Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-02-14

The Franklin county people are sending in
petitions occasionally, asking for appropria-
ton for damages done by rebel raiders during
the years 4 Se2 3 and 81, but il is exceedingly
doubtful If any bin viii be pessed for their re-
lief II will be remembered that a year or
two since $500 900 was donated for the relief
Of the people Of Chambersburg, and it ~ not
probable that anything further can be ex-
peeted for that particular locality
The Democratic papers demand tue abol-
ton ofthe Freedmen's Bureau as an unnec-
essary expense, concealing the fact that the
most Of the money is expended for the benefit
Of the poor whites. What will they say 20
the petition Of the Georgia Convention, that
Congress should lend S3,000,000 to the needy
Southern planters?
We find the following in the Cincinnati
Times. New York, January 27.-tP Private
letters received from Chicago state that Mrs.
Lincoln is insane beyond all doubt. She re
Gently sold all the furniture in her house, and
has two old men as body guard, believing she
will be robbed and murdered. Her mania is
for selling things, and dread lest she should
come to want All her friends are said to
be conscious az her mental condition. but
think so long as she is harmless, her removal
20 a lunatic asylum would increase her de-.
rangement.
THg Ohio Democracy are greatly disturbed
by the result in the With Congressional Dis
trict. The Pendletonians swear that the VAL
landighammers defeated Burns in revenge for
the defeat The great martyr in the Sena..
torial contest while Vallandigham organ9
has an article believed to be from his own pen
showing that the ''Pendeton policy" did the
business. Val. foresees a crushing defeat foI
the Democracy in Ohio next fall
TIE annual report Of the trustees of the
State Lunatic Hospital Of Pennsylvania, just
| issued, shows that there we're in the asylum
on the lst Of January. 1867 S27 patients, viz:
lSl males and lag females; admitted during
the year, 10. viz; 80 males and II females;
discharged during the year, l57, viz 9j males
and G2 females. OF this number 81 were re-
| stored SO improved, SO were stationary, an
"a died. There remained in the hospital
December 81, 1867, $40 viz: ls5 males and
l55 females.
A CoNPANY has been formed in Richmond,
/ Virginia, for the purpose of engaging upon a
large scale in the cultivation of the grape,
aud in the manufacture of wine. The ar
rangements for wine making are SO exten-
siye that a maaket for all the grapes grown
in the immediate vicinity Of Richmond will
at once be created, and strong impetus
given to vineyard cultivation, the soil and
climate being admirably adapted to the grape.
For the statement that Charles Francis
Adams has resigned his post as Minister Of the
United States 10 Great Britain, there is as yet
no official authority. But it is learned, from
sources so trustworthy that they have never
| been contradicted, that the resignation Of our
Minister to Great Britain was received some
days ago, and that the intention of the United
States Government to prosecute the Alabama
claims Immediately aud decidedly is the chief
reason why Mr. Adams, whose firm but
nevertheless delusive intercourse with the
| British Government might have to be changed
in way to affect his personal honor, has seen
it to resign.