Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-07-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

WV. B. MANN has withnrawn his name as
a candidate for District Attorney Of Philadel
phia. Sensible.
II is said that nearly all the members of
/ Gen. Hancock s staff have declared for Grant
and Colfax. Where is Gen. Hancock?
IT is thought now that Congress will not
adjourn until the first proximo, and it is ex-
| pected that the President will convene the
Senate in extra session after the adjourn
ment.
JOHN F. M'DEyITT, financial editor of the
Philadelphia PBEss, died on Tuesday last,
mise, ana ms carry ueapn Iuss 10 tue pro-
fession.
1t is stated that the President will not send
/ to the Senate any nomination for the position
Of Commissioner OF Internal Revenue, but
will, as soon as Congress adjourns, appoint
n. 0. Cutler, Senator Henderson's friend,
/ in place of Mr.. Rollins.
THE Hon. John A. Griswold, the Republi-
can candidate for Governor Of New York,
paid the whole expense out of his own pocket
for building the Monitor, which came to the
timely rescue and crippled the iron clad Merri-
mac which made such terrible havoc at For
tress Monroe Such persons constitute the
Nations jewels.
! The Paymaster General estimates that an
additional appropriation of $4,000 will be
required to meet the expenses incurred by
reconstruction up to the 3Oth of June, 1869.
/ If his Accidency and the Democracy had not
| opposed their power to the Will of the loyal
| people in the matter of reconstruction this
great expense would be betrayed by the
people of the South themselves, instead of
the General Government.
! ENGLISH society was very much disturbed
lately by a serious question. The Queen gave
breakfast in Buckingham Palace garden,
and no one could decide what kind Of dress It
would be proper to wear. The anxiety was
relieved, as far as gentlemen were concern
/ ed, by the announcement that they were to
wear evening coats with morning trowsers,
but the perplexity of the ladies was as great
as ever.
THE proprietor OF the International,
| French newspaper published in London, has
been sentenced by Paris police magistrate
to fine and imprisonment for publishing an
an article about one Of the officers of the
Credit Foucer, of France. English journals
wonder how the police magistrate acquired
Jurisdiction of an act committed in England.
The eldest son of the Crown Prince of
Prussia, Victoria's grandson, speaks English
as fuently as German. His grandfather, the
old King, often uses the little boy as an in
terpreter when promeuading with him in the
gardens of Sans Souci, and conversing with
| English OF American tourists.
The Senate has passed the joint resolution
to stay the collection of direct tax in the
South until January l, 1869. Its passage
took place in the House on the 10th inst This
species of illiberality to ward the Southern
people will of course attract the attention of
the Opposition journals.
ABOUT ninety thousand mowers and reap
ers are annually made in the United States
| for this and a foreign market. The intelligent
part of labor dispensed with in the field is
therefore afforded market at much higher
rate of remuneration in the workshop III max
ing machines than is realized from the field
by their introduction. Yet the aggregate
amount of wages paid is greater.
A LETTER from Hanover states that one of
the persons recently tried for high treason at
Berlin, NJ. Ackermann, saddler, and who
was acquitted, returned this week to his ma
tive city. The inhabitants went in body to
the station to welcome him, and gave him a
perfect ovation. In addition, when he ar
rived at his house he found it dressed out with
flowers.
! Mas. STAMPE, of Washington, Mass, and
her daughter had singular escape from death
in thunder storm on Wednesday Right.
They arose to close the windows, when bolt
struck the house, and the chimney crushed
through the roof upon the bed they had that
moment left.
| The Macon Telegraph speaks Of the yisi,
to Middle Georgia of an eminent and Official
gentleman from Italy, with reference to the
seledion Of a favorable country for Italian
settlement and the culture of those products,
| especially silk, congenial to Italian habits.