BEDFORD GAZETTE.
B. F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
FRIDAY t i ; JANUARY 20, 1865,
RELIGIOUS.
A series of religious meetings will be held in
the M. E Church at Trans Run, commencing
on Saturday, 2lst Jan. inst., and in the M. E. 1
Church at Hartley's, commencing on Saturday, 1
the 4th of February.
G. HERKSTRESSER, Pastor.
To our Western Subscribers.
After the first day of February next. We will
strike from our list the name of every subscri
ber outside of Pennsylvania, who will not have
paid up his arrears by that time. Hereafter
we will not send our paper beyond the limits of
the State, unless it be paid for in advance.—
This rule will be strictly adhered to.
Our Franklin County Mentor.
Mr. A. Iv. McClure, editor of the Franklin
Repository, some time ago, kindly undertook the
office of mentor to th.e people of Bedford coun
ts. For months he lectured them upon their
duties as citizen*, but, finding that they would
rot listen to his sage counsels, and that, in spite
of all he could do and 9ay, they would give a
largely increased vote against his party, he fell
to scolding them "like a very drab," and, now
piqued more than ever at their intractabloness,
he threatens even to go to law with them ! The
objects of his special aversion seem to bo the
Return Judges of this county. Read the Re
pomtoiy for the past three months and you will
inevitably come to the conclusion that the edi
tor of that paper, has Return Jitdje on the
J],<ain. The reason of this strange disturbance
in the mind of Mr. McClure, on the subject of
Bedford county Return Judges, is the fact that
those return judges were so obscured as to their
vision, that they could not see the beauties of
the system (introduced, partly, by that great
moral and political reformer, A. K McClure)
which puts in the minority, a majority of voters,
by the getting up of election returns which
benr cpon the face ot them the stamp of ille
gality and fraud. In the last week's Repository,
we have his latest instalment on this topic. In
an article of a column and a quarter in length,
he undertakes to show why the abolition mem
bers of the House did not do wrong in refusing
to regard the certificate of two return J'cTpui-^e
of his lucubrations, he utters the following delib
erate falsehoods:
1. "The record evidence before the caucus
showed that Mr. Meyers was defeated by over
100 votes."
[The only legal record evidence in the case,
was the certificate of Meyers' election, by two
of the three return judges. Dut, we presume
this was not brought before the caucus.]
2. "The Democratic return judges rejected
IS9 of the army vote and counted the remain
der, something over 300."
[The Democratic return judges did no sueh
thing. They did not reject a single vote certi
fied to them by the Prolhonotary. They did
count the whole army vote, as certified by the
Frothonotary, whereupon the abolition return
judges, in violation of law, refused to sign the
return and withdrew from the convention.—
Although the Democratic return judges, in or
der to fulfil tha duties imposed upon them by
law, did thus count the army vote, their action
was not binding upon any person, and was not
•0 regarded by a majority of them, owing to
the fact that the law requires that all the return
judges present shall sign the return.]
3- "When the three return judges met in
Bedford to perform their duty and compute the
aggregate vote as certified by the judges of the
several counties, Mr. Meyers and his friends
had resolved to improve in the matter of the
rejection of army votes, and accordingly the
two judges from Fulton and Bedford were ma
nipulated until they rejected the whole of the
army vote in Bedford and Fulton, and thus gave
Messrs. Meyers and Findlay an apparent ma
jority This act was consummated by Mr
Meyers and his friends, V.y compelling sworn
district judges, to reject part of the very vote
they had accepted as correct, &c., &c.
[False, from beginning to end. The Fulton
and Bedford return judges were not "compell
ed" by any one. to do any thing. They are
not men of wax. like those you are accustom
ed to use, Mr. MeClure. They had determin
ed upon their course before they came to Bed
ford, and that was, to have the counting of the
army vote of Bedford county, to a committee rais
ed by the House, according to law, upon a petition
preying for an investigation of the right to seats
in that body, of tU persons whom they should return
as elected. They had before them DO return of
the army vote of Bedford county ; because, to
constitute a return, all the return judges present
must sign it, and in this case nearly one-half
of them had not signed it. Nor did they deem
it lawful and right to give the certificate of e
lection to persons, who according to the returns
before them, had not received the highest num
ber of votes, simply because it was claimed
that those persons had received votes not com
puted in the county returns. Tnis they regard
ed, as before stated, as a subject for investiga
tion upon a petition forcoutcst. Hence, they
gave certificates bf election to Meyers and Find*
lay, they having, according to the returns be
fore them, received, respectively, the highest
number of votes. A? to the "manipulation,"
of which Mr. McClure speaks, we would just
say that we have not been under his mentor
ship quite long enough to understand what that
means. It is an old and true aphorism, that
"Every fox smells his own hole."]
Mr.AlcClure says we "err grievously" when
we declare that he has been "employed in at
tacks upon" us. Well, perhaps, we were mis
taken. As Mr. McClure is only oar mentor,
his styling us "traitor," copperhead," "guilty
of fraud," etc., etc., uiay have been "kindly
purposed." Doubtless, he intended his objur
gations, in this regard, as entirely didactic and
for our special good. At any rate, we aha.! try
very hard to regard the matter in that light.
Will not our most kind moral and political
mentor condescend soon to refresh us again with
one of his sublime homilies ou the duties of
| Return Judges ?
A Convention of Publishers
Gold has declined, but the price of printing
paper is still increasing. Rags command no
higher price than they did when paper was 18
cents per pound, yet the latter article is now
28 to 30. These facts show conclusively that
the manufacturers of printing paper have en
tered into a combination for the purpose of
speculation. If that combination can be main
tained, the price of printing paper will, doubt
less, be increased to such a figure that the sub
scription price of newspapers will soon operate
as a prohibitory taiiti upon their circulation.
Now, this movement on the part of the paper
manufacturers can and should be checked. —
There is, at present, a proposition before con
gress to repeal the duty on paper, so long as
the rate of exchange between the United States
and Europe, exceeds a certain per centum.
This measure should be pressed through by all
means. A convention of publisher? should
assemble and take such measures as wouiJ in
duce members of Congress to vote for the re
peal of the duty. Every editor should make
the support of this bill one of the conditions
of his support of members for re-election. —
As there is no time to be lost in acting upon
this subject, we append the following call for
a publishers'convention, suggested by a num
ber of gentlemen connected with the press,
with the request that our exchanges throughout
the state, copy and call attentiou to it:
CONVENTION OF PUBLISHERS.
A convention of publishers will be held at
llarrisburg, on THURSDAY, FEB. UTHj
ISCS, for the purpse of petitioning Congress
in favor of the repeal of the duty on paper,
and of taking such other action as may be deem
ed beneficial to the business of printers and
publishers. The publishers of the 9tate, are
respectfully requested to attend.
fcj-A correspondent of the Franklin Reposi
tory/ talks about having a law passed to reach
tllA ftieno of UP/\f nnrt T>•.l ——" '
made the instruments of fraud, in this district.
Very well. If Mentor McClure can't keep the
morals of Bedford county in order, without the
passage of ex post fncto laws, let him have them,
by all means. We hope, moreover, that he
will have a section inserted in the proposed law,
enlarging his inentorial jurisdiction, so that it
may include (he place of residence of the Som
erset county Congressional Return Judge, who,
in violation of his "oath and the law," refused
to make the return of Somerset county to the
meeting of the Congressional Return Judges.
Come on with your ex post factos, and your
prosecutions, Mr. McClure. There are a few
abolition return judges and election boards in
tbis neighborhood that will not thank you
much fur them, by the time we get through
with them.
he last Franklin Repository contains a
delectable letter from H irrisburg. signed "Hor
ace," which stealthily advocates a change of
venue in the case of the Commonwealth vs.
Rev. W. V. Gotwait, now in the Quarter Ses
sions of Adams county. l!ev. Gotwait is charg
ed with the seduction of Miss Walter, "a clear,
bright and highly respected young lady," as
"Horace" is hound to corfess, and it is feared
that he rr.i.y he convicted by an ddams county
jury. Of course, our mentor of the Repository
must take sides with the preacher, because,
forsooth, he is a prominent Abolitionist, whilst
the lady's fi lends are Democrats. It would
never doto let one of the bloody war-bowlers get
,nto the clutches of the law. Oh, no! That
would have a very demoralizing tendency.
IV hv, people might, even lose confidence in the
preacher's honesty as a politician.
e,yThe Patriot cj- Union complains that some
of its exchanges copy its articles without cred
it and at the same time "put!" other newspa
pers. The complaint is a just one. The Pa
triot. <s* Union is the central organ of the De
mocracy of this State, is a good paper and
should be sustained. We have but one fault to
find with the management of that paper, and
that is, that it permits the Harrisburg Telegraph
to outstrip it in circulation on the railroads and
through the hands of news dealers. Democrats,
when traveling, would like to buy Democratic
papers, hut when none are to be had, they ure
compelled to resort to the enemy's journals for
the new t. The injury done to the cause, in
this way, is incalculable.
DEATH MAJ. W. W. ANDERSON—We
learn with profound regret, that Maj. W. W.
Anderson, 20th Pa. Cavalry, and a citizen of
this place, was fatally injured, a few days ago,
by being thrown from his horse. The news of
his death was telegraphed here, on Tuesday
evening last, and shaded with sorrow the face
of many who had known, respected and loved
the gallant youpg soldier
EDITORIAL MELANGE.
WGood —the sleighing.
O-Better —a nice, warm room.
t^Howling—the winds and the Abolition
editors of this Legislative district.
SVPiercing—the cold and the "'sarkasm of
the Somerset Herald.
erEnded—the war, by Lincoln's re-election!
Don't you dare to doubt it, Copperheads.
-The Tribune favors extension of suffrage
to negroe9 —the Times favors taking it from
''ignorant white men.'' The world moves.
ftjrCoercion of states is the extinction of the
vital principle of all Republican Government.
—Edward Everett.
SJ-F. P. Blair, Sr., and Gen. Singleton, of
Illinois, have gone to Richmond, it is thought,
on n peace mission. May tney succeed is our
earnest prayer.
OrThe Philadelphia Press offers to pay $lO,-
000 to the Sanitary and Christian Commissions,
if the Inquirer, of that city, can show that it
has half the circulation it claims to have.
tJ-Gen. Butler haa been removed. We pre
sume all the dogs in the South have been kill
ed, the women put to their "avocations," and
that no elections are to be held soon in New
York city.
3-The House has refused to invite the. cler
gv of Harrisburg to open its d aity sessions
with prayer. Well, what was the use t Have
n't thev eot right among them, the great men
tor, MoClure ?
Ord, successor to Gen. Butler, is
said to be a good general, but he is not so gen
erally respected as the General Ord-er by which
lie was placed in command. (l*ut him down
for trial!)
earßarnum has on exhibition the "bark-bone
of the rebellion" It exhibits marks of bnriaf
been broken in about five hundred different
places. The marrow's all out of it—supposed
to have been put in pickle in the \ irginia Salt
works.
-Dr. Jos. Keeffe has opened an office next
door to the tailoring establishment of Mr. John
Boor, oi? West Pitt St. Tiw Doctor served
gallantly, for three years, in the army, and now
returns to tho practice of his profession. We
wish him success.
erQuite a number of sleighing parties have
recently "come off." florae of the young folks
with a sufficient sprinkle of "old chaps,' io
take care of them, made n raid into Schells
burg, one night last week, and were e xcellent
jy entertained at Judge Snively t.
M-Fi.'ur S!"J-<Wper barrel, pork 1G cents
per pound, w pod tf.oo per cord and the "Be*
ford Gazrtto" stilt 00 P er nnu,n ' * C "
try to stand it till the n.'' st ' Fehruan npxf
when we shall have "to strike / <>r b. r ?t Jcrww o e -
(SrCourt will begin on the thirteenth of next
IV- V • v.
will be prepared to pay the printer. By the ,
way, speaking of couit, reminds us that an at- •
tachinent was served on us, a few days ago, by
a lawyer who, we thought, hadn't the least at
tachment in the worid for us !
tsr A State convention of uewsj aperpublish- j
ers, was held at Columbus, Ohio, on the 4th
inst., at which it was agreed to memorialize ;
Congress and the Legislature fur a reduction j
of the duty on foreign paper, and to raise the j
price of all weekly newspapers to two dollars i
and a half per year. Sensible printers, those \
Buckeyes!
erf he New York papers say that the sleigh
ing in that city, during the past week, was
good. The Tribune says "it was an honest
northern snowstorm," they had. We presume
the snow was black, since Greely admired it
so much, or that Old Abe has made special
arrangements with the "clerk of the weather,"
in regard to the squall, since it was an "honest"
storm!
We Imve from the start denounced the
action of the return judges in violation of their
oaths and the law.— Franhlin Repository.
No, you didn't. You never said one word
about the Somerset county congressional ret urn
judge, who refused to meet with (ho remainder
of the return judges, and by whose violation
ot law, the Governor wag prevented from pro
claiming the election of a member of Congress
for this district. Let us hear from you in re
gard to this particular case.
A PICTORIAL DOI'BLENUMBKR. —Tire PHREN
OLOGICAL JOL'USAL AND LIKE ILLUSTRATED, for
January, appears with 3d quarto pages and a
beautiful illustrated Cover. It contains Por
traits of Tennyson, billiman, Sheridan, Cobb,
Phillips, Susanna Wesley—mother of John—an
Indian Chief, Franz Muller, Miss Muggins,
Miss Fury, the Princess of Wales—Florence
Nightingale, A Group of Warriors—Hannibal,
Julius Cacutr, Pizarro, Cromwell, CharleoXtL,
Frederick the Great, Scott, Wellington and
Napoleon, with ETHNOLODT, PHRMKOLOGY, PHYS
IOONOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PSYCHOLOGY. NO.
1. Vol. 4!st. Published at 20 cents a Number,
or $2.00 a year, by Messrs. FOWLER & WELLS,
389 Broadway, New York.
PUB. DOCS.— We are under obligation to
Hon. A. H. Coffroth, M. C., Hon. G. W.
Householder, State Senate, and M. A. Ross,
Esq , H. R , for a number of valuable public
documents.
DEATH of EDWARD EvEßßrr. —The distin
guished orator, Edward Everett, died at his
residence, in Boston, on Sunday morning last.
Mr. Everett's death v, ill be mourned *l3 a eevei'i
loss to the country.
twrEon't read this line.
THE WAR.
Beverly, West Virginia, was captured a few
days ago, by the rebel General llosser, who
took 400 Federal prisoners. Colonel Moseby,
the guerrilla chief, is sail to be recovering
from the wound which he recently received.
Gen. Butler has been removed and ordered to
report to Lowell, Mass. His failure at Wil
mington, is assigned as the reason of his re
moval. He never WHS anything but a hum
bug, (like the remainder of the office-hunting
traitors who went over to abolitionism) and we
rejoice that he has at last found his level. Gen,
Ord succeeds hin>.
LATER. — There is a report current that Fort
Fisher has fallen. We cannot vouch for its
correctness. There is also a rumor of a fed
eral victory in South Carolina, resulting in the
capture of IGQO rebel prisoners.
- - iWll * -3>. ——ii ■ -
Letter irom Missouri.
We received, a few weeks since, the subjoin
ed letter, written by a former citizen of this
town, but a number of years a resident of St.
Josephs, Mo. The letter was intended for pub
lication prior to the late presidential election,
but as wo did not receive it until after that pe
riod, we have held it over until the present
time. We now give place to it, for the pur
pose of showing our readers how the election
was carried in Missouri, by the Abolitionists;
St Josephs, Mo-, Oct. 20, IBG4.
ED. GAZETTE :
Although a small city in the far west, "St. j
Jo." has been and is yet the theatre of some j
important events tending to show the manner
in which the Presidential campaign is to be
conducted, in Missouri ; and the Democratic J
party in the free norih, will do well to "make
a note on't" Hgair.st a futn.-e day ol reckoning.
Nothing daunted by the disgraceful riot at
the McCiellan meeting in St. Louis, a meeting
was announced by the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee to be ht id in St. Jo., on the
evening of the 4i.h of Oct., at which the Hon. |
Thus. L. Price, our candidate tor Governor,
and other prominent Democrats were expected
to speak. Accordingly arrangements were
made by the McCiellan Club to have the meet
ing conducted in an orderly manner, military
protection bring promised by the officer com
manding this post, to prevent any riotous dera
' onstration on the part of the abolitionists, so i
hard is it in this redeemed and regenerated Stale
of Missouri, fur any man opposed to this wick
! oil and corrupt administration, to exercise the
j right of free speech, without putting bis life in
i peril.
Feeling secure in these promises, in spite of
; the declarations of many of the loading shod
' dyilcs, during the day, that the "meeting would
I be broken up," Price would not be allowed to
• speak, &c , &c., the hall was opened at the ap
i pointed hour und was soon fliicd with citizens
j and soldiers.
j General Price was introduced and comtoen
i ccd his speech by a declaration of ' is own un
! swerving fidriity to the Union. tie stated that
he was a better unionist than Mr. Lincoln and
' gave as proof, Mr. Lincoln's declaration in Con
| press, a few years ago, that if a State felt ug
' grieved it had a perfect right to withdraivfrom t>
j Union , a doctrine which lie (Price) never could
i assent to. Ilere the shoddyites interrupted him
; w.'Mi groans and hisses that would have di-gra
i Bedlam itself, mingled with cries of "shoot
: p,j ni ." "kill him,'' "put him out," &c , which
rendered st* akm r, wcil MS utterly
' impossible. "En ° rl " * ere made b >' *verul gwt
! tie men present to ca> oxo,tc '™ c " t ' nd ob '
• tain a hearing for Genera. ' ' * 1
i purpose, and amid renewed an. ie H s " Hn ? ru-I S
and violent threats to shi it him it , brt BD-cmpt
[ ed to speak, the meeting broke up in tnri Wl *'
' est confusion, but with no etfurt on the pari
the authorities, either civil or military, (both of
I which were represented there) to quell the mob
or secure to Gen. Price that freedom of speech
which was once the boasted right of every A
j inci iciin citizen.
I Ami for what was all this done? Certainlv
| from uu doubt of Gen. Price's loyalty, for from ;
' the commencement of the rebellion he has teen j
one ef the staunchcet and truest Union men in !
Missouri, and for two years a Brigadier Gen- j
j era! in the Federal Army, and theve facts ar" j
well known in North West Missouri, and are j
even admitted by some 'if the Jacobin leaders; !
therefore no charge of disloyalty can be assign- '
ed as the cause, but the redacting man sees in j
it but the beginning of the end—a system of j
l violence and intimidation to be* carried on j
I throughout the State wherever there are armed i
men to do the work, thus hoping to secure by !
I force and fraud what they cannot do by legal j
} voting viz: carry the State for Lincoln.
A significant fact in connection wi;!i thisaf- i
j fair was, that most of the abolition office-hold- •
I ers, and leading men, Postmaster, Eli tors, IJep
; uty Collector and Indian Agent were in attcn- j
I dance at the ill-fated meeting, while th tt whole j
j posse of candidates and aspirants for offices, j
I both military and civil, under the present ad- j
ministration were observed to he circulating I
freely, and some of them urging the. mob to i
deeds of violence. If tli® people of the north '
cuuid only have a faint idea of the sufferings
of their friends in the border States, they would
rise up en masse and assist in relieving thein j
from worse than egyptian bondage.
If the. shoddy ites get a majority in North :
West Missouri, lot it ho remembered that Dora- !
oeratic meetings were broken up throughout
the State by mobs of armed men. Democrat H '
have been subjected to all manner of insults I
and threats of violence for attempting to speak,
while the Jacobin journals have openly coun
selled their minions to commit thcue outrages,
if the Democrats attempted to hold meetings.
I was told by a Union Leaguer a day or two !
ago, that in Nodaway county there were about '
200 McCiellan men, but iu4 one of them would :
be atiowed to cast a vote If they attempted i
to exercise this Constitutional privilege, tuey
would be driven from toe country. I this E ;
free country ?
Gen. McCiellan has many warra friends in I
this part of the country, as we should prove i
on the Bth of November, could we liave any- '
tiling like a fair election, but from present in- j
dications it is be to but a repetition of theiast
two years experience, a ballot box hedged in with j
bayonets. But n party which seeks to force i;- 1
self into power by trampling down all law and
oitier, and committing acts of tyranny that
would disgrace barbarians, forgets 'hat inherent
love of justice which is characteristic of the :
A.acrieau people, or at least tuat portion of j
them in wh m the capacity for bribery and j
greed for office, bus not overpowered all sense .
of honor and decency,
I am glad to hear that old Bedford county
has done eo nobly. In fact every county in the
State did well, with two, or threo o>cejfion,
and I look for still greater gains in November.
The election in Indiana was a farce. The
voting in Indianapolis throws in the shade the
voters in Kickapoo, Kansas, in 18*<6, where
40 men cast about GOO votes. Twenty thou
sand men were sent home to vote and to drive
Democratic voters from the polls. They were
not distributed well, b it were sent to the cap
ital and to the nsn,-t accessible towns au.l citi s
in the several Congressional districts; eonse
qnentlv, notwithstanding the large Abolition
majority in the State, the Democrats have car
ried both branches of the Legislature, the Sen
ate by 5 and the House by 4 majority. An
artillery company from Indiana, stationed near
Nashville, Tenn., is composed of 110 men—-
Go Republicans and *>o Democrat*. The Re
publicans onlj' were furloughed to come home
and vole. This was certified to by officers of
the company. Thus can Lincoln be re-elected
and thus alone.
G-eneral News.
We are now iitlunued Unit the various peace
rumors that have been set afloat recently at i
Washington are without the siigbiert toumla- j
tion in fact. The denial however is 100 sweep
ing ; lor it is certainty true that Mr. F- I*. Blair i
lett for Richmond. 1, is now staled in tlie cor
respondence of ilie New York Tunes that he lias
already returned to Washington. If lie succeed
ed in reaching Richmond, as it has been positive
ly assei ted be did, his sojourn in that Capital'
must have been a blici one. Gen. Singleton
also left on a similar errand; but of him we
bear nothing it is to be presumed therefore
that he bus uot yet got back.
A curious and suggestive illustration of the j
manner in which sluKoueuts made in ibejourn-j
nis oi the S'<uth are pc>verted to serve a tern-1
porai v use at the North, will be iouud in an 1
extract troui the Richmond Enquirer ot the,
tOlh lust, it wiii be remembered utat llo E.i
quirer was cited as authority lor Ihe tact that
H ca.i had been uiade at Hie South tor acotiven- ;
tion of the States with u view to revolutionize!
the revolution, depose Air Davis, <!fcc., dec. it j
now appears that some one ot the Virginia pa- j
opposed to Mr. Davis bid really call ior a j
Convention ot IheStaivs; but with trie sole ob- j
ject o! changing the Executive. Jbe Enquirer, !
m Uciiounciiig me call, prefaces its comments
by remarking that i.s Secretary Seward made
use ot the editorials of tins Richmond pa t >ers
ni his despatches, il would not at all surprise
toe Southern public to learn that he had au- i
nounced in Ins despatches to Europe the final ]
caving in of Hie rebellion, and had cited this!
: c*U for a convention as foreshadowing a de.-ign
to revolutionize tlie revolution, depose Mr. Da- !
vis, wipe out Congress, appoint a Diciator, and
p.ritu's 10surrender io the enemy, it was up
on tnis theory, started by the Enquirer, as to
what Mr. Seward might do, that the stoiy was
founded which ascrilied a countar-revolu' ion.'.ry
j design to lite Southern people.
The Savannah Rrjnti/iwan, a paper published
under the auspices ol Gen. Sherman, states that
several ot the counties in Georgia have recent
i )v held elections, and have declared by over
! whelming majoiiiies in favor ot H return to tlie
' Union, 'iht.-c loyal counties are said to le
aiming to ptoltci ila-n.selves against attack
from ihose vbo still support the Confederacy.
I Moreover, it Is alleged that no less a p-.-rs.mage
! than Governor Brown U the principal prompter
{of the reactionary movement. It is proper to
say thiit not much credence is giv en to the story
at the North, where it i* classed among the
revelation- that are labelled "important il true."
From Gen. Sherman we have nothing of any
moment A portion of his force* were in the
vicinity of Hurdceviile, on the causeway, be
j iween Savannah and Charleston, and another
< portion of them had been sent by water to
• TIT-HU Tort, to co-operate with Foster's column
m point.— Bulltimore Gazette.
Gea. Grier3on's Eaid.
„ , • o 1 be following further par-
CAIRO, Jan. i_ , , ? , ' ,
, .. . raiJ have ixen derived
titulars of the rccm
from a reliable >,iuree: , . .
Our l.ipre bruujihl iti seven I'**!"*
, i I 1 I -T,J 'luinljcr of
including uvo C ilonels ana a
other officers, one thousand able-boa. '* ,,v °^ a
and r,'i thousand horses. Among the '
ers were many otfieer*, including BnJadier Crv' {1 j
G. HoUon. t
A fortified place, ctnlled Egypt, on the .Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, was carried by assault, and
the garrison of five hundred Rebels captured,
wnibt the Rebel General Gardner was in sight
with two thousand infantry, which Gen. Grier
*on held at bay. Colonel Earner's brigade
charged the stockade on horseback, and iireci
over the tor> till Grierson surrounded it.
The whole country was in arms by this t.'ine,
and forces were even brought from Macu.' l
Georgia Hampered by the large number <i
prisoners, end oppor-ed by greaily superior for
ces, Grterson cuuid not go to Cahxwiia and re
lease our prisoners, as directed by Gen. Dana,
but struck for Grenada and then for Yickshurg.
Forty miles of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
were so badly damaged that Hood's whole army
carrot repair it in a month. New pontoons,
new wagons, and a large amount of supplies
en route for Hucd's army were dent roved in the
cars, besides Ihe factories destroyed at Bauklon.
containing a large amount of clot!;, wool, leath
er and shoes, ami ths raiiroid and public prop
erty at Grenada, and three hundred w. gons and
five hundred new English <:.n hinos for Forrest.
Gen. Grierso'i'a tos> was twenty-five killed and
eighty wounded.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
j The Legislature of ihis btalo r. *at Hnr
j risbtirg. Un Tuesday, 3d inst. AF ihe tory yur
j ty, by men 118 of the most stupendous frauds,
, have the power, the officers elected are all of
the destmcii.e, disunion, bloody, high tax
j stripe One of the first ac's of the House, at
' tho organization, wan to refuse Messrs
i and Fiudlay, returned elected frcm the Bedford
j District, their right to vole on the organization
|of the House. These gentlemen an Democrats
I and they held the certificate of election signed
by all the Return Judges but one. When it
was found that Meyers and Find lav were e
lected, the shoddyite* trump i up falsa returns
j of the soldier's vote sufikient to turn the scale
iin favor of the African Shoddy candidates.
One judge counted those fraudulent votes, and
the House in violation of all law. contitu.kra
al end statutary, rejected the legu.ll/ returned
members — Grzemburg Argu.i.
tSrWc call the attention of Tax Collectors,
. to the notice of the Commissioners published in
our advertising columns.
Rebel Raid in West Virginia—Capture of
Beverly.
Wurfaixo, Jan. 13 —We learn that •'"•o Sr .
ri*on at Beverly, West Virgi .ia, v r a
on the morning of the 11th, by n lorre of Uuj
enemy under Geueral R >scr, and tiie town,
and a large portion of the force defending r,
were captured. The number of the en-.-n.y nA
stated.
A later despatch confiifus theabote. but states
tliot the Rebels have again retreat. <] vl.ence
they came.
MILLER—BL'EKET.—On the lOifa
by the Itev. David Wolf, Mr. John W. Miller,
of Cambria county, to Miss Julia RurLet. v f
Bedford county.
CE^SNA —In Cumberland Valley, on tin
11th iuat., Allla Ulaneli, daughter of J C. B.
and Margaret Cessna, aged 10 months Had 4
days-
Yours,
KEYSTONE.
The Collectors for the year If#s4 are hereby
notified to appear at the Commissioner's Office,
in Bedford, onSaturdiV, January 23, 18l)3,
for the purpose of settling the Militia Tax,
with which they stand charged, for said year.
Collectors will please como as early in the day
as possible.
By virtue of a writ of Vend. Exponas to
iue directed there wilt be oIJ at public sale. >t
the Court House in the borough of Bedford. on
Saturday, the I lib day of Feb., ISGS, t ten
o'clock A. M. the following described property;
one tract of coal land, containing GO acres,
nn.re or lese, atxrui 13 acres cleared and under
fence, with a cabin iioi.-c and I >g stable thereon
created, adjoining lands ol Wood, Devereux
and Co.. John VV. Lanes heirs an I others, situ
ate in Broad Top township, Bedford county,
seized and taken in Execution as the property
ot Wm. Figard.
ALSO—AII that certain messuage and lot
of ground, situate in the town of Pi 'ssantviHo,
containing about one half acre, with a one and
a half story dwelling house thereon erected, ad
joining lot of Charles Orin, and others, and
taken in execution as the property of Matilda
Marshall, formerly Jas. Clos.-iu.
JOHN A LOST A DT, Sheriff.
Bedford, Jan. 20, 1835.
Letters of administration on the estate of
R it-lie! lv M gg, late of Coloraln township, dee'd.
having lie.cn granted to the subscriber by the
Register of Bedford county, all persons indebted
to Said estate, are requested to make immed
iate payment and those having claims will pre
sent them duly authenticated for settlement.
JACOB KEGG, administrator.
Bedford, Jau. 20, ISGS.
STRAY HEIFFER
Came trespassing upon the premises of the
subscriber, resi ling in Snake Spring tj., some
time in June last, a red heifer with white head
and leg.-, no ear mark, supposed to ba shout
two years old; the owner is desired to prove
property, pay charges and take her away or
she will be sold according to law.
JACOB DUNKLE.
Bedford, Jan. 20, 18G3—4t.*
FOR HSSXT.
Th house in which 1 now liv.
Jan. 13. O. E. SHANNON.
FLEMING HOLLIDAY
WITH
PACI. Graft, WM. H. Wsimcr.
Isaac Watkix, fucs. Sapsirsto*.
GRAFF, WATKIN & CO.,
Wholesale Dialers in
BOOTS OB SHOES,
No. 4?6 Market Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
January 13, 1865—1y.
KEIIOVAL
j B. F ARQ'tHAK has removed his store to the
C'olonna.'*'* ' m "ediately opposite the N ifholas Lvo*s
stand. Ali *ds former patrons and the public get
exa'ly, are inv. :, "d to call and *ee him.
Janu- ry 6, 18G5.
STRAY SHEEP
Taken (,* tfkipa pairs on 'h premise* of thesn^.
er b-r, on Gr.*en Ridge. Met roe townsb-p. vom
,\rr IN IVCET'BIT E'EV~N HEAD OF BHFFT,
some hav* tv>'b chi'' cn PI #S, SOME hBV* ORE FAR
I-RO-N-D *N<T O HNR.S NO R> RK !>' ALL, ORE OF THEM if
' I it'SRK AND ON* has A TROT Tvd FACE. Th* OW R.ER is RE
| TN*:*D TO PIOV* PTOPERLY. |-Y CHARGES, ENC tafc
,I ;N AWAY O: 'hey WILL HE SOLI. 1 ARRCRD-NR To 'AW.
JAN. 13, 1865. * BARNS.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
The Ui?<'*)" s: 6 n, * J anwnled auditor to report 4 dis
tribution t, f t>* balance in tb* bands of J. W. Ltng
*nf*|ter F.s,'- a rr ator of the estaleof .!. W.
Rollins and Kt. : b- Vh dec'd.. wil! attend
for that tiorpo-* at h.' office in Bedford, on Monday
the 6'h of Kehro.'ty .V*. .t 10 o'clock, A. M.„
mbfii ai-H wb*re all panic** interested may attend
if they think pioper.
Jan. 13. JtiV A. rol\> s Attditur.
FELIX HEYMAA r
WITH
Arnold, \iisSiuiisu& Hirdijflgfy.
Importers, Jobbers, and VVboiesale Dealers i®
CLOTHING,
C'lotlis, Cassimeres, Festtogs, TaiJora" Trla
mings &<j.
NOB. 333 Market S reef, and 27 North Fourth Wfeet,
PHILADELPHIA.
OFFFRS great inducement, to Wholesale JJer.'sj-i
from the Country, in quantity, quality, ftyl#,
I prices and terms.
I Merchant*. Tailors and Dealers visiting PhiJadet
| phia, wi I find it to tbeir advantage to call and r*
amine stock and learn prices before purecasing el*-
! whe ' Dee 0, i64_hy
NOTICE.
| All unsettled accounts upon our books must b
closed by or note, January 2, 1863. Tbia is
the only notice we shall give.
I A. B. CRAMER * CO.
* Dacembet 30, 1864.
-UAtiRSKB
—IIIED-
NOTICE TO TAX COLLECTORS
By order of the Commissioners,
JOHN G. FISHER,
Clerk.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
administrator s notice