Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-02-16


eral Wright in the command Of the Colum-
bian Department, arrived at Sacramento on
the 22d inst.
The trustees of the State Agricultural
College of Maine have selected 0rono, Pc
nobscot county, as the location of the col
lege.
The committee Of the Virginia House of
Delegates having charge of the matter has
reported against claims for steamers seized
in Richmond by order of Governor Letcher
in 1861, on the ground that all acts after the
passage of the ordinance of secession were
without authority.
Nicholas Smith has been appointed Min
lister to Greece.
Rev. John B. Kerfoot was consecrated
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese
of Pittsburgh, on Thursday, in the city of
Pittsburgh.
General Delafeld suggests to the Secreta-
ry of War that no Inscriptions be placed on
the captured guns at West Point, so as to
prevent nothing irritating or boastful to
young men from any part of the country.
A special despatch from New Orleans
states that General Crawford was arrested
there on the night of the 23d inst, anu was
taken to Fort jackson.
General Terry has issued an order prohib-
iting the application of the Virginia vagrant
act, recently passed, to colored persons
within his department. The effect he says
would be to reduce the freedmen to a condi-
ton of servitude.
A Philadelphia despatch says that
steamer from Havana brings news of the
arrival at that poit of a transport from We
ra Cruz having on board nine hundred
French soldiers. Experience has taught us
to regard information from that source with
suspicion.
Advices from San Francisco say that the
Juarez government had been re-established
in Chihuahua.
Mr. Seward, after pleasant cruise among
the West India Islands, during which, it is
said, he was received with cordial hospitali-
ty wherever be stopped, arrived at Wash
ington on Sunday afternoon.
A steamer arrived at Savannah, Georgia,
on Sunday with three hundred negroes from
the Sea Islands, returning to their former
homes
A Vigilance committee in West Norfolk,
Va, on Sunday night, arrested FIVE garro-
ters.
A bill was introduced in the Georgia Leg
islature on Monday, allowing banks to repu-
date debts contracted for war purposes.
The Supreme Court of the United States
on Monday decided that the power under
the Constitution to regulate commerce ex-
tends to all navigable rivers, and does not
stop at State lines, and that bridges are in
the character of ferries.
The President sent a communication to
the Senate Monday TO the effect that it was
inconsistent with the public service to furn-
ish the correspondence relating to violations
of neutrality on the Rio Grande.
A New Orleans despatch says the freed
men are making contracts in Texas, and that
better feeling prevails.
A new commission, it is said, has been
appointed TO try the case against g. B. La
mar in Savannah.
A cotton steamer was recently burned on
the Altamaha River, in Georgia, causing
the death of five or SIX negroes.
The schooner Neptune, from New Or
leans for Rio Janeiro, with forty-five passen-
gers, was wrecked on the coast of Cuba on
the 10th inst. The passengers ana crew
were saved
One Of the Virginia deputation to Con.
gress has sent despatch to Richmond TO
the effect that the President had resolved to
superSede the Virginia State government
by provisional government
In the Georgia Legislature on Tuesday,
A. II. Stephens received on the first ballot
l52 votes for United States Senator The
use of his nlme not having been allowed by
him, Hurscbell v johnson was elected on
the sixth ballot
The boiler of a steamboat exploded on
Tuesday near Evansville, Indiana, causing
persons. Another explosion is isreported from
Memphis, Tenn, to have taken place re-
Gently, by which one hundred and thirty
persons were killed.
A despatch from Toronto, G. W., states
that Judge Coursol, of ST. Albans raiding
memory, is to be reinstated in Montreal.
The drug mills of Haley & Son, in Jersey
City were destroyed by FIRE onSunday after
noon, involving loss of $4,000.
A dispatch from Concord, N. H., reports
much excitement among the directors and
stockholders of the Concord railroad corpo-
ration, caused by development said to i'm
pttCdtlS pdSSSUgSTS, conductors ana Otler |
parties with embezzlement, the issuing of |
spurious railroad tickets. Property to the |
amount of 100000, belonging to the alleg |
ed defaulters, has been attached, and legal |
instituted.
The Herald's San Francisco correspondent
states that the scheme of Mr.. Asa 5. Mercer |
10 transport the widows and orphans of sol
1iers from the Eastern to the Pacific States |
with the proposed object of procuring them
homes and employment, and which he has
ately carried into effect, by taking from New
York number of lady emigrants, receives
severe condemnation in California. Oregon
and Washington territory. The entire expe-
iition is pronounced worse than ill-advised
and fanatical, as the husband market and the
market of labor suited for these females it
s said to be no better there than here A
proposition was recently made in the Wash
ngton Legislature to appropriate three thou
and dollars for their benefit, but it was de-
Gated.
Brigadier General Daniel Ullman has been
,reveted Major General for me ritorious servi-
es. Colonel X. Jones has been breveted
5rgadler General for meritous services. He
commanded one of the colored regiments of
daJor General Ullman's division.
The Tribunes Washington special says the
oldiers of Generel Hancock corps are be-
ng mustered out daily, as their year enlist.
nent expires, and by the first of May, of
Ehat now constitutes its regiments, there will
e barely enough left TO organize a company
Pardons for three hundred North Caroli-
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