Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-10-19
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
DuRINd the rain storm in Ohio on Tues
| DAY, two spans OF the Ohio and Mississin-
pl Railroad bridge across the Big Miami
river were carried away.
THE convention of New York soldiers
held IN Syracuse, adopted resolutions sus.
tanning Congress
The unconditional union men of North
Carolina held convention in Raleigh on
Thursday, and nominated a candidate for
Governor The convention indorsed. unan-
imously, the amendment to the Congtitu-
tion
The returns from 478 towns in Maine give
General Chamberlain majority of 27. .25S.
Ihe remaining towns, in five hundred votes
cast last year, gave Governor Cony 80 ma
1T is estimated that two million bushels of
corn have been destroyed by the floods in
the Miami bottoms. The storm seems
general in the West and Northwest.
\ JOINT meeting of the New Jersey Leg
lsIatqre, held on Wednesday, declared Cat
tell elected by Al votes, the democratic mem
bers not voting. TIE Legislature then adj
journed sine de.
The receipt from the internal revenue
since the lst Of July are $8S, ,086, 600. and
from customs $40, ,000,000, or an agere ate
OF over Sl30,000, 900.
THE New York Daily Times spoke with
some seriousness of the condition of Mr.
Seward but it would seem that he was able
to pay the President a visit on Saturday af-
ternoon. We have no later information.
ADyICEs from Mexico to the IIth inst.
speak Of disastrous defeat sustained by
the imperialists in Michoacan.
THE South Carolina Legislature adjourned
on Friday night, having, among other acts,
passed one granting the equal civil rights of
negroes, and taken steps to supply the
wants OF the destitute people Of the State.
A CHICAGO despatch says that the liabili-
ties Of the Producers Bank are 1888, $50,
and the assets $II0, 1923.
A DESPATCH to the Philadelphia Press
from New Orleans denies the charges
against the discharged colored soldiers of
having shown disposition to be riotous.
IT il said in a San Francisco despatch that
the Whalemen threaten to hang Thomas P.
Manning, who betrayed the whalers in the
Arctic Sea into the hands of the pirate
Shenandoah. He arrived there recentlyin
the ship Galatea. Another pirate, who
accompanied him, left on the Sea Serpent,
but Manning is believed to be still there.
THE President has recognized ]. w.
Gurrier as consul-general for the Dominican
Republic, in New York This is the first
instance Of the appointment of such an Off
A circular from the Treasury Department
prescribing regulations for the allowance of
drawbacks on imported salt used in curing
fish has just been issued.
TIE Loyal Southerners were at Toledo,
Ohio, on Saturday evening, and addressed
a large meeting there.
1t is stated that General Custer has been
commissioned as brevet major general and
viii be assigned to command in Kansas.
COUNTERFEIT hundreds on the Central
National Bank of New York are in circula-
ton
A despatch from Washington says that
the President, on Tuesday, appointed Gen
eral Dix, Minister to France; Brigadier- Gen
eral Hugh Ewing of Kansas, Minister at the
Hague; and w. j. Valentine of Massachu-
setts, to be Commissioner to the Paris Ex-
position of 1867.
A despatch from Ogdensburg speaks of
the concentration of Fenians in Northern
Vermont, with view to raid upon Canada.
CORNELIUS Vanderbilt has refused to car
~ the United States mails by his railroads
after the 18th inst, unless the compensation
is increased.
A bank messenger was robbed of s24, 900
The thief was arrested and the money re-
covered.
QUEEN Emma arrived at San Francisco
on Tuesday.
The American Board of Foreign Missions
met on Tuesday at Pittsfeld Mass.
AN Austin Texas letter says a general
attack on the Texas frontier settlements is
intended by the Indians.
THE directors of the express company of
which the ex-rebel general, Joseph i. John
ston, is president, have m ade an assignment
of their property for the benefit of their
creditors and others.
THERE were seventy deaths from cholera
in Nashville, Tenn, on Monday.
THE colored union leagues of New York
paraded on Monday in honor of the eman-
cipation of their race.
THE English papers publish no telegraphic
news from America by the Atlantic cable,
butrely nthe steamship arrivals as before.
An artist named Urani shot his employer
a plaster cast manufacturer , in New York,
on Saturday morning, and then shot himself
James r. Hood of Tennessee was on
Saturday commissioned as Secretary of the
Territory of Colorado.
By an order from the War Department
the headquarters of the Department of Ten
nessen is transferred from Nashville, Tenn,
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