The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-02-10
EDITORIAL MELANGE.

e|Euglard devoured three millions imported
eggs last year.
sgThere are LOS, $40 more women than men
in Sweden.
cTThe quota for the State of New Jersey
has been reduced to seven hundred, under the
last call.
ss-Young Indian girls in Oregon, seT.. at
$40 to $50, depending on looks, cleanliness,
&C., &c.
sz-Mr. Pendleton, late ''Gopperhead" candi.
date for the Vice Presidency, is now said by
shoddy letter writers 10 be ''frank, courteous,
able, au2 no copperhead"
sEIt is sll very nice to sing 'Oh! the snow,
the beautiful Snow )" but stand out in it
whole day and chop wood and see how you like
it.
erGoy. Curtin, Of Pennsylvania, received,
on Thursday, instructions from the War Depart
ment, 10 raise SO companies of volunteers, un-
der tie last call of the President.
eE In the trial of Friery, now going On in
New York city the court thus far have suc-
ceeded in obtaining but one juryman out of
some $50.
.e3-A number of Pennsylvania Editors are
about to hold convention at Harrisburg. 10
take into consideration the subject of the du-
ties on paper.
czThe way TO edit paper without brains,
and succeed: Scissor aud Sleal-The way to
do it and Starve: write. think and feel.
e=s-J. s Rock, colored, of the Supreme Court
Of Massachusetts, was yesterday, on motion
Of Senator Sumner, admitted an attorney and
counsellor in the Supreme Court Of tie United
States.
eSTke New York Herald publishes what
purports to be complete roster of the Con-
federate armies. 1t consists, according to this
account, of 10000 men, of which 10000 be-
long to tho Army Of Northern Virginia.
eSBy reference to an order from Gen Dodge
it will be seen that all persons who paid COM
mutation during the year 1864, win again be
placed in the wheel, and be subject to Fortunes
turn. under the call for 100000. There's no
Dodglag for the Communication men.
az Corp1 Geo. W Gray, I38fh Reet. p. V,
q typo of this oflce, paid Us a visit the Other
day. The Corporal looks well, and military
life appears to agree better with him than pick
ing type. He leaves for his regiment in few
days. Success to him.
eS~Oil was discovered in an old well belong
ing TO the Wellersburg Coal and Iron Compa-
ny, in Somerset county. The ''frosty sons
have become greatly excited in consequence,
and talk about boring ''ye everlasting hills" if
the snow don't last too long to check the fever
es-The coil fever" is still raging. And a
frisnd at our elbow {who has an interest in III
suggests chat the property of the Company call
ed 'Stump Islands" is the best ne lend out
We suppose because it 'stu,nps' any other
We hope purchasers wont be ''stunapsa'' when
bantered "for sale or trade
szrThe number of our prisoners IN the bands
of the rebels is fraction over $4,000. We
hold over 5000 of the rebels, including 81
Major and Brigadier Generals. The many
friends Of the Union prisoners now suffering in
rebel prisons will be reioiced to learn that
the Secretary of War has given assurances that
full exchange will soon be effected.
egThe ''peace fever is now next in impor.
tance 70 the coil fever" The way Mr.. Lin.
coin and Mr. Seward are cozening the peace
commissioners, looks as though 'things is work
in." We have no doubt Old Abe will tell
them few Storiesi and Seward will make
few more proohicies, and turn not more than
three somersc,s. We hope it will not all end
IN smoke, and make US exclaim "Thiugs has
worked"
esrOnr friend, J. Harry Hutton has opened
shoe and gentlemen's furnishing store in lie
room lately occupied by E. H. Fisher, two
doors south of the Post Office He was one
of The sufferers by the FIRE at Chambersburg;
and IS now making an effort to retrieve his bad
fortune n this place. Harry is clever, ac-
! commodating fellow and undetsta his bus
mess. Those who want bargains had better
give him a cali We sincerely wish him sue
cess.
FS>The Monroe Doctrine. does il
mean Why it means "The Fortress Monroe
Doctrine" or sending Democrats to Fortress
Monroe. This is the true signfcation of the
Monroe Doctrine, as you viii find in the new
Abrahamic Dictionary, published by the Abb