BY MEYERS & MENGEL.
if-lection proclamation.
/ < ENERAL ELECTION PROCLA
\ I MATION.— WHEREAS, in ami by an act of
Copera! Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania. entitled "An Act to regulate the Gen
eral Elections within this Commonwealth," it is
enjoined upon me to give public notice of said e
lections and to enumerate in said notice what offi
eeV are to be elected. I. ROIIEKT STECKMAN,
Sheriff of the county of Bedford, do hereby make
known and give this public notice to the electors
uf the county of Bedford, that a Oeneral Election
will beheld'in said county, on the
SECOND TUESDA T (l*A) OF OCTOBER,
1868 at the several election districts, viz :
The electors of the Borough of Bedford and
township of Bedford, to meet at the Court House
in said borough. . _ ,
The electors of Broad Top township and Coal
Dale borough to meet at the school house in said
The"electors of the borough of Bloody Run to
meet at the House of Daniel B. Ott, in said bor
ough.
The electors ofColcrain township to meet at the
house of And'w Pcnnell in Rainsburg in said town
ship.
The electors of Cumberland Valley township to
meet at the new school house erected on the land
owned by John Whip's heirs in said township.
The electors of Harrison township to meet at
the house of Jacob Feightner. in said township.
The electors of Juniata township to meet at Key
ser's school house in said township.
The electors of Hopewell township to meet at
the school house near the house of John Dasher in
said township.
The electors of Londonderry township to meet
at the house now occupied by Win. 11. Hill as a
shop in Bridgeport in said township.
The electors of Liberty township to meet at the
school house in Stonerstown in said township.
The eleetorsof Monroe township to meet at the
house lately occupied by James Cornel! in Clear
\ille in said township.
The eleetorsof Sehellsburg borough to meet at
the brick school house in said borough
The electors of Napier township to meet at the
brick school house in tho borough of Sehel.sburg.
The electors of East Providence township to j
meet at the house lately occupied by John Nycum,
jr.. in said township.
The electors of Snake Spring township to meet
at the school house near the Methodist church on
the land of John <J. Hartley.
The electors of West Providence township to
meet at the house of Philip Hollar in said town
ship.
The electors of Ft. Clair township to meet at She
school house near the residence of Joseph Griffith
in said township.
The electors of the borough of St. Clairsville to
meet at the school-house in said borough.
The eleetors of Union township to meet at the
school house near Mowry's mill in said township.
The electors of South Woodberry township to
meet at the house of Samuel Oster, near Noble's
mill in said township.
Tho electors of Southampton township to meet
at the house of Wm. Adams in said township.
The electors of Saxton Borough to meet at the
school ho use in said borough.
The electors of Middle Woodberry township to
meet at the house of Henry Fluke in the village of
Woodberry.
The electors of Woodberry borough to meet at
the house of Wm. M- Pearson in said borough
At which time and places the qualified electors
will oleet bv ballot :
<'• NE PERSON for the office of Auditor General
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ONE PERSON for the office of Surv yor Gener
al of ihc Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ONE PERSON, in conjunction with the counties
of Somerset, Fulton and Franklin, for the office of
additional Law Judge.
ONE PERSON, in conjunction with the counties
of Somerset, Fulton. Franklin and Adams, for the
office of Representative in the Congress of the
United States.
TWO PERSONS, in conjunction with the coun
ties of Somerset and Fulton, for the office of Mem
bers of the House of Representatives of Pennsyl
vania.
ONE PERSON for tho office of Commissioner for
said county.
ONE PERSON for the office of Poor Director for
said county.
ONE PERSON for the office of County Survey
or for said ceuaty.
ONE PERSON for county Auditor for said
county.
ONE PERSON far Coroner of said county.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That every person
excepting Justices of the Peace who shall hold ■"?
office 01 appointment of profit or tru-T under the
United States, or of this State, or any city or cer
tiorated district, whether a commissioned officer
..r otherwise, a subordinate officer or agent who is
or shall be employed under the legislative, execu
tive or judiciary department of this State, or of
any city, or of any incorporated district, and also,
that every member of Congress and of the State
Legislature, and of the select or common council
of any city, or commissioners of any incorporated
district, is by law incapable of boiling or exercis
ing at the time, the office or appointment of Judge.
Inspector or Clerk of any election ol this Common
wealth, and that no Inspector, Judge or other of
ficer of such election shall be elegiblo to be then
voted for.
And the said act of assembly entitled "an act
relating to elections of this Commonwealth,"
passed July 2,1819, further provides as follows,
viz :
■That the Inspector and Judges shall meet at
ihc respective places appointed for holding the
election in the district at which they respectively
belong, before 8 o'clock in the morning of the
FECOXD TUESDAY OF OCTOBER, and each
said inspector shall appoint one clerk, who shall
he a qualified voter of such district.
••In case the person who shall have received
the highest number of votes for inspector shall not
attend on tlie day of any election, then the per
son who shall have received the second highest
number of votes for Judge at the next preceding
election shall act as Inspector in his place. And
in case the person who has received the second
highest number of votes for Inspector shall not at
tend, the person elected Judge shall appoint an
Inspector in his place, and if any vacancy still
continue in the board for the space of one hour
after the time fixed by law for the opening of the
i lection the qualified voters of tho township, ward
or district for which such officer shall have been
elected, present at the election, shall elect on ■ of
their number to fill such vacancy,
■•lt shall be the duty of the several ;s-ors re
spectively to attend at the place of holding every
general, special or township election, during the
whole time such election is kept open, fir the pur
pose of giving information to the Inspectors and
Judge, when called on, in relation t.- the right of
any person assessed by them to vote at such elec
tion. and on such other matters in relation to the
assessment of voters, as the said Inspectors or
ether ot them shall from time to time require.
No person shall be permitted to vote at any
election as aforesaid, than a white citizen of the
age of twenty-one or more, who shall have resided
in this Statu at least, one year, and in the election
district where he offers to vote, ten days immedi
ately preceding such election, and within two
years paid a State or County tax, which shall
have been assessed at least ten days before the e
li i'tion. But a citizen of tho United States who
has previously been a qualified voter of this State
and removed therefrom and returned, and who
shall have resided in the election district and
paid taxes aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote af
ter residing in this State six months. Provided.
Tbat the white freemen, citizens of the United
States, between the age of twenty-one and twen
ty two years who have resided in the election dis
trict ten days as aforesaid shall be entitled to vote,
although they shall not have paid tax.
■'No person shall be permitted to vote whoso
name is not contained in the list of taxable inhab
itants. furnished by the Commissioners, unless :
First, he produce a receipt of payment, within
two years of State or County tax assessed agreea
bly to the Constitution, and give satisfactory evi
dence on his own oath or affirmation of another
that ho has paid such a tax, or in failure to pro
duce a receipt shall make oath to tha payment
thereof: or second, if he claim a right to vote by
being an elector between the age of twenty-one
and twenty-two years shall depose on oath or af
firmation. that he has resided in the State at least
one year before his application, and make such
proof of residence in the district as is required by
this aet, and that he does verily believe from the
account given him that he is of the age aforesaid,
and gives such other evidence as is required by
this act, whereupon the name of the person so ad
mitted to vote shall be inserted in the alphabet
ical li-t by the Inspector, and a note made oppo
site thereto by writing the word "tax. if be shall
be admitted to vote by reason of having paid tax.
and the word "tige" if he shall bo admitted to vote
by reason of age. and in either case the reason of
such a vote shall be called out to the clerks, who
snail make a like note in the list of voters kept by
them.
' In all cases where the name of the person
claiming to vote is not found on the list furnished
by the Commissioners, or his right to vote wheth
er found thereon or not, is objected to by any
qualified citizen, it shall be the duty of the In
spectors to examine such person on oath as to his
qualification*, and if he claims to have resided
within the State for one year or more, his oath
shall be sufficient proof thereof, but he shall make
proof by at least one competent witness, who shall
he a qualified elector, thut he has resided within
the district for more than ten days immediately
preceding said election and shall also swear that
his bona fide residence, in pursuance of his lawful
Calling is within the district, and that he did cot
remove within the district for the purjvwe of vo-.
ting.
"Every person qualified as aforesaid, and who
shall make due proof if required, of his residence
and payment of taxes aforesaid, shall be admitted
to vote in the township, ward or district in which
ho shall reside.
"If any jierson shall prevent or attempt to pre
vent any officer of an election, under this act from
holding such election, or use or threaten any vio
ienee to any such officer, and shall interrupt or
improperly interfere with him in the execution of
his duty, "shall block up or attempt to block up
the wiudow or avenue to any window where the
same may beholden, or shall riotously disturb the
Clfftion proclamation.
peace of such election, or shall use or practice in
timidation. threats, force or violence, with the
design to influence unduly or overawe any elec
tor, or prevent him from voting, or to restrain tho
freedom of choice, such persons on conviction shall
bo fined in any sura not exceeding five hundred
dollars, to be imprisoned for any time not less than
one nor more than twelve months, and if it shall
be shown to the court where the trial of such of
fence shall be had, tbat the person so offending
was not a resident of the city, ward or district
where the said offence was committed, and not
entitled to vote therein, on conviction, he shall
be sentenced to pay a fine not loss than one hun
dred or more than one thousand dollars, and be
imprisoned not less than six months nor more than
two years.
"If any person or persons shall make any bet or
wager upon tho result of an election within the
Commonwealth, or shall offer to make any sueh
bet or wager, either by verbal proclamation there
of, or by any written or printed advertisement,
or invite any person or persons to make such bet
or wager, upon conviction thereof he or they shall
forfeit and pay three times the amount so" bet or
offered to be bet.
And tho election laws of the Commonwealth
further provide that "Tho Inspectors, Judges
and clerks shall, beforo entering on the duties of
their offices, sevcrnllv take and subscribe the oath
or affirmation hereinafter directed, which shall be
administered to them by any judge, alderman or
justice of the peace, but if no such magistrate be
present, one of the inspectors of the election shall
administer the oath or affirmation to tho other
judge and inspector, and then the inspector so
qualified shall administer the oath or affirmation
to him.
"The inspectors, judge and clerks required by
law to hold township and general elections, shall
take and subscribe the several oaths and affirma
tions, required by the 19th, 20th and 21st sections
of ihc aet of the 21 day of July 1839, entitled
••An act relating to the elections of this common
wealth," which oaths or affirmations shall he
prepared and administered in the manner prescrib
ed in the 18th aed 221 sections of said act. and in
addition to the power conferred by the 18th sec
tion of said act, the judge, or either of the inspec
tors, shall have power to administer tho oaths
prescribed by said act, to any clerk of a general,
special or township election.
"The following shall be the form of the oath or
affirmation to be taken by each inspector, viz : 'I
(A. B. ) do that I will duly attend to the en
suing election during the continuance thereof, as
an inspector, and that I will not receive any tick
et or vote from any person, other than such as I
shall firmly believe to be, according to the pro
visions of the constitution and the laws of this
commonweal Ih, entitled to vote at sueh election,
without requiring such evidence of the right to
vote as is directed by law, nor will I vexatiously
delay or refuse to receive any vote from any per
s m who I shall believe to be entitled to vote as
aforesaid, but that I will in all things truly, im
partially and faithfully perform my duty therein,
to the best of my judgment and abilities, and that
I am not directly, nor indirectly, interested in
any bet. or wager on the result of this election.'
■ The following shall bo the oath or affirmation
of each judge, viz : 'I (A. B.) do that I will
as judge duly attend the ensuing election during
the continuance thereof, and faithfully assist tho
inspectors iu carrying on the same; that I will
not give my consent that any vote or ticket shall
be received from any person other than such as I
firmly believe to be, according to the provisions
of the constitution and laws of this common wealth,
entitled to vote at such election, without requiring
such evidence of the right to vote as is directed by
law, and that I will use my best endeavors to pre
vent any fraud, deceit or abuse, in carrying on
the same by citizens qualified to vote, or others,
and that f will make a true and perfect return of
the said election, and will in all things truly, im
partially and faithfully perform my duty respec
ting the same, to the Dest of my judgment and
abilities, and that lam not directly or indirectly
interested in aDy bet or wager on the result of
this election.'
"The ill be the farm of the oath or
affirmation to be taken by eaehclerk, viz : 'I (A.
B.) do that I will impartially and truly write
down the name of each elector w ho shall vote at the
ensuing election, which shall be given uie in
charge, and also the name of the township, ward
or district, wherein such elector resides, arid care
fully-and truly writedown the number of votes
that shall he given for each candidate at tho eloo.
tion, as often as his name shall be rea l to me by
the inspectors thereof, and in all thing- trulv and
faithfully norf „■ aty respecting the same to
ti„-v>—■! of my judgment ami ability, and thai I
am not directly or indirectly intereste I in any bet
or wager on the result of this election '
The qualified electors will take notice of the
following net. of Assembly, approved 12L!I day of
March, 183o: An AIR, Regulating the mode of
voting at ail elections, in the several counties of
this Commonwealth.
SECTION I. Beit enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in General Assembly mot, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same,
That the qualified voters of the several counties of
this Commonwealth, at all general, township,
borough and special elections, are hereby, hereaf
ter, a it.horized and required to vote, by ticket..-,
printed, or written, or partly printed and partly
written, severally classified as follows: One tick
et shall embr.t ;e the nam 's of all ju Iges of cour:s
voted for. and. to bo labelled, outside, "judicia
ry." one ticket shall embrace the names of all
State officers voted for. and be labelled, "state;"
one ticket shall embrace the names of all county
officers voted for, including office of senator, mem
ber. and members of assembly, if voted for, and
members of Congress, it voted for. and be labell
ed, "county;" one ticket shall embrace the names
of all township officers voted far, and be labelled,
"township;" one ticket shall embrace the names
o; all borough officers voted for, and b ■ labelled,
■■borough; ' and each class shall be deposited in
separate ballot-boxes.
Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the Sher
iffs. in the several counties of this C<>mmo' vealth.
to insert in their election proclamations, hereafter
issued the first section of this act.
JAMES It KKLLEY.
Speak r of the II .use of Representatives.
DAVID FLEMING,
Speaker of the Senate.
Ai-riloi Eli— the thirtieth day of March, Anno
Domini one thousand eight hundred ami sixty-six.
A G. CURTIN.
Election officers will take notice that tho act
entitled "A Further -upplcmcnt to the Election
Laws of this Commonwealth," disqualifying de
serters from the array of the United States from vo
ting,has recently been declared unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, is now null and
void, and that all persons formerly disqualified
thereunder are now lawful voters, if otherwise
qualified. The act decided unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court provided as follows :
"A FCNTIIER SUPPLEMENT TO THE ELECTION LAWS
OP THIS COMMONWEALTH.
Whereas, By the act of the Congress of the U
nitcd States, entitled "An Act to amend the sev
eral acts heretofore passed, to provide for the en
roling Riid calling nut the national forces, and for
other purposes, ' and approved March third, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, all per
sons who have deserted the military or naval er
t ice of li e United States, and who have not been
discharged, or relieved from tho penalty, or disa
bility therein provided, aro deemed, and taken, to
have voluntarily relinquished, and forfeited,
their rights of citizenship, and their rights to be
come citizens, and are deprived of exercising any
rights of citizens thereof :
And whereas, persons, not citizens of the Uni
ted States, are not, under the constitution and
laws of Pennsylvania, qualified electors of this
commonwealth :
Section 1. Be it enacted by tho Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it
is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,
That in all elections hereafter to be held in this
commonwealth, it shall be unlawful for the judge
or inspectors of any such election to receive any
ballot, or ballots, from any person, or persons,
embraced in the provisions, and subject to the
disability, imposed by said act of Congress, ap
proved March third, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five, and it shall be unlawful for any
such person to offer to vote any ballot, or ballots.
Section 2. That if any such judge and inspec
tors of election, or any one of them shall receive,
or consent to receive, any such unlawful ballot, or
ballots, from any such disqualified person, he, or
they, so offending, shall be guilty of a misdemean
or, and. upon conviction thereof, in any court of
quarter sessions of this commonwealth, he shall,
for each offence, be sentenced to pay a fine of not
less than one hundred dollars, and to undergo an
imprisonment, in the jail of the proper county, far
riot less than sixty days.
Section 3. That if any person deprived of citi
zenship. and disqualified as aforesaid, shall, at any
election, hereafter to bo held in this coininou
wcalth, vote, or tender to the officers thereof, and
offer to vote, a ballot, or ballots, any person, so of
fending, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on couviction thereof, in any court of quarter
sessions of this commonwealth, shall, for each of
fence, be punished in like manner as is provided
in the preceding section of this act, in the ease of
officers of election receiving sueh unlawful ballot,
or ballots.
Section 1. That if any person shall hereafter
persuade, or advise, any person, or persons, de
prived of citizenship, and disqualified as afore
said, to offer any ballot, ar ballots, to the officers
of any election, hereafter to be held in this com
monwealth, or shall persuade, or advise, any such
officer to receive any ballot, or ballots, from any
person deprived of citizenship, and disqualified as
aforesaid, such person, so offending, shall be guil
ty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
in any court of quarter sessions of this common
wealth. shall be punished in like manner as is pro
vided in the second section of this act, in tho ease
of officers ufsueh election receiving such unlawful
ballot, or ballots.
JAMES R KELLEY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DAVID FLEMING.
Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED —The fourth day of June, Anno Domi
ni one thousaud e ght hundred and sixty-sir.
A. G. CURTIN."
('Meetion proclamation.
And the Judges of the respective districts afore
said, are required to meet at Bedford, on the Fri
day next following the holding of said election,
then and there to perform those things required
of them by law.
Given under my hand, at my office in Bedford,
this Ist day of Sept., in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and
in the ninety-third of the Independence of the
United States.
ROBERT STECKMAN, Sheriff.
Sheriff s Office. Bedford. (
Sept. 4 1868. j
-you ALL
HAVE HEARD Of
UOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS,
AND
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC.
Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia.
Their introduction into this country from Ger
many occurred in
182.').
THEY CURED YOUR
FATHERS AND MOTHERS,
And will cure you and your children. They are
entirely different from T the many preparations
now in the country cal | 1 led Bi tiers or Tonics.
Thcv are no tavern * * prepare' on. or any
thing like one; but go" 1. honest, reliable medi
cines. They are
The gr, I no ten remedies for
Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA,
Nervous Debiiitv.
JAUNDICE,
Diseases of the Kidneys,
ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN,
and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver.
stomach, or
IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD.
Constipation, Flatulence. TnwarJ Piles. Fullness
of Blood to the Head. Acidity of the Stomach,
Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust far Food. Full
nes- or Weight, in the Stomach, Sour Eruc
tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the
Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the
Head, Hurried or Difficult Breathing,
Fluttering at the s x Heart, Choking or
Suffocating Seosa i 3 tions when in a Lying
Posture, Dimncw of V * Vision, Dots or Webs
before tho sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Defi
ciency ot Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin
and Eyes, Pain in the Side. Back. Chest,
Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of Heat,
Burning in the Flesh. Constant Imagi
nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits.
All the re, indicate diseases of the Liver nr Di
gestive Organs, combined with impure blood.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS
is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. It
is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots,
Herbs, and Barks from which these extracts aro
made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi
cinal virtuous are ex / . traded from them by
a scientific Chemist, f 5 These extracts are
then forwarded to this s ' country to be used ex
pressly far the manufacture of these Bitters.
There is no alcoholic substance of any kind used
in compounding tho Bitters, hence it is the only
Bitters that can be used in cases where alcoholic
stimulants are not advisable.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC
is a combination of all the ingredients of tho Bit
ters, with PURE Santa Cruz Rutn. Grunge, etc. It
is used for the same diseases as the Hitters, in case
wnere -ono p"'* o ."U'MUNU L. |
You will bear in mind that these remedies are en
tirely different from any others advertised for the
cure of the diseases named, these being scientific
preparations of medicinal extracts, while the oth
er? are mere decoctions of rum in some form. Tho
TON IC is decidedly one of the most pleasant and
agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. Its
taste is exquisite. Itis a pleasure to take it, while
its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali
ties have caused it to bo known as the greatest of
all tonics.
DEBILITY.
There is no medicine equal to Iloofland's Ger
man Bitters or Tonic in cases of Debility.
They impart a tone and vigor to the whole
system, strengthen JL the appetite, cause an
enjoyment of the food, enable the stomach to di
gest it, purify tho blood, give a goo 1, sound,
healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge
from the eye. impart a bloom to the cheeks, ami
change the patient from a short-breathed, emaci
ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced,
stout, and vigorous person.
Weak and Delicate Children art
made strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In
fact, thay aro Family Medicines. They can be
administered with perfect safety to a child three
months old, the most delicate female, or a man of
ninety.
These, remedies are the best
Blood Purifiers
ever known and will "fare all diseases resulting
from bad blood. Keep y iur blood pure; keep
your Liver iu order; g keep your digestive
organs in a sound, I healthy condition by
the use of these re me .1 J dies, and no diseases
will ever as-mil v-u. The best men in theconntry
recommend them. If years of honest reputation
go lor anything, you must try these preparations.
FROM HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylva
nia.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16, 1867.
I find that "Hoofland's German Bitters" is not
an int >xicating beverage, but i? a good tonic, use
ful in disorders of the digestive organs, and of
great benefit in cases of debility an 1 want of ner
vous action in the system.
Yours Truly,
GEO. W. WOODWARD.
FROM HON. JAMES TAOMPSON.
Judge of the Supremo Court of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 1866
I consider "H iofland's German Bitters" a valua
ble medicine in case # of attacks of Indiges
tion or Dyspepsia. I /A can certify this from
my experience of it. XJL Yours, with respect,
JAMES THOMPSON.
FROM REV. JOSEPH H. KENNARD, D. D.,
raster of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
DR. JACKSON — DEAR SIP.:—I have been fre
quently requested to connect my name with rec
ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but
regarding the pi active as out of my appropriate
sphere, I have in all cases declined; but with a
clear proof in various instances, and particularly
in my own family, n{ the usefulness ol Dr. Hoof
land's German Bitters, I depart for once from
my usual course, to express my full conviction
that for general debility of the system, and es
pecially lor Liver Com - -r-plaint, it is a safo
and valuable prepare tion. In some eases
it may fail; bnt usual i. t ]y, I doubt not, it
will be very, beneficial to those whosuifer from the
above causes. Yours, very respectfully,
J. H. KENNARD,
Eigth, below CoalesStreet.
CAUTION.
Hoofland's German Remedies are counterfeited.
The Genuine hare the signature of C. M. JACK
SON on the front of tho outside wrapper of each
bottle, and the name of the article blown in each
bottle. All others are counterfeit.
Price of the Bitters, $1 per bottle;
Or, a half dozen for 8">.
Price of the Tonic, $1 50 per bottle ;
Or, a half dozen for £7 50.
The tonic is put up in quart bottles.
Recollect that it is Dr H - '(land's German
Remedies that are so universally used and so
highly recommended; mid do not allow the
Druggist to induce I lyou to take anything
else that he may say-L'is just as good, be
cause he makes a largor profit on it. These Reme
dies will be sent by express to any locality upon
application to the
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
At the German Medicine Store.
No. 031 ARC/I STREET, Philadelphia.
CHAS. M. EVANS,
PROPRIETOR.
Formerly C. M. JACKSON A Co.
These Remedies arc for sale by Druggists, Store
keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere.
Do not forget to examine the article you buy
in order to get the genuine.
may2SU6Byl
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1868.
TERMS OF PUBLICATION.
THE BEDFORD GAZETTE is published every Fri
day morning by METERS A MERGED, at $2.00 per
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TAX-IMYEBS, HE ABE (OJIIXG.
At my lonely bench I sit, wishing ever for the
day,
When our troubles and our taxes will be o'er;
Bui it cheers my weary heart and makes mo feel
half gay.
Just to think that better times will come onco
more.
Chorus.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the buys are marching;
Cheer up. tax-payers' they will come ;
And green backs and good times are sure to you
aud rue.
When the White ITouse is our Seymour's homo.
Wo have paid our own taxes, and we've paid
the bond-lords' too,
But we've vowed we'll never do it any more ;
And Grant and Colfax, too, spite of all that they
can do,
Will go spinning to Salt River's briny sh®:c.
They may tbink that we are bees, but they'll
learn it by degrees,
That we'll toil not for the drones for evermore ;
And the U. S. G. may look still more owlish, if he
pi case,
Bui he'll find that all his prospects aro a boro.
Wo arc mighty in the faith that a better time
will come—
When the Radicals arc buried out of sight,
And our own beloved laud will bo tbo white
utan.s borne,
When we've gained the stormy battle for tho
right.
Then, hurrah !my jolly boys, join the chorus,
well you may,
From sea to sea our battle-cry has gone ;
And our standard is surrounded by its thousands,
n,l to-day
Many th usands more are gaily coming on.
I roai -Maine to Oregon, from tho Gulf to the Bake
shore,
They have Caught the ory tw thorn to
the fight,
And twice a million white men—ah ! yes and
millions more,
Are marshaled for tho Victory and the Right.
V NIX I'OB "lit SMI Kli Pl' Vl,l C.I VS."
ii:ulic;il iAiiniaipol'lhe irish People ami
the t'attiolic CUiireii.
T> the Editor of the Chicago Times :
On ordinary occasions the vagaries of
the Chicago Fori would hardly merit
even passing notice. It lias a penchant
for squibs and a weakness for puns;
but rarely, if ever, rises to the dignity
of an argument
The article quoted below possesses
significance only as it illustrates the
genuine Radical animus toward the
Iri-h and foreign element in this coun
try. The editor of the Post, be it
known, is Mr. Charles If. Ray, former
ly principal editor of the Chicago
Tribune, and recognized as one of the
chief leaders of the party in Illinois.
He was a member of the late Chicago
Convention, and was potential in the
councils of the Illinois delegation
thereat.
I commend the editorial of the Post
to the particular attention of tlie "Ir
ish Republicans," and would especial
ly remind the "eminent Irish orator,"
(so calh d,) John Pope Hodnelt, to not
fail in directing to it the attention of
the Irishmen of the .state, whose votes
he Is paid to secure, if possible, by his
blarney, as an estimate of the regard in
which the Irish people and Catholic
Church are held by one of his out spok
en Radical employers.
NifjKFr. Nig J
From tho Chicago Post, September 9.
"Do you want your daughter to mar
ry a nigger ?" was the question for
merly asked of the electors of Illinois
by every Democratic candidate on
the stump.
"Nigger equality at the polls is the
sign of nigger equality in the family,"
say all the Democratic orators of the
day.
"Allow the nigger to vote, and you
have both political and social equality
everywhere," cry all the copperheads
of the North.
What a lie these assertions are, one
and all.
Political equality is one thing; social
equality is another thing. Political
equality is of the law ; social equality
is of the woman. The law says, come
up; madam says, stand back !
Teddy CV Flaherty votes. He has not
been in the country six months; but
he has been through Dan O'Hara's
court; he is naturalized. Terrenee O'-
Manus swore for him that he had been
five years in the United States; that
lie was ixjitilleman of good moral char
acter, and Dan O'Hara knew that he
was a Democrat. And so he was nat
uralized, of course.
He has hair on his teeth. He never
knew an hour in civilized society, lie
never stepped on anything more solid
than a dirt floor all his life, until lie
stood on the deck of an emigrant ship.
He is a born savage—as brutal a ruffian
as an untamed Indian of the North
American tribes. Of course, he can't
read, he can't write. All books to
him are sealed. He only believes iu
the priest, and the priest is only little
less a barbarian than he. "Be Jasus,
I'm a Dimocrat!" is his shibboleth.
Breaking heads for opinion's sake is
his practice. The born criminal and
pauper of the civilized world, and
withal the innocent victim of the state
craft of England, and of the priestcraft
of Borne; a wronged, abused, and piti
ful spectacle of a man capable of better
things pushed straight to hell by that
abomination against common sense
called the Catholic religion, and that
outrage upon political decency falsely
known as American Democracy—what
else does be know ? To compare him
with an intelligent freedmen would be
an insult to the latter.
Do American women run after Ted
dy O'Flahertv ? Are they in haste to
marry him? Oh, father of a beautiful
daughter, are you afraid that she will
break away from your love and kind
ness,.and make Teddy a companion ?
Yet, how much less danger of her mar
rying a nigger! The black man, if he
has been at all favored by the chances
that slavery afforded, is the superior of
Teddy in the things which women val
ue; but his color is against him, and so
Cufleo and Paddy are equal—the first
having the most civilization, the latter
being the whitest.
Now, marriage is not a thing of the
law, save and except as the law directs
how it shall be celebrated. If a decent
woman wants to marry Teddy O'Flah
erty, the law takes no cognizance of
her low desire. If she wants to marry
a nigger, the law Is equally dumb.
When, then, you can point out to us
that the peace of Americans is in dan
ger of destruction by the admixture of
the O'Flaherty blood, we shall be
ready to believe that it is in danger of
deterioration by the admixture of nig
ger blood. Putting color aside, what
is there to choose between Teddy and
CuflVe?
The country has survived the Irish
emigration—the worst with which any
other country wits ever afflicted. The
Irish fiill our prisons, our poor houses,
our reform schools, our hospitals, our
eleemosynary and reformatory institu
tions of al! sorts. Scratch a convict or
a pauper, and the chances aie that you
tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic at
the same time—an Irish Catholic made
a criminal or a pauper by the priest
and politician, who have deceived him
and kept him in ignorance; in a word,
a savage, as lie was born. He has not,
thus far, deteriorated the American
blood. Why, then, fear that, with
these obstacles of race and color in the
way, the nigger will accomplish that
in which the Irish have failed ?
Bali! This appeal to the fear of the
populace, that we must have a care lest
this country, "like Mexico," be ruined
by a mixed race, is only the gabble of
rascals who want to perpetrate injus
tice under cover of a popular preju
dice. Mexico was not so ruined eith
er. The priests, bishops, monks, nuns,
operating upon the Catholic laity, did
the job for that unhappy Republic.
Just as Catholicism, which isdesoptism,
goes out, Mexico rises.
The danger of miscegnation, white
with black, is, then, as remote as that
Teddy O'Flaherty will succeed in mak
ing his way by marriage into the Ameri
can families by whom lie is abhorred.
We have been acquainted with Teddy
a long time. He has dug numberless
canals, made many railroads, fought
many a fight, voted the Dimmeeralic
tieket, been in many a jail and pauper
house, and he has all the while been
priest-ridden. The fat, sleek, rosy
gilied liars and scoundrels (consciously
such) who have been about him have
k- {>t him in ignorance, robbed him of
his peace, and give him, after many
sprinklings of holy water, what they
call pa.-sports to Heaven: but he is
Teddy <)'Flaherty yet; and if we were
disposed to marry, there's Bridget-
Bridget only. Miscegnation is not for
him.
There i • not a Democrat who would
not boil over with rage if we should
tell him that CufTee could accomplish
that in which Teddy failed. Let us
dismiss, then, this question of the de
generation of the blood as one that is.
unworthy of our notice —as one of
those side issues that tiie copperheads
and the man-sellers have raised to ob
scure the merits of the issue before the
people.
When, after both Teddy and CufTee
are civilized, they want to marry white
women, and the white women are wil
ling, we should like to see the law
that would prevent them. But the
truth is, that with civilization will
come that dislike to mixture of blood
which white an 1 black alike maintain.
They are barbarians like the old nigger
drivers of the South or the Democracy
of the Five Points, whocommingle the
two streams, white and black.
The Chicago Tribune of Saturday
contains a communication with refer
ence to the above, from an Irish Pres
byterian, who says:
Such articles as that which appeared
in the Post will do more to convert
honest Republicans and to place them
in the ranks of the Democracy than all
the speeches that could be delivered.
I, for one, intended to support the Re
publican ticket at the coming election.
As an Irishman, I cannot allow my
countrymen to be slandered and hold
myself aloof. Henceforth I shall be
found in the Conservative ranks, an
advocate of toleration, which my re
ligion teaches, and a supporter of Irish
manhood abroad, and of Irish right to
national independence on the Irish
soi!. ll enky G. McCuleough.
THE KEISOX WHY.
In Senator Doolittle's Valparaiso (In
diana) speech we find the following:
"Three years ago this fall, when Gen
eral Grant was in Wisconsin, he held
the same views which I now hold on
this question, and authorized me to
slate to the people of Wisconsin and to
the Convention assembled at Madison,
that if Congress should insist on negro
suffrage as the basis of reconstruction
at the South, we should be obliged to
keep a standing army there in order to
to prevent a war of races."
"General Grant, in the report which
he made in December, 1805, said the
condition of the South was so good, so
quiet—so fine a feeling prevailing a
inong the people of the South—that the
army, with very few exceptions, can
be withdrawn. But Congress insists
upon this new Radical policy of forcing
negro .suffrage down the throats of the
white people, and therefore the necessi
ty of keeping the army at the South,
and keeping the Freedinen's Bureau
thereto manipulate the negroes and
organize them as a Radical party."
General Frank P. Blair, in his speech
at Leavenworth, Kansas, explains the
reason of this remarkable change of
front on the part of General
Grant. It is not because he has been
converted to the negro-suffrage, doc
trine; it is not because he hates or hasany
particular antipathy to the people of
the South. But he sees that the Radi
cal policy is calculated to enhance the
importance of military men and make
their voice omnipotent in the adminis
tration of the government. He recog
nizes the fact that they are making
steps in the path which leads to a mili
tary despotism. Hence Grant, Sher
man, Sheridan, and other ambi
tious military leaders, give to that- par
ty the weights of their means, their
power and influence. 11 is well lor tHe
people to understand this, and to bear
in mind constantly that in ail ages of
the world it has been the perfidy of
military leaders which has crushed out
liberty in republics.
I.ET US II AVE t'EAUEI
Yes—in behalf of the working mil
lions who pay taxes we too say, let us
have peace. And give us the country
all our own—the Union with each and
every State at peace, at rest and repre
sented in national council by honest
men and statesmen—with the glorious
constitution of our fathers again pro
tecting under its ample folds, the com
mon children of a common land.
But Radical peace and our peace are
not of the same parents. Their peace
means bayonets rather than ballots.
Negroes rather than white men; lust
and brutality rather than virtue and
intelligence to rule. Their peace
means the subjugation, impoverish
ment and slow murder of as brave a
a people as ever the sun shone on.
It means the entire destruction of ten
States; the reducing of them to Terri
tories, the wiping out of men, fami
lies and sacred memories, the inaugu
ration of a conflict of races t hat a pre
tence may arise for the placing of the
South again entirely under military
rule, that more robbers may be enrich
ed, and more fat contracts be awarded
to "loyal" scoundrels of America who
find shef and shelter under the infa
mous cloak of Radicalism.
Their peace means peace for those
who carry the sword—peace for those
who are exempt from taxation—peace
for the gold covered bondholders—
peace for tiie renegade Democrats, the
theives, cowards, assignation house
keepers, spoon stealers, cotton finding,
law hating delegation of vidians now
at the head of the Republican party.
Our peace is different.
We want peace for the sake of peace,
and the good of America. We want
peace for the bleeding States which are
ours by the memories of the past and
the hopes of the future. We want
peace for those who fought bravely,
who were overwhelmed in the une
qual conflict—who are sons of oursires—
who arc great in intellect, worth, abili
ty and enterprise, and who are able fo
govern tnoir own States belter and
cheaper, and more to the bonnet of the
country, than a centralized power, or
nam-.-less, homeless renegades and ad
venturers can do.
V. e want peaeeand protection for the
negroes who are now with the poor
white men everywhere the slaves of
the bondholders, and who toil and pay
taxes to keep in idle extravagance a
purse-proud class who are no benefit to
America. We want peace for the sol
diers who fought ami restored the Un
ion, that they may enjoy the fruits of
their victory, and not be again drag
ged from their homes to enrich army
speculators.
We want peace for the noble women
of the South—for the sorrowing and
desolated ones of a thousand cities des
olated by war—we want peace for their
children and our children, that they
may grow to a man's estate friends and
workers together for their common
good, and for the greatness of a com
mon country.
We want peace for the plow-holders,
the mechanics, the working-men, the
young men, the real worth, virtue, in
telligence, and patriotism of the coun
try, and with it want equal protection
before the law and tax-gatherer—ex
emption from the support of an aristoc
racy created by Republicans, in antag
onism to the welfare, peace and pros
perity of the country.
We want peace—we demand it. A
broad open honorable peace. We want
protection for our friends the produ
cers and workingmen. We wish it by
the ballot, but if it cannot be thus won
—if our ri.'hts are to be denied us your
aristocratic government shall lose its
power, for it will not have the consent
of the governed, and by force of the
bayonet in the hands of those who cry
for bread, we will wipe out your aris
tocracy, and win a peace and an ex
emption from unjust taxation in one
way if not in another.
This is America. A majority of the
white people who have homes here
shall rule. You will not take Indians.
You shall not govern us with negroes.
We want peace.
We want white supremacy.
We want equal taxation.
We want a majority to govern.
We want protection for industry.
We want the axe, the hoe, the plow,
the pick, the shovel, the hammer, the
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trowel, the stone chisel, the implements
of industry, to have the same protec
tion you give the bonds of the aristo
crat, who produces nothing!
THE TAX-PA VERS' HEVOI.i riO.V.
All over the length and breadth of
this broad land we see and hear of
changes—changes from bad to good,
from Radicalism to Democracy.
Every where the tax-payers, the peo
ple, are leaving the ranks of the de
structive party, are withdrawing from
under the black flag of the Jacobin
pirates, and marshaling themselves
under the protecting folds of the Dem
ocratic standard.
Every where you go, and the more
you travel the more you see, you will
become convinced of this most impor
tant fact. The people do not talk so
much Radicalism now as they did;
they do not talk so much about "reb
el" and "traitor," and use .such shal
low arguments in an effort to contro
vert the straightforward charges made
by the Democracy,of corruption, fraud,
and villainy, in the Radical admini
stration of affairs.
The people have become disgusted
with these weak, senseless tirades, and
have left them solely to the leaders of
Jacobinism—the petty editors and ora
tors of the party.
Tuxes—
Bonds—
Tariffs—
Negro Bureau—
Standing Armies—
Radical Thieves-
Radical injustice and dishonesty gene
ral!y !
These are the questions that now en
gage the attention of the people of
the United States, and from East to
West, from North to South, through
out the length and breadth of this land,
upon the hill-tops and deep into tiie
valleys, go everywhere, and you will
find that the tax-payers unanimously
Demand a change !
Heretofore it has been their custom
to attend closely to the business of the
shop or the farm, resting securely and
prosperously under the good and e
conomical administration of the Demo
cracy. With tiie advent of Radical
ism they suspected nothing wrong,
but they now see much that is not
right. They have opened their eyes
to much, within the past year or two,
and they have discovered Radicalism
in all its corruption and rascality,
They have discovered that while
they were busy in tiie field with the
plow, Radical officials were engaged
in stealing the money they had paid
into the treasury in the shape of taxes
and tariffs.
They have discovered that while
they were working from twelve to
eighteen hours each day in order to
meet the demands of the relentless tax
gatherer, the Radical Rump Congress
was industriously engaged in concoct
ing schemes to increase the burdens of
taxation and put 011 more taxgather
ers.
"The multitude in all countries are
patient to a certain point." The pa
tience of the American people has
been severely tried, but it can endure
no more of the ruleof Radicalism—llo
more of taxing the poor for the sup
port of the rich; no more of taxation
to support three millions of hardy,
idle negroes; no more of taxation to
keep a useless and expensive army in
time of peace; no more of taxation to
support in office the Radical pirates
who have destroyed governments and
constitutions made by J KPFEBSON, and
WASHINGTON" and their compatriots
of that revolution, which bought,
through fire and sword, or freedom
from tyranny, our national existence ;
no more of taxation to fill the pockets
of Radical thieves who hang about the
peoples' treasury; no more of taxation,
that Radical Congressmen may have
money to vote away in worthless ap
propriations. Of these things the peo
ple are wearying.
Against, these things I hey rcltel!
Radicalism has taxed, and bled, and
burdened them, until they will no
longer stand it, hence we find them
taking their places beside the yeoman
Democracy of the land, and demand
ing for themselves and their posterity;
Equal Taxation.
One currency for all.
Sovereignty of the States.
Economy in public affairs.
Union, and Peace, and Republican
Government forever.
These are the live issues of the pend
ing canvass. Upon these issues are
the people arrayed in solid opposition
to the Radical thieves and shoddvites
at Washrngton, and in opposition to
the bondholder and aristocrat, the en
emy of the laboring men everywhere.
This is the tax-payers' Revolution
Let Radicalism beware!
REDUCTION OK EXPENSES. —The
Radical press tells the people that
Congress has greatly ruduced the ex
penses of the government. But they
give no facts.
Now this is true—the expenses of
government for the month of July
were $#6,549,000
And for August, 37,730,000
$84,279,000
Eighty-four millions two hundred
and seventy-nine thousand dollars in
two months—equal to $505,674,000 per
year. We cannot see where the reduc
tson is. None but Radical eyes can see
it. And all this immense sum to sup
port Radical extravagance must be
paid in taxes by the labor of the coun
try.
TIIE unceasing clamor of the Radi
cals about the war, long after it is over,
and when all people want peace, re
minds us forcibly of the old ladies who
are frequently seen going along the
streets, with their umbrellas hoisted,
long after the rain is over.
"Internal debt August 1, 1868, $2,
573,000,000. Who pays the taxes V '