The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-05-31

DuIl1OOAO OoO CiVOOs OIdOIO ilotO OCCh
given to shoot the Emperor and his Off
GERS, if captured.
A secret negro military organiza-
ton has been discovered at Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, hostile to the United
States military. The "colored troops
fought bravely'' and are all loyal.
The Louisville Courier thinks that
when the full vote of Kentucky shall
be brought outin August, the Democra-
tic majority will reach seventy thous-
and.
"A large meeting of freedmen was
held in Hampton, Va, last week, and
confscation, social equality, the priv
ilege of rooms at hotels, &C., insisted
upon. The negroes are fast paving the
way to their own destruction.
1t is rumored in Europe that Eng
land designs to seize Cuba in the event
of any difficulty with Spain, and en-
deavor to retain the Island as base in
the Gulf of Mexico.
The total number of male whites
and blacks in the State of Virginia who
have attained the age of twenty-one
years is stated to be 1877, ,696, the total
number of each class being-whites 124
1872; blacks 1904.
General Pope has issued an order
summarily deposing the Mayor and
the Chief of Police in Mobile and ap-
pointing other persons in their places.
General Sickles has issued an order
prohibiting the distillation of spirits
from grain in the Carolinas in cOnse-
quence of the famine prevailing there.
1t is said that Underwood has been
handsomely rewarded by the Radical
leaders for getting the Davis elephant
off their hands so handsomely, without
compromising Chase or any others Of
the "loyal" immaculates.
A SOUTHERN paper is of the O.
pinion that Underwood's charge to the
grand jury of Richmond was written
by the "phosphorescent light of pu-
trid herring"
-LOCUsTs are so plenty in Algiers
that General Mariner has placed at the
disposal of the local authorities detach-
ment of soldiers to assist in their des-
tructiOn.
The way the Radical despOtism
scheme works is shown by the registra-
tion of voters for Baton Rouge, Louisi-
ana, where LOO negroes have been
registered and only 20 white men ac-
cepted. Could such things be, if this
Government were republic?
The next monthly Treasury state
ment will show an increase Of the pub
lie debt. 1t could not be otherwise
with five military despotisms in full
blast to keep up the falling fortunes of
the Radical party with niger votes.
The bankrupt act, which will go
into operation on the first of June,
sweeps off Imprisonment for debt
throughout this country. 1t sets aside
all stay laws, and all preferences, vol
untary agreements, and secret attach
ments.
"A bear was shot recently in Charles
ton county, Ga, which weighed twen-
ty-five hundred pounds. 1t yield
ed twenty-nine gallons of oil, and its
nails sold for s. each.
There are now thirteen cotton fac
tories in operation in Tennessee, worth
nearly a million of dollars. and en-
ploying over nine hundred operatives.
The richest member of the COnnec-
ticut Senate is an Irishman, whose
property is valued at S2,5OO,OOO, and
and whose daily income is $1,000. He
made his money from an oil farm in
Pennsylvania, which he purchased for
$250O.
The latest invention reported from
New England, SO prolific in inventions,
is an "automaton hay-pitcher'' for
loading hay upon the cart in the field,
the movement of the cart-Wheels fGrn-
ishing the motive power.
Ex-Governor Hawley, of Connec-
ticut, asks in the Hartford Courant:
"Who knows but that good many OF
us may yet have to pay our respects to
an occupant of the White House, who
traces his descent down from some wild
and savage African chiefn'
Eggs with iron shells, it has already
been announced, have been laid by the
highly educated hens of Prussia. A
Berlin chemist, who caused his hens to
lay them, did so by teaching the hens
to eat preparation in which iron was
used, and by compelling them to abstain
| from lime.
The stringent liquor law in Massa-
chusetts appears to be anything but a
success in Boston. The amount OF
drunkenness is the same as ever, and
liquor can be obtained by some means
or another by every body who wants
it. The House of Representatives are
debating on the bill favoring licenses.
The Washington correspondent OF
the Herald, of Wednesday, says: The
time has come again when President
ofthe United States may walk thestreets
| in safety. Yesterday President John