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BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, FEB. 3* 1865.
Arrival of Peace Commissioners.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 31.
Tbe American has received the following special
dispatch from Annapolis:
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 31.
Col. Taylor, of the 2d Maryland regiment, who
has just arrived heit* this morning, says that on
Sunday Alex. H. Stephens. K, M. Hunter and two
others reached oor lines and requested to come
within our lines near Fort Hill, but were refused
and were awaiting permission from Gen. Grant,
who was tlieu absent, ft is believed that the Com
missioners were subsequently admitted nevertheless
ml are now on their way to Washington.
FORT FISH Eft--OCR LOSSES AND GAP
* TIRE.S
The report of the fail of Fort Fisher, is confirmed. AU
tha cannon in the fort, and the garrison, e insisting of
.iSi-oat 80® '.col', were captured. The federal loss was a
hmit " r, Oti, kiiicd and wounded. .After the federal troops
had occupied the fort, through the carelessness of some
negro soldier, the magazine took fire and exploded, kil
ling and wounding about 2tH men. The confederate,
blew up Fort Caswell, opposite Fort Fisher.— Gazette of
(net ireel".
Our easuaiitics in the tall of Fort Fisher were twelve offi
cers and one hundred seven men killed; forty-five offi
cer;, and four hundred and niuty men wounded.—-W - }'.
Journal of Cirmmeree Jan. 26.
The last extract, above quoted is from the edi
torial news summary of Jour, of C-. a leading
democratic organ in New York ; a paper of un
quesiion authority among Democrats. The rea
son that its statements are received as true, is a
perfectly natural one; it does not resort to the a
iroeious practice, so constantly indulged in by the
Bedford G*u tt< . of misleading its readers by the
publication of falsehoods. The captured garrison
in the fort numbered I,Bo© of whom 400 were til
ed and wounded, leaving about 1,400 prisoners in
our hands, exclusive the wounded.
DEMOCRACY A.ND SLAVERY. —The democratic
leaders seem determined that their party shall go
down with slavery. Their infatuation is wholly
inexplicable on any recognized theory of human
nature. The explanation most creditable to them
is. that having served slavery all their lives they
consider themselves bound in honor to die in its
embrace. The sentiment is ehivalrie, but it is a
perverse exibition of it. If they could hope to
save tl • institution for which they have sacrificed
so much, we could understand their obstinate loy
alty to it. Bat- they do not hope for it: they con
fess that it is more than half dead and can never
be resuscitated. Still they clirig to it. and refuse
to get out of the way and allow the people to give
it decent burial. They cannot deny that the adop
tion of the constitutional amendment abolishing
the institution i within the power of Congress
and the people, and that it will dispose of the
vexed question peacefully and forever. And yet
they resist its passage, although they know that
the next Congress will certainly pass it, and that
all they can possibly accomplish by their opposi
tion, is to hold back the people for a few months
from a work they have fully determined to do. —
Well, if the democratic-leaders consider it a mat
ter of honor to cling to the dead carcase to the
last, they have the right to do it But they had
better not hold on too long, or they may be tum
bled into the -ame grave and be buried with it.—
Perhaps that catastrophe would not be the worst
thing that could happen for the country.
A Democratic paper of San Francisco, suppos
ed to be somewhat acquainted with the movements
and designs of Dr. Gwiu, formerly United States
Senator from California, make a statement to the
effect that Maximilian had conveyed to the Em
peror of of the French the Northern States of
Mexico. It is said that these are merely to be*
held hv Napoleon as security for the payment to
him of the indebtedness to the French nation,
which Maximilian has incurred in the supply of
the necessary military force to take him upon the
throne as successor to the Montezumas. Accord
ind to this account Dr. G-win is to„be Louis Napole
on's Governor General of these States, and the
encouragement of emigration to them from the
United States is to receive particular attention,
and ie expected to result in developing their great
natural recourees and establishing their prosperity.
An agency for the purpose of promotiug this design
lias been opened San in Francisco. The States
embraced in this surrender to the French Emper
or are Sonora, Durango, Sinaloa. Chihuahua, and
Lower California, comprising altogether an area
of three hundred and seventy-five thou,-and five
hundred square miles, and containing a popula
tion of about six hundred thousand.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Advertiser says: ; ; Thc tenor of the talk in inside
circles of the State Department indicates the e
--ception of advices confirmatory, in some degree, of'
the report that Maximilian has conditionally ceded
several States of Northern Mexico to Napoleon.
It is known that English vessels and adventurers
have lately got considerable silver from Sonora at
very remunerate profits, and that the French have
lteen so anxious for. a sliare of this business that
very serious trouble lias lately arisen at some
points on the coast, and our Consuls have felt it
prudent to leave their stations. This hypotheca
tion of the country to Napoleon will probably
throw this silver trade and plundering into French
hands entirely. It will probably be developed in
time that (leu. Sickles has gone to the Pacific
coast to look after our interests in this matter."
A USELESS DISCI SSION. —The rebel Congress
is discussing the policy of an export duty on cot
ton and tobacco. This seems like a waste of time,
inasmuch as the rebel government has not a sin
gle open i>ort out of which cotton and tobacco can
be exported. Porter put an embargo on the last
place out of which they could run their cargoes.— j
The discussion is probably to keep up the dignity !
of the Confederacy as a sovereign power.
Gen. Sherman's march through Georgia is e
liciting much comment in England, where the
news had been received of his reaching Savannah.
The London Post pronounces it unprecedented in
the annals of warfare, and an event that "'must
ever possess an almost paramount claim to re
membrance.'' They are very anxious to hear
whether he has token Savannah or not. a fact
which they know before this.
THE PITTSBURG DAILY EVENING Ohtvmdc made
its appearance among our exchanges last week.—
The Clu-omcle is a large and handsome paper, as
large as any published in Western Pennsylvania.
It is thoroughly and ably edited, containing a
great variety of fresh and interesting reading
matter. Its weekly edition has quite a large cir
lation in this county.
The Aspects in the South.
The-tnmg confidence which has lately sprung
up in the public mind, not only of the u lit nut ft
success of the T T nion cause, but of the final and
glorious triumph of our arms within a reasonable
time, continues to be justified. This confidence is
not based ujion any one victory, or its results,
nor is it based alone and exclusively ujion
field victories. Nothing, indeed, could be
more inspiriting and grand than the three
campaigns of the last three months, under
Sherman, Thomas and Terry; and nothing
could be more li ipeful of important and decisive
military results than the new campaign of Sher
man, which has already begun, aud the other
great movements which are on the eve of execu
tion under the eye of the Lieutenant-General.
The chief value of Thomas' victory was in redu
cing the rebel military power in the Southwest to
such a feeble condition that he not only leaves it
powerless for offence in the future anywhere, but
that, on the other hand, he can either sweep south
ward through Alabama and Mississippi, and, by
seizing upon the remaining strategic positions and
railroads, reduce the war in the Southwest to the
guerilla stage which will probably for a brief time
precede its final close ; or, on the other hand, he
can furnish from his army large reinforcements to
the main body operating on the Atlantic seaboard-
It would uot be surprising indeed, considering the
present aspect of affairs, if the veteran a run of
Gen. Thomas, insteed of spending its entire ener
gies this winter in a campaign to Mobile, were to
furnish heavy defacements of troops to be concen
trated with the two great armies (Grant s Jana
Sherman's) which may now be said to bo conjoint
ly operating against Richmond. This view is con
firmed by the published news of this morning,
which sets forth that, in addition to ihe troops
brought East from Tennessee by Gen. Meagher,
the Twenty-third Corps, under Gen. Schofield.
with this gallant commander, have already-arrived
1B Virginia. This splendid t#>dy of troops has a
history unsurpassed by that of any corps in the
West for deeds of valor ; and if the Lieutenant-
General intends that, with their Western compa
triots under Sherman, they shall now take a part
in the closing scenes of this great war. on fields a
thousand miles distant from those upon which
they have heretofore fought, we may be sure
that they will'sustain the reputation they have al
ways borne. It is certain that there is no danger
whatever in taking a large body off homas troops
from the W sst : for Hood s army is so badly
"played out,''that we have no doubt two-thirds
of Thomas' present force conld whin and disperse
it. and then pass on to Mobile. W hethcr Scho
field's corps reinforces the army on the James, or
the anuv on the Savannah, it will in either ease
reinforce the armies operating against Richmond.
If the December victor.- of Thomas has been
proved by this time to be so great in its value, and
so comprehensive in its bearings, we begin to see
abo a wider scope to Sherman s Georgia triumph.
Its purely military bearings, and its influence, pre
sent and prospective, can hardly be overstated ;
but its principal signficance lies in its demonstra
tion of the fact, now so clear, that the Confederacy
is hut a "shell that there is no reserved milita- j
ry force in its interior, and that, after wo break up j
the one great organized army which it now has. ;
our military work of a large character will be ac
complished. Geu. Grant perceived this before
Gen. Sherman set out from Atlanta ; he sees it
still, and is now directing his combinations by the
light which it casts npon the situation.
While thus discerning the value of our recent
victories, estimating our present position and pro
gress, and looking forward for the development
of events at this hour under way. the nation can
but feel its confidence justified and its triumph
assured.
Moral successes have kept pace with military
victories. When Savannah fell into iSherman's
hands, the citizens of the place complacently "ac
cepted the position,' and other parts of Georgia
are giving evidences of a like spirit. We believe
that a brief time now will give us the two chief
cities and seaports of the two Carolinas, and in
one of these States, at least, we expect to see both
the people of the city and of the surrounding
country exhibit the disposition of Savannah.
The political chaos, and personal and party
wrangling, which now exist throughout the South,
are also all in our favor. We have new signs of
their increase every day. Whether it is in the
flight of Foote, the resignation of Smith, the
break-up of Davis' cabinet, and the exit of Sed
don and Benjamin—whether it is the virulence of
the press, the quarrels of sections, or the numer
ous efforts in the rebel States to get some sort of
peace —all are signs that the boasted and very
prevalent unity of sentiment and unanimity of
opinion iu the South, have passed away. It is the
great compact moral force that for four years has
existed in the South, which, after all, constituted
the really formidable character of the rebellion—
which gave vitality to their armies, eudurance to
the soldier's spirit, ferocity to his temper, and
power to his arm.
When both the military and moral power of the
rebellion are giving way before our eyes thus rap
idly, we may regard the public confidence as justi
fied that its morihound day is approaching.—JV-
Y. Time*.
The Blair Mission.
The National Intelligencer of Saturday thus
speaks of the return of Mr. Blair :
The rumors which reach us of the result of Mr.
Blair's mission are such as indicate merely what of
his negotiation has transpired, (and which was to be
looked for.) in the initiative steps of this official
talk, which we still regard as set on foot by the gov
! ernment. with all the sanctions, but without the for
mality, of regular diplomacy. If the worst is to be
believed of these rumors, it only amounts to what
the Intelligencer has anticipated in several numbers,
which looked to the fact that the Davis Government
would present the ultimatum of independence. If
the Southern States shall adhere to such an ultima
tum. than a new impetus will be at once given to the
war.
The Washington correspondent of the Evening
Post writes as follows .-
Mr: Blair has returned from Richmond, and it is
understood that nothing has resulted from his at
tempted negotiation. The more sagacious politicians
here have -<-n from the beginning that this must be
the result. It is now claimed that the President has
established the point that he desired, and will call
upon the opposition to support him in his war poli
cy. for the reason-that overtures for peace have been
rejected.
Some of the peace-Democrats are claiming, this
afternoon, that Mr. Blair found the rebels ready to
treat for peace if this government would agree to
give the States tire entire control of the slavery
question, but this, even, is not true. The rebel lea
ders would not agree to abandon the doctrine of se
cession, and would not agree to come back into the
old Union upon any terms.
The Herald's correspondent states that the mis
sion is an entire failure. He adds :
Finding all efforts to accommodate matters una
vailing. Mr. Blair has returned to this city, ana his
labors as a peace-maker are ended. Nothing now
remains but a vigorous prosecution of the war until
the army of Leels destroyed, and then peace will
come, not by negotiation, bat by the disinlregat.ion
of the rebel government.
The rebels are determined to make oue last, offort
by the conscription of negroes and a more vigorous
enforcement of the conscription of white men, to
change the current of disaster which has so steadily
set against them of late. Their hopes of recogni
tion nave not altogether failed them, and they are
encouraged from the action of our Congress in rela
tion to the French occupation of Mexico, to lielieve
that France will soon recognize them as an offset to
the hostility displayed towards the new government
of that country by the United States. All these ar
guments are used to keep the rebel Congress and the
people from despairing of ultimate success , and
thev have the effect desired for the present.
It is authoritativdly stated to night that Mr. Blair
is preparing a letter, addressed to Horace Greely,
showing that there is no hope of an immediate peace
ful settlement of the war.
A resolution will be introduced in the henatc on
Monday calling upon all the President for all the
Blair Davis correspondence.
The New York Times says editorially :
Mr. Blair took with him a note from the President
addressed to himself, and saying that whenever Mr.
Davis, or anybody else, saw fit to send persons to
treat concerning peace and a restoration of the bles
sing of the Constitution to the people of "our com
mon country," they would be received and treated
with due cotisideration. And we do not learn from
any authentic quarter that Mr. Blair succeeded upon
his second visit in securing from Mr. Davis, any rec
ognition of this as a basis upon which he could send
commissioners. And in default of this, his visits to
Richmond, if not farces, have at least been failures.
The government has just one thing on its hands
now—-the destruction of Lee's army. When that is
accomplished, the rebellion will be substantially
suppressed, and peace can be restored, until then,
it will not.
The New York Tribune of Saturday editorially
says that it publishes all the reports sent to it pur
porting to give the facts of Mr. Blair s mission, but
believes no one knows anything positively except
President Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Mr. Blair.
THE BOSTON Adtertvur. —Our readers will find
and advertisement of this journal' in this week s
paper. The Advertiser is, we think, the oldest
daily in New England. It has for many years
been recognised by all parties as the ablest politi
cal journal in New England.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Western newspapers arc publishing, with an asserva
tion of belief, the report that Kirby Smith, the rebel Gen
eral commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department, is
going to Mexico with his army to join Maximilian. This
story finds absolute credence among St. Louis rebels, and
the Cincinnati Commercial thinks it worthy of considera
tion. The Commercial remarks: "It may lie observed that
indications have long been apparent of some peculiarities
in Kirby Smith's department. It is whispered latterly,
and the whisper comes from the direction of Mexico and
the French people of Louisiana, that an independent
movement to ask the assistance of France, aud take refuge
under the protection of Napoleon, has been inaugurated
in the southwest. The story is, that the proposition
amounts to giving to the French Texas as a cotton colon} 1 ,
as the price of recognition of the Southern Confederacy,
or of the right of State Heceetion. If Napoleon recognize
the right, of a State to secede from the United States, he
will have 110 difficulty in recognizing the right of the
same State to leave the Confederacy and put itself under
his protection." It is plausibly observed, in support of
these mysterious intimations, that the correspondence of
J. P. Benjamin, while Secretary of State, captured off
Charleston, (in a dispatch-bag intrusted to Ried N. San
ders. son of George N. Sanders,) show that agents of the
French Government did broach the subject nearly two
years ago.
Jau-c.-s Guthrie, the United' States Senator elect from
Kentucky, gave a supper and made a speech to the mem
bers of the legislature at Frankfort, last Friday night.—
lie declared himself against the anti-slavery policy of
the government, but if slavery falls by the rebellion he
would say, let it go, and help clear atvay the wreck. He
should stand for the constitution: ho believed Mr. Lincoln
a better man than many think, and that good will come
of his administration, but if not, we can remove it in four
years. A very fair speech for an old conservative Ken
tuckian.
A MOOTED POINT SETTLED. —Regarding the authorship
of the famous Hulscuiann letter, attributed to Mr. Ever
ett, the Boston Traveller says that, before his death, John
Taylor, Mr. Webster's farm steward, stated that he sat
with Mr. Webster in his room, at Franklin, N". 11., from
about 8 o'clock one evening until half-past four next
morning, while the great statesman was drafting the
celebrated Hulsemann letter, part, or most of which letter
was read peacemeal to Mr. Taylor as it was composed.
The rumors of Gen. Meade being relieved from the com
mand of the Army of the Potomac are denied. He is said
to have in his pocket a copy of a letter from Gen. Grant,
endorsing him as one of the ablest commanders in this
war, and in all respects a thorough soldier. He says that
the Senate may reject his nomination if it sees fit; that he
and his children can stand on this letter forever.
ROBERT LINCOLN. —The eldest son of the President
came to this city a day or two ago, to act as groomsman
for one of his old school chums, young Dillon, who led to
the altar Miss Blanche Valle. Bob is a tall young man
of about twenty-two, rather good looking, of good address,
and fond of a joke, like his father, although he doe? not
tell quite as many as the old mail.— St. Louis Democrat,
Thursday, 2ft'/i ttlt.
The Goodyear rubber men arc doing their prettiest at
Washington to secure another extension of their lucrative
patent. Mrsi Goodyear is there talking with the wives
of congressmen, and every string is pulled that is likely
to be effective. The idea of the Goodyear party is to
get the whole question of extension referred to the com
missioner of patents, and it is fair to suppose from that
that the commissioner is in favor of the extension.
DEC ART ORE or GKX. MCCLELLAN FOR EUROPE. —Maj.
Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, wife and child took their depar
ture for Europe on Wednesday 25th ult. in the steamship
China. Gen. McClellan is accompanied on his trip by
Mr. August Belmont, the well known banker, in whose
society a trip of the greater part of Europe—particularly
Italy and France—will be made.
A novel dinner party of fourteeu, consisting of six Tay
lor brothers of Chicopee Falls, Mass., and one brother-in
low, with their wives, took the morning trnin for Boston
one day last week, to dine with the seventh brother, Wm.
O. Taylor, of the firm of Converse, Handing J Co.
A MATRIMONIAL "TRET SAT." —Gossip about Chicago
and South Bend, Indiana, have it that a matrimonial al
liance is imminent between Mrs. Douglas and Speaker
Colfax.— Cleveland Herald.
GENERAL PATTERSON'S REPORT. —General Patterson
has at last published his history of the famous Winches
ter campaign. It is an elaborate defence of his operations,
and a labored attempt to prove that the battle of Rull Run
was lost through no fault of his.
Ben Wood of New York, "brother Ben, - 'has a mortgage
upon a race course near Sacramento, but can't get leave
to foreclose it, as he wont take the oath of allegiance pre
scribed by the statute? of California.
The Kansas legislature, after re-electing Jim Lane as
senator, wants the president to relieve them by making
him secretary of the interior.
Three thousand citizens of Norfolk hare petitioned lor
the restoration ol civil government.
The Senate has confirmed Mr. C. A. Dana as assistant
secretary of war. ,
WAR sTtmmar r.
By the arrival of the steamship Arago, at this
port yesterday, from Port Royal.lau. 25, we are
in receipt cf later intelligence from Gen. Sherman's
army and Savannah. No fighting had occurred,
although Gen. Sherman's forces were far from be
ing idle. The last of Gen. Sherman's army, under
Gen. Geary, left Savannah on the 20th. Gen. Gro
ver, with a strong body of reinforcements, had ar
rived aud assumed command of the city. Rebel
dispatcher to the Richmond papers of the 20th and
27th, assert that a heavy body of Sherman's troops
is moving up the Savannah river, for the purpose
af attacking Augusta. Gen. D. H. Hill is in com
mand of the place, and he has ordered that if the
exigency requires it, all the public stores, arsenal s
and powder works must be destroyed. The rebels
are evidently in much alarm.— New York Times,
Monday 30th.
Admiral Porter, in a spirited dispatch dated on
the 20th inst., briefly details the work that has been
accomplished by the navy at the mouth of Cape
Fear river since the fall of Fort Fisher. The entire
chnin of rebel works in that vicinity, including eight
or ten of the most formidable forts, constructed in
the most complete manner, and containing altogeth
er eighty-three guns, have been captured, and are
now garrisoned by sailors. All those works, which
the rebels were four years in constructing, tell into
the bands of Admiral Porter's men within twenty
four hours after General Terry's troops had secured
possession of Fort Fisher. The total number of
guns captured in trH the Cape Fear river forts is one
hundred and sixty-eight, most of them being heavy
ones. The Admiral announces the fact that several
of these were the celebrated Armstrong guns, which
the British government claims the exclusive right to
use, and states that the immense supplies of English
goods that had been run into Wilmington are al
most beyond credence. The rebels left in the forts
large quantities of stores and provisions, on which
the national forces are now subsisting. A telegram
from General Lee to a rebel officer, saying that if
Forts Fisher and Caswell were not held he would
have to abandon Richmond, was picked up soon
after the taking of those places. To the blockade
runners already mentioned as captured by Admiral
Porters vessels since the national forces have estab
lished themselves at the entrance to Wilmington,
we have to add that Charlotte, Stag, and another
whose name is unkown, from Bermuda, with valua
ble cargoes ot arms and clothing for the rebels. —
The Gwl attempted to run in on the night of the
20th, but, apparently becoming suspicious of a
change in the position of affairs, ran out again and
made her escape. The transport steamer General
Lyon arrived here yesterday from Fort Fisher with
five hundred rebel prisoners on board.
The Richmond Whig of Friday says it was re
ported in that city that Gen. Lee had been appoint
ed General-in-Chief, and that Gen. Joseph E. John
ston had succeeded him in the command of the Ar
my of Northern Virginia. It had been expected
that Gen. Johnston would be assigned to the com
mand of the forces confronting Sherman.
Some of the Richmond newspapers have stated
that the rebel fleet on .lames river made another at
tempt to pass the Union batteries and obstructions
after their failure of last Thursday. But this is not
so. it is contradicted by the despatches and al
so by the Richmond Whig of Thursday evening,
which stated that the vessels of the fleet still re
mained at their first position up the river.
GENERAL NEWS.
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A NEW COUNTERFEIT. —The editor of the Pittsburg
Gazette has been shown a counterfeit United .Slates
Treasury note, of the denomination of five dollars.
The Engravings are coarse and rough in appearance.
The "Goddess of Liberty," on the left hand end of
the note, and the ground-work around the figure 5
on the upper right hand corner, are very poorly en
graved, and present a dim and mixed appearance.
The green on the back is of an indifferent shade,
and unlike the genuine. The engraving is shorter
than that of the genuine, by about a quarter of an
inch. Good judges of money will have no difficulty
in detecting this fraud at first Sight, but many unsus
pecting persons may be deceived by them. Ihe
fraud is a dangerous one, and the public should be
on their look ont for it.
The Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, was
partially destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon,
24th ult. The picture gallery, with its valuable col
lection with the exception of five or six pictures,
was totally destroyed. The lecture room and the
philosophical instrument department, with most of
the valuable instruments was also burned. The o
riginal archives and records of the institution were
destroyed. The conflagration was nearly altogether
confined to the main building and above the first sto
ry : the latter, containing the museum, was damag
ed by water more than by firo. The wings and corri
dors were not much injured. The large library on
the west wing was saved with but little damage.—
The government, by the terms of bequest of Mr.
Smitbson, was made the trustee of the building and
fund that supports it. If not protected by insurance,
of course the government win rebuild the portion
destroyed at its own cost.
A TERRIBLE DEATH. —Miss .Sarah Black, a beauti
ful girl of sixteen daughter of Mr. Siles Black, of
West Alexder, Pa., was burned to death on the mor
ning of the 17th. under the following circumstances .
Sitting before a fire alone, she is supposed to have
been seized with an epileptic tit, when she fell for
ward, her head resting in the fire and upon the bars
of the grate. When discovered, some twenty min
utes after the fatal occurrance, she was qnite dead,
her head, face, neck and shoulders charred to a cin
der, and her clothing almost entirely consumed.
MANUSCRIPTS DESTROYED AT THE SMITHSONIAN IN
STITUTE. —The National Intelligencer says that, a
mtong the manuscripts destroyed by the tire in the
Smithsonian Institution, were important papers pre
pared by 1 >r. Leidy and Dr. Wood, of Philadelphia,
and by Baron Osten-Sacken, of Prussia. It is,how
ever, expected that these can be replaced, as the au
thors 110 doubt have copies. Professor Henry lost
nearly all of his private papers and correspondence,
among them a number of very important letters.
A young man was skating in Chester county, some
days ago, and upon taking off his skates, after an
hour or two of exercise, he found his legs and feet
so completely paralyzed as to disable him from ris
ing from where he had seated himself. He was
helped home, but died a few days afterwards. It is
thought paralysis proceeded from the skates strap
being drawn so light as to prevent the circulation of
blood.
A New Yorker went to the Pennsylvania oil re
gion andssentp ent §4500 in boring for oil, but didn't
find any. He had used up all his money, and so
went and b 0U ght five barrels on tick, carted them to
his well in the night, poured the oil down hia pipes,
pumped Ur, oil the next day, sold out his well for
S7OOO and went home. That is one phase of the oil
speculation.
Some of the Pittsburg manufacturers are experi
menting in burning coal so as to save fuel and relieve
the atmosphere of coal soot. The coal is heated in
a retort and the smoke evolved is mixed with atmos
pheric air at the point of combustion by a peculiar
draft. The process is estimated as saving fully one
half of the coal consumed in the ordinary methods.
The Armstrong gun which was captured at Fort
Fisher was one which was presented by thenanu
facturer. Sir William Armstrong, to Jeff. Davis. A
soldier describing it, says it "is by all odds the hand
somest gun 1 ever saw, being entirely of twist
wrought-iron, and mounted on a magnificent solid
mahogany carriage."
A PANTHER Kit, LED IN NEW YORK. —A correspon
dent informs us that a panther measuring seven feet
two inches in length, w*as killed near Cnagy Lake,
Clinton county, New York, on the night of the 10th
nit., ten miles from any house, by Moses Sangeinaw
& Co., after a ten days' chase.— Exchange.
Hezekiah Payne, a noted Kentucky rebel was ar
retted at Detroit a few days ago, and sewed up in the
lining of his overcoat were discovered sixty-five dol
lars in bills of the St. Albans (Vt) banks. He was
probably one of the raiders.
The Artesian Well Company, in Chicago, com
menced boring for oil. a few days since, within twen
ty feet of the great well, and at a depth of thirty
fest struck oil of a very fine quality. So says the
Times.
A young lawyer received a pointed lecture from
Judge Putnam in Court at Boston, the other day, for
appearing there as counsel "when he was not in a fit
condition to appear in the defense of any man."
The King of Sweden has just been elected mem
ber of the Society of Aquafortistes, in recognition of
his talents as an artist. The King has likewise dis
guished himself by his poetry, which he published
anonymously.
Cincinnati and Chicago editors are quarreling over
the comparative bigness and wealth of the two cit
ies. Cincinnati claims to be a million dollars richer
than Chicago.
There has been a great snow-storm in Madrid —
something quite unknown, even to the oldest inhabi
tant.
Successful oil well boring has been done in Chi
cago. "lie" was struck at thirty-three feet frorn
the surface, in the western division of the city.
The Hank of Crawford county was robbedof sloo
-in United States bonds on the evening of the
2tsth ult., by men who were concealed > n tne buck
room of the bank.
The sum $£.5866,043 had been received at the m ar
ble quarries at Lee. Mass., for material for the ex
tension of the Capitol at Washington.
The Franklin Medal School in Boston has voted
to make a subscription of SIIKX) to the fund for the
erection of a statue of Mr. Everett.
The winter is very severe in Northern Indiana.—
Last week the Mercury sunk to fifteen degrees below
zero.
CONGRESS.
FRIDAY, Jan. 20.
The Senate was not in session.
HOUSE. —The House passed the resolutions of
thanks to Major Generals Terry and Thomas. The
Senate amendments to the Consular and Diplomat
ic Approportion bill, including one for a Minister
to the Republic of Mexico, were concurred in"—
The resolution of thanks to Rear Admiral Porter
was passed. The Post-office Appropriation bill was
also passed. Adjourned until Monday.
MONDAY, Jan. 23.
SENATE. —The credentials of Mr. Howard, of
Michigan, were read. The resolutions of the Ohio
Legislature in favor of the constitutional amend
ment prohibiting slavery were presented. Also,
similar resolutions front the Missouri Constitutional
Convention. Also, petitions for an increase of
pay of the officers and clerks iu the government
service. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to increase
the compensation of certain army officers in the
field, which was referred to the military Committee.
Mr. Clarke offered a resolution that no negotiations
shall be proposed or entered into with the rebels
until they have manifested their unconditional sub
mission to the authorities of the government, which
was ordered to be printed. The Secretary of War,
in reply to a resolution, stated that 67,687- naval en
listments have been credited on the military quota
from April 17, 1861, to February 24. The resolu
tion of thanks to Major General Terry with the
House amendment was passed. Also, the resolu
tion authorizing the purchase of the New York
Merchants' Exchange. A resolution asking the
Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the
amount of money collected in each interna l reve
nue disiriet of the several States was adopted. The
bill defiending the grade of paymasters in the na
vy, after, some discussion, was passed. The reso
lution directing the same treatment to be awarded
to rebel prisoners as our prisoners iu the South ta
ken up, and was debated at some length. The sub
ject was finally postponed for one toy. After an
Executive session, adjourned.
HOUSE. —The House passed a joint resolution
that in lieu of the duty on printing paper unsized
and used for books and newspapers now levied by
law, there shall be levied collected and paid three
per centum ad valorem. A resolution of thanks
to Gen. Sheridan was offered, and referred to the
Military Committee. The resolutions of the New
York Legislature iu favor of the Constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery were preseuted. Mr.
Schenck offered a resolution appointing a commit
tee to inquire into the attack on Hon. W. D. Keiley
by Mr. A. P. Field, of Louisiana. Mr. Farnsworth
offered an amendment that until the report of the
committee shall be made Mr. A. P. Field be
excluded from the floor. A long discussion
ensued, and the amendment was finally agreed
to. and the resolution adopted. The remainder of
the time of the House was occupied in the discus
sion of a difficulty between General Butler and Mr.
James Brooks.
TUESDAY, Jan. 24.
SENATE. —Mr. Sherman reported back the bill to
appropriate money for the Post-office Department.
Ihe House bill to provide for Acting Assistant
Treasurers or depositories of the United States in
certain cases, was taken up and passed. Mr. Sum
ner reported a series of resolutions as a substitute
for the resolution before the Senate that it would
be impracticable, immoral and degrading for the
Government to imitate the practice of the rebels in
the treatment of rebel prisoners, and reiterating the
determination of the people to put down the rebel
lion. Mr. Sumner supported the views expressed
in these resolutions in'o long and able speech. The
subject will lie taken up again to-day. Mr. Wilson
introduced a new and very stringent conscription
bill, which was referred to the Military Committee.
HOUSE. —A resolution wan adopted instructing the
Committee of Ways and Means to inquire into the
expediency of reporting a bill removing the tariff on
all materials used in the manufacture of printing
paper. A bill was introduced for the reconstruction
of the Medical Department of the United States
Navy, which was referred to the Committee on Naval
Affairs. The House then resumed the consideration
of the question of privilege raised on Monday by Mr.
Brooks, based oyi the letter written to him by Gen.
Butler. Mr. Boutwell. of Massachusetts, made a
very able defence of Gen. Butlers career in New
Orleans, to which Mr. Brooks made an evasive and
persoual reply. Messrs. Cox, Ingergoll, Stevens
and Gooch also participated in the debate, which
closed by the withdrawal of the appeal from the de
cision of the chair.
EDXESDAY, January 25.
SENATE. —Mr. Cowan introduced a bill to enlarge
the port of entry and delivery of Philadelphia. Re
ferred to the Committee on Commerce. A remon
strance against the proposed tax on leaf tobacco was
received from the citizens of Missouri and Maryland.
The Judiciary Committee reported the the House
Bankrupt bill, with amendments The Committee
on Military Affairs was discharged from fuather con
sideration of the memorial of ex-Surgeon General
Hammond, asking for un investigation into the cir
cumstances of his court-martial. The Finance Com
mittee was instructed to inquire into the expediency
of relieving the tonnage of the country from the in
come tax, and reducing the duty on chains and an
chors. The resolution asking the Secretary of War
why he had not appointed a commissioner to com
pensate loyal owners for slaves enlisted in the mili
tary service, was adopted. The resolution relative
to retaliation upon rebel prisoner's was then taken
up and discussed at some length. No final action
was taken. Adjourned.
HOUSE. —Mr. Stev ens reported a substitute for the
Senate bill for the collection of the direct taxes in
the insurrectionary States, which was recommitted
to the Committee on Ways and Means. A bill to
increase temporarily the salaries of certain clerks in
the civil service cf the government was postponed
for a week. A resolution directing the committee
appointod to inquire into the matter of the permit
given to G. VV. Lane, of Baltimore, to proceed to
North Carolina to exchange provisions for cotton
with the rebels, to further inquire into all the facts
and circumstances in relation to trade with the re
! hellions States since the breaking out of the rebel
i lion, was adopted. The resolution of thanks to Gen.
Sheridan was reported by the Military Committee,
and was adopted. The bill providing tor the occu-
E at ion of seats on the floor of the House by the
eads of the Departments was discussed, but was not
finally acted upon. Adjournedj
THURSDAY, January 26.
SENATE. —The credentials of Wm. Saulsbury. re
elected Senator from Delaware, were presented.—
Resolutions of the Rhode Island Legislature, in fa
vor of the constitution amendment abolishing slavery,
were also received. Also a petition from W. H.
Webb, asking for increased compensation for build
ing the iron-clad Dunderberg, The House bill
authorizing the Secretary ol the Treasury to issue
treasury notes in lieu of any bonds authorized by
the act of June 00, 1864, was'passed. Also the ap
propriation bill. Several communications from the
Secretary of \\ ar, in reply to resolutions, were pre
sented. Ihe resolution relative to retaliation upon
rebel prisoners was again discussed, but no dual
action was taken. After an Executive session, ad
journed.
HOUSE. —The House passed a bill providing that
the Secretary of the Treasury shall remit or refund
duties in all eases in which any Collector or Survey
or of Customs has tailed to account for money, in
carrying the joint resolution temporarily increasing
the duties on imports, aud in which the Secretary is
satisfied that, the omission was in consequence of
their not having been informed when the collection
was to commence. A bill defending the limits of
the national bank issues was reported, aud its con
sideration was postponed until Monday.
The bill proposing the admission of Cabinet offi
cers on the floor of the House was again discussed
was then postponed for one week. The Committee
on Mays and Means reported another Deficiency
bid in lieu of the one which tailed, and it was pass
ed. lhe Committee on Public Buildings were in
structed to inquire into the Smithsonian Institute
fire, and what measures are necessary to preserve
its property trom further injury. Mr. Spaulding, of
iNew l ork, introduced a bill imposing a tax on na
tional bank issues on and after the first of May next,
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means. Adjourned.
P X ECUTOR-H NOTICE.
Hi Lotoif* testamentary en the estate of Kvn Swart*,
waiter, late of Monroe Township, Bedford county, dee'd.,
have been granted to the undersigned. All persons in.
dobted to said estate in any way what ever are bcreby
! notified to make immediate payment and those having
claim* against said estate are requested to present them
properly authenticated for settlement.
EMANUEL SWARTZWALTKR.
Feb. 3, IMSS-6t Executor.
nXE<'I'TOR'S NOTICE.
Vj Letter* testamentary on the last wili and testament
of Jacob .Snownerger, late of Middle Woodberry township,
deceased, having been granted to the subscriber, residing
| in said township, notice is therefore given to ali person
indebted to said estate, to make payment immediately,
j and those having claim will present them without delay,
i property authenticated for settlement.
3 OBX B. KKPLOGLK.
Feb. 3, 18t>4-3t Executor.
! rpHH HOPEWELL OIL COMPANY.—
I 1 Notice is hereby given that the books of subecrspfion
'■ to the stock of the ilopewell Oil Company Wlli be cl"ei
jon the 25tb day of February, just. Agents are requested
j to make report of all sales immediately after said day.
i By order of the Hoard of Directors,
j 3. fMMPSON AFRICA.
Feb. 3, 1865-3t Treasurer.
rnHK BOSTON WEEKLY ADVERTISER.—
J f2 i*J-:r ANirtf* ix AHVAXTK,
One of the very best family papers, with original, se
lected, and carefully prepared news of the day. New*
from the Army, the Navy, and several columns in Gener
al. Also, a very full report of the the Boston Cattle Mar
ket, prepared by STILLMAN FLETCHER, late of the
New England Farmer. Horticultural and Agricultural
matters, stories, ete.
CHARLES HALE k CO.. Publisher#.
Feb. 3. 1865. No. 12 State Street. Boston.
OFFICE HUNTINOIrON A BROAD TOP MOUNTAIN
R. R. 00. i'hiladc'pht", 16,1*84.
The annual meeting of the tockholders of this Company
wilt be held at their office, No. 258 South 3d Street, i'hiis..
on Tuesday, the Ttb .lay of February, 1865, at 11 o'elock.
A. M.. when an Election will be held for a President and
Twelve Directors for the ensuing year.
J. P. AERTSEN,
■Jan. 20-3t Secretary.
VTOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.
I hereby caution all persons not to hunt, fish, tie
stroy'timber or trespass our our property ,'io any way what
ever, as we will prosecute any person that disregards thi*
notice. LEVI SMITH, Monroe Tp..
J. H. SPARKS, E. Providence Tp
Jan. 20. 1865-3t
171 X EIT'TORS' NOTICE.
J Letters testamentary having been granted by the R
gister of Bedford County to the undersigned, Ekecut'Wß "1
the last will and testament of John Weisel, late of lb
Clair Township, deceased, notice is hereby given to ai
persons indebted to the estate of said deceased, to iuak'-
imuiediate payment and those having claims will present
them properlv authenticated for settlement.
JOHN WE 18El-
Jan. 6, 1865-tM. JOHN FICKEf?.
TTXECUTOR'W NOTICE.
I J Letters testamentary upon the !a.-t will and testament
of Mary M. Haase, late of the Borough of B<-hel!sburg.
dee'd. having been issued to the subscriber the by Regi
ter of Bedford County, all persons having claim# again-:
the estate are Dotified to present the same for -eftlemen .
and all persons indebted are requested to enake pariuent
immediately. DUNCAN M'VICKER,
Bchellsburg. Jan. 6, 1860-6t.
"VTOTICE.
jL\ All tho.-e indebted to the -übo-riber for subs.-rip
tion. advertising and job work, for the Bedford Inquirer
and also for the Patriot, are notified that the books and
notes are in the hands of H. Nieodenrus, Esq- for collec
tion. Look out and save costs.
IMVID OVER.
Jan. 20. 1865.
"Bedford Classical Institute."
TITHE current school year of thi# Institution will
1 sutned Thursday, February 23d, 1565. The Quarter
left incomplete hv the sudden illness of the Principal will
be regularly terminated, and the school-year will extend
further into the summer than was at first designed. It i
hoped. in view of the inclemency of the mid-winter, and
of the peculiar circumstances existing, that this arrangc
ment will be acceptable to the Parents.
JOHN LYON,
Feb. 3, 1865-tf. Principal.
Washington Hotel for Rent.
FITHIB Hotel, situate in the Borough of Bedford. Bel
1 ford county. Pa., will he for rent after the first of
April next. The house is the largest and beet adapted
for hotel purposes of any other in this section of tin
State. A good stable, iee house, and other out building*
are attached. A large business has been don" at thi-
Hotel for years, and can be greatly- increa-cd. Few. if
any hotels in the State, outside of the large towns, afford
better inducements to an energetic landlord than thi-.
Application may be made to the subscriber, at the re*.-
dence. near Juniata Wollen Factory, Snake Spring Tp..
Bedford eountv. Pa., or to John Lutz, Esq.. Bedford, Pa.
MICHAEL LUTZ.
Feb. 3, 1865-tf Bedford, Pa.
ORPHAN'S COURT SALE
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.
BY virtue of an order of the Orphan's Court of Bedford
county, jhe subscriber will sell at public sale on the
premises in Hopewell Township, on
TUESDAY theHth day of Februarj IS6L
That large and valuable farm of which Jacob Fiuke
died seized,
Containing 21S acres and 110 perches
of limestone land : about three fourths of which is cleared
aud under fence: the balance being well tiinliered.
The farm land is in a high state of cultivation with wa
ter in every field. The improvements are a
Large Frame House. Bank Barn.
And other useful buildings; also a good tenant house ->.r
one end of the place, also an orchard of choice fruit trees.
This farm adjoins William Gorsuch, Eli Fluke's heirs.
David Pnderbaugh, Stephen Weimer and others ami •
about two miles from the town of Hopewell. Terms on
third of the purchase money to be secured in the hand*
of the purchaser during the lifetime of the widow : he pay
ing her the interest annually, the one third of the balance
at the confirmation of the sale, and the remainder in two
equal annual payments, without interest. Sale to com
mence at 10 o'clock A. M.
J. W. LING EN FELT Kl!.
Trattccjor the talc of thr Heal Entatr of Jacob Flake dcr'tl.
Jan. 27,'85-3t.
Private Hale.
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.
fill IE subscriber will offer until the Ist., day March n \t
JL his Property in Cumberland Valley township, Bed
ford couny Pa., containing
Three Hundred Aei'ess.
more or less, adjoining the town of Ceutreville. The im
provemcnts arc a good
TWO STORY LOk HOI'NII.
with Kitchen attached, Spring house, double Bank Bam
and all other necessary out buildings. Abo
A Good Orist Mill,
with two run of stones. There is abo an Engine ef
eighteen horse power attached to said mill. .\i ut
acres of this land is cleared and under fence and in *
good state of cultivation, the balance well timbered. A
great part of this land is underlaid with iron ore and
to a furnace about being started iu the Yallev. Al
so I \VO LOTS with a WEATHER BOARDED HOUSE
on each in the town of Centrcville. Any person who de
sires purchasing such property will call soon.
H.J. BRUNNKR.
Jan. 27,'65-41.
SH ER IFF'S KA LK T
By virtue of a writ of vend, exponas to uie directed,
there will he sold at public sale at the Court Hou*e, i"
the Borough of Bedford, on Saturday, the 11th day of
February, 1885, at 10 o'clock. A. M„ th* following dts rib
cd property :
One tract of coal land, containing 80 acres more or less,
about 15 acres cleared and under fence, with a cabin hou-i'
and log stable thereon erected, adjoining lands of
Wood, Dearerany A Co., John Lane's heirs and others,
sltnnte in Broadtop township, Bedford county. Siezett
and taken in execution a# the property of x Wm. Figard.
ALSO—AII that certain messuage and lot of ground
situate in the town of Plcasuutville, containing about one
half acre, with a one and u-halt story dwelling house
thereon erected, adjoining lots of Charles Orin and others,
and taken in execution a, the property of Matilda Mar
shall, formerly Jas. ULsgin.
JOHN ALDBTADT.
Jan- 20, ISB. Sheriff-
Ladies' Furs.
naay relv upon getting the best Furs at
CHARLES OAKFORD k .SDNS, Continental
Philadelphia.