THE BUS FORD GAZETTE ;s PUBLISHED EVERV FRIDAY MORNING SSY n. F. SIKYFRS, At the following terms, to wit: $2 00 per annum, if "paid strictly in advance. $2.50 if paid within 6 months; $3.00 if not paid within 6 months. gyNosubscription token tor less than six months £7i\'o paper discontinued until all arrearages are p ß ;,<., unless at the option of the publisher. It has beer' decided by the United States Courts that the stoppage °f a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and is. a criminal offence. (Cy-The courts have decided that persons are ac eountable for the subscription price of newspapers, jf they take them from the post office, whether they subscribe for them, or not. Business .Curtis. JOSEPH W. TATE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will promptly attend to collections of bounty, b*ck pay, ire., and all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Cash advanced on judgments, cotes, military and other claims. Has for sale Town lots in Tatpjviile, and St. Jo seph's, on Bedfora Railroad Farajsar.d unimproved land, from one acre to 350 acres to su.t purchasers. oifice nearly opposite the "Mengel Hotel" end Bank of Reed & Scheil. April 1, 1865—1y EDWAIID P. KERR. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PL., Will punctually and cart-fully attend load busbies? antrusted to his care. Soldiers' claim- to- bom tv, i back pav, tie., speedily eoi.ected. Office with H. sjicocemus, Esq., on Juliana street, nearly opposite : the Banking House of Reed He Scheil. April 7, 1565. . j J 0 H N T. E EAG Y, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., IV pr- npily attend to all legal bu ine-s entrusted j ;o . - 'ire. *Vili gi'-e special attention to claims siaii st -he government- Office or: Juliana S'reet, fcrmerfy oTuried by Bos A. King. March 31, 1865. M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully offers his professional services to the public with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq., on Juli ana street, two doers South of the > Mengel House." Beoford, Pec. 2, 1864 J. R. DURBORRCW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Office one dooi South of the "Menge! House." Will attend promptly ro all business entrusted to bis ' eare in Bedford end adjoining counties. Having abo been regulriy licensed to prosecute claims against tb-*Government, particular attention will be given to the collection of Military claims ot all kinds; pensions, back pay, bounty .bounty loans, *c. April 1, 1864. j ~ ESPY M ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business I entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining coun- •• ties. Military claims, back pay, bounty, SEC., j speedily collected* Office with Mann & Spang, on Juliana street, two doors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, '64. F. M KIMKSLL. I. W. LfNSKNFELTER KIMMELL 6t LINGEISFELTER, j ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD. PA. j formed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office ou Juliana street, two doors South •f trie "Mengel House." G H. SPANG, ~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA. j Will promptly attend to collections and all btni oe? entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining •oat) ties. ' CiyOffice on Ghana Street, three doors south i of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate.' May 13, 1864. JO UN P REE D, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Respectfully tenders his services to the Public. second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford, Atg, 1, 1861. JO H Y PA L MEH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. [?y Will promptly attend to all business entrus ted to bis caie. Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Office on Jubanna Street, (neai ly opposite the Mengel House.) Bedford, Aug. 1, 1861. A H, fOFFROTH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, Pa. Will hereafter practice regularly in the several Courts of Bedford county. Business entrusted to Lis care wilt be faithfully attended to. December 6, 1861. F. C. DOYLE, M. D. f Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Bloody Run and vicinity. Office next door to the Hotel of John C. Black. [June 10, 1864. J. L. MARBOURG. M. D. Having permanently located, respectfully tenders hie professional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, east side, nearly oppo lite the Banking House of Reed A Scheil. Bedford, February 12, 1864. F. M MARBOURG, M. D , SCHELLSBU RG. P A , Tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. Office immediately oppo site tha store of John E. Coivin, in the room for merly occupied by J. Henry Scheil. July I, 1864. S A JII R I K FTT TERM VY , BEDFORD, PA., By Would hereby notify the citizens of Bedford county, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed ford, where he may at all times be found by persons wishing to see him, unless absent upon business pertain ng to nis office. ioul be hind a desk av ore the uniform and straps of* a Lieutenant. "Ah 1'" said the officer blandly, wnile the men around th3stove chuckled and w inked among themselves. . "Ah, good nioi ni>.g, ?,ir. Bradshaw, just come this Way: f thought you'd conclude to enlist under die honest old dag and light for the stripes and star-. "I don't know as I am dojng right—God for give me if I in a doing' wrong. You know I told you, Lieutenant, I have a little sister who my dying mother left to my charge; with her last breath she bade me take cure of little or phaned Nellie, and she hasn't a soul to care for her but inc. I hope some one will befriend her and watch over her, aud that the God of of battles will—" Charlie Brad-Law's voice grew trembling and indistinct. "Never you fear ; she'll be taken care of, j old boy,' said the Lieutenant. "The good ioy- j ai people of this rilhge never would see a sui- ! diur's sister come to want or distress; do you think so, Mr. Simmonds?" Hugh Simmonds, a dark eyed, black whis kered young fellow, only laughed as he squirted j a mouthful of tobacco juice upon the stove. "I'd undertake to look after Miss Nellie my self,"' he said, poking his next neighbor in the ribs, "if she wasn't such a little copperhead." The Bradshaw blood was up, the blue eyes ! grew dark with i issioo: the delicate temple? ! were purple with rage. ••What do you mean ?" he said, turning fiercely upon the speaker. "Keep your epi thets to yourself; and such care as yours for my sister is not needed. By the way, Hugh Simmonds. why aintyoa enlisting / You with your ioud-mouthed patriotism ?" "They wouldn't take Mr. Simmonds," spoke up the recruiting officer, "he has eosiaopndeio of the aurrecular vertertrial antiscerc rin. Mr. Simmon Is has enlisted twice and been • '.til both times for disability." "I'm sure he is stouter and heartier than I,'" said Charlie Bradshaw. "And its for abuse of | me and my sister, soldier or civillian, I've i heard the last ot it. I will—mark my words." j '•• * Every village or community, we doubt not, has it? Hugh Simmonds—somewhat dissimilar from the gentleman of whom we write, per haps. so far as the personelle is concerned, but boasting the same character. A very intensely loyal young man, who denominated Mr. Lin coln as the Government, and had a perfect con tempt and intolerance in regard to those who dithered with him in opinion. It a man or wo man either, said "Constitution," that individu al was a "copperhead"' —if anyone hinted that this war should be carried on for the restora tion of the Union, "without an if," that per son was "a secesh and ought to be hung." He was unconditionally Union, of course, hut not for the Union unless slavery was pulled up root and branch first, instead of making the abolition of slavery a consequent of the war; his theory was that putting down the rebellion was a secondary consideration. "Slavery must be abolished if the Union went to hades." But Mr. Simmonds was. as we s i id, intensely loyal, one of the first to head subscriptions for volunteer families—(for effect, never being paid) —bis name flourished on handbills as chair man of Union Committees, the right-hand man of all recruiting officers, etc. The first to get up dinners in honor of the soldiers home on furlough—though he never paid a cent him self. but his grocery was patronized, of course, in the getting up thereof-—as he sold oyster®, pearlies, etc., etc., at cost —said cost being the usual retail price at other stores. At all "{/- <<■ r flaUh he was thi biggest fish in the pond —getting up banner and transparencies, em blem- am! Hags—aud always marshal of the day, chief speaker, committee on toasts, etc , etc. Mr. Simmonds also was extremely loyal , for I he believed in negro equality, saying that only j by a commingling of the black and white ra ! ces could the highest human perfection be secu red. He was a great friend of the negro, though he never gave a cent to clothe, feed, or free one in his whole life. But the gentleman's biggest gun was that he was a Democrat, a life-long Democrat, but not a "copperhead;" he was a Jackson Democrat, a Douglas Dem ocrat —though in 'OO he cursed that great and good man, and sneered at his adherents as "Union-savers," when the "old slave Union wasn't worth a cuss, no how." This was the life-long Democrat (?) who cried "copperhead" to every true Democrat—and so loyal ! But to go on with our story. Alter Charlie Bradshaw went to war, this perfection of loy alty continued to flourish like a young bay tree. The State quota had been filled and the tear of the draft being over, the youth settled down quietly to read the Tribune and wait on his customers. As for the pretty, spirited Nellie Bradshaw, she had apprenticed herself to the milliners, the Misses Clark, and tried to think she was happy reading Charlie's letters, and writing to him, and busying herself with her needle- The Misses Clark, two spinsters of uncertain i age, however, made peace and happiness a Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1865. moral impossibility for Nellie; they made Mr. Simmonds a welcome visitor, "such a good ioyal young man he was," and they heartily enjoyed Nellie's discomfiture when she would leave the room, or get into a remote corner to avoid him. ?.lr. Hugh Simmonds used to entertain his hostesses, and vice versa, with long tirades a bout the "copperheads in the army, as well as at homeaud one day of great glee, when pretty little Neilie had more than usually evi denced her dislike for him, lie drew a dailv pa per from hi.s pocket and tossed it into her lap, exclaiming, "So may it be with all toriea." The paper was marked with a pencil at this passage .• "Among those who fell at . was Charles Bradshaw. He was shot by his own 'captain, while attempting to desert to the ene my. We learn from good authority that he was a notorious copperhead at home, and rich ly deserved his fate.'' The shock was too great for poor Nellie, and she tell hcaviiy to the iloor. A gleam of sat isfaction passed over Hugh Simmonds' counte nance. "A rather tough joke," he said. "I've paid the little vixen well for the way she has treated me . inee Bradshaw vint away. I paid theed itor ten dollars for publishing that iittle para graph, but I didn't thi. k she'd take it exactly this way." "So Charlie BradsA.w didn't attempt to de sert, eh?" queried theWder Mis? Clark, us she rummaged in a closet fi camphor. "No; at least I neve heard as lie did, and for all that, be might hire done so, yju know. A traitor s a traitor, fi all Uncle .Sam's uni form "And is lie dead ?" \ "j believe that's r.oiji fact either; for all I know he's a? well a? I hu." "You are too LaJ. .1 Simmonds," smiled Miss Clark. "As you lenarked, it was a hard joke: poor girl, that brofcer was all she .bad in the world." "Well, he was a blatLl 'copperhead,' and she is too, and there's lining too bad for such trash," remarked the y?ng man, taking his leave; "of course I tru||gs, twenty feet high, and sharpened at ■ the tops, and known as the "Bull pen," in which captured deserters are confined before s execution. In it there are about sixty wretched - men, awaiting their fate. Henry Clay Trutn -5' bull, Chaplain of the Connecticut 10th, thus i writes of • j A VERY SAI> CASE. But the saddest case was the latest. A boy . not yet sixteen, born and brought up in the ! upper part of New York city, was met in the i street by a hellish broker, and enticed away to Connecticut to be sold as a substitute. lie • was far from being a bright hoy, seemingly not i full witted, but his childish ways were touoh - ingly attractive. He said—and probably with : truth—that until the broker led him off he had never passed a night away from his parents. — Like r. tired, homesick school boy determined ! to play truant, he started to run home. Being ■ arrest-1, he again slipped otT, but was once more - caught, as he exercised no shrewdness in his flight. Being tried and sentenced to death, lie 1 was put into the condemned ceil in the evening I to be shot the following morning, llis boyish - grief, when told he was to die, was heart rend • mg. W 1. unaffected naturalness ho sobbed out Lis lament over his own hard lot, and for the • dear ones at home. "Me, so young, to go out 1 side the breastworks and see the coffin and grave there, and ihen be shot ? I don't wan't I to be killed. Won't the general parole mef' On being assured that his execution was acer ■ tainty, he urged the chaplain not to let his friends know how he died, "for they'd feel so bad about it," he said. "I suppose it would; Kill my fe-fef" (for some reason his father seem ed closer to his heart than his mother.) "I sup pose it would kill 'era all. They'd be thiakiug ! of i< at nights. Don't tell 'em about it." ' Geo convinced that it was too late to ob a reprieve—no official short of the depart ment eorhOßmder having the power to grant it, and there being no time to obtain it from him, and having died Ids cry nut—iie quieted like a weary child, and !tsit£-d to a!' the chaplain could say to aid in preparing Uirn for the etern al future. Kneeling on the soaked, swldJipy ground, under the dripping root" of that gloomy ceo in. in the dark and stormy night, he folded hi- fettered hands, and meekly said his little evening prayer, and committed himself in seem ing confidence to his Heavenly Fathers cure.— He could not read, but he had been taught in one of the blessed mission schools of New York, and seemed to have a simple, childlike faith in God. Trobabh he had not been addicted to vicious ! .bits. He said, when asked about the way lie spent bis evenings that he "always worked in tiie factory daytimes, and when evening came ; was lired, and went to bed early." llis father and mother prayed with him, and taught him to do right. "If your life should lie spared," arked the chaplain, "would you love God and try to serve him "Why ye?," he answered, "I always did love him," as though, in its child like trust, he had no cause of enmity with the Father to whom he had been drawn in grate ful confidence. After his first hard cry the thought I of death did not seem to occupy him. ! He was too much of a child to fully realize it. Just before he went out to be shot he turned to the chaplain and asked, as in boyish curios ity. "If I die to-day, will my soul go to heav en to-day 1" Arriving at the field of execution he was not at ail disturbed by the terrific prep arations. lie walked up to his open grave and looked inquiringly into it without a shudder ; and then lie turned to gaze at the firing party as though he saw kindhearted comrades there. He kneeled again to pray as calmly as if he were to lie down in his own little crib at home. Just as his arms were being bound a bird flew > by, and lie twisted his head around to follow with his gaze the bird in its flight as though he should like to chase it: then he looked back a , gain at the bright muskets with soft and steady eye as belore. "Let me kneel on the ground and rest on the coffin," he said, as they fixed him in position. "No, kneel on the coffin," j was the order. So kneeling (here he settled him i self down into a weary, crouching posture as : though he were 10 wait thus a long aud tiresome j time. He had hardly taken tins place before he fell back dead, with every bullet of the fir ing platoon directly through his chest—three through his heart. He ui&rred never a groan nor did his frame quiver. j Even sued boys as that are here shot if they j desert. But are they guilty above those who 1 send them here ? H. C. T. j Can any one read the above shocking narra tive without tears in his eyes? God of our fath ers what are wo coming to? A poor little "not full wilted'' boy—perhaps an idiot—a mere helpless child—who had been enticed and sold i mto the army by some burly brute, attempts to run home to his parents, and for this his young quivering heart is blown to atoms, and I.is soul sent to eternity! This simple child had no more idea of responsibility than a sucking babe.— He was half-witted, and had never in Iris short life passed a .-ingle night away from his parents, lie wanted to go home, and "like a tired home j sick school boy. determined to play truant ." For this the tender body of the idiot boy was torn to pieces by the bullets from a dozen mus kets ! — Lancaster Intelligencer. 69*"\Yell, Sambo, wiiat's yer up to now-a day ?" "Oh, I is the carp'ner and jiner." "He! I guess yer is! What department do you perform ?" "What department! Why, I does the circu lar work." j "What's datt" "Why, I turns the grindstone !" 63-An old negro living in Illinois has fifteen sons in the Federal army. WlltflE NUMBER, 3106 THE CAPTURED CITIES DETAILS AND INCIDENTS OF THE OCCUPATION OF RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG. Executive Mansion of Jeif Dclvis, ) Richmond, Va., April o, 1865. j I have the national honor anil pride to an nounce the fall of the Confederate capital, and the unconditional surrender to the gallant Ma jor-General Wcitzel, and the forces under Lis command, at 7 o'clock this morning. About 3 o'clock this morning, Gen. Shepley, chief of staff to Maj. Gen. Wcitzel, felt con vinced, from the statement of the large number of deserters coming within our lines, confirmed by despatches from Gen. Hartstuff's lines on the Bermuda front, that all the rebel works around Richmond were being evacuated, and that Lee and his army, and Jeff. Davis and his govern ment, had already taken up the only available line of retreat to the North Carolina boundary, and that the way was clear for the oe ••ipaney , of the rebel capital by the forct ~ of the United States. Gen. Weit/el telegraphed these conclu- j sions to Lieut. Gen. Grant, who replied instant-j !y, saying that be had no doubt that General Wcitzel could occupy the city without the slight est difficulty. On the 2d Inst. Gen. Wcitzel, so clear was his mind upon the subject, despatched M-j. A. H. Stevens, of the 4th Massachusetts cavalry, and Major E. E. Graves, of his staff, with 40 cavalry, to investigate the condition of affairs on i the roads leading to the rebel works and thence j ito Richmond. This party had not proceeded ] ! far within the rebel lines when they espied a i shabby carriage approaching, the driver waving j a white flag. Approaching this vehicle, it was found to contain Mayor Mayo, the head of the Richmond city: government ; Judge Meredith, of the Supreme Court of Richmond; Judge Lyon, and several other worthies of the rebel; persuasion, who announced that they had come ' out to surrender the city to the competent atE \ tliorities. This took place within a distance of*' two miles of the city, after the Major? had found i their way through several lines of torpedoes, j and was marked by the following conversation:> Maj. Stevens. —Who is in command of this j Sag of truce? Judge Meredith.—lt is Mr. Mayo, Mayor of-, the city of Richmond. Tbt; Judge at the same litne introducing the j Mavor and all of his associates to Majors ,Ste*j veus and Graves. Mayor Mayo then handed Major Stevens a ! small slip of paper upon which was written the j following: "It is proposed to formally surrender to the i Federal authorities the city of Richmond, hith erto capital of the Confederate States of Amer ica, and the defences protecting it up to this timer' The document was approved of, and Major Stevens accepting it in behalf of his command ing General, it was at once transmitted to Maj. Gen. Wcitzel, who had already sent out his skirmish line, and upon the receipt of Mayor Mayo's surrender instantly moved his column upon the evacuated city and took possession. The Major then took charge of the rebel flag of truce party, and advanced upon the city— two capable, efficient and popular officers of the stout old Army of the James thus being the first, with their escort, to enter the fallen and capitulating capital of rebeldom. Eweli set the city on fire, and ail the busi ness portion of the mam street to the river was destroyed. The bridges across the river were also destroyed. Many families remain. Mrs. Lee remains. At Petersburg the public stores were burned, and a few houses caught fire, but not much damage was done to the city. The bridges here were also destroyed. Will report fully from Richmond. Cannot get a clear idea of our loss. The only one 'General killed is Wintkrop. Potter is dangerously wounded in the groin. All the commercial part of the city was found to be in flames, Gen. Early having ordered the destruction of the public buildings, which order General Breckinridge, rebel Secretary of War, strove earnestly to have countermanded, but without avail. Gen. Wcitzel finds much suffering and pov erty among the population. The rich as well as the poor are destitute of food. He is about to issue supplies to all who take the oath. The inhabitants now number about twenty thousand, about one-half of them of African descent. It is not true that Jeff. Davis sold his furni ture before leaving. It is still in his house where lam now writiug. He left at 7P. M., by the Danville Railroad. All the members of Congress have escaped. Gen. Weitzcl took here one thousand pris oners besides wounded. These number five thousand in nine hospitals. We captured cannon numbering at least 500 pieces. Five thousand muskets have been found in one lot. Thirty locomotives and three hun dred cars are found here. The Petersburg Rail road bridge is totally destroyed ; that of the Danville Road partially, so that connection with Petersburg can be easily made in that way. Ail the rebel vessels are destroyed, except an unfinished rain, which has her machinery in her prefect. The Tredegar Iron Works are unharmed, and the machinery is running here to-day under Weitzel's orders. Libby Prison and Castle Thunder have also escaped the fire, and are fill ed with prisoners of war. Davis left this city last night, at 8 o'clock by rail for Danville, his family having been sent out five days ago. On the train he had horses and carriages embarked, in case the road was interrupted, in order to easily make his way by these means. lie was very much depressed in spirits, and bore the appearance of an exceed ingly haggard and care-worn man, his counte nance clearly betraying the loss of his cause. He expressed himself as being yet determined not to give up, but to put forth another effort to redeem his hope loss and sunken fortunes. I Kates of Sliiofrttsing. One square, one insertion, $1 00 One square, three insertions, 1 39 One square, each additional insertion 50 _ 3 months. 6 months. I year. One square, $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares, 6 00 9 00 16 00 Three squares, 800 12 00 20 00 Half column, 18 00 25 00 40 00 One column; 30 00 45 00 80 00 Administrators and Executors' notices, $3 00. Auditor's notices, if under 10 iines, $2 50. Sheriff's sales, $1 75 per tract. Table work, jouble the above rates; figure work 25 per cent, additional. Estrays, Cautions and Notices to Trespassers, $3 00 for three insertions, if not above 10 lines. Mar riage notices, 50 cents each, payable in advance. Obituaries over five lines in length, and Resolutions of Beneficial Associations, at half advertising rates, payable in advance. Announcements of deaths, gratis. Notices in editorial columns, 15 cents per line. KF"No deductions to advertisers of Patent Medicines, or Advertising Agents. VOL. 8, NO. 38 think it may he relied upon that lie has not yet altogether abandoned his cause, though it is positively known he has hut little hope left.— His residence, when this despatch was written, was desolate indeed, and every thing betokens toe extraordinary haste with which he abandon ed his capital and home. Extra Hilly Smith, late so-called Governor of V irginia, did not evacuate the gubernatorial mansion until 1 o'clock this morning, when he fled, leaving Mrs. Smith behind, and all the fur niture in his house, which he had heretofore threatened to burn. Mrs. Gen. fi. E. Lee. wife of the rebel Gen eral-in-Chief, is also in the city. News has reacned here of the death of her son, General Vi. H. b Lee, of the rebel, army, killed in the battles of last week before Petersburg General Hill is killed. Gen. Wci'z ! Las taken for his private resi dence the uiansion or Jeff. Davjs. A portion of his staff are quartered with him, and the re mai:H;-.*r in a splendid dw. ihug a few doi