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Letter Iroiu Frauds P. Blair,
SILVER SPRING, MARVLAXP, J
December 2, 1855. {
To Messrs. Daniel R. Goodloe and Lewis
ClepAune, Corresponding Committee of
the Republican Association of Washing
ton City, D. f'.'—.
GENTLEMEN :—Having relinquished po
litical employment, and, to avciH%Bcounter
ing again its anxieties, addicted myself to
country life, lam constrained to
11 our invitation to join the Republican As
sociation of Washingten Citv, although
tempted by the honor of becoming its pre-
I siding officer. Yet I feel it my duty to
say that in the main 1 concur in the aims of
j
iI be Association. To exclude Slavery from
the territories of the United States, and to
rebuke the violation of the compromises
which were made to stand as covenants be
tween the Slave and Free States to effect
that exclusion, are, in my opinion, the most
important movements which have engaged
tbe public mind since the Revolution.
The extension of Slavery over the new
territories would prove fatal to their pros
perity; Lot the greatest calamity to be np
preltended from it is the destruction of the
Confederacy, on which the welfare of the
whole country reposes. Every conquest
of this element of discord, which has so of
ten threatened the dissolution of tbe Union
increases the danger. Every surrender of
the Free States invites invasion.
The cause which your organization is in
tended to promote may well draw to its sup
port men of alPparties. Differences on
questions of policy, on constitutional con
struction, of modes of administration, may
well be merged to unite men who believe
that nothing but concert of action on the
part of those who would arrest the spread
of slavery, can resist (be power of the
comb nation now etnltodied to make it em
brace the coutincnt front ocean to ocear.
The rejiealing clause of the Kansas bill
tsf prsdrrfiteff r.ti the auHrty nf tbe clause
in the constitution which gives Congress
the power "to make regulations respecting
the territories of the United States." Y* et
nothing is clearer in the history of our gov
ernment, than this phrase giving power to
Congress to make regulations respecting
the territories, was meant to give it the
power to exclude slavery from them.
Mr. Jefferson's resolutions of 1784 de
claring ''lhat there shall be neither slavery
nor involuntary servitude iu any of the
States" laid off in the Western territory,
was subsequently renewed in the Congress
of 1785, which added, "that this regula
tion shall be an article of compact," and it
was so voted unanimously by the delega
tions of eight States out of the twelve.
It was passed by the unauimons votes of
all the States by the Congress of 1787,
which sat contemporaneously with the Con
vention forming the Constitution, and that
Constitution gave Congress the power to
make regulations respecting the tenitories,
and moreover affirmed the validity of the
engagements entered into before the adop
tion of the Constitution, by the Confedera
tion—one of which engagements was that
made by the regulation excluding slavery
from the territories. Thus the Congress of
the Confederation and the Constitution uni
ted iu giving a double sanction to the ex
clusion.
The first exerted the power of enacting
Mr. Jefferson's interdict of slavery in the
territories then held by the United States )
to which it had previously given an impres
sive sanction by adding, "this regulation
shall be an article of compact," &c.; and
the convention guaranteed this ''engage
ment." entered into uuder the Confedera
tion, by declaring it valid, and employed
the same terms, "regulation of the territo
ries," m transmit the power here exerted to
future Congresses. In the face of this his
tory, and the letter of the Oonstitutiou
granting the power to make whatever regu
lations it deemed fit, respecting the territo
ries of tle Uuited State?, the authors of the
Kansas and Nebraska bill deny the consti
tutionality of all the regulations which ex
clude slavery from the territories, and set
at naught all the precedents that confirm
them, which have followed hi uninterrupted
succession, from the foundation of the gov
ern incut
Tbat other clause iu the Constitution, em
powering Congress to pass laws to preveut
tho migration or importation of slaves after
1808, shows the fixed purpose of the found
ers of our Union to limit the increase of
this evil. The consequence was au inhibi
tion, whieh preveuta a South Carolina plan
ter, who hag slaves iu Cuba, from bringing
them to his home plantation, and to re
move this obstruction to the increase of
slavery wituiu the Union, and open Africa
to suiipiy the demand made by the new act,
the Northern uul liter? are alrcndy called on
BEDFORD, PA., FRIbA \ JANUARY 4,1856.
'by -bftir Southern allies to lemi tbeir aid:
and certainly those who embrace Mr. Cal
houn's doctrine, as stated by Mr. Douglas
that every citizen has an inalienable right
to move into any of the territories with his
property, of whatever kind or description, I
tie constitution and compromises not with- j
standing, can hardly refuse it. It was on |
tie annexation of the Mexican territories
dbatMr- Oalhonn asserted this principle, to
uosettle the tired policy of the nation, be
ginning with the era of the Declaration of
Independence; and he applied it alike to
the compromise of 1820 and 1850. Mr.
Douglas thus sums up the position taken,
and the result:—
"Under this section, as in the case of the
Mexican law in New Mexico and
Utah, it is a disputed point wheth
er slavery is prohibited in the country by
valid enactment. Tbe decision of this
question involves the constitutional power
of the domestic institutions of the various
territories of the Union. In the opinion of
tltosc eminent statesmen who hold that
Congress is invested with n rightful au
thority to legislate upon tbe subject of sla
very in the territories, the eighth section of
the act preparatory to the admission of
Missouri is null and void, while the pre
vailing sentiment in a large portion of the
Union sustains the doctrine that the Con
stitution of the United Suites secures to
every citizen an inalienable right to move
into any cf the territories with bis proper
ty. of whatever kind and description, and
to hold and enjoy the same under the sanc
tion of law. Your committee do not feel
themselves called upon to enter into the
discussion of those controverted questions.
They involve ttie same grave issues which
produced the agitation, the sectional strife,
and the fearful struggle of 1850."
From this it appears that the compro
mises of IS2O and 1850 involved the ques
tion of the validity of die law of Mexico
excluding slavery from the newl v-ceded
Mexican territory , and the law ot our ovvii
Congress excluding it from that north of
! the line of EG 30. Mr. Douglas' Commit
j tc-e Report recommended, that as
"Congress deemed it wise and prudent to
refrain from deciding the cotter in contro
versy, then, either by affirming or repealing
the Mexican laws, or by an act declaratory
of the true icteut of the Constitution, and
the extent of the protection afforded by it
to slave property in the tei ritories, so your
committee are not prepared now to rocoty.
mend a departure from the course pursued
on that memorable occasion, cither bv af
firming or repealing the eighth section of
the Missouri act, or by an act declaratory
of the meaning of the constitution in re
spect to the legal points iu dispute."
These passages arc quoted to show that
the issues made by Mr. Calhoun, as to ti;u
constitutionality of the two compromises of
1820 and 1850 were expressly left open for
judicial decision, by the committee, who
nevertheless swept away, by a clause sub
sequently added to their bill, not only the
Missouri Compromise of 1820, but also the.
Compromise of 1850, which left untouched
the Mexican law prohibiting slavery in the
ceded territories, and which Webster, Clay,
Beuton, and all the leading lights of the
Senate, (with the exception of Mr. Calhoun)
pronouueed valid, aud an effectual restric
tion.
This repeal was the adoption of Mr. Cal
houn's nullifying doctrine in extent. The
power of Congress to make laws excluding
slavery forever from its territories, as such,
was denied, aud all the territories were
opened to slavery, on the ground of the in
alienable right of every citizen to move in
to any of the territories with his
of whatever kind or description; and the
law of squatter sovereignty was superadded
and substituted for the sovereignty of the
United States over tho public domuiu.—
Thus fell, at the dictation of Mr. Atchison,
supported by the coalition effected between
Whigs and Democrats of tho South, uuder
the pressure and through the intrigues of
the nulliSeis, Mr. Jefferson's noble princi
ple, endeared to tho couutry both for its
moral grandeur and politic wisdom. It is
the first thought uttered in tho Declaration
of Independence, aud to the denunciation
of tlie King of Groat Britain for tfio crime
of bringiug slavery to our shores, it adds,
as the deepest aggravation, that "he has
prostituted his negative for suppressing ev
ery legislative attempt to prohibit cr to re
strain this execrable commerce."
The first legislative attempt to restrain
the progress of the mischief which the
King of Great Britain visited upon this
country, was Mr. Jefferson's resolution ex
cluding slavery from the territory of the
United States in 1781—the next was that
introduced by Rufus King, in 17S5—the
third that of Nathan Dane, in 1787—a1l
receiving tho vote of two-tfiird of the
States of the confederacy, and the last the
unanimous vote. *>
Tito fourth movement was that of the
Convention, in the Constitution itself, pro
viding against the importation of slaves af
j 1808, declaring the binding validity of ibo
i engagements entered iuto by the Congress
lof the Confederacy on th govern moot of
the U. States, to exclude it from the Terri
tory, and securing to the new government
the power of rwdriog sbfnl.ir provisions for
future acquisition of territory. The fifth
regulation to restrain the progress of slave
ry was that of the Compromise of 1820—
the sixth, that of 1850.
It is remarkable, thai although these
great measures had their frigiu with Demo
cratic leaders, Federal and Whig leaders of
greatest renown united uttheir support. —
The Constitutional provujpns on the sub
ject, had the unanimous suffrage of ali the
illustrious men in the who
framed the Constitution, of the United
States: and from the rileqjte on the subject
in the State Conventions (jailed to ratify the
Constitution, it way well fee presumed that
these also were unaaiiaoui in their approval
of what had been done the confedera
cy. and in the new oonstUatiou to restrain
the introduction and Hmitifhe extousion of
slavory. And may not ujonof all parties
now unite to restore what|he patriots of all
potties, daring the first [seventy years of
out government eouirihutelto establish!
The work of restoration is simple and
easy, if the men who the late innova
tion on the long-settled jfclicy of the na
tion can be indueed to rel#quish petty dif
ferences on transitory topiv, and give their
■ uuited voioe, in the next Ijitsideutial elec
tion. for some maq whose |opacity, fidelity,
and courage can be relied ftp"!) to oppose
the issue wltloh the administration
has made to control it. the contest has
grown out of Presidential Aspirations. The
decision of the people at tie polls, in choo
sing a chief magistrate, wll end it. Sea- |
ators will easily'comply wjen the nation's]
power
and patronage, and hopes of the future,
which animate the leading members of the
body.
The administration has staked itself ou
the stijiport of the party of privilege—of
class interest —which makes it a uuit. It '
confides in the suceess which lias ciowned
the oligarchy everywhere in the Old World j
and secured its triumphs on the maxim, j
"Divide and conqutr.'' The Whigs and j
Democrat* of the South are a combination, j
fcrtfarry into the next Presidency some can- :
didate absolute in maintaining the repeal- j
itig clause of the Kansas bill, which nullities j
the principles of the ordinance, the pro
vision* of the constitution made to give j
them effect, and all the compromises which |
have been made in oursuance of thetu, with j
the function of all sections of the Union.
If the majority favorable to ihe policy
built up with our Government will unite
accept the issue tendered by the Adminis
tration, and make the repeal of the repeal
ing clause of the Kansas act paramount iu
the impending contest for the Presidency,
all will be restored that has been lost to
free institutions by opening the territories
North and South, to slavery. The compro
mises of 1820 and 1850 being restored,
there will not be an inch of the territory of
the United States, once exempt from slave
ry, on which it can legally intrude: and
Mr. Atchison's attempt by au armed force
to carry out the nullification plotted in the
caucus which gave birth to the Kansas bill,
will like tho attempt of his prototype, Mr.
Calhoun, to give effect to South Carolina
nullification, be paralysed by the flown of
au indignant nation, made poteut by an hon
est and Gnu executive.
And there will cud the career of those
gentlemen wito arrogate to themselves the
exclusive tutelage of the Democracy of the
country, as ended that of Mr. Calhoun and
his proselytes, who took the peculiar "barge
of the State Rights party. They sunk, un
der the universal conviction that their teal
for state rights was an ardent passion to
reach political power, at the hazard of ex
tinguishing iu the Wood of the people the
wise and freo institutions it had cost so
much to establish.
Our innovating Democrats, who put un
der foot the representatives principle; who
violate the known will of their constituents
who scorn their instructions to redress the
wrong they hive committed; who reply to
the suffrages that condemn their conduct
that they are not Democratic suffrage.-; who
in the pluuitude of thetn infalibility, read
out of the Democratic party Maine, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, New l'ork, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin and lowa, because tbey will not
submit to the will of these, their represen
tatives. who liavo set up a test which must
ever *>xeludc Massachusetts, Vermont aud
Rhode Jslaad ffoiu its ranks; who have har-
! teied away rights secured to thetu all by
! compacts —will soon learn that Democracy
does not reside in the organization of In
triguer*, but in the mass of the people.
It is the glory of our great
that its democracy springs up from the sou!
and flourishes in the fresh air of our wide
spread country; and that its rich harvests,
imparting health, strength and spirit to our
whole system, is gathered annually at the
polls. The Democracy which is bred in
caususcs and cabinets is a sort of hot-bed
species—suited to the taste of epicurean
politicians, whose appetites are their princi
ples. Incumbents aim expectant of offices
and dignities claim a sort of patent right in
the machine of government to create a dem
ocracy adapted to their purposes. Their
innovations in the machinery arc contrivan
ces to renew their privileges for new terms,
and the people are the subjects who are to
be used up in it, to pay tribute for this
privilege; and take pride iu the skill of the
operators.
The telegraph wires and the Cincinnati
Convention arc to bring all the master!v
combinations of the Administration In con
taet with the masses at the appointed time.
But, will the wires work? Undoubtedly
the people, far and wide, will have their in
structions from the operators: but the res
ponse w ill probably he a thunderbolt to those
who have violated their rights, spurned
their remonstrances, and, as a consequence
have arrayed brothers from the different
sections of the Union to she 1 each others"
blood in civil war, on the plans of Kan
sas.
Yours, respectfully.
K. V BLAIR.
The Zpati of the Jcb-EI-Tour.
The scene of the following anecdote is
laid in a mountainous region but little known
to the European traveller. The few who
have extended their wanderings through the
north ot Mesopotamia towards Assyria and
Persia, have generally followed the caravan
route whwh* runs aU.ng the
Diarbekir towards Jozirch and Mosul, pas
sing through Nisibin am. Mardin, towns ot
llo.nan celebrity. However, on our arrival
at Diarbekir, we learned that a shorter,
though much moic dfircult route, lay through
■i range of mountains which run parallel to
the right of the Tigris, and froui the last
outlying bulwark of the groat chains of
. Asia Minor and Aiimoni. Through thc.se
we accordingly took our way; and if we
suflered from the toil aud difficulty of our
journey, we wera amply repaid by the change
frotu the monotonous sceucry and selling at
mosphere of the plains, to the bracing and
constaut variety of tiiu mountain.
We bad been clambering all day over
the rugged passes of the Jeb-el-Tour, when,
towards evening, we gained the summit of a
ridge which overhung a beautiful valley,
green and cultivated, and in marked con
trast with the savage rocks around. Ab
durrachnian reined up his horse, and pointed
out the flat roofs and uind walls of Achniedias
which wo joyfully hailed as our resting
place for the uight. Hut our gide looked
on the scene with a far different feeling,
and while our caravan was picking a precari
ous way down the mouutuiu-side, lie told
me the story of his life.
Ere the days of the rennuned Cordish
chief, Bedar Khan Bev, Aclmiedi was a
flourishing Christian village. Secluded in
a narrow valley of the Jeb-el-Tour, an!
accessible only by one or two difficult nioun- j
tain-passes, the inhabitants had enjoyed in !
peace the fruits of their industry, whilst
surrounding country wasted by tiie incessant j
feuds of Mussulmans and Christiau. or the
incursions of Arab plun
derers. But, in an evil hour, Beder Kiun
Bey rose in power, and extermination to !
the mountain Christian was proclaimed.—
Towns aud villages were sacked, whole
districts were depopulated, and such of the j
unfortunate inhabitants as escaped death
by the sword were doomed to drag on !
their existence in a state of hopeless tdave
-17-
Bat as yet this little vtdiy remained un
touched, almost unnoticed. Abderrauu
man's father was one of the chief men of
the place, hut in consequence of his age and
infirmities, much of bis authority devolved
upon his son, who naively infored tneof the
respect in which he was held by al! toe
youug men of the place on account of bi 3
prowess in feats of arms, and his skill iu
the chase of the panthers and wild goats
which haunt the sui rounding mountains.
It is to be supposed that these accomplish
ments h.is.d won him the heart of a beauti
ful daughter of the fciayah, for Safii had
promised to be his wife. In a few days cha
marriage was to have taken piaec, when one
c vening a lonely fugitive, galicping for life
entered the village, and threw himself upon
the hospitality of the kiayah. lie was ia
staotly received and kindly entertained;
his wounds were dressed by his host's
daughter, and not until he was thoroughly
recovered was he allowed to proceed on his
j lurney. But the beauty of his nurse at
tracted the young Kurd, and as she rejected
all hi* protestations of affection, ho vowed
as Le left the roof that had sheltered biui,
that willing oi unwilling, the should be his
bride withiu three days,
lie was a favorite and near relative of
Bedar Kuhn Bey, and towards his camp he
immediately turned bis horse's head. The
Kurdish forces were absent on some errand
of devastation, but a band of a doscn bold
spirits was soon colccted, and as Safti and
the other damsels of Achuiedt were bathing
in the cool and shady waters of the moun
tain stream which skirts the village, they
suddenly swept down, and before the alarm
could be raised, tho loveliest of the maidens
were secured, and being hurried across the
mountains.
But little had the marauders dreamed of
the euergy despair could give their victims-
Towards DOOD, liaviDg put tunny a utile be
; twecn them and tbe scene of their exploit,
' and thinking themselves secure from pur
j •.utt, they halted to rest thoir jaded steeds,
j The arms of tbir prisoners were unbound,
! but, scarcely had they found themselves free,
] when; us if by one consent, each maiden en
| deavored to bury a dagger in the breast of
' the nearest Kurd. Many fell, and, among
i t 2
1 others, the young chieftain; but the survi
-1 vors took a bloody revenge, and, after titas.
sacreing their caytives, hurried away to the
Kurdish eanip
At this moment, Abdurrachman had, in
: pursuit, readied the spot, and found his in
' tended bride in the last agonies of death,
j took but a moment to sever a lock of hair 1
wet with her blood, aud alone as he was,
he rushed upon the retreating party. Many
; went down before his sword; but, at last,
overpowered by numbers, be fell, covered
with wounds, and left for dead. Days,
j he said, must have passed ere be recovered
i !4* *eo!.s, but„ ay soon as be eouKl travel,
i lie left t.ho friends that bad discovered and
. nutsed him. and returned to Achmedi, to
i find it a smouldering heap of ruir.s. The
! Kurds had swept down to avenge the uc.itL
of their coatrads, and of the once happy in
habitants of the valley not one retrained.
With every tie to home thus severd, he
left his native mountains, and enlisting iu a
body of irregular cavalry, then forming at
Diarbekir, tried to drown the recollection
of Lis sorrows in the excitement of war and
plunder. This was the first time lie had re
turned to the Jeb-el-Tour, "but," he said,
what is if to me? Achiuod, yonder has ris
en again, b"t there are none of my kindred
to dwell there; and o: the happy days of
uiy youth, the only record that remains is
this;" .oid he drew from the folds of his
zuboon a iotig tre,s of raven hair, heavy and '
clotted with blood.
Such was our Zipti's story, and it is but
too comscoii a one iu the mountains of Mes
sopotaiuia aud Armenia. The reader will
plobably remember the grapic account of
the persecution of the Tiyari, contained iu
Mr. J-ayuiJ's first work cn on Ninaveb.—
Since, then, this unfortunate people have
enjoyed comparative peace from oppression.
Secluded in their native valley, which can
only be approached by the most rugged
mountain-paths, scarcely pi ic livable even
to the surefooted mules of the country, and
governed by their own ttieleks or chiefs, they
mix but Rule with the rest of the world;
aud now that tho iucursions of the Kurdish
uiarudcrs are repressed, they are again re
turning to their homes, carrying with them
a lively rcmeuiberanee of the name and
power of England, which supported them iu
exile, delivered ibeui from their oppressors,
and restored tbeui to their uative hearths.
Tho anecdote we have given above is
characteristic of the difference between the
Kurd aud Arab. Ar. Arab who once recei
ved hospitality, even from tht bitterest foc
would forever consider his host's house aud
person as sacred, and would protect him
from injury, even at the peril of his own
life. So strong is that feeling that in bat
tle, if tiu enemy can claim the dukhei or
friendship of cue of the members of a
ttibe, his life is instantly spared.
With a kurd it is different. Guided by
nc principles of honor, and ameuable to no
laws of society, he is alike the dread and
scorn of his neighbor.?, aud his name is used
by the Arab muleteer to goad on the very
uiulcs aud asses, as one of the most disgrac
fu! epithets he can shower upon them; while
the proverb, "as bearish as a Kurd," is a
saying ia common use throughout the East.
paper about to be published in the town o'
Kilehfield, Clay county, Mo.
OLl** Women—thu ummiug star of our
youth, the day star of our manhood, the
evening star of qu.r old age. blo.u cur
stars.
.VOL 29, NO 1.
PUBLIC U 1,1
OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE,
R Y " T,ICT ° ftflc °H'W Court,
IJ "/ Klf'rd Co.riy, there will be expo* d
to *ih by public outcry, on the premie <„
77/ r °f D in, 1., ;;I] f j J
North-MTwt iuntafLing *•
E63 Acres
X*r.?S ! terr'
Stone kitchen att.cLd, la^feiSbt 1 ' h
gramcry and other nnt build,WJ i'
acre, cleared, under good fence ami £ a ~=;H
stain of cultiriirion *),„ u.,i . d
There are on this'tin.', abort
meadow. 'There is • is,. i ~ Cre * v ? £'>od
of choice fruT to.ad ? rge "'I 1 ' 1 * orc ' ,Mi ' !
°>"iiingre, oo,r
IKK MS made known on day of sale.
UKIAH CONLKV,
ISAIAH CONLKV
r. >- .
propt-uy before bi.edav of ante will "m
RBI-It Siii*
OF t JUMBLE REH KSTITE.
B %" •* v f <e,
otifedlorrtCotmty,the subscriber will ■ 1
t£
property of Solomon Filler, deceased v
A LOT OF GROUND,
! n " w Borough of Beie--i
1 4 , ' I, V' ,Sn 1 B'rgh' situation r[
d 1 ™te commodious
nuiili BWBBNC HOI SE
lrameStibie. fee Konse.'Am Pin AI lev h.i
JareS T,iis> I""W i, TamU.mvt.
- Mm ' f Icadhl ? the Bedford
lV " f;,™ * V** d, kirubk ' l,l,o —pmlicukr-
,iin" hons'> r W,!> . to kc *'l > private ia.ar
forl .'U'i r Wbu i it has been d
' irire tf o >e: ' rs ' , 1 !k ' >'■< rutiieit-r.tfv
•• Y to occommo.Ute filty or sixty b'mrdwL
an t is Insured for four years front the °S.i dv
uj oeptejiiher, uit.
*1 £ *Ol Ca&but (heConljiTo^tiiJij.of thes-tUc.
S. L. liUSSiiIJL,
-fc-rrrm/w q/Vfo fa,/ If;,/ £ c St.'catttrj
* * Mx,;- - i
U'h' A , N P Kl> - At "--J'- Coh.-.ri"
: h,..it. Iyu, Oats, Corn, and buckwheat— >
Wtt-sr approved p.oduw, in excivrmv a. r
foods at cash prica-
ILLEGfIEM MALE AJii) FEMALE
SEiiIXARY,
THE S -cona session of tbo irstttuiion-viP,
commuiie.e on Mwaliy January 1858,
'he sessmn w" bo divide I into two ijuartcis
ot 1 1 weeks etch without a vacation.
Kates of tuition a.s fol'otvs r i/;
f-oinmon English per quarter sß.ot>
To which will tie added for
E icli higher branch 75
Each Ancient language T"s
The entire amount of the above not to
Exceed .six dollars
EXTRAS.
Diawmgand Painting ot the different varieties
. lroni $3 t> a.**-
on Piano,
\oc ■! raiiiic b' lessons jar week J .ou
Incidentals, -j,
Boarding can be secured on reasonable tenw*
By uhKt of THE TRUSTE H -
ti uus: urg, Dec. 7, 1>35.
Cbthiag and Dry Goods Store
; PTIIiE subscribers are just rcceivirg art v.
-L handsome and cfibnp assortment •>: r.R.i
L>Y 3LIJIE CLOT B1 AG and MIY COOm, a
their store in thcita&t C >ruer U"Ls<lierd
consisting in p rt 0 t Ccats, l' cr is, Vests. Siiirt*-
Satiu Stocks, Handkerchicfe, Boots and Hh< es.
Hats unit Caps, ajid aI i i. ther articles usual !v
kept In Ready Made Clothing Stores.
Also a good assortment of tIBY GOODS.
I consisting of Calico, MOIIB. !.• Baiae, Efcaw's,
Alpacas. Trunks. Carp, r Sacks, Ac., lie : all
of which they will rc!i as cheap as cn ie pr< .
cured elacwli-re in Beofurd, fur Cash or Coer
try Produce.
ney rennest all their friends in town and
country to them a call, and see and exam
ine their stock fr themselves, as titer consider
it a plfeftsrffe to show their g els, •whether per
sons wish to purchase or jut.
SDN NABOBN he CO.
Bedford, April iff*, 1875.
'BEOM'BdTRL ~
A VII
GEXEEAL STAGE OFFICE.
rnilE subscriber respectfully tunicate torn
X nounce to his ol.i liiends mid tu pa'dic.
gene rally, that Ins has leased and taker posses
siun of the Bedford Hotel, lately iu t' eoccu
pancy of Col. Adorn Barnlmrr. {t is hot his,
1 design to make many professions as to what he"
will do, Uui ho pledges his word thet j.> ino.-r
energetic efforts will be employed to render
comfortable H l! who give hint : sail. The horn
will in.* handsomely fitted up, at d no& tut
j careful ami attentive servants will be engaged.
Persons visiting the Bedford Spriwgs. us weh
as those trt-ndiag Court, and the traveling
j commit' ity g.nerni'.y, are teape.tfitßy invited
I to give him a cut! and judge for thefescTves.*
!T7" The stages all cow stop at this hotel,
and it is therefore the Stage Office.
Boirdei s t:d -n ' . the weel;, i :on;li or vi-ar,
on favorable terras.
03** Ample -und COmfbrtaMe pt il?3-rr is at
tach, << to this h tel, vvhxh will aJwaj s be at
tended by a oarefulhostler. Alio, a safe and
Convenient carriage hotse.
JOHN HA-FE-11.
Bedford, April 6, ](jB& zz
fis. \i€ouejni,
Justice •!" tire Prnr.e,
H\S re.n ired his Office to Juliana Stleei
t.Vi) doors North of the "Inquirer and
OhronioJe" Office, and two doors .South oi King
4-JorJans'Office, where be will punctually rt
tend t the collection of all claims jdacediL
liis hands.
Badfe: J, Apvil G, 1855-iz