IIKDFOID, PA., FKIBAY, JO'K 11, ISOI. lUSIMNN NOTICE. Mr. ALEX. U. AGXKW iittao authorized agent for the lsqi IKKR, to receive subscriptions adver l i-emcnts,collect accounts and receipt (or the same. Mr. AGXEW will call upon ali those who Are in debted to us and present our accounts, he will also give those whose advance subscriptions expire on the Ist of April a chance to pay up for the next year. Rcpnblican State Convention. H.vniusncßt;, April 16, 1867. The ''Republican State Convention'' will meet at the "Herdic House,'' in Williams port, on Wednesday, the 26th of June next, at 10 o'clock, A. M.. to nominate a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, arid to ini tiate proper measures for the ensuing State canvass. As heretofore, the Convention will be com posed of Representative and Senatorial Dele gates, chosen in the usual way, and equal in number to the whole of the Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly. l>v order of the State Central Committee. F. JORDAN, Chairman. GEO. W. HANKRSEV, > „ T . I. ROBLEY DIHOTJSON, / Secretar.es. County Convention. I be itcpublican voters of the several election di h icU of Bedford County, are desired to hold elect ion s for delegates to a County Convention hereby called, on SATURDAY, the 29th day of dune inst. Each district will, as usual, send two delegates. The member of the County Committee, together with the Vigilance Committee of the district, wiil constitute its board of election. The polls will be opened at 2 P. M. and closed at 7 P. M. The delegates thus elected aro requested to meet at the Court House, in Bedford, on TIITJRS i'W, THE FOURTH DAY OF JUDY NEXT, at the honr of 1 P. M., for the purpose of nomina ting a county ticket, to be supported by the Re publican voters of this county next fall. Such other business as may be deemed impor tant by the convention will also be transacted. J. B. CESSNA, Chairman. J. T. KEA6Y, Sec'y. WASHINGTON CITY ELECTION. The first election in Washington City, under impartial .suffrage, took place on the •id inst.. and resulted in the election of the V 7 iiion ticket, by a majority of about 2, .">OO. The election passed off in an orderly and peaceable manner, highly Creditable to those who for the <ir-t time were permitted to exercise the elective franchise. The vo ters seem to have been very nearly equally divided, there being an excess of only about one thousand whites, in eighteen thousand voters. The Republicans carried five out of the eight Aldermen, and sixteen out of the twenty-one Councilmen. That this election has passed off quietly and peacea bly, promises well for the coming elections in the Southern States. Less than a year ago the voters of Washington voted almost unanimously against impartial suffrage. Already they have not only so far acquiesced in it as to enable an election to be held with out disturbance, at which negroes are per mitted to vote, but enough of the whites have co-operated with them to enable them to elect an almost entire Union tieket. The result has been a severe blow to the Copper heads, who had hoped that the former masters would be able to control enough of the negro votes to give rebel majorities. Doubtless some are influenced in this man ner, but the number is insignificant. The indications at present are that the great majority of the negroes arc quite intelligent enough to know what is to their interest, and who arc their friends. Class prejudice will nodoubt influence the voteofa large num ber of whites as well as of negroes through out the South for a considerable time yet, but its results likely to be dangerous, as they are opposed and will tend to keep the parties more evenly balanced than if no prejudice existed. Time will allay it on both sides, and as the animosities bred by war die out, increased intelligence and a more independent spirit among all classes will preserve the division of opinion and strength of parties necessary to a good gov ernment under free institutions. The South ern sky grows brighter day by day, and the signs of the times are indeed most hopeful. MEXICO. I\ ith the fall of Maximilian, Mexico once more comes under the control of her own pcopie. At present the public interest seenis to be centered on Maximilian and his fate. Now that the Empire has collapsed there is a general desire expressed that the life of the unsuccessful Emperor be spared. The latest news from the scene of the last Im perial disaster encourages the hope that Maximilian will be permitted to depart the country in safety. With the assurance of his safety public interest in him will cease. The old question will then arise, are the Mexicans capable of governing themselves, or will political feuds and con tinue to distract the country as of old. This is the one important question in which our country has a deep interest. Under Juarez they have succeeded in driving out Maxi milian and the French, but the bad manage ment and extravagant expenditure of the Emperor, together with the known hostili ty of the United States, did quite as much toward the destruction of the Empire as the military skill of Juarez. The experi ment of governing a naturally turbulent and deplorably ignorant people will prove a much more difficult task, and one in which we have very grave doubts as to his success. The effort, however, will be made, and time alone will determine with what degree of success. In the meantime our territories bordering on Mexico arc being provided with permanent State governments, and are gradually increasing in population and pros perity. If Juarez succeeds in establishing a permanent government, and thereby rais ing his country to prosperity, we will be fully prepared to reap the fruits of commer cial intercourse with a country amoDg the richest in the world in natural resources and all the elements of wealth and prosperi ty. If lie fails, we will be prepared to ful fil what seems to be generally conceded to be our destiny, by stepping in and taking possession of the country, cither by the invi tation of her own people, or in the interest, and at the demand of advancing civilization. We confidently predict that before the close of the present century, poor, distracted Mexico will have ceased to be the object of a world-wide sympathy, and will be on the highway to an enviable prosperity, either under the government of her own people, or in the hands of the "Universal Yankee." Co OI'KITATI v E.Jabor associations aro now the order of the day, in all the larger towns and cities of the country. It is the out growth of the eight-hour movetncnt and aecins likely to result in substantial benefit to the laboring classes; The benefit to be derived however will not bo in the lessening of the hours of labor which the eight-hour movement aimed at, but in securing to the laborer a larger share of the profits of his own labor. In this, as in all other efforts to ameliorate the condition of the labeling classes, intelligence and industry will still rogulato the rate of compensation for labor. Thrift and comfort will still mark the intel ligent, economical and industrious laborer and elevate him and his in the social scale, while degradation, poverty and want will ever dog the footsteps of the prodigal, the idle and the ignorant and drag them and theirs to lower depths of poverty and shame. IVK. by some unaccountable oversight neglected to notice the consolidation, sever al weeks ago of the two Republican papers of Adams County, under the title of the Star ami Sentinel. It comes to us now very much improved in size and appearance, being a large eight column paper, the largest in this Congressional district. The editori al corps consists of Robt. G. Harper Esq., one of the oldest editors in the State, Hon. Ed. McPhorson, clerk of the nation al House oi Representatives, I). A. Buehler Esq., all men of known ability, and will com pare favoraby with that of the best country papers in the State. We predict for it un der the new regime a most successful career, and expect to sec it do yeoman's service for the Republican cause in the sixteenth Dis trict. THE Prrrsßi RC,H GAZETTE.— Within the past two weeks this old and well established journal has been materially enlarged and otherwise improved, and now presents itself, without doubt, the handsomest daily news paper published in the State. Not only its systematic and workmanlike appearance but the able manner in which it is conduc ted speaks volumes for the industry and enterprise of the publishers, Messrs. PEN NUVIAN, REED & Co. The large amount of information found in the news columns, to gether with the marked ability of the edito rial department, show that neither pains nor labor are spared to make it, as it is, one of the best and most reliable newspapers in the State. Our amiable neighbor appears to be very much put out because we did not second bis-"Proposition" to swap a mem ber of the Legislature for Poor Director. Next week we expect him to propose swap ping a pauper for a member of Congress. WASHINGTON is ornamented with dead hoi scs and dead dogs. The dead ducks hav left. — Hottidaytburg Standard. So they have. They are "swingin around" the Southern half of the circk Andy leads and Seward pipes. The Gazette says that S3OOO of the Poor House deficit accrued during the ad ministration of Messrs. Shuck and Trout. Will it please state who composed the board of Auditors at that remote period? TnE Copperhead State Convention met at Ilarrisburg on the 11th inst., and nomi nated Judge Sharswood. of Philadelphia, for the Supreme bench. MORAL AND POLITICAL GUILT. In the discussion consequent upon the bailing of Jefferson Davis there is great danger of forgetting the important point, and of regarding him merely as a political offender_a hero invested with the dignity of misfortune. It is in the motive that we must look for the moral character of actions. Rebellion, or armed resistance to a govern ment, is a capital legal offense. But the prosecution and punishment of any particu lar offender is, as in other cases, purely a question of expediency. It may often be impolitic either to try him or to execute him upon conviction. But whatever the legal guilt or fate of a rebel may be, his mor al guilt and the moral character of his re bellion are entirely another matter. It is often said that success justifies a revolution. But nothing can be more false. That is merely to say that might makes right. If the American Revolution had failed, its principle would still have been perfectly just. If Davis's rebellion had succeeded, it would none the less have been the most co lossal crime in history. The moral judgment is always the really important verdict upon human affairs, and now that it has been deemed inexpedient to attempt to establish the legal guilt of Davis there is all the more reason for every one of us to remember the immeasurable guilt of the rebellion of which he was the official chief. When the rebellion began the lead ers themselves, and their English and Nor thern sympathizers, declared that it was justified upon Ameriean principles, and that the most worshipped of Americans, George Washington, was only a rebel. But this was wholly untrue. The American princi ple of the right of revolution was not that any persons who for any reason were dissatis fied with a government might rightfullly undertake to overthrow it by force: but that when peaceful and legal redress for undenia ble injuries and oppressions was clearly hopeless, when the consequences of further endurance were plainly worse than those of redress by force, then, after solemnly recit ing those oppressions to the world, and ap pealing to God and man for the purity of their motives, a people might rightfully in voke the decision of the sword. But just in the degree that this was justifiable a resort to force to subvert a just and wise and mod crate government, lest it might become still more just and humane, was inconceivably infamous. And this was precisely the char acter of the rebellion. Whatever the mass of the Southern population thought, Jeffer son Davis and his companions knew perfectly well what Alexander 11. Stephens was not. ashamed to avow, that they tried to destroy a government not because it enslaved them but because they feared that it might pre vent them from enslaving others. They in voked no peaceful redress of wroDgs, for there were no wrongs to remedy. They pleaded no oppression for they were them selves the rulers. Their object was the deg radation of humanity, and their rcliellion was therefore, a crime against human nature. C onsidering ils object, its methods, apjd its gha-tly consequences, of death, ruin, desola tion, and debt, its moral enormity tran.-eends all similar crimes. Its success would have beenidienstrous to civilization. I'jidcr tho forms of law, with a jury selec ted At random among those who had sup ported him, the legal guilt of Jefferson Davis would have been difficult to establish. Had he been acquitted the Government would have been convicted. Had he been convic ted a pardon would have been farcical, and an execution utterly futile for any purpose but individual revenge. Since therefore, his trial was inexpedient, he should have been exiled or released without the lamenta ble scene at Richmond. Hut whatever his fate may he it is of the utmost importance that there should be no misconception be cause of hia escaping personally unharmed. He can never escape the tribunal which judges Benedict Arnold. He will never be ranked with those who nobly dared and fail ed. Romance and poetry will never decorate themselves with his name. The heart and conscience of mankind will always class him among the chief mor.al malefactors of the world. He is not to be considered as a man whose view of the Constitution differed from ours, and who braved the gallows in order to maintain bis convictions, but as one who willingly led a rebellion which slew hundreds of thousands, and overwhelmed a nation with unimaginable calamity, for no other purpose than to secure the power of abso lutely enslaving other men.- — Harper* Week ly. FROM ALBANY. Aiiothn Sicicln Case. —.1 member oj the State < 'om entum Shot Dead. Intense excitement was produced in Al bany on Tuesday evening 4th inst., by the shooting of the lion. L. Harris Iliscock, a member of the Constitutional Convention. The tragedy oceured at nine i'. M. ut Stan wix llall, and was committed by General G. W. Cole, of Syracuse. It appears that Iliscock was standing in the large reception room of the hotel, near the clerk's desk, in his slippers; Cole, who was sitting near by, rose and approached Iliscock, made some remark which was not distinctly overheard by those near by, and immediately thereaf ter drew a small pistol, arid, presenting it at bis head, fired—the ball entering near the right eye. Hiscoek fell back senseless, the wound bleeding profusely, lie expired within thirty minutes after the .-hooting. Cole remarked that Hiscoek had been his best friend, but that while he (Cole) was in the army, where he rose to the grade of General in the cavalry service, he had out raged his wife, and added. "I have the evi dence now in my pocket." lie quietly awaited the coming of the police, and was conveyed to the Third Ilistrict Station House. Cole is a tall, fine looking man. as was Hiscoek, who was, however, larger and heavier. At the station House, the prisoner being required to band over everything he posess ed, he delivered his pistol, &c., and declared positively that he had retained nothing; but. upon being searched there was found con • coaled upon him a long, sharp-bladed, spring baek knife, from which it is argued he con templated suicide. About midnight he was removed to the jail. George W. Cole went into the army as Caption of Cavalry at the commencement of the war, served with distinction, and left: the service as Brigadier General. If i- a. brother of Corneilus Cole, flitted States Senator from California. He also has a brother now acting as American Consul at Aceapulco. Mr. Cole has been engaged for some time past as detective in the United States Revenue service in New York. His wife is connected with some of the 1110*1 re spectable families in the State. Shi i- a half-sister of Henry D. Barto, of Tompkins, a Democratic member at large of the Con stitutional Convention. FROM NEW ORLEANS. Removal of Governor li t?/.?. //< Sturen dir.- ''Old;/ to tit. Sword. —Character istic I jitter from Slu cidan. New Orleans, June s. -At half-past nine o'clock this morning, Brevet General Forsyth, of Gen. Sheridan's staff, called at the Executive Office in Mechanics' Insti tute, and informed Governor Welles that he bore a written communication to hint from the General commanding, which was found to be as follows: Headquarters Fifth Military District, > New Orleans, June ". )" Mr. J. Madison UV/&, Ec-Gor.raor of Louisiana —Sir,:—Governor Flander- has just informed rue that he made an official demand on you for the records of the office which you have heretofore held as Governor of Louisiana, and that you have declined to turn them over to him, disputing the right to remove from office by me, which right you have acknowledged and urged on me up to the time of your removal. 1 therefore send Brevet Brig. Gen. Forsyth, of my staff, to notify you that lie is sent by me to eject you from the Governor's room forcibly, un less you consider this notification as equiva lent to ejection. [Signed] P. H. Shkmuan. Major General 1". S. A. After reading this communication. Gover nor Wells answered as follows: "GENERAL FORSYTH — Sir: 1 surrender the office I hold only to the sword." The governor then called upon Judge Ryan, of the parish of Rapides, to boar wit ness to what he had said. Without mak ing any response whatever. Genera! For syth withdrew. The new appointee of Gen eral Sheridan, Mr. Flanders, will therefore take immediate possession of the Executive office. About, half past ten to day, Governor Flanders, accompanied by General Forsyth, appeared at the Executive office and entered upon his duties as Governor of l/ouisiana, There was no ceremony whatever. ID -ut cd his efforts should be, to the best of his abilities, to promote the public good. FROM EUROPE. Attempted Assatxinatiou of tin- < \ar of Jim sia—Coronation oj Francis Joseph. NEW YORK June B. —The JJcrahl* Paris special (by cable) tays: It was the Czar of Russia whose assassination was attempted yesterday. In the Imperial carriage wore the Czar, his two sons and Napoleon Third. When the royal party was being driven through the Bois de Bologne, a young man, apparently about twenty years old, fired a pistol at the Czar, or in the direction in which he sat in the carriage, it appears the pistol had been over loaded, for it ex ploded, wounded the hand of the assassin. It is alleged that a person standing in the crowd threw up the arm of the wretch by a promptly dealt stroke just as he discharged the pistol. He was instantly cut down, se verely wounded and made prisoner by ibe escort. The Imperial carriage passed >ll without halting. The supposed murder is a Pole. Lord Bloomfield, British Ambassador, will be present at the crowning of Francis Joseph as King of Hungary to-morrow. All powers having diplomatic relations with Austria will be represented on the occasion except America. The Emperor has made known his intention of proclaiming univer sal amnesty to till Austrian subjects impris oned or who have rendered tin in selves lia ble to imprisonment by political offenses committed prior to this coronation. KROH WASHINGTON. Official Confirmation <f the Capture of (jii- rretf.ro. — Trial of ant alt— Organiza tion of Citil Council*. OAPTi'RE OF Qh'KIUIETKItO. WASIHNHTON June 1"- Scnor llomero, the Mexican Minister, has official news from Juarez, confirming the capture of Maximil ian, but the despatch does uot state as to what Is to be the fate of the ex- Kmperor. The following is the despatch: .SAN Lt IS POTOSI. Mav 16. Suitor Don Matbias Romero, Washington, I>. C. — Dear friend:—Queretoro was taken by as sault. to day at 8 o'clock A. M, Maximilian, Mcjia aud Castillo surrendered at discretion at the Campana Hill, the last place that re sisted. I congratulate you upon this impor tant victory, l'leasc send the inclosed to my family. Yours mo.--t truly, BENITO JUAREZ. TRIAL. OF SURRATT. At half past ten o'clock Surratt was brought iuto court. The prisoner was hand cuffed. Ile appeared as he did the other day, with a clean shaven face, excepting a mous tache and goatee, and wears his hair long and hanging about his neck. After being in court a few moments the hamloufls were removed and he was assign ed a scat behind his counsel. Surratt's face is very pale, and he wears a careworn, troubled look but faintly smiled occasionally as he received a nod of recognition from his friends. After all the preliminaries had been ar ranged, Judge Fisher asked if counsel were ready to proceed with the trial of John 11. Surratt. Mr. Bradley: "The prisoner is ready, and has been so for veeks." By eleven o'clock the court room was literally crowded and every seat within the bar was occupied. Among the visitors were a large number of colored tnen. District Attorney Harrington said he was happy to proceed with the triul of John 11. Surratt. chargel with the murder of the late President of th United States. Abraham Lincoln, on the 14th of April. 1865. The trial may possibly he postponed for a day or two on account of an informality in the selection ofiurors; but if so, it wih' he occasioned by tie defence, and not by the prosecution. Ihe trial is to take piacc in a measure under the direction of Secretary Seward. It was through his agents that Surratt was tracked, captured and brought hack to this country, anl at his request Judge Pi rptpt was retained in the case for the prosecution. The prosecution have succeeded in ob taining unimpeachable wtoaesses to prove that Surratt was in this city on the day of the assassination. and all his subsequent movements, from the time of his flight on the night of the same day, have been track ed with marvellcu.s precision. After leav ing this city I*; fled northward, and was traced to iiurlt'igton, St. Albans, St. Law rence and Montreal. The hotels he stopped at are known, the meals he ate. his conver sations, and fin: veriest, trifles of his doings have come to the knowledge of the prose cution. Tlir keepers of the hotels at which he stopped n these places are now here to testify. At St. Albans, where he was on the 17th ot April, and not on the 15th, as previously stated, ho dropped a pocket hbmiki-r jilisf containing his name, and this article L- now in the possession of the prose cution. Trifling link though it be in the chain of evidence against him, it is said that the defence intend to make an effort to prove thai this handkerchief was dropped by a friend of Surratt's and not by the prisoner himself; but that effort will fail. l'ayne, one of the executed assassins, made a confession the night before his death, in which it is said he divulged the whole nlot, implicating Surratt and corroborating Weiohman's testimony in every essential point. Tins confession was never given to the public before, but will probably be brought up on this trial. Thi - will forin an other iuturcstingchapterin the history of this terrible tragedy. It should he said, more over. that in his confession not the slightest word is said tliat would show any knowledge of the President or other officers of the gov ernment of the conspiracy. A one of the curiou- things connected with flat quocr ease. 1 may add that a friend "t one of the counsels for the defence , states that the counsel io question said the other day to_ a gentleman connected with the prosecution: "'Are you in earnest in stating that .Judge I'ierpont is leaiiv rcadv to proceed with the trial?" < tii being in formed 'hat Judge I'ierpont was indeed prepared, the lawyer for the defence is re potted to have said: Sir, there is power 'nebiud Surratt that will not permit him to be convicted." The significance of this oracular utterance is difficult to make out. It secnts to be a fact that Surratt has told his legal adviser? that should he lie convict ed. lie will inform on men high in jiosition, and his lawyers appear to believe in the pos sibility of some startling disclosures. CfTV COI N! U.S. The city councils organized to-day. The lower board has appointed, by resolution, John f. Johnson, a colored man, who has been acting as barber at the capitol, their reading clerk, and also appointed a colored m- -enger. The hoard of alderman elected wiiite men altogether for llieir officers, the majority being anti-Republicans. I'KOJH PHILADELPHIA. JVrrtJir Unlet fc,cjt'mioii-— IJOXS of ljife.— A most appalling accident occurred in Philadelphia oil last Friday afternoon, be tween live and six o'clock, by the explosion of a steamboiler in a large tivo story buil ding in the rear of Sans on street, between I with and Eleventh. The building was re duced tn a heap of ruins in less than a min ute, burying from thirty to thirty five work men. It seems that the engine wanted packing, and yesfeiday afternoon several men were sent from the machine shop of Mr. William 1 I King, immediately opposite, to do the ork. I'hcy accomplished this in about •me hour and a half, and then retired. In about live minutes after the explosion occur red. 'I he engineer had started the engine, and turned the water on to supply the boil er '~ '"''is caused the explosion. I he building was a five story brick struc ; tore and substantial. There were two boilers used to propel the i machinery. Only one of them exploded; it was split from one end to the other. 'I he building was occupied as follows: Messrs. (jeassy A Wurd fancy sawyers and scroll turners, occupied the first, second, fourth and fifth stories; Messrs. Miller & lleedor occupied the third story; they were engravers of rollers for the printing of cali j co. I n this apartment a forge was used in s their business. Both these gentlemen were buried in the ruin-. MCHSI-. (ieassy and Ward had been up stairs in the mill, aud a few moments before the tcrriable disaster they descended. Mr. Ward went into the office, aud escaped. I lis partner went into the cellar and was killed. This morning the scene ol the catastrophe w- visited by hundreds of people. Firemen J and others were at work energetically among the ruins, iu search of victims of the disas ter. There are, undoubtedly, bodies under the ruins, but the iron girders, heavy planks, i machinery ahd other debris are so jammed together that it is very difficult, to work. The origin, of course, of the disaster is unknown. Mr. Jenkins, the engineer had been employed hut three days, taking the place of the regular engineer, now ill. Dur ing the forenoon he discovered that the pack ing around the engine required repairing and up to within five minutes of the explo sion, workmen from Mr. King's establish ment had been employed in doing what was necessary to the engine. While this work was in progress steam was allowed to get low, and Mr. Jenkins as serted that a moment before the explosion the fireman, who was replenishing the fires, represented that there was but one pound of steam indicated by the guage. The boiler was the ordinary tubular pat tern, and was considered perfectly sound. So far ten dead bodies have been recovered; eight others were wounded, and eight are missing. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. GK.V. SI iioKiEi.ii has commenced the remo val of several civil county officials in Virginia. A iiKsriTi'TU lady in Baltimore lias been provided with a comfortable home by her for mer slave. Tit K amount of gold in the Treasury at Washington, is 1000,891,000, of which 118,- 337,000 is represented by gold certificates. IT now appears that Maximilian was betray, c d by Gen. Lopez for the sum of SIB,OOO. The fallen Emperor behaved with distinguish ed gallantry. A letter to Gen. Grant's headquarters from Mississippi says the'registratiou has commen ced in that State, and that the white people are registering freely. GK.V. GRANT hits telegraphed to General Sheridan that there is no truth iu the reports that Secretary Stanton and himself censured General Sheridan for removing Gov. Wells. GKNEIUI. SHERIDAN has issued an order appointing Benjamin F. Flanders Governor of Louisiana, roe Thomas J. Durant, declin ed. THE friends of General J. W. Keifer, of Springfield, Ohio, are strongly advocating his claims to the Republican nomination for Governor. A MONUMENT lias been erected atllummehj town, in Derry township, Dauphiu county, in honor of the soldiers from that place who fell in the late war. ■I ITIOE BI .STEEP inude a speech iu Montgom ery, Alabama, on Wednesday night, in which he candidly indorsed the recent Republican Convention which declined to invite him to participate in its proceedings. ~ GENERAL GRANT has accepted an iuvitatioD from the managers of the Soldiers' Nation al Cemetery at Gettysburg, to visit that town on the 20th of June. Governor Geary has also been invited, and will probably be present. JUUUE BRYAN, ol the United States District Court at Charleston, has decided that a tele graph company is bound to exhibit a private message in evidence when required, telegrams not being within the class of pivileged com munications. TIIE Chambersburg papers announce a great revival of religion in that town. Rev. John Hunter, pastorof the Bethel, has preach ed every uight for twenty-two weeks, to im mense audiences, and his meeting is still progressing with unabated interest. ON sending a Hag of truce with his sword to Eseobcdo, Maximilian told him he sur rendered unconditionally, aud had three fa vors to ask. lie wished" not to be insulted, but to be treated as a prisoner: that if any person was to be shot, he should be first; that if shot, his body might not bo abused. THE suppression ot the Mobile Republican, for the publication of an article inciting the frccduien to violence, appears to be a proof that the power of the military is impartially used in that city. That is precisely what we want—absolute justice in the South, without regard to color. THE committee appointed by the Senate of Pennsylvania to inquire into the alleged ex tortionate charges of railroad companies for freight and passengers have adjourned, to meet at Pottsville on Tuesday, the ICth day of duly next, at ten o'clock A. M. TnE contumacious Governor of Louisiana refuses to vacate his office, or turn over the public property to his successor. As Gener al Sheridan has charge of the whole affair, it is doubtless settled by this time, and the peo ple's soldier will settle it only in one way. A BOY went to shoot a bird in the neigh borhood of Carrolltown, Cambria county, last Saturday, butmissed his aim, and shot instc-ad a Catholic priest named McGovern. Six shots were imbedded in the reverend gentle man's leg, aud a painful though not serious wound was inflicted. A RECEXT Alabama newspaper learns lroni reliable gentlemen who have recently traveled over a large portion of the State, that the wheat crop is unusually promising, and in the £Ounti,cs cjjLee, Coosa, Elmore, Macon. Tal lapoosa. Kandofph. ana* Chambers, the yield is expected to be larger than it has been for many yea'rs past. THE Attorney General is said to be .-.till considering whether, under the reconstruction act, a military commander can remove civil officers. The very best thing that erudite lawyer can do is to consider. He will find it extremely difficult, if not dangerous, to re. verse Phil Sheridan's precedents. ADVICES from New Orleans show that the extension of the time for registration by Gen eral Sheridan, has caused an increased regis tration of white voters in that city. A short time since the colored voters exceeded the others by several thousand, but on the first of June official returns gave the colored majority at eighteen hundred. Oi:x. N. B, BIEOUD, one of the members of the commission appointed to investigate the Fort Phil Kearney massacre, in his report to the Government just made, looks upon that atrocity as the result of the violation of treaty stipulations on the part of some white men, by an attempt to locate a new route to Mon tana not demanded by the public interests. A NEW YORK paper says the assassination of Mr. Hiscock, from what has already ap peared, must lead to painful domestic disclo sures, the effect of which will prove what so often appears, that Walter ScOtt understood human nature when lie said, in a not dis similar CASC, "the survivors have the worst of it." A EP.EEI'MAX lately fished up a torpedo from Stouo river, below Charleston, S. C. and try ing to break it open with a hatchet, it explod ed, blowing him to atoms. A small piece of one arm lodged in a tree was all that was found of him. Two negroes were blow n into the river and killed, and two more mortally wounded. JINOK KEI.LV charges the Mobile riot to Andrew Johnson, who had appointed to a post of profit there a recreant Northerner, who provoked the disturbance by inflammato ry statements in the public journals days be fore his arrival. The riots, he said, were pre meditated. and were not hi ought on by any words of his own. LARUE numbers of German, Norwegian and Swiss immigrants, are reported to be ar riving daily at New York. 1 hey push on at once to the West, and settle near Friends and acquaintances who have preceded thorn, ap plying themselves mainly to agricultuie. They become forthwith customers of Ameri can mechanics and manufactures. "PROMINENT Southern men begin to confess that if it had not been for the meddling Cop perhead mischief makers of the North, re construction would have been a success long ago in the South. The same might with jus tice be said of the same men on the subject of rebellion. If it had not been f jr Northern Democratic demagogues, secession never wonld have been attempted. THE telegraph, byway of the Atlantic, in formed us a few days ago that a party of Fe nians had landed at Dungarvon. upon the coast of Ireland, and fell at once into the bands of the police. Where they had come from was not then known, but it is now stated that they say they came from Boston, in Mas sachusetts. If such is the case, the persons in question will find, what they ought to have known long before, that they were on afool's errand. I nless the vessel in which they em barked bad a vary long voyage, they ought to have known before leaving this country that the Great Revolution was quashod, and its success hopeless. GOVERNOR 088, of South Carolina, advises the acceptance of the present plan of recon struction n* the best thing for the State. Coupled with this sensible conclusion he von ■ tures an Utopian recommendation to the citi zens of his immense State to form alliances with neither of the great political parties of the country, but to stand magnificently by themselves--advice which is harmless, how ever impracticable. EX-MA TOK WITHERS and a number of dis placed Mobile officials, are in Washington, anxiously awaiting the President's return from North Carolina. J'hey are fully armed with documents, purporting to contain proof of their inuoyence in connection with the late bloody riot in Mobile, and expect to meet with favor exoneration and reinstallment at the bands of His Excellency. TUE Msrylund Democratic Convention to revise the constitution, by a vote of seventy eight to twenty-four, have struck from the bill of rights the clause declaring that slav'cry "shall not be permitted in this State," and substituted in its stead one declaring that slavery "shall not be re-established in this State, but having been abolished under the policy and authority ot the I'nited States, compensation in consideration thereof is due from the United States. THE long delayed sentence in the case of Sanford Conover, convicted of perjury in giv ing false evidence before the Judiciary Com mittee relative to the oomplicity of Jefferson Davis in the assassination plot, was brought to an end on Saturday, by the Supreme Court of the District lefusing an arrest of judgment claimed under conflicting local statutes, re lating to sentences in case of perjury. Cono ver will on Mouday. therefore be taken to the Penitentiary to serve out a term of im prisonment of five years at hard labor. THE preparations for the transfer of Rus sian America to the United States are going on rapidly. Russia seems determined that we shall have it, and does not require the lit tle ceremony of the payment of the purchase money. She will convey the territory with out waiting for au appropriation by Congress and will be satisfied with a mortgage upon the national honor. Mr. Seward seems equally willing to accept the bargain without further formality, and he is about to despatch a rev enue cutter to Sitka to look out for the cus toms due upon goods which may be landed there. MR. POI.I-ARI) late the amiable and chival rous—southern style—editor of the Richmond Times , appears to have an embarrassing out set as a lecturer, even more so than his finish ing out as an editor. General Schofield met the announcement of Pollard's lecture on Southern Chivalry, with an order prohibiting its delivery and at Lynchburg .1 was not brought forth for want of au audience, the "ehivalrys" prefcring the enjoyment of a tournament and ball. And we must say, wc take it as a good .Ign of the Lynchburg peo ple, that with the opportunity offered by four postponements, they would not go to hear Pol lard's chivalry speech. They have had enough of that sort of chivalry. HON. HORACE MAYSARD, in describing the two candidates for Governor of Teunessjc, gays: "Both were well-known citizens of Tennessee, before the war. Both were ar rested and imprisoned during the war. So far they are alike—no farther. Brownlow was imprisoned for being a friend to the coun try: Etheridge for being Brown low was imprisoned by the enemies of the country: Etheridge by its friends. Jeff. Da vis held Brownlow in confinement; General Thomas held Etheridge. Brownlow languish ed in a rebel prison; Etheridge was in the custody of the blue-coated guardians of the nation. ASOTHEK PEXSSTLVASIA STAPLE. —Steel is J likely ere many years to become as great a staple of our State, as coal, iron and petro- j leum. A few days since the Pennsylvania j steel works were inaugurated near Ilarrisburg. Many eminent Philadelphians, railroad men, capitalists, and others interested in the enter prise, were present, and feel confident that it will be followed by the most gratifying results. The works are located on the Pennsylvania railroad, at llablwin Station, about three miles east of Ilarrisburg. The steeljprodueed is said to be remarkable for Toughness. It is eminently adapted for rails. Those manufac tured from it have been shown, by careful ex perimdnt, to wear twenty four times as long as iron rails, while they cost but twice as much. There are from twenty eight to thirty j live men employed. Common Pennsylvania j pig iron is used in the manufacture of the ( steel by the 15 -seiner process. The iron is prepared bv beiiur broken in the ordinary way when required for smelting. It is broken by hand, and then conducted to the cupolas by means of hydraulic elevators. The process is simply tlmt of decor' uii: iag molten iron, by means of compressed air blast and after, adding a per centage of carbon, producing re fined ingots of ■ el. The importance of this enterprise i be appreciated when we state that last year our American railroad compa nies bought in Europe three million dollars' worth of steel rails, and seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, worth of locomotive tires. These rails and tires were made out of ore and fuel far inferior to that of which our State has millions of tons lying in her mountains awaiting development.—Philadel phia Keening Star, A Cough, A Cold or A Sore Throat, KEQOIRK IMMEDIATE ATTENTION, AND SHOULD UK CHE'KED. Ir ALLOWED TO CONTINUE, Irritation of Hie Timers, n Permanent 'ihroal Disease or Consumption, IS I : TEN TIIK RESULT, BKOW.Nfi HJIONCIII AT a TROC H ES HAVING 1 Dp: <*T INFLUENCE TO THE DAKTS, GIVE IMMEDIATE BELIEF, For Hroaeliilis, Asthma. Catarrh. Con sumptive mid Throat IHseasea, TROCHES ARE ' sell ITH ALWAYS GOOD SUCCESS. MXCEKS AN L> Pt'BI.IC SPEAKERS will 11 IIIL Tr.tchr* useful in clearing the voice when taken before Singing or Speaking, and relieving the throat after an unhsual exertion ot the vocal organs. The Troche* are recommended and pre scribed by Physicians, and have had testimonials from eminent men throughout the country, be ing au artieio of true merit, and having PROVED their efficacy by a test of many years, caeh year finds them in new localities in various parts of the world and the Troche* are universally pronoun ced better than other articles. Obtain only "brown's Bronchial Troches," and i do pot li ke any of the Worthless IHi i tutlofs that may be ottered. SOLD ETEETKHBFK. Nov. 11l if' fi .- 11l J MPORTA>■ T TO BUILDERS. T. BUKCKIXGLL & CCS. NEW PLANING MILL, HUNTINGDON, PA. Having EM- led a first class Mill, we arc now prepared lo furni.-h all kinds of IIU 11,1 >IX(i MATER lAI ,S of DRY LUMBER at Moderate Prices, White and Yellow Pine Flooring, Weather Hoarding, Door and Windotc Frames, Poois and Sash, All hinds of J Hinds and Shatters, Brackets and Scrolls sawed to order, Wood- M Hidings of H cry di scription alnai - on band, Turnings Newell PO-ts, Balistcrs, Ac. being situalcd on the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Canal it is convenient for shipping to any part of the State. The Senior Partner be ing a practical Architect and Builder will furnish Plans. Specifications and Detail Drawing for all kinds of buildings. Orders for work solicited and promptly filled. April L'finfrn. BLANK DEJKDSFOR SALE CHEAP at the INQUIRER OFFICE Nov 2, IS6S > T.— 1 <•.—X.—The amount of I'Linoitiu Uitters sold in one year is something startling Ihey would tilt ISroadway Ox feet high, front the Park to fth street.. Drake's manufactory is one of the institutions of New York, ft is said that Drake painted all the rocks in the Eastern States with his eahnliatie "8. T IBM.—X," and then got the old granny legislators to p*. a law "pre venting disfiguring tti<- fees of nature," which gives him a monopoly. We do not know how this is, hut we do know the I'lantat.ion (fitters SKI.!, as no other article ever did. They arc rued by ai! classes of the community, and are death on Dyspepsia-—certain. They are very Invigorating when languid and weak, arid a great anpetizer Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all druggi "In lifting the kettle from the fire I r- aided myself very severely—one hand almost to a crisp. The torturo was unbearable. * The Meib sri Mustang Liniment relieved the pain alwost iiu niediauiy. It healed rapidly, and left very little tear. Cnas. POSTER, 4JO Broad St. l'hila. Thi if mcr'-ly a sample of what the Mustang Liniment will do. It is invaluable in all cases of wounds, swellings, sprains, cuts, bruises, spa, ins etc., citber upon man or beast. Beware of counterfeits. Nona is genuine unless wrapped In fine (teal-plate engravings, bearing the signature of G. W. Wcstbrook, Chemist, and the private stamp of DBMAH BARMEM <t Co., New York. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all druggi • > Aye E DE MACXOUA. —The prettiest thing, the "ewectcsi thing," and the un-st of it for the least uionoy. It overcomes tho odor of perspira tion; softens and adds delicacy to the skin, is a delightful perfume: allays headache and inflsm motion, and is a necessary companion in the sick room, in the nursery, and upon the toilet sideboard. It can be obtained everywhere at one dollar p< r bottle. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all druggist* All who value a beautiful bead of hair, and it preservation from prematura baldness and turning gray, will not fail to use Lyons' celebrated Kath airon. It makes the hair rich, eoft and glossy, eradicates dandruff, and cause* the hair to gr<wr with luxuriant beauty. It is sold everywhere. E. THOMAS LYON, Chemist, N. Y. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all druggist WHAT DIN IT?—A young lady, returning t - her country home after a ojouru of a lew mi-nth in New York, was hardly recognized by her friends. In place of a rustic, flu-died fu* . .-he had a soft, ruby complexion, of almost marble smoothness: and instead of 22, she really appear ed but 17. She told them plainly she u.-x-d Hagan's Magnolia 11 aim, and would not be without it. Any lady can improve her personal appearance very much by using this article. It can be order ed of any druggist for only 50 cents. Saratoga .Spring Water, sold by all druggists Jleiuistreet's inimitble Hair Coloring ho been steadily growing in favor for over twenty year . It acts upon the absorbents at the i tc of the hair, and changes it to its original color 1\ *ic—■ greec- All instantaneous dyes deaden and injure the Hair. Heimstreet's t nut'a dyt, but i- - r-- tain in its results, promotes it- growth, an 1 - a beautiful HAIR DRESSING, l'rice S© cent-and £1 Sold by all dealers. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all drug- LYON'S EXTRACT OF PCRE JAMAICA GI*OKK - for Indigestion, Nausea. Heartburn, Sick lirad i ache. CholeraMiorbus, Ac., where a warminj. ,'e j nial stimulant is required. Its careful prepara I lien and entire purity make it a cheap and rclia- IMe article for culinary purposes. Sold every [ where at 50 cts. per bottle. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all druggists July 20, 1 S66.cnw:ly ]3 J : i > i o u 11 CLOTHING EMI'ORII'M. mm goods it nkw pkkks. R, W. BERKSTRESSER & CO., Haviug remove■ I to S- buffer - How. Juliana Ist., three doors North of Lewis" Drug Store, wc axe prepared to show our friends and customers the finest stock of goods in our line ever brought to Bedford. In READY - MADE CLOTHING we have everything that can be asked for. 10 per cent l<wer than last year. COATS, PANTS, VESTS and SI ITS of every description. DHY GOODS, CALICOS, MI'SLINS, DELA PNTSS, GING HAMS, ,tc„ Ac. NOTIONS—Latest style Paper and I.inen Col lars for Ladies ar.d Gents, Necktie-, Suspenders. Handkerchiefs. The best and cheapest Hosiery in town. Skirt Braids, latest styles Skeletons and best <|uality. Ol' 1! CASSIMEItES will attract the particular attention cf lovers of good, fashionable and cheap good*. In Hat* we have a line superior in manufacture to any ever brought to Bedford, as well as all leading and standard styles. Gentlemen would do well to ex amine our stock. In Straw Goods wc have the latest styles for gent lemons' wear at greatly re duced prices. These are also direct from the manufacturer and can be sold very low. Also, .Shakers of all sizes. v CALL. EVERYBODY.and see for yourself. TROUJILE TO SttnW GOODS. TKltMS—Cash or Produce- T,. TV. BERKSTRESSER .1 CO. NOTICE Having changed iny bu.-iro -- rela tions I desire to close all accounts at once, cither by note or cash. Those indebted will please take act accordingly. May 10. dm. IL W. BEE K STRESS I HI. 17108 SALE.—The subscriber offers at Private . Sale the Farm on which he lives, between Bedford and "The Springs," containing 115 ACRES of Limestone land: 100 acres in cultiva tion, the <•-' excellent Timber. Improvements are the Mansion, built in ISfiO, containing ten rooms: a tenant-house, barn, carriage-house, ice house, wood-shed, smoke house, spring-house, Ac. Also a never-failing spring of best soft w iter, with running pump at barn an I mansion: scleral hundred choice young bearing fruit trees; three hundred bearing grape vine-, font years old, one hundred of which are Delaware*. This place will be found a tnost dcsiiable residence, or it would be admirably calculated for the establishment t a boarding-house for summer resort. The view i very fine: the supply of cold, soft water, is ample and excellent for baths of all kinds, nd it is three fourths of a mile from the celebrated Bedford Mineral Springs. Price $14,000 —in reasonable payments. A portion of the land is worth $ 'OO per acre- -could be sold in lots at that. If desired I will divide the place and sell the mansion bouse with ten or twentv acres separately. Aplllb'.m W. M. HALL. ¥FARMER MOWERS." I. A few of "The Farmer" Mowing Machines may be had by ordering - on from H.VIITI.KY A METZGEK. It is the CIIFAPF.ST and BEST single Mower ever invented. All Iron and Steel. Call and sec them at the sign of the BIG PAD LOCK. [mav2 1. TjlOU SALE.-A good ROCKAWAY BVGGY, I nearly new, is offered for sale on reasonable terms. For further particulars inquire at this office. maydPJt. fjy G UEKNCASTLE GRAIN CRADLES t r i Othe harvest of D 67. Look out for them and engage what you want in time at Hartlej A Mctzger's, FARMER'S DEPOT. [may24.
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