Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-11-17
NEWS ITEMS.
Capt. 10 U. s. c.

| The allied forces of Brazil, Uruguay and
Argentine are closely beseigingthe Paraguay
an army in Uruguayana, and will probably
| soon force a surrender.
| The London Post, the English minstrel or
gan, admits that the American Government
has reason to feel aggreiyed in regard to the
fitting out of the Alabama and other Rebel
cruisers, and urges the calling of an interna-
| tional congress to fix upon acommon code to
be observed by all neutral nations.
President Johnsons recent address to the
Brazilian Minister at Washington, advising
his Government to be absolutely independent
of foreign powers, is strangely enough inter
preted in England and France as an abandon
ment of the Monroe doctrine.
The journal de st. Petersburg, the organ
of the Russian Emperor, recently congratu-
lated the Washington Government on therap
! id reconstruction of the Southern States, and
designated America and Russia as rising ma
tons designed to have interests and sympa-
thies in common.
The Rebellion in Hayti seems near its end.
The insurgents at Cape Haytien are in a star-
wing condition.
The negro instruction in Jamaica is likely
to prove serious. -Four Spanish war vessels,
at the request Of the English Consul at Ha-
vana, have been sent by the Cuban Govern
ment to aid the authorities in putting it down.
The subjects of the Electorof Hesse, grand
son of the Landgrave who sold his Hessian
subjects to England in the American Revolu-
ton, are about to apply to the German Diet
to have him confined as a lunatic.
The recent seizure of champagne wines in
New York and San Francisco by the q. s.
Government has caused great excitement in
the province of Champagne, France, and the
wine merchants are appealing to the Empe-
ror Napoleon to intervene in the matter.
They assert that there was no intention to
eyade the duties.
In Mexico a battle took place on the 25th
ult between the Juarez forces, which have
for some time been investing Matamoros, and
the Imperalsts, in which the former were
routed with loss Of of 500 killed and woun-
ded.
Senior Duran has been appointed Minister
to Great Britain by Macmillan.
The Imperial Government of Mexico has
issued three DEGREES regulating Lieut.. Maury' S
Colonization Bureau.
a curious phenomenon occurred in the
Valley of Mexico, Oct /. Five large streams
OF water burst suddenly forth from noun
tain, which if they do not diminish in volume,
will form a considerable river.
The French Government has reduced the
duties on raw whalebone, the product of Ame-
riean fisheries the tariff being now the same
as upon the European article.
The Toronto papers state that the Canadian
Government is organizing an army of 10000
to guard the frontier against the Fenians and
that depositors are withdrawing their funds
from the banks through fear ofa raid on those
institutions
In Madrid, Spain, 500 per day are dying OF
cholera out Of a less than 500, 900 population
: and the people are leaving the city daily.
i In Paris the deaths are 200 daily.
The negro insurrection in Jamaica is spread
ing and great alarm prevails among the whites
> Many revolving murders have been perpetra
; ted by the negroes.
q Coolies are being introduced in the Sand
: wich Islands, $50 having recently arrived from
China They are bound to labor five years
J, for :4 per month, and clothe themselves, the
i masters to take care of them in case of sick
: ness.
it Gen. Sir William Frederick Williams, thu
ahero of Kars," has been appointed Lieut..
Governor of Nova Scotia.
President Juarez has received an address
from democratic association in Antwerp
e Belgium expressing sympathy with his caus
O and condeming the sending out of soldiers b!
the Belgian Government to aid Macmillan
e Macmillan has Withdrawn all French troop
e from the army of the Rio Grande to avoid al
n chances of difficulty with the United States
a The arrest of Fenians still continues in Ire
IS land.
c One of the recently discovered caves unde
i the city of Nashville, Tenn, is so feet long
e 80 feet wide, and 40 feet in depth.
Great distress preveils among the blacks il
u the neighborhood of Columbia, S. C. Th
d mortality among children is frightful, man
l. having starved to death within the last thre
a weeks.
It VIM. Gilmore Simms and Robert Bruno
e Masonic commissioners from South Carolina
3 are on their way to the North to represent t.
E the Masonic fraternity the prostrate condition
Is of the lodges in their State.