BEDFORD GAZETTE, j
B.F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
FRIDAY : • ♦ MAY 19, 1865, :
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Democratic County Convention. :
The Democrats of Bedford county are here-!
by requested to meet in their respective election
districts, on SATURDAY, the 17th DAY OF
JUNE, NEXT, for the purpose cf electing del- .
egp.tes to the Democratic County Con* en lion, j
to be held in Bedford, on
Monday, the 19th day of June,
next, at 2 o'clock, P. M . which body will place
in nomination a County Ticket to be supported
by the party at the ensuing general election.— >
Under the roles, each district is entitled to two ;
delegates. The Democrats of the several dis
tricts are also particularly requested to choose
Vigilance Committees for the coining year aud
to return their name? to the Chairman of the j
Countv Committee
<O. E. .SH ANNON,
Ch'n. Deni. Co. Committee, j
Capturo of Jefferson Davis.
By reference to our news columns, it v. ill be
seen that Jefferson Davis, lately the executive
bead of the so-called Confederate State*, has
been captured by a body of federal troops and
is now in the hands of the U. S. authorities.
The question naturally arises, in the mind cf
every one, what is to be done with lrnn ' Ibe
vindictive and bloody-minded cry oat, "hang ;
hiinl" Others, who desire only that law and
justice shall have their course, say, "try l ira
according to the Constitution anu the laws, and
we will say ameu to the verdict." Other? Thee
sre still, (Gerritt Smith, Greely & C 0.,) who .
plead for mercy to the fallen foe and who argue
that Jeff Davis hanged will be stronger against
the Government, than Jeff Davis permitted to
live. c beiong to the middle class. As da- ,
ring the war, our platform was the Constitution
and the so is it now. Let Mr. Davis
be tried jury of his countrymen, and if
convicted by them, let the penalty of the law
be inflicted upon him. What course will be
pursued by the federal authorities, we are una
ble to say ; but we doubt whether Davis will
be tried for treason by Stanton's Starchamber,
though he may be arraigned before that novel
court on the charge of complicity in the assas
sination of the late President. Important de
velopments may be expected in connection with
•this trial, and we defer further comment until
we shall know the truth, if the public will ever ,
be able to get it.
A Significant Speech.
A delegation of colored men recently called
upon President Johnson, who received them
with u short address, in the course of which
be remarked .-
"There rs a difference in the responsibility
which persons who reside in the slave States
have to take on the subject of emancipation, ■
from those who reside out of them. It is very t
easy for men who live beyond their borders, to
git up a eympaihy, and talk about the condi
tion of colored persons when they know ffothing
about it. Thei r great sympathy is not reduced to j
practice."
What a cruel commentary upon the philan
thropy of Garrison and Greely and Phillip*
and Smith and Beecher and Cheever and Abby
Kelly Foster and Anna Dickinson ! Have a
care Andy Johnson, or you'll hear such a buz/
in the New England hive a9 you haven't listen
ed to since the hanging of John Brown !
Good New 9 fob the 'Bedfoud Mitlal.' —
"The President of the Bedford Mutual Oil Com
pany, who is now upon the territory of the
Company, superintending the erection of en
gine-Louses and engines, writes as follows:—I
am better pleased than ever with our property
On lease number 3, an oil spring has been dis
co vered right in Cherry Run, apparently flow
ng out from under the ground on which our
derrick stands. 1 could sell the lease at a hand
some advance. Quite a number of wells in
this vicinity have a fine show ci oil at 480 to
500 feet, and it is rdi alive around us with the
sound tS workmen and the puff" of engines.
A conaidamWe town Las sprung up here. Just
opposite our leases, no less than eight houses
have been put up since our last visit, several
stores being among the number, f think the
people of Bedford •coanty, have the Lest op
portunity they over had in the oil business, and
df we fail here there is no use of good signs
and good territory. G. is here and since he
has seen our territory, will double Lis invest
ment in "Bedford Mutual."
®rßev Mr. Sample requests us to state that
lie "never intimated that he had no respect for
those who do not regard the memory of the
late President as La does, and that he could not
consider them as christians that whatever
may be his opinion of the religious character of
Mr. Lincoln, he ne\ cr "publicly said he was a
•christian-," that he "never preached against
circuses, although he disapproves of there."
W e make these statements at the particular re
quest of Rev. Mr. Sample, hut not as a correc
tion of any editorial that has recently appeared
La the Gazette upon the subject of preachers.
Hot having used Mr Sample's name in any of
our articles, we publish the above statements
only as a favor to hiio, end not us a recanta
tau<, or e*{'lunation, of any thing we bavepub
'-shvd up>u th* subject just referred tft.
EDITORIAL MELANGE
convention u to be held at Vleksburg,
on J tine 6, to inaugtlrate the restoration of the
State Government in Mississippi.
erHoSvard's Dramatic and Drawing Room
Entertainment will exhibit at the Court House,
in this place, on Thursday and Friday evenings,
May 18th and 19th. It is said to be an excel
lent affair
ftSrGen. Lee, who remains very quiet in
Richmond, is said to be engaged in writing uo
a history of his closing campaigns.
fc?"The rebels imprisoned on Johnson's Island
have become tired of imprisonment, and lost
all faith in their ability to carry on the war
longer. Oat of the 2,800 confined there, all
but about So have asked permission to take the
amnesty cath.
e?"A company of the 187 th P. V., is at
present stationed rear this place, being en cam
• pod in Deiibough's woods, west of town. Most
; of the men. we believe, were recreated in York
| county.
£2~A contrast —the re.it soldier returns to
Vis home, plainly and unostentatiously clad, and
; modestly takes his old place as a citizen. The
man who shirked his duty and made money
out of the war by holding a snug position un
i der the government, at a safe distance from reb
-1 el buliets, comes back bedizened with insignia
l of rank and garish with the glitter of brass
| buttons.
| tr'.V.e call attention to the advertisement of
1 A. 11 Rowan & Co., who have a large assort
ment M" fashionable and valuable imported Jew
elry. the whole of which on account cf the fall
in gold, will be disposed of on a novel principle,
; giving great inducements to buyers, and offer
ing extensive employment to agents; for full
, particulars see our advertising columns.
ABOUT "HASNIP.AU." —We last week chroni
cled the death of the elephant "Hannibal," at
tached to Van Ambu-gh & Co's Menagerie.
It may be of interest to some of our readers to
know something more of the hi?tory of this gi
gantic animal. We La\e gone to some trouble
to obtain fact? concerning his life, after
much n search, have discovered that he was
born in Southern Africa, in the year 1795. of
' obscure, but respectably large parents. Having
attained his majority, he went into the business
)of ivory growing, on his own hook, ia which
. he was engaged until the year 1821, r-hen he
was kidnapped and brought to this country.
He was the largest elephant, of his size, ever
i brought to Europe, or America. It is estima
ted by Prof. Frost, that it has cost £50,000 to
i feed him, since his arrival in the United States.
The story that lie killed several of bis keepers,
we believe to be without foundation in fact, and
repel it as a blander upon his fair fame. At
j any rate, those who indulge in such dispara
ging talk, should have more respect for the old
adage, u de mortuu nil nin bonum" —(angliee,
1 "nothing of the dead except a bone!")- Ir\\
' deed, so far from beuig malicious toward his
human companions, "Hannibal" is known to
have indulged in frantic demonstrations of de
, light at the approach of a former keeper whom
he had not seen for many months, and it is re
lated of him that he was so timid that a rat
running through his straw bedding would cause
him to trumpet in the most intensealarm. Hut
j a driver of "Hannibal," a Mr. Crumb, was
killed at Algiers, oppcite the city of New Or
leans, whilst entering the town in procession,
by the elephant "Columbus," which was march
ing immediately Lehit.i "Hannibal," ihe two
elephants belonging to different menageries,
i wisich had come together at that place. The
. j worst act of which • Hannibal" ean be accused,
was bis celebrated raid on the road between
Pawtucket and Fall River, in 1854, when, es
caping from his keeper, he ran nine miles, de
stroying everything as he went. lie was mod
erately foau of whisky, bat detested tobacco.
lie v.uS also susceptible to the influences of the
tender passion, and a number of years ago. be
ing thrown into the society of a coquettish fe
male elephant known as "Queen Anne," he at
once fell over-head- and -ears in lore with her.
Xiin) occurred at Pittsburg, where two menag
eries wore laid up for tiie winter, in a store
house, up o n the bank uf the canal. This lore
scrapc is thus described- 4 'They were fastened
side by side, and an immediate attachment
sprang up between them It was a case oflove
at first right, fur the moment Queen Anne was
brought into Haiinibai's presence, she ran her
trunk into his mouth—the elephantine style of
kissing. AH winter long they were continually
caressing each other, and the demonstrations of
mutual affection were really extraordinary.
In the spring, Queen Anne was taken away to
start upon her annual tour. The rage of Han
nibal at this separation was terrific; for eleven
days he refused to touch a morsel of food, the
only nourishment he received during that time
being whisky and water. By dint of contin
ual swaying or surging against his fastening
he succeeded in breaking loose on the twelfth
day, when he took entire possession of the es
tablishment. The animals in the cages were
fearfufy frightened, dashing against their bars
and tilling the air with their howls and shrieks.
Hannibal raged around the building, reared on
Lis hind feet and endeavored to tear down the
rafters in the roof with his trunk, but molest
ed none of the animals. In the meantime a
large force of men was gathered—-steel hook?
attached to long pole# were inserted in his ear?
and shoulders, nnd after great difficulty he was
"hobbled" and cast, when the customary dis
cipline was applied with the usual satisfactory
result. Queen Anne, who was of a more gen
tle disposition, bore the separator! with exem
plary resignation." Hannibal, although seven
ty years i>£ age, was supposed to be still grow
tng. But, aiac! he is cut down in his ear- '
ly prime, l'be grass w itkeretb, the flower fa
deth and Hannibal rests beneath the clods of
; Cumberland Valley.
THE DAY DAWNS.
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The Constitution to be restored!
Remarkabl9 Articles from Republi
can Journals!
I Greeiy and Raymond to the Rescue.
i We copy the subjoined articles from the X. Y.
; Tribune and the X. Y. Tunes, respectively, in
! which they appeared as editorials. Mark what
GREELF says; "Since .Mr. Stanton's accession
to the control of the Mar Department," the
Constitution "has become practically obso
| leltf' "Under the rule of our present Cabinet
; il seems to hove gone out of fashion.-' Then,
: turn to RAVSONI/O article and observe Lis em- ;
j phatie language. Speaking cf the secret court- |
' martial now sitting at Washington, he says :
: "lr IS ONE ton WHICH NO PRECEDENT IS TO BE
: VOI.XII IN THE IUSTOUV O! AM' FREE UOINTU/, j
AND ONE TO WHICH THE WORST EL ROPE.V 3 DBS- |
I rorISTIS HAVE EAUEI.T VENTERED, EVEN IN PO - J
I LAND OR Hi SCARY, to resort." Democratic j
! papers have been mobbed and Democratic speak- ;
j era arrested and imprisoned, for uttering such '
Übings; but "truth is.great and will prevail,"
and now, at last, the very men who set on the i
| mobs upon Democratic papers and connived at j
■ the arrest and imprisonment of Democratic '
j statesmen, for daring to speak out for the right, .
I come forward and acknowledge the guiit, and
; denounce the conduct, of the official* whom j
they formerly so zealously defended. The De- :
j mocracy need no better justification for their
1 charges against the present Cabinet, of viola
tions of the Constitution, than those contained j
in these articles from the two leading Kepubii- j
can newspapers in the United States. Let ev- ;
. ery one iuto whose hands this paper falls, read ;
'hese articles carefullv and hand them to Lis :
i
neighbor for perusal.
{From the X. I*. Tribune."]
Secret Military Trials.
• There Is a curious old document in existence,
known as the Gcustitution of the I . btates,
which formerly Lad the force and effect of law
in that large portion country notspecial-
Iv dominated by the slave power, h tiuer the
rule cf our present Cabinet, it seems to have
I gone out of fashion; and, since i\lr. Stanton's
accession to the control of the War Department,
it has become practically obsolete. Loyal eiti
| z?ns did not much mind this while civil war con
vulsed the country, threatening the perraama
; nerd overthrow of our liberty and nationality ; ,
but, now thai the war is practically ended, it
; seems high time that the old parchment were
exhumed ..ad treated with some show of respect.
. There being, apparently, no copy extant in the
Federal City, we qimte from one in our poses
sion, for the instruction and admonition of our
i magnates, certain amendments proposed by the
, States when ratifying the instrument, which,
being duly approved and adopted, became an
: iuiesral part of our fundamental law—as fol
-1 lows: j
ART. V. No person shall be held to answer
for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless
on presentment or indictment of aGrand Jwy
except in cases arising in the land or navalfor
i ces, or in the militia when in actual service in
time of war or public danger; nor -hall any
person be subject for the same offense to be
t twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor shall
he be compelled in any criminal case to be a
' witness against himself, nor be deprived of life,
liberty or property, without due p. ocess of law,
; nor shall private property be taken for public
| use without just compensation.
.ART. VI In all criminal prosecutions, the
accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and
public trial, by an impartial jury of the State
and district wherein the crime shall have been
commuted, which district shall heve been pre
viously ascertained by law ; to ba confronted
with the witnesses against him; to Lave com
• nulsorv process for obtaining witnesses in his
I favor, and to hare the assistance of counsellor
his defease.
ART. VII. In suits at eommm law, wherein
i the value in controversy shall exceed twenty
i dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be pre
; served \ and no fact tried by a jury shall be
j otherwise re-examined in any court of the U.
i States than according to the rule of the oom
! men law.
ART. VIII. Excessive bail shall not be re
! quired, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel
| and unusual punishment inflicted,
j We have made our citations full, not merely
iin deference to the apparent inaccessibility of
| the document at Washington, but because we
| wished every reader to see that the passages
; we have placed in I lakes are not garbled nor
; picked, but that they are of the essence and vi
tality of the Constitution itself. Being FO, how
■I can we justify, or excuse, or even keep silence
; with regard to. the mtutary trials just initiated
. at Washington I A miscreant, acting in concert
j with ether assassins, ha* attempted the life of
j the Secretary of State, and, though his purpose
j was defeated, he nevertheless severely wounded
j Governor Seward, his oldest son, and tv.o or
! three others who nobly reaEied him. Of course,
; this villain and hie confederates should bestcrn
jly dealt with; but why not according to law ?
' Wh it reason, what excuse, can be urged, to
! justify the sending of this case before a court
martial and having it tried in secret? How
j can such a trial be reconciled with the piain
j provisions of the Constitution above quoted !
As to the military trial of those who con
spired with Booth to ns-asrinaie the President,
and aided to achieve that fell purpose, the out
rage is not quite so flagrant ', but such trial is
! at best a blunder, while enshrouding it hi secre
|cy is utterly indefensible. To try a doctor for
1 j his life, because he set a stranger's broken bone
• ; and gave, or sold, or lent him a pair of ciutch
\ \ es, may just do; but to try him iu secret, aF
( ' lowing no report of the testimony but such as
the prosecution sees fit to make, is nothing less
' j than abominable. Two month* ago, it would
'■ have been endured for the country's sakenow,
. ' there is no reason that it should be. We warn
r i all who take any voluntary part in these strange
' proceedings that the rebellion is suppressed, the
i war at an end, and the right to suspend the
: privilege of habeas corpus and make the will of
a Secretary of War the supreme law of the
' laai has expired If our present Sesittary
'cannot be made to realize these grave truths, it •
is high time he had a successor; and if our At
torney General believes the assailant of Secre
tarv Seward now "legally triable before a mil-,
itary commission," he badly needs hisowntiuie j
for the completion of Lis legal studies, while j
the government needs a different law officer. ;
There may be politer ways of setting forth these j
convictions, but none of these would do them
justice. ':
Gentlemen of the Cabinet, the war eastward
of the Mississippi is ended; the rebellion is sup
pressed ; the Union is re-established, and peace
virtually restored ; wherefore the people demand
of you a speedy and thorough return to the safe
and orderly ways of law and liberty. Do not |
compel them to speak in tones that you cannot
refuse to hear!
Frovi the X. Y. Tvuti (Mr. Seward s Organ.)
It is very posrible the publication of iLie evi- j
dence taken on the trial of the conspirators at
Washington might prevent the arrest of some
persons implicated in the crime of assassination
j who are now at large ; but their arrest must be
| of very great importance indeed, if the fear of
i their escaping is sufficient to justify the profound
-eereey with which it has been determined to
| surround the proceedings. The ckiei of Booth's ,
i accomplices, it is fair to conclude, aic those for
! w hose apprehension a reward has been offered
—Davis, Tucker, Sanders & Co., and it is not
' pretended that anything which may transpire at
j the trial at Washingt: n, will, in the least degree,
j offset the chance of tneir escape. They and j
; thr friends have certainly been as much put
| or. their guard by the FivSident's proclamation
i as they are like to be by anything else that can
i occur.
j It is not unfair to conclude, therefore, that J
[•"the parties wiio may e=cape, should publicity i
| be given to the proceedings,' arc '■parlies" <-i
an inferior degree of guilt, and now within the
j limits of the United States, and if so, we can
i not help faying that it -is fbr various weigh, v
! reasons to be regretted that their capture should
be deemed either so important or difficult, ar, to
be made the pretext or ucrosion of introducing
j into our criminal procedure so extraordinary
;an anomaly as trial by a military commission
ifor a capital offense with closed doers, and with j
an oath of secrecy imposed on all persons tak-,
i iiig part in the proceedings.' We think it would ;
j have been infinitely better to have postponed
the trial till a!! publicity could do no harm, even
j if that period were likely to be six months dis
i tant, than introduce into this country so novel
I a tribunal, and one so repugnant to the spirit
of our institution- - , that which is now itiir.g .
at Washington. It is one for which no preced
ent is to be found in the history of any fr
country, and one to which the wcr.f European
despotisms have rarely ventured, even in Po
land or Hungary, to resort. Ever, the unhap
py victims of the Irish rebellion were prepar
ed fur the gallows in open court, and iu the ,
light of day.
M v . cover, there are Mrong doubts entertained
jby iii-aiTccted persons ... the North as to the
existence of any good foundation for I he charges
I made against Davis in the late proclamation, j
Abroad, all the enemies of the government wiil
certainly receive them with incredulity and de
rision; and there is no question that, under all
the circumstances, it would be difficult to im'g
tne a position more humiliating and embarrass
ing than that in which the government will
stand, if it should appear that those charges J
were lightly or frivolously made. Nothing will '
nrevent, however, the spread of such a presump- j
■ tion except the production in open court of the
' evidence on which they were based, and its sub
mission to the scrutiny of the pr'eonerri coun-'
sel and of the public at large. Those who uat- ■
ter themselves that public opinion, either at |
home or abroad, will t>e much influenced by a
version of it which has ban edited and expur
gated by the Judge Hdvocate, must be very Am
ple people indeed. Nobody will permit himself,
whatever his leanings may hi, to attach any
value to revelations made under conditions in
which every rule of evidence is set at naught, ,
and even the experience cj every-day life tr eat- .
ed iQfdh contempt.
What makes the matter all the worse is, thai
on the very day on which this tribunal begins
its proceedings,-the state of things which alone
] could justify it, if anything could justify it, j
Lad been formally declared at an enu by procla
mation, under the President's hand and seal
Foreign powers were warned th".t the war was
over at the very moment that a tribunal was:
assembling, for whoee constitution and procedure |
i nothing but overwhelming and imminent uan
i ger to the national existence would be a suffi- j
cient warrant. Win they really believe that'
peace has been restored when a most atrocious j
j crime has to he tried and punished by a mill-1
! tary court sitting in secret in the national cap- j
i iiaf and in a country in which all secret things, j
1 and above all, secret trials, have always been j
: held in abhorrence 1
Saturday's Subscription to the 7-30's, I
$30,451,950.
PHII. ADELPH!A, May 14. —The subscriptions j
on Saturday to the 7-30 loan, received by Jay!
Cooke, amounted to thirty million four hundred ;
and ufty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty
I dollars.
l'be Secretary of the Treasury has decided '
I to issue the Mlance of the loan that was author- !
izi d by the act of March, 1865 : ami which a- j
• mounts to §230,000,000 in Seven and Three- j
Tenths notes, precisely similar in farm and priv- j
ileges as the 7-3(JV already sold, payable three;
years from the loth of next July. Except that j
the Government will reserve to itself the option ;
of paying interest in gold at the rate ot six ;
per cent, instead of seven three-tenth# ia cur -'
rencv.
Capture of Jeff. Davis.
WASHINGTON, May 13.
Advices from Wilson's Cavalry force have
' just boon received in this city, announcing tiie i
capture of Jeff. Davis and his family. His
train was surrounded at Irwinsvillc, Georgia.
Irwinsviiie is 75 miles south of Macon. The
capture was effected by the cavalry that had
been after Jeff. Davis ever since he left Nvrth
1: C arolina. Colonel Fritcbarrt's detachment was
; the capturing force. Jeff. Davis, with his fara
' ily, his private secretary and a number of mil
' itary officers, including a brigadier general and
| two Colonels, surrendered to Col. l'ritchard.
#yAn editor in western New York is in a
* bad fix. He dunned a subscriber for his sub
'■ scription, which he refused to pay, and threaten
! Ed to flog the editor if he stopped the paper.
" ©-An order has been issued by the Navy
> Department permitting merchant vessels from
' the North to enter blockaded porta.
News From Mexico.
NEW YORK, May 13. —The steamer Liberty j
has arrived with Havana dates to tne Bth inst.
They contain advices from the City of Mexico
to the 27th ultimo, and from Vera Cruz to the
2d instant.
The reported capture of Sa'tilh; and lion- :
terey by the Liberals is confirmed. The papers
also announce that the Liberals are gaming
ground in every direction.
A forced loan of Sioo.ooo has been imposed j
on the French and Imperialists in Saltil'o and
Monterey.
It is expected that Juarez would establish
his capital at Monterey.
Maximillian on reaching Orizaba, heard of
the fall of Hiehmond and the capitulation uL
Lee, and hastened back to the C'ly of Mexico
and despatched his chief of the Cabinet, Mr.
Eioui, to the United States, who arrived in
Havana in time to take the Corsica, 'lherc
are various reports as to his mission.
Dun J use liarron Fasheco ex-uiinister of state. 1
died ir. the City of Mexico on the 13th ult.
The English Kailroad Company has sub-let
a portion of their road from Vera Cruz to;
Mexico to a French company, thusgi'.ing Fiance
another claim on Mexico, and combining Kng-!
li.vh and French interests.
The decker fund 'is accepted by Maxima-,
ion, and tiic §u.ooo,<>o are to be paid in sl,- j
000,000 annual installments.
The Juarists had entered Pabzadn, and seiz
ed all the war munitions held by the merchants.
The infamous Col. Da pin is on his way for
the State of Tabasco, with 400 men.
A naval expedition is also on the way.
Several of Maximilian's Governors have
pronounced against him, and the semi-official
journal, the Estajette, indicates that there is
great opposition to Lira.
Gen. M-jia liad announced that he covid not
hold Matarnoras without assistance, ar:'
forccm nts w-.re sent to h;ai.
It is said that rebel deserters are j iumgCur
tinas.
There was a larye fire in Mntanzas on the ath
inst., destroying Caball's lumber yard, the Mu
nicipal College, and a private house adjoining.
Messrs. Bridges & Go's cooperage and the dwel
lings of Secrc. were destroyed by an
other fire.
The steamer Lark arrived af Ilavawa on the
7th, from Galveston, with cotton.
Later and fuller Pafticutirs from .Mexico.
NEW YORK —Letters by the Liberty s'ute
the Fmperer started out on his excursion from
Mexico the 18tl, and on arriving at Orizaba
the 22ik ult, received the news of the fall of
Richmond, and the rumored capitulation of
!>? '. Immediately all was confusion. Maxi
milian hurried back to Mexico and sent Mr.
Eioui, the chief of his Cabinet to proceed with
all possible haste o the United States.
He arrived in Vera Cruz just ia time for the
Elder, and, on arriving her?, begged the Corsi
ca to delay her departure an hour or so, which
was done, and he. with several others who ac
companied him, left in her.
these passengers have not the vise of the L
nited States Consul to their passports, either
at Vera Cruz or at this place. American
steamers under these circumstances are not al
lowed to come to entry.
It is quite possible that the United States
Consul at Nassau will bo cajoled or surprised
into giving bis rise to these passports.
It is reported, and it seeias very probable,
that Eloui & Co. are going to Canada, and are
authorized to endeavor to stir up a b >rder war
! between that province and ourselves, Maxioul
! ian vainly hoping that that measure will pre
| vent the Yankees from giving him any trouble,
i Others say that these people go to spy out
i the nakedness of our land, and that they will
proceed to Europe with their information, for
1 Napoleon to undertake a war with us, with
; Mexico as a base.
Others again say that Max never intended to
stay after our war was over, unless the rebels
gained their independence, and that his depart
ure for Europe has been hastened by lateevetits
in the United States, and Eioui Co. are sent
to Europe to make preparations for h,s arrival.
There are so many accounts about the matter,
however, that nothing is known with certainty.
The Empress Charlotte took charge cf the
i Government during the temporary absence of
! Max.
The English railroad company who run the
railroad from Vera Cruz to Mexico, have sub
! let that portion of the road between i'aao del
! Macho and Malt rat a to a French company.
' This is supposod to be a political move, giving
j France another claim on Mexico, and combining
' English and r\er.ch interest in ihat claim.
We get news from Tabasco and Isla de Car
: men to theßth ult. The Juarists of the former
i piace had entered Pa'zado (I da de Carmen) and
: taken from the merchants their stocks of guns,
i sabres, ammunition, etc. A nephew of Do
! miri* Dice was killed, and a Mr. Badillo was
i carried away, those being the only ivyo who
I made armed resistenee to the proceedings of the
Juarists.
One hundred sutd twenty-five officers that
were at Oaxaea have joined the Juarists at
Tabasco. Among them are two Generals.
The menace so long held in terroreiii over the
State of Tabasco, that the infamous Co!. Dupin
would be sent there, seems about to be carrie i
out, as he is reported to be -en route there, with
500 of Itis friends. Commandant Clone, also,
was with him, taking four armed launches and
400 men for landing
A private tetter from Vera Cruz, which is
believed to be true, gives the following item :
"General Mejia sent a steamer to Vera Cruz j
for reinforcements and assistance, saying he
could only hold Matamora3 four, at most five
days longer. The steamer was driven off by
a Norther, and was eight days in arriving. A
French war steamer, with men, &c., was im
mediately sent, and we are anxiously awaiting
later news from that place. It is said that de
serters from the Confederate forces in Texas arc
crossing ever and joitdng Cortioas, which is
breaking up the friendship Mcjia and the Im
perialists bad for them, and a retrenchment in
the courtesies which have lately* been extended
has hem noticed."
PPRMOsiALE
OF REAL ESTATE.
The undersigned by virtue of an order of the Or
phans' Court of Bedford couot,y, will sell oa the
premises, on FRIDAY, the 23d day of Jimp, next,
the real estate late of Henry Johnson, dee'd., con
sisting of a tract of land, held by improvement,
containing 200 acres more or less, sitnate in South
ampton township, Bedford county, adjoining lands
of Jacob Gordon and Daniel Tewell, about 3 acres
under cultivation, with a double log house, logshoe
i maker shop, stable and rpring house thereon erect
ed. Terms CASH. The sale will be opened at 10
o'clock A. M. of said day.
THOMA* DONA HOE,
' May 19, Adm'r.
-MARRIE©-
SIDKS —JIOOX.—On iho 11th in*t., by the
He v. X. 11. SkWc?, Mr. JuLn Side', of Juniata
township, to Mist Matilda Uoon, of Somerset
countv.
IE EGLE—WI ELI A MS.—! n Kai nsburg,
on the JOth inst-, by Kev. J. \\~. I -okie, Mr.
Daniel F. Je<?g!e, to Mists Eliza J., eldestdangh
ter of Samuel Williams, E-<j.
' —lsl Ei?—
I.MLEIi.—On tlie 4th inst., at the house of
Isaae Itiiler, in Bedford township, Mary Imler,
aged about 7 "> years.
HE V >'OLDS.— \t the residence of her Son
in-law, Mr. C. C. McClain, in Indiana, Pa ,
on Monday tnoniipg, tlie Btii iiv-t, Mrs. Jano
Reynolds, relict of Mr. Wm Reynolds, former
ly of Bedford, aged about 84 yor.r*.
To Die in a Bad Cause
as those who fail in the rebel ranks undoubtedly do,
is foolish. But on the other hand
Dyeing for a Good Cause
as those who are wise and piudent enough to reme
dy the defects o/ nature with
CRISTAB3RITS HAIR DYE,
are don g every day, in every City of the Union, is
eminently praiseworthy. Tins peaceful revolution
is going on throughout the whole land, and thus
beauty and harmony Euppiar.t homeliness ar.d incon
gruity. .Manufactured by J. CRISTADORO Ne."
Astor Bouse, New Fork. Sold by Druggists. Ap
plied by ail Hair Dres=er3. [May s—itn
Bedford Markets.
[Corrected weekly by J. B. Farqunar.l
Fb'ur, "er birre;, $lO CO Potatoes, per bus. ,'h
Wc--at, per oust. 2CO '.gar per dozen, :i
Rye. per bush I. 1 50 Butter, per lb. .20
Corr. p:r burhel, 125 Lard, pr lb. .20
Oats, per bushel, 75 Bacon, per lb. ,2C
Gttß:nti££. rents.
[Rate® for announc:-~ cir. lidatt : I) .. At
torney, $3.00 j Treasurer, $3.00 ; Associate Judy®,
s'2*oo; Commissioner, $2.00 5 Poor Director, $] .00
Auditor, si.oo; cash, in advance.]
DISTRICT ATJORNEI*.•
We are authorized to announce JOHN PARMER,
Esq-, as .. candidate for District Attorney, subject
to Ine decision f the Democrati _• countv convention.
We are authorized to announce E. F. Ktp.s, Esq.,
as a canrii !atc for District Attorney, subject to tr.e
decision oi ihe Democratic county convention.
TREASURER.
Ms. EDITOR : Please announce GEORGE MAP.DCBFF,
of Bedford borough, as a candidate 101 County Treas
nrer, subject to the decision of the Democratic eoun
ty convent ion.
METERS : P'ease announce Bownrs,
of be- ford borough, as a candidate for the office of
Coi4fcy Treasurer, subject to the decision of the
Democratic county convention.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
We are authorized to arnonr.ee Isaac KE.NSINOES,
i.-q., of L.Deity township, as a can I 'ate for Asso
ciate Judge, subject to the decision of the Demo
cratic county convention.
MR. MEYERS: 4OU will please announce ROBERT
SrscEMA*, ot Bloody Run, as a candidate for the
office of Associate Judge, subject to the decision of
the Democratic county convention.
COMMISSIONER.
We are requested to acnoiinfeMicHAEi. S. R;TCHRY,
Eq., of Snake Spring township, as a candidate for
County Commissioner,A'zhject to the decision of the
lieryv-aftc county convention.
DcMorb ttoinitn, ss:
At an Orphans' Court held at Bedford,
SCAI. in aßi:i ,ot liie couaty of Bedfonl, on the
G Ist day of .May. A. D. 186-5, before the
®-C-r/v 3 Judges o. the said Court.
On motion cf John Cessna, Esq , th® Court grant
a rule on 'he heirs and legal representatives of
Catharine Miller, late of riar;ison town-hip, dee'd,
viz: Mary Ann, intermarried with Peter F. Lefa
man, of Janiita township, Sophia, intermarried
with .'"hn 11. Wertz, of Harrison township, Susan,
interru srried with Andrew Ball, of Londonderry
township, Catharine, intermarried with William
Aaron, of Venango county, Pa., Hester, intermar
ried with Daniel M. Miller, of Harrison township,
a.id David H. Miller, ot Harrison township. And,
also, Ei.zabeth Miller of Bedford township, Susan,
intermairied wrh Gcc-ge Leidig, of Londonderry
towi.soip, and Jehn S. Miller, a minor, ot Hairison
township, these tinee being children and heirs of
Szrab, adaughi now deceased; To be and appear
at our o.phan' i ourt to be fceid at Bedford, on the
Ist Monday (-Ith day) of Sepcemoer nest, to accept
or refuse to take the real estate of said deceased at
; the valuation which has been valued and appraised
in pursuance of a writ of partition and valuation
issued cut of the said Court and to the Sheriff of
said county directed, or show cause "-hy the same
| should not be sold.
In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto set my
hand and the seal of the said Cou:t at Bedford, the
Ist day of .May, A. D. 1565.
O. E. SHANNON, Clerk.
May 19—It
ikMori (County, ss:
| At an Orphans* Court held at Bedford;
'■£ ,* , % in and for the county of Bedford, on the
X i lst oi May, A. D. 1565, before the
L Judges of the sail Court.
On motion of J. W.Lingenfelter, Esq., th-'Court
grant a lu'e on the heirs and legal representatives
of Henry Riniogei, late of St. Clair township, de
ceased, to wit: Malinda, intermarried with Martin
Blackburn, residing in Cedar county, lowa, Joseph,
residing in Ced-r county, lowa, George. living in
fWfoia county, Pa., Jonr., Jeremiah and E!le., re
siding in Cedar county, lowa, to be and appear at
an Grp .n* Court to be ueid at Bcdfcrd, in _r.d for
the county of Bedford, on the lst Mviiday (4th dav)
of September next, to accent or refuse to lake t'.e
real estate of said deceased at the valuation which
has been valued and appraised in pursuance of a writ
of partition and valuation issued out of the said
Court ar.d to iht Sheriff ot said county directed, or
show rausa why the same cot be s Id.
In testimony w hereof 1 have hereunto set my hand
and iba seal of the said Court at Bedford, tbe Ist
uav of May, A. D, 1865.
C. F.. SHANNON, CRrk.
May 19—4t
Nctics in f artiiiou.
By virtue ot a writ r.f par*:.;;.-, o: valuation •?
suoo out of tne Orpaans' Court of Sedfo- •
and directed to me as Sheriff of said county, I i!
proceed to value and appraise the reai es .te of
Samuel Carper, late of Middle Woodberry towr.ihip,
Bedford county, t'ee'd.. to wit: One t.'act cf land
in Middle Wovdberry tov.nsnip, Bedford county,
curtaining one Hundred and fitly acres more or less,
with ail the necessury improvements, adjoining
lands of Christian Hoffman, Abraham Keagy, Josi
ah S. Elder, and others ; also, one other piece of
land con aining thirty acres more or less, with tha
appurtenances, situate in the tow nship aforesaid,
adjoining lands of Jacob Hippie, Jacob Zeigler and
others, on TUESDAY, the 13th day of June, A. D.
1865, at 1 o'clock, P. M., when and where all par
ties may attend if they think proper. The heirs cf
said Samuel Carper are, 1, John Carper, of' Bureau
county, Illinois ; '2, Frederick Caiper, 3, Jacob Car
per, 4, Folly, wrf of John Keagy, the last mention
ed three of Middle Wcodberry -towaahip, Beuiord
county, Pa., 5, Philip Carper, of Bureau county, 11-
linoia; 6, Christopher Carper, the petitioner; 7,
Samuel Carper, oi Fulton county. Illinois ; 8, Chris
liana, wife of Thorn** Deabari, of Becalm county,
Illinois,' S.Elizabeth, wife of John Perkstresser,
10, Catharine, wife cf Daniel Frederick, the last
mentioned two of Bureau county, I'linois, an 11,
Margaret, wife of Jacob Smith, of Mmdle H'.od
lerry township, Bedford county, F'
JOHN AI.DSiADT,
i Bedford, May l.f>, 3863.