The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-12

traverSed the parishes on Sundays,
calling the colored people away from
their sanctuaries for many weeks to
political harangues." This is the Rad
ical method of elevating the blacks to
proper conception of their moral du
ties.
The approach of storms is to be an
| nounced by the Western Union tele-
graph company to all those towns that
will communicate the intelligence to
the neighboring farmers, by means of
signal guns, fired according to pre-
concerted system.
The Sergeant-at-arms Of the Senate,
subp9naed all the witnesses in the i'm
peachment trial by telegraph, and then
charged ten cents mile travelling eX-
penses to and from the place of resi-
dence. His dispatch to Gen. Rosseau,
Oregon, put 81, 800 in his pocket. The
people foot the bill.
-Beecher says: 1.-The less one
knows, and the more whisky he drinks,
| the more he is determined to make
this white mans government" p
How happens it that the Radicals, who
are determined that this shalfnot be a
white mans government, nominated
! Grant as their leader?
The Erie Observer says the Grant
ratification meeting in that city was an
utter failure. In every other place in
the State where such meetings
were held, the same spirit showed it.
self. Everywhere the masses show
how tired they are of Radical misrule.
Two heavy shocks of earthquake
were felt at San Francisco on the 29th
ult. Four heavy shocks were felt at
| Fort Churchill and Virginia City, Ne
vada, but no damage done.
An important treaty between the
United States and the Usage Indians
has been concluded and signed, by
which the latter give up their trust
lands in Kansas, amounting to about
eight million acres.
-Greely is now for Grant, but he
wasn't when he wrote the following :
"More soldiers were uselessly slaugh-
t. red in the late war through the blum
ders of drunken officers than by the
bullets of the foe"
The national board of trade lately
in session at Philadelphia has adjourn
ed till December, 1868, when it will
meet in Cincinnati. The body passed
resolutions favoring improvement OF
the outlets of the Mississippi river.
and the reduction of whisky tax to 50
cents.
1t is said that number of persons
in White county, Arkansas, have been
poisoned by eating mulberries from
trees on which locusts had deposited
their eggs. Several deaths have re-
suited.
"A dispatch from Oregon announces
the completion of the telegraph from
Portland to lNalles, on the upper navi-
gable waters of the Columbia river
The event caused much public rejoic-
ing.
Great fires are raging in the pine
woods of northern Wisconsin. The
village of Palmer's Falls has been en-.
tirely burned. Several farm-houses
and barns have been cosumed, besides
many thousand cords of wood.
The Memphis police had an affray
with negro burglars on Thursday
night, in which Capt. Perry was killed
and Officer Knight badly wounded
One negro was mOrtally wounded, and
through his confession three of the
thieves were afterwards arrested.
"A female child was born in Lincoln
county, Tennessee, the other day, hav,
ing four distinct and Well-developed
legs and feet. At last accounts it was
alive and well.
"A report from England says that
the Bishop of London has ordered that
the President of the United States shall
| be prayed Tor, along with the queen
and the Parliament.
Authentic information is said to
have been received at Ottawa, Canada
of the transfer of large quantities OF
Fenian arms and ammunition from st.
Albans to points along the frontier.
The Massachusetts Senate has re-
fused to pass the bill forbidding the
application of corporal punishment in
the public schools to females.
A Wheeling paper says Senator
Van Wrinkle never belonged to the
radical party as it exists in West Vir-
ginia.
Eternal vigilance is the price OF
liberty" Precisely. The eternal mig.
ger is the price of white mems lives in
Washington city.
In European court circles hard
stories are told concerning the grow
ing intemperance of the Emperor OF
Russia.
There is an increase of six hundred
and siXty-eight German democratic
votes in Richmond, Va, since last
election.
The Ardlmlche says there are
twenty thousand negroes in Memphis,
Tennessee, who live by begging and