Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-04-22
GENERAL NEws IrEMs.

The use Of violet and other colored inks is
hereafter prohibited in official correspon-
dence and records except carmine or red
ink, such as is generally used IN endorse
mcnts or ruling OF record books.
The Banking and Currency Committee
further considered the bin providing add-
tional banking facilities This measure is
nearly matured and viii provide ample
means for banking in all sections ofthe coun
try. II the intention of the COMMITTEES
to make it as near as possible the basis Of
system of free banking
Mr.. BEEcHER in introducing Senator
Revels to an audience at the Brooklyn Aca
DENY Of Music said that at last we saw
complete and fruit bearing tree of fliberty in
this land, bGs. i:e DID net ssy that like cher
ries ripened on the topmost branches, one
might Judge Of the richness and favor Of
the fruit by the daph Of the color.
TIE Pottsville Miners Journal says that
a few DAYS since at the Colorado Coiery,
the workmen struck an old gangway Of q
colliery worked many years ago by Stephen
Girard, Ia which was found a three foot
gang railway track upon which stoad a coal
wagon capable ofcarrying three tons Of coal.
Although this gaugway was cut many years
ago, IN the early history Of this region, the
prop timbers. the ties aud wagon we're in a
perfect state Of preservation, and from all ap-
pearances viii last century yet. The wag-
on viii be taken out and preserved as a relic
of our early mining history.
A PLEASANT story has lately circulated
about Count Bismark 4 country cler-
gyman, an old fellow collegian of the Counts
was anxious to get his son into the mariner
and at length summoned up courage to ad-
dress his quondam comrade, entertaining
however but faint hopes of the great Min
lister remembering him Not being much
in the habit Of writing to grandees, the good
man could not for some time determine how
to begin, but st length commenced his letter
"Your Highness He soon received the
following: You old blockheaj, you do you
think | have forgotten the happy time when
we studied and drank together IN Gotten
berg, and when We were so often waiting on
each other? And now, how can you address
me in such foolish way? Pray never again
call me Highness Let us continue on the
same terms as of old As to your boy, send
him to me. I'll take care Of him.
COPPER IN TEXAS. Commissioner VIII
son, of the Land Office, reports that quite
an important discovery has been made IN
Texas Of rich vein Of copper. A man who
had read an advertisement Of the land
Office, desiring mineral specimens from all
parts Of the country, picked up a curious
looking lump in one Of his fields, and scut
it to that bureau. On examination it pro
we'd to be native copper. The Government,
in consequence, is now about TO send Pro-
fessor Roessler, geologist of the Mining Bu-
reaU, to Texas to explore and report on the
region where the discovery was made tits
thought that this discovery may have some
influence in changing the course Of the rail
road which General fremGnt seeks 20 have
Incorporated known as the South
ern Transcontinental Railway
PoIsoSoUs WATER PlpEs.-The warning
addressed to householdcrs by the New York
Board of Health, in reference to the Crotou
water, ought not to escape attention. There
can be no doubt that the use Of lead pipes
In houses gives rise to much sickness, for
which people are often at a loss to account,
The proper plan is to allow the water ITO
run off for few minutes before taking il
for drinking or cooking purposes. This is
a very simple precauiion, and it ought 70 be
dinned in'o the cars Of servants until they
take it. The habit, says Prof Chandler
''of filing The tea-kettle from the boiler, or
Of using water frcm the boiler for any pur
pose except washing Is very dangerous
Remember these two hints Due attention
to them may be the means Of averting sick
ness from children, aud from all persons Of
delicate constitution
NEW THEORY or ELECTRlclrY.-A NEW
general theory of the production of electric
ity was submitted by NJ. DelaHrier to the
members Of the French Academy at recent
meeting He asserts that it is heat which
polarzing bodies, is the general source Of
static and dynamic electricity; that, under
the influence Of heat, active bodies, which
are bad conductors of electricity, produce
static electricity; while active bodies, which
are good conductors OF electricity produce
dynamic electricity; that fric,coD, pressure,
and chemical action poduce heat abd that
/ it is this heat alone which IS always the cause
of electricity. This new theory JOINS many
phenomena together which the multiplicity
I OF theories mas hitherto kept far apart
chemical thermo electrici, and physiologic-
currents; static electricity produced by iric-
tion, pressure, cleavage, capillarity, electro
fish, storms, etc.
IMMIGRATION. returns Of the
number of immigrants arriving In all the
ports of the United States during the three
months ending December 3lst, 1869, have
been received at Washington, aud the Bu-
reau OF Statistics publishes the following
statistics: Number OF Immigrants, 76 937, of
whom 43, $40 were males and SO, l2S femles
The occupations we're as follows; lmmi-
grants pursuing professional callugs 7S7, Of
whom j26 were males, aud 26l females i'm
migrants pursuing mechanical trades, ., ,e23,
all males trades, not mechanical l,7I3
males and 100 females-total S22 mis-
cellaneous occupations, %, males and
3,l75 females-total, IS, $50; occupations
not stated, S79 males and 542 females-to-
tai 3, 424 immigrants without occupations.
/ II, 394 males and q OBS females total, S..
432. From these it appears that 2S, 3 per
cent of the male aud Sic per cent of the fe-
male immigrants have no occupation. OF
the TOTAL number Ol per cent have no oecu-
patton.
IRON II TEXAS. IF Pennsylvania derives
tie greatest benefit from the tariff on pig
iron, as certain class of grumblers assert. it
must be because the people Of other States
do not improve their opportunities. IL
would appear, from the following paragraph
taken from Southern exchange, that Texas
at least, might become a very respectable
competitor in the iron making business.
There is iron enough in Anderson county
to make ties for railroad that would reach
around the world and back again. And
more, too, there Is pine enough in the coun.
ty to make the coal to run the furnaces for
an indefinite number Of years, and when
that is exhausted, there is an untold amount
Of stone coal within our county borders to
run them the balance of the time. The
truth is, that Missouri, Kentucky. Indian.
and several other States, possess advantages
almost equal to Pennsylvania for the manu-
facture of iron, and if the protective system
can only be maintained, iron furnaces aud
other industries, which are always stimulated
thereby, viii spring up a nd multiply in ma
ny parts Of the country.