IHf ifittlfovtl fttljttim. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, JAN, 27, 1865. TAXATION. I'he New York Tribune thus cries loudly for more tax:— "Let us have a twenty-five per cent, income tax, if necessary, with a searching inquiry into every man' s business and receipts, which double the pres ent taxes on all luxuries and superfluities.'' "Well, there is a consolation in the fact that a "J"> per cent, tax would only come four times. Hut wouldn't it be better to take all the property at once, and allow a fellow so much per week, to li\ e on —Heading Gazette. 21st inst. The Gazette's arithmetic is sadly at fault. If an income was derived from itself, a fixed tax of auy amount would diminish it from year to year, hut never exhaust it. Nor would a fixed tax ever exhaust a fised principal. In order to exhaust a principal in four years, commencing the first year with 25 per ceut. the second year the tax would have to be 33* per cent, the third year 50 percent, the fourth year 100 per ceut. But. of course uo such tax is proposed. The idea >o extensively and persistently propogated by the Democratic pre- -, that taxation will impoverish and exhaust the source .-, of wealth, is thoroughly false. A tax ation of any amount by a Government, to carry on it- own operations, or to pay a debt contracted to its own subjects, andd not impoverish its wealth to the extent of a single dollar. But an income tax is the most easily borne of any form of taxa tiori. It does not touch the principal it only ef fects profit ,. If a coal dealer in Heading makes a profit of a thou-and dollars a year by his sales, and pays an income tax of over 25 per cent, it i> not easy to see how it will effect the profits on his sales of the following year, or if the editor of the Gazette pay- an ineome tax of, 250 dollars on the profits of his paper, how will it curtail his bus iness, or reducr his profits of the following year? It is not neces.-ary from the context we have ta ken. to to take into account the increase of profits, to be derived from employing the total accruing profits as capital. The whole system of taxation so far as it effect the ultimate resources of the country, does no' seem difficult to comprehend. The Government is not a miser, it does not hoard its treasurer: it i only a transfer agent at most, immediately paying out the money it receives, back again to the sour ces from which it came. "WE have but one fault to find with the man agem - v.: of that paper, and that is, that it per mits the Harrisburg Telegraph to outstrip it in circulation on the railroads and through the hand of news dealers. Democrats, when traveling, would like to buy democratic papers, but when none are to be had, they are compelled to resort to the enemy's journals for news. The injury done to the cause, in this way. is incalculable.—Ga zette. The important fact that about nineteen twen tieths of the circulation of the principle dailies in the country is Republican Union, is a pretty strong argument in itself, in favor of the "cause" they su-tain. If the editor of the Gazette were an honest and discerning inquirer after the truth he would look a little further into this significant circumstance, than the above paragraph, indi cates his wont to look, lie would ask and honest ly answer in his own mind, how it is that nineteen twentieths of the readme. .>n,l influential part of our citizens, do not like to boy "Democratic" papers. There is a report current that Fort Fisher has fallen. We cannot vouch for its correctness. — Ga zette. The "report" alluded to above was the official announcement of Admiral Porter, Gen, Terry and Assistant Secretary of War, Dana, giving the de tails of the fall of Fort Fisher, received in this place in the daily papers of Wednesday about twenty four hours before the Gazette went to press. Wonder if the readers of the Gazette , who get no otherpapcr and who want to see the impor tant News, are satisfied with such "reports." . The Fall of Gold. When the flag goes up, gold goes down. On Thursday afternoon the sales closed at 210 and yesterday the lowest point was 195. This was fif teen per cent, gained for greenbacks in twenty four hours. The last quotation was 205, a decline of seventeen per cent, in one week. There can be hut one reason for this rapid aud remarkable fall; It- is the conviction that the rebellion is near to its death. The price of gold has been for weeks un dermined ; it has hung like an icicle, that, melting imperceptibly, falls suddenly, without apparent cause. Yesterday we had no startling news or rumors of Union victories to bring gold down so far. Its fall was the result of a profound growth of confidence in the ability of the United States to make speedy and honorablejpeace. This faith ex presses itself forcibiy in the present panic of the gold market. It will be more emphatic in a few weeks. — The Press of Saturday. WILMINGTON.—The naval and merchant ser vice of the Confederacy suffered severely last week. Admiral PORTER sends word that the rebels have not only blown up Fort Caswell, but the pirates Tallikassee and (Jhickamavga as well. And a late arrival at Philadolphia with Wil mington dates to the 20th. brings thesatisfac tory news, that on the night of the 18fch five blockade-runners ran into Old Inlet and were cap tured by our fleet. It may be doubted wheth er these successive losses will lie folt most- aevere iy at Richmond or at Liverpool. At the present rate blockade-running does not promise to be a paying business for any great length of time.— Naus-uu, Halifax and Bermuda will all feel the hock of these events in Cape Fear River before long, and altogether the Anglo-rebel mercantile interest seems to be in anything but'a flourishing condition. •SHERMAN AM) CHARLESTON.—Now that Gen. Sherman is so near Charleston, it will be seen by our rebel extracts that the Mercury of that city pronounces a glowing and elaborate eulogium up on him and his army. Its admiration is unbound ed. But it is very severe upon the rebel troops there abouts, whom it describes as a lawless mob, and characterizes it as "ruffians." We find arti cles in the t \mrier to the same effect. Both these journals are in a terrible rage- with their leaders and their so-called soldiers; aud will doubtless be greatly rejoiced when Sherman, whom they great ly admire, pays them a visit with his army, which they -o profoundly worship. Is this really South Carolina ? IN< it EASED PAY.—A move has already been made to increase the pay of members of the Legis -1 ature. A bill has been introduced providing that the annual compensatson be 1200 and mileage.— It is very likely that the salary will be raised at this session. In olden times the pay of a member of the Legislature was three dollars per dsy. The Richmond Press. Now that the rebels have lost all their seaports ot auy consequence, their newspaper editors are taxing the utmost extent of their ingenuity to prove that these disasters are really a blessing, and that, instead of having a depressing effect on the tortun.es of the confederacy, they will only tend to develop its in nate and latent resources. They argue that the loss of these places only puts them in the position that they should properly have assumed at the beginning of the war when their abandonment, it is said, was advised by some very wise rebel statesmen. The fox would have us believe he is much handsomer without his tail. A blockade running is brought to an end, the rebels say that war must be their sole business ; the conscription must be more vigorously ' t nforced. and eveay one who can must be made to fi t dit. It is claimed that when Jeff. Davis said that a t least one-third of his men belongingto his armies wer* 1 absent without, leave he was far below the mark • au( * there are enough of these deserters "to m.'ike an army which would sweep both Sher man's *nd Gran's inte the Atlantic Ocean." The Ricbmoi'd Whig believes that negroes in the prime of life wii'l make bet.ter soldiers than white men over fifty years *f a ge. General Joe Johnston, in a speech lately to soLie soldiers at Columbia, S. C., told them that he was •''out of service," and "regretted that he could not ee.rve with them." Mr. Henry S. Foote refuses to be released fiotn arrest, and insists that his prosecution sh.all goon , and the Provost Marsha" of Fredericksburg rie comp ell;d to show cause for taking him into custody. Cap tain Semmes has arri ved in Richmond. A very significant article apj* -ared in the Rich mond Enquirer, of last "Fhursda v 19th inst., which would seem to be designed to- fre ak the inevitable and now plainly foreseen fell of ti ie rebel coufode racy. Admitting that "after ever ' manly effort,'" thev may fail to achieve their rode. nendence, it as serts that policy and interest, as wefl as feeling, would incline the rebels to submit to the- United States rather than to England. France or Maximilian.— Joining their military forces to Unoee at present con - stituting our national armies, they wou Id "endeavor to extend the power and influence of that (this) na tion from pole to pole, and, uniting? every country of America by alliance, seek to make this- continent n unit against the world." "With the wealth and population which peace and union w-'ruld develop in a few years," it continues, "we might- find at least a hiding place for our shame, and perha ps some con soiation in the fact that America would become the colossal Power of the world." The Anti-Davis Feeling in the So nth. Since the Southern papers have fount I courage to speak out against Jeff. Davis, they ha ve grown bolder and bolder, and if the press is any indica tion of public feeling, there is a terrible storn i gathering about the head of that Southern auto - crat. The Charlotteville (Va.) Chronicle, saj *s tha "if Davis and the Court were only going to dasl • their brains out. we might rally from the cat 'ami ty ; but they are dragging the whole seces sioi i fleet after them and denounces Davis in ro. m<t terms for all the calamities that have come uj oi 1 the Confederacy. The Charleston Mercury is ITI rious. It says: Patent follies and their disastrous consequent* -s have brought despondency upon the people, an d license has thinned the ranks of the defenders of the country. Instead of aiming at radical changes in the causes of the effects under which we suffer an ! are endangered, men are found who propose th; mad remedy of driving out negro producers into the war, and forcing them to fight. 'Oiey are to fLnt tLo Vankees are getting the up per hand of us, and their time of war is over; they are to choose between fighting with us, the weaker party, or with the stronger party, our enemy. They are to fight for slaver (or for individual freedom) on our side, or on th ■ side of the enemy, for total and general emancipa tion of their familiesj race and jeople allured by a!l the fancies and luxuries of nothmg todo. Indepen dence of law, independence of principle, indepen dence of our institutions, the proposition appear J to us as desperate in its absurdity as it is reckless of everything else. Can Congress find no remedy for the incompetency and mismanagement which is riding us down to ruin? In another article the Mercury says that there are 100,000 effective men absentees from the reb el army, and who are kept absent because they have lost faith in Jeff Davis. It adds: It is the incorrigible, intermeddling, mischievous, dictation, malignant prejudices, and|petty parti zanship. which make sacrifices apparently endles i and useless. It is these things which weigh lik > i a pall upon the heart of the country. It is these things which infuse inefficiency everywhere, an I inspire selfeshness and indifference. " It is these which are destroying us, and which must be era i dicated by the action Congress. \ In the following sketch it presents a sad picture oftiie Confederacy: The path ice now are traveling lead* straight to destruction.. The crisis of the Confederacy has ar rived in fatal earnest. The result of the next six months wiChring the Confederacy to the ground , or will reinsrtai •' its power. Without reform we are doomed. There is more than one department of government in whicli reform is important. But reform in our armies is essential, is vital. With out it the death-knell of the Confederacy is already tolled. We leant no more Jeff. Davis foolery ■we want one t.tom of brains, one sparA of nerve; we want no more of Buhamism ; we want no mer maids with heads of monkeys and fishy attach ments at neither extremities —we wa nt men, real men, earnest — North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina are in no mood jor trifling. They have had enough of this sort of thing. Thi?y don't in tend to have much more. A most onerous but imperative duty devolves upon the commander of this department, whoev er he is. That duty—this first and most essential duty—is to cashier and shoot. Without it r oth ing can be done, and Sherman conquers us. I Vith it, he is a coward who succumbs at heart, f iver ything is at stake —everything that is in the way must he faced, and trampled upon. The man who commands here must put his heart ii i his pocket, and his sword in nis hand. He must know nothing but the good of the Confederacy.— That he must do regardless of official weakness.— The end must be radical reform. It is foil y to ,ak of red tape now—we want the thing—we.mm t ltave it —reform, shooting, cashiering, order, (sub ordination. soldiers—not runaways, ragamuft'n-, ruffians. We want, and we must have, brainsand pluck in commanders, and implicit obedience and order in subordinates and soldiers. Six paces and a steady aim will do the business if rej>eatt d sufficiently often, especially among the commis sioned officers. If, however, commanding officers will not do their duty in this matter, let all men shut their books, for the end will have well nigh come.'—' The time is short, will it be improved? GEN. GRANT, in a recent communication, thus refers to Gen. Sherman: " The World's Hist my gives no record of his superior and hut few equals." To this sentiment we may justly add that the world never witnessed in any military chieftan more the elements of geneoous candor and unself ish appreciation of the good quallities of those by whom he is surrounded and who are necessari ly his competitors for fame, than are daily exhib ited by Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant. His justice is as inflexible as bis valor is invincible. The Richmond papers complain bitterly of "the decay of public spirit'" in the South, and argue that if those in authority w.>uld exhibit a little more manliness, common sense and pluck, there would yet be some hopes for the Confederacy.— This looks to us like surrendering at no distant day. t\ Peace Mission. Mr. Francis P. Blair retained to Richmond again last Friday on the Government iStewner Don, spe cially detailed for the use of Mr. Blair. A special dispatch dated Friday, to the New York 71 i.bvne furnishes ua the following information on the sub ject . "The President has this evening stated to leading Representatives in Congress, thai this mission of Mr. Blair is upon his own personal motion, and is his own affair, that he has no idea that it will have any other or better result than his first visit to Jeff. Davis had, that he had no confidence in its profita bleness at all, but that Mr. Blair wnnted to go and he was willing to let him go. He added that the mis sion in his judgement had no significance whatever. One of the Representatives remarked, after this interview with Mr. Lincoln : "The President has much more confidence in the present and prospec tive combinations and battles of Grant Sherman and Thomas than in any peace embassies." Notwith standing these protestations, it is the general senti ment here that the President is more than willing that Mr. Blair, skilled in negotiation and powerful in his personal and family influence, should make any number of efforts at pacification, being careful, as he was in the case of the mission of Col. Jaques and Mr. Gilmore, to keep himself where he can re pudiate the envoy and nis errand if unsuccessful, and reap benefit and credit from both if he sue ceeds. A dispatch of Friday to the Timet states.— The cabinet were in session several hours to-day, and it is understood that their conference related to the movements of Mr. Blair. Nothing, however, is known of the powers, if any, with which he is cloth ed, or the precise objects, which it is expected h<- w-ill accomplish ; but the facts of his return a second time to Richmond woald seem to authorize the con clusion that the paesent visit has, if not a more se rious, at least a different aim from that which promp ted his first mission. The Herald's dispatches supply some characteris tic particulars.— ''l here has been no little amusement in court circles over the statement that It is said Mr. Blair boastfully made in regard to his reception at the residence ot Jeff. Davis. This is, that he was not only cordially but enthusiastically received there ; that Mrs. Davis went into ccstacies the moment that she saw him ; threw her arms around his neck, and kissed him again and again. He never was received so cordially in any place hefore. The peace demo crats declare that Mr. Blair brought from Richmond a manuscript letter from Jefferson Davis to Mr. Lin coln, in which Mr. Davis says he is willing now. as be always has been, to send or receive commission eis to treat for peace in order to spare his country from the horrors of war, and to advance all its inte rests. They also assert that Mr. Blair returns to Richmond with a letter from Mr. Lincoln, saying that he is willing to send or receive commissioners to treat for peace upon the basis of an undivided country This, the peace democrats hold, is the wuole story in a nutshell." TUB SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.— The structure of the Southern Confederacy has been tottering and tumbling ever since first it was reared by reb el hands. Its original cornerstone of slavery was a rotten affair, and neither the materials nor the workmen were of such a character as to insure its permanency. It had hardly got itself erected, when the fire of our artillery and the force of our steel were brought to bear upon it. Wall after wall was brought low, pillar after pillar was tum bled into ruins, and, with the fall of each, fell hosts of its builders %nd defenders. The aspect of it now, is one vast wreck and ruins with but here and there a blackened column still standing. E ven of these we begin to see signs of the speedy fall; and when they do fall, they will carry down with them the guilty men who have insulted earth and Heaven by attempting to rear in our fair land a temple of human slavery. PERSONAL AND J*OLITICAL. MISSOURI FREE.— The work is done. After a 8t Juggle extending through long years, and contest ed with all the force and bitterness which slavery co uld muster beneath its banner, Freedom has triumphed, and Missouri, the battle-ground, is re deemed. The eleventh day of January, A. A. 18- 6f>, is made memorable in tne history of the State forever. Through the bright period of prosperity t#hich, we believe, has now dawned upon our Com monwealth, long dishonored by oppression and in justice, and repressed in its development by the cruel and ruinous system of slavery, the anniversa ry of that day will bring gladness to the hearts of thousands and of millions. It has introduced a new era, the brightness of whoee glory will extend through all time. We have so long labored to impress the advanta ges of emancipation upon the people of Missouri; so long urged the arguments of freedom, that we do not deem it necessary to go over the entire ground, and gather up the trophies of the victory won. It is enough to know that liberty and right have tri umphed. Missouri takes her place in the ranks of the free States, and as the long line moves on in the grand march of progress, of civilization, and loyal ty, her steps will be with the foremost. The chains, the lash and the shackles of slavery no longer be long to Missouri. They were carried out of sight yesterday— the eleventh day of January , IB6o.— St. Louis Democrat. THE ABOLITION' or SLAVERY.—A movement is 6n foot among prominent Philadelphians, of both po litical parties, to give a handsome dinner to those democratic Congressmen who shall vote in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery. So far the list of such members embraces the names of George H. Yeaman of Kentucky, Austin A. King and James S. Rollins of Missouri, Moses F. Odell and John A. Griswold of New York, Myer Strouse, Josiah Bailey and Archibald McAllister of Pennsylvania, and Ezra Wheeler, of Wisconsin. NEGRO SUFFRAGE.—A number of the radical re publican Congresssmen at Washington (including such prominent men as Geo. W. Julian of Indiana, Wm. D. Kelly of Philadelphia, and Schuyler Col fax of Indiana,) favor negro sufferage in the seced ed States, while not advocating it in the loyal por tion of the country. Senator B. Gratz Brown and Representative Henry T. Blow, of Missouri, favor universal sufferage throughout both North aud South. HON. C HAS. FRANCIS ADAMS. —The London cor respondent of the Toronto Globe says: Ihe United States have never been represented in this country by a man who has performed the most difficult duties with more talent and ability than Mr. Adams has done. He mixes so much in socie ty, he is so acute in his knowledge of character, and he watches so closely every turn of opinion, that he must be able to render invaluable service to his own Government. Mr. Everett had a family of three children —two sons and a daughter. The latter is the wife of Commodore Wise, chief of the ordinance bureau of the Navy Department. Hon. A. A. Baker, Member of Congress elect, has been re-elected President of the Ebensburg and Cresson Railroad Company. The death of one of the democratic members of the New Jersey Legislature gives the republicans a majority of one in the House, which has not hither to been able to organize on account of the political tie. Alexander Dumas is coming to the United States to write a work on the administration <f Mr. Lin coln, to benefit the cause of the North abroad, and also to deliver lectures on Garibaldi. Ladies' and Children'* Hats. .The latest styles at CHARLES OAKFORD A SONS Coutimtatal HWcl, PkiMelpbia WAR SUMMARY. We have again the report that the rebel* have e vaeuated Wilmington, and that it has beeu taken possession of by General Terry's troops ; but it still ne#da confirmation, This time the report comes from Anapolis, Md.. and it is added that before the rebels left the town they set fire to about tlfirty mil lion dollars' worth of cotton, but that the national forces, being close at hand, extinguished the flames before much damage had been done. Admiral Por ter's entire fleet was in Cape Fear river on last Wednesday. On Wednesday night it. captured five blockade runners which were coming in, wholly ig norant of the changed position of affairs there. A large number of the vessels of the Admiral's fleet have since arrived in Hampton Roads. Thirteen hundred of the rebel's captured in Fort Fisher and the adjacent works arrived at Fortress Monroe on Friday and Saturday last. e route to prisons in the North.— Her old. Richmond papers report Gen. Sherman's army to be marching in the direction of Charleston, South Carolina. \\ hilst the loth and 17th Corps advanced from Beaufort to Pocotaligo, with hut little artillery or baggage wagons, General Sherman it is stated, with the remainder of his forces, artillery trains, etc. was moving by the railroad. On the 16th some of the Union troops advanced to within two miles of the Coosawatchie and retired. According to the latest advices contained in the Southern papers of Friday, a movement had been made by the Union forces towards the Combahee river on Tuesday last which they considered as a feint, and express the belief that General Sherman was concentrating his forces above McPhersonville. An important letter from Jeff. Davis, is published on the subject of reconstruction, in which he argues that a convention of the States is impracticable, and that peace movements on the part of individual States tend only to the creation of discord in the confederacy. He says that the only plan by which peace can be attained" is provided for iD the rebel constitution. Richmond has beeu for the past few days luxuriating in rumors of cabinet changes, among which is one that General John C. Breckinridge is to become rebel Secretary of War. Some funny fellow or would-be swindler advertises in the Selma (Ala.) Dispatch that for the sum of one million dol lars in rebel paper he will by the first of March next effect the death of President Lincoln, Secretary Seward, and Governor Johnson, of Tennessee, and thus "secure peace." The cavalry expedition of 500 men, consisting of detatchments of the Bth Illinois, under command of Col. Clendenin, and the 13th and 16th New York, under Col. Gansevoort, which started from Prospect Hill, \ a., has returned, having scouted through Fairfax and Loudon counties as far up as Warren ton. They found no large bodies of Rebels in arms, but brought in 52 horses and 11 prisoners. During Friday Col. Clendenin, with his cominaud, dashed into Leesburg and captured a inailcarrier with let ters from men Rosser's division of Rebel cavalry now stationed in the Shenandoah, to parties in Lou don county. In this expedition the Union troops did not loose a single man. GIVING THEMSELVES UP. —We learn from mem bers of the Legislature, and others, from the border counties, that large numbers of rebel soldiers are coming in and giving themselves up at the various outposts in this Department Lieut Samuels, broth er of Judge Samuels, formerly Adjutant Geueral of this State, recently came into Waynecounty. accom panied by a dozen or fifteen other rebel soldiers, all of whom took the amnesty oath. They say they are" tired of fighting for nothing and freezing to death.— Wheeling Intelligencer. THE .JOHNNIES COMING !—Captain Alfred Hicks, late of the 70th Pennsylvania regiment has just ar rived here from the front of Petersburg. He re ports that on Tuesday last Jive hundretl rebel deser ters came into our lines in a body. Upon their ar rival a tremendous cheer went up from the Union boys, but when the rebels obtained a glimpse of the stars and stripes and found themselves receiving a hearty reception, thev set up a continuous cheering such as has seldom, if everv, been witnessed.—'"The Johnnies are coming !" — narrieburg Telegraph. Forty guerillas under Pratt and McGregor, -on Tuesday, made a dash into Bardstown, Ky., for the purpose of recovering one of their men confined in the jail of that place. The guerillas set the depot on fire and it was burned to the ground. They were finally routed ami driven from the town. The pui suit was continued till dark. A band of mounted guerillas attempted to invade Illinois at Metropolis on Monday night. Only a few succeeded in crossing the Ohio river. A boat from Paducah shelled the wx>ds and dispersed the marau ders. GENERAL NEWS. HOTEL INCENDIARIES ARRESTED. —Four of the per sons who are believed to have been engaged in the attempt to burn the hotels, some weeks since, have been arrested and A\ill be tried by a military com mission sitting at Fort Lafayette. The first is one of the leaders of the raid on Lake Erie. The name under which he was known at the time of his arrest is Baker ; but he has been ideetifiedas Captain Bell, of the rebel service. He is a man of education, from the neighborhood of Richmond, and perhaps the most able and dangerous of the rebel officers in Canada. He was arrested near the Niagara Suspen sion Bridge, with a confederate, who is also in the rebel service. They had just come from Buffalo, and had in their hands a carpet bag, with half a dozen candles. Their arrest was made a few days after in formation had been received at the department head quarters that Buffulo was to be burned by a party of incendiaaiesfrom Toronto. Both are to be immedi ately tried as spies. The third is one of the New York incendiaries. The name by which he is com monly known is "Staunton," but his real name is known, and he is a captain in the rebel service. He was arrested near Detroit some ten days ago. having come across the line from Sarnia. He also is to be tried as a spy. The fourth is also in the rebel ser vice, and was arrested on the Hudson river. It has been satisfactory ascertained that the number of persons engaged in attempting to fire the city of New York did not exceed six or seven, and that one per son set fire to two hotels and another to one hotel and Barnum's Museum. THE ATLANTIC CABLE.— A letter from George Se ward, Secretary and General Superintendent of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to Cyrus W. Feild, after alluding to the electrical perfection of the new cable, says, that the amount completed up to the 30th of December was seven hundred and fifty miles. — The cable is now being manufactored at the rate of eighty miles per week, without hurry and without nightwork. it will be finished by the end of the first week in June. Two tanks on board the Great Eastern for the stowage of the cable, are construct ed, and the third is rapidly going on. There is no reason to doubt that the cable will be all on board, and the ship ready for. sea, with every appliance of the best kind, and in the best order, during the month of June. THE GAI.T HOUSE, LOUISVILLE BI RNEl>.— Long before daylight on Wednesday morning, the 11th inst., the Gait House, at Louisville, Ky.. one of the most celebrated hotels in the country, was discover ed to be on fire and was soon a heap of ruins.~ Very little of the furniture was saved, and the most sad part of the occurrance was that two bodies of persons who had perished in the flames were found "tha rains. They could not be identified; but William Hanna of Shelby county, !£y., is known to have perished. Many narrowly escaped. A ware house on the east side of the Gait House, occupied by O. Vv. Thomas and Andrew Buchanan, was also destroyed. The aggregate loss is nearly a million of dollars. Ihe origin of the fire is unknown. ARRIVAL OF TWO THOUSAND BALES OF COTTON.— ike steamships Morning Star and Continental, which have just arrived from New Orleahs. brings two thousand bales of cotton. This is the largest ship ment of cotton received here since the beginning of the war.— N. Y. Post. ! A . Nevada paper says that a large extent of coun try in Humboldt county, Nevada, is saturated with petroleum. The liquid streams spontaneously through the surface, rises wherever a hole is dug. and coal gas rises everywhere. . New T ork Post says Southern men in that city are constantly making application to take the oath of allegiance, but desire the fact to be kept se cret, in order that their families and property at the South may not be molested by the rebel leaders. The Winstead (Ct.) Herald says :—"Old Mr. aud Mrs. W alter, the one deaf as a crowbar and the oth er bedridden by a railroad accident, after a year or two of experiment have found themselves unconge nial, and have obtained a divorce. A New Torker, who had made a fortune in oil speculations, put SIO,OOO in his pocket the other day and started W est to make his daughter a present of tie. sain. But his jAj'oket was picket in tnt? cars. SPOTTED FEVER. —The Harrisburg Telegraph leurus that a disease of an unusual charaoter prevails in Lykcnstown and Wisconisco. Thus far every case has baffled the physicians, and it seems they do not fully understand how to taeat the patients, who. be ing seized with convulsiont, generally die in less than twenty-four hours. A Mrs. J&unselmaa was Rtricken by the disease, her husband being in the ar my. and four children at home, with no one but the mother to care for them. Her last words were, ''What will become of my poor children ?" Spot ted fever is the term used by the people in speaking of the disease, but this may not be the proper title. Ctfaioes.—The citizens of Mansfield, Ohio were aroused at ati early hour on Wednesday morning 18th inst., by loud reports seeming like thunder.— Several houses were perceptibly shaken, and in some cases windows were broken. The citizens, in the absence of auy other canst!, conclude that they have experienced the shock of an earthquake. A Mr. Uhinehart, of South Coventry township, Chester,. Penn., purchased a condemned Govern ment horse recently, and discovering a wound or sore on its thigh, which showed no sign of healiug, made an examinatien of the wound, and finding some hard substauce in it, extracted it, and found it be a lady's pocketknife, with the blade shut. PRESENT TO THE CREW OK THE KEAKSAGE. —A few weeks since a committee of the Board of Trade ob tained by subscriptions of Boston merchants the sum of twenty-one thousand dollars, which has been judiciously distributed among the officers and crew of the steamer Kearsage, as a recognition of their services in the destruction of the Alabama. —Baa- ton Journal. MORE MIXING DISCOVERIES.— The last advices from Puget's Sound, contained in the Washington Territory papers say the country is in a state of ex citement, growing out of the discovery of gold and silver-bearing quartz ledges forty or fifty miles from Olynipia, ana within twenty or thirty miles of water navigation. Assays had been made at Victoria, and the specimens having been found to be very rich, a free rein was given to speculation, and some four or five hundred claims, up to last accounts, had already been located. j|ra£ CcTOspoiidftw. COMPANY K. 208 th RKG'T. P. V. NEAR 1 PETERSBURG Y'A., Jan. loth 1805. f Mr. EDITOR:— The grand Army of the Potomac is now lying in active in front of the rebel lines, with an occasional rumor of peace negotiations to cheer the monoto nous hours of camp life. The late victories of Sher man and Thomas nas given a silvery lining to the tempestuous impendiag cloudjs that hong with such threatening aspects over our martial horizon.— Mars and his satellites now seem to be superceded by the onward march of Luna, and ere long we hope to see the olive branch gracefully playing in in the breeze of tranquility. In anticipation of this result the Bedford county boys—of whom there are many in this army will once more rejoin their friends in their old Hill-side and valley homes, and return to the peaceful pursuits of life. It will be interesting to the friends at home to learn that com pany K, i who are all Bedford county boys) enjoy their usual good health and buoyant spirits. Cap tain Weaverling and Lieutenants Bessor and Sparks are constantly exercising a vigilant and scrutinizing care for the morals, health and general welfare of the company ; in consequence of this supervision have become warmly attached. The sergeants also are very attentive to every duty enjoined upon them, and are ready for any emergency that may present itself in the course of war's vicissitudes. We all have our times of mirth and gaiety and spend these long winter evenings with as much satisfaction as is possible for men who are separated from friends and home. It is also gratifying to ns to know that we are not forgotten at home, as some one is con stantly in receipt of large boxes of provisions and luxuries. We still occupy the front of Petersburg within one and a half miles of that rebellious city. Very heavy forts are situated all along both sides of the line, and marks it very difficult for any person to pass, except those who lay down their arms and come over to us "without leave of absence" from their commanders. I will take the liberty to mention the good condi tion of Captain Wishart's company, (H). They seem io feel that the war cannot be successfully prosecuted without having something to do in the matter themselves. The captain enjoys good health and feels at home in the army. More anon. HENRY C. STAILY. §Mwrii!smei]o. OFFICE HUNTINGDON <fc BROAD TOP MOUNTAIN R. K. CO. Philadelphia, Jan. 16,1864. The aunual meeting of tfoe toekholders of this Company will be held at their office, No. 258 South 3d Street, Pbila., on Tuesday, the 7th day of February, 1865, at 11 o'clock, A. M.. when an Election will be held for a President and Twelve Directors for the ensuing rear. " J. P. AERTSEN. Jan. 20-.lt Secretary. "VTOTICE TO TRESPASSERS. i> I hereby caution all persons not to hunt, fish, de stroyftimber or trespass onr our property,|in any way what ever, as we will prosecute any person that disregards this notice- LEVI SMITH, Monroe Tp., J. H. SPARKS, E. Providence To. Jan. 20, 1865-3t EXECUTORS' NOTICE. Letters testamentary having been granted by the Re gister of Bedford County to the undersigned, Executors of the last will and testament of John Weisel, late of St Clair Township, deceased, notice is herebv given to ali persons indebted to the estate of said deceased, to make immediate payment and those having claims will present them properly authenticated for settlement. JOHN WEISEL, Jan. 6, 1865-Bt. JOHN FICKE§. IJLXECUTOR-8 NOTICE. J Letters testamentary upon the last will and testament ot M*ry M. Haasc, late of the Borough of Schellsburg dec d, having been issued to the subscriber the by Regis tor of Bedford County, all persons having claims against the estate are ootificd to present the same for settlement and all persons indebted are requested to make pavment immediately. DUNCAN M'VICKER, Sehellsbupg, Jan. 6, 1865-6t. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letter* of administration having been granted to the subscriber, residing in the Borough of Bedford, on the estate of Margaret Bulger, late of Middle Woodbury Tp deceased, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will make payment without delay and those having claims against the same, will present them pro perly authenticated for settlement. n ,.*.* J. R. DURBORROW. Dec.l 6, 64-6t. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Whereas letters of administration have been grauted to the undersigned, on the estate of Joseph O. Blackburn late of Napier Township, deceased, persons knowing them selves indebted to said estate will make immediate pay ment and those having claims will present them for settl'e mn i ♦ EDMUND S. BLACKBURN. Dec.lb, 64-Gt Administrator. IJL XECUTORS' NOTICE. J Letters testamentary to the estate of William A. Mook, late of Union township, deceased, having been granted by the Register of Bedford County to the undersigned, ail persons having claims against'said estate will present them for settlement, and those knowing themselves in debted will be required to make immediate payment. SAMUEL MOCK A SAMUEL A. MOCK. Dec.16,64-6t Executors. NOTICE. All those indebted to the subscriber for subscrip tion, advertising and job work, for the Bedford Inqnirer and also for the Patriot, arc notified that the books and notes are in the hands of H. Nicodemus, Esq., for collec tion. Look out and save costs. Jan. 20, .865. DAVID OVER. US. TAXES. ' . Notice is hereby given, that the returns of the special Income Tax for the various divisions of > County, wil.be opened for examinat™ the office of t ,7, , h for the same will be received bv the A ' ude< L Appeals R. O. HARPER, OettvK„,„ i Assessor 16th Distrist Pa. wcttysburg, Jan Id. 1860. (jan.2o-2t) VTOTK'E TO COLLECTORS. n,,, for 1116 >' ear 1864 arc hereby notified to appear at the commissioners Office, in Bedford, on 8m- Miiv' T nUß '?'r th /. 1885, for Uie purpose of settling the TaX "} th , wbi '' h stand charged for said year Collectors will please come as early in the day a- possible' By order of tho Commissioners. * P OMlb!e ' Jan. 26,1^21 JOHN Q. flSHg^ Ilftr Advertisements. ORPHAN'S COURT SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE, BY virtue of an order uf the Orphan'* Court of jp., , county, the subscriber will sell at public **) V' premises in Hopewell Township, on ' "" TUESDAY tbe 10th day ef February IMH. That large and valuable farm of which Jacob i died seised, Containing 248 acres and 110 jitrrhf* of limestone land : about three fourth* of which i elt„ and under fence; the balance being well tiinW,,'.. Tbe farm laud is in a high state of cultivation with ter in every field. Tbe improvements are a Large Frame Houe,Bank B an , And other useful building*; also a good tenant bm.t one end of the place, also an orefaard of choice fruit t r 6 I bis farm adjoins William Gorauch, Eli Fluke's David Puderbaugh, Stephen W'eiiner and others about two miles from the town of Hopewell. Terms , " third of the purehase money to he secured is fhe hint of the purchaser during the lifetime of the widow; fc.. ing her the interest annually, the one third of the 1* at the confirmation of the sale, and the remainder in equal annual payments, without interest Bale to menco at 10 o'clock A. M. J. W. LIXGEXFELTEK Trustee for the tale of the Real Eetale of Jar,A, dwj jan. 27,'65-3t. * •Private Sale. OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. THE i-übscriber will offer until tbe lit, day Mirth his Property in Cumberland Valley towiuhip. fi%d. ford couny Pa., containing "Three Hundred Acres, more or less, adjoining the town of Centreville Tb in provements are a good TWO STORY LOG HOUSE, with Kitchen attached. Spring house, double Bank Ban and all other necessary oat buildings. Also A Good Q-rlst Mill, with two run of stones. There is also as Engine #( eighteen horse power attached to said mill. About N> acres of this land is cleared and under fence and io i good state of cultivation, the balance well timbered i great part of this land is underlaid with iron ore ma handy to a furnace about being started in the Valley. AL so TWO LOTS with a WEATHER BOARDED HOl-I on each in the tows of Centreville. Any person wbij, sires purchasing such property will call soon. H. J. BRUSNEB. Jan. 27,'65-4t COURT PROCLAMATION. To the Coroner, the Justices of the Peace, and stable in the different Township# in the County of Beiif'i- Gretting. KNOW YE, that in pursuance of a precept tome dine ted, under the hand and seal of the Hon. ALEX. KING. President of the several Courts of Common Pleas in ti>? Sixteenth District, consisting of the counties of Franltla. Fulton. Bedford and Somerset, and by virtue of his og-t of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail de livery for the trial of capital and other offenders tbereii and in the General Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace; and SAMUEI. DAVIS and JAMBS BURNS. Jr., K-. Judges of the same Court in the same county of Bedford. "V ou and each of yon are hereby required to be and a; pear in your proper persons with yonr Records, Rvccgni zances. Examinations, and other remembrances before the Judges aforesaid, at Bedford, at a Court of Oyer sad Tsr miner and General Jail delivery and General Quarter ires sions of the Peace therein to be bolden for the coentr ei Bedford, aforesaid on the second Monday of February (being the 13th day,) at 10 o'clock in the forenoon ot that day, there and then to do those things to which your several offices appertain. GIVEN under my had at Bedford, on the 20th of Ja uary, in the year of our Lord 1865. JOHN ALSTADT. Sheriff"s Office. 1 Sberif Jan. 20, 1665. / REGISTER'S NOTICE. All persons interested are hereby notified that :j! following accountants have filed their accounts in the Re gister's Office of Bedford County, and that the taint wfl be presented to the Orphans" Court, in and for saidfunt ty, on Tuesday, the 14th day of February next, mtb Court House, in Bedford, for confirmation : The account of Michael Diehl, administrator of the ret*' of Nicholas Diehl, late of Colerain township, deceased. The final account of Henry Whetstone, administrator the estate of Daniel Means, jr., late of Monroe townskr., deceased. The account of Thomas S. Holsinger, trustee for then* t of the real estate of George M. Holsinger, late of St. Clc townskip, deceased. The account of Andrew B. Snowberger, admiuistrat* of the estate of Herekiah H. Miller, late of Sooth Won bury township, deceased. The final account of Nicholas Sleighter and SolonK': Feight, administrators of the estate of Daniel Sleightc. late of Last Providence township, deceased. The account of Thomas S. Holsinger, administrator v bonis now of John Roudabush. late of Union tp.. dee'd. The account of J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq., administrator I with the will annexed of Ann Eliza Cox. late of the Bur j ough of Bedford, deceased. fhe account of James Bnrns and Emanuel Static executors of the last will and testament of James Bvrt lute of Juniata township, deceased. The account of Jacob B. Furry, administrator of Ik estate of John B. Furry, late of Napier township, dec'A The first account of Jacob Walter and Jacob Bcrkb:mer. executors of the last will and testament of Frederick Berkheimer, late of St. Clairsville, Bedford co., dee d. O. E. SHANNON, Jan. 20, 1865. Register. LIST OF GRAND JURORS Drawn for February Term, 2d Mondav, 13th dir. A. D., 1865. Hngh Wilson, foreman, Jacob Fletcher, Wm. Anders :. David Shafer, John Calhoun, Samuel Elliott, Jas. Tavior. | Solomon Egolf, Jacob Boor, Jacob Hiliegass, of P.. job: ; Johnson, Stephen Wimer, Peter Keagy. Geo. Harttnac. Wm. Fisher, John Barkinan, Daniel R. Anderson, Ad*- Pote, Henry Mills, Rudolph Hoover. Michrel L. P- 5 Wm. Cuppett, Geo. Beeglc, Baltzer Fletcher. List of I etit Jurors prawn for same term.—Buu bhaler, Wm. C. W isegarver, John W Scott. John Pil'a James O'Neal. Lewis N. Fyan, George Mock. Peter Bar j ton, Amos Collins, Win. Foster, John Berkhimer. J& Homan, Thomas Donahoe, Josiah Elder. George Potter, j Aaron Reed. Ewalt Burns, Vach. Brangle, Richard V Mullw, VM. Smith, Jacob Bowser, Geo. Knisely, JOB Wilhelm, jr., John Kemp, David Sams, Abner SLCEI Hestly Perdcw, Isaac Kensinger, Lewis Andcrsou. Sai Logue, John Whetstone. Philip S. Croft, Charles OR* Samuel Jay, jr., Duncan McVicker, W. W. Sparks. Hire Shank, Adam Shafer. Drawn and certified at tho Commissioners Office THIS 22d day of November, A. D., 1865. „ JOHN U. FISHER. Jan. 20. 186A. (_| ERA TAVERN LICENSES. Notice is hereby given that the following named [*■ sons have taken out petitions for Tavern License. that said petitions will be pcrsented at the next Court Quarter Sessions, to be held at Bedford, in and forth County of Bedford, on the 2d Monday, 13th day of FT 1 ruary, next, for allowance or rejection : Patrick Drhew, Coal dale, Broadtop township. Aaron Reed, Middle Woodbury, Isaac Grove, Bloody Run, West Providence tp. I James L. Prince, Saxton, Liberty tp. U- RR,,Uumficld > Bloody Run, West Providence tp- W in. Deatnck, Ciearviile, Monroe tp. Ucorge Weimer, " ♦. f. Certified January 2d, 1865. John P. Wcaverling, 810-.dy Ran West Providence TP D. IH. C. Ott, .1 <. I o.i 0. E. SHANNON Jan. 20, LGFLO. CLERK LIST OF CAUSES Put down for trial at February Term. 1865. 13th J! Joseph Barley, vs. Jackson Stuckcv. Daniel Walter. , •• Abraham Sill's aduir. Michael Thomas, •' J„hn A Abm. Skdly. Somerset Fire Ins. Co. " James Burns. B. W. GarreUon, •< Bowser A Naglc. George Snyder, •< Adolphus Ake et AL Mary Moser, et al •• JOSIAH Miller. Stephen G. Wright, " WM. P. Haiard Mary Moser, J OSI#H MILLFR V. D. Beegle, < Went* A Feather. 0. E.SHANNON. •Jan. 20, 1885. Prothonotarv- Nathaniel P. Roed, 4 No. 332 April Term, 1861, IN LL * "• } Common Pleas of Bedford County William Strcaly. j Debt $16.46. And now, August 29, 1864 on motion of Joseph *• Durborrow, Esq., the Court grant a Rule on the PLAIN 1 " ; to show cause why the Defendant should not ad judgement to No. 195 August term, 1864 8h - A Strcaly for the use of William Strcaly a set off to judgement. V 23 ' '864, alias Rule awarded to be Aathaniel P. Reed by publication in one uewpp ER three weeks preceding next term. ~— Witness my hand atd official seal the *'■ Prothor.otsT;
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