geiiforirfttquirfl:. BEDFORD. PA., FMIDAY, APRIL JO. IBC9 NT ATE TICKET. eovsßXoa, JOHN W. GEAKY. (Subject to rtic decision of the State Convention.) DISTRICT TICKET. SENATOR, G. SHANNON MULLIN. (Subject to the decision of the DisL Conference.) A SSEM B I.Y, J. H. LONGENECKKK, Em,. (Subject to the decision of the Dit. Conference.) COUNTY TICKET. PROTH"NOTARY, J. TV. LIXGENFKLTER, Esq., of Bedford Bor. WILLIAM DIBERTof Bedford Bor. TREASURER, WILLIAM PHILLIPS, of Bedford Twp. COMMISSIONER, JAMES FINK, of Hopewell Twp. POOR IiIRECTOR, EMANUEL J. DIEIIL, of Colcrain Twp. CORONER, DR. A. S. SMITH, of St. Clairsviile Bor. AUDITOR, JOHN P.WILLIAMS, of South Woodberv Twp. LEGISLATIVE KEFOHM. The subject of Legislative Reform is again beginning to be agitated. A conven tion to amend the Constitution is suggested as the only sure method of reform but, there exists considerable doubt as to what amendments could be made to that instru ment to secure the needed reform. The Pottsville Miner's' Journal suggests the following: "Call a convention to amend the State Constitution. Let the amendment provide for increasing the number of Representa tives to four hundred, and Senators to one hundred. Let each session be limited to forty days: the pay of members be fixed at $C a dav, and the representatives to be elected from single districts throughout the State. In addition to this adopt a general law for corporations beyond the reach of in dividual enterprise, and have no special laws for these cases. We would also, have all corporations with incomes not exceeding £25,000 eaeb, granted by the courts. Ar ranged in this way, we firmly believe that to transact the balance of the legislative bud ness of the State but forty and even thirty days would be all the time required. This in our opinion, is the only practicable plan to break up the present corrupt system of legislation, because it is an indisputable fact that large bodies in short sessions are not so liable to be influenced by improper motives in their actions. We fully endorse tbc Journal's proposition to increase the number of Representatives and Senators, but we are not so sure that it is a good plan either to limit the time of the Sessions or to pay the members by the day. It would be belter, we think, to give a fiicd salary which representatives could not iucrea.se at their pleasure, and leave the time to be regulated by the amount of busi ness to be transacted. Transferring the jurisdiction of Corporations to the Courts of the Districts to which they belong is a good plan, but any such provision in the shape of an amendment would have to be very strictly and carefully drawn. We already have a clause ic our constitution ma king a somewhat similar provision, but it has heretofore proven a mere fulmeu bru tum. a dead letter. Perhaps the most pow erful restraint upon corrupt legislation that could be devised would ba an amend ment by which no bill whatever could be brought before the Legislature for action without reading the whole bill. The pres ent method of reading bills by titles is a pre mium upon fraud and deception. Under it the most infamous legislation i- sneaked through both houses, under the most inno cent of titles. Another adjunct of cnriupt legislation is the faei! • with which the rules of both houses can be suspended in order to facilitate the work upon such bills as have to be hurried through, whih some guardian of the people's interest happen to be absent from bis seat, in urd v to es cape detection and defeat. Tin abuses have all crept iu by reason of the pressure of the immense .mount of private bills and local legislate with which the Legislature has been These private bills in the majority of cases have gone to the Legis lature because they could not stand the scrutiny they would necessarily have to un dergo in the Courts. Let us have this class of Legislation entirely cut off and excluded from the Legislature and then not only give but require our Representatives to taU , the necessary time and give the necessary attention to the publie business. Ijot biils be honestly and fully read and let us no longer be deceived by lying titles. Let dishonest members be stripped of this con venient cloak for the covering of their in iquities. Let every bill go through its regular course of readings Ate., without any suspension of rules. The people can well afford and will be perfectly willing to allow their Representatives all nece.--ary titue to transact all legitimate and honest publie business. Rut they do vehemently protest against the prevailing corruption, dishonesty an! fraud, that now characterize legislation without regard to party. We say wiihont regard to party, because corrupt men of all parties cloak together for the securing of public plunder and corrupt legislation is not a party fault but a public calamity. THE EIGHT HOI K LAW. The eight hour law still tails to give sat isfaction in the various departments of the government and well it may. Secretary Boric in the administration of the affairs of the Navy Department has decided that though Congress has made eight-hours a legal day's work, it has not enacted that men should be paid the wages often hour* for the work of eight. It has raided quite a storm among the employes of his depart ment, but the secretary is certainly right and we hope he will not yield the point. No law that men can pass will ever enable drones for any length of time to get ten hour s pay for eight hour's work. The folly of demagogues in the state and national councils in resorting to soeh foolish legisla tion 1->r political purposes is beginuiug to be exposed. It is surprising that sane mcu should ever have resorted to anything so utterly foolish and uustatesmanlike. They might with about as much propriety have enacted a law that every farmer's land should produce a given number of bushels of gram annually whether he did the necessary work or not, or that water should ruu up hill, or that the North Temperate zone should have perpetual summer Any one of those follies would have been about as sensible as the eight hour law. Since our first parents were banished from Eden it has been the lot of man to labor and we are among the number of those who hare never believed that an act of Congress could restore us to the lost estate of our erring first parents. Yet it might as well attempt that as the subversion of the laws of labor. Men will continue to be paid according to the amount of work they do and no human government can change that law. The sooner Congress "• * ttyfe common (* n9e j sooner they will deliver themselves from the unpleasant dilemmas created by such childish legislation. Labor like other pur chasable commodities fluctuates in price, but cannot long remain unreasonably low or high in proportion to the prices of the necessaries of life. This they who aspire to the position of law givers ought to know. A little knowledge of this kind would save t&eni from some humiliating blunders JUSTICE TO HONEST A EN. In our strictures on the men and the measures of the late Legislature, we en deavored to deal justly with the people and at the same time adhere to the truth in re gard to these who had brought the State to ret roach bv their unseemly acts and cor rupt proceedings as law makers. But it must not be understood from what wc have written and printed that we regard the Legislature as composed entirely of corrupt men. Such an understanding would be unjust to the State at large and unfair to the honest men who represented their con stituents in every way satisfactory to the general welfare. Let us enumerate, for in stance, such Senators as Wilmer Worth ington, of Chester county; C. 11. Stinson, of Montgomery county; R. S. Brown, of Northampton county; A. G. Olmsted, of Potter county; G. Dawson Coleinan, of Lebanon county; E. Billingfelt, of Lancaster county; C. T. Mclntire, of Perry county; W. A. Wallace, of Clearfield; James L. Graham, of Pittsburg; James Kerr, ot Butler: and M. B. Lowry, of Erie. There is no mistaking the honesty of these men and perhaps there may be others in the Senate fit to be named in the same connec tion. hut we know of whom wc write when we classify the gentlemen alluded to as pub lie servants, whoso hands are clean of all wronz, and whose services to their constit uents an i the Commonwealth were ever of a fair, diligent and dignified character. In the same connection occur such names of the members of the House as follow: Speaker Clark, of Philadelphia; ,1. F. Chamberlain, of Bradford county; 11. P. Brown, of Clarion county; F. W. Ames, of Crawford county; George P. Kca and John D. Stranahan, of Erie county; W. H. Ptuyford, cf Fayette county; S. B. Brown, of Huntingdon county: John 11. Walker, of Franklin county; Jacob H. Lougeneeker, of Bedford couu'v. and the veteran Thomas Nicholson, of Beaver county. As in the Senate, so amy we have overlooked in the lb'use names worthy of being ranked with the unmistakably honest men we here refer to. If such there be we are ready to chron icle them with honor and pleasure. — State (i lined. NEW LAW OF TESTIMONY. The following is the act passed by the last Legislature, permitting parlies to the record of any civil proceeding, except in excepted cases stared in the first section, to give evi dence on trial. The law has been in force since the loth, and the general impression seems to be that it will prove advantageous to the administration of justice: SECTION 1. Be it enacted bn the Senate and House of Representatives of tin (,'ommon iradth of Pennsylvania in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the au thority of the same. That no interest nor policy of law shall exclude a party or person from being a witness in aDy civil proceeding: Prodded, This act, shall not alter tbc law, as now declared and practiced in tbc courts of this Commonwealth, so as to allow hus band and wife to testify against each other, nor counsel to testify to the confidential com munication of bis client; and this act shall not apply to actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, nor where the assignor of the thing or contract in action may be dead, excepting in issues and inqui ries decisarit vet non and others, respecting the right of such deceased owner, between parties claiming such right by devolution 011 rhe death of such owner. ! SEC. 2. That a party to the record of any civil proceeding, in law or equity, or a per.-on | for whose immediate benefit such proceeding is prosecuted or defended, may be examined as if under cross examination, at the instance ! of the adverse party, or any of them, and for I that purpose may be compelled in the same : manner, and subject to tin: same rules for examination as any other witness, to testify, out the parly calling lor such examination shall not bo excluded thereby, but may re j but it by counter testimony. SEC. 3. That the testimony of witnesses authorized by this act may be had by deposi tion cr commission issued, as the case may require, with such notice to the party to be i examined, and to the adverse party, as is now or may hereafter be prescribed by the rub-, of the proper court, touching the taking ■>f deposit ions and testimony and commission. JOHN CLARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WI LMER WORTH I NOT* >N , Speaker of the Senate. Approved the fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred an l sixty-nine. JOHN \V. GEARY. ! A SENSIBLE IDEA.—Secretary Rout well i has determined to derive some good for the country from the millions of surplus gold that bare been lying idle in the Tryasury for three or four years past. He announces ; that 1 e will sell an average of about a mil lion or more per month. Gold is now at a premium of ',3 per cent; the government wili therefore be saved by this sensible move ment about one third of a million per month <>r four millions per year, by having a Secre tary of the Treasury who will apply the same common sense to the management of the public finances which intelligent men apply to thi ir private business. We are happy to chronicle the fact that Secretary Routwell is about to try the value of plain common sense in the management of his department, and wo predict for him not only a decided success, but the thanks of the whole nation, always excepting the gold gamblers and stock brokers, who are well known to prefer the absurd theories of McCulloch who thought the best thing the government could do with it, was to lock it up in the Treasury vaults. We hope to be able soon, to report that a little common sense is to be applied to the management of some of the other governmental Departments. \\ e like to see the manner in which the people are resisting the arrogant c'aiin set up by Congressmen that their preference iu the bestowal of an office is alone to be re spected. Wherever this claim is persisted in, we predict it will result iu the defeat of every Republican Congressman who comes before the people for re-election. The idea of electing men to act as public servants and then submitting to their tyrannical dicta tion in all things relating to official affairs, is one which will not be tolerated by the American people, who bear the same rela tion to Congressmen which an employer holds to the employee. The people employ Congressmen to do certain things— not to be defied, deceived and tricked—and we are convinced that the people will overhaul rather roughly, at future elections, the Sen ator and Representative who are unmindful of the respect dee to their constituents.— State Guard. 1 HE rule adopted by the Forty-first Con : gross, for the filling of the various official appointments, was (Lit where there was a Republican member of Congress, ho was to have complete control of the appointments in his own district. Where there were Democratic congressmen the officers were to be appointed by the United .States Senstor?. IT is not an uncommon thing to hoar even intelligent people talk as if offices were only created for the purpose of providing support for the lazy, thriftless and generally j impecunious. Offices arc created and offi cers are elected for the good of the country and the transaction of its necessary business. Fitness and not locality or poverty should govern the appointment of public officers. When our people learn to appreciate this fact and carry it out in their nomination, election and appointment of public officers, we will once more have hones', upright and efficient officials. Public office will then oease to be a synonyme for a sinecure for the lazy, thriftless unworthy drones that now so often disgrace the public service. THE Washington Chronicle announces very positively that the mission to Spain will be tendered to General Sickles. It says: "Minister Hale having tendered his resig nation at the request of the Administration, and the same having been received at the State Department and accepted, the rejec tion of Mr. Sanford by the United States Senate leaves the mission vacant. General Sickles, within a fortnight, will be appoint ed by the President as a minister to Spain to fill the vacancy, and commissioned in ac accordanee with the provisions of the amend ed civil tenure act." WAR CLOUDS continue to darken the horizon of Continental Europe. Negotiations have been broken otf between France and Belgium. France wants to build a French railroad into the heart of Belgiunhand Bel gium very naturally objects to any such proceeding as it would give France com plete control of Belgium in ease of war. It is understood that Belgium is backed by Prussia, hence the general feeling of alarm at the breaking off of the negotiations. OF the one thousand nominations made by the present Administration, thirty-seven are diplomatic, ninety-nine are consular, fifteen are territorial, two hundred and six teen are in the Internal llevenue Depart ment, three hundred and ninety-two are postmasters, sixty-five are Judges, Marshals and Attorneys, and fifty-nine in the Land Office. About three hundred additional changes will be made during the Summer. OUR XF.W MINISTER TO ENGLAND — The instructions of Minister Motley, will it is pre dicted, in effect make the demands on the British government foreshadowed in Senator Sumner's speech on the Alabama question. Mr. Motley will sail for England about the middle of May, and will relieve Mr. John son on the Ist of June. The latter will not return to America until after he has comple ted a tour through Europe. WE see by our exchanges that there is an immense amount of grumbling at the Con gressional appointments. Congressmen gen erally seem to have succeeded in defying the wishes of their constituents. They do not say whether the offices have been sold at auction, traded off or assigned by lot. SECRETARY ROITWELL reports a saving of seventeen hundred dollars already on the rebatement expedient. Take care of the pennies and the {rounds will take care of themselves. INDIAN affairs have at last been given into the hands of their old time friends the Quakers, and the Indian ring are discon solate at the loss of so line a field for speculation. THE Rellefonte Republican suggests and highly endorses General John F. llartranft as the Republican candidate for Governor. Gov. C CRT IN will leave for St Peters burg about the middle of June next. HOW MIA LI, WE STOP THE FED- I) LI NO OUT OF OFFICES? The crowd of office seekers in this Demo cratic count ry of ours has increased to such a host as to become a national nuisance and a stench in the nostrils of every honest or bouorable . How to abate the nuisance and eradicat* the evil has of late years be come a question of the first importance. State representatives and Senators, and members of Congress and United States Senators have all become to a greater or less degree the peddlers of petty appointments and the dispensers of public offices in their respective States or districts to which they often give much more of their attention than to their proper and legitimate dutv of legislation. And worse than this, their ap pointments are often made without regard to the wishes of their constituents or the fitness of their favorites for the offices they are expected to fill. No more fruitful source of coriupticn exists to-day in our country than this peddling around of petty offices. We have long advocated the pas sage of a Civil Service bill that would teach men that fitness was the proper qualifica tion for office and not merely the possession of friends at court, or the controlling of some idiot's vote in a ward election. Jenckes' bill was slaughtered in the last Congress be cause neither Congressmen nor Senators were willing to confine themselves to their legitimate duties, but wished to retain the distribution of offices as a sort of trading stock. The New York Tribune thus perti nently discusses the question. Therejvas a time when to be a member of Congress was to aspire at least to the posi tion and bearing of a statesman. Of late years it has been_ rathtfr to become a claim agent and a solicitor of offices for constitu ents whose services must be rewarded or purchased. The evil does not belong to one Administration or to one party, but it has been steadily growing. During the last years of ihe war, what Congressmen used to call their "Department business" engrossed two thirds of their time—even encroaching often upon the hours of their daily sessions. This abuse has been often deplored; but Mr Trumbull yesterday placed its bearing upon the proper discharge of Senatorial duty in an unusually strong light. The Senator who beseeches the President in behalf of some applicant, goes then to the other end of the avenue, to vote upon the confirmation of the nominee sent in—perhaps the one whose appointment he has just been solici ting, perhaps the one against whom he has just been laboring. It is as if a lawyer should first prepare the papers in a client's case, and then ascend the bench to deliver the verdict of the Court upon it. So again, a Congressman importunes the head of a Department into appointing a clerk for whose services there is no need. Then, in his place in the House or Senate, he is call ed upon to vote a deficiency bill to pay the unwarranted expenditure which his own im portunity has brought about. The system must necessarily prove fatal, in the long run, to the independence of the different de partments of the Government. There may be difficulty, as Mr. Fessenden seemed to think, in discovering a remedy. And yet, we suggest that honorable gentlemen might find a very complete one if they were so dis posed, It lies in an efficient Civil Service bill. \\ e shall see at the next session whether they really want it, or whether, re alizing as they now do, the discredit not to say corruption of their present course, they, prefer its continuance. The Pottsville Mined Journal makes the following pertinent remarks on a similar sub ject, which will be fouQd to apply to a good many other sections beside Schuykill county. The actiou of United States Senators in refusing to confirm good men who are ap pointed to official positions, aDd who are the choice of the people, simply because they may be personally obnoxious to certain Sen ators. merits reproof. So with members of the House, who to secure positions for men, regardless of the wishes of the people, who will labor for tbeni to help them to other offices, even threaten the President that if he docs not make certain appointments to suit them they will oppose his Administra tion. Now, this is all wrong. It is an out rage on the rights of the people. These Senators and these Representatives are cho sen for a specified object, viz: to go to Washington and enact laws. To the people belongs the right to express who they want to fill positions, from the highest to the low est. It is time that the press of the country should speak plainly in behalf of the people, on this subject. It is time that members of Congress should understand that the people will demand that they attend more to the business necessary to the welfare of the country and less to usurping the rights of the people. Personally, wo care very little about the matter. We do not seek a Government of fice, nor do we desire to be bothered in the natter of appointments in this District. But there is a principle involved in the mat ter which we desire to see preserved. We believe that all appointments should be made in consonance with the wishes of the people and by their expressed desire. To preserve this right unimpaired to the peo ple, we believe that in the future they should interrogate all candidates for Congress on the subject, and obtain their views. We shall hereafter support no man who is op posed to the principle that the people should dictate the appointments. Washington Items. The inauguration of the Quaker policy with the Indians was made yesterday by the nomination to the Senate of eighteen Penn sylvania and Maryland Quakers, recommen ded by the Society ol' Friends, as Superin tendents of Indian Affairs. These Quakers are not full of confidence in their mission, but merely ask the privilege to try the experi ment of civilizing the Indians to such an extent that they will secure permauent peace. These appointments are the result ol'a patient investigation on the part of the leading members of the sect, and the men recommended are selected from the very best among their number. Theirexperiment is watched with a great deal of interest. There are many circumstances favorable to their success, chief of which is the fact that several of the most hostile tribes are now assuming a very peaceful attitude, as a re sult ot the severe chastisement of Sheridan and Custar during the past Winter. The whole posse of the old Indian Agents and contractors will now make an effort to get possession of these agents, and failing in that, they will combine to baffle their efforts then attack them and drive them from the field. Small ami unprincipled bands of specu lators are duily putting forth the "latest Cuban news," which is manufactured here out of whole cloth. ()ne of the recent speei mens was, the alleged expedition of General Steadman, with a thousand men, arm.-. &c., and then later came the statement that he had landed, Ac. There is not the slightest foundation for any of these Roorbacks, and they are intended mainly to help put up gold, and, if possible, to induce ignorant people to buy Cuban bonds. The Annexation of CHDada. A New York Tribune correspondent, writing from Montreal, says: The desire of tho people of the New Dominion to cut loose from their depend ency upon the mother country, has received a powerful impetus from one or two recent events, and whatever course may finally bo adopted, there can be little doubt that a great political change of some sort is not far distant Several private meetings of in fluential persons have recently been held here lor the purpose of considering t he great question of a change in the form of govern ment, and general dissatisfaction with the present state of thine-, is more and more openly expressed. The newspapers are at last beginning to meet the question face to face, and are giving utterance to the senti ment which has long been widely dispersed among the people, although few have had the courage to express it publicly, in favor of independence, hut ihe larger party aims at annexation to the United State-, and will soon make itself prominent. The acqui sition of the Hudson Bay territory lias given additional force to the arguments of the annexationists. It is felt that ,-uch a magnificent domain as the newdoniitiion now promises to he, ought no longer to be dwarfed and kept down by dependence on a traixs- Atiantie Government. The proposal that Great Britain shall surrender her North American possessions as a set off against the Alabama claims, has created a deep sensation in certain circles. Not a few re gird it with decided favor. I'HOM ILLINOIS. Severe Storm— Loss of Life and Property. CHICAGO, April 19. —The st orm of yester day was one of the severest and most ex tensive that has occurred for a long time. !t extended nearly the whole length of the State, and west as lar as the Mississippi river. At Bloomingtou a Catholic church, not completed, was blown down and com pletely destroyed. At Girard and Virdcn, Mteopiu county, hailstones fell as big as hens' eggs and nearly every pane of glg-s was destroyed in the northwest side of the buildings. The sur iaee of the country is covered with water. At Elgin the house of -Jerome Wiltse was struck by lightning, severely injuring a man and a boy. At Dubuque r tornado passed over the city. The residence ot Mr. Kniester was blown dowD. Mr. Kniester was killed, and his wife seriou-ly injured. Several houses were unroofed. „ ITEMS. THE average cost of a first class pa->cnger car is four thousand dollars. TwENTI' thousand breech loaders are get ting ready for Cuba. And the men to lead them ? THACKERAY'S daughter is "doing" Ger many, and, like other travelers there, will be "done." A Senator says he was called out of bed three times in one night by office-seekers in Washington. A black slave in Havana has written a song for the Cuban demonstration in Phila delphia. "Sweet Minnie ot the Vale" is Cam-across' latest song. Frank Stanley wrote it. It is very pretty. THE General Synod of the Lutheran Church of the United States will convene in Washing ton city on the second Thursday of May. BALTIMORE is to have a race-course, for which the State gives fifty thousand dollars, the city twenty five thousand dollars, and the citizens fifty thousand dollars. It is an offence punishable wilh fourteen years' imprisonment or transportation for a clergyman in England to marry a couple af ter noon of any day without a special license. THERE are eight tunnels on the Penn sylvania railroad, ranging from two hundred to three thousand six hundred and twelve Icet. Major General Kilpatrick, United States Minister to Chili, sailed on Wednesday. He was accompained by bis wife and niece. Many of his friends assembled on the vessel to bid him farewell. Major Honsen, the Norwegian giant, who stands eight feet in his shoes and measures sixty-two inches around the chest, has arrh ed in New York. The Major weighs four hundred and sixty pounds. TnERE is no end to the changing fashions in wedding cards. The latest stylo prints under the name of the bride aud bridegroom the names of the bridesmaids and grooms men. THE superintendent of the smuggling operations, by which the eighty thousand French subscribers of the Ladternc receive their papers, receives two hundred and fifty francs a week for his trouble. He does the business so well that all the subscribers re ceive their copies with extreme regularity. Ax EXCHANGE says that "until a man has bad one or two serious flirtations he is not to be relied on for earnest effort. Therefore, men who wish to engage in life's earnest and serious pursuits, should hurry up their flirtations." As ESOUSHMAS, eighty years old, tried to marry a widow of some sixty years a few weeks ago. but liis daughter, a maiden of half a century, saw him on his way to church, pursued, caught hiui, and brought him home. He eloped and married the next day. Tut Colorado Register says that "reliable information iudicates that the redskins con template a raid upon the whites in the terri tories more bloody than the West hasyetsnf fered." We never knew a spring when sim ilar pr< dictions were not freely made by tha frontier papers. Hut (iraut is prepared. EDMONIA Lewis, the colored sculptress in Rome, is in straitened circumstances, and has had no order for several months though Rome is unusually full, even with Americans. She desires to sell her "Hngar," reserving the right to exhibit it, in which case she will come with it personally to the United Stales. Mas. BKTSY DODGE, a widow of seventy three years of age, on Rlook Island, has during the past year woven, in an old fashioned hand-loom, four hundred yards of cotton and wool cloth, and eight hundred and ninety-one yards carpeting, making in all one thousand two huudred and ninety-one yards, besides doing all the work for her family. CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE held, in the But ler case at Baltimore, that the privilege of a member of Congress does not include ex emption from arrest, in the sense of forbid ding process of summons in civil suit. Mem bers are only exempt, in his view, from a forcible detention, looking to imprisonment. A much wider interpretation ha- hitherto I been generally given to this constitutional guarantee. A Ki'Mon comes l'rotn Rome that the fKcumenical Council, appointed for next De cember, is ltkely to be indefinitely postponed. The reason assigned is an alleged impossibil ity of rendering pertain in advance anything like unanimity among the members of the Council ou the two most important points, for the determination of which they have been summoned to meet. EMIGRATION. —The report of the New York Commissioners of Emigration for 186S shows that 213,680 aliens arrived at that port during the year. This was a decrease of 20,012 from the year 1867. Of the whole number 101,980 were from Germany, 47,671 from Ireland, 23,606 from England, and 34,431 from other countries. The number of immigrants from Sweden was neatly 10,000 greater than in 1867. Four thousand emigrants recently pissed through Hamburg and Bremen, within tho space of three days, en route (or America. OXK WAY TO AVOID AI CIDEXTS.— One of the duties of the London police is to kick from the pavement pieces of orange peel thrown there by careless or thoughtless per sons. It should be made one of the dutieß of everybody not to throw things on the pave ment wnich may endanger the limbs of pedes trians. Avery little thought in such matters often avoids serious results. The police of this city ought to be requested to do some thing to abate the dangerous nuisance here. NOT long ago a man named Breckinridge visited St. Paul, Minnesota, and all the Dem ocrats made haste to pay their respects to him underlhe impression that he was the ex rebid general. They were greitilv disap pointed to learn that they had made a mis take, and were absolutely disgusted when they found that the gentleman bad never even been in the Confederals army. TMK soul of the Department ot Foreign Af fairs at Constantinople is a Catholic priest, Father Benevcnt. an Italian, who writes near ly all the foreign dispatches of the Turkish Government, lie possesses a wonderful fa miliarity with the leading statesman, thesov r reigns, and the political affairs of the vari. ous countries ot Europe. No measure of itn parlance is resolved upon by ibe Turkish Government until bis opinion has been ascer tained. It is said that he receives a larger sala ry than (he Turkish Minister of Foreign Af fairs. THE principle creditor of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico was a Greek Jew of Trieste, named Ephraim. Maximilian owed him at one time a million and u half of florins. Ephraim'a claims have not jet been settled entirely. At one time he was the real owner ofMiramar. He was quite atiatched lo the unfortunate Archduke, who always treated his Jewish creditor with the utmost kindness. Ephraim had a pretty daughter with whom Maximilian, previous to his marriage with Carlotta of Belgium, had kept up a long flir tation. AN INDEX to Canadian opinion appears in the annexed extract from the Sr. John (N. B ) Freeman: It is worse than use 1' ss to attempt to conceal the fact that u desire for annexation is_ last spreading among the people; that the conviction that annexation is our ultimate destiny is rapidly gaining ground in this part of the Dominion, and uot amongst ar.y particu lar party or class, but among all parties; and especially among those who were most active and most earnest Confederates, manv of whom do not hesitate to avow that they always regarded confederation as the first decided step toward annexation. PENNSYLVANIA STATE Fan:. —The com mittee appointed by the Pennsylvania Agri cultural Society to select a place for holding he next State Fair, have fixed upon llarris burg. The committee having adopted the Ohio plan of holding two successive exhibi tions in one locality. The next fair will com mence on the last Tuesday of September next and continue four days. They have also adopted the Missouri plan of free entries, and every entry, whether article, animal, or invention, most he registered at the office of the Society. This rule will be general, except in eases of horses entered for speed, where an entry fee will be charged. The railroads ofTer the usual facilities and reductions. THE Secretary of the Treasury is now pre pared to rccive proposals for the purchase of gold according to the terms ol his advertise ment. These sales will be made from week to week according as the iutcrest of the debt and the public service muy require without the slightest regard whatever to the condition of the gold market. Mr. Boutwell is said to have stated that the sooner the gold men un derstood this fact the better. The Secretary is not yet prepared to say exactly what amounts he can sell, but the average will be about $1,000,000 per week. During some weeks it may not be one half that amount, and occasionally it may run as high us a million and a half. PROFESSOR MITCHELL, the well known Mathematician, died at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, on Monday afternoon, from general debility, lie was 76 years of age. Professor Mitchell was the father of Miss Maria Mitchell, the Astronomer, who was born in Nantucket, Mass., August I, 1818. He was at. that time engaged in teaching at that place, and devoted much of his time to the study and practice of A-tron oniy. When his daughter was only 11 years of age, 'he took her into.his school as a pupil and assistaut teacher, and she very soon discovered a fondness for the science and ao aptness in the use of instruments that made her au enthusiastic co-operator with her father in his favorite study. Subsequently she conducted many careful observations by herself, and on October Ist, 1547, while searching for comets, discovered a telescopic one which was seen at Rome two days after by Father da Vieo. For this she received a Gold modal from the King of Denmark. Prof. Mitchell was a member of the Society of Friends, llis remains were taken to Nantucket for burial. yyIHK RAILING," WIRE GUARDS, For Store Fronts. Factories, Ae. Heavy Crimped Wire Cloth for Cleaning Ores, Coal, ly No. U North 6th St., PHIL'A. PtefcUan?o'4i£. rffi ti i 4-B IA t Zl-HOABI B ITT ER S . A Salt Blood Purifier, A Splendid Tunic, A Pleasant Beverage, A Certain Cure and Preventive of Diseases. Tho ZIXQAKI lIITXKKS are compounded from a proscription or the celebrated Egyptian phpsician Dr. CilKOPsrs, who after years of trial and experiment, discovered the Ziuyorivi Herb— the most remarkable vegetable production, the earth, perhaps, has ever yielded—certainly the most effective in the euro ol disease. It, in com bination with the other valuable properties of which the ZING ARI BITTERS is composed, will cure Dysprjnia, Fiver and Ague, Bilious Fever, ( holic, _ Cohh, Bronchitis, Consump tion in its first stage, Flatulency, Ferrous Debility, Female. Com plaints, Jlhcumatism, Dys entery, Acute and <%ironic 1) iarrha. a , Choi era Morbus, Cholera, 'Ty phoid and Typhus Freer, Ycljxuc le ver. Scrofula, • Disco sis of the Fiducys Habitual Costiveness, ( f-c. 37 SO 40 first class SEW ING MACHINES given as premiums for $37 50 worth ot subscrip tions for WOOD'S HOUSEHOLD ADVO CATE, a first class Family paper, at 75 cents. AI.SO TICK! TICK! TICK! TICK! TICK! American Watckes worth $32, given for S3O worth of subscriptions. Also sl2 DICTIONARY. sl2 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, worth sl2, given as premiums for sl2 worth of subscriptions. Also SIOO SUNDAY SCHOOL SIOO SBO LIBRARIES s*o Large or small, lo he selected from 400 volumes'of the r try best Books published, and given as a premium for an equivalent amount of subscription. Also several other premiums equally liber al. The ADVOCATE, (formerly called the Prospectus.) contains 10 large pages, and aims to promote Knowledge, Virtue, and Temperance. It has been enlarged and im proved three times in 27 months. Send for specimdVi copy. Address S.S.WOOD, 2apr3m P. O. Building, Newburg, N. V. 1869. 1869. OPENING OF NEW SILKS, OPENING OF NEW SHAWLS, OPENING OF NEW CHINTZES, OPENING OF NEW POPLINS. Full stock of STAPLE and FANCY SPRING GOODS. EYRE k LAN DELL, FOURTH and ARCH STREETS, PHILADELHHIA. N. B.—JOBS from AUCTION daily received. lSmardt ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE.— Notice is hereby given that Letters of Ad ministration on the E-'ate of Cadwalader Evans, late of Cumberland Valley township, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned. All per sons knowing themselves indebted to said Estate, will please m ike immediate payment, and those having claims are requested to present them prop erly authenticated for settlement. 2iij,lot RIIODA EVANS, Adin'x. E N I) E R SON'S FRESH GROUND EXTRA FAMILY FLOUR, on hand and for sale by HSoctly G. R. OSTER A CO. s. m'camant ions eleiott i>. r. caldwkli. J. M. II ARC I It wn.ll A* BTOKK. rjpYRONE PLANING MILLS. McCAMANT, ELLIOTT & CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in Sash, Doors, Blinds, Flooring, Brackets, Mouldings, Stair Railing, Plastering Lath, Shingles, Common and Fancy Pickets, Frame Stuff, AND ALL KINDS OF LUMBER. Tyrone, Pa., March 19, 1869:m6 DICKENS' NOVELS, full sets, at 25 cents per novel, at the Inquirer Book Store, ti (11 TI ZEXS' CO-OPKKATIVE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BEDFOP.D, PA. Incorporated, March, 1869, by Sjtcciul Act of the Legislature of Prnntyhanht. Thin company is organised on the Co-Operative Miitual Plan. The membership teo is graded according to the age of the applicant, and is lover than other mu tual companies. The payment of the entitles the member to a life policy. Every member in this company has a vote in controlling the funds of the company, and has an eijual share in the funds. The amount of money paid is so little that every one can insure. This Company is purely a HOME Company. OVVICELS : lion SAMUEL L. RUSSELL, Preat. J. K. DURBORROW, Vice l'rest. E. F. KEKK, Secretary. O. E. SHANNON, Treasurer. itltrr.t TOEB : J. M. SIIOKM VKKII, J. 15. W II.I.IAMS, T. If. Li o>s, jr. W. It; KERSON, Is. It. ASUERSOS. <>en. Agent, W. A. EDWARDS. Circulars, Pamphlets and full particulars given, on application to the Secretary of the company, or to IV. A. EDWARDS, mar.l'O'jyyl (ien. Agent, Bedford, l'a PIIII .ADEI.I HIA, March 10th, LS6'.t. 4 YKK S CATHARTIC PILLS, FOR ALL THE PURPOSES OF A LAXATIVE MEDICINE. Perhaps no one medicine is so universally re quired by everybody as a cathartic. nr was ever any before so universally adopted into use, in every country and among all classes, as this mild but efficient purgative Pill. The obvious reason is, that it is a more reliable and far more effectual remedy than any other. Those who have used it, know that it cured them; those who have not, know that it cures their neighbors and friends, and all know that what it does once it dves al ways--tb it it never fails through any fault or neglect of its composition. We have thousands upon thousands of certificates of their remarkable cures of the following complaints, but such cures are known in every neighborhood, and we need not publish them Adapted to all aires and con ditions in all climates: containing neither calomel nor any deleterious drug, they may be taken with safety by anybody. Their sugar coating preserves them ever fresh and makes them pleasant to take, while being purely vegetable no harm can arise from their use in any quantity. They operate by their powerful influence on the internal viscera to purify the blood and stimulate it into healthy action—remove the obstructions of the stomach, bowels, liver, and other organs of the body, restoring their irregular action to health, and by correcting, wherever they exist, uch derangements as are the first origin of di sase. Minute directions are given in the wrapper on the box, for the following complaints, which these Pills rapidly cure: For Dyspepela or Indigestion, Li*tle**nee t Lan guor and Loss of Appetite, they should be taken moderately to stimulate the stomach and restore its healthy tone and action. For Liter Complaint and its various symptom?, Bit "out Jfeadarhr, Sick Headache, Jaundice or Green Sickness, lit ho it 8 Colic and Bilioue Perers, they should be judiciously taken for each case, to correct the disease ! action or remove the obstruc tions which cause it For Dysentery or Diarrhv, but one mild dose is generally required. For II ken tn at ism, Gout, Gravel, Palpitation of the Heart, Pain in the Side, Back aud Loin*, they should be continuously taken, as required, to change the diseased action of the system. With such change there complaints disappear. For Dropsy and Drojmcal Swelling* they should be taken in large and frequent doses to produce the e fleet of a drastic purge. For Suppression* a large dose should be taken as it produces the desired effect by sympathy. As a Dinner pni , take one or two Pills to pro mote digestiou and relieve the stomach. An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and bowels into hcakbv action, re-tores the appetite, and invigorates the system. Hence it is often ad vantageous where no serious derangement exists. One who feels tolerably well, often finds that a dose of.these pills makes him feel decidedly bet tor, from their cleansing and renovating effect on the digestive apparatus. DR. J. C. AVER T CO., Practical Chemists, Lowell, Mass., U. S. A. 2ocly I)R. D. 1\ lIARRY, Agent, Bedford, Pa JJ R. T A Y L OR'S OLIVE BRANCH BITTERS. A MILD AND AGREEABLE TONIC STEM I LANT, STOMACHIC and CARMINATIVE BITTERS, EXTRACTED ENTIRELY FROM II E 11 B S and ROOTS. HIGHLY BENEFICIAL IN DYSPEPSIA, GENERAL DEBILITY, and LOSS OF APPETITE; AND AN EXCELLENT CORRECTIVE FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DISOR DERS OF TIIE BOWELS, FLATULENCE, AC. SOLD EVERYWHERE. DEPOT, NO. 413 MARKET ST., PHID'A. J. K. TAYLOR & CO. 25scply WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. Several Hundred Different Figure. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Largest lut ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county, for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for salo at the INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STOKE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. SCHOOL BLANKS.—Articles of Agreement between Directors and Teachers, Checks Bunds of Collectors, Warrants of Collectors, Bond of Treasurers, Ac., for sale at the inquirer office. 7 &m\ yALUABLE TRACTS OF LAND FOR SAL K . The subscriber, offer at private sale the follow ing valuable tracts of land, viz: No. L The undivided half of a tract of land, containing 227 acres, situate on the south-east side of the Broad Top Mountain, lying partly in Bedford and partly in Fulton county, and ad orning lands jo Samuel Banner, James Brin hurst and IVishart's heirs. TWO VEINS OF COAL, one 5J feet, the other 6j feet in depth have been discovered on this uact. No. 2. A tract of 230 acres near the abo joining the same lands, and supposed -o ■ . uin the same veins of coal. No. 3. A tract of 400 acres, within two and a half miles of the above tracts, lying on the North side of the Harbor across the mountain, well tim bered with oak and pine. May 3,-tf. JOnN LCTZ. D OR SALE OR TRADE. FIVE lots of ground in Bedford, 60 by 240, formerly part of the Lyons' estate. Two tracts of 160 acres each within three miles of a depot on the Pacific Rail Road back of Oma ha. A tract of bottom land timbered and prarie two miles from Omaha City. One third of 7,0011 acres in Fulton C> unty Pa., including valuable Ore, mineral and timber lands near Fort Littleton. Over 4,000 acres of valuable ore, coal and tim ber lands in West Virginia. ALSO, Twenty.five one acre lots, adjoining the Borough of Bedford, with lime stone rock for kiln or quarry on the upper end of each. Also, 320 acres of land in Woodbury CO., lowa. SO " " Franklin •' lowa. 100 acres adjoining Bedford, with house, bare, Ac., known as the ".Vinos farm." Also, a farm of 107 acre. in Harrison twp. Also, Six acres near Bedford, with 2 houses, stable and brick var 1 thereon. O. E. SHANNON, June 21,-tf Bedforjj. Penn'a. AT PRIVATE SALE. A BARE OPPORTUNITY TO VU) .1 HOME. The subscribers will sell a numb. r of lots ad joining tb CHALYBEATE SPKIX-l PROP ERTY in Bedford township, AT VERY LOW PRICES. On two of them dwelling houses hive already hcen erected. This is a splendid opp'.rtunity to buy a cheap and most desirable home, as the lots lie immediately opposite the Chalybeate Spring Park, on the road, and not more than 120 yards from the Spring, at the following low prices: 1. One-balf acre lot with dwelling house and other out-buildings, garden and fruit trees, an the best of water convenient, at S7OO, cash. 2. Half-acre lot SIBO, cash. 3. ITalf acre lot SIBO, cash. 4. Half acre lot slßo,cash. 3 and 6. Half acre lots with dwelling house, brick yard, garden and fruit trees thereon for SBSO, cash. 7. Contains three acres covered with fruit . trees, and in a good state of cultivation, adjoin ing the above lots, for S6OO, cash. Any person desiring to buy a home, a few yaru3 out of Bedford, will find this offer worth serious consideration. JOHN LUTE, mavS.tf Real Estate Agent, Bedford, Pa. piIIYATE SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. The following lot groan J, situate in the town of Duncansvillc, liiair GO., Fa., fronting on Main street (or Turnpike) 7b feet and extending back ISO feet, more or less, and having thereon erected a large two story BRICK HOUSE, with base ment and kitchen, and good cellar, frame Black smith and Wagon -Maker's Shop, frame stable and other out-buildings, with fruit of different varieties on the lot. This would be a good stand for a Tavern or Boarding House, being conveni ent to the Rolling Mill and Nail Factory, and the Railroad. The House is in good repair and very pleasantly situated, with water at the door. Also, A lot of SIX ACRES, near the Chalybeate Spring, one mile from the town of Bedford, with a Log House thereon erected. Adjoining lands of Chenowith, Amos, Shannon and others. Also. 14 acres of Timber Land, adjoining the Coifelt farm, and convenient to flood roads. For further particulars apply to JOHN' LUTZ, INQUIRER OFFICE, or J. l!. BRIDAHAM, ISdcetf Bedford, Pa. PIKM AT PRIVATE SALE. The subscriber offers at private sale a good farm of lO'i acres, lying on the south side of Dry Ridge, within 21 utiles of the line of the Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad, adjuining lands of Ling, Leonard May, Peter F. Lehman, Esq., and others. The improvements are a two story LOG HOUSE with kitchen attached, a log barn and other outbuildings. The land is well watered having a good well and two never failing springs. There is also a fine young apple orchard of lfll) bearing trees, besides cherries, plums, peaches, Ac sixty acrQS arc cleared and under fence and the balance well timbered with white and chestnut oak. A large quancity of Chestnut oak bark can be cut on the land and find a ready market, as there arc several tanneries in the neighborhood. For further particulars address ABRAU RITCHKV, West End, Bedford co., Pa., or JOHN" LUTZ. IPfeb.tf Bedford, Pa. p.\RM AT PRIVATE SALE. ; The subscriber offers at private sale his i farm in Harrison township, containing 105 i acres, 30 acres of which are cleared and under I fence, part sown in clover, and the balance tneadow, having thereon erected a two story | log house and kitchen attached also a double I log barn. The uncleared laud is well tim bered. Two hundred cords of bark can be obtained on this land and command a ready pale. Possession given immediately. The property will be sold cheap for cash. For particulars inquire of CHARLES WETSCHKY, Buffalo Mills, March 20 2t Bedford co., Pa., 4 FINE FARM FOR SALE IN DUTCH iIL CORNER! NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY CHEAP! The subscribers will sell all that tine farm in Bedford township, containing ISO acres, 9.5 of which are cleared and under excellent fence, and the balance, 95 acres, well timbered, adjoining lands of Charles Helsel. John Schnebly, and oth ers. The buildings are a two and a half story LOG HOUSE and BANK BARN, with other out-buildings thereon ero-ted. Water m every field, with an excellent Saw Mill seat. A splen did apple orchard also thereon. Price $ 1000. TERMS: One third in band and the balance in three annual payments with interest. JOHN LUI'Z, June 21. lS6f:tf Real Estate Agent. T7IOI! SALE. _l. We take pleasure in offering to the public the following tracts of excellent land for sale at very reasonable prices. Persons wishing to buy will do well to consult as before purchasing, and those having lands to sell will find it to their advan tage to avail themselves of cur reasonable terms. No. I.—N. E. one-fourth f, in township So range 45, in Monona county, lowa. 160 acres Piairio land Price s9o#. Xo. 3. N. E. one-fourth of the N. \V. one fourth section 22, in township -iN, North of range 22, it. Pine county, Minnesota. 40 acres timber land. Price S2OO. JOHN LUTZ, Real Estate Agent, Feb. 1 1567. Bedford, Pa A GOOD INVESTMENT. —A Aot.sc and tie" lata for sale in the toicu of llopetcell. The subscriber offers at private sale lots No. 31 and 32 in the town of llopewell, eonutv Pa. There is a good TWO STOR' PLANK HOUSE erected on the one lot. The two lota adjoin each other and will bo sold separ ately or together to suit purchasers. For further particulars address the subscriber at Bedford l'a, noitf JOHN LUTZ. ALL KINDS OF MISCELLANEOI S BOOKS furnished at the Inquirer Book Flore. A SPLENDID ARTICLE of Blank Deeds on the best parchment paper, for sale at the nquirer office. HARPER'S WEEKLY, HARPERS BAZAR, FRANK LESLIE, CHIMNEY"CORNER, and all other Illustrated papers for sale at the Inquirer Book Store. tf