Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-01-25

TIE Legislatures of New York, illinois aud
Kansas, ratified the Constitutional Amend
ment during the last week.
A DISPATCH to Senator Stewart. from yir
ginia City. announces the re election Of Sen
ator Nye. It caused great rejoicing among
Republicans in both Houses.
EvgEYFoDY writes It's compliment TO Cap
tain SamueIs of the yacht Henrietta He
seems to have followed straight path across
the Atlantic as unerringIy as if it had been
staked QUITO both sides.
GEN. PrzIow, who made contracts with a
number of freedmen to work upon his plan,
tatiou in Arkansas, Is SAID TO have raised
| 5000 bales Of cotton This year,
TIE Juuiata I'spu5lteal says: ..It is cur
rently reported at Harrisburg that Governor
Curtin has purchased the dwelling Of Z. c..
Darlington, naLa street, I.ano~v.--- -,---s
purposes taking Up his permanent residence
in that city.
GEy. SmoE CAMERON was born in LaHeas-
ter county in 1893, and is therefore, sixty
/ eight years Of age He Is still as vigorous as
most men at fifty,
4 THz receipts Of the Atlantic Cable are
! greater, under the reduced tariff. thaa they
were before. Both cables are in excellent
order. lut the present business does not occu
py in transmission more than four hours Pc
day, and that on one cable only.
/ ArErlrIox, addressed to the Illinois Legis
Iature. asking for an amendment to the Con
stitutiou, so as to allow negroes the right Q
suffrage, is being circulated in Chicago, ar
| uumerousy signed It IS to be circulate
throughout the State.
TuE Judiciary Committee are preparis to
call large number Of witnesses to invef gate
various acts of the President Seyeranem
bers Of the Cabinet and the Presideual reti-
nue., which accompanied Mr.. Johnso On Als
late tour, are upon the list.
CHARLES READE, the English ntalst, has
commenced an action for libel, Z the su-
preme court of the Southern Distct Of New
York, against C. Il. sweetser uscy Gard
ner and Henry sedley, proprtoIs Of the
Round Table. The alleged lj consists in
severe criticisms Of Griffith Gaunt. The
damages are laid at So, 600.
CozcrEnEyr resolutions psed the Senate
f Of Missouri, approving Govnor Fletcher's
course in suPpresziug outlay ~ Lawrence
and other counties, and plGng him support
+ in measures necessary tonalntain the su-
f premacy Of the laws.
r SECRETARY STANTON ) turned over to
# Secretary Browning, ofle Interior Depart
j. meut, Tor safe keapine,.e .e chair occupied by
b President Lincoln wtl shot by Booth at
g Ford theatre. 1t + been in the custody
,, Of the War DepartmE since the night Of the
e assassination.
.e a D1sra7cu fromew Orleans announces
it The arrival Of Genal Sherman there, and a
z contemplated neynovement in Mexican af-
: fairs. Nothing :znowa Of the statement in
a Official circles, t1gh General Sherman ar
l rival there is SID to be very probable.
'i Trr HEnar, Of Cincinnati support six
p places of 8at worship, with an aggregate
e Of ffy-four bdred worshipcrs. They sus-
= tain two daybools and two schools FOR reH
= eious instruon only. They are very char
y table as fs, having erected hospital at
> cost of 5000, and spend annually s25,-
O01 for thqoor and suffering Of their OWL
- commum
4 MEgBF Of both Houses are flooded with
i letters getting passes for divers persons,
= their wi friends and children. It's un-
i derstoc.hat for he year 1867, the Pennsyl
i vania J,d win grant passes to members only
4 and applications thus far made from ans
or quart have remained unanswered. Mem.
4. bers ay their constituents to relieve them
oe frouaese impostunities. The Dead-IIead.
il are IDENTIFY in a preearious condition.
IS. goRDIya to a report from Jamaica, o
on 1888 persons who attended religious wor
a. 81 in 1851, $1,000 belonged to the estab
n ed church, and % ,083 to other denoni
u 4ons viz WesIeyans, 1880, Baptisfs
on 4s5 t2l per cent? Presbyterians, 2 ,e55
.et lorayians, $3.50; London Missionary socie
ve-s $3.50 Roman Catholics, $40 American