BEDFORD. IM., FRIDAY, JU.Y 30, 1860 STATE TICKET. GOVBRMOR, JOHN W. GEARY. of Cumberland! Ccuntv. JCDGK or KIPRRME CIH RT, HENRY W. WILLIAMS, of Allegheny County. DISTRICT TICKET, KF.SATOR, G. SHANNON' MULLIN, (Suhjoct to the decision of the Hist Conference.) AR-EKBt.V. J. 11. LONGENECKIiIt, Esq. (Subject to the decision of the Hist. Conference.) COUNTY TICKET. I'ROTUO.YOTARY, J. YV. LINGENBELTER, Esq., ofCedford Bor. SHERIFF, WILLIAM BIBERT, of Bedford Bor. TRKASnniR, W ILLIAM PHILLIPS, of Bedford Twp. COMMISSION £l*. JAMES FINK, of Hopewell Twg. FOOU DIRECTOR, EMANUEL J. DIEHL, of Colerain Twp. PR. A. S. SMITH, of St. Clairsrillt Bor. A I DITOR, JOHN P. WILLIAMS, of South Woodbery Twp. SHALL THE CHINESE COME { For nearly a century. Republicanism has been on trial in the United States. During this time it has had many trials and vicis situdes ; internal dissensions, political ex citements, rebellions within and wars with out, both cflcnrive and defensive, but it has come out of them ali purified, strength ened and improved. Each successive trial has only prepared it for some greater tri uuipb. Its most sanguine friends have of ten felt alarmed for its integrity, while its enemies oft-times ju.-t the very moment preceding the victory have declared its fail ure in boastful triumph. When the vast tide of immigration from oppressed and over crowded Europe first began to debouch upon our shores, grave doubts were enter tained by many earnest friends of Republi canism of our ability to assimilate so vast a body of men, often ignorant both of the rights and duties of a free people. But the ever increasing tide from every nationality j Bud all c'a-scs of society was receive! and assimilated and the astonishing spectacle of I a people, gathered from every nationality upon the habitable globe, at once adapting ! themselves to the manners and customs and assuming the responsibilities of freemen and becoming intelligent utembersof the body pol itic, was for the first time presented to the civilized world. Prophets of evil have continually risen up, but their prcdictious have failed of fulfilment. Our Jail great trial just passed, the grandest industrial triumph of any ago or nation, the Pacific railroad, has brought us lace to face with a ; new and perplexing question. What shall j be done with the Chinaman? The prophets I of evil arc not wanting. Some advise to I shut our gates and deny our Republican ' faith. Others truer to principle but faint hearted are undecided and wavering. Our country demands hardy, sober, industrious, peaceful laborers to till her sob, work her urines, run her factories and build her rail roads. i here is work for millions. The Chinaman fulfils all these conditions; he is apt to learn, industrious, frugal, temperate, 'rusty and hardy-. But he has a yellow skin; he belongs to another rice; he is an | idolater; he will revolutionize labor and j take bread from the mouths of our own > people. This !a-t is the cry of the denia- j gogue. It has beeo raised again -t the for- ! eigner from every clime. It has L imp .nan -. The cry of ciste comes from another t arty, for the most part iu our south rn states, and is fast giving way to toe pres.-ing dituand for la bor iu that section and in this way the ques tion will so ,u be solved in favor f the China man. The third class is com posed for the most part of those who have the best interests, not only of the nation but of the human race at heart, but are timid ami doubting in the face of a great tnoial question with which they doubt their own ability- to grap pie. \\ hat will be the moral and political influence of the immense influx o' tlu ■ idol aters that now secuis imminent, is a qo-vs tion that may well occupy the best tuitds of our nation. The moral question under lies a,i the others. Can we christianize the Mongolian ? The divine cc-inmand "go ye into al the world preaching the gospel to every crea'ure" is a binding to day- on all christian nations as when it first fell from the lips of our Saviour. All christians recognize its binding force. In obedimee to it we are sending the uiissionaiy of tb- Cross into the wilds of Africa and the burn ing sandsof Asia. Wherever rcpresen'atives l the human race exist we recognize snd obey the command. Shall we then shrink from the task when a broader field opeo before us? If the Idolatrous millions of China and Japan choose to come to a chris tian land within the reach and under the influence of christian teachings, dare we deny them admittance? Where can we find better opportunities for preaching the gospci to them than in our own homes? No; the Chinaman must not be denied ad mission. He m U -t be welcomed with opeu arms Here is offered the grandest oppor tunity for missionary labor that Las been afforded since the Apostles began the work. Moral convictions and christian duty say h t | (Item come—the necessities of the time say j let them coiue—and the great fundamental ! principles of our Republican government say let them come. If the occasion de j mands cx.raordiuary exeit'.on on our part, we must gird ourselves for the work and ! accept (he duties of" the hour, with a cbcer- j ful and steadfast faith that the Providence i that brings these children of the orient to | °ur shores will give us the necessary strength : and wisdom to work out this last problem i ; our civilization j 0 a fc a ppy conclusion, ' extend our free -institutions and blass the ! w hole human race. THE Canadian authorities are actively engaged in an effort to obtain once more a one-sided reciprocity treaty with the United - tatcs, in which Canada shall reap all the a vantages. \\ e ho>e to hear of DO more n--ci.roc.ty treaties. C aDa da was u refuge tor rebels during the war and did all in her jX'Wer to destroy us. We can do infinitely better without reciprocity. When Canada wants it again she can get it by coming into our L rdon. But we want no more recipro city. IK any one wants U specimen of Demo eratie financiering, let 1 itn look at ibe ac counts of Bedford county. After that no tame man will want Democratic taent for our slate finances. BOOZY BUNCOMBE. The copperhead platform is a rich piece of political buncombe. The coo! impudence of its assertions is only equalled by the pre sumption of ignorance in their ranks suffi cient to swallow the impudent falsehoods and glaring inconsistencies it contains. The Second resolution reads as follows: 2. That the attempted ratification of the proposed fifteenth amendment to the Fed eral Constitution by the Radical members of the last Legislature and their refusal to sub tnir the same to a vote of the people, was a deliberate breach cf their official duty, and an outrage upon every citizen of the State, and the resolution making such ratification should be promptly repealed, and the amendment submitted to the people at the polls, for acceptance or rejection. "The attempted ratification" is a piece of brazen effrontery seldom equalled. The merest schoolboy knows not only that the ratification by the Legislature was real and genuine but that it is the method expressly provided for iu the Constitution of the 1 nitcd States as our fathers made it. It is said that Frank Hughes drew up the platform and we can only account for this j stupidity on his part by supposing, that he ! was in the condition of so many of the members of the Convention, who are said to have selected their lodgings for the night on street cellar doors and in dirty alleys rather than in the comfortable hotels. Cer tainly none but a drunken man or a simple ton would have fallen into the utter absur dity of insisting in a party platform that an amendment to the Constitution of the I'm- I ted States was invalid because it was passed j in strict accordance with that clause of the ! Constitution which provides for its own amendment. The most charitable construc tion we can put upon this plank of their pla'form is that the whole convention were so boosy that they confounded our own State Constitution with the Constitution of the United States. The State Constitution does require that any amendment to it shall be voted upon by the people, but the Con stitution of the United States does not on the contrary it specifically requires (hat any amendment shall be passed by two thirds of the State Legislatures. Our copperhead friends while in tbeir cups have been guilty of openly d. tuatiding in their patty platform, a high bunded violaton of the Constitution of the [ uited States for the very letter of which they have heretofore been such per- i sistcut sticklers. THE UNEXPENDED BALANCE. Now is the time to determine the policy of out next Legislature in regard to the un expended balance in the State Treasury. The law needs a radical change in regard to j tbe disposition of these surplus funds. An i average of a million dollars lies in the Trea sury the year through. This money it is alleged is used by the Treasurers for specu lative purposes and the interest accrues to the benefit of the Treasurer netting him perhaps a hundred thousand dollars a year that ought to go to the account of the State. Let our Senators and members of the Leg islature be pledged to pass a law providing for the depositing or otherwise disposing of this surplus fund in such a manner that the ii terest accruing may go into the Treasury instead of the pockets of the Treasurer 1 his is a matter that calls loudly for reform and cannot be attended to-too soon. If the Treasurer's salary is too small for the re sponsibility he has to assume let it be in creased to a fair remuneration, but let hitit Le obliged to give a sufficient security instead of a merely nominal one, and then let him be required under heavy penalty to use the public funds for the benefit of the State alone, and not for personal emolument. With security in a sum scarcely a tenth part of the fund entrusted to their care it is certainly very creditable to the men who fcave held the office of Treasurer that they ! have not become defaulters. The tempta I tion to dishonesty has been great and it is entirely due to the high character and integ rity of our Treasurers of late years that the State has not lost large sum--. —Under Dent- - ocratic management the Treasury was al ways empty and the paltry pay and small j Security were then amply sufficient for all ; the funds to be cared for. It is since the ' Republican party has been economizing the fund and paying the debt tbat a heavy sur plus is frequently left in the Treasury await ing the payment of interest due on the debt. How maDy Republican members and Sena tor- -hall b • pledged to a revi-ion of the law } atd the providing for a still further economi- j zing of the public funds ? THE Democracy love to talk of Republi can extravagance and insist that Democrats alone know how to economize. As they are sk>vv about giving us any illustration of their ability and will to conomize, it may not he amiss to call their attention to tho doings of the Ohio State government of the last year. The chief clerk of the Ohio Sen ate d ew pay at the rate of five dollars per day tor two years service and made out a bill a"d got the pay, for 845 days. No one tut a Democrat could have done 845 days work in two years. That is 115 more days than ordinary people find in two years, even including Sundays. Tbat is sharp figuring in Democratic economy, but tbe clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives, beats it he performed the very remarkable feat of doing 500 days work, and getting the pay for it all in one year. Considering that the Democracy have been out of power for a long time and consequently ate out of prac tice, this is certainly a very clever beginning They are entitled to the palm for dexterity in figuring up salaries. Though the Re publican party lias many accessions from Di mocrscy, and not all from pure patriot i-tn either, their work will still not bear comparison with the Ohio Democracy. We really pity poor Packer now that he has fal len into the hands of such .cormorants. They will pluck him effectually, but we hope to see the time indefinitely postponed, when the sharp figuring of such tnen as the Ohio IHunocraey shall be brought to bear upon the treasury of our state. \\ E observe that B. B. Strang has been renominated in Tioga county for the Legis lature. If the Republicans of Tioga wish to help along the cause of Republicanism they had better leave Strang at home. No Republican in the hist Legislature had a worse record than Strang. He was the un blushing advocate of the pasting and fold ing swindle, and seems to have had a band in almost every piece of jobbery daring the ses.-ion. The more of the members of the last Legislature that are left at home the better for the Republican party. We pro test against returning men who have been known to take part in, vote for, or connive at anv manner of corruption and swindling. We want holiest men who know and will dare to do their duty. To renominate such men as Strang is treason to the Republican party. m JrsT at a time wheD the whole country ia crying cut against railroad monopolies and their abuies ilie Copperheads of our state nominate a railroad King lor Governor and moreover cue whose direct interest identi fies him with New York railroad interests ami against our own state. How can they expect Pennsylvania!)? to vote for such a man? THE Wall street brokers of Now York seem likely to have a check put upon their high profits and exorbitant rates of inter est. The law officers have prosecuted them for violation of the usury laws, and public opinion will sustain the prosecution and the enforcement of the laws. Wall street com binations to extort usurious interest have become so common and resulted in so great damage to the commercial interests of the country that they will get no sympathy whatever from the public. It is certainly desirable that while usury laws exist they should be rigidly enforced, and in view cf the combinations of capitalists for tighten ing the money markets and extorting usuri ous rates of interest, we are inclined to think that laws prohibiting usnrious rates of interest are still needed for the protec tion of the public. THE Copperhead rejoicing over the Vir ginia election calls forth the indignant pro test of the Walker party. The Richmond Enquirer of the 3Cth inst., say 6: "The Democratic papers at the North have committed a very grave error in ascribing this great victory to the 'Virginia Democracy.' There has been no such party in this State far tight years, and its very bones have rolled, and noic crumble at the. touch. No resurrectionary process could briny that party to life, and its ashes lie mingled with, and undistinguished from, that of the old Whig party." THE new ten and fifteen cent currency is beginning to appear in circulation. The de sign of the notes is neat and they are print ed on good paper. If we are obliged to contiuue the use of small currency it cau scarcely be improved, but wc would be heartily glad to have the small paper cur rency disappear and be replaced with the old silver coin. If this cannot be done there should be a provision made to secure the re turn of soiled and worn currency to the Treasury where itWrould be destroyed and its place supplied by new. THE copperheads have always been bitter ly opposed to carpet baggers and most bit terly to Yankee carpet baggers. How does it come that they have forgotten their old antipathy so suddenly? Or did they for get that Packer is a Connecticut carpet bag ger? One of the very worst kind of yankecs. What does it all mean? How can our copperheads swallow this nasty, bloated, bondholding Yankee ? Is it his money ? Gold has certainly a wonderfully persuasive influence with these copperheads. It will induce them even to swallow one of those pestiferous Yankees. Ugh ! THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, which is to meet at Grcensburg on the 10th of August, promises to be a complete sue cess. The people of Grcensburg have al ready made arrangements to give the teach crs a hearty welcome. All the ladies who may attend will be entertained free of charge and gentlemen at the low rate of from one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents per day. | Teachers paying full fare over the rail j roads to Greensburg, will be returned free | of charge. THE British House of Lords has at last succumbed to populor opinion and the views of the Commons on the Disestablishment question. The bill as passed finally is called a compromise bill but it is of that kind in which the real advantage is all on one side while the pride of the other is shielded by a show of concessions that mean nothing. Liberal Ideas are fast gainiug ground in England and tbe aristocracy of the nobility is gradu ally losing its prestige as well as its power. IT is reported that General Canby will in sist upon tbe members of the Virginia Leg-' islatuie taking the test oath, in which case there will a sufficient number of Walker men ineligible to give the Wells men a ma jority and consequently the two United States Senators to be elected. The ques tion will be brought before the Attorney General for Lis opinion. What the result will be remains to be seen. I NDER the prudent inangement of Secre tary Bouiwell our credit abroad basso much improved that a German house in Frank fort, ha- offered to loan our government three hundred millions of dollars at five per cent. But Boutwell refused it and expects within the year to be able to borrow money at four per cent with which to take up our bonds on which wc are now paying six and seven per cent. %—*_ _______ 1 HE copperheads resolved to remember the soldiers and sailors but nominated for their offices men, who remembered the sol diers only to call them blue bellied yankees, Lincoln hirelings &e. Tho soldiers and sailors will remember the copperheads too as long as they live but not to confer offices. They will remember them as the enemies of the soldier and of the country, and their character is still the same. ONE more monopoly seems likely to be abolished by the completion of the French cable which was landed at Duxbury Massa chusetts on Saturday last. The English Atlantic Telegraph has now a rival and the Ir.-t message we get by it, Is that a third ca ble is already projected. There will doubt less be an abundance of business for all three and rivalry will greatly reduce the exorbitant rates charged by the first cable. THE news from Cuba is of a conflicting character. The reports arc favorable or un favorable as they happen to oome from one side or the other. The flight of thousands of Cuban patriots to the United States is regarded as an evil omen tor the revolution ists and it will not be a matter of surprise if we shortly hear of the final suppression of the rebellion. THE cops are strangely jubilant over their two P's, Packer and Pershing. We have an idea that they will find Packer packing off to Carbon county and Pershing pushing for the mountains of Cambria about the 13th of October, in about as much haste as their skeedaddling followers broke for thefastnes cs of the Alleghcnies during the war. COTTON.— It is supposed that the South will this year sell 3,003,000 bales of cotton for as much as 6,000,000 would have brought before the war, and that in the year 1870 she will be richer than she would be had not the war occurred, and had slavery con tinned. THE Poor House question bids fair to be a prominent ond in the campaign, in this county. If there is to be any change in that department it must be made by electing a good and efficient Republican in the person of £, J. Diehl of Colerain. BEDFORD COUNTY K finances need look ing after very badly. It can only be done by electing a few Republican offioers. We have a good county ticket, let us see that a portion, if not all of it is elected and we will get the much needed refeftm. COPPERHEADS talk about retrenchment and reform where they are out of office and want in, but where they happen to be in they cro mum for there they steal to the best of their ability. J-LUBi ""■ w Tuk word d e-b t is composed of the ini tiale of "dun everybody twice." "C-r-o d -i-t is formed of the initial letters of "call regularly every day—l'll trust." Packer's only recommendation for Gov ernor is that he is worth twenty millions of dollars. Poor men stand no chance among millionaires. Let Republicans wake up an J go to wotk. A vigorous campaign will secure us a bril liant victory, notwithstanding Packer's twenty millions. The Republican County Convention in Fulton Co., will be held on the 9th of August at Harrisonville. A VOICE FROM HOME. The Lehigh Register, published in a sec tion of country traversed by Mr. Packer's iron rails, and in which the railroad, canal and coal king has some little personal, but no political influence, thus speaks of the Democratic nominee for Govornor: "Asa Packer is worth twenty million of dollars, and that is the sole cause of his nomination. The same reason for bis nomination for the presidency was urged last summer in New York. Merit, states manship, the interests of our Common wealth, are all thrown to one side, and the people of Pennsylvania are asked to make wealth the sole qualification for office. After a struggle of a century against the despotism of the Old World, we are urged to relin quish our victory and erect in the glorious old Keystone State an aristocracy of money. "The people of Pennsylvania want a Gov ernor of wealth even greater than that Asa Packer possesses. They will require more at his hands than Asa Packer can give. They will ask him to be honest, uptight, straight forward and above all loyal, and this iast qualification especially Asa Packer lacks, and without this wealth of honor—devotion to his country in her great trials —no man can ever be elected Governor of Pennsylvania. "He is magnanimous! Yes, he is benevo lent. His open-hcartedness was plainly shown in his distribution of free passes to his supporters to enable them to go to Har risburg. It was still more plainly shown when he endowed a college with five hundred thousand dollars—but how were his means devoted during the great rebellion, while his opponent was braving the perils of the battle-field and risking even a greater than Asa Packer's fortune in defense of his country'? If we remember aright, during that time Government required immense quantities of coal; Asa Packer saw the chance to make himself a nabob, and all his means and energies were enlisted in that sole object It was during this time that Asa Packer made his fortune out of the ne cessities of our Government, and the war. which was death and desolation to so many homes, put millions into his pockets and made him the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1809. "It remains to be seen whether the people will reward the man who won affluence and wealth from the taxes levied to carry on the war, or the man who gave up everything for his country, in her tore time of need. The former controls a gigantic monopoly, run in the interests of New York, and every thing that he can do is done against one of Pennsylvania's most important interests. Philadclphians. especially, owe him a grudge. The Lehigh Valley road uses every means in its power to divert from their city the trade of the Lehigh Valley. Whether it is done to injure Philadelphia or to break down the North Pennsylvania railroad, it makes no difference; the truth is the same and is just as unpalatable to Philadclphia ns." FROM WASHINGTON. Satisfactory Condition of the National Finances—What Secretary Doutwell has Accomplished—Reduction of $13,000,00(1 in the Public Debt—Cash on hand- —Gold $(>0,000,000; Currency , $26,000,000. WASHINGTON, July 24. THE NATIONAL FINANCES. The expectations of the officials in the Treasury Department, is, that the debt statement for August will show a reduction of about nine millions in the month of July, making a total of forty-three millions since March 4. It is anticipated, by Secretary Boutwell, that he will be able to reduce the debt the first year of his administration fifty millions of dollars. There are seven months left, but the receipts in those months arc not expected to come up very much beyond the expenses of the Government. There will be fifteen millions of dollars to be paid out in August and September, on account ol the pension li.-st, and in the fall months the drafts of tue V ar Department, for quar termaster and commissary stores, for the winter season, are always heavy. It is not expected that there will be any reduction of the debt before October, al though it is believed that it will not increase much, if any, in August or September. Ihe \\ edne.-day purchases of bond.- will have to be discontinued alter the next pur chase, as there is not likely to be any sur plus currency with which to buy more than the regular amount. If there should be any unusual increase of the customs receipts, the Secretary will be able to increase his sales of gold, which will giye him more cur rency to make up the deficit. At present, however, he does not anticipate any stiles of gold beyond his present arrangements. CASH ON HAND. There is now in the Treasury twenty six millions of currency, which is about the same amout as Secretary McCulloch had at this time in 1868. There is sixty-six and a half millions of gold coin belonging to the government, and last year, at this time, there was sixty ope millions of coin, exclu sive of the deposits, which are now thirty seven millions, a larger figure than they ever before reached. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. The receipts from all sources, since July 1, are thirty millions, and the disburse incuts on account of government expenses, arc twelve millions. The interest due on the public debt is nearly eleven millions per month, which, added to the expenses, make twenty-three millions to come out of the thirty millions receipts, which leaves, up to to-day, a reduction of about feven millions, and, in the remaining week of July, itis ex pected that there will be two millions more in excess. His currency balance, it will be seen, docs not at present admit ol the purchase of any unusual amount of bonds in August, and the low state of bis gold balance does not ren der it likely tbat he will have any extra coin to dispose of at present The orders to buy bonds and to sell coin are always based upon the condition of the public funds, and the prices at which either rule in the market have uo effect at all upon the Secretary. NOTICE is Riven by the Secretary of the treasury that the new paper for bank notes and bonds has been adopted by authority of law. One of its peculiarities is the intro dution of colored silk, cotton and other fibrous material into the paper while in process of manufacture. By law it is felony tor any person to have or retain in his cus tody or possession any paper adopted for the making of any such obligations or secu nties, and similar to that designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, except under au thority of the Secretary or some other prop er officer of the United States, and any per son offending against the statue will on conviction thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment and confinement at hard labor not exceeding fif teen years, or both at the discretion of the Court. THE humidity of the atmosphere, it is reported, has been increased on the isth mus of Suez since the introduction of the waters of the Mediterranean Sea into the lakes. Fogs as dense as those of Paris have been oLserved in districts where heretofore rain has hardly C7er fallen. TUE Providence Journal says that Alexander H. Stephens' interminable letters announcing his withdraws! from public affairs, remind one of the record found in the closet of an old toper in Greenwich, whose many excellent resolu tions were not followed by a corresponding practice and reform. On the door, plainly marked in chalk, was recorded. "February 25, left off drinking," and then, "February 26, left off again," I Oregon Llmber— The lumber re sources of the State of Oregon are abun dant. Dense forests of the finest fir, spruce and cedar grow from the coast range and along the banks of the Columbia river and its tributaries as far up as the Dalles. There is an inexhaustible supply of the finett and best quality of timber at the mouth of the Columbia river, and back of the town of Astoria is the most magnificent forest, of spruce and yellow fir that is to be found anywhere on the Pacific coast. Nature has done everything to make the forest of timber along the Columbia river a source of great profit to the lumberman; the finest of timber being handy to shipping, and as there is fine water power on all the streams emptying into the Columbia, lumber eau be manufactured very cheap. The bottom lands along the river arc also covered with a thick growth of vine, maple, aider, cedar, ash and eottonwood.-r— Alta Cal. As there seems to be a general uii.-under standicg about the difference between the Union Pacific'aod Central Pacific Railroads, a few words of explanation may be advisa ble. The quarrel last winter wafabout the point of junction, the Union Pacific want ing it at Promontory, and the Central Pa cific at Ogdcn. An act of Congress, pascd | on the 10th of April, settled that by provid ing that the junction should be at or near Ogden, providing that the Unioo Pacific should build a line from Ogdcn to Promon tory, and that the Central Pacific should then take it at co-t. The point of junction will be a few miles west of Ogden, and the present quarrel is as to which company shall have the government bonds for the section from this point to Promontory, nearly fifty miles. The Union Pacific built the section, and claim ibeui oil that account. The Cen tral Pacific takes it after it is built and also claims them. Congress may have to settle the difficulty. Tiie basis of settlement between the lit igaots in the management of the- Toledo and Wabash Railroad Company, which we have already announced as having been accomplished, comprises the following points: The Erie party are to withdraw all suits; the company to issue $1,00,000 new stock, to be evenly divided between the two parties to the controversy; the Alton and Toledo Road, one hundred miles in length, is to be commenced within two months and finished within* eight months; the Decatur and East St. Louis Road, now being built, is to be completed and con solidated with the Toledo and Wabash Com pany, upou terms agreed on some time ago: the Erie party are to have three directors, out of fifteen, in the Toledo and Wabash management. THE SUEZ canal will be formally opened for pu: i c.-u, of trade and travel on the 17th day ot November next, as officially an nounced bv M. HE LESS Hps. The isthmus through which the canal is cut, is a narrow neck of land connecting Asia and Africa It measures seventy two English miles in breadth and is bounded on the south by the Gulf of Suez and on the north by the Medi terranean. Its surface is sandy and for the most part barren. Suez is the fir.-t seaport town of note in Egypt. It stands on the frontier, near the head of the gulf on the same name, and is scventy-tix miles east of Cairo, in latitude twenty-nine degrees fifty-eight minutes and six seconds north and longtitude thirty-four minutes and two seconds cast. THE Secretary of the Treasury has decided to permit the substitution of ten forties for live twenties, or the exchange of any gold beating bonds now held as security for cir culating notes on the basis hitherto adopted, the ten forties to be received at eighty-five per cent, of their paf value, and all other six per cent, gold bearing bonds at ninety per cent. The six per cent, currency bonds issued by the United States to the Pacific llailroad, will not be received as security for the circulation of the national hanks, and the exchange of the gold bearing bonds is subject hereafter to ruvi.-ion, if it shall be found that such exchanges are so frequent as to become onehius to the Department. S. T. WEHSTEK, ot Chicago, Western agent of tbe National Steamship Company, leaves to day in tl.e steamship Prance tor England, for the purpose of cultivating ihe through shipment from Chicago and tbe Western states to Europe. Ilis theory is that inasimlch as the West is the producer, and through rates of freight to Europe can be made in lie W.-rt daily, the same as from New York, that C! kago and the West is the poiut where orders from Europe should be sent. lie will visit the large cities and explain his views to the several Chambers of Commerce. TUE bill for the punishment of seduction, recently before the Canadian Parliament, provides that the seduction under promise of marriage of a chaste unmanied woman shall be punished by imprisonment for two years, but no conviction shall be had, in any case, "on the testimoney of tbe woman seduced, unsupported by other evidence, nor unless the indictment is found within two years after the offence." The object of refusing-to receive the woman's testimony as conclusive, is to prevent the innumerable cases of prosecution, by designing women, for sinister and mercenary purposes. A GENTLEMAN from the vicinity of York, l'a., informed us that so great lias been the scarcity of rain in that locality that the corn is very much back. aud presents a dry and shriveled appearance. In York county, and within six or seven miles of Harrisburg, wc have another almost rainless district; so great is the drought in that section that springs, which have not failed for a period of fifty years, are dry. While some regions are suffering from too much, rain others are suffering from its absence. TIIE Melbourne Argus says:. There ap pears to be something in the circumstances and social condition of Victoria that makes American humor especially popular here. Most of the productions of recent American humorists, such asArtemus Ward, Orpheus C. Kerr aud Mark Twain have been re printed here, and find a largo sale ; and now Ltland's ballads of Hans Breitman have been published by Mr. G. Robertson, and become very popular. THE COMING SOI.AU ECLIPSE.—THE only total solar eclipse visibly in this country since 1834 will take place on the 7th of August next, and no other will be visible during the present century. It will be visi ble as a partial eclipse alll over the northern portions of this continent. ONF. of the most beautifully grained woods is the Hungarian ash. which is now imported into this cruntrv in considerable quantities for veneers. The best specimens sell as high as twenty cents the superficial footj which is nearly twenty times the value of black walnut and mahogany. IT is understood that twelve eminent New York capitalists have undertaken to com plete the work begun by the State of Vir ginia before the war, of building a rail road from Richmond and Washington to the Ohio river. A RECEIVER will probably be appointed in the law suit between Trinity Church Corporation and the heirs of Anneke Jans. The property in dispute is almost sixty million dollars. IRQ FARMS FOR SALE IN NORTH CAROLINA. FROM 100 TO 15.000 ACRES IN A FARM. PRICES RANGE FROM 50cts. AN ACRE to S4O The North Carolina Land Company have two millions of acres of land which thoy arc prepared to sell at the lowest prices. These lands in the aggregate cover every variety of soil, and pro duce in ahandaueo every grain and fruit known to our country. They aro the cheapest and the best ever offered to emigrants. Parties desiring to locate will be taken from New York to Raleigh North Carolina and return for $24 first class fare, and for sl6 second class Persons desiring to purchase will do well to call on the undersigned agent of tho company, and examine descriptions of lands offered for sale. J. R. DURBORROW, Agent of North Carolina Land Company, 25junc6m BEDFORD, PA. ALL KINDS OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS furnished at tho Inquirer Book Store. ITEMS. Brick Pom kroy proposes to advance the cause of the Democracy by lecturing on temperance. He evidently knows what ails the party. Albany, N. Y., having been in" the hands of the Democracy for Beveral years, has reached the legitimate conclusion—a bank rupt treasury. The Cincinnati Commoner, a Copperhead sheet of small pretensions but great venom, condemns the Rosecruns nomination without stint. Anxa Jusepiukr Wh.kowsky, a leading Woman's Kights female of Chicago, has had her hnsband divorced, and now goes into the fight nnencumbered. It is understood that Secretary Cox has been tendered the new Judgeship in Ohio, but it is believed he will decline the honor. Many of his friends urge him to accept. EX-SECRETARY STANTON has been advised by his physician to leave Washington and spend some weeks upon the Rocky Moun tains. Mr. S. expects to leave early in August, it able to travel, and go to Laramie Station, on the Union I'ucific Railroad. Ai.l the prisoners confined at Fort Lafay ette charged with beiug concerned in the Cuban expedition have been released. No particulars are given, but it is supposed they were released on their own recognizances. A Paris telegram of the 23d says that De Chasselaut Laubot, on his installation as President of the Council, declared for lib erty of speech, because independence was associated perfectly with devotion to the Einperor. Dispatches have been received from Min ister McMalion. He does not believe Lopez to be so near the end of his career as has beeu intimated. There is a story afloat in Washington that he will go to Europe in the interest of Lopez. The officers to be elected this fall in Min nesota arc : Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Audi tor Treasurer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Clerk of the Supreme Court. The Republican Convention will be held September 9. V allaxdxcham's explanation of Rosecrans' nomination for Governor of Ohio is to the ef fect that since the Copperheads—the word is his—were made to take a back seat, it was but fair the War Democrats should accompa ny them, and so he preferred to take a Re publican candidate. lne Sidney (Ohio) Journal says of the condition of the Democracy with llosecrans, their candidate for Governor : "To their ut ter discomfiture, they now find that they will have trouble in keeping perfect harmony among themselves, without any leisure time to entice voters from the Republicans." HOST. BENJAMIN WADE does not believe Rosecraus will accept the Democratic nomination of Ohio, and, if he does, he will be beaten by a very large majority, as Gov. Hayes is very strong with the Republicans, aud will poll as large, if not a larger vote than Grant, while there are thousands of peace Democrats who will not vote for Rosecraus. WHILE a man was in the jewelry store of 11. Proble, No. 10 Fourth street, St. Louis, yesterday, purchasing a cheap clock in the rear of the store, a womafi entered, went be hind the counter, and abstracted between SI,OOO and SB,OOO worth of diamonds, and escaped. Detectives were immediately put to work, hut no clue to the thief has been found. —■ ARIZONA advices of July 12th state that the Indians killed two mail carriers, and partially destroyed the mails between Tus con and Mosile. Several other outrages are noted. It is estimated there were three hundred well armed Indians on the Ist of July in the Carpedro \ alley, near Tuscon. Company L. Eighth Cavalry, killed eight Indians in the neighborhood of Camp Yedc. IHE intended departure from this city of Secretary Boutwell, in a few days, for an ab sence of some weeks, is construed by politicians as an evidence that no effort will be made in Cabinet, where lie is the leading spirit of the working Radicals, to enforce a new election in Virginia in certain districts where the successful candidates are unable to take the iron-clad oath. A DELEGATION of Radical Republicans from Mississippi ure here urgiug Ihe Administra tion to aid them in the approaching canvass. They state that the Conservative papers throughout the whole State are making the importation of coolie labor into the State, a political question, aud are filled with threats that if the freedmen do not vote as their em ployers direct they will be supplanted by Chinese. A NEW YORK DISPATCH says: Judge I'ierrepout stated to day that the United States Government has been for some time negotiating with Spain for the independence of Cuba, and that dispatches had been re ceived from the Spanish Government giving assurance that all bloodshed in Cuba will be stopped in a few days, and indicating that the independence of that island will be con ceded immediately. IT is one of the curiosities of Rhode Island industry says the Providence Journal, that it is now exporting iron ore to be manufactured in other States. Two thousand tons of this ore have been sent to a single furnace in Pennsylvania within eigbtceu months, at a co3t to the purchasers, freight included, of six and a half dollars a ton. The addition of fifteen per cent, ot the Cumberland ore to the other ores used by the Pennsylvania com pany has been found to increase the value of their pig iron two dollars a ton. IN a recent speech made by ex-Governor Throckmorton, of Texas, he said that while he disliked some portions of the proposed constitution, he thought that the interests of the people of the State demanded its adop tion. He thought the people bad been un justly accused of lawlessness aud crime, the mass having been condemned for acts of the few ; but he earnestly appealed to them to obey the laws, civil aud military, and to lend every assistance to the State and nation al authorities in suppressing crime and pun ishing desperadoes. Privately he exptessed himself in favor of the election of A. J. Ham ilton as Governor. TUE bail of Griffin, the engineer of the freight train, to whose carelessness the Mast Hope railroad disaster is attributed, has been fixed at SIO,OOO. He is still in jail at Milford, Pa. The wounded at the Delaware House are rapidly gaining, and will return home in a few days. There are only three of them remaining, one of whom, Carl Baer, the German lad, has sent for his mother and brother in Prussia to come over to this coun try. The claim for damages for his father's death has not yet been settled. rpo TIIE OWNERS OF UNPATENTED 1 LANDS: ScRV'EVOB OlWßltAS's OFFICE, ) llarrisburg, Pa., May 6th, 1869. ] In obedience to an Act of Assembly, approved the eighth day of April, ons thousand eight hun dred and sixty-nine, you are hereby notified that the "County Land Lien Docket," containing the list of unpatented lands for Bedford county, pre pared nuder the Act of Assembly of the twentieth of May, ono thousand eight hundred ami sixty four, and the supplement thereto, has this day been forwarded to the Prothonotary of the coun ty. at whose office it may be examined. The liens can only be liquidated by the payment of tho purchaso money, interest and fees, and receiving patents through this Department. Proceedings by the Attorney Goneral have been stayed for one year from this date, in order that parties may ob tain their patents without additional cost. JACOB M. CAMPBELL, llmay:6m Surveyor General. P&rftanmjs. A M. t ISMTS~ O. CONSTITUTION BITTERS TJIE BEST TONIC AND ST 11 EN GTII E NIN G BITTE It S IN USE. Aleo, a laoet delightful and exhilarating MEDICINAL BEVERAGE. Awinegl&ta full of CONSTITUTIONAL BIT TERS three times a day, will be the best preventive of disease that ran be used. CONSTITUTION BITTER* CURE DYSI'EPSIA, INDIGESTION, COSTIVEXESS prevents FEVER AND AGUE, and all Billiou Diseases. They are the Stomach Bitters of the Age. They art prepared by SEWARD, BENTLEY & CHENEY. DRUGGISTS, BUFFALO, N. Y. S., B. it C.j also prepare the ALI SM A FO R TII E II AI It Whieli is the be?t Hair Restorer, Krnewer, and Hair Drcssin" ii in the market. It prevents Baldness, frees the head from Dandruff, and thoroughly eradi cates all diseases of the scalp. Sold by all Druggists. SOapi LIS M A, THE BEST HAIR RESTORER AND REN E W KB IN TIIE WORLD ! Restores gray and faded Hair to its ORIGINAI COLOR, removes Dandruff, CURBS ALL DISEASES OF THE SCALP, prevents BALDNESS, and makes the hair grov Soft, Glossy and Luxuriantly. ALISMA IS THE BEST The Cheapest, and most satisfactory OF ANY ARTICLE IN USE, and should be used by every one who admires i BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF HAIR. Put up in two sizes: Small (8 oz.) $1.00; Large (12 os.) $1.50 per Bottle. EACH BOTTLE IN A NEAT PAPER BOS SEWARD, BENTLEY A CHENEY," Druggists, Buffalo, N. Y., Proprietors. They art also proprietors of SEWARD'S COUGH CURE, a splendid article for C O U G II S, COLDS, BRONCHITIS and e.ll diseases of the THROAT AND LUNGS. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 30api JJOUSE FURNISHING, HARDWARE GOODS Ac., JOHN F. BLYMYER has opened a ful stock of HARDWARE, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, WOODEN WARE, BRUSHES, PAINTS, NAILS, G LASS, OUzS, ~ SHOEMAKER'S FINDINGS, BUILDER S HARDWARE, OIL, POCKET BOOKS, COAL OIL LAMPS, COAL OIL, SADDLERY, CUTLERY, BUCKETS, CHURNS, TUBS, Ae., Ac., Ac., Ac., Ac., He hopes, by strict attention to business, and fair prices, to merit a share of Public patronage. Store in same room as occupied by B. M. BLYMYER A Co., as a STOVE AND TIN STORE. 9apr E W GOODS. THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE NOW OPEN A LARGE AND WELL ASSORTED STOCK OF SPRING ami SUMMER GOODS. THE CREDIT SYSTEM BEING-NEARLY "PLAYED OUT," WE WILL SELL CHEAP FOR CASH Olt PRODUCE. CHARGED ON ALL AC COUNTS AFTER NINETY DAYS. ISjune A. B CRAMER £ CO. S. M'CAMAXT lOIIIt ELLIOTT D. T. CALDWELL 1. ¥. ItAHPKR WILLIAM STOKE. rpYRONE PLANING MILLS. McCAMANT, ELLIOTT & CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in Sank, Doors, Blind*, Flooring, Brackets, Mouldings, Stair Railing, Plastering Lath, Shingles, Common and Fancy Pickets, Frame Stuff, AND ALL KINDS OF LUMBER. Tyrone, Pa., March 19, !S69:mß YyiKE RAILING, WIRE GUARDS, For Store Fronts, Factories, Jkc. Heavy Crimped Wire Cloth for Cleaning Ores, Coal, Ac. Heavy Screen Cloths and Coal Screens, Wire Webbing for Sheep and Poultry Yards, Paper Makers' Wires, Brass and Iron Wiro Cloth Sieves, Painted Screens, Ornamental Wiro Work. Every infor mation by addressing the manufacturers. M. WALKER A SONS. 12febly No. 11 North 6th St., PHIL'A. A 810. FUSS OVER NO PROFIT. We ore just selling for a little amusement 10.000 yards choice Styles of standard Calico prints, at 8, 10, 11 and 12J cents, and you should see 'em grab after it. It's SO CH EAP, is the rea so°- t 0. B. OSTEU 4 CO. Bedford, June2s:.'lm MARRIAGE CERTIFCATKS.—On hand a.. 1 for sale at tho Inquirer office, a One assort ment of Marriage Certificates. Clergymen and I Justices should bavo them. r£WQ FARMS ATWUVATE BALK NOW is the TIME TO BOT CHEAP real A FARM IN MORRISON'S COVE. A SPLENDID FARM WITHIN TWO Mills OF BEDFORD. The subscriber will jell at private sale „ n very reasonable terms, and at reduced price*, the following described, very valuable real estate vis • A TRACT OF LAND situated in Cove, about one mile from Lafsyettesville, and four miles from Woodberry, in Middle Woodberry twp., containing 102 acres, more or iess, about 41 acres cleared and under fence, with one and a half story log house, log barn, blacksmith shop and other out buildings, adjoinng lauds of Jackson Stuckey on the east, Christ. Kochendcrfer on th north, John Keagy on the west, and Ignatius Brants heirs on the south. This can be male one of the neatest and moat pleasant little farms in the Cove with very little expense. There is un abundance of water, plenty of fruit and splendid timber upon it-all that is necessary to make it desirable. ALSO. EXCELLENT TRACT OF LIM' STONE AND RIVER BOTTOM LAND, . two miles of Bedford, containing 228 acre - ah 150 acres of which arc cleared and in a hib ■ of cultivation and the balance well timber 1 I here are excellent new buildings erected there ■, with a well of never failing water at the door There are two orchards of choice fruit upy- p 7a acres of tncadow, ("River Bottom; can ho cu'-' ' vatcd with trilling expense. The upland is i n good state of cultivation, well set with clover under good fence. There is sufficient timber up , it to pay for the farm several times if thrown i n t, the Bedford market. Apply to J. K. DCRBOKROW, Attorney at Law ; ,aa - nf Bedford Pa. TRACTS OF LA N D FOR SAL E . The subscribers offer at private sale the Allow ing valuable tracts of land, vis: No. 1. The undivided half of a tract of land, containing 227 acre:-, situato on the South-cat side of the Broad Top Mountain, lying partly in Bedford and partly in Fulton couwty, and ai oimng lands jo Samuel Danncr, Jauics Brin hurst and Wishart's heirs. I'WO VEINS OF COAL, one 5J feet, the other Cj feet in depth have been discovered on this tract. No. 2. A tract of23U acres near the a' v joining the same lands, and supposed ■> • the same veins of eoal. No. 3. A tract of 400 acres, within . , and a half miles of the above tracts, lying on the Nurlh side of the Uarbor across the mountain, well tiui beredwith oak and pine. May 3,-tf. JOHN LUTZ. OR SALE OR TRADE. FIVE lots of ground in Bedford, 60 by 210, 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 7,000 acres in Fulton Ccunty l'a., including valuable Ore, mineral and timber lan 1- rear Fort Littleton. Over 4,000 acres of valuable ore, coal and tim ber lands in West Virginia. ALSO, Twcntv-fivc one acre lots, adjoining the Borough of Bedford, with lime stone rook lor 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, barn, Ac., known as the "Amos farm." Also," a farm of 107 acres in Harrison twp. Also, Six acres near Bedford, with 2 house-, stable and brick yard thereon. O. E. SHANNON, June 21,-tt Bedford, Pcan'a. lyiTS AT PRIVATE SALE. A BARE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY I ROME. Tho subscribers will sell a number of lots ad joining the CHALYBEATE SPRING PROP ERTY in Bedford township, AT VERY LOW PRICES. On two of them dwelling houses have already bcen erected. This is a splendid opportunity to bny a cheap and most desirable Lome, as the lot lie immediately opposite the Chalybeate Spi ing Park, on the road, and not more than 120 yards from the Spring, at the following low prices: 1. One-half acre lot with dwelling house and other out-buildings, garden and fruit trees, ail the best of water convenient, at 8700, cash. 2. Half-acre lot SIBO, cash. 3. Half acre lot SIBO, cash. 4. Half acre lot SIBO, cash. 5 and 6. Half acre lots with dwelling house, brick yard, garden and fruit trees thereon lor SBSO, cash. 7. Contains thrco 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 yards out of Bedford, will find this offer worth serious consideration. JOnN LUTZ, mayS.tf Real Estate Agent, Bedford, Pa. p>KIVATE SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. Tho following lot of ground, situate in the town of Duncan&ville, Blair CO., Fa., fronting on Main street (or Turnpike) 75 feet and extending hack IkO feet, more or less, and having thereon erected a large two story BRICK IIOISE. 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 ACHES, near the Chalybeate Spring, one mile from the town of Bedford, with a Log House thereon erected. Adjoiniug lands of Cbenowitb, Amos, Shannon and others. Also, II acrea of Timber Land, adjoining tho Colfelt farm, and convenient to good roads. For further particulars apply to JOHN LUTZ, IXQriRKU OFFICE, or J. . BRIUAUAM, lSdeclf Bedford, Pa. JjIARM AT PRIVATE SALE. The subscriber offers at private sale a good farm of 102 acres, lying on the south side of Dry Ridge, within miles of the line of tho Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad, adjoining lands of Jos. Ling, Leonard May, Peter F. Lehmau, Esq., and others. The improvements aro a two story LOli 1IOL"SE 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 100 bearing trees, besides cherries, plums, peaches Ac. Sixty acres are 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 are several tanneries in the neighborhood. For further particulars address Abkau Ritchby, West End, Bedford co., Pa., or JOHN' LUTZ. lfifeb.tf Bedford, Pa. A FINE FARM FOR SALE IN DUTCH CORNER! NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY CHEAP! The subscribers will sell all that Bno farm in Bedford township, containing ISO acres, 95 of which arc cleared and under excellent fence, and the balance, 95 acres, well timbered, adjoining lands of Charles llelsel, John Schneblv, and oth ers. The buildings are a two and a half story LOU HOUSE and BANK BARN, with other out-buildings thereon eroded. Water in every field, with an excellent Saw Mill scat. A splen did apple crchard also thereon. Price s4oo(>. TERMS: One third in hand and the balance in three annnal payments with interest. JOHN LCTZ, June 21, 1867:tf Real Estato Agent. KINDS OF BLANKS, Common, Admin istrator* s snd Kxeeutor's, Deeds, Mortgages, SudgmentNotes, Promissory Notes, with and with out waiver of exemption, Summons, Subpoenas and Lxccutions, for sale at the Inuuirer office. Nov J, 186(1 1 HARPER'S WEEKLY, HARPER'S BAZAR FRANK LESLIE, CHIMNEY CORNER and all other Illustrated papers for sale at tho Inquirer Book Store. tf