BEDFORD GAZETTE. B. F. MEYERS. EOtTOR. FRIDAY : : FEBRUARY 3, 1865. ' | ~ * "" DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING. The Democrats of Bedford county, will hold a MASS MEETING, at the Court House, in Bedford Borough, oa MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13 ih (Court week.) Let us pick nor flints and try them again. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again," so with tie wholesome and truthful measures of the Democratic party. Now is the time to strike hands as Democrats and swear eternal enmity to the fanaticism of the times. Lei us meet and kindle anew the old council fires. They arc yet to light this country to glory and at present through the darksome paths of abolitionism. A delegate to the next Demo cratic State Convention, will be chosen, and other business of importance to the party will be transacted. Several addresses may be ex pected on the occasion. O. E. SHANNON, Ch'n. Dem. Co. Com. BEDFORD CLASSICAL INSTITUTE. The current rcbool year of this Institution wiii be resumed Thursday, February 23d, 1565. Tbe Quarter left incomplete by the suddet.iiiness cf the Principal, will be regularly terminated, and tbe school year will extend further into the summer than was at first desig§ed. it is hoped, in view of the inclemency of the present mid-winter and of the peculiar circumstances exiting, that this arrange ment w ill be acceptable to the parents. Feb. 3, 1365. JOHN LYON, Principal. A White-washing Committee. Mr. McClure, finding that the course of his party in the House of Representatives, in re fusing to admit Messrs. Meyers and Findlay to seats, has rendered them odious with the peo- j n!e of this legislative district, and that a news- i paper controversy with the BEDFORD GAZETTF, j will not mend the matter, has caused a com- \ mittee to be raised to white-wash the conduct o/[ k.niself and his colleagues in iniquity. The Speak-' er of the House, (doubtless, at McClure's sug gestion.) took good care to place upon the ccm- { mittee, two abolition lawyers, whilst he exclu ded, with equal carc, the names of Messrs. l'er-! shing andSharpe. two gentlemen well acquaint- ! ed with the facts of this legislative trouble, and whose reputation as honest men and sound law yers, is beyond the reach of criticism. This only proves that the purpose of the men who raised this committee, is not to investigate fair ly and honestly the alleged frauds in this dis- j trict, but to cover up tho infamy of their own ! conduct and that of their parlizans, in refusing to be governed by the certificate of the major ity of the return judges. Of course, the ex! parte , one-sided examination which will he 1 made by these abolition lawyers, will be so managed as to throw blame upon Democrats and exonerate the abolitionists. Nothing else j can bo expected from men whose action is con trolled entirely by their political predilections. l Nothing else can be hoped for, when the ma- j jority of the committee are themselves guilty j of the fraud which they are appointed to white-1 wash. We are, therefore, prepared to sec a j long-winded report from these abolition law yers, setting forth with the affected honesty of j so many sublimated patriots, tho enormity of Democratic return judges refusing to count ar- j my votes (no matter how illegal) whilst we shall | not be at all astounded if our unimportant self j comes in for a small share of the friendly atten- j tions of these smellers of "frauds by return ; judges." But it matters not what this commiitee re ports. Our people have experienced outrage enough at the hands of the party in power, to have learned that nothing is too base for that party to attempt, if it be their interest so to do. ■\\ hite-washing committees are understood and appreciated in this "neck of the woods," and their reports are regarded with contempt and disgust. So let them whiten their abolition sepulchre- The people will uncover it in due time arid all the world shall behold the rotten ness which it conceals, and shall find it "full of corruption and dead men's bones!" Abolition Star Chamber. One day last week the peace-loving citizens of our ancient town were somewhat surprised at the novel intelligence that a select delegation deputed by our Scions at Ilarrisburg, and in- ' vested with plenary powers to discover certain j alleged fraudulent electiou returns, had arrived fresh from the legislative halls. Considerable anxiety was manifested as to what this high coaimission might pei"forrn during its stay a mong us, and it may be I hat some of the more timid were slightly alarmed at the presence of this august assemblage, for this feeling was en- Lanced from the fact, that it wa well known that a certain honest individual, we U known in our vicinity, bad, on more than one occasion, vowed certain vengeance towards offi cials in oar comity. In fact bis pious soul oould not endure the thought that sufh flags - and unblushing traud, aa he honestly be- j keved, should remain uncovered and unpunish-; ed. He raved, be threatened, he imprecated,-*— ) "More peevish, cross, and splenetic, ! Than dog distract or monkey sink-" He went down to the legislature, and there. . in supphant tone, earnestly invoked the Abo-! liiioa displeasure, and besought them, for his' to pour forth the vials of their devouring wrath upon the derelict and offending Prothon- ! otary and Heturn Judges, who so Ungraciously ; refused to comply with the mistiest requectb?* our unpretending friend g doubt when the Committee bade adieu to tin* feacred and time honored walls of ou- beloved they ' thought they werr , oing into , beDigb4e4 and l disloyal regie a w j wre r 4ol jjj n g but t h e noxiojs : weeds * a fraud and treason could grow. In j .3 they wore disappointed, for or their arri- i val, they found that there still remained some ' honesty in this vile district, and that all honor : 1 and integrity had not been aggregated in a sin- ! gle individual. A young barrister of clever appearance acted as chairman, whiU another member of the same fraternity, and withal a ; good fellow, received the evidence, assisted, moreover, by one of the witnesses. "Our hon est" friend acted as prosecutor, witness, coun i sel and judge, yet when one of the Committee, in his simplicity, asked hitrs whether his client would have been elected, had he received all i the vote 3 cast, legal and illegal, ha replied by : saying that he had no client, that there were ! I no parties to the action in the present case. Afterwards in contradiction to this statement, and in direct violation of every principle of law, the Committee decided that Mr. Shannon's ; evidence could not be received, inasmuch as j ' he might be affected by the result. Very little occurred to mar the harmony of { their deliberations, mid our conscientious towns man, with singular naivete, proceeded for two j mortal hours, to let his evidence "drag its slow length along." Nothing remarkable, however, ! was developed from this extraordinary effort, i nor could anything tangible be extracted from I the testimony of those who had been imperi ously summoned thither. The whole thing fell (flat, intolerably fiat, and everybody was disap ! pointed. Truly, "the "mountain labored and ! brotiaht forth a ridiculous mouse." The Cora- I mitte went home, the Democracy remained—• the former wiser, the latter unterrified. x Peaco Rumors. Mr. Blair lias the second time returned from Richmond, and the "loyal" papers are again filled with rumors of peace. Any one now i reading the Tribune, Times, and Philadelphia | Press, would think the Republican Party had suddenly become the peace party of the North, so full of news concerning peace d>j they daily appear. But, notwithstanding all these rumors, we are stiil inclined to doubt- VVe have always I observed, that, whenever the administration ! papers make so much ado about anything, there i< always a motive. It will be recollected that Mr Lincoln has ordered a draft for 300,000 men, quite recently; and that draft will be en- j forced about the loth of this month. They 1 know that they had promised no more drafts j to their benighted followers, and in order to smooth down their disappointment and anger, they sugar-coat the piil with rumors of peace. We do not believe that Jeff. Davis, or his fol lowers, are "willing to treat for peace on the i test terms they can get," as was recently as- ' serted by llie Tribune. Neither do we believe | that anything like reasonable terms will be of- > fered them by the party in power. But if ne- j gotiations should be opened, there might be some prospect that reason would once more re sume its sway. But, even then, the case looks almost hopeless. 7he two sections, maddened as they are by 1 the bloody strife of the past four years, will not ; soon be brought to reason. The proofs of this are already seen in the papers of both the north and south. Neither section has yet suffered sufficiently to begin acting rationally; and, therefore, putting the motive out of the way, • it will be seen that little foundation really ex ists for all the rumors (or even u part of them) now so industriously set afloat, by the time-servers and lick-spittles of the Lincoln dynasty. Yet ! we do not wish to be understood that peace ! cannot be made. But we believe that when it ' is made, it will not be made through the influ- j cnee of Mr. Jeflerson Davis or Mr. Abraham Lincoln, but, by tho people themselves; who, j becoming disgusted with the corruption anddu- ' plicity of their rulers, will rise up and force them to make peace, and allow to each section its constitutional rights. When the people shall j be true to themselves, and are no longer influ- | enced by New York and Philadelphia Abolition ' aailys, we shall look for peace soon but not j till then. i HOPF.WELI. OIL CO. —By reference to our ad . vertising columns, it will be seen that this com j pnnv have determined to clj3o the selling of 1 their stock, on the 25th of February. A fifty ! barrel well of lubricating oil, has been struck, ! within u half mile of the company's property, j which causes the stock of the Hopewell to be . sought after by moneyed men. The stock un ! sold after the above-mentioned date, wili be re tained for the benefit of the company. The Duty On Paper. On Tuesday last, the House of Representa tives passed a resolution to reduce the duty on printing paper, sjzed and unsized, used for boeks and newspapers to 3 per centum ad valorem. The resolution passed by a majority of 97 yeas, to 40 nays. The Senate has yet to act upon the matter, and there it will remain to lie seen how much the price will be reduced. It will undoubtedly afford some relief to a busi ness which is now more oppressed than any other in the country. THE WEALTHIEST MAS.— An Annual Income 6/ §s,ooo,ooo.—Alexander T. Btowart, the dry goods nabob of N. York, has the largest income of aivy man in America or (probably) the world. He has lately paid an income lax of $250,000! on a net Income of $5,000,0001 This wonld be the interest, at 6 per cent., of over eighty mil lions. We know of no case among the weal* thy men of England that surpasses or equals this, and we suppose A, T. Stewart is the ' rich est man" living.— Allavy Argus From the Philadelphia Price Current Oil Operations. Hie operates j n development of the greater parf of ,ne new oil territory, which were cotu 'LcnCed last fall, have been suspended on account ■ of the extreme cold weather of the wiuter, and | some stockholders have lost faith in their in i vestments because of the failure of the com panies in paying dividends as expected. The -opening of the spring will, no doubt, witness a scene of activity hitherto entirely unsurpass ed in the nio9t exciting seasons of the oil re gion. Some companies, however, have continued to work in spite of the frost, and have begn reward ed with unusual success. Prominent among these are the "Oil Companies of the Clarion River." We have hitherto alluded to the en ergy and activity displayed by tbe management of these companies, and are pleased to announce their success in their efforts for the development of their extensive territory. The superintendent of these companies is in the city, and furnishes some facts which will he of great interest to parties holding stock in these organizations, as well as to others disi rous of finding a profitable investment for their surplus funds. The Oil Companies of the Clar ion River are ten in number, and are locate*! upon the extensive tract of territoiy owned by the original Clarion Oil Company, which cov ers in all 2,800 acres of ground within the great oil basin. ; These ten companies are entitled as follows: t "Indian," "Black Diamond," "Claron River," j "Highland,'' "Pennsylvania," "Davenport," ; "Little Toby River," "Greenland," "Deer J Crock." and "Whitehill." Ton engines are up ' on the tracts assigned to these companies, and ! operations are Iing successfully conducted np |on ail of them with satisfactory results. The i "Deer Creek." however, is the most forward. ■ At this point the original owner of the well •struck out," while boring for sal IV a tor, and after trying in vain to find a market for it in Pittsburg, plugged up the well and abandoned it. Since the excitement in oil property this well has passed through several hands, none of whom were able to ex*.act the plug driven some distance below the surface. After the present owners obtained possession of the well, operations were at once resumed, and the bore of the well reamed out to double the original vsize, and the plug driven before the boring tools bestead of extracted. This well is now down softie four hundred and eighty feet, and within a few Jays struck a vein of gas of immense force, blowing the water and oil out of the well above the derrick with a noise which was heard for a longdistance Oil in paying quan tities is now found in this well, but it is intend ed to sink it through the third sand rock some 100 lcet further, when, in the opinion of the practical oil men o$ the region, this well will be one of, if riot the largest , producing icelis in the countn<. A!! the indications of oil-gas, h/ach smut, as it is technically termed, and sudden fails ct Several niches in the tools, are present here, and the tubing is upon the ground, but the Company have wisely concluded to continue operations through the third sand rock. The other companies have a well down, to various depths, from 200 to 300 feet, and all with the best indications of oil. The ''Black Diamond" promises to be unu sually prolific, and will be pumping in a verv short time, while the "111(1140" and "Whitehill" are progressing with the most flattering pros pects. Probably no ten companies in the whole list of oil companies offer more flattering induce ments to the public as an investment than the foregoing. They have all the prerequisites of success: first class territory, an energetic and thoroughly practical superintendent, honest and judicious officers, and, what is after all the most important plenty of oil in their wells. The op erations of these Companies will ere long render the oil region of the Clarion River as famous as the classic groups of the history of Petro leum, Oil Creek. Credits on Drafts. Lately, Provost Marshal General Fry has written a letter to the Governor of Minnesota, in which he makes (lie following explanation of the system of credits allowed on former drafts, v iz: "As it would be unjust and illegal to require a district which had filled its quota under the las( call with three years' men to furnish as many men under the present call as an equal district which filled its quota under the last call with one year men, the former having fur nished three times the number of years of ser vice which the latter haf furtlishcd, it became necessary to estimate the number of years of service which each State, district and sub-dis trict had furnished respectively, so that in as certaining the required number for each district, in order to obtain three hundred thousand men, each locality would receive full credit for the number of years of service furnished under the last call, or excess carried forward and credited upon that call, previous calls being filled with three years' men. or enlistments reduced to the three years' basis." •Tin view of the fact that under former drafts a large number of persons liable to mil itary duty left the locality in which they were enrolled for the purpose of escaping ccnscrip- I tion, a hill has been introduced into the Legis lature calculated to restrain evasions of pend : ;*>g draft. It declares that, all persons who may j leave their homes or enrollment districts for the | purpose of avoiding military service, or who may conceal themselves orfefuse to report after having been notified of their licing drafted, shall be deprived of their right of citizenship within the commonwealth, and "shall be incapable of inheriting any estate under the intestate laws of the commonwealth, or by contract acquiring, possessing or disposing of any real or personal estate within the same. Any officer of election knowingly receiving the vpte of any person so escaping military service shall be liable to in dictment for misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than one hun dred dollars and be imprisoned for n term not less than one month- Any person assisting, harboring, or in any manner aiding in the es cape or concealment of the persons described i and provided for by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction of the same shall be liablo to fine and imprisonment for not less than three mouths. "-—Ltem-Standard. E. B. Foote, 1 ISO Broadway, New York—read bis advertisement in another col umn of this paper. Since February last the Administration has issued calls, and ordered drafts, for a million and a half of men. Beport of the Surveyor General. i Tlie second annual report of Hon. Jams P. Barr, Surveyor General of Pennsj'lvania, which has just been issued by the Public Printer, ex hibits a marked improvement in the business and receipts of tbe Land Office over previous years. The number of patents paid for during the year, is t fvo thousand one hundred and sev erity-eight, being about the number paid for in the previous ten years. The receipt were a fraction under ninety-two thousand do'lars, or something more than tbe receipts from th* same source for the whole seven year's beginning De cember 1, 185G, arid ending November 30, 1 as will be seen from the following statement: Dec., 185b, to Nov., 1857, $21,353 59 Dec., 1857, to Nov., 1858, 12,948 49 Dec., 1858, to Nov., 1859, 13,559 22 Dec., 1859, to Nov., 1800, 11,325 40 Dec., 1850, to Nov., 1801, 7.212 80 Dec., 1861, to Nov., 1802, 5,230 01 Dec., 1802, to Nov., 1868, 18.457 03 Dec., 1863, to Nov., 1864, 9!.9u6 70 In 1802, the year previous to Mr. Barr'* in duction into the office of Surveyor General, the whole receipts of the office did not defray more than half its expenses. But the past year has yielded the State Treasury a clear income from lands of at least eighty thousand dollars, over and above all the expenses of the Land Office. ; This is by far the roust gratifying exhibit that any Surveyor General has been enabled to make ! for many-years. Mr. Barr expresses the opinion that, by ju dicious legislation, the sum of two or three million dollars, which is estimated to be still due on unpatented lands, might lie brought in to the State Treasury in the next ten years, without inflicting injury or distress upon a Sin gh- debtor. The plan by which he proposes to effect this desirable purpose, is to tax unpaten ted lands slightly higher than those that are patented, and thus make tt the interest of all holders of unpatented lands to extinguish tbe claims ot the Cotnmonwealth upon them. There is certainly no good reason why the large amount still due the State on account of lands should not be collected, and there are ma ny and very ol tous reasons why it should be brought into the Treasury within a reasonable period from thi3 date. To collect it summari ly would be a hardship to many of the debtors; and to avoid this, the Surveyor General hu manely suggests a plan by which it may be got in gradually. Landholders who neglect to procure patents from the Commonwealth do injustice to those who have patented their I mds, and also incur the risk of being made to pay for their neglect. Several movements looking to the summary col lection of these debts, have of late years beet; made in the Legislature : and it would not sur prise us if land-owners who continue to put off getting patents should be compelled to pay up at an increased rate of interest. The pres ent rate ranges from two to six per cent, per annum, according to the price at which the land sold originally—thsit which sold at the highest price paying the lowest rate of inter est. I The price of lanl£ was changed at different ' periods. Under Petin and hi# heirs, it was 33 and $22 22 at another. Under the ; Commmonwealth, the price, which was not u ; niform throughout the State, ranged from SBO ! per hundred acres down to $G GGg. In certain I districts of limited extent still other prices were | fixed, but the foregoing were the prevailing rates, at which nearly all the lands in the State i were taken by the first purchasers. Appended to the report are blank forms, which will be found of use to persons applying j for land. Also, a list of the several counties j of the Commonwealth, with the date of their ; erection, &c., from which it may be seen that j from three counties established at the first set ! tlement of the province, (Philadelphia, But ks and Chester,) Pennsylvania has grown to con ! tain not less than sixty-six counties. THE WAR. Besides the army under Gen Hardee, on the j Cotnbahce river, at Salkehatchie, there are two ; other Confederate ainiies opposing Sherman's j movements. A forceis concentrating at Brnnch ; vilJe, S. C'., the great railroad centre at which . Sherman is supposed to be aiming, and it will j !>e under the immediate command of General Beauregard. Gen. D. H. Hill is at Augusta. Georgia, and is gathering an army at that place. It is known that Sherman has halted tor nearly two weeks at Pocoteligo and just north of it, and when urged forward by ihe Washington authorities, gave as his reason ! ' that the Confederate army on the oppasite ?id< ! of the Cornbahee was quite as large as his, and unless reinforced he ran too great risk by pen- j etraling farther into the interior and going so far from bis base at Hilton Head. Sherman, in j this state of afffirs has made a slight altca- j lion in his plan. Me has stopped some of the 1 troops coming from Savannah to join hiin; turned them back to Savannah, and has begun j a feint towards Augusta, to try and keep 'as j many Confederates as possible at that place.— j On Wednesday last these troops were reported i just outside of Savannah, moving on the road j towards Augusta', over one hundred miles dis tant- There have been no contests anywhere ! between Savannah and Charleston for a long time. It is reported that Gen. Robert E Lee has l>een appointed Commander-in-Chief of nil the forces of the Southern States. President Da vis has made the 10th of March a day of fast ing, humiliation and prayer throughout the Confederacy. On last Thursday, the steanfcr Ecl'psa ex ploded her boilers on the Tennessee river, op posite Johnsonville. She had many soldiers on hoard, and over one hundred and forty live.B were lost by the accident. A Federal raid has begun up the Chowan Kiver, from Albemarle sound It is the inten tion to try and capture Woldon, if not too strongly opposed by the Confederates. There is a large Confederate force at Weldon. The Federal raiding party contains both cavalry and infantry. The Confederate authorities have refused to allow a commission, consisting of Bishop Mc- Ilvaine, Javne, and Lee, and Mr. Horatio Gates Jones, of Philadelphia, to visit the prisons in the South and report the condition of the Fed eral prisoners. The intelligence by Southern sources from Wilmington is to January 23d. It confirms the belief ihat the Federal troope had given np the idea of attacking the city.— Aye, Janu ary 30. CyA large lot of blankets, boxes, etc., have lieen delivered to the Federal prisoners confinad in Richmond. * j I'kace-—The "true result of the Blair mts ♦ion" is given as follows in the telegrftraa of Saturday ; but, as the official stamp is want l ing. the oiiblic will await further adviceS: j "That Jef*erson Davis is willing to wave all formu!it!es and send to Washington, or receive from there C'orartaistioners to treat for peace upon the basitf of sejtaration. The President of the United Slates. on the other band, is willing to give a hearing to any person of in fluence who may come from the States in re j bellion, with or without authority from Davis, jto treat for peace on the basis of submission to the Union. Of the above facts there is no ! doubt."— Pat. r nierly of Bedford county. I'a. The subject uf this notice was, fur a number j or years, in the employ of the St. Louis and j Iron Mountain Hail Koad, and was, in Novem i ber last, appointed the general superintendent of the entire road. He was beloved alike by ! officers and employers for his sterling integrity and Christian deportment. On the announcement of his death to Mr. i Hark v, the President of said Koad, (who is a j member of the Missouri Legislature in session I in Jefferson city,) he issued the following order : to the assistant superintendent: "I cannot ex press the heartfelt griet that your announce* I ment of the death of our good and true friend, J6N - F. SIM., has caused me. A friend who has been so faithful, so upright, so exemplar; - , ; in every relation he has occupied in ourlrater , nitv. Who can supply the vacuum caused by i iiiT death? I hope you will make all needful ; preparations for his funeral ceremony that shall j comport with the character he bore in life and j the loss we have sustained. I suggest that Mr. i Bush all a meeting of rail road employers and j his friends, and pass such resolutions of respect ; and.condolence as aro befitting the circumstance iof his death. 1 desire that the Board of Di rectors, if convenient, attend the funeral, I think it due to the memory of so good a man, and the relation lie bus so lor.g and so credita bly borne to the Kail Koad Company. On 'he day of the funer: 1 I propose that the engines of all the trains !)c draped in biuck, as a I It ting token of our respect. I)o whatever is is right to give a proper expression to that sor row that cannot be repressed." OmcE ST. Loins tit I. M. 11. K j ST. LOUS, Jan. I], 18bo. J At a meeting of the Board of Directors of this company, held this day, the following res 'luitou was unanimously adopted: li'tkj :es lj4 , ie , and Kngravera. 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