Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-22
nnMESTIc NEWS.

Haytien dispatch steamer has arrived
The Captain is bearer of dispatches to Wash
ington, asking, it is presumed, for aid to quell
the rebellion in Hayti.
A steamshipfrom Liverpool brought to New
York the largest freight of human beings that
ever crossed the Atlantic in one vessel, hav-
ing on board upward of $1,000 steerage pas
sengers.
A propeller exploded at Trenton, n. j.,
hurling barrels, boxes and fragments of ma
chinery great height into the air. The col
umn of steam arising from the explosion was
seen mile and half of, and the report was
heard for several miles.
Whether will is legally destroyed when
the pieces remain and can be joined together
again, and whether person of unsound mind
can cancel a win, is to be judicially decided
in New York.
The pension rolls now include the names of
nearly 10000 invalids, widows, mothers and
orphans.
A captain in the army is to be tried for
grossly inhuman treatment of private soldiers,
and for impressing men into the service as de
serters and then collecting the bounty for re-
storing deserters.
The result of a late trial is to the effect that
spiritual mediums are classed as jugglers, and
must take out license accordingly.
The Fenians of the United States have
projected arrangements for establishing a
Provisional Government in Ireland soon
said government to be backed by 200, 900
men.
A man, bathing in Connecticut, was seized
round the waist by shark. After a severe
struggle, he succeeded in putting his finger
into the shark eye, when it made off, The
man was picked up exhausted from loss of
blood
Since 1715, when grape-vines were intro
duced into California by the priests, the wine
crop has never been known to fail. The yield
in 1864 was wine, 1000, 900 gallons; brandy,
1000 gallons.
The Naval Academy has been entirely re-
moved from Newport, r. l., and is again re-
established at Annapolis, Md.
A temporary treaty of peace has been
made with the Apache, Camanche and Kiowa
Indians, and hostilities against them, suspend
ed to arrange permanent peace.
The Union Ferry Company have carried
nearly ao,OOo,Oo0 of passengers between
Brooklyn and New York during the past year,
without killing one of themi
The Captain and crew of the American
wAaleship Plover, heretofore reported lost,
were saved, as well as great part of her
cargo, by another whaleship in her company.
During an irksome delay of two hours on
the Troy and Boston Railroad the other day,
two young men, just to kill time, proposed
to two young ladies respectively, and cler-
gyman being at hand, we're married on the
spot.
In Eastern New England the drouth has
been more severe this year than during any
season since 1864.
Miss Hannah F. Gould, the oldest femal
poet in the country, died at NeEburyport,
Mass, on the 5th.
Gov. Curtin announces the payment and e.
nal discharge Of $745, of the State debtof
Pennsylvania.
Reports from all parts of the country show
that the corn crop win be unprecedently
large, Potatoes, buckwheat and onions
promise an unparalleled yield. The cereal
expectations will be larger than ever before.
The Paymaster Generals Department has
drawn from the United States Treasury since
the 1st Of May s19s, $40, ,0s5 40 to pay off the
troops of the army