Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-01-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. Jan. D,

WASHINGTON. Jan ., 1866.
The movement for the organization OF
new party ofwhich certain newspapers
have been pr0phesyiue, was made in the
Hotise to-day bp Mr. d, W. Voorhees,, Of
Indiana, whointgodlcea q resolution inders-
ing the President policy, and making one
of bis ld-fashiored sfeechss agaitist it,
John a. BiHgtia;ti replied With telling
/ effect One sentence evoked uncomfortable
applause both on the floor and in tie gal
lery; thatin which he said that if the collision
should come between the Unionists and the
President which the gentleman seelaed to
anticipate, end the President shoul9b left
With no supporters save stich inenfss met
! with Mr. Voorhees, at Chicago 10 pfenoInee
i the war failure, then all he had to say was,
/ God help the President andsaTe Sia Repub-
lie. Nearly the full Un53n strength Yot-
/ ed TO refere the resolution to the Reconstruc-
ton Committee
/ THE coMMIssARY GENERAL or SUBSISTENCE
Is having prepared a statement showing
the quantity aud price Of every article pur-
chased by the subsistence Department, from
| the beginning to the end of the rebellion.
AMENDMENTS OF REyENUE LAWS.
Collector Granniss, Of Cleveland, is a.
mong the custom officers now here in consul
/ tation with the Commissioner of Customs,
| relative to the proposed amendments to the
| Revenue Law for the prevention of snug
Cling on the Northern frontier. The eollec-
tors held another consultation with Mr.. Sar-
gent to-day.
SURGEON GENERAL WOODS.
Brevet Brigadier General r. C. Woods,
late Assistant Surgeon General at Louisville
Kentucky, has been assigned to duty at Fort
Adams, Newport, Rhode Island
FREEDMAN 5 SCHOOLS.
A report received at the Freedmen )
Bureau to-day shows that in Missouri there
are in operation nineteen colored schools,
with twenty-three teachers and thirteen
hundred and forty-nine scholars In Ar
kansas there are thirteen schools, with sew
enteen teachers and fourteen hundred and
seventy eight scholars,
REVENUE DECISION.
The Secretary ofthe Treasury has decided
that canal boats duly enrolled and licensed
on which tonnage has been paid are not
liable to the internal Revenue tax.
REBEL YcENDIARlEs.
An attempt was made, few davs ago, by
the reconstructed rebels, in FaIquier coun-
ty. to burn down the residence of Mrs. Nix
on, widow of Paymaster Dixon, of our Ar
my, who was recently shot, and killed, in
the streets of Alexandria, by returned reb-
el officer. An anonymous note was sent to
Mrs Dixson, warning her that if she pre-
sisted in remaining in the county, her house
would be burned over her head, aud she and
her chiIdien are now in Washington exiles
from their home.
THE RECEIPTS FROM INTERNAL REVENUE.
To-day, were seven hundred and twenty
FIVE thousand dollars The receipts, from
July lst up till date are one hundred and
eighty millions FIVE hundred thous-
and dollars The Commissioner is confident
that the receipts viii reach three hundred
millions for the fiscal year The distileries
are beginning to be heard from
RECONSTRUCTION SPEECHES.
Twenty nine names are now on the Speak
ers list for speeches on reconstruction in
Committee Of the Whole, and three or four
are added for every one that has yet come Off
Col. Deming, of Connecticut, has the floor
for tomorrow. He viii take strong ground
in favor of Congressional power in the
premises, and will heartily unite with the
President in demanding irreyersible guar
antee for the freedmen.