Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-12-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

THERE is no doubt of the triumph Of the
Republican party in South Carolina.
Gov. GEARY has pardoned ". N. ALLISON
and w w. DAVIS, recently convicted Of libel
ia the Dauphin county Court
.Iouy. HoFFxAS, democrat, was re-eleet.
ed Mayor of New York city, by a plurality Of
votes
A majority Of the Indian Commission are
opposed to the transfer Of the Indian Bureau
to the War Department,
IT is estimated that million Of children
meet weekly in the Methodist Sunday Schools
in this country.
Hay was selling at six cents a pouud-one
hundred and twenty dollars ton-at Chey-
enne City, Dakota, on the 2Gth ult.
THE Lutheran Protestants number Is. 600,
GOO in the Old World, and in this country, l.
768 ministers, S51, 500 members, and 8 II
churches.
A MAN IN Detroit is under wager Of ST.,
600 to walk for seventy-two consecutive hours
with the exception OF five minutes in each
twenty-four hours of the seventy-two.
President JoHSsoS Iaade a speech to a
party of serenaders during which he actually
omitted TO refer to the Constitution or the
flag. Where's Jerrie Black
TIE House Committee on Foreign Affairs
are unanimously of the opinion that addition
al legislation is necessary for the protection
of Americans travelling abroad.
ADv1cEs from ST. Thomas state that the
people have voted in favor OF annexation to
the United States. The English mail station
at St. Thomas has been changed to Jamaica,
DURISG the Taepiug war over one hundred
million men perished by slaughter and starva
ton Quite enough to make very complete
set Of China, we should think.
To the above we will add that Col DA-
WIS has made to us and others equally dis
tinct and satisfactory declarations, and we
have no reason to suppose that his plsdgas
will not be fully redeemed.
The Mexican newspapers have agreed to
use all that refined eloquence for which they
are so well known IN attacking Minister Ro-
nero for his late conduct Of affairs in the
United States.
Is the three days preceding November
| 26th, snow fell at Cheyenne City sufficiently
deep to afford good sleighiRg. The citizens,
however, having no sleigbs, had to find other
modes Of conveyance, or foot IT,
DIcKEss's reading Of the death of Little
Paul Dombey is by far the most effective of
his recitatioDs, as those who have heard It
will testify. He moves his whole audience to
tears by his exquisite pathos.
UNDER the tenure-ofofFice law according
| to the ruling of the Senate of Friday last. the
| President has to the Dist inst. within which
to send to that body an account Of his action
in the Stanton and other cases.
KRrpP, of Essen, Pru sia, has orders on
hand for guns to the aggregate number Of p
| 200, and the total value of $4,000, 600
| KTupp has now turned out altogether $500
steel guns Of the value of s., 100000
A CoLoRED Max named John T. Cartiue,
at one time a messenger in the House Of
| Representatives, and native Of Washing
| ton, has been elected a delegate to the Con
vention Of Georgia, soon to assemble.
SIX petitions were introduced in Congress
at its present session, from Sol citizens OF
Berks eaunty, praying that the right Of the
elective franchise be conferred on the black
man.
GEN GRANT is determined to muster out
All the forces now connected with the regular
army which are of no use to the service
| Anything praeticed for economys sake will
be sustained by the people.
THE National Banking Law is to be revised,
amended, and if possible improved, at the
| present session Of Congress. II is the judg.
ment Of bank examiners that this act should
be made more efficient in its operation.
The Atlanta, Georgia, Vqtcbma,,, tells Of
most extraordinary yield Of corn-two
hundred bushels and twelve quarts from one
acre. II was raised IN Rlchland District,
SouFb Caroline lv Parker
TnE Mexican Congress Is not an amicabie
body, when it does meet, which is not often
At its last meeting there was barelya quo
rum, and even those few men who were there
made themselves disagreeable to each other.
IT is said that at least half million of dol.
lars have been invested in business of vari-
GUS kinds in Harrisburg, within the last eigh
teen months This has been done in the
enlargement of old and the starting of new
enterprises.
TIE New York Journal of Commerce says
that it has been noticed that poultry this
season will not fatten, and the suggestion has
been made that the fact is indicative of a
mild winter, the birds not requiring the
| amount Of carbon needful in severe winters
THERE are bulls in Portugal, as well as in
Ireland. The Mayor of Estremadura, offer
ing a reward for the recovery of the remains
OF a drowned man, enumerated among the
recognizable marks that the lamented had a
''marked impediment in his speech
DURING the removal of goods from the
Paris exhibition, an Italian called on his
comrades to assist him in moving an i'm
mense cheese, but on trial it was found that
only the she'll was left, a colony Of rats having
wholly devoured the interior.
LIE following letter, geybatim ct Iiteratin,
as printed, was sent to the Office ola Leaven-
worth paper and 'speaks for itself
KIKAPoo, nov. 25, l867.-DERE ZUM VIII
you peze Inform me weather niger suffrage
Was carried at The late lection. Ifsech ign
rant peepul is to voat / want to leav this God
fursaking State, and go back to Sutheru ILL
nois, Yeurs TFooly,