The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-01-12

and the majority Immediately began
to legislate for the negro. Any stranger
reading the proceedings would imagine
that ii was simply convention called
for the purpose Of providing for the
wants Of the colored race alone, and
that the white population of the cOun-
try did not need any protection in the
way of legislation.
THE President Is reported, by cor
respondence Of the Chicago Tribune IS
have ordered certain Heads of Depart
ments 'stO make no further appoint
ments on the recommendations of
Members of Congress at present" The
New York World says this IS construed
to mean that the support OF the EXecu-
tive policy Of reconstruction Is to be
hereafter the price of patronage.
During the month of December, the
Sanitary commission received pension
claims as follows: Widows pension
claims, three hundred and twenty-five;
invaIidS pension claims, four hundred
and eighty-four naval pension claims,
sixteen; claims for arrears pay, boun-
ty, &c. one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-five.
Both Stanton and Holt decline to pro-
nOunce an eulOgy on the life and char
acter Of thclate President. They havn't
time. If Lincoln was still living and
had the gift of power and patronage
they Wouldnotonly have time but they
would quarrel for the opportunity to
do so.
In his New Years speech at Boston
Wendell Phillips declared that "Pres-
ident Johnson, in attempting to lee
ture cOiOred citizens, had reached the
height Of impudence.n Viewed from
the radical standpoint OF equality,
we think 50 too. He ought 10 apollo
giZe.
\ personal encounter took place yes
terday in Richmond between Henry
Rives Pollard, Of the E,r0mi1er, and
Nat Tayler and VIM. d. Coleman, Of
the Enquirer. Six shots We're fired
without hurting any one. The affair
originated in newspaper articles.
The committee appointed by the Chi
cagO Board Of Trade to investigate a
plan for the passage Of Niagara FallSby
means Of a canal have reported that
the project is feasible, and their report
has been approved by the Board Of
Trade.
The Treasury last week redeemed
certificate Of Indebtedness amounting
to&44 900, and issued certificates amount
ing to SI50,0O0 Of legal tender notes
and $3.50, GOO Of gold certificates were re-
ceiYed.
Miss Mary Watts, an aged lady, was
found brutaIly murdered III her house
in Germantown, on Saturday morning
4 reward Of $500 has been offered by
/ the Mayor for the detection of the muir
derer.
During the month Of December, sev-
en- thousand three hundred guns and
pistols, ninetytour thousand pounds of
! powder, eight hundred and thirty-tWO
thousand pounds Of shot, and thirteen
million percussiOnc caps were sent South
from New York.
The Minister from the Netherlands
has proposed an exchange of complete
set OF the coins of his country for those
of the United States. The Secretary
of the Treasury has ordered the requis-
ite coins to be forwarded from the Uni
ted States Mint.
! Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts,
yerterday delivered himself of a vale
/ diCtOry to the Massachusetts, Legisla-
| ture. He urged negro suffrage, and
various other measures a. applying to
/ the South.
Over twenty clerks were discharged
from the War Department on the 3lst
/ ult. The citizen clerks in the various
/ departments are to be discharged as
/ far as possible, to make room for sol
/ diers.
The custom receipts of the United
+ States for the year ending June 80, 1860,
/ were SS4, 900, 900, The receipts from the
+ four principal ports for the six months
ending Dec. 81, 1868, amounted to ST.
! 500,00O.
Mr.. Tai. p. Shatfner having recent
ly made an excursion, for his own in
I formation, in the South, has sent a
communication to the President, en-
dOrsing the correctness Of Gen. Grants
report,
The famous ''I0wa Giantess, " weigh
ing Northumberland eighty-fve pounds
was married last evening, in the Union
/ Methodist Church, in this city, to a
groom Of average proportions.
The Detroit TIi5nlc says that all of
jacob ThompSon's private papers and
correspondence which We're left in Can
ada are now in possession of the author
titles at Washington.
\ majority of the Reconstruction
Committee are opposed to admitting
even the Tennessee delegation to Con-
gress. 1t is thought, however, that the
I TenmeSseanS will be admitted.
+ General Mejia has ordered the people
/ of MatamOras to take the oath of allie
glance to the Empire, and has forbid
. den communication with the American
shore of the Rio Grande.
/ Governor Cony, of Maine, was inau-
/ gurated yesterday. The message pro-
fesses to approve Of the Presidents pol
/ icy, and at the same time argues in fa-
Vor OF negro sutiage.
/ Brevet Major General r. @. Tylar has
| issued an order merging the District of
Delaware and the Eastern Shore of
Maryland into the military District of
/ Pennsylvania.
General Thomas, in accordance with
orders from the President, issued an or
der on the 22d ult. removing the re-
strictions on Episcopal worship in Ala
bama.
An American schooner, with arms
and ammunition for Brownsville mer-