Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-05-26
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A RIcHMoND correspondent of the Phila-
delphia hgqfirtr, says have felt II incum-
/ bent upon me. on one or two occasions, to-
scall the attention Of the public to the fact
that the Richmond press is under the con-
| troll Of the same men who managed it during
( the war. and before the war, when it was
filed with fierce appeals against the nation's
/ life There is not one single man publish.
| ING a newspaper in Richmond who was not
! identified with the rebellion as supporter,
and most of them instigators With one
single exception the editors are all IN the
same category.
Col. A. X. Mcclure, whose property was
| destroyed by the rebels at the burning of
Chambersburg, offers reward of $1,000
for the arrest and delivery to the authorities
Of Franklin county, of f. w Smith, the son
of the renowned Extra Billy, and a Cap
tain of the rebel army. This +. w. Smith
is the man who ordered the destruction of
Colonel Mcclure property last summer.
A NATIONAL cemetary is to be established
at Antietam, and the Legislature of Mary
land has appropriated $1,000, expecting
each State whose soldiers fell in the fight to
appropriate as much. A suitable lot of ten
acres has been purchased on a part of the
battle field, near the town Of Sharpsburg,
embracing the ground occupied by General
Lee as a signal station, from which the
whole of the ground fought over can be
viewed
From MISSISSIPPI A New Orleans dis
patch mentions that the rebel Governor of
Mississippi has called the State Legislature
together, and has announced that the laws
of tho State viii, for the present, remaln. IN
force. We think he will soon find that his
services are no longer needed, and that prob
ably his presence viii be required at Wash
ington or Fort Lafayette.
The PLUMBER. Nothing is said of the
gold jeff Davis was supposed to have ta-
ken with him from Richmond, and the mn
preston is that none oft fell into our pos
session. There was rumor some time ago
that a considerable portion of the money
had been left in North Carolina, and still
another rumor that it had been divided
among his escort
THERE is on duty at Fort Washington, on
the Potomac a veteran soldier, Sergeant
Joseph Cameron, who has been In the SER
vice since 1906, two years longer than Gen.
Scott. He has been on duty at Fort Wash
ington constantly during the last thirty-six
y Sttics AJOl SaDHtllh AdbtCApH HHc pO4h Nh NlAS
10th Of April, 1890,
A SENSIBLE CONCLUSION. The London
Times has come to the conclusion that much
mischief has been caused by the utteTance
in England of loose ideas" respecting the
United States. 1t seeks, therefore, to make
some amends for its own delinquencies, by
devoting a leader to unqualified praise of
the statesmanlike qualities of which Presi-
dent johnson, in its judgment, shows him
self possessed.
Miss DELLA WEBSTER, who was imprison
ed in Kentucky, twenty years ago, on a
charge of harboring escaped slaves, and has
since been the subject of repeated persecu-
| ton from Kentucky Judges, has offered to
give one hundred acres of land, situated on
the Ohio river, opposite Madisonyille, In
diana, for the establishment of Lincoln Col
lege. A movement has been put on foot
| at Boston to carry the plan into effect
The New York Herald, the great organ
of Democracy, is out in favor of negro suf-
frage, and insists that the negro must be
enfanchised as the last clinching blow to
treason How are you, Copperheads ?
You may follo11, but you are a little two late
to lead