The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-10-25

-Ine rocks which ObStruct Boston
harbor are being removed by Ehrhard's
safety powder, Prussisn invention.
One hundred and fifty tons of rock
have been removed in six days by eight
pounds Of this powder, while but twen-
ty tons were removed by over five hun
dred pounds of ordinary powder and
thirty-nine days labor.
On the 4th instant, 431 lodges of
Indians were assembled at Medicine
Lodge Creek, to attend the Peace Coun-
Gil, and 42l lodges were Oh the way
thither. The Cheyenne5 are SAID to be
now desirous of peace.
The mutilated notes of the national
banks must be presented for redemp-
tion to the bank which issued them.
The Controller of the Currency issued
new notes for the mutilated ones only
to the bank ITSELF and in packages not
less than 800.
Six hundred st0rekeeperS in the
second revenue district of New York
brooklyn have been reported to the
Internal Revenue Department for sell
ling manufacture goods without gov
ernment stamps. There finest will
aggregate $4,000.
-Alarge portion of Vicksburg, under
the bluffs, including the ground upon
which the Washington hotel is built,
is supposed to be caving into the river.
Bills to enable colored men to sit on
juries, and repeating the stay and eX-
emption laws in labor suits, have been
introduced in the Tennessee Legisla-
ture.
Greeley, in a double loaded article,
avOWs himself for Chase and negro
suffrage. He has a good deal of "bosh"
to utter, but it boils down to this plat
form.
"A colored man in Little Rock,
Arkansas, killed fifty-one rattlesnakes
in an hour, near that town few days
ago.
Governor BrOWnlOW, of Tennessee,
has written letter announcing him
self a candidate for the United States
Senate, to succeed Judge Patterson.
Two hundred thousand pounds of
wool have been bought and shipped
from the single small town Of Ripon,
in Wisconsin, this fall.
An English life boat association has
saved over sixteen thousand lives
since it started few years ago.
Hon. Burton Craige, the author Of
the secession ordinance of North Caro-
lima, has been pardoned by the Presi-
dent.
Chicago is eating frogs voraciously
this season, and has already consumed
100000, with expectations of tripling the
number next year.
Boston has now q Young Women's
Christian Association. Its. object is to
provide cheap and pleasant home for
poor girls.
"A machine which will remove the
pits from 100 cherries in a minute, has
been invented in Germany.
The .Ex-King of Hanover is to re-
ceive the snug sum Of $4,000, 900 in
specie, from the Prussian government,
for his private claims in Hanover.
"A policeman was killed in New
York by Il woman of bad reputation,
who has been arrested.
Cattle are guiIlotined in France,
instead ofstunned and stabbed.
Mortimer Thompson ("Doesticks)"
is studying medicine.
Nearly two-thirds of the tobacco
crop in Kentucky is already cut and
housed.
Two hundred and sixty petitions
under the bankruptcy act, have been
filed in Massachutetts.
In Baton Rouge Parish, La, only
five white votes were cast-four of
them againsta convention.
The Virginia negroes don't know
whether they can trust white Radicals
after the result in Ohio.
A servant girl in Jersey City while
looking at a procession, fell out of a win
dow and broke her neck.