Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-12
GENRRAL NEWS 1rEMs.

peace for which all men are so anxious, win
be insured.
THERE are loud complaints in the Demo
cratic ranks about the conduct Of the Indiana
law officers in keeping Coburn aud McCole
shut up for the entire forty days.
PENpLEroS eontemplates an immense ''out-
side pressure at the New York Convention.
His own escort, it is said, viii number thou
sand
A number of persons in White county, Ar
kansas, have been poisoned by eating mulber-
les on which locusts had deposited their eggs,
and several people have died.
GENERAL McCLELLAN was, on Saturday,
rejected in the Senate of the United States,
as Minister to England.
The crop reports from Arkansas and North
Mississippi are very encouraging. The yield
Of wheat win not be very large, but of supe-
rior quality.
The floral tribute TO the memory Of the
Union soldiers buried at Lake Mountain,
California, attracted great interest yesterday,
thousands participating. Colonel Bakers
grave was first visited.
WHILE the Government is huckstering in
ships and selling its war vessels at prices at
least twothirds less than they cost, there are
ten thousand men employed in the different
navy yards, at an annual cost of SO, -O0o, 900.
Secretary Wells sleeps soundly.
Hox. GEORGE c. GoRHAM, the newly elect
ed Secretary Of the United States Senate, was
sworn into Office on Saturday. He stated TO
the clerks that he did not intend to make any
changes in the office.
a PARTY in Washington who has been
sending out circulars, demanding funds from
Federal ofice-holders, to secure the influence
of the National Managing Committee in
order that they may retain their positions,
has been arrested for fraud
The Rebel Admiral Semmes aud his broth.
er, who are practising law in Mobile, recently
asked the Secretary of the Treasury to for
ward them copy Of certain document which
they proposed to use in defending client who
was indicted for selling lottery tickets. Mr..
! McCulIoch refused and the Semmes Brothers
have written him another letter asserting their
right as citizens to the paper in question, and
making peremptory demand for it.
An advise of from two to FIVE per cent, has
taken place in Government securities since
the Chicago nominations were made. This
indicates pretty clearly a conviction on the
party Of the public not only that Grant and
Colfax will be elected, but that the resolution
in the platform in which they have giyin their
adherence respecting the public debt assures
its payment in good faith, and according to
the terms Of the contract.
THERE is too much reading done for
amusement and not enough for instruction
If the American people devoted one third
the time they now waste in perusing fash
literature to reading works of instruction,
examining subjects Of importance in science,
the mass Of our fellow citizens would be the
best informed people that ever lived.
GEH. BUCHANAN, Hancock's successor in
Louisiana, has ordered the arrest of the
President of the Board Of Registration in
that State. The Board Of Registration claimed
to exercise certain powers devolyed upon
1 them by the Constitutional Convention, which
1 Buchanan decided they should not do and
hence the arrest. General BuchauaR is
following out General Hancocks S policy Of
opposition to the Reconstruction laws, and
the Board of Registration was endeavoring to
enforce it.
GEN. SHERIDAN, in letter to Grant, under
date 22d Of May, thus incidentally speaks of
the Indian QUESTION in the section over which
he is placed. ~ have no had single
depreciation in my departmen since l
assumed command, and I have the greatest
desire to matain this peaceful condition
Of affairs. I have made great deal Of
personal exertiou by visiting nearly every
POST in this section Of couatry in which the
Indians were hostile last year, aud in all iu-
terviews with the Indians was led to believe
that we may be able to preserve the peace the
comming summer.
THE Democracy daily exhibit the utter
abandoned condition of their situation The
party is in a bad fix generally. It has no
popular issues-no great ends or ideas in
sympathy and unison with which beats the
popular heart-and as a sure sequence, it
has no great men-no leaders Of the people
This is Why they wish to appropriate Chief
Justice Chase.
! GRANT makes solemn declaration on, EN-
bodying pledge, at the conclusion of his
letter accepting the Republican nomination
\ for President ~ Always HAVE RESPECTED
THE WILL or THE PEorLE, AND l ALWAYS
SHALL" manimbued with such sentiment,
is one best fitted to serve a great people 1t
/ is the spirit in which all American statesmen
and soldiers must act, for in this country the
masses rule, and those who are called to direct
the Government are merely elevated to
execute the will of the people.
! IL the united States Senate on Saturday,
Mr.. Trumbull, from the conference commit
tee on the disagreeing votes of the two houses
on the bill to admit Arkauas to representation
in Congress, passed. The committees S report
was in substance the bill as at originally pas
sed the House of Representatives, with a
proviso allowing the State to change its Con-
stitution as respects the time of residence,
&c, necessary for voters, but to make no
change in the provisions prohibiting the
disfranchisemen. of persons on account of
race or color.
VERY subtle and terrible fatal disease is
now raging among the cattle in some portions
Of Illinois Over one hundred head have
| fallen victims to it within the past few avs
1t usually kills in few hours. No premotoni,
ry warnings are given, and although all the
| skill in possession of ordinary practitioners
has been brought to bear upon it, it yields to
no remedy or treatment, and is fatal in every
instance. Its name and nature have not yet