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Having, fcUu* been regularly licensed t p?oseeate Claims ;\guiul lie(.ovorriin*nt, pmrticulur attention will lie given to tb? collection of Military claims of all kinds: Pensions, Rack Pay, Bounty, Bounty Loans, Ac. Bedford, apr. 8,1864—tf. ALEX. KlXti, ATTORNEY AT LAW. And agent for procuring arrears of Pay and Bounty monev. Office on Juliana Street. Bedford, Pa. April 1, 1864—tf. KIM HKM. A- LIXdKM'ELTEB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LKIIPYIII), PA. Have formed a partnership in "lie practice of tHe Law. Office oa Jaliana Street, two doors Pouth of the Mcagel House, April 1,1664 —tf. JOHN MA.(OU. JCBTICE OP THE PEACE, HOPET.-ELL, BF.riFOItD COUNTY. Collections and all business pertaining to his office will be attended to promptly. YTill also attend to the salo or renting of ' Tngtrumctifs'of writing c* re fully prepared, A iso settling up partnerships and otiier ac counts. April 1, 1864—tf. .ixo.uowi::t, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEm-ofen, PA., April f, 1864,—tf. v ' :: JONEI'JI XT. TATK, ATTOItXKY AT Law, BeDVORJ> P A. WILL promptly attend to colleetvMii and all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining conn ties. Money advanced on Judgraen gft Notes ami o her Claims Has for salts Town Lots, in fintendille, and St. Joseph s on Bedford Railroad. Farms and umm proved'land in quantities to suit purchasers. Office opposite the Banking House of Leed A Schell. apt. 16, 1864—10 m, JOHN JL.UTZ, attorney AT LAW, asp Regularly licensed agent for the collection of Govern ment claims, bounties. bitek pay, pensions, Ac., will give > prompt Attention to nil businessentrusted to his (Are. Office with J. ii. Durborrqw, Esq., on Juliana .street, Bedford I"a. August IBth, ISltfc-s-tf. RUPP, SHANNON, & CO., BANKERS, .* ;i BedfOtsl, Pa., OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT, i made hoi the Kant- West, North and t j SuOta, and tlie general business of Exchange, trans ted Notes and Accounts Collected, and Remittances ai K saptly made. A L.ESTATE bought and. sol#. L* K * SuA!,SoJ( ' * *• U * ,K!,,CT apr. ._ " DANIEL BORDER. T, , tEET, TWO POORS WEbT OK THE BHRfORD j HOTEL, I TTT ST ***** " Bedford, Pa. r Mhm Uer * Uealer i* Jewelry, Speclnrilen, Ac ? yTKF WS ON HAND A STOCK OF FINE GOLD H AND SILVER WATCHES, SPBOTACLjBS OF Double Refined Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Kings, Of Gold Pen*. * 1 He wUI snPP 1 ? to order tmy thing in his line not on 14 - ==l-7 pgYsieuys. &c. = rr DBiVTISTRV. I N BOV vsER ' DCI>USt ° f Wood " , ..1 the second Monday, Tu*=d*y, and Wed- TT 'ILL spen u f month at Uopcwoll, the remaining W nejday, 0. j. inJ( t the duties of his three ! days at Ro Tjhor times he can lie found in his of profe ssion. At all > -,ting the (a#t Monday and Tucs • flee a 1 Woodbury, esc 1 , he wttl spend in Martins day of the same month, _ persons desiring operations burg, Elatr county, Penra. 41s operations war should call early, as time is ranted. Aug. 5,136#,.tf. —~ C. N. HICKOK DKXTIBT. OFFICE IN BANK BtHDING, 3BEDFORD, PA. April 1, 1864. tf. " "" DR. B. F. HARRY, Resnoctfi Gly lenders his professional services t0 l " c e'tlrcns of 1 !oJ f°rd and vicinity. Office and rosiden C° "j? pitt Street, i. n *ke building formerly occupied by Dr. J.--' *Ci V ' . L. MARBOURG, M. D. tt •.,<, r.erma nfcntly located respectfully tenders his" - . • „,,i ces to the eithfene of Bedford and vi ofeseio AW v 'ulian a Street, opposite the Bank, one. Rlt y* .' f n.ij A Palmer's office. , oor north of itaii April 1, 1864 H. ______ 1 a ',! , HOTKLH. CttK 11OTEL, | HtJIWXNGDON, PA. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. April 1864.— A UNION HOTEL. VALENTINE STECKMAN, PROPRIETOR, Wtll > ittTStxeet,ll3ecLfor<l, Pa., (t'armerL/the Globe ffotet.) tfTI irF public are assured that he has made ampo ar 'TiEto accooiuiodateall that may favor htm W A 1 splendid Stable attached. Cap'r 64. A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MO RALS. FROM THE SOIT It . liioiher Speech b) Jfff. Davis—Rebel Spe cie Sent Abroad—Miscellaneous Items. . "From files of late Southern papers we clip the following : STIR RING THE M UP. Congressman 7 !!. H. Hill, of Georgia, has made a speech at Macon, in which he comforted the donbting Rebels in the following magniloquent fashion : "Go to General Lee's army and you will find its spirit truly animating. Every brigade in it thinks it can whip Grant. Why, then, indulge in despondency ? It can do no good. "Georgians ! do not despond. In the midst of disaster be strong. Ido not doubt. Sherman, in Atlanta, must be destroyed. I said twelve months ago that if the enemy ever go to Atlanta Jus would be destroyed. It is true, I would have preferred his being defeated before he got there. But how we can and will crush the enemy ; and that very soon. 'Tf Lincoln is defeated and McClellan elected in the coming election, we may have peace. But there is no peace party in the North, if we are willing to be subjugated. All will subjugated us, if they cam Peace can only come by the defeat of the enemy. McClellan will never be elected un less Sherman is defeated. The preservation of our honor, the preservation of our State, the election of McClellan, and the securing of an hon orable peace, all depend upon the defeat ol' Sher man. Every good to freemen dci>ends upon his defeat..' ANOTHER SPEECH FROM .JEFF. DAVIS, The Richmond Whir/, of the 10th instant, has a speech ol Jeff. Davis, delivered at Augusta, Geor gia, Jeff, is stumping Georgia to prevent the State from seceding, and his speeches are full of" State rghts doctrines, and admonition to the ef fect that if the Confederacy does not win in their present desperate game the Southerners will be come serfs to the Yankees. The main object of his speech at Augusta is expressed, howcvtfr, in the following language : "We must do our duty and that duty is this.; ev ery man able to bear arms must go to the front, and all others must devote themselves to the causje at home. There must be no pleadings for exemp tion. We are fighting for existence." SPECIE SENT ABROAD. The \\ ilmington Journal says that the steamer Lynx, which recently left that port for Bermuda, was attacked by the blockading squadron, and, being struck by their shot, wa- beached to save her from sinking. The Journal gives much credit to the captain, Gordon, for saving fifty thousand dollars cf Government specie, and a large amount of bonds, both on Government and private ac count, all of which he saved by his individual ex ertions, sacrificing his own interest to do so. The Richmond Dispatch comments upon this case.as JOllows : "What may be the necessity of transmitting specie from this country to foreign parts by our Government we do not know. But Mr. Mem mingcr was much ceusured for shipping gold by , the blockade runners when sterling exchange was freely offered him. Three ships, having each twenty-five thousand dollars in gold, were captur ed by the enemy, and the sums with which they were freighted passed into his hands. The loss was considered heavy ; and as it could have been easily a voided, the Secretary of the Treasury was thought to have acted most unwisely. The fifty thousand dollars on board the Lynx seems to have had a very narrow escape. • "We do not know, we repeat, what necessity may prompt the Government to ship coin, and can hardly suppose that Mr. Trenholm is so im practical as to send it out of the country if an equivalent is within his reach. Gold certainly ought not to he sent away if a substitute can be found to be remitted in its stead. It is quite scarce enough in the country, and will be greatly needed as the basis of out circuiating medium, when the war is over. It is, moreover, so unsafe in running the blockade that that is enough of itself to induce Government and individuals to send anything else in preference that will answer as a medium of exchange. When the enemy gets hold of the gold it is gone from us forever. Not so the bills of exchange, which are payable to or der." , A NEW KIND OF FLOUR. Grain and flour having become scarce, the Reb els have devised a new source of supply, which is thus described by the Savannah Republican : "We have a sample of sorghum flour, made of the seed of Chinese cane, which may be seen at our office. The planter who sends it to us had no means of 1 citing this flour, not bad be taken o the hull of the seed before grinding, the conse quence is that the flour has a pinkish color. "Those who have made a trial of this excellent flour, represent it to be an admirable substitute for buckwheat. Made into hoc cake it is a very savory bread. It is likely to come into very gen eral use. if prepared like wheat flour by bolting. The price at which it can be offered in market may be assumed as fifteen or twenty dollars per sack. But, as an acre of sorghum yields from thirty to fifty bushels, ten dollars a sack would be a renu mprating price. The production of this grain the present year, in Georgia, must amount to five millions of bushels. We have this great supply of food to fall bek upon, in the event of a defi ciency of the common cereals, wheat and maize. •♦The season for buckwheat cakes comes in next month frost. Let the lovers of this bread try the sorghum flour, It is represented as be ing very similar when prepared as the former is. "As a substitute for coffee no parched grain or v ~r-ihle' ordinarily used as substitutes is at all LTalto sorbin wlmt is still more valuable to knbW, in the present scarcity of sugar a small quantity of the *yrP boded with ground seed makßs the coffee very pleasant and pali table." MORE SOUTHERN COMPLAINT OF THE NESS OF HOOD'S ARMY. •Somehow we can hardly avoid the impression that the great difference between the Army of Virginia and that of Tcunesse, is in its discipline, it is notorious that our own army, while falling ■ back from Dal ton, was even more dreaded by the 1 inhabitants than was the army of Sherman. The soldiers, and even the officers, took everything that BEDFORD. Pa-, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1864. came in their way, giving the excuse that if they din not the enemy would. <S ubsequently strag glers from our own army almost sacked the stores in Atlanta. Now complainsgloud and deep, come up from that portion of Georgia iu the neighbor hood of our army, telling of outrages committed by straggling squads of cavalry, and of insults of fered to the families of the bast and most patriotic citizens. This straggling— not confined to caval ry—this pillage, from which, if report speaks truth, even officers are not free , besides its intrinsic wrong, is wholly subversive of discipline and de structive of all hopes of efficiency. If not check ed by some master spirit it presents a gloomy prospect of disasters to come. How different from Lee's army, which, even in a hostile State, behaved itself with marked pro priety. Hoio different even from Sherman s army which pursued its stem ami ruthless path from tlhattanooga without straggling, and committed outrages simply as a matter of policy and in obedi ence to orders. License is fetal to discipline and to efficiency. Even the modified license ol the Maryland campaign ruined the cavalry oftlie army ol the Valley of \ irginia, and it has done noth ing worthy of its reputation or its real force since its return to Virginia. Not much of a Jubii.ee. —Do you ask fin* an explanation of these rapidly occurring disasters in a portion of the State where the Confederates, un til the ll'ch, never suffered defeat It is simply and easily given. We have two enemies to contend with in the Valley, one of whom has never been beaten since Noah drank too much wine and lay in his tent. Those enemies are the Federal army and John Barly Corn. Sheridan has been largely reinforced, and the Valley i running with apple brandy. Here is the key to our reverses. — Officer* of kiffhjxaitecm— 1/1.1 of very high position—h-tve, (o VMS an honest English word, Iteea drunk —too dnnu\: to command themselves, rnnch less an army, a divi sion, a brigade or a rcyimmf. And where officer-: in high command are in the habit of drinking to excess, we nmy be sure their pernicious example will be followed by those of lower grades. Hie cavalry force that had been operating in the Valley, and flitting hither and thither along the Potomac and Shenandoah, were already demoral ized, and, since their last visit to Maryland they have been utterly worthless. They were in the habit of robbing friend and foe alike. They have been known to Strip Virginia women of all they had —widows, whose sons were in our army—and then, bum their houses. At Hancock, in Western Ma ryland, they stopped a minister of the gospel hi the street, on the Sabbath day, and made him stand and deliver his watch and money. These mon strous truths are stated in the official report of the officer commanding a part of these cavalry forces, and which I have read. Do you wonder, then, that McCausland's and Brq/iley Johnson's com mands, just returned from such an expedition and loaded down with plunder, should have been dis gracefully surprised and dispersed as they were some weeks ago near Moorfield.— Richmond En <fitcrvr, (Jet. 67 A DINNER PARTY IN NORWAY. —There were, perhaps, a hundred and fifty guests assembled when we entered. I wondered how we were all going to be accomodated. "I dare say you do not have these sort of dinner parties in England," said 11 young lady tome, whom I had met the evening before. ' 'We always, at such parties, stand up to dinner." My answer was cut short by our being ushered into the dining room. As I wished to do atJiome as they (lid at Rome, | I first turned to a littl* side-table, on which were arranged sardines, anchovies, "Throndhjem aqua vit," and other appetite-ticklers. I won't describe the dinner; suffice it to say, it was most excellent. But I most earnestly recommend any one going to Christiania to practice dining standing up before leaving home, for it requires an uncommon knack to be able to manage it properly. Try; take a plate with a bit of chicken, a slice of ham, some peas and potatoes on it for instance. Hold this in your left hand—for all the chairs and side-tables are monopolized by the elderly people—and cut and eat with your right. In the mean time, keep con stantly drinking wine with imaginary guests, and get your sisters to push gently up against you from all sides. And withal you should not omit to pay some attention to the study of attitudes. Assume the best posture for preserving your " gravity in a state of stability," while at the same time seek to avoid a straddle, as if you were on the deck of a rolling'steamer, otherwise you may be animadverted On by t heoompany. You must not feel annoyed, just asfe-ouhave succeeded in cutting up the chicken and ham in nice little bits, and have relinquished the knife for the fork, a jolt from behind disturbs the direction a mouthful is taking, and sends it outside your shirt-front instead of inside. Neither must you be irritated at feeling that some one is pouring a plateful of gravy down your back. I upset a glass of wine over a young gentleman's legs (an elderly mau of stout basis, who bumped against me, was the cause), and I am ashamed to say that I looked hard in another direction, as if I knew nothing at all about the matter. Another s>ieee of advice I would venture to suggest, —especially if you dislike using dirty forks.—is, that you keep a tight hold of your own. Forks arc always at a premium, and if you put yonrs down for one moment, you'll never see it again. I cannot suggest the modest stran ger's doing anything better with his wine-glass than putting it in his pocket when not in immediate use; for I am convinced that not one of the ladies or gentlemen present drank out of the same glass twice. After dinner, which was over about six. the gen. tlemen strolled out into the grounds to smoke. — The ladios don't at all object to the smell of the fragrant weed, and nearly all of the clergy indulge in it. You can judge for yourself, when I inform you that in 1855. when the population consisted of 1,490,047 souls—l like exactitude —the* imports of tobacco amounted to about 'd,3oo,oot)pouiv,te; which gives an allowance of two pounds and a quarter to each soul, not deducting women or children. One ! gentleman to whom I was introduced informed me that he always had a smoke the last thing at night, after he had got to bed; aud, from some incidental 1 remarks he made, I discovered that ho was a niar • * 'nail, and occupied the same apartment as his "VV* . -vrs, coffee, and its attendant Curacoa, wi • V i i "oprcciated. we returned to the the had tau lasted , M ■ throughout an uncommon ..' pleasant o -• time had passfcd very quickly. AH tli* Year Round. BOARDING VERSUS HOUSEKEEPING. s Iho newly married are universally falling back j on the old idea of beading. It is, they say, the - easiest. a*d undoubtedly the most economical ; 1 there is no furniture to buy, no expensive stock of - household linen to purchase and make np, no coal and flour to lay in, no frightful rent days, and no servants' wages to pay, or servants hoard to find, this is true to a certain extent, but not all true, and it need not be half so true as it is. As an offset, it must be> remembered that board is very high, and constantly growing higher and getting poorer , that in a little while complications may be expected in the shape of children, and that, in the meantime, instead of enjoying freedom and . domestic comfort, the young husband and wife have to submit to all sorts of tiresome restraints, to a diet which generally excludes everything that they have a particular likeing for, and to the ab sence of the great charm of newly wedded life, the feeling of joint proprietorship in their own home. Moreover, boarding, where it is not a necessity, is wicked—its tendency is immorality.— In large boarding houses it is considered absurd for a man to pay the attention of a husband and a gentleman to his own wife. Especially If he be recently married, lie is madethe target of a sense less crow 1 of young men and women, who aim their silly shafts at him until he is shamed out of his manhood, and becomes either a frivolous male flirt, or leaves bis wife alone while he seeks the solace of neighboring billiard saloons. But, say the young ladies, what are we to do ? You ac knowledged that, at present prices, it is impossible lor some of us to go to housekeeping, and yet dis courage boarding. What else can we do ? Not at all; wo never said it was impossible to go to housekeeping, only-impossible to purchase Brus | -els carpets and expensive furniture ; but those are not necessary to the most delightful kind of housekeeping. Bo ? Why go to work as your mother or your grandmother did before you.— Furnish two rooms, if you cannot a whole house, ' arid with such plain, simple articles as you can af ford. A little taste and a little industry will soon make fhem attractive, sensible people will prefer them to marvelous exhibitions of French uphol ster}' ; and. most important of all, asyou will dis cover sometime, you will have your husband to - yourself. Don't board. — N., F Illustrated News. < COMPETENT WITNESSES, While we have Copperhead stump speakrs in our county, going about whining that the rebell ion cannot be -übdued by arms, and that some other*'way ought to be tried, the following are some of the authorities whose voices are heard on the other side : Says Lieut. Gen. Grant: — "The end is not far distant, if we will only be true to ourselves. All we want now to insure an early res-toration of the Union is a determined u nity Of SeUtimcnf XnrtL " s.,vc aa P Gen. Hooter : "This Union must be preserved, and there is 10 way of preserving it, hut by the powers of our arms —by fighting the conspiracy to death. The lebellion is tottering while I speak ; it is going iown, and will soon tumble into ruin.' Says Maj. Gen. Meade : "Dismissing, as now useless to discuss, all ques tions as to the origin of this war, we have daily and hourly evidences that it exists, and that it can only be determined by hard fighting, and by determined efforts to overcome the armed enemies of the government." Says Maj. Gen. Burnside : "Would it not be cowardly for us to say that this rebellion cannot be crushed and the authority of the government sustained ? There is in my mind no question of it. There can be 110 such thing as laying down of arms or cessation of hos tilities until the entire authority of the govern ment is acknowledged by every citizen of the country." Says Maj. Gen. Logan : "The greatest victory of the rebels, greater than Mauassas, and their only one that we can give them, a particle of hope, will be to defeat the wa* party of the incoming campaign." Says Major General Dix : "My desire is to do all in my power to sustain the government in its efforts to put down the re bellion—an object to be effected, in my judgment, by a steady and unswerving prosecution of the war." Says the old veteran Major General Wool: "Nothing for aught that I candiscover will save the Union and its government but the success of Grant, Sherman, Farragut and Sheridan.'' DR. BRECKENKIDGE ON AN ARMIS 1 ICE. The veteran Rev. Dr. Breckenridge, in a recent speech at Lexington, Ivcntueky, said . "I cannot now go into a consideration of the platform in detail. But.this great cry is an arm istice and a convention of the Stacs, II iiat after that? They may not make peace, and then what is to be done? But, first, how is the convention to be called ? It requires two-thirds of Congress to vote for such a call, which call must bo ratified by three-fourths of the States ; and these votes you never can get. M hat chance is there of getting three-fourths of the "States to go for a convention i for th purpose ol bringing us under Jeff rial is, lor for dividing the Union ? The thing is absurd. If it cannot be done, what then ? Then we are in favor of any other peaceable remedy. Dear, bles sed souls ! Any other peaceable remedy; nothing that is not peaceable. Now, for God s sake and for your country's sake, look at it. Hero we are, j after between three and four years war ; after spending two or three thousand millions of dol lars ; after spilling the blood of a million of our brothers, and consigning five hundred thousand of them to their graves ; after ennquering an ex tent of territory 1500 miles in length by 600 in breadth ; we have an army in every State of the Confederacy, and the majority of them under our control; wc have every stronghold taken from them except Mobile and Charleston and Rich mond ; and notwithstanding all this wo arc asked, as if we were a set of poltroons, to disgrace our selves to the latest generation of mankind, to sac rifice everything wc have fought for and .that is worth living for, and make all the world -uy free government is worthless, that it cannot take care of itself. God Almighty in heaven grant every man who utters such a thought may be choked until he be< tomes a peni* tent and better man 1 k "No, sir !no sir .! we will never do any such e thing. We love pea ee—love it for itt' own sake. ; They love peace because they are afraid we will if first whip the rebels ai id then punish thci.'i- They d want peace that they il lay make new conspiracies, 0 and the peace they propose is disunion peace, . which means separation of the States and endless , ruin to the whole country . Ten thousand times 1 bettor would it have been for us to have acquiet , ,eed at first, and never shed' a drop of blood, than < ; under these circumstances and at this time to make such a peace as that." I BEAUTIFCD ANECDOTE OF A. GREAT MAN.—Sir William Napier was one day taking a long country walk near Freshfbrd, when he met a little girl, about five years old, sobbing over a broken bowl; she hail dropped and brokeu it in bringing it back from the field to which she had take n her fathered dinner in it. and she said she would be beaten on her return home for having broken it; then, with a sudden gleam of hope, she innocently looked up into his face and said, 'But ye can mend it, can't ye?' My father explained that he could not mend the bowl, but the trouble he oould, by the gift of i sixpence to bay another. However,:, on opening his purse it was empty of silver, an d he had tc make amends by promising to meet h is little friend in the same spot at the same hour next day, and to bring the , ixpcnoe with him, bidding her, mean while, tell her mother she had seen a gentleman who would bring her the money for the bowl next day. The child, entirely trusting him r went on her way comforted. On his return home he found an invitation awaiting him to dine in Ba th the fol lowing evening, to meet some one whom he spec ially wished to see. He hesitated for some little time, trying to calculate the possibility of giving the meeting to his little friend of the broken bowl and of still being in tin\e for the dinner party in Bath but finding this could not he, lie wrote to decline accepting the invitation on the plea of a 'preengarment, saying to ua, T cannot disappoint her. she trusted ma so implicitly.'— Bruce 1 # Life of Gen. Sir William ffapier. BENEDICT Ait NOTJ> INDORSED.— Tbe Democrats held a meeting in the street, in Terre Haute, last Thursday evening. Mr. Mack and Colonel Cook er!y addressed the company present, abov.'t half of whom were Democrats. At the close of Oookerly's speech many voices called for Washburne, trie Re publican candidate for Congress. Washburne moun ted the box, holding in his hand a cony of a speech of Dan. Voorhees. inside of wliich be had pinnO-d a certain letter of Benedict Arnold. Democrats. I hold in my hand a speech of Daniel Voorhees, will you hear mc ?'" To this were answers of yes, yes.' Washburne read • "Who among you dare speak or write what he thinks against the ty ranny which has robbed you of your property, im prisoned your sons, drags you to the field of battle, and is daily deluging, your country with blood? Democrats, do you indorse tliat?" said Washburne. "Yes. yes, read it all,'' shouted the Democrats. — '"But. replied the speaker, ''that is not the speech of Voorhees, hut of Benedict Arnold, the traitor. Do vow indorse it now?" "Yes, no, yes, 110," come agafn. "I'Qcrats. and Dabel seemed likely to JU'WD LETTER FROM TENNESSEE. MKM PUIS, TEXX., Sept. 24, 18G4. EUITOK IXQCIREK : Believing that the numerous readers of the IXQUI KER would be pleased to peruse a letter from the ar my. with your permission we will give them a short history of our travels since enlisting in the "war for the Union." We will tax their patience as little as possible. Wc left home on the last day of August, with the intention of going to Harrisburg, enlisting thc-re and being credited to Bedford. W hen we reached Bedford we changed our notions somewhat in regard to this, from the fact that they did not seem to interest themselves much in regard to our welfare. ! As things at Harrisburg were in a rather confused j state at that time, we concluded to go to Philadelphia and enter the .Navy, if possible. Arriving there we we found there was only one recruiting office open for that branch of the service, and that crowded to overflowing. We wei e told that if we wished to enter tho Navy Camden City would be the most likely place. We accordingly went there and found it about the same as at Philadelphia. We were now compelled to choose some other branch of the service. We un derstood that they were enlisting men at Trenton for the cavalry service, paying six hundred dollars local bounty for one year. Thither we made, up our minds to go. Sure, it was enlistiug out of our native State, but we come to the conclusion that we could serve our country with as much honor iu a New Jersey re giment as in one from Pennsylvania. We took the ears for Trenton, distant 31 miles, and in less than an hour from the time we presented ourselves at the Provost Marshal's office, we were examined, muster ed in and paid our local bounty. We were immedi ately sent to Camp "Perrine," the rendezvous for all recruits of the State. The copperheads at home think that the army is receiving uo additions to its ranks. In this they have been sadly duped. Men were enlisting there with a rapidity never before equalled, since the breaking out of the rebellion. All that is wanted now is the draft for the deficiency of the 600,000 call and we will be all right. We remained here until the 11th, when we were ordered to get in readiness to leave for our regiment, which was then at White's Station, 19 miles from Memphis. There was nearly 600 of ns altogether. All along the route we were received with the wildest enthusiasm. At Pittsburg we were taken to the City Hall and treated to a good supper by the "Subsistence Committee." In justice to the ladies of Pittsburg we must say that it beat any thing of the kind that we ever had the pleasure of scraping ah ac . qunintance with. Every thing was clean—some thing very seldom witnessed where soldiers ant fed by the bounty of the citizens —and betokened care in ■ the getting np of it- For the meal we had bread and | batter, coffee, cheese, meat, apples and trackers.— The organization has been in progress since August, 1 1861, and is sustained by tho voluntary ' of the citizens. 1 From Louisville, Ky., we marched to Portland * where we embarked on board the steamer "Flora" " for Cairo, 111. This was on the 16th. Oh the even ' ing of the 18th we hove too at Paducah. Hore were " visible signs of war. The fort captured from tho reb " els is situated below the town on th< bank of the riv er. It was taken by eolbted troops, and before the e rebels could be brought to a sense of their duty, three e furious charges had tO;be made. VVewere*tohl by t the citizens that after the surrendergß'o the \ fort 40 e dusky patriots were lying at the main entrance. It is a work of considerable size. The town also bears unmistakable evidence of the efficiency of Uncle Sam s gunboats. At Cairo we embarked on the steamer "Memphis," for Memphis, Tenn., reaching there at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 21st. At 8 A. M. we landed and marched to camp, distant about 2 miles. Memphis is a "right smart" place, but like all the Southern citiei that we have seen, lacks that air of cleanliness, visible in northern ci ties. Clouds oi dust was all ns as we marched through the city. Our Camp is pleasantly situated in a nice woods with plenty of good water near at hand, an indispensable allele to complete our toilets with, this dusty weather. Our regiment ", brigaded with the 19th Penna., Ist Mississippi, itu Indiana and 4th Missouri, ajl cavaiiy regiments, and are attached to the Oth armCcojtos. Part of the regntaeat at this time are out on a raid. We are apnea with the Spencer repeating rifle, tftftiost effi. cient weapon of destruction. The regiment now numbers over 1200 men, with more recruits yet to come on. IVe belong to Coinpaay '*•£," Captain Scudder, and are under as tine a let of officers as were ever placed in command of men. As we have already drawn thk out rather,lengthy we will close. . More anon. J A t.fcEit* SMITH, ALBEKT C. SHAFFER, PATRICK HAIKW, JABOBDEREMER. a SZirThe following letter, intended for publication before the October election, has not loat its interest ■° for the November election: * -r BEFORE PETERSBURG, VA., \ Sept 17. T£C4. / i- For the Bedford Inquirer. n Men of Pennsylvania, the i.ssuesr are now lieforo :t you for consideration and decision. abide n the result as you establish it forgo od orwil. We 1 ask you to support Abraham Liucwn because we be . lieve hi 3 re-election will fully vindicate the authority . of the National Government, awt fully .establish the 3 fact that the freemen of the loyal states* We. able to r sustain the existence of the Union and Govern - j ment against the hazard of oppositicui frofl|i|broad or 1 at home. It needs no } tablish this position because our political opponents t now antagonize us to achieve Vtiircly result,. We have received the isWs l of Idttfc Mac.'a f nomination for the Presidency on the copperhead ticket. The rebels appear to urination with much joy. Straws show which waythe wind blows. For my part lam done with Mc£kllan now I and forever. If he would refrqity.Jfrom associating with men like Fernando Wood, Loig and other no f ted copperheads, he might possibly stand some ! chance for the occupation of the White House. God deliver him from conducting the the affeire of this nation. It is time that the North shouTdsnow that those who are trying to get their support,are men who have debased themselves—men to ejiom we . have looked for guidance in thiahour of our peril men to whom we have entrusted the reins of Gov ernment and who have proven unwor thy of our trust. The men who will giye them their support are no better. Some times I can hardly think it possible that men raised "ana educated under the auspices of the best governipcnt enjoyed by any people, can have so degene rated ft*, scale of morality and love of country, as to become objects of contempt rather than sympathy. 1 blush to think , that men who but a short time l*efoue this war broke . stitutions, dre"tb-ua/f-irt>ufniv?c>v' jr "' ftee in ardice. cringing in the attitude df supplication to the shrine of the so-called Southern Confederacy. BEX J. HARRIS WALKER. Co. A, 84th P. V. P. S. —Gen. McClellan is losing ground every day. His letter produces no effect on the soldiers. Wo think he keeps bad company. COMPANY K. 208 TH I?E<;T., P. V. 4 CAMP NEAR PETERSBURG, VA, I S&pt, 23d 1804. j EDITOR IXQ. Permit me through your columns to give the read ers of Bedford county further particulars of tho or ganization of cornj iany K.2oßth Reg't., P. V r . Ist Serg't., James R- 0 Neal. 2nd Serg't., William H. Gates. 3rd Serg't., Wilson M. Williams. 4th Serg't., Oliver C. Ramsey. sth Serg't, James H. Foor. Ist Corporal, George l/iley. 2nd Corporal, Samuel W. W illiama. 3rd Corporal, John W. hiams. 4th Corporal, Joseph S. Bussard, sth Corporal, Joseph Me: tsersmith. 6th Corporal, George Hev'ener. 7th Corporal, Jacob Chamberlain. Bth Corporal, George E. Stilly. Volunteers are pouring in v ery fast, and a more orderly body of men have not met together in a mil itary capacity since the commencement of the war. Six full regiments are now in th is camp' and in close proximity to Butler's intrenchm ents. The "Dutch Gap'" canal work is progressing favoradly and will be completed shortly. The Company's health is good and all are looking forward to the election of old Abe with much anxiety ; of course they don't look for the election of any body else. The John nies say if McClellan is elected, their independence will be established and the war shall go on, bat if Lincoln is elected they will gtve~rip, TorTHey are ful- ly acquainted with LUKOWS policy. Brisk firing is kept np (lay aiid' iltght all along th line. Very heavy cannonading yeeteewr ears ever., hour, but there is little, harm done by the rebel guns. Since the magnificent victory of Greft. Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. the Johnnies arc verypouty, some of our boys nsk-thoin if they ever heard of Gen. Sheridan. They 'hen getflfcoir muskets up and if the Yank leaves, his head up two minutes, it is a target for Johnny's shot, i We are all very anxious togee the Bedford IN QUIRER. We will send you' sonic new subscribers very soon. Very Resp. yours, Joint E. SATTERNWUN j: . : ' : i 1 farn.Eß's FRONT, Va. \ Sept. 29, 1864. J MR. EDITOR; Having a RtfWlSStffcltmer' I write yon to give yonr readers ihjßedfbrd UountMthe .doings of Co. 11, *2OMh Regiment. The objects ot our Company are Capt. Harvey Wishart, Ist Lieut, War, G. Eicholtz, 2d Lieut. David Keagy. They art' ntfen worthy the position they occupy, awl are well liked by ever* member #f|& oympauy,. •> Ypfuihuuible ebirespond ent has been appointed Regimental Post faster. We received marching order" yesterday and were brought"up heVS WfKe frbht :ri"Kh-ste, and now occupy the centre of the line. We are holding this post while , the fight is going on,at, the right. To-day there was very heavy fighting on the right and the Rebs badly used up. fJiotigh many of mdrbrave boys have fought their ktet liattie. Heavy tiring is heard toward* Petersburg 'Jus evening, is nothing unusual. I think Jhe Rebel will soon hare the dear obi ffeg wilViug over It, You will please sendniy papipr to me instead of to. my fortner abode, as we are all anxious to have Bed ford county news. As this, is my. first utumipt at tiewspajm corres pondence you sions, and "as Etciyuy; Is th& S6til of wit," I cloacfr * the present, ii fteap'k Yours. ' *0 DAVID S. JOHNSON Vo! 37: No. 44
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