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BEDFORD GAZETTE. D. F. MEYERS, EDITOR. FRIDAV : : : : JULY 31, 1863. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. STATE TICKET. FO GOVERNOR, GEORGE W. WOODWARD, OF LUZERNE. FOR JUDGE OF TIIE SUPREME COURT, WALTER H. LOWRIE, OF ALLEGHENY. COUNTY TICKET. ASSEMBLY, 15. F. MEYERS, Bedford lior. PKOTHON OTA RY, O E. SHANNON, Bedford Bor. SHERIFF, JOHN ALDSTADT, St. Clair. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, SAMUEL DAVIS, Bedford Bor. TREASURER, J. B. FAIiQUHAR, Bedford Bor. COMMISSIONER, GEORGE RHOADS, Liberty. AUDITOR, DANIEL BARLEY, M.Woodberrv. POOR DIRECTOR, IIENRY MOSES, Bedford tp. CORONER, JAMES MAITINGLY, Londonderry, DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE. The members of the Democratic County Committee are requested to meet at the office of J. P. Reed, in the Borough of Bedford, on Saturday, the Bth day of August next. A full attendance is particularly requested, a3 very important business will be laid before the Com- mittee. The following named gentlemen com- pose the Committee: J. I'. Reed, J. G. Hartley, J. T. Gophart, Pe- ter M. Barton, A. J. Morgrct. James MeClea- ry, William Foster, Lewis Houser, Thomas Donahoe, A. L. Beckhonffer, John Grove, Wil- liam Gillespie, Esq., William Bunnell, Geo. R. Bailey, Isaac Kensingor, Henry F. Smith, John A. Gump (C. Valley) John Smith, Esq., Robert Stockman, David Whetstone, Samuel W. Miller, Esq., Michael Wertz, Esq. Glorious Gen. Grant! It is a significant fact that the ouly Gon- ral besides MeClellan, who has successfully led an army against the Rebels, is in poli- tics, what the stay-at-home Abolitionists de- nominate a "Copperhead." We allude to Gen, Grant, the hero of Ft. Donelson and Vickflburg. He has gained the only two great successes of the war, and yet he has freely permitted the Chicago Times, the New York World, and even the Bedford Gazette to circulate within his lines, has never suppressed a single newspaper, nor deprived a single citizen of his civil rights. Hurrah for Grant and every General like him! GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK. ?"Godcy," for August, is on our tabic, and, wo must say, entirely maintains its high position as a leading fashion magazine, whilst its needle- work department is as useful and full of in- struction as ever. The fashion-plates in "Godcy" aro always well executed and as forreliability, t hey arc entirely beyond ques- tion. PETERSON'S MAGAZINE. ?We have be- fore us the August number of this valuable work. Itis filled with choice literature and the illustrations are numerous and very pret- ty. Peterson is always interesting and in- structive. , fctrTlie draft Ins been suspended in the Bradford district, owing to>thefact that the papers of the Provost Marshal have been stolen from his office. This is pretty well for one of the blackest Abolition districts in the state. The "loyal men" of Brad- l'ord have a very tender regard for their own persons and will, doubtless, do any thing to keep out of danger yet a little longer. -The news from Mexico is to the ef- fect that that country lias been declared an empire, Maximilian of Austria, to be the Kmjicror. . ®yMrssrs. Lowry & Eichelbergcr have made some valuable discoveries on the iron ore land of Messrs. Schell, Russell & Tate, at Bloody Bun. They have proved the Hematite scam of ore to bo from 10 to 14 feet in thickness. They have shafted over forty feet through the ore and have driven a tunnel from the rail road in to the ore. The vein appears to lie inexhaustible.? Bedford.is emphatically the Iron County of the State, inasmuch us it can lie manufactured here chenper than any where else. We have ore, coal and lime-stone in close proximity, plenty of timber and fine water power. "The Curse of Party." Under the above caption the Bedford Inquirer, of last week, indulges in an overstrained and grandiloquent homily upon the subject of cling- ing to party. Ittakes very good care, however, to direct its remarks only to Domocrats. It never once recommends its own political friends to abandon their party organization. That trite Ymd homely, but nevertheless true and compre- hensive adage, "What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander," seems to have been forgot- ten by the editor of that paper. It would be very gratifying to him, wo make no doubt, to have the opponents of Abolitionism ground their arms and permit the party which maintains and defends their ruinous doctrine, to secure such local and State offices as will enable it to per- petuate its adherents in power. It would suit him exactly to have the political opponents of the present State and Federal Administrations, close their mouths and suffer the Constitution to be violated, the rights of the States and the people to be trampled under foot, the public treasury plundered, and even our gallant sol- diers defrauded of their clothing and their pay. It would be his delight to see Democrats aban- don their opposition to such men as Fremont and Butler and Cameron, whom the President was forced to send into retirement on account of their corruption and incapacity. And as for Gov. Curtin, under whose auspices the infa- mous "shoddy" speculations were made, at the expense of the comfort and life ofPennsylvania soldiers, it would suit this Abolition scribbler most admirably if all criticism of the official acts of his excellency would be hushed, as the aforesaid Curtin, itis now thought, willcertainly be renominated by his party. But let us inquire, for a moment, who clings to "party" with the greatest tenacity and whose fault it is that the opposition to the men in power is so strong and irresistible. When the Cotton States were about to secede, a compromise aliko fair, equitable aud honora- ble to both sections, was proposed by Mr. Crit- tenden. Petitions from all parts of the country asking the adoption of the compromise, poured in upon Congress. The prayers of the nation went up in its favor, and its vencrablo author, with tears in his eyes, implored tho "Republican" Senators to accept it, but all in vain. The creed of the "Republican" party, was in the way and tho "Republican" Senators would not abandon their Chicago Platform for the sake of the Crit- tenden Compromise arid a peaceful and undivided country. They preferred to cling to their par- ty, even at the risk of civil war and social and political anarchy. When the war broke out, although the Exec- utive and a majority of Congress, were anti- Democrats, the Democracy rushed to arms to maintain tho authority of tho Constitution and the laws. But no sooner had the Democrats entered tho army and Democratic statesmen committed themselves to tho war, than Congress rcpoalcd the resolution in which it had declared the ob- ject of tho war to be tho vindication of the Constitution and the restoration of the Union, and the President, influenced by Abolition par- tizans, proclaimed emancipation, thus introdu- cing into his war policy the doctrine always odious to a largo majority of the peoplo of the North. In this the President and the majority in Congress clung to their party dogmas, aud literally drove conservative people from their support. When Gen. McGlellau saved Pennsylvania, from invasion and after the battle of Antietam compelled the rebel army to fall back into Virginia in spite of the prayers of the people and the entreaties of the soldiers, that gallant General, at the instance of Abolition politicians was removed from bis command by the Presi- dent, who again clung to bis party against the best interests of the army and of the country. The "curse of party" deprived the army of the Potomac of its ablest commander and to this day keeps him in retirement. Thus wo instances of the close adherence to "party" on the part of the opponents of Democracy, but it is unnecessary to do so. Ev- ery body knows how virulent and bitter aro the adherents of the present Federal Administration in their opposition to all men who do not give that Administration an unqalified support in all its measures and acts. Did not theso men when the war began, set neighbor against neighbor, on account of politics? Did they not tlireaton to hang the Democrats and did they not destroy Democratic printing-presses and mob Demo- cratic meetings' Why, their partisan rancor led them to the most shameful excesses, to riot, arson and blood-shed. The "curse of party" has been their curso and to this day they have not shaken it off. But, to conclude, if the Inquirer is so earnest on this subject of abandoning parly, why does it not recommend its own political friends in Somerset, Allegheny,and other "Republican" "strongholds, to withdraw their tickets and al- low the people of those counties to elect men to ollice without reference to politics? "The proof of the pudding is the eating of it," and when the "Republicans" of Allegheny and Somerset and Bradford and Lancaster mastioato the no- party pudding of the Inquirer, wc shall begin to think that it is not gotten up merely as a bait for weak and unwary Democrats. Until then, however, we can only consider it as a "very transparent trap set for gulls in a country where gulls have never before been seen." 1lie arrivals at the Springs, during tho past week, have bceu more numerous than in the first part of the season. Among them we notice Gen. Thos. J. McKaig, Col. J. P. Ko- man, T. Devecmon, Esq., Messrs. Jones and Comhs, of Cumberland, (Md.)and Messrs. Tay- lor and Andei-son, Merchants, ol' Philadelphia. Roorback No. 1. We cautioned the publio some time ago a- gainst the cannrd* which, we were informed, the Abolition loader* intend to put afloat concern- ing the Democrat ic nominees. In the last is- sue of their organ, "no of these makes its ap- pearance ui a Inter purporting to have been I written from Ciunbeilnnl Valley townsliip, which says that we declared in a speech deliv- ered at Smith's school-house in that township, that if the Supreme Court of the United States decided the Conscription law to be Constitution- al, then "they (the drafted persons) should use powder and lend." Every body who heard the speech referred to, knows that this is false.? What wc did say and what, we intend to stand by to the last, was this: The people have the right to test the Constitutionality of the Con- scription law. They can make the issue in an inferior Court and then carry it to that of final resort. If the Court of final resort dccido the ease in favor of the Constitutionality of the law, the only remedy left the people is the bal- lot-box, by which a change of Representatives and Senators in Congress may be effected and the repeal of the odious law obtained. Hut should this remedy?tho ballot-box?the elec- tive franchise?be interfered with or denied to the people by thoso in power, then wc shall, without doubt, have revolution, and powder and lead will determine whether wc shall continue to be freemen or not. Who's for Salo? Tlio Abolitionists are badly in want of some saleable individual who has hitherto pretended to bo a Democrat. They will give him any po- sition upon their ticket, except l'rothonotary and Sheriff (those offices pay too well to make presents of) or, they will agree not to make any nomination and support him as an "indepen- dent" candidate. Of course, in the latter ease, he must give them to understand that he will be dependent upon their will, after the election. Who's for sale? We arc anxious to know the man who is willing to sell his principles for office! We want to write hi 3 biography. Death of Mr. Crittenden. Hon. John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, died at Frankfort in that state, on Sunday morning last. Mr. Crittenden had reached the advanced age of 77 years. The death of this venerable statesman and patriot will be mourned through- ont the length and breadth of the land. CJrThe editor of the Inquirer, having failed in his efforts to instigate white mobs, now turns his attention to his "colored brethren" and sug- gests to them the use of violence against the whites. In his last issue he says that he has "often stood upon the street cornel's and beheld colored men, women and children stoned, en and abused until" his "very frame shook with ire," (all of which is a nice little bit of ro- mance, for, if it were true, oiir Courts would soon right the wrong,) and then he adds that some forty negroes have lately entered the army, which fact he hails "with joy; "for, says he, it tells us that the day is not far distant when the colored man will protect himself against the out- rages practiced upon him by the cowardly mis- creants who never leave an opportunity pass without offering him insults." This means that the negroes being armed, when they return, are to shoot down the white boys of whom this Dur- borrow complains. Now, the laws protect the black man as well as the white, in person and property, and if white boys maltreat the blacks, the latter have a civil and peaceful remedy. But should the blacks ever attempt to take tho law into their own hands, and riot and blood-shed ensue, the people of Bedford will hold Mr. Jo- seph It. Durborrow responsible for the crimes against law and order committed upon his sug- gestion. Evidently, then, there are only two great classes in this country. The patriots who are shedding their blood in the field against the le- gions of Traitors, and they are truly Martyrs for the cause of Humanity, Civilization and Progress,, and the dastardly cowards who re- main at ease plotting the overthrow of the country and "aiding and abetting" Treason. This latter class has uniformly escaped punish- ment, but at last the Source of All Wisdom has brought down upon them their richly mer- ited recompense, By their own works have they been overtaken and the punishment has boen to a certain extent complete.? Bedford Inquirer. The "dastardly coward" of the Inquirer, who remains at ease, plotting the overthrow of the country and 'aiding and abetting' Treason," ac- knowledges that his works have "overtaken him" and that ills punishment "has been ton cer- tain extent complete." "An honest confession |s good for the soul." (SyCall and see the new arrival of goods at J. M. Shoemaker's. Job has lately returned from the East, with a large stock and can sup- ply every body. erOnr old friend, Maj. Jas Patton, has re- turned to this place, greatly improved in health. £3"We regret to learn that Maj. J. 11. Filler was captured by the Rebels during the last dis- astrous attack on Fort Wagner. CSrII. J. Stable, Esq., editor of the Gettys- burg Compiler, has been released from Fort McFlenry, where he was recently so unjustly imprisoned. ftyWc are under obligations to Lieut. J. B. Ilehn, for late North Carolina papers. The Huntingdon Monitor office was again partially destroyed on Saturday morning last. Shame on tho men who did it, say we! 3-The Democratic State Committee is called to meet on tho 11 th of August. We hope the "committee will act vigorously. For the Bedford Gazette. Sights and Sounds from up a Tree, No. 2. Ensconced in iny usunl "perch," a "knot of those peculiar admirers of the "free American of African descent," known as "Republicans," gathered beneath me. They had evidently heard of my being "about," as they looked around them in every direction und up on my tree where I sat snugly hidden among the leaves, and cock- ed their cars sharply and held their breath, in order to detect my presence or that of some one who, they feared, might overhear their conver- sation. Hut no "Sharpshooter" was visible and every thing was quiet as a Sabbath morn. As- sured that they were entirely alone, they began to converse in a low tone, holding forth to the following effect.- First Hep. "Well, what do you all think of tho prospects of our party I They look a little blue, don't they? We will have to overcome G25 majority if Wtrvvant to beat the Democrats. I am afraid we. can't do that." Second Hep. "Wo can't touch bottom. The people have lost confidence in us, because they say we told them that if Lincoln would be elect- ed we would have better times and 110 war; and, then, there's Shannon and Meyers, confound their Copperhead skins! ?they are always harp- ing on our opposition to the Crittenden Compro- mise, which they say was acceptable even to Jeff Davis himself, and which would have saved the Union, if we had allowed it to he adopted. Hut we must keep up our party and something must be done." Third Rep. (Slightly intoxicated; "Ilic! I think (hie!) you ure both mis (hie!) taken! Call the fellers on the Democratic tick (hie!) et "Cop- perhciYds," and I'll hail you we'll (hie!) fetcli 'em 1" First llep. "Pooh! pooh! The Copperhead business is about played out. Resides we have always lost more by giving the Democrats nick- names than we gained by it. That fool, Dur- borrow, thinks it a great point to call the Dem- ocrats "Copperheads," and to nick-name and abuse people, hut I can toll you that I know that his course, is doing us great hurt. People seo that he is trying to blackguard Shannon and Meyers and Davis only for political effect. If wc don't get him out of the Inquirer office soon, he'll sink our party so deep that the plummet of resurrection will never reach it." Second Rep. "Poor Durborrow!" First Rep. "He ought to be in 'contact' with George Sigafoos and the two in 'juxta-position' with an insane asylum!" 'Third Rep. "Jerusalem! Sig (hie!) nfoos 'll use his arm (hie !) 'in defence of his country!' You'll see he will!" First Hep. "Well, well, we're getting off the question. I still think we may be able to make something by coaxing some weak-kneed, disaf- fected Democrats to go on our ticket for some of thogoffices. We can then get up the cry of ?'Union ticket" and "no party," and we can be- rate the Democrats at will for keeping up party divisions. But the plague is to get any of these "Democrats to stand our nomination. They know that we'll be beaten and we can't make them believe any tiling else. But we have a few nibbfys, ngw, and we may catch some suck- ers yet. Two-or <%r lawyers and another per- son c*He<l oii a young Democrat some time ago, to tflcUuu Idrun for the Legislature, and fho' he was assured that his being a candidate would be 'agreeable to influential Democrats,' he per- emptorily refused. We aro hard up for candi- dates, but I think we can find somebody willing to go over the course for form's sake.'' Third Rep. "We're bound to boat the Cop- tic!) pcrheads!" First Rep. "Well, it'll take sober men in their very soberest senses to do that. By the way, wo're not half cautious enough about our pro- ceedings. Meyers knows every thing we do. Some of our fellows must tell him some things. Why, he even knows where our 'secret league' meets and who attends it and what is done there, and when we get any of his party to slip in with us, lie knows it instanter and gives them such hard hints about it that they are afraid to meet with us again. We must be more cau- tious." Second Rep. "I think his hash 'll be settled before long. We sent a couple of his late pa- pers to Gen. Milroy, and 1 think Meyers is a prominent candidate for FortMcHcnry. Jf tho soldiers had listened to us we would have been rid of him long ago. l!ul I find a good many of them think just about like he does. But, never mind; Ft. McHcnry will bring him to his senses." First Rep. "Well, I must go and write a let- ter for the Inquirer, locate it somewhere out in the country, sign it "Old Line Democrat," and ask the people for goodness' sake to vote for an honest candidate'for tho Legislature. Ha! ha! won't that be a good joke!" Second Hep. "I must look after some Govern- ment property. Politics before pleasure, but business before cither. Charity begins at home." Third Rep. I'll go and take a (hie!) drink. To h?ll with the Cop (hie!) perheads! Hello! I b'licve there's one o' them (hie!) cussed snakes in my boots, now! Go 'way there, you man with the (hie!) red hot poker! lam no Copper- head ! 1 am 1- (hie 1) oyal 1" I listened a moment longer and they were gone?one to forge indignant "Old Line Dem- ocrat" letters?another to look after some pros- pective "green-backs"?and a third to fight "Copperheads" and snakes generally. "When shall these three meet again?" Well, whenever they do they will get another shot from your SHARPSHOOTER. Bedford, July 27. ST. CI.AIR TP., 7th mo., *27. FRIEND BENJAMIN : Excuse me for troubling thcc again. But "when duty calls 'tis ours to obey." Hence I write thee at this time. Let me say thy defence of the Democratic candidate for Sheriff, was well-timed and true, lie has lived long among us, and the effort of Joseph Durborrow to con- nect him with rowdyism or barn-burning, only recoiled upon the author and his party. Hut let me say a word about our national troubles. Oh! for one morsel of that blessed sentiment uttered in the Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed arc the peace-makers !'*Who in their madness and bigotry will now say, "no peace?" We all say peace here. It is but a little finger- board, perhaps, but it points to the hearts of the people throughout the country?to the weep- ing widows?the deserted firesides?the father- less children?the desolated land. We claim to be honest in our peaceful opposition to the draft. It is the universal sentiment?not only of tho Democrats, but Whigs and many of our Repub- licans. The man or party that now advocates it, wo will put down at the ballot-box. The blood of their brothers is even now crying from the ground against them. Over two long years of bloody, gory work proves it not the remedy among onlightencd, christianized men. Savages would scarcely be so savage. No good lias coine of it?none will eotne. Lot us take this mat- ter in our own hands, and with the still snuill voice of the ballot-box give to our land peace and unitv as our fathers did before us. THY FRIEND. Partlzan Villany Admitted! The Pittsburgh Gazette of the 20th inst., in an elaborate article, fastens on Gov. Curtin's administratiou all the crimes and peculation with which we have charged hi in for two years past.?The Gazette says that lie was found guilty of securing fat contracts for himself through "private agents," li bi/ a committee ap- pointed by himself!" This is admission enough to open the eyes of every honest Republican. This expose is made not through the honesty of the Gazette , but because there is a war going on in the abolition wigwam between the pnrti- zans of honest Simon Cameron, whoso organ tbe Gazette is and the friends of Gov. Curtin! As Cameron's friends have commenced "telling talcs out of school," we may expect some rich developments from the Curtin side of the house, one party buys the other, and every body knows Cameron is rich! When rogues fall out, honest men will get their dues. How will this development of the Gazette's set upon the stomach of certain very patriotic gentlemen in our midst who have been so fu- rious in their defence of the purity of Andy Curtin? Eh?? Washington Review. The Negro Takes the Reins- White Men Proscribed. General Ranks has ordered that none but | colored men shall ho employed as teamsters by the Government in his department. The above is from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Republican.) The phrase, "put none but Americans on guard," is now changed?let none hut, "negroes have the reins." They are to be the drivers. Those who have the misfor- tune to he white are thus proscribed by this Administration. Of course the white soldier will vote to continue this party in power! Facts for the People. I hold that this Government was made on the WHITE BASIS, by WHITE MEN, for the benefit of WHITE MEN, and their POSTER- ITY forever! ?S. A. DOUGLAS. Carry out the Republican programme and you must, admit negroes to political if not social equality. Three and a half millions of free people, no matter what their color cannot be deprived of a sharo in the government. They will pay taxes if they have property, and they will demand representation. You will then have negro Congressmen, Sheriffs, Jurors, Con- stables, Judges, etc., etc., "That's what's the matter!"? Washington Review. Don't Deceive Yourselves. With the delusive idea, that people who have wielded arbitrary power, will willingly lay it down. The catch phrase is, "When the war is over, there will be no occasion for the exercise of these unusual means to preserve the peace." It won't do to trust people who find so many pretexts for dispensing with tho laws, and the ordinary channels of public administration. It is by all odds the safest to cling to the old party whoso traditions arc for strict construc- tion of grants of power and liberal construction of the reserved rights of the people. A NEW BATCH OF ORL/EKS..?The orders and counter orders concerning tho draft are Hying through thejcountry "thick as leaves in Vallara- brosa." A new batch of them will be found in the following circular from the lVovost Marshal General, dated July 21st to the district provost marshals throughout the country. It will be seen that the three hundred dollar commutation releases the conscript from serving during the period;of three years. Just the same as if ho had himself procured the snbtitutc: 1. Provost Marshals of drafted districts will make complete muster rolls of drafted men, to be forwarded with detatchmcnts to proper depot. 2 They will see that the drafted men are pro- vided with everything necessary for their entire equipment, that no time may be lost in forwar- ding them from the rendezvous io their final destination, and give as many days' notice as possible to the commandant of the rendezvous of the time when the drafted men will be turned over. 3. When drafted men fail to report, the district is not responsible for their desertion any more than for the desertion of members of its quotas in the ticld. The district must therefore be credited for them. 4. The paying of S3OO for "procuration of substitutes," under the law, throws upon the government the responsibility of providing such substitute, aud relieves the district therefrom. It is paid for "procuration of substitute." 5. The district must present men liable to mili- tary service, suitable and acceptable? not ex- empts. It cannot present for military service to the government men who are exempt therefrom by law. 11 must make up for them. The last clause reads rather foggy, bnt a few explanatory circulars will doubtless make it clear. labor vinCit omnia.?Patriot and Union. FRQM CHARLESTON. ANOTHER TERRIFIC FIGHT. Dispatches from General Beauregard. REBEL REPOUT OF UNION LOSSES. Two Thousand Prisoners and Eight Hundred ' Killed. BALTIMORE, July 21?8 P. M. The Washington correspondent of the Sun- dag Telegram says: The last news from Charleston byway of Fortress Monroe, is understood to describe the terrific engagement a week ago between the Morris Istmsl batteries and Fort Sumter and General Gilmore's batteries and the fleet. The rebels are understood to have made a desperate and vigorous sortie, attempting to take General Gilmore's land batteries by storm. They were only partially successful, however, our men being driven from their guns only to recover them by a grand counter movement, in which extraordinary valor .was shown. The fleet is said to have distinguished itself by attacking Fort Sumter at very short range but several of the vessels were more or less injured in the encounter. Sumter is believed to he badly breached but not sufficiently so to expect its surrender. Several explosions are said to have occurred within its walls and those of the other forts, but the results are unknown. The Richmond papers, with the re!>el accounts oi Tuesday lust, received in Baltimore to day contain the following interesting news from Charleston; CIIAKLCSTON, S. C., July 18.?The Ironsides; 5 Monitors, five gun und Mortar boats, assisted by two land batteries, mounting five guns, fired furiously at Fort Wagner all day. One of our gun carriages was dismounted. CHARLES ros, July I!).?After a furious bom- bardment ol eleven hours, the enemy assaulted Battery Wagner desperately and repeatedly. Our people fought desperately and repulsed the attack with great slaughter. Our loss was relatively light: hut included many valuable officers. Brigadier General Taliaferro commanded on our side. (Signed) G. T. BEAUREGARD. CHARLESTON, July 22.?The Richmond Whig says:?The enemy commenced shelling again yesterday with but few casualties. _We had in the battle of the 18th inst. about lot) killed and wounded. I'lie enemy's loss, including prisoners, wast a- bout 2()()0. Nearly 800 were buried under a flag of truce. Col. Potman, acting Brigadier General and Col. Shaw, commanding the negro regiment, were killed. DBURIvET?MOCIv.?On Sabbath mornings July 12, at the residence of Michael Mock, by the Rev. N. E. Gilds, Mr. Gabriel Burket to Mi.-s Sarah Mock, both of Union townshio. GLlbMill MOCK.?At the same time and place, by the same, Mr. Joseph H. Griffith, to Miss Margaret Mock, both of Union tp. ?DIED? ~rr-rewmKjßwrm; , .a*,M,aa mKaeosmmnM POTTER.?On Tuesday morning, 21sf,July, Ellsworth Levi, infant son of John J. and Sa- rah 1 otter, of Altoona, l*a., aged 3 months and 7 days. NOTICE. AII persons are hereby notified not to trespnas on my premises, by hunting, berry gathering or other- wise, as 1 am determined to enforce the lawagainst all offenders. SAMUEL STIFFLEK. Bedford Township, July 31. ' Uninsbtirg Seminary, For Young Ladies and Gentlemen. The first quarter of the Fall Session of this In- stitation will begin August 6. Every branch, both useful and ornamental, taught. I erms very reasonable. For information apply to J. VV. HUGHES, , , ? Rainsburg, Bedford Co., Ta. July 31, IBG3.?3ts DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP^" The partnership formerly existing between tbe o r ,?.'s n , was ved by mutual consent, on the 20th day of May last. The books will remain in the hands of S. States and R. Steckman, for set- tlement, until the first day of September next, af- ter which tune they will be left in the hands of an officer for collection. The business will be contin- tied by S. States and R. Steckman, who will be able to accommodate their old customers and the public generally on the most reasonable terms. T , ? WM. STATES & CO. July 31, 1863. PUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. By viitue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Bedford county, the undersigned will self, at public sale, on the premises, on FRIDAY, 21 st AUGUST, JVEXT, H acres of land, adjoining the town of Cleef. vine, .Monroe township. Bedford county, havinv thereon erected a two and a half stoiy plank house and frame stable, adjoining lands of James M. Bam- dollar, James Carnell, Sarah ATurrv and Samuel Smvely. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock of said day erms : One-third at the confirmation of the sale and the balance in two equal annual piymenta with interest from confirmation of sale. J. VV. LINGENFELTER, . , Adm'r of Jon. Horron, dee'd. July 31, 1863. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Hannah Cam, Adam Carn,l In the Common I'leas Henrietta Williamson, Or- f of Bedford county, No. angc Williamson, and O.E. 1, of April Term, '6l. Shannon, adm'r. with the | will annexed of Samuel Cain, deceased, | vs. Afary Ann Wood 3 and John [ Writ de partitione fa- George Woods. J cietida. February 9th, 1863, Rule upon all parties inter- ested to appear and show cause why money in Court shoulJ not be paid to Afary Ann Woods, &e., and Alexander King appointed auditor to take testimo- ny, report the facts, and make a distribution of the money in Court. The undersigned appointed auditor for the purpose above stated, will attend to the duties ot his ap- pointment and meet all parties interested, at his of Ace in Juliana street, in the borough of Bedford, on Tuesday, the 18th day of August, 1863, at 9 o'clock A. il. * A. KING, Auditor. - uly 31, 1863. STRAY SHEEP?" Six head of sheep belonging to the nndeisigned, were driven o3 from his premises a few days ago, anil have not been heard from eince. They were marked with a slit in the right car and a notch in the left. Any person returning them lo htm will be suitably rewarded. All persons are also warned not to hunt or fish on his premises, or the law will be enforced against them. ANANIAS AUMAN. July 31, 1863?3ts EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Letters testamentary having been granted by the Register of Bedford county, to the undersigned ex- ecutor of the last will and testament of Jonathan Harclerode, late of Colerain township, dee'd; all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment, and those having claims will present them pioperly authenti- cated for settlement. PHILIP HARCLERODE, July 31?6ts Acting Executor. AUDITOR'S NOTICE.' The undersigned appointed auditor to distribute the balance in the hands of Frederick Buxton, ex- ecutor of the last will of Afary Ann Buxton, dee'd, among the creditors, and also to ascertain what a- mount, if any, it will be necessary to take from the legacies bequeathed by said will', to be applied to the payment of debts, will attend to the duties of his appointment, at his office in Bedford, on Wednesday, the 19th day of August, 1863, at nine o'clock, A. AT. S. L. RUSSELL, July 31, 1863. Auditor? PROTHONOTARY'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the account ot Jona- than Feightner, trustee of Frederick Hildebrandt, has been filed in the Prothonotaiy's Office, and the same will be presented to the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, for confirmation on Tuesday, the Ist day of September next. A. 3. BUNN, Proth'y. Bedford, July 61, 1863.

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BEDFORD GAZETTE.D. F. MEYERS, EDITOR.

FRIDAV : : : : JULY 31, 1863.

DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.STATE TICKET.

FO GOVERNOR,

GEORGE W. WOODWARD,OF LUZERNE.

FOR JUDGE OF TIIE SUPREME COURT,

WALTER H. LOWRIE,OF ALLEGHENY.

COUNTY TICKET.

ASSEMBLY,

15. F. MEYERS, Bedford lior.

PKOTHON OTA RY,O E. SHANNON, Bedford Bor.

SHERIFF,JOHN ALDSTADT, St. Clair.

ASSOCIATE JUDGE,

SAMUEL DAVIS, Bedford Bor.

TREASURER,J. B. FAIiQUHAR, Bedford Bor.

COMMISSIONER,GEORGE RHOADS, Liberty.

AUDITOR,DANIEL BARLEY, M.Woodberrv.

POOR DIRECTOR,IIENRY MOSES, Bedford tp.

CORONER,JAMES MAITINGLY,Londonderry,

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE.The members of the Democratic County

Committee are requested to meet at the officeof J. P. Reed, in the Borough of Bedford, on

Saturday, the Bth day of August next. A fullattendance is particularly requested, a3 veryimportant business will be laid before the Com-mittee. The following named gentlemen com-

pose the Committee:J. I'. Reed, J. G. Hartley, J. T. Gophart, Pe-

ter M. Barton, A. J. Morgrct. James MeClea-ry, William Foster, Lewis Houser, ThomasDonahoe, A. L. Beckhonffer, John Grove, Wil-liam Gillespie, Esq., William Bunnell, Geo.R. Bailey, Isaac Kensingor, Henry F. Smith,John A. Gump (C. Valley) John Smith, Esq.,Robert Stockman, David Whetstone, SamuelW. Miller, Esq., Michael Wertz, Esq.

Glorious Gen. Grant!It is a significant fact that the ouly Gon-

ral besides MeClellan, who has successfullyled an army against the Rebels, is in poli-tics, what the stay-at-home Abolitionists de-nominate a "Copperhead." We allude toGen, Grant, the hero of Ft. Donelson andVickflburg. He has gained the only twogreat successes of the war, and yet he hasfreely permitted the Chicago Times, theNew York World, and even the BedfordGazette to circulate within his lines, has

never suppressed a single newspaper, nor

deprived a single citizen of his civilrights.Hurrah for Grant and every General likehim!

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK. ?"Godcy," forAugust, is on our tabic, and, wo must say,entirely maintains its high position as aleading fashion magazine, whilst its needle-work department is as useful and full of in-struction as ever. The fashion-plates in"Godcy" aro always well executed and asforreliability, t hey arc entirely beyond ques-tion.

PETERSON'S MAGAZINE.?We have be-fore us the August number of this valuablework. Itis filled with choice literature andthe illustrations are numerous and very pret-ty. Peterson is always interesting and in-structive. ,

fctrTlie draft Ins been suspended in theBradford district, owing to>thefact that thepapers of the Provost Marshal have beenstolen from his office. This is pretty wellfor one of the blackest Abolition districtsin the state. The "loyal men" of Brad-l'ord have a very tender regard for their ownpersons and will, doubtless, do any thingto keep out of danger yet a little longer.

-The news from Mexico is to the ef-fect that that country lias been declared anempire, Maximilian of Austria, to be theKmjicror. .

®yMrssrs. Lowry & Eichelbergcr have madesome valuable discoveries on the iron ore landof Messrs. Schell, Russell & Tate, at BloodyBun. They have proved the Hematite scam ofore to bo from 10 to 14 feet in thickness. Theyhave shafted over forty feet through the ore andhave driven a tunnel from the rail road in to theore. The vein appears to lie inexhaustible.?Bedford.is emphatically the Iron County of theState, inasmuch us it can lie manufactured herechenper than any where else. We have ore,coal and lime-stone in close proximity, plenty oftimber and fine water power.

"The Curse of Party."Under the above caption the Bedford Inquirer,

of last week, indulges in an overstrained andgrandiloquent homily upon the subject of cling-ing to party. Ittakes very good care, however,to direct its remarks only to Domocrats. Itnever once recommends its own political friendsto abandon their party organization. That trite

Ymd homely, but nevertheless true and compre-hensive adage, "What is sauce for the goose, issauce for the gander," seems to have been forgot-ten by the editor of that paper. Itwould be

very gratifying to him, wo make no doubt, to

have the opponents ofAbolitionism ground theirarms and permit the party which maintains anddefends their ruinous doctrine, to secure suchlocal and State offices as will enable it to per-petuate its adherents in power. It would suithim exactly to have the political opponents ofthe present State and Federal Administrations,close their mouths and suffer the Constitutionto be violated, the rights of the States and thepeople to be trampled under foot, the publictreasury plundered, and even our gallant sol-diers defrauded of their clothing and their pay.It would be his delight to see Democrats aban-don their opposition to such men as Fremont andButler and Cameron, whom the President was

forced to send into retirement on account oftheir corruption and incapacity. And as forGov. Curtin, under whose auspices the infa-mous "shoddy" speculations were made, at theexpense of the comfort and life ofPennsylvaniasoldiers, it would suit this Abolition scribbler

most admirably if all criticism of the official

acts of his excellency would be hushed, as theaforesaid Curtin, itis now thought, willcertainlybe renominated by his party.

But let us inquire, for a moment, who clingsto "party" with the greatest tenacity and whosefault it is that the opposition to the men inpower is so strong and irresistible.

When the Cotton States were about to secede,a compromise aliko fair, equitable aud honora-ble to both sections, was proposed by Mr. Crit-tenden. Petitions from all parts of the countryasking the adoption of the compromise, pouredin upon Congress. The prayers of the nationwent up in its favor, and its vencrablo author,with tears in his eyes, implored tho "Republican"Senators to accept it, but all in vain. The creedof the "Republican" party, was in the way andtho "Republican" Senators would not abandontheir Chicago Platform for the sake of the Crit-tenden Compromise arid a peaceful and undividedcountry. They preferred to cling to their par-ty, even at the risk ofcivil war and social andpolitical anarchy.

When the war broke out, although the Exec-utive and a majority of Congress, were anti-Democrats, the Democracy rushed to arms to

maintain tho authority of tho Constitution andthe laws.

But no sooner had the Democrats entered thoarmy and Democratic statesmen committedthemselves to tho war, than Congress rcpoalcdthe resolution in which it had declared the ob-ject of tho war to be tho vindication of theConstitution and the restoration of the Union,and the President, influenced by Abolition par-tizans, proclaimed emancipation, thus introdu-cing into his war policy the doctrine alwaysodious to a largo majority of the peoplo of theNorth. In this the President and the majorityin Congress clung to their party dogmas, audliterally drove conservative people from theirsupport.

When Gen. McGlellau saved Pennsylvania,from invasion and after the battle of Antietamcompelled the rebel army to fall back intoVirginia in spite of the prayers of the peopleand the entreaties of the soldiers, that gallantGeneral, at the instance of Abolition politicianswas removed from bis command by the Presi-dent, who again clung to bis party against thebest interests of the army and of the country.

The "curse of party" deprived the army ofthe Potomac of its ablest commander and tothis day keeps him in retirement. Thus wo

instances of the close adherenceto "party" on the part of the opponents ofDemocracy, but it is unnecessary to do so. Ev-ery body knows how virulent and bitter aro theadherents of the present Federal Administrationin their opposition to all men who do not givethat Administration an unqalified support in allits measures and acts. Did not theso men whenthe war began, set neighbor against neighbor,on account of politics? Did they not tlireatonto hang the Democrats and did they not destroyDemocratic printing-presses and mob Demo-cratic meetings' Why, their partisan rancor ledthem to the most shameful excesses, to riot,arson and blood-shed. The "curse ofparty" hasbeen their curso and to this day they have notshaken it off.

But, to conclude, if the Inquirer is so earnest

on this subject of abandoning parly, why doesitnot recommend its own political friends inSomerset, Allegheny,and other "Republican""strongholds, to withdraw their tickets and al-low the people of those counties to elect men toollice without reference to politics? "The proofof the pudding is the eating of it," and whenthe "Republicans" of Allegheny and Somersetand Bradford and Lancaster mastioato the no-party pudding of the Inquirer, wc shall beginto think that it is not gotten up merely as abait for weak and unwary Democrats. Untilthen, however, we can only consider it as a

"very transparent trap set for gulls in a countrywhere gulls have never before been seen."

1lie arrivals at the Springs, during thopast week, have bceu more numerous than inthe first part of the season. Among them we

notice Gen. Thos. J. McKaig, Col. J. P. Ko-man, T. Devecmon, Esq., Messrs. Jones andComhs, of Cumberland, (Md.)and Messrs. Tay-lor and Andei-son, Merchants, ol' Philadelphia.

Roorback No. 1.We cautioned the publio some time ago a-

gainst the cannrd* which, we were informed, theAbolition loader* intend to put afloat concern-

ing the Democrat ic nominees. In the last is-sue of their organ, "no of these makes its ap-pearance ui a Inter purporting to have been

I written from Ciunbeilnnl Valley townsliip,which says that we declared in a speech deliv-ered at Smith's school-house in that township,that if the Supreme Court of the United Statesdecided the Conscription law to be Constitution-al, then "they (the drafted persons) should use

powder and lend." Every body who heard thespeech referred to, knows that this is false.?What wc did say and what, we intend to standby to the last, was this: The people have theright to test the Constitutionality of the Con-scription law. They can make the issue in an

inferior Court and then carry it to that of final

resort. If the Court of final resort dccido theease in favor of the Constitutionality of thelaw, the only remedy left the people is the bal-lot-box, by which a change of Representativesand Senators in Congress may be effected andthe repeal of the odious law obtained. Hutshould this remedy?tho ballot-box?the elec-tive franchise?be interfered with or denied to

the people by thoso in power, then wc shall,without doubt, have revolution, and powder andlead will determine whether wc shall continueto be freemen or not.

Who's for Salo?Tlio Abolitionists are badly in want of some

saleable individual who has hitherto pretendedto bo a Democrat. They will give him any po-sition upon their ticket, except l'rothonotaryand Sheriff (those offices pay too well to makepresents of) or, they will agree not to make anynomination and support him as an "indepen-dent" candidate. Of course, in the latter ease,he must give them to understand that he will bedependent upon their will, after the election.Who's for sale? We arc anxious to know theman who is willing to sell his principles foroffice! We want to write hi 3 biography.

Death of Mr. Crittenden.Hon. John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, died

at Frankfort in that state, on Sunday morninglast. Mr. Crittenden had reached the advancedage of 77 years. The death of this venerablestatesman and patriot will be mourned through-ont the length and breadth of the land.

CJrThe editor of the Inquirer, having failedin his efforts to instigate white mobs, now turns

his attention to his "colored brethren" and sug-gests to them the use of violence against thewhites. In his last issue he says that he has"often stood upon the street cornel's and beheldcolored men, women and children stoned,en and abused until" his "very frame shookwith ire," (all of which is a nice little bit of ro-

mance, for, if it were true, oiir Courts wouldsoon right the wrong,) and then he adds thatsome forty negroes have lately entered the army,which fact he hails "with joy; "for, says he, ittells us that the day is not far distant when thecolored man will protect himself against the out-rages practiced upon him by the cowardly mis-creants who never leave an opportunity passwithout offering him insults." This means thatthe negroes being armed, when they return, are

to shoot down the white boys of whom this Dur-borrow complains. Now, the laws protect theblack man as well as the white, in person andproperty, and ifwhite boys maltreat the blacks,the latter have a civil and peaceful remedy. Butshould the blacks ever attempt to take tho lawinto their own hands, and riot and blood-shedensue, the people of Bedford will hold Mr. Jo-seph It. Durborrow responsible for the crimesagainst law and order committed upon his sug-gestion.

Evidently, then, there are only two greatclasses in this country. The patriots who areshedding their blood in the field against the le-gions of Traitors, and they are truly Martyrsfor the cause of Humanity, Civilization andProgress,, and the dastardly cowards who re-main at ease plotting the overthrow of thecountry and "aiding and abetting" Treason.This latter class has uniformly escaped punish-ment, but at last the Source of All Wisdomhas brought down upon them their richly mer-ited recompense, By their own works havethey been overtaken and the punishment hasboen to a certain extent complete.? BedfordInquirer.

The "dastardly coward" of the Inquirer, whoremains at ease, plotting the overthrow of thecountry and 'aiding and abetting' Treason," ac-

knowledges that his works have "overtakenhim" and that ills punishment "has been ton cer-tain extent complete." "An honest confession |sgood for the soul."

(SyCall and see the new arrival of goods at

J. M. Shoemaker's. Job has lately returnedfrom the East, with a large stock and can sup-

ply every body.

erOnr old friend, Maj. Jas Patton, has re-turned to this place, greatly improved in health.

£3"We regret to learn that Maj. J. 11. Fillerwas captured by the Rebels during the last dis-astrous attack on Fort Wagner.

CSrII. J. Stable, Esq., editor of the Gettys-burg Compiler, has been released from FortMcFlenry, where he was recently so unjustlyimprisoned.

ftyWc are under obligations to Lieut. J. B.Ilehn, for late North Carolina papers.

The Huntingdon Monitor office was againpartially destroyed on Saturday morning last.Shame on tho men who did it, say we!

3-The Democratic State Committee is calledto meet on tho 11th of August. We hope the"committee will act vigorously.

For the Bedford Gazette.

Sights and Sounds from up a Tree,No. 2.

Ensconced in iny usunl "perch," a "knot ofthose peculiar admirers of the "free Americanof African descent," known as "Republicans,"gathered beneath me. They had evidently heardof my being "about," as they looked aroundthem in every direction und up on my tree whereI sat snugly hidden among the leaves, and cock-ed their cars sharply and held their breath, inorder to detect my presence or that of some onewho, they feared, might overhear their conver-sation. Hut no "Sharpshooter" was visible andevery thing was quiet as a Sabbath morn. As-sured that they were entirely alone, they beganto converse in a low tone, holding forth to thefollowing effect.-

First Hep. "Well, what do you all think oftho prospects of our party I They look a littleblue, don't they? We will have to overcomeG25 majority if Wtrvvant to beat the Democrats.I am afraid we. can't do that."

Second Hep. "Wo can't touch bottom. Thepeople have lost confidence in us, because theysay we told them that if Lincoln would be elect-ed we would have better times and 110 war;and, then, there's Shannon and Meyers, confoundtheir Copperhead skins! ?they are always harp-ing on our opposition to the Crittenden Compro-mise, which they say was acceptable even toJeff Davis himself, and which would have savedthe Union, if we had allowed it to he adopted.Hut we must keep up our party and somethingmust be done."

Third Rep. (Slightly intoxicated; "Ilic! Ithink (hie!) you ure both mis (hie!) taken! Callthe fellers on the Democratic tick (hie!) et "Cop-perhciYds," and I'll hail you we'll (hie!) fetcli'em 1"

First llep. "Pooh! pooh! The Copperheadbusiness is about played out. Resides we havealways lost more by giving the Democrats nick-names than we gained by it. That fool, Dur-borrow, thinks it a great point to call the Dem-ocrats "Copperheads," and to nick-name andabuse people, hut I can toll you that I knowthat his course, is doing us great hurt. Peopleseo that he is trying to blackguard Shannon andMeyers and Davis only for political effect. Ifwc don't get him out of the Inquirer office soon,he'll sink our party so deep that the plummet ofresurrection will never reach it."

Second Rep. "Poor Durborrow!"First Rep. "He ought to be in 'contact' with

George Sigafoos and the two in 'juxta-position'with an insane asylum!"

'Third Rep. "Jerusalem! Sig (hie!) nfoos 'lluse his arm (hie !) 'in defence of his country!'You'll see he will!"

First Hep. "Well, well, we're getting off thequestion. I still think we may be able to makesomething by coaxing some weak-kneed, disaf-fected Democrats to go on our ticket for someof thogoffices. We can then get up the cry of?'Union ticket" and "no party," and we can be-rate the Democrats at will for keeping up partydivisions. But the plague is to get any of these"Democrats to stand our nomination. Theyknow that we'll be beaten and we can't makethem believe any tiling else. But we have afew nibbfys, ngw, and we may catch some suck-ers yet. Two-or <%r lawyers and another per-son c*He<l oii a young Democrat some time ago,to tflcUuu Idrun for the Legislature, and fho'he was assured that his being a candidate wouldbe 'agreeable to influential Democrats,' he per-emptorily refused. We aro hard up for candi-dates, but I think we can find somebody willingto go over the course for form's sake.''

Third Rep. "We're bound to boat the Cop-tic!) pcrheads!"

First Rep. "Well, it'lltake sober men in theirvery soberest senses to do that. By the way,wo're not half cautious enough about our pro-ceedings. Meyers knows every thing we do.Some of our fellows must tell him some things.Why, he even knows where our 'secret league'meets and who attends it and what is done there,and when we get any of his party to slip inwith us, lie knows it instanter and gives themsuch hard hints about it that they are afraid tomeet with us again. We must be more cau-tious."

Second Rep. "I think his hash 'll be settledbefore long. We sent a couple of his late pa-pers to Gen. Milroy, and 1 think Meyers is aprominent candidate for FortMcHcnry. Jf thosoldiers had listened to us we would have beenrid of him long ago. l!ul Ifind a good manyof them think just about like he does. But,never mind; Ft. McHcnry willbring him to hissenses."

First Rep. "Well, Imust go and write a let-ter for the Inquirer, locate it somewhere out inthe country, sign it "Old Line Democrat," andask the people for goodness' sake to vote for anhonest candidate'for tho Legislature. Ha! ha!won't that be a good joke!"

Second Hep. "Imust look after some Govern-ment property. Politics before pleasure, butbusiness before cither. Charity begins at home."

Third Rep. I'll go and take a (hie!) drink.To h?ll with the Cop (hie!) perheads! Hello!I b'licve there's one o' them (hie!) cussed snakesin my boots, now! Go 'way there, you manwith the (hie!) red hot poker! lam no Copper-head ! 1 am 1- (hie 1) oyal 1"

Ilistened a moment longer and they weregone?one to forge indignant "Old Line Dem-ocrat" letters?another to look after some pros-pective "green-backs"?and a third to fight"Copperheads" and snakes generally. "Whenshall these three meet again?" Well, wheneverthey do they will get another shot from your

SHARPSHOOTER.Bedford, July 27.

ST. CI.AIR TP., 7th mo., *27.FRIEND BENJAMIN:

Excuse me for troubling thcc again. But"when duty calls 'tis ours to obey." Hence Iwrite thee at this time. Let me say thy defenceof the Democratic candidate for Sheriff, waswell-timed and true, lie has lived long amongus, and the effort of Joseph Durborrow to con-nect him with rowdyism or barn-burning, onlyrecoiled upon the author and his party.

Hut let me say a word about our nationaltroubles. Oh! for one morsel of that blessedsentiment uttered in the Sermon on the Mount:"Blessed arc the peace-makers !'*Who in theirmadness and bigotry will now say, "no peace?"We all say peace here. It is but a little finger-board, perhaps, but it points to the hearts ofthe people throughout the country?to the weep-ing widows?the deserted firesides?the father-less children?the desolated land. We claim tobe honest in our peaceful opposition to the draft.It is the universal sentiment?not only of thoDemocrats, but Whigs and many of our Repub-licans. The man or party that now advocatesit, wo will put down at the ballot-box. Theblood of their brothers is even now crying fromthe ground against them. Over two long yearsof bloody, gory work proves it not the remedy

among onlightencd, christianized men. Savageswould scarcely be so savage. No good lias coineof it?none will eotne. Lot us take this mat-ter in our own hands, and with the still snuillvoice of the ballot-box give to our land peaceand unitv as our fathers did before us.

THY FRIEND.

Partlzan VillanyAdmitted!The Pittsburgh Gazette of the 20th inst., in

an elaborate article, fastens on Gov. Curtin'sadministratiou all the crimes and peculationwith which we have charged hi in for two yearspast.?The Gazette says that lie was foundguilty of securing fat contracts for himselfthrough "private agents," libi/ a committee ap-

pointed by himself!" This is admission enoughto open the eyes of every honest Republican.This expose is made not through the honestyof the Gazette , but because there is a war goingon in the abolition wigwam between the pnrti-zans of honest Simon Cameron, whoso organtbe Gazette is and the friends of Gov. Curtin!As Cameron's friends have commenced "tellingtalcs out of school," we may expect some richdevelopments from the Curtin side of the house,one party buys the other, and every body knowsCameron is rich! When rogues fall out, honestmen will get their dues.

How will this development of the Gazette'sset upon the stomach of certain very patrioticgentlemen in our midst who have been so fu-rious in their defence of the purity of AndyCurtin? Eh?? Washington Review.

The Negro Takes the Reins-White Men Proscribed.

General Ranks has ordered that none but| colored men shall ho employed as teamsters bythe Government in his department.

The above is from the Buffalo CommercialAdvertiser (Republican.) The phrase, "put nonebut Americans on guard," is now changed?letnone hut, "negroes have the reins." They areto be the drivers. Those who have the misfor-tune to he white are thus proscribed by thisAdministration. Of course the white soldierwill vote to continue this party in power!

Facts for the People.Ihold that this Government was made on the

WHITE BASIS, by WHITE MEN, for thebenefit of WHITE MEN, and their POSTER-ITYforever!?S. A. DOUGLAS.

Carry out the Republican programme andyou must, admit negroes to political if not socialequality. Three and a half millions of freepeople, no matter what their color cannot bedeprived of a sharo in the government. Theywill pay taxes if they have property, and theywill demand representation. You will thenhave negro Congressmen, Sheriffs, Jurors, Con-stables, Judges, etc., etc., "That's what's thematter!"? Washington Review.

Don't Deceive Yourselves.With the delusive idea, that people who have

wielded arbitrary power, will willingly lay itdown.

The catch phrase is, "When the war is over,there will be no occasion for the exercise ofthese unusual means to preserve the peace."

It won't do to trust people who find so manypretexts for dispensing with tho laws, and theordinary channels of public administration.

It is by all odds the safest to cling to the oldparty whoso traditions arc for strict construc-tion of grants of power and liberal constructionof the reserved rights of the people.

A NEW BATCH OF ORL/EKS..?The orders andcounter orders concerning tho draft are Hyingthrough thejcountry "thick as leaves in Vallara-brosa." A new batch of them will be found inthe following circular from the lVovost MarshalGeneral, dated July 21st to the district provostmarshals throughout the country. It will beseen that the three hundred dollar commutationreleases the conscript from serving during theperiod;of three years. Just the same as ifho hadhimself procured the snbtitutc:

1. Provost Marshals of drafted districts willmake complete muster rolls of drafted men, to

be forwarded with detatchmcnts to proper depot.2 They will see that the drafted men are pro-

vided with everything necessary for their entireequipment, that no time may be lost in forwar-ding them from the rendezvous io their finaldestination, and give as many days' notice as

possible to the commandant of the rendezvousof the time when the drafted men will be turnedover.

3. When drafted men fail to report, the districtis not responsible for their desertion any morethan for the desertion of members of its quotasin the ticld. The district must therefore becredited for them.

4. The paying of S3OO for "procuration ofsubstitutes," under the law, throws upon thegovernment the responsibility ofproviding suchsubstitute, aud relieves the district therefrom.It is paid for "procuration of substitute."

5. The district must present men liable to mili-tary service, suitable and acceptable? not ex-empts. It cannot present for military service tothe government men who are exempt therefromby law. 11 must make up for them.

The last clause reads rather foggy, bnt a fewexplanatory circulars will doubtless make itclear. labor vinCit omnia.?Patriot and Union.

FRQM CHARLESTON.

ANOTHER TERRIFIC FIGHT.

Dispatches from General Beauregard.

REBEL REPOUT OF UNION LOSSES.

Two Thousand Prisoners and Eight Hundred'

Killed.

BALTIMORE, July 21?8 P. M.The Washington correspondent of the Sun-

dag Telegram says:The last news from Charleston byway of

Fortress Monroe, is understood to describe theterrific engagement a week ago between theMorris Istmsl batteries and Fort Sumter andGeneral Gilmore's batteries and the fleet.

The rebels are understood to have made a

desperate and vigorous sortie, attempting totake General Gilmore's land batteries by storm.

They were only partially successful, however,our men being driven from their guns only torecover them by a grand counter movement,in which extraordinary valor .was shown.

The fleet is said to have distinguished itselfbyattacking Fort Sumter at very short range butseveral of the vessels were more or less injuredin the encounter.

Sumter is believed to he badly breached butnot sufficiently so to expect its surrender.

Several explosions are said to have occurredwithin its walls and those of the other forts, butthe results are unknown.

The Richmond papers, with the re!>el accountsoi Tuesday lust, received in Baltimore to daycontain the following interesting news fromCharleston;

CIIAKLCSTON, S. C., July 18.?The Ironsides;5 Monitors, five gun und Mortar boats, assistedby two land batteries, mounting five guns, firedfuriously at Fort Wagner all day. One of ourgun carriages was dismounted.

CHARLES ros, July I!).?After a furious bom-bardment ol eleven hours, the enemy assaultedBattery Wagner desperately and repeatedly.

Our people fought desperately and repulsedthe attack with great slaughter.

Our loss was relatively light: hut includedmany valuable officers.

Brigadier General Taliaferro commanded onour side.

(Signed) G. T. BEAUREGARD.CHARLESTON, July 22.?The Richmond Whig

says:?The enemy commenced shelling againyesterday with but few casualties.

_We had in the battle of the 18th inst. aboutlot) killed and wounded.

I'lie enemy's loss, including prisoners, wast a-bout 2()()0. Nearly 800 were buried under a flagof truce.

Col. Potman, acting Brigadier General andCol. Shaw, commanding the negro regiment,were killed.

DBURIvET?MOCIv.?On Sabbath morningsJuly 12, at the residence of Michael Mock, bythe Rev. N. E. Gilds, Mr. Gabriel Burket toMi.-s Sarah Mock, both of Union townshio.

GLlbMill MOCK.?At the same timeand place, by the same, Mr. Joseph H. Griffith,to Miss Margaret Mock, both of Union tp.

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POTTER.?On Tuesday morning, 21sf,July,Ellsworth Levi, infant son of John J. and Sa-rah 1 otter, of Altoona, l*a., aged 3 monthsand 7 days.

NOTICE.AII persons are hereby notified not to trespnas onmy premises, by hunting, berry gathering or other-

wise, as 1 am determined to enforce the lawagainstall offenders.

SAMUEL STIFFLEK.Bedford Township, July 31. '

Uninsbtirg Seminary,For Young Ladies and Gentlemen.

The first quarter of the Fall Session of this In-stitation will begin August 6.Every branch, both useful and ornamental, taught.I erms very reasonable.For information apply to

J. VV. HUGHES,,

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Rainsburg, Bedford Co., Ta.July 31, IBG3.?3ts

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP^"The partnership formerly existing between tbe

or,?.'s n , was ved by mutual consent, onthe 20th day of May last. The books will remain

in the hands of S. States and R. Steckman, for set-tlement, until the first day of September next, af-ter which tune they will be left in the hands of anofficer for collection. The business will be contin-tied by S. States and R. Steckman, who will be ableto accommodate their old customers and the publicgenerally on the most reasonable terms.

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WM. STATES & CO.July 31, 1863.

PUBLIC SALEOF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.By viitue of an order of the Orphans' Court ofBedford county, the undersigned will self, at public

sale, on the premises, onFRIDAY, 21 st AUGUST, JVEXT,

H acres of land, adjoining the town of Cleef.vine, .Monroe township. Bedford county, havinvthereon erected a two and a half stoiy plank houseand frame stable, adjoining lands of James M. Bam-dollar, James Carnell, Sarah ATurrv and SamuelSmvely. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock of saidday erms : One-third at the confirmation of thesale and the balance in two equal annual piymentawith interest from confirmation of sale.

J. VV. LINGENFELTER,. , Adm'r of Jon. Horron, dee'd.July 31, 1863.

AUDITOR'S NOTICE.Hannah Cam, Adam Carn,l In the Common I'leasHenrietta Williamson, Or- f of Bedford county, No.angc Williamson, and O.E. 1, of AprilTerm, '6l.Shannon, adm'r. with the |will annexed of SamuelCain, deceased, |

vs.Afary Ann Wood 3 and John [ Writ de partitione fa-George Woods. J cietida.

February 9th, 1863, Rule upon all parties inter-ested to appear and show cause why money in CourtshoulJ not be paid to Afary Ann Woods, &e., andAlexander King appointed auditor to take testimo-ny, report the facts, and make a distribution of themoney in Court.

The undersigned appointed auditor for the purposeabove stated, will attend to the duties ot his ap-pointment and meet all parties interested, at his ofAce in Juliana street, in the borough of Bedford, onTuesday, the 18th day of August, 1863, at 9 o'clockA. il. *

A. KING, Auditor.- uly 31, 1863.

STRAY SHEEP?"Six head of sheep belonging to the nndeisigned,

were driven o3 from his premises a few days ago,anil have not been heard from eince. They weremarked with a slit in the right car and a notch inthe left. Any person returning them lo htm willbe suitably rewarded. All persons are also warnednot to hunt or fish on his premises, or the law willbe enforced against them.

ANANIAS AUMAN.July 31, 1863?3ts

EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.Letters testamentary having been granted by the

Register of Bedford county, to the undersigned ex-ecutor of the last will and testament of JonathanHarclerode, late of Colerain township, dee'd; allpersons knowing themselves indebted to said estateare required to make immediate payment, and thosehaving claims willpresent them pioperly authenti-cated for settlement.

PHILIP HARCLERODE,July 31?6ts Acting Executor.

AUDITOR'S NOTICE.'The undersigned appointed auditor to distribute

the balance in the hands of Frederick Buxton, ex-ecutor of the last willof Afary Ann Buxton, dee'd,among the creditors, and also to ascertain what a-mount, if any, it will be necessary to take fromthe legacies bequeathed by said will', to be appliedto the payment of debts, will attend to the dutiesof his appointment, at his office in Bedford, onWednesday, the 19th day of August, 1863, at nineo'clock, A. AT.

S. L. RUSSELL,July 31, 1863. Auditor?

PROTHONOTARY'S NOTICE.Notice is hereby given that the account ot Jona-

than Feightner, trustee of Frederick Hildebrandt,has been filed in the Prothonotaiy's Office, and the

same will be presented to the Court of CommonPleas in and for said county, for confirmation onTuesday, the Ist day of September next.

A. 3. BUNN, Proth'y.Bedford, July 61, 1863.