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    BEDFORD, PA., FEIBAT, MAY 6, IS7P.
THE NEW TARIFF DILL.
The new tariff bill reported by the Com
mittee of Ways and Mean? has been under
discussion iu the house for several weeks
and is not yet half completed. Its pro
visioas if they eould be passed as origi
nally reported would doubtless be an im
provement on the present tariff: but a des- 1
peratc fight has been made against it by the
free-traders ami particularly in the duties
oa iron the discussion and voting upon item
by item has resulted in such a reduction as
would paralyse our whole iron trade if it
were to become a law. Under these circura
stances the friends of protection have no
other recourse than to endeavor to defeat
the whole bill and let the present rates re
main. If the discussion continues and drags
as slowly as it has heretofore done, Congress
will be able to do little else before July. |
This prospec. has ioduced a disposition in i
both parties to abandon the bill. The free ]
traders have introduced a brief bill pro- j
posing to make a sweeping and indiscrim- j
inate reduction of all taxes both import |
and excise except whiskey and tobacco, j
This hill they will try to force through j
unless they can succeed in making a ]
sweeping reduction in the bill under dis
cussion. The Free traders are making j
desperate efforts to carry their measles
and have an extensive lobby influence j
awl plenty of funds tcv carry on their
work. The friends of protection have not
hat} the support that they should receive
from the parties interested. While the
free traders have large delegations in 1\ ash
inetoo urging their measures, the tariff
men who are vitally interested, have no
delegation, funds, or influence there to as
sist their members of Congress, witb infor
mation, statistics, Ac. Thus far the inter
ests of American labor have been sadly
neglected. We hope however to see an in
creased interest and a vigorous effort made
when the final vote comes- The tariff men
cannot afford to neglect this matter. It is
of the highest importance to the manufactur
ing and general industrial interests of the
whole country. No effort should be spared
to uphold our national industry through
protective duties. If we wish American
laborers to live and prosper, we must protect
them against the competition of foreign
pauper labor. This can be much more
easily done now while he have a fair degree
of protection, than after foreign influence
shall have reduced our tariff and broken
down our manufactures.
THE POOR HOI SE.
We had hoped to be able to lay before
our readers this week, some communications
on the Poor House question; but our
friends, as yet. have not responded to our
invitation. We hope still to be favored
with some for our next issue. We are in-
Formed that the subject is eliciting a good
deal of discussion in various parts of the
County. The chief burthen of complaint
seems to be the great expense annually nec
essary to keep our poor. We have been
calling their attention to it for a long time.
It will only be remedied by putting a good
Republican or two in the board of Direc
tors. That election will come in October.
The question now is the location of the new
Poor House, and not the management of
the finance?, and it will be well to keep the
two distinct and separate, for they are wide
ly different questions. To argue that the
present property should be sold because
there has been bad management is about
the same as if we were to urge the removal of
the court house because there has been a
large a' ,unt of criminal business and that
it has been a heavy expense to the County.
There is only one point in which the present
property can be any more expensive than any
other property that may be purchased, and
that is. the expense of keeping the mill
in repair. But if this is an objection, the
mill can be sold for a good price, and plenty
of purchasers for it can be found who will
regard it as a very desirable property. In
fact we have advocated this for many years.
The property can be divided so as to sell off
the mill and have plenty left for all the
purposes of an alms house. We believe
that a provision in the present bill to per
mit a vote for the division of the property
and the sale of the mill would have met
with decided favor, and have, perhaps, re
ceived a majority of votes. A large farm is
not needed, for the paupers cannot do the
work of a farm, and but few men
COnW be fuuuvl to to.lt© a farm an<l world
it to advantage with hired labor,
For such as are competent to do that
prefer to farm their own land and reap all
the profits. We believe that a small farm
of from 60 to 80 acres, sufficient to pro
vide pasturage and feed for a team, and n
few head of cattle will be found the most
economical. This we have in the present
property after cutting off the mill, beside
having a large range for sheep pasturage
which is perhaps the most profitable stock
kept on the present farm, as the flock of
sheep has for years furnished a large part of
the clothing for the paupers. But we have
already written more than we intended;
we hope to hear from some of our friends
next week, bend along your communica
tions with the names, and we will gladly
publish them on whichever side they may
happen tobe.
CURIOSITIES OK FINANCE.— It is not &
little singular that while we, of the United
States, are anxious to see the glitter and
hear the jingle of gold and silver, our neigh
bors, the ( anadians, tired of the sight and
sound of U. S. coin, are just now Issuing
fractional currency rimilar to our own,
hoping with it to drive American coin out
t|f their borders. \\ c are anxious to be rid
of paper, they of coin. We can only ac
count for it on the principal that grown peo
ple like children are apt to want, and set a
high value on what they have Bot got, and
what they have, however good, they hold
in very little esteem. We are quite sure
that both extremes are bad. A little more
gokl and silver here and a little more paper
currency in Canada would improve matters
in both places. An exclusive gold or paper
currency is objectionable. A fair propor
tion of each best answers the purposes of
business.
SHAMEFUL NEG LET— When the vote was
taken in the House on Tuesday on reducing
'.ic duty on bar iron from If cents per pound
to 1 cent, there were (says the Miners'
•Journal) only twelve members from Penn
sylvania present, and all the Democratic
members from this State were absent.
W hilc Western members, a large portion of
the New England delegation, with the Dem
ocrats, were striking deadly blows at the in
terests of Pennsylvania, many of her mem
bers were absent. There may be reasons
for the xeasional absence of members, but
it should be a strong one that induces a mem
ber to absent himself when the industrial
interests of his State are assailed. The peo
ple will have an account to settle with the
indifferent members at the next Congres
sional elections.— [hirrisbttry Telegraph.
VIRGINIA RAILROADS AND VIRGIN
IA PROSPECTS
The coal leld on the of the
Allegbenief, extending from the Mononga
hela to the Big Sandy river?, is by far the
largest, the richest, and is defined to be
coom the most valuable in the world. Io
Europe, Dearly all the coal deposits lie far
beneath the general surface, and far below
water level. Peep shafts are sunk at im
mense oost, to reach them; the mines are
then ventilated and drained as they are be
ing worked, only after the most astonishing
outlays. OH the Kanawha and collateral 1
i valleys, the coal crops out of the hill sides
in veins from 5 to 12 feet thick, far above
water level, and can be dumped into the car?
by the lorce of gravity, for merely nominal
cost, and carried thence to wherever it is
needed. A few miles eastward of this im
mense store of coal, on the eastern slope of
the Ailegaaies, arc found inexhaustible de
posits of iron ores of the best qualities. The
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, now in
course of construction from the navigable
waters of the James River, to the river nav
igation of the Mississippi Vailcy, the grea
ter part of which is already in operation,
crosses both the iron Gelds and the coal fields
and unites tbern to the seaboard on the one
hand and the Great West on the other.
Nearly 7,000 men are employed upon this
great work, and it will not be many montl s
before the care will travel continuously from
Memphis, Saint Louis or Chicago, to and
from these great iron and coal deposits, ami
if need be, on to the navigation of the At
lantic at Richmond.
These natural advantages, together with
| the encouraging rush of immigration now
finding its way to Y bint a and West Virgin
ia, will give to those States a vast wealth and
industry. The completion of the Chese
peake and Ohio Railroad itself will set free
a wonderful amount of latent power, and is
to rank as one of the most important works
of improvement now in progress.
The Loan of the Chesepeake and Ohio
Railroad Company, which is annouoced else
where in our columns, by the well known
Backing firm. Fisk A Hatch, of New York,
it will be seen is being steadily absorbed fo r
investments. These Bonds have several
features of convenience and security not
hitherto found combined. To all persons
contemplating investments of capital, or the
exchange of securities, their remarks will be
of special interest.
THE CENSI'S.
The census for 1870 will be taken in
JUDC. The work will be greatly facilitated
and much annoyance to the people will be
.saved if our citizens carefully study the fob
lowing scheme and have their reports made
out in advance. If this is done, when the
deputy Marshal calls, much time will be
saved and far greater accuracy obtained in
the returns. The second action is omitted.
It once gave the number of slaves. It is
now out of date.
First—All the dwelling houses in the dis
trict, all the families, name of every inhabi
tant, age sex, color, trade, occupation, or
profession of each male person over fifteeu
years, value of real estate owned, place of
birth of each inhabitant, marriages within
the preceding year, number of persons
who have attended school persons over twen
ty years of age who can read and write, the
deal' and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pau
pers and convicts.
Third —.Number of acres ofland improved
and unimproved, with the name of the own
er, agent or manager, live stock on hand of
the different kinds, produce of the farm of
every kind during the year preceding Ist of
June, 1870.
Fourth—Products of industry of every
kind with name of manufacturer producing
articles in each year of the value of SSOO,
name and kind of business, capital invested
raw material used, with statement of quan
tities, kinds and values, kinds of motive pow
er and machinery, average number of hands
employed, wages paid, See.
Fifth—Aggregate valuation of real and
personal estate, aggregate of taxes assessed,
colleges, academies, schools, schoolhouses,
<fec; public libraries, periodicals, newspa
pers, how often published, number of circula
tion. Hasthc season produced average crops?
What crops are short ? To what extent, and
the average crop per year. Average wages
of farm hands, of day laborers, with board;
wages without board; of c arpenters, female
domestics ; price of board for laboring men
per week ; number of churches; of persons
each will accommodate; value of church
property, with statistics relating to paupers
and convicts.
Sixth—Number of deaths during the pre
ceding year, with age, sex, color, domestic
condition, place of birth and occupation of
deceased, together with the time and cause
of death.
We trust oar readers generally will care -
fully study the substance of the schedules
published above, so they can be ready to
give the information desired so soon as cal
led upon.
ONE OF ITS RESULTS. —Before the tariff on
imported steel was made protective there
1 were no steel works in the United States
and we paid from S3OO to $350 per ton to
foreigners for a good quality of steel. A
high protective duty on steel has built up
the manufacture in Pennsylvania until we
can now supply the market, and the result
is that to-day we can buy the same quality
of steel for from $l5O to S2OO per tOD, or a
little more that half what we had to pay
when we were dependent on a foreign sup
ply. In the same way we were obliged to
pay foreign manufacturers $175 per ton for
steel rails for our railroads. A heavy duty
was laid on the foreign article, our own peo
ple erected rolling mills for the manufacture
of steel rails, and to-day we can buy them
for $75 per ton. According to copperhead
free-trade preaching steel and steel rails
should have increased in price by reason of
the heavy duty, but the result is just the
reverse; they have fallen in price instead.
The reason is plain, we can make our OWD,
and the foreign manufacturer is obliged to
sell to us at reasonable rates or we will not
buy. Our own manufacturers by busines*
competition are compelled though protected
to sell at reasonable rates. Let farmers re
member that their reapers and mowers,
their scythes, axes and every implement
into which steel enters is cheaper to-day
because protection to American industry
has reduced the cost of steel. The same
rule holds good in regard to almost every
manufacture. The farmer not only gets his
goods cheaper, but the presence of manu
factures gives him a better market for all
the produce of his farm—all the result of
protection. Let him remember this when
Ilemoeratic politicians preach to him the
fallacious sophistries of free-trade. Practi
cal experience always has and always will
condemn free trade, while it commends and
proves the benefit of protection.
A SAD CASE. —Hoffman, of the Somerset
Democrat, is in sore trouble. Alarmed at
the prospct cf negro voting, he now declares
that the "radical" programme will not be
finished until the negro oceupies the same
table and same bed with white folks. Now
social equality is a matter of taste and if
brother Hoffman is determined to have
things so, there is no law to prevent him,
but then he ought not to try to make h's
neighbors believe that they must do so to.
.DANIEL DOCOHXUTT, Esq., of Philadel
phia, iB named as the Democratic candidate
for Governor by the Sunday Dirpatch. J
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES.
The Beaver Radical announces the fol
lowing named gentleman a? candidates for
Governor at the next Republican Domina
ting convention, and gives a brief description
of their individual claims for that high
position. We will otait the comment#, how
ever, and simply furnish the list of names:
Gen. John F. Hurtranft, of Montgomery
county, at present Auditor General.
Col. L. H. Cake, of Schuylkill, member
of Congress.
Hon. G. Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon,
late State Senator.
Gon. Lemuel Todd, of Cumberland hold
ing no official position.
James H. Campbell, Esq., of Philadel
phia, late Minister to Sweden.
Wayne M'Yeigfc, Esq., attorney-al-law,
of Chester, and son-in-law to Senator
Cameron.
Hon. John Cessna, of Bedford, member
of Congress,
Thos. E. Cochran, Esq., of York, for
merly Auditor General'
Col. Francis Jordan, of Dauphin, at
present Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Col. J. M. Campbell, of Cambria, now
Surveyor General.
D. J. Morrill, Esq., of Cambria.
The Radical, in this enumeration, has
omitted the names of two of the most
prominent candidates who have yet been
presented to the public, viz:
Gen. Harry White, State Senator, of In
diana, and
W. W. Ketchum, Esq., of Luzerne, who,
next to GSheral Geary, was the most popu
lar candidate in 1866.
In addition to these the following names
have been mentioned, and advocated by
their friends. There are doubtless many
more which have not been heard:
General Horace Porter, Private Secretary
to President Grant, and formerly of Penn
sylvania.
Hon. James L. Graham. State Senator,
of Allegheny.
Hon. George V. Lawrence, formerly
member of Congress, of Allegheny, Indiana
county.
Hon. Elisha W. Davis, member of Legis
lature, of Philadelphia.
Hon. E. Billingfelt, State Senator, of
Lancaster county.
HOD. Wilmer Worthington, Secretary of
Board of State Charities, Chester county,
and at least a dozen others whose names
have escaped our memory.
To this voluminous list many others will
yet be added, and perhaps, the successful
man has cot yet been designated. We de
cline, for the present, descanting upon the
merits of these aspirants. There is, in al'
conscience, a sufficient variety to suit all
judgments and tastes. Probably either of
the candidates might make an excellent
Chief Magistrate. At all events there is a
sufficient number from which to make a
choice. — Daily Topic.
IRON ORE. — A telegraph dispatch from
Bedford contains the following notice of a
visit to that place, recently, by Gen. Geo. B.
McClellan, and a number of leading iron
manufacturers:
BEDFORD, April 20. —Gen. Geo. B. Mc-
Clellan and a number of leading iron manu
facturers, arrived at. this place yester
day for the purpose of examining the re
cent discoveries of vast iron deposits in this
vicinity. The location of extensive iron
manufactories is in contemplation. The
General and his party will spend several
days in the county.
If the General and his party of explorers
were to visit York on a similar errand, they
would find, not only "vast iron deposits"
here, but some that arc decidedly vaster.
Immense and inexhaustable beds of iron and
steel ore abound in our immediate vicinity,
and new and important discoveries are be
ing made almost every day. The facilities
for the manufacture of steel rails and pig
iron are equal if not better in York County
than any other part of the Stale; and we
look forward to the day when furnaces will
smoke, and rolling mills clatter in every di
rection within a stones throw of the bor
ough. We venture this opinion in the face
of Dick Haldeman's recent rhodamontade in
CongTess against a high protective tariff, for
the iron interests of PenDsplvania.— Yorlc
True Democrat.
We are glad to hear of the discovery of
mineral wealth in any part of our State or
county, but beg leave to differ from our
friend of the Democrat in regard to the
"vaster." We yield the palm to no coun
ty in the State for vast deposits of valuable
iron ores, and as for facilities for cheap
manufacture, we have the authority of one
of the largest iron manufacturing corpora
tions in the State, who have proven the
assertion by actual experiment, that we can
manufacture iron here cheaper than any
where else in the United States, yet discov
ered. But in one thing we are with our
York neighbors. We have in our own
county, just as they have, a copperhead ma
jority, in politics, whose influence and votes
are cast for free trade and British interests
and against the profitable development of
our vast mineral resources. For the con
version of these blind followers of blind
leaders, and the opening of their eyes to
their own best interests, we propose to labor
in common with all the true friends of
American industry.
W HISKEY is at last beginning to pay its
just share cf taxes. It is reported from
\\ ashington that the evasions and decep
tions practiced by the manufacturers of dis
tilled liquors are almost entirely abandoned
now. The vigorous ferreting out of these
tricksters by Grant s Revenue officers has
at last brought them to terms, and they find
it cheaper to pay their taxes honestly. The
result is, that more revenue is pouring into
the vaults of the Treasury than ever before
from this source. So much for efficient Rev
enue officers. We now will be able to re
duce the taxes on some productive industry.
FRANCE is agitated over the plibescitum,
election, to be held to morrow. The osten
sible object of the election is to give the peo
ple the privilege to decide upon their gov
ernment, but they are in reality only to be
permitted to say whether or not they ap
prove the reforms made by the Emperor
since 1860, and even in this the Emperor's
bayonets will take care that the people do
not say no. Many of the liberals will not
vote at all, because what tbey wish is so
intermingled with what they oppose that
they can give no expression of their true
sentiments by their votes.
A STEADY improvement continues in our
Internal Kevenue Department.. The
amount collected during the nine months
ending March 31st, was $194,000,060 or
$20,500,000 more than during the corres
ponding nine months of the previous year.
This has been done without any increase of
taxation, under a steady decline in prices
and a general dullness of trade consequent
thereon, and affords the best evidence that
under General Grant's administration the
taxes are collected with increased, thorough
ness, efficiency, honesty and economy.
THE Senate Finance Committee has re
ported unanimously against any reduction
of the tax on distilled spirits. Whiskey
will not, therefore, be much cheaper during
the next year. There will doubtless be
great complaining among the Democracy
about this continued tax on their "hfrf in
dustry.
DEATH OF AN OLD EDITOR.
We regret to announce the death at Get
tysburg, on Monday last, of Robert Good
loe Harper, cms of the editor* of the Stir
and Sentinel. He was in the 72d year of
his age and was, we believe, the oldest edi
tor in the State, having edited the Adtms
Sentinel from 1817 to the time of its consol
idation with the St<rr and continued in the
same line in the Star and Sen tin A since
then, in all a period of fifty-three years.—
Qettyburg Star and Sentinel.
OKLAHOMA is the euphonious nsmc pro
posed for a new territory about to be erect
ed. It is intended to consolidate all, or as
many as possible, of the Indian tribes and
try the experiment of giving them a ter
ritorial government of their own. The
name certainly smacks very strongly of In
dian. The experiment of a territorial
government Las been suggested and peti
tioned for by the Choctaws. It may, and
we hope will, prove a success and finally
solve the perplexing Indian question.
J. RISSELI. YOCNG'B new paper, the
New York Standard, made its first appear
ance on last Saturday. It was sought for
with great eagerness and in- Philadelphia
every number that could be obtained was
quickly sold. The Eccning Star says :
"Its editorial tone is higher, its typo
graphy is marked by a better and severer
taste, and tbcre is a genera! aspect of ele
gance that we fail to note in any other
American journal."
SPAIN is still in trouble and without an es
tablished government. Her treasury is
empty and her leaders are still fighting over
the formation of a government. Serrano,
one of their best men eeems inclined to re
tire from public life in disgust. Prim is
losiog the public confidence and things gen
erally seem to be tending to anarchy.
XLIST CON TILL ESS-SECOND SESSION.
During the past week, nearly all ot the
time in the House has been occupi d in the
discussion of the new Tariff bill. The dis
cussion thus far has been principally on the
sections fixing the duties on iron and its
manufactures. The duties fixed by the
Committee of Ways and Means have been
largely reduced, and the action thus far
taken has been decidedly to the advantage
of the free-traders. If the bill passes in the
present shape, it will almost entirely de
troy the iron interests of the country. Our
only hope for Pennsylvania interests is that
the whole bill will be defeated and the old
rates of the present tariff remain. In the
Senate, a great number of bills, petitions
and resolutions are constantly brought up,
but they are tabled, or handed over to com
mittees to make room for something else,
after which they can't be traced any further
for some time.
The following bills were introduced in the
Senate:
By Mr. Wilson —Providing for the selec
tion of cadets to the Military and Naval
Academies.
By Mr. McDonald—For settlement ol the
accounts between the Southern railroad cor
porations and the United States Govern
ment; also to allow school trustees in Ar
kansas to enteT lands for school purposes
undo.- the homestead law.
By Mr. Morrill, of Maine —Relating to
the Indian reservations selected by the
Peace Commissioners.
By Mr. Ross—to authorize the settle
ment of the claims of Kansas for the ser
vices of troops under the requisition of Gen.
Price.
Mr. Ames introduced a bill granting lands
in aid of the Memphis and New Orleatt3
Levee Railroad Com pany.
Mr. Thayer introduced a bill to make uni
form the pensions of widows of naval stall
officers.
Mr. Fenton called up the bill authorizing
the appointment of an agent to inquire rela
tive to the state of trade between the Uni
ted States and British North America,
which, after some discussion, was referred
to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Williams gave notice that he would
offer a bill relating to the refining of gold
and silver bullion at the mint of the United
States and branches, as an amendment to
the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Ap
propriation bill, on the ground that it tend
ed to reduce the expenses of the Govern
ment in the coinage of money. Upon his
motion the bill was taken from the calendar
and referred to the Committee on Appro
priations.
A bill to provide for better security on
board steam vessels and propellers, being
that prepared by the Treasury Department,
parsed.
The House joint resolution appropriating
$3,0X1 to pay the expenses of the investiga
tion of the charges against General Howard,
passed.
A joint resolution, to regulate the effect
of the vote of thanks of Congress upon pro
motions in the navy, passed.
The hill relative to the Circuit Courts of
the L uited States prohibiting any construc
tion or tHe act tnat woulj require ibc hold
ing of circuit court where not required by
previously existing laws, passed.
A number of House bills pere passed in
cluding the following: Authorizing a sup
ply of arms for instruction and practice to i
certain colleges and universities; for a return
of the evidence of their honorable discharge
to soldiers.
The House joint resolution appropriating
$3,000 to pay for experiments in the ventilai
tion of the halls of the Capitol was passed.
And in the House, Mr. Logan, from the
Military Committee, reported adversely on
the bill permitting retiied army and naval
officers to hold civil offices.
The bill donating condemned canon to
the McPherson Monument Association
passed.
Various other private bills passed.
The House refused by a vote of 42 to 88
to take up the Louisiana contested case of
Darrell against Bailey, and proceeded to the
business on the Speaker's table, and dis
posed ola large number of unimportant
bills.
The Senate bill legalizing certain locjpions
of agricultural scrip iu Wisconsin passed.
The Senate bill granting lands to aid the
construction of a railroad and telegraph from
Portland to Astoria and McMinnvilie, Ore
gon, excited a long debate.
Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on
Elections, reported that Adolph Baily is
not, and C. B. Darrall is, entitled to the
seat from the Third District of Louisiana.
Mr. Kerr made the minority report with
the opposite conclusions.
The bill to establish a Department of Jus
tice was considered and passed.
The joint resolution appropriating $2,000
for a portrait of General Thomas, to bo
placed in a conspicious position in the Capi
tol, passed unanimously,
A joint resolution appropriating $3,000
for experiments in the ventilation of the hall
of the House, was adopted.
The Senate bill to change the time of
holding United States Courts in Wisconsin,
was amended and passed.
The contested election case from the Fifth
Louisiana District was considered and the
majority report that the election held No
vember 3, 1868, was illegal, was adopted.
FROM CUBA.
TJte Jiitvrrectum—A Counter-Revolution
Imminent.
WASHINGTON, April 28.— Important offi
cial information has been received here from
Cuba For some time it has been known to
the authorities that the volunteers in Cuba
were in reality the party in power, and have
forced the Spanish authorities to comply
with nearly all their demands. Intelligence
now comes from Havanah that a con tor-re
volution is sure to break out within a brief
period of time, the volunteers being deter
mined to wrest the island away from Spain,
and make it an independent province. It
has been thought hare, in diplomatic circles,
For three months, that a counter-revolution
was sure to take place, and the news re
ceived to-day is but a conformation of auch a
belief.
APPALLING CATASTHOPUE AT
RICHMOND.
Fifty-Eight Perrons Killed.—Two Hundred
More or Less Injured.— Twenty Legisla
tors Killed or Wounded. — A Whole City
in Mourning.
RICHMOND. April 27.—-A terrible calamity
oocurred here this morning. The floor of
the Court of appeals, in the State Capital,
gave way and precipitated the hundreds
therein assembled to bear the decision of
the Mayorality case of Kltisou and Cahoon,
upon the Conservative caucus then sitting
in the Hall of the House of Delegates be
low.
Among the killed are P. H. Aylett, a dis
tinguished lawyer; Dr. J. B. Brock, repor
ter for the Enquirer and Examiner; Samuel
Eaton, clerk of Mayor Cahoon; Captain
William A. Charters. Chief of the Fire De
partment; N. P. Howard, a lawyer; Ash
Levy, a Richmond merchant; Charles Wat
son, of the Danville railroad; Hugh Hutche
soo, Lewis N. Webb, of this city; Wheelor
Schofield, brother of General Scofield; R.
H. Maury, Jr.; Senator Bland (colored) and
Powhattan Roberts.
It is supposed that twenty members of
tke State Jjegislature arc killed or wounded.
TV Judges of the Couit of Appeals all es
cated unhurt. Ex Governor Wells was
bafiy injured. I 11. Chandler, counsel for
Cahoon in the Mayoralty case, was injured.
James Mason and .fudge Meredith, counsel
for Ellison, were also badly hurt.
About two hundred persons were hurt by
the accident. The greatest excitement pre
vails, and hundreds of persons in the Capitol
Square are weeping and wailing a3 the dead
and dying are brought out of the building.
Governor Walker escaped unhurt, though
on the floor of the Court room at the time.
About eleven o'clock the Supreme Court
of Appeals of Virginia was crowded with
eminent citizens and many local politicians,
and a great many of the public at large, who
WERE drawn there by cariosity to hear the
result of the late bearing of the question as
to the Mayoralty ol Richmond.
The friends of Me.-; rs. Ellison and Ca
boon, who comprised the prominent Repub
licans and Conservatives of the city, had as
sembled to hear the decision, which it was
expected would be given to-day. Among
the many prominent persons were ex-Gov
ernor Wells, ex-Congressman Nelson, Judge
John A. Meredith, Patrick 11. Aylett, ex-
United States District Attorney for this
District, ex-United States District Attorney
L. n. Chandler, and others.
At II o'clock the gallery of the court
room, which was crowded, fell in. The floor
followed, and all thereon descended thirty
feet to the floor below, which was the floor
of the House of Delegates of Virginia, on
which some few of the members of a caucus
were waiting around. There wis a general
crush of all the timbers, and the falling of
the inside wall, by which were killed the
following:
THE KILLED.
Patrick Avlett, Captain Charters. Chief
of the Eire Brigade; E. M, Schofield, late
Assessor, and brother of Genera! Schofield,
late Secretary of War; Dr. J. B. Brook,
editor of the Richmond Enquirer, Julius A.
Hobson, city collector; S. Diegger. member
of the House of Delegates; T. A. Brettis,
commission merchant ol Alexendria; Samuel
Eeaton, of Boston, Mass., and formerly
manager of the Boston Theatre; Powhattan
Roberts, commissioner in Chancery of court
of Common Pleas: James A. Blasniiere, of
Berlin, Prussia: S. E. Burnham, of Syra
cuse, N. Y.; N. P. Iluwan, lawyer; Ash.
Levy, merchant; J. W. I). Blank colored
Senator from Prince Edward; J. Watson,
merchant, of Danville; Thomas 11. Wilcox,
ex-rebel General; Samuel H. Ilairston, a
wealthy land owner,, of Henry county;
Charles -I. < irinnan. Vf Washington. I). C.;
Robert H. Maury, Jr.. land ae-en*; Edward
Ward, of England; William W. Davis, coal
merchant; John Robertson, colored Baptist
minister; Colonel Pichgrew; Wodfolk T.
Foley, Deputy United States Marshal; W.
H. Randolph, of New York; R. K. Brad
siiaw, grocer, and thirty three others, among
whom were one captain, one sergeant, and
niue privates of the police, who were on
duty in the building.
WOCNDED.
Among the wounded were ex Governor
Wells, ribs broken and otherwise internally
injured; Mayor H. 11. Ellison, slightly;
Mayor Cahoon, slightly; L. 11. Chandler,
Judge J. A. Meredith, Jas. Neeson, J.
Howard, Ku-li Bongess, Collector of the
District; W. C. C. Dunham, Agent of the
Virginia and Now York Steamship Line;
Hon. T. A. Babcock, ex-Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives,
leg amputated; Gen. M. D. Corse, ex-Major
General of the Rebel army; Col. G. W.
MreDt. of Alexandria; Capt. G. W. Allen,
Port Warden; W. C. Elatu, newspaper cor
respondent and broker; T. S. Baldwin,
Merchant, from Newark, N. J.; W. J.
Cheslermnn, of the Petersburg Index;
William 11. Soper; merchant, of Baltimore,
aud about one huudred others.
RECOVERY OF THE DEAI BODIES.
Directly after the disaster occurred tfie
fire-alarm was used to give notice, and the
hook and ladder companies of the city re
paired at once to the scene. A cordon of
police was drawn around the building, and
the ladders were thrown up to the windows.
For three hou's the scene was full of hor
ror. Minute after minute there appeared,
swung out by a rope tied around the middle
of the body of some popular favorite, who af
ter beiDg swung on to the shoulders of one of
the fire brigade, were brought down the lad
der into the green of the public Park, where
it was instantly surrounded by two or three
thousand of those who had gathered to rec
ognize the slain. The Park was filled with
anxious, weeping women aud anxious men
until two o'clock, when the last victim was
drawn from the building.
HISTORY OF SOME OF THE VICTIMS.
WASHINGTON. April 27.—A gentleman
of Richmond now here gives the following
particulars of some of the persons who were
killed in the calamity: Patrick Henry Ay
lett was formerly the Confederate State Dis
trict Attorney, and since the war has been
one of the editors of the Examiner and
Enquirer. He was a great-grandson of Pat
rick Henry, of Revolutionary fame.
Edwin M. Schofield is the youngest broth
er of Major General Scbofield ; was a United
•States army officer during the war, and was
appointed by the Military CommanJer as
Assessor for the city of Richmond.
Julius A. Ilobson was an old citizen of
Richmond, and for the past ten years was
City Collector. Samuel A. Eaton, former
ly of Boston, was an old member of the Bos
ton press; was some lime attached to the
Herald of that city; was once a theatrical
manager, and has been Mayor's clerk since
the war. Powhattan Roberts, a native of
Virginia, was one of the leading members of
the Bar. J. W. D. Bland (colored) Sen
ator from Prince Edward's count?, was a
man of much ability and a leading man a
nmng his race.
Among the wounded were H. 11. Wells,
ex Governor. He was formerly in the Uni
ted States Army; was in command of the
defenses of Washington south of the Poto
mac: was appointed by General Scbofield
Military Governor of Virginia, and was de
feated at the late election by the present
Governor Walker.
Henry K, Ellison, one of the proprietors
of the Richmond Uixptilch, was elected by
the City Council, under the Enabling act,
to succeed Gaboon as Mayor of Richmond.
George Gaboon, formerly of Pennsylvania
was appointed by General Schofield, Mayor
of Richmond. The contest for the Mayor
alty between these two gentlemen was the
occasion of the dense crowd in the court
room.
L. 11. Ghandler, of Norfolk, from Maine,
was United States District Attorney for Vir
ginia until July last, and since the war was
elected a member of the United States Con
gress from the Norfolk District, but was not
admitted to bis seat.
He is now a practicing lawyer, and is well
known in the North as a leading public
speaker in behalf of the Republican party
during the Presidential canvass.
John A. Meredith was formerly Judge of
the Circuit Court for Richmond ; was re
moved by General Schofield. Was leading
oouusel for Ellison.
•James Neeson, formerly of West Virgin
ia, was a member of the Confederate Legis
lature, and lately Assistant United States
District Attorney. Was associate counsel
for Ellison.
John Howard is one of the leading law
yers of Richmond. William C. Dunham is
agent of the Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany at Richmond, and a member of the
City Council. Thomas S. Bocock was for
merly a member of the United States Con
grew, and an opponent of Sherman for the
Speakership; was Speaker of the Confeder
ate Congress; is now practicing law at Lynch
burg.
Colonel G. W. Brent, of Alexandria, was
Adjutant General to General Joseph E.
Johnson during the war. Mr. Burgess is
Collector of Internal Revenue for Rich
mond. W D. Cbesterman is connected
with the Richmond Examiner as reporter.
NATCRE OK TIIE INTERRUPTED DECISION OF
THE COURT.
A private telegram from Richmond says
that the Court was about to deliver an opin
ion in favor of Ellison, one of the Judges
dissenting, as the floor fell.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
ATEANTA, Georgia, has a population of
36,000. Twenty-two years ago it was a town
of 500 inhabitants.
THE estimated cost of the new passenger
depot to be built at Atlanta, Georgia, this
summer, is $175,000.
HERRI MI and shad are fast disappearing
from Virginia waters, and legislative action
is suggested for the better protection of fish.
THE Kansas (Mo,) Press Club proposes
to receive in good style the 200 editors ex
pected in that city at the May convention.
MISS Aun Hayes, aged 12, is principal of
a colored school in Virginia, her pupils be
ing of the average age 0f25, or thereabouts.
A CINCINNATI baby proved the unfitness
for food of silver cleaning powder, by dying
a few minutes after eating some, the other
day.
IT IS advertised that "An Old Fashioned
Girl" can be had at all the respectable book
stores; price $1 50. rniuarricd men should
invest.
AN Irishman, asked at the Wisconsin
State Prison what trade he piefcrred to
learn, said that if it was all the same to them
he preferred to be a sailor.
A CINCINNATI horse ran orer a boy re
cently, but according to the papers, "oo
bones were broken except his skull." The
boy died soon after.
AMONG the recent imports at Savannah,
from Liverpool, were 201 boxes of machine
ry for the Eagle and Ph<enix Factory, at
Columbus, Ga.
GOVFNOR Smith, of A'abauia, in a proc
lamation, has announced his intention of
calling out the militia in the three counties
of Tuscaloosa, Greene, and Morgan.
THE rent of the slips of the First Congre
gational Church in New Haven brought
about $20,000, and, says the Hegitfer, "the
poor have the gospel preached to them."
AT THE close of business in the Treasury
on Iriday the coin balance on hand was
$115,863,6-52 50, of which $34,135,500 re
presents gold certificates outstanding. The
currency balance was $8,627,897 42.
A CLERGYMAN consoling a young widow
on the death of her husband, remarked that
she could not find his equal. "I don't know
about that," remarked the sobbing fair one:
"but I'll try."
"To the parent whose son dies in infancy,"
says the Louisville Courier Journal, "there
must be something peculiarly soothing in
the thought that, no matter what may be
the fate of the child in the next world, it
can never become a member of a base ball
club iu this."
MILTON MERRIFIELD, of Providence,
caught fifty two rats io one night by exchang
ing a barrel of oats that had been often visi
ted by rats for one of water, covering the
surface with chaff. The "varmints" unsus
pectingly _ pitched in, and met a watery
grave. This is an old but excellent trap
where these animals are plenty.
T 1M K.
1 i Ka.-tern Whitewash Lime
that will not rub off, for sale at Lynch'g Hard
ware Store. 22ajd
"lIARP.Y DROLLINGF.R of Hopewell, takes
this method of informing the public, that he is
prepared to execute at short notice and in good,
and workmnnlike style, Brick and Stone laying,
furnace building and repairing and all other work
in his line, in Bedford and adjoining counties, j
Parties wishing to secure his service, will address I
him at Hopewell Bedford county Pa.
Boctly.
Et XKCt'TOR'S NOTlCE.—Notice is hereby
J given that Letters Testamentary have been
granted by the Register of Bedford county, to the
undersigned on the Will of Joseph Mortimore,
late of Harrison township, dee'd, that all persons
indebted to said estate are requested to make im
mediate payment, and those having claims there
on can present tbem dulv authenticated for set
tlement, JAMES MORTIMORE,
Executor of Joseph Mortimore, dee'd.
Bedford, April 1, IS7O.
117 IRE RAILING,
IT W I R B G U A R D S,
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Wire Cloth for Cleaning Ores, Coal, Ac. Heavy
Screen Cloths and Coal Screens, Wire Webbing
for SLeep and Poultry Yards, Paper Makers'
Wires, Brass and Iron Wire Cloth Sieves, Painted
Screens, Ornamental Wire Work. Every infor
mation by addressing the manufacturers,
M. WALKER A SONS,
25febly No. 11 North 6th St., Phil*a.
J W. KNOX,
BUILDER OF FIRST-CLASS
LIGHT AND HEAVY WAGONS,
Invites attention to his stock of finished wagons
and seasoned wood works. Shop one-half mile
west of Bedford. 27aug
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTlCE.—Lctters of
Administration haviug been granted to the
subscriber by the Register of Bedford county, on
the estate of Jacob Wagaman, late of Juniata tp.,
dee'd, notice is hereby given to those indebted to
.*aid estate to make immediate payment, and
those having claims against the same will present
them duly authenticated for settlement.
25mar LEONARD BITTNER, Adm'r.
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The reputation this excellent medicine enjoys,
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m&rreltocs. Inveterate cases of Scrofulous dis
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Scrofulous affections and disorders, which were
aggravated by the scrofulous contamination until
they were painfully afflicting.have been radically
cured in such great numbers in almost every sec
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Scrofulous poison is one ol the most destruc
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vitals. In the latter, tubercles may be suddenly
deposited in the lungs or heart, or tumors formed
in the liver, or it shows its presence by eruptions
on the skin, or foul ulcerations on some part of
the body. Hence the occasional use of u bottle
of this SARSAPARILLA is advisable, even when
no active symptoms of disease appear. Persons
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find immediate relief, and, at length, c ue, ky the
use of this SARSAPARILLA: St. Anthony's
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Syphilid or Venereal and Mercurial Diseases
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for subduing these obstinate maladies by any med
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caused by accumulations of extraneous matters
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blood. This SARSAPARILLA is agreat resto
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SCHOOL BLANKS.—Articles of Agreement
between Directors and Teachers, Checks
Bonds of Collectors, Warrants of CoUeotore, Bond
of Treasurers, Ac., for salo at tho inquirer office
TREAS t JHER'B SALE of Unseated
Lands sod Town Lots in Bedford county.—
Agreeably to the provisions of an Aot of Assemb
ly, directing the lode of selling unseated la/ids
for taxes and forither pur; se, passed the Iftth
of March, 1813, aid the supplements thereto
passed the 13th of March, 1817 and the 20th of
March, 1831, the Treasurer ot the Couidy of Bed
ford, hereby gives xotice to all persont concerned
therein, that unless the County, School, bouDty,
building, poor and road taxes due on the fol
lowing tracts of unseated lands, situate in Bed
ford county, are paid before the day of sale, the
whole, or auoh parts of each tract as wilt pay the
taxes, and the corts chargeable thereon, will bo
•old at the Court House, In the Borough of Bed
ford, on the second Monday of June next (I,lth
day), for the arrearages of taxes due, snd tho
costs accrued thereon . and said Sale will be con
tinned from day to day until all are disposed of.
Apr Ith, 1870. HUGH MOORK, Treat.
BROAD TOP. Taxes.
439 as. 139 ps. J a me; Patton SII 1#
440 do 130 do do do 10 20
174 do 100 do do do 3 42
57 do 37 do do do 3 67
74 do Francis Mowing 69 47
63 dc Jacob Meyers 6 30
396 do 129 do JsinesKaxor 60
50 do Win. T Daugherty 4 80
90 do John M. Kennedy 73 76
02 do 140 do William Bunn 166 98
30 do Lewis T Watson * 24 40
372 do Sarn'i S Tobias 26 82
427 do Mary Montgomery 20 50
205 do Newton A Marshall 12 24
4-. ! to Mnrgare: .Montgomery 20 50
421 do John Montgomery 20 50
2-9 do Eph. Foster A Win. P. Sehell! 78
14 do James Figard 64
405 do Ulrlch Banner 242
30 do Anderson 5 60
5 do Aaron Evans 32
265 do James Figard 1 00
110 do James Patton 5 66
393 do 128 do J. Fatton AH Easton 41 4)0
21 do 210 do J . Patton AW. Foster 860
9 do W. A. Evans A Griffith 72
30 do Hunt g A IS T. K. K. Co. 30
30 do John Ilinish 2 51
19 do Peter Kepler 96
27 d<> Alex. King A Co. 21 95
135 do John M cCanles 10 80
165 do James Patton 4 31
164 do John DeTereaux 84 10
431 do John Kerr 388
1011 do Michael Sipe 30
74 do Wood A Purviance So
102 do Isaac Barnetc 68 13
50 do P. S Phelps 32 05
356 do .James Hamilton 17 50
30 do J. Evans 19 91
175 do Christian Kernel t 116 90
40 do Wm Cyphers 11 10
338 do J. Chivington 202 86
50 do King A Co. 153 75
52 do James Patton 2 ®7
100 do Wm - Patton 70 5n
2 lots S A. Christ man 12 06
COLEKAIN.
436 do Elizabeth Diehl 64
211 do 20 do Samuel Diehl 4
3403 do Jacob Wyland 50
497 do John Swan 70
470 do Win. Swan 74
393 do Robert Swan 60
409 do John Scott 62
■146 do Robert Scott 68
6(10 do Samael Williams 1 12
90 do Joseph A Emanel Diehl 42
427 do Arthur Brown 64
CUMBERLAND VALLEY
230 do James Ewing 1 38
50 do Jcines Hey den 14
HARRISON.
417J do Dan'l Hinkle 2 46
319 do John Tinman 2 10
42 do 56 do Barclay A Lyon 40
HOPEWELL.
200 do John Corley 60
150 do James Howard 44
404 do Richard Moan 88
420 do John Cheney 89
404 do Joseph Moan 1 00
4<-'9J do Samuel Moan 2 24
424 do 35 do Alexander Moan 12 15
206$ do John Mcllney 56
192 do Timothy Moan 92
200 do 54 do Israel Moan 86
196 do 50 do Zachariah Moan 66
222 do Elizabeth Piper 92
212 do 20 do John Boyd 1 32
214 do 65 do Wm Davis 5 39
216 do 60 do Isabella Davis 46
220$ do Wm Piper 42
233 do John Hardin 50
221 do Ignatius llardin 42
434 do 125 do James Wilson 42
425 do (ieorge F Alberti 56
402 do Thomas Taylor 1 00
402 do 57 do Stephen Moan 1 00
240J do Peter Shaw 50
212 do Robert Shaw 62
9 do Poorbaugh's heirs 12
402 do l'rancis Johnston 1 14
143 do Wm Lane 36
365 do Daniel Montgomery 90
324 do Alexander Johnson 78
368 do George Ilinish 86
286 do William Foster 70
75 do Robert Montgomery 14
LONDONDERRY.
100 do Mary Elinor 12
395 do Daniel Green 60
220 do James Shaw 60
404 do Sarah Wright 30
350 do Sam'l M Barclay 90
200 do do do 30
200 do Kern's heirs 30
LIBERTY.
47 do Lyttle's heirs 4 6S
150 do do do 15 02
1504 do Stephen Kerr 1 39
86 do Ueorgc Thompson 40
403 do Alexander Montgomery 66
102 do John McElney 4 78
132 do David Piper 9 17
200 do Maria Alberti 4 72
107 do Bartlebaugh 2 40
32 do Thomas A John King 10 61
1 lot Henry Stonerook 12
Do Mrs. Lawrence 1 04
Do Daniel Stoner I 16
Do J. Simpson Africa 5 92
107 acres Ueorgc F. Alberti 3 85
I 1 Kphraim Smeltzer 1 25
Do Samuel Tingling 1 42
479 acres James Langhead 9 57
MONROE.
253$ do Frederick Coliibarger 36
346 do Jacob Mnrtin 2 48
NAPIER.
100 do George Davison 30
PROVIDENCE EAST
95 do 55 do Joshua iiixon 18
402 do 46 do llezekiah Logan 60
401 do 40 do Jaracs CaTin 60
400 do Isaac Cavin 66
400 do Thomas Cavin 60
30 do P Clingerman 20
400 do William Cavin 80
17 do Jos Spark's Heir's 08
109 do Dan'l A Joseph Ritchey 40
166 do John G Pago 8 75
166 do (ieorge Richline 7 8S
84 do Lewis Wright ■> 60
PROVIDENCE WEST.
15 do Joseph McD&niel 20
420 do Edward Gleun 48
100 do Dan'l Ritchey of Adam 18
429 do John Carin IS
420$ do Edward Gibbons 48
ST. C'LAIR.
396$ do John Linn 60
395 do James May 60
62 do Henry Koontz 1 25
221 do William Sill I 60
SNAKE SPRING.
16 do Joseph W Tate 08
SOUTHAMPTON.
262 do Charles Bennett 2 85
113 do Daniel Bennett 2 85
96 do Abraham Bennett 1 99
130 do Ephrain Browning 23 36
301 do George Breathed 44
439 do Paul Ward 50
357 do Patrick Ward 1 00
351 do Joseph Ward 1 00
353 do Jonathan Ward 1 00
343$ do Jesse Reed 52
355 do George Cessna ACo 7 12
800 do John Cessna 13 40
400 do John J Cessna 8 90
444 do Isaac Hunter IS 00
125 do Hugh James 9 92
80 do Lee's Heir's 3 52
292 do Lenox Pcrrin 7 67
50 do Amos Willison 2 11
179 do John Wenrick 15 91
UNION.
100$ do Peter Counce 9 49
400$ do John Dalton 5 07
406 do Hugh Doyle 8 60
406 do James Dunlap S 60
112 do Philip Gordon 10 09
60 do Brumbaugh ACo '3 16
438 do John Taylor 78
WOODBERRY MIDDLE.
83 do Hannah Montgjmery 90
350 do Wm Montgomery 17 81
14 do Char's Typher'a Heirs 1 00
40 do Stonerook 6 25
150 do Robert Montgcmery 7 61
13 do Jacob Furney 60
40 do Benner'f Heir'i 5 08
20 do Archibald McFadden 17 33
WOODBERRY SOUTH.
135 do Peter Shoenberger 1 80
210 do John Boyde 32
213 do William Daris 31
75 do Israel Moans 32
140 do Zachary Moans 30
50 do Timothy Moans 1 54
222 do Elizabeth Piper 54
97 do Robert Shaw 62
pOU SALE.
Two dwelling Houses with valuable lotsjsppur
tenant thereto, in Boydstown. Terms easy. In
quire of
J. AV. IHNGENFELTER,
Soct.tf Bedford, Pa.
HARPER'S WEEKLY. HARPER'S BAZAR
FRANK LESLIE, CFIMNKY CORNER,
and all other Illustrated papers for sale at the
Inquirer Book Store. tf
DICKENS' NOVELS, full sets, at 35 cent*
par novel, at the Inquirer Book Store, tf
(£Mt.
Y ALU ABLE FARM FOR7SIL£
The subscriber offer* at prirsie sale, agood
improved farm situated 10 Hn*J:a Spring Twp
Bedford Co.. Pa, two miles from Mount Dsllm
station, on the Huntingdon and Hroadt,p rail
road, containing 230 ACHES of good limestone
lend, about 180 acres cleared and under good
fence, orer 800 panels of which are post fence,
the balance of the land is well timbered. The
improvements are A GOOD ?,A£OE FARM
HOUSE and Large Bank Barn and all necessary
outbuildings. 3 Never Failing springs, 3 Orch
ard/, 2 TENANT HOUSES and a good Sawmill.
The above Mansion Farm is in a good state of
cultivation and is well calculated to make TWO
FARMS. For further particulars address,
HENRY HKRSHBERGER,
"jan Bloody Run, Bedford Co., Pa.
pUIVATE SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
The following lot of ground, situate in the town
of DuncantvUle, Blair co., Pa, fronting on Main
street (or Turnpike) 75 feet and extending back
180 leet, more or less, ar d baring thereon erected
a large two story BRICK BOUSE, with base
ment and kitchen, and good cellar, frame Black,
smith and Wagon-Maker's Shop, frame stable
and other out-building*, with fruit of different
varieties on the lot. This would be a good stand
for a Tavern or Boarding House, being eonveoi
eut 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 land
of Cbenowith, Amos, .Shannon and others.
Also, 14 acres of Timber Land, adjoining tb-j
Colfelt farm, and convenient to good roads.
For further particulars apply to
JOHN LUTZ,
iNyt'tttr-K Orritr,
or J. <i. BKIIMH A.M.
18dectf Bedford. Pa.
yALDABLE TRACTS OF
LAND FOR SALE.
The subscribers offer at private sale the follow
in£ valuable tracte of l&cd, vix:
No. 1. The undivided half of a trast of body
containing 227 acre*, situate on the eouth-ca.-r
?ide of the Broad Top Mountain, Ijing partlv io
Bedford and partly in Fulton county, and ai
oinmg lands jo Samuel lunr.er, James Brin
hurst and Wiehart's heira. 'J WO VEINS OF
COAL, one 6 J feet, the other 6$ feet in depth ha;<
been discovered on thU tract.
No. 2. A tract 0f230 acres near the abo * ;d
--joining the same lan da, and supposed ; o cortaim
the sauie veins of coal.
No. 3. A tract of 400 acres, within two and a
half miles of the above tracts, lying <n the North
side of the Harbor across the mountain, well tim
f
bered with oak and pine.
May 3,-tf. JOHN LUTZ.
AT PRIVATE SALE.
A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A
HOME.
The 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
been erected. This is a splendid opportunity to
buy a cheap and mcst 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-half acre lot with dwelling house and
other out-buildings, garden and fruit tree.*, an
the best of water convenient, at S7OO, cash.
2. Half-acre lot SIBO, cash.
3. Half acre lot SIBO, cash.
4. Half acre lot $ 1 SO, cash.
5 and 6. Half acre 'ots 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 abve lots, for S6OO, cash.
Any person desiring to buy a home, & few
yards out of Bedford, will find this offer worth
serious consideration.
JOHN LUTZ,
mayß.tf Real Estate Agent, Bedford. Pa.
Jjl OR SALE OR TRADE.
FIVE lots of ground in Bedford, 60 by 240,
formerly part of the Lyons' estate.
Ttvo 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 prarier
two miles from Omaha City.
One third of 7,000 acres in Fulton Ctunty Pa.,
including valuable Ore, mineral and timber lands
near Fort Littleton.
Orer 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 foe
kiln or quarry on the upper end of each.
Also, 320 acres of land in Woodbury CO., lowa.
SO " " Franklin •' lowa.
109 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 houses,
stable and brick yard thereon.
O. E. SHANNON.
June 21,-tf Bedford, Penn'a.
A FINE FARM FOR SALE IN DUTCH
CORNER!
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY CHEAP?
The subscribers will sell all that fine farm ii>
Bedford township, containing ISO acres, 95 of
which ars cleared and under excellent fence, and
the balance, 95 acres, well timbered, adjoining
lands of Charles Helsel, John Scbrebly, and oth
ers. The buildings are a two and a half story
LOG HOUSE and BANK BARN, with other
out-buildings thereon erected. Water in every
field, with an excellent Saw Mill seat. A splen
did apple srehard also thereon. Price #lo©<>
TERMS: One third in hand and the balance it>
three annual payments with interest.
JOHN LUTZ,
June 21, 1867:tf Real Estate Agent.
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Price tI.OO.
3decly B. F. HARRY, Agent.
NOTICE. —All persons having unsettled ac
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