sry-6oorts, ttc. / 1 ASH BUYEFFITIAKE NOTICE! SAVE YOUR GREENBACKS! NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS, just received, At J. M. SHOEMAKER'S Store, AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES! Huving just returned from the East, we are now opening a large stock of Fall and Winter Goods, which have been BOUGHT FOR CASH, at nett cash prices, and will be SOLD CHEAP. This be ing the only full stock of goods brought to Bedford this season, persons will be able to suit themselves better, in style, quality and price, than at any other store in Bedford The following comprise a few of our prices, viz : Calicoes, at 10, 12, 14, 15, 16 and the best at IS cents. Muslins at 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, and and the best at 22 cents. All Wool Flannels from 40cts. up. French Merinoes, all wool Delaines, Coburga, Ac. SHAWLS Ladies", children's and misses' shawls, latest styles; ladies'cloaking cloth. MEN'S WEAR—Cloths, cassimeres, satinetts jean 3. Ae. BOOTS AND SHOES--In this line wo have a very extensive assortment for ladies, misses, chit dren. and men's and boys' boots and shoes, all sizes and prices, to suit all. HATS—A large assortment of men's and boys' hats. CLOTHING—Men's and boys'coats, pants and vests, all sizes and prices SHIKTB, AC.—Men's woolen and muslin shirts; Shakspeare, Lockwood and mnslin-iined paper collars; cotton chain (single and double, white and colored). GROCERIES—Coffee, sugar, syrups, green and black teas, spices of all kinds, dye-stuffs, Ac. LEATHER—SoIe leather, French and city calf skins, upper leather, linings. Ac. UT We will sell goods on the same terms that we have been for the last three months —cash, or note with interest from date. No bad debts con tracted and no extra charges to good paying cus tomers to make up losses of slow and never paying customers. Cash buyers always get the best bar gains, and their accounts are always settled up. J M. SHOEMAKER, Bedford, 5ep.27,'67. No. 1 Anderson's Row. 10 per cent, saved in buying your goods for cash, at J. M. SHOEMAKER'S cash and produce store, No. 1 Anderson's Row. sep27 / 1 REAT BARGAINS! Ij The undersigned have opened a very full supply of FALL AND WINTER GOODS. Our stock is complete and is not surpassed in EXTENT, QUALITY AND CHEAPNESS. The old system of ' I TR US TING FOR E VER'' having exploded, we are determined to SELL GOODS UPON THE SHORTEST PROFIT FOR CASH OR PRODUCE. To prompt paying customers we will extend a credit of four months , but we wish it expressly understood, after the period named, account will be due and interest will accrue thereon. BUYERS FOR CASH may depend upon GETTING BARGAINS. n0v1,'67 A. B. CRAMER ft CO. I GOODS!! NEW G< )ODS!! J 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 courtry store, consisting, in part, of Dry-Goods, * Delaines, Calicoes, Muslins, Cassimers, Boots and Shoes, j Groceries, Notions, &*('., Ac. ; All of which will be sold at the most reasonable j prices. Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con- j tinuance ot the public p.-Mronage. jji* Call and examine our goods. may24,'67. tt. YEAGER GLOOO DOLLARS REWARD! ! n Just received at the New Imperial BARGAIN STORE. A handsome assortment of NEW SPRING GOODS. As goods are now advancing daily, and no doubt ; will be much higher, we think families cannot buy | too soon. d- R- OSTLR A CO. feb2Bm2 d>3OOO DOLLARS WORTH!! ot Boots and Shoes of every description and best Manufacture, just reeeived and For Sale 25 per , eent Cheaper than heretofore. The Boot and Shoe Department of G. R. OSTER CM.TIVATIOX F iisir. We copy from the New York " Week ly" the following. It shows the inter est taken by the New England States on this important matter. The Sus quehanna and its tributaries can fur nish more of the finny tribe than all the st reams of New England combined, yet our people leave their streams year after year to be pirated by fish bask ets, thereby rendering nugatory the utmost endeavors of those who are try ing to bring back this delicious luxury to our doors. It is to be hoped that in the coming year all such obstructions shall be put an end to. A society has been formed at Green field, Mass., to prevent the extermina tion of trout in the neighboringstreams. Last week a meeting was held at Bos ton under the auspices of the Board of Fish Commissioners to consider the subject of the restoration and propaga tion offish in the rivers from which they have been excluded by dams.— Hon. Harry Jewell, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representa tives, presided. Prof. Agassi z stated that the subject was one whose impor tance could not be over-estimated. It was a matter affecting coming gener ations, aud one which should occupy the attention of our statesmen. "Ifis words, he said, might seem ex travagant, but what is now advocated by the Fish Coi (missions stands in the ! same relation a the fir- attempts stood i to domesticate mils a d raise cattle, j llovv could the ; mpulat.on of thiseonti- ■ went goon if we had no artificial pro duction of food ? Was it ever consid ered, he asked, that the whole popula tion of this country, without exception, are daily fed by substances all of which are raised artificially ? We live upon beef or fowl, and upon vegetables and fruit, no one kind of which is indige nous to this continent. ' All were brought from,the old world to be rais ed artificially here, and more than that, all have died out in their wild state. What is now proposed by the commis sioners is to add one kind of this sup ply of food for our benefit, that man may feed on a greater variety. Ilere he said he touched upon a point which was equally important. It is a varie ty of lood taken in daily to build up the human frame, toeultivatethe brain, and develope the faculties, which is ad vancing civilization. The more the variety of food and better adapted to these purposes, the higher our civiliza tion." He further asserted that the cultiva tion offish could and should be made as profitable as cattle, fruit, or wheat raising, or any other "branch of agri culture." The "time will come when every man who has water on his ground will raise fish for his own table, as he now raises fruit." The general and State governments should take hold of this subject, and give it all the encour agement and assistance required. The professor also argued that sanitary rea sons should impel us to the general cul tivation of fish. "If there is one thing of which the American people have a right to com plain, it is of the uniformity of their diet. Men are most healthy and more enduring in proportion as .they vary their diet and take proper time to eat, to chew their food. No creature in the universe requires such a variety of food as man. The fish enters .largely into the requisites of thesystem. It is a kind of food which refreshes the sys tem, especially after intellectual fa tigue. There is no other article of 1 food that supplies the waste of the head so thoroughly as fish diet, and the evidence of it is in the fact that all the inhabitants of the sea-shore, the world over, are the brighter population of the ' country. Fish contains phosphorus to a large extent, a chemical element which the brain requires for growth and health. He would not say that an ex clusive use of 1 sh would make a block head a wise man, but that the brain ! should not be v anting is one of its es si-mial elements." I Col." Theodore Lyman, of the New BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 10. 1868. England Commissioners of River Fish- ! eries, gave an account of the various kinds offish which once inhabited the j inland streams, and explained how ! they could be restored. He recommend ed the introduction of black bass, and exhibited the model of the "Foster fish way" to enable fish to pass over river dams at the season of the year when they were formerly accustomed to ascend from the sea in order to de posit their spawn. Col. Lyman also exhibited a model of the plan pursued hv Seth Green, of Munford, New York, for restocking * :: * lie (Mr. G.) last year turned over fifty millions of shad into the Connecticut River, beside realizing $10,006 from the sale of fish and spawn. ** ' Boston has set an example in this matter which should be.followed all over the country. The fish have in late years been rapidly disappearing from our streams before the encroachments of civilization, and the mill-dams and fatal tan-bark throat en to ere long deprive us altogether of the diet which Prof. Agassiz assures us is so requisite for the "growth and health of the brain." Judging from the success which has attended Mr. Green's endeavors, parties in this State could raise fish with great profit for the New York market. We hear that an enter prise of this kind is soon to he started in New Jersey. "I'liL TAKE WHAT FATHER TAKEN." "What will you taketodrink ?" Halv ed a waiter of a young lad who, for the first time, accompanied his father to a public dinner. Uncertain what to say, and feeling sure that he could j not do wrong if he followed his father's example, he replied, "I'll take what father takes." The answer reached his lather's ear, and instantly the full responsibility of his position flashed upon him. If he, said, "I'll take ale," as he had always said before, his son would lake it also, and then ? And the father shuddered, as the history of several young men who, once promising as his own bright lad, had been ruined by drink, started ! up in solemn warning before him.— Should his hopes also be blasted and j that open faced, noble lad become a ; burden and curse, as they had become? I But for strong drink, they would have j been active, earnest, and prosperous\ men ; and if it could work such ruin up- j on them, was his own lad.safe? Quick-' er than lightning these thoughts pass-1 ed through his mind, and in a moment j the decision was made. "If the boy j fails, he shall not have me to blame ! and then in tones tremulous with e- 1 motion, to th e astonish monto ft hose who | knew him, he said, "Waiter, I'll take j water;" and from that day to this, strong drink has been banished from ■ that man's table and from that man's home. That young lad, in this brief utter ance, was really the representative of the generation to which he belongs.— God has so decreed it, that the father is the highest authority in the world to his child. Who does not know that "My father said so," is the end of all controversy with the little ones around us? Who does not see the parent's tones, and gait, and manners repro duced continually in the children, whose nature is now "soft as wax to receive an impression, and rigid as marble to retain itand who watch with a quick and imitating eye those who, to them, are God's vicegerents? Would that we could impress upon the fathers and mothers of this coun try the solemn fact, that the future character of the children is being form ed by them. That if they are trained up in the way they should go, when they are old they will not depart from it. But if they become vain, sensual, and degraded, the seeds will have been deposited and the bias given in the early morning of their lives. If we teach them that strong drink is a good creature of God, they will believe us; and when depending upon our judg ment and truth, they shall have taken it, and it shall have shown itself to be the devil's master piece, and have bit ten, and crushed, and dragged them down to ruin, we may weep and pray as we please—the blame will be our own, and we must not accuse God, or I east reflection upon the gospel. We shall have sown to the flesh, and of ; the flesh have reaped corruption. God will have visited the sins of our fath ers upon the children. They only "took what their fathers took." If, on the 1 other hand, we banish the fiend when | their young and trusting hearts are most open to our teaching, we J tell them that wine is a mocker, that j strong drink is raging, and warn them that no serpent is so dangerous, no adder so much to he dreaded, we shall I be co-workers with an all-merciful and wise God, who to preserve them from taking it, has sent them into the world with a loathing of its very taste. Our children will believe us. They will grow up with their natural instinct for tified by our instruction and example. They will be preserved from the poi sonus influence of the destroyer. — There will be a bridgelessgnlf between them and the companions' who are most likely to lead them into the ways of sin. They will be preserved from habits of extravagance and -waste.— They will havenocompanions but those who walk in the ways of God ; no em ployment for their spare time-but that which is elevating and purifying, and when we pass to our reward, they will rise up and call us blessed, for they "took what their fathers took." ItAVr A\n THF. RADK AIA When the Radical party deserted the plan of restoration adopted by Presi dents Lincoln and Johnson, and-a sep aration ensued between Mr. Johnson and his party, General Grant appeared to side with the President. He stood beside the President when the latter re ceived and replied to the Committee j from the Philadelphia Convention of! August 14th, IS6G. He accompanied the President in his memorableelcetioneer ingtour to Chicago in the same year ; And when the President removed Stan-j ton, General Grant accepted the ap- i pointment of Secretary ad interim, as every one thought, in order to facilitate ! a change. The testimony of General Grant be fore the I m peach i) lent Coin mi ttee more over indicates that he approved the programme of Messrs. Lincoln and j Johnson : and his celebrated report j upon the condition of the Southern people, made shortly after the close of the war, exhibits a feeling of kindness for them which is utterly irreconcilea ble with a support of the Congressional j scheme of destruction. How, then, does it happen that Gen. j Grant has deserted the President, and I given his adhesion to the abominable 1 plan of Negro Reconstruction ? Has he deliberately deceived the people for three years, or has he been corrupted by the promise of the Radical nomina tion for the Presidency? His corres pondence with the President about the removal of Stanton betrays a desire to ] create the impression that he was de ceiving the President and people. But in either aspect of his course, we wish the Radicals joy of their candidate.— If he has deliberately deceived the American people for three long years,*! and perfidiously betrayed them at the end of that time, the Radicals cannot expect him to keep better faith with them than with others. Ifhe has been corrupted by the promise of office, the Radicals may reckon on his deserting them as soon as he finds their party losing the power to confer office. The willingness of the Radicals to j accept a candidate of Grant's equivocal antecedents, exhibits their fear and des ! peration. A year ago they would have i disdained to support any less pro ! nounced candidate than Chase, Wade, j or one of that stamp. Now, they grasp at the candidate who promises to afford | them support in the hour of their ex ; tremity and danger. And they do this i in the face of their experience of An j drew Johnson and two of his prcdeees j sors. Rut they fatter themselves that Im | peachment and the Tenure of Office Act ! will secure the President, whoever he ! may be. The Impeachment of Mr. I Johnson is not only intended as apuu i ishment for him., but as a warning to , Grant, should he be elected. And after Air. Wade has distributed the patronage of the Government, the Tenure of Office Act will prevent Grant or any one else from disturbing his arrangements. The new President will find it his principal business to draw his salary, and expend it in entertaining his constituents. The Radicals do not want Grant its the pilot, but as the figure-head of the party. They propose to use him as a decoy to catch votes. If under his name they can pump up enthusiasm enough to carry majorities in the Electoral Col leges and Congress, Stevens, Sumner and the negroes will rule the country four years longer, and Grant will have : their full permission to smoke and talk horse throughout his term. — Lancaster ; Intelliyencer. SOLD.—A rich old widower in Cana da is said to have practiced a very art ful scheme to gain the hand of the belle of the village. He got an old gipsy to tell the young lady's fortune in the words which he dictated as follows: "My dear young lady, your star wili soon be hid for a short time by a very dark cloud, but when it re-appears it will continue to shine with uninterrup ted splendor until the end of your days. Before one week a wealthy old widow er, wearing a suit of black and a fine castor hat, will pay you a visit and re quest your hand in marriage. You will accept his offer, become his wife, and be left a widow, in posession of all his property, before the close of the year. The next husband will be the young man of whom you think most at present." Three days after, the old gentleman, dressed in the manner described by the gipsy, presented himself to the young lady, and the marriage followed.— The year is more than out, but the tough old widower still lingers. KEEPING UP MEADOWS. —A Wis consin farmer was asked how he kept up liis grass lands, selling the hay off year by year, as he did. His reply was, "I never allow the after-math to be cut." To this the Wisconsin Fanner adds: "If this rule was generally fol lowed there would be less said about running out of grass fields or short crops of hay. Some farmers feed off every green thing and compel their cattle to pull up and gnaw off the roots of grass. Cutting rowen is certain death to hay crops. A farmer had be'tor buy hay at forty dollars per ton than ruin his hay field by close grazing. The general treatment of grass lands in this respect is wrong and expensive, and should be abandon ed as a matter of profit and economy." —A man out West who offered bail for a friend was asked by a Judge if he had an incumbrance on his farm. "Oh, yes." said he, "my old woman." VOL. 62.—WHOLE No. 5,438. THE HIGH <(M RTOrniPKKHMF.ST. After the usual proclamation of the Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Wilson offered further documentary evidence, among which was a copy of Stanton's commis sion from President Lincoln, under which only does he claim to hold his office. \V. J. McDonald, the Chief Clerk of the Senate, was called and testified to having left certified copies of the action of the Senate on Stanton's removal at the Executive Mansion. Mr. John Jones testified to having de livered similar documents to General Thomas. E. Creecy took the stand to testify as to the difference between commissions issued before and after the passage of the tenure-of-oftice act, in order to show that the President ac knowledged the validity of the act. Mr. Van Horn was examined as to what took place at the interview when General Thomas made the formal de mand upon Stanton for possession of the War Office. In the cross examina tion Mr. Stanbery brought out the fact that the presence of Van Horn and other Congressmen 011 that occa sion, was preconcerted, and not acci dental. Mr. Moore head was examined concerning the same interview. Mr. Burleigh was calied and examined as to conversation between himself and General Thomas. Mr. Stanbery object ed to the testimony, and the objection was sustained by the Chief Justice. Mr. Drake appealed from the decision. The Chief Justice ruled that he had the right to decide legal points. Mr. But ler combatted this view, saying that lie did not consider the Chief Justice a member of the Court. The Chief Jus tice restated his position, that it was his duty to decide upon the admissi bility of evidence, subject to the decis ion of the Senate. Mr. Bingham spoke briefly in opposition to the ruling. Boutwell also spoke. Mr. Evarts briefly replied. The question being put whether the Senate should retire for consultation, the vote stood ayes 25, nays 25. The Chief Justice then voted aye, and declared the motion ; carried. The Senate returned from | their consultation at 6:20, and reported a rule sustaining the Chief Justice. The Court then adjourned.— Age. THE CHARGE VNI PROOF. We charge that the Radical party is in favor of Negro Suffrage in the North, and support the charge with the follow ing evidence: The Radical States of New England now allow Negro Suffrage. The Radicals last year attempted to introduce Negro Suffrage into Ohio. They attempted to Introduce it into Kansas. They attempted to introduce it into Minnesota. The Radical State Convention of New Jersey last year recommended Negro Suffrage in that State. The Radical Legislature of Connecti cut last year passed a proposition to amend the Constitution of the State so as to permit Negro Suffrage. There is at present pending before the people of Michigan a Radical amend ment to engraft Negro Suffrage up<*i the Constitution of the State. There is a similar Radical amendment now pending before the people of Mis souri. The Radical Constitutional Conven tion of New York has submitted a like amendment to the people of that State. Congress requires every Northern Territory applying for admission into the Union to present a Constitution al lowing Negro Suffrage, before it is re ceived into the family of States. And last and least, three fourths of the Radical newspapers of this State advo cate Negro Suffrage in Pennsylvania and throughout the North. GIVING THEDEVILHIS DUE.— There is a point in the following anecdote : A parson was making a call upon an old lady, who made it an habitual rule never to speak ill of another, and had observed it so closely that she always justified those whom she had heard evil spoken of. Before the old lady made her appearance in thQ. parlor, one of her daughters playfully said; "Mother has such a habit of speaking well of everybody, tHat I do believe if Satan himself was the subject of con versation, mother would find out some good quality or virtue even in him." Of course this remark elicited consider able smiling and merriment at the originality of the idea, in the midst of which the old lady entered the room, and on being told what had just been said, she immediately and involun tarily replied: "Well, my children, I wish we had Satan's industry and per severance !" THE Cheyenne Argus says the aban donment of the Powder river forts is a game in which the Sioux Indians have baffled Uncle Sam, and that it tells the people of the frontier that their only protection is in their own stout hearts and American rifles. The Argus ad vocates the raising of scalp money. It says: "A good premium in fresh scalps, with what plunder can be obtained in horses, furs and buffalo robes, will soon place enough of the right sort of men in the field, and send the Indians to other hunting grounds." —A person being asked why he had given his daughter in marriage to a man with whom he was at enmity, answered, "I did it out of pure re venge." —Which are the best kind of agri cultural. fairs? Farmer's daughters. THE'TWO MERCHANTS.- When traio grew slack and notes fell due, the mer chant's face grew long and blue; hi> i dreams were troubled through the night with Sheriffs bailiffs all in sight. At last his wife unto him said, "Hi><: up at once, and get out of bed, and get your pen, ink and paper, and say the-f words unto all men: "My goods 1 wish to sell you, and to your wives and daughters too; my i prices they are so low, that eneh will | buy before they go." lie did as his good wife advised,and jin the paper advertised. Crowds came | and bought of all he had ; his notes ! were paid, his dreams made glad, and ' he will tell you to this day, how well ; did printer's ink repay. He told us this, with a knowing wink, how he was saved bv printer's I ink. The other in a place as tight, con tented was the press to slight, and did ! not let the people know of what he had j or where to go. His drafts fell due and were not i paid; a levy on his goods was made ; the store was closed until the sale, and for some time he was in jail. A bank rupt now without a cent, at leisure he does deep repent, that very foolish and unwise, he did not freely adver tise. SWEET CORN.— It is surprising fact that sweet corn is not abundantly grown among farmers. Every farmer thinks he must raise his five or ten a ores of Indian corn every year, in or der to fatten his pork, and to furnish fodder for his stgck, &c. Now, if every farmer would grow three or five acres of sweet corn, his crop would prove of much more value in proportion to the number of acres of Indian corn for feed ing purposes. Last spring I planted six acres of sweet corn for the purpose of taking it into market green. But, after the market became "glutted," I concluded to save the balance of my corn and cure it to feed. I cut anil fed my hogs corn (in the stalks) every day, and they would eat stalks and all as clean they would green clover. 1 would recommend it to those that sow corn in preference to any other. Be careful to trace up your seed In the fall, and then you will not fail to have good seed when you come to plant or sow.— Selected. FLOUR MAKING. —The question how much wheat does it take to make a bar rel of flour is often asked, and the an swer is of general character, "five bush els aae allowed." At the anniial fair of the Dubuque county (Iowa) Agri cultnre Society, in 18G7, a premium of three dollars was offered for the best barrel of Hour made from winter wheat, and also the same made from spring wheat. .V firm entered one barrel each, accompanied with the statement that sixteen bushels of winter wheat yielded three barrels and one hundred and three pounds of flour at the rate of four bushels and fifteen pounds of wheat to the barrel. Of spring wheat, fifty bushels yielded eleven Garrets or flour, being four.bushels and thirty-two pounds to the barrel. The wheat was fair quality and no more. —Liberia is agitated by the suffrage question. At present, only those pos sessing a very visible admixture of African blood, are admitted to citizen ship; but a party has lately arrived which proposes, as a measure of jus tice, to enlarge the area of freedom by enfranchising the down-trodden whito trash. The conservatives strongly op pose so flagrant a departure from the ancient landmarks of the Constitution, and contend that there is no safety, socially or politically, except in main taining the republic as it was made by its founders—strictly a negro govern ment. —The guard of soldiers at the pub lic soup-house in Richmond, have had to use their sabres in keeping order among the crowd of negroes who would not obey regulations. The ne groes were demonstrative, but the guard charged them with drawn > words, and used the flat side promis cuously in dispersing the hungry mal contents. About 1,400 family rations per week are issued from the soup house. —The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Su/t says the act of Mr. Stanton in sending a telegram to Gen. Sickles, congratulating him on the result of the New Hampshire election, is perfectly consistent with the want of dignity and delicacy that attaches to him. It is the first time in the his tory of the government that the head of the War Ofttce has complimented an army officer for neglecting his duty to make political harangues. —The Ohio Senate on Tuesday pass ed the bill to suppress prize fighting, as it previously passed the House of Representatives, it is now a law. Un der its provisions, the principal perfor mers in a prize fight are punishable by imprisonment in the Penitentiary, and spectators are liable to fine and impris onment in jail. An afflicted husband was returning from the funeral of his wife, when a friend asked him how he was. "Well," said he pathetically, "I feel the better for that little walk." —The axe factory of D. Blake & Co., at Scranton, Pa., has been destroyed by fire. Loss $30,000, insurance SIG,- 000. —A fire at La Crosse, Wieconsin, the other day, burned buildings on Main street, between Second and Third, to the amount of $160,000. —Young, the Norway Savings Bank robber, has been sentenced, at Paris, Maine, to nine years in the State pri son.