Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-04-30
All SORTS OF PAEsAGaAPss.

MONSTER BANK Is proposed By some
body in New York to fuse into one institution
all The corporate banks in New York CITY
There are 6fty-four of them, with IN aggregate
capit5l of sfxtJ-f7e millions. The idea is to
centraligc in New York all the financial aud
business movements of the country, by means
OF this enc great engine.
TUE COoLIR TRApE.--It is stated that Mr..
Reed, our minister ta China, has made move
towards putting stop TO American vessels en-
gagiDg in The eoolie trade. lie has notified. an
Ametfsan vessel now loading at Macao with
coolies If his intention TO mDve the United
States government to pnt in force the act of
Congress Of 1918, relating to this n,ltter
0NToNAGoN, THE NEW STArE-Two names
have been suggested -f,-, the .,s,y State 20 TIC
erected from parts Of Michigan and Nolth
Wisconsin-Superiora and 0nionagon. The lat
ter is The more popular, and has the advantage
Of being aboriginal. Superior is name that
might bs applied to colony in New South
" ales, as well as a new American State. Oa-
tonagon is an Indian word, and is pronounced
as If written Onton-aw-gon.
Senator Bigicr has presented to President
buchanan letter from the Adjutaut General
of Pennsy fvania, rendering the services of Il
regiment of volunteers from this State fur the
Utah expedition. -
In Philadelphia, on Tuesday, au l3nglishman,
who had INDUCED in tho forbidden luxury OF "a
brace of wives, was before the Recorder, on the
char ge Of bigaiay. Whon the biginisi @as about
being consigned TO the cells below stairs, he
remarked ,ithat this was not much of 4 free coun-
try, after all.
A man named Lewis, refused TO aay ene of
the plank road companies in Ohio his toll,
amounting to one. cent, far which b. was sued
and fined FIVE dollars. lie appealed from rhe
decision of the magistrate, aud has carried the
case from one court to another, until the costs
amount TO over eight hundred dollars
The Washington correspondent of the Bal
fi,aore Sun, violent Lecomptnn man, says in
his letter of l5th that the advocates of Le-
compton 'cannot yet see land They eau, if
they take the trouble to look, see big rock,
and pretty soon their crazy old craft VII be
dashed 'apou Il.
A severe hurricane occnrel a, Besfonvi!lc,
Arkansas, on the q ull which nearly destroy
cd all the houses in the town. Twenty five
persons are reported as killed, aud large nunl-
4 Der wounded in addition.
4 A woman in ST. Louis was whipping hei
! child With stick day or two since, When
! SPLINTER flying from it entered her left eye, and
/ destroyed the sight.
/ The Paris cerrespon,len, Of the N. Y. Journ.
al of Commerce, says that a gorgeous embassy
from japan is expected, which, after visiting
! Paris, London, and perhaps Vienna, will eros.
the Atlantic TO the United States.
AAogmER MAssAoR4-Gre alarm prevail
ed in Honduras at the latest dates from tha
4 of firo Of al
city of tscccalor by the Yucatan Indians, wh,
had massacred sotne of the inhabitants.
Advices from Washington state that there i.
no doubt Of the passage Of the oil whs bank
rupt law, or Que similar TO it, by the presen
democratic - Congress.
The city OF Lowell has been compelled to pa,
Miss Morrison, u girl of fifteen, $500 for dam
ages received from defect in the highway, b,
which she was crippled.
The Santa Fc nall has arrived at St. Louis
Colonel Marcy left there gu fhe 18th of March
with twelve hundred animals, Ieostly mules
and one hundred aud sixty troops, and th
same number of herdsmen. They expected L
Join Col. Johnston by the ist of May.
SLIDELL FOR PRESIDENT. "A Washington
correspondent OF New Orleans daily pape
saya that the Hon. John Slidell is now faill
out for President, backed by the whole pewe
OF the national Administration, which is en-
, doavoring to secure for him New York an
, Peunsylvan influence What has become 9
Cobb, Orr, and Buchanan.
A report lately presented to the Empero
Alexander, Of Russia, contains the followin
{ statistical returns relative TO landed propert
aud serfs 10 that Empire.