BEDFORD GAZETTE.' 3.F. MEYERS, EDITOR. ERISA* t SEPTEMBER 22, ISC3.J DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. STATE TICKET. AUDITOR GENERAL. (30L. W. W. H. DAVIS, Of Bucks County SURVEYOR GENERAL. L'T, COL. J. P. LINTON, Of Cambria County. RERKESE.IT.VTIVEL, A J COLBOKN, Somerset Co., GEORGE A. SMITH, Fulton Co COUNTY TICKKT. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN CALMER, Bet ford Borough. ASSOCIATE JUDOS, W G. EICIIOLTZ. S. Woodberrr i TREASURER, GEORGE MARDORFF, Bedford Bor. COUNTY SURVEYOR, B DONAHOE, Southampton- JURY COMMISSION**, I KEXSINGEIf, Liberty. COMMISSIONER, M. S KITCHEY, Snake Spring. ROOR DIRECTOR, 3 years, D. B ANDERSON, C Valley. YOOR DIRECTOR, 2 vests, SAMUEL BECKLEY, St. Clair. AUDITOR, JAMES MAITINGLY, Londonderry. CORONER, JOHN FILLER. E Providence. 1111 Is Negro Suffrage an Issue? The Republican* in all the Hew England Stateg, in lowa, and Minnesota, have directly, and in Pennsylvania and Ohio, by implication, taken ground in favor of Negro Suffrage. Ihe following are sentiments uttered by load ing men in their organization and echoed by the Bedford Inquirer: "NOW COMES THE CRISIS, WHAT IS THE NE GRO ? WELL. I SAY, IN THE FACE OF ALL PREJ UDICE, 3HAT AMID IH£ GALLANTRY, 1 HE PA TIENCE, THE HEROISM OF THIS WAR IHE NE GRO BE ARS THE PALM."— Wendell Pkittipr "WE NEED THE VOTES OF THE COLORED PEO PLE; IT IS NUMBERS, NOT INTELLIGENCE. THAT COUNTS AI THE BALLOT BOX."-// Wtnfr Davir "WE ARE PLEADING EARNESTLY WITH THE STATE TO ABOLISH THE DISTINCTION OF CASTE, BY UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE WE SEE THAT THIS WILL INEVITABLY LEAD TO THE EQUALITY OF THE BLACK WITH THE WHITE: THE ELEVATION OP THE NEGRO TO THE GOVERNORSHIP. THE SEN ATORSI!IP BY THE SIDE OF ULS WHITE BROTH ER."-!/. IV. Be-cker "WE KNOW OF SEVERAL DOZEN OF COLORED MEN THAT WE WOULD RATHER SEE MARCH TO THE BALLOT-BOX AND CAST THEIR BALLOTS THAN A.N EQUAL NUMBER OF COPPERHEADS WE "'AN NAME — Bedford Inquirer, June 2, 1863. Owl-Notes from ''Norland/' What is the matter with Aleck McClure, the gay and festive Aleck, the jocose son of Momus, the fellow of infinite jest, who could make light of even hia own disgraceful flight byway of "Rutherford's Lane," when Jen kins' troopers thundered into Chambersburg? The philosopher of "Norland" has lost hi 3 equanimity. Nay, he seems to have been suddenly entirely transformed. The gay bird which so comfortably lined its ne3t with feathers from the back of Uncle Sam's goose, has doflbd its gay plumage, ceased its hap py carols, and now wears the sombre mot tle, and shrieks the wildest, harshest notes, of that most melancholy of the feathered tribe, known in vulgar ornithology, as the screech-owl. The shades of "Norland" no more resound with gladsome chirpings; the grounds of that classic spot are no longer enlivened by gaudy hues and the flap of glittering wings. All is gloom and sadness in the home of the Abolition prophet, "Tu whit! Tu hoo!" is the sad refrain that con tinually proceeds from that domus Urroris. Alas! Poor Aleck! '' Where be yonr gibes, now? your gambols? your flashes of mer riment that were won't to set the table on a roar?" Thing 3 of the past, every one of them! Nothing but the unrelieved, woe-in spiring, sorrowful notes of the doleful owl, nothing but a melancholy mockery or the merry days of Government contracts, now proceeds from the gloomy halls of "Nor land." Even the columns of the Franklin Repository are tinged with a shade of this ineffable sadness. Its editor is so full of grief that he not only bewails the prospec tive downfall of his own party, but sheds crocodile tears over what he affects to think the alarm of the Democracy. In his issue of last week, appeared a whole column of "gushing" sympathy with the Democrats of this county, inspired, no doubt, by the prospect of his party spedfldy occupying the same position, "out in the cold," which has, during four years and a half been the lot of the National Democracy. But we doubt waether poor Aleck's, grief la ia any degree caused by his solicitude far ths wel fare of Democrats, iudiviiually, or collec tively. We account for it only on the ground that he ha 3 eeen the hand-writing on the wall, which reads, to his mind's eye, in plainest cliaracters, THE ABOLITION* PARTY HAS BEEN "WEIGHED IN" THE BALANCES AND IS FOUND WASTING." That is what's the raitter with Aleck M'Clu'f. That is the cause ot the gloom in the M.pository otfice. Thatia the reason why tko ovvi hoot 3 in the shades of Norland. Who can "minister to the mind diseased," especially when the malady i 3 that which makes the sufferer "feel it in his bones," that he is fore-doom ed politically to die? Who can heal the rankling*wound pierced by the arrow of that fate which dashes to the ground the Ambi tion fed and sustained by the very life-blood of the soul? For this there is no balm in Gilead, no physician there." "Not poppy, nor mandragora. Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world Shalt ever medicine the man thus smitten, "to that sweet sleep" which once he "owed." That McClure has fallen under this afflictive dispensation, does not admit of doubt. His change of man ner is as sudden, as it is complete ; his gloom is as profound as his vivacity formerly was striking. Our diagnosis of his case cannpt be incorrect. It is based upon symptoms which have never deceived us, and we are continued> in our judgment, by the follow ing which appeared, double-leaded, in last week's Repository: "They (the Democrats) will poll their full vote la the North-east, they will do quite as writ as last year There u not a "kulking conscript who will not now return to vote in behalf of the remnant of the treason whoso trt atnpn he sought to insure by deserting honor, home and country lu defimce of the law justly disfranchising tbcic, they wilt vote, and swell tho thousands of majority which so nearly made Pennsylvania a suicide one year ago Other thousands in Schuylkill, Luzerne, Carb n, Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Pike and Wayne, who have aoncealed or postponed their naturalization until now, ju order to evade the defence of the government •hoy have adopted, will now swarm upon the- assessments and rejoice with the Hughes's, Reeds. Woodwards, Ac , when taeir immense majorities are announced. In tho Southern counties—those South of the Juniata and Susquehanna and East of the Allegtienies, we cannot materially improve the October vote of last year. It is possible to reduce the crushing majorities of York, Cum berland, Adauts, Fulton and Bedford a thousand; but more is not to he expected—less may be the result. Philadelphia must fall off essentially iu her vote, be cause the vast manufactuiing for tfre army has been al most wholly arrested, and thousands of government em ployees aad operatives on government work of various kind*, have been scattered in other channels of industry over tne country. Their reduction must diminish the largo Union majority of last year from 2,500 to 3,000, and liio adjoining county of Delaware can scarcely fail to be sim ilarly affected by the same causes. ihe success of the Union ticket depends wholly on the organisation and full voteuf Lancaster, Dauphin, Somer set. Bradford, Susquehanna. Tioga, Erie, Crawford. Indi ana, Lawrence, Allegheny, Ac. It these Union strong holds shall be systematically and thoroughly organized and polled, ws sualtearry the State by a decisive major ity. If ihey fail, as they did last year in October, the State will inevitably be lost." White Heroes of the War! Remember that the Abolitionists call you '•Copperheads," because you will not sub scribe to their Negro Suffrage doet-ine; and remember, also, that the Bedford In quirer said, in its issue of June 2, lfebo, that it knew of "SKYERAL DOZEN OF COLORED MEN THAT WE (the edi tors of the Inquirer) WOULD RATIIER SEE MARCH TO THE BALLOT BOX AND CAST THEIR BALLOTS THAN AN EQUAL NUMBER OF COPPER HEADS WE CAN NAME. I White Men! Remember that llenry Winter Davis, one of the leaders of the Abolition party, said in a speech on the Fourth of July last, at Chicago, "WE NEED THE VOTES OF ALL THE COL ORED PEOPLE. IT IS NUMBERS, NOT INTEL LIGENCE, THAT COUNTS AT THE BALLOT BOX." Veterans! Remember that the Bedford Inquber, of April 7, 1865, in announcing the fall of Richmond, gave the credit of taking the rebel capital to the negroes, in this lan guage : "NEGRO TROOPS OCCUPY RICHMOND— THEY ARE WELCOMED WITH JOY BY THE INHABITANTS !" Bear In Mind That the Abolition platform contains a res olution declaring that the Southern States "must be held in subjugation," which would require a standing army of 150,000 men, which would cost the Government hundreds of millions of dollars every year. We say let those States come into the Union, as they now want to do, and let the loyal people raise their own militia, as they are no w doing in Mississippi, and pre serve order at their own expense. Soldiers Remember that the Abolition Platform does j not eay one word against Negro suffrage, i but that THIRTY Abolition papers, in cluding the BEDFORD INQUIRER, havej declared, in favor of that infamous doc trine f It is False! It h untrue that the Democrats of Bedford county voted, as a party, against the amend ment to the Constitution permitting the soldiers ; to vote iu the uriny. Some of them voted for it; some against it. This shows for itself. The' Democratic majority, last fall, in this county was upwards of 600. The umendment had about 400 majority in this county, showing that • a large number of Democrats must have voted for it. We defy the Inquirer, as we have done several tiroes already, to publish the "yeas and nay a" in the House, on the passage of the amendment. We also defy it to PROVE that any candidate on the Democratic ticket voted against the amendment. If it cannot do this, let its editors bold their pence, for shame! Ths Fifty-Fifth Siightad' The Bedford Inqwrtr has not notice I 1 re turn of this glorious old regiment whose bat tle-scarred veterans were mustered out of the { service somo weeks ago. Our attention was called to this fact by a member of the regi- ' ment Doubtless, the Inquirer does not relish t the return of the 55th, as a large majority of | its tnamoers are Democrats Compare Tliem I Compare the Democratic and Abolition tick ets and what do w find ? Col. Davis, Demo crat, for Auditor General, a hero of two ware, with his right hand shot off at the siege of Charleston; Gen. Hartranft, Abolitionist, for the same office, hangman of Mrs. Surratt, af ter stating to the President that he believed her an innocent woman. Next, for Surveyor Gen era!, Col. Linton, Democrat, suffering from paralysis occasioned by a dozen wounds re ceived in battle; Col. Campbell, holiday sol dier, without a single scar upon his body. Then, we have for Representatives two of the ablest lawyers, (Messrs. Colborn and Smith) in this legislative district. Against these the Ab olitionists have pitted Messrs. Ross and Arm strong, noted only for what they didn't dr, when members last year. As for rhe county ticket, we challenge comparison, from beginning to end Citizens of Bedford county! The Dera- ocrats offer you a splendid ticket, from Auditor General to Coroner 1 Vote it from top to bot tom, without a name erased, or a letter altered. Remember that SOLID SHOT make a hole wherever they hit! Mark the Difference! Tfce Abolition St.ite Convention declare," I'hat bating conquered Ibe rebellious States, they should be held in subjugation," dec. Now, it j is one thing to suppress an insurrection, or re-1 bellion, and quite another to conquer a state. — The former pre-supposes a foreign enemy—tie latter a domestic one. Was then our recent wtr j a conquest of foreign temtorg, or was it the sup-1 pression of rebellion against the Government ! by a portion of the American peojile t The j Abolitionists s;ty that it was a conquest of for- j eign states, and, therefore, admit the right */'se-. cession. For, if those states, had not the right ( to secede, how could they have become foreign? Now, what citizen who is opposed to reccgniz- 1 ing the light of secession, can vote for the Ab-! < li ion candidates, who are placed upon a plat-. form which does recognize it? Cheating. We have reliable information that the Abo litionists are planning a scheme to cheat, on an ■extensive scale, at the coming election. Qio of their games is, if possible, to buy up me t. who will not he suspected by Democrats to giot out Abolition and mixed tickets! He on ; our guard ! We are on ti.e track of the scoundrels who are trying this game of corruption. If they attempt to put it in practice we will not only expose them, but the law will be rigidly enforced against them. Look at the Record. The Demcraiic party have now in the Jteld as candidates, Maj. Gen. Sloeum, for Secretary of State of New York, Maj. Gen. Rnnyon. for Governor of New Jersey, Maj. Gen. Mor gan, for Governor of Ohio, Col. T. H. Benton, for Governor of lowa, and Cols. Davis and Linton, for Auditor General and Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. Can socii a party be unfriendly to the Soldiers? "Skulkers," "Cowards," (tec. The A i lolitioni.sts cal thesoldiers "fkulkera," "cowards," and other hard names, because they are opposed to Negro Suffrage. This is the reward they give the bravo men who did the fighting, whilst these admirers of the e --gro remained snugly at home. Secession ! The Abolition state Convention admit the right of Secession. Their candidates, Hartrauft and Campbell, stand upon a platform admitting it. Tliaddeus Stevens, in his recent speech at Lancaster, admits it. But Andy Johnson and the Democrats do not admit it. Every nan who votes the Abolition ticket, as sure as there is ag un tn heaven, votes to endorse the right of secession / Assess the Soldiers. Kemember that SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, is (lie last day on which any votep can be le gally assessed. 'Canvass your neighborhood and see whether any Democrat is not assessed, and if so, have his narue at once placed upon the Duplicate of the Assessor of his district. Be particularly careful to hate the soldiers assess | ed, as they cannot vote on the soldier tax paid ! by them last year. Beware! :!s are now being circulated by the Ab olitionists, with all the Democratic candidates, names upon them, except that of John Palmer fur District Attorney; others, with all except that of George Ifurdorff, for Treasurer: others ! with all except the natne of W- G Ewholtz, for Associate .fudge; others, with all except the nartie of 'Patrick Donahoe for County Surveyor; others with all except the name of Michael S.. Ri'chey, for Commissioner; and other mixtures, | from the State Ticket down to Coroner. Be- ; ware of these boguß- tickets! Take no ticket j from any man unless you know him to be a ] ; sound and reliable Democrat, $30,000! liemembcr that the Democratic Commission ers have paid off within three years, the boun ty debt of nearly $25,000 and the John Briee luAu oi #}-,t>OU!—thirty thousand dollars Of debt paid tn three years I Awarding to this ratio,, in a year and a half more, under Demo - cratic management, -the whole county debt will jbe paid. Lbcreiore, vote for MiCfiA&£' &■ i RITCHEY, for Commissioner, who is an bon ed und efficient business 'man and will do hit, ; he can to get the cuunty out of debu "JUSHOE " —The article of our triend "Jus j tiee," from C. Valley, eaipe to hand after our "tonn was made up and we are compelled to deter it till next week. WQ will always be j glad to hear from "JuEtice " | Address of the Democratic State Com mittee, HON. W. A WALLACE, Chairman of the Democratic S'ate Committee, has issued an R ble ana admirable address to the people of Penn sylvania. We have not room f ."the whole of | it, but make the following - -.ion ri.na it, to which ve iaiitn the close attention of the rea ders. NLQRO EQCALITY AND NEGBO SETT RAO E. Negro equality and negro suffrage are no longer a mythical issue, but are part of the j vital, practical realities of tiic present hour. — i They are demanded by the black ma?i; they are advocated by white men in power in the j National Government, and we charge that they ! are endorsed and sanctioned by a large majori : ty of the Republican party of the North, in* ; eluding those who govern and control that par ty in Pennsylvania. Let us examine some of J the evidences upon which we found this charge. ! The States of Maine, New Hampshire. Ver mont, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, by j constitutional provision, give the black man the unrestricted right of suffrage. These States . are all under Republican control, and their politicians lead the van in the crusade they hope is to result in the degradation of the white race to the level of the black, j The Senate of the United Slates, on the 81st ] of March, 18t54 (see Cvnr put ourselves under tiieir guardianship, rmr give up to them the political privileges which we inherited from our father? Whether the blood of the Anglo-Saxon, the Celt or the Teu ton flows in oui veins, there are but few - motig us who du not feel it tingle with a thrill of just skorne when it is pronounced lo be only the equal of the negro ot Dahomey or of Con go. Call thij prejudice, or what you may, it exists, ana'he statesman who desires the peace, the happiness and the prosperity of both race*, cannot ignore it. Give the black man equal jioliticai rights in our country and you give !ilm equal social right*. Give him equal pol itical rights and you multiply the points of contrast betwt; n ilie races, and the weaker and inferior mu*t j it'l l place to the stronger and superior. The law mn.lvania, providing for Xlie holding of elections in military eucsttup ln'-nts, though doubt lean enacted with good mo tives, has been productive of great evil and contention. Until trie October election, there had never been an opportunity of testing it, operations. \ oting v.- .s then carried on in ccott. <>fthe Pennsylvania regiments at the scat o war. or encamped el-e where at a distance frora home In many cases the votes were honest ly received and counted, and the result properly certified and returned to their legal authorities In others and particularly in the regiments par t! v or wholy farmed in Philadelphia, the elec tions were conducted in a most shameful and i rascally manner. Some of the regimental ro i turns show hundre s of votes for candidates on ! one ticket, whiD those of opposite politics receive ■ lew or none. As the result in the *eitv itself j was duubtiul. and the candidates were likely |to be elected or defeated by the array vote, j there were strong inducements off-red for cor ; rupt politicians lo practice their villanuus art?, i h now sceuis probable that the ditKcuitieg thus raised will have ta be settled by the courts, nt ilieco'-t >f great iabor and much time We ! hope the Legislature will prevent such EVIL iin future by the TOTAL AUOLITION OF jEi.ixi JONS IN UA.MIV I cannot account fur the malignant hostility jof the editor of the Hurriehurg Telegraph j ward me, except because my gran Ifather tv°; one of the soldi rs that captui-'l toe Hos-i.,nj jat Trenton in 1 770. .Mr. B rgner is very loth i to forget old grievances. * W. W H. Davi? '"Notice to Skedadlers." | Under the above caption we notice that the Abolition papers are taking particular puins to i frighten certain p. rsuit* from attending the e lection. Let no man be frightened or deterred j from attending the election by any threat that the Abolitionists may make. Persons who the draft, if they fie otherwise qualified are ju-t as legal voters under the Constitution and laws of Pennsylvania as any other persons. , A- the Abolitionists have published a great deal and talked a great deal about preventing •skedndit r ," as thev call them, from voting ,u : the corning election, we desire to give notion that if any Judge, or Inspector, or eh-clion , board shall reject the vote of any qualified vo ter. he or they will be prosecuted n. the full extent of the law. VVe do not mean this as any idle threat, but as what we know to be firm and settled resolution. And in order that no man may plead ignorance on the sublet, we give be ow tlie law regulating the qualification of voters rod the punishment for rejecting tba votes of qualified electors : Section 1 of A ticie 3d, of the Constitution f Pcnnsvlvani i read- as follows : "In elections o\ the citizens every WHITE freeman of the age of twenty one years, having resided in this State one year, and in the election district where he offers to vote, ten days immediately preceding such elecii HIS. and within two years paid a Stato or County tax, # w-BVcb Btl Uvc lie sesse 1 at least ten days before the election, shall enjoy tlie rights of an elector." This is the supreme law of Pennsylvania regulating the qualification of voters. Now fhr the penalty of rejecting the vote of a qun ified elector : The 103 rd Section of thp Act of Assembly of July 2d, 1830, Pardon's Digest, page 381, reads as follows : "If any Inspector or Judge of an election sbail knowingly reject the vote of any qualified citizen, each of the persons ?t> offtnding shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than fifty, nor more than twohun dred dollars " The law i clear, and Judges and Inspectors arc foquired to take notice of its provisions.— We say to every man who is qualified to vote under the Constitution of Pennsylvania, go to the polls and off r your vote. If it be rejected the election board will he indicted and punish ed according to law. This may be depended upon and all persons interested are requested In take notice of this announcement. — Oehtvs of i Liberty. BR A NDRETH 'S PILLS, WHO'E TIM FLY PSE, UNDER PROVIDENCE, HAS OFTEN SAVED LIKE. These celebrated Vegetable Pills a;e no new, on tried remedy , they have been used and tested in the United States for thirty years, and are relied upon by biindr*o- of thousands of families as almost their ; sole medicine when sick. No care or expense is j spared in their preparation, and if is certa nly troe when 1 assert that no King can have a medicine fs j fer or surer than Brandreth'e Pills, j They produce a good effect upon disease Mmort j immediately they are taken. By some wonderful | power, perhaps eDctric or nervous influence, th progress ol diseased action is arrested; where wa'rb fulness and pain have been piesent, the be i comes quieter, and the patient socn ob'suis refiesb* ; ing sleep. | The genuine BRANDRETH PILL BOX hs njKM i it a UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT STAMP , witn B. BRANDRETH ID white letters in the MT?- • September I—lno. | —— ~ AUDITORS NOTICE. ~~ The ander.-ignedappointed by the Orphans' Court ; of Bedtord County, to distribute the balance in '!>• hands of Wilson Nycum, Administrator of the E | tare of J. N) cum, lateof Monroe township, dscsswh • will attend ror that purpose at his office in Bedford* ! on Friday, Oct. 13th, !Sdflat2 o'clock P. M. woe® . and where ail persons interested can attend if th?? think prcp-r. M. A. POINTS, Auditor. AUDITORS NOTICE j The undersigned appointed by the Court cf'Ctw* ; mon Pleas of Bedford County, to disfributs ksl* ance in the hands of John Cessna, Esq., trusts? fot certain specified creditors of H. S, King, will s! " tend to the duties of his appointment at hi* in Bedford on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1983, at ii> 0 ' clock A. M., when and where all persons intsre*t ed may attend, if they thtak proper. M. A. POINTS. • - , Au'iMT ITIII.IO SALEI j . ' JoSfN AISIF< AOOTIOSTSIS- The aebseriber will offer at public !• at i ! ' resides -p in St. Clair township, 011 Wednesday Oct- I tober ilth, 186 ft, Two Head of Horses, Oao PW j born Wagon, Buggy & two sete Harness. Seven : Ml lob Cows, Ten bead of fat Cattle, Six fat and a lot of Sheep. Windmill, Cutting box andStee. Beds, Bedsteads aad bedding,"four Cupboards, t<* l ' Bureaus, Dining tables, Breakfast fable br ebairs, two CT per Kettles, a lot of Carpetinz together withagre a variety of Household and Kitchen furniture n , other aiticle too ntiTrooi to in.eit—dale to cp j mence at 9 o'clock of said day.—A reasonable creu* lit will be giren. NATHAN 11. W'OLu- September 2®nd, JSbft.