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Slit grtlfortl ('Vasttic. Friday Morning-, September 7, ISflO. Damocratic and National Union Nominations. STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, Hon, HIESTER CLYIER, OF BERKS COUNTY. DISTRICT TICKET. FOR CONGRESS, J. MoD. SHARPE, of Franklin co'y. FOB SENATOR, B. F. MEYERS, of Bedford county. . FOR ASSEMBLY, HIRAM FINDLAY, of Somerset eo. COUNTY TICKET. PROTHQXOTARY, O. E. SHANNON, of Bedford Bor. SHERIFF, ItOBT. STECKM AN, of Bloody Run. ASSOCIATE AC DUE, GEORGE W. GI MP, of Napier. COMMISSIONER, DAVID HOWSARE, of Southampton POOR DIRECTOR, MICHAEL DIEHL. of Colerain. AUDITOR, JOHN D. LUCAS, of Bloody Run. I Oil ANSEMBGY. We are authorued to announce Col. John 11. FiCer of Be If >r I county, as an independent can (l 1 ite for Assonb'y. "abject to the decision of the people on the second Tuesday of October next. a he a'!imbcr. A CAMPAIGN PAPER. The* undersigned are publishing '' campaign paper entitled "The Climh er," the first number of which was issued on the 711 of July inst., and which will be continued until the Gub ernatorial election in October. This publication is devoted, to the-1 support of President Johnson's Resto- ; ration Policy and the election ol such candidates as are openly in favor of sus- j finning that policy. It contains six teen columns of matter and is filled with racy editorials and the spiciest , articles of the campaign. No conser vative politician should be without it. It will be embellished with POR TRAITS OF PRESIDENT JOHN SON, Hon. HI ESTER CLYMEIt and other eminent patriots and statesmen, and will contain a number of humerous : political illustrations. REDUCED TERMS: Ten copies to one mHrfifls, cash in advance, $o 00 Twenty " " " ' •> '''* Lees than ten copies toone ad iress. 40 cts per c>py. Get up your clubs and send in your orders at once. No attention paid to any order unless accompanied by the cash. Persons getting up clubs should be particular to specify in their orders the name of the person to whom they wish the package addressed, as till the papers in the club will be sent to one person for distribution. Address, MIIYERS & M ENGEL, Bedford, Pa. subvert the law of the land as decided by the Supreme Court of the State. They are striving to resist the right of thousands of citizens to exercise the privilege of voting. They aim at the disfranchisement of a large portion of the people upon the pretext that they are guilty of an offence of which they have not only never been convicted, but for which they have not been, and never will be, tried. These new Reb els against the laws, these despicable enemies to the freedom of the white man, had better not undertake to put their contemplated fraud into practice. They must remember that the law is a gainst them; the highest judicial tribu nal in the State has declared that no man run he deprived of his right to rote, simply because his name is found on o Provost Marshal's list of "Deserters.'" The Supreme Court has decided that a man must have been tried for and con victed of desertion, and the punish ment of disfranchisement adjudged by the proper tribunal, before he can he de prived of the right to vote as being a deserter. That Court has also further decided that Judges of Election cannot try am-tn for desertion, but arc bound to (at:* bis vote, unless evidence of his con viction as a deserter and tlit? adjudica tion of the penalty of disfranchisement by the pro/n r tribunal , iti iiis case, are laid before them. Hence, we warn all election boardsagainst lieing influenced by the foul schemes of t he Radical Reb els who are plotting to overturn the laws of the State. We say it in all ear nestness and with a full determination to make good our words, EVERY E LE("IT UN OFFICER WHO WILL DISFRANCHISE ANY SO-CALL ED DESERTER WHO IS OTHER WISE QUALIFIED TO VOTE, WILL BE PUNISHED TO THE UT MOST EXTENT OFTIIE LAW. (iK.Mtv madca -|K><>< h at Hunting don on the tli uit., in which he used the following language: "I have been asked whether I would ttyn traitor iike Andrew Johnson, be- | cause i was a Democrat. I will make noplcfbjcs, as pledg & make no dill'er- j eiice." That is to say, Geary, the" Democrat, j without prefix or affix," as he styled : himself in his Maguire letter, willturn traitor to Ue "Republican" party if it profits him to do so. Should the De mocracy get into power, Geary expects ; to hang on to its skirts, llenee lie "will make no pledges." If that is satisfac tory to "Republicans," we have no right to complain. EARTHQUAKES! TItIJIP. TROII'. TRAMP. THE BOYS are marching. Fuion. Pence and Elberty ! Grand Popular Deinonslmtian in Fa vor of Restoration! By tin* Eternal, the Cnlon Must and Shall be Preserved I" I>eot or ruts. Kepnhlieans and Hie Peo ple generally in Council! Elnroln's Pimtmaster General. lion. JfoMtKomery lilair, Makes a Great Speech in Favor of the Right! It.'liealisin and In Its Collin! The largest political gathering that j ever assembled in Bedford, was held in the Public Square, in front of the j Court House, oil Monday evening last, j Sept. :M. Notwithstanding the fact that the day had been inclement, the rain pouring down all afternoon, large delegations, gotten up by the people themselves, without any drumming from the town as was the ease with the Radical meeting on Tuesday evening, came filing into the town until the streets were literally jammed with people. A stand was erected in front of the Court House, and the vast as semblage gathered in the square im mediately opposite. We will not pre tend to give an estimate of the num bers present, but the oldest citizens as sure us that it was the largest po litical meeting ever held in Bed ! ford. The meeting was organized by ! the appointment of Hon. .IDS. B. NO BLE, of South Woodberrv, President; Maj. L. Taliaferro, Samuel Reighard, Capt. T. 11. Lyons, Capt. S. S. Metzgar, Richard Langdon, Win. Faster, John K. Hedges, Jeremiah Thompson, B. ! F. Morgart, Geo. W. Deal, W . S. Bee ! gle, Tiios. Fislier, Adam /.embower, t ' Geo. Eider, Geo. W. Horn, Geo. Steel i W. A. Grove, Isaac Ivensinger, Geo Roades, Wm. Keyscr, Win. Gillespie, J.C. Devore, Daniel Fletcher, George Vonstine, John Sill, Emanuel Stat ler, Christian Darr, 1). A. T. Black, Christian Myers, Homer Noice, Geo. Ba ugh man Jar. Waiter, Sam't Beck lev, J.G. Hartley, Andrew Mortimore, I * - | Tims. Dona hoe, John Cavender, Au | thony Clingeriuan, \Y. B. Lamhright, ; Sam'l Duhhs, Thus. C. lleighard, W. ; M. Pearson, Simon Brumbaugh, John I S. Brumbaugh, John Ditiner, and Jas. Sill, Henry F. Smith, Lawrence Defi baugh, John Wills, Lieut. John Nelson Saml. Diehl, and Peter F. Lehman, Sce | retaries. I HON. J. MCDOWELL SIIARPE, of Chanibersburjr. was then imr/Muecd Mr. Sh rpe made a most chaste, elo i quent ami argumentative address, i which was enthusiastically received by i the audience. A man of talent and education, he made a decided impres sion. As the Democratic candidate for Congress, lie will make a most excel lent run in every community in which ! his eloquent voice is heard. After the I conclusion of his speech, a rousing : cheer went up for J. McDowell Sharpe, the next Congressman from this dis i trict. : The Bedford Democratic Brass Band 1 then escorted HON. MONTGOMERY | BLAIIt, Postmaster General under j Mr. Lincoln, to the stand, who was in | troduced as the next speaker. .Mr. Blair made a speech replete with argu ment and containing statementsof vast j importance to all who desire to make j up their minds honestly in regard to | the great issues before the people at the i coming election. Among other tilings j Mr. Blair said that Thad. Stevens' poi | icy was embodied in a bill passed by ; Congress in .Mr. Lincoln's time, which | was gotten up by Ren. Wade and 11. Winter Davis. This bill, said Mr. Blair, Mr. Lincoln )>ut in his pocket and kept it there without his approval, but issued | a proctamafion declaring that hi could j not endorse H. 51 r. Blair then appealed to all Lincoln men to stand by Presi i dent Johnson's policy, as it was iden i tieal with that of .Mr. Lincoln. Many old Lincoln Republicans went away I satisfied that it was their duty to stand !by President Johnson. Mr. Rlair wa j loudly cheered during his speech and ! at it- end the applause was deafenim*. i I i The meeting was further addresses! ! by HON. A. 11. 00 FF ROT 11, of Som erset, and R. F. MEYERS. (Jen. Cof froth made a very able and logical j •peech, which was received vvi*h great i applause by in- hearers. (Jen. C'ofi'roth is working hard for the Democratic cause, as he hits always done, and the Democracy honor him for Hi— noble ef forts. During the speaking the large crowd ! remained standing, though the grouud was very wet and occasionally a driz zling rain de-cendt*l. We never saw so attentive an audience before in all our life. The people seem to ie in ear nest and determined to stand up for the ' right. The ladies were also out in. force and graced with theirpresemv the splendid scene of upturned faces. J. (J. Fisher, Ivs<p, then read a series' of resolutions which were unanimously j adopted. After the adoption of the' resolutions the mooting adjourned with three cheers for IliesterClymer and tlie Democratic, ticket. Notice was given that HON. F. M. KIMM ELL will ad dress the people at the Court House, on Wednesday night. The resolutions a dopted areas follows: Whereas, It is the privilege as well as the duty of the people to make known to their agents in public office, their will in regard to the issues before the country, and the principles and policy which should govern those a gents in the exercise of their official functions, and wu EKEAS the present is especially a time in which the position of public atl'airs demands the anxious and patriotic attention of ail good citi zens, therefore, Remleed, That we regard with great f alarm tiie eltorts of those men who are striving to keep up the sectional feud . which so lately culminated in civil war, by refusing to permit the restora tion of the Union, and defeating the consummation for which so much blood was shed and so great treasure expended. Resolvol, That we believe now, as we have always maintained, that the Union consists ot att the Sidte-i, and not of any part of them, and we recognize 110 liag as ours save that on whose folds the stripes are iilumim d by Thirt</-*ix Stars; unmutiiated bv the hand ol Southern Secession and unuiarred by the heel of Northern Disunion. Rexo/cat, That we deplore the con tinued agitation of the Negro question, so fruitful of evil in the past, and so portentous of trouble in the future; and we hoid the Disunion party in Con gress, led by Sumner in the Senate and Stevens in tiie House, responsible lor whatever difficulties may result from that agitation hereafter. RtsuieeU, That we are for the whole I 'inon, as our lathers established it, a our soldiers fought for it, auti as the patriot Andrew Johnson is now striv ing to restore it, and we hold all men to be enemies of the Uuionand traitors to the Government, who believe in a dissevered country and a mutilated llag; a country such as That Ulcus Ste ; veil- and the Radicals in Congress ' would make lor u , with ten Sinter striek \ en from tax f itiou, a llag with ten A urn j oiottoil out of the c■omletUitinn. lhsotml', i'hat the uninterrupted and ! persistent legislation by Congress, in ! beltallOf the negro, to the neglect ot | the interests of the white people, and I especially of the soldiers 01 the coun try, i- an outrage to be tolerated only by the lunatics who would reverse the taws of Nature and of God, by mixing die races and making white black and black white. Hcxo'ccd, That we recognize in Hies ter Clymcr, the nominee of the Deiuo cratie party ol Pennsylvania for Gover nor, a gentleman who possesses ail tiie qualities which could be desired in a candidate for the Gubernatorial office, ills honesty and capability are luily avouched by the testimony of the lead ing presses which oppose him on polit ical "grounds, whilst in the rank of the Democracy bis talents and worth arc universally acknowledged and respect ed, facts that render morally certain ais triumphant election. Resolved, That in the Democratic nominations for the several district ot ficeswe recognize gentlemen worthy ol thecordiai support of ail National I nion men and we recommend them to the people of their respective districts with the assurance that Bedford county will give them a most overwhelming en dorsement at the polls. fi< *olved, That a.- to the past, we are aim mat we recognize as tne gicat o vershiulowing issue of the present day, \ the restoration of the Union as against \ the continuance of Dissolution by the I machinations of the Radical leaders in ! the present Congress, and we invite all j men, without regard to previous polit j ical predilections, to unite with us in ! favor of Restoration and against Disso ; (ution. Jieso/red, That we endorse the Plat i form and Address of the great Nation ' ai Union Convention which assembled | in Philadelphia, on the 11th of August I last, and that wo especially commend : its re-announcement to the American ; People the deathless doctrine of the j Declaration of independence, that "Tax | at ion without Representation is Tyr- I at ny." Itesofred, That we most heartily sus j tain President Johnson in his noble ef j forts to restore the Union, and return . our hearth It thank- to Hon. Edgar | Cowan for his gallant championship of j the Right in his place in the Senate of ! the United States. Resolved, That we call upon the peo ' pie of this Senatorial and Kcpresenta i tive District to elect the Democratic nominees for Senator and Reprcsenta- I tive, it being acknowledged bv the "He | publican" presses that the "Repuhlic ; an" Senator and Representatives soid j the people in the lu.-t Legislature on I the Railroad question. Htsfjtrexl, That we will go to work | and labor from this day forward until I the second Tuesday ol October, with : out one backward look, without one ! laggard step, hut animated by one glo mus common purpose and nerved by i ilie conviction that we are right, to bring victory to that untarnished flag j which symbolizes Constitutional Lib erty, which i- the emblem of an un i broken 1 nion, and which hears upon it.-, ioids for everv Stale a .- tar. CKAUY commanded ono of the di vision- of the llOtli Corps, which Corps wus commanded i>y Maj. Geo. 11. NY. 8 LOCUM. Now, Uen.SLOUUM, dea ry's oldeommander, Gen. NYi LLIA MS of tie* Ist Division, (Jen. *\VA RD, of tho;{<i Division, and OVn. Rorssiwr, of tiie Kh Division, are all in favor of the I'resident's policy and opposed to the election of O'earv. The liero of Sniekersvillo alone, of all the division commanders of tiie old 'Jt'th Corps, stands upon the Disunion platform of Stevens, Sunnier A Co. Who would not rather follow the lead of Sloeuui, Williams, Ward and Rousseau, than that of the Sniekersville Skedaddler? "Ft'ss and Feathers!" Tliis was the exclamation of an old "Republican" who doesn't believe so much in flags and brass horns as in the former prin ciples of his party, as he looked on, the other evening, when the Radicals were engaged in marshalling the faithful.— The people can't he dealeued by "noise and confusion," or blinded by gaudy 'displays, to the truth as it is in the Na tional Union policy of President John son. They \vi i make up their minds deliberately and vote accordingly. THAD. STEVENS! Negro Equality! I BLACK! BLACK! BLACK! Thad. Stevens, Aleck, MeClqre and John Williamson made speeches last, Tuesday night, and each one of them spoke for NEGRO SUFFRAGE and EQUALITY. Old Thad. said the COLLARS. Ac. i Also, my article*! in the Stationery line, such a.' Pencils , Si eel-Pens, Penholders, <C-e. Also, my VARIETIES, such as* Spices of <dl kiwis, Table Salt, Essence of Coffee. JU imblctop's Hair MeClure said he would never agree t< the restoration of the Union UNTIL THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE PUT THEIR NEGROES UPON A PER FECT EQUALITY WITH THEM SELVES. Williamson said, "A NE GRO HAS AS MUCH RIGHT TO VOTE AS AN IRISHMAN, ANI) MORE." Now, here is the doctrine of the Radicals. Republicans cannot deny this. We can prove it by a hun ' dred witnesses. In the name of heav- en, can any decent man endorse it? Mt-CEI UK'S fiI'EECII. By our special Reporter. .Montgomery Blair —old Blair -Blair | —Blair—Blair—Rebels—Traitor blood-stained Rebels back to power— ! Blair —Bloody .Scoundrels —Ghastly— j (Jhastly—Wasted—Treason—Rebels—- j ('opperbeads—Traitor- —Treason—U n re,,entant Rebels—'Wretches—'Traitors —Treason —T rea—Scoundrels —Ghastly —Anderson ville —Sharp©—Blair Treason—Treason—Treason —Negroes- j Equality—Traitors—Traitors — Bloody Traitors—Rebels—Treason —Tren—etc. I Oir. I'EKKEI'T E4U"AMTV- McClure said at the meeting on Tues day night: "THIS NATION CAN- N (>T SU R VIV E Tll IS Si IA MEL ESS DISCRIMINATION ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR AND RACE; THERE MUST BE PERFECT EQUALITY BEFORE TIIE LAW." Who wants more to convince hitn? NOW I'OK TIIE NIEH : Every man who clings to the Radical party stands on Thad. Stevens' plat form, announced on Tuesday night last— NEGRO EQUALITY. This is now beyond dispute. STATE SEN ATOR. We take pleasure in announcing the nomination of our friend B. F. Meyers, editor of the B. <lf rd (fazrtie. as the !>r irtt Ci ulll niiu .ntinuMi unm candidate for the State Senate in the Fulton, Bedford and Somerset district. Mr. Meyers has served with distinc tion in the House of Representatives, and is widely known as a man of abili ty and of sound constitutional princi j pies.— Gettysburg Compiler. The impatient haste with which John T. Richards rushed to the betrayal of his own party in this county, and the selling out of his party'.-? unanimous choice for Senator, is rendered more naked and shameless in its baseness by the fact that he and his conferees re i muinrd in Bedford until after the Serui j (orialnomination was made —though his pitiful excuse for hurrying on his nom ination WILS, that he waited longenough and enuldidf iruil any long r [f Ricli ards should ever get into the Legisla j ture, who doubts that he would sell j out the dearests interests of his con- j I stituents, or Fulton county itself, if ' thereby he could advance; his own sel ■ fish interests.— Fulton Democrat. THKIIK ran IK 1 no mistaking theissue of the day—Union or no Union. It is not difficult for a man to decide for the Union, if lie only throws aside his prej udices against the people of the South. The rMtels of the South fought for dis union, and shall we now gratify them by the ballot, after we have defeated them by the bullet? The honest peo ple of tin; South want to get back into the Union, and they are only the secret traitors in the South who aid the Radi cals because they know them to bcDis unionists. They are the Unionists of the South now who met in the Phila delphia Convention, and they will be the Jlisunionists of the South who will meet in the Radical Convention in the same place on the lid of September next.— Huntingdon (i'/übe. Chi uott, Radical, has not been elec ted a delegate to Congress from Colo rado, as fal-ely stated by some of the Disunion papers. Hunt, Democrat, was alvad at the last accounts. His majority is stated by the telegraph to he ;:0. ( lost, but enough to elect. Col orado has heretofore given about 1,">00 to 2,000 Republican majority. Tine National Union Party is "weep ing over the whole Union like the bright sun in a cloudless day. This is tin- last year of Radical Republicanism. The platform is giving way-—we don't Intend to lie hurt when it falK--Hun tingdon Gtobe. OSIY SEVKM JIII-UOSN. . For Klift, < tin* voted nearly Seven Hill ion* <>r llollur* to *uj jMirl tile I'reedoien'* lliireaii. AH Follow* : For Officers and Expenses of Officers—for N"i groes, £ 332,3(30 00 For Clothing and Fire wood—for Nkgkoes, 1,185,9(X> 00 For Provisjeas and Medi cine—for NEOROKs, 3,606,250 00 For Railroad and other Fare—for nkg hobs, 1,320,000 (X) For Asylums and School Houses—for XEGItOKS, 500,000 00 TOTAL, $6,944,450 00 Pennsylvania pays about one-oigth of the taxes of the country. Her share of this, for the present year, is about $850,000 on. She has never polled more votes than about FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE THOU SAND. This gives each voter to pay for LA- j j ZY NEGROES, in 1866, about ONE | DOLLAR AKD A HALF. | The Tax Collector does not call for this money, but you PAY IT TO THE | STOREKEEPER on the goods that : you use. The Government imposes duties on j SI'GA R, COFFEE, TEA, and all oth-. er articles, of daily use. j YOU MUST HAVE TIIEM, and ! you are M VDE TO PAY to keep up j the FUEKDMKN'S BUREAU, by | your Coffee, Tea and Sugar being dear ! er; and your children must go bare footed, and your wife have fewer dress es, so that THE NEGRO MAY BE KEPT IN IDLENESS. I A Did they ever vote any money to keep the POOR WHITE MAN ? Why have they flooded the country with As.-es-ors and Tax gatherers to SUCK OUT THE SAVINGS OF EV : ERY HOUSEHOLD? Why are the people taxed, and : THEIR lIA RT> EAItNINOSTAKEN FROM THEM, to keep up this unne- ! cessary cloud of officers, when the j whole could as well be collected through the State and County Officers. THE NATIONAL DEBT MUST | BE FA 11 ), and as it increases, the in- ■ terest to be paid, increases. As debt and interest increases, TAX ATION INCREASES. increase of debt to the Government means increase of toil, and IN CREASE OF LABOR TO POOR WHITE MEN. It is the question of the comfort of every boy and girl, of every wife and mother, and affects the ability of every father to provide food and raiment for his wife and children. CONGRESS HAS INCREASED ; ITS OWN PAY for the last Session almost TWICE what it was when it FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DO LL A IIS of your money are s wallo w ed up. EECISEATJ VE t'O VI EREXCE. The Deniocraticconfereeafbrthe Leg islative district composed of the coun ties of Bedford, Fulton and Somerset, , " met at the Bedford Hutal, iu Baiiford, on Saturday, Sept. !. The following conferees were present: Bedford —M ij. Law. Tadaferro, John Sill and Lewis Salipp. Fallon— Not! tep r<.-sen let 1. Somerstl —James Wigle, G. 11. Heff ley. On motion Maj. L. Taliaferro was ap pointed President and G. B. Hefliey, Secretary. On motion, adjourned till 6 o'clock p.m., to await the arrival of the Fulton conferees. SECOND Sl-XBION. Conference met pursuant to adjourn ment. On motion, IL>N. IIIRAM FINDLAY, of Somerset, was unani mously nominated as one of the candi dates for Representative in the Legisla ture. roR CO A R CF.n T S A XI) B XII IB ITIuNS, . ARE UNSURPASSED. j 0:1 motion the Conference adjourned i sine die. 1,. TA LI AFKRBO, <i. 15. Hi.i'fXKY, See'y. Pros't. "We were positive when we left i the Democratic organization in '(JI, be cause as we believed, it sympathised j with the Disunionists —and we aire just as positive now in leaving what was the Onion party during the war, be ' cause we believe it is in sympathy with | the Disunionists, Thad. Stevens, Sum ner A- Co. As parties now stand, (with ton States asking for recognition,) the i Democrats and conservative republicans are (heUnion men, the Union party— tiie Republicans as an organization, are | the Disunionists. We simply stand now where we stood during the w ar— j.fbr the Vnioft— vfrith a National Union j organization.— Huntingdon Globe. IXOVOMIKE ASB I'AV TOIR DEBT! Restore the I'iiion iiml Inert-use your Kesonrees. Our National lebt I* to he Paid. An individual upon whom debt, p esses, will curtail his expenses and economise in order to free himself from the incumbrance. Is not this the true course of the nation? The President affirms that it is, and he vetoed the Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Bills, and refused the immense patronage they bestowed upon hint; among other reasons, because they were enormously expensive to the people. Congress votes money without regard to the payment of the debt. The President has always been known Jas an advocate of economy in the ad | ministration of the Government. Congress, under the load of Stevens, : is extravagant acid reckless, and will ! load the people with additional debt. He, who would have a productive i farm, must keep up the fences, nour | ish the soil, and strengthen and invig- orate it where it is weak. So the Gov- j eminent, if it would be rich, mighty and prosperous, must encourage indus- ! try, develop its resources and in every | section stimulate the people to coin j wealth from Minerals, Agriculture, j Commerce, Trade and Manufactures. The President would develop the : great resources of the South and cause j them to aid in paying the National ! Debt, by administering the Constitu- i tion and the laws. Congress imposes new conditions, i and will not allow those enormous re ! sources to he fostered, but from a love I of power and a spirit of hate, retards j the growth of wealth in that section, and by renewed agitation endangers the security of our debt. Which is the better policy? Shall we economise, and increase our ' resources; or shall we be extravagant, i and continue to agitate? The President says the former; Con- j | gross suys the latter. Stewart, Vanderbilt, Astor, and oth !er New York capitalists, who hold | more of the National debt than the ! same number of men anywhere, are i for the President and against Congress. They are business men, and believe j that the same rule applies to the Re | public that applies to the individual; if he would get rich, he must econo mise and footer his resources. Do you hold a Government Bond? Is it safer under Stevens and agita j tion, or Johnson and the Constitu i tion? _____ ILEMOCHVRIC L\ ION MEETING IN HOMEKSEF <NV C'V. The largest Mass Meeting of Demo crats and Conservative Union men ever held in Soraer-ot county, came off in the borough of Somerset, on Monday evening, August 27th. The Court House was jammed and crammed with people, while many were outside una ble to effect an entrance. DR. H. BRE LIKTK over the meeting, as sisted by a large number of Vice Presi dents and Secretaries. Speeches were made by HON. IIIESTER CLYMKR, Democratic candidate for Governor, lion. J. MCDOWELL SHARRE, Col. J. P. LINTON and B. P. MEYERS. The speeches w re enthusiastically receiv ed, and the best feeling prevailed.— The Bedford Democratic Brass Band and the Berlin Brass Band were in at tendance and enlivened the occasion with most excellent music. On Tuesday evening, Aug. 28, an im proniptu meeting of the Democracy and Union Republicans of Berlin Bor ough was held in the large new school house, at Berlin, which was attended by a large and enthusiastic audience. J. Parker Philson, Esq., presided.— Speeches were made by lion. J. Mci>. Sharpe, B. P. Meyers, and Hon. A. 11. Ooffroth. Mr. Sharpe made a most excellent speech, and was loudly cheer ed. Mr. Ooffroth made one of his best efforts, and everything passed off splen didly. Old Berlin will give a rousing Democratic majority this fall. II\R ON ST INTO\. The Bedford Inquirer lias a cut bor- j rowed from the Franklin Repository, 1 which that office borrowed from King j A Baird, Philadelphia, illustrating the I j sufferings at Andersonville, as com pa- ' [red with those of Jeff. Davis. It is too I bad that the lnquirer should "go back" on its friend Stanton in this style. Stanton wouldn't exchange the Union j prisoners at Andersonville, hut let them remain thereto starve and die. But the Bedford Inquirer ought not to print such caricatures of his complici ty with WTrz. Why should it libel its own friends? TUK price of the Campaign "Climb er" has been reduced to* correspond with the length of time for which the series is yet to run. There ought to bo at least 500 additional copies circulated in this county. As the subscription price is now almost nominal, the Item- • ocrats in the various districts can easi ly raise contributions to enable us to circulate 500 additional copies. Lett this be done, if possible. THE DESERTER LAW. E* ays the Fulton Democrat, Col. A. K. MeClure, who in the hey-dey of Radical power played dignifiedly and majestically "on the great moral idea" string, has, like Greeley, since the clouds of political desperation and hopelessness have begun to gather a round Radical aspirations, got down to the character of a low demagogue. 1I is out in this week's Repository in a raw-head and bloody-bones article in- I tended to upset common sense and the ' decision of the Supreme Court, and i frighten Democrats who fall under the j ban of the null, void, iniquitous and • unconstitutional "Deserter I jaw," from | their just right of suffrage! Does Me- Clure take u- Democrats all to be so j downright soft about the cranium as to ( pay the slightest heed in the world t* 1 ins senseless clamor? Dots anybody ; really think wo were born in the woods ;to be frightened by this Repository ! owl ? We know just thus much about the decision of the Supreme Court in the deserter case of Huber vs. lteilly. We know that that decision went right to the marrow and essence of the whole question. Briefly stated, it is thus:— The forfeiture of the right of suffrage "must be adjudged to the convicted person, after trial by a court martial and sentence approved" Under no other circumstances can the forfeiture become effectual. We know also tha: this same princi ple laid down by the Supreme Court applies equally (for it is rudimental and e--"dial in its character; to the Aa ni Assembly triumphantly refer r<>! to by MeClure, and equally to any other A sof Assembly that have been or ma.." >c passed relating to the sub ject. Buf that Act of Assembly is void j and dead for another reason; it is clear- I ly, unquestionably an ex pod facto law. | But why be led into a discussion over j the rotten carcass of this misbegotten i spawn of Radical injustice and malev i 1 olence? Let it rest in the dishonored ! grave to which an upright judiciary has consigned it. It is more to the point to say that, u~e don't intend to be cheated out of a single rote this fall, by i this Radical deserter swindle! We shall treat every officer of election who refuses a vote on that ground as an en emy to the sacred right of suffrage—as a violator of the law —and we shall hoi him responsible accordingly. That i all. GRANT ALL RIGHT.—Major GeneraT ! Grant, it will be seen by reading the | President's speech, stands "shou'der to snouiaer *virn JrUvsident Johnson. The Radicals can claim any General they may, but such solid men as Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, know very well j what the war was for, and how the I South should be treated now that it has j been subdued. The same position as taken by General Grant is being taken by a large majority of the solid Union officers and soldier*. You cannot get a | true Union soldier, unless he is of the I Thad. Stevens school of politicians, to i denounce President Johnson, but you ! can get any number to denounce Cong ! ress for its radical course against peace and harmony.— lluntlnq<lon Ulobe. ! Tin:desert ions from the Radical ranks ■ now-a-days are as numerous as those I from the lines of Lee to the army of | Grant just before the fall of Richmond. | Bread and Butter have a good deal to | do with politics, and those articles are i getting a little scarce with some of the Radicals, just as they did with Lee's ; men before the surrender at Appomat j tox. The "Bread and Butter brigade" i is getting stronger daily. j B. P. MEYERS, Oftite Bedford <ia : zette, who was lately nominated as the 1 Democratic and National Union can didate for the State Senate, in the Bed ' ford and Somerset district, will be tri umphantly elected, as he deserves to ■ be. This will be one stroke against Thad. Stevens and darkey suffrage.— ! Pat. <(• Union. > IIKXRY WARD RKECIIER has left | the "Republican" party because it is I now controlled by men who are deter mined to keep ten States out of the j Union, lie lias written a letter ex plaining his position. lie thinks that all good men ought to stand by the ' President. MRS. HAXXAH RIDKXBAI:H, wife of WM. RIDEXOAUDii, Esq., formerly ; of this county, long Clerk of the Buch anan-County Circuit Court, died at St. j Josephs, M0.,0n Friday morning, Aug. 17th, of typhoid fever. She was a la dy of much energy in good works, and ■ greatly esteemed in the social circles in i which slie moved. i . SACRAMENTAL SERVICES will bo held in the M. E. Church, in this place, on next Sabbath, (9th inst.) at ltd a. m. /lAI.I. AND SEE <'CR STOCK I J OF STOCKS, TINWARE. AC R. Mr. liI.YMYKK ACQ. tpil NTRY MERCIIA.N ISnupplied with all kinds of TIXWARIS 011 the shortest notice, at B. Me. BIA MVKK k CP'S. A NTI-I'UST PARLOR STOYLS— I\ SPEAKS PA+EVT, at B Mi BLYMYER ACO S.