The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-06-07

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just been celebrated with great pomp
in the city of Orleans, France.
"A letter from Polk county, Ga,
says thatwhole families there, are some
times two days at time without a
morsel of bread.
The Baltimore Gazette acknowledges
the receipt of nearly twelve hundred
dollars at its counter, donated to the
Ladies Southern Relief Association.
The case of John HI. Surratt, i'm
plicated in the murder of President
Lincoln, has been continued for two
weeks. 81.
The railroad spectators and land
thieves are industriously engaged in
cooking up an immense war against the
Indians.
II. K. Babcock, Chief Clerk to the
Surveyor General of this State, died at
Washington, Pa, Friday morning, of
diptheria.
Nearly three thousand emigraDts
arrived at New York, Monday, from
Europe, most of them being Germans,
bound for the West.
Archbishop McClosky has made up
his mind not to go to Rome, but to send
a Bishop to represent him on st. Peters
Day in the Holy City.
"A majority of the managers of the
street railroads in st. Louis, have deci-
ded to admit colo~ed people to all their
cars on an equality with the whites.
A Northern correspondent of the
Jackson Miss Clarion, styles Phila-
delphia "a wretched, Radical, God-for-
saken city,"
A correspondent remarks that the
marriage contract in Chicago is treated
as of far less Importance and solemnity
than note of hand for $40.
1t is calculated that it would re-
quire column of gold five miles and
12-14 of a mile high and thirteen inches
in diameter to cancel the national debt.
"A blind man in Baltimore the other
day, in a fit of passion, stabbed his
mother, and made a murderous assault
upon a man, also blind, who interfered.
"A resolution which was introduced
into the Massachusetts, Legislature to
repeal the law prescribing reading and
writing qualifications for voters, has
been reported adversely.
The Borough Council of Hanover,
York county, has passed an ordinance
laying fine of $40 upon any person
who may "maliciously destroy any
cat for the purpose of obtaining its
skim"
Hon. Morrow B. Lowry, in reply
to letter signed by three hundre d cit
zens of Titusville, Crawford county,
has announced himself candidate for
reelection to the State Senate.
President Johnson has accepted an
invitation TO be present In Raleigh, N.
c.. the 18th of June, on the occasion of
erecting monument over the remains
of the Presidents father.
Fred Douglas has been named to
the President, and urged by several in
fuential persons, as most fit and ap-
propriate man for the superintendent
CIV of the Freedmen's Bureau.
"A woman i'm Brooklyn, Monday,
gave birth to four children, weighing
in the aggregate twenty-four pounds.
The mother and children are doing
well.
1T generally believed in Washing
ton, that the President would restore to
office and power, the Mayor, Councils
and police of Mobile, lately removed by
General Swaync.
President johnson and Attorney
General Stansberry are receiving great
many letters from the South on the
progress of Reconstruction. These
epistles abound in complaints and sug-
gestions.
An exchange says! 'The last man
in Tennessee who sold negro slave at
auction and took in payment therefor
Confederate money, is now one of the
Radical candidates for Congress"
The Hayward mine in Amadon
County, California, has been worked
thirteen years, has yielded $7,0OO,0O0
and the net income now is over $40, ,0OC
per month. The mine is 1000 feet
deep.
The Mayor ofAugusta, Ga, in are
cent message, says: Gan examination
ofthe treasury has revealed the fact that
there is about the sum of $40 with
which to pay a floating debt of $112,-
OOO"
General Lee reports that there are
at the college over which he presides in
Lexington, Va, 399 students in atten-
dance Virginia, Kentucky and Tenn
essee being the States most largely rep
resented.
An enthusiastic temperance man
in Fitchburg, Mass, has just had pri-
vate still confiscated by the State con-
stables. He had been carrying on the
distilling business very profitably fol-
some time, while loudly advocating
prohibition.
1t is said that orders have been sent
to PbiladeInha TO prepare the iron