®lir ffdtofl Friday .Horning, Aueut . IS6T. Democratic State Ticket. FOB JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, HON. GEORGE SHADS WOOD, OF PHILADELPHIA Democratic t'onnly Ticket. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ' E. F. KERR, of Bedford Borough. FOR TREASURER, ISAAC MENGEL, of Bedford Bor. FOR COMMISSIONER, P. M. BARTON, of E. Providence. FOR POOR DIRECTOR, JOHN I. NOBLE, 01 S. Woodberry. FOR AUDITOR, SAMUEL WHIP, of Cuinb. Valley. KIP VAX WIXHLE AWAKES! Fr. Jordan—the Hon. Francis Jor dan, Secretary of the Commonwealth and Chairman of the Radical B. H. State Committee —has issued an address to the people of Pennsylvania, direct ing them how to vote at the approach ing Judicial election. Jordan is the Rip Van Winkle of Pennsylvania pol itics. He started out hunting (that is, office-hunting) one bright morning some twenty years ago, with all kinds of ammunition for the rusty old fire lock with which he calculated to bring down Democratic chickens, and fell asleep on the dunghill of Abolitionism whilst waiting to get a pop at the old cock that was wont to crow so lustily from the GAZETTE office. He has been asleep ever since and just now awakes to the fact that every thing is changed about him. His rusty old gun has faHen to pieces, his shot-pouch containssome old ammunition, much spoiled by age and exposure to the weather, his coat, turn it as he will, does not keep out the wind, which, in its Democratic way— aequopulsatpale —strikesall with equal force. He is wonder-stricken, yet unlike his great prototype, he does not seek to unravel the mystery which surrounds him, hut ties together the parts of his crazy fowling-piece, loads it with his antiquated and weather spoiled ammunition, and proceeds with his hunt of Democratic game. Fizz zip—bang! goes the old blunder-buss and the dogs that slept with him on the Abolition dunghill, run in tosecurethe trophy of the hunter's sportsmanship. Nix kumm heratis! The ammunition was too old ; it had lost its strength ; the gun "burnt prime" too long; and chan ticleer, at whose breast the shot was aimed, flaps his wings ut triumph, and crows lustily, Vic-to-ry! Vie-to-ry! Rip Van Winkle Jordan, will, doubt less, learn, if he has not learned al ready, that if he is compelled to go back thirty four years to And an objec tion to Judge Sharswood, the people will conclude that there is no objection at all to that most excellent jurist. .Just think of it! Here are Jordan and his committee, looking through the whole record of Judge Sharswood's life, scan ning with eager eyes every page of it, and finding nothing until they have j gone back thirty four years, and then | they find him at a States Rights ban- j quetat which toasts were given to John C.Calhoun! Isn't it wonderful! Oh, yes ! they find, too, that in a certain case in Philadelphia, in which a con tract had been made (about seventy years before "greenbacks" were ever thought of) that certain interest was to be paid in "Spanish milled dollars," he ! decided that the party who had stipu lated to pay the "Spanish milled dol lars," must fulfill his contract, and that he could not do so by offering to pay in "greenbacks" instead of Spanish milled dollars, and this, because the contract was a special one and made long before the passage of the "greenback" law. From these two facts, Rip Van Winkle argues that Sharswood is a Secessionist, a traitor, and everything that is naugh ty. But he forgets to say that Shars wood was a Whig until that party was destroyed by Abolitionism, and, there fore, must have acted with Webster and against Calhoun ; and, what is still more significant, he fails to notice the fact that the "Republicans" of Phila delphia, endorsed the nomination of Judge Sharswood for President Judge of the District Court of that city, and voted for him in a body, and this too, during the midst of the late civil war. With such facts to rebut the silly charges of the political antiquary who presides over the deliberations of the Radical B. 11. State Committee, the friends of Judge Sharswood can well afford to rest secure of victory. SELA II ! THE Baltimore Sun thus disposes of the Tennessee "election," so-called: "Four fifths of the white voters of Tennessee have been disfranchised and the black men have taken their places. * * In some counties there were not as many white voters as there were offices to be filled, and in others the Governor set aside the registration where it was not agreeable to him." Shout, O ye glorious sticklers for free dom and equality! Bellow till your throats crack! Such a triumph is wor thy of such a party! BETTER NEWS!! Kentucky Speaks!! Immense Majority for the Dem ocratic Candidate ftfr Governor! The glorious old State of Kentucky h'eld her election for Governor and Members of the Legislature, on Mon day last. Hon. John L. Helm, Demo crat, was elected Governor' by an im mense majority, estimated as high as 60,000 ! The Legislature is almost u nanimously Democratic. Following immediately upon the heels of the Tennessee diabolism, this result may he taken as an expression of the indig nation felt by the neighbors of the out raged citizens of that State, in regard to the Brownlow usurpation. Here is the difference: Kentucky is governed by white men, Tennessee is ruled by Negroes; Kentucky goes largely Dem ocratic, Tennessee B. H. Radical. Glorious Kentucky! Poor Tennessee! ttREAT RADICAL VICTORY! Tin* Xigsers Carrj' Tennessee! Beelzebub llrownlimN Itnyoncls Tri umphant. One IlitiMlred and Twenty Five Thous and White Hon Disfranchised ! tiiorious Specimen of Radical Recon struction. Shout, O ye miserable Radicals! Sound the hew-gag! Bang the banjo! Ring the cow-bells! The cloven-foot of Beelzebub Brownlow is again on the necks of the white slaves of Tennessee! As Louis Napoleon "elected" himself Emperor of France, so Brownlow has made himself King of Tennessee. Bay onets in the hands of Negroes, have enabled him to convert his ill-gotten power into a permanent and unlimited despotism. Only 50,000 of the 175,000 white voters of the State, were permit ted to be "registered", whilst 57,000 negro voters were put upon the rolls.* Brownlow's "majority" is less than the Negro vote, showing that the blacks, controlled by bayonets and corruption, are the ruling power in Tennessee. Of course, this was a foregone conclusion. Radical reconstruction must end in the complete Africanization of every State in which it succeeds. Let those rejoice, who can, over such a result. The man who takes pleasure in such a prospect must have a heart as black as the skin of Brownlow's janissaries. Such a man is a traitor to his race, to his country and to his God. "THE OI.D FLAG'S RACK IX TFXXF.S ,NFF!" We find an article on Brownlow's eoup*(Vetat in Tennessee, in a recent number of the Philadelphia Prefix, un der the above caption. The "old flag!" The flag which protected negro slavery in Tennessee, the flag for which Jeff. Davis fought in Mexico, the flag which Massachusetts refused to defend against the British in 1812, is that "old flag" back in Tennessee? Nay, is that "old flag" which has thirty-seven stars up on its field, emblematic of thirty-sev en free and equal States, back in Ten nessee? Alas! no! There is a new flag floating in Tennessee, a flag under whose baleful shadow the tree of liber ty bears no fruit, the black flag of Ne gro supremacy, upheld by the Swiss guards of that worst of Gesslers, the brutal, beastly blackguard Brownlow. Talk about "the old flag!" The edi tor of the Prefix must imagine his read ers to be great fools, indeed, if lie ex pects them to believe that Brownlow ran as a supporter of the "old flag." His banner is black as night, and the skull-and-eross bones of Death consti tute its only emblem. Under such a flag, Old Beelzebub will some day mar shall the supporters of such men as Brownlow, and march them to that nethermost hell, which hot as it may be, ought to be seven times heated, to be a fit receptacle for such ice-hearted traitors to their race and to their coun try. _ TRAITORS! The Radical B. I I'd are just now re joicing over the Negro triumph in Tennessee. They rejoice' that 125,(XX) white men are disfranchised, reduced to slavery, whilst 57,(KM) Negroes are made free and rulers of the State. Re publicans! do you share the fiendish malignity of these Radical demons in human shape, who thus would degrade and destroy your own color and blood? It cannot be! The men who glory in the enslavement of white people through the political elevation of the blacks, are traitors to their tothelr country and to their God! Traitors to their race, because they crush out the political privileges of the whites, whilst they enfranchise the blacks; traitors to their country, because they know that the African race is not capable. of self-government and their supremacy in a large portion of this country will prove its destruction; traitors to their God, because the Creator formed the Negro the intellectual inferior of the White Man, and, therefore, God's pur pose is violated in forcing equality be t.veen the two. Who would be a trai tor to hi 9 race* XOTHISG SURPRISING. Some of the Radical journals seem to be greatly dissatisfied with tne address recently issued by Mr. Jordan, chair man of their State Committee. They are disgusted with the stale cry of "Secession" set up by If? 111 as an argu ment against Judge Sharswood, and regard the whole address as a kind of pitiful twaddle which can result only in injury to their own candidate. The character of Mr. Jordan'saddress, does not astonish us a whit. We be- came acquainted with his style, years j ago, when he was wont to issue his pro nunciamentos to the faithful in this county. Did the Radical editors who complain of his crudities know the man, they would be willing to forgive him. As a matter of news we give the following opinions of Radical newspa pers, in regard to slr. Jordan's address: From the N. Y. Tribune. We cannot endorse the address of the Republican State Committee, in which I Judge Sharswood is attacked with more zeal than discre.ion. He is denounced as the orator of a States rights celebra tion held in the dark ages of 1834, as if an act of 30 years ago could have vital meaning now. The very toasts offer ed by others at the dinner in 1834 are quoted to show that Judge Sharswood is not fit for the office of Chief Justice, and t lie editorials of obscure Democrat ic papers are copied in capital letters, as proof of his sympathy with the rebel lion. The case of Borie against Trott, in which Judge Sharswood decided a gainst the constitutional power of Con gress to make paper money, is also ad vanced as an argument against his elec tion—a purely legal decision, which whether right or wrong, was made sole ly upon JudgeSharswood's understand ing of the law. • We submit that this is not the way in which Pennsylvania should elect her ( chief judicial officers. Such a canvass j should be conducted on the highest ■ ground possible in party rivalry, and i especial care should be taken "not to j drag in the dirt the ermine of justice. The formal decisions of eminent judges upon points of law ought not to be bandied about in appeals to popular passion. The purity and honor of the judiciary are more than a party tri umph. If the decisions of a court are to be the subject of party strife and de bated in stump speeches, we may bid farewell to an independent and fearless judiciary. Hold thejudgc accountable to a political party f >r his construction , of the law, and we inevitably tempt j him to sacrifice his integrity; to become! that meanest of all creatures—a sworn minister of justice, obedient to the die- ; tate of politicians. It is precisely this"i tendency which we fear the Republican i State Com ill it tee of Pennsylvania un consciously encourage, ar.d we would bid them take warning by the wretched j and degraded reputation of thejudica- i ry of this city, in which the courts have become the mere tools of political • clubs. From the Pittsburg Chronicle. It is insulting to the intelligence of | the people of Pennsylvania to say that j in this judicial contest the Democratic party has secession inscribed on its ban ner. We warmly support Judge Wil- ! Bums in this contest, but we will not | even by silence, lend our indorsement to so utterly shameful and unwarranted a charge as the one above quoted. It | is a sign of bad party demoralization when such means are adopted to a- i ehieve success. It is uuerly wrong | and utterly unnecessary. Such things recoil against the men who practice them, aiid cloud even an honest cause with suspicion. Whatever may have been the views of Judge Sharswood thirty-three years ago, it is both absurd , and criminal to say that the right of secession will be an issue in the np proaching election. The Republican : party can go into a canvass upon its own merits and upon actual issues, j without compromising itself by these shabby devices, and we trust no respec table journal in the party will lend itself to such a style of warfare. It is a veritable Mexican business. A CHANCE TO MAK E MONEY.—FIVE HUNDRED AOENTS WANTED TO .SELL THE "YOUTH'S on PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE WAR."— This is the only his tory from a Democratic stand-point, and can be relied on as truthful in every respect. No family should be without it. Also, 500 agents are wanted to sell a work entitled li jVojoque written by Hinton Eou-an lie/per, author of the "Impending Crisis." This work, al though written by a "Republican," and one of Mr. Lincoln's own pets, is worthy the careful perusal of every Democrat and honest "Republican." It stigmatizes the ruling majority in Congress as the "Execrable two thirds majority of the Black Congress" that ought to be despised and spurned by every genuine lover of the pure Caucas ian race. The Negro equality and Ne gro Suffrage question is handled in an able manner by the author. Let every man in this county who is opposed to Despotism, and also the social and po litical equality of the white and black races, secure a copy of each of these works, at the first opportunity. With these works you will be prepared to combat successfully every argument of the White and Black Negro Party in favor of the despotic measures passed by the Black Congress, and of its negro equality doctrine. Those desiring a gencies for either of the aboved named works will please call on MR. E. W. MIL LER, who can be found at the Mengel House, in this place, from the 12th to the 18th of this month. Both works are meeting with very rapul sales, and no young man out of employment can do better than to secure an agency at once. Home and Around. AGENTS FOB THE GAZETTE. We haYe appointed S. J- McCauslin, of this place, and J. W. Bowen, of Napier tp., agents to receive subscriptions and collect accounts for this office. They will visit our friends throughout the county, in a short time, and, we hope, will meet with a proper reception. HUNTINGDON AND BROAD TOP R.R. —SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.—TIME TABLE.—Ex press Train leaves Mt. Dallas at 1.30 p. in., and arrives at Huntingdon, at 4.45 p.m.; leaves Hunt ingdon at 7.45 a. m.. and arrives at Mt Dallas, at 10.59 a. m. Mail Train leaves Mt. Dallas at 6.10 a. in., ar rives at Huntingdon at 9.10 a.m.; leaves Hunt ingdon at 6 p.m., and arrives at Mt. Dallas at 8.57 p. m. Too LATE.— The proceedings of the Temperance Convention, were handed us too late for publication this week. They will appear in our next issue. RELIGIOUS. —'The Rt. Rev. Bishop Ste vens, will preach at the Court House, next Sabbath morning and evening. AT TIIE SPRINGS.— Gen. Geo. W. Cass, President of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad, is, at pres ent, sojourning at Bedford Springs. Judge McLauahan, of Westmoreland co., is at the Mengel House. THE WORK GOES BRAVELY ON.— Bedford is still improving. We have ! just had a new platform erected in front of our office. Apprehending a rush of new subscribers and a crowd of those in arrears calling to "square up," we con cluded to have this done. Now, let them come. The platform will not break with them. BASE BALL—MATCH GAME.— On Thursday last, first inst., a match game at base ball, was played by the first nine of the Resolute Base Bali Club and the first nine of the Bedford Base Ball Club, both of this place. The game was played upon the ground of the old Mineral Spring Club, in Mr. Mann's meadow, immediately North of town. Both clubs played admirably, and the contest was very close, the Resolute gaining the victory by two runs. We give the score below : RESOLUTE. R.O.i BEDFORD. R.O. Cromwell, 2. b. 3 4jll.Lentz, i.f.. 1 6 P. Reed, 3.b. r> 2A. Diehi, s.s. 3 2 F. Schell,c. 4 3lßerkst'r, r.f. 1 G J. Mower, s.s. 4 2| W. Cook, 2.b. 5 1 J. King, p. 3 2|S. Wills, c.f. 2 4 J.N. Alsip,l.f. 3 31 Bollinger, 3.b. 4 1 J. Reed, c.f. 1 4S. Diehl, l.b. 53 0 W. Schell, l.b. 1 5j McMullin, e. 2 3 J. Russell, r.f. 1 2S. Stiver, p. 2 4 Innings—l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 8, 9. Resolute,s, 3. 7, 3, 0, 0, 2, 5, o—2-3. Bedford, 0,10, 2, 4, 1, 0, 3, 1, 0—23. Fly Catches, Resolute 5; Bedford 9.. Time of game, 2'> hours. Umpire, Dr. Wm. A. Nicodeinus. Scorers, W. T. Daugherty, R. B. B. C.; S. B. Ly singer, B. B. li. C. LARGE SALE OF TOWM LOTS.— Last week we referred to the fact that Hon. S. L. Russell, adm'r, &c., of Eliza Watson, deC'd, had sold a large number of town lots and other property, adjacent to our borough. We have sine 9 obtained the names of the purchasers a nd prices paid, which we give below. ' This looks like improvement. Nos. of Lots. Purchasers. Prices. 1, 2, M A Points, $ 850 00 3, Win Dunk ie, 340 00 4, J Gardner, 293 00 5, 6, W L Horn , 598 00 7, John Songster, 298 00 8, Geo Mard<o rff, 231 00 9,10, J J Cessna., GOO 00 11, 12, Geo Reimund, 41G 00 13, Henry Wo od, 203 00 14, John G Fisher, 223 00 15, 16, Wm McMullin, 512 00 17, 18, Jacob Barn hart, Gl5 00 19, 20, 21, 22, Hon Alex King, 1230 00 23, 24, 25, 2G, C W Ashcom, 1300 00 29, 30, John Cessna, Esq ~ 900 00 31, 32, 33, Win Hartley, 1055 00 34, Henry W Fisher, 40G 00 35, 3G, 37, 38, Isaac Mengei', 1504 00 39, 40, 41, 42, J Cessna, Esq., 1728 00 43, 44, 45, 4G, Geo Blymyer, 1266 00 47, 48, 49, 50, J5l Shoemaker, 1040 00 51, 52, 53, 54, Thos Jamison, 910 00 55, 56, 57, 58, Rev T Heyden, 1140 00 Farm, 130 acres and 65 perches, Dr Wm Watson, 5933 48 80 as. wood land, l)r Watson, 480 00 Out lot, 8 acres and 110 perches, Dr J Ross Anderson, 3257 81 Out lot, 5 acres and 158 perches, John Cessna, Esq., 1508 85 Out lot, 15 acres and 87 perches, Jacob Reed, 2611 35 Ridge land, 77 acres and 80 ps., Wm 51 Hall, Esq., 911 12 SPLENDID PRIZES IN GREKXBACKS. —Over $5,000 in Greenbacks ; $lO,OOO in Sewing slaehine.s; $9OOO in Wash ing Machines; a vast amount of Hoop Skirts, Alburns, Books, Gold Pens, Pencils, Lockets, Ac., &e., to 'be dis tributed to the subscribers and purchas ers of the 'HOME AMUSF.M EXT.' Every yearly subscriber gets twenty-foi ir tick ets, drawing from $5 to $lOO each in Greenbacks. Canvassing Agents clear from 10 to $l5 per day raising clubs. Sample copies with a prize ticket and full directions and instructions to A gents, sent by mail, by inclosing ten cents, addressed to the HOME AMUSE MENT, 78 Nassau Street, New York. slale and Female Caavassi ng Agents wanted in every town and neighbor hood in the United States. [aug9wB THE WASHINGTON LIBRARY COM PANY of Philadelphia, go .ins credit and support every day. The sales of stock surpass all expectation, and the prospect is, that the funds for the noble object will be secured even in advance of the time anticipated. Tin; reason is obvious. The design is worthy and creditable to the patriotic hearts who are laboring to reward a too much neg lected class. The funds- go into re sponsible hands, and the public have no fears that they will be mis-clireeted. The plan adopted satifles the scruples of the most conscientious, and has the endorsement of eminent legal authority. It is by its distinctive features entirely removed from the taint of catch-penny schemes which have so often been the means of inposing on the public. It gives to purchasers of its stock a full equivalent lor the consideration paid. All its transactions are open and above board. It has no concealments, and the reputation of the managers is sui h that they cannot afford to be dishonest in this transaction. Head advertise ment. RFDFOBD BY GAS-LIGHT,—SIORE EDITORIAL EXHALATIONS.—' Wegave, last week, a number of letters from newspaper men sojourning at this place, "expressive of their views" in regard to Bedford and the Springs. We now continue our extracts. The following is the opinion of Y. S. Wal ter, Esq., of the Delaware Republican, on "thesituation" hereabouts: BEDFORD, July 23, 1867. Dear Republican:—On Thursday eve ning of last week, you will remember that shortly after the last sheet had been delivered from our Hoe press, I bid you farewell for a brief season, and in company with two of our household gods, started on a visit —which ought to be observed annually as a pilgrim age—for a few days, to" near and dear relatives at this place.—Leaving the depot of the Pennsylvania Central rail road at West Philadelphia, at a quar-, ter past eleven o'clock in the evening, in the elegant cars which the Company have provided for their passengers, we had no concern for our safety, and the next morning at seven o'clock found ourselves at Huntingdon, ready for a good breakfast, previous to taking the cars on the Huntingdon and Broad Top road. Our company consisted of quite a number of ladies and gentlemen who were on their way to Bedford Springs. The road is about forty miles in length, and runs through a broken and hilly country, passing over deep ravinesaud through heavy cuts. Timid passengers close their eyes while the cars pass ov er a portion of the trestle-work, which is in several places very high, and dan gerous looking. The Company have fully provided against accidents, so far as human foresight can prevent their occurrence. The trestles have been greatly strengthened, and the bed of the road well ballasted. In short, we know of no road of the same length operated with greater care and good judgment. The cars stop at slouut Dallas, to which place the road was com pleted three years ago, where carriages are in waiting to receive and convey passengers to the town, which is reach ed in about an hour and a half. A sur vey has been made for a road from this point to Bedford, six milesdistant,and a number of laborers are engaged in makinga tunnel through a spur of Cove mountain. The road will then strike the Raystown branch of the Juniata, and wiil require butlittlegrading. The whole expense ought not to exceed fif teen thousand dollars per mile. It is said that the Pennsylvania Central has agreed to build it. but from somecause the work has been delayed. If the peo ple here were half as enterprising as those of our own county, the road would have been completed long ere tiiis. The town of Bedford grows slowly. There seems to be a want of energy among its capitalists for which there is no excuse. Nearly all the old land marks which were familiar to me years ago—l care not to tell how many—are familiar now as they were then. — New faces appear, but the buildings— wiih but few additions—the roads and conveyances, are nearly the same. The only improvements visible to us, are the foundation walls of a new Episcopal church, the corner-stone of which was laid a year ago, and the walls of a res ervoir to supply the town with water. Both these improvements are at a stand still. All the public schools of the town are concentrated in a single build ing, which is a handsome brick edifice of sufficient.capacity to accommodate all the children of the town. Tne glass in one end of the house shows that the scholars know how to throw stones, and the broken windows prove that the Directors are negligent of their duty. The town boasts of two newspapers, the Gazette published by slessrs. srey ers it slengel, and the Inquirer by Durborrow A- Lutz. The politics of the former are Democratic, and those of the latter Republican, and each is an ! earnest supporter of the principles of the party to which they are attached. The Mineral Springs are a mile and a half South of the town. But fevV im provements have been made within the last three years. It is certainly the most pleasant spot in the Union for invalids to visit. The health-giving properties of the water, the . pure and wholesome air, the beautiful mountain scenery and the pleasant drives, all of fer inducements to be met with but rarely at any other place in our own State, or in any other. 1 am not able to give an analysis of the waters, nor is it necessary to do so in order to con vince those who seek health, that in this locality they should sojourn for a time, if they wish to recuperate. There are at present about two hundred visi ters at the Springs, and as the height of the season is past, it is not probable the number will be augmented. About half way to the Springs, just below the road, slessrs. Robarts and Smith have erected a large Building,cal led the "Arandale House," for the pur pose of a boarding house, foriho.se who seek the virtues of the waters to be fount! here. The house will entertain two hundred persons, it is well provi ded wi Lh furniture from the East, of the latest pattern and style, and will rank with the best houses at any of the fash ionable watering places. The establish ment hasjust been opened, and is not yet thoroughly furnished. With liber ality in its management, a disposi tion to accommodate, and a determina tion to discard all old fogyism in its conduct, it must become a popular re sort, and prove a serious rival toother establishments for the reception of boar ders in the neighborhood of the town. On our arrival at the Springs, on Fri day afternoon, we were gratified to meet Gov. Geary, Wayne slacVeagh, Esq., Hon. S. A. Purvianc., Air. Veaeh of Pittsburg, John Heistand of the Lancaster Examiner, William Watson, M. D., whose reputation as a skilltul physician is well known throughout the country, and other prominent pub lic gentlemen. The Chalybeate Spring, a mile and h half North of Bedford, is about to be come a rival to the old Mineral Spring. slr. Chenoweth has erected a hand some boarding house at this place, and the grounds around the Spring are be ing improved. The waters, like those of the mineral spring are heavily char ged with iron and sulphur, and are without doubt, health-giving. With proper care and attention this cannot fail to be a favorite resort for invalids, and persons who seek recreation from business. The crops in this county, promise well. Nearly all the wheat is cut and on shock, where .it tvill remain for a week of two, protected from the weath er by a ample cap sheaf. This is a cus tom with the farmers here—a custom which always betokens slovenliness or want of proper knowledge of farming operations. Corn is small and almost a failure in all the low land owing to the heavy rains with which this part of the .State was visited about planting time. Oats and potatoes will be abun dant. I write this hasty letter from the spot where in my youth I received the first rudiments of learning—what was on e known as the "Bedford Academy." i The good man under whose charge I I was placed, has long since been trans latecf to another sphere, and has left behind him many, beside myself, who will ever revere his memory, and hold in high respect his many virtues. [As to the broken windows of the U nion School House, we would just say ' that our borough folks concluded last I spring, to elect as Director that great advocate of reform, John Cessna by name, who promised to set every thing to rights in double quick time. The people of the borough thought they had "a soft thing of it," and so they had; but it appears that under the great reformer's administration, things are e- J ven worse than formerly]. llere we have number two of "Trav-. eler's" "Jottings by the way," as prin- ] ted in the Somerset Democrat. "Trav- j eler" has so much to say about our town j and county, that we feel constrained to j transfer his letter bodily to our col umns. Hear him: Bedford is neither a handsome nor a homely looking town. It is the coun ty seat of Bedford county. The prin cipal business street is at the northern extreme running parallel with the | Juniata.—Julianna is the main cross street. Bedford has some splendicf residences. It has four large Hotels and several boarding houses. The 'Mengel House' is kept by that prince of landlords, Isaac Men gel, Esq., who is the Democratic candidate for County Treasurer. The "Bedford House" is kept by Joshua J. Shoema ker. a very agreeable, polite andgener j ous landlord. The' Washington House' i is kept by W. Dibert and the "Union i House - ' by Valentine Steekman, Esq., a very honest man. Judging from the number of Banking houses, Stores, Groceries and Restau-ants Bedford con tains, it must be quite a business place. Judge King the President. Judge of i this district icsides here. Heisspoken of as a very able and impartial Judge, ! but has very bad politics. O. E. Shan i non, an able lawyer and an energetic I Democrat, is the Prothonotary. Ro ! Bert Steekman, Democrat, is Sheriff, and George Mardorlf, Democrat, is j the County Treasurer. E. F. Kerr, j Esq., is very ably and satisfactorily performing the duties of District Attor ney, and is the Democratic candidate : for the same position. His opponent is I M. A. Points, Esq., who a few years since was celebrated for the bitter Democratic speeches.he made, but Mo i ses is now frank enough to acknowledge that "it pays him better to be aßepubli i can than a Democrat." Harry Fisher is the County School Superintendent, and John G. Fisher is clerk to the Coin misioners. They are brothers and i both Democrats from Berlin in your 1 county. The "Bedford Gazette" is the able and fearless organ of the gallant ; Democracy of the county and is edited and published by Meyers & Mengel. , The "Bedford Inquirer" is the organ I of the Radical disunionists, and is edi-, l ted and published by Durborrow & ' Lutz. 11. Nicodemus, Democrat, and J. W. ; Lingenfelter, renegade Democrat, are I Justices of the Peace. Bedforu lias ve -1 ry able lawyersandeminent Physicians. This is the home of that venerable Dem ocrat, Hon. Job Mann, who for many years served the people with distinction in various positions. Major Lawrence Talliaferro, an old and faithful officer of the army, resides here. Alaj. T. is a Democrat and a good talker and can interest his hearers for hours with the history of his early campaigns. To strangers, the finest looking and I the most imposing personage -ecu on j the street, is Col. Joseph W. Tate. He I dresses very elegantly and sports one of i the finest moustaches that ever adorned ' a face. In the humble judgment of I your correspondent, Col. Tate looks like j a Roman Senator. It was about Col. i Tate the radicals last fall sent out the I Telegraphic despatch stating that at a ; Democratic meeting Col. Tate said that ! "Scotland had her Bruce, Rome had ] her Brutus and America had her Booth, and that a more magnificent rnonu , ment would be erected to the memory of Booth, than ever would be raised to that of Abraham Lincoln." This was sent out for electioneering purposes; andsince the election both sides laugh at the silly report. The report was sent abroad to slander Col. Tate and injure the Democratic party .—The most insig nificant looking personage to be seen I upon the street is John Cessna, the ren egade Democrat and ingrate to his for mer friends. The public buildings are good. The I Court House, on Julianna street, is.of moderate size and pleasantly located.— j The new Union School House is very I large and is supposed to be the best : building for that purpose in Western Pennsylvania. The cemeteries are beautiful. The New Cemetery about |a mile North on the Hollidaysburg | road, will be a lovely place. Dr. C. N. llickok is displaying his fine taste in , laying out the grounds and in having I them properly adorned. The Chalybeate Springs are about I one mile on the Northeast of the town I and are owned by Col. John Hafer. I have heard the water spoken of very | highly and the place described as be- I ing very handsome. W. Chenoweth j has fitted up a very large and com mo i dious boarding house. Quitea number i of persons regularly visit this celebrated | summer resort. On my way to the Bedford Mineral Springs I passed the splendid house ' recently erected by Robarts & Smith, called the "Arandale House." Jt is a i large building—in length eighty-six | feet, in width forty feet. The halls are ; large and the rooms are commodious ] 1 and well ventilated. The Bedford ' Springs are two miles south of Bedford, i need not give your readers a desorip-1 | tion of this celebrated watering place, —indeed I could not do justice to the , subject if I attempted it. The corafor-1 : table buildingscan convenientlyaccom j modate hundreds, if not thousands, of] visitors. The water has more medicinal j qualities, cures more diseases, and quicker, than the water of any other ! Springs in the United States. Ihe Mineral springs are at the ba-e of the mountains on the east bank of Shovel 's | run. The Sulphur spring is near the ] old Anderson Mill on the west bank of Shover's run, and near the road. The large and commodious bath houses are directly east of tho main hotel and in the same enclosure. The mountain is i ascended by circuitous walks and on the top of it is a fine arbor. From the top of the mountain the whole valley around Bedford can be seen. The sight is peculiarly interesting and grand.— There are about two hundred visitors, now at the springs. Among the no tables is Governor Geary, whom Thad Stevens dubs an. "unhappy failure"— and it is true, he is a miserable failure. No man was ever elected Governor or: thjs State, who was so unfit for the po sition as John W. Geary. From the Springs 1 travelled along the road to Cumberland and stopped for a short time at Centreville, a small town in Cumberland Valley township. This little village has many incidents connected with it to interest the trav eller. Here it was that Hanndml died. Hannibal was the name of the largest elephant ever exhibited in this coun- try, and it is said he atq twpnty-two bushels of oats and five hundred pounds of hay, and drank seven barrels of wa ter per day. He died in 1865. He was exhibited in Bedford the preceding day and was ■ n the way to Cumlierlaiitl when death paralyzed his monster limbs. His death is described as hav ing been intensely exciting to the spec tators. The terrible struggle he made in the throes of death were terrific be yond description. But he, the strong est and mightiest of the animal king dom, had to yield to the mandate from on High, that all is "born to die." His remains are buried here. 1 am told it took eleven men one whole day to ijlig his grave. It is rumored that his grave has been opened and some of his ivory stolen. Another incident is connected with the history of this vicinity: Several years ago as the coach came lumbering along from Cumberland and below Centrevillo the horses oecame suddenly frightened and made a fearful spring forward, and the coach bounded as if it had run across a large log. The driver on looking back, saw i very large snake lying across the road. Two passengers were in the stage,—they • both got out and went back wi:li the driver and found a monster serpent, supposed to have been a boa-constrictor. The driver picked up a large stone as the snake was moving off and was a bout throwing it, when the head of the snake, with distended jaws and hissing tongue, rose ou the in-ide of the fence more than ten feet above the highest rail. This so frightened the party that the stone was dropped and all three made for the coach and went to , Centreville as fast as the horses could take them. The snake is supposed to have taken refuge close by in one of the holes in Evitt's Mountain. Ilehas often been hunted, without success, but his track has frequently been seen, . and in Whip's meadow the shed-skin of a monster snake hies been found. Cumberland Valley was for a .ong time the banner Democratic township of the County but she has now to 7ield the palm to the 'State of Southampton.' Southampton gives a larger Democrat ic majority than any other towaship in the County. The people of Cum berland Valley are very kind and in telligent. The Andersons, the Flairs, the Cessnas, the Boors 'he Masons, and others are noble democrats aud up right men. Samuel Whip, the Demo cratic candidate for County Auditor lives in this township and he is one of "nature's noblemen." He is honest and industrious, and will be elected by a large vote. The Democracy of Bedford are alive and will do a good work this fall. A truer, nobler, or more* energetic class of Democrats never lived upon the face of the earth than the gallant and lion hearted Democracy of Bedford county. THE FALL TRADE.—The Philadel phia North American of Saturday last speaks thus encouragingly of the Fall 'trade prospects: Though at this mo ment wholesale business is extremely dull, and the Commercial world is en joying its vacation, yet we find a much more cheerful feeling than we have ob served formany monthsagone. So far,as our reporter can feel the commercial pulse, there exists general gratitude for the absence of apprehended pestilence, great thanks for the plenteous crops harvested and yet to be harvested and a lively hope for and belief in the trans action of a healthy and properous trade in the corning season. Manufacturers in all the various lines have all they can do*in preparation for the coming de mand. In stoves and hollow-ware, fur niture, leather, the textiles and iron, the. e is no dullness whatever. The summer holidays are likely this year to be short. There are a good many southern and western buyers now at the contiguous watering places, and we hear in some cases in which salesmen at watering places have been recalled in haste to attend to customers already on the spot. Pi: HE WATEB.—NO water ought to be drunk which is contaminated by leakage or infiltration from sewers, cesspools, or foul ditches. When pos sible, the water supplied in towns, or derived from surface wells, ought al ways to be filtered before use. A cheap filter can be made by taking a large common earthen flower-pot, plug the hole at the bottom (not too tight) with a piece of sponge, then strew the bot tom of the pot with powdered charcoal one inch thick, over this put a layer of clean sand, over that again an equal quantity of coarse gravel and a few loose, small stones: now set over a jug or bottle and fill it up with water ; # tho water which drops through the bottom will be found cleansed from its impuri ties and sweet to drink. This filter is admirably adapted for use at sea, being easily made and kept in order. It is said that water front a stagnant pond may be sucked through charcoal with impunity. THE Richmond Enquirer says "the papers from all parts of the South bear the same testimony; that under the management of the demagogues and office hunters, the population of the South is arrayed race against race. A thousand maledictions will light upon the wretches who have brought about fhe great evil, full of sorrow to both races, and involving the destruction of the blacks. In the contest ol races, the weaker will go to the wall. The lesson of his tory will go for naught, if the result of a forced antagonism of races is not fa tal to the colored. The Enquirer cites an instance of the growing abuse. A meeting of negroes in Mecklenburg county, for instance, lately passed a resolution that any colored person wno might not vote the Radical ticket should leave tiie country in thirty hours. , „ A general system of challenging whites has been re-coin by the political committees. \\ here is this to end ? GEXEKALSK KHES, Commander of the Carolinas, lives in great state in Charleston. He appears on the streets on pleasant "afternoons in a carriage, driving four splendid blade horses with elegant silver mounted harness. He generally has his daugh ter beside him, and a servant in livery behind. This splendid establishment attracts the unbounded enthusiasm of the negro population, it issaid. Well, if the people are willing to throw away their money for such things, it's ail right. We think, however, that .they will get tired of it before long. PRINTERS' INK has made many a business man rich We ask yon to try it in the columns of THK UAZBTTS
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