The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

dorsing the policy of President John
/ son. The call was largely responded
/ to by delegations from differentsectiOns
of the county, but the meeting had
scarcely organized before it was attack
| ell by mob, and, after much desperate
/ fighting, was entirely broken up.
! In Charleston, :. c., few days ago,
| Judge Aldrich sentenced a white man,
| convicted of robbery, to receive thir-
/ teen lashes on the bare back, in accord
ance with the State law Gen. Bennett
/ interfered and prevented the infiction
of the punishment, declaring that ''it
was against the spirit Of the Civiiiza-
ton that pervades society at the pres
ent day"
A special despatch from Washing
/ ton to the Philadelphia Ledger states
that the peace proclamation is ready,
and that its appearance may be looked
I for shortly. In this document Presi-
/ dent Johnson is said to announce that
the war is successfully closed, and that
/ the Southern States are entitled to rep
resentatiOn in C0ngre ess.
A suit has been instituted in ST.
/ Louis by Gen. f. =. Blair, against Ste
phen Ridgely and John >. Thompson,
for ten thousand dollars damages. The
suit grows out of the refusal Of the de-
PENDANTS, while actingas judges of cleo
ton, to permit Gen. Blair to v0teWith-
out taking the oath OF loyalty.
The public debt has been reduced
$29, ,000. 000 since the close OF October,
and 79,00G,000 Of currency and $780,
600, 900 of coin interest has been paid
this besides current expenses. There
are S57, 800, 600 now in the Treasury,
making the total improvement S76,-
100000
Eleven hundred deaths from chOl-
. era are reported to have occurred on the
Island Of Guadaloupe. At the last adj
vices the disease was abating there. but
had made its appearance in Dominica.
w. Duncan. an officer of the Com
miSsary Department ut AndersOnVille,
Ga. during the war, was, on Friday,
arraigned for trial before a military
commission on the charge Of cruel
treatment Of prisoners.
The fenians are much excited III
. New ork, in consequence Of the SUS-
. pension of the writ Of HUbe0s corpus in
Ireland. John O'MahOney has issued
a proclamation for all the brotherhood
TO meet at once.
A proposition for general quaran-
tine against the introduction OF the
cholera into this country has been laid
before the Committee of Commerce of
both branches of Congress, and is said
to meet with much favor.
The Military Committee Of the
Massachusetts Legislature have agreed
on a bill providing that all militiamen
shall be drilled eighteen times a year,
for which they shall be paid 30 cents
each time.
-DesDatches from Canada say that a
proclamation has been issued warning
American fishermen against using the
/ Canadian shore fisheries after the 18th
/ Of March next.
Civilian agents Of the freedihen's
/ bureau have been found unreliable, and
military officers have been detailed to
take their places.
An old lady, at Rochester, \. y,
( was recently burned to death, whilst a.
sleep. She'had matches in her pocket,
which ignited.
A meeting to approve the Presi-
dents veto was held at Springfield II
linOis, on Saturday the 9th. MajO Gen.
McClcrnand presided.
The post-otiice at lima, New York,
/ on Wednesday night, was robbed Of
$40. An attempt was also made to rob
the bank at that place.
Fifteen thousand bushelsOf govern
ment corn were recently sold in Savan-
nah, Ga, ranging from 40 to - cents
per bushel.
The cattle disease has made its ap-
pcaranCe at Sierra MOrena. y large
number of cattle had died within
/ twenty-four hours.
Vim. 4. Browning, formerly Pri-
Vate Secretary to President Johnson.
and lately appointed Secretary of Le-
! CATION to Mexico, died yesterday in
/ Washington.
\ committee of the Louisiana Legis-
lature has started for Washington, to
/ have an interview with the President
in relation to affairs in that State.
Cotton brokers in New York, esti-
mate that the stock of cotton in the
United States, on the 1st of February,
was nearly one and a halfmilliOn bales.
1t is estimated at the Fenian head
quarters i'll New York that nearly a
million men are ready to move for
the liberation of Ireland.
Judge Barnard, in New York, has
decided that the civil courts have no
,authOrity to discharge minors from the
Farmy.
-TheauthOrities are makinga strong
effort to re-establish the government
gun shop and arsenal at Harper's Fer
ry.
The steamer Lockwood exploded
her boilers twenty miles from Mem
phi,. twenty-five lives are reported
lost.
General Scott was slightly injured
by a fall from his berth en- route from
Key West to New Orleans.
The Reconstruction Committee has
agreed to the proposition to admit the
| Tennessee delegation in Congress.
-Pellicer, found guilty of OterO's
death, in New York, has been granted
a new trial.
The President has signed the bill
detailing n vessel to assist in laying the
Russian telegraph cable.
ten. Pope has issued an order de-
failing a plan for the safety of travel
lers crossing the plains.
The number of patents issued from
the Patent Office in 1863, amounted to
G,616.
The government has decided not
to put Raphael, Semmes, Commander
of the Alabama, on trial.
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| PHILADELPHIA, March 5.-James
/ Martin. formerly of the firm OfThOmaS