BY MEYERS & MENGEL. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. Tn E BEDPOBK GAZETTE is published every Thurs day morning by MST sits A MSSGSL, at $2.00 per annum, ( f paid strictly m 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 IN ADVANCE, and all such übscriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are aid. All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less tenn 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 cents per line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. All legal Notices of every kind, ami Orphans' Court and Judicial Sales, are required by law t 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 year, or year, as follows: 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. ♦One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares - - - 600 9 T'O 16 00 Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00 Qunrtcr 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. TBE 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. LITALL letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. gol) griutittij. rjt I[EBE I) F O IID G AZETTE POWER PRESS P HINTING ESTABLISHMENT, BEDFORD, PA. MEYERS & MENGEL PROPRIETORS Having recently made additional im provements tc our office, we are pre pared to execute all orders for PLAIN AND FANCY J O B P R I N T IN Cx , With dispatch and in the most SUPER I Oil STYLE. CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CHECKS, CERTIFICATES, BLANKS, DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE CEIPTS, CARDS. HEADINGS, ENVEL OPES, SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN VITATIONS, LABELS, bfc. 4-e. Our facilities for printing POSTERS, PROGR AMMES, &c., FOR CO N CERTS A N D EX HIB ITIONS, ARE UNSURPASSED. "PUBLIC SALE" BILLS Printed at short notice. We can insure complete satisfaction as to time and price mߣ INQUIRER BOOK STORE, opposite the Mcngel House, BEDFORD, PA The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the public the following articles belonging to the Book Business, at CLTY RETAIL PRICES : MISCELLANEOUS BO<)KS. N O V E L S. BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.: Large Family Bi'oles, Small Bibles, Medium Bibles, Lutheran Hymn Books. Methodist Hymn Books, Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. History of tbe Books of the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, Ac., Ac., Ac. Episcopal Prayer Books, Presbyterian Hymn Books, SCHOOL BOOKS. TOY BOOKS. STATIONERY, Congress, _ Legal, Record, Foolscap, Letter, Congress Letter, Sermon, Commercial Note, Ladies' Gilt, Ladies' Octavo, Mourning, Freneh 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 Books, Ledgers, Account Books, Cash Books. Pocket Ledgers, Time Books. Tuck Memorandums, Pass Books, Money Books, Pocket Books, Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ac INKS AND 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 Fluids, Hover's Inks, Carmine Inks, Purple Inks, Chariton's Inks, Eukolon for pasting, Ac. PENS ANL PENCILS. Gillot'G, Cohen's, Hollowbush & Carey's, Paj'son. Dunton, and Beribncr S Pens, Clark 's Indellible, Faber s * ablet, Cohen's Eagle, Office, Faber s Guttknocht's, Carpenter's Penctls. PERIODICALS. Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine. Madame Demorest's Mirror of Fashions, Electis Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book, Galaxy. Lady's Friend. Ladies' Repository, Our Young Folks, Nick Nax. Yankee Notions, Budget of Fun. Jolly Joker, Pitunny Phellow. Lippincott's Magazine, Riverside Magazine, Waverly Magazine, "Ballou's Magazine, Gardner's Monthly. Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Chimney Corner. New York Le Jger. New York Weekly, Harper's Bazar, Every Saturday, Living Age, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Arthur's Home Magazine, Oliver Optic's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac. Constantly on hand to ac-omodate 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 re prepared to sell cheaper than the aheapest, are above enumerated. Give us a call We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange ment we expect to sell as cheap as goods of this class are sold anywhere na ; 2 I pisrrllanrous. "17 L E C T RI Q TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH CO.UPANY S , OFFICE, Nos. 23 A 25 Nassau Street, NEW YORK. Organized under special charter from the State of New York. CAPITAL $5,000,000 50,000 SHARES, SIOO EACH. DIRECTOR S. HON. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia. PAULS. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China. FRED. BUTTEKFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield A 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. O. H. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New York. FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Oihbs A Hardcastle, New York. NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York. OFFICERS. A. G. CURTIN, President. N. MICKLES, Vice President. 4 GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth.) Treasurer. HON. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor. The Chinese Government having (through the Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting the great sea ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele graph cable, we propose commencing operations in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred miles at onee, between the following ports, viz : Population. Canton 1,000.000 Macoa 00,000 Hong-Kong 250.000 Swatow 200,000 Amoy 250,000 Foo-Chow 1.250,000 Wan-Chu 300,000 Ningpo 400,000 Hang Chean 1,200.000 Shanghai 1.000 000 Total 5,910,000 These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,- 000,000, 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 Government, of business, and of social life especially in China. She has no postal system, and her only means now ofeommuuicating 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; but 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 loeal 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 proSered 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. Ls-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 lie raid, Tribune, World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and 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, $lO payable down, sls on the l3t of November, and $25 payable in monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing Dcecmber 1,1868, on application to DREXEL & CO., 34 South Third Street, PHILADELPHIA Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica tion to Reed A Schell, Bankers, who are author ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne cessary information on the subject. scpt2syl YY E combine style with neatness of fit. And moderate prices vnth the best workmanship JONES* ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE 604 M ARKET STREET, GEO w. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA. ! [sepll ,'68.yl J rpHE BEST PLACE TO BUY | choice brands of chewing Tobaccos and Ci gars, at wholesale or retail, is at Oster's. Good natural leaf Tobaccos at 75 cents. Try our 5 cent Yara and Uavanna eigars—they cant be beat, unelßutJ. BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1869. srti-€>ootts;, &r. NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED AT J. M. SHOEMAKER S BARGAIN STORE NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Hats, Boot's and Shoes, Queensware, Fish, Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Ac , at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, queensware, Leather, Fish, Notions, Tobacco, Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing. Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Notione. Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, llaits, Boots and Shoes, Queensware. Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing. Hats, Boots and Shoos. Queensware. Notion.-. Leather, Tobacco, Fish Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. Bedford, Pa., June 11, 1869. f\ R. OSTER A CO. YT. READ AND SPEAK OF IT! COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED I We are now receiving our usual extensive and well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND CHE A P SU M M E R GOO DS, And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG BARGAINS TO - C A S H BUYERS, In Staple ami Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Car pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton 1 'arns. Carpet Chains, Hats, Boots, Shoes, Clothing, Brooms, Baskets, Wall awl Window Papers, Groceries, Queens soare, Tobaccos, Cigars. Fish, Salt, 4 r ■ fT e invite everybody to catl and see for them selves. NO TRUBLE TO SHOW'GOODS. TERMS CASH. BRIXG ALONG rot N CASH and we will guarantee to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same styles and qualities can be sold in Central Pennsylva nia. Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully winning argument, nnd that those who BUY and SELL for CASH are always masters of the situation. junelSmß G R. OSTER A CO. 1A M. FISHER AND BABIES, Next Door to the Bedford Jlotel. GOOD NE W S AT LAS T. The Cheapest Goods evr brought to Bedford. We will sell Goons CHEAPER, by 15 to 25 per cent, than ever sold in Bedford county. The best COFFEE at 25 cents, but the less we sell the better we are off. The LADIES' HOSE, at 10 cents we will not have this time, but come at us for 15, 20 and 25 cents, and we will make you howl. You will all be waited on by ELI and the BA HIES, as the OLD ELI cannot do anything himself. A great variety of Parasols, Sunumbrel laz, Pocket-books Ac. Linen Handkf's (Ladies and Gents) from 5 cents to 25 cents. CALICHES, from 10, 12 and a few pieces at 15 eentg. MUS LINS. from 10 to 25 cents V,u all know thai we sell NOTIONS 100 percent, cheaper than anybody else All Wool Cassimeres, fromsooentstosl.oo. All Wool Dress Goods, from 15 to 25 cents Tick ing. from 20 to 40 centg. Paper Collars. lOcents; best, 25 cents per box. 4 pair Men's Half Hose, for 25 centa. Clear Glass Tumblers, 60 cents a dozen, or 5 cents a peace. A great lot of Boots and Shoes, to be sold cheap. Queens ani Glass ware, very low. Syrup, 80 cents and $1 00. $1 30 for best as clear as honey, and thick as tar. Bakers' Molasses. 50 cents per gallon, or 15 cents a quart. These Goods will ■ > posittve/y" not be aold unless for Cash or Produce. Come and see us, it will not cost anything to see the Goods and Babies. N. B. All these Goods ware bought at slaughtered prices in New York K. M. FISHER A BABIES. Thee Goods we sell so low, that we cannot af ford to sing (Auld Ling Sync.) All accounts must be settled by the middle of July next, by cash or note, or they will be left in the'hands of E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for collection. junl3w3 TyrOTIOE.—I hereby give notice to *U pereous not to barber or trust my wife, SAHAII, on my account, as I will not be respon sible for any debts she may contract—she having left my bed and board without just cause or pro vocation, ANDREW POTS. Union tp. Aug 12 w3* Iht ffrlforil ferlte. From the Patriot. <KAKT'S SMIUI V. JnUs. I'm Governor "Hans'' 0 s the Keystone Stale, For lobby jobs I sit tip late, I leave the peoplo to their fate, For I aiu Governor Geary. Oh ! I'm the favorite of the Ring, The jolly Ring, the jolly Ring, I'm King of the Ring, 1 m King of the Ring, For I am Governor Geary. Pete Herdie's bill in haste I sign. To make Lycoming's delegates mine, Oh ! don't I play my game quite line, Since I am Governor Geary ! Yes, I'm the favorite of the Ring, The jolly Ring, the jolly Ring, I'm King of the Ring, I'm King of the Ring, For I am Governor Geary. I'm for the slipp'ry Oil Pipe bill, I care not for Venango's will, The Oil-men will not fill my till Though I am Governor Geary. Oh ! I'm the favorite of the Ring, Tho jolly Ring, the jolly Ring, I'm King of the Ring, I'm King of the Ring, For I am Governor Geary. I love tho boys who fold and paste, And sign their little bill in haste, Nor palter long about tho waste, For I am Governor Geary. Oh ! I'm the favorite of the Ring, Tho jolly Ring, the jolly Ring, I'm King of the Ring, I'm King of tho Ring, For I am Governor Geary I'm Governor "Hans" of the Keystone State, My foes did Packer nominate, I know 'twas done to seal my fate, And I'll not be Governor Geary. Oh I'm the victim of the Ring, The quaking Ring, the breaking Ring, I'm tho broken tool of the bursting Ring, And I'll not be Governor Geary. THE REGISTRY LAW. What Must be Done in Order to Vote. HEAD, EXPLAIN AND CI Iter LATE! See that Your Names are on Hie List. To (he Democratic Voters of Western Pennsylvania. Your attention is directed to the following explanation of the Registry Law. Read it carefully, in order to ascertain what is your duty in the premises, and then see that your names are placed upon the assessor's list. NATURALIZED CITIZENS will see that the republican legislature has imposed additional duties upon them. Let them comply fully with the requirements of the law, in order that they may vote for the party which has always stood by them. EXAMINE THE ASSESSOR'S LIST, one of which is posted on the house where the election is to he held, and the other is in the a-sessor's hands. You have a right to examine them free of charge. These lists should contain your name, ami the names of all other qualified voters 111 the district; they should state if you are a housekeeper, the number of your house, the street it fronts on; your occupation; if you board,where and with whom you board; if you work for another,your employer's name; and opposite your name should be written the word "voter." If you have been naturalized, there will also appear the letter "N." If you have merely declared your inten tion to becomeacitizen, the letters "D. I." If you are between tweuty-oue and twenty-two years old, the word "age." If you have removed into the district since the last election, the letter "It." will appear opposite your name. Make it your personal duty to see that your name is upon the list. Do not trust this matter to any one else. IIOW TO GET REGISTERED. If you find your name is not on the list, go yourself to the assessor, and make your claim to be put on. lie is bound to add your name. He cannot question your right. You need not discuss the matter with him, your "claim" is enough. Give him also your precise residence, occupation, Ac. He will mark "C. V." opposite your name. ATTEND TO THIS AT ONCE. If you delay until within ten days of the election, you may lose your vote. XATURALIZKD CITIZE.VS. You must show your "papers" to the assessor, in crder to get your names registered. If you intend to take out your "last papers" before the election, you must show your "first papers" to the asses sor. See that your names are on the list. Those of you who do not need to have "first papers," and intend to be naturalized before the election, should get naturalized first, immediately , and go to the assessor with your "papers." All naturalized citizens must take their "papers" i cith them to the potts, unless they have been voting for ten years in the same district. You must take your "papers" loilhyou when you yo to vote, even if your name is on the list. Do not forget this or your enemies will deprive you of your vote. TAX ES. The law in relation to the payment of taxes is unchanged. If you have paid neither a state nor county tax, assessed within two years, do it without delay. Take your hut tax receipt with you to the polls. Do not delay registering or paying your taxes; attend to this matter now, for fear something may prevent here after. JAMES 11. HOPKINS, Representing the State Com. lor W.Pa. More Italians than of any other peo ple commit suicide. All in conse quence of the hand organs. Why is a married man like a can dle?— Because he sometims goes out at night when he oughn't to. THE IAI.IMM AlOkS or Jt'lMilE PACKER. The friends of Asa Packer have not deemed it necessary to turn aside and give indignant refutation to one half of the calumnies and libels which have been set afloat since his nomination for Governor. Most of these assertions were so utterly void of skill that they carrietl their own contradiction with them. There was one that he had re fused to pay his taxes, when it is well known that this could not be without the guilty connivance of the assessors of the revenues, who are mostly radi cal partisans. The record of Asa Pack er's entire life is too complete a refu tation of the poor tale that he attempt ed to evade the payment of his debt to the government, or any other obliga tion. Then there was the malicious slander which originated here at Har risburg in Governor Geary's office, that Asa Packer had subscribed the live hundred thousand dollars for the Lehigh University in order to enhance the value of his own land in the neigh borhood ot the institution. This false hood contradicted, it was meanly as serted that Judge Packer did not real ly make the donation, but the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. The Vice President of tbe railroad company em phatically contradicted this falsehood, and the enemies of Judge Packer were left without one first class slander that could be made available in the cam paign, until the Lehigh Register re cently came to the rescue of a dying cause with the following, which should be employed at once by tee Commer cial of Pittsburg, which has lost no time in making use of all the other falsehoods to which we have referred. The Commercial need not pay the slightest hoed to the complete refuta tion with which the falsification is met: "ASA PACKER AS A BENEFACTOR.— Many men risen from poverty to afflu ence, and possessing little or no intel lect, have looked at their wealth anil realized for once that there are many other things to seek for in this world besides money. Among these other things Is a name, a reputation, and the easiest, least laborious method of obtaining it is to endow a college. Asa Packer is one of this class. He endowed Lehigh University. It was purely a business investment. It in creases immensely the value of the property in South Bethlehem held by him, it improved the place, it increas ed the business of the Lehigh Valley railroad, and besides all this , it won for him the reputation of being benev olent, and his name has been in every paper in this State and New Y'ork city as benefactor to his race. And even now, when he accepts a nomination at the hands of rebel sympathizers, immacu late Union journals are kind enough to cover up his sin* by awarding him the honor of being generous. Those who know him laugh at the idea of his generosity. Here is one evidence of It. A noble engineer on a passenger train on Asa Packer's road saw danger ahead, lie could have jumped from the engine and saved, his life, and wrecked the train. But he stuck to his post heroically, was killed, but the train was saved. His widow, who had several children, and was left destitute, applied time and again, and piteously, to Asa Packer, for aid, and finally he told nor she could open a pea-nut stand at the Mauch Chunk depot, and he would not charge her any rent. Noble man !" This slanderous libel devoid of a sin gle grain of truth, says the Carbon Democrat , was brought to the atten tion of the widow referred to, and she immediately sought to correct the er ror into which she thought the editor had been honestly led. In the fullness of her heart she wrote him a letter, calculated to disabuse the minds of his readers, of the wrong impression form ed by bis article. But with a con tempt for truth, only equalled by his confidence in the gullability of the readers for whom he caters, the editor refused to publish the widow's letter, preferring to let the lie stand. Fail ing to secure publication of the letter in the journal which first dragged her name prominently before the public, the widow furnished a copy of the same to the Allentown Democrat, from which we copy it that all may see the utter disregard for truth, and the reck lessness to which our enemies are driven in circulating false charges a gninst a man whose public record as a citizen or business man is so far above reproach, as to defy even an attempt by political opponents to find a blem ish thereon: MAUCII CHUNK, Aug. 23, 1860. ROBERT IREDELL. JR., Editor Lehigh Register.—Dear Sir: — I have just come in possession of your paper of the 28th of Ju1y,1869, in which you have an article headed "Asa Pack er as a Benefactor," by which you do him great injustice, after paying a just and merited tribute of respect to my husband for sarificing his own life to stve the lives of others. You say that his widow, who had several chil dren, and was left destitute, applied time and again, and piteously, to Asa Packer for aid, and finally he told her she could open a peanut stand at the Mauch Chunk depot, and he would not charge her any rent. Now the above reproach is utterly untrue. Judge Packer never made any such a propo sition and I feel it to be my duty, as well as an act of justice, to have this made public. Y'ou say that I "applied time and again." I had but one inter view with Judge Packer ; his manner toward me was kind and considerate, and while speaking of the conduct of my husband at the sad accident which cost him his life, he showed much feel ing and said it was one of the noblest acts that he had ever heard of, and as sured me that my family should lie provided for. After the death and bu rial, ail the funeral expenses and phy sicians's bills were paid, my house rent was paid for one year from that time. I was supplied witn wood and coal for the winter, a sewing machine was sent to my house, and a beautiful shaft monument of Italian marble, with an appropriate inscription, enclos ed in a substantial railing feuec, was e- reeted to the momeryof my husband. And further, I have received twenty five ($25) dollars per month, and am to receive that amount for a period of ten years from the time of his death. By giving the above an insertion in your paper, you will not only do an act of justice to Judge Packer, but will oblige one who has good reason to hold him in the highest esteem. Please send me a copy of your paper, with the a bove inserted, to Box 126, Mauch Chunk, Pa., and oblige, Very truly, MRS. JACOB MYERS. TirailmsEm HE MAKES WAB OS COURTS AM) JURIES. His Intimate Associations witli the Rinif. The earnest attention of all citizens, irrespective of party, who are hostile to the corrupt ring which controls the legislation of Pennsylvania, is invited to an examination of the reeord of John YV. Geary, in the office of Governor of Pennsylvania. Neither the Geary of dubious reputation in Mexico, nor the two-faeed Governor of Kansas, nor the hero of the battle in the clouds, is be fore the people, but the Geary who has held for nearly three years the re ponsible position of Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania. The manner in which Geary has discharged his duties in his present office is what most High ly concerns the people, and they are not to lie diverted from the most searching investigation of it, by the beating of any number of drums. Geary has said with a hypocritical whine, that he could not control the legislative ring, and that any attempt on his part to check it would have led to the formation of "such a ring" as would have been perfectly dreadful. If this be true, then is there the most urgent necessity that the people shall chose an executive who possesses the honesty and courage to grapple with the spoilers, in the place of him who confesses his utter weakness and inca pacity. John YV. Geary's official rec ord proves that he is one of the mem bers of the ring—the very king-bolt in the chain of corruption— and there is, therefore, so much the greater the ne cessity on the part of the'peopleto dis miss him from the high position which lie holds. His confession, and his complicity with the ring, alike, render him unworthy of the confidence of the people of Pennsylvania. It is needless now to repeat the fa miliar history of John YV. Geary's dis graceful connection with the Ilerdie act. II his purpose had been merely to remove a judge who was obnoxious to some of his accomplices, the act might have been in time forgotten. If the effect would have been only to deprive for ten years the people of Ly coming county of their constitutional right to choose their own judicial offi cers, the offense might not have arous ed much indignation in other portions of the State. The people of that coun ty could have settled their score with the Governor in their own way. But this outrage (lid not affect the people of Lycoming alone. YY'hile it snatched from them the right to elect the high est judicial officer of their courts, and, in effect, crowded their dockets and caused vexations delays of justice, it also assailed every judicial district in the Commonwealth. Had not the Su preme Court interposed, John YY'. Gea ry, by his corrupt signature of the Ilerdie act, would have furuished a fa tal precedent to invite the ring to as sail every honest judge in the State. Having completed the degradation of the legislature and the executive, they would have turned their attention" to the intimidation or corruption of the judiciary—the last safeguard of the rights, the liberty, and the property of the citizen. For the accomplishment of his own selfish ends and to gratify the malice of another, he did not hes itate to abolish one of the courts of t lie Commonwealth, snatch from a judge his commission, deprive the people of a county of their constitutional right to choose one of their own public ser vants, and thus throw wide open the door for the admission of the greatest dangers to the State. He believed that powerful friends could avert the wrath of the injured and insulted cit izens of Lycoming county. But whom did he imagine to possess sufficient power to save him r rom the indigna tion of the rest of the people, who were all attacked by the blows which he.aimed at the county of Lycoming? YVhen lie and his followers had full time to contemplate the consequences of the act, to perceive the just con tempt which it had brought on all con cerned, they sought for some doorway of escape. Then it occurred to them to charge the responsibility on the At torney General. But Mr. Brewster wss not present at the time of the ac complishment of the act, and he did not hesitate to indignantly repudiate all connection with, or even knowl edge of the outrage. YY'hile the peo ple are about to gather in their majes ty and their might to rebuke their faithless executive, he may have the opportunity to calculate what it has cost to invade the sanctity of their courts of justice, and lay his sacrile gious hand on the palladium of their rights. The approbation of the ring who assisted him in the perpetration of the Ilerdie iniquity will but poorly repay him for the lass of the respect of the people, This was Geary's assault 011 the sta bility and integrity of the judiciary,the consequences of which the Supreme Court averted by timely and righteous interposition. Long before, he had made an attack on the sacred and ines timable right of trial by jury. By signing the act of April 4th, 1368, he took from the juries of the state the right to judge from theevidence of the VOL. 65.—WHOLE No. 5,509. extent of injury inflicted by railroad accident, and the amount of damages to be awarded. In signing this bill, John VV\ Geary undertook to say that three thousand dollars is the highest a ward that can be given for the loss of a limb, aud five thousand dollars for death by rail. This whimsical attempt to fix the amount of damages which a jury shall award in case of railroad ac cidents is not the worst feature of this act. It is a dangerous invasion of the right of trial by jury. If the legisla ture can limit the award of a jury in all eases of railroad damages to three or five thousand dollars, it can reduce the amont to ton or fifteen dollars.— The right to fix a given sum by law implies the right to declare certain persons entitled to no damages at all, as Geary and the legislature have done in the case of postal clerks, baggage masters, express and mail agents and many other employees on or about rail roads. It is not the great wrong which is imposed on the unfortunate viciims of railway accidents that we are now considering, but the blow which is in flicted on the inestimable right of trial by jury, by Geary and the corrupt leg islature of 1868. It has been well said that if the damages for accidents can be assessed by the legislature, there is nothing to prevent the legislature from limiting a recovery for the abduc tion of a wife or the seduction of a child for any injury to the person or property of the citizen. By affixing his signature to this act Geary gave at once the measure of his respect for trial by jury, and for the intelligence and integrity of his fellow citizens, as well as his estimate of the value of their lives and limbs. lie, at the same time, gave a signal proof of the complete subjection in which he is held by the ring which controls the legislation of the State. These two measures—the Calamity Act and the Herdic Act—are alone su!- ficient to difine the relations which John W. Geary occupies to the band of corruptionists who have poluted the statute books of the Commonwealth. The one attacked the Courts of the State, and the other invaded the right of trial by jury, aud took from the cit izen the pfotection which just laws have hitherto afforded him. This Ca lamity Act puts a price on the limbs and life of the citizen, and the Herdic act would have made honest judges of the courts dependent on the lobby for their offices. They are alike violative of every principle of law and right. In giving them his signature John W. Geary has furnished complete evidence of the cause which prevented him from arresting the corruptions of the ring. He is part of it and moves with it. With his certain decapitation, the ring igominiousiy dies. RICHES A CRIME. The Republicans abuse Hon. Asa Packer, Democratic candidate for Gov ernor in Pensylvania, because he is rich, and, as they say, able to buy votes and control legislation with money. This is the only objection the Repule licans have to a man who began life poor, and who by honest industry, bold undertakings, earnest enterprise and sagacious reasoning well worked to, succeeded in enriching himself and others by and through none but honor able exertions. Why not object to other men who are Republicans and possessed of mon ey? Beast Butler is rich—thou shalt not steal. Butler is a republican, but no Repub lican objects to him. Senator Pomroy is rich—thou shalt not rob. Yet Senator Pomroy robs and is in high favor with Republicans. Jay Cooke is somewhat wealthy—he is a republican—made his millions 011 of the Government in its dark hours. But it is all right. Grant is rich—has begged and been given fortunes. He is a republican—he is orthodox. Senator Jim Nye has begged for tunes from his friends and spent them in funny houses—he is a republican, and all right. Look at the list of rich Republicans —men in high authority—men who have stolen millions—men like Geary, who have robbed State and people men like the great mass of Republi can leaders, who have robbed, plundei ed, stolen from dead and living, van dalized, plundered, murdered, and de vastated, only for the purpose of gain and personal profit. Why not object to these men ? Why not object to the rotten, incom petent shoulder-strapped spoor.- thieves, cotten-stealers, and furniture poachers, who sacrificed the credit of the country and lives of thousands of soldiers in the lato crusade for cotton and niggers, and for bonds which en rich misers and impoverish labor? Why not speak out against these loy al men who have grown rich by rob bery, and who are the controlling per sons in the Republican party ? Why, they think honast wealth a crime; dishonesty, fraud, corruption, and rascality a virtue, do those prowl ing thieves and apologists for knave ry t—Pomeroy's Democrat. A WOODEN WEDDlNG— Marrying a block-head. A Golden Wedding—Marrying for money. A Crystal Wedding—Marry a "glass eye." A Tin Wedding—Marrying a milk 'maid. A Paper Wedding—Marrying an ed itor. A Connecticut man went to Ohio fifty-nine years ago, in forty-seven days. Last week he returned in twen ty-seven hours. The movement that was "on foot" has taken a carriage.
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