Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-06-14
GENERAL News ITEMs.

i A DESTITUTE lady in Baltimore has been
provided with a comfortable home by her for
mer slave.
The amount Of gold in the Treasury at
| Washington, is 1000, 891 600, Of which 49,,
337 900 is represented by gold certificates.
Irnow appears that Maximihan was betray.
/ ed by Gen. Lopez for the sum Of S1s,0O0.
| The fallen Emperor behaved with distinguish
ed gallantry
| A letter to Gen Grant headquarters from
! Mississippi says the.regstration has commen-
ced in that State, and that the white people
are registering freely.
GEy. GRANT has teegraphed to General
/ Sheridan that there is no truth in the reports
! that Secretary Stanton and himself censured
| General Sheridan for removing Gov Wells.
| GENERAL SHERIDAN has issued an order
| appointing Benjamin i, Flanders Governor
Of Louisiana, rice Thomas j. Durant, declin-
ed.
THE friends Of General J. w. Keifer, Of
| Springfield, Ohio, are strongly advocating
his claims to the Republican nomination for
! Governor.
A MONUMENT has been erected at Hummels-
| town, in Derry township, Dauphin county, in
honor OF the soldiers from that place who fell
in the late war.
! JUDGE BUSTED made speech in Montgom-
| cry, Alabama, on Wednesday night in which
1 he eandidly Endorsed the recent Republican
| Convention which declined to invite him to
/ participate in its proceedings.
! e. GENERAL GRANT has accepted an invitation
| from the managers of the Soldiers Nation
| al Cemetery at Gettysburg, to visit that
! town on the 10th Of June. Governor Geary
has also been invited, and viii probably be
present.
! JUDGE BRYAN, OF the United States District
| Court at Charleston, has decided that tele-
graph company is bound to exhibit private
message in evidence when required, kilograms
not being within the class Of privileged com
| munications.
| The Chambersburg papers announce a
| great revival of religion in that town. Rev.
| John Hunter, pastor Of the Bethel, has preach
| ed every night for tiCenty-tiro lceeks, to i'm
mense audiences, and his meeting is still
progressing with unabated interest.
ON sending flag of truce with his sword
| to Escobed0, Maxinlian told him he sur
rendered unconditionally, and had three ia
| vors to ask. He wished not to be insulted,
! but to be treated as a prisoner; that if any
J person was to be shot he should be first
| that If shot his body might not be abused.
The suppression Of the Mobile Republican,
| for the publication of an article melting the
! freedmen to violence, appears to be a proof
that the power Of the military is impartially
| used in that city That is precisely what VIC
want--absolute justice in the South, without
regard to color.
The committee appointed by the Senate Of
| Pennsylvania to inquire into the alleged eX-
toruonate charges of rsilroad companies for
freight aud passengers have adjourned. TO
meet at POttsYille on Tuesday, the 10th day
of July next, at ten o clock 4. N.
The contumacious Governor of Louisiana
| refnses to vacate his Office, turn over the
public property to his successor. As Gener-
al Sheridan has charge Of the whole affair, il
is doubtless settled by this time, and the peo'
ple's soldier will settle it only in one way.
A noY went to shoot a bird in-the neigh
borhood Of Carr0lltown Cambria county, last
Saturday, but missed his aim, and shot instead
a Catholic priest named McGoyern. Six
shots were imbedded in the reverend gentle
man s leg, and painful though not serious
wound was inflicted
A RECENT Alabama newspaper learns from
reliable gentlemen who have recently Travelled
over large portion of the State, shat the
wheat crop is unusually promising, and in the
counties Of Lee, Coosa, Elmore, Macon, Tai
/ iapOosa, Randolph, and Chambers, the yield
is expected TO be larger than it has been for
many years past.
THE Attorney General is said to be still
/ considering whether, under the reconstruction
| act, military commander can remove civil
/ officers. The very best thing that erudite
/ lawyer can do is to consider. He viii find it
! extremely difficult, If not dangerous. to re.
verse Phil Sheridan's precedents.
ADyIcEs from New Orleans show that the
extension of the time for registration by Gen
| eral Sheridan, has caused an increased regis
| tratiOu Of white voters in that city. A short
| time since the colored voters exceeded the
others by several thousand, but on the first Of
June official returns gave the colored majority
at eighteen hundred.
GEY. n. B. BUFoRD one of the members Of
| the commission appointed to investigate the
Fort Phil kearney massacre, IN his report to
the Government Just made, looks upon that
| atrocty as the result Of the violation oftreaty
! stipulations on the part of some white men,
by an attempt to locate new route 70 Mon
tana not demanded by the public interests.
A NEW YoRK paper says the assassination
| Of Mr. Hiscock, from what has already ap-
peared must lead to painful domestic disclo-
sures, the effect Of which viii prove what so
often appears, that Walter Scott understood
human nature when he said, in not dis
similar case, "the survivors have the worst OF
it."
A FREEDMAN lately fshed up a torpedo from
Stono river, below Charleston, S. c. and try
ing to break it open with Ratchet, 1t eXplod-
cd, blowing him to atoms, A small piece OF
one arm lodged in tree was all that was
found Of him. Two negroes were blown into
the river and killed, and two more mortally
wounded
JUpGE KELLY charges the Mobile riot to
Andrew johnson, who had appointed to O
post of profit there a recreant Northerner,
who provoked the disturbance by infammato-
ry statements in the public journals days be-
fore his arrival. The riots, he said were pre-
meditated, and were not brought on by any
words Of his own.
LARGE numbers Of German, Norwegian
and Swiss immigrants, are reported to be ar
irving daily at New York. They push on at
once to the West and settle near friends and
acouaintanees who have preceded them, ap-
plyinC themselves mainly to agriculture
They become forthwith customers Of Amerl-
can mechanics and manufactures.
prominent Southern men begin TO confess
that ifit had not been for the meddling Cop
pcrhead mischief makers of the North, re-
construction would have been q success long
ago in the South. The same might with JUS
tice be said Of the same men on the subject of
rebellion fit had not been fJr Northern
| Democratic demagogues, secession never
would have been attempted.
The telegraph by way of the Atlantic, in.
! formed US a few days ago that a party Of Fe-
mans had landed at Dungaryon, upon the
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