BEDFORD PA., FRIDAY, AT6UBT 18,1865,
UNION COUNTY NOMINATION'S'
FOR THB LEGISLATURE,
Hon. . B. ARSISTRO.N'O.
Sabject to decision of the Legislative Conference.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
J. T. HE ACT, Esq.. of Bedford.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
( apt ADAS WEAVERLINO. Bloody Run.
TREASURER,
(apt. SIMON ISICKERHOOE. Bedford.
OOUXTT SURVEYOR,
DANIEL SAMS, West ProVldenee.
JURY COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM KIRK. St. Clnlr.
COMMISSIONER,
IIENRY J. BRl'NEK.C'nnitoerlwnd Volley.
POOR DIRECTORS,
JOHN S. HETRICK. Syr., M. W'oodberry,
LEONARD BITNEK. 2 yr*., Jmi iota.
AUDITOR,
JAMES ALLISON, Nnpier.
coroneb.
(apt. AMOS BOBINETT, Southampton.
DUTIES OF THE HOUR.
We embrace the present as a fitting op
portunity, to call tlpon all the 'overs of law
and order, without regard to party, to raise
up their voices and use their influence for
the preservation and vindication of the laws.
Violence rules the hour and papers come to
us from every quarter freighted with tales
of murderous assault? and fiendish crimes
enacted by lawless men. "fiiey who opposed
the war for the Union professed to fear its
influence npon the soldiers after their return
to their homes, but thanks to the noble teen
who fought for the enforcement of the laws
and the suppression of rebellion against the
legally constituted authorities, we have it
not to record, that they are the instigators
of violence and lawlessness. Our returned
soldiers have set sueh an example of peace
ablehess and obedience to the laws, as those
who have maligned them and endeavored to
produce a prejudice against them ere they
returned to their peaceful homes, would do
well to follow.
Those, who have covertly and stealthily,
during the last four years, endeavored to
arouse a spirit of resistance to the laws of
the land and the rightfully constituted au
thorities, would now fain throw the blame
upon the men who have ever stood by, and
advocated the enforcement of the laws. We
are glad that they are ashamed of their rec.
ord, or afraid of the consequences of thei
evil teaching. We rejoice to see men turn
from their evil courses even if they do so,
from fear of consequences rather than from
love of better things. We bid them wel
come to the ranks of those, who, While as
serting their rights and privileges of freedom ,
of discussion of all questions, in any wav
pertaining to the public welfare, at the same
time demand, that the laws be vindicated,
and that threats against life and property cith
er for the fearless discharge of public duties
or tho pl>liv ci,MC=oluu vf ~vV.vtvJ ,
shall not only, no longer be encouraged and
eulogized, but that all the power of the laws
be invoked to punish the authors and in
stigators as well as the perpetrators of such
threats. It becomes all who make these
professions to frown upon all such as are in
any way parties to deeds of violence and law
lessness, and instead of lionizing murderers
and tra..tors, to do all in their power to make
crime of every kind odious in the sight of
the people. Through .the instigations of
wicked and designing men and political dem
agogues, large numbers of our people have
not only purchased, but habitually carry,
deadly weapons; while this is the case, we
can only expect that in the heat of contro
versy, frequently embittered and fired by the
intoxicating cup, men will be driven to deeds
of violence, and blood-shed and oft-times
murder will naturally follow. The remedy
for this dangerous evil is, for every man who
desires the peace of the community and the
personal welfare of himself and his neigh
bors to discourage the carrying of concealed
and deadly weapons. There is now no rea
son for any peaceable and well disposed citi
zen to carry deadly weapons of any kind, and
it is a fair inference that every man found
in his own community, with concealed weap
ons upon his person, is bent upon deeds of
violence and as such should be carefully
watched by the officers of the peace.
The sooner we have laws enacted for the
punishment of persons carrying concealed
weapons throughout the State, the better it
will be for the peace and welfare of the coun
try. We hope to see this subject receive
the early attention of our next legislature.
Until then it becomes the bounden duty of
every good citizen to discourage by every
means in his power, the spirit of lawlessness
that now seems to reign supreme over the
land. Men may cry away with military rule,
but as long as they encourage, favor, and
pay special respect and attention to those
who defy the law and glory in its violation,
they are only adding another to the many
good reasons that have thus far called for,
necessitated and justified, the employment
and stationing of a military force in our
midst. If half the efforts that have been
made during the last four years to rouse the
people to open resistance of the laws, had
been expended in inculcating and demonstra
ting the necessity for obedience to the le
gally constituted authorities, we would not
now have these awful catalogues of crime to
record.
•a?" The Gazette says it cannot degrade
itself to the level of the INQUIRER falsifi
ers, by stooping to notice every canard they
invent. This is, are suppose, a reply to our
article on Samuel Ketterman, who was kick
ed out of the Copperhead Convention by
the wire-pulling of this same indivinual, be
cause he voted for the soldiers to have the
right of suffrage. Perhaps, it is an answer
to our charge that six thousand tickets
against the amendment were printed at the
office of the Gazette, and that they were
regularly distributed by the editor of that
journal, and not only this, but that this
same editor electioneered against this same
amendment allowing the soldiers in active
service the right to vote ? We here repeat
these charges and we stand ready to prove
them, if necessary. We do not get up can
ards. We are prepared to prove every po
sition we take. The Gazette will please bear
this in mind.
THE CROUSE MURDE* AGAIN.
The Gazette presumes that it can fore
stal public opinion as much as it pleases in
regard to the innocence of a party, but we
must not, for the world, say ought in regard
to his guilt. It acts fully upon this princi
ple and publishes the most favorable ac
counts, with scarce a semblance of truth, all
over the country, but the moment we under
take to publish the facts elicited before a
Coroner's jury, we are guilty oi "'false state
ments and inflamatory appeals'' and it turns
fiercely and asks how a juror who reads them
can swear that "he has not made up an
opinion in regard to the guilt or innocence
of the accused?'' If the Gazette doubts our
statements we have the testimony taken be
fore the Inquest on hand and we will pub
lish it for its edification. We have had no de
sire to bias the mind of any one, much less
to prejudice the mind of any juror, but we
would like to know whether a juror could
read the statements of the Gazette without
coming to the conclusion that the parties in
question were only guilty of justifiable homi
cide ? And, further, we would not give a fig
for the juror who could not come to some
conclusion, as far as the statements go, if be
can fast, he is little, if any, better than an
idiul , bal nVicu n jnitn wime fumaiJ nU
swears that he will render a verdict in accor
dance with the evidence, then his former
conclusions should be as nought. We have
always contended that the present method of
challenging jurors for "cause" is disgraceful
to the age. This system, in nine cases out of
ten, gives us juries that have no mind what
ever, and who are no more than a mockery
and a reproach. It were time that this
practice were remodeled, the verdict of
twelve imbeciles and idiots was never inten
ded to be the almost divine right to be tried
by a jury.
And. now, in regard to the threat convey
ed in the last line of the article in the G-'a
zette, to which we have deigned to make the
above reply, we desire to say, that no threats
or intimidations will deter us from noticing
matters worthy of our notice, and as fearless
and independent journalists, we shall contin
ue to call things by their right names, while
we control these columns, without fear, af
fection or favor, and he that presumes oth
erwise can simply "try it on." The Gazette,
however, has latterly changed its tactics.
Week before last it threatened some of the
witnesses before the Inquest with perjury,
last week it threatened us with libel, this
week, we presume, the family of the lamen
ted Crouse wiil be threatened with slander.
It is time for the lawless Gazette to come
down to the letter of the law, had it done so
long since, we doubt very much whether any
of its friends would now be incarcerated for
murder. Or, had its friends resorted to the
same means, the records of the Court would
ere this, have settled the question whether
John P. Reed, jr., went to Canada to avoid
1 the draft, or Mengel Reed voluntarily joined
■ the rebel army.
WHO ARE THE ENEMIES OF
PEACE T
The Gazette of last week says: ''We tell
.v. nonr.U of Bedford count v. that the
enemies of peace are the leading Abolition
ists —: that they will not permit the people
of the two parties to live in harmony; and
that if we are ever again to come together
as Christian neighbors, the schemes and
counsels of these foul hearted knaves must
be scouted and rejected.
Let us see who have counseled dissension.
What means the following from the Gazette
of April 8, 1864:
"Suppose that our own little mountain
county was peopled with four times its pres
ent number, and that our most prominent
and most patriotic men were taken away by
force in such a manner as thousands have
been from other places by Lincoln's minions
Would she not rise small as she is in extent
and with mountain riflemen assert the rights
for which Tell fought among the mountains
of Switzerland where those principles still
live, while they lie buried here now in the
tomb of Washington? No. The people of
America are not more different than those
of other countries where they see the actu
al occurrence of atrocities. But, unfortu
nately there are too few who see and too
many who only hear and do not believe.
The time will come yet when the administra
tion, presuming too far, will spring a mine
beneath their feet that will swallow them
!}
up.
Does that breathe the spirit of peace ?
The Gazette of July Ist 1864 publishes
an article entitled ' 'Our Position and Du
ty" from the mentor in which occurs the
following: "Let tyrant* beware, should be
the watchword from Maine to California in
the Democratic camps. But. it should not
rest in mere declaration. Actual prepara
tion for active resistance should be prompt
ly and thoroughly made. Resolutions will
not do; newspaper fulminations will not do;
but complete organization, embracing every
State and ramifying every township, will be
effective. This organization should be po
litical, not military, hut so organized that a
military form could be speedily evoked if
needs hould require." The Gazette of July 8,
1864 says: The repeal of the "commutation
clause" will compel every able-bodied man
who is not of the wealthy class to fight for—
or against Abe Lincon."
"It seems that Democrats will be com
] Killed to arm themselves in order to secure
the safety of their persons against the as
sassin assaults of their political enemies.
We deprecate this state of affairs, but if
nothing else than war at home will suit our
abolition foes we say, so be it.
"Lay on Macduff,
And damned be he, who first cries, hold, enough."
Gazette Aug. 5, 1864.
The following appears in the call for a
Democratic mass meeting for August 29th
and published August 12th 1864, signed O.
E. Shannon:
"It is important to open the campaign in
| the right spirit, to not only assert the rights
that God and the Constitution have given
us, but determine to maintain them; and in
this connection let the pimps of the present
administration in this community and else
where know that their acts of outrage on
law and order, in illegal arrests, unlawful
seizure of property, intimidating threats,
Ac, shall not be done with safety to themselves
nor their property."
When the President shall see fit to under
t<in'in en / orcemcn l °f the conscription, toe
shall look with some anxiety, and mare cu
riosity, for the name of the ivretch, who will
not scruple to disgrace himself, ami the com
mwuty in which he lives, bu accepting this
odiou office." (Provost Marshal.) " Let
that man. whoever he may be make icp hit
mind that he cannot live a peaceful life, nor
die an honorable death. —Bedford Gazette.
March 13, 1863.
In speaking of this article the Bedford
Gazette of July 28, 1865, uses the following
language:
"OLD THINGS."
"A cguple of articles published in our
some years ago on "provost marshals,' &c.,
have been the texts of Abolition preachers,
legislators and editors ever since we printed
them. The howling and roaring of these
delectable creatures, occasioned by those ar
ticles, have furnished us infinite enjoyment
To give a new impetus to their yelping, we
say just nmc and right here, that we staiul by
everything we ever said on the subject of
"provost marshalsand add that what we
prophesied about them has come time. Such
miserable man-catchers and sellers of human
flesh and blood as officiated in the capacity
of township "provost marshals" in this
county, in the language of the Bedford
GAZETTE of March 13, 1863. "will be a
stench in the nostrils of every true friend of
human liberty forever and forever! The
people will brand them with shame, for to
co so is "their only defence against the. usur
pations of power. They will put a scorpi
i en's sting into every pore of their bodies.
Men will turn from tnem in loathing and
disgust, shunning the oontaminating touch
or tneir ponucai leprosy. "
What a record from which to preach
Christianity and peace. Consistency, thou
art indeed a jewel. We refrain from com
ment, the record speaks for itself.
®@~The men indicted for the murder in
that (Mock) case, were permitted to go at
large on bail and the Ikqcirer did not say a
word when the Sheriff did not put them in
irons,— Gazette.
The men who were indicted for the mur
der of Frederick C. Mock had nothing to do
with the murder and the persons who had
them indicted knew it. If the Sheriff did
not put them in irons it was not his fault, if
they had ever passed the threshhold of what
is known as the Bedford county jail, we
would to-day have an example, in striking
contrast, with the manner in which things
are now conducted in that institution. The
same malignancy which hunted down and
persecuted the persons above alluded to,
would have been fully visited upon them
had they been so unfortunate as to have been
lodged in that, now, apparently, pleasant re
treat. There were fifty men just as much
connected with the Mock murder as any of
the persons indicted, and the Gazette knows
it
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
"The war is over. The effort to establish
a Southern Confederacy has failed."— Gazette,
Aug 11, 1865.
Remarkable discovery, indeed- According
to the Gazette all the brilliant series of vic
tories that preceded the collapse of the re
bellion, and especially the surrender of Lee,
were compromises, now certainly if they
were compromises, the Confederacy cannot
have failed, but if it has failed they could
not have been compromises. Which is it ?
cannot the Gazette enlighten us. Some of
the soldiers are very anxious to know.
MEYERS ACCORDING TO HIS OWN
isn tit a A are women,
low that attacks wo- too, who haveunsexed
men ?- Gazette, July themselves in endea
-21, 1865. jvors to stir up riot,
I she-devils who would
\ mix Doison, (if they
thought they could do
,it safely,) with the
; sacramental wine ad
!ministered to their fel
low church members,
j—Gazette, Aug. 4,
11865.
PROPHECIES BY ONE OF THE
PROPHETS.
If we elect a sound Democratic President
there is yet hope to save this Union—if we
fail, then this war will not be ended finally for
the next four years.—Gazette, March 18,1864.
But let not Congress and the Administra
tion build false hopes upon this patriotic sub
mission. The people of this state have giv
en their last man to this bloody, though Uto
pian crusade.— Gazette, Jan. 23, 1863.
There is not one man in ten who now be
lieves that Abraham Lincoln will ever be able
to put down the rebellion. — Gazette. Dec. 26,
1862. ' '
iSyThe Gazette has lately made an addi
tion to its editorial Department. An indi
vidual has been engaged to hunt up Copper
head soldiers and to write letters for them.
Up to this date three or four have been
found. Several others'are in reserve and
will be trotted out in due season.
fita The editor of the Delaware County
Republican has been imposed upon in a
most ungentlemanly manner by "an es
teemed correspondent at Bedford" under
the signature of "B." There is not an es
sential truth in the entire statement. How
could it "be otherwise, the Gazette and its at
taches do not deal in truth, as ME. WAL
TER, by a long experience ought to know.
CALAMITY ON LAKE HURON.
Collision of two Propellers—Between
Seventy-five and a hundred lives lost.
, The Meteor and
ed on Wednesday night, in Thunder Bay,
Lake Huron.
The 1 ewabic was sunk in three minutes
alter the collision.
From seventy-five to a hundred lives were
lost.
The boats were running at full speed, and
struck with such terrible force as to crush in
the entire bow of the Pewabic. At the time
the accident occurred it was scarcely dark,
and the beats saw each other six miles apart.
j tv. a I ) > P ro^: ! l'rig 1 'rig they exchanged signals,
and the Pewabic bore off to pas. , but the
Meteor, for some unexplained reason, turn
ed in the same direction and struck the Pew
abic.
A number of passengers on board the
Pewabic were killed by the crushing of her
,AT ew jumped on board the Meteor before
the Pewabic sunk.
T<de-boats were immediately lowered from
the Meteor, and picked up those whe were
net earned down with the wreck.
From one hundred and seventy-five to
two hundred passengers were on board of
the x ewabic at the time of* the disaster.
Seventy-five of the passengers and twenty
three of the crew were saved.
The loss of life cannot be correctly as
dred lnC(1 88 yet ' bnt il willlx2 near onehun-
Meteor remained near the scene of
the disaster till morning, in the hope of pick
ing up any persons that might be still float
found 011 pieces o{ wreck ) but none were
JV P ro P ell <* Mohawk passing down, the
survivors were transferred to her from the
Meteor, and brought to this city.
The Meteor was but slightly injured, and
continued her trip to Lake Superior.
THE TENNESSEE ELECTION.
Three Union Candidates Certainly Elec
ted to Congress,
Na SHY ILL*, Aug. 11.
The Press and Times of this morning pub
lish the following:
"The Representatives elect in the respec
tive districts are as follows: N.U.Taylor,
Upper East Tennessee, almost a certainty.
Knoxville district, Horace Maynard; Asa
Faulkner over Stokes in the Chattanooga
district; Nashville, W. B. Campbell; Clarks
ville, D. B. Thomas; West Tennessee, Colo
nel Hawkins over Etheridge. Faulkner, who
we fear is elected over Stokes, will vote with
Governor Campbell and Mr. Thomas, if they
get a chance to vote at all. Mayuard and
Hawkins can be depended on as supporters et
a liberal national policy, and we hope also
Taylor. Dr. Leftwich is alsoreportea to bq a
good Union man. The chances of admission
of our delegates are not very flattering. The
Union says Colonel Hawkins is undoubtedly
elected. His majority, as far as heard from
is, 1,740.
NASHVILLE, August 12.—The Pre** and
Time* of this morning contains a proclama
tion of Gov. Brownlow proposing certain
questions to clerks of county courts and
sneriffs, with a view of ascertaining wheth
er or not the elective franchise act was fully
complied with in conducting the recent elec
tion. Information has reached the State
Department that in some counties it was er
roniously construed, and in others wilfully
evaded, and in some instances totally disre
garded. The Governor invites all loyal citi
tcua to uuuimuiuut. LiiVri luubtvu iu idauuu
to the question, and assures the loyal citi
zens of the State that no array of numbers,
however great, no censure of disfranchised
rebels, however loud, no combination of
Union men, however respectable and valued,
will prevent the execution of said law accor
ding to its substance and spirit.
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
Additional Account of the Naval Fight-
Bravery ot the Paraguayans—Captures
by the Brazilians.
NEW YORK, August 11. —The following'
account of the naval engagement on the riv
er Parana is given in the Journal if Recife : j
At 8 o'clock in the morning the Paraguayan
vessels were seen to descend the river, and
at aboutt9 o'clock they were within reach of
their enemv, and at once opened a furious
fire. The Brazilian account, the only one
which has reached us, admits that the Par
aguayans fought with the utmost bravery,
and the result was for some time doubtful,
until the Brazilian steamer Amazonas, being
converted into a ram, made terrible havoc
among the enemies" fleet si iking three steam
ers, the Paraguayan, Salto, ana Jeguhy, and
one floating battery, and compelling one
steamer and five batteries to surrender, and
removing four steamers which were likewise
considerably damaged, and then returned.
The battle lasted until four o'clock P. M.
Paraguayans who supported the fire of
their flotilla by a land battery of 30 guns are
reported to have lost 1,500 men of their
squadron, and 500 of the laryl battery. The
Brazilians estimate their loss at about 300 in
killed, wounded and missing.
Nothing could exceed the ferocious valor
of the Paraguayans. They all seemed de
termined to conquer or die. Among the
wounded prisoners who fell into the hands of
the Brazilians was Boble, commander of the
Sal to, one of the sunken steamers, and a
brother to Commanding General of Para
guayan forces. His worn ds were tenderly
dressed by the Command* rin Chief of the
Brazilian fleet, Barroso, 1 ut Roble, with his
teeth, tore off the bandages from hiswounds,
preferring death to captivity. The best of
the commanders of the 1 'araguayan vessels
are among the dead. Tha whole of the ar
tillery, ammunition, banners and an immense
amount of war material f 11 into the hands
of the victors.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The negro difficulty at Aqnia Creek--
Outrages perpetrated upon the Frced
men.
The following is the official report concer
ning the eineute of the negroes at Aquia
Creek:
GAME POINT, August 2, 1865.
'L'aj>t. C. IP Hooker:
SIR ; I have the honor to report that last
night the negro bands employed on the rail
road at this point, raised with the avowed
intention of murdering all the whites. I be
ing very ill and having lost much sleep, slept
very soundly, and knew nothing of it, until
I was called by a faithful sen-ant from the
neighborhood. The insurgents by this time
had become quiet, after running all the
whites off. I very' quietly removed my
stores and books, and returned this morning
to find Lieut. E. C. Sefeber, with a detaehj
ment of his command, stationed at Stafford
Court House, on the spot. The negroes re
fused to obey his orders, and one had to be
shot before quiet was restored.
Very respectfully, your oliedient servant,
[Signed] W. T. Dtx.
*r "-Thompson, Superintendent of
Mechanics.
The following endorsement is on the back
of this letter:
"STAFFORD C. H., VS., August 1, 1865.
—Respectfully transmitted with the request
that instructionsjbe furnished inc as to now
I will act if I withdraw the force I have
here. The negroes may rise again.
| Signed] EDVIN C. LEEFEBKR.
Lieutenant and Provost Marshal, Stafford
Court House, Ya.
A number of negroes and white prisoners
and witnesses in the above affair have been
taken to Fredericksburg, where an investi-
Stion is going on. The belief here is that
e whole plot is hatched by former slave
holders with a view to si curing thg adop
tion of severe restrictions on the negroes.
The New Census of the States.
The returns of the census now being taken
in the several States, under the auspices of
the State authorities, reveal many curious
and interesting facts. The decrease in pop
ulation in manv localities, and the enor
mous increase in others, developing as it
does the ebb and flow of the tide of popula
tion. presents a feature worthy of a careful
study. The great westward tendency of our
population revealed by the national census of
1860 still continues, and at a more rapid
rate. The present census not only proves
that this feature, so noticeable in the last
amsus, was not a temporary affair, but that
the change is going on even at a greater ra
tio. i hus in 1860 the returns from the At
lantic^— especially the New England States —
revealed a decrease in the population of
many towns. The same result is shown by
the census now in progress, not only in re
gard to JNew England, hut also in some of the
districts in this State. Such
manufacturing towns as Lowell, where it
would be supposed the population would
nave increased, it, has declined. The satne
™ j , er manufacturing towns of New
England and agricultural districts in all the
Atlantic States. But when we turn to the
census returns of the Western States, we
find, instead of a decrease, an enormous in
crease, and at a ratio tenfold greater than
the decrease East. This change must, from
j Te F natnr ? our country, its climate
and characteristics, increase from year to
year, working the most decided results in the
political affairs of the country. The decrease
°f the population in many parts of New En
gland foretells similar decline of power and
influence in government affairs; while on
the other hand the great increase in the
West not only points to the fact that the day
is not far distant when the Mississippi Val
ley will be the centre of the republic ; and
that what is now known js the West will
control and guide the political destinies of
the country.—A] Y. Herald.
THE Westminster Review, in an article
on Theodore Winthrop, ranks him as one of
the most marked writers of America.
Oil News.
NEW OIL COMPANY.—A new company
has been recently organized under the title
of the Mountain Well Company. Its prop
erty eonsistaof five producing wells on Cher
ry Bun and five more going down with fb
vorable prospects all near the famous Heed
well. The company own one sixth of all the
oil of the producing wells and those to be
bored, and is now receiving dividends that
pay on the capital stock from the time it is
, taken. The company also own an oil refine
ry in Plumer, Venango county, and the un
divided half of 105 acres on Pithole within
one mile of the United States well, also,
three-eighths of another tract of 90 acres on
Pithole, all of which is to be developed im
mediately. This presents a rare chance for
investments. Prospectus can be seen and
shares had by calling at this office, or at the
Banking House of Hupp, Shannon & Co.
The oil business is rapidly reviving, and
bids fair soon to equal, if not surpass in ac"
tivity, the palmiest days of the past.
The Oil Creek and Gordon's Run Petro
leum Company, in which many of our citi
zens are interested, has two wells already
down, which though not yet tubed are flow
ing oil and water and giving every evidence
ivf Liiuj 500J nsllo. Afew Ljro will ouffioo
;to tube ajxl test them. The President, Di
rectors ana Superintendent, deserve great
credit for the energy and promptness they
have displayed in developing their terri
tory.
PIT HOLE.—There are now nine wells on
Pit Hole, yielding in the aggregate three
thonsand barrels of oil per twenty-four hours.
These nine wells are known here as follows:
United States, two Twin wells; Nos. 77, 62,
63 and 19. Boston and Island wells.
Nos. 59, 60 and 66, all owned by Pittsburg -
ers, will no doubt be ready for tubing this
week, and all give promise of turning out
well.
No. 19 immediately took fire upon being
struck, injuring several men badley, but the
flow of oil was not retarded, ana she has
since yielded from three to four hundred
barrels per day.
Daring the next thirty days there will be
at least eight more wells on Pit Hole ready
for testing, and if they ail prove as success
ful as those already finished, this section of
country can then claim to outstrip and sur
pass anything yet discovered in the way of
oil territory. Several Pittsburgh oil com
panies are operating in this rich neigborhood,
and all give evident prospect of good success
Among them are the Cnerrv Run and Pit
Hole and Central Basin. The former, have
one well located on their thirty-five acres on
Pit Hole creek, down two hundred and fifty
feet, and find exactly the same kind of rock,
etc., found in the United States wells, and
judging from the depth already bored, they
are almcst sure to strike oil at the same
depth as the others.
If they- should succeed, the stock of the
company will be well worth holding, as their
capital is only S2OO 000, and it requires but
a small quantity of oil to pay agooa dividend
on this amount of capital. They are ener
getically at work and this well will be com
pleted by the first of September. They
also have an interest in another, further
down towards the mouth of Pitholc, which
is also pushed vigorously.
CHERRY RUN.—A thirty barrel well was
struck on Cherry Run, four miles above
Plutnmer, on the 9th ult.
OIL CRBEIK. —The Rouseville Company
Basin,' Rouseville and other leading stocks.
The Rouseville Oil Company was organized
altout eight months ago. Some of the cor
porators are A. G. Cattel, Esq., President
of the corn Exchange National Bank, Phila
delphia. John Allender, Esq, of Philadel
phia, tor a long time a well known merchant
of Pittsburgh; David Vanderveer and Ed
ward Bacon, of Philadelphia, with S. G.
Brown, of Oil Creek, Wm. McKee, A. C.
Graff, \\ .D. Cushman, Chorjtenuing and
Lyday, and others of this city.
The Rouseville Company purchased from
the Oil Basin, Petroleum and others, all the
undeveloped territory on the A. Buchanan
farm, paying a large sum of nioney, and a
■ royalty of all the oil found to said companies.
There were between seventy-five and one
hundred choice leases conveyed to the llouse
i -ville Company, They have a working capi
i tal of SSO, 000 in cash, auda reserve of 20,
000 shares of stock. The capital stock of
I this company is S6OO, 000. divided into one
hundred and twenty thousand shares of five
dollars each. They are a developing com
pany, and have the following wells in pro
cess of boring and prodncing:
Well No. i on lease 84, one hundred and
eighty feet deep, completed, and pumping
one hundred barrels per day.
No. 2 on lease 78, five hundred and sixty
five feet deep, nearly completed.
No. 3on lease 74, five hundred and sixty
four feet deep, tubing to test.
No. 4 on lease 80, five hundred and forty
three feet deep, pumping froin ten to twelve
barrels per day.
Nos. 5, 6, and 7 are down between three
and four hundred feet deep. These adjoin
the leases on which are located the "Sucker
State,'' and Main, and Horn wells, and each
flowing from oue hundred to one hundred
and twenty five barrels per day. Nos. 5,
6 and 7 can scarcely miss in that rich locality.
CLARION OIL MATTERS.—We have prom
ising reports from the Clarion county oil
regions. The Porter Farm well, one mile
from Clarion borough, is down to a depth
of 300 feet. At that depth a strong vein of
gas was struck which threw the water over
the derick. There is a very strong show of
oil. The Pocahontas well is being bored to
a depth of 600 feet. It is now down to a
sandrock. below which it is anticipated a
good vein of oil will be reached. There are
two wells at the mouth of Piney. The up
per well is down 588 ftet, and the lower well
266. There is a good show at both, and Mr.
Genth is confident of striking plenty of oil
inside of 600 feet. Blyson's Run well is
yielding a pood supply of oil. The opera
tions on Little Toby are very extensive, and
soon expect to hear good reports from that
vicinity. The Witcnell well is now yielding
ten barrels per day of very fine oil. The
Clarion (new well) ten barrels per day of
dark oil of superior quality. Wnen the wa
ter is exhausted this well will do a great
deal better, as there are two veins shut off
by the force of the water above them.
ADVICES from Rio Janeiro state that Pro
fessor Agassis is delivering a course of lec
tures on geology, and the aesirc to hear him
is so great that hundreds are nightly disap
pointed in endeavoring to gain admittance
to the lecture room. The Professor has
every reason to be pleased with his visit to
Brazil, and will not set out for the Amazon
for a month or two. A steamer has been
placed at his disposal to visit the coast, and
every facility will be given for visiting the
interior.
THE Paris Sieclc says: "A rumor of a sad
import has been in circulation for the last
few days, to the effect that the illustrious
orator, M. Berryer, is obliged to sell his
property at Augeiyillc, where he has spent
so many years of his private life. Lord
Broughman, it is said, contemplates pur
chasing that property, however, with no in
tention of dispossessing the former owner,
who would continue to live as hitherto, on
his little domain. An act of this kind would
be as honorable to the former Lord High
Chancellor of England as to the great French
orator."
The great Cable.
The news revived this morning, by the
steamer Cuba, is not encouraging to those
who expected to see Europe and America in
telegraphic communication in a few days.
After seven hundred miles of the cable were
laid, ''insulation waskwt," hoarding to the
rcpolrt That means we suppose, tLat the
office in V alentia was no longer in connection
with the Great Eastern. We cannot ex poet
to hear more until the Great Eastern is spo
ken, or returns to the shore.
Communication through the cable lasted
just a week after the shore end was landed at
Valentia. This was accomplished on Satur
day, the 22d of July. On Sunday the Great
Eastern sailed, having on that day spliced
the shore cable to the end of the sea line.
On Monday,the 24th, a fault was discovered;
the vessel hove to eighty miles from shore,
and by under running eleven miles of the
cable discovered ana repaired the fault,
which was occasioned by a trivial accident.
A piece of wire had been driven into the
cable so as to touch the important heart of
it, and this intercepted the electric current.
On Tuesday, the 25th, the paying-out be
gan again. On the next day the vessel was
one hundred and fifty-six miles from Valen
tia, and had paid out two hundred miles of
cable. liy Thursday she had paid out three
hundred; on Friday five hundred and fifty
miles were out, and on Saturday, July 29th.
when the Valentia office had been notified
that seven hundred miles had been paid out,
"insultation was lost."
Tbo ohip L.iJ uii bouid mlicu idic titled
twenty-three hundred miles of cable. It is
scarcely probable that any attempt would he
made, or if made would be successful, to haul
up, and thus recover an important part of
the seven hundred miles paid out From
Valentia such an undertaking might meet
with partial success. The break, or fault,
or whatever the nature of the misfortune
may be, has left on board the Great Eastern
probably nearly sixteen hundred miles of
cable, more than two-thirds of the whole
length. Unless the fault was of such a
kind that it was quickly and perfectly re
paired, the vessel has turned back, and is by
this time lying in Valentia or in some safer
harbor. That no news has yet been receiv
ed of her arrival on or near the coast of
America makes it more probable that the
defect proved fatal,and that the ship return
ed to Europe with that part of tne cable
not paid out. Eleven days had elapsed
since the Saturday on which the insulation
was lost.— Evening Post.
General New Items,
MIRABEAU compared the French to chil
dren who sow and the next day scratch open
the ground to see if the seeds have sprouted
A teetotal firm of shipbuilders in Yar
mouth, England, christened a ship which
they launched with a bottle of ginger beer.
IT is stated that the Roman Cathcdic mem
bers of the new British Parliament will be
three in number.
THE Saratoga tribe of Indians is reduced
nearly to & minimum. It consists this year
it is stated, of six or eight Canadian French
men, a candle eating Labradorian, two
octogenarian squaws, and a North Ameri
can papoose
A fine pieae of carpeting, measuring 14
feet by 20, the first ol the kind manufactured
in Austriaj has just been placed in the Mu
seum at Vienna. It presents a map of the
railways of Central Europe, and was pro
duced at Prague.
DESCRIBING the burning of Barnum.s
Museum, an exchange says the happy family
had an unhappy end,—'their loom was writ
ten in letters of fire; their fate was sealed
but the seal was saved.
THE Gold Hill (Nevada) News tells that o
boy fell down a pair of stairs' on C street,
~ GUV UTI tiro flvo* vf
a third story 0 n D street. The altitude of
the domicils in mountain towns is very un
certain.
THE Patterson (N. J. )Press says the
Dale Manufacturing Company propose erec
ting this summer one of the tinest mills for
the manufacture of silk in this country.
The main building will be 2GO by 75 feet,
will cost SIOO, 000. aud will employ lrom
1000 to 2000 hands.
FORD,S Theatre was on Wednesday cleared
of all the theatrical furniture, scenery, &c..
and the floors are being torn up. The en
tire interior of the building is to be remod
elled, under the direction of the Secretary of
War preparatory to the uses of the Bureau
of Rebel Archives and Relics.
A teacher in a contraband school asked a
young darkey what a certain letter of the
alphahet was. The darkey looked at it
earnestly for a short time, and said: "I
know dat well enough by sight, but am bres
sed if I can call it by name." He was told
he could take a back seat.
THE Louisville Journal .says:—'"Jeff.
Davis and his followers got up the rebellion
lor the pretcuded purpose of rendering their
property in slaves secure. And now Jeff.
Davis is in prison awaiting tril for his life,
and his ex-slaves are cultivating his fine
plantation of two thousand acres in Missis
sippi for their own benefit."
A Richmond correspondent says: "It is
lam told, a remarkable fact, that the Is
raelites in this city knew every defeat or
victory twelve hours before any other people
—getting it through Benjamin. He knew
of the fall of Fort Fisher the very night it
fell, when it was twenty-four hours before
the public knew it. They made immense
fortunes.''
LETTERS from Naples describe a temple of
Juno, just discovered among the recent ex
cavations at Pompeii. Three hundred skel
etons were found crowded within the sanct
uary, a propitiatory service havingjevidcntly
been held m the hour they were over
whelmed.
LAST week a destructive flood swept over
Franklin, Johnson county, Md., doing
immense damage, many people living in
the lowlands awoke to find their domicils
entirely surrounded by water, and their
fields of corn and wheat flooded and ruined
by the sweeping deluge. The amount of
damage to crops alone in Johnson county,
may bo reckoned by hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Amc
rwan writing from Richmond, says that
Gen. Terry has not yet appointed the muni
cipal officers, and probably will not before
the middle of the week. There will be no
more attempts to give the people of Rich
mond an opportunity to hold a charter elec
tion, at least until December.
ITALY now possesses a fleet of 98 vessels,
■ 4 of which are ships of the line, and 24 are
transports. The ships of war consist of 18
iron-clads, 21 screw steamers, 25 paddle
wheel steamers, and 10 sailing vessels. The
nominal power ot the engines in the war
steamers is 23,140 horses; they reckon 1260
cannon and 20,383 men. In the transport
service the engines are 4350 horse-power,
and the ships arc provided with 43 cannon
and manned by 1882 seamen.
THE London Athenmum says of "Ik Mar
vel's" "Wet Days at Edgewood" : ""Sound
common sense, good taste and sufficient in
formation are amongst the qualities of the
writer, who may be regarded as a type of the
American country gentleman—a character
in whose existence mtolerant politicians on
this side the Atlantic are slow to believe
Ls polished, and many of
ln pages are bright with humor."
A si de ®P ateJlo ? Bta tc that a horrible
IJ I , been committed in the Gulf, on
board the ship Haydee, bound to La Baz.
1 several families from Mazatlan as pas
sengers. A irench sailor named Magne,
together with a Greek and an Italian, made
an attack upon the passengers, and assassi
nated, in cold blood, eighteen persons,
among them Senor C'hao a Spanish gentle
man, and si* members of his family.
Southern News Items.
The courts of Elizabeth City and County
were organized on Thursday last, with
Union officers throughout.
THE shipment of cotton and naval stores
from Newbern, N. C., are said to be larger
than at any previous period in the history of
that place.
SOLDIERS have been placed in charge of
the postal service on recently opened roads
in the South and of the post offices at mili
tary posts.
THE Petersburg City Council has before
it a memorial to President Johnson, asking
him to have removed from the Appotnatax
river the obstructions placed there by the
rebel authorities.
OUTRAGES upon colored men in Richmond
are becoming more numerous. The pro
scribed people petitioned Genera! Terry for
redress, but thus far the General has uot
been not been able to remedy the evil,
TliE Stonewall, although at the service of
our government now, will not be brought to
the United States at present, for fear of in
fection with yellow fever, now prevalent Jat
Havana.
AN Alabama correspondent represents
the people of that State as overbearing and
imperious in their demands, having been
spoiled by the magnanimous treatment they
have received.
IT is said that much discontent prevails
amoQg the troops in and abotit Richmond,
because the commissary and quartermaster
stores are deficient, and there is no present
prospect of being either paid or discharged.
Several recent outrages have been attribu
ted to them.
THE New York Commercial's Washing
ton despatch says it is stated that General
Howard will not interfere in the claims of
the freedinen for pay from their late masters
since the date of the proclamation of free
dom.
THE Raleigh (N. C.) Standard says, rebel
papers are appearing all over the State, and
that most of the State officers recently ap
pointed are unable to qualify, as they can
not take the oath prescribed by Congress
A RICHMOND paper invites emigration to
the Old Dominion from the hardy popula
tion of the North. Among the inducements
offered are these: "A genial country, a hos
pitable people, easy employment, indntgenl
task- masters,' etc. "Task-masters" is a
beautiful word to charm Northern white men
into the South.
The Freedmen's Bureau daily receives ac
counts of gross outrages committed on the
colored people by their former masters. In
the interior of the South, the planters ap
pear to be determined to make as much out
of the negroes by compulsory labor as pos
sible, before the authorities interfere.
THE assassination conspirators were land
ed at the Dry Torttigas dn the 23th nit
When informed of their destination they
were quite depressed; but on fin dine a good
sea breeze there, and the place pleasanter
than anticipated, they were more resigned.
Mudd has been assigned to duty as assistant
surgeon, Arnold as a clerk, Spangler as car
penter. and O'Laughiin such employment
as he Was fitted fof.
ADVICES from Raleigh, N. C.. show that
in numerous instances the men nominated
to the State convention have been leading
rebels, who although they have been par
doned, are still rebellious at heart. The
Union men of the State demand the enforce
ment of the confiscation laws, as the only
means of freeing them from the rule of reb
el leaders and sympathisers,
HOWELL COBB, who was in Augusta
recently, expressed an earnest desire to see
Georgia resume her former position in the
Union. Slavery he said, could never be
• awl he thought it best for all to
submit promptly and willingly to the United
States authorities.
Ex-Governor Brown was lately in Atlanta,
entirely recovered from his illness. He re
garded the question of secession as settled,
and that any further agitation on that and
kindred subjects should be studiously avoid
ed. He thinks it would be well for the Con
vention to declare that slavery is at an end
in Georgia, without excitement or discus
sion.
A- ashington despatch says Paymaster
\\ ilson has just returned from the interior
of South Carolina, and rejiorts the people
in that section very bitter at heart against
the I. nion and Federal authority. The peo
ple are a unit against negro suffrage, and
retain the old prejudice against the race.
GOVERNOR Pierpoint has addressed a no
tice to the justices of the coUnty courts iff
\ irginia, saying that he has reliable infor
mation that in a number of counties in the
State persons have been elected to the office
of Commonwealth Attorney, Sheriff. Com
missioner of Revenue aud Clerk of Courts,
and, in some cases to Justice of the Peace,
who are disqualified by the clause of the
Constitution which excludes from voting or
holding offices any persons who have held
any office under or been a member of any so
-called Confederate Congress or Legislature.
The justices are directed to consider all the
offices above referred to, to which persons
so disqualified shall have been elected, va
cant, and to order elections immediately to
fill such vacancies.
THE CONSPIRATORS.—The Unit<r*e. a
Catholic paper in Philadelphia, says :
"If we have read the trial with correct
judgment, the hanging and imprisoning were
deserved ; and if wc do not mistake the pub
lie feeling, there is a universal approval ff
the way in which things have been brought
to a close. The evidence of the President s
murder is not clearer than that the condem
ned were real conspirators and abettors in
it. and the nation is too just not to ratify the
sentence pronounced upon them. So much
for an unjustifiable treason and for a foul
deed of blood done in its interest! We re
gret that there was a woman in the tragedy,
and that that woman was a Catholic. But
when women conspire and abet treason and
murder, and silence the teachings of the
( hurch in their own hearts, nothing can be
said in their defense."
YOU DON'T KNOW IT YOU
OUGHT TO,
That we have just received a choice assort
ment of
PLUG AND FINE CUT
CHEWING TOBACCO;
ALSO,
SMOKING TOBACCO AND SUGARS,
of celebrated brands and flavor.
Try our Segars and be convinced that they
arc of a superior quality for the price.
Aug. 4.:2 m. G. R. AW. OSTER.
JyT EW GROCERY and NOTION STORE.
• BLOODY RUN AHEAD!
V. T. HlnlKE would respectfully inform
the public that he has a largo and varied assort
ment of
UROCKRIEB,
CONFECTIONS,
FANCY ARTItUa,
Such as ribbons, Rowers, hoop-skirts, handker
chiefs, hosiery, gloves, collars, neck-ties, perfume
ry, ladies boots and shoes; in connection with
large assortment of TINWARE. Also, STOVE
PIPE constantly on hand.
Having purchased at low rates, he offers special
inducements to buyers.
Bloody Rnh, July 2S, if>6s.-3m*
MEW GOODS.
The subscribers have just received a full and gen
eral supply of
SPRING & SUMMER GOODS
Purchasers are respectfully invited to call and ex
amine our assortment and prices.
June 2, 1885. A. B. CRAMER A CO.