Shf l&fptator's (Tolumn. rpHE BEDFORD REGULATOR, No. 2 ANDERSON'S ROW. IRVINE A STATLER Are again in the field Wattling against the imposi tion of high prices and would respectfully inform their friends and the public generally that they have just received a large and varied assortment of goods, consisting of Roots and Shoes, Muslins and Tickings, Notions and Perfumery, Groceries and Spices, Queensware and Glassware, Tobacco and Segars, White A Colored Shirts, Cotton A Woolen Yarns, Trunks & Valises, Brooms A Twines, Ac., Ac. Call at No. 2 ANDERSON'S ROW. If you want a good p'r Boots, go to the Regulator. QUR STOCK OF BOOTS A SHOES j are full and complete. . BOOTS, SHOES, BALMORALS, GAITERS and 1 SLIPPERS, Ac., / to fit any man, woman and child in the county. CSP* Measures taken for Ladies and Gentlemen and neat and complete fits warranted or no sale. At IRVINE A STATLER'S, NO. 2 A.'s Row. If you want a good pVShoes, go to the Regulator. 0 R O C ERIES.— Prime Rio Coffee, - 25 to 30 cents per lb. do La Guayra, - 25 to 30 " " " White Sugar, ... 18 " " " Light Brown Sugars. - 121 to 15 " " " Teas, - - - - $1 50 to 2.00 per lb. Spices, all kinds, cheap and good. Best quality Syrups and Molasses, at the lowest market prices, at '"The Regulator's, No. 2 A. R. If you want good Toilet Soap or Perfumery, go to the Regulator. "0" N BLEACH ED and BLEACHED MUSLINS, From the best Manufactories in the country. Bleached and Unbleached Muslins from 121 c up. Sheeting, ..... from 18c up. Tickings, all grades and prices, at IRVINE A STATLER'S. If you want a good Shirt, go to the Regulator. QUR NOTIONS ARE AT ALL TIMES FULL AND COMPLETE in Shirts, Collars, Neck-Ties, Soaps, Gloves, Hosiery, Perfumery, Suspenders, Combs, Threads, Buttons, Wallets, Brushes, Thimbles, Pins, Needles, Sewing Silk, Linen and Cotton Handkerchiefs, Shaving Cream, Ac., Ac*., Ac. At No. 2 Anderson's Row If you want a variety of Notions, go to the Reg'r. STATIONERY and PERFUMERY. Note, Letter and Fools-cap Paper, Envelopes, Perfumery, all kinds of Toilet Soap, Tooth Brush es, Ac., At THE REGULATOR'S. If you want Queensware er Glassware, go to the Regulator. QUEENSWABE A GLASSWARE. We have a large and magnificent selection of Queensware and Glassware, of the latest and most fashionable patterns, and will be sold at the most reasonable prices, by IRVINE A STATLER. If ynu want good Spices of any kind, go to the Regulator. rpOBAOCO AND SEGARS of the best brands and manufacture : Gravely, Oronoke Twist, Century Fine-cut, Cavendish, Baltimore Twist, Natural Leaf, Congress, Ac.. Ac. Smoking Tobaeco, all kinds. Segars from a Cheroot to the finest article. Also, a large assortment of Pipes. Fip Call at No. 2 Anderson's Row. ! If you want good Hosiery, Gloves, Neck-ties col- j lars, Ac., go to the Regulator. E HAVE EVERYTHING that is usually kept in a No. 1 country store. ty MARKETING of all kinds taken in ex change FOR OOODS, and the highest prices paid. Any goods desired will be ordered from the Eas tern cities Country merchants supplied with goods at a small advance. No troubte to show goods. All we ask is a call and we feel satisfied we can please ALL. Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con tinuance of the same. apr26,'67. IRVINE A STATLER. If yon want anything inonrline, goto the Bed ford Regulator, No. 2, Anderson's Row. t , ®hc itcbforft ©alette. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. sry-(soods, &r. nAVE YOUR GREENBACKS!! You can SA VE 25 per cent, by purchasing your GOODS at the CHEAP BARGAIN STORE of G. R. A W. OSTER, BEDFORD, PA. They are now opening a large and handsome as sortment of NEW and CHEAP DRY-GOODS, Ready-Made Clothing, Cotton Yarns, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Sun-Umbrellas, Para sols, Groceries, Queeusware, Tobaccos and Ci gars, Wall Papers, Wooden-ware, Brooms, &r c - LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PRICES : Best styles DELAxNES, 22J and 25 cts. CALICOES, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 cts. GINGHAMS, 12, 15, 20, 25cts. MUSLINS, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25 cts. CASSIMERES. 75, 85, 115, 125, 150, 165 cts. LADIES' 6-4 SACKING, $1.65, 1.75, 2 00, all wool. DRILLING and PA NT A LOON S TUFFS, 20, 25, 30, 35 cts GENTS' HALF-HOSE, 10,12, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 cts. LADIES' HOSE, 121, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35 cts. LADIES' SHOES as low as 90 cts. Good Rio COFFEE, 25 cts.; better, 28 cts.; best, 30 cts. Extra fine OOLONG, JAPAN, IMPERIAL and YOUNG HYSON TEAS. SUGARS and SYRUPS , a choice assort ment. MACKEREL and HERRING, late caught, i fat fish. We invite all to call and see for themselves. A busy store and increasing trade, is a telling fact that their prices are popular. Terms CASH, unless otherwise specified. may24m3. gPLENDID OPENING of CHEAP SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, AT FARQUHAR'S uYe w Bargain Store, REED'S BUILDING. CALICOES, (good) - 12* c. do (best) - - 18c. MUSLINS, brown, - - 10c. do (best) - 20c. do bleached, - 10c. do (best) - - 25c. DELAINES, best styles, - 25c. DRESS GOODS * of all kinds VERY CHEAP. MEN'S and BOYS' COTTONADES, GOOD and CHEAP. A large stock of FANCY ALL WOOL CASS I ME R ES ASTONISH INGLY CHEAP. BOOTS AND SHOES. MEN'S AND BOYS' HATS. GROCERIES: Best COFFEE, - - 30c Brown SUGAR - from 10 to 150 FISH : Mackerel and Potomac Herring. QUEENSWARE And a general variety of NOTIONS. Buyers are invited to examine our stock as we are determined to to sell cheaper than the cheapest. J. B. FARQUHAR. mayl7 jyiEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!! The undersigned has just received from the East a large and varied stock of New Goods, which are now open for examination, at MILL-TOWN, two miles West of Bedford, comprising everything usually found in a first-class country store, consisting, in part, of Dry-Goods, Delaines, Calicoes, Muslins, Cassimers, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Notions, Ac., Ac. i All of which will be sold at the most reasonable prices. EJp Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con i tinuance ot the public patronage. | Call and examine our goods. may24,'67. G. YEAGER SLIP BILLS, PROGRAMMES POSTERS, and all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY JOB PRINTING, done with neatness and despatch, at THE GAZETTE office. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE is published every Fri day morning by MEYERS A MRHSEL, at $2.00 per annum, if paid strictly in advance 52.50 if paid within six months; $3.00 if not paid within six months. All subscription accounts MUST be settled annually. No paper will be sent out of the State unless paid for is ADVANCE, and all such subscriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are paid. All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term than three months TEN CENTS per line for each In ertion. Special notices one-half additional All esolutb ns of Associations ; communications of in.ited or individual interest, and notices of nmr •iages and deaths exceeding five line-, ten cents er line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. All legal Notices of every kind, and Orphans' 1 Court and Judicial Sales, are required by law to be published in both papers published in this place. All advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount is made to persons advertising by the quarter, half 3ear, or year, as follows: 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. ♦One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares ... 600 900 16 00 Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Half column - - - IB 00 25 00 45 00 One column - - - - 30 00 45 00 80 00 ♦One square to occupy oue inch of space. JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with neatness and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has just been refitted with a Power Press and new type, and everything in the Printing line can be execu ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.—TERMS CASH. lir All letters should he addressd to MEYERS & MENGEL, Publishers. Skf ([Vjsfttc. CONSPIRACY. Ktarlling Official Document* from the Attorney-General. Alloyed Conspiracy to Fabricate Im peachment Testimony. Full Details of the Plot. Terrible Charyes Ayainst Congressmen Ashley and Butler. Br. Johnson to be liuplicateil by Sub orned Witnesses in the I.iueoln Assassination. Holt's endorsement of the Informer. The Whole Diabolical Scheme Revealed in Extciiso. WASHINGTON, August 9.—The fol lowing document has been obtained from official sources: ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, ) August 5, 1807. i MR. PRESIDENT: The application ot Chas. A. Dunham having been referred to this office, in the customary d ar 0 f Executive business, for the examina tion and advisory action of the Attor ney General, it has become my duty, during the indisposition and absence of the distinguished incumbent of the Law Department, carefully to consid er the case. In respectfully declining, as I do, to offer at present any recom mendation in the premises, I beg to submit for your consideration the rea sons which constrain me to reserve ad vice and suspend judgment until 1 shall have been further instructed by your Excellency. Dunham, the person applying for par don. is the same who has become no torious under the na#ieofSanford Con over. He was recently convicted of perjury in the District of < olumbia, and is* as I am informed, now incarcer ated, in accordance with the sentence of the court. His application seems to be predicated, in part, upon a supposed ■technical irregularity in the constitu tion of the jury, and is supported main ly by the services which he is alleged to have rendered the cause of justice in aiding the prosecuting counsel in the collection of evidence and otherwise upon the trial of John H. Surratt for murder. The papers upon which his applica tion is grounded, and by which it is sustained, consist of four in a parcel, which, by endorsement, appear to have reached the Executive office on Satur day, the 27th of July, 1807. The first is dated the 22(1 of July, and is written upon the oTdinary note paper used by members of the House of Representa tives, with an engraved vignette cap tion. The following is a copy: FORTIETH CONGRESS UNITED STATES, HOUSE OF REPRESENTA TIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22, 1867. —Gentlemen: I suggest that a petition something like the enclosed he prepared and signed by you for the pardon of Mr. Dunham. I think he is clearly entitled to it, and hope you will aid him all you can. Respectfully, J. M. ASHLEY. Hon. J. Holt, Hon. A. G. Riddle. It would seem from an expression ' used in this note that a draft of a peti tion was enclosed. It does not appear what petition was thus designated. The next paper is the following from a late Representative in Congress from Ohio, now a member of the Washing ton bar: WASHINGTON, July 23,1867.—T0 the President of the United States—Sir: I was early in April last retained to aid the Government in the prosecution of John H. Surratt, and took the general management of the preparation of the case. The labor and difficulties of the case were great, and the Government is un der great obligationstoCharles A. Dun ham for much valuable information botli as to the facts and witnesses for the United States and for the history of and facts concerning the witnesses called for the defence. Although in jail he managed to keep informed of the progress of the case, and from time to time communicated important facts and suggestions, and seemingly for the sole purpose of a fair investigation of the case, whether it would work for his benefit or not. It seems to me that for his services in this behalf the Govern ment should mark its appreciation of them in away not to he mistaken. Respectfully, A. G. RIDDLE. Nothing is among the papers from the office of the District Attorney or from any of the counsel in the Surratt case, excepting Mr. Riddle. The next recommendation is from the Bureau of Military Justice : WASHINGTON, July 24, 1867.—1 con cur with the Hon. A. G. Riddle in his estimate of the value and importance of the service rendered by Charles A. Dunham, as set forth in the foregoing letter to the President. A principle of public policy leads governments to en courage, by all honorable means, those charged with crime to make disclos ures which may and often do, result iu unmasking even greater offenders than BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1867. I those who make them; and hence, i when they are found to have acted voluntarily and ingoodfaith, the high est public considerations require that their conduct shall be generously ap preciated. The service of Dunham, with the details of which Mr. Riddle must be entirely familiar, as one of the counsel in the case, seem to have been performed without solicitation, and in the interests of truth and justice, in connection with one of the most im portant criminal trials which has oc curred in the history of the country; and although his disclosures were not directly connected with the criminality of which he himself hits been convict ed, yet it is believed that they do not the less bring his case within the spirit and reason of the rule of policy refer red to, and hence it is for the Execu tive to determine how far they shall he accepted at once as a proof of his re pentance, and as atonement to the law, for whose violation he stands condemn ed. J. HOLT It may he proper to remark that the recommendation of the Judde Advo cate General is written upon one leaf of the same sheet with that of Mr. Rid dle, and not UJIOU official paper. It will he observed that, notwith standing this man stood condemned for perjury, Mr. Riddle by actual experi ence, and Judge Holt, upon satisfactory grounds of belief, have fully realized his usefulness in promoting by his cooperation with public agents of jus tice the casue of truth, on the occasion of an investigation of national impor tance; and also, that the latter inti mates his opinion that he had fairly atoned to the offended law, and had satisfactorily demonstrated his repen tance. It is remarkable that Dunham himself, in his petition (which pur ports to be in his own handwriting) mentions no such grounds, hut trusts mainly to a technicality. His petition is as follows: WASHINGTON, July 20, 1867.—T0 his Excellency Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of the United States: The peti tion of Charles A. Dunham respectfully shows that in the month of January last he was tried, convicted, and sen tenced to the penitentiary for perjury, alleged to have been committed before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, during the investi gation by said committee of charges against Jeff Davis of complicity in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. That the perjury assigned in the in dictment against your petitioner was in having falsely testified that he had no reason to doubt, and did not doubt, the truthfulness of certain depositions made by two persons, called Campbell and Snevel, at the time said deposi tions were given by them in the Bureau of Military Justice, and in testifying that he had last seen said Campbell in in June, 1865, and said Snevel m \\ llmiiigton. £7. C., in August 1805. That on the trim yoni petitioner, said Campbell and Snevel declared that their real names were House and Rob erts, and that the depositions they had made and sworn to in the Bureau of Military Justice were absolutely false from beginningtoend,and were known to he so by your petitioner, and that they were not at—; said Campbell in Canada in June, 18G5, or said Snevel in Wilmington in August, 1865, the places at which your petitioner claimed to have last seen them. That it was entirely upon this testi mony of said self-convicted perjurers that your petitioner was convicted, and that without the said testimony of said persons, the jury before whom your petitioner was tried could not have found a verdict of guilty. Your petitioner further says that he was tried and convicted by a jury not qualified to try him. That the jurors before whom he was so tried and con demned were illegally selected and drawn, as decided by the Court in the | case of John H. Surratt—the manner and form of selecting the jurors in the case of Surratt, and your petitioner be ing identical—that in the discussion on the opening of the trial of Surratt, us to the legal qualification of the jurors who had been empanelled to try him, it j was contended by the prosecution and decided by the Court, that said jurors were informally and irregularly select edau(ln my return home to-day I found your favor and the promised statement inclosed. I expect to be in Washington on Thursday, and will see you that day or the next morn ing. Truly your friend, J. M. Asm EY. ('. A. Dunham Esq., Washington. This letter seems to have come here in a common envelope superscribed "C. A. Dunham, President," and is much pocket-soiled. The same applies to the following : F D] . SATURDAY, A. M. June 1, 1867. DEAR SIR : Your note is just retriev ed. Lot your counsel act as he deem best, taking advantage of every legal point which may be presented, I think the course proposed by them is all that we want. Truly, J. M. ASHLEY. Next we have the following : HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 8, 18(57. MY DEAR SIR: 1 have just seen your wife, and have your letter. You may rest assure I that I do not credit the/ufneund stupid reports made against you. If you had the letters I know yeu would never send copies to J . If you can put the originals in my hands I will say that no one shall take or destroy them without your express order in writing, exeeptyou are releas ed. Will see your wife again this even ing. Respectfully, J. M. ASHLEY. ('. A. Dunham. This note is not written in ink, but in pencil, and though dated "House Reps." is upon a half sheet of plain note paper, apparently torn from some note which had been carried in the pocket. It comes here in an envelope, superscribed t 1 A. Dunham, Esq., pre sent. The envelope also shows some apparently idle scribbling. | FJ APRII , 2n 'G7 DUNHAM: It is all. righr. The matter will rest forth." present, or until the thing is arranged in May. You Will not leave the city ad interim. Mr. A. will return next week, when any other matters will be adjusted. Yours, W. B. M. This is written on asmall serap, in ink, superscribed C. A. Dunham, Present. On astillsmaller and much soiled scrap in pencil, but evidently by the same hand, is this memorandum or explana tion: , [G.J 1. The Court cannot act without being a particeps criminis. 2. Congress will, at the proper time, increase its power. 3. Witnesses will first be called before the committee. This, sir, completes a full and literal recital of all the papers or other adher ing data before nie. The parcel com prising all but the pardon papers reach ed this office in an envelope from the Executive Mansion,endorsed, "Receiv ed from Mrs. Dunham, July 30,18G7." The papers having come from the hands of a person whose application for pardon was undergoing official examination here, were lor very obvi ous reasons, associated with it in con sidering the matter. Struck by their extraordinary character, yetreremem bering in how unexpected and casual a manner they had been received at the Executive office, I immediately deter mined that until I should have made ttiis report, their quality and signifi cance, whatever these may be, should remain unchanged by investigation, or bv any extraneous connection or associ ation whatever not only ot record, but as far as practicable in my own mind. This course it is necessary to bear in re collection in the act of estimating the probable weight or value of the allega tions. Never having seen the hand wri ting of the Hon. Mr. Ashley, I thought