Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-09-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Gov HELM, lately elected Governor Of
Kentucky is dead.
ADyIcEs from Indian territory state that the
cholera has again broken out, and Is raging
violently among the wild Indians OF the
Plains.
Mr. FEssESDEN, who has been the chief
obstructionist in the Senate, yields to public
sentiment, and joins in the demand for the
impeachment Of the President.
BEEcuER is paid Si2,50O per year, and
Chaplin $4,000. Henry Ward probably
realizes as much more from his writings and
lectures.
The Centenary col lections of the Methodist
Episcopal Church have thus far been shown
to amount to S4,OO0.OOO, which sum will be
largely increased by returns from the Western
States.
II is said that Cowan, the renegade, is very
anxious TO stump Pennsylvania for Sbars
wood, but Senator Wallace objects. Wallace
is right. Cowan is too dirty stick to be
used in any combat.
The Washington Star says it has a private
letter from Maine in which it has every reason
to place confidence, stating that Senator Fes-
senden declares himself in favor of the i'm
parchment of the President.
The annual examination for admission into
the Naval Academy as acting mieshipmen
sand cadet engineers, will begin on September
10Th, when a sufficient number to fill yacan-
cies will be received
The State Central Committee of the Re
publican party has very wisely removed its
headquarters from a private room in the
Governors mansion at Harrisburg to the old
quarters in Philadelphia. The change was
universally desired.
The TEMPERANCE CAUSE in Massachusetts
daily finds strength and its advocates present
a solid front to the anti prohibitouists. LII
stated that the membership Of the Good TEN,
plars of that progressive State now approx
mates twenty eight thousand.
THEPosTAL MONEY ORDER SYSTEM adopted
by the Government, has proved great sue
cess, so much so as to induce the authorities
to establish some nine hundred additional
offices through which remittAnces can be made
under its provisions.
JUST now the cause Of progress is in the
ascendant. North Germany has been carried
by the Liberals. The people of England
have fought through their reform, or bill for
representation, and Andrew johnson is
rapidly preparing the public mind for another
step forward in this country.
TELEGRAPHIC correspondence from Wash
ington confirms the statements Of the speedy
withdrawal or removal of Grant from the
Cabinet Who will be his successor is not
yet certain. The War Office goes begging at
the hands of Andrew johnson. Even
Steedman scruples to accept it.
CANBY follows in the footsteps Of Sickles.
He declares all the orders OF that officer to
be in force, thus bringing up again the very
issue on which his predecessor was removed.
Thomas and Hancock severally decline repor-
ting at New Orleans. The President is
bailled afresh in his parricidal Vaccinations.
MR. BAYARp TAYLOR is at present in
Gotha, Germany, where he owns house.
One or two Americans are his guests He is
at work on his own translation of Goethe 5
Faust, and is also engaged on a series of pa
pers called "The By-Ways of Europe which
are to appear in the atlantic shortly.
Those MEMBERS of the Washington bar
who professed to be outraged at the dismissal
of the bully and blackguard Bradley from
that bar, are not likely to come to definite
| understanding as to the best means to be
adopted to have him returned. as they have
met several times and adjourned without
agreeing on plan of action. Bradley ought
never to be allowed to practice before Judge
Fisher.
VERMONT speaks to the President, telling
him he is wrong if not criminally unjust in
his policy. No ruler ever received so many
warnings and as much instruction from the
| people he governs as Andrew johnson.
! When the day of his punishment arrives for
! having violated the obligations resting, on
him, Andrew johnson will not have a single
! extenuatiug fact to plead in his favor.