Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-07-01
Ielrs and Other gtPma,

A LITTLE Boy in Portland, Maine, the other day
got hold of bunch of matches, played with them
while, and then set FIRE to the premises, and sew
eral thousand dollars worth ofproperty destroyed
TITS RUMoRED that Mr. RIvEs' heirs will be forced
to discontinue the reporting and publication of the
debates in Congress, in the Globe the present ses-
sion, unless Congress comes to their relief.
1T WAS ANDREW JOHNSON who, in the United States
Senate, in of his speeches denouncng session,
said as he passed his finger in the direction OF
JEFF DAVIS, ''if I were the President, would ar
rest you as traitors, try you as traitors, and hang
you as traitors!
THE $50 PER CENT tariff is operating very disas-
trously TO the foreign importers, of whose a.
gents abroad have been making heavy purchases,
without knowing what was going on at Washington.
Cases have occurred where goods thus purchased
were resOld under the conviction that to send them
across the Atlantic, under the circumstances would
be losing speculation
| CoNDUcToRs on the passenger railway cars are
not obliged to furnish change to the passengers.
The decisions in the courts that passenger
must furnish the exact price of his ticket and not
compel those who carry him to give change
! When change is given at any time to customer,
it is for his convenience and to obge him but he
has no right" to demand it.
GRANTS CooISEss.-An incident occurred during
Thursday morning. that illustrates the coolness and
selfpossession Of the Commander-n-C Chief ot the
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firing in the morning was in progress, Gen Grant
was standing in company with Gen. Meade, near a
fire, talking and endeavorng to keep themselves dry
when rebel shell struck within few feet OF the
| twain. A disposition to move manifested on the
part of q number of officers standing around, wher
Gen Grant looking slowly around and fixing his eyes
on the spot where the shell struck, asked at once o
! a pocket compass which, being furnished he exam
ined the of the shell, found out the location o
the battery, and it was not long before shells were
A.
pondenee Of Philadelphia Inquirer.
FREE LABOR IN NORTH CARo1IxA-The Newberr
North Carolina) Times of June Alta says 0ldslave
holders themselves, who honest and candid, are
forced to admit the just and vastly superior claims
free labor. They see the sluggish and eHnervate(
Z laboring population accustomed to live around them
animated with new hopes and fresh vigor. The va
cant and idle lands lying in vast tracts IN every 10
eality and county, being reclaimed with rapidity
the results this year alone within the old counties
Craven and Carteret will be perfectly astounding I,
the ancient friends and sticklers of the worn on
institution of slavery If these happy results can
be achieved at this early period, who can estimate
the radical and tremendous changes which are SURF
to occur when all the blessings of free labor polio
are sanctioned protected and defended by wise an,
human laws adopted under free state constitution?
A ToY OF SILVER FOR THE SOLDIERS Nevada Ter
irtory is about 5000 miles distant from the seat
war, in the heart of mountainous and seemingl
sterile wilderness, and yet the owners and patriot
people of Virginia City Gold Hill. Silver City an,
Dayton, the 10th and nth Of May, made the splen
did contribution of nearly twenty-five thousand dol
lars to the st. Louis Sanitary Fair which, with tn
silver bars previously sent forward, viii amount
quite of silver, worth at its market price in tn
East, fifty thousand dollars in Government currency
The meetings held in the cities and towns above ma
med were Of the most exciting character. The cor
tributions were mainly made by miners, merchant;
mechanics, and professional men of Nevada Tn
employees of the great Gould Curry mine gave thin
ty-fve hundred dollars, and the Virginia Union char
ges that the great companies which could easily al
ford to donate quarter Of million from their col
fers, were generally most shamefully Indifferent.
sack Of -four from Austin, Rees river which had be
come famous IN bet on the municipal election tn
loser having to carry it on his shoulder amile and
quarter to the winners residence and which had bee
re.sold at auction in Austin until the sales nette
$500, was also sold and re-sold at Virginia City
Gold Hill, Silver City, and Dayton, and brought th
additional sum about S12 000to the Sanitary Fund
The Sack of Flour is to be sent with the ton of 81
yer to the St. Louis Fair. 'Ths IS great country