Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-06-16
SUMMARY OF GENERAL NEWS.

L. i stated that the Queen Of Spain will
visit Paris this summer.
Sixty four thousand Federal prisoners
have died IN Rebel prisons.
THE Charleston Gonrier saws that tr.aa
In that city is rapidly reyiying.
From the 18th March 1884 to the Ist
April, 1865, no less than 252 persons wore
killed In the streets Of Lcndon.
The number Of alien immigrants landed;n
New York city between Jan. /, and Nav 81
is 50,047
In j reported, that Breckenridge. late
rebel Secretary of War has made his escane
in vessel from the coast Of Florida.
Coy BRowN Of Georgia has been releas.
ed and goes home under pledge 10 work
earnestly for the restoration of Georgia to
her allegiance. "
DIR. Cox Of Lower Maryland and Colonel
Greene OF Washington, arrested some time
ago as conspirators have been released.
A CALL has been issued by Simon Came
ron for a meeting of the Union State Con
vention, at Harrisburg, on Wednesday. the
10Th Of July, 1866. s
ONE hundred and twenty-five tbousand
troops come within the order for immediate
mastering out of service.
An army of observation, 20, 600 strong
consisting, we suppose Of veterans. is TO he
sent to the Rio Grande Care Maximil-
ian.
THE steamer Helvetia. from Liyerpoo ar
rived at New York on the Sd inst win
twelve hundred and seventeen immiqranfs
on board, being the largest cargo of human
beings that ever crossed the Atlantic in a
single steamer.
Ex-Gov. McGofin, Of Kentucky saws
the Louisville Journal, has come out in a.
Vor OF the constitutional amendment and i
so impressed with its Importance that he in.
tends taking the stump in its behalf.
The disturbance ameng the miners in
Schnylklll co. has nearly subsided and many
OF them have gone to work again. The
presence of the military healed the troubled
waters.
IN the conspiracy trial ar Washington on
the 1, inst, the counsel, for the defence. set
up the plea of insanity IN behalfof the assas-
sin Payne.
The judicial investigation at Toronto
Canada, shows that the yellow fever. which
carried OF some thousands of the citizens of
Newbern, N. G., last summer, was intro
duced by the infamous DR.. Blackburn.
A RICHMOND letter says. a member ofthe
English Parliament has offered Gen. lee a
splendid residence in London and a sum Of
money, the interest of which would support
himself and family.
1t Is said that the emigration of Nor
mons from Europe viii be greater the com
ing summer than ever before Several yes
sells are already chartered in Liverpool.
awaiting the arrival Of emigrants from
different portions Of the old country.
The Western Union telegram Com
pany S lines are now in full telegraph CON
nection with Memphis, Vicksburg. Mobile
and New Orleans, and are receiving and
sending private messages to these cities.
THE Secretary of War has directed that
all returned Union prisoners who have en-
dured the hardship of Incarceration at
a Andersonyille, or any of the barbarous
dungeons OF the South, be Immediately and
honorably discharged the service, and that
they receive three months extra pay.
THE immortal Sixth Army Corps was re-
viewed IN Washington on Thursday the Sth
INST 1t consisted Of Al regiments. and
numbered 10000 men. This gallant corps
has partlcl pated In nearly every battle fought
IN Virginia during the last four years.
OK the night the President was assas-
mated, John NJ Bolts was attacked bv
party OF seven guerilias. They arrived
about midnight, and Mr. Bolts and friend
OF his had not yet retired. They went to
the door with loaded reYolvers in their
hands and seeing that this was the condition
OF affairs, the guerillas withdrew.
IHE Government, it is said, contemplates
colonlzlng all the Indian tribes between Min
nessota, Iowa and the Rocky Mountains, in
a reservation on the northern border of mon
tana and Dacotah, with the British posses
slons as an unlimited hunting ground.
THE new national banks have now nearly
all been supplied with circulation to the
amount to which they are entitled. and
circulation will not be issued to converted
banks faster than their State circulation Is
retlredi so that 1t may now be said that the
bank note circulation of the country has
point
The President has decided to retain pro-
vost marshals in all the States except Rhode
Island, and the present officers will hold their
places In every congressional district The
same system viii be extended to Southern
States, and officers of the Government ap-
pointed. Il will be year before it can be
Hon. Judge Catron. Associate .Justice of
lhe U: 5. Supreme Court, died in Nash
nile, Tenn, on the evening of the 3Otb of
May. In 1887 President jackson nomina-
ed him, and he was confirmed one of the
luqgeS OF the Supreme Court, which office
ne held up to the date of his death.
Thursday, the day of humiliation and
prayer, Is said to have been better observed
n Philadelphia than any similar dav that
las been appointed. The most remarkable
eature OF the day, was, that negroes were al
owed to ride In passenger railway cars.
A gentleman who called on General Scott
N New York the other day found him in
excellent health and much reioiced AT the
termination of the war. The
conversation turning on JEFF. Davis. the old
feneral very pointedly aud emphatically
emarked: Il hope he will be hung bv the
leck, sir; hope he viii hang by the neck. :"
EXTENSION OF THE GOODYEAR RUBBER
'ATENT. application of Henry B. Good
ear, administrator of the estate of Nelson
Toodyear, the Commissioner of Patents.
las extended for seven years the patent of
Nelson Goodyear for the invention of hard
ubber, the reissue being in two divisions.
he invention in this ease consists in nre-
arlng from the vum fornnoo,l, - ,S