Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-08-06


the sole amussmeuts Of Congress would be
looking al the lake tunnel and getting di
yorced.
A MAN once went to an eccentric lawyer
to be qualified for some petty Office The
lawyer said to him Hold up your hand
I'll swear you, but all creation couldn t
qualify you
No EX-PREslDEET since the days of John
Quincy Adams has ever had the courage to
resist Washington after his term of Office
had expired, until Andrew johnson lately
returned TO the scene Of his former great
ness.
A COMPANY has been formed in Chicago,
and win soon be in operation, for distilling
alcohol and extracting soap grease from or
diuary city garbage 1t is estimated that
each barrel Of garbage viii yield three
pounds of soap grease and four gallon Of
proof spirits.
JAPAN is a battle ground Of religious ideas
as well as Of political ambition A great
pressure is brought to bear on the authoTi-
ties in favor of religious freedom For a
long period the Japanese having regarded
Christianity with especial fear, but the
opinion Is now prevalent and gaining ground
among them, that Christianity Is soon to be
their prevailing religion.
The rebels who fed the county to escape
the just punishment Of their great crime,
and went to Brazil, soon tired of their new
home, and began to return when it was
known that their sins had been forgiven
them. The last batch of them, who were
determined to stay in a land where slavery
was still rampant. have only just now come
back They find that there is no place like
the home they tried to destroy.
THE ratification Of the Fifteenth Amend
ment is 10 longer a question of uncertainty.
It is assured beyond any peradventure. In
deed the Democrats, in some places at least,
show disposition to give it the go by and
hunt up new issues by which the party or
gauization may be maintained, Dead issues
have never yet been dug up with profit, and
the truth may as wei be learned now as
hereafter.
New ONE DOLLAR NoTES The Treas
ure Department will soon issue new United
States notes Of the denomination Of one
dollar the plates for which are now being
engraved Upon the new notes the bust ol
Washington win be substituted for the Wig
uette of Justice Chase. This is 10 aecor-
dance with an act Of Congress, which pro
bibits the likeness Of any person now liv-
ing from being On the face Of the national
currency.
IMPORTANT PRIVILEGE TO BANKS. -Ths
Secretary of the Treasury has determined to
permit national banking associations to sub
stitute fer their fve-twenty securities OF
their circulation ten forties at the rate Of
eighty-fve per cent. Of their par value and
other gold bearing six per cent. securities
at the rate Of ninety per cent. This ex
change is subject to revision if it occurs ST
frequently as to become onerous to the De
partment
SECRETARY BoUTwELL's EcoNcSW.-
The determination of Secretary Boutwell, t
adhere to the economical rule cannot be bet
ter understood than in stating that, since h,
assumed the duties of Secretary of tn
Treasury, there has not been single ap
pointment made in his own Office, while
number has been discharged The sam
rule has been practically carried out in al
the bureaus, and the pay rolls of this dc
partment at the end of the present moutl
will show a very fattering reduction of ex
penses compared with the rolls on his ac
cession to this Office
The Pacific Railroad Company is begin
ming to show some sense. which it has bee
entirely too long in doing. 1t has reduce
the price Of passage to emigrants to ff
dollars from Philadelphia to California
which IS some inducement for this class t
venture their fortunes in that distant par
/ Of the Union, and without whom even th
railroads thither would prove a failure.
has also reduced the freight-charge on frui
TO five cents per pound, which, though sti
high, mag enable the heavier producers t
furnish US with portion Of their surplu:
Railroads, especially those of great extent
to become popular and profitable, ought t
learn from the widespread lessons Of ez
4 perience by fixing their scale Of fares so lo-
as win, with a careful estimate, barely cove
expenses. The idea of dividends the fir,
/ year or two should be utterly banished. Th
other idea, public accommodation at a
hazards, would soon realize all possible an
( ticipations Of success,
a NEW MORNING DAuY.-John Russe
/ Young is now making the necessary arrange
ments sor starting penny morning paper /
/ New York. Considerable capital is place
at his disposal Il is rumored, in fact, tha
I Jay, Gould & Co are to furnish the grea
bulk Of the proceeds, and very large eli
culation is confidently expected. Indeed
the projectors have put their figures as hig
as two hundred and fifty thousand Penn
papers, morning or evening, have not thu
far proved successful in New York, and til
new venture viii have to be conducted wit
extraordinary tact and vigor if it attains
titha of the success which Its protector
have mapped out for it. Young still con
tinue. to edit the sSpirlt Of Tie Times dur
ing George Wilkes absence abroad.
DANGEROUS KITE FLYING "A youn
lad at Lake Station, Mississippi, bad larg
kite presented to him, about SIX feet by fou
in size. which he aitem pied to fly the othe
day, just as the wind was increasing and
storm was threatening. The wind drev
the kite so heavily as to drag the boy alonI
also. To prevent lodsing his fayorite, h
wound the cord around his body. At las
the wind bore the kite and boy upward
until the Young kiteayer caught Ia the toi