' ' ' * '' BY MEYERS & MENGEL. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. THB BEDFORD GAXETTK is published every Thurs 4v morning by MEYERS A MUSSEL, AT $2 00 per annum, tf 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 i he State unless paid for is ADVANCE, and all such übscriptions will invariably be discontinued at -he 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 cents per line. Editorial notices fifteen ceDts per line. All legal Notices of every kind, and Orphans Court and Judicial Sales, art required by late 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. t> months. 1 year. *One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares . - - 000 900 16 00 Three squares *-- 800 12 00 20 00 Ouarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Halt" 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. THK 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. |_JR°AU letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. griutiny. II K B E1) FO &L> GAZETTE POWER PRESS PRINT ING ESTABLISHMENT, BEDFORD, PA. MEYERS & MENGEL PROPRIETORS. Having recently made additional im provements t< our office, we are pre pared to execute all orders for PLAIN AND FANCY JOB PRINTING, With dispatch and in the most SUP E 810 11 STYLE. CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CHECKS, CERTIFICATES, BLANKS. DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE CEIPTS, CARDS, HEADINGS, ENVEL OPES, SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN VITATIONS, LABELS,ire. ire. Our facilities for printing POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, etc., FOR CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS, ARE UNSURPASSED. "PUBLIC SALE" BILLS Printed at short notice. We can insure complete satisfaction us to time and price riMIE INQUIRER BOOK STORE, opposite the Mengel House, BEDFORD, PA. The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the public the following articles belonging to the Book Business, at CITY RETAIL PRICES : M ISCELLANEt>US BOOKS. N O V E L S. 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, T'ilgrim's Progress, Ac., Ac., AE. Episcopal Prayer 'looks. Presbyterian Hymn 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 ilimdrcd 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, Aceount Books, Cash Books. Pocket Ledgers, Time Books, \ Tuck Memorandums, Pass Books, Money Books, Pocket Books, Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ac INKS ANI) INKSTANDS. Barometer Inkstands, Uutta Pereha, Coooa, and Morocco Spring Pocket Inkstands, Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools, Flat Glass Ink Wells and Back, Arnold's Writing Fluids, Hover's Inks, Carmine Inks, Purple Inks, Charlton's Inks, Eukolon for pasting, Ac. PENS AND PENCILS. Gillot's, Cohen's, Hollowbush A Carey's, Payson, Dunton, and Scribner's Pons, Clark's Indellible, Faber's Tablet, Cohen's Eagle, Office. Faber's Gutikoecht's, Carpenter's Pencils. PERIODICALS. Atlantic Mon.hly, Harper's Magazine, Madame Itemorest'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. Lippincott's Magazine, Riverside Magazine, Waverly Magazine, Ballou's Magazine, Gardner's Monthly. Harper's Weekly, rank Leslie's 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 Ontie's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac. Constantly on band to accomodate those who want to purchase living reading mattter. Only a part of the vast number of articles per t lining to the Book and Stationery business, which wo are prepared to sell chouper than the cheapest, are above enumerated. Give us a call We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arr'ngt,- metit we expect to sell as cheap as goods of this tass are sold anywhere no 2 t pijsrrUancous. T7l L E C T R I C TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY S OFFICE, Nos. 23 A 25 Nassau Street, NEW YORK. Organized under special charter from the State of New York. CAPITAL $5,000,600 50,000 SHARES. $lOO EACH. DIRE C T O It S. flow. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia. PAULS. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Ba tterfield A C New York. ISAAC LIYEUMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen tral Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company, New York. lion. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y. 0. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New York. FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs A Hardcastle. New Y"ork. NICHOLAS MICKLES, New Y'ork. O F FIC E lIS. A. S. CURTIN, President. N. MICKLES, Vice President. GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth,) Treasurer. HON. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor. The Chinese Government having (through the Hon. Anson Burtingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting tbo 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 once, between the following port*, viz : Population. Canton 1,000,000 Maeoa 60.000 Hong-Kong 250.000 Swatow 200,000 Amoy 250,000 Foo-Ctiow .. i,asn.ao<) Wan-Chu 300.0(10 Ningpo 400 ooii Hang Chean . 1,200,000 Shanghai 1,000,000 Total 5.910,000 I 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 laud lines, and establishing a speedy and trustworthy means of communication, which mast 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 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; but few yet realize that she contains more than a third of the human race. The latest returns mf.de 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 geaporta, 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. |j^ s 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, World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and in the Philadelphia North American, Pre.s *, Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. Shares of this company, to a limited number, may be obtained at $5O each, $lO payable down, $l5 on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing Deedhber 1, 1868, on application to DREXEL A CO., 31 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. sept2syl I • E combine style with neatness 01 fit. And moderate prices with the heat workmanship JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE * 604 MARKET STREET, GEO IV. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA. Iseplt,'#B.yl ] rpifE BEST PLACE TO BUY _f choice brands of chewing Tobaccos and Ci gars, at wholesale or retail, is at Osier's. Hood natural leaf Tobaccos at 7a cents. Try our 5 cent Yara anil Havauna cigars—they cant be beat, unelBm3. BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1869. gnf-w nuffln about dat dar, he reckon " and while she went up stairs to get it for hint he em- bexzled two chunks of corned beef and a coVl potato, and tlie first thing you know lie will be in the penitentiary, and all along of your blaine foolish ness." "I declare, Mr. Wilkins, you are a scandalous story-teller." "And there's the boys, it was only last Saturday that they took their crowd up stairs, and played that the garret was Africa, and one half of them represented heathen, and ran a round without a stitch of clothes on them and Bucephalus Alexander he distributed my clean shirts among them, and they upset all the barrels, tired away all my old books in a skir mish with the savages, and one of them, who was a cannibal, like to gnawed the whole thumb oft' of Win. Henry, trying to swallow him, because he said he was a missionary, and it ain't well vet." "Pshaw, Mr. Wilkins, you talk like a—" "And, then, what must Mary Jane do, but try to represent a heathen mother; wholly unenlightened by Christianity, trying to drown her in fant in the sacred river, which she rep resented by dousing the eat in the bath-tub, but that animal wouldn't play fair, and liked to scratch the whole hide off of her, whileshe Jet the water run until the room was full, and it poured a perfect cascade out of the window, which she said was to repre sent the overflowing of the Nile, like she read about in her Sunday school lesson. I say it's perfectly outrageous to bring up your children in this kind of style. If you love the heathen, why go among them, but don't go to poisoning the minds of your innocent offspring." "As long as you have made such a fuss about the sewing-circle, Mr. Wil kins, I'll tell you what I've been mak ing there." "You needn't mind, I don't want to hear it. I'm tiredof hearing you talk. Just give me a chance to speak a word now, will you ?" "But " "Oh don't'but' me; I won't listen to you." "I wasn't sewing for the heathen, I didn't stick a stitch for the heathen at the sewing-circle." "Well, what in the mischief were you fooling your timeaway down there for, then?" "Why—l—was—making—you—a dozen—new—shirts—while—you—were abusing—me—you'll break my heart— yes, you will." "There, now, don't cry, my darling. Don't cry, I was only in fun; I was only joking, you understand. I didn't mean it. There now, don't cry, I say, Sally. Well, v bellow, then, bel loV. You may cry until you are tir ed. I never did see such a woman as you are." And Mr. Wilkins took a pull at the covers, turned overand went to sleep. But he seemed to be reconciled to her next day, for he called her several hard names because she left the baby cover ed up on the sofa, so that he inadver tently sat down on it. -■ 1 ' ' ™ ' A curious suit is about to be tried be fore a Memphis justice of the peace. A white man has a young hull pup. The puj) bit a bare-footed negro in the heel as he was passing. The negro jumped and two of the pup's teeth i were thereby abstracted. The negro sues the white man for allowing a vi cious dog to run at large. The white man files a crosscut saw bill and sues the negro for having a heel tough o nough to drag a dog's tooth out. The Hon. Edward Everett, when a young man just out of college, was in vited to give an oration in the city of Salem. At the dinner, Judge Story called up Mr. Everett by the following sentiment: "Fame follows applause where ever it (Everett) goes!'' Mr. Everett arose instantly, and gave the following: "Themembers of the legal profession! However high may be their aspirations , they can never rise higher than one slory. The Chinese do not steep their tea in a pot, hut put it in your cup, pour in hot water, covering the cup to re tain the steam, allowing it to stand live minutes, draining off and refilling. The second cup is considered the best, and the third filling is very good. But when the strength is exhausted, the grounds are thrown into the jars, tak en outdoors, spread on clothes, dried, doctored, repacked, and sent over to us. The following sentiment is attribut ed to Napoleon Bonaparte: "A hand some woman pleases the eye, but a good woman pleases the heart. The one is a jewel—the other a treasure." A man in Wisconsin lias invented a pocket stove warmed by alcohol. We have seen one of them. It looks very much like a pint flask filled with bran dy- Sleeping on feather beds, or with the hands raised above the head, is very bad for the lungs. So says a doctor of experience. An old lady was asked what she thought of the eclipse. She replied: "Well, it proved one thing, and that is the papers don't always tell lies." ■MBMMMMHMMMMBI In an Illinois cemetery is a tomb stone, bearing only this simple but touching epitaph, "Gone up." A sailor once had a high dispute with his wife, who wished him to the devil. A store in Denver city has a sign as follows: FyNe KUT 2. bak(). "Veil, Jake is a shmart fellow. He can vip his own taudy." Light literature—the books of a gas com nany. Used up when it rains -an umbrella. VUNSII 1 Ano i i' 4> r.oKUE AV ASIIIM;- TOX. Hi* Ilnnse aixl Habit* in PhilH