Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-05-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Radicals of Memphis have the most
thorough organization in the South.
The rebel spirit of assassination is still
rampant in North Carolina
ANDREW JoHxsos's conviction viii put a
stop to murder Of Union men in the South.
TIE merchants Of New York are clamor.
ing fer the erection Of new postoiice build
ing.
ELEVEN colored delegates from Southern
States are to be sent to the Chicago ConYen-
ton.
HoS. JAS. X. MooEHEAD positively declines
| to be q candidate for denomination from the
Pittsburg Congressional District.
The jury in the Cole case in Albany came
/ into court, and their foreman stating that
/ they we're enable to agree, they were dis
charged. They stood, from first to last, six
for acquittal and six for conviction.
| A MAN named Gregg was arrested at Tus.
| caloosa, by the military authorities, for shoot
/ ing and painfully, though not dangerously,
wounding negro. He was taken to Selma,
| Alabama, in irobs.
THu Attorney General of California de-
cides chat mining claims must be taxed like
other private property, in accordance with
the lale decision Of the State Supreme Court.
This will add largely to the revenue Of many
counties.
The reaction" has commenced. At the
! late charter election in Lancaster, the Re
| publican party gained 187 votes on the may
! orality aud eight councilmen, showing for
the FIRST time in many years a majority IN one
/ branch aad a tie on joint ballot. The follow
ing officers, all Republicans we're elected:
City Treasurer, James f. Rieksecker.
City Solicitor, j. w. johnson ESQ, Su-
periutendent Of Water Works, VIM. Kirkpat
| rick; Steeet Commission. George Huifnagle;
City Regulator. Charles +. Hayes; Assistant
/ Regulators, George Leonard, Abraham Mil
Ter; Messenger Of Councils, John Kuhns.
Mn. THOMAS WILLIAMS has published a
/ card, in which he states, in substance, that,
/ while he will accept a denomination for Con
/ gress, he win not canvass to obtain it. As
! set, no competitor with him for the nOmiua-
! ton has been brought forward, and, perhaps,
/ considering how near the day OF the nomina-
| ting convention is, it is reasonable to con-
! clude that none will be named
! THE Inyincibles, very influential organi-
( zation in the Republican party Of Philadel-
pbia1;; are bitterly opposed to the denomination
! Of VIM. B. Mann for District Attorney.
l They viii hold a meeting during the present
/ month, at which they Will protest against his
selection as the Republican candidate
/ JEFF DAVIS bail bond was renewed last
week, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Gerrit Smith
/ and Horace Greeley, all of New York, being
suretics in S25, 600 each, and several citizens
/ Of Richmond, Va, for the remaining S25,-
| 000- Chief Justice Chase has said that with
/ in two days after President JOhnson's trial
! be win be in Richmond ready to preside over
| the trial Of the rebel leader.
TIE Altoona Tribune says: Our distin.
guished fellow. citizen, Hon. L. ". Hall, re
turned to this place, on Tuesday morning
last, from his trip through Europe, and as
was fitting, few Of his friends rendered him
a reception al the Logan House, IN the even
ing. Quite a goodly aumber were present,
and at few minutes past ten the company
sat down to a splendid repast.
TIE Tribune says there is one sense, and
I one only, in which the removal Of Andrew
johnson can be called q party necessity.
/ The Republican party cannot afford 10 be
/ recreautto its duty. When il loses the courage
or the will to DO right It is time for it to die.
/ Its plain duty to the country Is to convict the
/ President. The necessity for it to perform
I that daty is Of the same kind which makes II
/ imperative upon every individual man to obey
l the Ten Commandments
The Argentine journals state that private
letters received in Buenos Ayres from Rio
Janeiro announce the intended abdCatiOn
Of His Majesty Don Pedro II, Emperor of
I Brazil. They say that the Emperor recent
/ ly called q conference Of the principal per-
sonages Of the country TO arrange definitely
the terms of his abdica:ion, to whom he
announced the reasons prompting him to
take that step, stating at the same time that
his resolution was irreyocable. 1t appears
thai he Is tired OF the fatgues OF Govern
ment, and viii probably retire 70 Europe.
IT viii be pleasure for the loyal press Of
Pennsy lvania 20 publish theresGlt of the Com
mittee of Contingent Expenses Of the United
States Senate, completely exonerating Col.
John W. Forney, Secretary Of the Senate
against the allegations charging him with an
abuse of his trust IN the disbursements of the
contingent fund of that body. The committee
consisted of Senators Cragin Of New Hamp-
shire, Drake Of Missouri, Republicans, and
Bnckalew Of Pennsylvania. Democrat).
Hoy, G. A. Grow, chairman of the Repub.
lieau State Central Committee, requests the
Delegates and Alternates TO the Chicago
Convention to send their post Office ad-
dresses to him as soon as possible. at the
Continental hotel. Philadelphia The Chair
man Of the National Executive Committee,
Gov. Ward. of New Jersey, also desires TO
secure correct list Of delegates with their
post Office addresses.
THE Republican State Convention OF
Illinois has made the following nomina.
tions; General j. NJ. Palmer for Governor:
Colonel John Dougherty for Lieutenant
Governor; John a. Logan for Congressman
al large; E. RummoU, of Peoria, for Secre-
,fG I &c
Auditor; NJ. Bates, of Marion, for State
Treasurer and Washington Bushnell, of La
Sale, for Attorney General. The delegates
to the National Convention, were instructed
to vote for General Grant.
GENERAL MEADE has taken in hand the
Surratt Democracy of Georgia, who are con-
spring the murder of Foster B.odgett- When
the leading organ Of the party in the North
proposes the wholesale bribery of the Senate
at a million dollars head and the most
popular openly bids Tor assassins, is il net
time that the preventive hand of the law take
hold of the abandoned Organization? When
politics descends to felony, it comes within
the range of the criminal jurisdiction of the
country, and calls for the Quarter Sessions,
not for argument.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY Wm. 3. Mann, Of
Philadelphia, is one of the greediest politi
clans We know Of He has already been cleo
ted to the lucrative position of Prosecuting
Attorney for three consecutive terms, during
which, from the high emoluments, he must
have made princely fortune, and he is now
asking and intriguing for fourth term. IF
Mann is defeated he viii try to make trouble,
but sc hope for all that, the Republicans will
sooner risk defeat than allow this greed for
office to go uncoudemned-
THE borough election in Trniontaurp on
Monday last, resulted in a Republican tri-
umph by an increased majority over the elec
ton Of last spring. This being the home of
Hon. c. E. Boyle, the Democratic candidate
for Auditor General, the Democrats used
every endeavor to elect their ticket so that
another ''re-action" might be crowed over.
But the Republicans stood to their guns, and
electedtheir ticket by majorities ranging from
twenty to thirty, an increase of nearly twenty