BY MEYERS & MENGEL. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. Thb Bedfobb Gazbttb is published every Fri day morning by Mbybks A Mizszt, at $2 00 per annum, if paid strictly in advance; $2 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 im advascb, and all such übscriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are aid. All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term than three months TEN CENTS per line for each In sertion. Special notices one-half additional All resolutions of Associations; communications of limited or individual interest, and notices of mar riages and deaths exceeding five lines, ten rents per line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. All legal Notices of every Find, and Orphans' Court and Judicial Sales, are required by law ( be published in both papers published in this place. I3t All advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount is made to persons advertising by the quarter, half year, or year, as follews : 3 months. 8 months. 1 year. ♦One square - -- $450 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares - - - 600 900 16 00 Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 26 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Half column - - - 18 00 25 00 45 00 One column - - - - 30 00 45 00 80 00 ♦One square to occupy one inch of space JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with neatness and dispatch. Tub Gazbttb Officb has jnst 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. A1 ters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. 3fob printing. rj"i HE B E DFO R D OA Z ETTE POWER PRESS PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT, BEDFORD, PA. MEYERS & MENGEL PROPRIETORS. Having recently made additional im provements U our office, we are pre pared to execute all orders for PLAIN ANI> FANCY JOB PRINTING, With dispatch and in the mogt SUPERIOR STYLE. CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CHECKS, CERTIFICATES, \ BLANKS. DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE CEIPTS, CARDS, HEADINGS, ENVEL OPES, SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN- ) VITA TIONS, LA BELS, 4-r. fre. Our facilities for printing POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, Ac., FOR CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS, ARE UNSURPASSED. "PUBLIC SALE" BILLS Printed at short notice. We can insure complete satisfaction j as to time and price rjXIIE INQUIRER BOOK STORE, opposite the Mangel House, BEDFORD.PA. The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the public the following articles belonging to the Book Business, at CITY RETAIL PRICES : MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. NOVELS. BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.: Large Family Bibles, Small Bibles, Medium Bibles, Lutheran Hymn Books, Methodist Hymn Books, Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, History of the Books of the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, Ac , Ac., Ac. Episcopal Prayer Hooks, Presbyterian llymn Books, SCHOOL BOOKS. TOY BOOKS. STATIONERY, Congress, Legal, Record, Foolscap, Letter, Congress Letter, Sermon, Commercial Note, Ladies' Gilt, Ladies' Octavo, Mourning. French Note, Bath Post, Damask Laid Note, Cream Laid Note, Envelopes, Ac. WALL PAPER. Several Hundred Different Figures, the Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county, for sale at prices CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD in Bedford. BLANK BOOKS. Day Bookf. Ledgers, Account Books, Cash Books, Pocket Ledgers, Time Books, Tuek Memorandums, Pass Books, Money Books, Pocket Books, Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ac INKS ANI) INKSTANDS. Barometer inkstands. Gutta Percha, Cocoa, and Morocco Spring Pocket Inkstands. Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools, Flat Glass Ink Wells and Rack, Arnold's Writing Flnids, Hover's Inks. Carmine Inks. Purple Inks, Charlton's Inks, Etikolon for pasting, Ac. | PENS AND PENCILS. Gillot'e, Cohen's, Hollowbush A Carey's, Payson. Dunton. and Scriboer's Pens, Clark's Indellible, Faber's Tablet, Cohen's Eagle, Office, Faber's Guttknechi'l, Carpenter's Pencils. PERIODICALS. Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Madame Demorest's Mirror of Fashions, Electic Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book, Galaxy, Lady's Friend, Ladies' Repository, Our Young Folks, Nick Nax. Yankee Notions, Budget of Fun, Jolly Joker. Phunny Phellow, Liapineott's Magazine, Riverside Magazine, Waverly Magazine, Baiiou's Magazine, Gardner's Monthly, Harper's Weekly, Frank Lealie'a Illustrated, Chimney Corner. New York Ledger. New York Weekly, Harper's Bazar, Every Saturday, Living Age, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Arthur's Home Magazine, Oliver Optio's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ao. Constantly on hand to accomodate those who want to purchase living reading mattter. Only a part of the vast number of articles per taining to the Book and Stationery business, which we are prepared to sell cheaper than the cheapest, are above enumerated. Give tu a call We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange ment we expect to sell as cheap as goods of this alas* are sold anywhere jan 29,'yl piSffUaneous. Jji L E C T R i C TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S OFFICE, Nos. 23 & 25 Nassau Street, NEW YORK. Organized under special charter from the State of New York. CAPITAL $5,000,000 50,000 SHARES. SIOO EACH. DIRECTORS. Hox. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia. PAULS. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield & C New York. ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen tral Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company, New York. Hon JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N- Y. 0. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New Y'ork. FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs A Hardcmstle, New York. NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York. OPFICF. RS. A. G. CURTIN, President N. MICKLES, Vice President. | GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth,) Treasurer. HON. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor, j The Chinese Government having (through the i Hon. Anson Bnrlingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting the great sea ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele- i graph cable, we propose commencing operations in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred miles at once, between the following port r, vit : j Population. Canton 1,000,000 ; Macoa 60 000 Hong-Kong 250,000 Swatow 200,000 | Amoy 250,000 I Foo-Chow 1,250,000 I Wan-Chu 300,000 i Ningpo 400,000 Hang Cbean 1,206,000 Shanghai 1,000,000 Total 5,910,000 These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,- 006.000. and an enormous domestic trade, besides which we have the immense internal commerce of the Empire, radiating from these points, through its canals and navigable rivers. The cable being laid, this company proposes erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and trustworthy means of communication, which must \ command there, as everywhere else, the commu nications of the Governmont, of business, and of social life especially in China. She has no postal system, and her eaiy means now of commuuicating information is by couriers on land, and by steam ers on water. The Western World knows that China is a very large country, in the main densely peopled; hot few yet realize that she contains more than a third of the human race. The latest returns made to her central authorities for taxing purposes by the local magistrate make her population Four hun dred and Fourteen millions , and this is more likely to be under than over the actual aggregate. Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old, not only can but do read and write Her civili zation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten sive as that of Eurepe, China is a land of teach ers and traders ; and the latter are exceedingly quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili ty for procuring early information. It is observed in California that the Chinese make great use of the telegraph, though it there transmits messages in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and used by them exclusively for the transmission of early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose connecting all their great seaports, were now in existence, it is believed that its business would pay the cost within the first two years of its suc cessful operation, and would steadily increase thereafter No enterprise commends itself as in a greater degree renumerative to capitalists, and to our whole people. It is of vast national importance commercially, politically and evangelically. pgr'The stock of this Company has been un qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi ness men."as a desirable investment by editorial articles in the New York Herald, Tribune, j World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and I in the Philadelphia North American, Press, | Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. Shares of this company, to a limited number, may be obtained at SSO each, SLO payable down, j sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing December 1, 1868, on application to DREXEL