The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-06-09
EDITORIAL MELANGE.
-Coming-the Fourth of July.


egDitto-discharged soldiers.
ez-Warm and dry--the weather.
sFChief Justice Chase is still electioneering
among the negroes down South.
eS-The amount of postal currency issued and
in circulation is S24,664,000
erA Vermont paper says the rumor that the
high price of eggs is owing to the fact that the
hens have to stamp them, is unfounded.
egGen. Longstreet will visit Washington by
permission of the government to ask for pardon
and a restoration to civil rights.
eg-The meeting of the Democratic Conyen-
ton of this State has been postponed to Thurs
day, August 24th.
e9-The loss by the explosion at Mobile is es-
timated at from five to ten millions of dollars.
Eight thousand bales of cotton were destr eyed.
cgEx-Goyernor William Smith, of Virgin
ia, is concealed in the mountains near Sta IN
ton. It IS SAID he has small armed force to
defend himself from arrest.
e%Brownlow is out with procla nation adj
yising the negroes "not to treat the whites
rudely, or speak harsh to them.' What kind
hearted soul the Governor is!
cg-A meeting was held in Savannah on the
30th uIt., at which resolutions was adopted en-
dorsing President Johnson's policy, and asking
for military governor.
The Alabama delegation have had an inter
view with the President. It is thought all the
Southern States will be reorganized on tie
North Carolina plan.
eg-The trial Of Jefferson Davis viii take
place on or about the 10Th of this month.
Charles OConnor, Esq, of New York, will
act as lis counsel Davis will be tried in
civil court.
eE"Picking type" again-Sergt. Geo. w.
Gray, has just returned from the war, and is
at his old stand again in this Office. The Sergt
was severely wounded in front of Petersburg,
but, we arc glad to say, has entirely recovered.
He thinks it IS heotlier TO pick type than to
''pick Off rebels.
e5-The number Of troops in the army Of the
Potomac and General Sherman's army, whose
terms expire before the 1st Of October, and now
under orders for muster out, is estimated ut
122,310. OF these there arc 139 tbree-y
regiments Of 1862-5LGO0, tbree-year recruits
Of 1920 $50; % one-year regiments of
1864, and one battery-14,840, and one-year
recruits of 18G4-31,7 ,720.
On IN BEDFORD CouNrT.-There is a strong
and growing belief in the existence Of petrole-
um in this county, surface indications Of the
ct6S%Sered tSS IN various places. A great many leas-
es have been made and project is now onfoot
to raise company for the purpose of boring
upon land owned by Mr. j. ". Scott, about
three miles west Of this place. It IS proposed
that one hundred persons each subscribe one
hundred dollars, which would raise a sufficient
sum to purchase 200 acres of land and sink two
wells upon it. There is said to be an oil spring
upon this land, and the fact that Mr.. Scott's
Ai~'AoNAo ii't'N HGJSN fliO-
portion OF the sum intended to be raised, would
indicate that they, at least, have faith in it.
We hope this project, or if not this, some other
of a similar nature, may succeed. It is not at
all impossible that oil exists in this neighbor-
hood. At any rate the matter is worthy of in
vestigation. Every owner Of land in the VI
cinity, ought to be willing to give something to-
ward testing it. If oil, even in small quanti-
ties, be discovered, the value of land will be
so enhanced that many now in ordinary circum-
stances, will soon find themselves in The pos
session Of wealth. Atany rate, what is a hun
dred dollars to many Of our land-holders. Let
this experiment be tried. If it succeed, untold
benefits viii accrue to the people of this section
If it fail, nobody viii be seriously hurt