Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-01
GENERAL NEWS.

There were numerous pheasant Incidents
at Grants Fanuel Hall reception in Boston,
on Monday. A cute Yankee who had been
through the mill, and shaken hands with Gen.
Grant, was himself seen shaking hands with
less fortunate people outside, for ten cents a
piece.
In all parts of the State of New Jersey the
peach crop promises to be larger this year
than it has been for many years past.
The Dayton Journal says the grape crop in
that vicinity will prove sorry failure, the rot
having taken the vineyards by storm. 1t hears
of some vineyards that are in a pretty fair
condition, but for the most part the grapes
are already virtually gone. The rotting is at
tributed to the rainy season.
Ma. Erskine S. AlIin, master armorer at
the Springfield armory, has been commits
stoned by the War Department to visit theva.
rious arsenals in England, France and Switz-
eri~s'd and te h@ TA-AsAnt Al t-ipls Of brevel.
loading firearms soon to take place in Eng
land and Switzerland.
The first American steamer for Europe since
1861, the Circassian, sailed on the 10Th from
New York for Southampton and Bremen.
PROCEEDINGS were commenced by militia
ry court in Washington on the 21st in the tri-
al of Capt Henry Wirz, the keeper of the
Andersonville Rebel prison pen. The indict--
ment accuses him of purposely starving his
prisoners, vaccinating them with impure mat
ter, giving them rotten food to eat, and hunt
ing with his bloodhounds those of them who
sought in fight to escape from this horrid
pest-hole of suffering and death.
Judge Wright of Missouri, and four of his
sons, were inhumanly butchered on the 10th,
and their bodies left lying in the brush by the
roadside. No less than 26 shots were fred
into the persons of the FIVE.
REAR ADMIRAL Goldsborough says that in
consequence of his not being invited to wit
ness or participate in the approaching naval
review at Brest, he viii neither be present nor
allow any vessels of his squadron to be in any
| adjacent waters near that time.
| The last census viii exhibit most interest
ing account of the development in this coun-
try of many manufactures for which we have
long been dependent, in great degree, upon
foreign production.
A witness on the Wirz trial exhibited the
! original commission issued to Jefferson Davis
as second Lieutenant of Dragons. 1t is
signed by Andrew jackson as President, and
| Lewis Cass as Secretary of War.
THE Archbishop has informed the Catholic
clergy of St. Louis that they must not take
the oath prescribed by the Radical State Cen
vention.
! The thermometer, on the top of Mount
Washington, lately stood at 28 deg. Ice
formed half an inch thick.
A revenue cutter is to be sent to the Carib-
bean Sea to recover the 81 100000 which
went down in the Golden Rule, wrecked on
her passage to San Juan.
True bills have been found against McCaus-
land and others, who were the immediate in
strumentaIitieis in the burning of Chambers
burg, Pa, and the pillaging of the border by
the Rebels during the war.
THE s'eight hour labor question is being
agitated by the laboring classes in nearly all
the large cities of the North.
The Steamship Brother Jonathan, from
! Can TTdIlclSCOs WIN DOthOSh &oo ahN wv poo
sengers, was totally lost near Camp Lincoln,
Oregon, July 80 Only l4men and one WON
an were saved.
The Evening Exchange in New York
has been abolished. The bankers and brok-
ers think they can gamble enough in the day
time, without going it by gasight.
THERE occurred in New-York, during the
six months ending May 81, 1866, 176 fires, 81
of which were Of an ineendiary origin. The
total losses were 81 ,052,9 ,943, assurances, So
400,s25; amount paid, $l,571, 1855.
A Minister or Commissioner from Maxi
milan is on the way to Washington, to seek
recognition by cur Government.
A collision between a passenger and freight
tain occurred on the Oil Creek Railroad, near
TitusviIle, ON the 24th. Nine persons were
killed, and from ten to fifteen wounded.
1t is the expressed opinion of heads of bu
reaus that, as a whole, the employment O
women in the Department at Washington is 9
failure.
Government beef is dressed and delivered
i n Texas at six cents pound.