Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-03-30

The Nashville papers are fun of news
items pointing to great social disturbances
and lawlessness throughout Tennessee. In
Fayetteville lady was dragged from her
horse and horribly treated by some unknown
person. In Chattanooga white girl was
shot while cooking supper in one of the
camps. In the Jackson, Whig Of the 10th
inst, we also find the following Son last
Saturday night negro staggered up to Mr..
John Fry, and told him that he was stabbed
to the heart, and fell dead. It's not known
who did the deed. We learned on yesterday
of another murder, where negro boy was
knocked on the head by another negro and
instantly killed =
AN Alabama planter, writing to Congress
man blow shows the effect of emancipation
at the South
4 am happy to state to you that our
free negroes are doing finely, We have no
trouble with them They have all gone to
work kmanfully. They give an impetus to
trade that We never before had. | have sold
Jack Peter negroes more goods this year
and last year than | ever sold Peters, and
he owned four hundred and fifty negroes.s
So you see the free negro system is working
well with US.
There was rare force in the truthful ex-
preston, few evenings ago in Baltimore,
of that surprising popular orator, Senator
Nye, ofNevada, when he said: These peo-
pie, five years ago, de6ed the power of the
Government to keep them in the Union.
Now they defy the power ofthe Government
to keep them out Of the Union.
Ifa Copperhead charges that the friends Of
Gen. Geary favor negro su ffrage, you can re-
tort promptly and resistlessly, by telling him
that the Copperhead candidate for Cover
nor, Hester Clymer, has committed himself
by his creed to the policy of comforting the
right OF suffrage upon every rebel, high and
low, that tried to destroy our glorious I'm
ion
Attorney General Speed has now about
completed his report on pardOns 1t will
appear that from 10000 to $4,000 rebels
have been paFdoned under what is known as
the $50, 600 clause, and an equal number
under other exceptions making In all 25,-
600 to 80, 600.
The death of German veteran who serv-
ed under the great Frederick in the seven
years war, is announced. He died at the
respectable age ofone hunered and twenty,
at the hamlet Of Slaude, in Upper Silesia.
His name was Laurence Halaez.
A criminal who has just been committed
to the Wisconsin State prison for burglary,
confessed that he accidentally killed young
-colored girl, for the murder of whom anoth-
er has been sentenced to the penitentiary for
life. 1t is believed that his story is true.
Agassiz goes on from victory to victory in
Brazil. He will need a squadron to bring
home the fish and creeping things. The last
reported census footed up go different fish
es, of which 700 are new species, and Is are
Of new genera; and he is still fishing.
The Forlds special says:-A gentleman
in Washington has sued Major General Ter
ry, commanding in Richmond, for trespass
and injury committed against him and his
family while sojourning last summer on the
Eastern shore OF Virginia.
a Washington special states that it is be-
licyed that the person in confinement there
on suspicion ofhis being the notorious Quan-
trell, will shortly be released from custody,
the evidence taken having failed to establish
his identity
The President has had under considera-
ton for some time the issuing Of a peace
proclamation, proclaiming the rebellion for
mally at an end and the Union restored. 1t
is expected that it viii be published to the
country at an early date.
The Loan bill, as passed by the House the
22d inst, is known to be acceptable to the
Secretary of the Treasury. This is an en-
dorsement ofEuropean bonds to the amount
of one hundred millions.
The House judiciary Committee have
agreed to report an amendment to the Con-
stitutlon preventing any person who held
Office under the United States, an ! who was
engaged in the rebellion, from holding an
Office under the United States Government
hereafter.
Joyis one of the great panacaes of life. No
JOY Is more healthful or better calculated to
proIong life, than that which is to be found
IN domestic happiness, In the company Of
good and cheerful men, and in contempla-
ting with delight the beauties of nature.
A Man is not educated until he has the
ability to summon as an act of emergency,
all his mental powers into vigorous exercise
to effect his promised object.
THE Pittsburg Gazette truthfully remarks
that the Democratic platform was written
with two ends in view-to console the rebels
and spite the blacks Loyal white felix's
have little attention accorded to them in it.
Gen. James S. Negley is announced in the
Pittsburg Chronicle as a candidate to repre-
sent the 22d Congressional District of Penn
sylyania, He appears early in the cam
paign.