Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-08-04

TO De cfeulJeu tne 1UeAlctn fitcStlOH VIII soon
meet with a solution very much like dis
solution Not finding the ancestral halls of
the Montezuma favorable to his health, the
Emperor went to Puebla, but although on
his arrival the streets we're full of people,
not hand or voice was raised in his vel
come except from some English contractors
on the Vera Cruz Railway. From the mo-
ment of his entrance into country he did
not understand and the politics of which
were a puzzle TO much nearer spectators than
the Austrian pretender, he has experienced
the fate of those who heartily embrace no
side, and is hated by all. He has neglected
the Liberals, who were mainly instrumental
in bringing him thither, and has not re-
formed any of the clerical, abuses under
which the country groans.
To an American the eye-sights now exhib-
tied at Brownsville, Texas, are very novel,
and show a want of the go-a-head, labor-sa-
wing propensities of Young America. Think
of a man harnessing himself to a barrel
filed with water, and pulling it over the city
for delivery to customers, or fastening on to
the back Of diminutive jackass about as
much wood as an able bodied man could car
nv in his arms, when the same animal could
draw ten times as much In some sort of a
vehicle. The ladies are supplied with dress
goods, ribbons laces, boots, shoes, pins and
combs, by big two-fsted fellows, who carry
these things from house to house on their
shoulders orin baskets, and who would be do
ing their oppressed country great service in
the ranks of Cortinas and Juarez.
THE way they erect towns in the oilregions
looks as if the Petrolians were addicted to
the sudden. At housewife, recently q
ed in eight days. Pit Hole was located, or
ganized and made hourishing town of four
hundred buildings and thousand inhabi-
tants in the short space of three weeks
They have all the accompaniment of hotels,
telegraph, post Office, and are talking of a
railroad The projected railroad from Ii
tusvile to Union will cost 800, 600; the dis
tanee is twenty-three miles, and they are GO
ing to construct it in ninety days.
A Washington county paper says: After
a good deal Of hesitation, the wool trade of
our county has at last opened, though as
yet the crop is going off slowly. Up until
within the last week or so, buyers and pro-
ducers were so far apart that no sales were
made; but since that we have heard OF sew
eral thousand pounds being bought at prices
ranging from fifty to ninety cents, according
to quality.
The whole number of soldiers orphans
admitted to the schools provided for them,
in Bucks county, up to the first OF July, was
eight hundred and ffty-seyen, sixty-tive OF
this number being at the school at Quaker
town. The vacation viii commence on the
2Sth of July, and the schools viii reopen on
the 4th of September.
THEnotorious forger, ColonelJ Buchanan
Cross, whose exploit in forgery, and his
desperate efforts to escape from the Philadel-
phia Penitentiary by means of false papers,
caused so much excitement some years ago.
will be discharged next month, his term OF
1--WE years expiring on the 18th. lie has
been employed in making cane-seat chairs
since his confinement.
TINES WRIGGLING. The Louisville
Journal says: JEFF Davis and his followers
got up the rebellion for the pretended. pur-
pose of rendering their property IN slaves
secure. And now JEFF Davis is in prison
awaiting trial for his life, and bis ex-slaves
are eultivating his fine plantation OF two
thousand acres in Mississippi for their own
benefit.
MosT of the leading secessionists in Eu-
rope, who were so wondrous proud at the
beginning of the war, are now extremely
hard up. Mason is living upon charity IN
London, and Slidell, who for long while
! had the credit OF possessing untold chests
Of dollars, is pensioner upon his tather-ln-
law.
THE Northern Central Railway Company
have contributed two thousand five hundred
dollars to assist the borough of York to pay
! the assessment made upon the citizens by the
/ Rebel General Early during the last Rebe
| raid in this State
IF is cool to speak of snow falling in Mis-
/ souri,, not very distant from St Louis, OF
4 the 18th Of this month, but such is the fact
The Franklin county Netcs gives the evidenc,
of the fact, that snow fell in Washington
Mo-, on the day named. 1t must have beel
refreshing
lin addition to the heavy column of cayal
ry now on its march through Texas, from
| twelve to fifteen thousand infantry are nov
making their appearance on the Rio Grande
i preparatory TO assuming the position OF EN-
igrants with arms and utensils necessary TO
their own protection.
AMONG number of confederates VIII
since the termination of the war have lief
Europe and taken up their abode in Canada
is John Y. Mason, of Virginia, formerly Y
nited States Senator and more recently tn
accredited Commissioner Of the late Conted
crate Government in London, Mr., Masol
is now residing with his family at ST. Cath
arine s.
THERE is a general arrival throughout th
State of Skedaddlers who have been residin
for some time in Canada It is well to re
I mind them that by President Lincoln, $ proc
lamation, made in pursuance of act of Cor
gress, all deserters who fail to report befor
May Ist 1868, are forever disfranchised a
American citizens
The Deseret NclrS announces the de ath {
James Duane Doty, Governor of Utah, VIII
expired at Great Salt Lake City ON the l3t
of June. The deceased was little owe
sixty-tiye years old.