Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-01-27
GENERAL NEWS.

HOTEL IECENDIARIEs ARRESTED. of the per
sons who are believed to have been engaged in the
attempt to burn the hotels some weeks since have
been arrested and @ill be tried by military COM
mission sitting at Fort Lafayette The first is one
of the leaders of the raid on Lake Erie. The name
under which he was known at the time of his arrest
| is Baker but he has been ideehedas Captain Bell
of the rebel service He is a man of education
| from the neghborhood of Richmond, and perhaps
the most able and dangerous of the rebel officers in
Canada. He was arrested near the Niagara Suspen-
sion Bridge, with confederate, who is also in the
rebel service. They had just come from Buffalo, and
had in their hands carpet bag, with half dozen
candles. Their arrest was made few days after in
formation had been receivedat the department head
quarters that Buffalo was to be burned by party of
| incendiaaies from Toronto. Both are to be immed
| atey tried as spies. The third is one of the New
York incendiaries. The name by which he is com
monty known is Stanton" but his real name is
known, and he is captain In the rebel service He
was arrested near Detroit ten days ago. having
| come across the line from Sarnia He also is to be
tried as spy. The fourth is also in the rebel SER
vice, and arrested on the Hudson river 1t has
been satisfactory ascertained that the number of
persons engaged in attemptngt fire the city of New
York did not exceed six OF seven and that one uer.
son set fire to two hotels and another to one hotel
and Barnums Museum
The ATLANTIC CABLE.-A letter from GEORGE Sc.
ward, Secretary and General Superintendent Of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, to Cyrus W. Field
after alluding to the electrical perfection of the new
cable, says that the amount nteompeted up to the 3Oth
of December was seven hundred and fifty miles,
The cable is now being manufactured at the rate of
eighty miles per week, without hurry and without
nightwork. 1t viii be finished by the end of the
first week in June. Two tanks on board the Great
Eastern for the stowage of the CABLE are construct
ed, and the third is rapidly going on There is no
reason to doubt that the cable win be all on board.
and the ship ready for sea- with every appliance of
the best kind, and in the best order, during the
month of June.
The GAIT House, LOUISVILLE BuRNED. Long
before daylight on Wednesday morning, the 11t65
inst, the Gait Houses at Louisville Ky one of the
most celebrated hotels in the country was discover
ed to be on fire and was soon a heap of rims
very little OF the furniture saved and the most
sad part of the occurrance was that two bodies of
persons who had periShed in the flames were fopnd
IN the rains. They could not be identified but
William Hanna OF Shelby county, Ky is known to
nave pershed' Many narrowly escaped. ware
house on the east side of the Gait House occupied
by y. w. Thomas and Andrew Buchanan was also
destroyed. The aggregate loss is nearly a million
OF dollars The origin of the fire is unknown.
ARRwAL OF Two THOUSAND BALES OF CorroN
The steamships Morning Star and Continental. which
have just arrived from New Orleahs brings two
thousand bales Of cotton. This is the largest shin
ment OF cotton received here since the beginning of
the war.-N r. Post.
Nevada paper says that a large extent Of conn.
try IN Humboldt county, Nevada, is saturated with
petroleum. The liquid streams spontaneously
through the surface rises wherever hole is due.
and coal gas rises everywhere.
The New York Post says Southern men in that
city are constantly making application to take the
oath OF allegiance, but desire the fact 10 be kent Sc
eret IN order that their families and property at the
South may not be molested by the rebel leaders.
The Winstead tCt Herald says sold Mr.. ard
Mrs. Walter the one deaf as crowbar and the 9TH
er bedridden by railroad accident, after year or
two of experiment have found themselves unconge-
niaI, and have obtained divorce
New Yorker, who had made fortune in oil
specnlations pat $4,000 in his pocket the other day
and started Nest to make his daughter present of
that sum- But his ppoket wns picket in the uarg