Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-01
soUTHERN NEWS.

5OOA AEK&N NE VS.
OLD Government pensioners in the South
are making application for resumption of
their pensions.
A NuMBER of late Rebel officers have gone
to Germany to induce emigration to Southern
Georgia.
There have arrived in Richmond, direct
from Europe, a large party Of Swedish emf
grants, who design settling in the upper part
of the James River Valley.
The Government machine shop at Norfolk
have been discontinued, and the hands all
discharged.
Gov. Parsons of Alabama requests the
President to suspend all petitions for pardons
heretofore recommended by him.
Our of $4,000 applications for pardon the
President has actually pardoned less than 100.
TWENTY-FIVE planters are under arrest at
Vicksburg, charged with either maltreating or
wilfully killing their former slaves.
NEGRO testimony is not valid against white
men in Mobile.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON regards the local civil
governments established in the Rebellious
States merely as experiments, to give the
people an opportunity to show whether they
are possessed of truly loyal spirit and are
disposed to act in good faith toward the Ma
tional Government.
| CHAMP FURGUsoN, now on trial IN NasnyIIIe,
Tenn, denies ever having committed many of
the acts charged against him, and states that
those whom he killed were seeking his life,
hunting him down and waylaying him.
GEN. BEAUREGARD' house at New Orleans
was surrounded recently, and himself with
others, kept in cotton press until morning.
1t was supposed that Kirby Smith was con-
cealed there. Beauregard complained to
Gen. Sheridan, who righted the matter.
1 GEN. KHPATRIcK expresses the opinion
that reconstruction in the South has been
commenced at least four years too soon that
the people are not to be trusted, and viii
make another desperate effort to effect their
separation from the Union.
THERE is considerable disagreement and
lack of cooperation between the civil and
military authorities of South Carolina.
Gov. PIEEPoNT has decided upon changing
his policy. He says that the Virginia Rebels
have deceived him, and proved ungrateful for
what he has done for them under their prom
ises of future loyal and decent conduct.
The Rebel General Joe Johnston, on his
late visit to Fortress Monroe, on being asked
if he would like to see JEFF. Davis, is repor-
ted to have replied that he neither wished to
see him nor hear his name mentioned.
Immense quantities of cotton, piled along
the Alabama River, are prevented reaching
market by the high freights charged by steam
boat owners.
Those pardoned citizens of the South who
make personal application at the Freedmen S
Bureau for the restoration of lands, are gran
ed restitution, with the provision that they
compensate the blacks for the crops they may
be cultivating thereon, or leave them in un.
disturbed possession until the same are har.
: vested.
GENERAL TERRY defines the term "durine
the war; to mean ''while the necessity for 6
military force created by the Rebellion shall
continue to exist. I"
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adopt a Free State Constitution.
A MONUMENT is to be erected at Lawrence
Kansas, to the 100 victims of Quantrell's S mas
sacre, SO of whom lie in one trench.
The father of Payne, the conspirator, re-
Gently took the oath of allegiance at Jackson
vile, Fla, with the view of visiting Washing
ton to bring away, fpossible, the body of hi.
wretched son.
: There is truth in the report of utter desti
tuition in some portions ofthe South, and oI
the desire of the people at large to submit
cheerfully to the Government of the United
; States.
Orders have been issued from the War OF
fee for the immediate discharge of 29, 900 Of
ficers and men, from the Middle. Washing,
ton, Kentucky. North Carolina and Mississip-
pi Departments.
A meteorological investigation of Virginia
shows that gold exists in the state in large
quantities, and that the development of its
mineral wealth, which is great, has been
grossly neglected.
The worms are ravaging the cotton fields on
the Tallahatchie.
The citizens of Northern Texas pledge
themselves to abide by and defend all lawful
authority.
A SEVERE earthquake shock visited the por-
tons of Tennessee and Mississippi lying along
the Mississippi River on the 18th. 1t was
very sensibly felt in Memphis.
The sky over some parts of Nashville is
completely darkened by swallows every NOR
ming
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