Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-08-28
GENERA NEWS ITEMS.

not be sustained, because The President has
no authority to do SO.
Tng treaty between the United States and
China, recently ratified by the Senate, has
been transmitted to the Chinese Government
for approval
THE State ofMissouri has received SS0,0Oo
from United States Treasurer Spinner, the
last of which was due her By the federal gov
ernment.
Iris represented in Washington correspon.
denee that the President aud Mr.. Seward are
not agreed as to the proper instructions to be
given to the new Minister to Mexico.
GEN. GIANT has not telegraphad that he
would be in Washington on the ifth Of Sep.
tember. When last heard from he was at
Galena, where be expected to stay nearly the
whole month Of September.
AN aronaut named Light made an ascen,
sion from Harrsburgon Wednesday afternoon
and came down with a rush about ten o clock
in the evening, twenty miles north Of that
city. No Que was injured.
A FoRTNIGHT ago the New York Express
said the Herald was fast going to the devil.
The Commercial Advertiser Of Saturday says
that ''the Herald has at last fetched up in the
Democratic camp" How soon the prophecy
Of the Express came trueI
IL the Vale OF Blackmoor, in the West of
! England, the farmers have beeu feeding their
cattle on hay for several weeks past, there
being no grass, owing to the drouth.
TIE King of Prussia now appears seldom
in public without being accompanied by a
very handsome colored boy, whom Gerhard
Rohifs, the celebrated traveller, brought with
him from Abyssinia, and placed under the
protection Of His Majesty. The King says he
thinks the boy is exceedingly talented, and
he viii give him an excellent education.
Rev. J. d. FuLToN, writing on board the
City of Baltimore says: ~ have heard that
good wine could not cross the ocean never
knew the reason before. 1t is drank up.
Never did / see more wine drinking than
on this ship at sea, we have had but one
person intoxicated"
I
dinary looking boy. He was, up to a very
recent time, at private school in Paris,
where all the other boys disliked him so in
tensely that none of them would speak with
him. The teacher now advertises his school
as ''the institution where his royal highness
the Prince of Servia was educated.
A POPULAR clergyman at Troy, who mar
ried couple the other day Sin most beau
tiful and impressive Manner received, after
the service, an envelope, supposed to enclose
the usual fee. On opening it. after their de-
parture, he found its contents we're simply a
bill of fare.
HUNGARY is about to celebrate its thous-
audth anniversary as 3 kingdom, aud various
propositions of commemoration have been
made, but it is most probable that general
meeting of the jurisdictions of the kingdom
will be convened in Vienna shortly, when a
programme viii be arranged.
ADvIcEs from ST. Petersburgh state that
immense tracts of peat and marshy land are
on FIRE in various parts Of Russia. Fears are
even entertained for the safety of St. Peters
burg, as it is built on deposit of peat The
smoke and smell that invade the city at night
and morning are annoying and especially
painful for the eyes.
GES. SHERMAN has issued General Order
inaugurating, in part that system Of Military
| Government over the Indian tribes which is
so much better adapted to their wants, and is
likely to prove so much more efficient for
their protection and the payment of their an.
nuities, than any system heretofore tried.
NEw efforts are being made to obtain
pardon for DR.. Mudd, one OF the assassination
cOnspirators, now at the Dry Toriugss. The
petition addressed to the President has been
extensively circulated through Maryland, by
physicians of that State, praying for DR..
Mudd's release from confinement. It is to
be presented to Mr.. johnson by Hon.
/ Stephenson Archer, of Maryland.
TnEnew bridge over the susquehanna be-
tween Columbia and Wrightsville has been
commenced and several spans are already in
their places. The bridge will be of iron, and
will be completed as soon as possible The
work was suspended for about week after
the burning oF the Pennsylvania railroad
bridge at Rockville, the workmen being need
ed here.
TnE declaration Of Governor Yarmouth
that within the last month and a half at least
one hundred and fifty murders have been
committed within the country parishes of
Louisiana, is fully confirmed by letters pub
lished, received from responsible men
throughout the State.
The Secretary of the UEion Congressional
Republican Committee is in receipt of large
number of letters from different State North
and South, giving an account of the progress
and prospects of the Presidential campaign.
| They are from leading and well-informed
politicians, and express great hope of the
success of the Republican ticket at the Octo-
Der elections, as well as at the Presidential
election in November. In nearly all the
States organizations for the campaign are
complete, and the people are being thorough
lY aroused by speeches and the circulation of
documents.
Or the one-anda-half million dollars ap-
propriated by Congress at its last session for
clearing the public rivers and harbors, very
large proportion, under the direction of Major
General a. w. Humphreys, Chief of the
Engineer Corps of the United States, goes to
the improvement of the South. For improv-
ing the navigation of the Mississippi S35O,O00
are given; for the Tennessee, 100000; to the
Louisville and Portland Canal, SIOO, 600; and
the proportion holds good through the smaller
items.
ABOUT five hundred dollars in gold and sill
yer coin was last week found concealed in the
dwelling house of John Rhoads, in Elizabeth
town, Lancaster county. Mr. Rhoads wife