Ikftforti inquirer.
BKDFOKD. PA.. FRIDAY MAT 4,1866.
FOR nOVERSOU.
GEN* JOHN W. GEARY.
ASTONISHING RESULTS OF THE
WORKING OF POLICY."
fhe work of reconstruction is going on so
rapidly under the peculiar policy of the
President and the encouragemeut of the
Copperheads, that, within the past month
the Mayor of Mobile at a public celebration
Uif some rebel victory we suppose) deemed
it an appropriate occasion to offer a toast to
ftrsidutt J)aris. snMkr, statesman, pnlri
"i, prisoner. Our touj/ves may be nvfte but
our hearts are with himk' The Mobile
Register flaunts at the head of its columns
Gen. Robert K. Lee as a candidate for the
Presidency in lt>oß and declares that there
is a movement already in progress to make
the Rebel Chief the standard hearer of the
■State Lights Democracy. IV hat a Brand
spectacle that would be, to tec the Rebels
utid Copperheads with the Traitor Lec at
their head marching for the White House.
What an able cabinet that arch traitor might
call around him. What a capital Secretary
of War IT. Davis would make. What a
grand haul another Secretary Cobb would be
able to make now front the fat treasury,
with its hundreds of millions. What a
magnificent army they could soon equip for
setting things right, according to rebel and
copperhead ideas. Who but rebels and
copperheads would be capable of such grand
conceptions as these. What an excellent
Lieutenant for some minor office, Clymer
"would be (for these fellows must have their
mouths stopped with petty offices.) the fat
ones will be kept for men who have dated
to draw the sword for Southern Independ
ence. Clynter did yeoman's service in
opposing the war, discouraging enlistments,
encouraging desertions and his services
would have to be recoganized. Ye gallant
"soldiers who wore the army blue, who
marched with Grant, Sherman and Sheridan,
ye heroes of a hundred battles, ye who
inourn for husbands,brothers and sons,sacri
ficed upon the altar of your country's liber
ties. contemplate the sublime spectacle with
which rebels and copperheads propose to
crown your labors and reward your services.
IV hat a magnificent programme is here
mapped out by these latter day conserva
tives. When completed, what a brilliant
page it will make in our country's history.
In the carrying out of this proposed, coup
'Vital the department of Pennsylvania has
been assigned to Cowan and Clymer, fitter
tools for sucb dark deeds were never found.
DISAPPOINTED.
'1 he Uopperheadi have been sadly disap
pointed in the late Peace Proclamation. In
stead of the mere official announcement of
of the cessation of actual armed resistance
which it really wa3 made over sanguine bv
the Presidents antics, they supposed it to be
the sigual for a determined and persistent
effort to forcosrobel members into Congress
and hand over the government of the coun
try to Davis, Lee. Bright, Vallandigham,
Clynier, et id oniMe genus. Their glorifica
tions over the proclamation have turned to
grumbling, since it has failed to fulfil their
expectations. We have a very distinct re
membrance of a similar failure of the ex
pectations and predictions of Copperhead
prophets about the same time last year.
They may expect a repetition of this singu
lar political phenomenon, in Pennsylvania
about the second Tuesdaj- of next October.
RECONSTRUCTION.
We call the special attention of our read
ers to the Report of the jcint Committee of
Congress on reconstruction, published in
another column. Let no one fail to give it
a careful perusal and weigh well the differ
ence between The People's Policy of Re
const ruction as here set forth and that of
the President as indicated in his recent acts
and speeches.
' l My Policy " Wade Hampton namesake
and relative of the South Carolina rebel,
Made Hampton, has been appointed Post
master at Pittsburg. So works the Cowan
guillotine. Any body having political opin
ions for barter will please take notice. Con
sideration Post Offices, Collectorships, As
sessorships, etc, For further particulars
address Johnson Cowan k Co. Washing
ton D. C.
HOW REBELS TALK AFTER BEING
RECONSTRUCTED ACCORDING
TO "JOY POLICY."
Prominent among the Southern papers
that support the President stands the Rich
mond Examiner , in which we find the fol
lowing spirited expression of the feelings
and sentiments of reconstructed rebels. We
commend it to the careful consideration of
such as have an inclination to copperhead
conservatism.
■'Not quite a year ago a small knot of de
voted Patriots in Washington, believing
that the life of "The tyraut Lincoln" stood
in the way qf the establishment of the
Southern Confederacy, resolved to rid their
country of "that monster." They did so,
but immediately fell victims to "the min
ions of that tyrant." who. in their fiendish
rage, shot the immortal Booth, as he was
getting readv to shoot three or four ef his
cowardly assailants, and afterward murder
ed up on the scaffold the venerable Mrs. Sur
ratt, the heroic Payne, the undaunted At
zerodt, and the gallant Harold. While
these inhuman butcheries were being per
petrated, Andrew Johnson, a Southern
man, of whom better things might have
been hoped,unmindful of the debt of grati
tude he owed to the brave Southern hearts,
whose deed had made him President, was
declaring in mangniloquent words that trea
son—that is, loyalty to the South—must be
rendered infamous ; that the rebel— mean
ing the Confederate— leaders should be se
ver elv punished.
While the apostate Southron was thus
breathing out his threats of vengeance over
the graves of the heroic outdoers of Brutus
and Charlotte Corday, it did seem indeed as
if they had sacrificed their lives worse than
in vain—as if they had removed Lin
coln to place in power an enemy of the
South, whose little finger wouldbe thicker
than his predecessor's loins. No wonder
that the people of the defeated Confedera
cy stood aghast—that they felt that their on
ly hope lay in the most absolute submission,
to the will of this terrible Tcnneseean. But
Booth and his heroic comrades bad not done
their work in vain. What, the greatest
Cteaewl whom the world has ever seen, had
been uliable to do for the South, by the sac
rifice of three hundred thousand gentlemen,
each of whom far excelled the Spartan de
fenders of Thermopylae, was destined fctt be
acheived by the one little billet tfrhichcrash
ed through the brain of Abraham Lincoln.
While the martyr Stephen was being stoned
to death. Saul of Tarsus was holding the
garments of' his murderers. How would it
have eladdened the soul of that dying saint,
could he have foreseen that Paul, the per
secutor, was shortly to become Paul the
Apostle ! And how would it have reioiced
the venerable Mrs. Surr&tt aiidher compan
ions ou the scaflbld, could they have fore
>een that the President whom their hands
had made, whose stony heart was steeled
against the prayers of their friends for mer
cy, and who declared that it should be his
mis-ion to punish loyalty to the. Confeder
ate States, would wjthln a few short months
without having ptitnahed a single Southern
patriot, recognize the loyalty of the South
declare that the Southern states were enti
tled to their rights of members of the Un
iou, and hurl defiance at the fanatics who
held that the people of the South could for
feit any of'their rights under the Govern
ment of the United States, by an unsuccess
ful attempt to overthrow the Government!
Why, oh why. could not Booth, Payne, At
zerout. and Harold, have been spared to
hear that glorious flight of oratory in which
rhe President denounced Sumner, Stevens,
"and others of that stripe," and to have
led in the applause with which it was greet
dby the thousands of their friends and
admirers to whom it was addressed, visum
't(. Yet rest sweetly ye gallant spirits!
Not in vain ye (Jangled from the scaffold !
Your blood was the seed of the great South
ern church triumphant, and of that church
Andrew John-on, who permitted you to per
ish, has become the chief apostle !
THE RAILROAD QUESTION.
Reply ol Gen. Geary to the llusiuess
Alen of Pittsburg.
HE IS OPPOSED TO MONOPOLY AND
IN FAVOR OF A GENERAL RAIL
ROAD LAW.
NEW CUMBERLAND, PA., )
April 4th. 1H66. j
GENTLEMEN :—Your communication,
bearing date March 20th, only reached me
on the 30th uh., and in compliance with your
request, I proceed to answer it with as little
delay as possible.
You propound to me three questions, to
which you request an answer, viz:
"1. Will you, if elected Chief' Magistrate
of Pennsylvania, faithfully exert the power
of your administration, so as to defeat any
and every attempt, made by Legislation, or
otherwise, for the monopoly and control by
any one corporation of the railroad policy of
the State?
"2. Will you oppose and withhold your
sanction from any legislation conferring upon
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, or
any company it may control, the authority
to build branches, unless the said grant
should be under provisions of a general law
regulating the construction of railroads?
"3. Will you favor, and use the influence
of your administration to secure, the enact
ment of a general law authorizing the con
struction and regulation of railroads within
this Commonwealth?"
My views and opinions upon these meas
ures I am free to give you, and quite willing
to indicate what my official action would be,
so far as it is at all proper to do so.
Pennsylvania possesses immense treasures
of mineral wealth, and most extensive man
ufactories. To develope these, to foster
everything which tends to their develop
ment, and to cherish and promote equally
the rights and interests of her citizens, I
firmly believe to be the highest duty of her
statesmen. I regard every kind of public
improvement as conducive to this end; and
I am, therefore, in favor of the most com
plete and elaborate system oflnternal Works
together with a proper system of Protection
to Home Industry, as a means of converting
our vast mineral resources, agricultural pro
ducts and manufactured articles into value-.
Whatever shall so improve our commercial
intercourse, enable our manufacturers to
send the proceeds f their industry to mar
ket atffl so place our State at the head of
the manufacturing and producing States of
the Union, shall have my cordial assistance
and cheerful approbation.
I regard our railroad system as the best
mode of commercial and social iotereommu
nieation. In addition to the great main line.-,
the St. te is enveloped in a network of mi
nor railroads, which pour an increasing
stream of coal, iron-ore, lumber, live stock,
agi icultural products, and the handiwork of
skilled labor, to the distributing points with
in, and beyond our borders.
While these corporations continue to act
their part as public servants, they should
he carefully protected. They should not
be permitted to overstep their legitimate
functions. As creatures of the law, they
should obey, and be, in every respect, sub
servient to the law.
I answer to the first interrogatory, that
while I believe it to be impro|>er to bring
the influence of the Executive Department
to bear upon the Legislature in anticipation
of its action, except in the way of recom
mendation: lam heartily opposed to the
creation of any monopoly in the railroad
system of the State, or giving any artificial
body created by the law, powers which would
Elaee it above and beyond the reach of the
egislature.
To the second interrogatory, I say, that
while a general system would best
comport with a sound public policy, it must
originate with the Legislature, and until it
shall be established by law, grants or power
may be properly made to railroads to con
struct branches when they are desired by
the people who are imediately interested in
the matter, and would promote the develop
ment of their property, and afford them ave
nues to market. Such grants being so re
stricted as not to violate individual right or
public interests.
In reply to your third question, which to
my mind includes both the others, I say, a
gain, that I believe a general law regulating
the construction of railroads and grants of
power for that purpose to be most consis
tent with public policy and the interests of
the Commonwealth; and entertaining these
views, I would certainly use the legitimate
and constitutional power of the Executive
to secure so desirable a result.
The spirit of monopoly in this and other
matters, should be discouraged in a Repub
lican Government, and I have no sympathy
with any policy which may be designed for
its encouragement.
L am, gentlemen, with high respect, your
obedient servant.
J NO. W. GEARY.
To Messrs. Lyon, Shorb k Co., Spang,
Chalfant& Co., and others.
REFUSE THEM.—An exchange says :
"The State banks of New England, which
have been converted into National banks,
are by State laws released from obligation to
redeem their old .State bank notes, after the
lapse of a certain time, varying from two
to four years. With some of the Maine
banks this time has already expired. The
bills of nil the State banks of Maine should
be refused by the public generally."
STRANGE AND REMARKABLE MISTAKE.
—lt has been reported that Andrew John
son said to the colored people of Nashville,
"I will be your Moses to lead you up out of
the house of bondage."'
It is now ascertained that these words
were not spoken to "niggers." They were
spoken to Southern Citizens , to men who
are maliciously called rebels. To effect
their deliverance it was necessary to smite
the first born son of all the people, the be
loved Abraham. — Atchgison (Kan.) Free
Press.
HECNOSTaUCTIONt
A Plan PeH ettedi-Basis of Beprc
sehlation.—Males Above Twenty one
Not Voters Excluded.— Participants m
Rebellion Disfranchised Until 1870.
Leading Rebels Not to Hold Office.
WASHINGTON, April 28, 1866.
The Reconstruction Committee, pursuant
to adjournment, held a very important meet
ing to day at the Capitol, during which they
definitely agreed on d plan to be submitted
to Congress and the country for the recon
struction of the Southern States to the
Union. The committee were in session four
hours and had an exciting time. Each
separate proposition that was made was v°*
tea on and declared agreed to by a majority
vote. The question of requiring negro suff
rage of the South within the next ten years
was lost Thad. Stevens even opposing it.
That having been disposed of the issue of a
basis of representation next elicited a pro
longed discussion and it was finally deter
mined that a constitutional amendment
should be proposed, declaring that all males
above the age of twenty one, who were not
allowed to vote by the States, should not be
counted in the basis of representation. It
will be noticed that the practical effect of
this amendment will be to leave the number
of Sout hern representativesjust about where
it is now inasmuch as all the colored people
of the South except the males over twenty
one will be counted in the representative
population.
Mr. Bingham, of' Ohio, then insisted that
the prssent Civil Rights bill was unconstitu
tional, and that an amendment to the Con
stitution, guaranteeing civil rights to per
-ons in all of the States would be agreed to
fhe Committee adopted the ptoposition.
It was then resolved that all who partic
ipated in the rebellion should be disfran
chised front voting for Federal officers, and
ihat the rebel debt should be repudiated.
These several propositions were then em
tHidied in a constitutional amendment, which
will be duly reported to the House on Mon
day. There was considerable satisfaction
expressed in the Committee that they had
come to a conclusion.
The following is understood to be the con
stitutional amendment proposed:
ARTICLE—SECTION 1. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States, nor shall any State de
prive any person of life, liberty or property
without due process of law. nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal pro
tection of the laws.
SECTION 2.—Representatives shall be ap
pointed among the several States which may
be included within this Union, according to
their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons in each State, ex
cluding Indians not taxed. But whenever,
in any State, the elective franchise shall be
denied to any portion of its male citizens
not less than twenty-one years of age, or in
any way abridged, except for participation
in rebellion or other crime, the basis of rep
resentation in such State shall be reduced iu
the proportion which the number of such
male citizens, shall bear to the whole num
ber of male citizens not less than twenty-one
years of age.
SECTION 3. —Until the 4th day of' July
1870, all persons who voluntarily adhered
to the late insurrection, giving it aid and
comfort, shall be excluded from the right to
vote for members of Congress, and for elec
tors for President and Vice President of the
United States.
SECTION 4. —Neither the United States
nor any State shall assume to pay any debt
or obligation already incurred, or which
may hereafter be incurred, in aid of insur
rection or war against the United States or
any claims for compensation for loss of in
voluntary service or labor.
SECTION 5. Congre s shall have pow
er to enforce, by appropriate legislation,
the provisions of this article.
A hill to provide for the restoration of the
States lately in rebellion to their full polit
ical rights, by admitting delegations to Con
gross, and a second bill debarring leading
rebels t rom holding office, is also reported,
including the following clauses:
First. The President and Vice President
of the Confederate States, so-called, and
heads of Departments thereof.
Second. Those who in other countries ac
ted as agents of the Confederate States.
Third. Heads of Departments of the
United States, officers of the artny and navy
of the United Slates, and all persons edu
cated in the military or naval academy of
rhe United States, Judges of the courts of
the United States, and members of either
house of the 36th Congress of the United
States, who gave aid or comfort to the late
rebellion.
Fourth. Those who acted as officers of
the Confederate States, so called, above the
rank of Colonel, in the army or master in
the navy, or any one who, as Governor of
any of the Confederate States, gave aid or
comfort to the late rebellion.
Fifth, Those who have treated officers or
soldiers, or sailors of the army or navy of
tha United States, captured during the late
war, otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of
war.
It is understood that the vote upon them
was twelve, against three. As it is known
that Senator Johnson, and Representatives
Grider and Rogers, only voted in the nega
tive, the affirmative must be Senators Fes
senden, Grimes, Harris, Howard and Rep
resentatives Stevens and Washburne, of
Illinois; Morrill, Bingham. Conkling, Bout
well and Blow.
SECOND DISPATCH.
WASHINGTON CITY. April 26.
The report of the Reconstruction Commit
tee will be reported to both Houses of Con
gress to-morrow. It is intended to press it
to an early vote, though a reasonable amount
of debate will he allowed. Should it he
passed by the requisite two- thirds vote, a
resolution will be presented requesting the
Governors to convene the State Legislatures
i" extra session for the purpose of ratifying
the amendment.
A Democratic member of the Committee,
yesterday submitted '-. he plan as agreed on,
to the President. Mr. Johnson thought
there was a practical abandonment of the
negro suffrage issue, while on the other hand
it virtually assumed the unconstitutionality
of the civil rights bill, by proposing to incor
porate it in the Constitution.
The only Pennsylvania Banks that have
recently failed, aud the notes of which, hav
ing no substantial security, may be consider
ed worthless are the following:
Oil City Bank, Oil City, Pa.
Bank of Crawford county, Meadville, Pa.
Jesse D. Bright, who was expelled from
the United States Senate, for disloyalty, was
a big gun in the recent Indiana Democratic
State Convention. Heyster Clymer, who
denounced that expulsion, is now the big
gest "Democratic gun" in Pennsylvania.
After the Connecticut election Mr. Mont
gomery Blair declared the mistake ruade iu
that State would not be repeated in Penn
sylvania ; that the effice-holders would be
made to take sides against the republicans.
That is why the Presidential guillotine is in
operation. — Pittsburgh Gazette.
A letter writer describes Caleb Cushing,
the walking polyglot of Newburyport, Mass
as "keen, compact, andji/ty." It is proba
ble thai tLe latter part of this description
will be news to the ex-representative to Pe
kin. He was born in 1800, though we don't
know how young he may look. At a late
dinner in Washington, it is said he addres
sed the French Minister in elegant French,
the Spanish Minister in C&stilian, the rep
resentative of Denmark in Danish, of Ho
and in Dutch, of Victor Emmanuel iii Ital
-1 ian and it was believed that he could have
talked Chinese with the representative of
the Brother of the Sun and Moon, had one
beeu present.
Thfe FISH BILL.
The following is the the Susquehanna fish
bill as it finally passed both branches of the
Legislature and received the signature of the
Governor. Its provisions are of importance
to our people as they embrace the Raystown
Branch of the Juniatia up to the Borough
of Bedford all owners of dams below this
point will be obliged to comply wHH its
requisitions.
AN ACT relating to the passage of fish in
the Susquehanna river and certain of its
tributaries.
SECTION 1 . Be it enacted, etc. , That it
shall be the duty of such persons, corpora
tion or cot porations, having and maintaining
any dam or dams, weir and weirs, or other
artificial obstructions, of what kind soever,
now constructed, or which may have and
maintain dams, weirs, et cetera, as aforesaid
which may hereafter be constructed, on the
Susquehanna river, and the two branches
thereof, that is to say, ftom the lihe of the
State of Pennsylvania, on the North Branch
thereof, and from Patchenville, on the West
Branch thereof, and the mouth of Bennett's
Branch, on its Sinnemahoniug tributary,
iuto which the said Bennett's Branch falls
down to, and by the main stream thereof,
to the Maryland line, and on the Juniata
river and the Raystown Branch thereof,
from Hollidaysburg and Bedford to the Sus
quchatiiia river at Duncannon or Duncan's
island, and theSwarara and Little Swatara
creek, so bar as they are declared public
highways, from the entrance of the Swatara
creek into the,Susquehanna, to make, main
tain and keep up, at each of said dams,
weirs or other artificial obstructions, a sluice
or sluices, weir or weirs, or other device or
devices for the free passage of fish and
spawn up and down the stream, whether in
the form of steps or otherwise; the plan to
be taken from the plan or plans of similar
works or weirs now erected and in practical
operation and known, by experience, to be
efficient, approved and successful for said
purpose in any of these United States, or
in any other countries, the plans and con
struction of said works to be under the su
pervision of a commissioner on the part of
this Commonwealth, to be appointed, and
whose duties shall be prescribed as hereinaf
ter provided.
TEC. 2. Within twenty days after the
passage of this act, it shall be the duty of
the Governor to appoint a suitable person
as commissioner, who shall, be a man of
known probity and of experience as a prac
tical civil engineer, who shall, on or before
the first day of June next, fix and designate
the location of said weirs, steps, sluices or
othe.- devices, upon or attached to the said
dams, etcetera; furnishing working plans of
the same to the owners, holders or proprie
tors of said dams, et cetera, as aforesaid, or
their legal reptesentatives, having in view
the best locations for said contrivances for
the lree passage of fish and spawn up and
down the stream, the least interruption to
the navigation or injury to the schutes erec
ted thereon or therein for the running of
boats or .rafts, the least injury to the dams
and the least expense in erecting and keep
ing up such devices consistent with the ob
jects in view, and fixing the length thereof,
which shall be proportional to the lengths
taken or used in the dam or dams, weir or
weirs, from which the plans shall have been
copied: and the decision of the commissioner
when aDproved by the Governor, on any of
the subjects aforesaid, shall be final: it shall
be the duty of said commissioner, immedi
ately after the first day of November next,
to inspect each of said dams and other devi
ces, and if the sluices or other devices shall
not then have been made as directed by the
first section of this act, said commissioner
shall immediately report the same to the dis
trict attorney of the county in which said
dam. et cetera, is situated, who is hereby
required to prefer a bill of indictment before
the grand jury against said person or per
sons, company 'or corporation, at the next
court ofquarter sessions thereafter, for main
I taining and keeping up a public nuisance;
and the duties of said commissioner shall
I cease and determine on the first Monday of
I December next.
SEC. 3. Each and every of ;<aid persons
companies and corporations, maintaining or
keeping up any dam or dams on the rivers
and streams aforesaid, as described in the
first section of this act, shall, before the first
day of November next, make, maintain and
from thenceforward keep up the sluices and
passages for fish, as directed in said first
section, at the place aud in the mannct desig
nated by the commissioner, as referred to in
the second section of this act, and the fail
ure so to do shall be considered a misde
meanor on the part of said person or per
sons, company or corporation; and the dam
so maintained and kept up contrary to the
provisions of this act shall be deemed and
taken to be a public nuisance, and, on con
viction, said person or persons company or
corporation shall be fined in any sum not
more than twenty thousand dollars: and if
the work shall not be perfected within thirty
days after the convictions aforesaid, it shall
be the duty of the court in which said con
viction shall have taken place, to issue a
writ, directed to the sheriff of the proper
county, commanding him to abate said dam,
or other structure or device, at the cost of
said person or persons, company or corpora
tion. and the fine imposed and costs of
prosecution shall be collected out of any
property belonging to said person or persons
company or corporation within the State,
including all corporate rights or franchises.
SEC. 4. The commissioner required to be
appointed under the second section of this
act, shall receive six dollars for each and
every day necessarily spent in performing
the duties therein enjoined and required,
6 roof thereof to be made to the Auditor
eneral, and be paid by the State Treasurer,
out of any tnonevs not otherwise appropria
ted.
SEC. 5. It shall not BE lawful for any per
son or persons to spread, extend or place
any seine or other device across or in the
main channel of the Susquehanna river, or
other stream or streams designated or em
braced in this act, whereby the fish or spawn
may be prevented from freely passing up or
down the same, or to fish with any seine
within one-half mile of any sluice or other
device erected for the passage offish, as de
scribed in said act, or draw any seine or net
in the main channel ot the river or stream
within one-half mile below any of said dams,
or use auy device or means to frighten the
fish, or otherwise prevent their free passage
up or down said sluice or passageway ; and
any person offending against the provisions
of this section, their aiders or abettors, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on convic
tion, shall be fined in any sum not more than
one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned, at
the discretion of the court, for a period of
not more than twelve months.
SEC. 6. It shall not be lawful, on any pre
text whatsoever, for any person or persons,
company or corporation, to obstruct or close
temporarily or otherwise, any schute or
schutes now constructed or made, or hereaf
ter to be constructed or made in any of the
dams crossing any of the streams mentioned
or embraced in this or any other act, for the
purposes of navigation or lor fuciliating the
passage of fish up and down the said streams,
except during the months of July and Au
gust ; and any person or persons whatsoev
er so obstructing such schutes or pa&sag j
ways, their aiders or abettors, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to tri
al, and, on conviction, to imprisonment for
not more than twelve mouths, and if acting
for corporations, said corporations shall be
liable to a fine of not more than twenty
thousand dollars: Provided , that nothing
herein contained shall prevent the county
commissioners, or a majority ot tlieui, of
the county in which said schutes shall be
located, from granting a written license for
such reasonable stoppage or partial stop-
page, allowing time to make refj&lrs, when
such repairs Bhall to them, the said commis
sioners, appear to be indispensably necessa
ry, and this power and duty shall be added
to those of the county commissioners now
existing by law
SET. 7. All fines which may be recovered
under the provisions of this act, and not
otherwise appropriated, shall be paid into
the Treasury for the use of the Common
wealth s and in any proceedings under the
provisions of this act for the enforcement of
any of the penalties mentioned therein, It
shall be lawful to serve process, and such
service shall be good in law, upon any attor
ney, officer, agent, director or manager,
foreman, superintendent, toll gatherer or
other person in the employ of said persons,
companies or corporation in any county of
the Commonwealth.
SEC. 8. The joint resolution of the nine
teenth of March, Anno Domini one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-three, entitled
"Joint resolution relative to the dam of the
Susquehanna canal company." is hereby re
pealed ; aha all other acts or resolutions, or
parts of the same, inconsistent with the
whole or anv part of this act. are hereby
repealed: Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed to prevent any
one who may have a title to real estate de
duced from the Commonwealth within half
a mile of said sluice or other devices erect
ed for the passage of fish, from enjoying
the right of fishery appurtefiant to the said
real estate.
JAMES R. KELLEY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DAVID FLEMING,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved the thirtieth day of March,
Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.
A. G. CURTIN.
The Warren (Trumbull county, Ohio,)
Chronicle, aiya: The wheat crops look very
promising and the farmers are happily
disappointed. Fields that had the appear
ance of being entirely wiuter killed are
sprouting up, showing conclusively that the
plants received very little, if any injury the
past winter.
General Butler has bad a long interview
with President Johnson, which rumor in
vests with special significance.
We have the following from the Goshen
(Northern Indiana Times, April 24: A ride
of some twenty miles over the country last
week on purpose to ascertain the exact
condition of the wheat satisfied us that the
crop this season was next thing to a total
failure. On the prairie several pieces were
being plowed up and barley sowed, w'lile
other pieces save eight or ten feet next to
the fence might as well be treated in a like
manner. In the timber land it was not
quite as bad, nut prospects are very gloomy
not half a crop can be counted on even in
the timber. Some pieces on rolling ground
where water and ice did not collect during
the late severe winter will yield from one
hall to twothirds of a crop but these pieces
are few and far between. Five bushels per
acre is more than will be realized from the
lnd sown to wheat in this county the pres
ent .-eason.
Cough. Cold. or Sore Throat.
REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION AND SHOULD
BK CHECKED. IF ALLOWED TO CONTINUE,
rritntion of the I,mi:;*. n Perm.meut
'throat Affection. op nn Incurable
tnng ItiNeriM*
IS OFTEN THE RESULT.
BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES
having a direct influence to the parts, give im
mediate relief.
FOR BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, CATARRH,
CONSUMPTION A, THROAT DISEASES,
Troches are used with always good success.
SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
will find Troches useful in clearing the voice when
taken before Singing or Speaking, and relieving
the throat after an nnusual exertion of tho vocal
organs. The Troches are recommended and pre
scribed by Physicians, and have had testimonials
from eminent men throughout the country. Be
ing an article of true merit, and havingyirorerf
their efficacy by a test of many years, each year
find them in new localities in various parts of the
world and the Troches arc universally pronoun
ced better than other articles.
Obtain only "BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES,"
and do not take any of tho Worthless Imitation s
that may be offered.
Sold everywhere in the United States, and
Fortign countries, at 3d cents per box.
Nov. 10, 1865.
NOTICE. —Having purchased the drugs, in
struments, Ac., of Dr. A. S. Smith, ol Pat
tonsville, Bedford eo., I offer tny services to the
citixcns of that place, and the community' gener
ally. J. A. ROYERr
Pattonsville, April 17.
To my old friends of Pattonsville and those of
the vicinity who have reposed confidence in me
as a Physician, owing to my recent calamity, un
fitting me at present to practice medicine, I ha' i
disposed of my medicines and library to Dr. Roy
er. I most cordially recommend him as a Physi
cian every way fitted to fill all the wants of the
community. A. S. SMITH.
Pattonsville, April I7:tf.
171XECUTORS NOTICE.
J Estate of Artri Kennel, late of South,
mnpton township, deceased.
Letters Testamentary having been granted to
the undersigned by the Register of Bedford coun
ty, all persons indebted to said estate are hereby
notified to make immediate payment, and those
haviDg claims against the estate will present
them; properly authenticated for settlement.
GEO. S. BENNET,
ARTEMAS s. BENNET,
ap2o:6t Exeeuto rs. .
ESTATE OF .YATHAN H. WOLF, DEE'D
Letters testamentary having been granted by
the Register of Bedford county to the undersign'
ed Executors, living in St. Clair township. All
persons indebted to said Estate arc hereby notified
to make immediate payment and those having
claims are requested to present theni properly au
thenticated for settlement.
JOlft* WOLF,
TIIOS. McCOY.
apl6:ot Executors.
OTICE TO BVBSCRIHEIIS OF THE
HEDFORU COUNTY OIL COM FA
NY.—Persons who subscribed to this company,
by a resolution of the Board of Managers, are re
quired to pay the first instalment, fifty per cent of
the amount subscribed, without delay. The par
ties employed to sink the well are on the ground
and ready to operate aod the money must be forth
coming. By order of the Company.
GEORGE W. GUMP,
tuar2:3m President.
Disabled men, attention >
Wanted, one or two men, in Bedford and
vicinity, who have lost either an arm or leg, to sell
Wudtworth't Water Proof Arnica flealintj Flut
ter, the bett and cheapest Court Plaster in the
market. From $5 to $lO per day can be made.
Address with 25 cents for sample and full infor
mation, A. F. BELCHER, Box 45, Philadelphia,
Pa. N. B.—All agents ard peddlers would find
t to their interest to answer the above. Ap.t3:3 m.
WANTED ! Agents. Male and Female at $75 to
$l5O per month to sell the Celebrated
Common Sense Family Sewing Machine
PltlCE >IB.OO.
This Machine will do all kinds of work equal to
the high priced Machines, and is the only practi
cal and reliable Cheap Hewing Machine in the
world. Send for discriptive Circulars. Address
SECOMB A CO, Chicago, 111., or Cleveland, Ohio.
Anril 27 lui.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
We are now sending; bills to ail persons whoso
indebtedness to B. F. M'NIEL, for subscription,
exceeds fifty cents. We hope the persons receiv
ing bills will promptly remit the amount and re
lieve us from tho unpleasant duty of adding costs,
which wc shall bo obliged to do if payment is any
longer delayed. DURBORKOW A LUTZ.
edcß __
Q YES! O YES!
The subscriber having taken out Auctioneer's
License tenders his services to all those who de
sire an auctioneer. All letters addressed to him
at Bedford will reach him, and receive prompt at
tention. MARTIN MILLBURN,
"-4ford, Pa., March 2:3 m.
X. XJ. LEWIS,
Having purchased th Drug Store, lately
owned BY H. C. Reamer, takes pleasure in
announcing to the citizens of Bedford and vi
cinity, that he has just returned from the Cit
ies, with a well selected stock of
DRUGS.
MEDICINES,
DYE STUFFS,
PERFUMEBY,
TOiLET ARTICLES.
STATIONERY,
COAL OIL,
COAL OIL LAMPS,
and CHIMNEYS.
Bsst brands of
CIGARS, SMOKING AND CHEWING
TOBACCO.
FRENCH CONFECTIONS, Ac. Ac.
The stock of Drugs and Medicines consist
of the purest qualify, and selected with great
care. General assortment of
POPULAR PATENT MEDICINES.
The attention of the Ladies is particularly
invited to the stock of
PERFUMERY, TOILET AND FANCY
ARTICLES,
consisting of the best perfumes of the day—
Colone, Soaps, Preparations for the hair,
complexion and teeh : Camphor oil for chap
ped hands : Teeth and Hair brushes, Combs,
Port Monies, Ac. Ac. Ac.
Of STATIONARY there is a fine assort
ment : Billet. Note, Letter, Cap, and Mourn
ing Paper. Envelopes, Pens, Pencils, Ink,
Blank Deeds, Power of Attorneys. Drafting
Paper, Marriage Certificates, Ac. Ac. Also
a large quantity of books, which will be sold
very cheap.
Best quality of COAL OIL to be found in
the market, Coal oii Lamps, Hinge burners,
can be lighted without removing the chimney,
all patterns and prices. Glass Lanterns, very
neat, for burning coal oil. Lamp Chimneys
of au improved pattern. Lamp shades of
beautiful patterns.
HOWE'S FAMILY DYE COLORS—the
shades being light brown drab, snuff brown,
dark brown, light and dark blue, light and
dark green, yellow, pink, orange," royal pur
pie, scarlet, maroon, magenta, cherry and
black.
HUMPHREY'S HOM(EPATHIC REME
DIES.
CIGARS of best brands. Smokers can re
ly on a good cigar.
TOBACCO: Rose Smoking Tobacco, Mich
igan and Solace fins cut, Natural Leaf, Twist
and Fig Plug.
Finest and purest FRENCH CONFEC
TIONS.
PURE DOMESTIC WINES, consisting
of Grape, Blackberry and Elderberry, for
medicinal use.
The attention of Physicians is invited to
the stock of Drugs and Medicines, which
they can purchase at reasonable prices.
Country merchant's prders promptly filled.
Goods put up with neatness and care, and at
reasonable terms.
J. L. LEWIS designs keeping a first class
Drug Store, and having on hand at all times
a general assortment of goods. Being a Drug
gist of several years experience, Physicians
can rely on having their Prescriptions care
fully and accurately compounded.
Bedford, Feb. 9, 18ti6.
YI7"ANTED —AGENTS—To canvass for the
VV "Soldier's Individual Memorial." Great
inducements offered than by any other published.
Agents have an entire monopoly in the territory
assigned them, as there has been nothing of the
kind yet introduced. Meets with universal appro
val, is ornamental, also a record of value to those
who have served in our country's defonse, and to
friends of deceased soldiers. For circulars, Ac.,
address, enclosing stamp, B. C. BAKER, Colum
bus, 0., Lock Box 978. Apl. 13, Imo.
AGENTS WANTED:
To sell the Great American Puzzles, the
cheapest and ino.t wonderful puzzles of the age.
Agents can readily make from $lO to S2O per day.
I will give any agent SIOO if he will sell 50,000.
Send 30 cents for sett of puzzles. All orders sent
by mail froe. PHILIP HILL, Importer of Fan
cy Goods, 259 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Jtff- Ladies' Needle Book, containing 100 of
the best Needle. Sent by mail on receipt of 50
cents. April 13:lmo.
J. WILLIAMS,
NO. 16 NORTH SIXTFI STREET, PHILAI>EI>I.HIA
manufacturer of
VENETIAN BLINDS AND
WINDOW SHADES,
The largest and finest assortment in the city at
the Lowest Cash prices.
STORE SII4.DES MADE AND LETTERED.
ap6:2m.
AjTUSIC STORE.
JIISIIAL IJfHTRTJIEXTS.
It. M. GREENE has opened bi- Music
Store, in Brown's new Hardware building,
where be keeps constantly on hand STEIN WAY
A SONS' and RAVEN'S, BACON'S, and other
PIANOS, MASON A HAMLIN'S CABINET
ORGANS and CARIIART, NEEDHAM A
CO.S' MELODEONS; Guitars, Violins, Fifes,
Flutes; Guitar and Violin Strings.
MUSIC BOOKS—Golden Chain, Golden Show
er, Golden Censor, Golden Trio, Ac. Ac.
SHEET MUSIC.—He is constantly receiving
from Philadelphia all the latest music, which per
sona at a distance wishing, can order, and have
sent them by mail at publisher's prices.
Jeff- Pianos and Organs Warranted for FIVE
years.
Those wishing to buy any of the above articles
are invited to call and examine mine before pur
chasing elsewhere. My prices are the same as in
New York and Philadelphia.
Circulars of Instruments sent promptly upon
application, with any additional information de
sired.
B. M. GREENE.
Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa.,
in Brown's Hardware building,
or, Dr. C. N. HICKOK, Bedford, Pa.
dccß:ly
rjTRY IT! TRY IT! TRY IT
Price 5G cents, or 5 Bottles tor $2.
DR. IaATOUR'S
"W" H ITE OIL
Is acknowledged to be the very best Liniment for
Shoulder Galls, Sprains, Bruises, Swelled Joints
Stiffness, and Rheumatism.
It is the only application that should be applied
to kicks and cuts. Every Boatman, Farmer, or
Horseman should have a bottle in his stable,
ready for use.
For sale at wholesale und retail, by
C. C. SHRIVER A CO..
Wholesale Druggists, Cumberland, Md.
And by Druggists and all Dealers in Reliable
Medicines everywhere. ap6:tf.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
Eetate of JOHN W. BEELER, deceased.
The Register of Bedford county having grant
ed letters of Administration upon the Estate of
John W. Beeler, late of Bedford township, deceas
ed, to the subscriber residing in Bedford borough,
all persons having claims against said estate are
requested to make the same known without delay,
and those indebted are desired to make immediate
payment. LINGBNFELTER,
March 16. Administrator.
(CANVASSERS WANTED, at S2OO per month.
j Wo want reliable agents (none other) male
and female to take the exclusive agency in every
county and township in the U.S. to sell the Phot
graph Family Record, a work which every family
will buy. It is bound like an album bu ha
printed blank page opposite each photographs
for a complete record of the husband, wife and,
each child of a family; also containing marriage
certificate, and pages for military history of any
member ot the tumily. Nothing like it ever pub
lished aad no work that agents can sell so readily.
Old canvassers ami others should send for circu
lars and terms. It is necessary to have copies of
the work to canvass with; price by express $2 50,
$3 60 and $7 00 (3 styles); money may be sent by
mail. Name the townships wanted. Address
BARTLESON <i CO.,
mar3o:2m 6i 1 Chestnut St.
KINOSFORD'S CELEBRATED CORN
STARCH, FAHNESTOCK'S FARINA
nd HOMINY, just received and for sole at the
abstain store < A, W. OSTEK.
As u HOMO sinr TO A SKW TTME
A* rpring approach*,*
A lit* ana Hoaehe*
Fr<na their hole* come out,
And Mice.and /{at*.
In epile of cat*,
Gaili/ skip about.
"COSTA k'S" EXTERMINATORS,
EXTERMINATORS,
"COSTA IF 8" EX T EIIMI NATO RS
EXTERMINATORS,
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS,
EXTERMINATORS'
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS.
EXTERMINATORS,
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS'
EXTERMINATORS.
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS,
EXTERMINATORS.
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS:
EXTERMINATORS,
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS,
EXTERMINATORS,
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS,
EXTERMINATORS.
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS,
EXTERMINATORS
'COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS'
EXTERMINATORS,
"COSTAR'S' • EXTERMINATORS,
EX TERMINATORS,
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS,
EXTERMINATORS.
"COSTAR'S" EXTERMINATORS,
EXTERMINATORS,
For Rls, Hire, Knncht-tt, Anlii. IM ling*,
.Hullti in Fur.tnml HOUICUH, ImrrtiKin
I'lniittt, 1 owls. Animals. Jfc<-
"Only infullable remedies known."
"Free from Poisons."
"Not dangerous to the Human Family."
"Kate come out of their holes to die."
VSi_ I!! BewAREI !! of all worthies" imitations.
See that "COHTAHV same is o , each Box,
Bottle, and Flask, before vou buy.
jarAddrcii, HENRY R. t'OSTAR.
482 Broadway, N. Y. •
jaß" Sold iw Bedford, Pa.
jet-By Dr. B. F. HARRY,
And all Druggists and Retailers.
18(JO.
IX Clt EASE OF It A i S. —The Farmer' i On.
xctte (English) asserts and proves by figures that
one pair of RATS will have a progeny and de
scendents not less than 651,050 in three years.
Now, unlesss this immense family can be kept
down, they would consume more food than would
sustain 65,000 human beings.
See "COSTAR'S" advertisement above.
IH6.
RATS versus BlßDS. —Whoever er.gages in
shooting small birds is a cruel man ; whoever aids
in exterminating rat* is a benefactor. We should
like some one to give us the benefit of their expe
rience in driving out these pests. We need some
thing besides dogs, cats, and traps for this busi
ness.—Scientific American, X. Y.
J®-&GE "COSTAR'S" advertisement above.
18(iO.
"COSTARS" RAT EXTERMIXA TOR is
simple, safe, and sure—the most perfect RAT-ifi
cation meeting we have ever attended Every
Rat that can get it, properly prepared, will eat it,
and every one that eats it will die, generally at
some place as distant as possible from where it
was taken.— Lake Shore, Mich. Mirror.
tOF' See "COSTAB'S" advertisement above.
18(16.
HOUSEKEEPERS troubled with vermin need
be so no longer, if they use "Costar's" K.xtermi
nator, We have used it to our satisfaction: and
if a box cost $5, we would have it. We have
tried poisons, but they effected nothing: but "Cos
tar's article knocks the breath out of Rats, Mice,
Roaches, Ants, and Bed-Bugs, quicker than we
can write it. It is in great demand all over the
country.— Medina, Ohio, Gazette.
I£SI,SEO "COSTAR'S" advertisement above.
1866.
A VOICE FROM TIIE FAR WEST.—
Speaking of "COSTAR'S" Rat, Roach, Ant, Ac.,
Exterminator —"more grain and provisions are de
stroyed annually in Grant County by vermin that
would pay for tons of this Rat and Insect Kill
er."—Lancaster, Wit. Herald.
1866.
FARMERS AND HOUSEKEEPERS—ahouId
recollect that hundreds of dollars' wirth of Grain.
Provisions, Ac., are annually destroyed by Rat-.
Mice, Ants, and other insects and vermin—all of
which can be prevented by a few dollars' worth of
"COSTAR'S" Rat, Roach, Ant, Ac., Exterminator
bought and used freely.
See "COSTAR'S" advertisement above.
JEt-Bold in Bedford, by Dr. B. F. Harry, and
all Druggists and Dealers. Ap. 13, -Imo.
HORSE DEAEERS
AND CATTLE TENDERS
TAKE NOTICE
Dlt. LATOUR'S
HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS,
GOOD FOR
CATTLE, HORSES HOGS A SHEEP.
Tile .Farmers' Trne Friend anil Aid.
A safe and Certain cure for Hearct, Ditlempcr,
YC/IOK WATER, Comjht, Inffamatort/ Dieeave, Lone,
of Appetite, Lotc Spirit* and Founder.
the best condition Powder and one that will
keep oil disease of all kinds.
A fair trial is only asked. The result will make
it a favorite with all who administer it.
Our best Horsemen and Cattie Traders recom
mend it.
■ Prepared and sold at wholesale and retail, by
C. C. Sll RIVER A CO.,
Wholesale Druggists, Cumberland, Md,
And by Druggists and Dtaltrs in Patent Medi
cines everywhere.
Price 25 cts. or five Papers for Jl.
ap6:tf.
FNVEXTO S' OFFICES.
d'KPINEUIL & EVANS,
Civil Fnginecrs and Patent Solicitors,
NO. 435 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA.
Patents solicited—Consultations on Engineer
ing, Draughting and Sketches, Models and Ma
chinery of all kinds made and skilfully attended
to. Special attention given to REJECTED CA
SES and INTERFERENCES. Authentic Co
pics of all Documents from Patent Office procured.
N. B. Save yourselves useless trouble and
travelling expenses, as there is no actual need for
personal interview with us. All business with
these offices, can be transacted in writing. For
further information direct as above, with stamp
enclosed, for Circular with references.
janl2:4y
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
The partnership heretofore existing between
the undersigned in the mercantile business, under
the name of D. F. Buck A Son. is this day dissol
ved by mutual consent. All persons having un
settled accounts with said firm are requested to
settle immediately.
D. F. BUCK.
C. L. BUCK.
New Enterprise, Marehl9, 1866.
The undersigned having taken the stand here
tofore occupied by D. F. Buck A Son, wishes to
say to his friends, that fccliug grateful for past
favors, he begs a continuance of the same, and will
sell goods cheap for cash, or on short credit to
punctual customers. C. L. BUCK.
New Enterprise, March 39, 1566:3 m.
1 PHILADELPHIA I Q/l
loUl). WALL PAPERS. IM)U.
HOWELL & BOUUKE,
manufacturers of
Paper Hangings and Window Shades,
Corner FOURTH & MARKET Streets,
PHILADELPHIA.
N. B. Always in Store, a large stock of
LINEN AND OIL SHADES.
mar2:3m
rjMIE MASON A HAMLIN
O-A-BIIEsnET QRG-A ZETS
Forty different styles, adapted to sacred and
secular music, for SBO to S6OO each. Fifftv-one
Gold and Silver Medals, or ether first premiums
awarded them. Illustrated Catalogue free. Ad
dress, MASON A HAMLIN, Boston, or MASON
BROTHERS, New York.
March 9: lyr.
RPO BRIDGE BUILDERS.
JL The undersigned Commissioners of Bedford
county, will let, en Friday, May
lowest and best bidder, roofed bridge 'o ho built
across tbe Juniata, near Geo. Rmules' mill in Lib
erty township. Plan and specifications can be
seen at our office in Bedford, or on the premises
on the day of letting.
GEORGE ROADBS,
MICHAEL WERTZ,
M. S. RITCHEY.
Attest: John G. Fisher, clerk. Apl 13, fit.