Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-04-19

Hon. MYER STR0USE, Nj. u, has hau placeu
in his hands, for return to the owner, stolen
ring belonging to jeff Davis.
PRESSING the finger on the upper lip, just
below the nose, will make the severest pre-
monitory SYMPTOMS off sneeze pass on
A DISPATCH from Philadelphia says: The
plasterers are still on a strike for higher wa
ges, aud intend to hold out.
JEFF DAVIS says that the late Connecticut
election was one which that State could well
be proud Of Precisely what the rebel sym
pathizers hereabouts say.
Tue returns of the New York census Of
1865 have recently been published. They
indicate slight decline in the population of
the entire State, as well as of the leading city
as compared with the returns OF 1860.
A special dispatch from Columbus, Ohio,
to the Cincinnati Gazette, under date OF the
] st inst, says. The Statesman forced the
negro suffrage issue at the municipal election
in this city, and the result is Union gain OF
502
4 WATCH has been manufactured in Paris
which is wound up by simply opening the
case to note the time. 1t only requires to be
opened once a month to keepit always going,
and it is perhaps the nearest approach to per
pctual mctisn yet invented.
CouNr BISMARCK has sent an energetic note
to PARIS, demanding Of the Emperor Napoleon
his reasons for arming. He says Prussia
holds France responsible for the consequen-
ces of such a step and asks the instant ces-
sation of warlike preparatinns.
THE New Orleans PicdyaRe, in an article
on negro suffrage, says with great force: 1T
is ridiculous for any one to pretend that he IS
| lowered or disgTaced by going to the polls
with a negro, when he crowds in at the gen
eral delivery with him to geta letter at the
| post office.
Hon. GEORGE EVANS, died in Portland,
| Me, on Friday night. The deceased repre-
sented his State eighteen years in the House
| Of Representatives, and six years in the Uni
| ted States Senate, with credit to himself and
| State. lie was man of distinguished ability
| especially in financial matters.
THE election in Baltimore on the 18th inst
/ on the question of the state constitutional
| question and on the question of running street
! passenger cars on Sunday in this city, is pro
crossing quietly and earnestly. The result
| on both questions is doubtful. The vote will
! be large. The most admirable order prevails.
TIE enumeration of children in Philadel-
| phia, made by the police, shows the following
results: Boys 1864; girls Il, ,843-total l42,
! 5l7. In public schools 7G,4l9. In private
schools l2,7O9. In parochial schools II, SG3.
! At regular employment20, ,902. NOtat school
or employment 20,534.
The Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned at
! y o. clock noon on Thursday last. Sixteen
! hundred and ffty-two bills, and sixteen joint
resolutions were passed. The Free Railroad
bill was defeated-also the bill fixing per
cent. as the legal rate Of interest Hon.
/ 10 # A1I,,bor,- p.r,l1.Do,
was elected Speaker during the recess.
The National MtelFgsucer says it is ascer-
tanned that the amount stipulated in the treaty
for the purchase of the Russian possessions
IL America. is ten million two hundred thou
sand dollars in gold within ten months after
the exchange ofthe raLihcations of the treaty.
The ratihnations are to beeXchanged at Wash
ington before the thirtieth Of June, or the
| treaty fails.
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, in Virginia,
is to be rebuilt, and help is wanted. 1t is the
Oldest college in America, but was burned
down during the war. Thomas jefferson,
James Monroe, John Marshall, Winfield Scott
| Pcyton Edmond and John Randolph, l.. W.
| IazeweH. John j. Crittenden and others well
known, were graduates Of the college.
TN. .,o-I .------ - T,;Ia,,,rs 49,,
1It-tts T5r the detection aud arrest OF the
] llalNfttIE OF NOHu ana AbEaIu look. tWC
citizens Of this State who were foully dealt
with last October, in Mississippi, has failed
TO pass, a Democratic member. at the last
moment, objecting it off, 1t would seem that
the ideas of the Pennsylvania Democracy on
reconstruction coincide with those of the
Mississippi brigands.
Tuu Union Pacific Railroad Company,
Kansas branch, applied to the government
on w Wednesday, for a commissioner to exam
inc the seventh section Of their road. extend.
ing to the Saline river, forty-hye miles west
OF Fort Riley. They are laying the track at
the rate Of a mile and a half day and cars
will reach the town of Saliua, fifty miles be
youd Fort Riley and four hundred and sixty
eight miles west of St. Louis, on Saturday.
TuE Richmond VA Examiner accounts
for the explosion in the Clover Hill mines as
follows; The coal is mined in chambers.
which are closed with doors, when the men
are Qua oil them, to prevent the escape of gas
into other parts of the mine, The door OF
one Of these chambers had been removed
Ii is supposed that as the mule driver passed
this chamber the gas was rushing out, took
fire from the candle in his hat, aud exploded
with the lamcntable results already given.
TuE Senate and Legislature adjourned their
sessions on Thursday last. The amount of
| business done IN the passage OF public and
| private bills has been immense. In future,
the Legislature will not be bored so much by
! the passage of these private bills, as a great
many Of them can be referred to the courts
There were no bills Of very general interest
acted on. The ratification Of the Constitu.
tioua! Amendment was the most conspicuous
act Of the whole session, and one that will re-
donnd TO the credit Of every member.
The Democratic press all the land over
have been pretentiouslY calling on the colored
population to note the fact that the Ohio
! Legislature refused to submit to the people a
vote on striking out the word white from
their Constitution. VIII these same papers
| inform their colored readers that the Ohio
| Legislature has rescindel their action, and
sent the question to the people? VIII these
| papers note, too, for their own consideration,
that this step was taken before the result Of
| the Connecticut election had prOred its neceS-
| 7ity and onaured tho rosso5o or the auIrud-
ment before the people?
! A stringent law against prize fighting has
! just been passed by the Pennsylvania LegisIa
ture. 1t makes the penalty for engaging in a
prize fight or taking part as second OF bottle
holder, a fine Of not more than $1,000, and
solitary imprisonment not exceeding two
years. Every person being present at the
fight, and encouraging the same, or laying
any bet or wager onthe result thereof, wheth-