Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-10-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Abrams in Italy still continue tumultous
and threatening.
BRowxIow, tits now conceded, will be elect
ed T. S. Senator, by the Legislature Of Tenn
essee.
A LARGE number Of the National Banks OF
the country have united to remove Secretary
McCulloch.
TuE Natioleal Iatelligeacer nominates An
drew johnson for President and General W
T. Sherman for Vice President.
TnE Pennsylvania Homeopathic College in
Philadelphia announces its intention to re-
ceive women as matriculants,
A Boy at St. Joseph, Missouri, is report
ed to have recently killed in one morning,
forty.one snakes, thirty seven Of which were
rattlesnalles.
"A FoaElGx journal announces that the
railway from Paris to Strasburg has now
three. story cars, for first, second and third.
class passengers.
/ TlE case Of General Fitz John Porter, for
new trial, has not been decided by the At
toruey General-that is, the legal points
which we're referred to him by the President.
RETURNS from thirty four counties in Ala
bana, about half the State, show that the
convention has eleven thousand more votes
than the requisite half
GoyERyoR Geay has appointed Reuben
/ Guth, we'll known editor Of AllentoD, an
associate Judge OF Lehigh county, vice Long
| necker, declined.
THE fall session of Pennsylvania College,
at Gettysburg, opened on Monday, with an
addition of foFly-fye new students, being
the largest accession of new students since
the organization.
One of the saloons in Nashville, Tenn,
employsa hack to carry of its customers as
fast as they become intoxicated. No fare is
required, and the happy beings are insured
against the police and the workhouse.
THE falls of the Yellowstone are attracting
much attention. The river is precipitated
over precipice sixteen hundred feet high,
and loses itself in lake twenty five or thirty
miles in circumference.
A DuMogD in the rough state was found
at Camden, Miss, during the war, but at the
time was considered no value. Since. then it
has been examined, and, in the opinion Of
intelligent meu, it is worth S50,000.
BoyxER says he prides himself on two
| things. These are, SIN demonstrating that a
paper Of high moral tone will be the most
successful, and that a private gentleman can
drive and own the best horses in the country
without making gambler Of himself.
The contest for the United States Senator
ship, which has been the leading topic for
months past, is narrowing down to a focus.
The prominent candidates for the position
are hon. W. B. Stobs and Hon. Horace
Maynard. Governor Brownlow is not an as
piraut for the office.
The Fair just closed at Dayton has been
one Of the most successful ever held in the
State. The number of tickets sold amounted
! to seventy. four thousand seven hundred and
I slxgtliree. The receipts we're SIS, ,692 9s.
| To these should be added a little more than
s., 600 received from the refreshment stands.
GEN. Scbofeld orders two ballot boxes to
be furnished for the Virginia election-one
for the colored voters aud the other for the
whites. lie further tells them that any one
who shall by force, fraud or intimidation. at
tempt to prevent any qualified elector from
voting win be tried and punished by Military
Commission
TuE extraordinary growth of vegetation in
Florida is astonishing the people Of that State.
1t is reported that there is near St. Johns a
single tomato plant, spreading like the panyan
tree, which has entirely covered bed eigh
teen feet square. 1t had produced about six
bushels of fruit up to the latter part Of August
and was still producing bushel or more
being on it sometimes at once.
GENERAL FREpoYr is now pdshing rail
road through the Mexican provinces of
chihuahua and Sonora, that win connect the
Rio Grande aud the James River via Little
Rock and Memphis, with Guaymus, in Cali
fornia; hence, before the expiration of auoth-
er year, it is expected that Richmond viii be
in direct railroad communication with San
Francisco.
An exploration Of the falls of the Ohio. at
Louisville, is now being made with diving
bells and other suitable apparatus, in search
of lost treasure, under the guidance of clair
voyaut knowledge Seven steam boilers, two
wrecks Of steamers, two locomotives, safe
with cool million inside, and other valua-
bles without number or mention, are to be
fshed out.
ADDITIONAL particulars of the riot at JEFF
ferson City, Louisiana, shows that an ex-reb,
el named ROLAND, commenced generation
slaught with revolver on the colored peo-
pie at the polls, assisted by few of his po
liGcal friends. The negroes were badly
wounded, but the rest of the crowd returned
the fire, killing ROLAND and dangerously
wounding one of his co-rioters. The military
soon arrived on the ground and quieted the
matter.
MR. Smalley writes to the Tribune from
London correction of the belief in this
country that Carlyle is an enemy to the Uni
ted States. He says: 81 affirm OF MY own
knowledge that Carlyles feelings were Of
kind very different from these. lie disbe-
lieved in the ideas on which the American
Republic is built, but for America, for the
people of America, and for the fidelity and
courage which marked the struggle Of the