ident might possibly feel called upon lor a de monstration or more hostile spirit. It is an ordeal through which all American politicians must pass, and we may deem ouuLvea fortunate in having to deal with one who has pa .-cl through it already. Though, however, wc have no reason as im partial lookers-on to complain of iffe re-elect-.on of a Chief Magistrate with whom we have, at any lale, contrived dining Ike last four years to keep up friendly relations, tfcu case is very different with regard to the nation which ff.is thus re-elected him for its chief. The case of the Democratic nii-uoiity is soon stated. Even while the election was yet pending, while an arbitrary or unpopular act might lose much valuable support, and embitter much lukewarm opposition, they were denied the franchise whit li li.e Constitution gives them by the generals oi lhe President, ana the denial was supported in words and in writing by the President 1 i n-if. What fate have they to expect wlu n the eleo (ii.ii is decided ? What right vwli be laid sacred vben this right of elect; >n, on which all others re.-t, is boiiliy and a ivisably s. t at naught by the very candidate who is seeking for the suf frages which he violates? Henceforth we tn -.y consider the Democratic party as expelled from the arena us practical polities, and destined t > purchase eitfcr sin ignominious impunity by inaction and submission, or to suffer all tho miseries that tyrants can inflict or martyrs can endure- We can regard the reappointment of Mr. Lincoln as little less than an abdication by the American people of the right of self-gov ernment, as an avowed step towards tit 3 t-mn dation of a military despotism, towards the subversion of a popular Government, which may still exist in form, but which in substance is gone. Wc would not be supposed to insin uate that it is the destiny of -Mr. Lincoln to be (1 . n. ,' fonujicr of the dynasty to wi.i -b '<•" has taken so long a step; whatever be Lis mer its, hia warmest admirers themselves can scarce ly contend that be is made of imperial suit}, ilis hand has shaken the tree, but we yet aivait the man who is to gather the fruit. Future historians will probably data from the second presidency of Mr. Lincoln the period when the > American Constitution was thoroughly abroga- L and had entered on that transition stags w cknown to the students of history, through whan replies P- !S * on their way from deutoc- Key to t> rran^ [ From uJ c Herald, Nov. 22] • ' * ~ f r. /•iucoln will go on, in his i own phrase, "pegging a v -V objects already shown to be unattainable, . *■• ' va3te main . strength on the impregnable dci2nB ts ot Li''h-j uioiitl and scatter the rest of his forc.-s over the frontiers of the south, froui Galves ton tu ] Norfolk, and from Western Arkansas to iAc tern Vngiuia. will accornj iish nothing, and may not improbably expose himself to souto tei;i ble blow from an enemy whose inferior forces are directed by a profound statesman, and led by first-rate generals. Fur our own part, we r juice heartily in the defeat of General McOlellao, as a prelude to the uefcat of the North. We rejoice that the cause of oppression, robbery and injustice, is entrusted to the hands of a vacillating, help less imbecile, lather than to those of an able, resolute and efficient soldier. Nor do we think that the hopes ot peace have been seriously im paired by Mr. Lincoln's success. Peace de pends, not on the wishes of a man, but on the dieposilioa of the nation. So long as the North was resolute in the prisecuiiou of the war, neither General McCleilan nor even Mr. Yal iarithgham could have made peace. So soon as the North shall be heartily sick of the war, convinced that victory is impossible, and eager for a compromise even on the basis of South- ern independence, peace will have become ne cessary to Mr. Lincoln, and could not bo long delayed even by a Sumner or a Brownlcnv.— We bclive that nothing could tend more strong ly to bring about such a state of things as will effectually discourage the war party, and dis pose the North to abandon its hopeless enter prise, than the continuance of Mr. Lincoln's rule; and in that belief we hail his re-election as an event of excellent augury for the inter ests of the South and of mankind. [From the London News (organ of tba English Abolitionists,) Nov. 22.] The Great political crisis to which millions of American citizens have been looking forward with profound anxiety, which for a time ab sorbed the best energies of the Government, and to which even the operations of armies in the fields have been subsidiary, is past. The terrible incidents which tho fear of some nerv ous citizens foresaw as destined to make the fa tal Bth of November are not found in the his tory cf tho day. No towns have been tired, no peaceful citizens shot down at the poll. The people of (he cities, counties and States of the Union have voted as they liked—many for Mo- Clellan, but more for Lincoln—and as the re sult the author of the emancipation proclama tion has been re-elected Chief Magistrate of the Republic for the next four years. * * * But, after all, it was as representing a cause— the cause of national unity —that Mr. Lincoln was re-elected. In this country opin ion is much divided, not only as to the merits of that cause, hut a? to its very nature. One tiling, however, we are ail concerned in. On ly a strong government in the United States can properly fulfill tint duties which tho Ifepublic owes to foreign l'oatersin times like these'when as in the caso of the Trent or the Wachusett the Executive may have to take a course rc p.iguant to, temporary popular feeling. \ (> cordiuc to tho iniony of our ovVn state,, men, Mr. Lincoln** Government has shown the will and the power to deal justly by us, and w ' f-nv no reason, therefore, to regret his re-ehc i cioit by A large majority. [From rhe Loi (!oti Paiiy Telegraph, Nov. 22 ] ; Mr. Lincoln has fresh leave to carry desoia ! {i;n to the homestead* of Virginia, to let Jo via I mora havoc among tho cane brakes of Ixiuiff. ; ana. to burn Georgian homes, to lay waste the woodlands of Alabama, to trample out the har vest amid life rich fields of Wkj Carolina*, t 0 ! make a solitude amid the swamps of Florida, id to send otr.inge legions into that wide spreading uioras ol misery, where, during the ! pa=t four years, whole armies have stink. Wtrai ill bo the reply* of the. people of the S nth* i iiTLvr hate, sterni-r de. ds. Tho news vill revived by man with si grim smile An they grasp the bayonets tlmt have so often sent hack the Northern horde: but it will, in tr-tli, i have a terrible meaning in many a Southern home. From many thousand Southern hearts a prayer will ascend that the God of battles may nerve evesi the youngest arm to a Snal •ami victorious blow. We, too, may earnestly I desire that this i ppalling struggle shall not be prolonged, nnd that American institutions uiay not !<>.- all what once gave thctp worth, in the destruction of two great republics, the over throw of a grand material prosperity, with the 1 final fearful r*.-uit, "red ruin and the breaking I up of laws." i ' C-idoon'e Band. I Senator Hale has been remote! f ro in tfc o : eluurroanship of the Senate Naval Committee aii th telegraph informs u, because ho reiter ates in.-i chafges of •'corruption anil imbecility" against t fie Navy Department. That commit | tee litis, iliereforc. formally constituted itself simple "Gideon's Band," and will, of course confine itself hereafter to recommending every thing which Mr. Welles may propose, and ap proving everything which Mr. Welles may do. To this complexion lias the possession of * power brought the party of -'great moral ide as." S-Tiator Hale is t!tf. original abolitionist i the Senate. fie fought the battle against slavery v. hen to tight th-t battlo was to risk popularity, prospetity and social position. And r: v, because he insists upon '-bearing his tes timony"' against what he believes to be the ''cor ruption and imbecility" of one of the greatest •; ar'trcnts of the government, bis feliow-ab i ionisM put him out of doors! The Sum n-is and Scwrads p.ro wiser In their dav ar.d cm ration. They were ready enough to sac rifice the peace and happiness of their country, teat by fanning the fury i f fanaticism they might reach the tFshpots of the administrative Fgypt. But that a fanatic once in p twer should trouble his friends with Lis honestv, they can neither understand nor tolerate. • j At It Agaia. Abraham can still get off a joke. He says , ; in his message: | "Men readily perceive that they cannot be much oppressed with t debt which they owe . theuis-Ive-." J In oilier woros, n >vru numesieau ' worth one thousand dollars, and possess one thousand dollars in cash; and if you lend the thousand cash to Abraham with which te op ■ crate against slavery, and Abraham gives you ids note, as your agent, promising to pay "yea when ! receives that amount in taxes'front y- it, with a lien oa your thousand! dollar home ; stend, as ultimate security; then you can't ba much oppress 'd, because you owe yourself the thousand daiiars cash. and if Abraham can't ; get taxes enough our of yon to pay vou, why -.our homestead is always fall s-curitv for the amount. Of course, "men readily perceive" this, and feel perfect assurance that thev can't be "much oppressed"' by it, for, don't vou see, j whenever they begin to feel the pressure, thoy j can forgive themselves the debt, and—prej . to, the !i -n is cancelled.— Patriot —USED— f - amount MKM W I DEL.—Amanda Widel, daughter of Geo. and Mary Ann Widel, died at the residence of her parents, on Friday last, ICth inst., aged 22 years. How stiange that the angel of death should fling his dart at one so young! But the skeleton Messenger found his victim ready for his coming, and willing to resign the compan ionships of earth, for the still better and holier communion of the "general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven " The deceased was a worthy member of the Christian Association of Bedford; and in her s church relations, as well as in practical life. I continued to exemplify the many adornings of • the troe christian character, up to the period , of her early departure from earth. She was i: not only resigned, but even joyfully happy, in her last and dying moments, as was fully cvi i dent to those who talked, sang and prayed with her, in that critical hour. It the purest do ; raestic affection, and the be.-t emotions of gen | uine friendship; of the existence of which, tho • obsequies of Sabbath last, gave the most touch ing demonstration, could have detained awhile longer, the spirit of our youthful frieud, then surely, Amanda would still bo with us, ns faere : tofore. But the ordering has been otherwise, aud wo how, with stricken hearts, meekly and j resignedly, as we hear Jesus say to us, in this trying, unexpected providence—.-What I