The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inc sum bI TWO HlllIIOii SlA lulIbtC CA
and fifty thousand dollars in currency
We're issued tonational banks last week,
in addition to previous ISSUES. The
amount of national bank currency now
in circulation l. two hundred and fifty
one million three hundred and sixty
thousand dollars.
Letters received in New York from
Paris say that Napoleon will certainly
Withdraw his troops from Mexico, I'M
mediately, requesting only that the /
nited States shall remain neutral be-
tween the contending parties there.
During his visit at St. Domingo,
Mr.. Seward had an interview with
President BaeZ, and expressed his graf
itication at the reorganization Of the
Dominican Government.
Gen. Weitzell has ordered the ar
rest of all armed persons lurking about
the Rio Grande. A military commits
sion at BraZos Santiago is investigating
the Bagdad atiair.
-General Howard has begun his lee
turing tour in New England. He re-
ceives one hundred dollars for each lee
ture. The fund thus accumulated goes
to the erection of the Congregational
Church in Washington.
Peru and Chill have consummated
their offensive and defensive alliance.
This il equivalent to a declaration of
war by Peru against Spain. 1t is eN-
! pected that Ecuador and Bolivia will
/ join the alliance.
I-FOur Pennsylvania gentlemen, who
recently visited Johns Island, near
| Charleston. =. c., to purchase land, We're
! Obliged To ny Tor their lives from the
| negroes, who claim the ownership of
| the island.
| 1t is rumOred in Washington, that if
| the Freedmen'S Bureau bill which has
| lust passed the Senate, passes the
| House, the President will restore the
writ of hdJenS corpus in the Southern
| States.
The merchants of Matamoras, to-
| gether with the French, British. Span
| iSh and PrIIssian C0nsults, have pub
! lished a protest against the conduct of
! the United States troops and officials
on the Rio Grande.
The war debt Of New York Is SILL
! 600, 600; Of Pennsylvania, S54 900, 600;
! New Jersey, $26, 100000. The aggregate
war debt Of all the Northern States is
! $500, 600 600.
The President yesterday sent Il mes
sage to Congress, announcing his NOM
( ination of a minister to represent the
! United States in san Domingo.
The town of Bagdad, Mexico, was
J al nv tha | nital Gtotnz fppp,,-
and by the Liberals, and reoccupied by
the lmperialists on the 26th nlt.
2,073 claims. involving the sum of
( S5S. $50 ,09l, were received at the Second
! Controllers office in Washington, dur
! ing the month of January.
-Cicneral Bennett, commanding in
! Charleston, :. c., has ordered the gas
/ works in that city to be contiscated as
/ captured property.
The report that ,Iuarez has fled to
Texas is repeated. 1t is stated that he
! brought great deal of silver with him
/ from Mexico.
/ "A new life-saving apparatus applied
/ to the launching of boats from ships,
I was successfully tried yesterday at New
/ York.
/ The O'Conor Don, the well-known
I member of Parliament from ROscom-
mon, Ireland, arrived in New York on
! Wednesday.
! War Detective Baker has been
/ found guilty of false imprisonment in
| the Cobb brokerage case. He j. acquit-
/ ted of extortion.
/ The President, on Friday last ,iSsu-
ed pardon warrants to three hundred
/ North Carolinians.
/ Gen. Mower, commanding the dis
! trict of Galveston and Houston, Texas,
/ is coming North, to be mustered out.
. Warren. Newcomb, Of New York,
has given $1,000 towards the endow-
ment of Washington College, Virginia.
Gen. Woods has ordered the dis
1 continuance Of the military districts in
/ the Department of Mississippi.