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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.
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OPENING OF NEW SILKS,
OPENING OF NEW SHAWLS,
OPENING OF NEW CHINTZES,
OPENING OF NEW POPLINS.
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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.
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E N I) E R SON'S
FRESH GROUND EXTRA FAMILY FLOUR,
on hand and for sale by
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(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.
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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.
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Several Hundred Different Figure.
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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
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for salo at the
INQUIRER BOOK STORE.
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CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD.
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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.
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on the best parchment paper, for sale at the
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