terms op publication. TBE Brdpord GAzerrr. is published every Fri- nmrDiny by MEYERS k MENGP.L. at $2 Ofl per Jum- >f V"" 1 drict/q advance : ?2.50 if ptid j.ijjn six mouths; $3.00 if not pain within six „,ntbs. All subscription accounts MUST be /t l/ \ Will promptly at tend to collections and all bustne-s entrusted to hi care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Office on Juliana Street, three door- south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate May 13. 1884. J F. MEIER- | J. W. DtrKKItSOV. j \ I KYERS A- DICKERSON, AT } [ TORNEYS AT LAW. Bedford. Pa., office! •ntue as formerly occupied by lion. W P. Schell, I two doors east of the Gwkttk office, will practice n the several courts of Bedford county. Pensions, •anty and tack pay obtained and the purchase and sale of real estate attended to. |may lt.'fifi. 11 >IIX 11. FILLER, Aftontetfut Lair, ' Bedford. Pa. Office near y opposite the Post ' ffice itpr.2o.*Bfi. —ly. i'lntoician'. and I) H. PENNSYL, M. D.. HDIOBY | , Box, Pa .I U" surgeon Sttk P \ ,) tcn i-t; his professional services tothc people ot that plaeeand vicinity. I)ec. 22. 'rts-ly* \Y W. JAMISON, M. D., BisOODY 1 t , kin. Pa., tenders his professional servi •B to the people ot that place and vicinity. Office <• door west of Richard Langdon's store. Nov. 24. 'Bs ly hit. J. L. MARROURG, Having permanently located, respectfully .temlers iio professional services to the citizens of Bedford I viciuity. Offi -e on Juliana street, enst side, neariy opjassite ti> Banking House of Keel A Schell. Bedford. February 12. 1864. VHICKOK | J. o. MINMCH. JR., I\KNT I S T 8 , I F BEDFORD. PA. 'ffice in the Bank Building. Juliana St. A ! operations pertaining to Surgical or sle an-al Dentistry carefully performed, and war tinted. Tfums —CASH. Bedford. January 6, 1865. ilanlicrs. JACOB REED. j J. J. SCHELL, I) E E D AND SCH E L L, IV Bankers and DK A 1. E Its IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD. PA.. DRAFTS Houajht and sold, collection# made and E 'UFY promptly remitted. Dtrposifs solicited. 6 w. RL'pp o E. SHANNON F. BENEDICT prpp, SHANNON&('()., RANK IV ERS, Bedforh, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT ELECTIONS made for the East, West. North 1! " UTH, and the genera! business >f Exchange R 'II .is ted. Notes and Accounts Collected and : '"IITANWES promptly made. REAL ESTATE '"SIGHT and sold Oct. 20, 1865. 3ttisrrlUinrous. hAXIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OK THE BED KI BOTE.K, BEDFORD, FA. and deader in jewel ry. SI'ECf ACLKS. AC. ke ~n hand a stock of fine Gold ami Sit . W itches. Spectacles of Brilliant Double Re -, "'i tN-sos. also Scotch Pebble Glasses. GnM ttcb Chains. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best 't oiity of Gold Pen . He will supply to order "D thing in his line uot on hand. 20. \m- UF. IRVINE, • ANDERSON'S ROW, BEDFORD. PA., "tr in B'M.te, Shoes. (Jueensware. ifnd Varie- IjfOrler* trotn Country Merchants re •Pft.".uliy solicited. 2u. 1860. T ) R. AN"DERSOXT Licenwd Scrivener find 1 diiiceyiiiiccr, *i!l '""'"ULtl, BEhFORD COC.N'TV. P< ~ the writing of Deeds. Mortgages; sjaili*. Agreement, and all business ... ra octed by a S-.-riveoer and C •uveynn 'to publio is respectfully S,I)C -ocdtori) Baulk. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. ftarihrarc. kt. WM.HAHTLFA ) 8. S. MKTZGF.R H artley & metzger having formed partnership, on the Ist day of April, lsr.fi, in .he HARDWARE and FARM MACHJAER ) TIRADE. now invite the pub lic to examine their miunmoth stock, which they will sell at low figures, for cash. | apr.27,'6fi. lItGN AND NAILS, at lowest cash 1 price-, at HARTLEY A METZGER'S. I)A I NTS. fresh, durable and beauti -1 ful: Pure Liberty White Lead : Penn Treaty White Lead; Mansion White Lead: China Gloss; l urpentine: Flaxseed Oil; Copal and Pcinar Var nish: Brushes of all kinds, for sale cheap, at HARTLEY A MET'/.GAR'S / < BAIN AND GRASS SCYTHES, \ $ Sneds aii.t Harvesting Implements in great variety, and at all t riees, for sale at HARTLEY A METZGERS (Hi WASHING MACHINES and the great anti-Cog-Wheel Wringer, now on exhibition at HARTLEY A METZGER'S. Call and see this invention before purchasing else where. TOOTH BAKES. Gum ii Spring Grain Drills. Improved Cider Mills, Eureka Fodder and Straw Cutters, for salo at HARTLEY Wh'te Lend. Washington Ziar Whit' ljtuil. Xil" Yuri White Lend. ALSO: — Frut eh Purer! ma Finish; D- mar Varnish: I ftra/.thei of ait in ltd < Fin rated Oil, (pure.) T"rprutttie and Aleohol All kinds of IKON" and N AILS No I CHRYBTAL ILLUMINATING COAL OIL. LAMPS in profusion. We would invite persons wanting Saddlery Hardware, to give us a call, a* we have every thing in the Saddlery line, such as Buckles, Kings. H irnes ami Webbing Lealherof all kinds; also a variety o( Shoe Findings, consisting of French Calf Skins. Morocco Linings. Bindings, IVjjf, etc. Housekeepers will find at Blymyor A Boti s store a great variety of household goods. Knive< and Fork of the very best quality; Plnted Table and Tea Spoons at all prices. Give us a call and we can supply you with Barn Poor Hollers, the latest improvements: Xova Soot'a Grindstones, better than any in use; Shovels. Forks and Spades. Grain and Grass Scythes and Snathes; Fishing Tackle; Brushes of all kinds. Demi-Johns; Patent. Wheel Grease. Tar and Whale Gil, and an infinite variety ot articles. 820.00(1 v\ ANTED—WouId like to get it if our friends would let us have it. Less will do; but persons having unsettled accounts will close them up to the first of March, to enable us to close our old books. This should be done mayf, 66. GEO. BLVMYER a SON. I "( U i PEB YEAR! We Want • > | •)' M r agents every where to sell our IMPROVED S2OSewing Machines, 'lhrce new kinds, l iuer and upper feed. Warranted five years Above salary or large commissions paid. Theos LV machines s.id in the United States for less than S4O. which are fully limited in/ Howe. Wheeler & I! ihv*, Greyer &■ Bain. Stmgmr A- Co.. mid Burhridrr. AH other cheap machines ate in frill genie at*, and the seller or user are Untile to arrest, fine, and i mprisunmeut. Circulars free. Address, or call upon Shaw A Clark Biddcf rd, Maine, or Chicago, Ills. [Dec. 22. '6o- ly (.i w i A MONTH! Agent* wanted • r t'l * for (> jsl copy of the ilist ruct ions of a mercantile firm to the captain of one of their slave ships, KiNo, directing him to make the best of his way to the coast of Africa, and invest his cargo in slaves. They show him how to proceed in a critical inspection of the negroes before paying for them; and he must do for the preservation of the health of his cargo, since on that the profit- of the voyage will depend. They sagaciously olwrve, ths*t all ti\Ar ri*U* lut the death of the slaves, the underwriters are accountable for. Gf the factors on thecoast hemu-t beware, lest they cheat him, since like the Israelites of old, they do whatever is right in their own eyes. His compensation among other things, is to be four slaves out of every hundre , and four at the plats' -nciiusetts in l7s>S. It was enacted that no citizen of the Commonwealth, or other person residing in the same, shall import, transport, buy or sel! anyof the inhab itants of Africa as slaves or servants for a term of years, on penalty of fifty pounds fir every vessel fitted out or employed in the trade. Aii insurance on such vessels to be void. That there were Massachusetts ships at that time at sea is obvious, for this act expressly exempt- them. Much interest ha- been felt f the latter, Lord Mans field said, ill 1785, that 'vidians in gross may, in point of law, subsist at this day, hut the change of manners and customs has abolished them in point ol fact.' If the parallel may be continued it could tie said \yith equal justice, that slavery having never been formally prohibited by legislation in Massachu setts, continued to subsist in point o. law until the year when the grand Constitution Amendment terminated it forever throughout the limits of the Central States." The reader will find Mr. Moore's j "Note.-." full of lucidly arranged infor ' illation, much of it now published foi the first time, and not a small part de : rived frdm sources of difficult access. Its style is clear,earnest and powerful; the author's industry and ability ad j.nurabfc; Ms book a vivacity add pieturesquene.ss that will secure for it general attention.—A*. I*. Com. Atlver ti ;er. 30C gv ( XKXi'ixTi.i) iti'.nr.l.l.lON. county is the last place in the world where we would expect to find dissatisfaction on the part of Re publicans with the action of the Dis ■union Rump at Washington. Wilinot has there reigned supreme for years, t and the handful of Democrats of that county who earnestly contended for the doctrines of the lathers, were fre quently beaten by a majority of four thousand. We are greatly pleased to see that Truth is asserting its power, even in the benighted county of Bradford. A meeting of member- of the Republican party, favorable to the policy of Presi j dent Johnson, was lately held at To- I vvanda. This meeting derives its im ! portanceas much from the character of | the actors in it, as from the numbers I who attended, and the enthusiasm that ! pervaded it. ' The President was Col. Allen Mc j Kean, a son of Hon. Samuel McKean, ; formerly United States Senator from | Pennsylvania. Col. McKean has been I ait influential member of the Republi i can party from the date of its birth.— j He hits been the Pjothonotary of the ; county, and member of the Legislature, i Among the otner prominent pttrtiei pants in the proceedings, we notice E. W. Smith, Esq., and Hon Henry W. Tracy, who was twice elected to the Legislature of the State, and wa- the late Republican member of Congress from the Bradford district. We clip thefollowing resolution from the V ! 'oeeedings: Ilinohed, That in the opinion of this i meeting neither of the conventions j which have as-cinbled at Harrisburg and )tlaccd in nomination, candidates for Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have succeeded in noni j inating a candidate who-c political rec ! ord. antecedents, and present surround ings will justify the loyal men, who 'approveand sustain the President, in giving either of them at present a hear ty support. Therefore they recommend thecallingofaconvention of the frieml* of the President to put in nomination a candidate for Governor of this Com mon wealth whom they can more cheer fully and consistently support. Jn pursuance of this resolution Sen atorial and Representative delegates were appointed to a convention to nom inate a third candidate for Governor. The meeting also declared that they were "unalterably opposed to com pro . iftiistUft with tmitors by l>?irt*rinvr 'uni ver-al amnesty.' for 'universal stif , frage,'" and appointed a committee to' establish it Johnson paper in Towanda. X'igilitnce committees were also provi j ded for to act in every district of the ! county. We have seen nothing lately more significant than the proceedings of this i meeting. It is in vain for theDisunion i-t- to undertake to convince thinking people ihe: Hie war was fought to keep them in power, and not for the Union. When such a meeting, composed of -uch men. is held in Bradford county, it mean- something. The Union men in the Republican party, find there is no place for them in the Rump led by Stunner and Stevens. They are every j whereon the revolt, and "will fight it ; out on that line," till the present l>i-- itnion leaders at Washington are driv en from power.— Johmiomi IHmocrat. A FIGHT WITH A LIONESS. —In I Wonibwell's menagerie, in Stirling, England, recently, D'Avey, the lion hunter, entered the den with the per forming group of litiiis, when one of the lionesses, turning round upon bint, seized him by the left leg. D'Avey -eived his rifie and brought it down with full force upon the lioness' head, ; breaking the stock of hi- rllle in two and freeing himself from th. grasp of the lioness. At the next performance the lion hunter again entered the den, , when the lion est, immediately fiew at hint a second time. D'Avey wasann ed with a heavy stick; a severe strug gle ensued as to who was to be master, ! the lioness repeated Hying at D'Avey, ! and he meeting her : t each charge and I driving iter back, until she finally set j tied down in a corner completely eow j oil and subdued. i)'A vey cscajied with j no further injury than a slight flesh ! wound and a torn dress. Yorxo Amkrii'a —A lady,teaching her littledui iiter,four yearsold, poin ted to something in the hook, and asked— * "What is that', my dear?" "Why, don't you know?" inquired the child. "Yes," said the mother, "hut I wish to find out if you know." "Well," responded the little miss, "1 do know." "Tell me then, if you please." slid the lady. "Why, 110, insisted the little one, with an arch look ; you know what it is, and there is n > need of saying any thing more about it." An Ex iekimkxt. —"Dennis,darliiit, oeli, Dennis, what is it you're doing?" "Whist, Biddy, I's trying an experi m nt." "Murder! what is it?" "What is it did you say? Why it's giving hot wather to the chickens I a-cD, So thtry'ii Ltoaftbdr laying bailed Jjggj!" VOL. 61—WHOLE No. 5.352. Til IT MIMMIIKS* fOXVEXTIOn. A TrrttiHpareiif ntnl Impudent Swindle. "The .Soldiers 1 Convention," so call ed, held in the Academy of Music on Tuesday was without question the most impudent Abolition swindle ever at tempted by that infamous party. But few soldiers of any merit were in atten dance at it: the great body of it being composed of bummers and loafers some of whom on Tuesday evening display ed their valor in Lager Beer Saloons by abusing the bartenders, and refus ing to settle for their beverages. These fellows, "Who never set n stpiadron in the field. Nr the divisions of a battle know More than spinster," have the inconceivable audacity to speak for the thousands of meritorious soldiers scattered throughout our State. This convention was not only an Abo lition gathering, but it was of the gen nine Radical stripe, as will lieseen by the following resolution which it pass ed almost unanimously: Rt'sofverl, That the loyal majority in Congress deserves our gratitude, that radical evils require radical remedies, and that the nation should take no step backward in its march to the grand destiny that surely await unfaltering, persistent adherents to the cause of e qual freedom. The drawer of this resolution prefaced it with a speech. "He said there was not a word in the resolutions offered by the Committee endorsing Congress.— Soldiers were indebted to the loyal members for support, and it would no't do now to go back on those members for ANDKKW JOHNSON or any other man." But the action of this miserable gath ering in excluding and insulting Dem ocratic veterans who were regularly e- Jocted, was in keeping with their usurp ing partisans in Congress expelling reg ularly elected DemocraticCongressnien. In order to give our readers an idea of the infamy of these Abolition creatures we will direct their attention to the course pursued in regard to the delega- ; tion from ('tint iter land. 'ten. Geary's ; : own county. In pursuance of tin- call j for a County Convention of Soldiers, j the meeting took place, and as we learn ! from the Carlisle Volunteer, ''about one . hundred and fifty from the rural dis- j tricts were in attendance." "It soon i became evident," says the Volunteer, "To the astonished followers of Sum- ( iter and Stevens, who had expected to ; have everything their own way, that out of about one hundred and seventy j delegates present, fully one hundred and fifty of them repudiated the nomi nation <>f John \V. <;siry, and KI\U AT THK VHIi SOK OF IT. Some people in tlu* North appear in dined to put the worst face upon ev rything which occurs in the southern dates. Affairs there are bad enough ; die South has always been a frontier and, in which the laws were less re q>octed, and violence more frequent, han tiie more thickly setJed and freer East. Hat it is of no use, but on iy mischievous, to insist that the whole >fthat region is lawless, depraved,and irretrievably given over to violence. — fhe southern states are, by our own .wt, part ofthe Union ; we are determ ined they shall remain so: and as we mean they shall live in the same house witli us. it seems only -ensible and pru dent to try to make the best, instead of iiie worst, of our companions. Those people who see in the Memphis riot, and in every other occurrence of that kind, a proof that the southern people ought not to be represented in c ongress, and that the greater number of them ought to be disfranchised —as though that would make them content ed or peaceable—remind us, in their indiscriminate suspicion and dislike, of an old story told of the people of Corn wall in the hist century. A ship was wrecked upon the Cornish coast, and it happened that the only one ofthe crew saved alive was a monkey. Jocko was taken to a lire, dried, and warmed, and thereupon strictly interrogated as to his nativity, where the ship belong ed. whither she was bound, Ac.. Ac. lie made such answers as he could, which his questioners vainly tried to understand. No one in that region had ever seen a monkey: they took his ehatterings and grimaces to be some foreign lingo; and finally it was de termined to have him regularly exam ined, ami his case decided on by a jury. Jocko was once more rigidly question ed by a magistrate in presence of the jury; he made answer, as before, in a tongue none of the natives understood. Thereupon, tied hand and foot, he was locked up in the jail, while the jury deliberated upon his case. It did not need a Jong time for the twelve wise men to agree upon a verdict; they de clared 'lie is a Frenchman and a Papist —hung him.' And accordingly Jocko was hanged. Lt SUtUILS 11* ilv.it hpm *wl tl.uru O Northern journal or Congressman is in dined to think of and treat the south ern people—or at least a considerable part of thorn—much as the Cornish jury treated poor Jocko. We do not think it the wisest method.—A". YEv ening Pod, 11-'jj, 4 • A!.<>u r Middling."—Old Rev. Mr. R . was one day attending the fu neral of one of the members of his cnureh. when, after praising the many virtues of the deceased, he turned to the bereaved husband and said : "My beloved brother,you have been culled to part with one of the best and ioveliest of wives—" Up jumped the sorrow-stricken hus band, interrupting the tearful minister by sorrow fully saying— "O. no, Brother It., not the best : but abeout middling—abeout middling, Brother R." Evkky woman has a right to be what age she pleases, for if she were to tell her real age no one would believe her. THE best toast of the season, was, we believe, given by a typo, a short time since, viz: "Woman—the edition is large and no man should be without a copy!" 1 K there is a heaven on earth, it is on a >oft couch by your own fireside, with your wife <>n one side, and a smiling baby on the other; a clear conscience a dozen cigars, and a knowledge that you are out of debt, and don't fear the taiior, or sheriff, or th? devil. THE Editor of a country paper in Wisconsin says that he felt called upon to publish Father Lewis' sermon on the "Locality of llell," as it is a question in which nearly all his readers were deeply interested. YOUNG men, live temperately—goto church—attend to your affairs—love all the pretty girls—marry one of them— live like men, and die a christian. "SONNY, does your father take a pa per?" "Yes, sir, two of 'em. One of 'em belongs to Mr. Smith and the other to Mr. Thompson. 1 hook 'em both off the stoop as reg'lar as can be." WHEN they want to Inghtcn a negro down South they tell him the"Freed -1 men's Bureau" is after him, and he will flee faster than if chased by a pack ! of bloodhounds. WHO is it that is in two situations at once? A lover; for when he is beside : his fair one he is beside himself. t lll 1 j THE editor who kissed hissweethcart • saying "please exchange," is believed not to have exceeded the proper "iiber tv of the press." ■ ■ ■ —BM MANKIND should learn temperance from the uiooa—the fuller she the raiaHer oftir Uiiiaid.