The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-12
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Results of FOrney's Effort 10 get up
EnthusiasEn for Grant and CoIfnN


Sd June from Washington city. As
no portion of the respectable people of
the country seemed disposed to mani
fest any cordial approval of the plat
form or nominees Of the Chicago Mil
itary Despotism-N groSupremacy Con-
vention, or of Grants Napoleonic let
ter of acceptance, it became necessary
for Forney to appeal to the negroes to
declare their adherence to 1HdSsd Grant.
Below we have the results:
"FOrney made an incendiary address
to the negroes from window Of the
Chronicle office, melting them to ven
geance on the whites, which had the
effect to render them perfectly uncon-
trollable. The police were perfectly
pOWerless; and the negroes rushed
along the streets with such fearful
taunts and abuse that the whites were
compelled to confine themselves to
their houses. Bowen, the negro can
didate for Mayor, also made an address
mplimenting the negroes on their
capacity for self-government. Bands
or drunken, laWleSs negroes, madden
ed with liquor and driven on by the
vile, riOt-inciting harangues made by
white and colored speakers. paraded
around the treets hOOting and riOting,
killing and robbing at their WILL
Among the incidents in front of the
City Hall was q speech made bya col
Ored man from the steps to a large
crowd of his compatriots. In the
course of it he denounced those cOlored
men who turned traitors to their race
by voting the Democratic ticket, and
advised his hearers to kill them-'put
it to them quietly The sentiment
was loudly applaudad with enthusi-
astic cries of I'VE will
eve will commence with a murder,
| the victim being white man, named
| John Faulkner. The affair occurred
about II o'clock on Wednesday night,
on Pennsylvania avenue, near Kim
mel's alley. An unknown negro cut
| Faulkner in the right arm with razor,
from the effects of which he bled to
death.
"The next case to chronicle il the
murderOuS assault of a crowd Of ne
groes upon a boy named George L.
| Handley, aged 10 years. This Cutra-
geOus affair occurred at 10 o'clock at
night, on Eighth street, near Seventh,
while the crowd were around Bowen 5
| house on III street. Handley was
| Knocked down, and then cut with
| dirks or razOrS on both sides, on his
! hips and legs. His coat was literally
cut to pieces with some kind of sharp
| instrument. He received several flesh
wounds on the shoulders and darms, and
a pistol shot wound on the right shOul-
der. The rascals left him on the pave
ment supposing they had killed him,
as one Of them was heard to remak,
I'VE settled his hash
"The neighborhOod of Bowen 5
| house seemed to be the favOrite spot for
the preparation Ofmob violence. After
! the murderOuS assault on the boy
| Handley, and he was removed away
| from their wrath, these brave rOWdieS
| marched back to the front of Bowen s
house. Shortly after, another crowd
! of negroes came up Seventh street hOOt-
| ing, hurrahing, and evidently bent on
mischief. AS they turned into il
| steet from Tenth, some one cried out,
'Hurrah for John t. Given The mob
answered Kill him. etc. A rush was
! made, bricks were thrown and pistols
| fired, and the greatest confusion and
uprOar enSued.
"Onn of tho groatnSt outrages of the
night, which has yetcome to our notice,
was the assault upon Herman
Schmidt, proprietor of the restaurant
corner of Eleventh street west and I
street north. The negro tools of Radi-
cal rule rushed into Mr.. SIS house,
knocked him down, and beat him in
a terrible manner, robbed his drawer
of $42, carried away eleven bottles of
whisky, broke everything to pieces,
and retired to other scenes of riot and
and bloodshed. No arrests have yet
been made for this outrage"
Shameful Conduct OF the IIOuse Radicals.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-In the
House, this afternoon Judge Wood
ward, of Pennsylvania, obtained the
floor, and offered a resolution of re-
spect to the memory of eX-President
Buchanan, and providing for the ap,
pOintment of a committee of seven
members to attend the funeral of the
deceased, on the part of the House
Of Representatives. The resolution
was read, when several Radical mem
bers objected to it, alleging, as an ex-
cuse, that it substantially endorsed Mr..
| Buchanan's administration. This,
however, was not true, as will be per-
ceived by reading it in your regular
report. After a proposition by Mr..
| Stevens to strike out some portion of
the resolution, and the offer of a sub
stitute by Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, MIR.
FarnswOrth (RadicaI), of Illinois,
moved to lay the original resolution,
a. introduced by Judge Woodward, on
tho ahla Tho Dpm0crat * demanded
the yeas and nays, and they were
ordered, resulting-yeas, II (all Radi'
cals), nays, 46, so the resolution was
laid on the table. Among those who
voted in the affirmative was Mr.. o.
Neill, of Philadelphia. 1t may be sta
ted in this connection that before the
| introduction of the resolution the Dem
Ccratic members of the Pennsylvania
! delegation were assured by some OF
their Radical colleagues that they
would make no opposition to its pass
! age. One of the members who gave
| this assurance was Mr.. BrCOmall, and
yet he voted to lay it on the table.
WAHsINGToN, June s.
WoolIey was brought into active life
again this afternoon, in the House, by
Mr.. Butler, who offered a resolution
that ALL communication addressed by
him to the House of Representatives
should be placed in the hands of the
Managers by the Speaker or Sergeant
at-Arms, for investigation and report.
The resolution led to considerable de-
bate in the House, which became
somewhat exciting at one time. 1t APP
pears that this subject was brought up
-, M p,I+Iar from tho fact that Wool