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.