Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-08

| four weeks.
Many freedmen in NUrth Carolina refuse 10
enter into contracts for labor, because they
believe that farms viii be given them by the
| United States Government. The Commits
sioner has informed them that Government
owns no land, and can give away none.
The foreign immigration to the United
States, for the six months ending with June,
comprised nearly $4,000 persons, of whom AZ,
| 900 are males.
Twenty-Five thousand animals have been
sold by Government during the present month
The entire proceeds amount to over $4, ,00O,.
600.
Ina speech at Baltimore, Mr.. Blair made
fierce attack upon Seward and Stanton.
| At fire in pyrotechnic establishment
in New York, one young woman was burned
to crisp.
The Internal Revenue collections in New.
York for the fiscal year ending on the 30th
Of June last, was between twenty-seven and
twenty-eight millions of dollars.
Gov. Brough, of Ohio, died at Cleveland
on the 29th.
The potato crop this season will be one of
the largest crops ever grown in this country.
The 25Sth anniversary of the landing Of
the first English colony on the New England
coast was observed in Maine with appropri :
ate exercises.
The boiler of well ''No. GA, at Pithole,
Oil City, exploded, killing the engineer, and
burning the tank and oil at well Mum
Der 65. -
Extensive smuggling operations on the
Canada border have been discovered Silks,
sugars, drugs, and other importations on
which there is high rate of duties, have
lately come into the country, evading all du-
ty, in large quantities.
New York drinks about 40, ,000, 900 gallons
of water per day. The quantity of whiskey
it consumes is beyond computation.
John L. Sherman, a brother of the-Gene-
raj, has been nominated for State Senator in
Ohio
The chances that a newly-born infant, in
England, viii live for the space of twelve
months, are S51 to 149.
| OF 400 guests at one of the principal ho-
tells in Washington, 232 were Southerners,
nearly all of whom were applicants for Ex-
eeutive clemency.
A hail storm in Wisconsin has just de-
stroyed thirty thousand dollars worth of
creps. Hailstones were seen which meas
ured six or eight inches in circumference.
A girl in Hoboken, N. j., has died from
the effects of frequent doses of phosphorus
paste administered by herself for the pur-
pose of destroying her life, in consequence of
disappointed love.
A woman in Pittsburg, Pa, has been for
some time engaged in secretly and systemat-
ically poisoning persons who visited her,
without any apparent motive Three of
her victims have died, and fourth is not
expected to i've
Returning soldiers are going west at the
rate of two or three hundred a month, to
take up lands under the new Homestead
| Law.
The recent National Teachers Association
at Harrisburg took measures to have
World Convention called.
A fine steamer of over 1000 tons armed
with twelve guns of the heaviest caibre, has
been completed in New-Y York for the Ty-
coon of Japan, to be followed by two 9TH
erS.
To avoid identity of persons, the ladies of
Newport wear masks in the water made of
thin, white cotton cloth, fitting tightly to
the face, with places cut out for the mouth
and eyes. The disguise is perfect.
The gamblers at Saratoga complain that
the place is this Summer frequented by
middle-class people, who come to drink the
water and not to spend money.
The statistics of the Quartermaster's De-
partment in the army show that each indi-
vidual consumes 2i pounds of dry food dai-
ly, Vegetable and animal, making an an
nual consumption of about 800 pounds. OF
fuids,he swallows l,500 pounds.
The New-York Hotel begins to resume its
old features 1t is crowded with Secession
lists of all grades, military, religious and po-
litical
President johnson announces that paro-
led Rebels who desire to leave the country
will be furnished passports on condition
that they shall not return without the Pres
ident's permission.
Alleged tremendous frauds among army
paymasters are now being brought to light,
which cast all other defalcations completely
in the shade.
Up to the 18th July there were $500 pen
sioners ON the rolls for the State of New
York alone, l 100 of whom are drawing full
pensions.
The receipts from internal revenue since
July l, amounts to over $4S, 100000.
The President win probably order the re-
lease of Alexander FL. Stephens.
An order has been issued mastering out
of the service Major Generals, 35 Brevet
Major Generals, and 4S Brigadier Generals.
The Democratic State Convention of Ohio
nominated Gen. George W. Morgan for
Governor. and William Lang for Lieuten-
ant Governor.