Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-12-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Only four towns in Massachusetts, voted for
Mcclellan.
Eighteen elergymen were elected TO the Legisla-.
ture at the late election in Vermont.
Mrs. Joshua R. Giddings died at Jefferson,
Ashtabula county, o., on the 18th inst.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Howe, Of Pittsburgh has
written letter TO the Harrsburgh Telegraph,
declining to be candidate for State Treasurer.
1t issaid that upwards of nine hundred women
are going out to India to be employed on various
teegraphic lines of communication.
Twenty wild animals, including royal Bengal
tiger, arrived at Boston, on Saturday last, on the
ship Golconda, from Calcutta.
At Schenectady, New York, a man dressed in
black silk Dress black joekey-hat and white veil,
has garrotted one man, robbed another of his
watch, and frightened another into permanent
fits
OF twenty seven clergymen who voted at the re-
cent election 10 Princeton, twenty7six voted for
lhncoln and johnson, and only one for Mcclellan
and Pendeton.
The Johnstown Democrat, the organ of the
Copperhead Democracy In Cambria county has
hidden It's readers farewell. Its last number was
issued ON w ednesday
Next year there win be four eclipses-two of
the sun and two of the moon The eclipses of
the sun occur on the 25th Of April and the 18th
OF October; those of the moon on che 18th of A
pri and the Sd of October
A bill has been introduced in the Louisiana
Senate declaring that all persons IN the State not
having more than onefourth of negro blood shall
be recognized as whites
The Chicago Journal reports over foot of snow
between that city and Detroit. The Milwaukee
| Sentinel OF Monday also states that large quanti
ties OF snow had also fallen in Western Wiscon-
SIM
200 900 persons in Missouri, this day, who are
little better off than paupers not knowing where to
get food to maintain them through the winter.
Boston, according to a count made by the po-
! lice, now contains 34 599 families or l64 7S8 in
habltants This falls short of the last census
but it does not include those gone to the army or
navy, or otherwise absent from home.
John R. Davis, Of Acushnot, Mass, member
| OF the society Of Friends, aged about 80 years,
voted on Tuesday last for the first time in his ife
giving full vote for the Union nominees
The Union ticket in Boston, on the 9th, had a
beautifully engraved design printed in colors LIB
erty on one side was breaking fetters while Peace
held to her bosom the symbolic dove A cannon
and flag IN the centre were surmounted BY the
llberty-cap.
In Cambria, Somerset, and the adjoining coun,
Ties OF Pennsylvania, good quality of tar Is man
ufactured from theknotsofthe pitch pine Theman-
uiaeture of this substitute for North Carolina tar
is carried on extensively and has already, it is
| stated, considerably deprecated the price of the
latter article. The tar thus produced answers
nearly all the requisites as substitute for the
original article.
PENNSYLVANIA CoTToN.-Excelent cotton has
been raised the past season in Bucks county,
pennsylvania, of which we have some full omen
pods from Mr.. j. Burr Moore The staple is not
long, but the article is good, and the fact is thus
clearly demonstrated that cottou can be success
fully produced in Pennsylvania. .-IltR " 44naeri-
can.
A SILVER BRIcK.-The Christian Commission
has received valuable contribution to its treasu-
ry, in the shape Of solid silver brick virgin pure
from the es-contrbuted bv citizens of Vir.
ginia and Gold Hill, Nevada Territory Its in
tnnslc value Is about three thousand dollars 1t
ought to be purchased at a high premium, and
preserved sacred as relic Of the Christian munif-
of these times.
HIGH VELOCITY. There was small model of
a turbine wheel on exhibition at San Francisco
Fair, which reyolYed at the enormous velocity Of
i've thousand times minute-a motion so rapid
that 1t does not appear to move at ALL till the fin
ger is placed on the surface which creates heat
by the friction equal to a red hot irion
Three or four more arrests have been made of
persons suspected of being concerned in the late
incendiarism. Gen. Dix's order for the registra.
ton of Southerners has alarmed that class Of peo-
pie, and they are coming up to the Provost Mar
shall' office pretty freely There should be no
escape forthem-every one, male or female, should
be made to face the order or suffer the consequent
ces. If they are loyal, it will not hurt them if
not, it ought to rid us of their presence.-TIiB-
ute
WAR ITEMS.