Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-04-12

| ALEXANDER G. MULLIN, at one time private
Secretary OF the late Governor, has been re-
jected for confirmation as Collector OF Inter
nal Revenue in the Cambria District
The National Democratic Convention call
ed by Kentucky, to meet at Louisville on May
1 Z, has been postponed to the 4th of July.
There is expected to be large attendance,
especially from the Western States.
The Board of Commerce of New York
have wisely advised the Secretary of the
Treasury to continue the policy of contraction
until specie payments shall be reached. The
| infationists have had their day, and will soon
| be among the most eager to get deliverance
from uncertainty and doubt by fairly touching
bottom.
| A BILL has been introduced into the State
Senate at Harrisburg providing for the consol-
idation of Pittsburg, Allegheny City and the
surrounding towns into one city. The consol-
idation is to be perfected upon much the
same plan as that used in consolidating Phil
adelphia in 1864.
AMONG the applications for pardon now on
| file with the pardon clerk in the Attorney
Generals Office, are ninety y-seven from ex-
United States Navy officers. The naval ser
vice seems to have been the favorite with the
Virginians, no less than ffty-two out of the
| ninety-seven being from that State.
The Legislature of Ohio has sent to the
people for decision, at the election in Oc-
| tober next, an Amendment to the Constitu
| ton, so as to make black men voters, and to
| disfranchise deserters. 1t required the con-
| currence of three-f ffths of the members of
the Legislature to do this deed, and yet it was
| done.
| RHODE ISLAND has again elected as her Gov
ernor the gallant Gen. Burnside. Messrs.
Dixon and Jenckes, her two members of Con-
gress, are also reelected. The Legislature
| will stand 76 Radical majority on joint ballot,
the Copperheads having but IA members all
told Indeed the Republican triumphs in
Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, and in little Rhode
Island, completely obliterate the late Cspper-
head success in Connecticut.
ENGLISH holders of Confederate bonds must
think Jonathan has more dollars than sense,
if they expect him to pay them back the mo-
ney that they advanced for aiding the rebel
lion. They seem to think it possible, and
thereby they bring their own wit into suspi-
cion. They have taken legal counsel and
they have held meeting, and what they will
do next will be seen when it becomes visible.
How would they like to trade off some of the
Confederate bonds TOR those of the Irish Re-
public?
| Hon. EDWARD MCPHERSON, the present
clerk of the House of Representatives, ha:
announced that he has commenced writing
the life of the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens Mr.
Mcpherson is well qualified for the task He
has long known Mr.. Stevens. At one time
he edited the old Independent Whig of Lam
caster county, paper that Mr.. Stevens al
ways regarded as his organ and besides for
many years, has been intimately acquainted
with him. The work could not have been en-
trusted to one better qualified.
SENATOR Geo. Read Riddle, of Delaware,
died on the 39th ultimo, of pulmonary con-
sumption. He was born in New Castle, Del
aware, in 1917. His early life was devoted
to surveying, but having studied law during
his spare moments from business, he was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1848, and soon after was
appointed Deputy Attorney General Tor his
native county, which Office he filled till 1850,
when he was elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives, where he served two terms. He
was a delegate to the National Democratic
Conventions of 1S44-8 Sc, and took his seat
as United States Senator iu 1864. He was
an active politician and a pure and upright
man. - .-. 81
Gov. HAwLEY, editor of the Hartford
Press, thus writes of their defeat in Connect
cnt We shall be reproached by grunblers
outside, but nothing for that. We
, have planted the party fairly on the rock O
impartial suffrage, and if we had won we
should have been indebted in no degree tc
many whose sympathy we ought to have had
in abundant measure on such an issue. But
J though temporarily checked, we are in nc
sense dismayed, or dubious about final and
near triumph of our principle. Whoever at
tempts to run high-pressure pro-Slavery
boat over these waters will strike rock. We
give notice that we have taken a Glover
holt and the grips not relaxed.
By an order of the Supreme Court Of
Pennsylvania, Major General Robert B. Pot
ter was appointed Receiver OF the Atlantic
The General having been previously appoint
ed Receiver by the courts of New York and
Ohio, thus becomes receiver Of the whole line
from the Erie railway to Cleaveland and Gin
cinnati. The Receiver is required to ope
rate the lines, to give security in 100000 fol-
the faithful performance of his duties and
out of the net earnings of the line, to first
pay the interest upon the prior or divisional
mortgages on the line, and then upon the con-
solidated mortgage.
| OONGRESS HAS uGCluSu budG Oul ICplOoCub-
atives abroad shall not go to Court any more
with dresses peculiar to aristoeratic Govern
ments, and small swords dangling about their
legs but it has reserved right to prescribe
a Court uniform. 1t is suggested that at the
opening of the next session there will be rails
ed Joint Special Committee on Coats and
Breeches. This, it is thought, will involve
the necessity of establishing the office Of
Court Tailor at Washington, but whether he
will constitute one of the Cabinet is not yet
surmised. His Excellency ought to be a val
liable counselor in this very delicate matter
We would, however, suggest plentiful use
Of buckram in the back Of the coat to make
up for lack of backbone 10
! A CORRESPONDENT has seen John III. Sur
ratt in prison and reports him as being treat
ed more like a gentleman than as an assassin.
Surratt remarked that he considered his es-
cape to Canada a neat thing, and said that
the reports of his doings in Europe were
mostly true He declined to say anything
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